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Not available until May 2020. Beautifully appointed & pristine one-level large 3 BD, 2BA, 2G fully furnished & equipped vacation rental condo at the Village in Grayhawk. Features cozy furniture, gas fireplace, 2 covered patios, BBQ, flat screen TVs in living & master w/cable, wireless internet, gas cooktop, granite countertops, master king size, full-size laundry room. Privately gated community. Outstanding landscaping. Plenty of light and windows. Walking distance to the heated community pool & spa. Minutes to the best of Scottsdale. High season November to April at $3,500 all inclusive of utilities. Low season May to October at $1,825, plus utilities separately.
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Georgia Tech is one of the core campuses from which EY-Parthenon recruits for its growth strategy fulltime and summer intern associate programs. EY-Parthenon is also recruiting for the IT vertical of its M&A strategy fulltime and summer intern associate programs. Please read the important information below and review the dates to find out how to apply to our associate programs. For more information on our strategy practices, please visit our United States offices page.
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Enrolment is now open for school year 2019/2020
Graduation Ceremony for 2017/2018 Students
This is a wonderful opportunity of spiritual release into the new things God has prepared for you in your ministry for the next season after the graduation from the school. This is always a very joyful and God honouring occasion and we look forward to it with great anticipation. Your Graduation Ceremony, where we will celebrate your achievements and you will be presented with your certificate, is on Saturday 8th September, and you will be receiving an official invitation in due course.


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How could Jacob - whom the Sages identified as a man of truth and integrity - tell his father an out-and-out lie, claiming, "I am Esau, your first-born"? And when his father questioned Jacob, "Who are you, my son?" - why didn't Jacob answer simply, "Esau"? Why did he embellish the lie by adding the words, "your first born"?
Collecting Reuben's Loan
Reuben lent a large sum of money to an acquaintance by the name of Sammy. The months went by, and Reuben realized that Sammy was having trouble paying back the loan. Concerned he would never see his money again, Reuben decided to cut his losses. He sold the rights to collect the loan
to a burly debt collector named Buster.
Buster the debt collector immediately paid Sammy a visit. "I am Reuben," he announced, "and I want you to pay back the loan. Now."
Confusion clouded Sammy's face. "I don't know who you are, but you're not the Reuben who lent me money!"
"You're right. My real name is Buster. But I bought the rights to collect his loan. As far as the loan is concerned, I am Reuben. Now pay up!"
Getting the Blessing
Isaac wanted to bless Esau - not because he thought Esau was the worthier son, but because Esau was the first-born. Isaac felt that the elder son should be leader, the one carrying on the family tradition.
When Jacob approached his father to receive the blessing, he announced, "I am Esau, your first-born."
Like Buster, Jacob was telling his father: "In truth, I am Jacob. But in terms of the blessing, I am in place of Esau, because I purchased the bechorah, his rights as first-born. So feel free to give me the blessing - for now I am your first-born son."
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The 1940s opened as a continuation of the 1930s with a Hawaiian craze still sweeping the nation.
But, on December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked, and everything changed forever.
Personnel and equipment flooded in, as Hawaii became a staging area for the war in the pacific theatre.
Once peace returned, Honolulu experienced a post war boom.
Baby Boomers were being born, new radio stations were signing on, traditional fish ponds were being filled in, subdivisions were being built, hotels were being opened, new businesses were being started, supermarkets were being launched, and our first "Miss Hawaii" was named.
The island were undergoing rapid growth, and the Territory of Hawaii would never be the same again!
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My aim is to minimize the loss of electricity there is when people forget to switch off their fans or lights, through smart home solution.
Know when your clothes are dry
Use Tracer MPPT (and others) controller's RS485 data link to generate cool statistics live on your phone.
Gutters to Gardens is a solar powered rain barrel for remotely or automatically activating a water distribution system for home garden beds.
Monitor real power, voltage, current and power factor using the Sparkfun Blynk board and view live graphs in the Blynk App.
An easy to user experiment toolkit for the classroom to measure temperature and humidity and observe from your smartphone.
Solar installation with lithium battery packs monitoring.
The idea is to basically monitor our rooms continuously and if no one is present in the room, the system will turn off the lights and fans.
Domotic unit to control temperature, humidity and time inside a greenhouse.


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The I Could Do Great Things Foundation was created with the belief that there are lots of young people who could do Great Things if only they had the financial wherewithal to fund those ideas.
In 2016, the I Could Do Great Things Foundation created an award in loving memory of Beau Biden. This scholarship, in the amount of $10,000, is awarded to a Delaware high school senior who plans to continue his or her education at a university of his or her choice, and who embodies the virtues of Beau. Beau Biden was a selfless man who exhibited qualities of leadership, community, civility, respect, and a strong moral compass. The recipient of the Beau Biden Memorial Scholarship will be a high school senior who embodies these qualities and leads a life with the same valor as Beau did.
The application for the Beau Biden Memorial Scholarship is available on icoulddogreatthings.com. A student can nominate himself or herself describing why that student should receive the scholarship and how they embody the virtues of Beau. The application requires answers to three short essay questions and two letters of recommendations.
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We have a soft spot in our hearts for fried foods. We also love—as is apparent by the number of sushi restaurants in our land-locked valley—sushi. It used to be, there was a time when we had to choose between the two. At Sono Bana, we no longer have to. They offer a selection of fried sushi rolls. Now, we know what you're saying. "Fried sushi? Isn't that just wrong?" No, no it's not. It's so very right. Sono Bana takes already delicious rolls, dips them in tempura batter and fries them to a gorgeous, golden-brown. The flavor profiles are perfect and the texture is a mouth-watering combo of soft, chewy and crispy.
