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Q: Why does Spring close the DB-session in Runnable after first Repository method call? I'm working on a Spring MVC App with JPA (Hibernate as Provider) and a PostgreSQL database. I wanted to insert results (of a time consuming task) into the database in background and created a serviceclass which implements Runnable. In the run method, I receive an entity from the repository but when I try to access a lazy collection of the entity, the database session is already closed (I get a lazy initialization exception).
The source code of my Background-Service:
@Service
@Scope("prototype")
public class ProjectServiceTestThread implements Runnable{

static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(ProjectServiceTestThread.class);

@Autowired
ProjectRepository projectRepository;

@Autowired
ScenarioRepository scenarioRepository;

@Override
@Transactional
public void run() {

    List<Project> projectList = projectRepository.findByName("thread test project");
    Project project;
    project = projectList.get(0);

    //A project can have multiple scenarios
    Scenario scenario;
    if (project.getScenarios().isEmpty()) { //this line fails -> lazyInitializationException - no Session
        System.err.println("Creating new scenario");
        scenario = new Scenario();
        scenario.setName("thread test scenario");
        scenario.setDescription(this + ".runServiceFunction at " + System.currentTimeMillis());
        scenario.setProject(project);
        scenario = scenarioRepository.save(scenario);
    } else {
        System.err.println("Using existing scenario");
        scenario = project.getScenarios().iterator().next();
    }
}
}

The Service and Spring TaskExecutor are Autowired in the Controller which is running on a Tomcat v8.0 Server.
Controller code:
@Autowired
ProjectServiceTestThreadImpl testRunnable;

@Autowired
TaskExecutor taskExecutor;

@RequestMapping(value="openproject", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public String getStringProjects(Map<String, Object> model) throws InterruptedException
{
    System.err.println(this + " before call to runnable ");
            testRunnable.run();
            taskExecutor.execute(testRunnable);

    return "openproject";
}

The log shows that the database session closes right after the findByName Query:
09:50:31,438 TRACE JdbcCoordinatorImpl:525 - Closing prepared statement [select distinct project0_.prjid as prjid1_24_, project0_.createdby as createdb2_24_, project0_.createdon as createdo3_24_, project0_.description as descript4_24_, project0_.designtarget as designta5_24_, project0_.location as location6_24_, project0_.name as name7_24_, project0_.modelid as modelid11_24_, project0_.timehorizon as timehori8_24_, project0_.updatedby as updatedb9_24_, project0_.updatedon as updated10_24_ from public.project project0_ where lower(project0_.name) like ('%'||lower('thread test project')||'%')]
09:50:31,438 TRACE JdbcCoordinatorImpl:278 - Starting after statement execution processing [ON_CLOSE]
09:50:31,438 TRACE StatefulPersistenceContext:880 - Initializing non-lazy collections
09:50:31,439 TRACE SessionImpl:357 - Closing session
09:50:31,439 TRACE JdbcCoordinatorImpl:199 - Closing JDBC container [org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.JdbcCoordinatorImpl@3b95a16b]
09:50:31,439 TRACE LogicalConnectionImpl:178 - Closing logical connection
09:50:31,439 DEBUG LogicalConnectionImpl:246 - Releasing JDBC connection
09:50:31,439 DEBUG LogicalConnectionImpl:264 - Released JDBC connection
09:50:31,442 TRACE LogicalConnectionImpl:190 - Logical connection closed
09:50:31,445 TRACE TransactionSynchronizationManager:243 - Removed value [org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.support.CrudMethodMetadataPostProcessor$DefaultCrudMethodMetadata@7cc8f09] for key [public abstract java.util.List eu.cite.repository.ProjectRepository.findByName(java.lang.String)] from thread [myExecutor-1]
09:50:31,451 TRACE LazyInitializationException:53 - failed to lazily initialize a collection of role: eu.cite.model.Project.scenarios, could not initialize proxy - no Session
org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: failed to lazily initialize a collection of role: eu.cite.model.Project.scenarios, could not initialize proxy - no Session
    at org.hibernate.collection.internal.AbstractPersistentCollection.throwLazyInitializationException(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:575)
    at org.hibernate.collection.internal.AbstractPersistentCollection.withTemporarySessionIfNeeded(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:214)
    at org.hibernate.collection.internal.AbstractPersistentCollection.readSize(AbstractPersistentCollection.java:155)
    at org.hibernate.collection.internal.PersistentSet.isEmpty(PersistentSet.java:166)
    at eu.cite.service.ProjectServiceTestThread.run(ProjectServiceTestThread.java:73)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Configuration:

<context:component-scan base-package="eu.cite.repository, eu.cite.service" scoped-proxy="targetClass" />
<jpa:repositories base-package="eu.cite.repository" />

<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor"/>

<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
    <property name="persistenceUnitName" value="punit"/>
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"></property>
    <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
        <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
            <property name="showSql" value="true"></property>
        </bean>
    </property>
    <property name="jpaPropertyMap">
        <map>
            <entry key="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect"/>
            <entry key="hibernate.format_sql" value="true"/>
            <entry key="hibernate.jdbc.batch_size" value="50"/>
            <entry key="hibernate.order_inserts" value="true"/>
        </map>
    </property>
</bean>

<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
    <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory"/>
</bean>

<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" proxy-target-class="true"/>

<bean id="ModelMapper" class="org.modelmapper.ModelMapper"></bean>

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
    <property name="driverClassName" value="org.postgresql.Driver"></property>
    <property name="url" value="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/Cite?autoReconnect=true"></property>
    <property name="username" value="cite"></property>
    <property name="password" value="***"></property>
</bean>

<task:executor id="myExecutor"/>
<task:executor id="myExecutor"  pool-size="5"/>

Can somebody tell me why it does not work this way? I figured out some ways to make it work, but I don't understand why it does not work with the code above. These three approaches correctly insert the Scenario, without closing the database Session in between:

*

*remove @Service from ProjectServiceTestThread and register the bean in the config manually

*Not implement Runnable and annotate the run() method of ProjectServiceTestThread with @Async

*Not using the Spring Task Executor

Edit - Project entity:
@Entity
@Table(name = "project", schema = "public", uniqueConstraints = @UniqueConstraint(columnNames = "name"))
public class Project implements java.io.Serializable {

private int prjid;
private SimulationModel simulationmodel;
private String name;
private String description;
private String designtarget;
private Date timehorizon;
private String location;
private Date createdon;
private Date updatedon;
private Integer createdby;
private Integer updatedby;
private Set<ObjectiveFunction> objectivefunctions = new HashSet<ObjectiveFunction>(
        0);
private Set<Scenario> scenarios = new HashSet<Scenario>(0);
private Set<ScenarioGenerator> scenariogenerators = new HashSet<ScenarioGenerator>(
        0);
private List<Component> components = new ArrayList<Component>();
private Set<OptConstraint> optconstraints = new HashSet<OptConstraint>(0);
private Set<SearchConstraint> searchconstraints = new HashSet<SearchConstraint>(
        0);
private Set<Metric> metrics = new HashSet<Metric>(0);
private Set<UserGroupProject> usergroupprojects = new HashSet<UserGroupProject>(
        0);
private Set<ExtParam> extparams = new HashSet<ExtParam>(0);

