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Q: Convert Html Form to Pdf along with radio buttons and checkbox in java code enter code hereI have a form with more than 100's of fields along with radio and check-box. What will be the best way to create PDF from it. I have used iText v5.2.1 but it just prints text only in PDF not any input field. Because iText does not pick any HTML form (radio buttons and checkbox input fields) or css.
main.html
<!DOCTYPE html>

      <meta charset="utf-8">
      <title>JavaScript Form Validation using a sample registration form</title>
      <meta name="keywords" content="example, JavaScript Form Validation, Sample registration form" />
      <meta name="description" content="This document is an example of JavaScript Form Validation using a sample registration form. " />
      <link rel='stylesheet' href='js-form-validation.css' type='text/css' />

Registration Form

Use tab keys to move from one input field to the next.

      <form name='registration' onSubmit="return formValidation();">

User id:

<input type="text" name="userid" size="12" />

Password:

<input type="password" name="passid" size="12" />

Name:

<input type="text" name="username" size="50" />

Address:

<input type="text" name="address" size="50" />

Country:

               <select name="country">
                  <option selected="" value="Default">(Please select a country)</option>
                  <option value="AF">Australia</option>
                  <option value="AL">Canada</option>
                  <option value="DZ">India</option>
                  <option value="AS">Russia</option>
                  <option value="AD">USA</option>
               </select>

ZIP Code:

<input type="text" name="zip" />

Email:

<input type="text" name="email" size="50" />

Sex:

<input type="radio" name="msex" value="Male" />Male

<input type="radio" name="fsex" value="Female" />Female

Language:

<input type="checkbox" name="en" value="en" checked />English

<input type="checkbox" name="nonen" value="noen" />Non English

About:

<textarea name="desc" id="desc"></textarea>

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />

      </form>

App.java
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.itextpdf.tool.xml.XMLWorkerHelper;

public class App
{
    public static void main( String[] args ) throws DocumentException, IOException
    {
      // step 1
        Document document = new Document();
        // step 2
        PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("pdf.pdf"));
        // step 3
        document.open();
        // step 4
        XMLWorkerHelper.getInstance().parseXHtml(writer, document,
                new FileInputStream("main.html"));
        //step 5
         document.close();

        System.out.println( "PDF Created!" );
    }
}


Green IT means using technology to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the business – not just making the datacentre energy efficient, industry and environmental experts have urged.
The audience at a panel discussion at Gartner's ITxpo in Cannes, France, heard that datacentres accounted for a quarter of IT-related carbon emissions, which in turn make up 2% of the world's total carbon emissions.
Instead IT departments should "focus on the use of IT in an intelligent way" to monitor and reduce companies' overall carbon footprints, he argued.
Fellow panellist Mike Yorwerth, director of group technology and architecture at Tesco, agreed, telling delegates that IT accounted for "about 3%" of the supermarket giant's carbon footprint, but added: "The bigger prize is the other 97%".
But he said the IT department already had experience of centrally managing IT and office systems and was now taking a similar approach to putting in place systems that dim lights and manage temperatures centrally.
In transportation, "there's a lot IT can do" through route scheduling and mileage monitoring to reduce the impact of Tesco's truck usage on the environment, he added.
BT's head of sustainable development, Chris Tuppen, said the scale of carbon emissions meant IT managers "can't forget" the datacentre, but he also pointed to other energy efficiency measures that could be introduced through technology. "We replaced 850,000 meetings last year using conferencing," he said.
There was a real business case for acting in an environmentally sustainable way, he added. "It will give you competitive advantage in the marketplace." BT had made energy efficiency an "adjudicating criterion" for awarding contracts to suppliers, he said.
Pamlin emphasised the importance of IT managers getting involved in wider company efforts to reduce carbon footprints, because they could produce the data and metrics to support carbon reduction. "I see a lot of CIOs taking a leadership role," he said.
Both Yorwerth and Tuppen said there was more to do in the IT department itself. "Just switch stuff off if you don't use it any more," Yorwerth urged.
"We had an amnesty in BT," Tuppen added. "If you've developed an application that went onto a server and it's no longer needed, [we told staff to] let us know." BT had spent £65,000 on incentives to encourage IT staff to nominate redundant kit in an initiative that had resulted in 3,000 servers being switched off and a saving of more than £1m in energy and other costs, Tuppen said.


Ever thought about a motorhome tour around Denmark? It is the smallest Scandinavian country and one of Europe's most exciting travel destinations.
Much of the culture and entertainment revolves around Copenhagen, the capital, however other tourist hotspots include castles, Baltic beaches, impressive fjords, wild forests and culturally-rich towns.
You can't fail to be charmed by Copenhagen, Northern Europe's cosiest capital. In Copenhagen you will find it packed with street cafes, designer shops and some of the best restaurants in Scandinavia. There are winding streets in the old town, which is beautiful. See royal palaces and cutting-edge buildings. Copenhagen is the perfect mix of old world and new. A perfect way to explore is by bike. You may want to take a canal tour or stroll the city on foot. Copenhagen has a laid back atmosphere and a real sense of style.
Zealand, home to Copenhagen, is Denmark's most visited region. In this area you will also find the departure port for ferries to Sweden and Helsingor. In Helsingor you will also find the legendary Kronborg Castle.
To the west is Roskilde, where you will find an extravagant cathedral that served as the resting place for Danish monarchs. You must see Roskilde fjord. Five Viking boats were salvaged from here and are now displayed in a specially built museum.
The northern coast of Zealand is scattered with quaint little fishing villages. Take a trip to Gilleleje where you can buy fresh fish directly from the fishermen.
The South Funen Archipelago is a great place to explore. You will find this just south of Funen. It has islands of many sizes and beautiful straits, bays and inlets.
You can drive to Funen over the Great Belt Bridge from Zealand and the Little Belt Bridge from Jutland. Small bridges and ferry routes link you to the South Funen Archipelago. The city of Odense, as well as being the largest on Funen, is the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen, one of Denmark's best loved authors. If you're planning a holiday to Denmark, make sure you see Funen.
North Jutland is beautifully situated at the very top of Denmark's Jutland peninsula. It juts dramatically out into sea on all sides. You'll find that this produces a very special light and more hours of sunshine than the rest of Denmark. The landscape is beautiful but harsh, with endless white beaches, sand dunes, cliffs, heathland and forests. Witness the bizarre sight of trees bending east from the sheer force of the prevailing wind or take a break from the wind around the sheltered straits, inlets and bays of the Limfjord.
The Faroe Islands are small and remote and are packed with adventures for every kind of visitor. The setting is stunning.
You can choose various things to do. Hiking is popular as you are surrounded by unspoilt nature and plenty of mountains to climb. You will also find ancient paths, marked by cairns, remote lighthouses to visit and abandoned villages. You will see hundreds of sheep and birds. You can arrange a hike with a professional guide.
Boat trips are also popular and you can take trips to go fishing or bird watching, or just taking a ferry to another island.
Fishing is popular in the Faroe Islands. You may want to enjoy the peace and quiet of the lakeside for yourself surrounded by steep mountains.
Bird watching is popular and you can expect to see a variety of birds including Puffins, Storm Petrels, Gannets, Merlin, King Elder or any of the 300 different species living on or visiting the islands.
If you are in to adventure you can achieve this on the Faroe Islands. You can try rapelling down cliffs in to the sea and swimming ashore, kayaking around the islands, diving in the deep waters and explore the underwater world with a local guide. Alternatively, you can horse ride in the mountains.
The people of the Faroe Islands are proud of their culture, language, knitting industry, boats, stone houses with grass roofs and their national costume, which is often seen at weddings or on special occasions.
Visit the capital, Torshavn, where you will find designer shops, jewellers, wellness and beauty salons.
Enjoy the cuisine as there is every reason to taste the local food.
Would you like to tour Denmark in a motorhome?