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I realize this is a bit late, but I had the same problem and managed to solve it. Here are the set of commands that you need to run as root on a new digital ocean droplet (assuming you have already setup root to have ssh access). This will setup
mynewuser with passwordless sudo rights and the ability to ssh into the machine without a password (using only your ssh-key)
adduser --system --group mynewuser
mkdir /home/mynewuser/.ssh
chmod 0700 /home/mynewuser/.ssh/
cp -Rfv /root/.ssh /home/mynewuser/
chown -Rfv mynewuser.mynewuser /home/mynewuser/.ssh
chown -R mynewuser:mynewuser /home/mynewuser/
gpasswd -a mynewuser sudo
echo "mynewuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" | (EDITOR="tee -a" visudo)
service ssh restart
usermod -s /bin/bash mynewuser
Now you should be able to ssh into your new droplet with
ssh mynewuser@your-new-digitalocean-droplet-ip-address
Thank you for posting this. These instructions helped me out with a similar issue. May I ask what is the purpose of the following two lines?
chown -Rfv mynewuser.mynewuser /home/mynewuser/.ssh
chown -R mynewuser:mynewuser /home/mynewuser/
You may have found this in your own research already, but my understanding is these two lines change the ownership of the directories /home/mynewuser/.ssh and /home/mynewuser so that they are owned by the USER mynewuser and the GROUP mynewuser which were created in the first line of these instructions
Thank you 😊
I am having a similar problem. My key works when login in for root but not for non-root users.
I have the same problem I can login using root but when I try to login with different users it just won't work.
So I have a user called myuser and inside its home directory which /home/myuser.ssh I have kept the authorized keys.
But I just won't work.
Help :(
For anyone out there scratching their heads over this still.... I had this problem..
the only issue for me was that the authorized_keys had to be chmod to 644 in the users .ssh folder
hope it helps
These directions were very helpful to me - but I still was not able to ssh in as the non-root user.
My issue (that others may have experienced) was that I copy/pasted my public key into the authorizedkeys file - and that paste included splitting the line.
One way to see if you have this issue is to run the command
wc -l /home/newuser/.ssh/authorizedkeys and the response should be 1. In my case it was 5. So I edited the file to remove the line-breaks, saved it, restarted ssh - and all was well.
Hope this helps.


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jjvanhof needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 120 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Certus Wealth Management
I am a CFP (Certified Financial Planner). Certus is Latin for authentic, precise, trustworthy, certain. This is the type of advice we provide. We all have a finite level of resources that need to be allocated towards goals. We help clients allocate their resources as efficiently as possible to their unique goals. Our clients value paying a fee for for advice which they can be certain is free from conflicts of interest.
I really like how the website is one continuous scrolling page. If you click on a link it scrolls down to the appropriate portion of the page. I also really like how the pictures in the background scroll at a a different pace and more of the picture is revealed as you scroll down. I am a financial firm but do not like the traditional old couple walking on the beach with a smile. I like nature from my geographic location (SF Bay Area). I like travel, but unique (instead of a picture of a golfer, maybe a picture of the club head of a driver - absolutely not a necessity, just an idea)). Something clean, straightforward and contemporary. I like blue.
Content similar to http://www.brickleywealth.com, http://www.vantagewealthmgmt.com. I also plan to add a blog so I would like one if the pages deadicated to that at some point in the near future. Maybe 3-6 months. I would also like a page that clients can log into their accounts from.
No drop down menus.
I'm happy to answer any clarifying questions you may have. I purchased my domain through square space.


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For Department Coordinators
As a departmental UROP Coordinator, you play an important role in the UROP process and are relied upon for your judgment and knowledge of your academic area. This section provides you with information to help you in your role as a departmental UROP Coordinator.
UROP Coordinators, are expected to:
- Interpret the department's requirements, ensure academic rigor and research value in projects undertaken by faculty and student collaborators, and clarify policies and procedures for departmental review.
- Review the department's submitted student UROP proposals, examine project descriptions and financial requests, and determine project appropriateness for departmental approval before forwarding to UROP for final review. Please see Reviewing UROP Proposals for a full description of what should be included in a UROP proposal. Details on how to access submitted online student applications can be found on the Online System Help page.
- Ensure that subject registration and number of requested credit units are appropriate for departmental standards, for credit UROP projects.
- Suggest the kinds of skills and experience that UROP students need to acquire before they attempt research in your department, laboratory or center. Advise on strategies for students to connect with UROP supervisors within the department
- Recommend opportunities for students to meet with faculty and with other students; suggests potential faculty mentors based on student interests; encourage students to participate in departmentally-sponsored research related presentations and events, including lectures by potential faculty supervisors.
- Provide help to students with specific problems (e.g., inability to find a faculty supervisor in the chosen area of interest, needs access to equipment, or needs financial resources).
- Interface regularly with UROP staff on UROP-related matters.
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Palm Beach Shores is paying $150,000 to settle a lawsuit by a former dispatcher who claimed she'd been repeatedly sexually harassed by former town police officer Charles Hoeffer.
For the town, it's the latest fallout relating to Hoeffer, whom the town paid $135,000 last year to leave after he was accused of raping a blind woman twice. The town is being sued by that woman and another who claims Hoeffer groped and harassed her.
The dispatcher, Lori Saridakis, worked under Hoeffer's supervision while she worked for the town. According to the 2015 lawsuit, he made crude comments to her, including asking her, "When are you gonna let me get some of that?" He would also grope himself in front of her, she said.
Ten months on paid leave: Officer faces assault allegations
11 women accuse cop of assault, rape or harassment
After she went to the town manager with her complaints, she was fired. The town said her position was simply eliminated.
"I'm happy it's over for her," Saridakis' attorney, Arthur Schofield, said Thursday. "It was a long fight, and I'm proud of her for fighting, which other women couldn't do or didn't have the courage to do."
At least one other dispatcher complained that she'd been harassed by Hoeffer. Saridakis could not be reached for comment.
The town's insurance carrier, which is paying the settlement, agreed to settle just before the case went to trial. The settlement is not an admission of guilt.