public Project() {
}

public Project(int prjid, String name) {
    this.prjid = prjid;
    this.name = name;
}

public Project(int prjid, SimulationModel simulationmodel, String name,
        String description, String designtarget, Date timehorizon, String location,
        Date createdon, Date updatedon, Integer createdby,
        Integer updatedby, Set<ObjectiveFunction> objectivefunctions,
        Set<Scenario> scenarios, Set<ScenarioGenerator> scenariogenerators,
        List<Component> components, Set<OptConstraint> optconstraints,
        Set<SearchConstraint> searchconstraints, Set<Metric> metrics,
        Set<UserGroupProject> usergroupprojects, Set<ExtParam> extparams) {
    this.prjid = prjid;
    this.simulationmodel = simulationmodel;
    this.name = name;
    this.description = description;
    this.designtarget = designtarget;
    this.timehorizon = timehorizon;
    this.location = location;
    this.createdon = createdon;
    this.updatedon = updatedon;
    this.createdby = createdby;
    this.updatedby = updatedby;
    this.objectivefunctions = objectivefunctions;
    this.scenarios = scenarios;
    this.scenariogenerators = scenariogenerators;
    this.components = components;
    this.optconstraints = optconstraints;
    this.searchconstraints = searchconstraints;
    this.metrics = metrics;
    this.usergroupprojects = usergroupprojects;
    this.extparams = extparams;
}

@SequenceGenerator(name="project_prjid_seq",sequenceName="project_prjid_seq") @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator="project_prjid_seq")
@Id
@Column(name = "prjid", unique = true, nullable = false)
public int getPrjid() {
    return this.prjid;
}

public void setPrjid(int prjid) {
    this.prjid = prjid;
}

@ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY,cascade=CascadeType.PERSIST)
@JoinColumn(name = "modelid")
public SimulationModel getSimulationmodel() {
    return this.simulationmodel;
}

public void setSimulationmodel(SimulationModel simulationmodel) {
    this.simulationmodel = simulationmodel;
}

@Column(name = "name", unique = true, nullable = false, length = 50)
public String getName() {
    return this.name;
}

public void setName(String name) {
    this.name = name;
}

@Column(name = "description")
public String getDescription() {
    return this.description;
}

public void setDescription(String description) {
    this.description = description;
}

@Column(name = "designtarget", length = 50)
public String getDesigntarget() {
    return this.designtarget;
}

public void setDesigntarget(String designtarget) {
    this.designtarget = designtarget;
}

@Temporal(TemporalType.TIME)
@Column(name = "timehorizon", length = 15)
public Date getTimehorizon() {
    return this.timehorizon;
}

public void setTimehorizon(Date timehorizon) {
    this.timehorizon = timehorizon;
}

@Column(name = "location")
public String getLocation() {
    return this.location;
}

public void setLocation(String location) {
    this.location = location;
}

@Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
@Column(name = "createdon", length = 22)
public Date getCreatedon() {
    return this.createdon;
}

public void setCreatedon(Date createdon) {
    this.createdon = createdon;
}

@Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
@Column(name = "updatedon", length = 22)
public Date getUpdatedon() {
    return this.updatedon;
}

public void setUpdatedon(Date updatedon) {
    this.updatedon = updatedon;
}

@Column(name = "createdby")
public Integer getCreatedby() {
    return this.createdby;
}

public void setCreatedby(Integer createdby) {
    this.createdby = createdby;
}

@Column(name = "updatedby")
public Integer getUpdatedby() {
    return this.updatedby;
}

public void setUpdatedby(Integer updatedby) {
    this.updatedby = updatedby;
}

@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "project")
public Set<ObjectiveFunction> getObjectivefunctions() {
    return this.objectivefunctions;
}

public void setObjectivefunctions(Set<ObjectiveFunction> objectivefunctions) {
    this.objectivefunctions = objectivefunctions;
}

@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "project")
public Set<Scenario> getScenarios() {
    return this.scenarios;
}

public void setScenarios(Set<Scenario> scenarios) {
    this.scenarios = scenarios;
}

@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "project")
public Set<ScenarioGenerator> getScenariogenerators() {
    return this.scenariogenerators;
}

public void setScenariogenerators(Set<ScenarioGenerator> scenariogenerators) {
    this.scenariogenerators = scenariogenerators;
}

@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "project")
@OrderBy("componentid")
public List<Component> getComponents() {
    return this.components;
}

public void setComponents(List<Component> components) {
    this.components = components;
}

@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "project")
public Set<OptConstraint> getOptconstraints() {
    return this.optconstraints;
}

public void setOptconstraints(Set<OptConstraint> optconstraints) {
    this.optconstraints = optconstraints;
}

@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "project")
public Set<SearchConstraint> getSearchconstraints() {
    return this.searchconstraints;
}

public void setSearchconstraints(Set<SearchConstraint> searchconstraints) {
    this.searchconstraints = searchconstraints;
}

@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "project")
public Set<Metric> getMetrics() {
    return this.metrics;
}

public void setMetrics(Set<Metric> metrics) {
    this.metrics = metrics;
}

@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "project")
public Set<UserGroupProject> getUsergroupprojects() {
    return this.usergroupprojects;
}

public void setUsergroupprojects(Set<UserGroupProject> usergroupprojects) {
    this.usergroupprojects = usergroupprojects;
}

@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "project")
public Set<ExtParam> getExtparams() {
    return this.extparams;
}

public void setExtparams(Set<ExtParam> extparams) {
    this.extparams = extparams;
}

A: I found the issue in my appConfig.java: There was another component scan, which scanned all packages, including services:
@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
@ComponentScan({"eu.cite"})
public class appConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

this seems to undo the transaction configuration from the xml. I changed the component scan to eu.cite.controller so my servlet is still able to find the controller and does not interfere with the other config

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Q: Switch a button's functionality each time it's clicked I am trying to alter the code given here: http://jsbin.com/iFesOvOs/1/edit in such a way that a single button would both start and stop the timer.
If the timer is stopped, it will get started n press of the button and if it is running, it will be stopped.
I need to do this because I am making a mobile site with lot of features and we do not have space to place an additional button.
What I have tried:

*

*I have tried altering some attribute of the button, so that we can detect if the timer is running or not and take action as per that.

*I have tried storing the timer's state in localStorage, fetch it back up and take action as per that.

*I have tried keeping a global variable, but that too didn't work
Sometimes, the desired function didn't get executed at all (with no error messages) and sometimes, I got the error message of variables going out of scope - which I tried to rectify by use of global variables but only in vain.
What's wrong here, can someone help me out?

A: This works...
<input type="button" value="start" onclick="start(this);">

function start(b) {
  if (b.value == 'stop'){
    b.value = 'start'
    clearInterval(clocktimer);
    return
  }
  b.value = 'stop'
  clocktimer = setInterval("update()", 1);
  x.start();
}

A: You can add class with name (start) to your button, add function that check if the class button name is start then start the trimer and change the button class name to stop, else when the class name is stop then stop the timer and change the class name to start.


