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Q: Using Opencv as a static lib on a cross-compiling project I'm using opencv on a arm board,with a cortex a8 processor and running on Debian.I wanted to use the processor's fpu to increase the performance of my application,so I succesfully cross-compiled opencv (following  this guide) using a toolchain generated for this purpose.
With that said,I dont have experience with working with static libraries.When I compile my code,I get a lot of linking errors.Apparently,they are related with zlib or zlib2,as I've seen on this topic.The thing is,I didn't enabled the png support,but I still get those linking errors:
cxpersistence.cpp:(.text._ZL8icvCloseP13CvFileStorage+0x24): undefined reference to `gzclose'
/cv-lib-arm-hf/lib/libcxcore.a(cxpersistence.o): In function `icvPuts(CvFileStorage*, char const*)':
cxpersistence.cpp:(.text._ZL7icvPutsP13CvFileStoragePKc+0x3c): undefined reference to `gzputs'
/cv-lib-arm-hf/lib/libcxcore.a(cxpersistence.o): In function `icvGets(CvFileStorage*, char*, int)':
cxpersistence.cpp:(.text._ZL7icvGetsP13CvFileStoragePci+0x4c): undefined reference to `gzgets'
/cv-lib-arm-hf/lib/libcxcore.a(cxpersistence.o): In function `icvEof(CvFileStorage*)':
cxpersistence.cpp:(.text._ZL6icvEofP13CvFileStorage+0x30): undefined reference to `gzeof'
cxpersistence.cpp:(.text._ZL6icvEofP13CvFileStorage+0xc4): undefined reference to `gzeof'
/cv-lib-arm-hf/lib/libcxcore.a(cxpersistence.o): In function `cvOpenFileStorage':
cxpersistence.cpp:(.text.cvOpenFileStorage+0x674): undefined reference to `gzopen'
cxpersistence.cpp:(.text.cvOpenFileStorage+0xae8): undefined reference to `gzrewind'
cxpersistence.cpp:(.text.cvOpenFileStorage+0xb98): undefined reference to `gzrewind'
/cv-lib-arm-hf/lib/libcxcore.a(cxlapack.o): In function `cv::SVD::operator()(cv::Mat const&, int)':
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv3SVDclERKNS_3MatEi+0x2b0): undefined reference to `dgesdd_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv3SVDclERKNS_3MatEi+0x4b8): undefined reference to `dgesdd_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv3SVDclERKNS_3MatEi+0x74c): undefined reference to `sgesdd_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv3SVDclERKNS_3MatEi+0x874): undefined reference to `sgesdd_'
/cv-lib-arm-hf/lib/libcxcore.a(cxlapack.o): In function `cv::eigen(cv::Mat const&, cv::Mat&, cv::Mat&, bool, int, int)':
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cvL5eigenERKNS_3MatERS0_S3_bii+0x4bc): undefined reference to `dsyevr_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cvL5eigenERKNS_3MatERS0_S3_bii+0x66c): undefined reference to `dsyevr_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cvL5eigenERKNS_3MatERS0_S3_bii+0xa7c): undefined reference to `ssyevr_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cvL5eigenERKNS_3MatERS0_S3_bii+0xc30): undefined reference to `ssyevr_'
/cv-lib-arm-hf/lib/libcxcore.a(cxlapack.o): In function `cv::solve(cv::Mat const&, cv::Mat const&, cv::Mat&, int)':
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv5solveERKNS_3MatES2_RS0_i+0x760): undefined reference to `dgelsd_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv5solveERKNS_3MatES2_RS0_i+0x8fc): undefined reference to `dgelsd_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv5solveERKNS_3MatES2_RS0_i+0xb8c): undefined reference to `dgesv_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv5solveERKNS_3MatES2_RS0_i+0x1018): undefined reference to `dpotrf_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv5solveERKNS_3MatES2_RS0_i+0x105c): undefined reference to `dpotrs_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv5solveERKNS_3MatES2_RS0_i+0x10d4): undefined reference to `dgels_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv5solveERKNS_3MatES2_RS0_i+0x115c): undefined reference to `dgels_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv5solveERKNS_3MatES2_RS0_i+0x11e0): undefined reference to `sgelsd_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv5solveERKNS_3MatES2_RS0_i+0x123c): undefined reference to `sgelsd_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv5solveERKNS_3MatES2_RS0_i+0x12e0): undefined reference to `spotrf_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv5solveERKNS_3MatES2_RS0_i+0x1324): undefined reference to `spotrs_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv5solveERKNS_3MatES2_RS0_i+0x1398): undefined reference to `sgels_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv5solveERKNS_3MatES2_RS0_i+0x13e8): undefined reference to `sgels_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv5solveERKNS_3MatES2_RS0_i+0x1468): undefined reference to `sgesv_'
/cv-lib-arm-hf/lib/libcxcore.a(cxlapack.o): In function `cv::determinant(cv::Mat const&)':
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv11determinantERKNS_3MatE+0x298): undefined reference to `dgetrf_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv11determinantERKNS_3MatE+0x40c): undefined reference to `sgetrf_'
/cv-lib-arm-hf/lib/libcxcore.a(cxlapack.o): In function `cv::invert(cv::Mat const&, cv::Mat&, int)':
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv6invertERKNS_3MatERS0_i+0x460): undefined reference to `dgetri_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv6invertERKNS_3MatERS0_i+0x4c8): undefined reference to `dgetrf_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv6invertERKNS_3MatERS0_i+0x7e4): undefined reference to `dpotrf_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv6invertERKNS_3MatERS0_i+0x82c): undefined reference to `sgetri_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv6invertERKNS_3MatERS0_i+0xa78): undefined reference to `sgetrf_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv6invertERKNS_3MatERS0_i+0xab0): undefined reference to `sgetri_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv6invertERKNS_3MatERS0_i+0xaf8): undefined reference to `dgetri_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv6invertERKNS_3MatERS0_i+0xb28): undefined reference to `spotrf_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv6invertERKNS_3MatERS0_i+0xb5c): undefined reference to `spotri_'
cxlapack.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv6invertERKNS_3MatERS0_i+0xb84): undefined reference to `dpotri_'

Can anyone shed a light on what I need to do?What am I missing?
UPDATE:
I tried compiling zlib and bzip2 using the same toolchain,but the error persists.Now I have no idea of what I'm doing wrong.Can anyone help?

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First grade marks an important milestone for young children. First graders have to use the social skills they developed in preschool and kindergarten in more mature ways. The true magic of first grade happens as children develop the ability to understand what letters and numbers really mean. When they're ready, they'll be able to "crack the code" and read words. First graders need to be surrounded with excitement and encouragement, and given examples of how we learn from mistakes. With teamwork between teachers, parents, and kids, first grade is a fabulous good time.
Sam Houston teachers will use SeeSaw as the primary classroom communication tool. Teachers will share important classroom information such as newsletters, school events, and field trips. As well, students will be able to post pictures and videos of their class work. Parents are able to connect directly to their child's classroom and account via the SeeSaw app/website.
If your child attended Sam Houston last year, then you will need to do nothing. You are already connected and your child's new class will appear in your account.
If you are new to Sam Houston, your child's teacher will give you an access code along with all of the instructions you will need to get connected.
All supplies will be shared as a classroom family. Please do not label any supplies with names.
Individual teachers may request additional items.


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Chino tabs McCain as new football coach
By Clay Fowler | cfowler@scng.com | San Gabriel Valley Tribune
January 29, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.
Chino High School didn't have to look far for its new head football coach.
Matt McCain, who will retain his athletic director position at Chino, will be the fourth head coach of the Cowboys in the last six years, pending board approval.
The Chino graduate will replace the departed Greg Setlich, who went 2-18 in his two seasons at the helm following a two-year stint by Manny Saiz that resulted in seven wins.
"We've been through some challenging times recently, but there's a rich history," McCain said. "I think we can get it back on track. I think a lot of our kids at Chino. Chino High School is a great place to work and coach. Expectations are high."
McCain has been a large part of that rich history and played for and coached under John Monger during the legendary coach's 19-year tenure at the school. McCain was an assistant coach from 1995 until Monger resigned in 2005, the Cowboys' last playoff appearance.
Chino's postseason prospects may be higher in 2010, when it jumps from the Sierra to the Mt. Baldy League.
"I think going into the new league will help the program tremendously," Monger said. "Matt is a people person and a positive person. I think he's going to do a great job."
McCain left Chino for one season and accepted the head coaching job at Anaheim Canyon High School in 1999. After making the playoffs in his lone season at Canyon, three teacher strikes at the school persuaded McCain to return to Chino in 2000.
When Monger retired in 2005, McCain was named Chino's head coach before accepting the athletic director position weeks later.
"It wasn't impossible to do both," McCain said, "but I was a new AD, and I didn't feel comfortable doing both jobs."
With his sons now 9 and 7 years old, McCain said his family is in a better position for him to tackle athletic director and head football coaching duties.
After graduating from Chino in 1990 after a career as a linebacker and quarterback, McCain played at Fullerton Junior College for two seasons before earning a scholarship to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
He joined Monger's coaching staff at Chino in 1995 as linebackers coach. After returning from Canyon in 2000, McCain served as the offensive coordinator for the next five seasons until Monger resigned.
McCain helped hire Saiz, who remains a physical education teacher at Chino and will join McCain's football coaching staff next season.
Clay Fowler | reporter
Clay Fowler is the sports features and UCLA basketball writer for the Southern California News Group. He has been working for SCNG since 2006, when he moved to Southern California from his native Texas. He was born and raised in Dallas and graduated from the University of Texas in 2002. He lives in La Verne with his wife and son. He is probably craving Chinese food right now.
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Q: Use PHP to insert JSON to MySQL table I need to insert a Javascript object into a new MySQL table using PHP. My object is in the following form:
{
  rowA:[A1,A2,A3],
  rowB:[B1,B2,B3],
  rowC:[C1,C2,C3],
}

I also have an array of column names:
$columns = array("col1","col2","col3");

I need to use this data to create and fill a MySQL table in the following format:
      col1 col2 col3
rowA  A1   A2   A3
rowB  B1   B2   B3
rowC  C1   C2   C3

I can access my server and create a table, but am still unsure how to deal with JSON:
$str = file_get_contents('barchartData/US-HI.json');
$json = json_decode($str, true);
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
$sql = "CREATE TABLE testTable (
   // not sure how to specify column, row, and cell values from the JSON...
)";

I am fairly new to PHP and haven't been able to get code in PHP working which read the JSON keys and set them as MySQL row values.