The allegations against Hoeffer were first exposed in a 2015 Palm Beach Post article that revealed 11 different women had accused him of assault, rape or harassment over his three decades in policing with three different departments.
Last week, the national news site The Daily Beast profiled Hoeffer and his history in a lengthy exposé.
Schofield said he deposed Hoeffer for the lawsuit. He called it an "eye-opening experience," although he didn't uncover any new details about the officer's history.


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The federal government's renewed efforts to increase the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) popularly called cooking gas will be further deepened as gas stakeholders gather in Abuja from tomorrow to chart ways of making Nigeria Africa's LPG hub. This summit on LPG is being organized by the Senate Committee on Gas.
Nigeria has about 186 trillion cubic feet of gas but is ironically among the lowest consumers of LPG in Africa. The federal government has been leading a spirited campaign to revive LPG business in Nigeria and recently summoned the International Oil Companies (IOCs), and handed them a six month ultimatum to make cooking gas available and affordable in Nigeria.
Following this determination of the federal government to maximize the nation's gas potentials and get Nigerians to adopt LPG as their primary energy for cooking, a retinue of new players are now positioning and repositioning in the steadily returning Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) market. Growing the LPG market in Nigeria is a critical component of the nation's Gas Master Plan and market watchers say government's efforts have begun to yield fruits. A lot of new investments are now coming into the domestic cooking gas market.
Chimons Gas, a leading gas supplier has brought into the country ultra modern gas cylinders and special cylinder-mounted mini gas cookers to help spread the use of cooking gas among Nigerians. Already, three state governors are said to be arranging to buy 100,000 of the cylinders for sale in their states at reduced prices. Chimons Gas has also acquired six brand new trucks to ensure effective distribution nationwide while it has also launched a cylinder dealership scheme. The company is also developing an integrated LPG terminal with 30,000 metric tones capacity expected to ease logistic problems being experienced in the industry. The terminal is expected to be ready in by 2010 along with a wholly owned LPG vessel.
Hyson Nigeria Ltd is building a mega LPG refilling plant in Abuja and plans to assist LPG marketers through the banks to upgrade or build new micro storages, buy new trucks and standard refilling cylinders.
Linetrale Gas is developing an ultra modern LPG terminal in Lagos expected to provide storage and trading hub for all major and marginal field gas producers in Nigeria, creating an in-road for these producers to the domestic market.
Harig Oil is working on the construction of an LPG and products storage terminal, expected to be the biggest LPG supply hub in West Africa.
Market watchers say cylinders can be used to grow Nigerian gas market as the entire country of 140 million people is estimated to have about 500,000 cylinders only, most of them old, dilapidated and therefore dangerous.
Chimons Gas which has a partnership agreement with Mauria Udyog, India's biggest exporter of LPG cylinders says the company plans to "massively flood Nigeria with cylinders and we will be doing that with partners who will not only sell cylinders but will also sell gas".
Millions of Nigerians abandoned the use of cooking gas in the 1990s when it became scarce and the price of the 12.5kg cylinder shot past N8000, heading to N10,000, depending on where you were buying. But as part of Nigeria's efforts to develop her estimated 186 trillion standard cubic feet of gas (tscf) reserves, re-invigoration of the use of cooking gas is an important aspect of Nigeria's gas master plan. Strategies are now being stimulated to make gas available to Nigerians at highly reduced prices while NLNG, prodded by the federal government has domiciled 150,000 metric tones of LPG for the domestic market. Chimons, Hyson, Linetrale and Harig are among the 6 off- takers that receive gas directly from the NLNG plant at Bonny.


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The hall of winemaking history "Praise to wine from the time immemorial" with exhibits dedicated to the history of winemaking in the Black Sea region was opened at Abrau-Durso historical complex. The story of winemaking from the times of the Pharaohs and Ancient Greece is told with the aid of interactive exhibits.
Interactive exhibition Kuflex#1 was opened at Media Art Abrau, a centre of modern art. Visitors will discover the world of 3D and interactive installations, explore the new reality in the quantum room, and get acquainted with the inhabitants of the underwater world.
Children's Sailing School was opened on the shore of Lake Abrau. Abrau Sailing Club holds classes both for amateurs and professional yachtsmen. Abrau Lake waters make it possible to practice almost all year round
Brut d'Or Blanc de Blanc.
The first and so far the only Abrau-Durso premium Blanc de Blanc sparkling wine created exclusively from selected Chardonnay white grapes. This sparkling wine, designed for true connoisseurs, is referred to as "white gold of winemaking".
In April 2016 Mr. Georges Blanc, who has vast experience in managing the production of sparkling wines by the world's leading wineries, becomes Chief Oenologist at Abrau-Durso Russian Wine House. Under Mr. Blanc's management, new vineyards were created, and effort was made to enhance intensity and quality of care works.
160,000 people visited Abrau-Durso winery in the Krasnodar Krai during one season. It is the most visited winery in Europe. Abrau-Durso actively promotes tourism in Abrau-Durso, with 2 hotels, several restaurants, and a unique ChampagneSpa already open for visitors.
Opening of the Walk of Fame of Winegrowers and Winemakers in Abrau-Durso.
V All-Russia Summit of Winemakers 2017 started from the opening of the Walk of Fame of Russian Winegrowers and Winemakers in Alexander II square in Abrau-Durso. In accordance with the design by the Union of Winegrowers and Winemakers of Russia, memorial signs of prominent Russian winemakers will be placed in the central square of Abrau-Durso. Today the Walk of Fame comprises the first 7 signs of those who stood at the origins of Russian winemaking: Lev Golitsyn, Anton Frolov-Bagreev, Victor Dravigny, Artemiy Merzhanyan, Zbignev Kishkovsky, Nikolay Mekhuzla, and Eduard Vedel. Three of these winemakers worked at Abrau-Durso.