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Бритвоподібний молюск — назва, яка використовується для молюсків кількох видів ряду Венероїдні (Veneroida), серед яких:

 Ensis directus — Бритвоподібний молюск атлантичний
 Ensis arcuatus — Бритвоподібний молюск звичайний
 Siliqua patula — Бритвоподібний молюск тихоокеанський
 Solen strictus — Бритвоподібний молюск японський, або бамбуковий молюск

Венероїдні

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In describing Gilligan's Island, Sherwood Schwartz said that his plan was to create a microcosm of society. The characters in this society were extremes in social, financial, and intellectual terms: the leader—Skipper (Alan Hale, Jr.), the bumbling sidekick—Gilligan (Bob Denver), the wealthy—Mr. and Mrs. Howell (Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer), the country girl—Mary Ann (Dawn Wells), the movie star—Ginger (Tina Louise), and the academic—Professor (Russell Johnson). Indeed, the Skipper tries to lead, the Professor is looked to for solutions to problems, the rich people and the movie star sit in an island version of luxury, and Gilligan and Mary Ann are left to do much of the manual labor.
There are those who live in Atascadero and those who live in the Gringo Free Zones.
There are those who live on Social Security and those who live on trust funds.
There are those who collect "Who'd Buy That Art" and those who shop only at Fabrica Aurora.
San Miguel is a living Situation Comedy. This whole blog is about these comedic events although the audience has quite a different take than the participants.
And the parallels are deeper upon more analysis.
Ginger Grant's struggles continued in San Miguel. On the show she clashed with producers, because she had believed that she was to be the main focus of the show (despite its title). Here in San Miguel Ginger is now the star of her own show every night at Harry's. In addition, her original character was originally written as a sarcastic and sharp-tongued temptress, but Ginger argued that this was too extreme and refused to play it as written. A compromise was reached; she agreed to play her as a cross between Marilyn Monroe and Lucille Ball. The post on the Sidekick Gang indicates the kinds of hijinks Ginger gets into.
"The Professor" was in fact a high school science teacher, not a university professor in the original show. But once the Professor came to San Miguel and reinvented himself he became the Professor he always wanted to be. The Professor is in the Jardin daily, instructing the unwashed in the finer points of history, science, religion, popular culture and literature.
Who can remember about Mary Ann from the TV show other than the pigtails. That is why there are so many Mary Ann's and no one knows who the real Mary Ann is nor really care. Here are just two of the San Miguel Mary Anns.
The Skipper took some time before coming to San Miguel. When he first retired, opened Alan Hale's Lobster Barrel in Los Angeles but he missed Gilligan who came early to San Miguel. So he sold the restaurant and moved to San Miguel. But Lobster's were hard to find in a landlocked community in the Mountains so he opened the Longhorn Smokehouse Bar and Grill.
On the TV show she had it written into her contract that there were to be no close-ups of her. She was 62 when the pilot was shot although and made sure no, reportedly, no one on the set or in the cast knew her real age, and she refused to divulge that information. "Lovey" came immediately, after the show ended, to San Miguel to join the Facelift Gang. Today "Lovey" is 132 and happy when people think she is only 93.
Thurston, simply bankrolls "Lovey" and sometimes gets excited when he sees Mrs Magoo in the Jardin.


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Developer Is Updating Historic Seagram Building With New Playground
Landlord hopes the project will appeal to younger workers
By Craig Karmin
| Originally Published On June 30, 2020 | The Wall Street Journal
The project would include space for meetings.
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The owner of the Seagram Building, the stately office tower designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on Manhattan's Park Avenue, thinks it is time for the famed landmark to loosen up a bit.
Developer Aby Rosen said chief executives love the historic property but have found it sometimes tougher to engage their younger workers, who gravitate toward buildings with fresher amenities, sports facilities and contemporary design over classic midcentury modern.
That is a big reason why Mr. Rosen said he is creating the Seagram Playground, a 35,000-square-foot enclosed area underneath the building's plaza that currently serves as a parking garage.
The Playground is meant to encourage team building or just unwinding. It will include a climbing wall, basketball courts, yoga and spinning studios, indoor track, weight room and a boxing ring, said Mr. Rosen, a kickboxing enthusiast. It will also include retractable stadium-style benches that when open can host meetings for up to 200 employees.
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"We check all the boxes for the CEOs, and the guys who want the high end," said Mr. Rosen, referring to the Seagram's status as an architectural marvel of the International Style. "But we were missing something that would cater to the junior partners."
His New York-based real-estate firm, RFR Holding LLC, is investing $25 million in the project. Mr. Rosen expects to begin construction by year's end and complete the Playground about a year and a half later. Because the garage doesn't have a landmark designation, it will not have to get city preservation committee approval for the changes.
RFR's plan to freshen up the historic property is a reminder of how much the office market has been undergoing change, even before the coronavirus pandemic led many companies to rethink their office use and consider more remote work. Co-working firms brought in more amenities like free food and beer, while newer buildings feature private fitness centers, more outdoor space and greater energy efficiency.
RFR's plan to freshen up the Seagram Building is a reminder of how much the office market has been undergoing change.
Peter J. Smith for The Wall Street Journal
The Seagram landlord is hoping the Playground will help fill the space left by Wells Fargo & Co., which occupied floors 2 through 10 at the Seagram Building and departed recently for the new Hudson Yards development on Manhattan's far West Side.
Mr. Rosen said he would have created the Playground even if Wells Fargo had renewed its lease.
"We wanted to do something with the garage anyhow, and something of size and magnitude," he said during an interview at his office last week, where he showed up tanned and dressed casually in a navy blue polo shirt. His white hair was nearly shoulder length, despite what he said was a recent haircut.
He has other potential plans to keep tenants engaged, including the prospect of placing cafe tables on Seagram's Park Avenue-facing plaza space, now that the city has cut through much of the red tape for outdoor dining permits to encourage seating outside.
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Like other property firms, RFR felt it had to set an example and have employees return to the office during the first week New York City reopened this month. Building owners hoped the workers' return would help underscore what they say is the primacy of office life and face-to-face meetings.
RFR recently relocated its own headquarters to the Seagram Building, moving from the nearby Lever House building after the firm gave up control of that property. Nearly all of RFR's 60 New York employees were at the office last week, though only about 20% of the building's employees overall were back at their desks, Mr. Rosen said.
Landlords have had a tougher time collecting rent during Covid-19. Mr. Rosen said that only about 55% to 60% of retail tenants across the RFR portfolio of about two dozen buildings paid June rent, though around 90% of the office tenants paid.
He thinks recent talk of the end of the office is overrated. While companies are embracing work from home and video meetings through services like Zoom, he thinks executives will find the remote appeal will wear thin as they try to re-create the spark of innovation over a monitor.
"You can fix a problem on Zoom," Mr. Rosen said. "You can't create something on Zoom."
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AMSTERDAM (REUTERS) - The Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) have started talks with Louis van Gaal as they begin their search for a new coach but want the veteran trainer to take on a senior role in the organisation rather than at the helm of their national team.
The 65-year-old Van Gaal, who led the Dutch to third place at the 2014 World Cup, was being earmarked for a major role in the KNVB, its chairman Michael van Praag told Dutch media as the body continues the process of overhauling its infrastructure.
Van Gaal, whose last job was at Manchester United, would also help with the selection of a new coach after Danny Blind was fired on Sunday.
The Dutch have slumped to an all-time low of 32nd in the Fifa rankings and are in crisis after losing 0-2 to Bulgaria last Saturday, slipping to fourth place in their World Cup qualifying group, six points off Group A leaders France at the halfway stage.
Blind was fired less than 24 hours after the shock defeat in Sofia and the process of appointing a replacement formally began on Wednesday, added KNVB commercial director Jean-Paul Decossaux.