A: As mentioned in the earlier comment, I'd recommend splitting up the issue. Table creation should not be an issue because the values don't come from the JSON file.
So let's start by validating your JSON file. You can use an online tool for that.
Have a look at the code below which you can run apart from your current script.
It's not the most elegant solution but it's one that I think will help you understand the solution the best.
<?php

echo '<pre>';  // For testing purposes.

// Convert the array to comma separated values as is
// required by the MySQL insert statement.
$fields          = array("col1","col2","col3");
$imploded_fields = implode(',', $fields);

$json            = '{"rowA":["A1","A2","A3"], "rowB":["B1","B2","B3"], "rowC":["C1","C2","C3"]}';
$decoded         = json_decode($json);

foreach ($decoded as $d) {

    $values  = implode(',', $d);
    $statement =  "INSERT INTO `table` ($imploded_fields) VALUES ($values)";

    echo $statement; // Change this to actually execute the statement
}

Hope this makes sense.
If you further want to optimise this solution, look at helpful functions like array_map and array_keys.


Extensively used JQuery, JSON, AJAX and DOM to create interactive user interface and also for front end validations.
Responsible for making AJAX calls for the API calls to the Controller actions to fetch the data from the back-end using JSON and send the request to the client side validations.
Implemented a test driven development using Rspec, Jasmine, and Cucumber, Mocha, Chai, AJAX, JSON, REST APIs, Node.
Used Grunt as a task Runner for the development and deployment of the project. Worked on the Node. Java Server and Amazon web services like EC2, S3, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, CloudWatch.
Developed front end code with HTML, CSS, JQuery, AJAX, JSON, Jenkins, GIT, and Maven for continuous integration and release management.
Using Node.JS to build a RESTful web application and used Django to create a standalone template for the front end.
Developed front end web application using HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Grunt, and RESTful API. Worked with the development team to build a dashboard for a new website.


Seven Lowcountry men were arrested Tuesday by the S.C. Law Enforcement Division (SLED) in connection with a recycling ring believed to be behind the fraudulent sale of metal containers totaling more than $20,000 to a recycling center in Hampton County.
The suspects, reportedly employees of two area waste disposal companies, Waste Management and Republic Services, allegedly sold metal containers belonging to these companies to Simco Recycling Center in Yemassee for personal gain.
Abraham Young, 47, of Green Pond; Richard Young, 36, of Walterboro; Marc Anthony Dupont, 38, of Ridgeland; and Rodolfo Taylor, 65, of Walterboro, were charged with one count each of breach of trust with fraudulent intent over $2,000 but less than $10,000, a felony with penalties upon conviction of fines and up to five years in prison.
Eric Lamont Ferguson, 39, of Ruffin; Antonio Deshawn Ferguson, 31, of Walterboro; and John Lee Drayton, 61, of Hilton Head Island, were charged with one count each of breach of trust with fraudulent intent, value $2,000 or less, a misdemeanor with penalties upon conviction of up to 30 days in jail or a fine up to $1,000.
All seven were booked into the Hampton County Detention Center Tuesday.
SLED conducted the investigations at the request of the Hampton County Sheriff's Office. The cases will be prosecuted by the 14th Circuit Solicitor's Office.


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Q: Vue // this.$root.$off unsubscribes all instances of the component from the global event I have a custom input validation component that I use in a form. Something like 15 instances of this component around the app. It has a beforeDestroy method in which I unsubscribe from global event called triggerGlobalValidation which triggers validation before I send request to server. As expected it's triggered only once inside this certain component.
There is a container with v-if parameter which contains one instance of the component. So when v-if="false" I expect this certain component to unsubscribe from event and get destroyed.  It goes well accept for one thing: somehow this component unsubscribes ALL other instances of it from the triggerGlobalValidation event as well.
I've tested the behavior with v-show and it works as expected - all other instances keep subscribed, but since the v-show field is required for the form it's blocking validation even without being shown in the DOM. I also tested above mentioned components behavior by removing the this.$root.$off("triggerGlobalValidation") and it also works as expected + polluting the global root.
Vue documentation on $off method is saying:

If no arguments are provided, remove all event listeners;
If only the event is provided, remove all listeners for that event;
If both event and callback are given, remove the listener for that
  specific callback only.

Is it possible to somehow mention in the callback, that this $off method shouldn't unsubscribe all of its instances from the event, but just this certain one being destroyed?
Check it out in codesandbox

A: As answered in the issue, you need to save the handler and pass it again to $off
mounted() {
  this.fn = () => {
    this.toggleWarning();
  }
  this.$root.$on("triggerChildComponents", this.fn);
},
beforeDestroy() {
  this.$root.$off("triggerChildComponents", this.fn);
},


Chettle joined the backroom team on a full-time basis in August 2018 after supporting the coaching staff over the summer while he was manager of Ilkeston Town.
As well as having first-team responsibilities, he oversees the club's development side and plays a key role in helping players make the step-up from the Academy to senior football.
A centre-half during his playing career, Chettle represented Nottingham Forest, Barnsley, Walsall, Grimsby, Burton Albion and Ilkeston, making over 270 senior appearances.


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The former San Antonio home of controversial Flip This House star Armando Montelongo is for sale
By San Antonio Current Staff
Armando Montelongo is one of San Antonio's most colorful characters.
After becoming a reality show star thanks to the 2000s-era A&E series Flip This House, he turned that media exposure into a business delivering seminars that promise to teach people how to get rich through real estate speculation.
Along the way, Montelongo has been sued by former students and investigated by two state attorneys general, according to media reports. Forbes magazine once described him as a "Home-Flipping Huckster." Montelongo has denied allegations that he took advantage of students who paid for his pricy seminars, however.
The house flipper-turned-public speaker's former home north of the exclusive Dominion enclave is now on the market for just shy of $1.2 million. He owned the property from 2014 through 2019, when it was sold to an entity called RETI Properties LLC, according to county records.
The 6,000-square-foot home looks like a suitably flamboyant dwelling for the reality-show star and real-estate wheeler dealer. Dual spiral staircases with leopard print carpet dominate a two-story great room, and an entertainer's kitchen features white cabinets and fancy appliances.
The sprawling property includes six bedrooms and four and half baths.
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This is an extremely exciting time to be joining the organisation; they have achieved outstanding consistent performance through substantial organic growth together with selective acquisitions and further growth and investment remains firmly on the agenda. As such, we are looking to appoint an outstanding Finance Director who can operate in an organisation poised for significant growth. Responsibilities As a key member of the senior leadership team, this is a hands on influential position with both an operational and strategic bias and this appointment is seen as fundamental in driving the achievement of top line business objectives. Operating in close alignment and as a confidante to the Managing Director, this role goes way beyond the numbers. The requirement is to raise the bar and influence the direction of the business, whilst providing a best in class service for both internal and external stakeholders. With a blank sheet, you will conduct a full root and branch overview of the function where the focus will be on transformational change both in terms of structure/organisation design and digital tools in order to embrace smart and leaner ways of working. You will channel the Finance function and operate as the voice of Finance on the Board and will be required to drive improvement in financial and operational performance to include cost reduction, income generation and the management of capital spend. You will be responsible for the full business planning cycle to ensure robust cost control and forecasting is in place, with a constant drive to shift the culture where value/cost control is second nature. Your brief will be wide ranging where you will have full accountability for all finance activities across the business and be required to create initiatives which guide and support other key business functions. You will develop and champion effective financial change management initiatives for the organisation in order to drive sustainable business improvements in an organisation where year on year growth is a given. Person This unique position demands an exceptional Finance Professional who enjoys a growth agenda and a highly visible role, whilst developing their career within a market leading organisation. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of innovation and contribution to profit improvement, in an environment where hiding places simply do not exist. With an outstanding track record of delivering best practice financial management, your experience is most likely to have been gained in a dynamic manufacturing, distribution or logistics/3PL/4PL organisation, where best in class principles prevail. You will relish the opportunity to advance your career in a market leading organisation who have tremendous ambition and where superb opportunities exist for high performers. Dynamic, progressive and influential, you will have outstanding commercial acumen, the passion and stature to influence those around you and will be the type of person who can introduce far reaching financial initiatives in order to drive the business to unprecedented levels of performance. Please reply with full CV and current salary details. Candidates who fail to respond in this manner cannot be considered.


