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Bananas Injected With Hiv-Infected Blood Revealed After 10 Year Old Boy Contracts The Virus
A 10-year-old boy who had eaten a banana his mother purchased at a Walmart in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was rushed to the emergency room due to fever, chills and fatigue just seven days after consumption. After a thorough examination, blood tests and scans the young boy tested positive for the HIV virus. His mother obviously in shock. However, the 10-year-old child was not the only one admitted to the hospital for the same issue. Eight children, all under the age of 17, have been diagnosed as HIV-positive. What is the one thing they have in common? Purchasing bananas from The Tulsa, Oklahoma Walmart.
According to the parents, they submitted several foods their children had been eating to doctors for testing, along with documenting the different places they had visited within the month. They found that all 8 children had consumed bananas from the superstore. The facility, LHC Laboratories, tested the bananas which all came up positive containing the HIV virus. Researchers are still trying to understand how the virus could have entered the bananas, stayed active, and infected the children through consumption.
In the meantime, bananas are being pulled off the shelves in Walmart stores across the United States. According to many media outlets, the CDC is encouraging Americans to discard any uneaten bananas and to contact your doctor if you experience any of the following symptoms:
- Night sweats
- Muscle aches
- Sore throat
- Swollen lymph nodes
- Mouth sores
These symptoms could be an indication that you have contracted the HIV virus and need to seek medical attention immediately.


The postcards lined up in racks outside the village shops show cliff faces of brilliantly coloured houses stacked above an azure blue sea. You have to search to find a card whose colours reflect reality. Yes, the sea is azure blue when the sun shines but are the houses really post box red, rose pink and canary yellow?
Manarola is a three dimensional jigsaw of buildings clinging to the steep slopes of a rocky promontory around a tiny harbour. All but one of the village streets are narrow alleys threading through the layers of houses, joined by flights of steep stone steps. The stucco walls of many of the houses are painted in the warm earth pigments common to many Italian villages. It is the interlocking forms of the narrow houses (maybe two storeys high on the uphill side but seven storey when seen from below) which gives Manarola its distinctive character.
Founded some time around 1200 by farmers from the older, uphill settlement of Volastra, Manarola is one of the five 'lands' that make up the Cinque Terre. Together the five communities are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, not because of the picturesque nature or colourful paintwork of the village houses but for the remarkable, ancient and enduring man-made landscape which sustains those villages.
Manarola is still an agricultural village. Look down from the village square by the church and you'll see plots of beans, tomatoes and lemon trees nestled between the layers of houses. Look up from the square and you'll see garden terraces stepping up to merge with the vineyards above. Follow the steep, stepped paths that climb through the vineyards to the olive groves of Volastra above and you start to really feel the extraordinary nature of this place. Leaf green and stone grey are the true colours of Manarola.
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How to Clear the Third Eye Chakra to Build Wealth
The third eye chakra is the sixth chakra of the seven main energy centers in your body. It impacts the ability to tap into your intuition. When you make intuitive decisions, you are better able to attract positive energy flow. As money is energy, a balanced third eye chakra can increase your potential to build wealth.
Chakras are energy centers.
How does the third eye chakra impact money flow?
When you use your intuitive senses, you are better able to make accurate decisions and evaluations. Having clarity in your choices and actions can help you in your career and business. In turn, this impacts your ability to give and receive money.
Being able to listen to your intuition can help you raise your vibrational frequency and align with your soul purpose. Also, when you raise your vibrations, you are better able to attract positive outcomes. How so?
Energy flows where intention goes.
When you raise your energetic vibrations through living in alignment with your higher self, you are better able to attract what you need for your highest good.
When the third eye chakra is clear, you often have a clear sense of direction in everything that you do. When imbalanced, you may be indecisive and unconfident about decisions.
Is your third eye chakra blocked?
Constantly having buyer's remorse? Always unsure when it comes to making financial decisions?
Blocks in the sixth chakra can affect your ability to have clarity around financial decisions. Thus, the blocks can negatively impact your path to financial freedom.
Assess your money history to identify blocks.
Growing up, my parents fought about money all the time. We lived paycheck to paycheck...barely. So most of my adult life, I viewed money as a sensitive and negative topic.
It took me a while to build confidence around my personal finances. In fact, it's still an ongoing practice to bust through limiting beliefs around money. Developing an abundance mindset can be a lifelong learning process even if it just takes a few steps.
How to clear the third eye chakra to attract wealth:
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There are numerous ways to balance and clear your third eye chakra. This includes eating foods associated with the colors of the chakra to practicing yoga where particular poses help to open up the chakra.
Reflect on the following questions to assess your third eye chakra:
1. Do you have beliefs around money that hinder your financial goals?
2. Do you spend mindfully or do you tend to make impulse purchases?
3. What small steps can you do to track your money habits that will help improve your net worth?
Child's pose, savasana and archer's pose are a few of the many yoga exercises that help to open up the third eye chakra. Here are more yoga pose suggestions to balance all the chakras.
Daily activities to clear the third eye chakra:
1. Visualization exercises: Close your eyes and imagine yourself having achieved your financial goal.
2. Journal. Clear your head in order to get creative about building wealth.
Here are 8 ways I created multiple streams of income!
How often should you clear your chakras?
Just like maintaining a clean home and work environment, your chakras need to be maintained too! Another analogy would be like taking a shower or brushing your teeth. If you don't do it consistently, the bad unwanted stuff builds up.
Our physical bodies have a way of telling us when it's time for some in house cleaning. Whether it's a cold or canker sore, it's best to listen to our bodies and recognize it may be time to clear each of the chakras.
Like maintaining a clean home, you need to keep up with cleaning the kitchen, bathroom, and so forth. This way, you can have a more relaxing space to manifest and keep your vibrational frequency high.
Use your intuition to build your net worth.
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the privileges of the nobility. Today titles are only of ceremonial interest in the circles around the Monarchy of Denmark
In 1561, the Swedish king Eric XIV conferred the hereditary titles of count and Finnish: vapaaherra ("baron") on some persons, not all of them nobles. This prerogative was confirmed in the constitutional arrangements of 1625. All family members of Finnish: vapaaherra (baronial) families were entitled to that same title, which in practice, came to mean that they were addressed as Finnish: Paroni or Finnish: Paronitar. The Finnish nobility shares most of its origins with Swedish nobility. In the beginning, they were all without honorific titulature, and known just as "lords". In subsequent centuries, while Finland remained an autonomous grand duchy, many families were raised in rank as counts, Finnish: vapaaherras, or as untitled nobles. Theoretically, all created Finnish: vapaaherra families were given a barony (with some rights of taxation and jurisprudence), but such fiefs were only granted in the 16th and 17th centuries. Thereafter the "barony" was titular, usually in chief of some already-owned property, and sometimes that property was established as a Latin: [[fideicommiss]]. Their property tax exemption continued into the 20th century, being, however, diminished substantially by reforms of the 19th century.