Over the last few years, Abrau-Durso wines have won more than 50 medals at prestigious international competitions. The awards won by Abrau-Durso include gold, silver, and bronze medals at such competitions as Decanter, Mundus Vini, IWSC, and others. Abrau-Durso sparkling wines continue to actively participate in the world's leading tasting competitions, and their quality has been highly appraised by experts.
To mark the 400th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty, we recreated the design of champagne bottles dating back to the czarist era, which was served at the gala dinner held on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty ascent to power in 1913 at the Winter Palace. This is how the Imperial Domain line appeared.
The launch of sparkling wine drink Abrau Light with delicate fruity and flowery tones
Abrau-Durso Russian Wine House became an official supplier of Sochi 2014 Games.
2012 saw the opening of Gastronomic School in Abrau-Durso.
Staring from April 2012, the company's shares have been listed at the Moscow Exchange.
In 2010, as a result of a long search, the descendants of Victor Dravigny were found, and amazing historic facts relating to the role of this talented winemaker in the creation of Russian champagne were discovered.
On May 14, 2012 grand- and great-grandchildren of Victor Dravigny came to Abrau at the invitation of the Russian Wine House and Mr. Titov's personal invitation.
"My grandfather would have been delighted if he learned that his undertaking has such a continuation. As for me, I have seen the cellars equipped in a way many French winemakers would envy. I sincerely admire such excellent implementation of the project, which gives the whole region a chance to reach a high quality of life. Congratulations!"
Claude Dravigny
Revival of Abrau still wine production.
In 1870 the history of Abrau Durso started from the so-called "still" wines, which were highly appraised by experts and won the highest awards at international competitions. In the Soviet times, Cabernet No. 44 (Cabernet Abrau) and Riesling No. 63 (Riesling Abrau) were considered the pride of Soviet winemaking. Abrau-Durso Russian Wine House decided to revive the tradition of still wines made from the best grapes of the Krasnodar Krai. At the moment, Abrau Wine collection comprises 5 varieties: Riesling, Cabernet, Shardonnay, Light Blend, and Dark Bland
In 2010 Abrau-Durso acquired champagne house Chateau d`Avize in the very heart of Champagne region in France from Moët&Chandon. Today it supplies Foliage Extra Brut organic champagne to Russia.
Launch of Victor Dravigny line. In 1905, a famous French champagne maker came to Russia to create sparkling wine worthy of the Russian emperor. In 2011 Abrau-Durso Russian Wine House produced a line of sparkling wines created using the classic technique, matured in mountain tunnels for three years, and called in in honour of a French champagne maker Victor Dravigny.
New wine brands were introduced; names and labels multiplied and flashed like in a kaleidoscope. Meanwhile, wine brands, which had been familiar to the consumers for a long time, disappeared as quickly and suddenly. The hurricane, which ravaged in the vicinity of Novorossiysk on August 8, 2002, did a lot of damage to the winery: the flood caused by it washed off the vines from the excellent plots in the Durso river valley. Everything was set to devoid champagne of the status it had as a special, royal, unsurpassed wine.
Start of the Revival
In 2006, the change of management and form of ownership occurred at the winery. The business was acquired by SVL Group headed by Boris Titov. Boris Titov was willing to preserve and further promote the traditions of making Russian champagne Abrau-Durso.
For the first time, sparkling wines made in modern Russia, Abrau-Durso Premium Brut Red Semi-Sweet (2007) and Abrau-Durso Imperial Cuvee l'Art Nouveau Brut (2008), won medals at the world's leading wine contest International Wine & Spirit Competition – 2010 (IWSC) held in London.
The first All-Russia Summit of Winemakers was held in Abrau-Durso, which gathered together all Russia's major winemaking companies. Since then, the summit is held on an annual basis, and is considered to the main professional convention of the industry.
Lake Abrau was recognized as a natural monument, as a result of which tree felling, the use of chemicals for processing vineyards, were banned around it. All the vineyards were moved from the shores of the lake.
After the reconstruction, Abrau-Durso was the flagship of Soviet winemaking for more than thirty years. By the mid-80's. The last century the area of vineyards was more than a thousand hectares. The factory produced "Soviet champagne" 3 million bottles a year, and besides that there were also famous quiet wines "Cabernet Abrau", "Riesling Abrau".
In mid-1980s, the period of intensive and smooth development at Abrau-Durso for the third time in history was followed by a deep crisis, perhaps, the most disastrous of all, due to reasons beyond the company's control. It all started with the CPSU Central Committee and USSR Council of Ministers Decree "On Measures Aimed at Overcoming Hard Drinking and Alcoholism"
It took some time before the clearing of vineyards in Abrau Durso started. Moreover, scheduled replacement of old vines and creation of new vineyards continued for a certain period of time after this decree was adopted. Just like in the previous years, the winery won prestigious prizes for its best wines.
However, the reduction of vineyards started, and this process gained such momentum that about half of all vineyards were lost by the beginning of the 21st century.
The "troubled times" of the USSR demise made winemakers anxious not only about their fate, but rather about the fate of the wine they had been creating and nurturing for many years. Controversial and sometimes destructive decisions were taken.
A hotel was built in which tall guests subsequently stayed.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Abrau-Durso farm produced special parties and brands of wines. Usually they were developed and produced specifically for export.
In the late 60's, a brand of Nazdorovya champagne was developed. Circulations of this wine were produced in the 70's; They were unique in the practice of the economy of wine, marked by the year of the harvest of grapes. Wine was supplied to the USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, Belgium, the countries of Eastern Europe. In the American market in the 1970s his company was Pepsico.
Evacuation of the plant. Many specialists left Abrau-Durso. The most valuable equipment, some ready-made wines and wine materials were transported (they were bottled, packed in boxes or, pouring with sawdust, into sacks). During the battle for Novorossiysk and the occupation of the economy by German troops, the factory buildings and part of the tunnels were destroyed.