E. coli bacteria live naturally in the human gut. For almost 25 years, researchers at Michigan State University in East Lansing have been growing the germs in 12 glass flasks. The microbes have been growing, and reproducing — and growing some more. Meanwhile, biologists have been watching, watching, watching.
Richard Lenski and his coworkers recently reported a new finding from the long-term project. In one flask, the bacteria the scientists were nurturing did something momentous: They gradually evolved, or changed. In this case, the tiny organisms developed the ability to eat a new food — citrate — but only when oxygen is around.
That may not seem like such a big deal, and it's not — for humans. But for the E. coli bacteria that these biologists have been studying, learning to eat citrate as food is as momentous as growing eyes or wings would be for larger creatures with lots of cells, says Paul Rainey. Rainey, who did not participate in the new study, works at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand, and at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany.
The new experiment shows that evolutionary changes don't pop up overnight — they emerge from the gradual accumulation of changes in an organism's genes. A gene is information that's passed from a parent to an offspring. But every generation — such as your parents', your grandparents', yours — tends to have some slightly different genes than the one before. Those changes add up and can lead to bigger, more obvious changes in behaviors or body functions. That's what happened in the case of the E. coli, a type of germ that can infect the digestive tract of animals, including people.
Ancient E. coli bacteria used to be able to eat citrate, observes biologist Zachary Blount, who works with Lenski at Michigan State. At some point about 1.3 million years ago, the microbes lost that ability, he told Science News.
The Michigan State biologists find that this process had three steps. In the first, at least two important genes mutated, or changed. This prepared the cell to eat citrate. During the second step, an unused gene that could move citrate within the cell became active again. In the final stage, that gene got busy, and the cell adapted other tweaks necessary to gobble up citrate.
The study doesn't only tell scientists how the bacteria evolved; it also may help demonstrate how other, larger organisms change over time.
E. coli A bacterium whose formal name is Escherichia coli. There are many strains — or types — of bacteria within this species, each having different traits. Many are transmitted in tainted foods and are capable of causing severe disease in people.
evolution A process by which a species changes over generations.
cell The smallest structural and functional unit of an organism, typically microscopic.
bacteria (also microbe) A single-celled organism. Bacteria lack some of the cell organization seen in other types of cells.
generation A set of members of a family regarded as a single group — your parents are one generation, your grandparents another, for example.
T. Saey. "E. coli caught in the act of evolving." Science News. Sept. 19, 2012.
S. Ornes. "Gut instinct." Science News for Kids. June 22, 2011.


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Q: Statistics with SQL queries or in JavaScript I have an excel like table with a should value and an is value for each day of a month:
descrip. |        | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 |
_______________________________________
column 1 | should | 60 |  0 | 60 |  0 |
         | is     | 60 |  0 | 60 | 60 |
_______________________________________
column 2 | should |  0 | 15 |  0 | 15 |
column 3 | is     |  0 |  0 |  0 | 15 |

I need the values of this table for two purposes:

*

*Extract some statistics (total; should / is ratio; etc)

*Based on the values see if the actions (entry in column) are done

*

*Just once

*Once every week

*daily

*periodically

Should I get the statistics with SQL queries or calculate them with JavaScript based on the JSON response? What are the (dis)advantages
Some additional information:
I'm using SpringBoot with JPA and a PostgreSQL database.
Tables:

*

*Chart

*Column

*Action (should / is values)

Here is a part of my JSON response:
"columns": [{
        "id": 12,
        "should": [{
            "id": 13,
            "date": 1438552800000,
            "min": 60
        }],
        "is": []
        }
    }]

A: As @Ewan has said, it would be better to have these statistics already calculated (we have here different options. Ewan pointed to one of them).
Back to the question, here some disadvantages of each solution:

*

*Client side:
Depending on the complexity of the calcs and the volume of the data to retrieve; to load the page may take longer than usual.
In mobile clients, it also has an impact on the memory and the battery (the charge is limited here).
Then comes the fact that statistics should be calculated every time the page is loaded.
Important to say that, if data is not persisted in any sort of cache, is quite easy to overload the DBMS just by clicking F5 like crazy.
Summarising, it affects the UX, and in some cases, it has an impact on the resources (memory, battery, CPU, ...)

*DB-side:
DB is a shared resource. Some calcs may cause a serious problem of performance to the DBMS and any application connected to the DB is going to suffer the consequences.
At this point is good to know the concurrency (possible number of  simultaneous requests to the DB asking for the statistics) and the frequency of these requests. The volume of the data and its complexity also matters.
Then comes the maintenance. Depending on the complexity of the SQL statements, the task could be dramatic.
However, DBMSs are good at doing calcs, aggregates, etc. But you should be careful because you can end up taking down the DBMS (true story).

A: Neither, You should use a data warehouse, calculate your statistics via a MDX query and store the result.
your website can then present the stored results without having to recalculate on each page request.


Patent rights depend on many interpretive elements, including even the patent subject matter and the question of who owns the right. Such elements lead to varying legal approaches in different countries and, since it is in the nature of inventions to be international, knowledge of patent law in a variety of national jurisdictions is an indispensable asset for patent lawyers and their clients. This book provides that essential knowledge as it relates to the patent laws of Japan together with English translations of main provisions of the Patent Law. It provides a systematic and concise analysis of theoretical issues and information of practical usefulness (such as examination guidelines of the Japanese Patent Office) as well as analysis of important case law.
procedure before Japanese Intellectual Property High Court.
The Essentials of Japanese Patent Law clearly explains the way in which patents may be registered and protected under Japanese law, and will be of inestimable value to counsel for inventors and enterprises everywhere. No patent lawyers or other intellectual property professionals will want to be without it.


.LESS and Bootstrap has been the mostly used css for web developers all around the world. LESS helps built CSS faster and more efficient. Although, using actual .LESS on websites may not be the best for optimization, it is still better to just use CSS on live websites. Thankfully, there are compilers being shared for front-end developers like myself.
There are two LESS compilers that I've seen; SimpLESS and WinLess. I've tried the two compilers and I find that SimpLESS is, well, way simpler to use than WinLess.


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Q: Jenkins Version Number Format Substring I am using the Jenkins Version Number Plugin.  I have the following    Version Number Format String in my Git/Maven project:
#${BUILDS_ALL_TIME} - ${POM_VERSION} - ${GIT_BRANCH}

This results in:

However, I want a substring of GIT_BRANCH that results in the output:
#42 - 1.4.2-SNAPSHOT - master

In other words, I just want a GIT_BRANCH of master and not the remote repository origin/master.

A: You can see in PR 12 a similar pull request changing the VersionNumberBuilder.java.
Similarly, it should be fairly easy to modify that same class to remove origin/ from any final version string produced by that plugin.


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Captain Reyan Rikoric
Captain David Gilbert
Captain Justin Stopper
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Geary County Dive Team
Investigations Supervisor
Offender Registration
Evidence Custodian
Support Division Supervisor
Civil Process
VIN Inspections
Camp Shield
Community Involvement Team
Compliments / Complaints
Records, Reports, VINS & Fingerprints
Civil Process Procedures
Policy Regarding Racial Profiling
Concealed Carry Information
An eight-hour approved training class is required before any person can apply for a concealed carry permit in the State of Kansas. The office of the Attorney General has published a list of certified trainers on their website. www.ksag.org/page/concealed-carry. Concealed carry applications may be downloaded at www.ksag.org/page/concealed-carry or picked up Monday through Friday between 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM at the Geary County Sheriff's Office which is located at, 826 N. Franklin Street, Junction City, Kansas 66441.
Once a Geary County resident has received the mandatory training, they should bring the completed application packet and fees to the Sheriff's Office, 826 N. Franklin Street, Junction City, KS 66441 Monday through Friday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. The applicant will be fingerprinted and the Sheriff's Office will collect and forward all paperwork to the Attorney General's Office for a criminal background check by the KBI. The Attorney General's Office is the sole authority in determining if a permit will be granted.
The Kansas Personal and Family Protection Act (KSA 75-7c01 et.seq), outlines the process in great detail. A summary of this bill can be read on the Kansas Attorney General's website. www.ksag.org/page/concealed-carry
What paperwork do I need?
Bring the following items with you to the Sheriff's Office, 826 N. Franklin Street, Junction City KS 66441 Monday through Friday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
The completed application form
A valid Kansas Driver's License or Non-Drivers Kansas Identification Card
"Passport" type photo (approximately 2 inches by 2 inches) with an unobstructed full frontal view of your head and shoulders, taken within 30 days of application. Photos will not be accepted if you are wearing sunglasses
Attorney General approved Certificate of Training or affidavit of instruction from an approved instructor
$32.50 check or money order payable to the Geary County Sheriff's Office
$100.00 check or money order payable to the Attorney General's Office
Where can I get an application?
Geary County Sheriff's Office, 826 N. Franklin Street, Monday through Friday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM or download the application at www.ksag.org/page/concealed-carry
I have all of the paperwork. Now what?
Monday thru Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., take ALL required paperwork to the Sheriff's Office located at 826 N. Franklin Street and you will be fingerprinted. The Sheriff's Office will collect and forward your application, copies of identification, fingerprints, photo, and payment to the Attorney General's Office.
Do I have to be a resident of the State of Kansas to obtain a Kansas CCH license?
Yes, with one caveat. Most applicants must be a resident of the State of Kansas prior to making application for a CCH license. If applying before July 1, 2010, the individual has to have been a Kansas resident for 6 months or more immediately preceding their application date. Kansas will generally not issue CCH licenses to non-residents. The exception: Without getting too technical, active duty military (and their "dependents" after July 1, 2010) are allowed to apply for a Kansas CCH and keep their out-of-state identification cards.
A "dependent" of an active U.S. military member is someone who resides with the military member and financially depends upon that member in whole or substantial part.
I am an out-of-state resident with a permit from that state. Can I apply for a permit in Kansas?
Only Geary County residents may apply for a permit in Geary County.
Will I get a card to carry with me?
Once approved, you will be instructed by the Attorney General's office to contact your local Department of Motor Vehicle office to receive your CCH permit. You will be required to pay a fee for the card.
Will I be authorized to carry a concealed handgun into another state with my Kansas permit?
While other states have concealed carry laws, some may or may not recognize concealed carry permits issued by Kansas. Concealed carry licensees are cautioned to check with the licensing authority in each state before traveling.
Are out-of-state carry concealed licenses recognized by the state of Kansas?
For a non-resident concealed carry licensee to be recognized by Kansas the holder must hold a license from a reciprocating state, must be a resident of the state where the license was issued, and must be able to show proof of license and residency from the state of issuance. Reciprocating licensees must abide by Kansas concealed carry laws while traveling, visiting, or working in Kansas. Visit the Attorney General website at www.ksag.org/page/concealed-carry for a list of reciprocating states.
Who can apply for a permit?
You must be a Citizen of the United States, a Geary County resident, and 21 years or more of age.
What disqualifies me from a permit?
Visit the Attorney General's Concealed Carry webpage for a current list of disqualifiers.
For more information on Kansas Concealed Carry laws, please visit the Attorney General's website at www.ksag.org or call the Geary County Sheriff's Office at (785) 238-2261.
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require "spec_helper"

describe RSpec::Rails::MinitestAssertionAdapter do
  include RSpec::Rails::MinitestAssertionAdapter