Attention Beauty Lovers, You'll Love Our New Podcast!
Carrie Bickmore has taken the plunge and chopped off her long locks in favour of a shorter and brighter 'do ahead of summer.
The Project host took to Instagram to share her new look, which includes extra blonde highlights as she farewells her wintery brunette hue.
"Shorter and lighter for summer.☀ Thanks @joeyscandizzo for your 💇 skills. Bring on the hot sweaty weather!!" she wrote in the caption.
Shorter and lighter for summer. ☀Thanks @joeyscandizzo for your  skills. Bring on the hot sweaty weather!!
Carrie has been slowly working her way back to the iconic platinum blonde colour she had for years, after dyeing her hair a deep chestnut brown in August 2016.
Colour freshen up today after holiday hair...added some highlights through the bottom and got rid of the greys! I started going grey in my mid-20's but it's now an all out assault!! Or maybe it's just that I can see them now with brown hair . Maybe I will just go with it one day and go fully grey. How liberating would that be ladies  anyone done it???


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As part of the implementation of the initiative set out by Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura before the Security Council on 29 July 2015 and endorsed by the Council in its Presidential Statement of 17 August 2015 (S/PRST/2015/15), the Special Envoy and his Deputy Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy met over the last two days with the following facilitators appointed by the Secretary-General to head the intra-Syrian thematic working groups, under the direction of the Special Envoy:
Mr. Jan Egeland as facilitator for the Safety and Protection thematic Working Group; Mr. Nicolas Michel as facilitator for the Political and Legal Issues thematic Working Group; Mr. Volker Perthes as facilitator for the Military, Security and Counterterrorism thematic Working Group; and Ms. Birgitta Holst Alani as facilitator for the Continuity of Public Services, Reconstruction and Development thematic Working Group.
They discussed draft agendas with a view to ensuring coordination and parallel progress of the Working Groups.
Mr. de Mistura has just returned from consultations with Syrian interlocutors most recently in Damascus and Istanbul. These visits complement ongoing OSE outreach to regional capitals and elsewhere. The Special Envoy is now heading to NY to carry these discussions forward in the margins of the General Assembly.
"The Working Groups are intended to provide Syrians with a platform to address in-depth themes that are certainly not new, but have lacked to date sustained intra-Syrian discussion. It is hoped that their outcomes could eventually set the stage for a Syrian agreement to end the conflict on the basis of the Geneva Communique," Mr. de Mistura said.
While the participation of Syrians is central for this process to move forward, the Security Council has also "emphasised the need for robust international and regional assistance" in support of the efforts of the Special Envoy.
Mr. de Mistura will continue consultations with relevant actors to accelerate such support. "This is the defining humanitarian challenge of our times," he reiterated. "The Syrians deserve that we move faster towards a political solution".
Within the framework of the ongoing Geneva Consultations, Deputy Special Envoy Ramzy Ezzeldine Ramzy met today in Geneva with representatives of the Union of Syriac Women and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), who briefed on the situation in Syria. They discussed ways to support people in Syria in their daily humanitarian needs. Mr. Ramzy also discussed with the representatives of the Union of Syriac Women perspectives on a political solution to the Syrian conflict which could meet the needs of diverse components, which make up integral parts of the Syrian society.
At the end of today's meetings, Mr. Ramzy stressed that, "all should put their differences aside to ensure that aid reaches all those in need, but ultimately only a political solution would allow to address the deepening humanitarian crisis in a sustainable manner." While highlighting the urgent need for a political solution to the Syrian conflict, he added that, "it is critical that women organizations are included in any political process, fully participate in it and contribute to it".
On 22 May, the Special Envoy met with the Islamic scholar Muhammad Al Habash and Hind Kabawat and Asma Kftarou from a civil society organization called 'Tastaqil. He also received a delegation from the Kurdish National Council, with whom he shared views on ways to end the conflict, with due respect for Syrian diversity while maintaining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria. He also met with Najla Riachi Assaker, the Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the UN in Geneva, and discussed ways to support Syria in launching a political process, as well as the urgent need to alleviate the humanitarian suffering and its impact on the neighbouring countries. Mr. de Mistura also received with deep sadness news of the kidnapping of a priest, Father Jacques Mourad, on 21 May in Homs, describing the "grave act" as being unfortunately not the first of its kind and "one of the sad consequences" of the raging conflict.