In mid-September 1943, the land was freed and immediately began to harvest grapes. In the surviving cellars, nearly 1600 barrels were preserved, presses were delivered to the farm, and wine production began.
Immediately after the war, work began on the restoration and reconstruction of the plant under the project, signed in 1945. By the early 1950s, the economy had restored and even surpassed pre-war production volumes. The reconstruction of the plant was completed in 1956.
A significant part of the funds allocated for reconstruction was used to improve the living conditions of workers in the economy. For them, new houses were built in the village, the appearance of which forced them to believe in the impending offensive of communism. The village of Abrau has become a small town of the future with neat and comfortable houses, clean streets, well-kept alleys and front gardens.
Frolov-Bagreev and the Soviet stage in the development of Abrau-Durso
People's Commissar of Food Industry Anastas Mikoyan signed an order on the formation of funds for aged and collection wines. They selected the wines of the farms Abrau-Durso and Massandra. 10% of each lot of ready-made bottled wine, for each class and brand, to the collection wine collection fund - 500 bottles of each brand and brand, was pledged to the aged wine fund. The creation of these funds of the best wines proves that the leaders of the party and government themselves were good at distinguishing the taste of this wine and did not consider that the tank wine, which was not pawned, could be compared in quality with the classical Abrau-Durso.
At the end of March 1920, Abrau-Dyurso finally established Soviet power, and on April 14 it was decided to create a Soviet farm Abrau-Dyurso, whose director was Eduard Avgustovich Vedel. All scientific works in the household were led by A.M. Frolov-Bagreev. (Anton Mikhailovich Frolov-Bagreev (12/12/1877 - 13/8/1953) is a well-known wine-scientist, founder of sparkling wine technology, founder of the national school of champagne). This man deserves to restore the production of Russian champagne. The farm became a serious research center where special, cold-resistant yeast races were studied and created, assemblages for champagne of different types were reconciled, experiments were conducted on primary vinification.
In April 1942 AM Frolov-Bagreev was awarded the Stalin Prize for the development and implementation of the tank method of champagne production.
New Manor of the Abrau-Durso Estate
The emperor Nicholas II himself highly assessed the guilt of the specific economy. According to the memoirs of the officer of the Life Guards of the Horse Guards Regiment, N.L. Zhadvoyna, Nicholas II decided to serve champagne at the court during one of his visits to the regiment. "I love Abrau, pour me a glass of it. I several times wanted at the court to introduce Russian champagne, but I did not meet sympathy ... Now I can do it ".
Summarizing the overall development of the resorts of the Caucasus, the chairman of the exhibition committee AS. Ermolov noted that the famous champagne "Abrau-Durso" - the only one now submitted to the highest table - is already known throughout Russia; It is exported now and abroad - it has penetrated even into the United States of North America.
Before the economy, brilliant prospects opened up: the area of its vineyards grew to 220 acres, in 1913 only 500,000 bottles were sold to champagne, and a new edition of 800,000 bottles. The annual income of the estate, estimated at 10 million rubles, amounted to 1 million rubles.
A new stage in the development of the production of champagne began with the invitation to the post of the chief winemaker-champagne farmer of the Frenchman Victor Dravigny.
This man worked in Abrau-Durso in the difficult period for Russia and the economy from 1905 to 1919. For his successes he received two awards from Nicholas II - in 1909 (a gold watch with a gold chain) and in 1913 (at an exhibition in St. Petersburg - a gold cigarette case with a diamond eagle).
The construction of the basement of table wines is completed
Lev Golitsyn, of course, is the most famous figure among all those who were involved in the development of Russian winemaking. It is he who is called the creator of Russian champagne. Since that time, the main activity of the estate has been the production of champagne wines.
The first edition of the Russian champagne "Abrau-Durso". In the same year, at the All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod, winemaking facilities of the Chief Administration of the Units were awarded the highest award - the right to represent the state emblem.
Development of the first label of champagne «Abrau-Durso»
The first champagne "Abrau-Durso"
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Prince Lev Golitsyn (1845–1915), the founder of Russian winemaking in the Crimea, and of industrial production of high-quality sparkling wines in Russia.
Simultaneously, from the Crimea, from Livadia, the varieties Cabernet, Sauvignon, Aligote, Pinot Blanc were imported to the North-Western Caucasus. The first vineyards of the named varieties were laid in the specific Abrau estate and in the estate of General Pilenko on the bank of the Tsemess bay. These estates and became the model and the basis for the development of viticulture on the coast.
Extremely successful selection of Riesling varieties for white, and then Cabernet for red wine, made by General D.V. Pilenko and agronomist F.I.Geyduk, due to exceptionally successful combination of climatic and soil conditions, quickly put forward the estate, for the high quality of its Wine, in a prominent place among the best wineries in Russia.
The first serious success of Abrau wine at the Yalta exhibition in 1884, where they greatly surpassed the Crimean wines that were famous in Russia, made a great impression on the experts with their softness and delicacy and earned gold medals.
In the early 90's, Abrau-Durso turned out to be in the sphere of activity of the chief of the Department of Destinations of Prince LD Vyazemsky and the chief winemaker of the Department of Prince L. S. Golitsyn, who worked in this post from 1891 to 1898.
In the autumn of 1870, "the tsar's command to establish a new special specific estate followed with the appropriation of the name «Abrau-Durso».
Management of the estate "Abrau-Durso" was entrusted to D.V. Pilenko, the first head of the Black Sea district (1867-1876 gg.)
The first agronomist of Abrau-Dyurso, Franz Heyduk, was sent to Ioganisberg in 1872, where he was released 20 thousand breeding Rhine vines of the Riesling variety, for red wine he bought a very productive variety "Portugiser" in the vicinity of Vienna..


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Peter Pollock spent the first 55 years of his life involved in South African cricket, whose debt to him is threefold.