  RSpec::Rails::Assertions.public_instance_methods.select{|m| m.to_s =~ /^(assert|flunk|refute)/}.each do |m|
    if m.to_s == "assert_equal"
      it "exposes #{m} to host examples" do
        assert_equal 3,3
        expect do
          assert_equal 3,4
        end.to raise_error(ActiveSupport::TestCase::Assertion)
      end
    else
      it "exposes #{m} to host examples" do
        methods.should include(m)
      end
    end
  end

  it "does not expose internal methods of Minitest" do
    methods.should_not include("_assertions")
  end

  it "does not expose Minitest's message method" do
    methods.should_not include("message")
  end
end

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Q: Why is response time(for Rest Call) slower in Android when compared to PC? I am making a rest api call from Android device and was really surprised looking at the difference of speeds when compared to PC.
Below is the image from a rest tool on PC.
I tried few libraries like Retrofit, Volley and also regular Async task to make the same rest call from android device and noticed following response times.
(Response times with Retrofit library (Time includes converting json data to java objects)).
Test 1: 8372 Ms
Test 2: 7715 Ms
Test 3: 7686 Ms
Test 4: 10128 Ms
Test 5: 7876 Ms

(Response times with Volley. No conversion to Java Objects from Json Data )
Test 1: 6721 MS
Test 2: 6610 MS
Test 3: 6287 MS
Test 4: 6118 MS
Test 5: 6118 MS

I took System.currentTimeMillis() before making a call and after getting the response and subtracted those values to get above response time in Android program.
It would be really helpful if some one can show me how to reduce the response time in android.
FYI: I am on Wifi and using same network both for my PC and Android device.
Here is the Retrofit Android code
RestAdapter adapter = new RestAdapter.Builder()
                                .setEndpoint(ENDPOINT)
                                .build();

    WeatherApi weatherApi = adapter.create(WeatherApi.class);
    startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    weatherApi.getWeather(location.getLatitude(),location.getLongitude(),new Callback<WeatherInfo>() {

        @Override
        public void success(WeatherInfo arg0, Response arg1) {
            endTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
            Log.d("TAG",endTime-startTime + ":Millisecs");
            setWeatherInfo(arg0);
            if(weatherDialog != null && weatherDialog.isShowing())
            weatherDialog.dismiss();
        }

A: Retrofit is agnostic to the HTTP client it uses, so it tries to figure out what is the best available HTTP client it can use to perform the request.
By default Retrofit uses GSON as a converter (that too can be customized). Considering that GSON uses reflection to map JSON elements to your class attributes, the complexity of the WeatherInfo class may very well have a performance penalty on the conversion step.
Since the differences in your case are not quite reasonable, my best guess is that GZIP is disabled. You can use RestAdapter.setLogLevel(LogLevel.FULL) and check the Accept-Encoding header to see if GZIP is enabled or not. If that is not the case then post more relevant code so we can give more insights.
A quick way which I'm sure you'll notice a huge difference is if you include okhttp and okhttp-urlconnection - when those are available in the classpath Retrofit will use okhttp as the client by default, which supports GZIP without any further configuration.
You can do so by adding the following dependencies to your build.gradle file:
compile 'com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp:2.4.0'
compile 'com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp-urlconnection:2.4.0'

Note that compression also has to be supported on the server-side, and I'm not sure if you've posted the complete output of the response headers, but it seems to be missing something like Content-Encoding: gzip, if that is the case you should look into enabling this feature on your web server as well.

A: My  guess is your android system  is either overloaded or under a debugger or dalvik vm compilation is in  effect  there .
Just  out   of the  time like 6  seconds  it  is understood that  there  is some phisical  limitation ,  like CPU load or SDHC memory access.
Also if  you use emulator  to  debug,   this  maybe the  reason .