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The book Effective Java and other sources provide a pretty good explanation on how and when to use the readObject() method when working with serializable Java classes. The readResolve() method, on the other hand, remains a bit of a mystery. Basically all documents I found either mention only one of the two or mention both only individually.
Questions that remain unanswered are:
 - What is the difference between the two methods?
 - When should which method be implemented?
 - How should readResolve() be used, especially in terms of returning what?
I hope you can shed some light on this matter.
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readResolve is used for replacing the object read from the stream. The only use I've ever seen for this is enforcing singletons; when an object is read, replace it with the singleton instance. This ensures that nobody can create another instance by serializing and deserializing the singleton.
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There is a number of way for malicious code (or even data) to get around that. – Tom Hawtin - tackline Jul 22 '09 at 21:33
Yes, please explain. Flyweight patterns rely on this working, so how can it break? – Steve Armstrong Mar 18 '10 at 15:46
Josh Bloch talks about the conditions under which this breaks in effective Java 2nd ed. Item 77. He mentions about this in this talk he gave in Google IO couple of years back (some times towards the end of the talk): youtube.com/watch?v=pi_I7oD_uGI – calvinkrishy Sep 18 '10 at 3:26
Book page mentioned by _USER_: books.google.co.uk/… – TWiStErRob Jun 2 at 21:42
readResolve is called after readObject has returned (conversely writeReplace is called before writeObject and probably on a different object). The object the method returns replaces this object returned to the user of ObjectInputStream.readObject and any further back references to the object in the stream. It is mostly used for serial proxies (see Effective Java, 2nd Ed, IIRC).
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readResolve() will ensure the singleton contract while serialization.
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readResolve can be used to change the data that is serialized through readObject method. For e.g. xstream API uses this feature to initialize some attributes that were not in the XML to be deserialized.
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XML and Xstream aren't relevant to a question about Java Serialization, and the question was answered correctly years ago. -1 – EJP May 5 '13 at 0:45
The accepted answer states that readResolve is used to replace an object. This answer provides the useful additional information that it can be used to modify an object during deserialization. XStream was given as an example, not as the only possible library in which that happens. – Enwired Feb 26 at 1:00
readResolve is for when you may need to return an existing object, e.g. because you're checking for duplicate inputs that should be merged, or (e.g. in eventually-consistent distributed systems) because it's an update that may arrive before you're aware of any older versions.
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Selenium Webdriver PageFactory Worked Example
I found that, while adequate, the standard selenium examples for PageFactory were not quite enough to smoothly get me started. After asking around I saw that, contrary to the example, the most common practice seems to be to use the PageFactory inside the PageObject's constructor rather than from the client class. I will illustrate this with code to test Blackboard Learn, my employer's product starting with a simple login test. It is my hope that through more examples people can help get started more easily.
So, first the client code that uses this PageFactory generated PageObject
public class LearnQA {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
 String url = "";
 LearnLoginPage loginPage = new LearnLoginPage(driver, url);
 // Creds set elsewhere
 LearnHomePage homePage = loginPage.loginAs(USERNAME, PASS);
Basically, with a nice neat PageObject all we need to do is instantiate the page, "LearnLoginPage" in this example, and then perform the requested test such as logging in as a particular user. This hides the complexity of the page from the user of the class and we can change things internally without impacting anyone.
As for the actual LearnLoginPage, this uses the convenience of the PageFactory to reduce boiler plate code. First the listing -
public class LearnLoginPage {
 _USER_(how = How.CLASS_NAME, using = "login-page")
 private WebElement loginPageClass;
 _USER_(how = How.ID, using = "user_id")
 private WebElement usernameBox;
 _USER_(how = How.ID, using = "password")
 private WebElement passwordBox;
 _USER_(how = How.NAME, using = "login")
 private WebElement loginButton;
 private WebDriver driver;
 private String url;
 protected LearnLoginPage(WebDriver driver, String url) {
 this.driver = driver;
 this.url = url;
 PageFactory.initElements(driver, this);
 By loginPageTag = By.tagName("body");
 if (! "login-page".equals(driver.findElement(loginPageTag).getAttribute("class"))) {
 throw new IllegalStateException("This is not the login page");
 public LearnLoginPage typeUsername(String username) {
 return this;
 public LearnLoginPage typePassword(String password) {
 return this;
 public LearnHomePage submitLogin() {
 return new LearnHomePage(driver);
 public LearnHomePage loginAs(String username, String password) {
 return submitLogin();
Instead of the tedious WebElement finding we can now use the "FindBy" annotations to pre-populate the various web elements we are going to use. Such as the username/password fields and the login button. I believe this results in much more readible code.
Finally we have a couple of methods to
 - Type the username - typeUsername
 - Type the password - typePassword
 - Submit the login - submitLogin
 - And, finally, a convenience method that combines all of the above into one operation called "loginAs".
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Analisis Curahan Tenaga Kerja dan Pendapatan Peternak Kambing di Kelompok Peternak Simpay Tampomas Kecamatan Cimalaka Sumedang
Atiqoh, Anni Nur
Setyono, Dwi Joko
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Labour one of main production factors. The aims of this study were to analyse the labour effusing, the goat farm incomes in Simpay Tampomas group and to analyse the correlation between labour effusing, farm scale and farm incomes. Primary data was obtained through interviewed of whole farmer that active in Simpay Tampomas group is 17 farmer. Secondary data was obtained from the village goverment and related agencies. This study have descriptive analyzed, farm incomes, ratio R/C, labour effusing and correlation. The labour effusing average of farmer with orientation milk production is 720,993 male work day/year, by using the biggest effusing to look for the grass that equaled to 453,75 male work day/year, or 62,93% from whole activity. The biggest labour effusing done by husband that equaled to 617,538 male work day/year. The labour effusing average of farmer with orientation meat production is 427,179 male work day/year, by using the biggest effusing to look for the grass that equaled to 337,66 male work day/year, or 79% from whole activity. The biggest labour effusing done by husband that equaled to 337,491 male work day/year. Average incomes of farmer with orientation milk production equaled to Rp 50.868.973,4/year. Average incomes of farmer with orientation meat production aqualed to Rp 13.490.416,67/year. The result indicated that correlation between farm incomes with farm scale was significant at the 0,01 level (P<0,01), farm incomes with labour effusing was not significant (p>0,05) and the correlation between farm scale with labour effusing was significant (P<0,01).

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Do you enjoy eating oysters on a hot sunny afternoon? Make the most of it – it may not last forever. Research has shown that global warming increases the sensitivity of oysters to metal pollution, causing a deadly threat to populations in polluted areas. Dr. Gisela Lannig from the University of North Carolina, USA, will present her work on cadmium poisoning in eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) on Monday 11th July at the Society for Experimental Biology Annual Main Meeting in Barcelona [session C2].
Oysters are cold-blooded organisms so their body temperature changes with environmental temperature. Lannig observed that cadmium levels increased the basic metabolic rate (BMR) of oysters at 20ºC and 24º. For oysters at 28ºC, cadmium did not increase the BMR, but it significantly reduces its chances of survival. "One possible mechanism for this observation is increased damage of mitochondria in cadmium-exposed oysters with increasing temperature", Lannig explains, "these organelles become significantly more sensitive to cadmium as temperature rises, so that cadmium levels which were not damaging to mitochondria at lower temperature become strongly toxic with increasing temperature."
Cadmium circulates continually between air, water and soils. As it moves easily through the food chain, high levels are reported in seals. In humans, cadmium interferes with calcium metabolism and deposition in the bone. Accumulation over time can cause serious illnesses such as itai itai disease. Future research will focus on to what extent cadmium reduces thermal tolerance of cold-blooded species.
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text: Remember when Lady Gaga pinged smartphones and presumably alarmed dogs by transmitting inaudible, high-frequency audio at a concert with Sonic Notify tech? It turns out Apple's applying for a patent to do something similar, namely "audio hyperlinking" that can be contained within an audio stream. Cupertino's application says that such sound waves could be audible or outside the normal hearing range of 20Hz to 20KHz and "cause an effect in the user interface" of a receiving device. That could be useful during a podcast, for instance, to give users links to articles relevant to a discussion via sound waves alone. The application goes on to describe how such data could be encoded into an audio stream and read by the receiving device, and leaves wiggle room for a wide range of uses. Call us cynical, but we imagine that includes a way of sneaking in more ads.


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A YouTube channel that connects researchers who create science communication videos with people who watch them
Despite YouTube being one of the primary go-to sites for people to learn about science, remarkably few researchers use the platform effectively to communicate about their work.
As there is an increasing demand for quality science video content online, there is a need for a new type of science communication platform – Science Showcase is designed to meet this need.
Science Showcase is a YouTube channel designed to connect the best science communication videos from researchers, with people looking for great science content.
We solicit and evaluate science communication videos from researchers (including citizen scientists) , and then post and promote the best of them.
Encouraging and enabling researchers to communicate their work through short, smart,engaging, accurate, watchable, and above all, authentic, videos.
Building a catalogue of awesome YouTube science videos that are made by scientists for anyone curious to find out more about what they know and do.
Science Showcase was created to fill a demand for a platform where researchers could submit and publish science communication videos and reach a wide audience. It was also conceived in direct response to the need for more and higher quality science content on YouTube – driven by a large number of viewers looking for such content
There's also a larger risk-related purpose behind the channel, and that's to increase the quantity and quality of accessible science content on YouTube that informs evidence-based discussions and decisions.
Science Showcase is currently looking for funding in order to scale up.
Science Showcase was conceived by and is currently managed by Andrew Maynard
Director, Risk Innovation Lab
Using YouTube as a platform for innovative communication on the science of risk to support informed decisions on risks, benefits and tradeoffs. More …
Providing expert insights into the science of ingredient safety. More …
Story Telling and Risk Communication
Stories and storytelling have long since been effective tools for communicating risk from childhood Brothers Grimm fairy tales to cautionary stories online and in the news. We wish to evaluate the relevance of stories to lab safety culture. More …