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On the east-facing aspect of the Monolith Cirque, the towering sub-buttresses of Dog Tooth Peak are stacked up like a row of teeth, impossible to ignore when walking in either direction along the North Fork Trail. Even though climbing history here stretches back to the 1963 first ascent of the Monolith's north face, I could find no record of any activity on the cirque's next-most-impressive formation, the Dogtooth Pinnacle. Intrigued, my good friend Drew Smith and I loaded our packs at the end of July and made the 12-mile trek in from Big Sandy to have a look.
After establishing a cushy base camp in the talus near Papoose Lake, we spent a day glassing the wall and stashing gear at the base. The Dogtooth Pinnacle was as impressive in real life as it was in the pictures—a towering triangular face that appeared to be dead vertical for more than 1,500 feet. We awoke early on August 2 for an attempt up the center of the steep and imposing southeast aspect.
After a long, moderate approach pitch, the wall reared up and Drew led an overhanging 5.11 stem corner with wild movement but less than desirable rock. I then quested up low-5.11 finger cracks through more questionable stone to reach a dirty, arcing splitter that I aided at C1. This pitch ended at a sloping ledge below a steep wall devoid of cracks. Drew led a traversing pitch leftward up a large, low-angle ramp. Above this, a muddy corner abruptly pinched off, and more leftward traversing looked to end in a large, blank wall.
The next morning, August 3, we decided to explore the buttress' only other obvious weakness: a large chimney that looked to lead onto the less-steep north face. Once Bitten (1,500', III/IV 5.10) begins in this obvious cleft on the lower right-hand portion of the southeast face.
Our route climbs flakes and cracks in and outside of the large chimney for three pitches of 5.10 to reach a spacious ledge on the northeast arête. From here, the route transitions onto the north face, climbing a spectacular 70m pitch (5.10) through an hourglass feature, linking more cracks and flakes to a belay in a scoop. The route trends generally right for three more long pitches, connecting intermittent systems with comfy belay ledges and generally good rock. The top of our sixth pitch brought us to a grassy ledge at the base of a large, V-shaped gully. We put the rope away and scrambled 200m or so of low-fifth-class terrain to the summit of Dogtooth Pinnacle.
From the top of the formation, an easy horizontal scramble brought us to the large alpine plateau below the true summit of Dog Tooth Peak. Like other climbers making ascents on nearby buttresses, we descended west down to Lizard Head Meadows and contoured back to our camp in the cirque proper.
On our last day in the cirque, we repeated the northwest buttress of the Monolith (1,600', IV 5.9, Beckey-Fuller, AAJ 1967), which we found to be a wild and engaging classic that in my opinion surpasses the nearby northeast buttress of Pingora in both quality and adventure.
Caption: Drew Smith sneaks in a sunset bouldering session in the talus beside Papoose Lake.
Caption: Andy Anderson engaging steep, featured rock on the high-quality "hourglass pitch" during the first ascent of Once Bitten (III/IV 5.10) on the Dogtooth Pinnacle.
Caption: Andy Anderson nearing the summit of the Dogtooth Pinnacle after the first ascent of Once Bitten (III/IV 5.10). Though only two miles from the popular Cirque of the Towers, Anderson and Smith saw no other climbers during a weeklong stay in the Monolith Cirque.
Caption: Andy Anderson jamming out the steep chimney system on pitch two of Once Bitten (III/IV 5.10) on the Dogtooth Pinnacle. He and Drew Smith completed this possible new route on August 3, during a weeklong stay in the Monolith Cirque.
Caption: The Dogtooth Pinnacle, showing the line of Once Bitten (III/IV 5.10). The 1,500' route is the first reported ascent on the formation.
Caption: Andy Anderson aiding out an aesthetic arcing splitter during he and Drew Smith's attempt on the Dogtooth Pinnacle's southeast face. The two were shut down a few pitches above by crumbly rock and dead-end cracks.
Caption: The east face of the Dog Tooth Peak massif, showing all known routes. (1) Dogtooth attempt (Anderson-Smith, 2017). (2) Once Bitten (III/IV 5.10, Anderson-Smith, 2017). (3) Infinite Jest (IV 5.11 C2, Barker-Daverin-Warren, 2016). (4) A-Frame Buttress (IV 5.9, Metcalf-Thuermer, 1977). The second buttress from the left experienced a major rockfall sometime in the '80s or '90s that obliterated the start of the buttress' original route, Wisdom Tooth (see AAJ 1981). Infinite Jest climbs new terrain down low and up high along a similar line (see AAJ 2017).The second buttress from the right is possibly unclimbed.


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Govt keen FY18 budget should not clash with polls: Jaitley
PTI12 Oct 2016 12:11 AM GMT
Having decided to advance the budget presentation, the government is keen that it is not presented in the middle of Assembly elections in five states, said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Assembly polls are due early next year in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur. "In principle, we have decided that we would like to... advance the date (of budget presentation)," he said.
The Cabinet on September 21 had in-principle decided to end the colonial-era tradition of presenting the Union budget on last day of February and advance it by about a month to help complete the legislative approval for the annual spending plans and tax proposals before beginning of the new financial year on April 1.
"The reason we wanted to advance the date was that we want the entire budgetary exercise to be over and the Finance Bill to be passed and implemented from April 1 onwards rather than June because then the monsoons set in and, effectively, the expenditures start in October," he told CNBC TV18.
Stating that the government wants expenditure to start in April itself, he said there are five state Assembly elections lined up in 2017. "So, we are just trying to co-ordinate that you do not have to announce the Budget bang in the middle of an election date. So, it should be reasonably before that or after that," he said.
The finance ministry had previously proposed that the Budget presentation be fixed for February 1and the entire exercise be completed by March 24.
It wanted the Budget Session of Parliament to begin before January 25 and go in for a three-week break between February 10 and 15 before reconvening between March 10 and 15 to complete the legislative exercise. But with Assembly elections in five states likely to be held in phases, there is a probability that this budget schedule may clash with the campaigning and the polling.
While tenure of Punjab, Manipur and Goa Assemblies is due to end on March 18, 2017, that of Uttarakhand is till March 26, 2017. Uttar Pradesh Assembly tenure expires on May 27.
The Cabinet had last month also decided to scrap the 92-year old practice of having a separate railway budget and merge it with the general budget.
As things stand, the budget approval process happens in two parts spilling over the second or third week of May, hampering early implementation of schemes and spending programmes. To facilitate early presentation of the budget, the finance ministry had proposed that the Budget Session be convened sometime before January 25, a month ahead of the current practice.
Consequently, preparation for the Budget would start this month and GDP estimates would be made available on January 7 instead of February 7.
FM' to address seminar on boosting investment flows
In the run up to the BRICS summit, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will on Thursday address a seminar, to be attended by experts from five member countries, on better international taxation procedure and global best practices to attract foreign investment.
The seminar titled 'BRICS-Investment Flows' would also discuss ways to boost foreign portfolio investments in the emerging economies and ways to tackle bilateral tax treaty abuse. Organised by the Department of Economic Affairs in Mumbai on October 13, the seminar would be attended by Secretary Shaktikanta Das and RBI officials, besides experts from BRICS nations, multilateral organisations, financial institutions and the corporate sector.
The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit will be held in Goa between October 15-16 and as a lead-up to that, India has initiated a number of events. India has been relaxing foreign direct investment norms in various sectors, including in civil aviation, retail and private security services. Net foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows have increased over the past three years, reaching record highs of $ 40 billion in 2015-16, from $ 31 billion in 2014-15. So far in the current fiscal, FPIs have invested Rs 53,399 crore in equity and debt instruments.