As the country's premier fast bowler during the 1960s, the last decade before South Africa's international isolation; and as convener of selectors during the 1990s, he gave an inexperienced team a vision and a pattern that has made the side one of the game's top two teams. He was named Cricketer of the Year in 1965, claiming 116 wickets in the 28 Tests he played, helping South Africa win a number of matches.
Then, perhaps most famously of all, he provided South African cricket with his son, Shaun Pollock, who played 108 Tests and over 300 ODIs for South Africa, captained the side for four years and is widely regarded as one of the finest all-rounders to ever play the game.
But in August 1981 Peter had a life-changing experience that gave him a greater purpose than playing cricket.
"What had started out to be an ordinary day became the greatest day of my life," he shares on www.changinglives.org.au. "Conversions do not come more suddenly than this and my life was never to be the same again. I was a growling lion who had been changed into a lamb."
It was the day he met Jesus, personally, for the first time, although Peter had grown up in a spiritual home, he was unaware of the claims of the Bible.
"I'd grown up in a religious environment," he admits, "My grandfather was a minister but I left the church life behind as soon as I was old enough to make the decision."
Then in August 1981, Peter found himself in front of TV watching a Christian broadcast that he would normally have turned off immediately.
"My wife, Inez, had become a Christian," Peter shares, "She went off to church and during this time alone things began to happen that turned me from the critic of this 'born again' stuff to becoming increasingly interested in it. As I was watching the debate I began to see my sinfulness and the answer to being set free from it, and how to be forgiven! ... The TV seemed to be speaking just to me!
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Later that night, Inez invited Peter to a friends' house nearby. They, too, were Christians and Peter steeled himself with well-rehearsed anti-Christian arguments. But, to his surprise, he found himself listening to their conversations very intently.
As Peter and Inez were leaving, the hostess slipped a piece of paper into Peter's hand, saying he might need it later. When Peter got home, he looked at it and realized that it was the words of a prayer to becoming a Christian.
It said: "Lord Jesus I come to you today just as I am. I thank you that you accept me just as I am. I admit that I am a sinner and repent of my sins of the past. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins and please come into my life and become my Lord and Saviour. I surrender my will to you right now. Thank you for coming into my life and forgiving my sins."
"By this time I had no doubt at all and went and found a quiet spot in the house where I prayed and pleaded with God for forgiveness," Peter remembers.
"I'll never forget this moment, there were no bells, trumpets or lightning flashes, but there was a distinct awareness of a giant burden being lifted off my shoulders. I sobbed like a baby who had been trying to take on the world on his own, trying to satisfy those self-consuming, never ending goals and yardsticks.
"Before my conversion I had done things my way. I was conditioned to the world's value system and could not see the forest from the trees, right from wrong, or light from darkness. But those few life-changing moments in my back garden opened my life to the truth that, 'Jesus is the way, the truth and the life'," he declares.
Peter choose to leave the field of cricket in 1996 because he felt called to become a minister and help others understand their need for a relationship with God.
"Cricket was always central to our family's existence," Peter recalls, "Dad had played a few games for the Orange Free State. My brother, Graeme and I used to play in our own backyard."
But for Peter, life is now so much more than cricket. He has established himself as an author, broadcaster, columnist, business executive, sports administrator and family man, as well as travelling extensively to share the joy of knowing Jesus Christ with many people.•


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Fair trade confronts poverty, empowers people
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SALT LAKE CITY — "Fair trade is a way to confront poverty and a way to help empower people – both producers and consumers," said Jacqueline DeCarlo of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) at Westminster College Feb. 12.
DeCarlo was invited to Salt Lake City by Scott Lowe, executive director of Ten Thousand Villages, a fair trade, non-profit store in Salt Lake City. Her talk was also sponsored by the Utah Chapter of Net Impact and Westminster College of Business.
"We have a lot of different important segments of the community here tonight," said DeCarlo. "We have students and faculty from different colleges (Brigham Young University and the University of Utah), which is important in social movement. We have business people concerned with social responsibility, and all of us are consumers. As consumers, we make decisions every day about how we spend our money. Some of you are already committed to fair trade, others of you are curious. I will talk about what fair trade is so you can understand why it matters."
DeCarlo has worked with CRS for two years helping U.S. Catholics act in solidarity overseas through fair trade purchases. DeCarlo began her work with developing countries while working for the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. In 2001, she became the director of the Fair Trade Resource Network and is currently a CRS fair trade program advisor. She independently wrote the book, "Fair Trade: A Beginners Guide."
"Fair trade is a trading partnership based on dialogue, transparency, and respect, that seeks greater equity in international trade," said DeCarlo. "This definition means consumers and producers are equal. If they are not equal, efforts need to be made to restore that equity through practices that promote dialogue through communication revealing what each parties interests are, and how there can be a win-win situation. There must be respect for what the needs, desires, and goals are of all those involved in the partnership."
|Jacqueline DeCarlo from Catholic Relief Services explains Fair Trade and why it matters to a diverse audience. DeCarlo said when we consider consciously how we spend money, we give closer attention the people and the communities behind the products and the value behind our decisions.
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DeCarlo said we live in an economy that creates haves and have-nots. That can be seen when we compare our standard of living in the United States to any number of countries, particularly Africa where many people still struggle with malnutrition and hunger.
"Literally billions of people on our planet survive on less than $2 a day to eat, to have water, which is usually not clean, and have sanitation," said DeCarlo. "Fair trade is an approach to right those kinds of wrongs in the world community through the marketplace. The buying and selling of goods is a pretty basic notion. We all need to trade in goods. None of us is self-sufficient. So if we are going to trade, how should we do it?
