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Iraq: Nadje Al-Ali's new book shows how US invasion set women's rights back 70 years
Al-Ali's new book, written with the political scientist Nicola Pratt, is based on interviews with 120 women, including Iraqi women's rights activists, NGO workers and international policymakers. The climate that they describe in Iraq is one of lawless "hyper-patriarchy", and with this evidence in tow, Al-Ali and Pratt take aim at a wide range of targets. These include the occupying powers, extremist Islamist militias, Iraqi leaders and "imperialist feminists" (those who claim solidarity with women from developing countries while stereotyping their cultures as barbaric).
Al-Ali, 42, is a second-generation Iraqi immigrant whose extended family has seen the sharpest end of both Saddam Hussein's regime and the post-invasion chaos. An established author and academic at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, she is staunchly "anti-imperialist and anti-war" but finds herself regularly at odds with some of her natural allies, who object to her speaking out against Iraqi resistance fighters. Still, Al-Ali believes it's important to take this stance. "A significant proportion of Iraqi groups engaged in armed resistance against the occupation are also harassing, intimidating and even murdering ordinary Iraqis," she says, "particularly women and vulnerable groups."
The fact that George W Bush depicted the invasion of Iraq as a path to women's empowerment makes the situation even more outrageous. In her book, Al-Ali meticulously explains how Condoleezza Rice and Laura Bush were deployed to reassure the world that the US was concerned with women's liberation - Laura Bush being wheeled out for photo-opportunities with US organisations such as Women for Free Iraq.
How has such posturing in Washington affected women's lives in Iraq? "It helped to legitimise the invasion in the first place," says Al-Ali. But surely no one really believed that the war was about liberating Iraqi women? "There's an imperialist brand of feminism that's very widespread in the States," she says. "When I give talks there, women's rights [in Muslim culture] are always the one big 'but' for anti-war peace activists." Al-Ali feels that the cynical use of the women's rights discourse by the US has also led to a backlash against feminist activists in Iraq, who can be easily undermined, or even vilified, by being accused of supporting an American agenda.
Does she see the establishment of a 25% quota for women in the Iraqi parliament as a sign of progress? "Yes," she concedes, "but who are the 25% in practice? They are the sisters, daughters and wives of the male conservative leaders. They've no political background and when there's a vote they look around to see what the men are doing before they lift their hands. However, yes it is a positive because it has allowed six to eight secular women's rights activists into parliament who wouldn't have got in otherwise."
The book repeatedly suggests that extremist Islamist groups are forcing Taliban-like conditions on Iraqi women - surprising given the cultural differences between Afghanistan and Iraq, where women have typically been well educated. How real is this threat? "It's very real," says Al-Ali. "In 2004, it was simply leaflets telling women to veil, and many of the women I spoke to said, 'If this is the only thing I have to do to go on with my life as normal, OK.' Soon it moved on to students at Basra university being threatened if they didn't agree to gender-segregated classes." Now, article 41 in the new Iraqi constitution effectively repeals the existing, and relatively progressive, laws governing marriage and divorce.
When I point out that throughout the book Islam only ever appears as a destructive force Al-Ali is rattled. Her use of the slippery term "Islamists" at times seems interchangeable with "terrorist insurgents", and progressives are invariably tagged with the approving "secular" but never "Muslim". She defends herself by saying that in the past she has "clashed with fundamentalist secular groups [in the anti-war movement] who say the problem in Iraq is Islam. Most of the secular women activists we refer to are practising Muslims."
Al-Ali was born to a German mother and an Iraqi father who had moved to Europe to study. She grew up in a non-religious household in Germany, and it wasn't until she attended university in Tucson, Arizona - where she met a circle of confident second-generation Arabs - that she began to think about her roots. On graduating, she moved to Egypt and became involved in the women's movement, before starting a PhD in London. By chance, she rented a room from the feminist sociologist Cynthia Cockburn and for the next few years found herself at the hub of an international network of peace activists.
