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Handcuffed by the police outside her home when she was 11, a frightening incident that drew outrage and national headlines in 2017, Harmonie Hodges died of COVID-19 on Sunday.No underlying health issues »
Speaking to an occasionally raucous but mostly disgruntled panel of Pennsylvania Republicans, President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his campaign counsel Jenna Ellis on Wednesday floated the idea that the state Legislature could decide on its own to give Pennsylvania's 20 Electoral College votes to Trump, despite the state's certifying that Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 election in the state. It's the state Legislature that controls this process," Giuliani told a panel of Republican legislators. It's your power.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has reached out to President-elect Joe Biden's transition staff, Bloomberg reported. "I haven't had a chance to speak to Dr. Fauci," Biden said Tuesday, but Fauci himself confirmed to CNN that he has been talking to the president-elect's staff. The news comes a day after the General Services Administration recognized Biden as the apparent president-elect.
A lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite charged with finding girls in the 1990s for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, said Tuesday that her client is awakened every 15 minutes in jail while she sleeps to ensure she's breathing. Attorney Bobbi Sternheim told a Manhattan judge that Maxwell faces more restrictive conditions than inmates convicted of terrorism or murder. Maxwell has no history of mental health issues or suicidal ideation and no criminal history, either, she said.
Japan's justice minister on Tuesday criticised a written opinion by a United Nations panel, saying that claims that former Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn had been treated unfairly under the Japanese legal system were based on "factual errors". In a written opinion late last week, a U.N. panel of human rights experts concluded that the repeated arrest of Ghosn was "fundamentally unfair" and "appears to be an abuse of process intended to ensure that he remained in custody".
President Trump is reportedly heading to Pennsylvania for a Republican meeting on voter fraud allegations, ignoring advice from some of his aides in the process. Trump is "expected to join" his lawyer Rudy Giuliani in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday hold a "hearing" about claims of election "irregularities," CNN reports. The plans could reportedly still change, but they were confirmed by Bloomberg, which noted that the event doesn't appear on Trump's public schedule.
Progressive lawmakers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar have signed a petition calling on president-elect Joe Biden not to appoint Bruce Reed to his administration. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, and Rep. Omar, of Minnesota, are supporting efforts to have Mr Reed, Mr Biden's former chief of staff, frozen out of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Reports emerged earlier this week suggesting that Mr Reed, who also served in the Obama administration, was top of the president-elect's list to head up the OMB.
Last week, Rick Schroder helped post bail for Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old accused of killing two protesters in Kenosha, Wis., in August. "This was Kyle's life being destroyed," Schroder told the New York Post Wednesday. The "Silver Spoons" and "NYPD Blue" star put up "hundreds of thousands" of dollars toward Rittenhouse's $2-million bail and his defense because he was upset that the teen was being tried in the media.
There is a trend of TikTok users sharing their experience of getting their teeth ground down to pegs for the "perfect smile." The preparation for full coverage crowns is more aggressive than veneers and compromises more of the tooth, so dentists do not recommend this for young people. "She's going to have dentures by the age of 40," Dr. Shaadi Manouchehri, a London-based dentist, said while commenting on a video of a young influencer's "veneer vlog" on TikTok.
Two U.S. citizens have settled a lawsuit with Customs and Border Protection after they were detained by a Border Patrol agent who heard them speaking Spanish at a convenience store in Havre, Montana, and demanded that they show identification. The monetary settlement was announced on Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of Ana Suda and Martha "Mimi" Hernandez, alleging their constitutional rights were violated. The amount of the settlement was not disclosed at the request of the two women, said Cody Wofsy, a staff attorney with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project in San Francisco.
No one is really sure what Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner will do after leaving the White House in January or where they will live, but people who know them are certain they plan on getting out of Washington, D.C., as fast as they can, The New York Times reports. President Trump's daughter and son-in-law have never fit in, several people told the Times, but it's not a sure bet that they will return to New York City. Donny Deutsch, a marketing expert and critic of the president, said he thinks Ivanka and Jared would have an "even harder time than Trump himself" moving back to Manhattan.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, handily won a second term this month, but underperformed President-elect Joe Biden by more than perhaps any other Democratic candidate in the country. There are a slew of factors that likely impacted Omar's race, including a third party on the ticket, a supremely well-funded Republican opponent, and the fact that she was virtually guaranteed to win reelection.
Ethiopia's state-appointed rights watchdog accused a Tigrayan youth group on Tuesday of killing hundreds of civilians as federal and local forces both claimed advances in a three-week war in the country's mountainous north. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government said enemy soldiers were surrendering as it advanced towards the regional capital, but the Tigrayans reported they were resisting and had destroyed a prestigious army division. The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission published findings into a Nov. 9 attack in Mai Kadra in southwest Tigray - first reported by Amnesty International - where it said a youth group called Samri killed an estimated 600 civilians, mainly of Amharic descent.
Patricia Compton was charged with aggravated assault counts, plus child cruelty and terroristic threats. Two children in Georgia say they were terrified when a woman pulled a gun on them as they were out riding bikes in a Byron subdivision on Sunday. Twelve-year-old Kaleb Barnes and his best friend, 13-year-old Ethan Hollis, were riding their bikes in the Autumn Cove subdivision when they heard animal noises and went to investigate.
A five-year-old Indian boy, who was separated from his conjoined twin in 2017, has died. Jaga and Kalia, who were conjoined at the top of their heads, underwent several major surgeries when they were two years old. Kalia died on Wednesday after falling ill with sepsis, doctors said.
Footage posted online showed police and demonstrators pushing against each other as they moved in to clear the square of migrants' tents, which the police said had been set up without official permission. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Tuesday (November 24) he was launching a probe into the clashes, adding that images of the scuffles were "shocking".
It may never be known whether Donald Trump truly believed he won the 2020 US election, or if the last two weeks have been an extended face-saving exercise. It began on Nov 7 when all major US television networks "called" the election for Joe Biden. Instead, Mr Trump began making allegations of widespread voter fraud, and assembled a legal team to overturn counts in various battleground states.
The vast distances of the Pacific region and the growing reach of the Chinese military has led the US to look for ways to disperse its forces and their bases. For the US Air Force, that means scouring the region for runways and facilities that can support its aircraft as they try to spread out and sustain potential combat operations. The prospect of a war with China, which has a rapidly modernizing military that can reach farther and farther across the Pacific, has the US military looking to spread out.
McDonald's has temporarily stopped distributing its Disney World line of Happy Meal toys. WDW News Today previously reported that it learned through an "internal McDonald's Restaurant Brief Alert" that the toys included faulty QR codes that led to error messages and "unintended search results" when scanned outside of the McDonald's app. In a statement sent to Insider, representatives for McDonald's USA said the company regrets that its "current Happy Meal promotion did not operate as intended."
Video posted on social media showed ambulances rushing to the site of the explosion where people had gathered and where blood was seen on the ground. The blast also caused damage to the surrounding buildings and wounded at least another 19 people. SOHR reported that some of those injured were in critical condition.
A Walmart shopper was arrested on Saturday, after police said he pulled out a pair of brass knuckles when he was told to wear a mask or leave the store. Two anti-mask Costco shoppers have been arrested recently, following clashes with employees. Workers have been facing harassment and violence from anti-mask customers for months.
U.S. government civil servants could face mass firings under an October executive order before President Donald Trump leaves office and Democratic lawmakers, watchdog groups and unions are mobilizing to block the move. Leaders of 23 House committees and subcommittees asked the heads of 61 federal departments and agencies to provide a "full accounting" of any plans to reclassify federal workers under the Oct. 21 order, leaving them vulnerable to firing. They also asked for details about any Trump political appointees who have already been hired into career jobs or are being considered.
A doctor has recorded a video of what it looks like when a patient dies from Covid-19, in order to convince people to protect themselves by wearing face masks. Dr Kenneth Remy, who works in the intensive care unit at Missouri Baptist Medical Centre in St Louis posted the 90-second video to Facebook on Saturday to show the "dire" circumstances faced by people dying from coronavirus. "This is what it looks like when you breathe 40 times a minute, have an oxygen level that's dipping well below 80," Dr Remy says in the video as he simulates preparing a patient for intubation.