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Nearly 30 years ago, I spent almost a year in northernmost Chile, where the Atacama Desert is the world's driest. It's not quite true that it never rains in the Atacama, as director Patricio Guzmán states in his new documentary Nostalgia for the Light, but that's not quite true - I've experienced light rain in Antofagasta and snow in San Pedro de Atacama, and precipitation increases with altitude and from west to east.
In fact, when I lived in the Aymara Indian village of Parinacota (pictured above), 4,392 meters (14,409 feet) above sea level, on the Bolivian border east of the coastal city of Arica, we had frequent thunderstorms and occasional whiteout snowstorms - in summer. Summer is the rainy season there and, though Arica itself almost never gets rain, precipitation from the Andes can rush through the deep canyons and cause flash floods on the coast.
That said, I'll grant Guzmán artistic license for his hyperbole in a skillfully crafted cinematic essay that ties together the themes of astronomy, archaeology and the yearning for transparency and closure in the aftermath of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship - many of whose victims disappeared into the vast Atacama. It's a credit to Guzmán, who also documented Pinochet's 1973 coup against the government of the late President Salvador Allende in The Battle of Chile, accomplishes this without indulging in polemics. The photography and cinematography, of course, are magnificent.
I can't possibly summarize Nostalgia for the Light with Guzmán's eloquence, but its theme is the will to interpret and even confront the past. Astronomers do so by gazing through telescopes - the Atacama is home to several major international observatories such as the European Southern Observatory's Cerro Paranal (pictured above). Archaeologists do so by excavating ruins and analyzing artifacts and even human remains found on or beneath the desert surface, in a climate whose nearly absolute aridity preserves them perfectly. In fact, archaeologists and physical anthropologists have involved themselves in identifying remains from mass graves such as the one at the isolated coastal village of Pisagua (pictured below), which also served as an inescapable prison camp.
Still, it's the families of the disappeared, in search of their loved ones, who have been the force behind the search - sometimes testing the barren desert surfaces with trowels and shovels - and Guzmán makes them central figures in the film. Chilean astronomer Gaspar Calas, meanwhile, points out that we are always looking at the past - even a conversation at the dinner table involves delays, despite the speed of light and sound.
If there's one criticism I could make, it's that Guzmán (born 1941) romanticizes the Chile of his youth as almost a carefree, conflict-free country. While he points out the often-poor working conditions and injustices of nitrate mines such as Oficina Chacabuco (which were really company towns with an authoritarian organization), he seems to suggest that Chile had overcome such problems when he was a kid. Certainly Chile was stable by Latin American standards, but problems such as inequitable land tenure in the heartland intensified class tensions and encouraged the rise of Allende and others far who were far more extreme.
Still, I strongly recommend Nostalgia for the Light and, if you go to Chile, visiting several of the locations Guzmán used. Among them is Oficina Chacabuco (pictured above), which the dictatorship used as a prison camp; Guzmán interviews several former prisoners, one of whom was an amateur astronomer who taught his fellow prisoners about the night sky to help create a feeling of solidarity among them.
And of course there are the observatories, most notably Cerro Paranal, about which I have written in another post, and Las Campanas. At the end of the day, though, the most affecting single sight is a stark cross-studded amphitheater that stands in the desert east of Calama, on the road to San Pedro de Atacama. Each of its columns represents a prisoner executed here during General Sergio Arellano Stark's so-called Caravana de la Muerte (Caravan of Death). Sadly, this Parque para la Preservación de la Memoria Histórica (Park for the Preservation of Historical Memory) does not merit a mention, nor even appear on the maps, in the widely sold Chiletur Copec series of guides and road atlases. It does appear, however, on the Chilean government's list of human rights memorials.
Several months ago, the editors at National Geographic Traveler asked me to submit nominations for their 2011 Stay List that, for the first time, would include the best hotels in South America. That list finally came out, in the magazine's April issue, and include three of the five that I nominated: Argentina's Cavas Wine Lodge and Chile's Lodge at Valle Chacabuco and Ecocamp Patagonia. They declined to include Argentina's Rincón del Socorro and Chile's Hotel Indigo, though I personally consider them superior to some others that did make the list, and would still recommend them enthusiastically.
I won't critique the entire list here, but I have a few observations on some places that I know well and a couple others that I'd like to get to know better. Among those that made the Chile list, I would heartily endorse San Pedro de Atacama's Hotel Awasi, an eight-room gem (pictured above) that's so inconspicuous as to be nearly invisible despite its mid-village location. I'm less impressed with Explora's nearby Hotel de Larache, on San Pedro's outskirts, a 50-room monolith that dominates the landscape, has surprisingly small rooms, and indulges itself with four swimming pools in an area where every drop of water is precious. Under the same Explora ownership, in Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, the Hotel Salto Chico is a true luxury hotel that fits far better into the landscape - few visitors to the park are even aware it's there, even as they pass within a few hundred meters on the nearby road.
In Santiago, the best new accommodations is The Aubrey, which has turned two neglected properties into a charming boutique hotel around the corner from the late poet Pablo Neruda's landmark residence, which is now a museum. In the Colchagua valley wine district, the Residence Lapostolle overlooks its own vineyards and contains a unique gravity-fed winery where every grape is chosen individually to produce a single premium vintage. The photo below shows the lobby and restaurant building; its four suites are free-standing structures mostly hidden from view.
I have no quibbles with anything on NGT's Argentina list, but with the caveat that anyone expecting to enjoy the rooms at Estancia Villa María (pictured below), an elaborate Tudor-style mansion on sprawling grounds outside Buenos Aires, should do so soon. Within the next few years, some of its former pastures will become a real estate development with a new hotel, and the current accommodations will become a clubhouse for golfers, riders, polo players and tennis players (under the auspices of Argentine tennis legend Guillermo Vilas).
On the Argentine side of the Andes, Finca Adalgisa hasn't gotten the press that Cavas has, but Gabriela Furlotti runs an intimate 11-room winery hotel in the Mendoza suburb of Chacras de Coria; the grapes come from its own vines, with the production overseen by local legend Carmelo Patti. In northern Patagonia, after marrying into an Anglo-Argentine family, Londoner Jane Williams of Estancia Huechahue turned herself into a gaucha who leads hard-riding horseback trips through the backcountry of Neuquén province. To the south, on the outskirts of San Carlos Bariloche, the Aldebarán Hotel & Spa has huge rooms on a quiet peninsular isolation with spectacular views of Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi.
For a decade-plus now, I have owned a Nissan Terrano, a 4WD vehicle with which I explore southern South America while updating my Moon Handbooks to Argentina, Chile, Patagonia and Buenos Aires. Every November, when I return to Santiago, one of my first chores is to take it for the revisión técnica, the annual vehicle inspection that determines whether or not a Chilean car is roadworthy.
This is a serious inspection, even more so than in California, where private vehicles must undergo a smog check every other year. In Chile, that smog check is annual, but that's not everything - the technicians there also check your front-end alignment, the tread of your tires, brakes, the emergency brake, and even the alignment of your headlights. If any one of these is not up to snuff, the vehicle fails the inspection and you have two weeks to correct any problems. For that reason alone, accidents due to equipment failures are rare on Chilean highways.
In principle Argentina has a similar system but, in reality, there are probably hundreds of thousands of unsafe vehicles that, at the same, pollute the country's skies. Once, near the city of Mendoza, I recall a rattletrap Fiat on the freeway with only a single parking operative parking light - no headlights or taillights at all - that was barely capable of 50 km per hour (about 30 km per hour). On a road where most vehicles were traveling at least twice that speed, the potential for a pileup with a tiny car that was barely visible was inordinately high.
This was not an exception, though. In no other country have I seen so many obviously unroadworthy cars. When I once asked an Argentine policeman whether these cars ever get ticketed, he told me "no" - despite the frequent checkpoints along the highways, they would rarely consider pulling even a flagrantly unsafe vehicle off the road. That's ostensibly because of their interest of maintaining "social peace" - most such vehicles belong to poorer people who need them for errands or work. The less charitable among us, though, might observe that the drivers of such vehicles are unlikely to have extra money to bribe the cops to look the other way. Neither "social peace" nor bribery is an issue in Chile, however.
Twenty-some years ago, when I wrote my first-ever guidebook to Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, I traveled the Southern Cone highways and backroads in a 1969 Peugeot T4B panel truck that my wife nicknamed "Lola." Purchased indirectly from my late father-in-law, Lola was a wreck waiting to happen and, in the course of my travels, I seemed to meet every mechanic in the Southern Cone countries just to keep it going. After doing another book on Chile the following year, we sold the car in their Buenos Aires province hometown of Olavarría and, I understand, it's now doing duty on a ranch - its roadworthiness was always questionable but now, at least it's one vehicle that won't cause an accident.
There are chatas and chatarra everywhere in Argentina, but the two really come together in El Bolsón, the northern Patagonian town renowned for its Plaza Pagano street fair (pictured below). In the parking lot behind the plaza is an extraordinary assortment of junk cars - both chatas and chatarra - that mostly, fortunately, are incapable of getting far beyond the city limits.
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NAWAPA, fortunately, never came to fruition because, for some inexplicable reason, Canadians wouldn't go along with the wholesale diversion of their water resources south of the border. NAWAPA's South American counterpart, though, took a big step closer to completion last Monday when a 12-member government commission approved a series of five hydroelectric dams on the Baker and Pascua rivers (pictured above), in Chile's remote northern Patagonian region of Aysén.
While the proposed HydroAysén dams would not ship water north to central Chile (which does suffer regular droughts), they would require more than 1,600 km (roughly 1,000 miles) of transmission lines through a densely forested region with only a single two-lane highway, most of which is unpaved. Those transmission lines would pass through several national parks and other environmentally sensitive protected areas, plus probable additional roads, and would result in major deforestation. On top of that, it still might require hundreds of kilometers of underwater transmission lines to intersect with Chile's main power grid at the city of Puerto Montt.
Chile, admittedly, lacks most conventional energy alternatives other than hydroelectricity - it has virtually no fossil fuels and must import nearly all its oil, coal and natural gas from Argentina or by ocean-going tanker. Disruptions of the Argentine gas supplies, in particular, are notoriously frequent because of domestic political considerations on the other side of the Andes. Chileans are overwhelmingly opposed to nuclear energy in a country that's no less seismically vulnerable than Japan - memories of last year's 8.8 event are still vivid.
Chile does, though, have a potentially limitless supply of alternative energy in the northern Atacama desert region - solar power in a region that rarely receives any rain, and hardly even has any cloud cover. Whether that could be developed quickly enough to support the massive copper mining industry at sites like Chuquicamata is questionable, but Chile could do much more to promote energy efficiency - in the capital of Santiago and other cities, for instance, modern low-energy fluorescent light bulbs and insulation could do a great deal to reduce power consumption, at a far lower cost than shipping electricity nearly 3,000 km (about 1,800 miles to the north).
Opponents of HydroAysén, under the name of Patagonia sin Represas (Patagonia without Dams) are likely to appeal the commission's decision and, in any event, the construction of transmission lines will undergo a separate environmental review in December. Still, spectacular riverscapes like the Baker-Nef confluence (pictured at top) remain in serious danger. The difference with NAWAPA is that, in a single country with a unitary political system, there are no Canadians who can veto the abuse of Patagonia's natural heritage.
When last Friday dawned and I had only one (correct) entry in my contest to give away two copies of the new fourth edition of Moon Handbooks Buenos Aires, I pleaded with readers to enter the contest to give the other copy away. As it happened, I needn't have worried too much - another six contestants correctly identified Belgrano's Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción, the church that figures prominently in the late Ernesto Sábato's masterpiece psychological novel, On Heroes and Tombs. It is popularly known as "La Redonda" (The Round Church) because of its circular design and cupola.
Given that so many came up with the right answer in response to my plea, I've decided to give away an additional five copies as I close the contest this morning. Four of the respondents came from the United States, one from Mexico, one from Chile, and one from Belgium, and I hope they'll put them to good use.
Jennifer Rose of Morelia, Michoacán, who previously won a copy of the third edition of Moon Handbooks Argentina last year, was the first to respond correctly here. I also have two overseas winners, including Natalie Usher of Viña del Mar (Chile), who says that "Now I can persuade my husband to take a couple of days off so we can finally make it to BA." Steve Behaegel of Merelbeke, Belgium, requested a copy of Moon Handbooks Argentina in lieu of Buenos Aires "because most of the time we travel Patagonia and do not linger too much in Buenos Aires." Steve had entered an earlier contest, but had been too late with the correct answer.
The other winners were Darek Przebieda of Burbank, California, whose wife Analía (an Argentine) operates Eureka Travel, and Robin Page West of Baltimore. For those of you who haven't yet sent me a mailing address, please do so, and I will have the books in the mail as soon as possible. I will, however, be contacting you individually as well.
That's all for the time being, but please keep an eye on this blog for future contests. And, while you're at it, help me pay for my postage costs by clicking on one of those little AdSense ads every so often - always presuming it's something that stimulates your curiosity, of course.
Win This Book...Please! Plus, the Obligatory "Tip"
At the end of my Tuesday post on Ernesto Sábato, I included a contest to give away two copies of the new fourth edition of Moon Handbooks Buenos Aires. As of this morning, I've had only one response (a correct one, from Jennifer Rose of Morelia, Mexico), which leaves me one copy more to dispose of.
Frankly, I'm both surprised and disappointed to have had only that one response, to a contest whose answer even a reader who has never been to Buenos Aires can find by following the links in that previous post. Perhaps I erred by adding the contest as a postscript to the Sábato post but I thought the two photographs made it conspicuous enough. At the very least, I'd like somebody to do me a favor and win the second copy.
For foreigners, one of the most confusing practices in Buenos Aires restaurants - it's far less common in the Argentine provinces - is the cubierto, often translated as "cover charge." In effect, it's an up-front fee for the privilege of sitting down at the table in many, though by no means all, of the city's eateries. It ranges mostly between five pesos (about US$1.25) and 15 pesos (around US$3.75).
There are various explanations of the cubierto. Some restaurants say it's a charge for bread or minor appetizers, others for dishes and silverware. What's clear, though, is that it's not optional: obviously, at most restaurants, you can't do without dishes and silverware, but even if you decline bread or appetizers, you'll still pay for them. Simply speaking, if you expect to dine at most Buenos Aires restaurants, you'll have to pay up front, though some places impose the charge only at night.
It's worth emphasizing that the cubierto is not a propina (tip) - rather, it goes entirely to management. Why they can't simply fold the charge into the rest of the menu is an open question - perhaps it's a deception to make it seem as if the main dishes are cheaper than they really are, but there's no question that it irritates Porteño diners. In a recent article in the online magazine Planeta Joy (Spanish only), dozens of commentators speak indignantly of the practice, and even go so far as to suggest boycotting restaurants that impose it. Several restaurateurs themselves denounce the cubierto.
There are alternatives. Often, when I'm in Buenos Aires, I place a phone order and simply walk to the restaurant and take the food home; even some very fine restaurants offer take-out service or even "delivery," an English-language word that's a common usage in the Argentine capital. Sometimes take-out or delivery prices are even a bit cheaper than the in-house menu; delivery personnel, though, will expect a tip.
If you do choose to sit and pay the cubierto, there's still the issue of tipping the waiter or waitress. Ten percent is the norm in Argentina (and Chile, for that matter), though many Argentines stiff the staff. In Argentina, it's nearly impossible to add the tip to a credit card bill, but in Chile it's widely accepted.
The battered paperback in the photograph above is my personal copy of Ernesto Sábato's On Heroes and Tombs, possibly the definitive Buenos Aires novel but, apparently, no longer in print in English. Far less celebrated for his literary output than his countryman Jorge Luis Borges (who never wrote a novel), Sábato died last Friday at age 99, less than two months short of his 100th birthday. In the immediate aftermath of his death, he was the subject of a tribute at the Feria del Libro, the annual Buenos Aires book fair that will continue through next Monday.
A Communist and a physicist in his youth, a democrat, novelist and painter in his maturity, Sabato was an indefatigable campaigner for human rights. He made his literary reputation with his first novel, The Tunnel (1948), and followed it with On Heroes and Tombs (1961) and The Angel of Darkness (1974, known in Spanish as "Abaddon el Exterminador"). Andrew Graham-Yooll's obituary of Sábato in the Buenos Aires Herald provides a succinct summary of his career, from both a literary and political perspective.
Not being a literary critic (unlike Graham-Yooll, who is an acquaintance of mine), I can't do full justice to Sábato's literary career or personality. Still, I found On Heroes and Tombs absorbing not just because of the tragic tale of an Argentine family in the turmoil of the 1950s. It's also because the novel is literally grounded in place - many of its scenes occur in and around city landmarks that are still recognizable today, even if they're not always part of the tourist circuit. A novel within the novel, titled "Report on the Blind," may be a metaphor for life in the Argentine capital, but it's equally fascinating if read literally.
As a public intellectual, Sábato opposed human rights abuses under the Peronist governments of the 1940s and 1950s, but also under the military regime that overthrew Perón in 1955. His most visible contribution to public life, though, is his role as president of the Comisión Nacional sobre la Desparición de Personas (CONADEP), created by President Raúl Alfonsín to investigate human rights abuses under the notorious Proceso military dictatorship of 1976-83. The commission's landmark report, under the title Nunca Más (Never Again) provided concrete evidence of extrajudicial disappearances and executions that led to the successful prosecution of the junta leaders and many of their underlings.
No, not my precious copy of On Heroes and Tombs, but rather the new fourth edition of Moon Handbooks Buenos Aires. I will award copies of my own guidebook to the city to the first two readers who can identify the church in the photograph below, which plays a key role in On Heroes and Tombs, by either its formal or colloquial name. Since I don't want to make the contest too difficult, I'll provide one additional clue: it's in the northern Buenos Aires barrio of Belgrano. Please send all entries to my personal email, in the header above, not to the comments function of this blog.