Amatra Commerce and Outreach for Education
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time. After the event, we can evaluate the type of message we constructed, if it went out in a timely manner and how widely it was distributed."
- Chris Williams,
Director of University Communications,
Anderson University
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However, these institutes are plagued by the following challenges on this front:
 - Manageability: Frustration in managing multiple social media outlets leading to inconsistent messaging.
 - Time & Resources: It takes a great deal of time and resources to manage and maintain various social media outlets.
 - Security: Who can post messages? Institutions do not want to publicize their social media security credentials to the staff.
 - Compliance/Governance: It is difficult to track who sent the message to whom and when and how.
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 - Message Tracking, Social Analytics and Reporting capabilities provide meaningful metrics quantifying the social interactions for informed decision making by management.
 - Pre-Planning campaigns with pre-defined target groups and pre-defined message templates saves time and allows for successful campaign strategy and execution.
 - Access Anytime and from Anywhere
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Derry Lodge is the (boarded up) 19th century shooting lodge in lower Gleann Doire on Mar Lodge Estate, Aberdeenshire. It stands on the 'peninsula' between Uisge an Doire and the Laoigh.
Derry Lodge is surrounded by hand-planted pines ; planted at least as early as 1860. The strange ground-plan of the lodge gives away its phased-construction, with the 'wing' facing south being the original lodge, and the wing facing the approach from Eas Dé being added last.
In 1850 Francis D'Arcy-Osborne, 7th Duke of Leeds was renting the 'old forest' from James, 4th Earl Fife - the site now occupied by Derry Lodge was (and is) in the heart of the old forest, and it's unlikely that work on Derry Lodge would have begun while the old forest was in the hands of a tenant. An account of a visit to Gleann Laoigh Beag, and Gleann Doire about 1850 significantly makes no reference to a shooting lodge in the area. In Grierson (1851) the author describes his visit to the area - writing :
I spent the night very comfortably, and, after an early breakfast, went up Glen Derry with my entertainer and his assistant, on their customary rounds. Glen Derry and Lui-Beg are unlike anything one meets with even in the Highlands. The forester's house is the only one they contain
– Grierson (1851) (p198)
The lease held by the Duke of Leeds almost certainly expired sometime before the mid-1850s, and I don't think the striking resemblance between bridge over Eas Dé (opened in 1857), and Derry Lodge is a coincidence.
By 1859 a shooting-lodge of some description had certainly been built ; and it was certainly fit for a queen. In Victoria (1877) - the author describes returning from the summit of Ben Macdui in 1859 - writing :
By a quarter-past six o'clock we got down to the Shiel of the Derry, where we found some tea, which we took in the ''shiel,'' [footnote explaining term] and started again by moonlight at about half-past six.
– Victoria (1877) (p138)
The shooting lodges of the 18th century were bigger, but often no more sophisticated than the shieling huts they made redundant as land-use changed from traditional agriculture to deer forest. The 'shiel' reference is a quaintism the Victorians continued the use of in reference to shooting lodges.
By 1861 the name Derry Lodge appears in the census, when it was occupied by the 24 year old deer watcher Hugh McCrostie, and evidently in use. In Crombie (1861) the author refers to the lodge - writing :
we have driven on for two or three miles, and entered at a gate into a young fir plantation, surrounded by a high paling to keep out the deer, at the end of which we find ourselves beside a neat hunting-shieling of Lord Fife
– Crombie (1861) (p130)
The south-facing wing appears to have been the Derry Lodge when it was built in the mid to late 1850s - the west, and east-facing wings were later addions.
By 1866 when the area was surveyed by the Ordnance Survey, the west-facing wing had been added since an L-shaped Derry Lodge is shown on the old 6-inch map (1869) based on that survey.
In the 1880s Donald Fraser became the resident keeper at the lodge. He lived there for over twenty years with his wife Elizabeth, and daughter Mary until his death in 1913. Donald must have been well known to earlier generations of Cairngormers - being referred to often in the books of Seton Gordon, and articles in the Cairngorm Club Journal.
Evidently the Frasers had lived in Derry Lodge all year-round, but 'things' changed after the death of the Duke of Fife in 1912, and Donald Fraser in 1913. In Alexander (1928) – the author writes :
Starting from Derry Lodge (1400 ft.), the path crosses the Derry and proceeds west along the left bank of the Luibeg. On the opposite side of the stream is Luibeg Cottage, occupied all the year by a keeper : Derry Lodge is not occupied in winter
– Alexander (1928) (p 103)
During the _PHONE_ war the Cairngorms were heavily used for training, and the lodge was occupied by the military. Even then the Cairngorm Club were contemplating their own use of it, and at their 1943 AGM they decided to approach the Trustees of the Duke of Fife. The response was positive, but it was 1951 before they took possession of the lodge - holding it until 1967.
Since then the lodge has been unoccupied - apart from occasional short-term occupations. I remember sometime in the late 1970s a unit of Royal Engineers (Territorials I think) lived in the lodge for the few weeks it took them to build a bridge across the Laoigh near the downstream edge of the plantation.


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Fri August 17, 2012
When Pronouncing A Case Is Harder Than 'Roe V. Wade'
Originally published on Fri August 17, 2012 4:03 pm
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. Now, a story about Supreme Court cases and how you pronounce their names. Some are easy enough, like Roe V. Wade, but others aren't so clear cut. Is it Bachy or Bachy, Padilla or Padilla? Many a case name has been mangled, so as we hear from NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg, law professor Eugene Fidell set out to set the record straight.
NINA TOTENBERG, BYLINE: Fidell and his students at Yale Law School have published a pronunciation dictionary of Supreme Court cases. They've examined all of the case names going back to the beginning of the Republic and they've figured out - or tried to figure out - the correct pronunciations.
EUGENE FIDELL: It's been a marvelous sort of cook's tour of American legal history and also very reaffirming of the melting pot nature of our country because you see cases arise with American Indian names and every single ethnic group that's immigrated to our country.
TOTENBERG: In addition to Fidell, the project included six Yale law students and two linguistic experts. Their task combined all kinds of research skills. Take, for example, the 1916 case of Straus versus a company that spelled its name N-O-T-A-S-E-M-E. Notaseme, maybe? Italian? No. It was a hosiery company and the name was Notaseme, as in there are no seams in this hosiery.
Or how about N-O-F-I-R-E versus United States? No. It's not Spanish. It's Nofire versus United States. Mr. Nofire was a Cherokee Indian. The guiding principle for the Yale dictionary was the pronunciation used by the litigant if he or she were still alive. If not, in addition to other source material, the researchers would call up five people with the same name in the same region.
Take the name B-L-O-U-N-T. Was it Blount or Blount? Three pronounced it Blount, two Blount, so both pronunciations are listed. If the case was argued in the last half century, there's tape of the oral argument. The Supreme Court actually has forms that litigants are asked to fill out giving guidance as to how their name should be pronounced in court, but the forms are routinely destroyed and, in any event, the justices seemed to follow the guidance - shall we say - irregularly.
Here, for example, is Chief Justice Rehnquist introducing a major affirmative action case in 2003.
WILLIAM REHNQUIST: We'll hear argument now in number 02241, Barbara Grutter versus Lee Bollinger.
TOTENBERG: That's Barbara G-R-U-T-T-E-R. She actually pronounces it Grutter, but has long since accepted that the case name is known in the legal world as Grutter. And then there's the rare litigant who changes the pronunciation of his name. Accused terrorist Jose Padilla fit into that category. As far as can be determined, he was originally Padilla, then said his name should be pronounced Padilla and, by the end of his litigation, was back to Padilla.
Nina Totenberg - no, that's wrong. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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Aerial images of marsh plant communities reveal information that is not possible to obtain from ground level. High resolution aerial photographs display fine details of vegetation composition and distribution. Since 2006, The Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute has employed balloon photography to capture images of marsh and landfill surfaces. These images are a key resource for MERI scientists working to improve the Hackensack River marshland ecosystem.
High resolution images are captured using consumer grade cameras at altitudes between 150 to 300 feet. The current camera being flown is a 14.3 megapixel Canon G1X. The state of the art camera rig attaches the camera to an inflated 3 meter balloon. The balloon is tethered to a reel operated from the ground. This setup is cost efficient, easily deployable, and is highly mobile.
The high resolution images are assembled into a mosaic of the surveyed area which can encompass many acres. Individual images are stitched together using Adobe Photoshop. The mosaic is then geo-referenced using known geographic feature locations within the site. These mosaics are used to ground truth high-resolution hyperspectral image classifications. They are also used to identify training sites from satellite images and to develop spectral libraries for vegetation classification. Current applications of balloon photography include:
- Monitoring of plant establishment in closed landfill sites
- Mapping invasive species distribution
- Mapping endangered plant populations thought the district


How to Read Your Meter
What is a Water Meter?
A water meter is a device that measures the volume of water delivered to a property. In El Paso, we measure water in cubic feet. One cubic foot equals about 7.5 gallons.
The face of a water meter.
Step 1: Locate Your Meter
Most residential water meters are located near the curb or sidewalk at the front of the property in a concrete "box." It is likely in a direct line from the main outside faucet of your home. The water meter box will have a metal lid and may be marked "Water."
Use a long screwdriver to remove the lid. However, be cautious as insects, reptiles or other small animals occasionally take residence inside the boxes. Lift the cover. You may need to wipe dust, dirt or debris from the face to read it.
Step 2: Read Your Water Meter
Since El Paso Water bills in hundred cubic foot (CCF) increments we only read up to the thousand foot dial (the last dial that has a black digit against a white background). This number increases by one every time a hundred cubic feet of water passes through the meter.
The small red triangular dial near the center of the register is a flow or leak indicator and it will turn counterclockwise with the slightest amount of water that flows through the meter, even a dripping faucet.