Open access 3D printing-based minimally invasive cannulated screw treatment of unstable pelvic fracture, Cai, L., Zhang, Y., Chen, C. et al. J Orthop Surg Res (2018) 13: 71.
Open reduction and internal fixation of pelvic fractures could restore the stability of the pelvic ring, but there were several problems. Minimally invasive closed reduction cannulated screw treatment of pelvic fractures has lots advantages. However, how to insert the cannulated screw safely and effectively to achieve a reliable fixation were still hard for orthopedist. Our aim was to explore the significance of 3D printing technology as a new method for minimally invasive cannulated screw treatment of unstable pelvic fracture.
One hundred thirty-seven patients with unstable pelvic fractures from 2014 to 2016 were retrospectively analyzed. Based on the usage of 3D printing technology for preoperative simulation surgery, they were assigned to 3D printing group (n = 65) and control group (n = 72), respectively. These two groups were assessed in terms of operative time, intraoperative fluoroscopy, postoperative reduction effect, fracture healing time, and follow-up function. The effect of 3D printing technology was evaluated through minimally invasive cannulated screw treatment.
There was no significant difference in these two groups with respect to general conditions, such as age, gender, fracture type, time from injury to operation, injury cause, and combined injury. Length of surgery and average number of fluoroscopies were statistically different for 3D printing group and the control group (p < 0.01), i.e., 58.6 vs. 72.3 min and 29.3 vs. 37 min, respectively. Using the Matta radiological scoring systems, the reduction was scored excellent in 21/65 cases (32.3%) and good in 30/65 cases (46.2%) for the 3D printing group, versus 22/72 cases (30.6%) scored as excellent and 36/72 cases (50%) as good for the control group. On the other hand, using the Majeed functional scoring criteria, there were 27/65 (41.5%) excellent and 26/65 (40%) good cases for the 3D printing group in comparison to 30/72 (41.7%) and 28/72 (38.9%) cases for the control group, respectively. This suggests no significant difference between these two groups about the function outcomes. Conclusion Full reduction and proper fixation of the pelvic ring and reconstruction of anatomical morphology are of great significance to patients' early functional exercise and for the reduction of long-term complications. This retrospective study has demonstrated the 3D printing technology as a potential approach for improving the diagnosis and treatment of pelvic fractures.


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WHEN police were called to the Leeds home Alex Skeel shared with his girlfriend Jordan Worth, they found him so badly abused that he was days away from death.
He had been starved, stabbed with a bread knife, blackened by hammer-inflicted bruising, burnt with a kettle full of boiling water – all at the hands of his girlfriend.
Alex, 22, tells his shocking story in full for the first time as part of a new BBC documentary Abused By My Girlfriend.
In it he reveals how on one occasion his girlfriend beat him so badly with a hairbrush that he was forced to rip out his own tooth because she wouldn't let him seek help.
In 2017 there were 149,248 incidents reported in England and Wales – double the number in 2012.
Here, he relives the horror.
Alex, a football coach, was 16 when he met Jordan – his first girlfriend – through friends in June 2012.
He was soon smitten but it wasn't long before her bizarre and controlling behaviour crept in.
"She used to say things like 'I don't really like the colour grey, I don't think you should wear the colour grey'," he says in the new BBC documentary.
"'Oh I don't like your hair like that, you should have your hair like this'.
Romantic bliss turned into constant arguments, during which time Jordan snapped Alex's SIM card in half and ruined his 18th birthday by picking a huge fight with the "beautiful" daughter of a family friend.
His friends warned him, "she's not good".
They broke up, but then she dropped the bombshell she was pregnant, and gave birth to their son in May 2014.
By January 2015, Jordan – who appeared to have changed with motherhood – had crept back into his life.
Jordan's true colours emerged once more when they moved in together in a village in Surrey in June 2015.
The mind games worsened. Jordan told Alex his beloved granddad was dead. He spent two hours sobbing before she said that she had lied.
On one occasion, during a trip to Winter Wonderland, Jordan forced Alex to consume an entire pack of sleeping pills – and he has no idea how he got home.
She also took away his wallet, wouldn't allow him to work, forced him to come to lectures with her at the University of Hertfordshire.
He wasn't allowed to eat, unless his girlfriend permitted it, existing only on scraps and losing three stone.
"My body started to shut down," he remembers.
After four years of mental abuse, the relationship turned violent – she whacked his shins and head with a hammer, struck his legs and hands with knives and poured boiling water on his arms and back as he slept.
She would find any weapon to hand, including a glass bottle, bits of wardrobe, a football pole snapped in half and even a hairbrush.
"We went out and everything seemed OK," he explains of a routine car journey when one attack took place.
He hoped that the arrival of baby daughter Iris in May 2017 would make the violence go away.
Alex needed hospital treatment that night, but Jordan wouldn't let him remain in for a much-needed operation.
"She had the bread knife on her and I tried to run off,"Alex says.
Police found a bloody scene, with Alex's wounds wrapped in a football sock.
The police took him to a safe place and bought him a McDonald's – the first proper meal he'd eaten in months.
When doctors checked him over, they said he only had 10 days to live, and that he was suffering from hydrocephalus – a build-up of fluid inside the skull – caused by the blunt objects hit at his head.
His girlfriend was immediately arrested on suspicion of assault, and she was subsequently charged and sentenced to seven years in jail.
"The day that she went to prison I felt so free," says Alex, who was reunited with his family and friends the day after her arrest, and who now has custody of their children.
Abused By My Girlfriend is available on BBC Three via iPlayer from 10am on Monday.
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After an impressive stint with the Double-A Binghamton Rumble Ponies, where he hit .273 with six homers and 36 RBIs in 84 games, the former Heisman-winning quarterback Tim Tebow has been promoted to Triple-A Syracuse. He's now just one step from fulfilling his lifelong dream of playing in Major League Baseball.
Tebow's season ended abruptly on July 24th when he suffered a broken hamate bone in his hand, which required surgery. That's all in the rearview now, as the newly hired New York Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen says Tebow is fully healthy and can begin the season in Syracuse.


