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Members have included Clarence Fountain (born November 28, 1929, in Tyler, AL), George Scott, Olice Thomas, Johnny Fields, Samuel K. Lewis, Paul Exkano, George W. Warren, Percell Perkins, and Jimmy Carter. Addresses: Record company--Specialty/Fantasy Inc., 10th and Parker, Berkeley, CA 94710.
According to Jonathan Eig of the Dallas Morning News, singing gospel music in church might have become too easy for Clarence Fountain and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. Instead of preaching to the choir, this group takes its act to nightclubs, where they still have the power and style to win over mainstream audiences. As Fountain, the leader of the group, related in the San Jose Mercury News, "It's simple. The people in the church, they know already. We play to those who don't know. Jesus mingled with the sinners and the wine drinkers. My concept is that gospel must go into every phase of life. If God is in you, no matter where you are, you'll feel it. I'm sure."
However, the musical message delivered in secular venues is not quite the same as the impassioned testimonials and songs of joyful redemption that make up a typical Five Blind Boys performance. As Fountain explained in the San Diego Union, "When you're in a church, doing a gospel concert, you have an all-black audience. In a club, you have to manipulate your product to the best of your ability and mix it up, so it's not all gospel." They perform songs like "Steal Away," by Dobie Gray, and try to stick to gospel more than anything else, but they also try to sing tunes rearranged in their own style that are familiar to white audiences.
That style reminded Philip Elwood of the San Francisco Examiner of the opening of Jon Hendrick's "The Evolution of the Blues"--"It all began in the house of the Lord"--because the Five Blind Boys and their listeners are first and foremost moved by their religious faith. This is reflected in their music despite the popular elements, a tradition that can be traced back to the roots of gospel. Spirituals had become annotated and formalized by the end of the nineteenth century, and at that time, a new African-American vocal music called jubilee singing revitalized the stuffy sound. Later, gospel music represented the further modification of the spiritual as blues and jazz idioms were appropriated by musicians like the legendary Thomas A. Dorsey, who is often called the father of gospel music.
For over 50 years Clarence Fountain and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama have nurtured their music through "about 15 record companies ... and about 35 albums" as they have become known around the world for their pure, traditional sound. But as Fountain told the San Jose Mercury News, "Truthfully, I never thought about making a career out of this. We were just kids, and we went into this blind. We thought we could make it and just stuck it out." Fountain's parents were cotton farmers in Selma, Alabama. He was born in Tyler, Alabama, on November 28, 1929, and has been blind since the age of two. When he was seven, he was sent to live at the Talladega Institute for the Deaf and Blind near Birmingham, Alabama. He joined the school's choir, and within three years he and a group of friends had formed the Happyland Jubilee Singers.
According to Fountain, the first time they used the Five Blind Boys of Alabama title was in 1948, a year before their first big hit, "I Can See Everybody's Mother But Mine." The group was booked at a large show in Newark, New Jersey, along with the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, and their name change reflected a rivalry that was to endure for years to come. The group has had various members over the years, but Fountain, with his commanding presence and roughly sweet voice, and three others--George Scott, Jimmy Carter, and Johnny Fields-- date back to the Talladega days. Soon they became so successful that they were forced to leave school, in part because Talladega was reluctant to allow them to accept their many bookings away from campus.
Like the Dixie Hummingbirds and the Soul Stirrers, who spawned Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls, the Five Blind Boys took the combined elements of European choral singing and harmony, blues and jazz, and a syncopated rhythmic approach--what had become gospel--and connected with the same cultural desires that were to fuel the rise of rock and roll. In 1953, the Five Blind Boys were signed by Specialty Records. There they would do most of their classic work alongside other artists such as the Swan Silvertones, the Pilgrim Travelers, and Little Richard.
In 1991, Fantasy Records distributed the first set of remastered albums from the Specialty gospel archives, which included the Five Blind Boys' albums Oh Lord--Stand By Me and Marching up to Zion. According to Fountain in the San Jose Mercury News, the decision of Sam Cooke to leave the gospel fold for the secular music world "just tore up the entire gospel field. A lot of people began to wonder--including the Blind Boys. My feeling then and now is: If you turn your back on God, he'll turn his back on you. Cooke made a lot of money, but he's not around to enjoy it now, is he?"
Fountain claimed that it takes patience and time to develop as a gospel singer and become established. And, with the exception of a hiatus from the group from 1969 to 1975, when he worked as a solo artist, he has toured almost continuously with the Five Blind Boys. In the San Jose Mercury News, he estimated that the group works on the road 40 to 45 weeks each year, and he credits their longevity to discipline and clean living.
In 1983, playwrights Lee Breur and Bob Telson set out to reconfigure the Greek tragedy Oedipus at Colonus as an oratorio in which the choir, guest artists, and soloists reinterpret Oedipus's tragic redemption in the terms of Pentecostal Christian theology. Fountain stated in the San Jose Mercury News, "Originally they just wanted me, but I brought the Blind Boys and argued for the chorus concept (in which the entire group sings Oedipus' role)." The show became a surprise hit, The Gospel at Colonus, and enjoyed a Broadway run and a long touring life. This Obie-winning musical became one of the Five Blind Boys' most heralded projects, and Fountain considers it one of the high points of his career. In the Seattle Times he remarked, "I'd been away from the group a while then, but got it back together again for that. It really put us in the right perspective as far as the public notice, really got us the attention we deserve."
Although the opera exposed the group to new listeners and led to an appearance on PBS's Great Performances, it also brought on a brief split. Johnny Fields and George Scott sang throughout the Southeast using the original name, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama, while some of the group elected to tour with the show as Clarence Fountain and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. By 1989, the original group members reunited and began to take advantage of their newfound popularity. Their 1992 recording for Elektra, Deep River, was released as a part of the acclaimed American Explorer Series, and in 1993 Specialty Records released The Sermon, which featured remastered tracks recorded from 1952 to 1957.
In 1994 the Five Blind Boys of Alabama took part in a Richard Thompson tribute album, Beat the Retreat, on Capitol, singing with Bonnie Raitt. Their involvement with popular music might seem inevitable; Fountain's voice has been compared to that of the great Temptations vocalist David Ruffin by Jeff Pike in the Seattle Times. Pike admired both singers' ability "to deliver a quality of gruff, earthbound grit, which is nonetheless lifted to the heights by sheer, masterful poise.
But Fountain remains apart from rock and roll, even though he has sometimes said that the only difference between it and gospel is that he sings 'Lord' while others sing 'babe.'" Fountain clearly stated the group's policy in The Oregonian: "Our goal is to show people the reality in serving God. Everybody got a part of God in them whether they like it or not. God breathed the breath of life and created the living soul. That's the part we're trying to reach." And the Five Blind Boys, like many contemporary gospel singers, are willing to work with other musicians from other musical genres to reach that goal. As Fountain has said: "Sometimes jazz or rock musicians are not oriented to the gospel side. It's a different feel. We know when it's right and when it's wrong." And they usually get it right.
Group formed as the Happyland Jubilee Singers at the Talladega Institute for the Deaf and Blind; changed name to the Five Blind Boys of Alabama, 1948; signed with Specialty Records, 1953; Fountain toured as solo artist, 1969; group performed in the oratorio The Gospel at Colonus, 1983.
I'm a Changed Man, Wajji, 1989.
I'm Not That Way Anymore, Atlanta International, 1991.
Bridge Over Troubled Waters, HOB, 1992.
The Soul of Clarence Fountain and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama, HOB, 1993.
The Sermon (re-released tracks from 1952-57), Specialty, 1993.
Oh Lord Stand by Me, Specialty.
Original Blind Boys of Alabama, Savgos.
Contributors, with Bonnie Raitt, to Beat the Retreat, Capitol, 1994.
February 13, 2005: The Blind Boys of Alabama shared a Grammy Award for best traditional soul gospel album for There Will Be a Light with Ben Harper. Source: Grammys.com, www.grammys.com/awards/grammy/47winners, February 14, 2005.