"In my book, I talk about Enda Ruth Byler, who came up with partnership in 1946," said DeCarlo. "Byler was a church volunteer in Pennsylvania, who traveled with her husband, J.N., to Puerto Rico. They were on a mission trip, and were introduced to women in a sewing class. These women were impoverished and were learning sewing to improve their skills to sell their handiwork and earn a living. Their desire for change inspired Byler to find a way to transfer their talent into income. These women did not have any outlets to sell their products. Byler began selling their products to women in sewing clubs in Pennsylvania. Byler also helped Palestinian refugees in Jordan.
Byler donated $500 and became known as the "Needlework Lady," who sold products out of the trunk of her car. That led to her selling products out of a gift shop in her home. That project became Ten Thousand Villages and that kind of model is in 160 communities in Canada and the United States. It is proof fair trade can work. Now Ten Thousand Villages achieves $20 million in sales every year. Each of those sales translates into living wages and safe and healthy working living conditions for the artisans in dozens of countries overseas.
"CRS has fair trade coffee, a chocolate project, and crafts projects," said DeCarlo. "We use those as ways to get Catholics involved in the fair trade movement.
"Fair trade can be a socially responsible business practice," said DeCarlo. "Fair trade has to be profitable, but it also considers people and the planet. Fair trade principles include paying a fair wage, offering employees opportunities for advancement, providing equal employment opportunities for all people, particularly the most disadvantaged, engaging in environmentally sustainable practices, being open to public accountability, building long-term trade relationships, providing healthy and safe working conditions within the local context, and providing financial and technical assistance to producers whenever possible.
"The priority of fair traders is not only to be in profitable partnerships with people, but to use businesses to improve the conditions of the disadvantaged and marginalized people, and get them in long-term partnerships," said DeCarlo. "These groups are often the targets of commercial exploitation. We are not there yet, but that is why events like this are important to explain fair trade.
"Why would corporations shift to comply with fair trade principles?" asked DeCarlo. "One motivation is they want loyalty from their consumers. Consumers are more likely to buy from companies that manufacture energy-efficient products, promote health and safety, support fair labor and trade, and commit to environmentally friendly practices if the products are of equal quality and price.
"Once a consumer is aware of fair trade policies, they are more likely to make fair trade purchases. Companies, socially responsible or otherwise, listen to those kinds of values because those values translate into purchases," said DeCarlo. "People are paying a lot of attention to the value of their dollar."
DeCarlo said students are extremely important to fair trade because they have been successful in getting companies to pay attention to fair trade policies. Activism of students making the case for fair trade products and policies to fellow students, faculty, and administrators has resulted in fair trade coffee being offered in dining halls, restaurants, bookstores, and food courts, which are now also offering fair trade chocolate and bananas.
"Fair trade also offers producers empowerment," said DeCarlo. "In recent years, thanks in part to gender equity, 36 percent of all coffee producers are women. They are able to become leaders in the cooperative structures and can take management positions. In less than 10 years, $94 million of extra income has been created for farmers as a result of fair trade coffee, tea, cocoa, and fresh fruit in the United States. Fair traders are not only paying living wages, they are also developing long-term relationships through the democratic structures such as farmer cooperatives. Women, in particular can learn skills, gain responsibility, and can earn either primary or supplemental income in cultures where women are still considered second-class citizens. This holds true for other ethnic and marginalized groups."


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A die-hard work ethic mixed with good and bad timing makes Iraklis Karabassis United Colors of Benetton's go-to guy and one of the area's busiest behind-the-scenes retailers
Washington Business Journal - by Eleni Kretikos Staff Reporter
He may be the biggest name in Washington business you never heard.
His name is Iraklis Karabassis, and the pronunciation actually isn't as hard as you'd think -- it sounds just like it's spelled.
Karabassis runs a $110 million company, Georgetown-based IK Retail Group, which is the largest owner of United Colors of Benetton stores in the country.
Some say luck just happens. Some say if you work hard you create your own luck. Things happen because you make them happen. There is no doubt that Karabassis is a self-made man who has worked tirelessly to make his own luck, but he also has an exceptional knack for being in the right place at the right time.
But, he'll tell you, his luck didn't start out so well-timed.
The point at which life's path -- and fortunes -- changed was a tragic one for Karabassis: His father, Dimitri, died of a heart attack at the age of 49. Karabassis was in high school. He still reflects on the moment with a touch of wonder:
"It's unbelievable how life goes," he says. "The family fell apart. My father was a blacksmith, third generation. This was to be my life. But when he died, this opened up my possibilities. It comes down to that."
An older brother was in college and his mother, Fotini, a homemaker. Money was nonexistent. He knew he had to do something to contribute.
And so after finishing high school, Karabassis left his native Volos, Greece (between Athens and Thessaloniki), and headed for Florence, Italy, to pursue his longtime dream of becoming a soccer trainer. Karabassis already was playing on a semi-professional level, but he didn't speak Italian and the school to which he applied didn't accept him.
Not right away, anyway.
He continued playing soccer -- for which he was now getting paid -- took Italian-language classes and got into the University of Florence, where he graduated with a degree in geology.
He had plans to get a master's degree in geology from a French university (his thinking was to return to Greece and study a major earthquake that had struck the region). But his French wasn't strong enough, so he soon abandoned that plan in favor of work.
He landed in a restaurant, tending bar.
The restaurant owners, it turns out, had the first franchise development agreement to open Benetton in northern France. Though Karabassis rejected initial offers to work for Benetton, the company offered him two months' salary in advance and a chance to train in Bologna.
For a kid looking for a way up and a way out, the offer was too much to refuse.
At 22 years old, he began working for Benetton in Paris.
Work became his priority. Benetton was a rapidly expanding business at the time, opening stores at the rate of one a day.
Karabassis opened stores for the manufacturer.
He handled site selection.
He found franchisees.
In 1982, he was sent to Washington to look into opening franchised locations. Though the opportunity he was sent for didn't work out, another popped up.
He would become an agent for Benetton (www.benetton.com). He opened his first D.C.-area store at White Flint Mall in December 1982.