A look at the explosive growth that has made BMG a leading institution for Orthodox learning in the U.S. and changed Lakewood.
LAKEWOOD - In an ornate room the size of a gymnasium, fronted by marble columns and crammed with podiums, 500 men dressed uniformly in black trousers and white button-down shirts are arguing.
Streams of Yinglish — the hurried blend of Yiddish and English — flow back and forth between two of the young men. These students are debating 2,000-year-old religious texts and positing new interpretations of them.
There's not a computer in sight. Students leave their cellphones in a line on the hallway floor outside.
No distractions of modern technology while they're immersed in ancient principles.
This is what education at Beth Medrash Govoha sounds like. A college unlike any other, it's the Harvard University for Jewish religious study. The students are all men and must pass an oral test on Jewish religious law to get in — by those measures it's harder to get in here than an Ivy League school. Very few become rabbis.
Students work in one of the study halls inside the Israel Henry Beren Hall at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ Wednesday, February 7, 2018.
The college opened in 1943 with 13 students in a Tudor mansion at the center of what was then a town known for chicken farming. Poultry once outnumbered people here.
Now, 75 years later, the institution of about 6,700 students costs $50 million a year to run and has transformed the township into an economic powerhouse. The school's scholars stick around, opening businesses after graduation and creating a thriving industry catering to unique cultural and religious needs of the Orthodox Jewish community.
The township, which has seen its population more than double since 1990, is being forced to reckon with growing pains of traffic, budget woes and the boom of duplexes and single-family homes. The school is so integral to the town, many residents know it by its initials, BMG.
Yet even as BMG marks its diamond anniversary, exactly what it is, and what it does, is a mystery to outsiders.
Lakewood retiree Joseph DeFalco, echoing others in the township, said he sees the college as a controlling and controversial force that has put its success before the quality of life here. Yet to students, Beth Medrash Govoha is vital.
"People go to college and all they learn is a particular trade, how to earn a living," said 23-year-old student Haim Toledano, who grew up in Paris and Montreal. "When you come here you really learn how to live a proper life."
The roots of the yeshiva — an Orthodox Jewish school — grew out of hatred. The founder, Aaron Kotler, is described in historical accounts as a prodigy of religious scholarship as a young man in the early 1900s. By his mid-20s, he'd married the daughter of a noted rabbi in Eastern Europe under control of the Soviet Union, according to a timeline provided by the Kotler family. He became the leader of a school there.
Soviet persecution of Jews forced Kotler and his family to move the school to Poland. The wrath of Nazism growing in Germany soon unleashed a series of invasions and widespread persecution of Jews that forced Kotler to move the school again in 1939, to Lithuania.
As Nazis increased mass deportations of Jews to concentration camps, Kotler, his family and a small group of students fled by train and boat to Japan, and then to the United States six months before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
Kotler escaped to America with a grand vision to establish traditional religious study in the New World.
Go inside the college in the video below.
Kotler is portrayed in pictures as a serious man. His eyes are pensive, his dark beard faded to white in his later years. But he had a compassion for people exemplified by his work to rescue Holocaust survivors, his grandson says, and in gestures as small as handing out candy at synagogue.
Driven by the decimation of millions of Jews in the Holocaust, Kotler sought to rebuild Jewish culture in a religious world that he saw as being polluted by secular lifestyles, according to Adam S. Ferziger, a professor of Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Ferziger has written or edited six books based on his research of Jewish religious movements.
The revered rabbi believed students needed to be separate — shielded from materialism and economic motivations — so they would not be distracted from their study of the Talmud, a religious authority of Orthodox Judaism, and religious principles that date back thousands of years. The Talmud includes rabbinical commentary and oral law and tradition believed to be given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. It is distinct from, but guided by, the Torah, which Christians would know as the first five books of Old Testament of the Bible.
Kotler believed studying was the ultimate religious act, and encouraged students to dedicate themselves to education as their only commitment — without the distraction of jobs or secular education or pursuing wealth. Everyone else, Kotler thought, should support that goal, according to Ferziger.
Kotler found that separation in Lakewood, about 40 miles from the bustle of Manhattan and on the edge of New Jersey's rural Pinelands.
Founded in the 1700s as a sawmill town, Lakewood knew cycles of prosperity and bust.
It was advertised to New York's wealthy elite as an accessible winter getaway in the mid-to-late 1800s. Trains from New York and Philadelphia arrived daily. More than 100 hotels were built and oil and railroad magnates of the Rockefeller and Gould families built mansions here. The Vanderbilts visited. But faster trains, roadways and airplanes soon made sunnier locales accessible. With the Great Depression tourism declined.
As vacationers stayed home or headed elsewhere, Lakewood sought new life.
Poultry farming grew, and in the first decade of the 20th century chickens outnumbered people by about 10 to 1, according to a historical survey of Lakewood. Hotels were converted to apartments and nursing homes.
Still, when Kotler found Lakewood, the population was less than 10,000 people, according to Sheila Monesson Hager, curator of the Sheldon Wolpin Lakewood Historical Museum.
Kotler's school of 13 students opened April 25, 1943.
The secular world perceived the event as so minor it warranted a brief six sentences in the Asbury Park Evening Press.
"Hebrew Institute Opens Tomorrow," the headline read.
Honking horns are the soundtrack for groups of men that come and go from Beth Medrash Govoha's main campus, which was built on the site of the original school. Cars are everywhere: Lining both sides of skinny streets, squeezing past oncoming traffic, dodging close-calls with the hordes of men in black hats headed to learn.
The frenzy of activity in this otherwise residential neighborhood, and English and Hebrew script carved into the building's façade, reveal this block as a center of higher learning. The college is now four campuses comprised of 16 giant study halls over 35 acres. It also has about 20 housing buildings, dorms for about 1,400 students and apartments for about 400 married students.
A November 22, 1978 Asbury Park Press file photo: Students leave a study hall at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ.
Instead of a single sprawling campus with rolling lawns, Beth Medrash Govoha is a patchwork of structures — new and old — that have been bought or built on blocks in the township's core.
A million books and historical manuscripts, in Yiddish, Hebrew, Aramaic and English, line shelves inside Beth Medrash Govoha's nine libraries. Coat rooms are stacked with student writings and recordings. A small locker room the size of a closet holds no gym clothes. Instead, lockers are labeled with the name of a charity, and donations can be securely slipped inside.
A bottle of Tylenol sits on a sharing shelf near a bulletin board overloaded with wedding invites and prayer group announcements in Hebrew.
Tylenol aside, the environment is different than other colleges. Beth Medrash Govoha is no party school, said Jeffrey Balaban, a 23-year-old student.
Study sessions are Sunday to Friday, before the start of the Sabbath at sundown, in two daily sessions and usually stretch past dusk.
"Here it's intense learning and with that you develop a work ethic which travels with you forever," Balaban said.
Lectures inside one of the yeshiva's vast study halls — cavernous rooms crammed with lines of podiums holding hefty books, the largest of which can hold 1,000 students — are occasional and often not in English.
But a hum emanates from behind these closed doors.
Inside, pairs of study partners engage in a vigorous debate over the topic at hand and its body of rabbinical commentary. There are dozens of courses of study that focus on examining a topic and analyzing it, relying not only on the Talmud but also a variety of religious texts. Most students graduate in six years, according to college administrators.
The buzzing study halls are the institution's namesake: beth medrash, translated from Hebrew, means study hall; govoha means of higher learning.
The discourse covers the nuances of making oaths, the laws of the Sabbath, or resolving conflicts when one man's ox gores another, for example.
"Obviously no one in Lakewood has an ox," said Eli Dubin, a 27-year-old Brooklyn native who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2017. The lesson is not about beasts but liability, he said, and is like a case study that can be applied to modern scenarios, like car crashes.
"The way the Talmud is written, it's not setting down a list of principles," he said. "It's mainly cases from which you extrapolate the principles and apply them to other instances.
"The skills we're honing when we're studying Talmud are the logical skills, the critical reasoning skills so everyone can reach their own conclusion."
He said he expects the BMG style of learning to help with his law school studies later this year at Harvard or Columbia University. He was accepted to both.
The college's expansion has been supported by notable names.
Charles and Seryl Kushner, parents to President Donald Trump's adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, are benefactors whose surname is emblazoned on the school's rotunda. Board members include billionaire investors, investment bankers and a media company director.
Only about 5 percent of students are ordained here as rabbis, the school president said. Most graduates choose professions and business ventures over a pulpit, administrators say, founding everything from innovative development companies to toy stores.
Moshe Gleiberman, vice president of administration, talks about gives a tour of one of the libraries inside the Israel Henry Beren Hall at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ Wednesday, February 7, 2018.
The first few months after enrollment are known as "the freezer," meaning there is no dating, but most students marry within the first two years of study, according to yeshiva vice president Rabbi Moshe Gleiberman.
Young couples with children sometimes rely on family support, public assistance and federal financial aid to make ends meet as the father attends school. The administration provides some married students with stipends of about $2,500 a semester to cover their needs, according to the college president.
Strict yeshiva life tethers families to a distinct cultural system of beliefs and behaviors, he said.
"The yeshiva isn't just a school but it's a fortress, meaning that it's a cultural fortress," he said.
The yeshiva, which charges $20,000 undergraduate tuition and about $4,300 for graduate students, receives about $10 million in federal Pell grants a year, according to U.S. education data. More than 100 other schools in New Jersey receive Pell grants, according to the data. About a third of Beth Medrash Govoha students are eligible for those grants.
Lakewood's Georgian Court University, a private four-year school that is about a third the size of Beth Medrash Govoha, receives about $2.8 million a year. About a quarter of Georgian Court students qualify for Pell grants, according to education data.
Steven Tzvi Pirutinsky, 36, was born in Lakewood while his father studied at Beth Medrash Govoha. To him, the college embodies tradition.
Pirutinsky and his wife chose to stay in Lakewood for the quality of life that's built around the yeshiva, even as Pirutinsky commuted to New York to earn a doctor of psychology from Columbia University. Three years ago they moved to nearby Jackson, which is more affordable than enclaves like Brooklyn, and close to friends made in the yeshiva. They have easy access to services catering to their religion, like kosher grocery stores.
Pirutinsky has seen transformation in his own neighborhood as the Jewish community grew around the yeshiva.
The population has boomed and so has Lakewood's economy.
The population jumped from 45,000 in 1990 to more than 100,000 today, making Lakewood the fastest-growing and seventh largest city in New Jersey. Lakewood claims the highest birthrate in the state. Followers of Orthodox Judaism are an estimated 70 percent of the township's residents.
The local private sector is adding jobs.
There were an average 32,600 private sector jobs in Lakewood last year, according to New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development data. In 1998, 21,000 people worked in the private sector here.
In 2016, the most recent year available, more permits were issued to build new houses in Lakewood than in every other New Jersey city except one, Jersey City, according to state Department of Community Affairs data.
The same year, Lakewood ranked fourth among the Garden State's 565 municipalities for the most construction of new office space and shopping. Those permits authorized $201 million of construction in the township, according to the data.
Construction often leads residents to pack municipal government meetings, demanding the township alleviate clogged traffic or control new building. Demographic change in the township hasn't come easily. One local synagogue was vandalized twice in just a year.
"Community change is always somewhat disruptive, because it's change. Think of a new highway being built," said Kotler, the college president and the founder's grandson.
Lakewood is no longer a winter retreat from big-city clamor.
Aaron Kotler, the school founder, reinvigorated more than just this 25-square-mile township.
The school's founder is credited with the renaissance of rigorous study that defines Haredi Judaism — a strictly observant group that adheres to stringent modesty rules and rejects some aspects of modern culture — in the United States after the Holocaust.
Kotler was a leader of Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox advocacy group. And when the yeshiva in Lakewood was established, Kotler began sending his students — his disciples — to other Jewish communities, according to Agudath's New Jersey head Rabbi Avi Schnall.
Kotler died in 1962, at age 71, when there were about 180 yeshiva students in Lakewood. Control passed to his son Shneur Kotler, who continued his father's mission by sending Beth Medrash Govoha alumni to open schools and start Jewish communities — or as Ferziger said, "mini Lakewoods" — around the world.
Shneur Kotler died in 1982, having created 20 communities in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia. Lakewood counted 1,000 students.
The third generation of Kotlers is continuing the family's work. Rabbi Aryeh Malkeil Kotler, the founder's 66-year-old grandson, serves as academic head of the school. Rabbi Aaron Kotler, 54 — who was born after the death of his grandfather and his namesake — is the college president. Aryeh Malkeil Kotler declined to be interviewed for this story.
Under their leadership, Beth Medrash Govoha alumni and leaders have started another 50 schools — in Mexico City, Los Angeles and Berlin — with the Lakewood college sometimes providing financial assistance with donated funds.
Meanwhile, yeshiva enrollment in Lakewood increased sixfold since 1982, fathering a cultural infrastructure around it to meet the religious needs of the Jewish community. There are kosher grocery stores and specialty shops with shelves of menorah candles and bin after bin of yarmulke — a skullcap symbolizing submission to God — in varying sizes and colors. Jewish volunteer organizations, like Hatzolah of Lakewood, a paramedic service, or Chaveirim, which handles other emergency services, each count volunteers by the dozens.
Beth Medrash Govoha founded the Lakewood Resource and Referral Center, a social services agency, and CHEMED, a thriving community health center. The college established two separate organizations, each with assets of about $20 million, according to federal tax records, to control its endowment and give grants to community organizations.
And it has a for-profit development arm, one that's capitalizing on demand in Lakewood and drawing controversy — and court action.
Beth Medrash Govoha president Kotler sits on the Lakewood Vaad, a council of rabbis and businessmen that advocate for some in the Orthodox Jewish community. Vaad means council in Hebrew.
The Vaad is best known by outsiders for political endorsements and is often a reliable predictor of what candidate will win. Though in recent years opponents to the council have gained a following, using anonymous blogs and social media accounts to deal their critiques, the Vaad is seen as influencing a Jewish bloc vote.
"Herd mentality," said resident Yehuda Shain.
Shain studied at Beth Medrash Govoha for about six years in the 1960s and 1970s, moving to Lakewood from the Jewish enclave of Rockland County, New York.
The 71-year-old great-grandfather works in the kosher food industry. In the past he's taken on a role as a local activist, challenging development associated with Beth Medrash Govoha itself and criticizing the township for not taking strides to improve infrastructure like roadways — for not keeping up with the growth.
In 2005, he and Joseph DeFalco, a non-Jewish member of Lakewood's sizable senior community, filed a lawsuit against the township. Beth Medrash Govoha's corporate arm, Cedarbridge Development Corp., was also a defendant.
The development company in 2000 acquired more than 200 acres of land in Lakewood's southeast section, trading a promise to develop high-tech industry there in exchange for tax breaks. Shain and DeFalco alleged in their lawsuit the township mishandled the deal and Cedarbridge did not fulfill its promises. A judge ultimately ruled against them, finding no wrongdoing by the developer or the local government.
Yet controversy over the site, which in 2009 was reported to be on life support, has not ebbed. A plan last year to build a shopping center there prompted widespread concern among residents already lamenting terrible traffic. A petition, posted online by bloggers and claiming the signatures of 1,200 yeshiva students, objected to the project. A letter posted with the petition said the development was out of line with the ideals espoused by Beth Medrash Govoha's founder.
"There is no doubt, no question in anyone's mind that (school founder Aaron Kotler) would never have allowed the yeshiva to promulgate a project that is the very essence of materialism," the letter reads.
The development supported by the college has overshadowed the institution's other roles in DeFalco's eyes.
Shain swore off city life, but sees problems of urban life growing around him in Lakewood. Last year, the township recorded a five-year high in traffic fatalities, tragedies authorities attributed to rampant population growth that puts more cars and pedestrians on township streets.
On a cloudless, sunny, 80-degree Saturday, a man and a woman cruise down Route 9, cutting across the center of the township on bicycles.
Children start a soccer game on a field a few miles away. The Lakewood BlueClaws, a single-A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies, win their third home game of the 2018 baseball season.
But residents around Beth Medrash Govoha step out of their homes — and students leave their dorms — on the first fine day of spring dressed for prayer. Rectangular white prayer shawls drape over the men's shoulders, cotton fluttering in the breeze.
Men do not go to study because today is Saturday and it's the Sabbath. But Jewish law obligates them to walk to synagogue to pray. They stroll across streets typically crammed with cars. Their steps are unhurried and unworried because nobody in this neighborhood is driving.
The calm does not last. On Sunday, study starts again.
This is the Lakewood of today.