March 9, 1915: Group member George Scott died on March 9, 2005, at his home in Durham, North Carolina, from complications of diabetes. He was 75. Source: New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/arts/music/12scott.html, March 14, 2005.
Heilbut, Anthony, The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times, Limelight Editions, 1985.
Periodicals Daily News (Los Angeles), February 15, 1993.
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Anti-CAA Stir: Queer Groups, Sex Workers Take Center Stage
The Hindu - New Delhi, India, 1/4/2020
Protesters from all genders, sexual and caste minorities along with other marginalised groups of migrants as well as sex workers gathered at Jantar Mantar on January 3, 2020 to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). The event was organised on the birth anniversary of social reformist Savitribai Phule, who is known as the first woman educationalist in India. As many as 45 different groups from a cross-section of society were present, including the All India Network of Sex Workers, Telangana Hijra Intersex Samiti, The Queer Muslim Project, Pink List, Trans Now Collective, Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students' Association (BAPSA), National Federation of Indian Women among others. The common refrain among these groups was that the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens will affect all minority groups.
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Daqahliya authorities have arrested 17 people over their involvement in an incident of mass sexual harassment in Egypt, after a video showing a mob of men surrounding a young woman in Mansoura on New Year's Eve was shared online. The video showed several dozen men pushing around the 20-year-old woman, and reignited a long-running controversy over rampant sexual harassment in Egypt. The woman had allegedly gone out with a female friend on New Year's Eve, when the group of young men crowded around her. Some male bystanders clashed with the harassers, trying to defend her until she eventually got physically trapped between the two camps. According to a 2013 UN study, 99 percent of women in Egypt have been subjected to some form of sexual harassment.
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Allahabad University Vice Chancellor Rattan Lal Hangloo, who had been facing allegations of mishandling cases of sexual misconduct and corruption, has resigned. Rekha Sharma, Chair of National Commission of Women, claimed that the Commission had sent a team to the campus recently that had found grave irregularities. She said, 'The team also spoke to women in the university and mishandling of sexual harassment cases was established.' Several complaints against Hangloo's style of functioning had been filed in the past as well. In one such case, the National Commission of Women (NCW) had made an 'adverse' against him. Hangloo however, said that he has 'always performed his duties in an honest manner' and 'stood up to pressure and interference'.
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October 07, 2017 Modern (1900-1945) | Billy the Kid
Aaron Copland finished composing his ballet suite about Billy the Kid in 1938. The music portrayed the Kid in a sympathetic light, and I suspect that had Copland composed it a dozen years earlier, he would have used a different musical style and presented an entirely different version of the Kid's story.
I say this, in part, because Copland had reinvented himself as composer during the decade after he left Paris and returned to America in 1924. After he finished his studies at the Fontainebleau School of Music, he came home determined to create music that was "as recognizably American as Mussorgsky and Stravinsky were Russian." He then embraced modernist dissonance and tone clusters, composing avant-garde music that seemed intentionally designed to provoke audiences. His music may have sounded "American," but it was music that would never find a wide — or let's say, "democratic" — audience.
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Not until 1936, when he composed El Salon Mexico, did Copland begin to develop the "populist" style for which he is so well known, a style that often incorporates the simplicity of folk songs.
The change in Copland's compositional style came partially from the social and political changes stemming from the Great Depression, as well as the rise of fascism in Europe. He wanted to expand his audience and create music that was accessible and inspirational. He wanted to give Americans a sense of ownership and pride in their nation's heritage. He wanted to help people feel good about being American.
Copland's change in philosophy should lead to an obvious question: If he was so determined to celebrate what was good about America, why did he choose to compose music about an outlaw like Billy the Kid?
To answer that question we must begin by understanding that music and art are a product of the time in which they are produced. Copland's version of Billy the Kid, in many ways, was nothing more than a product of its time.
Billy the Kid (1859-1881)
At the time Billy the Kid was shot dead by Pat Garrett in 1881 (over fifty years before Copland's ballet), he was portrayed by the media as a black-hearted villain and cold-hearted killer. The Kid represented anarchy and lawlessness and throughout the late 1800s became a symbol for everything wrong with the American West. After he was killed, one newspaper even referred to him as the "devil's meat." By the early 1900s, the Kid began to disappear from American media and history books, having become a character from the past who Americans wanted to ignore and forget.
Then, in 1926, a Chicago journalist named Walter Noble Burns published The Saga of Billy the Kid. Burns had visited New Mexico and heard firsthand accounts of the Kid that changed his view of the boy outlaw. Burns interviewed people who had known the Kid and used those interviews to write a book that was eventually listed as a main selection of the Book of the Month Club. In short, Burns had written a bestseller that resurrected and redefined the Kid in popular culture.
In The Saga of Billy the Kid, Burns portrayed the Kid as a young boy fighting against a powerful and corrupt political machine. According to Burns, the Kid was a noble and charming champion of the oppressed. The Kid may have been a violent young man, but his actions were justified, and he personified a type of individualism that was disappearing in America. All told, Burns created a hero for an America that felt betrayed by the financial corruption of the 1920s and economic depression of the 1930s.
During the 1930s, the Kid was at the height of his popularity as a hero in popular culture. In 1930, MGM made a movie titled Billy the Kid that showed the young outlaw fighting for the powerless and downtrodden, a heroic character at war with villainous bankers and big landowners. Preview audiences for the film reacted so negatively to the Kid's death at the end of the film that MGM was forced to create a new ending, showing Pat Garrett shooting at the Kid and intentionally missing. The Kid then fled on horseback across the border into Mexico.
As for Aaron Copland's Billy the Kid, the music did nothing more than conform to the popular image of Billy the Kid that was widespread during the 1930s. Had Copland composed Billy the Kid in 1925 it might have been a dissonant portrayal of a villainous desperado. The version composed in 1938, however, provided a folksy depiction of a young boy who was muy simpático.
Today, Copland's Billy the Kid can be heard as a timeless piece of music, a composition that represents much more than a milestone in Copland's evolving compositional style. It is also much more than an artifact of the 1930s. Despite the changes that are sure to come in how music is composed or how Billy the Kid is portrayed in popular culture, Copland's Billy the Kid will remain an emotional and romantic portrait of an American icon.
Giancarlo Guerrero conducting the National Youth Orchestra of the USA
0:26 Part 1 — The story begins with Sheriff Pat Garrett leading pioneers westward across the open prairie.
3:38 Part 2 — The story shifts to Silver City, NM, a small frontier town where the young wide-eyed and innocent Billy lives with his mother. Toward the end of this section Billy's mother is killed by a stray bullet during a gunfight (9:44). Billy then kills the man responsible for his mother's death and goes on the run, living the life of an outlaw.
9:42 Part 3 — The scene shifts to several years in the future. Billy is an outlaw living in the desert, playing cards with his companions at night. The solo trumpet (11:57) portrays the Kid as a lonely character.
13:17 Part 4 — Billy finds himself in a gunfight with a posse charged with arresting him. Billy is captured and taken to jail.
15:11 Part 5 — People celebrate the capture of Billy the Kid. During the celebration, the Kid kills two guards (18:30) and escapes from jail.
17:26 Part 6 — Billy, alone on the prairie, is hunted by Pat Garrett and shot dead.
18:46 Part 7 — The opening theme returns with Sheriff Pat Garrett leading pioneers westward across the open prairie.
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El Premio Naismith al Mejor Jugador Defensivo del Año (en inglés, Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Award) es un premio entregado por el Atlanta Tipoff Club al mejor jugador defensivo del año de baloncesto universitario tanto masculino y femenino de la División I de la NCAA. Comenzó a celebrarse en 2018. Se entrega en honor a James Naismith, el inventor del baloncesto.