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Henry Abramson (born 1963) is the dean of the Lander College of Arts and Sciences in Flatbush, New York. Before that, he served as the Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Services at Touro College's Miami branch (Touro College South). He is notable for his teachings on Jewish history and Judaism as a religion.

Biography
Henry Abramson was born and raised in Iroquois Falls, Ontario. He received his doctorate in History from the University of Toronto in 1995, studying under Professor Paul Robert Magocsi, earning the first PhD in Ukrainian-Jewish history awarded since the establishment of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies there.  His research was also supervised by Professor Michael Marrus and Professor Zvi Gitelman.

Abramson was named to the Shevchenko Scientific Society in 1999.

He was Assistant and later Associate Professor of History/Jewish Studies at Florida Atlantic University from 1996-2006 and during that time held appointments at a number of institutions including Oxford University, Cornell University, Harvard University, and Hebrew University. While teaching at Hebrew University, he simultaneously attended the class taught by Rabbi Mendel Weinbach at Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem. His study partners there included Rabbi Natan Gamedze. As Associate Professor and University Library Scholar of Judaica, he worked with the large collection of Yiddish materials in the Wimberly Library, and in this capacity he founded the Kultur Festival of Yiddish Culture in Boca Raton.

In 2006, Abramson moved to his position at Touro College South. Since 2015 he serves as Dean of the Avenue J campus of Touro College in Brooklyn, New York. He has since founded the Flatbush Society of Fellows, an honours program for students at the Avenue J campus of Touro College.

Effective from September 2018, he was named Dean and Chief Academic Officer of Machon L'Parnasa Institute for Professional Studies at Touro College. The responsibilities of this position include working with the College architects and construction teams in the design and construction of a new campus, the overhaul of existing associate degree programs and the creation of vocation-oriented academic programming. Abramson also gives a class on the Mesillat Yesharim at the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst, and an online Jewish History course for Landers college for men as well as for Lander College of Arts & Sciences. The online Jewish History course gives an extensive amount of articles, videos, and material covering various topics throughout Jewish history. Including topics such as the Spanish Expulsion, the Haskalah, and the Holocaust, Abramson's online Jewish History course allows his students to gain deeper insight and greater understanding of their roots and their ancestors' history.

Scholarship
Henry Abramson is largely known for his scholarship in Ukrainian Jewish history and antisemitic iconography. Abramson also was curator for an exhibit on the history of antisemitic iconography in Florida entitled "The Art of Hatred".

Abramson has also been a popularizer of Jewish thought, publishing a primer of Talmud and other works on the Jewish intellectual tradition. He is also known for his work on Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapiro, a Hasidic Rabbi active in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. In 2014, Abramson published "The Kabbalah of Forgiveness: The Thirteen Levels of Mercy", a translation of Tomer Devorah by Moses Cordovero ("Date Palm of Devorah").

Abramson is the author of the Jewish History in Daf Yomi podcast, a project of the Orthodox Union Daf Yomi Initiative. Since the Spring of 2019, he has been recording brief videos discussing historical aspects of the daily Talmud study program called Daf Yomi. The overall project will require over 2,700 videos over seven years of research.

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In Grade 2, students focus on a study of their local community by examining the impact of significant individuals and events on the history of the community as well as on the state and nation.
Students begin to develop the concepts of time and chronology by measuring calendar time by days, weeks, months, and years.
The relationship between the physical environment and human activities is introduced as are the concepts of consumers and producers.
Students identify functions of government as well as services provided by the local government.
Students continue to acquire knowledge of important customs, symbols, and celebrations that represent American beliefs and principles.
Students identify the significance of works of art in the local community and explain how technological innovations have changed transportation and communication.
Students communicate what they have learned in written, oral, and visual forms.
To support the teaching of the essential knowledge and skills, the use of a variety of rich material such as biographies; folktales, myths, and legends; and poetry, songs, and artworks is encouraged. Selections may include the legend of the bluebonnet. Motivating resources are also available from museums, historical sites, presidential libraries, and local and state preservation societies.
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I have a Windows 7 HP Elitebook 8460p notebook. I have the latest BIOS and drivers. I tried to upgrade to Windows 10 but received a warning that my Intel HD Graphics 3000 wasn't compatible with Win 10.
The HP and Intel sites do not have later Windows 7 drivers for the device, nor do they offer Windows 10 drivers for it.
I have found a Windows 10 driver at www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/ScopedViewInline.aspx?updateid=c7091b0c-cc7c-4c86-bfb3-0d8278bb1a07 and am wondering if I can install it on my WIndows 7 system before trying to upgrade to Windows 10 again.
I'm worried that I'll screw up the video in Windows 7. I'm also worried that if I try to force an update without have a compatible driver, I'll end up with Windows 10 with no video.
Installing a driver for 10 prior to installing 10 wouldn't work. This would not stop your system from saying it isn't compatible.
The Intel HD Graphics 3000 just isn't compatible with Windows 10.
The only way it 'might' (and this is a big might) is to connect an external monitor, boot the device and then see if you can install 10 with that monitor as your preferred.
If (a big if) it works, then you would be able to, after the install, set your system not to use the Intel HD Graphics 3000 and use your other GPU. Again, if it will allow it to work. I have seen it work on one computer and not work on another, so there is no guaranty of it working for you. Just so you know.
Thanks for your good advice, Titan.
Do you know if it's possible to replace the Intel HD Graphics 3000 with something that would be compatible with Windows 10, and what that would be? Although I have a pretty good understanding of Windows and drivers, my experience peters out at this point. Perhaps the graphics card is an integral part of the motherboard, in which case the cost of upgrade would be hugely prohibitive????????
You can't change the video chip, it's in the CPU and your laptop does not have an add-on slot for a replaceable video card.
You would have to install Win 10 then install the driver from the website. I have gotten the Intel HD drivers working on Windows 10 before. Not super simple but not too hard, you just need to manually point the hardware to use the downloaded driver. But for a non-IT person, sticking to the operating system the laptop came with is a good idea. Or at least have a backup of the setup so you can revert back if Win 10 has issues.
Thanks again. I think I'll give it a try. If I backup my system first, I should be able to return to it if things fall apart, I hope.
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Q: Hyperlink occurs empty space also for Centered text Using LuaLaTeX, I am getting hyperlink anchors in unwanted places, shown in the MWE (PDFLaTeX, XeLaTeX produces prompt output). I only want the actual text to function as an anchor, not the surrounding whitespace.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\begin{center}
{\href{www.google.com}{Text for Testingphase
onlyText for Testingphase onlyText for Testingphase onlyText for Testingphase
onlyText for Testingphase onlyText for Testingphase only}}
\end{center}

\end{document}

Output:

A: If you want to avoid that you must break the line manually and use a \href on every one. Personally I would avoid such a large link area completely, it is imho quite a nuisance if too large parts of a document are active.
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\begin{center}
\href{www.google.com}{Text for Testingphase
onlyText for Testingphase onlyText for Testingphase onlyText for Testingphase
onlyText for Testingphase onlyText for Testingphase only}