In 2000, she established Act Together - Women's Action for Iraq - a group opposing economic sanctions against Iraq, and then against the invasion. This was followed, in 2007, by her book Iraqi Women - Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present, a social history of the women's movement. Al-Ali dedicated the book to her aunt Salima, a cancer patient who died in May 2003 after she developed severe breathing difficulties and a curfew in Baghdad prevented her from getting to hospital.
The short description of the night of Salima's death - when one of her male relatives went out into the neighbourhood, risking his life to find oxygen - fizzes with fury. The family had already coped with one of Al-Ali's uncles being executed under Saddam, and they remained in Baghdad until the murder of her nephew and another uncle in August 2007 at the family home, for what she now believes to be either political or sectarian reasons. "They thought they were safe, knowing all their neighbours, so they were just sitting in the kitchen when they strolled in and shot them." The rest of the family fled from Iraq to Jordan, thereby joining the two million Iraqis abroad. They put the three young men of the family on a plane to Syria for safety but they were turned back, forced to return to Baghdad. "We were very, very scared," says Al-Ali, "and there's only so much one can do from the outside."
Al-Ali treads a difficult path with caution. Like many, she believes that Iraqi women can never be "liberated" by western military intervention, but by speaking out against the Iraqi resistance, she has often alienated those in the anti-war movement. Ultimately, she doesn't know how much difference her work can make - she tells me that she often feels impotent watching atrocities in Iraq unfold on the news. But she is adamant that the future of Iraq depends on the energy and fearlessness of the grass roots women's groups that were much in evidence just after the invasion. It was they who went into hospitals and schools to salvage them and who have managed to co-operate across sectarian battle lines. "I hate the picture of Iraqi women as passive victims of honour crimes and bombs," she says. "I really want to break this".
28 January 2009
By: Sara Wajid
Source: The Guardian
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DETROIT — A man the FBI believed was a Detroit mob underboss is the latest to claim he can solve the mystery behind the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa.
Tony Zerilli, 85, told WDIV-TV in Detroit that Hoffa, 62, was temporarily buried in a field in northern Oakland County, Mich., after he was kidnapped on the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from a restaurant parking lot in Oakland County. Hoffa's body has never been found and his disappearance sparked one of the 20th century's biggest mysteries.
Zerilli, who denied during the interview that he was in the mob, said he was in jail at the time, but heard about the incident after he was released. He said he believes Hoffa's body is still buried 30 miles away from the restaurant, and that he's talked to the FBI about it.
"The master plan was, as I understood, they were going to put him in a shallow grave here, and they were going to take him from here to Rogers City, upstate, where there was a hunting lodge," Zerilli said during the interview. "That just fell through."
Simon Shaykhet, spokesman for the FBI's Detroit office, said the agency has no comment on the claims.
Andy Arena, who retired as director of the FBI's Detroit office in May, said he would investigate Zerilli's claims were he still with the agency.
"Anthony Zerilli was reputed to be the underboss of the Detroit organized crime family, so he would have been in the know," said Arena, who now leads the Detroit Crime Commission, a year-old nonprofit group made up of former law enforcement officers and analysts who investigate criminal activity and quality of life issues in metro Detroit. "In my opinion, he would have known what happened."
The FBI has theorized that Hoffa disappeared after going to the restaurant for a reconciliation meeting with Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano, a mob-connected New Jersey Teamster official, and Anthony (Tony Jack) Giacalone, a Detroit mafia captain.
The FBI believed that Provenzano and Giacalone had Hoffa killed to prevent him from regaining the Teamsters presidency and ending the mob's influence over the union and easy access to Teamster pension funds. Hoffa ran the union in 1957-71.
Various theories — and numerous books and interviews — surmise that Hoffa's body was either burned in an incinerator or buried.
In September, the Roseville (Mich.) Police Department with the assistance of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality used sonar equipment and soil samples to see whether a body was buried under a driveway.