Ganadores

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Jugador Defensivo del Año de la NABC
Premio Lefty Driesell

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It's hard enough for UK-born businesses to understand the employee benefits and health insurance marketplace. So, spare a thought for Teamwork Commerce, a US company opening offices in the UK.
They came to Hooray Health & Protection looking for help in navigating an industry which works rather differently over here.
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As the company expanded into the UK, it needed an employee benefits package suitable for a small (but growing) business.
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One of their priorities was health coverage. In the US, it's common practice for companies to provide healthcare benefits for their employees. As such, providing health and wellbeing support to their employees was already embedded into their company culture. They wanted to continue that proud tradition in the UK.
Like any business – big or small – they wanted a good level of coverage to ensure Teamwork Commerce would be a desirable place to work for UK talent and that they would be adequately covered in the UK healthcare system.
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In conversations with Hooray, it became clear they needed:
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Маргарита родилась в Хаддингтон, Ист-Лотиан, и была первым ребёнком королевской пары. Она была старшей сестрой короля Шотландии Александра II.

Её отец сражался с королём Англии Генрихом II и его младшим сыном Иоанном Безземельным. В результате в 1209 году Вильгельм был вынужден отправить Маргариту и её младшую сестру Изабеллу в Англию в качестве заложников; они были заключены в замке Корф вместе с Элеонорой Бретонской, которая, чтобы не дать ей претендовать на английский трон, находилась под домашним арестом. В июне 1213 года Иоанн отправил трём благородным дамам в платья зелёного цвета, плащи с отделкой из овчины и летние туфельки. Дамам иногда разрешалось выезжать под строжайшей охраной.

19 июня 1221 года Маргарита вышла замуж за Хьюберта де Бурга. Во время их брака Хьюберт фактически был регентом Англии, поскольку Генрих III был слишком юн, чтобы самому выполнять обязанности короля. Генрих III достиг совершеннолетия в 1227 году, и Хьюберт ушёл с поста регента. Он был удостоен звания графа Кента и оставался одним из самых влиятельных людей при дворе.

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 Маргарита (Маготта) де Бург (1223 — ноябрь 1237); муж — Ричард де Клер, детей не было.

Она пережила своего мужа на шестнадцать лет и умерла в 1259 году. Она была похоронена в доминиканской церкви в Лондоне.

От рождения и до смерти Маргарита, возможно, была либо первым, либо вторым наследником престола Шотландии, как один из немногих живых и законных потомков Вильгельма I. Однако когнатическая примогенитура ещё не была принята в Шотландии и более отдалённые родственники вполне могли претендовать на престол, что и привело к наследственному кризису 1290—1292 годов.