\bigskip

\href{www.google.com}{Text for Testingphase
onlyText for Testingphase onlyText for Testingphase}\\
\href{www.google.com}{onlyText for Testingphase
onlyText for Testingphase onlyText for}\\
\href{www.google.com}{Testingphase only}
\end{center}

\end{document}

A: This is highly experimental and might change, but you can try a package I'm working on for this:
Download this file and save it as lua-links.sty next to your document. Then load the lua-links package with the discard option:
\RequirePackage{pdfmanagement-testphase}
\DocumentMetadata{}
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[discard]{lua-links}

\begin{document}

\begin{center}
{\href{www.google.com}{Text for Testingphase
onlyText for Testingphase onlyText for Testingphase onlyText for Testingphase
onlyText for Testingphase onlyText for Testingphase only}}
\end{center}

\end{document}


This CYA Conference 2015 Masterclass was given by Morris Gleitzman, a well-known author of fiction for children. Born in England, he has spent most of his life in Australia. You can learn more about him from his website http://www.morrisgleitzman.com/ , Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Morris-Gleitzman-151048428269244/timeline/ and Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Gleitzman .
These rough notes are an edited summary of his Masterclass.
The good news is that the story has lasted millennia. Our human need for stories will continue.
We live in tension between curiosity and incorrect assumptions, and these two human traits fuel our need for stories.
Many years ago, an elderly screenwriter was my mentor and he taught that the most important thing was to 'Don't Tell. Show'.
If someone says, 'On my desk is a copy of the worst book ever written', our curiosity is engaged and the hint of a human problem is tantalizing.
Most surface assumptions we make about situations are incorrect.
A story satisfies these two strands of tension. To start a story journey we need that spark of curiosity to invite readers beneath the surface. But that is only the beginning of a storyteller's job.
We also want to empathize with the protagonist/s, to share in their emotions. Emotions are universal, and there is a fixed palette of them from which many mixed varieties may be used.
If a writer has done his/her job well, then emotions will be evoked in the reader, and an emotional connection made.
A story must have at least one character with at least one problem. Leave no stone unturned in finding solutions and obstacles.
Humans find problems endlessly fascinating, and yet strangely our top three missions in life are to be 'problem free'.
I like to write stories about characters facing big problems, but who don't get crushed by them. Some will just survive the problem, some will resist the problem, some will solve the problem or learn a way to live with the problem. The rule is: no matter how huge the problem, display the best behaviour of character.
Some stories don't have a complete solution, so they solve it by learning to live with the unsolvable or just survive the problem.
Think about a character with 2 problems that are mutually exclusive, so that they can only choose one to solve. For example: a character with the desire for his sibling to be cured of a terminal illness and a desire to be an only child again. A character like that is more interesting than one which has only one problem to solve.
Optimism is an important part of character, as is learning from mistakes.
Sometimes to solve a problem you need friends ('Misery Guts') or a bit of research ('Doubting Thomas').
Whenever there is an unsolvable problem a choice must be made, will it crush the character or let the character develop better?
When you write about the setting of your story, the trick is to find the balance between too much and too little exposition.
Make your author voice close to, but not the same as, your main character.
Do not delay any clue that a problem exists.
A story without a problem has no movement, no change, no options and no array of possible endings.
As soon as a problem exists, the exposition becomes easier to give – as long as the exposition is relevant.
Humour: I don't believe you can learn humour, it is something inbuilt. You can learn the techniques of humour, but that's about as far as it goes. Humour is worth experimenting with, to find out whether you have it or not. That's because people enjoy it, and it can also aid you in describing things quicker.
Character development: Up to a point a character will do what I think I would do. – unless I want them to have a particular experience or capacity for empathy. Sometimes I let them have a mistake or a moment of weakness.
Sometimes you have to let characters fail for their own good. All problems are opportunities for growth and development.
For me, character development is an intuitive thing. I do have a powerful sense of becoming friends with a main character, which often starts through their problems and their emotions.
My characters all have good hearts. It is very hard for me to write any other kind of character.
What doesn't work for me is creating a dossier for a character. Become comfortable with your own process.
I do outline my books, usually in 4 pages of text. But I let that outline be a map and not a done deal. Feel free to go off map anytime it feels right.
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Q: linux bridge vlan-aware and untagged traffic I have the following use case. A machine which runs VMs that have to be located to a VLAN with ID 166. The traffic must go out of an physical interface enp89s0 which is connected to the primary network non-tagged traffic. For such use cases in Linux a bridge helps to connect stuff together. The machine uses a Linux distro so I use netword to configure the network interfaces. Here my attempts:
br0.netdev
[NetDev]
Name=br0
Kind=bridge
[Bridge]
DefaultPVID=1
STP=no
VLANFiltering=yes

br0.network
[Match]
Name=br0
[Network]
VLAN=enp89s0
VLAN=eth166
[BridgeVLAN]
VLAN=1
[BridgeVLAN]
VLAN=166

I have considered that the default lan has VLAN=1.
The problem is that when I apply this configuration the enp89s0 interface loses IP addresses and get unreachable.
So my question here is how to have a bridge configured properly that deal with a VLAN and a network untagged.

A: when you place a physical interface to a bridge, you don't configure IP-related parameters on it anymore, the interface basically disappears. In a usual case, it is the bridge which will receive ip address/mask for that interface. In case of vlan-aware bridge, you configure a vlan interface on top of that bridge with the neecessary vid and ip/mask.