Although the informant's contention that Hoffa was buried there didn't match a police timeline of Hoffa's disappearance, Roseville Police Chief James Berlin said he'd take the same steps under identical circumstances — despite the media frenzy that descended on a quiet suburban side street to witness the fruitless search.
"You just can't blow it off," he said. "You have to gauge the credibility of those involved and go from there."
In 2006, the FBI spent 14 days digging at a horse farm in Milford, Mich., in an unsuccessful effort to find Hoffa's remains.
Shaykhet would not comment on whether the agency will be conducting any searches in the near future.


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Preliminary harvest numbers show that the 2012 spring turkey harvest of 11,324 is the third-highest ever, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
"Minnesota's turkey population largely has rebounded from the severe winter of 2010-2011 and last year's cold, wet spring," said Steve Merchant, DNR wildlife program and populations manager. "These resilient and productive birds provided hunters with more opportunity."
Hunters purchased 42,563 licenses this year, down from the 45,923 purchased in 2011. The 2010 spring turkey harvest was the highest on record. That year also had an early spring. Last year, spring season hunters harvested 10,060 turkeys, down significantly from the 2010 spring harvest of 13,468.
"I suspect license sales were down this year partly because of last year's poor spring season," Merchant said.
Turkey zone consolidation from 80 zones to 12 gave hunters more options to hunt. The 2012 hunter success rate was 27 percent.
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Turn off those alarm clocks. Due to forecasts of continued rain in the area, the Mets have pushed Friday's workout back to noon ET. Manager Terry Collins hopes the change will allow his team to avoid a replay of Thursday's sloppy conditions, which robbed pitchers and catchers of a regular workout.
"We didn't get all the conditioning in we wanted," Collins said. "We've got to get the throwing in, because starting next Monday those guys have got to be ready to start throwing batting practice and get ready for games. We got the work done we wanted, but we've got some other things we've got to get done too."
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The long and tumultuous matter of the Port of Los Angeles' Clean Truck Program came to a head in the Supreme Court Tuesday, with Justices conducting a spirited discussion with opposing attorneys.
At issue are two provisions of the port's 2008 Clean Trucks Program under which drayage carriers must join a concession agreement in order to provide service.
American Trucking Associations has pursued through the lower courts the argument that the port does not have authority to require the provisions.
ATA contends that the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act exempts carriers from the off-street parking and placard provisions of the agreement.
Those provisions require carriers to submit an off-street parking plan, and to mount placards with a phone number so the public can report concerns about safety or the environment.
ATA also says that under a 1954 Supreme Court decision, Castle v. Hayes Freight Lines, the port may not suspend or revoke a carrier's access.
The issues come down to the division of power between states and the federal government, a question the Justices pursued in a number of ways.
By restricting entry and imposing criminal penalties for violations of the agreement, the port is limiting access to a key channel of interstate commerce, argued ATA's attorney, Daniel Lerman of the Washington, D.C., law firm of Robbins Russell.
"The port is invoking the full coercive power of the state to impose conditions on motor carriers, and that is exactly what Congress sought to prevent," he said.
The port contends that it can impose these restrictions because it is a participant in the market, rather than just a state regulator, and as such is exempt from the Federal Aviation Act.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked Lerman if the court needs to address the market participant question, given that it can decide that the agreement either has the force of law or is a private contract.
"It either has the force and effect of law or it doesn't," Lerman replied. If it does have that force, then the court does not need to address market participation, he said.
Justice Stephen Breyer said it seemed clear to him that the port should be able to impose parking requirements under the authority of the states to impose highway route controls.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked how the federal government, which is supporting ATA in this matter, thinks the port should deal with the underlying problem of complaints from the people who live near the port.
"Here is a port that's getting lots of complaints from the neighborhood people," she said.
"It wants to expand the port, it's being thwarted by environmental suits, so it wants to go green and it wants to do something about the pollution and the traffic and the hazards from the truck. You're saying that it can't do that?"