Comcast is planning on adding data caps to its home-internet plans, starting in January. In 14 states and the District of Columbia, customers with Xfinity internet plans that aren't unlimited will be constrained to 1.2 TB of data per month, or face overage charges. Comcast has had data caps in other parts of the country since 2016.
President Donald Trump called in to a Republican event in Pennsylvania to air conspiracy theories about dead people voting and ask why election officials haven't nullified the ballots from the 2020 race. "Why wouldn't they overturn the election?" he asked, even though Republicans haven't provided a shred of credible evidence that there was widespread voter fraud. Trump was initially scheduled to attend the event in person but later canceled the trip after a campaign adviser tested positive for COVID-19.
"Donald Trump defeated Donald Trump."
"The victory was a vindication of a style of American politics that many feared was gone forever."
"Mr. Biden's victory — and Mr. Trump's defeat — is a testament to the resilience of American democracy."
"Trump's 2020 reelection bid was doomed by his boorish behavior. Time and again, he refused to act like a president."
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Impark began operations in Vancouver, BC, in 1962 with a single surface parking lot. The simple concept of paying attention to service, combined with a strong entrepreneurial drive, led to steady growth during the 1960's and '70's. By the end of the 1970's, Impark dominated the Vancouver market and had established the depth of staff and resources to expand east. Growth continued at a rapid pace through the 1980s with Impark opening its first lot in the United States in Minneapolis. The 1990s saw branch offices established in all of Canada's major cities – including the acquisition of Canada's (at the time) largest parking company, CitiPark, in 1995. This move, along with steady growth in new accounts, established Impark as the largest parking management firm in Canada.
In the United States
Since opening its first location in the United States in the late 1980's Impark has expanded at a rapid pace, including major projects such as an agreement with the San Francisco Giants to develop and manage 4,900 parking spaces surrounding the new Pacific Bell Stadium (now AT&T Park), Miller Park in Milwaukee, and Citi Field in New York. Expansion into new markets through the 2000's saw Impark firmly established as a true North American leader, and a number of acquisitions including companies in Portland and San Francisco, and more recently, the acquisition of Republic Parking in early 2016, substantially increases Impark's geographic footprint and reach into key market segments such as healthcare, aviation, and municipal parking operations.

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Work from researchers at IBMs Almaden Research Laboratory suggests that a new type of computer memory storage may be on the horizon. Currently, computer memory comes in one of two flavors: solid state RAM or magnetic hard disk drives, both of which rely on what's effectively two-dimensional storage. The new method adds some useful features to memory storage by extending the physical storage into the third dimension.
Over the past few years, an IBM research team, led by Stuart S. P. Parkin, has been developing a new method for storing information. Called racetrack memory (RM), it relies on U-shaped nanowires that are arranged perpendicular to the surface of a chip and act as a shift register. Bits can be read or written at the base of the wire. Once on the wire, bits can then be moved around as if they're on a memory stack thanks to nanosecond pulses of current applied to the ends of the U that shift all the bits to new locations on the wire.
A pair of articles from the Almaden group that describe RM appear in this week's edition of Science, the first describing the technology in depth, and the second reporting the construction of a simplified working device. The review article1 lays out the basics of racetrack memory. The smallest unit of RM is a U-shaped nanowire, with data stored in magnetic domain walls (DWs) arrayed along its length. A collection of these nanowires can be built onto a single chip, producing a memory density greater than anything solid state memory can currently handle. According to the researchers, even a two-dimensional RM setup would have a memory density higher than nearly all current solid state offerings.
Cartoon schematic of a single racetrack wire
Image credit: IBM Almaden Research Labs
DW-based bits are accessed using current pulses that exploit the phenomenon of spin-momentum transfer. The current shifts the entire set of bits along the wire, exposing a different DW to the reader and/or writer at the base. The system has some very appealing properties. The cost of storing a single bit is actually reduced as the number of DWs per racetrack increases. The average time needed to read a given bit is also independent of the number of DWs per racetrack—essentially, there's a "the more the merrier" situation when it comes to data density.Thanks to the fact that there are no moving parts, there is also no obvious fatigue or wearout mechanism for RM.
If RM devices pan out, they could potentially offer the low cost of HDD technology with the performance and reliability of solid-state devices. Because of these properties, interest in DW devices has fluctuated over the years. They were first proposed in the 1970s, and there was a flurry of research in the late seventies and early eighties on "magnetic bubble materials." That work never panned out due to technological hurdles that could not be overcome at the time. The accompanying research paper2 suggest those hurdles might be a thing of the past, as it describes the successful creation of a two-dimensional racetrack memory nanowire device.
The device is a single nanowire laid flat on a substrate, with read/write heads in the center of the wire and the current pulse generators that move the bits around on the ends of the wire. The wire is made of permalloy (Ni81Fe19), measured 200 nm in diameter, and extended six microns between the electrical contacts at each end. Sending 1.6V pulses across the wire produced a current density of nearly 2x108 A/cm2.
The setup functioned as a DW shift register memory device, the equivalent of a three-bit unidirectional serial-in, serial-out memory setup. The researchers were able to encode a series of information one bit at a time, shifting the memory down and then reading the data back out. The time needed to encode and shift one bit to was approximately 30ns and the authors suggest that the average access time for RM will be between 10 and 50ns. This compares reasonably well to the 5ms typical of HDD-based technology, and around 10ns for advanced solid state devices.
The researchers conclude their article by stating, "the motion of a series of DWs at high speed using nanosecond current pulses not only proves the viability of a shift-register memory but also presages the possibility of current-controlled DW–based logic devices." There is still work to do before an entire three-dimensional memory chip will replace your current memory solutions. The biggest problem may be heat; moving DWs requires a high current, which may destroy the wire or mangle the data it contains. Still, there are some ideas on how to deal with the heat, and this work represents a big step in the direction of a new dimension in memory storage.
[1] Science, 2008. DOI: 10.1126/science.1145799
[2] Science, 2008. DOI: 10.1126/science.1154587


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Marillion's Fantastic Power: An Interview with Steve Hogarth
The members of the band Marillion aren't millionaires, but they do call themselves Marillionaires because of their profitable relationship with their family of fans. Singer Steve Hogarth talks about his new album collaboration with Porcupine Tree's Richard Barbieri, Marillion's groundbreaking business model, and the band's imminent first tour of North America since 2004.
For a band whose music is often described as "spacey", it's entirely fitting that Marillion has a fan in the form of Neil Armstrong. The late science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke loved the British quintet, too. But it's Marillion's earthbound qualities -- the humanistic themes of its progressive music and the emotionally intimate singing of vocalist Steve Hogarth -- that has garnered the band the most devoted fans on the planet.
Every rock group claims to have the world's best fans, of course, but Marillion can actually back up that assertion. Case in point: When the band announced that it couldn't afford to tour North America in 1997, Marillion fans -- spontaneously and without being asked -- clubbed together on the Internet to pledge $60,000 of their own money to fund the tour.
The experience was a lightbulb moment for a band whose fortunes had steadily waned since the release of its 1985 album, Misplaced Childhood, which yielded the big hit "Kayleigh" during the band's tenure with former singer Fish. Though Marillion had released a series of acclaimed albums since Steve Hogarth joined the band in 1989, most notably Brave (1994) and Afraid of Sunlight (1995), the band had grown tired of record company politics and paltry royalty revenues.
In 2000, Marillion's musicians -- Steve Hogarth (vocals and keyboards), Mark Kelly (keyboards), Ian Mosley (drums), Steve Rothery (guitar), Pete Trewavas (bass) -- asked fans a radical question: Are you willing to pay for an album before even so much of a note has been recorded? Over 12000 people said "yes" with their checkbooks. The resulting album, Anoraknophobia (2001), was the world's first micro-financed album.
Since then, Marillion has continued to use the Internet to harness its considerable fan power. (The band's website boasts the tagline "A Better Way of Life" and offers newcomers a free sampler CD.) In addition to staging its own biennial festival weekends in Canada and the Netherlands, Marillion released several studio albums on its own record label. The 2004 album Marbles (whose lead single, "You're Gone", was a UK Top 10 hit) and 2008's Happiness Is the Road are widely considered artistic high points in the band's three decade career.