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Formula 1's class of 2018 was asked to select its top-10 best drivers of the season, and the vote resulted in another accolade for five-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.
Queried by Formula1.com, each driver was asked to rank the performance of ten peers using F1's current points system, with their top driver therefore scoring 25 points while the man in tenth position was awarded one point.
Drivers were also allowed to vote for themselves, but their individual selection was kept secret.
Those who took part in the vote were Fernando Alonso, Marcus Ericsson, Pierre Gasly, Romain Grosjean, Brendon Hartley, Charles Leclerc, Kevin Magnussen, Esteban Ocon, Sergio Perez, Kimi Raikkonen, Daniel Ricciardo, Carlos Sainz, Marcus Ericsson, Lance Stroll, Stoffel Vandoorne, Max Verstappen, Sebastian Vettel.
Unsurprisingly, Hamilton was the recipient of the majority of the votes thanks to a banner year that included 11 wins, 11 pole positions, 17 podium finishes in 21 races and a fifth world title.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen was a worthy runner-up however, the Dutchman likely benefiting from his strong end-of-year performance.
He was never a contender this season, but McLaren's Fernando Alonso got a seal of approval from the field, the departing Spaniard rounding off the top-three.
Russell ready to do the business: 'This is my time!'


The power of technology in this modern world is indisputable. Its dominating presence in all aspects of society and culture presents a unique advertising opportunity to produce ads so low tech that the cheeky satire of it all isn't lost on even the most aloof consumer. Here are some of the best examples of low-tech and low-budget advertising that worked like a charm.
IKEA almost makes this no competition at all, with its hilariously brilliant, insanely simple and ironic 2015 IKEA catalog commercial. Its catalog isn't an e-book — it's a "bookbook," with a display that expands when you open it and high-resolution images that load instantaneously (when you turn the page). You can bookmark items that you want to save (with sticky notes). A hand model over-exaggerates demonstrative gestures. Simply swipe right to go forward, swipe left to go backwards. Simple. Brilliant.
Totally poking fun at every tablet commercial ever made, it succeeds beyond every snarky comedy writer's wildest dreams. An adorable 20-something preppy hipster dude with an extra-thick Swedish accent narrates the bookbook's features that are at times giggle inducing.
The bookbook is the simple, no-plug-in, endless-battery-life anecdote to the barrage of high-tech, high-priced tablet ads that dominate the market.
From no tech to below deck tech, Samsung's water-resistant Galaxy S7 Edge may be super high quality and high tech, but the unforgettable ads announcing its release required little more than a snorkel, a swimming pool, one of the biggest hip-hop artists on the planet and champagne.
The first of Samsung's ads was called "Underwater Unboxing" and featured T-Mobile product expert @AskDes in a wetsuit at the bottom of a pool. Des opens up the phone box to reveal all the waterproof goodies inside for summer-ready customers. A closed captioning at the bottom of the screen translates Des' product descriptions spoken through his hot pink snorkel.
The second ad called "Champagne Calls" features Lil Wayne pouring champagne onto his Galaxy S7 Edge and laughing as his entourage watches in awe. Then, Weezy calls his buddy and drops his phone into the fish tank as he continues the conversation.
These are both prime examples of taking humor and consumer expectations into account when designing a low-tech ad campaign that is imitable and memorable while offering advertisers bang for their buck.
Sometimes the simplest details, those that really define the ethos of a company, get thrown out the window when developing an ad campaign. But sometimes good advertising comes down to clever and honest verbiage as well as open and honest communication.
@Issue, the online journal of business and design, cites a dramatically simple and humorous collection cup that is strapped to a tree to gather donations for the Oro Verde Rainforest Foundation. The ad was created by a marketing-heavy hitter in Frankfurt, Germany. The handwritten cards, which were placed on 600-plus trees all over Germany, increased donations by 25 percent.


How to create your best containers ever.
For every puzzling garden area, a great container or two (or three) might provide the ideal solution. Containers enhance patios, decks, porches and other places with no soil. Do not limit yourself to those areas — containers work well throughout the yard and garden.
Gardening and downsizing: two words that are rarely, if ever, used in the same sentence. However, Shirley Gibson, has taken the transition from a large splendid home with formal cutting, floral and vegetable gardens, groomed orchards with planned fields filled with native plantings, to a smaller villa style "Visiting Garden." A senior residential community, where homes have limited space for gardens and patios, was where she graciously invited me to interview her.
Container gardening is so enjoyable because of its possibilities for creative expression. There is an almost endless variety of ways to design and use containers. For example, in a classic design, a container is filled with a pleasing arrangement of plants with differing heights, textures and colors. This method can result in stunning arrangements; however, it does have limitations.
Asparagus is fun and easy to grow.


Kelsey Tyson Designs is a stylish interiors & lifestyle brand created by Kelsey Tyson. Kelsey Tyson Designs was launched in 2016 and was started to help inspire, guide, and motivate people, with products that will contribute in defining a way of life. Creating statement interior and lifestyle products for that person seeking unique luxury items for themselves and their home. Kelsey is always creating new and exciting designs, so you know that you will always find something unique. All the products are designed and produced by Kelsey in her studio in Bangor, Northern Ireland.
We caught up with Kelsey to find out about her studio environment and the products she makes.
My favourite place to be! An old, unused and unloved garage transformed into a new bright and airy space. Its sleek white walls and little designated areas for each process of my work fosters an environment where you just want to create new things. From a small wooden desk and an inspiration wall to work on my designs in one corner, to my equipment and supplies in another where the ideas and products take shape and come to life.
2. What are your tips for designers wanting to set up studio in a smaller town?
I would say it honestly doesn't matter where your studio is. As long as you are willing to travel and spend days on the go, sourcing and meeting new buyers/retailers, or attending events that are going to be beneficial to you and your designs, it will work. Passion, commitment, drive and good products/designs are more important than studio location. Of course the internet and social media are now a great help in ensuring that designers can share their work locally, nationally and even globally at low cost.
3. What have been some of your highlights and challenges since setting up in 2016?
Highlights include gaining stockists within the first few months of setting up, one of which is in London – securing a buyer in this region has always been a key goal for me, so it was fantastic to achieve that fairly early on. My best highlight to date without doubt has been getting accepted for my first trade show. I'll be showcasing in the Home section of the Top Drawer London event, taking place later this year from 10—12 September 2017. Regarding challenges, it's true that it isn't always easy setting up your own business. Although exciting, there is a lot to learn along the way. One of my biggest challenges perhaps is the fact that I use some unconventional materials in my work/products – they are different from the norm and potential customers can sometimes struggle a bit with this. I'm finding though that as my product range is developing and more people are becoming familiar with my work, this is less of an issue. Plenty of people nowadays what something different, something new and I enjoy rising to that challenge through my work.