The attorney for the U.S., Assistant Solicitor General John Bash, replied he was not saying that the port has no recourse.
He cited the port's approach to getting cleaner trucks into the drayage business, which involved creating a subsidy and incentive program to replace old trucks with new ones, as a way to achieve its goals without imposing criminal penalties.
On another point, Justice Breyer questioned the attorney for the port, Steven Rosenthal of the Washington, D.C., firm Kaye Scholer, about the issue of how the port may control its land.
"The owner of land has to have some control of the type which ATA and the government says we can't have control over," Rosenthal said.
Breyer said, "You're saying it falls outside the definition of 'routes.' Well, that argument is not in front of us. I thought we were conceding here (that the concession agreement) falls within the definition of routes or rates or services."
Rosenthal replied that that is not the case. "Our position is that even it is its rates, routes and services, what the port is doing is regulatory.
"If we are prescribing it, it's inherent within our ability to access our particular land."
In a statement released after the argument, ATA said it is concerned about the precedent that will be set if the LA port's approach is upheld.
"If these rules are allowed to stand, it would clear the way for a patchwork of regulations that would lead to unreasonable burdens on the movement of goods," said ATA Deputy Chief Counsel Richard Pianka in a statement.
Other groups supporting ATA in the matter are the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Airlines for America, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Harbor Trucking Association.
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- Social discernment — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, ਸਿੱਟੇ ਜ ਸਮੱਸਿਆ ਨੂੰ ਪਹੁੰਚ.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Work together with other professionals to assess patients' medical or physical condition and to assess client needs.
- Advocate for clients or patients to determine crises.
- Refer patient, client, or family to community possessions to assist in recovery from mental or physical illness and to provide access to services such as financial assistance, legal aid, ਹਾਊਸਿੰਗ, job placement or education.
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In the past, those who obtained higher education were often associated with a high standard of living and prestigious social status. The chance to attend university was viewed as a necessary milestone in life if one wanted to achieve success financially — graduates proudly displayed their degrees on job applications and interviews. However, attitudes towards higher education today have turned, in light of growing discontentment with graduates being unable to find well-paying jobs despite their good qualifications. Furthermore, many point towards powerful, successful individuals like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Li Ka Shing, who seem to have made it in life without higher education, or even walked away from it. In spite of such claims, for a majority of people, higher education undoubtedly remains key to achieving success. Not only are degrees badges of acquired skill, they are sometimes even status symbols. In addition, the experience of going through higher education often proves to be greatly important if one seeks a successful career.
It is easy to see why there has been increasing optimism of attaining success through means other than higher education. First, the rapid growth of online courses such as Coursera and Phoenix University have led to the argument that the advent of the Internet has made it such that individuals no longer need higher education to obtain the skills they require for their jobs. Second, people often lament that despite obtaining degrees, they are unable to find work, and cannot pay off college debts they have accumulated. Third, mass media platforms have recently painted pictures of how individuals like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg reached the very peak of what it means to be "successful", without ever needing the support of higher education. This leads to the claim that higher education has lost its ability to deliver some measures of success. These three arguments present the case that higher education is no longer necessary for success.
However, it is overly assertive to claim that the skills that people learn from university education are irrelevant, even with the aid of the Internet. Instead, it is more reasonable to believe that higher education provides greater opportunities for learning. Though it may be possible to obtain the same access to information, it is only at universities that individuals of similar interests are able to gather in a classroom, exchange thoughts and ideas with each other, and learn under the tutelage of professors at the forefronts of their fields. Comparatively, those who do not attend higher education do not have that same opportunity to ask peers or professors for help when they run into problems understanding the content taught. Especially for specialised fields like biotechnology and law, the skills and knowledge necessary for the future remain largely accessible only to those who have undergone higher education. From this, it is clear that university graduates have greater propensity to gain skills and knowledge than non-graduates.