Ahead of recording Marillion's 16th studio album, Sounds That Can't be Made, to be released by September this year, Steve Hogarth recently collaborated on an album with keyboard player Richard Barbieri of Japan and Porcupine Tree fame. The duo's recently released Not the Weapon But the Hand (K-Scope) has a neat division of labor: the keyboardist wrote the music and the singer came up with the lyrics.
On Not the Weapon But the Hand, the keyboardist yet again conjures up spooky ambient moods and otherworldly spaces, aided and abetted by textural guitar by Dave Gregory (formerly of XTC and currently a member of Tin Spirits). "Naked", "Crack", and "Only Love Will Make You Free" showcase the duo's pop instincts. Tracks such as "Red Kite" and "Your Beautiful Face" are contemplative tone poems that manage to be at once unsettling and serene. The album closer, "Lifting the Lid", should appeal to fans of latter-day Massive Attack.
PopMatters caught up with Hogarth by Skype to talk about subjects such as his collaboration with Barbieri, Marillion's business model, and the band's imminent North American trek in June, its first proper tour of the continent since 2004. And if you're wondering why it's taken Marillion so long to return to North America, read on to learn about the bureaucratic nightmares of getting a touring visa.
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Richard Barbieri played on your solo album, Ice Cream Genius, but when did you first meet him and what did you love about his musicianship?
I met him just before the recording of Ice Cream Genius. I originally approached Steve Wilson [of Porcupine Tree] to produce it but I then found out he was about to produce [former Marillion singer] Fish's album so I thought perhaps it's not such a good idea… Steve played my demos to Richard and he liked them -- particularly "The Deep Water" which was very much his sort of thing. I invited Richard to add his distinctive colors to my album and he came on board. After that he toured with the h band and we got to know each other and realized that although we're quite different characters, we get along really well. We joke that we're long-lost brothers -- there's a feeling between us.
What do I love about his musicianship? Everything really. His programming knowledge is such that he is constantly creating sounds which no one else can make and this gives him a palette which is all his own. Add to that his innate good taste and you have something really distinctive and evocative. I've been a fan ever since I heard Japan's Tin Drum in the early '80s.
Steve Hogarth + Richard Barbieri "Naked" promo video
Are you fan of Porcupine Tree and is Richard a fan of Marillion?
Well, "fan" is a big word…. It probably doesn't add up to that, but I think there's a lot of mutual respect and we're probably fans of certain songs rather than each other's entire catalog. I have been going to Porcupine Tree's gigs since before they had a record deal, and working with Steve Wilson since the early days of Porcupine Tree. I've seen Porcupine Tree probably about six or seven times in various parts of the world. They've opened for Marillion twice too. Richard played a fair few Marillion songs during the h tour and seemed to enjoy the process.
Richard wrote the music and sent it you the instrumentals to write lyrics for them -- did you ever go back to him with musical suggestions for the songs and, similarly, did Richard ever offer feedback on the lyrics or your vocal ideas?
No. None at all. For my part, I thought the music was brilliant and there really was nothing I could add. I contributed a hammered dulcimer to "Naked" although it would have worked just as well without it, and a tambourine and a few bells to "Only Love…" That was it. Richard had no criticism whatsoever of the lyrics or vocal approach.
What's the story behind the biting lyric for "Your Beautiful Face" -- and is the song about an actual person?
It was a chance encounter with her daughter last year…. I'd kinda known (not "Biblically", I hasten to add) a very beautiful but power-hungry, calculating, woman some 20 years back and, with the passing of time her beauty is somewhat depleted. Then I saw her daughter last year and there it was -- that same face -- but with a much softer soul inside. I wrote those words the same night last spring and then I tried them on one of Richard's ideas. It's one of my favorite songs on the album.
"Only Love Will Make You Free" includes the lyric, "If love blinds you / It ain't love, if love ties you, it's ain't love / If love makes you angry, it ain't love." What is true love and how does it make on free?
I think that what we've come to think of as "love" is not necessarily love. "I love you" often has so much to do with a kind of obsession, or physical attraction, or the need for a trophy, or simply someone to cook the food and wash the floor, accompanied by a smothering possessiveness. Real love is about allowing someone the freedom to BE themselves and about respecting them enough to be happy with their freedom. Only real love, the true essence of love will make you free. Everything else is just the mechanism of sexual reproduction and those basic instincts of ego and control
Your style of singing on this album is quite different from Marillion -- you often whisper, talk-sing, and there's also more cut-and-paste layering of vocals such as on "Only Love Will Make us Free". Did you approach this project with a very clear idea of wanting to try different vocal approaches?
Yes. This was a chance to explore something radical. Richard's music deserves more than just a singer singing a song and I went into this project with those expectations of myself. Some of the "songs" worked better spoken than sung so I simply spoke them. "Only Love..." is for instance, more a piece of vocal theater than a song. I'm imagining a cast of characters while I'm singing that one y'know, a Shaman, a preacher, a philosopher, a section of ghosts, a narrator etc.... sometimes all going on at once to create a kind of deliberate mystical confusion. There's a darkness in it which I wanted to take further with the idea of being visited by the ancients imparting wisdom. There's much in this album which is about the juxtaposition of darkness and light. Like a Vermeer or a Rembrandt.
Marillion has never been a band to write about sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and fast cars. You've always been interested in meaning of life songs.
I think when artists are sincerely talking about the issues of what's right and what's wrong, love and the absence of it, respect for the planet and respect for each other, and why we act the way we act. How we derive our self-respect -- one of the things I keep coming back to. I tend to just be harping on about those things but I try and harp on about them from the heart. I think that people can sniff truth. Truth has a smell to it and it's quite hard to fake in art. If art is borne out of some kind of bandwagon or what's in fashion or a desire to service the marketplace, you can smell that, too.
I can honestly tell you that there's a lot of ways we could probably make more money than we do. But it's not really what we're about. We're not millionaires but we're comfortable and I consider myself one of the luckiest artists in the planet to make a living without even the vaguest notion of compromise, having to think about radio, the hit single. We don't even have to think about what our own fans want. We never have and it's gotten us this far.


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Recently, State Senator Sean Kean (R-Monmouth) and Assembly members Mary Pat Angelini (R-Ocean) and Dave Rible (R-Wall) endorsed Chris Christie for the Republican nomination for Governor.
I normally find myself in agreement with those lawmakers, usually.
However in this case I do not approve of their premature endorsement of a candidate who not only hasn't articulated his positions on the issues facing the state but is not even a declared candidate for the nomination.
New Jersey Republican leaders seem to be yearning for a savior. So much so that I believe they are willing to throw out the baby with the bath water.
In their intense desire to win an election they seem to be placing little importance on the principles that we need a Governor to bring to Trenton along with their victory. On top of that thinking being wrong based upon its shallowness, it also ignores a basic truth. It ignores the fact that our party should not be built around any one individual. It should be built around our principles and the ideas that Republixcans bring to the table. Rather than focus on one person to lead us to victory, Republican legislators should be providing Trenton with the ideas that could win the day for us. Without those ideas, there is no need to win. So I suggest that Republican elected officials focus on that job. Focus on bringing change through the legislative solutions they propose. I want them to do their job and let the candidates running for governor do their job.
Once the candidates have done so, or at the very, least begun to do so, then come out and endorse one of them. Don't just endorse someone for political expediency. Have some sincerity in purpose. Endorse someone for their ideas, their thinking, the direction they propose to take us. Not for their name.
I want to know these things before I approve or reject his candidacy. I want to know where he stands on issues before we say…."here take our nomination, take all that we believe and do as you wish with it to become Governor".
With Republican elected officials simply endorsing Christie before he has stated a position on any issues or even become a candidate, they are not helping matters. They are simply saying, "we don't know what you stand for but we need you". That type of courtship does not help us build a strong ticket for Governor in November. In fact it could lead to trouble.
Years ago when New York was my political arena, before becoming the Republican nominee in his second attempt to become Mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani told me that losing against Dave Dinkins the first time around, taught him a lot.