United States v. Briggs
46 U.S. 208 (1847)
Annotate this Case
U.S. Supreme Court
United States v. Briggs, 46 U.S. 5 How. 208 208 (1847)
United States v. Briggs
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When a case is brought up to this Court on a certificate of division in opinion, the point upon which the difference occurs must be distinctly stated.
Where there was a demurrer upon three grounds to an indictment, it is not enough to certify that the court was divided in opinion whether or not the demurrer should be sustained.
The circumstances of the case are thus stated by THE CHIEF JUSTICE, as introductory to the opinion of the Court.
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The defendant was indicted under the Act of Congress of March 2, 1831, ch. 66, 4 Stat. 472, for unlawfully cutting timber upon certain lands of the United States, called the Wyandotte Reserve. He demurred to the indictment upon the following grounds:
First. Because the offense stated and set forth in the indictment is not an offense under the statute of the United States, punishable criminally by indictment.
Second. Because, under the statutes of the United States, trespass on the public lands of the United States is, in no case, an offense punishable criminally by indictment; but is either a mere trespass, punishable by action of trespass at common law, or by action of debt in the statute.
Third. For that the said indictment is in other respects informal, insufficient, and defective.
The United States joined in demurrer; and the record states, that the demurrer coming on to be heard, and having been argued by counsel on either side, the opinions of the court were opposed as to the point whether said demurrer should be sustained, and thereupon it was ordered that the cause be certified to this Court on the indictment, demurrer, and joinder thereto.


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Schlagwort630 Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin
Land use change from rainforests to oil palm plantations and food gardens in Papua New Guinea: Effects on soil properties and S fractions
Changes in soil sulfur (S) fractions were assessed in oil palm and food garden land use systems developed on forest vegetation in humid tropical areas of Popondetta in northern Province. The study tested a hypothesis that S in food gardens are limiting nutrient factor and are significantly lower than in plantations and forests. Subsistence food gardens are under long-term slash and burn practice of cropping and such practice is expected to accelerate loss of biomass S from the ecosystem. From each land use, surface soil (0–15 cm) samples were characterised and further pseudocomplete fractionated for S. Conversion of forest to oil palm production decreased (p<0.001) soil pH and electrical conductivity values. The reserve S fraction in soil increased significantly (p<0.05) due to oil palm production ( 28 %) and food gardening activity (∼ 54 %). However, plant available SO42--S was below 15 mg kg^(−1) in the food garden soils and foliar samples of sweet potato crop indicating deficiency of plant available S. Soil organic carbon content (OC) was positively and significantly correlated to total S content (r=0.533; p<0.001) among the land use systems. Thus, crop management practices that affect OC status of the soils would potentially affect the S availability in soils. The possible changes in the chemical nature of mineralisable organic S compounds leading to enhanced mineralisation and leaching losses could be the reasons for the deficiency of S in the food garden soils. The results of this study conclude that long-term subsistence food gardening activity enriched top soils with reserve S or total S content at the expense of soluble S fraction. The subsistence cropping practices such as biomass burning in food gardens and reduced fallow periods are apparently threatening food security of oil palm households. Improved soil OC management strategies such as avoiding burning of fallow vegetation, improved fallows, mulching with fallow biomass, use of manures and S containing fertilisers must be promoted to sustain food security in smallholder oil palm system.


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Many objects that survived the fire lost their identity. Not only were hundreds of objects and specimens burnt beyond recognition, but the museum also lost many of its archives. The records of how objects arrived at the museum, who they were owned by and why they were considered important enough to collect were also lost that night.
This 2,000 year old coin barely survived the flames. Not only is it charred, but it had begun to melt from the intense heat of the fire. Although the coin was rescued from the museum its records were lost. Without them it is impossible to say who donated it to the museum and why.


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Monmouth University students can apply for a number of paid positions conducting door-to-door surveys for select coastal towns in the Raritan Bay area and Monmouth County through the Institute for Sustainable Cities (ISC) at Hunter College and Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast (CCRUN). The surveys will pertain to community and household coastal adaptation to sea-level rise, coastal storms, and nuisance flooding along with local development trends. The survey aims to determine how the perception of future sea level rise is influencing coastal homeowners' decision-making and gauge their needs for further information pertaining to flood mitigation, including what local and state municipalities can do to propagate and assist local resiliency efforts. The desired outcome is to figure out the decision frames that households are using to address questions of increasing climate risk along with their risk tolerance to differing levels of flooding and what metrics they use to measure risk.
Applicants must be currently enrolled at Monmouth University. Familiarity with survey methods and techniques would be beneficial but not necessary. A valid drivers license and access to a vehicle also would be beneficial. To apply, email a résumé to UCI Associate Director Tom Herrington at _EMAIL_.


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DEFINING NUMBER RANGE IN PENTAHO DATA INTEGRATION
In arithmetic, the range of a set of data is the difference between the largest and smallest values.
However, in descriptive statistics, this concept of range has a more complex meaning. The range is the size of the smallest interval which contains all the data and provides an indication of statistical dispersion. It is measured in the same units as the data. Since it only depends on two of the observations, it is most useful in representing the dispersion of small data sets.
In the following example we have defined a range between two date values to address the issue of a project's performance through Pentaho.
1. Initially we took a Data Grid step where we have defined 3 columns namely project_name, start_date,end_date with certain values stored in it.
2. In the following step we have taken in a calculator step in which we have made some calculations where we are adding a new field which will contain the value for the difference between dates.
If we preview the data until this point we will have the output as shown below.
3. Now we add a NUMBER RANGE step to the calculator step to find the range between min and max values and we have categorized the ranges in terms of excellent, good and average.
4. Finally we push the output to a dummy step where you can see the final output by previewing. One thing to notice in the output is that the field which contains no end_Date has range value as Unknown.