In addition, the university degree itself is a badge of acquired skill, reassuring employers that these employees have learnt the content, and are able to handle the work assigned to them. This means that graduates are more likely to be hired than non-graduates, which often translates into higher salaries. From April to June 2013, graduates were more likely to be employed than non-graduates in the UK, and non-graduates aged 21 to 30 have consistently higher unemployment rates than their peers who are more qualified. This directly responds to the claim that graduates remain likely to face unemployment woes despite their good academic qualifications. Furthermore, the trust that employers have in graduates' ability to perform better often translates into greater financial remuneration. Today, bachelor's degree holders can expect median lifetime earnings of about US$2.3 million, as compared to US$1.3 million for workers with just a high school diploma. Ultimately, higher education does in fact bring about greater financial success for graduates.
It is also fallacious to argue that higher education has stopped being a necessary part to being successful just because there have been exceptions to it. Not only were Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates intellectual geniuses and visionaries who had foreseen and grasped business opportunities, they were born into circumstances which ultimately facilitated their success. Courses offered at universities could not offer advice to these entrepreneurs embarking as pioneers of a new field. On the other hand, an overwhelming proportion of individuals do not enjoy the same kind of privilege, be it financial or intellectual. Hence, for most, the likely route to success is higher education, which sets them apart from other job applicants.
In fact, for most occupations excluding degree-blind jobs such as entrepreneurship and advertising, higher education plays an integral role in assimilating graduates into their future workplaces. Upon entering the workplace, university graduates depend upon the ties they had developed to help them along, and this often stems from their higher education experience. For example, specialists often depend on the referrals of other doctors to obtain a base of patients. In such a situation, getting to know others who are in the field is incredibly important for one's career advancement prospects. Thus, higher education is not just about the content and skills involved, but also the relationships graduates develop with each other. The social advantage that higher education offers hence allows graduates to get a leg up over non-graduates.
In essence, higher education remains necessary for success.. This is not to say that all graduates are necessarily more successful than all non-graduates, because of the multitude of factors involved. However, university graduates do indeed benefit greatly from higher education, a crucial factor contributing to being successful. Not only does the content of such courses remain highly relevant to the industry, the degree that graduates gain and the experiences they obtained gives an indisputable advantage over non-graduates. In fact, governments' continued spending on higher education — America spends 2.7% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on higher education — only serves as a testament to its importance.


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Urine sodium test, Na test
This test measures the amount of salt (sodium) in your urine.
Sodium is in many things you eat. It's found in many processed foods, like pretzels and chips. It's even in some medicines.
Your body needs some sodium to balance other minerals that are in your blood. Sodium is also needed to carry nutrients to different parts of your body. If you have too much sodium, your kidneys absorb it and clear it from your body through urine. But if you have kidney damage, your kidneys may not be able to remove the sodium the way they should. Eating foods with too much sodium can then lead to high blood pressure. This is because the sodium causes your body to hold on to water.
You may need this test if your sodium level is not normal on a blood test. This test helps your healthcare provider find out if you have kidney damage or another condition that can threaten your health.
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Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) to measure the amount of fluid your kidneys filter
Blood urea nitrogen, or BUN
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Results are given in milliequivalents per liter (mEq/L). Normal results for a spot, or one-time, urine sample are 20 mEq/L.
Abnormal results may be caused by:
Kidney, heart, or liver problems
A condition that affects your thyroid gland
Loss of too much water from your body (dehydration)
Medicines such as water pills (diuretics)
Too much salt in your diet
A condition that affects your sodium levels
This test is done with a urine sample. Your healthcare provider will tell you how to collect the sample.
This test poses no known risks.
Eating a diet high in salt or taking medicine for high blood pressure can affect your results. Your results may also be affected if you have had vomiting or diarrhea.
You may have to drink a certain amount of water before giving a urine sample. In addition, be sure your healthcare provider knows about all medicines, herbs, vitamins, and supplements you are taking. This includes medicines that don't need a prescription and any illegal drugs you may use.