You see, the first time he ran, Rudy expected Republicans allover the nation, to roll over and roll out the red carpet for his candidacy. At the time he felt that Republicans needed him more than he needed Republicans. That wasn't exactly the case.
While waiting for Republicans throughout the city to come and kiss Rudy's ring, another Republican courted them for their support. With money and conservative opinions, Ronald Lauder garnered enough support to wage a strong primary battle against Rudy. It was a battle that probably caused Rudy to lose the election by one percentage point
Instead of making his rounds and earning support from the party whose nomination he wanted, Rudy felt that it was incumbent upon them to come to him.
Not all of them did.
Many felt at home with the more conservative candidate who respected them enough to ask for their support, not expect their support.
Had Rudy maintained a little humility and earned the support of all Republicans, he may have avoided the bloody and expensive primary battle that he found himself in and by avoiding that battle he might have won the war and been elected mayor four years earlier than he was. In fact he probably would have been able to serve three terms instead of the two he was limited to by the term limits which voters adopted in the same election that finally saw Rudy win City Hall.
Four years after losing the 1989 mayoral race, Rudy admitted that the way he conducted himself, the first time, was inappropriate. He told me and a couple of county chairmen that he learned his lesson and that he knew he needed every Republican as much, if not more than they needed him.
With that lesson learned, Rudy went on to win the Republican nomination for Mayor with ease and ultimately became one of the greatest mayors New York has ever known.
Now, here we are in New Jersey and another famed prosecutor is on the verge of saving Republicans from defeat.
If Chris Christie believes like Rudy did in 1989, Christie could find himself in the same position as Rudy.
With some Republican elected officials simply endorsing Christie before he has stated a position on any issues or even become a candidate yet, they are not helping matters. They are actually saying, "we don't know what you stand for but we need you". That type of courtship does not help us build a strong ticket for Governor in November. It simply helps to create an arrogant mentality in Christie that allows him to believe that we owe him the nomination and that the job of Governor is his merely because he may want it..
Truth is, we owe nothing to Chris Christie other than our thanks for his undeniably successful tenure as New Jersey's U.S. Attorney for the past seven years.
So stop wooing Chris Christie. Let Chris Christie start wooing us, the voters. Let Chris Christie join the other official candidates and earn our support.
The most recent example of Republican leaders hastily rushing to endorse someone, long before the primary election for a Republican nomination took place, was at the end of last year, when hundreds of Republicans from county chairmen, mayors, freeholders, councilmembers and state legislators rushed to endorse Rudy Giuliani for President.
We all know how successful that was.
So stop trying to part the sea for Chris Christie. We need to let him articulate his positions on the issues and demonstrate why he would be a better Governor than Richard Merkt, Steve Lonegan, Brian Levine or any other potential nominee.
A good start for Christie would be to stop stalling. The longer he waits to make a decision, the more suspect people become. They begin to wonder, does he want the job bad enough? Is there some closeted skeleton that is making him apprehensive about running?
Whatever the answer, Christie needs to make it official, one way or the other.
Until then, I suggest that everyone stop hoping that Chris Christie can walk on water. Stop making him believe that he is the best thing since sliced bread merely because he is Chris Christie. Help us win back New Jersey so that we can turn things around. Help strengthen our ticket in November by making Chris Christie put his very best foot forward and earn the nomination that he may want.
We are not helping ourselves by rolling out a red carpet for Chris Christie while waving a white flag of surrender for what ,we as Republicans, stand for.
We need to let Christie articulate his positions on the issues and demonstrate why he would be a better Governor than Richard Merkt, Steve Lonegan, Brian Levine or any other potential nominee. We need to make sure that Chris Christie represents the Republican ideology and approach to government that we stand for.
So before Republicans officials hand over our mantle to someone, let them prove themselves to be worthy of holding it. Let the candidates campaign for the nomination so that the right ideas may help win day rather than just some empty suit with a well known name.


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I had the good fortune to attend, and speak at, Cloud Friday Nashville on May 4th, 2018. It was a great event and I hope to attend next year as well.
Here's my presentation:
Atrium Health (formerly Carolinas HealthCare System) is one of the largest non-profit healthcare systems in the US, with over 60,000 employees. In the last five years, Atrium has upgraded Exchange and SharePoint to Office 365, which has introduced changes for both end users and the IT department. This session will cover the upgrade / migration, how governance changed, and what operational changes have occurred along the way. Attendees will walk away from this session with both specific governance tactics they can implement, as well as, the reasoning behind them.
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Obama reaches out to Iran
President Barack Obama outlined an engaged role on Tuesday for the United States in the pursuit of peace and stability in the Middle East, as he signaled a new willingness to pursue diplomatic talks with Iran and called on the United Nations Security Council to threaten consequences if Syria does not follow through on its promise to give up its chemical weapons.
Iran will be a diplomatic "focus" for the United States, Obama told the United Nations General Assembly, as he's directed Secretary of State John Kerry to work with the European Union and the governments of United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia and China to engage in talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's government.
"The roadblocks may prove to be too great but I firmly believe the diplomatic path must be tested," he said. Given the virtually nonexistent U.S.-Iran relationship over the past three decades, "I don't believe this difficult history can be overcome overnight" because "the suspicions run too deep."
( PHOTOS: Syria: Where politicians stand)
"But I do believe that if we can resolve the issue of Iran's nuclear program, that can serve as a major step down a long road towards a different relationship – one based on mutual interests and mutual respect," he said. The Iranian delegation, seated in the second row, did not visibly react to Obama's remarks, according to the White House pool reporter present.
Obama's remarks Tuesday centered on how the United States and the United Nations can help ease tensions in the Middle East and North Africa, and aid in "the hard work of forging freedom and democracy" in the aftermath of recent popular uprisings in the region.
One way the U.N. can engage, he said, is for the Security Council to take action to help ensure that Bashar Assad's regime relinquishes control of its chemical weapons.
( PHOTOS: What lawmakers said then (Iraq) and now (Syria))
Assad's accounting of his stockpile is a good first step, Obama said, but the international community — and not just the United States — must do more to compel Assad to continue to follow through.
"There must be a strong Security Council resolution to verify that the Assad regime is keeping its commitments," Obama said. "There must be consequences if they fail to do so. If we cannot agree even on this, then it will show that the United Nations is incapable of enforcing the most basic of international laws."
The international community's "response has not matched the scale of the challenge" in Syria, especially at the UN, where there's been no formal action to enforce the chemical weapons ban — "meaningful prohibitions whose origins are older than the United Nations itself."
The president was insistent that Assad's regime was responsible for the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack on the outskirts of Damascus, telling world leaders that "it is an insult to human reason" to suggest — as Russia has — that anyone other than Assad regime perpetrated the attack. The Syrian delegation did not visibly react to the president's remarks.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama's UN speech transcript 2013)
Obama acknowledged that his calls for continue U.S. involvement in the Middle East would draw skepticism from leaders and nations aware of America's rocky history in engagement around the globe. But, he said, "the United States has a hard-earned humility when it comes to our ability to determine events inside other countries."
"The notion of American empire may be useful propaganda, but it isn't borne out by America's current policy or public opinion," he said. "Indeed, as the recent debate within the United States over Syria clearly showed, the danger for the world is not an America that is eager to immerse itself in the affairs of other countries, or take on every problem in the region as its own. The danger for the world is that the United States, after a decade of war; rightly concerned about issues back home; and aware of the hostility that our engagement in the region has engendered throughout the Muslim World, may disengage, creating a vacuum of leadership that no other nation is ready to fill."
( PHOTOS: Kerry in Middle East)
Obama continued, offering an implicit rebuke of Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent comments on American exceptionalism.
"Some may disagree, but I believe America is exceptional," Obama said. He added that the United States is exceptional because it stands up for not just its own interests but "for the interests of all."
In a New York Times op-ed earlier this month, Putin wrote, "It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation."
After the speech, the press pool traveling with the president got a brief review of Obama's speech from Secretary of State John Kerry. "It was good. It was good," he said.
Obama spoke second at the UN, following Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who last week cancelled a state visit to Washington, citing Brazilians' concerns about the National Security Agency's surveillance in their country.