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Mother who fled Australian bushfires on horseback describes heartache after returning home to find house ransacked
Ellen Manning
Yahoo News UK 4 January 2020
Bec Winter fled from raging Australian bushfires on horseback (Picture: REUTERS/Jill Gralow)
A woman has told how she fled on horseback from raging Australian bushfires, returning home to find that thieves had ransacked her house.
Bec Winter had been monitoring bushfires near the coastal town of Moruya, around 150 miles south of Sydney, when she and son Riley and a cousin decided to evacuate.
While the other two drove towards the beach, Bec fled on her horse Charmer. But while she struggled to find the way in thick smoke, Charmer found the path to the beach where they sought refuge in a pub.
But when she returned home, she was distraught to find that her house had been ransacked and Riley's new bike stolen.
Bec returned home to find her house had been ransacked and son Riley's bike stolen (Picture: REUTERS/Jill Gralow)
Describing her escape from the flames, she told Reuters: "I could feel heat and I don't know whether that was from the sun or... the fire... it was terrifying. But, I had so much faith in Charmer to get me out safely and she did that. She's my hero."
The relief was shortlived when she returned home after regrouping with family members.
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"Well, home's still standing but when we went back yesterday, all of our belongings have been thrown everywhere," she said.
"Riley's new bike he got for Christmas, stolen. The house is totally ransacked. Absolutely destroyed."
Bec and her father shared their disappointment and shock on social media, the latter branding the perpetrators "low lifes" and their actions "the lowest of all acts".
Northern Territory Fire and Rescue work on the Eastern fringes of the Currowan fire at Tomerong on January 4, 2020 in Tomerong, Australia (Picture: Nick Moir/Sydney Morning Herald/Fairfax Media via Getty Images)
The incident isn't the only one where thieves have taken advantage of evacuated homes.
Police in New South Wales (NSW) have stepped up patrols after reports of thefts from homes left vacant by people forced to evacuate.
NSW Police Force Deputy Commissioner Gary Worboys said in a statement: "With thousands of lives and homes at risk today, I can't comprehend the type of person who'd think it's okay to try and profit or benefit at other people's expense."
Australia is facing unprecedented bushfires, with more than 12.4 million acres burned so far and 23 people confirmed dead.
Tens of thousands of people have been ordered to leave parts of Australia's eastern coastline, with the south coast of New South Wales set to experience extreme danger from fires this weekend, with temperatures forecast to pass 40C (104F).