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Intrado Acquires Contact One
Public Safety Communications June 16, 2011 News, Product & Service Announcements
Combination Speeds Delivery of Next-Generation 9-1-1 Geographic Information System Applications and Services
LONGMONT, Colo., June 15, 2011 — Intrado Inc., a subsidiary of West Corporation and a leading provider of 9-1-1 technology solutions, today announced the acquisition of Contact One, a leader in integrated 9-1-1 geographic information system (GIS) data management solutions for public safety.
This key expansion of its GIS service portfolio allows Intrado to provide customers with a graphical Master Street Address Guide (MSAG) management tool. This transaction also enables Intrado to deliver enhanced dispatch mapping support, which is critical to saving lives in an increasingly mobile world. Additionally, the collective GIS expertise of the two companies allows Intrado to offer expanded enterprise mapping and data services for 9-1-1.
Contact One's innovations in public safety GIS applications combined with Intrado's frontline experience in integrated solutions for 9-1-1 provide an important step in the evolution and advancement of next-generation 9-1-1, with services that:
Give public safety more powerful tools through tighter integration of E9-1-1 and GIS solutions.
Provide the most advanced combination of GIS with native 9-1-1 systems and operations on a common, IP-based platform.
Deliver the logical next step for public safety agencies to respond to the evolving challenges of expanding mobile communications.
"In a world where every second counts, public safety will benefit from the combined vision, technology and innovation of two prominent industry leaders in E9-1-1 data and GIS data management solutions," said Dami Hummel, vice president and general manager of the Intrado Mobility Division. "This transaction enables Intrado to add key products to our growing suite of solutions, while gaining a stronger strategic presence in this important market."
"Joining forces with Intrado is the catalyst to unleash more tightly integrated GIS management systems and GIS database solutions," said Contact One CEO Jerry Merlick. "Together, we will better meet the needs of public safety clients and accelerate the transition to next-generation 9-1-1."
About Intrado
In business for more than 30 years, Intrado, a subsidiary of West Corporation, has maintained a focus and passion for saving lives and supporting the needs of public safety. Agencies and telecommunication services providers throughout the world depend on Intrado for emergency communication services and technology. Intrado's dedicated focus on emergency communications technology allows the company to continue pioneering network innovations that improve emergency response. For more information, visit www.intrado.com.
About West Corporation
West Corporation is a leading provider of technology-driven, voice and data solutions. West offers its clients a broad range of communications and network infrastructure solutions that help them manage or support critical communications. West's customer contact solutions and conferencing services are designed to improve its clients' cost structure and provide reliable, high-quality services. West also provides mission-critical services, such as public safety and emergency communications.
Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, West serves Fortune 1000 companies and other clients in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, banking, retail, financial, technology and healthcare. West has sales and operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For more information on West Corporation, please call 1-800-841-9000 or visit www.west.com.
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TACO BELL HAS ARRIVED IN THAILAND
(Left) Chalermchai Mahagitsiri, TTA President and Chief Executive (Right) Liz Willam, President Taco bell international
The iconic Southern California brand partners with Siam Taco Co. Ltd., to bring its Mexican-inspired cuisine to Thailand for the first time with a new Bangkok restaurant
After much anticipation and demand, Taco Bell, the world's leading Mexican-inspired quick service restaurant, will open its first restaurant in Thailand on Thursday, 24 January. Large queues are expected on the first opening day where the first 100 customers will receive limited edition Taco Bell merchandise and have a chance to win free tacos for a whole year. The restaurant is located on the first floor of Mercury Ville mall in central Bangkok.
Taco Bell is opening in partnership with its franchise partner, Siam Taco Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Thoresen Thai Agencies Public Co., Ltd. and experienced food and beverage operators, the Mahagitsiri family.
"We are excited to work with an incredible franchise partner like the Mahagitsiri family and TTA as a leading strategic investment company listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand," said Ankush Tuli, Managing Director, Taco Bell Asia Pacific. "We have many fans in Thailand, and the country's strong food culture, adventurous spirit and appetite for trying new things make it an ideal market for Taco Bell. Alongside Siam Taco, we look forward to bringing our Mexican-inspired cuisine to one of the most vibrant cities in the world."
"We are thrilled to bring the Taco Bell brand to Thailand," said Chalermchai Mahagitsiri, TTA President and Chief Executive. "Our family fell in love with Taco Bell while in the U.S., and vowed to bring its experience to Thailand one day. Known for its inventive, often whimsical, Mexican-inspired food, we believe Thailand is more than ready to experience the brand. With its lifestyle proposition offering a differentiated atmosphere, Taco Bell will appeal to the young generation, particularly Gen Z and Millennials. Following our recent success of the acquisition of Pizza Hut from the same franchisor, Yum! Brands, Inc. and great partnership thereon, we are very confident Taco Bell will be a great success in Thailand."
Chalermchai Mahagitsiri, TTA President and Chief Executive, and Liz Willam, President Taco bell international, are making Taco.
Since opening its doors almost 57 years ago in Southern California, Taco Bell has expanded its presence to nearly 28 countries across the globe, staying globally consistent but locally relevant with menu items that reflect the cultures and tastes of each market it enters. The Mercury Ville Taco Bell will feature an urban-concept design that embodies the business and shopping community of central Bangkok. Ideal for office workers and shoppers, the 60-seat restaurant features an open kitchen and modern design benches, making it an ideal spot to catch up with friends or take a break from shopping.
The Thailand menu features a selection of Taco Bell's iconic, Mexican-inspired cuisine, including classics like the Crunchwrap SupremeTM, Grilled Stuft Burrito and trademark Crunchy Taco. The menu also includes items developed to reflect the tastes of the Thai market, such as the Kickin' Chicken Taco, which features crispy chicken, a unique spicy Kickin' Sauce, fresh lettuce, pico de gallo salsa and a two-cheese blend, all wrapped in a soft flour tortilla. Additional options include craveable sides like cheesy chips and loaded fries, beverages including freezes unique to Thailand in Mango Madness, Tropical Punch and Berry Blue flavors, and ice cold San Miguel Light, Singha & Chang beers that pair perfectly with the Taco Bell menu.
For more information, check out Facebook.com/TacoBellTH and follow @TacoBellTH on Instagram, Twitter and Line.


Townapps are delighted to be attending the World Towns Leadership Summit being held in Edinburgh, Scotland from the 15-16 June 2016. Ian Lacey the UK Sales Agent will be in attendance and on hand to give information, advice and demonstrations of the new app platform.
Be sure to come along for a chat to learn more about the mobile application and the benefits this can provide to your local area.


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package org.apache.phoenix.spark

import org.apache.spark.sql.sources.{BaseRelation, CreatableRelationProvider, RelationProvider}
import org.apache.spark.sql.{DataFrame, SQLContext, SaveMode}

class DefaultSource extends RelationProvider with CreatableRelationProvider {

  // Override 'RelationProvider.createRelation', this enables DataFrame.load()
  override def createRelation(sqlContext: SQLContext, parameters: Map[String, String]): BaseRelation = {
    verifyParameters(parameters)

    new PhoenixRelation(
      parameters("table"),
      parameters("zkUrl"),
      parameters.contains("dateAsTimestamp")
    )(sqlContext)
  }

  // Override 'CreatableRelationProvider.createRelation', this enables DataFrame.save()
  override def createRelation(sqlContext: SQLContext, mode: SaveMode,
                              parameters: Map[String, String], data: DataFrame): BaseRelation = {

    if (!mode.equals(SaveMode.Overwrite)) {
      throw new Exception("SaveMode other than SaveMode.OverWrite is not supported")
    }

    verifyParameters(parameters)

    // Save the DataFrame to Phoenix
    data.saveToPhoenix(parameters("table"), zkUrl = parameters.get("zkUrl"), tenantId = parameters.get("TenantId"))

    // Return a relation of the saved data
    createRelation(sqlContext, parameters)
  }

  // Ensure the required parameters are present
  def verifyParameters(parameters: Map[String, String]): Unit = {
    if (parameters.get("table").isEmpty) throw new RuntimeException("No Phoenix 'table' option defined")
    if (parameters.get("zkUrl").isEmpty) throw new RuntimeException("No Phoenix 'zkUrl' option defined")
  }

}


Vedana - Eric Case: "No Airport Card Installed"
Just recording this here in case any of y'all encounter something like this.
Thanks for posting it. Saved me a trip to Apple Store.
Hi and Bhavatu sabba mangalam.
I have had this problem for the past 10 months (I can't actually remember last having WIFI). Our local Apple store had no idea and wanted to install for a new Airport card. I knew that couldn't be the problem.
After a software update it worked again, then one restart later it was gone. Now after another update (non-OSX, itunes+safari+trackpad) I have my Airport again.
I'll keep this trick in my backpocket for the next episode.
do you delete them once you've moved them?
I think I just tossed them in a folder somewhere, just in case.