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CHICAGO – Rexam, a global leader in beverage can manufacturing, recently produced its 100-millionth 24 oz. can for The Genesee Brewery — one of the oldest and continually operating breweries in the U.S.
Rexam first began supplying 24 oz. cans for single-serve versions of Genesee, Genny Light, Genesee Ice, Genesee Cream Ale and The Original Honey Brown Lager in 2010, when the brewery installed a new 24 oz. production line.
"We are pleased to see our partnership with the Genesee Brewery reach this milestone as we work together to provide their beers to consumers in this popular package," said Rich Grimley, president and CEO, Rexam Beverage Can North America. "It's another example of how Rexam is serving customers' needs for specialty size beverage cans. We will continue to work closely with our customers and extend our leadership across the specialty category to help our customers realize their growth objectives."
Genesee's 24 oz. cans are available at retail locations nationwide.
About Rexam:
Rexam is a leading global consumer packaging company. We are one of the leading global beverage can makers and a major global player in rigid plastic packaging. We are business partners to some of the world's most famous and successful consumer brands.
Our vision is to be the best global consumer packaging company. Rexam's sales from ongoing operations in 2011 were in the region of £4.7 billion. We have more than 80 plants in 25 countries and employ close to 19,000 people. Rexam is a member of the FTSE 100 and its ordinary shares are listed with the UK Listing Authority and trade on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol REX. For further information, visit www.rexam.com
About The Genesee Brewery:
The Genesee Brewery, based in Rochester, New York, is one of the largest and oldest continually operating breweries in the United States and is part of North American Breweries. The brewery makes the historic Genesee line of beers, Seagram's Escapes, the Original Honey Brown Lager as well as Dundee Ales and Lagers family of craft beers. Additionally, through its Allied Brands division, the Genesee Brewery imports and markets Imperial Cerveza from Costa Rica. The Genesee Brewery also manufactures beer and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages under contracts on behalf of other companies.


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Summer Internship Assurance Newcastle 2019
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- 01 Apr 2019
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- 01 May 2019
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Summer internship
Running during the summer, our Summer Internships offer high calibre students the opportunity to experience work and life at PwC, and gain a valuable insight into our business and culture. You'll work alongside graduate trainees and experienced professionals on live and interesting client projects. You will be doing real work on real clients so be prepared to get stuck in.
A key part of our purpose is building trust in society. We provide decision makers with information they can trust and give our clients confidence in an unpredictable world. We use cutting-edge technology to provide market-leading services for our clients, both in person and virtually.
Organisations in every industry are feeling the impact of disruptive technologies. With Intelligent Digital, we balance business understanding with technology innovation and human insight. We use cutting-edge technology to help solve our clients' complex needs, and strengthen trust and transparency with their customers and investors. You'll work in an environment that inspires you, and be given an active role in shaping the future of Assurance. You'll have an exceptional career experience working with and learning from experts in their fields. We embrace diversity, both in our people and the work you'll do. We drive change through innovation. It's this imagination and creativity, alongside the calibre of our teams, that mean we consistently win clients and projects, giving you the opportunity to work with market leading companies and leverage our global network.
Our culture drives success, both ours and yours. It gives us a sustainable advantage. We want to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to work in a way that works for our clients, teams, and you personally. It's not only about working hard, but working smarter and being agile to deliver exceptional client service whilst balancing work and life.
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You'll find out first-hand if this is the career for you. If it is - and you perform well - you could go back to university with a graduate job offer. And you'll certainly raise your commercial awareness and interpersonal skills to new levels. By experiencing life inside the world's leading professional services organisation, you'll develop many new skills and qualities that will be valuable whatever you choose to do.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Stock indexes are closing higher on Wall Street but only after giving up much of the ground they won earlier in the day.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 24 points at 14,700 Thursday, an increase of 0.2 per cent. It had been up as much as 91 points.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose six points to 1,585, or 0.4 per cent. The Nasdaq composite rose 20 points to 3,290. That's an increase of 0.6 per cent.
Good news on the job market and healthy earnings from name-brand companies like Royal Caribbean and Harley-Davidson encouraged investors to buy stocks. UPS and Dow Chemical also rose.
Two stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was slightly higher than usual, 3.8 billion shares.


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MAC Surf Baby Suntint Lip Balms Swatches, Photos, Reviews
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MAC Surf Baby: Suntint Lip Balms
MAC Surf Baby Suntint SPF 20 Lip Balms ($15.50 for 0.33 oz.) include three shades: Full of Grace (soft sheer rose), Lilt of Lily (soft creamy pale pink), and Pink Tinge (clean bright yellow pink with gold pearl).
- Full of Grace is a sheer watermelon pink.
- Lilt of Lily is a sheer, milky pink-lilac shimmered with iridescent pink.
- Pink Tinge is a sheer, yellow-based pink with gold shimmer.
These are lip balms, and they're designed to be sheer–this is exactly what they are: tinted lip balm. If you have naturally pigmented lips, these will add mostly gloss for you. Those with paler natural lips may find that Full of Grace deposits some color. Lilt of Lily has the least amount of color, while Pink Tinge has the most shimmer. Earlier today, I was actually lamenting doing lip swatches for these, because they're so similar when worn, and ironically, I didn't do lip swatches when these first launched (back in 2009 with Baby Blooms) for the same reason!
We're on that border again; it's expected to be sheer, but at what point is sheer too close to clear and therefore unpigmented? Full of Grace enhances my natural lip color by making it pinker and rosier, so it seems near our target. Lilt of Lily does a little but to a lesser extent. Pink Tinge adds shimmer and makes my lips look a little lighter than normal, and the sheerness is closer to Lilt of Lily but there is a little more here. It seems like pigmentation is where it should be for Full of Grace (like 9/10), while Lilt of Lily is lacking (5/10), and Pink Tinge falls somewhere between there (7/10), which averages out to around 7.
Suntints have a thicker, jelly-ish consistency and feel a little like gel lips. They're sticky (less so than Lipglass), and they have a light vanilla scent to them. I get only two to three hours of wear with these as a lip balm, but they are somewhat moisturizing. They seem to do a good job of locking in moisture, but I don't feel like they add much to lips, because once it's gone, so are most of the moisturizing benefits. The Suntints come in squeeze-tube packaging, and each tube holds a surprising amount of product (0.33 oz.).
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New buildings sprouting up like weeds over here!
Brookfield: SOM, Field Operations, Thomas Phifer, SHoP Architects and Diller Scofidio & Renfro
Durst / Vornado / Conde Nast: FXFowle and Rafael Pelli
Extell: Steven Holl
Related / Goldman Sachs / NewsCorp: Kohn Pedersen Fox, Arquitectonica and Robert AM Stern
Tishman Speyer / Morgan Stanley: Helmut Jahn
Test Lighting at the top of 10 Hudson Yards 03/02/17
New buildings sprouting up like weeds over here!
very nice, hopefully affordable. There was an article recently about how much of a huge moneymaker observation decks are. I would expect many more to come online in future years
nice pics! keep 'em coming
they brought the last crane down from the tall one.
@scumonkey - are your images still posted? Not loading for me
I assume so...but i use photobucket and they have been known to hold pics hostage for money!
Anybody else having this problem (they still show up for me), if so I can use an alternate service?!
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Initial Reaction: Bare Minerals READY Eyeshadow
These iphone pics that I quickly took seem to make everything from the shadow to my cheeks to my lips a litter deeper than they appear in person... but you get the idea. I'll have to wear these shadows more to determine their staying power... it was pretty good today- but I didn't really put them up against anything strenuous. What's not so good about these shadows? The price. This duo was $20! While it is a nice little mirrored compact... I think I might wait for some sort of value set or palette (They had one at Sephora called Cocktail Hour... not sure if that's still around)- before I get more shadows.
- I have a clothes/hair/makeup haul that I need to post in the coming days!
- Also the last part of the Best Self series on Beauty Vlogcast!
- This has been such a busy Spring so far!! From funerals to art shows to weddings... we've been traveling a lot and I think things might be slowing down a little. While I've loved getting to travel, I must admit- I've missed my weekend video-making time.
- Did some grocery shopping this afternoon & came up with a lot of good fruits and vegetables!