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Q: Get the inline message of xhr responseText I am receiving json form when submitting a contact form , and I would like to get the inline message of it ;
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
            if(xhr.readyState == 4 && xhr.status == 200) {
               setFormMessage(xhr.responseText.) // Returns a 200 response if the submission is successful.
            } else if (xhr.readyState == 4 && xhr.status == 400){
                setFormMessage(xhr.responseTex)); // Returns a 400 error the submission is rejected.
            } else if (xhr.readyState == 4 && xhr.status == 403){
                setFormMessage(xhr.responseText); // Returns a 403 error if the portal isn't allowed to post submissions.
            } else if (xhr.readyState == 4 && xhr.status == 404){
                setFormMessage(xhr.responseText); //Returns a 404 error if the formGuid isn't found
            }
           }

this the message when it's 200 :
{"inlineMessage":"Thanks for submitting the form."}

I have already tried to get the value of the inlineMessage like this :
xhr.responseText.inlineMessage

but it didn't work !
any idea how to get that message

A: this  xhr.responseText.inlineMessage is not working because  you're treating the response data as an object ,  while it is JSON string
So you can parse that JSON string with a JavaScript program and access the data as an object.
you might do something  like this :
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
            if(xhr.readyState == 4 && xhr.status == 200) {
                const jsonResponse = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText)
               setFormMessage(jsonResponse.inlineMessage) // Returns a 200 response if the submission is successful.
            }

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I know, rumors have been flying for years about a Chinese company selling cars in North America. To date, that hasn't happened. In fact, just 3 months ago, a report surfaced that said China is a good 10 years away from breaking into the U.S. market.
Great Wall Motor Company wants to do it in 2. According to Automotive News, the China-based maker of trucks and SUVs plans to sell its vehicles in the U.S. by 2015. Great Wall has been researching its U.S. entry for the last 2 years, looking at regulatory requirements, establishing a dealer network and determining what U.S. customers needs and want.
Great Wall currently sells a small truck in the United Kingdom known as the Steed. It has a 2.0-liter diesel engine, 4-wheel drive and gets over 30 miles per gallon. On the downside, it takes a staggering 17 seconds to reach 62 mph and has a top speed of just 85 mph.
Top Gear drove the Steed and called it, "Entirely passable, in a generic, pickup truck sort of way." Coming from those guys, that's a pretty good testament to Chinese quality.
No one knows if the Steed, or other vehicles, might be offered for sale here. For that matter, no one knows if Great Wall will even be able to succeed in its goal to build and sell cars here.
We do know it's just a matter of when, not if, Chinese cars become available. Whether it takes 2 years or 10 remains to be seen!
Would you consider the purchase of a Chinese vehicle? What if it were built in the United States?
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I hate to break it to you, but Japanese buyers prefer to buy Hondas and Toyotas made in America instead of the same model built in Japan because the build quality is consided better. (Yes, some cars in high demand made in both countries are shipped to Japan.) That only applies of course, if you consider Toyota and Honda North America to be American. The true domestics still tend to suffer in comparison because (despite what their execs say) they all take cheap short cuts to make more money.
If japanese cars are better than american. If koreans are getting better than americans, why not give it a try?
Americans have pretty much destroyed their own country so they can buy cheap, shoddy foreign products made in sweat shops. Why not go all the way and kill off the last large industrial center we have?