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What Business is Good for E-2 Visa?
by Romy Jurado | Apr 7, 2022 | Business, Immigration | 0 comments
One of the best options for foreign entrepreneurs who want to enter the United States legally to open a business, the E-2 visa is a temporary work visa option with requirements less strict than other similar visas, such as the EB-5 program.
Still, opening a business in the United States as a foreigner requires a strategic approach, especially when selecting the type of business enterprise one should choose.
In this article, you will have an updated list of the best business ideas for E-2 visa applicants.
Understanding the E-2 Treaty Investor Visa
As provided by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the E-2 visa is a nonimmigrant visa that permits a national of a treaty country to enter the United States legally upon investing a substantial amount of capital in a US business enterprise.
The term "treaty country" describes a country:
with which the United States maintains a treaty of commerce and navigation, or
with which the United States maintains a qualifying international agreement, or
which has been deemed a qualifying country by legislation
Therefore, the first step to identify whether someone may qualify for E-2 status is looking at the person's birth certificate, passport, or any other personal ID with citizenship information.
If the person was born in an E-2 country or has the nationality of a qualifying country, it is possible to qualify for E-2 status. Otherwise, if a person's home country is not on the list of E-2 treaty nations, that individual will need to become a citizen of a qualifying country to apply.
As an investment visa, the E-2 visa requires the investment of a substantial amount of capital in a US business enterprise.
While the USCIS does not establish a minimum required investment amount, determining whether an investment is sufficient to apply for an E-2 visa is the hardest requirement to meet.
As there is no fixed "price tag" on the E-2 visa, the minimum amount of investment varies according to the type of business the applicant will conduct in the United States.
What Business is Good for E-2 Visa? – Most Prominent Business Ideas
Undoubtedly, enjoying good food is one of America's specialties. In this regard, the state of Florida is one of the best places to own a gastronomy business in the United States, considering the massive influx of consumers and the ever-growing demand for fine eating experiences.
Therefore, the gastronomy business is an excellent option for E-2 investors – whether they may want to open a restaurant, a bakery, a cafe, a pub, or a bar.
The United States is one of the most dynamic and innovative markets in the global pet industry. Typically, people who love pets do not complain about investing significant amounts of money when purchasing products or services for them.
Hence, E-2 investors who are also pet-loving individuals must pay attention to the opportunities available in this profitable industry, especially the growing demand for veterinary service centers, canine hairdressers, pet walker companies, pet training centers, and pet supply stores.
Currently, the United States has a growing demand for housework specialists. As a consequence, E-2 companies offering professional housekeepers, gardening specialists, pool maintenance workers, and locksmiths have a great chance of succeeding in the world's largest economy.
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For every story of an old house falling victim to the elements or new development, there is a heartwarming story of a historic home saved. My son, who happens to be well on his road to Eagle Scout, pointed out a home in tiny Charlestown, Indiana that is being restored to its original glory–mostly by hand–thanks to the a few private businesses and the Boy Scouts Lincoln Heritage Council.
The 1811 John Work House is on the National Register of Historic Places, but in recent years had fallen into disrepair. It was abandoned in 2001 and was soon taken over by vandals. The home gained a reputation first as a ghost house, then as a party house. However, the house was built by hand with sturdy materials that survived the test, just as it had survived for two centuries.
The house is two stories tall, with four original rooms. There were fireplaces at the front of the house and a one-story kitchen at the back. An addition was built in the 1860s, followed by the addition of a two-car garage over one hundred years later.
Logsdon is handling the restoration with the help of friends and the occasional crew of Boy Scouts, who use the reservation on which the house sits. The initial vision is a five-year contract for restoration, followed by restoring the nearby mill and grounds. The project is currently six months ahead of schedule. And amazingly, most of it is being done by hand.
The restored home will be homage to the past. The two upper rooms will be turned into a research library and museum telling the story of the house. Already acquired for the museum is the Work family Bible, which was purchased at an auction by a neighbor in the years prior.
Want to follow the story? Here's the John Work House restoration blog.
In my travels I see so many old houses that are falling into disrepair. Each of them has a story to tell, and it saddens me that they might never be heard. Stories like that of the John Work House give me home that some of our most precious historic gems still have a chance to be saved.


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Over the past few years, fat biking has gone from being an obscure offshoot of cycling to become one of the hottest trends in outdoor adventure sports. For those unfamiliar with the term, fat biking involves riding a bike with very large, oversized tires that have the ability to easily roll over sand, snow, and other surfaces that would typically be impassable to normal bikes. This has naturally made it appealing to people who want to ride all year round or take their bikes to places that were generally inaccessible in the past.
The origin of fat biking can be traced back to places where snow covers the roads and trails for extended periods of the year, making it difficult to ride a normal bike. But the massive tires of a fat bike generally do very well in those conditions, so naturally, it is a great way to ride in those settings. If you're looking for amazing destinations to explore from the seat of a fat bike, we have some suggestions for places where you can do just that. Just be sure to dress warmly and pack your sense of adventure. You're going to need it.
Everyone knows Vermont is a great winter sports destination, with plenty of opportunities to go skiing, snowshoeing, and snowmobiling throughout the entire season. But the state is also a burgeoning winter fat bike haven too, with plenty of trails open to riders. For instance, the Kingdom Trails Association maintains more than 18 miles of trail just for use by fat bikers and snowshoers all season long, with some of its most scenic routes set aide for riders. The trails are clearly marked, and easy to follow, with designations that indicate what level of experience is recommended as well.
With more than 40 miles of trails (20 of which are groomed) open to the public, the Cayuna Lakes State Recreation Area in Minnesota is quickly developing into one of the best fat bike destinations in the U.S. The park has been specifically developed by the state government to provide outdoor recreation opportunities during the winter months, and as a result fat bikers are treated to some very scenic trails that are maintained all season long. The park is just one of six destinations throughout the state that are open for winter riding, making Minnesota a premiere destination for cold weather fat biking in general.
Well known as an epic mountain biking destination during the warmer months of the year, Crested Butte, Colorado is also growing into an amazing place to ride a fat bike during the winter too. The region has miles of open trails to explore, including some that are groomed and easily accessible right from town. Others, will take riders deep into the backcountry, where they'll find some of the most spectacular scenery that Colorado has to offer. The town even plays host to the Borealis Fat Bike World Championships, bringing the best riders in the world together in one place.
Wisconsin's CAMBA trail system features more than 300 miles of trails to explore across the spectacular Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. The routes have been designed, built, and maintained by a dedicated group of local riders who volunteer their time. In the winter, many of those trails make for spectacular fat bike riding too, with some sections being groomed specifically for riders. The routes are fantastic at any time of the year, but in the winter they are more secluded and empty, providing an excellent escape for adventure seekers.
Park City, Utah is definitely a winter playground for those who enjoy their cold weather sports. Over the past few years, it has also evolved into a great fat bike destination too, building on its reputation for excellent mountain biking in the summer. Head to Round Valley to gain free access to some of the best groomed trails in the region, but keep an eye out for others. This mix-use trail sees cross-country skiers and snowshoers regularly as well, and considering the epic scenery its easy to understand why.
Want to expand your fat biking riding to an international level? Quebec is an epic outdoor winter playground that is also quickly becoming one of the best destinations in the world to ride as well. Tops on the list is Mont-Sainte-Anne, a resort that offers every kind of winter activity imaginable, including fat biking. With more than 16 miles of trail to explore – many of which are fat bike only – it is a virtual paradise for riders. You'll find everything from smooth, groomed routes to cross-country mountain bike trails to test your skills on. Season passes can be had for $79, while day passes are a very affordable $12.
These destinations are a sample of great places to ride a fat bike during the winter. As the sport continues to grow in popularity, expect many more places to follow suite. In the meantime, get on your bike and ride!


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In this text, Gill Ringland focuses specifically on scenarios in public policy. She also looks at the similarities between organizations which have used scenarios successfully - such as the importance of communication via storyline and image.
In this practical and comprehensive guide Gill Ringland shows how scenario thinking can help public sector organizations think about uncertainty in a structured way and manage their own future. In use at Royal/Dutch Shell since the 1960s, scenario thinking is now widely accepted as a valuable method for making informed decisions. This book focuses on the use of scenarios for developing public policy, whether by engaging the public or for use within government. Drawing on a wealth of global examples Scenarios in Public Policy will provide managers at all levels with the knowledge, best practice guidelines and a practical toolkit to use scenarios in the public sector. It is worth remembering that everything possible today was at one time impossible, it therefore follows that everything impossible today may at sometime in the future be possible. But, most importantly, in the end the future is not something that happens to us. The future is what we do. This book is for anyone who realizes that the future will no longer replicate the past but is still struggling to come to terms with, and cope with, the uncertainties of the future.