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Tag Archives: reverse discrimination
City Suspends Assistant Chief For Outrageous Remarks
An assistant chief with the Mount Vernon (NY) Fire Department has been suspended after a profanity-laden audio recording of him speaking with a fire lieutenant surfaced. Al-Farid Salahuddin was suspended without pay, and Mayor Andre Wallace was quoted by News 12 as saying he was "disgusted" after listening to it.
FDNY Reverse Discrimination and Retaliation Suit Will Continue
An FDNY battalion chief who claims he was subjected to reverse discrimination and retaliation after reporting rumors about paramedic having sex with a firefighter in his fire station, has lost 13 of the 20 counts in his lawsuit, but he will be allowed to proceed on the remaining seven against the city and FDNY.
Michigan City That Rescinded Offer for Fire Chief's Job Due to Race Sued For Race Discrimination
A fire captain who was competitively selected and offered the fire chief's job in Ypsilanti, Michigan, only to have the offer rescinded due to an outcry by elected officials over his race, has filed a discrimination suit in federal court.
NJ City Sued For Reverse Discrimination by Firefighter Candidates
Nine prospective firefighters who were offered jobs with the City of Englewood, New Jersey have filed suit claiming the last minute decision to withdraw the job offers constituted breach of contract and reverse discrimination. The candidates were given conditional job offers by the city, and completed all of the prerequisites to start the fire academy on April 15.
FDNY Lieutenant Alleges Removal From Color Guard Was Race Discrimination
An FDNY fire lieutenant who claims he was removed from serving in a color guard at an FDNY Vulcan Society event on account of his race, has filed a discrimination suit. Lt. Daniel McWilliams filed suit last Friday naming Vulcan Society President Regina Wilson, the Vulcan Society, the city and FDNY as defendants.
Mississippi Firefighter Sues Over Race Conscious Hiring
A white firefighter in Mississippi has filed suit against his home town claiming that he was passed over in the hiring process despite being the only applicant who was already certified as a firefighter, so that the city could hire black applicants even though they were not certified. Dylan Shane Davis filed suit last week in US District Court against the City of West Point
Mississippi Fire Chief Sues for Reverse Discrimination
A Mississippi fire chief is among three local officials who claim they were fired by the city of Clarksdale last year on account of their race. Fire Chief Obert Douglas along with Municipal Judge Joseph Cobb Gibbs, and City Attorney Curtis Boschert were fired on July 10, 2017, ten days after Mayor Chuck Espy took office.
Detroit Firefighter Loses Reverse Discrimination Appeal
The Michigan Court of Appeals has rejected the appeal of a Detroit firefighter who claims he failed his probationary period as a lieutenant on account of his race and disability discrimination. Toby O'Brien claims his demotion in 2014 was attributable to his dyslexia and because he is white.
NJ City Settles Reverse Discrimination Suit for $450k
A New Jersey city has settled a contentious dispute with a deputy chief that resulted in three separate lawsuits and an investigation by the local prosecutor's office. The City of Plainfield has agreed to pay Deputy Chief Jeffrey Courtney $450,000 in exchange for his agreement to dismiss two suits he has pending, dismiss a pending workers comp claim, and retire.
Detroit Firefighter Fired Over Watermelon Gift Suing For Discrimination
The Detroit firefighter who was fired last October because he brought a watermelon as a gift to African American firefighters at his new firehouse, has filed suit alleging reverse discrimination. Robert Pattison filed suit yesterday naming Fire Commissioner Eric Jones, Deputy Commissioner Charles Simms, and Chief of Training Alfie Green.
South Carolina Captain Fired For Facebook Post Sues
A white captain with the Columbia Fire Department who was fired last year for posting that he would run over Black Lives Matter protesters on I126, is suing for race discrimination and violation of his free speech rights.
Wilmington Settles Reverse Discrimination Claims
The City of Wilmington has agreed to settle the claims of five white firefighters who allege they were the victims of reverse discrimination in the enforcement of the city's residency rule. Jonathan Hitch, Stephen Sherlock, Adam Risden, James Grieco, and Thomas Cunningham, filed a complaint with the EEOC in 2016.
EMT Claims Detroit Fire Failed To Address Harassment
A former Detroit EMT who claims that a colleague's intimidation forced her to resign has filed suit against the city. Kimberly Asaro claims the fire department failed to address harassment and stalking behavior from an employee, Willie Bragg.
Cleveland Firefighter Accuses FD of Reverse Discrimination
A Cleveland firefighter who claims he was forced to resign after his complaints about a hostile work environment were mishandled, has filed suit claiming the department leadership discriminated against him because he is white. Samuel Livingston claims he was threatened and assaulted while on duty by a colleague who is described in the complaint as "non-Caucasian".


The media is abuzz with news of the Congressional Budget Office's report that emphasizes the impact of Obamacare on the workforce. There are a lot of voices and opinions out there, but Nerdwallet's Vice President of Health, Christina LaMontagne, sorted through the news this week to find you the articles that best explain both sides of the debate.
Gottlieb breaks down what the CBO meant when it said that Obamacare is a tax on work. "The old employer sponsored system forced people to stay in jobs they didn't like because they needed the health insurance coverage. The new Obamacare system will force people to stay out of jobs they do want because they need to maximize their subsidies." The CBO report also states that the flawed rollout of HealthCare.gov will lead to 1 million fewer enrollees than originally projected.
If you like visuals, Tami Luhby offers an infographic that helps put the CBO report in perspective. Using a family of four, she explains how it is that some people can work less and make more. It's not just families either. Since 2009, there's been 20% drop in employment for young adults insured through Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin. Luhby reminds readers that while there's no doubt Obamacare will affect the work habits of Americans—enticing some to leave the workforce entirely—the reduction in the workforce is mainly marginal.
Carroll states that too many people are enticed by the large numbers that the CBO presents, but aren't being objective. What the report actually says, "…(on page 48 for those interested), [is] that the ACA would reduce the amount of labor used in the economy by about one-half of 1%, mostly "by reducing the amount of labor that workers choose to supply." He further argues that people voluntarily leaving the workforce isn't necessarily a bad thing considering the type of people that would be leaving the workforce.
In non-CBO news, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform took a stance on the debate over the IRS' authorization to provide subsidies to those enrolling through federal exchanges. In response to a number of nationwide lawsuits, the chairman of the committee said that, "The IRS' unilateral decision resulted in millions of dollars in unauthorized funding," and Rogers explains that the IRS and the Treasury Department were not thorough enough in their analysis and essentially bypassed legislative law when the law was signed back in 2010.


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Albatross That Hitchhiked To L.A. Is Freed To Fly Home To Hawaii
By Eyder Peralta
Published February 1, 2012 at 11:55 AM MST
The Laysan Albatross at International Bird Rescue's Los Angeles Wildlife Center.
After a wild ride from Hawaii to the streets of Los Angeles, a Laysan albatross was freed today. The bird, with a white body, black wings and a curved yellow beak, was spotted in Los Angeles on the back of a pickup truck.
An albatross is not something you see every day. They are some of largest flying birds on Earth and this one in particular had an almost 7-foot wingspan.
So, how did this bird end up thousands of miles from home?
The Los Angeles Times reports:
"[Rescuers] suspect that the bird stowed away on a cargo ship, hitching a trans-Pacific ride to Los Angeles before disembarking and hopping into the pickup.
"The seabirds are adept at soaring long distances and can spend years roaming vast areas of the ocean without ever touching land. They can also mistake the flat surface of a passing container ship for a nesting island, make a landing and sit there unnoticed until the ship makes port.
"But even with their tendencies as wayfarers, albatrosses are rarely seen in California. The wildlife rescue center in San Pedro has taken in a few of them over the last decade, usually when the crew of a cargo ship finds one on board and cares for it until coming ashore."
The International Bird Rescue says the pickup driver was alerted by other motorists that he had a huge bird hanging out on his truck. The driver took the bird to some lifeguards, who turned the bird over to the rescue group.
Yesterday, after the albatross was deemed in good health, it was released a half mile from the shore. International Bird Rescue says albatrosses can spend three to five years in the ocean.
Without the shore to lure it back, they're confident the majestic bird will return to Hawaii or another place of its choosing. The trip should take no longer than a few days.
Eyder Peralta
Eyder Peralta is NPR's East Africa correspondent based in Nairobi, Kenya.
See stories by Eyder Peralta


DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Colorado-based startup Pipeline, an artificial intelligence (AI) SaaS platform engineered to stop unconscious bias in the workplace, today announced it has joined the Salesforce Accelerate program. The program includes 18 startups in total and kicked off on January 31, 2018.
"For Salesforce Accelerate, we look for organizations with visionary leaders who not only define the business opportunity, but who also see the cultural or market need for change. Pipeline's platform addresses a true market need by developing a solution that aims to close the gender equity gap," said Ludovic Ulrich, head of Salesforce for Startups.
Salesforce Accelerate is a three-month program to inspire startups and partners across the globe to accelerate market introduction of AppExchange apps. As a Salesforce Accelerate participant, Pipeline will benefit from regular virtual programming and in-person workshops at key points in the journey. Additionally, the program is designed to share expert insights, development and go-to-market best practices for the AppExchange and provide the necessary support to help onboard a new partner into the Salesforce ecosystem.
As the first Colorado startup accepted to the Salesforce Accelerate program, Pipeline has been recognized by Colorado state government and business leaders as an asset to the local community and economy.
Pipeline enables companies to realize the economic gains from closing the gender equity gap. The platform interfaces with Human Capital Management (HCM) and CRM systems to intercept human capital decisions - such as hiring and pay - before they're made. At these decision points, Pipeline's solution makes a recommendation toward gender equity, measuring the projected increase in revenue of the recommendation and tracking that value over time. Pipeline has determined that this economic value is significant, based on their original and soon-to-be released research across over 4,000 companies in 29 countries. The research indicates that for every 10 percent increase in an organization's gender equity, there is a one to two percent increase in revenue - an insight that is expected to be a changemaker for the global economy.
However, while the potential for a one to two percent increase in revenue fortifies the existing case for gender equity in the workplace, many businesses still have the opportunity to take further decisive action.
Additional information about the Salesforce Accelerate program and a full list of 2018 startups included alongside Pipeline can be found here. To learn more about Pipeline, please visit www.pipelineequity.com.
Salesforce, Salesforce Accelerate, and others are trademarks of Salesforce.com, inc.
Pipeline is a Denver-based technology company that increases financial performance of companies through closing the gender equity gap. Pipeline's proprietary SaaS platform uses artificial intelligence to assess, address and action against the gender biases costing the U.S. alone $2 trillion. This issue is not just about good sense, this is about dollars. Big dollars that turn heads to create social change. For more information, visit PipelineEquity.com, like PipelineEquity on Facebook, follow @PipelineEquity on Twitter, and follow @PipelineEquity on LinkedIn.


Lyle Wayne Armstrong, 51, of Elizabethtown, KY passed away Sunday, March 31, 2019 at his residence.
Mr. Armstrong was preceded in death by his mother, Margaret Jane Brown; and his grandparents.
Survivors include his father, Harold Armstrong & his wife, Lynda of Elizabethtown, KY; two brothers, James Scott Armstrong & his wife, Danita of Michigan, Kyle Yount & his wife, Becky of Texas; one sister, Elizabeth "Beth" Larrington & her husband, Bill of Alabama; multiple nieces, nephews, and his beloved pets.
Visitation will be from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM Friday and from 10:00 AM until 1:00 PM Saturday at the Chism Family Funeral Home, Vine Grove, KY.
Services for Mr. Armstrong will be held at 1:00 PM, Saturday, April 6, 2019 at the chapel of Chism Family Funeral Home, Vine Grove, KY. A private burial will be at a later date.