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Maghain Aboth Synagogue
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Maghain Aboth Synagogue, which translates to "Shield of our Fathers", was completed in 1878. Situated at Waterloo Street, it is the oldest synagogue in Singapore and Southeast Asia. On 27 February 1998, the synagogue was gazetted as a national monument.
In 1841, the colonial government leased a plot of land to the Jewish community at a nominal rent, for the construction of a synagogue. This was to be the community's first synagogue. The land, estimated to measure 503m2, was located at where Synagogue Street is today, in the early Jewish quarters near Raffles Place.
The lease was enshrined in the Jewish Synagogue Ordinance and commenced on 1 September 1841. The three men that negotiated the lease, Joseph Dewk Cohen, Nassim Joseph Ezra and Ezra Ezra Ezekiel, were named in the Ordinance as the synagogue's trustees.
A two-storey shophouse was built to accommodate the synagogue, which began with a congregation of about 40 and served the local Jewish population for 30 years until the shophouse was sold. This building was demolished after World War II.
By 1870, the Jewish population had grown significantly and many were living further away from the synagogue. The leaders of the community thus saw the need to build a new synagogue, a need that was later met by the opening of the Maghain Aboth Synagogue.
In 1870, one of the new trustees, Joseph Joshua, negotiated to pay $4,000 for a piece of land owned by Raffles Institution at Bras Basah, for the construction of a new synagogue. However, the agreement required the synagogue to be built within three years. Because the funds for the building project could not be raised in time, the agreement lapsed.
It was only when Joshua's nephew Manasseh Meyer, also one of the trustees, returned to Singapore in 1873 that the current site for the Maghain Aboth Synagogue was acquired. Meyer, who had been in Rangoon (now called Yangon, in Myanmar) for the past six years, approached the government upon his return, for permission to sell the old synagogue and build a new one. The government approved his request and granted a plot of land at Waterloo Street (then known as Church Street) for the new synagogue.
On 4 April 1878, the Maghain Aboth Synagogue was consecrated. According to official sources, the service could have been conducted by one of two men, Lucunas or I. J. Hayeem, or both of them. The building had extensions added in 1924.
During the Japanese Occupation (_PHONE_), the synagogue remained an important meeting place, where the local Jews exchanged news and collected funds to help those in need.
The synagogue sits within a 2,290.6m2 compound where a sunk-in well for the mikvah or "ritual bath" can also be found. The synagogue itself is a simple, symmetrical building designed in neo-classical style. The covered porch that protrudes from the front of the building has an entrance arch large enough to allow horse carriages through.
From the front porch, a wide flight of steps leads up to the three wide doors at the main entrance of the synagogue. There are two separate entrances for women. Inside, the hall features a high triple-volume ceiling, traditional columns and rusticated walls that do not bear any decorations or images. In the centre is the bimah, a raised pulpit where prayers by the rabbi and readings from the Torah ("scrolls of the law") take place during services. The synagogue originally had only one storey, but a second-storey U-shaped balcony was later added to accommodate women.
The prayer hall is orientated west towards Jerusalem. The bimah faces the ahel or "ark", which is situated in a niche on an elevated area at the west wall of the hall. The ahel is an alcove where the Torah is stored and it is normally covered by the parochet, a fringed curtain with detailed embroidery. Hanging before the ahel is the eternal lamp, a symbol of the eternal flame that burned in what once was the Temple of Jerusalem. Sometimes a menorah or "seven-branched candlestand" would also be placed here, as a symbol of the state of Israel.
In the past, gas lighting and oil lamps provided illumination during services. The oil lamps, which were merely wicks placed in glass bowls filled with oil, still hang suspended from steel rods today, mainly in remembrance of those who died in the past year. Electric lamps attached to the ceiling and columns now provide the needed lighting.
Services and events
The Maghain Aboth Synagogue is a hive of activity during Jewish festive celebrations. It is open all year round and holds services daily except on Mondays, when services take place at the Chesed El Synagogue instead. In the early days, during the service, congregants had the practice of auctioning the aliyoth or "privileges" given to certain members of the congregation, with the money going towards the maintenance of the synagogue.
In 2006, the synagogue was one of the religious sites used as an exhibition venue during the inaugural Singapore Biennale.
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Lee, G. B. (2002). The religious monuments of Singapore: Faiths of our forefathers (pp. 102-105). Singapore: Landmark Books.
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Lim, E. W. K., & Kho, E. M. (c2005). The Chesed-El Synagogue: Its history & people (pp. 8-19). Singapore: Trustees of Chesed-El Synagogue.
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Nathan, E. (1986). The history of Jews in Singapore, _PHONE_ (pp. 1-13). Singapore: HERBILU Editorial & Marketing Services.
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Singapore biennale 2006. (2006, September 6). The Straits Times. Retrieved January 21, 2011, from NewspaperSG.
Urban Redevelopment Authority. (1999). Maghain Aboth Synagogue preservation guidelines, Vol. I (pp. 4-6, 24). Singapore: Preservation of Monuments Board.
(Call no.: RSING 363.69095957 MAG)
Maghain Aboth Synagogue. (2010). Retrieved September 8, 2010, from Preservation of Monuments Board website: _URL_
Makepeace, W., Brooke, G. E., & Braddell, R. St. J. (Eds.). (1991). One hundred years of Singapore, Vol. 2 (pp. 274-275). Singapore: Oxford University Press.
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Samuel, D. S. (1991). Singapore's heritage: Through places of historical interest (pp. 49-51). Singapore: Elixir Consultancy Service.
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The information in this article is valid as at 2010 and correct as far as we are able to ascertain from our sources. It is not intended to be an exhaustive or complete history on the subject. Please contact the Library for further reading materials on the topic.
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A treasure trove is any valuable old collection that is concealed in cellar or attics, that is discovered by accident and its true owner is unknown. Here is a list of ten incredible treasure troves.
The National museum of Poland offers its visitors a chance to examine the treasure of Sroda Slaska. The highlighting feature of the treasure is a gold crown that was used by Blanche de Valois of 14th century. The treasure also includes 2 gold pendants of 12th century, a medieval gold clasp embedded with precious stones, 39 gold coins, 3 rings and 2924 silver coins.
Panagyuriste treasure was discovered by three brothers in 1949 while they were processing clay at Merul. The vessels belonged to the Odrysian ruler of 3rd and 4th century BC. It includes a phial, seven rhytons and an amphora all of which weighs to 6,614 kg of pure gold. The treasure has the scenes of Greek mythology engraved on them.
Presalv treasure was discovered after centuries at the vineyard in Castana. This incredible excavation revealed 170 objects that were made from metals like gold, silver and bronze. It also includes coins that belonged to 3rd and 7th centuries.
The most remarkable piece revealed in Tuntankhamun's tomb is the king's inner coffin that exhibits an incomparable quality workmanship. The coffin measuring 74 inches long and 20 inches wide is crafted from solid gold.
Pereshchepina treasure was discovered 90 years ago in a village of Ukraine. The shepherd boys accidentally took out the treasure while they were playing by a river. The treasure included eating vessels, jewelry and exclusively ornamented weapons that weighed 20 kg of gold and 50 kg of silver.
A mission of archeologists accompanied by Victor Sarianidhi of Afghanistan, discovered the treasure in a burial ground in 1979. This valuable collection includedexclusive jewelry crafted from metals like gold, lapis-lazuli and turquoise.
The invaluable treasure of Nagyszentmiklos represents a collection of twenty three gold vessels that belonged to the 10th century. The vessels were crafted from 22 carat gold. This treasure is assumbed to be used in the dining halls of the royal Bulgarian families.
The treasure was discovered in Pietrosele, Romania in 1837. It belonged to a Gothic king of 4th century. This valuable collection portrayed twenty two pieces of gold with overall weight of 27 kg. Some of the pieces carried the inscription the sacred inheritance of Goths.
A hoard of gold was revealed near Gourdon in 1845. The hoard dates back to the 6th century and included a Challice decorated with garnets and turquoises in the compartments. The Challice also carried a hundred gold coins that belonged to Byzantine emperors.
This treasure trove was recently discovered on a sunken ship of Indonesia. It included 14,000 pearls, 400 dark red sapphires, 4000 rubies and more than 2000 garnets. It is believed that the treasure belonged to the Egyptian period.