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Grails Spring Events Plugin
compile "org.grails.plugins:spring-events:1.2"
Provides asynchronous Spring application event processing for Grails applications
Grails Spring Events PluginThe Grails Spring Events plugin provides a lightweight mechanism for asynchronously publishing Spring application events.The plugin adds a second ApplicationEventMulticaster (in addition to the standard synchronous multicaster) that processes events asynchronously and is capable of retrying certain types of notification failure.
Publishing eventsTo publish an event you simply need to call the
publishEvent method on any Spring registered ApplicationEventPublisher implementation. The
ApplicationContext is the most obvious candidate, although you could also have a service implement the
ApplicationEventPublisher interface and use that.To make things even easier the plugin adds a
publishEvent method to every domain class, controller and service in the application.
Example: Firing an event when a domain class is updated:
class Pirate { String name void afterUpdate() { def event = new PirateUpdateEvent(this) publishEvent(event) } }class PirateUpdateEvent extends ApplicationEvent { PirateUpdateEvent(Pirate source) { super(source) } }
Defining ListenersEvents are dispatched to any beans in the Spring context that implement the ApplicationListener interface. You can register listener beans in
resources.groovy . Also, remember that Grails services are Spring beans, so simply implementing the interface in a service will automatically register it as a listener.
Filtering the type of eventThe
ApplicationListener interface has a generic type parameter that you can use to filter the types of event that a listener implementation will be notified about. Spring will simply not invoke your listener for other types of event.
Example: Using generics to filter the event type in a listener
class PirateUpdateResponderService implements ApplicationListener<PirateUpdateEvent> { void onApplicationEvent(PirateUpdateEvent event) { log.info "Yarrr! The dread pirate $event.source.name has been updated!" } }
Retrying failed notificationsListener implementations may declare a
retryPolicy property of type
grails.plugin.springevents.RetryPolicy (or declare a
getRetryPolicy() method). If such a property is present and the listener throws
grails.plugin.springevents.RetryableFailureException from the
onApplicationEvent method it will be re-notified at some time in the future according to the
retryPolicy value. Throwing any other exception type will not result in notification being retried.
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RetryableFailureException thrown by a listener implementation is treated just like any other exception if the listener does not declare a @[email protected]
RetryPolicy class simply defines the rules governing how and when to re-notify the listener of any events it fails to handle. It defines the following properties:
- maxRetries: The maximum number of times that the listener will be re-notified of an event. After
maxRetriesis reached an exception is thrown and will be handled as any other exception thrown by the listener would be. A value of
-1indicates that the listener should be re-notified indefinitely until it successfully processes the event. Defaults to _3_.
- initialRetryDelayMillis: The initial period in milliseconds that the service will wait before re-notifying the listener. Defaults to 1 minute.
- backoffMultiplier: The multiplier applied to the retry timeout before the second and subsequent retry. For example with a
backoffMultiplierof 2 and
initialRetryDelayMillisof 1000 the listener will be re-notified after 1000 milliseconds, 2000 milliseconds, 4000 milliseconds, 8000 milliseconds and so on. A
backoffMultiplierof 1 would mean the listener will be re-notified at a fixed interval until it successfully handles the event or
maxRetriesis exceeded. Defaults to _2_.
Example: A listener that calls an unreliable external service:
In this example the listener throws
class UnreliableListener implements ApplicationListener { def unreliableService final RetryPolicy retryPolicy = new RetryPolicy() void onApplicationEvent(ApplicationEvent event) { boolean success = true if (event instanceof AnInterestingEvent) { if (unreliableService.isAvailable()) { unreliableService.doSomething() } else { throw new RetryableFailureException("the unreliable service is currently unavailable") } } } }
RetryableFailureException to indicate that the external service it attempts to call is not currently available and notification should be attempted later.
Customising the multicasterThe multicaster has several default dependencies that can be overridden using Grails' property override configuration mechanism.