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PW Picks: Books of the Week, January 5, 2015
This week: surviving the Rapture, a haunted possum, and a Kafkaesque thriller.
Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle (HMH) - Level-headed straight-A student Vivian Apple and her wild best friend Harp are among those left behind after thousands of believers in the evangelical Church of America are "Raptured," exactly as prophesied by the church's founder, Beaton Frick. After receiving a mysterious phone call from California, the girls, wondering if their vanished parents might still be alive, drive cross-country in search of the truth behind the church, whose popularity has skyrocketed in the wake of national tragedies. Along for the ride is cute but cagey Peter, who knows more about the organization's inner workings than he's letting on. Coyle imagines an America in which politics, capitalism, and entertainment, and religion have combined to create a culture of intolerance and judgment that doesn't end with the Rapture. The result is a scathing commentary on contemporary religiosity and fear-mongering in the face of the unknown, as well as the extent to which we surrender ourselves to interests that are not our own.
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper (S&S/Atheneum) - After 11-year-old Stella and her brother witness late-night Ku Klux Klan activity, word spreads through their North Carolina town. It's 1932, and every "Negro family in Bumblebee knew the unwritten rules—they had to take care of their own problems and take care of one another." Draper (Panic) conveys a rich African-American community where life carries on and knowledge is passed along ("My mama taught me. I'm teachin' you. You will teach your daughter"), despite looming threats. While in town, Stella notes the white children's fine school building and speculates about who might be Klansmen; in her parents' backyard, spontaneous potluck celebrations chase away gloom as adults trade tall tales: "remember last summer when it got so hot we had to feed the chickens ice water to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs?" Stella's desire to become a writer parallels her father's determination to vote. In a powerful scene, the entire black community accompanies three registered black voters to the polling location and waits silently, "Ten. Fifteen. Twenty-five minutes," until the sheriff steps aside. This compelling story brims with courage, compassion, creativity, and resilience.
The Long Green Shore by John Hepworth (Text Classics) - There have been few great novels of WWII in the Pacific, and this is one of them. Australian author Hepworth (1921–1995) based this story on his own wartime experience, creating a gritty, vivid, and convincing tale of Australian infantrymen fighting the elusive Japanese in the steaming, rotting jungles of New Guinea in early 1945. Written in 1949, this novel is a masterpiece of war fiction, depicting the grim lives of Aussie soldiers in an obscure and unnecessary campaign against a starving, disease-ridden enemy. Pez and Janos are close friends in an infantry platoon, veterans of North Africa and Greece, now stuck on a miserable island where sickness and snipers take a daily toll. The New Guinea campaign goes on for months, with the troops suffering from illness, boredom, and the petty discipline of martinet officers.
A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan (Picador) - British writer Hogan's fourth novel is a gripping psychological thriller that pegs out the creep-o-meter with its chilling, original plot. Mr. Heming is a real estate agent in an English village, very successful, very curious, and very dangerous. He has sold hundreds of houses in 17 years and has kept the keys to all of them. He uses the keys to enter homes and spy, obsessively and surreptitiously interjecting himself into the homeowners' lives, occasionally altering things for his own amusement, learning everything about each family: "I squeezed the juice out of them, though they didn't know it." Mr. Heming doesn't think of himself as a stalker or voyeur, and he doesn't consider himself a thief. He is, however, a man who will act decisively if threatened or even merely annoyed. His orderly life is suddenly complicated when he becomes smitten with Abigail Rice, a young woman to whom he sold a house. Hogan's Mr. Heming is a monumentally diabolical character—the fact that he narrates the story further ups both the stakes and the tension. Readers won't soon forget this first-rate, white-knuckle suspense novel.
Descent by Tim Johnston (Algonquin) - In Johnston's sorrowful and suspenseful first adult novel, a family is forced to face its worst nightmare when one of its members goes missing. Caitlin Courtland, an 18-year-old runner about to enter college on a track scholarship, is vacationing with her family in the Rockies when she fails to come back from an early morning run. Over the course of the next two years, the family fractures as no sign of Caitlin is ever found. Grant Courtland, Caitlin's father, remains in the Rockies, while mother Angela tries to pick up the pieces back home in Wisconsin, where she eventually makes a failed attempt at suicide. Meanwhile, Caitlin's younger brother, Sean, drives aimlessly around the country, getting in and out of trouble. Although it begins as one more variation on Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, a late-in-the-novel coincidence sends the narrative in a new direction and turns it into a survival story involving a character who, heretofore, has played a relatively minor part in the drama. Johnston (Irish Girl) has a poet's eye for the majestic and forbidding nature of the Rockies, and a sociologist's understanding of how people act under pressure.
F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature by William J. Maxwell (Princeton Univ.) - At 1,884 pages, James Baldwin's FBI file is the fattest among the "51 files on individual African-American authors and critics active during the Hoover years, 1919 to 1972" scrutinized in this bold, provocative study. Maxwell (New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars) uses the documents to probe the FBI's "institutionalized fascination" with black authors like Langston Hughes and Amiri Baraka. Other writers treated here in depth include Claude McKay ("the earliest Afro-modernist author to impress his way into his own FBI file"), Richard Wright, John Williams, and Lorraine Hansberry, but going by this account, few, if any, working African-American writers entirely slipped past the FBI's gaze during Hoover's tenure. Maxwell weaves a complex narrative tapestry, incorporating the life stories of both Hoover and the FBI, as well as WWII-era harassment of the black press, the impact of McCarthyism, and the "utility of New Critical close reading" to FBI agents required to practice an unlikely kind of literary criticism in the pursuit of "subversives."
Against the Country by Ben Metcalf (Random) - Metcalf, essayist and former literary editor of Harper's, debuts with a virtuosic tour de force of Southern malfeasance. The largely plotless narrative records a rural boyhood in Goochland County, Va., the narrator's relationship with his ever-vengeful father, and the rigors of farm-life. Sprawling and underpopulated, Goochland is the setting for the indignities of grade school, boozy first love, rejection of "the killer-God idea," and salvation in literature. But even amid the requisite episodes of racial disharmony and religious fervor, Metcalf's storytelling often digresses, and, in short sections with titles like "I Feared the Corn," he obsesses over every particular of the land. From blackberries, chickens, and ringworm to meditations on Jehovah's Witnesses and an appendix on dogs, the all-American life is lovingly deconstructed in a passionate screed that feels like a confession from the tortured heart of the South itself. In the end, this isn't a Southern novel, because it isn't exactly a novel. It's more like man's revenge on God for the world he made—and anyone who disagrees must be a Yankee.
The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura, trans. from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter (Columbia Univ.) - A bestselling sensation in Japan, this erudite but accessible volume from novelist Mizumura (A True Novel) functions as a stirring call to consciousness about the role of language. Originally focused on concerns particular to Mizumura's native Japan, the book has been revised and translated with an eye to reaching a broader audience. This is either apt or ironic, considering its main concern is with the fate of national languages at a time when English has become the world's dominant "universal" language. To explore the subject, Mizumura offers a collection of smartly written meditations, history lessons, and theories about language. She also delves into autobiography to illustrate how her thinking was formed: after living in the United States for 20 years from the age of 12, without ever feeling completely at home there or with English, she first studied French and then moved back to Japan to write in her first language. For English speakers, the book presents an important opportunity to walk in someone else's shoes.
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven (Knopf) - Seniors Theodore Finch and Violet Markey run into each other on their school bell tower, contemplating what it would be like to jump. It's more dark-cute than meet-cute, which also describes the book. Finch thinks about suicide every day; Violet was happy until her sister died in a car crash. While Finch, aka "Theodore Freak," is a marginal presence in their high school, he's smart and handsome—a musician who, readers gradually realize, suffers from undiagnosed manic depression. Violet is equally smart, and as they traverse Indiana for a geography project, looking for "wonders," they flirt, argue, admit dark secrets, and fall in love. In her YA debut, adult author Niven creates a romance so fresh and funny that it seems like it could save Finch; she also makes something she foreshadows from the first line surprising. The journey to, through, and past tragedy is romantic and heartbreaking, as characters and readers confront darkness, joy, and the possibilities—and limits—of love in the face of mental illness.
Honeydew by Edith Pearlman (Little, Brown) - Following Binocular Vision, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, Pearlman offers this affecting collection that periscopes into small lives, expanding them with stunning subtlety. The title story is a perfect case in point, a snapshot of a private girls' school in Massachusetts, where Alice, the respectable headmistress, has become pregnant by Richard, the father of Emily, a troubled but brilliant 11th grader. In this story, as in others, the relationships of the characters reflect the "nature of people to defy their own best interests." In "Puck," also set in a small Massachusetts town, antique store owner Rennie, "known for discretion and restraint," is drawn to Ophelia, a customer who confesses to a love affair. Rennie breaks "cardinal rule one" and advises Ophelia to pursue another customer. Rennie's heart opens wider in the moving "Assisted Living," in which she lets the elderly Muffy help out at the antique store, and then is required to dispose of Muffy's treasures as a series of accidents leads to an inevitable decline.
Hall of Small Mammals by Thomas Pierce (Riverhead) - Pierce's first short story collection is full of compulsively addictive and delightfully strange fare. Some of the 12 offerings are new, others are culled from the New Yorker, the Oxford American, and elsewhere; each takes a mundane experience and adds an element of the extra weird. In "Shirley Temple Three," the opening, a mother begrudgingly agrees to hide a cloned prehistoric miniature woolly mammoth in her laundry room as a favor to her son, who is a reality show host. The protagonist of "The Real Alan Gass" becomes jealous when his girlfriend reveals that she's happily married to another man in her dreams. "Videos of People Falling Down," which is about just that, is a funny, yet quietly poignant interconnected series of vignettes that showcase characters at their most vulnerable. Echoing an old ghost story, the wicked "Saint Possy" shuttles a couple to their wits end as the skull of a dead possum (maybe) simultaneously haunts and taunts them.
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon (Candlewick) - This fictionalized account of the boy who became Malcolm X maintains a suspenseful, poetic grip as it shifts among moments in his life between the years 1930 and 1948. The first-person, present-tense narrative emphasizes the experiences that affected Malcolm from early childhood to his eventual imprisonment. Memories, such as a favorite teacher telling him, "Be as good as you want in the classroom, but out those doors, you're just a nigger," or his sighting of a lynched man, trigger a sense of hopelessness that leads to self-destructive choices. Significant people in Malcolm's life offer different messages: his white lover, Sophia, fears being seen with him, while his siblings believe he has the potential for greatness. Shabazz (Growing Up X), one of Malcolm X's daughters, and Magoon (How It Went Down) capture Malcolm's passion for new experiences, the defeatism that plagued him, and the long-buried hope that eventually reclaimed him.
The Love Book by Nina Solomon (Akashic) - Solomon's follow-up to her 2003 debut Single Wife revolves around four unlikely friends who first meet during a disastrous Flaubert-themed bike trip in France. There, one of them comes across the titular book about attracting a mate. While the premise of four disparate personalities meeting cute may seem trite at first, Solomon's effort eventually blossoms into a compelling mix of story lines. Back in Manhattan, Emily, a freelance writer with an impressionable 10-year-old son, catches the eye of Duncan, a charming author with a mean streak that rivals Emily's ex-husband's. Fellow New Yorker Max, a tough tomboy who guards her heart fiercely and worries about having fallen for too-good-to-be-true Garrett, works as a personal trainer. Superstitious Cathy, who found the Love Book and keeps trying to get the four together to follow its exercises, lives with her elderly father after having lost her home in a fire. She's dying to find her soul mate, unlike fiery Beatrice, who is fiercely independent at 69 and determined not to let any man tie her down, even her married paramour Freddy, who wants to marry her, or his brother Malcolm, who is clearly the guy for her.
The Guard by Peter Terrin (Quercus) - Guards Harry and Michel inhabit the basement garage of the luxury apartment building whose erstwhile residents they were hired to protect. Confined to the quarters supplied by their invisible employer, their work is their existence, even as they wonder why the tenants have fled. Terrin twists this absurdist nightmare with the arrival of a unnamed third guard, who is evasive about the outside and the reasons for his presence. As an increasingly unnerved Harry demands answers, Terrin uses a pesky fly, a faulty toilet, and mounting uncertainty about the nature of the guards' employer to create a claustrophobic world that recalls the works of Pinter and Kafka. Harry and Michel's ascent to the residential level to locate and protect the building's possibly mythical last tenant grows increasingly hallucinogenic, and is related through Michel's unreliable narration. Terrin unabashedly invokes existentialist philosophy, and his vivid portrayal of characters gripped by unresolved fears and faced with absurd situations makes his work nectar for reflective readers.