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Last question. Why was it important to you, and I know why but I want you to tell the audience, to change your name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali?
Well, why it was important to me when I first heard the teachings that when Blacks came here, the people watching this interview, what's your name?
Sam Pollard is White. He's originally got a European name. I met a brother, he had dashiki, African robes, sandals, real Black, I said, "What's your name?" He said, "George Washington." Afro named George Washington. I said, "Mr. Clay here, 200 years ago they called Clay property, so the Jones is Jones. These are names that are names that identified us as the property of certain masters. But the day you're free, you don't belong to Clay and Jones. So, you know how you look, well, in Africa, what's your name? George Washington? There are Africans all over Africa. They don't know if a Negro Christian is a any other. They're all over Chicago. They're in California. Africans, other people, how does the White man know? What's your name? Ching Chong. A White man named Ching Chong. That's Chinese there. That's their culture. So, not too many Muhammad Ali, all of a sudden they start saying, "He's the world's most known man." It's not because I box, Sugar Ray is good, Floyd Patterson is good, Joe Louis was good. It was because Muhammad Ali is in Africa, all over Africa, the name is in Ethiopia, Morocco, Syria, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Algiers, Saudi Arabia. Muhammad Ali is common when I traveled. Muhammad is the most common name in the world. There are more people on Earth, every third a person is a Muslim in the world. So when I took the name Muhammad Ali and I fought, I'd say this, Floyd Patterson, "In this corner Muhammad Ali!" All the people in the arena says, "What?" The whole world jumped because this is a common name. You mean in America we have a Muhammad Ali fighting? So, my father's name was Cassius Clay. His father's name was Cassius and myself's name, and my great-grandaddy, who was a slave, worked for the original Cassius Clay from Kentucky. So, we know I'm not no slave now. It's funny, that's how an old name, how one name for a good amount of people, it all started in Kentucky. You saw Roots? Alex Haley? Alex Haley knows that we was made slaves. He knows that this happened, they took our names, but after making that movie, I was surprised to see he still kept the name Alex Haley, so. If I say, here come Ching Chong, you look for a Chinaman, here comes Lumumba, Africa, here comes Weinstein, Jew, here come Morningstar, Indian. Here come Miltonberger, German. Here come Jones, don't know what color he is 'til you see him. So we don't have our names. There's something about the American Black people still got slave names. I hear that. I love truth, I don't care if you go to church or mosque or synagogue. I don't care if your Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, I don't care what you are. When I hear the name, I want the truth. People watching this interview now, got slave names if they're Black. So, Muhammad Ali, you go away, you go to Syria Indonesia, Africa, put it over on them, you won't know who you are until you tell them your name. "What's your name?" "George Washington." They say, "He's a Negro." Man, nobody could argue with this. I challenge anybody watching the show, I'm embarrassing the nation. Prove I'm wrong, if you're Black and you have a European name, that's not your name. Now if you hear White people in the government, somebody tell me, "You ain't Muhammad Ali. You're wrong." No, nobody never said that's wrong. So, if you leave this country and go to Asia and Africa, all you is hear is national names is Hassan, Omar, Ishmael, Elijah, Muhammad, Ali, Akbar. These are the names of dark people. So, when we were made slaves in America and the names, we took their names. But our people are still slaves mentally. We can hear this, you can here what I'm saying, I don't know if you might or might not but you might keep your name when you leave here. This is a known fact. It's a White man's slave name. Hey now, you're free, why not buck Uncle Sam and pick you a pretty name to fit your Black people? Some people they don't admit it mentally 'til only dead men can hear. So why don't they wake up and we all want a beautiful name. My daughter wanted Rasheeda, not Sue-Ellen Mary, one named Jamillah. One name Laila. One named Hana. One named Miya, Kaliah. Pretty names that fit our people. So, that's why I changed my name.
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Tabula on Gregory the Great, Homiliae in Euangelia
Tabula on the works of Gregory the Great
Compendium Iob uel speculum
This manuscript is an English manuscript dating from c. 1425-50 containing tables on, and excerpts from, the works of Gregory the Great. The manuscript also contains a copy of the Liber Gregorianus of Garnerius of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1170), and other works pertaining to Gregory's writings. CCCC MS 1 is finely decorated with a large number of initials and borders in a typical English style. James noted a similarity in appearance between this manuscript and CCCC MS 73.


to capture any information you want to associate with this submission. You can use your notes to find this submission later.
 5. Click Submit.
 6. Click OK to confirm.
 Tip: Note down the process ID for your submission so you can easily find it later. For example, let's say you set the process to run once a week. If you later want to cancel all runs on this schedule, you need to cancel this original submission with the process ID you see.
Submit Process Sets
To submit a process set from the Scheduled Processes Overview page:
 1. Proceed with the steps that you would follow to submit any scheduled process, but select Job Set for the Type option.
 2. In the Process details dialog box, set parameters for individual processes in the set. A process set itself doesn't have parameters.
 1. Select a process on the Processes tab.
 2. Enter parameters for that process, if any.
 3. Repeat for other processes in the set.
 3. Define the schedule, output, and notifications for the process set, as you would do for any scheduled process.
 4. Set any other options and click Submit.
Examples of Process Options
When you submit scheduled processes, click the Process Options button in the Process Details dialog box to set options such as language and time zone.
 - Your settings affect the data to be processed and what you get in the output
 - If the process is running on a schedule, your settings apply to every run.
 - The settings override what's set in general preferences, which you can get to by clicking your user name in the global header and selecting Set Preferences.
Let's take a look at some examples of process options that you can set.
Language
You set the language process option to Spanish, while the Current Session field is set to Japanese in your general preferences. So, your output is in Spanish. If you don't set the language process option, the output is in Japanese.
Currency
You set the currency process option to Euro, while your general currency preference is set to Yen. The scheduled process makes calculations based on the Euro, and the output shows all monetary amounts in Euro.
After you submit a scheduled process, it can go through many statuses until it reaches a final state. This table explains the statuses you might see. The Action Required column tells you if something can be done for the process:
 - No (in progress): The process was submitted and hasn't reached a final state yet. But you or administrators don't need to do anything to move the process along.
 - Yes: You or administrators need to do something to get the process to another status.
 - No (final): The process has reached a final state, and nothing else can be done.
Status Description Action Required?
Blocked
At least one other running process is incompatible with and currently blocking your process. The situation will be automatically fixed.
No (in progress)
Canceled
The process was canceled, and you can't restart it.
No (final)
Canceling
The process is currently moving to the Canceled status.
No (in progress)
Completed
The main part of the process completed, and postprocessing (such as sending notifications and generating output) has started.
No (in progress)
Error
The process finished running and ended with errors.
No (final)
Error Auto-Retry
The process ended with errors but will automatically run again.
No (in progress)
Error Manual Recovery
The process ended with errors and requires an administrator to move the process to a final state.
Yes
Expired
The process didn't run and its schedule already ended. You can't restart it, but you can resubmit with the same parameters or submit a new process.
No (final)
Finished
The main part of the process and postprocessing has completed. The process will move on to a final state.
No (in progress)
Hold
The process is put on hold and needs someone to release it before it can continue running.
Yes
Paused
The process is paused so that another process that was automatically kicked off can run first.
No (in progress)
Pending Validation
Some validations, for example related to security, are performed on the process before it runs.
No (in progress)
Ready
The process passed validation and is about to start running.
No (in progress)
Running
The main part of the process is currently running.
No (in progress)
Schedule Ended
The process already reached a final state, and its schedule has ended.
No (final)
Succeeded
The process successfully completed.
No (final)
Validation Failed
The process failed validation.
No (final)
Wait
The process passed validation but isn't running yet.
No (in progress)
Warning
The process finished running and ended with a warning, for example, that a notification wasn't sent.
No (final)
After you submit a scheduled process, you can track its progress. Depending on what you have access to, you can also check on processes that someone else submitted. Processes can finish running in seconds, or a few minutes, or even longer. If something interrupts a process while it's running, for example a server restarting, then the process automatically picks up where it left off.
Here's where you can find processes that were submitted:
 - Scheduled Processes work area
 - Other work areas with a section for scheduled processes, if available
Search Results table and Details section on the
Scheduled Processes Overview page
Here's an example of the section that you can find in some other work areas.
Section on other work areas where you can monitor
scheduled processes
Check the Status in the Scheduled Processes Work Area
Here's how you find your scheduled process and see how it's doing.
 1. Click Navigator > Tools > Scheduled Processes.
 The Search Results table shows processes that match the default saved search, Last 24 hours.
 - The table might be blank if nothing was submitted.
 - If submission notes were entered when submitting the process, you can use the Submission Notes column to help identify the process.
 2. If you don't see the process, click the Refresh icon or use the Search section.
 - For the search, enter your own criteria or select another saved search, including these:
 - Last hour
 - Last 48 hours
 - Last 72 hours
 - Cancelable Processes
 - Refresh the search results at any time to see the latest status of the process in the Status column.
 3. Do any of these tasks to check on the progress of the process:
 - For more details about the status, click the status link. For example, if a process is in the Ready status, you can click the Ready link in the Status column to see where the process is in the submission queue.
 - Check the Start Time column to see if the process has started running yet. If it has, you can select the row and click View Log to get information about how the process is running.
 - In the Search Results table, find the This Job's Items Processed / Errors / Total column. For some scheduled processes, this column shows what's getting processed and how things are going. For example, if the value is Lines 50/2/?, then this is what that means:
 - The scheduled process is processing lines, for example lines from a file that's getting imported.
 - 50 lines are successfully processed.
 - Two lines ended up in error.
 - The total number of lines to process is unknown right now. If 100 was displayed instead of the question mark, that would mean there are 100 lines in total, 52 of which are already processed, and 48 more to go.
 Even after the scheduled process reaches a final state, the first two numbers might not add up to the total, for many reasons. For example, if you cancel the process before it's done, then not all items got processed. Or, you have set a process parameter to end the process if at least 50% of the items getting processed ends in error. In which case, the scheduled process itself could still successfully end, but not everything was actually processed.
View Other Details in the Scheduled Processes Work Area
To get more information about a scheduled process, select it in the Search Results table and see the Details section that appears after the table. These are some of the details you might find:
 - Completion text, which is automatically generated when the process reaches a final state. What you see depends on the process. For example, it might say that the process finished 1792 records in less than a second.
 - The log attachment, for example for details about why the process ended in error.
 - Report output that the process generated, if any.
 - Parameters for the scheduled process.
 - Open the Parameter Names with Values subsection to see the parameters from the Process Details dialog box and the values that were entered when the process was submitted.
 - Use the All Parameter Values subsection for troubleshooting purposes, if you need to see the parameters and values in their actual, technical format. This subsection might have more parameters. For example, some processes run with additional parameter values that are derived from the parameter values you entered when you submitted the process.
Monitor Scheduled Processes in Other Work Areas
Some work areas have a section where you can monitor the scheduled processes that were already submitted.
 1. Go to the section if it's available, usually on the landing page of the work area.
 2. Click the Refresh icon if you don't see any processes or need to see the latest status.
 - If you still don't see the process you're looking for, try changing the filters. If that doesn't help, use the Scheduled Processes work area instead.
 - If submission notes were entered when submitting the process, you can use the Submission Notes column to help identify the process.
 3. Do either of these things to check on the progress of the process:
 - For more details about the status, click the status link. For