Handling notification errorsIf a listener throws an exception from its
onApplicationEvent method (or its retry policy's
maxRetries is exceeded) then the multicaster will notify its error handler. The default error handler simply logs errors but you can override it by assigning a different ErrorHandler implementation to the service in
[email protected]: implementation by overriding the service's
Customising threading policyThe multicaster uses a ExecutorService to poll the queue and notify the target listener. By default the service uses a single thread but you can use an alternate @ExecutorService
taskExecutor property in
[email protected]Similarly the service uses a ScheduledExecutorService to re-queue failed notifications after the delay specified by the listener's retry policy. The default implementation uses a single thread which can be overridden by setting the property @retryScheduler in @[email protected]
Example: Overriding the dependencies of the multicaster in @[email protected]:
beans {
asyncApplicationEventMulticaster {
errorHandler = new SomeErrorHandlerImpl()
taskExecutor = java.util.concurrent.Executors.newCachedThreadPool()
retryScheduler = java.util.concurrent.Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(5)


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87% of Tech Startups Hiring This Year
If you're in the market for a new job and can't seem to find any openings, you might want to consider applying to a tech startup.
According to a recent study by Silicon Valley Bank, about 87% of tech startups plan to hire new staffers this year. This may seem like a lot, and that's because it is. In fact, the number is up significantly from 14% four years ago.
Software companies will be doing the most hiring this year, with about 90% planning to ramp up the size of their workforces, the study indicates.
The study was conducted among 750 startup executives in the U.S. and 125 in the UK.
"Tech companies are a bright spot in the economy worldwide, which is evident from the significant number of startups in the U.S. and the UK that expect to grow and hire this year," said Greg Becker, president and CEO of Silicon Valley Bank. "There is a lot of opportunity to put people to work at startups, which is particularly welcomed news since jobs in general are recovering slowly. Investments in STEM education and policies that support tech businesses will help people take advantage of jobs, and benefit economic growth overall."
Candidates with STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) and general business skills are especially in high demand. About 82% of those surveyed in the U.S. and 77% in the UK said they are looking for people with these skills.
But at the same time, nine in 10 of these companies said it was "challenging" to find employees to fit their needs. Interestingly, candidates with these skills are most easily found in Texas and Washington state, the study said. Meanwhile, 69% of startups in the UK said it was hard to find qualified engineers to join their teams.
The report also includes some interesting tidbits about the startup industry in general. For example, only 22% of startups have one or more women on their founding team.
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PBS series attempts to create a psychological profile of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza
A preview of the first half of Tuesday's "Frontline"/Hartford Courant report on Newtown shooter Adam Lanza reinforces the notion that this shadowy young man left almost no digital footprint and few personal connections either.
Three former Register reporters now with the Hartford Courant make their national TV bow at 10 Tuesday night in a "Frontline" report on the Newtown slayings, part of a weeklong "After Newtown" series on PBS starting Monday.
Alaine Griffin, Josh Kovner and (to a lesser extent) investigations editor John Ferraro are seen trying to piece together a psychological profile of the Sandy Hook gunman in the "Frontline" two-part episode "Raising Adam Lanza." The second part of the hour is "Newtown Divided," about President Obama's actions regarding gun policy since Sandy Hook, according to a release.
Based on a screening of the first segment, the quest for answers about Adam Lanza will not end here. As is expressed at the start of the program, it's amazing in this age when so many young people text and Facebook details of so much of their lives, that the Newtown shooter's legacy is just mystery and tragedy. And Nancy Lanza wasn't exactly an open book either.
There are some emails and Facebook exchanges by Nancy Lanza but there is no "ah-ha!" moment in this collaboration between the Courant and TV's venerable documentary show "Frontline." There is no solid indication why this Newtown son on the autism spectrum, who feared crowds and chaos, would kill his mother and then use his mother's guns to slaughter innocent children and school employees.