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Chapter 1 outlines how you can address some of the most common requirements in enterprise applications by adopting a loosely coupled design to minimize the dependencies between the different parts of your application. However, if a class does not directly instantiate the other objects that it needs, some other class or component must take on this responsibility. In this chapter, you'll see some alternative patterns that you can use to manage how objects are instantiated in your application before focusing specifically on dependency injection as the mechanism to use in enterprise applications.
Factories, service locators, and dependency injection are all approaches you can take to move the responsibility for instantiating and managing objects on behalf of other client objects. In this section, you'll see how you can use them with the same example you saw in the previous chapter. You'll also see the pros and cons of the different approaches and see why dependency injection can be particularly useful in enterprise applications.
There are three common factory patterns. The Factory Method and Abstract Factory patterns from "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by Gamma, Erich, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides. Addison Wesley Professional, 1994., and the Simple Factory pattern.
The following code samples show how you could apply the factory method pattern to the example shown in the previous chapter. The first code sample shows how you could use a factory method to return an instance of the TenantStore class to use in the ManagementController class. In this example, the CreateTenantStore method is the factory method that creates the TenantStore instance and the Index method uses this instance as part of its logic.
Using this approach does not remove the dependencies the ManagementController has on the TenantStore class, nor the FilesContainer and EntitiesContainer classes. However, it is now possible to replace the underlying storage mechanism without changing the existing ManagementController class as the following code sample shows.
The factory method pattern enables you to modify the behavior of a class without modifying the class itself by using inheritance.
The application can use the SQLManagementController class to use a SQL-based store without you needing to make any changes to the original ManagementController class. This approach results in a flexible and extensible design and implements the open/closed principle described in the previous chapter. However, it does not result in a maintainable solution because all the client classes that use the TenantStore class are still responsible for instantiating TenantStore instances correctly and consistently.
It is also still difficult to test the ManagementController class because it depends on the TenantStore type, which in turn is tied to specific storage types (FilesContainer and EntitiesContainer). One approach to testing would be to create a MockManagementController type that derives from ManagementController and that uses a mock storage implementation to return test data: in other words you must create two mock types to manage the testing.
In this example, there is an additional complication because of the way thatASP.NETMVC locates controllers and views based on a naming convention:you must also update the MVC routes to ensure that MVC uses the new SQLManagementController class.
While the factory method pattern does not remove the dependencies from the high-level client class, such as the ManagementController class, on the low-level class, you can achieve this with the simple factory pattern. In this example, you can see that a new factory class named TenantStoreFactory is now responsible for creating the TenantStore instance on behalf of the ManagementController class.
The simple factory pattern removes the direct dependency of the ManagementController class on a specific store implementation. Instead of including the code needed to build a TenantStore instance directly, the controller class now relies on the TenantStoreFactory class to create the instance on its behalf.
This approach removes much of the complexity from the high-level ManagementController class, although in this example the ManagementController class is still responsible for selecting the specific type of tenant store to use. You could easily move this logic into the factory class that could read a configuration setting to determine whether to create a BlobTenantStore instance or a SQLTenantStoreInstance. Making the factory class responsible for selecting the specific type to create makes it easier to apply a consistent approach throughout the application.
One of the problems that can arise from using the simple factory pattern in a large application is that it can be difficult to maintain consistency. For example, the application may include multiple store classes such as SurveyStore, LogoStore, and ReportStore classes in addition to the TenantStore class you've seen in the examples so far. You may have a requirement to use a particular type of storage for all of the stores. Therefore, you could implement a BlobStoreFactory abstract factory class that can create multiple blob-based stores, and a SQLStoreFactory abstract factory class that can create multiple SQL based stores.
The abstract factory pattern is useful if you have a requirement to create families of related objects in a consistent way.
The abstract factory pattern is described in "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by Gamma, et al.
Using a service locator provides another variation to this general approach of using another class to create objects on your behalf. You can think of a service locator as a registry that you can look up an instance of an object or service that another class in your application created and registered with the service locator. The service locator might support querying for objects by a string key or by interface type. Often, in contrast to the factory patterns where the factory creates the object but gives responsibility for managing its lifetime to the client class, the service locator is responsible for managing the lifetime of the object and simply returns a reference to the client. Also, factories are typically responsible for creating instances of specific types or families of types as in the case of the abstract factory pattern, while a service locator may be capable of returning a reference to an object of any type in the application.
The section "Object Lifetime" later in this chapter discusses object lifetimes in more detail.
Any classes that retrieve object references or service references from the service locator will have a dependency on the service locator itself.
When using a service locator, every class will have a dependency on your service locator. This is not the case with dependency injection.
For a description of the service locator pattern, see the section "Using a Service Locator" in the article "Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern" by Martin Fowler.
For a discussion of why the service locator may be considered an anti-pattern, see the blog post "Service Locator is an Anti-Pattern" by Mark Seeman.
For a shared interface for service location that application and framework developers can reference, see the Common Service Locator library . The library provides an abstraction over dependency injection containers and service locators. Using the library allows an application to indirectly access the capabilities without relying on hard references.
A common feature of the all the factory patterns and the service locator pattern, is that it is still the high-level client object's responsibility to resolve its own dependencies by requesting the specific instances of the types that it needs. They each adopt a pull model of varying degrees of sophistication, assigning various responsibilities to the factory or service locator. The pull model also means that the high-level client class has a dependency on the class that is responsible for creating or locating the object it wants to use. This also means that the dependencies of the high-level client classes are hidden inside of those classes rather specified in a single location, making them harder to test.
Figure 1 shows the dependencies in the simple factory pattern where the factory instantiates a TenantStore object on behalf of the ManagementController class.
Dependency injection takes the opposite approach, adopting a push model in place of the pull model. Inversion of Control is a term that's often used to describe this push model and dependency injection is one specific implementation of the inversion of control technique.
With dependency injection, another class is responsible for injecting (pushing) the dependencies into the high-level client classes, such as the ManagementController class, at runtime. The following code sample shows what the high-level ManagementController class looks like if you decide to use dependency injection.
As you can see in this sample, the ManagementController constructor receives an ITenantStore instance as a parameter, injected by some other class. The only dependency in the ManagementContoller class is on the interface type. This is better because it doesn't have any knowledge of the class or component that is responsible for instantiating the ITenantStore object.