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C. Error
D. Runtime error


8 Ways to Improve the Customer Experience in Banking
By November 29, 2018 December 29th, 2020 CCG Financial Services Marketing Blog
Best practices to help build, strengthen and maintain profitable customer relationships.
Today's consumers expect to interact with their financial institutions in the same ways they interact with other establishments — whenever and wherever it's most convenient for them. If they don't find what they need, they often go elsewhere. In light of these expectations, and the increased competition for wallet share, many banks are scrambling to make customer experience a higher priority.
While many banks have placed more emphasis on improving customer service in recent years, that's not quite the same thing. Improving the customer experience in banking requires financial institutions to shift from a focus on internal benefits, like selling products and cost cutting, to customer benefits — like simplicity, convenience and responsiveness. Customer experience (also known as CX) is built throughout the customer journey and encompasses the customer's impression of your brand as a result of every interaction.
The Difference Between Customer Service and Customer Experience in Banking
The primary goal of customer service is to help customers resolve specific issues. When done effectively, it can greatly impact a customer's overall experience with your brand. While customer service and customer experience are different, both are important parts of a strategic financial marketing plan. According to Gartner, customer service is not the totality of customer experience. Rather, the service experience is just one component of the set of elements that comprise the overall customer experience.1
8 Tips to Improve the Customer Experience in the Banking Industry
As consumer buying habits shift, and technology trends enable 24/7 access to products and services, embracing a more customer-centric mindset can differentiate your brand, help you stand out from the competition and strengthen customer relationships. Here are eight strategies to help focus on and enhance the banking customer experience.
1. Empower your employees.
Make it a company-wide initiative to provide every employee with the tools and resources to answer a customer question accurately or find the information quickly. For example, ensure that employees know how (and where) to locate information and provide immediate answers to a customer question.
2. Become a source of valuable, helpful information.
Invest in content marketing to build trust and strengthen relationships by educating customers about relevant topics without directly selling. For example, include content on your website and through other channels (like emails, social media and direct mail) on topics such as "how to build a budget" or "retirement planning steps." Increase engagement opportunities by creating an easy-to-access digital library with personal finance topics organized by life stage. Create value-added content that helps customers answer a question or solve a problem, such as "tips for buying and selling a house at the same time."
3. Embrace technology and digital tools.
Replace outdated systems with current technology tools that help deliver more personalized, timely and relevant information. Keeping up with advances in technology can feel overwhelming — not to mention expensive. You can mitigate the stress by focusing on the tech tools that make life easier and more convenient for your customers, such as mobile payments and deposits.
4. Leverage your data to create personalized customer experiences.
Use data to segment your different audiences by life stage, needs, demographics or other factors. Then target the various groups with information that's most likely to resonate with them. For example, deliver HELOC offers to homeowners with enough equity, or share information about college savings plans with new parents. Be sure to include related value-added content with product or service offers so customers can see how it works. For instance, an article on "home remodel projects that deliver the highest ROI" would be appropriate for the home equity audience segment.
The more you're able to segment and personalize your customer communications, the more likely customers will feel valued and compelled to respond to your offers. And that will have a direct impact on their overall experience with your brand.
5. Provide consistent information across channels and touchpoints.
Ensure that however customers decide to engage with your brand, whether it's on their phone or inside your branch, they can find what they're looking for, and information is consistent and up-to-date. Pay special attention to your website and mobile app, making sure that pages are easy to view and navigate. Consider enhancing the customer experience even more by providing quick access to account information, as well as convenient self-service tools, like the ability to reset a password.
6. Let customers engage with your brand whenever and wherever they prefer.
Consumers want 24/7 access to their accounts from whatever method they choose. Make it easy for them to conduct banking when it's convenient for them, which might be at night and on weekends when the branch is closed.
In addition, make it easy and convenient for customers to not only access your channels but also tell you what and when they want to hear from you. An online preference center lets customers tell you which types of information they want to receive from you, how often and on which channels. Preference center best practices include offering a list of preferred communications channels for customers to choose from, such as email, postal mail, online and mobile; and frequency, such as weekly, bi-weekly or monthly. Include a list of categories to select, such as product updates, bank news and personal finance tips.
Make it easy for customers to find your preference center by including links and calls to action on emails, your website and even printed communications.
7. Include engagement opportunities at every step of the customer journey.
Look for ways to create value for the customer with every interaction, from consideration, to account opening to onboarding and retention. As we mentioned above, data can help you view and manage a customer journey in a proactive way, allowing you to better target customers with products and services they're most likely to want and need at each step on the path. And don't underestimate the importance of the personal touch, such as incorporating a series of personalized welcome emails or recognizing a customer on their birthday.
8. Make customer experience part of your overall financial marketing strategy.
According to The Financial Brand, nearly 100 percent of financial institutions consider customer experience a priority, yet less than 40 percent have a formal plan. Stand out from the pack by making customer experience an institution-wide priority by creating a customer experience plan that implements the tactics and strategies above.
A Positive Banking Customer Experience Builds Loyal, Long-Term Relationships
With increased competition comes greater customer choice for banking services and products. Yet research today repeatedly shows that customer experience is poised to overtake price — and even product selection — when it comes to giving your brand a competitive advantage. By focusing on the customer and ensuring that customer experience is equally good regardless of channel or touchpoint, you'll be on track to stay competitive and build trust and long-term loyalty.
1 "Know the Difference Between Customer Experience and Customer Service," Jordan Bryan, Gartner, posted Feb. 14, 2018, _URL_ accessed Oct. 24, 2018
The increase in competition and evolving customer expectations make creating and implementing a winning customer experience and engagement strategy more important than ever. CCG's financial marketing experts, analysts and creatives work hand-in-hand to help you build stronger customer experiences that lead to healthier bottom lines.
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The new SPS-IO-Module
EVT presents the newly revised EyeMIO BLE. The EyeMIO is a PLC IO module for industrial use.
In conjunction with the image processing system from EVT Eye Vision Technology GmbH, it controls the peripherals and thus forms the physical interface between the image processing system and the production plant.
The EyeMIO-v2 offers four digital inputs and outputs, which can be galvanically isolated from the electronics. The EyeMIO is addressed via RS232 or USB. Very fast IO requests are possible via the USB block device interface directly at USB level. This speed advantage makes it possible to switch or read inputs and outputs even faster. The RS232 parameters: Baud rate, parity and the number of stop bits can be individually configured via USB.
Configurable on request
Each of the four digital outputs is PWM-capable. In addition, the EyeMIO BLE can be freely configured according to customer requirements via the EyeMIO Manager.
Once configured, an EyeMIO retains its data and can be integrated into a system. This advantage offers maximum flexibility. In addition, the optimized arrangement of the LEDs makes it easier to check error states or communication.
The new EyeMIO also has an AES128 crypto chip with a unique serial number and the option of using this for licensing.