The reporters are shown interviewing an old friend of Nancy Lanza's in New Hampshire, who noted Adam couldn't stand to be touched; a mother of one of Adam's classmates; a Newtown High School tech club teacher who took an interest in Adam Lanza and felt he had "come a long way" before his mother pulled him out of the school; and one of Nancy's restaurant friends from Newtown, who said Nancy was an optimistic person and not just some "gun nut."
It is intriguing television nonetheless, of course, given how little is known about the Lanza family in a state and nation so scarred by the troubled son.
The New Hampshire friend of Nancy's makes one of several interesting points, noting that Nancy shot guns with her father in New Hampshire before ever moving to Newtown, although she made a fatal error to purchase powerful guns here (and show Adam how to shoot them). There is also an indication that husband Peter Lanza was out of the Newtown house as early as 2001. He has not commented to media about the slayings.
Nancy Lanza also kept to herself, and there are no adult mentions of older brother Ryan Lanza either. The mystery continues, although the "Frontline" segments seem to fit in well with these other PBS efforts (as all news outlets continue to work to help avoid rampage killings):
--"PBS Newshour" Monday at 7 p.m. will go to Aurora, Colo., site of the movie theater massacre last summer.
-- Tuesday the same show will explore violent video games and violent behavior.
-- The 9 p.m. Tuesday special will be "Guns in America," about gun technology changes since the Colonial era and Americans' love affair with guns.
--Wednesday at 9, "Nova" nad correspondent Miles O'Brien look into the "Mind of a Rampage Killer."
--At 10 p.m. Wednesay, "The Path to Violence" lists law-enforcement strategies implemented since Columbine in 1999.
--Thursday, "PBS Newshour" will have a segment on the increase in gun license applications since Newtown.
-- Friday "Newshour" looks at gun violence as a public health issue. The 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Friday PBS shows "Washington Week with Gwen Ifill" and "Need to Know" will also look at related issues.
Richard Graziano, publisher, president and CEO of the Hartford Courant and general manager of Fox CT and WCCT, said Fox CT footage was also being used in the "Frontline" program.


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Re^3: How should a fork of DBIx::Simple be handled?by Juerd (Abbot)
|on Aug 31, 2011 at 23:09 UTC ( #923547=note: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
I know about your preference; you have repeatedly, for almost two months now, insisted that I use github for DBIx::Simple. I might eventually do this when I feel like it, but for crying out loud, just !@#!@# stop whining about it.
If you think that going on about it will help convincing me, you're wrong. It just gets on my nerves and makes me angry.
As I've said before in private e-mail, the code is on CPAN, and very closely follows my local tree.
As for github pull requests, I actually prefer manual patches because I estimate that it is unlikely that I will copy your suggestions unmodified. We're not going to discuss this; you're going to have to put up with it.
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Remittances, Financial Development, and Growth »
Volume/Issue: 2005/234
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Marta Ruiz-Arranz , and Paola Giuliano
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 2005
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451862539.001
Keywords: financial development, growth, system GMM, impact of remittances, migration, remittance, statistics, Economic Growth of Open Economies,
There has been little systematic empirical study on the relationship between remittances and growth. This paper attempts to examine this relationship. Using a newly constructed crosscountry of data series for remit...


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(CANCELED)Weekly Board Game Night
August 4 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Tuesday is weekly board game night at Diversions Puzzles & Games in downtown Portsmouth! Join us and you can find new games to learn and play! We have a constantly updated game library which you may pick games from to play or you can bring your favorites from home! There is no shortage of games and if this is a new event for you, you're guaranteed to find a group who would be happy to teach you how to play a new game.
The most common games that are played on Tuesdays are light & heavy strategy games. Everything from Sushi Go! to Ticket to Ride to Scythe and everything in between and beyond! Everyone is welcome, new & regular players alike. Drop in and leave at any time!
Parking is available in the Worth Lot behind the store for $1.50/hour, with meters operating until 8:00pm. Candy and drinks are available in the store for purchase. You may bring your own food but please dispose of your trash properly. Thank you!