In Figure 2, the class that is responsible for instantiating the TenantStore object and inserting it into the ManagementController class is called the DependencyInjectionContainer class.
Chapter 3, "Dependency Injection with Unity," will describe in more detail what happens in the DependencyInjectionContainer class.
The key difference between the Figure 1 and Figure 2 is the direction of the dependency from the ManagementController class. In Figure 2, the only dependency the ManagementController class has is on the ITenantStore interface.
In Figure 2, the DependencyInjectionContainer class may manage the dependencies of multiple high level client classes such as the ManagementController class on multiple service classes such as the TenantStore class.
You can use either a dependency injection container or implement dependency injection manually using factories. As you'll see in the next chapter, using a container is easier and provides additional capabilities such as lifetime management, interception, and registration by convention.
So far in this chapter, you have seen how dependency injection can simplify classes such as the ManagementController class and minimize the number of dependencies between classes in your application. The previous chapter explained some of the benefits of this approach, such as maintainability and testability, and showed how this approach relates to the SOLID principles of object-oriented programming. You will now see how this might work in practice: in particular, how and where you might use dependency injection in your own applications.
If you adopt the dependency injection approach, you will have many classes in your application that require some other class or component to pass the necessary dependencies into their constructors or methods as parameters or as property values before you can use them. This implies that your application requires a class or component that is responsible for instantiating all the required objects and passing them into the correct constructors, methods, and properties: your application must know how to compose its object graph before it can perform any work. This must happen very early in the application's lifecycle: for example, in the Main method of a console application, in the Global.asax in a web application, in a role's OnStart method in a Windows Azure application, or in the initialization code for a test method.
Typically, you should place all the code tells the application how to build its object graph in a single location; this is known as the Composition Root pattern. This makes it much easier to maintain and update the application.
You should determine when to create the objects in your application based on criteria such as which object is responsible for managing the state, is the object shared, and how long the object will live for. Creating an object always takes a finite amount of time that is determined by the object's size and complexity, and once you have created an object, it occupies some of your system's memory.
Whichever way you create an object, there is always a trade-off between performance and resource utilization when you decide where to instantiate it.
In the example, you've seen in this chapter, there is a single ManagementController client class that uses an implementation of the ITenantStore interface. In a real application, there may be many other client classes that all need ITenantStore instances. Depending on the specific requirements and structure of your application, you might want each client class to have its own ITenantStore object, or have all the client classes share the same ITenantStore instance, or for different groups of client classes each have their own ITenantStore instance.
If every client object has its own ITenantStore instance, then the ITenantStore instance can be garbage collected along with the client object. If multiple client objects share an ITenantStore instance, then the class or component that instantiates the shared ITenantStore object must responsible for tidying it up when all the clients are finished with it.
Typically, when you instantiate an object you invoke a class constructor and pass any values that the object needs as parameters to the constructor. In the example that you saw earlier in this chapter, the constructor in the ManagementController class expects to receive an object that implements the ITenantStore interface. This is an example of constructor injection and is the type of injection you will use most often. There are other types of injection such as property setter injection and method call injection, but they are less commonly used.
As an alternative or in addition to passing a parameter to a constructor, you may want to set a property value when you instantiate an object in your application. The following code sample shows part of a class named AzureTable in an application that uses property injection to set the value of the ReadWriteStrategy property when it instantiates AzureTable object.
Notice that the constructors are not responsible for setting the read/write strategy and that the type of the ReadWriteStrategy property is an interface type. You can use property setter injection to provide an instance of the IAzureTableRWStrategy type when your dependency injection container constructs an instance of AzureTable<T>.
You should only use property setter injection if the class has a usable default value for the property. While you cannot forget to call a constructor, you can forget to set a property such as the ReadWriteStrategy property in the example above.
You should use property setter injection when the dependency is optional. However don't use property setter injection as a technique to avoid polluting your constructor with multiple dependencies; too many dependencies might be an indicator of poor design because it is placing too much responsibility in a single class. See the single responsibility principle discussed in Chapter 1.
In a similar way to using property setter injection, you might want to invoke a method when the application instantiates an object to perform some initialization that is not convenient to perform in a constructor. The following code sample shows part of a class named MessageQueue in an application that uses method injection to initialize the object.
In this example, the Initialize method has one concrete parameter type and one interface parameter type. You can use method injection to provide an instance of the IRetryPolicyFactory type when your dependency injection container constructs an instance of MessageQueue<T>.
Method call injection is useful when you want to provide some additional information about the context that the object is being used in that can't be passed in as a constructor parameter.
Both property setter and method injection may be useful when you need to support legacy code that uses properties and methods to configure instances.
Dependency injection is not a silver bullet. There are reasons for not using it in your application, some of which are summarized in this section.
Dependency injection can be overkill in a small application, introducing additional complexity and requirements that are not appropriate or useful.
In a large application, it can make it harder to understand the code and what is going on because things happen in other places that you can't immediately see, and yet they can fundamentally affect the bit of code you are trying to read. There are also the practical difficulties of browsing code like trying to find out what a typical implementation of the ITenantStore interface actually does. This is particularly relevant to junior developers and developers who are new to the code base or new to dependency injection.
You need to carefully consider if and how to introduce dependency injection into a legacy application that was not built with inversion of control in mind. Dependency injection promotes a specific style of layering and decoupling in a system that may pose challenges if you try to adapt an existing application, especially with an inexperienced team.
Dependency injection is far less important in functional as opposed to object-oriented programming. Functional programming is becoming a more common approach when testability, fault recovery, and parallelism are key requirements.
Type registration and resolving do incur a runtime penalty: very negligible for resolving, but more so for registration. However, the registration should only happen once.
Programming languages shape the way we think and the way we code. For a good exploration of the topic of dependency injection when the functional programming model is applied, see the article "Dependency Injection Without the Gymnastics" by Tony Morris.
What are the downsides to using Dependency Injection? On StackOverflow.
In this chapter, you've seen how dependency injection differs from patterns such as the factory patterns and the service locator pattern by adopting a push model, whereby some other class or component is responsible for instantiating the dependencies and injecting them into your object's constructor, properties, or methods. This other class or component is now responsible for composing the application by building the complete object graph, and in some cases it will also be responsible for managing the lifetime of the objects that it creates. In the next chapter, you'll see how you can use the Unity container to manage the instantiation of dependent objects and their lifetime.