- It's shower time! Thanks for reading!!


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Today I visited fewer panels than I did yesterday, but I visited one of the most interesting panels today, the game systems panel. This is actually the panel that provided me some information on what has become, I think, my favorite concept coming with the new expansion: Guild Leveling. I love it! I think that it is going to help guilds with loyalty, it's going to make people re-think about "rage" quitting, and most of all it's going to encourage people to help the guild…and then gain benefits for the guild. I think it is a wonderful idea, and I cannot wait to see it implemented. In case you couldn't tell, I am really quite excited about this new development! I will give some more in depth thoughts on what I think the pros and cons of this are going to be, and how it's going to effect guilds when I have a few more minutes to put my thoughts down.
This is also the panel that discussed the new "Mastery" effects, which I'm not quite sure how I feel about that yet. It also discusses the Path of the Titans, which I think sounds pretty darn cool. I like the lore that they are going to implement in this, and how you will use "Archeology" to uncover your paths. If they do it right, it's going to be a lot of fun, I think.
I did play the Cataclysm demo that they had available today. I opted to play as a goblin (sorry Kae!) and see their neat stuff, while Brade opted to play as the worgen. The starting area was akin to most starting areas, and was lovely and colorful (think STV). Some of the quests were like all areas (collect 10 boxes, kill 8 beasts), but some of them were innovative and fun. My favorite was one where I was give a chain and told to be a weedwhacker and whack 100 plants. I really enjoyed whirling through the jungle 🙂
All in all, I felt that this years Blizzcon was a lot more fun than last years. I really enjoyed getting to hang out with some of my guildmates again, and just the entire atmosphere of the convention. I definitely had a lot of fun!
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By the way, this kind of real-world problem is also a good exercise to improve your object-oriented analysis and design skills (see here), which is very important if you want to become a good application developer.
By designing a vending machine in Java or any other object-oriented language, you not only learn basics e.g. Encapsulation, Polymorphism, or Inheritance but also learns subtle details of how to use an abstract class and interface (see here) while solving a problem or designing an application.
Usually, this kind of problem also gives you an opportunity to utilize Java design patterns, as in this problem we will be using the Factory method pattern for creating different types of Vending Machine. I have talked about this question when I shared 20 software design questions in Java (here), and after that, I receive a lot of feedback to provide a solution for that question.
This two-part series of posts will provide a solution to the Vending machine problem in Java. By the way, this problem can be solved in a different way, and you should try to do that before looking into the solution given here. This is also an opportunity to revisit SOLID and OOPS design principles (see here) and get ready to use them in your code. You'll find many of them are applicable when you design a vending machine in Java.
Btw, If you are serious about learning design patterns and principles, I suggest you take a look at the Design Patterns in Java course on Udemy. This course covers both SOLID design principles like Open Closed and Liskov substitution, and all-important Object Oriented design patterns like Decorator, Observer, Chain of Responsibility, and much more.
Problem StatementYou need to design a Vending Machine which
- Accepts coins of 1,5,10,25 Cents i.e. penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.
- Allow user to select products Coke(25), Pepsi(35), Soda(45)
- Allow user to take refund by canceling the request.
- Return selected product and remaining change if any
- Allow reset operation for vending machine supplier.
The requirement statement is the most important part of the problem. You need to read problem statement multiple times to get a high-level understanding of the problem and what are you trying to solve. Usually, requirements are not very clear and you need to make a list of your own by reading through problem statement.
I like point based requirement because it's easy to track. Some of the requirement are also implicit but it's better to make it explicit in your list e.g. In this problem, vending machine should not accept a request if it doesn't have sufficient change to return.
Unfortunately, there is not many book or course which teach you these skills, you need to develop them by yourself by doing some real world work. Though, two of the book which helped me to improve by object-oriented analysis and design skills are Head First Object Oriented Design and Analysis 1st edition by Brett D. McLaughlin. One of the best book if you don't have much experience in object oriented programming.
Another book which is very good on developing application and system design skill is UML for Java Programmers by Robert C. Martin, one of my favorite author. I have read several books of him e.g. Clean Code, Clean Coder and a book on software development using Agile. He is one of the best in teaching OOP concept.
Solution and CodingMy implementation of Java Vending Machine has following classes and interfaces :
It defines the public API of vending machine, usually all high-level functionality should go in this class
Sample implementation of Vending Machine
A Factory class to create different kinds of Vending Machine
Java Enum to represent Item served by Vending Machine
Java class to represent an Inventory, used for creating case and item inventory inside Vending Machine
Another Java Enum to represent Coins supported by Vending Machine
A parameterized class to hold two objects. It's kind of Pair class.
An Exception thrown by Vending Machine when a user tries to collect an item, without paying the full amount.
Vending Machine throws this exception to indicate that it doesn't have sufficient change to complete this request.
Vending Machine throws this exception if the user request for a product which is sold out.
How to design Vending Machine in JavaHere is the complete code of Vending Machine in Java, make sure to test this code, and let me know if you face any issue.
The public API of vending machine, usually all high-level functionality should go in this class
package vending; import java.util.List; /** * Decleare public API for Vending Machine * @author Javin Paul */ public interface VendingMachine { public long selectItemAndGetPrice(Item item); public void insertCoin(Coin coin); public List<Coin> refund(); public Bucket<Item, List<Coin>> collectItemAndChange(); public void reset(); }
A sample implementation of VendingMachine interface represents a real world Vending Machine , which you see in your office, bus stand, railway station and public places.
package vending; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.List; /** * Sample implementation of Vending Machine in Java * @author Javin Paul */ public class VendingMachineImpl implements VendingMachine { private Inventory<Coin> cashInventory = new Inventory<Coin>(); private Inventory<Item> itemInventory = new Inventory<Item>(); private long totalSales; private Item currentItem; private long currentBalance; public VendingMachineImpl(){ initialize(); } private void initialize(){ //initialize machine with 5 coins of each denomination //and 5 cans of each Item for(Coin c : Coin.values()){ cashInventory.put(c, 5); } for(Item i : Item.values()){ itemInventory.put(i, 5); } } @Override public long selectItemAndGetPrice(Item item) { if(itemInventory.hasItem(item)){ currentItem = item; return currentItem.getPrice(); } throw new SoldOutException("Sold Out, Please buy another item"); } @Override public void insertCoin(Coin coin) { currentBalance = currentBalance + coin.getDenomination(); cashInventory.add(coin); } @Override public Bucket<Item, List<Coin>> collectItemAndChange() { Item item = collectItem(); totalSales = totalSales + currentItem.getPrice(); List<Coin> change = collectChange(); return new Bucket<Item, List<Coin>>(item, change); } private Item collectItem() throws NotSufficientChangeException, NotFullPaidException{ if(isFullPaid()){ if(hasSufficientChange()){ itemInventory.deduct(currentItem); return currentItem; } throw new NotSufficientChangeException("Not Sufficient change in Inventory"); } long remainingBalance = currentItem.getPrice() - currentBalance; throw new NotFullPaidException("Price not full paid, remaining : ", remainingBalance); } private List<Coin> collectChange() { long changeAmount = currentBalance - currentItem.getPrice(); List<Coin> change = getChange(changeAmount); updateCashInventory(change); currentBalance = 0; currentItem = null; return change; } @Override public List<Coin> refund(){ List<Coin> refund = getChange(currentBalance); updateCashInventory(refund); currentBalance = 0; currentItem = null; return refund; } private boolean isFullPaid() { if(currentBalance >= currentItem.getPrice()){ return true; } return false; } private List<Coin> getChange(long amount) throws NotSufficientChangeException{
List<Coin> changes = Collections.EMPTY_LIST; if(amount > 0){ changes = new ArrayList<Coin>(); long balance = amount; while(balance > 0){ if(balance >= Coin.QUARTER.getDenomination() && cashInventory.hasItem(Coin.QUARTER)){ changes.add(Coin.QUARTER); balance = balance - Coin.QUARTER.getDenomination(); continue; }else if(balance >= Coin.DIME.getDenomination() && cashInventory.hasItem(Coin.DIME)) { changes.add(Coin.DIME); balance = balance - Coin.DIME.getDenomination(); continue; }else if(balance >= Coin.NICKLE.getDenomination() && cashInventory.hasItem(Coin.NICKLE)) { changes.add(Coin.NICKLE); balance = balance - Coin.NICKLE.getDenomination(); continue; }else if(balance >= Coin.PENNY.getDenomination() && cashInventory.hasItem(Coin.PENNY)) { changes.add(Coin.PENNY); balance = balance - Coin.PENNY.getDenomination(); continue; }else{ throw new NotSufficientChangeException("NotSufficientChange, Please try another product"); } } } return changes; } @Override public void reset(){ cashInventory.clear(); itemInventory.clear(); totalSales = 0; currentItem = null; currentBalance = 0; } public void printStats(){ System.out.println("Total Sales : " + totalSales); System.out.println("Current Item Inventory : " + itemInventory); System.out.println("Current Cash Inventory : " + cashInventory); } private boolean hasSufficientChange(){ return hasSufficientChangeForAmount(currentBalance - currentItem.getPrice()); } private boolean hasSufficientChangeForAmount(long amount){ boolean hasChange = true; try{ getChange(amount); }catch(NotSufficientChangeException nsce){ return hasChange = false; } return hasChange; } private void updateCashInventory(List change) { for(Coin c : change){ cashInventory.deduct(c); } } public long getTotalSales(){ return totalSales; } }
A Factory class to create different kinds of Vending Machine
package vending; /** * Factory class to create instance of Vending Machine, this can be extended to create instance of * different types of vending machines. * @author Javin Paul */ public class VendingMachineFactory { public static VendingMachine createVendingMachine() { return new VendingMachineImpl(); } }
Java Enum to represent Item served by Vending Machine
package vending; /** * Items or products supported by Vending Machine. * @author Javin Paul */ public enum Item{ COKE("Coke", 25), PEPSI("Pepsi", 35), SODA("Soda", 45); private String name; private int price; private Item(String name, int price){ this.name = name; this.price = price; } public String getName(){ return name; } public long getPrice(){ return price; } }
Another Java Enum to represent Coins supported by Vending Machine
package vending; /** * Coins supported by Vending Machine. * @author Javin Paul */ public enum Coin { PENNY(1), NICKLE(5), DIME(10), QUARTER(25); private int denomination; private Coin(int denomination){ this.denomination = denomination; } public int getDenomination(){ return denomination; } }
A Java class to represent an Inventory, used for creating case and item inventory inside Vending Machine.