, but Spring works with Scala as well.
7. Avoid getting stuck in the Kingdom of Verbs
If Java is the Kingdom of Nouns, then Scala code can sometimes look like it's coming from the Kingdom of Verbs. You might see code like this:
Project.evaluateTask(/*args skipped*/).get.toEither.right.get.map(_.data.toURI.toURL).toArray
To be honest, such stringing of methods can happen in Java as well, but seems less likely there. Not everything in the above snippet is technically a verb, but there is a very long chain of methods with none of the intermediate results being named.
If you look at this code without an IDE, it is nearly impossible to understand what is going on because you know neither the types nor the names of the things. Thank god point-free style doesn't work in Scala, or it could be worse.
Just give names to some of the intermediary results, eh? In other words, your Scala code should be from the Kingdom of Sentences, where both verbs and nouns are in equal standing. It is often possible to even mimic simple natural language sentences without creating a full-blown DSL.
8. Avoid code that is either too functional, or too type safe
This is perhaps the most controversial point I'm going to make, but try not to go too much into the functional side of the language or to achieve maximal type safety. Scala can clearly give you better type safety than Java in many cases, but there is a limit to everything. The type system is complex and if you dive very deep into it, you might just spend a lot of time satisfying the compiler for little gain instead of writing useful code. I love to occasionally play with something like shapeless, but avoid doing it in serious code.
The same is with going too functional. Often it makes sense to use flatMap or map over Option values instead of if-else expressions. But writing a long chain of flatMaps without naming any intermediate results is not a good style.
Overusing higher-order functions in hot code may create performance problems. In some cases, you might even have to revert to more Java-like code with mutable variables and while loops — Scala's for loops are compiled to higher-order function calls, but while loops are low-level as in Java or C.
Still, functional programming is getting more and more popular for a reason. Concurrency and correctness might be easier to achieve with more functional code. So don't stay completely on the imperative side of Scala, or you might not enjoy as many of the benefits as you could.
Look for more in Part 2…
In Scala: Sink or Swim? Part 2, we will look at the good parts that should actually make you consider using Scala in the first place, plus some things in Scala that you can't really avoid, but must live with nevertheless. Please leave me comments below, or write to me at _EMAIL_. Thanks for tuning in!
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Erkki Lindpere is a Software Engineer at ZeroTurnaround. He works on JRebel. His interests include video games and board games, Scala, programming language design, heathen (non-JVM) stuff like LLVM; he probably has 25 Eclipses installed on his laptop.
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 - _URL_ Kaupo Parmas
 Nice post, looking forward to the next one. Haven't come around to using Scala yet, trying out Groovy first and then maybe come over to scalaland as well.
 - Xyassine
 can an absolute beginner start learning scala before java ?!
 - Erkki Lindpere
 I don't see why not, but I don't know whether there are good learning materials for that.
 - _URL_ Eric Parnell
 Very good post. Unfortunately, a lot of newbies feel they must get into the items you mention in order to master the language and this opinion is fostered by the experts in the language.
 - Eduardo
 Of possible interest: "Scala for the Impatient" has just been finished. An excellent book on Scala. Part of the book can be downloaded for free on typesafe.com.
 - philip andrew
 Its the same for C++. Its best practice to avoid the hard areas such as operator overloading.
 - Erkki Lindpere
 Sounds great. I'll just put a link to it here: _URL_
 - Tony Morris
 Thanks for the giggles. Thinking is fun, try it.
 - Erkki Lindpere
 Don't worry, I think at least once every two weeks :)
 - _URL_ Markus Jais
 Very good post in Scala and I agree with many things here. It is good to keep it simple at first.
 When I learned Ruby many years ago, I didn't start with all the meta programming on the first day.
 And a Java Programmer shouldn't start with all the details of Generics on his/her first day.
 Looking forward to part 2.
 Markus
 - martin odersky
 That's very insightful and helpful advice. I really liked your level-headedness. Thanks! — Martin
 - Mauricio Scheffer
 - Richard Wallace
 This is by far the funniest thing I've seen since SIP-18. The laughs just keep coming! Keep it up Scala community!
 - Josh Suereth
 tl;dr; – Decent post. A bit on the extreme, which I hope is trying to swing people away from the other extreme as opposed to how you really feel.
 My thoughts:
 It's pretty sad to see SBT on the top of your list, but it does ring true with the idea that SBT is more geared towards build *designers* than users at this point. TBH, as a maintainer of both maven plugins and SBT plugins, I sincerely hope maven will diaf, and very soon. There's no comparison in terms of how nice SBT is to write complex build interactions vs. maven. In fact, there's much in SBT that's possible which I can't dream of how to accomplish in maven.
 Now, as far as users are concerned. Well, the mark is missed. Users don't care if there's a huge wall to scale to write build plugins, as long as learning + writing a build can be done in 5 minutes. This is why there's so few maven plugin authors out there, in my experience. Almost every SBT user is also a plugin author.
 What's surprising to me is that Maven documentation has been, and continues to be terrible. Yet it's familiar. About 5 years ago, you heard nothing but how complex maven was compared to Ant and how terrible it was, and how hard to create build files. Yet now, it's a de-facto standard of java shops, thanks to features and plugins that are easy to use. *I* was the one introducing Maven, just as I'm now introducing SBT, and it was the same battle. In 5 years, your mind may be different.
 This gives me a lot of hope for SBT. SBT makes it so easy to write a plugin for anything under the sun, that hopefully once the User API is fixed, (like when maven switched from 1.x to 2.x), then you won't see any more blog posts like this.
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 Note that category theory is *just* a design pattern in FP. You can't really avoid it. That's like saying "don't use for expressions" in Scala. I guarantee, everyone using Scala is using a bit of CT, whether or not they realize it. Learning it merely helps you use it better. Same as any old design pattern, like decorator, iterator or visitor.
 What's *wrong* is when you use your knowledge of patterns, FP, or category theory to lord over other developers in your team, bellittle them, and get your way. This is an all-too-common occurence in an industry that accepts the Primma Donna. Abusing any language feature or design pattern is bad. Don't do it.
 When Scala experts recommend learning these things (scalaz, FP, etc.), it's to make you a better programmer. Part and parcel to that is knowing where they apply. I think more useful advice, rather than avoid category theory, would be "Don't use category theory until you understand it".
 The same can be said of many things in Scala. My short list of things to avoid:
 (1) val/var in traits (well, any sort of OO initialization requirements are terrible)
 (2) implciit views
 (3) non-method-local vars
 Which are all missing from your list. Anyone who's used scala for non-trivial code should be *very* aware of trait linearization issues. It's the *worst* complexity in the whole language. Implicit views should be second. Hardest thing for new-comers is knowing where the magic comes from, or what's available. Finally, non-method-local vars cause no end of bugs in real life code. THOSE, more than anything else, cause issues in Scala code.
 If you're using Scala effectively, you should have a ton of one-expression methods that are easy to maintain. If your methods are longer than a few expressions, you should think about refactoring. Most likely, you're missing some kind of re-use. The verb-focused


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 Dew Point:
 49.7°F (0.0)
 Wind Chill:
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 Wind Speed:
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 Wind Direction:
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 Pressure:
 30.19 inHg (0.02)
 Precipitation:
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The Wind Direction dial indicates the current immediate wind direction via the long pointer and the 10-minute average wind direction with the short pointer. If the short pointer is gray, then WeatherCat hasn?t had time to finish calculating the average wind direction; when it has, the pointer turns red. The figures in the centre of the dial are the current wind direction on top and the average wind direction on bottom.
The Wind Speed dial indicates the current wind speed via the longer of the two pointers and the 10-minute average via the shorter pointer. Again, the average pointer will be gray until WeatherCat has had time to calculate the correct value. The figures in the centre of the dial are, from the top, the instantaneous wind speed, the 10-minute average speed, the 10-minute wind gust and the daily high.
The Wind Rose gauge indicates all known wind vectors since midnight. Wind run is the amount of wind that has passed your location in a given time. For example if the wind was blowing at a constant 1 mile per hour for 1 hour, then the wind run would be 1 mile for that hour. If the wind velocity increased to 5 miles per hour then it would be 5 miles, or 120 miles in 24 hours. The wind run gauge goes one step further and displays the wind run for each degree of the compass – this gives a visual representation of where the wind has been blowing from over the last 24 hours. The numbers at the bottom of the wind run gauge shows the total daily wind run and the current scale of the gauge – i.e. the length of the longest wind run vector being displayed. An option in WeatherCat?s preferences can overlay the current wind-run vector if required.
The Pressure dial indicates the current reading and the daily low and high values via the red pointers. The numbers in the centre show the current pressure and the three-hour pressure change. The three-hour pressure change is a good indicator of what the weather is going to do. If the pressure is rising, then it is likely the weather is improving and if falling, the weather is likely to deteriorate. If the pressure is falling quickly, then it is possible a storm is on its way.
The Calculated Cloud Base dial indicates the current calculated cloud base along with the daily low and high via the red pointers. The figures on the dials are in 1000?s of units; thus 1.5 reads as 1500. Calculated cloud base is derived from the air temperature and dew point and gives an approximate indication of the base of cumulus clouds.
The Solar and U.V. gauges are not displayed by default; they can be enabled from the Misc 2 pane of WeatherCat preferences. The smaller pointer on the Solar dial is the 10- minute average, the larger pointer is the instantaneous reading. The top figure is the current value, the middle figure is the 10-minute average and the bottom figure is the daily high.
The thermometer type gauges indicate the current values of various weather variables along with the daily high (red) and daily low (blue) values as horizontal bars.
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