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oh that contemptuous defense!
As expected, Judge Belvin Perry who is presiding over the Casey Anthony case, DENIED the Defense motion, written by Cheney Mason, requesting the court vacate the sanctions and the civil contempt charge against Jose Baez.
Surprise! There was never a finding of contempt! Cheney Mason made that part up!
Perhaps Mr. Mason just felt that since Jose Baez's refusal to follow the Florida Rules of Discovery was so blatantly obvious, egregious and outrageous, that he assumed Baez's actions rose to the level of contempt?
Now, this has been a bone of contention with me because I watched the film of that hearing three times to try to find where Judge Perry charged contempt because I didn't think it was ever brought up in court. I was sure that the Court had not issued a finding of contempt, but I second-guessed myself since Cheney was in the courtroom, and he should know! He was arguing for Baez!! So, it stood to reason that he'd know if there were a contempt charge or not.
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In today's motion Judge Perry clearly points out that he told the defense they could argue the AMOUNT of the fine assessed against him. He also points out, that the record will reflect there was NO finding of contempt!
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Instead, counsel argues a determination of civil contempt is unnecessary to ensure compliance with the Court's order regarding discovery. However, as the record will clearly reflect, the Court did not hold counsel in contempt.
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You may remember that Baez claimed that one of his employees, an attorney by the name of William Slabaough, got stuck in traffic which caused Baez's court filing to be late. However, this "excuse" was never mentioned by anyone at the time of the hearing on the matter. It was only in Cheney's motion to vacate that this came up.
Judge Perry addresses this situation as a footnote in his motion.
Is Judge Perry suggesting that something is not adding up here since this important fact was never brought up in court? I'd love to know what you think:
Counsel now details efforts to fax approximately 300 pages, which the Clerk's office declined, as well as attorney William Slabaough's trek through rush hour traffic to file these pages, only to reach the courthouse after closing time on the date the information was due. Counsel did not previously offer the information set forth in page six of the instant Motion for Reconsideration. Regardless, counsel was directed to provide "a statement of the specific subjects upon which the expert will testify and offer opinions; the substance of the facts to which the expert is expected to testify; and a summary of the expert's opinions and the ground for each opinion." Dropping 300 pages of documentation into the court file cannot reasonably be interpreted to comply with this direction.
In short, with his response to the Defense, Judge Perry makes it absolutely clear that Baez willfully violated the Courts very specific order.
I would be walking on eggshells about now if I were Baez.
I predict, if Baez continues to contemptuously ignore the Rules of Discovery, contempt charges will be in the picture. And that is not a pretty picture.
Here is Judge Perry's order denying the motion.