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Home » Mag » Natural Health Services Hacked, Leaks Canadian Medical Patient Data
Natural Health Services Hacked, Leaks Canadian Medical Patient Data
With cannabis legalization comes greater responsibility on cannabis users, but also the businesses catering to the cannabis community. Topics trending in 2019 focus on end user responsibilities, but what about the clinics, dispensaries and services who hold and store personalized information on you and me?
It's too late for the referrals of one Canadian cannabis clinic, Natural Health Services. The cross Canada leader in medical cannabis suffered a rather large database breach late 2018 and early 2019 patients discovered as NHS began notifying owners of compromised data.
The exact times are unknown, but the data was accessed by an "unauthorized individual" from NHS between the dates of Dec. 4, 2018 and Jan. 7, 2019.
According to the Calgary Herald, compromised information from the breach includes data ranging from basic personal information to medical diagnoses, referrals, encounter notes and allergies.
Fortunately the hackers didn't gain access to prescriptions, payment details, social insurance numbers or other financial information.
Although emails have been sent to the affected customers, Natural Health Services is keeping tight lips in regards to just how many accounts and exactly what information was leaked.
Natural Health Services identified that a number of records containing personal health information in the electronic medical record system we use were accessed without the authorization of Natural Health Services physicians for purposes that may be unrelated to providing medical care
https://calgaryherald.com/cannabis/cannabis-news/electronic-data-breach-sees-medical-cannabis-users-personal-information-compromised
As of Tuesday March 19th, 2019 a public statement from Natural Health Services still remains unpublished, and affected accounts are actively being contacted.
Natural Health Services stresses the correct law enforcement and privacy integrity agencies have been notified and are currently working with their clinics to figure out how the hackers gained access to their data.
This comes as a surprise to many as NHS has always been on the front lines of data integrity and privacy. A statement from Natural Health Services privacy policy reads:
In the event that a patient's health information has been stolen, lost or subject to unauthorized use, access, disclosure, copying or modification, our first priority will be to identify and contain the breach, and then to take steps to correct it. We will notify any patient whose health information may have been disclosed, lost or shared in an unauthorized manner, at the first reasonable opportunity. We will also work with the Privacy Commissioner's office who will assist NHS in mitigating the risks associated with a breach.
NHS Privacy Policy
Other documents on their website suggest the hackers got through multiple steps of security to gain access to the data, or circumvented a number of security measures the company has in place which are published on the NHS website.
Here's a list of the security measures NHS has in place for times like this:
restricting office access to authorized individuals
maintaining all records in our office which has a secure access
password controls and search controls
firewalls and anti-virus software
logging, auditing and monitoring of all access to electronic records of personal health information
encryption of all electronic communication and of all information transmitted electronically.
You can read NHS's complete privacy policy here.
The breach at NHS raises serious concerns for Canadians with cannabis prescriptions who actively or wish to travel to the United States of America. In recent months the US border patrol has been vocal in letting Canadians understand they are travelling across borders to a country in which Cannabis remains federally illegal.
Regardless of status as a medical cannabis patient, or involvement in cannabis investments, border patrol can and will complicate tour travels if they become aware of Canadian cannabis involvement.
National Health Services is offering a hotline to customers affected by the data breach. Please call 1-888-297-0573.
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Forming pastors, together
September 29, 2010 | Viewpoints | Number 19
By Karen Martens Zimmerly |
A young adult in her last semester of college and considering pastoral ministry takes the initiative to invite each pastor in her community for coffee so that she can learn from their wisdom and experience.
A middle-aged man, well-established in his career, volunteers in a seniors home to test a new call to ministry.
Despite a continuing passion for her calling, an experienced pastor feels unfulfilled in her career and joins a network of other pastors.
Although classroom instruction and spiritual disciplines are the more familiar approaches to pastoral formation, these examples illustrate that peer mentoring, congregational encouragement and continuing education are also important factors in the process of developing those who lead our congregations to live out God's call in the world.
The master of divinity degree continues to be recognized as the standard level of preparation for pastoral ministry, but we recognize that within Mennonite Church Canada pastors enter ministry from diverse paths. In the rapidly changing dynamics of the 21st century, the important foundation laid by schools needs to be sustained with continuing education, formation and spiritual growth.
In light of these challenges we have developed a binational document with MC U.S.A.—"Ministerial credentialing, competencies and education"—that names a standard of six core competencies for effectiveness in ministry, yet provides a flexible framework for pastoral leadership development:
Know the biblical story in content and formation; where the life, death, resurrection and teachings of Jesus become the keys to interpreting the Bible with the congregation.
Know the Anabaptist/Mennonite story, history and theology in light of the wider church, so that the congregation is formed by its values and practice.
Grow in Christian spirituality and discipleship that nurtures a relationship with God and contributes to the spiritual formation of individuals, the faith community and those beyond.
Healthy self-awareness as a leader so that one can help the congregation live with healthy diversity, express differences and welcome new people.
Contextual awareness that interprets the many cultural, faith, ecological and global dynamics impacting the congregation's local context and call to mission in God's world.
Leadership that equips the congregation for transformation and to fulfil its calling through worship and rituals, organizational change and connection with the larger church.
This tool will now guide credentialing bodies within each area church as they assist pastors in the process of moving towards ordination. When specific abilities require strengthening, a plan of action and accountability will be developed.
Growing in each of these core areas is a lifelong pursuit. No single body, whether the pastor, the local congregation, post-secondary schools, the area church or the denomination, can provide everything that is necessary. We must work together!
Let's thank God for pastoral leaders who continue to hear God's calling to ministry and let's engage in the network that equips them to lead us as communities of grace, joy and peace, through whom healing and hope flows to the world.
Karen Martens Zimmerly is the denominational minister and director of leadership development for Mennonite Church Canada.


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Q: How to Arrange a property of the base class using JustMockLite I am using the free version of JustMock for writing the unit tests. I have am CustomApiController class which inherits system.web.Http.ApiController class. So from system.web.Http.ApiController class comes a property called Request (which is of System.Net.Http.HttpRequestMessage type. Now in the method for which I am writing my unit test has something like:
if (this.Request.Headers.TryGetValues("HeaderName", out someCollectionOfStrings)

How can I arrange/mock the Request object to return this as true?