package vending; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Map; /** * An Adapter over Map to create Inventory to hold cash and * Items inside Vending Machine * @author Javin Paul */ public class Inventory<T> { private Map<T, Integer> inventory = new HashMap<T, Integer>(); public int getQuantity(T item){ Integer value = inventory.get(item); return value == null? 0 : value ; } public void add(T item){ int count = inventory.get(item); inventory.put(item, count+1); } public void deduct(T item) { if (hasItem(item)) { int count = inventory.get(item); inventory.put(item, count - 1); } } public boolean hasItem(T item){ return getQuantity(item) > 0; } public void clear(){ inventory.clear(); } public void put(T item, int quantity) { inventory.put(item, quantity); } }
A parameterized utility class to hold two objects.
package vending; /** * A parameterized utility class to hold two different object. * @author Javin Paul */ public class Bucket<E1, E2> { private E1 first; private E2 second; public Bucket(E1 first, E2 second){ this.first = first; this.second = second; } public E1 getFirst(){ return first; } public E2 getSecond(){ return second; } }
An Exception, thrown by Vending Machine when a user tries to collect an item, without paying the full amount.
package vending; public class NotFullPaidException extends RuntimeException { private String message; private long remaining; public NotFullPaidException(String message, long remaining) { this.message = message; this.remaining = remaining; } public long getRemaining(){ return remaining; } @Override public String getMessage(){ return message + remaining; } }
Vending Machine throws this exception to indicate that it doesn't have sufficient change to complete this request.
package vending; public class NotSufficientChangeException extends RuntimeException { private String message; public NotSufficientChangeException(String string) { this.message = string; } @Override public String getMessage(){ return message; } }
The Vending Machine throws this exception if the user request for a product which is sold out
package vending; public class SoldOutException extends RuntimeException { private String message; public SoldOutException(String string) { this.message = string; } @Override public String getMessage(){ return message; } }
That's all in this first part of how to design a vending machine in Java. In this part, we have solved the problem by creating all the classes and writing all code, but unit test and design document are still pending, which you will see in the second part of this article.
If you want you can try to run this problem by creating the Unit test, or maybe make it an application by using a thread and then use a different thread to act as the user. You can also read UML for Java Programmers by Robert C. Martin in the meantime.
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swiss cheese, spinach and ham brioches
- 16 slices brioche
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 16 slices Swiss cheese
- 8 slices leg ham
- 80g baby spinach leaves
- unsalted butter, for brushing
- Spread half the brioche slices with the mustard, top with the cheese, ham and spinach and sandwich with the remaining brioche.
- Heat a large non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Brush both sides of the sandwiches with butter and cook for 2−3 minutes each side or until golden and the cheese has melted. Serves 4.
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farthest my humble P&S could go. :)
from the tenth floor
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Posted by Kaje at 23:30 0 comments
kendi ba ito?
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Parang yung nabibiling tig-bentsingko nung araw.
Parang yung nabibiling tig-bentsingko nung araw.
Posted by Kaje at 16:14 0 comments
Saturday, August 20, 2005
aaaaahhhhh, perfect for the thirsty!
Posted by Kaje at 19:25 0 comments
in a bit...
Thursday, August 18, 2005
...we will be of use,
from dusk til dawn.
teka pelikula yun ah!
from dusk til dawn.
teka pelikula yun ah!
Posted by Kaje at 23:33 0 comments
cheap happiness
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
A new set each year is enough.
Posted by Kaje at 21:06 1 comments
itlog mo
Monday, August 15, 2005
Sa school , pinaghahalo ang "bad eggs" at "good eggs".
Para magaya sa "good eggs" ang "bad eggs".
Pero minsan, baliktad and resulta.
Para magaya sa "good eggs" ang "bad eggs".
Pero minsan, baliktad and resulta.
Posted by Kaje at 17:16 0 comments
dance with me
Friday, August 12, 2005
masaya dito!
masaya dito!
Posted by Kaje at 09:13 0 comments
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Wala lang. Natuwa lang ako sa symmetry at lighting...
Pati sa shadows.
Pati sa shadows.
Posted by Kaje at 21:30 2 comments
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Sa isang sementeryo ang mga tanawing ito.
Both the living and the dead are probably at peace.
Both the living and the dead are probably at peace.
Posted by Kaje at 22:37 5 comments
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Kukupit ka lang, iiwan mo pa ibidinsya. :)
Posted by Kaje at 16:35 2 comments
hearts a-flutter
Thursday, August 04, 2005
How wonderful it is to be in-love.
Even the chandeliers cooperate :)
Even the chandeliers cooperate :)
Posted by Kaje at 13:38 4 comments
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Do you sometimes feel the urge to be alone?
Posted by Kaje at 22:25 0 comments
so dry
Monday, August 01, 2005
How can it be so dry yet so captivating?
Posted by Kaje at 10:31 0 comments
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FARMINGTON — Farmington police announced Tuesday two shootings reported on Friday appear to be linked to an incident at a residence on Meetinghouse Hill Road.
The police department says they continue to actively investigate circumstances that led to two men – a 21-year-old and a 24-year-old – sustaining gunshot wounds at 316 Meetinghouse Hill Road. One victim was treated at York Hospital in York, Maine, Friday afternoon, for a gunshot wound to the head, before checking out hours later with minor injuries. The other victim was originally treated at Portsmouth Regional Hospital for a gunshot wound to the chest before he was transferred to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he is currently being treated, according to a department press release.
The injuries are considered to be not life threatening at this time and the identities of the men have not been released by authorities.
Farmington police say they were notified of the incident on Saturday around 4 p.m. though the incident occurred on Friday, Jan. 11. Police Chief Kevin Willey confirmed the incident was originally thought to have occurred in Barrington, though he wouldn't say how investigators first received that false information.