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One Firestorm requires 4 units of Elerium for refueling. When refueling, the Firestorm receives 25% more fuel (i.e., 1 Elerium) every half hour, on the half hour. So it can take up to two hours to refuel, and will be finished fueling precisely on the turn of a half hour.
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Firestorms are repaired at the rate of 1 HP per hour(4.8% per day), and this is updated on an hourly basis. Service is done in this order: Repairs, refueling, rearming. If you transfer a Firestorm between bases, it will still need refuelling and rearming when it arrives even though 12+ hours have passed (if it needed them before it left). Presumably, your maintenance personnel are hesitant to inject explosives or a highly volatile, poorly-understood alien fuel into a damaged fighter.
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Robotics is a field that encompasses a lot of different skill sets — to make a great bot you need to work with mechanical engineering, electronics, and programming. This can be quite a task for a team, let alone a single developer trying to make his or her own concept come to life. One way to make your development processes easier is to start with a board that is designed to help you build a robot. Any microcontroller can be a start, but having a board that has built-in features like motor controllers and sensors can get your bot rolling, walking, or wiggling with less development time.
Check out our reviews for the Beaglebone Blue and the NVIDIA Jetson TX2.
While any board on the market — especially some of the venerable classics — is going to be a learning experience, these two boards have a step up on the game. When picking educational boards, we looked at the curriculum and guides available for the platforms, along with how they could be best used in an educational setting. If you are a teacher, we think these have something to offer you and your students.
Read the reviews for the Arduino 101 and the BBC Micro:bit.
money. Our IoT picks both come with wireless connectivity that will help you create your own platform or put your device on an existing one.
Our top picks for IoT boards are the Raspberry Pi Zero W and the Adafruit Feather Huzzah.
Wearables, art installations, and other creative projects all come with their own challenges. Boards with unique features out of the box can bring useful solutions to these types of endeavors. Boards that also offer well-documented libraries for these features save the user programming time, which can be even more important. Our art board picks have sensors and outputs that help make interesting projects easy and fun, and that make programming with them as simple as possible.
For art boards, we like the Adafruit Circuit Playground and the Sparkfun Microview.


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Hominids
© 2003 Robert Sawyer
"You manage to comfortably feed six billion people with plants?"
"Well, ah, no," said Mary. "About half a billion people don't have enough to eat."
"That is very bad," said Ponter, simply.
Why did humans kill off the Neanderthals? Nobody likes a scold. Researchers studying neutrinos are startled when a Neanderthal suddenly appears in the bowels of their laboratory, though not as surprised as he, who materialized into a tank of heavy water while conducting some quantum research of his own. Quantum research? Yes, this Neanderthal is no time-traveling caveman. He's a scientist from a parallel world, one in which Homo sapiens is extinct and Neanderthals are the dominant species — and what they've accomplished puts humanity to shame. Hominids is the beginning of an intriguing yet maddening SF trilogy that I can't help but wonder at even as I wince.
Sawyer uses a small group of viewpoint characters to tell a fast story. Two scientists in our world are responsible for taking care of their interspatial colleague "Ponter", who has no idea what's has no idea what's happened to him and finds himself in a world that is utterly alien, yet mockingly familiar in terms of geography. He knows the landscape: it is his home, and yet these are not his people. Across the divide, one of Ponter's coworkers is desperate to find out what happened to him, as in the wake of Ponter's disappearances, the assumption is that he has been murdered…and the coworker is the only plausible suspect. Sawyer uses the two Neanderthal men to explore the differences between the societies that Sapiens and Neanderthalensis have created. Although the story itself has little dramas — the trial, Ponter's attempts to communicate, the question of how his displacement occurred — anthropology carries the day, along with mystic physics and sketchy musings on consciousness.
By our standards, the Neanderthals have created a utopia wherein poverty, hunger, and crime are unknown, and technology is highly advanced even though the population is smaller and more widely dispersed. A global population of 185 million people is sustained on a diet of meat and fruit, and the only species human beings have driven extinct are themselves — Sapiens, are extinct on that world, and viewed as stupidly violent by Neanderthal anthropologists. Neanderthals live close to the Earth; literally, their beds are flush with the ground, and they use moss as their flooring. Their ways seem ancient, at times — a council of elders, called the Grays, are the leaders, and men and women live apart in separate groups for most of the month — but are also inseperable from modern technology. Therein lies a darker side to the utopia: violent crime isn't an issue because violent offenders are castrated or sterilized, as are whichever members of their family share 50% of their DNA. Even those who carry an impulse toward violence are careful to keep it in check, because the odds of their being discovered are nearly perfect: all Neanderthals carry an implant which records everything they do (rather like the implants in The Final Cut, with Robin Williams) onto a data cube.
The novel puts forth a lot of interesting ideas, ideas which come from scholarly sources but are unlikely to find as broad an audience as an exciting novel might find. Because Ponter's people never embraced agriculture, nor domesticated the attendant animals, they and he are not susceptible to diseases that were born in livestock and later spread to humans through close association. Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel made the same point about native Americans: because they didn't use cattle, horses, and pigs, they were never exposed their diseases until Europeans arrived in the Americas, pestilence in tow. Unfortunately, these ideas are presented with all the subtlety of a club to the head. The Mary-Sue esque lead character of Earth's Children, Aayla, was a Sapiens woman raised by Neanderthals: she could do everything, perfectly, the first time. Little wonder: she must have been raised by Sawyer's Neanderthals, because they're just so gosh-darned wonderful. Ponter spends most of his time slack-jawed, not because he's ignorant, but because he's bewildered by the actions of people — people, with their smelly internal combustion engines, and their violent crime, and their patent failure to embrace birth control, and their gods and taboos. (Neanderthals are not only nonreligious, they've never had anything like religion and are utterly baffled by it. Their every measurement system is based on tens, with no religious calendars to bother with, so they're a bit like beefy French revolutionaries.)
I tend to agree with the author on the merits of his Neanderthals, but they're so overplayed and the Sapiens are so ridiculously weak that the constant preaching becomes obnoxious. Yes, I get it. Humans are terrible. But we have spunk! Sawyer's humans don't. When Ponter wanders and finds a Catholic character following the Mass on TV, he stands jaw agape at what she's doing, and later schools Mary on why she's irrational. And incredibly, Mary marvels at what a fool she's been her entire life. She's like a character from a Chick tract, and not any more believable. With the exception of one Neanderthal, most of the characters are sock puppets used to put forth arguments that lose interest when one realizes there's no tension in them: there's never a chance that the humans won't go "Gosh, we're so dumb." And the one time that humans do something that impresses Ponter — going to the Moon, which he's just flabbergasted by — he loses interest upon learning we did it once, decades ago, and for the trivial reason of proving the worth of economic systems. But he tries hard to make his new human companions think he's still impressed, sounding for all the world like a parent presented with a crayola drawing of a box with legs from their child and marveling at it as though it's a masterwork.
I like that Sawyer overturns expectations by having his Neanderthals be more intelligent than Sapiens: unfortunately, the expression thereof is just unbelievable. Even beyond the characters, his society itself strains credulity. How exactly did the Neanderthals build an advanced world society without agriculture? What is its material basis, considering how many resources it takes to sustain scientific enterprises in the 21st century? The Neanderthals don't use fossil fuels, so how on Earth did they go from hunter-gathers to the scientific and industrial revolutions? They use solar power, fine — but what power did they use to produce the materials that solar plants need? I'm sort of hoping that the next book, Humans, or the third, Hybrids, will answer those questions…which is why, even though the series off to a problematic start, I'm planning to read more. Whatever its limitations, the central idea fascinates me.
If you'd like to read a sample, there's a chapter available here.
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2 Responses to Hominids
Sounds like an interesting idea. Also sounds like it would annoy the living crap out of me!
smellincoffee says:
We'll see if it improves any — though not soon. My library is missing the second book, so I either have to pay money for a used copy or prompt the library to spend money to replace it.. neither option is attractive from what I've read so far!