A: This can be solved by creating a new request object and assigned it to our controller request property.
var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, "http://stackoverflow");
            request.Headers.Add("HeaderName","3443");
_apiController.Request = request;


We believe more needs to be done to promote positive change towards gender equality and around what it means to be a man today – and we want to support boys and men to be their best selves and live happy, healthy, safe and respectful lives.
Modelling Respect and Equality (MORE) is a new program developed and run by The Men's Project that will build people's skills and knowledge to help them create change in their community around issues of respect and equality, particularly among boys and men.
The program runs for three months. It involves participation in an intensive two-day training workshop followed by ongoing support as participants contribute to positive social change in their community, at work, in sports club, and among friends and family.
If you want to build your knowledge and skills and make a positive difference in your community, then this program is for you.
Participants in the first round of our MoRE training.
We believe that role models – both male and female – in the places where boys and men live, work, and meet are crucial. We want to support role models who interact with boys and men on a regular basis so they can challenge limiting and harmful stereotypes and promote respect and equality.
It's time we talked about the culture of masculinity we want to cultivate as a society. Join us in creating social change around what it means to be a man in the 21st century!
Modelling Respect and Equality (MORE) is an empowering, experiential journey to become an active influencer for change in your community.
Our starting point is each person's personal journey and development – their awareness of the bigger picture, and understanding of how social change unfolds.
Participants will be supported to build deeper understanding of key issues, develop greater self-awareness, learn how to model and promote positive change, recognise and challenge problematic attitudes and behaviours, and actively influence and make an impact in their community.
MORE is free of cost. You give your time, passion and creativity. We will cover the rest.
Participants attend a two day intensive workshop – focused on personal reflection and growth, building awareness and understanding of the issues, developing skills to model and drive change within their own work, team and community.
This is followed by ongoing, active support for participants to identify and action opportunities and activities in their own communities, supported through online and offline peer support. The program wraps up with a half-day follow-up workshop that celebrates achievements, aims to solve problems and consolidates learnings.
The program will run from March to June 2019. The intensive training will be held on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 March.
Subsequent supported project work and final session in June 2019.
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For over 40 years, Jesuit Social Services has worked with people on the margins of society, working to build a just society where all people can live to their full potential.
Drawing from this experience, The Men's Project has been established to provide leadership on the reduction of violence and other harmful behaviours prevalent among boys and men, and build new approaches to improve their wellbeing and keep families and communities safe.
The Men's Project supports boys and men to live respectful, accountable and fulfilling lives, where they are able to develop good relationships free from violence and where they play their role in making the community safe. In short, The Men's Project supports boys and men to be their best selves.
Modelling Respect and Equality (MoRE) is funded by the Victorian Government.


If you recall, sometime last year, I visited Tramshed so I could try it out on AB's behalf, and ended up loving it (see post here). And so, since AB was swinging into London for the week, we decided that we simply had to go there to fuel up before a night out in Shoreditch to celebrate AC's birthday!
Always a favorite of mine. This wasn't nearly strong enough though, so I tried their Four Roses whiskey later on as well – pretty good.
After the girls arrived and we (I, really) had squealed more than amply, they ordered their vino, and we put in our orders for food.
I didn't get to try this the last time round but I knew I absolutely had to get it this time! It arrived at our table, golden-brown and puffed up proudly in all its glory. We admired it for all but 2 minutes before I unceremoniously lifted the whole thing onto my plate and watched it collapse and die under my knife and fork as I portioned it out for us. The Yorkshire pudding was great but then they almost always are rather fabulous. But those whipped chicken livers??
I have a soft spot for liver, and love everything from the decadent and creamy foie gras to its decidedly smellier and rather more dubious counterpart of pig's liver, which we eat back home, boiled in pig's organ soup and doused with chilli – YUM. Unfortunately, neither AB nor AC like liver ordinarily, but they very gamely gave it a go, and actually found it palatable, so that made me very pleased. But let's hear from someone who actually enjoys liver (i.e. me), shall we?
From liver-lover to liver-lover, these whipped chicken livers were incredible. Lightly whipped, it had a mousse-like consistency, but not in that disappointingly airy way that just deflates in your mouth – it melts in your mouth instead into something cool and creamy. It doesn't have the jelly-like consistency of terrines and parfaits, which I find a bit icky, and whereas pâté can be a bit coarse and unrefined, this was smooth and perfect. I really, really liked it. I do suggest you try this, even if you are rather more lily-livered than liver-lover (TRY SAYING THAT 10 TIMES IN A ROW).
It is really good though. It's definitely the most popular item on the menu – you should've seen the number of chickens that were being ferried out of the kitchen. The waiter will carve it for you at your request, and also supply you with a gravy boat and a myriad of other sauces, though I must insist that you request for some bearnaise (which they don't give to you otherwise), which is my personal favorite. Moist, succulent and super tasty, I enjoyed it just as much as I had on my last visit.
AB wanted to order this because she needed some veg in her life. Now, in a perfect world, I would ideally be able to tell you what vegetable this was. However, as we live in an imperfect world, I will simply hazard a guess that, if the slight bitterness in taste and squeakiness of the leaves are anything to go by, that these were brussels sprouts, and you shall have to take my word for it.
And then it was desert. We had to get this. We simply had to.
I'd panicked a bit earlier on when N told me that they were doing a milk chocolate fondue instead of the salted caramel one when she returned the other day. So I was really pleasantly surprised when I saw that the salted caramel fondue was back on the menu last night! The waitress told me that they switch it up occasionally but I was like, AHHHHHHH PLEASE NEVER CHANGEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! I will eat ANYTHING draped in that hot luscious amber liquid. ANYTHING, I tell you.
But why would I eat just any old thing when I can eat those heavenly marshmallows?!?! They were just as delicious as I remembered, and I simply had to beg the really sweet waiter for more. Luckily enough he obliged, setting down a plate of flabulously fat, fluffy marshies, while simultaneously extracting a promise from us that we would evacuate soon so that he could give our table to someone else (the restaurant was filled to the brim at this point). Now, on most other occasions I would have been really annoyed at being asked to leave, but since we were done with dinner anyway, and were planning on moving on to a bar shortly after, I didn't mind in the least. It was actually a rather small price to pay for free marshmallows, in my book.
I really do like this place and highly recommend it but I doubt I'll be returning any time soon myself because I would most likely only ever order the same things when I come here.


Aangan is leaving fans high and dry!
Entertainment Pakistan > Articles > Drama Article > Aangan is leaving fans high and dry!
The hyped period drama that has been on our radar for quite some time finally aired on HUM TV last Thursday and it was totally worth the wait!
The episode was titled as a visual treat along with amazing acting, sets and background score.
However not everyone got a chance to catch the episode on TV and were hooked to You tube waiting for the network to upload the episode there. There has been a lot of commotion on online forums where fans have been questioning HUM as to when they will be uploading the episode. A lot of overseas Pakistanis rely on YouTube to catch their favorite Pakistani dramas however in case of Aangan they have been left high and dry. Some viewers have been unable to watch the episode as they have Wateen cable which hasn't been giving proper reception to all HUM channels and the subscribers haven't been given any proper reason for this technical fault.
What could possibly be the reason for this delay? Only one possibility comes to mind that HUM has decided to sell the drama on an online streaming site like Netflix or iflix. Netflix already has some of HUM's renowned dramas like Humsafar, Sadqay Tumharay and Zindigi Gulzar ha.
Read more :Who is Chammi's mystery guy Manzoor? Aangan's big question!
If that is really the case then a lot fans will be left disappointed until it goes up for streaming. While it is a good move monetizing a high end drama, fans are definitely not happy. This could also open doors to illegal avenues of the drama being made available online.
So if the network is really planning on doing it they might as well shake on it soon while the drama is it on air!