Following interviews, it was determined the crime occurred in Farmington and the department then requested assistance from the Strafford County Regional Tactical Operations Unit, which executed a search warrant at the Meetinghouse Hill property early Sunday morning without incident.
Willey noted the man at York Hospital "at this point, is not cooperating" with officers. The Portsmouth Herald reported the man at Portsmouth Regional told officials he was shot while riding a four-wheeler vehicle near power lines in Barrington.
Willey said the next steps in the investigation will include finding witnesses to interview and gathering evidence.
"We're currently investigating and attempting to locate and interview any additional witnesses," he said. "…There are a number of steps including obtaining and analyzing forensic evidence, witness interviews and then we'll see where the investigation takes us from there."
Willey noted gun crime in Farmington is not common. The last shooting incident was reported last summer where a Farmington man accidentally killed himself while cleaning a loaded gun and falling down a flight of stairs in his apartment complex. Prior to that, Willey said there was an incident 18 months ago but the crime remains unsolved due to an uncooperative alleged victim in the case.
He said authorities are releasing few details in the current Meetinghouse Hill case and would not say what kind of firearm or ammunition was used at this time.
No suspects are in custody and the investigation is moving forward with assistance from the New Hampshire State Police and the Strafford County Attorney's office, according to Farmington police.
Those with more information are urged to contact Farmington police at 755-2731 ext. 105 for Det. Brian Driscoll or to call the anonymous department Crimeline at 755-9797.
Police trace weekend shootings to Farmington
FARMINGTON — Farmington police announced Tuesday two shootings reported on Friday appear to be linked to an incident at a residence on Meetinghouse Hill Road.


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Charlottesville has a little secret, one that might make you sweat, shake, and feel a little like Ricky Martin or maybe even Desi Arnaz.
The Charlottesville Salsa Club has been hosting Salsa Night almost every Sunday for the last year and half at Outback Lodge's Down Under. For a mere $5 ($3 for members), J-Lo wannabes get an hour's worth of salsa lessons from the members, and then a full night of smoking-hot salsa dance numbers spun by Oscar Truillio, a.k.a. DJ "O".
Regulars live for this night. Not knowing how to salsa is no excuse– newcomers are absolutely not allowed to stand around. Guys, if you bring a date, make sure you're not the jealous type, because everyone dances with everyone else.
Regulars go out of their way to make everyone feel safe and comfortable. From 50-year-olds to 20-year-olds, whites, blacks, Latinos, even Russians Salsa Night is just a big salad bowl with hot pepper dressing.
If you've never done the Salsa, go around 8pm Sunday for some lessons– and stay for the excitement.


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Prevention and control of cholera outbreaks: WHO policy and recommendations
Measures for the prevention of cholera mostly consist of providing clean water and proper sanitation to populations who do not yet have access to basic services. Health education and good food hygiene are equally important. Communities should be reminded of basic hygienic behaviours, including the necessity of systematic hand-washing with soap after defecation and before handling food or eating, as well as safe preparation and conservation of food. Appropriate media, such as radio, television or newspapers should be involved in disseminating health education messages. Community and religious leaders should also be associated to social mobilization campaigns.
In addition, strengthening surveillance and early warning greatly helps in detecting the first cases and put in place control measures. Conversely, routine treatment of a community with antibiotics, or mass chemoprophylaxis, has no effect on the spread of cholera, can have adverse effects by increasing antimicrobial resistance and provides a false sense of security.
Key messages
- Provision of safe water, proper sanitation, and food safety are critical for preventing occurrence of cholera.
- Health education aims at communities adopting preventive behaviour for averting contamination.


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Having worked both strategically and operationally in data driven innovation and analytics, Tobias Witt eagerly explores the new opportunities arising from digitalization within areas such as information management, business intelligence or advanced analytics. In his opinion, being data-driven is about giving decision makers the power to explore data and make predictions: Organizations need to adapt to this mindset if they are to succeed in the future.
As Manager at SAS Advisory Services as well as speaker at various events and SAS forums, Tobias works to inspire others to become more information driven. More specifically, he has helped customers particularly in the Telecom and Public sectors exploring and developing opportunities around AI and Machine learning, Business Intelligence and Data Management. Before joining SAS, Tobias held positions at PostNord, IBM and PwC.


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Colabello thankful for opportunity to help Twins
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Twins did not go into the All-Star break quietly.
Three struggling hitters -- Chris Parmelee, Eduardo Escobar and Oswaldo Arcia -- were sent to Triple-A, and two players were initially called up -- Chris Herrmann and Doug Bernier. The third player was not announced immediately, but most suspected that Chris Colabello would fill the spot.
It was a call he wasn't expecting, but sure enough, after a quick trip to Reno, Nev., for an appearance in the Triple-A All-Star game and the Triple-A Home Run Derby, Colabello began his third stint of the season with the Twins.
"I try not to think too much about what other people are making decisions about," Colabello said. "I just kind of go about my business every day the best I can. When you hear something, you hear something. If you don't, you don't."
Colabello was informed that the Twins were going to recall him prior to the official release. After the All-Star game and the Home Run Derby -- in which he admittedly hit poorly -- Colabello made his way straight to Minnesota from Reno.
Colabello served as the designated hitter and batted sixth in the Twins' first two games of the second half.
"We just want to see him get some swings," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "The kid has done everything he can do at Triple-A. We've got a couple of kids scuffling up here. We're trying to get them straightened out, and he's earned a shot here to get some swings."
In 85 games with the Rochester Red Wings, Colabello had a .354/.432/.652 slash line with 76 RBIs. In the Majors, he is 2-for-20 in eight games.
In Friday's 3-2 win over the Indians, he went 0-for-4 with a strikeout, but he's trying to remain positive and simply make the most of his time in the big leagues.
"I'm just going to try and have as much fun as possible every day," Colabello said. "Play the game, help the team win some games. Every step I take from this moment on will be a great one in my mind, whatever happens. I'm thankful to this organization for giving me the opportunity they did. Whatever comes for me, comes for me. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to play. That's why I played the game my whole life."
But as Colabello starts to settle into his game, the biggest difference to him isn't the new level or increased competition, rather it's the 35,000 fans watching and the big scoreboards and screens that display highlights and replays throughout the game.
"Obviously, the guys on the mound are going to have a little bit better stuff, but at the end of the day, they still have to throw strikes," Colabello said. "You're competing with a baseball. You're not necessarily competing with the guy that's throwing."


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Appeals court allows incriminating evidence at Jacques trial
Death penalty case still months from opening argument
The high-profile trial of a Vermont man charged with kidnapping and killing his 12-year-old niece in 2008 is still a year away, despite a new federal appeals court ruling in the case.
Michael Jacques of Randolph has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Brooke Bennett. Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in the case.
Reversing an earlier ruling by District Judge William Sessions, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York will allow testimony Jacques made to a prison informant to be used at his upcoming trial.
Prosecutors say Jacques discussed a plan to try to divert blame for the murder to a ficticious international sex ring he dubbed "Breckenridge."
The appeals court sent the case back to Sessions for upcoming trial, which Sessions has estimated could take four months.
Scheduling conflicts with the specialized legal team defending Jacques, however, were expected to prevent the start of trial until September, 2013.
Jerry O'Neill, a former U.S. Attorney for Vermont, said nothing is speedy or typical in cases involving the death penalty.
"The courts bend over backwards, further than anyone can imagine, to make sure people subjected to the death penalty in the federal system have a fair opportunity to be heard," O'Neill said. "It's hard on the family of a victim."
At the last hearing in Burlington on June 29th, Bennett's family expressed anger and sadness over the long wait for justice.
"They don't have the chapter of that book closed, the the reality is they won't have it closed even if he's convicted for probably another five or ten years simply because of appeals and collateral appeals," O'Neill said.
Another concern expressed by Sessions is finding a jury to hear the case. O'Neill noted it is always difficult to find jurors willing to sentence a man to death, in any state, should the circumstances of the case call for it, but he said media coverage of the crime is not likely to be an impediment.
"Even in the most highly-publicized cases we've had in Vermont, it's been possible to pick a jury," O'Neill said. "I don't expect they'll have any difficulty picking one here."