My apologies to everyone for my seeming absence. I've been very busy of late, looking for (and securing) a new job. I plan on resuming posting in the next few days. Thanks for sticking around.
Stating that Chazal's knowledge is based on the reality, not mere scientific observation, he [Rav Briel, the rebbe of the Pachad Yitzchock] assures his Talmid that without a doubt the rabbinic science is more accurate than the science of the scientists, and even if currently it appears one way, the rabbinic view will eventually be proven correct. He mentions that in the disagreement between the sages and the scientists regarding whether the sun revolves around the earth or vice versa, the sages conceded to the scientists, but centuries later, it was proven that the Torah sages were right all along.
Note that some bookstores will receive resistance from one or two customers about their selling this book. Your support, by verbally requesting the book and thanking the store manager for stocking it, will serve to counter this resistance. In the end, the loudest customer wins. So please take the time to ask for this book in your local bookstore, and register your concern if the book is not sold.
I decided to do an informal survey of some Jewish booksellers in Brooklyn. The first one I went to was a very popular store in the heart of Midwood. I looked around the store to see if it was in stock. Not finding it, I went to a clerk.
"Hi!" I said. "I was wondering if you can help me. I'm looking for a specific book."
"Sure," he said with a smile. "What book are you looking for?"
"Man and Beast" I said with a completely straight face, without giving the author's name. I could see him stiffen as I said the name of the book. The smile disappeared from his face.
"We don't carry that." he said.
"Do you plan on carrying it anytime in the future?" I asked.
"No," came the curt reply.
I travelled around the corner to another bookstore. After not finding it on the shelves, I asked the clerk for the book. He said that he had never heard of it and went to check on his computer. After a few minutes, he found it. "It looks like an interesting book," he said. I wasn't sure if he meant it seriously or sarcastically. "A very interesting book."
"Will you be getting it in stock anytime soon?" I inquired.
My third stop was at another bookseller which opened a few years ago. Looking around I found a few of Rabbi Slifkin's books (although none of the banned ones) and asked the clerk about the book. He never heard of it.
My last stop was at a store further south in Flatbush. This store had most of Rabbi Slifkin's non-banned books and even had a copy of Mysterious Creatures on the shelf. There was no sign, however, of Man and Beast. The clerk knew who Rabbi Slifkin was and was well aware of the controversy. Nonetheless, he didn't have the new book and said he wasn't sure when it would be available. However, he didn't rule out carrying it.
When the time comes, I'll probably get my copy directly from Rabbi Student. But, nonetheless, I found the reactions I got to my informal search very interesting. Maybe I'll even expand it to a few more stores in the coming days.


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package br.com.controle;

import br.com.modelo.A_pagarModel;
import java.sql.Date;
import java.sql.Time;
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    public int Salvar(ArrayList<String> pLista) throws ParseException {

        this.objVeS.setDocumento(pLista.get(1));
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        this.objVeS.setPgto_dt((pLista.get(4)));
        this.objVeS.setVencimento_dt((pLista.get(5)));
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        this.objVeS.setVl_pago(Double.parseDouble(pLista.get(7)));
        this.objVeS.setVl_apagar(Double.parseDouble(pLista.get(8)));
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        this.objVeS.setVl_pago(Double.parseDouble(pLista.get(7)));
        this.objVeS.setVl_apagar(Double.parseDouble(pLista.get(8)));
        this.objVeS.setSituacao(pLista.get(9));
        this.objVeS.setObservacao(pLista.get(10));

        this.objVeS.Atualizar();
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    public void Excluir(int iChave) {
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