Branding Benetton
The European manufacturer's colorful knit sweaters, skirts and pants were unlike anything many American teens had seen before. Sales soared, bringing in anywhere from $800 to $2,000 a square foot.
Throughout most of the 1980s, his number of licensing agreements exploded.
But American retailers were coming on strong. The Gap, the Limited and J. Crew were producing less expensive and more innovative products quicker with more organized back offices.
By 1989, Benetton's American business was on the ropes.
"They tore us apart," Karabassis says. "We had to choose to give up or come up with an idea to react."
Undoubtedly, it would have been easier to return to Europe. But Karabassis chose to fight.
"He's quite a remarkable person," says D.C. developer Herb Miller. "I found him to be totally focused, and he seems to combine creativity with dogged management and a commitment to making things work."
He stuck with the Benetton name. He began choosing a different line of products to carry in the stores, a line more focused on women's fashionable business suits, dresses and career separates and some eveningwear. Coupled with an innovative store design that showed the clothes better, the number of stores multiplied.
And multiplied.
"When I did that, I saw results immediately," he says.
Since 1999, Karabassis has built his IK Retail Group into 77 Colors of Benetton stores that represent 75 percent of what Benetton has in the U.S. He's also branched out and owns 13 Sisley stores (a Benetton sister company) and six MaxMara stores in the United States. He also owns five Benetton stores in Canada. His Georgetown offices are just a short walk from a three-story Benetton store, the most profitable Benetton in his group.
This year, he will open four Canadian Benettons and seven in the states, including a 10,000-square-foot store in the Washington area, at the Gallery Place complex near the MCI Center.
His growing IK Retail team consists of 42 employees in the corporate office (and more than 1,400 in the stores). His wife, Yasmine Karabassis, runs the MaxMara side of the business. He has plans to double his current sales level of $110 million within three years.
"He came here with nothing and in a short time, he made a considerable business that was expanding," says Guglielmo Melegari, the president of MaxMara USA. "He's a very smart person, a self-taught person and a great people person."
Work, work and more work
As Karabassis quietly plods along opening stores, he doesn't seek out attention for himself or his company. Those who know him might find him hob-nobbing at Cafe Milano, a restaurant concept he created and is a partner in. He can just as often be found at home relaxing with his family.
But his connections with top European retailing families have led some to enlist his help.
Ed Asher, the president of Chevy Chase Land, found himself on Karabassis' doorstep asking him to consult on The Collection at Chevy Chase, a 100,000-square-foot luxury retail project.
"He came in with a list of people he knew and people we should go after," Asher says. "He called up the president of Armani.
"We had intended to work through a retail broker." Asher continues. "But the more we learned about him, the more excited we became at the prospects of him being able to explain the project to the owners of these luxury shops. You just don't get that opportunity."
Karabassis seems unstoppable when it comes to work.
On Saturdays, no matter where he is, he visits one of his stores. He tries to take it easy on Sundays, but he also keeps a close eye on competitors, bigger and stronger than ever.
Outside of family and work, there doesn't seem to be much time for anything else, though he has some set-aside sure things: He spends every July in his family home on the Greek island of Mykonos, and every New Year's in his apartment on South Beach.
It's been hard for him to fulfill commitments to a couple civic groups such as the Georgetown Business and Professional Association and AHEPA, an organization dedicated to the promotion of Greek-American heritage. He's out of town every other week.
"The work ethic exists because I've never been afraid of working very hard," he says. "I don't know where that comes from. I think it's inside."


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Get Out Now! 8 Places Soon to be Uninhabitable Because of Climate Change (Slideshow)
photo: Matthew McDermott
It's very tempting to think that sea level rise caused by climate change is something which won't be a problem for at least a couple of decades. And for some places that's probably true. However, for some islands around the world, sea level rise is either already displacing people or will be in not too long. I wouldn't want to venture a guess on when exactly some of these islands will have to be abandoned, but a quick look at any of the sea level rise simulators out there can tell you the future looks watery for a lot of people.
See For Yourself: Interactive Sea Level Rise Explorer
Sea Level Rise Predictions Too Low, No Abrupt Release of Methane: US Climate Change Science Program
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(Music: Knjaz Varggoth, Saturious; Lyrics: Knjaz Varggoth)
The bitterness was born in a soul thrusting the Atame sacrifice, the "Book Of Shadows" is opened, we're waiting for the full-moon's arrival - we're celebrating the thirteenth Asbath. I lift my eyes, I look at the moonrise, the Goddess of the night takes my gifts. You came to us through your immortality, attach us to the true craft. Give us the power, give us the great understanding. I draw the magic circle by my baton, and the skull of the deer on its top starts to light. Oh Moon, the great mother! Protectress of our destinies and secret intensions. Fly up and light our deeds by your limpid light. Thrust your sharp rays into the Earth. We're absorbing the full-moon power - this is the thirteen Asbath. Let the blood of the sacrificed flow into your heart. The bowels in the priestess hands are filled with water - chaos that symbolizes the Moon and rules by it. Oh, Moon, the great mother, we're absorbing your power - this is the thirteen Asbath. Naked our bodies we gash in the long-lasting dance, goung around the circle repeatedly against the moving of the sun. The nature is singing and delighting - we're celebrating the thirteen Asbath. Marble moon give us the power. Our bodies are stewing and poison draught is ready. Our circle is unbreakable, we're embraced by the only ecstasy. The wine runs through our veins and our joy is gifted to darkness. On the mountain tops, on the tops of the trees - everywhere you look is the Great our Mother - Moon.


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You can still buy Ghost Notes, Songs from Memory or Stuck Outside of Phoenix at my website for only $5.
Two weeks into the new year, two reviews of Ghost Notes!
This new one is specifically about Ghost Notes the Audio Book, and it's at Curled up with a Good Book. Here's a taste:
"Art Edwards builds his novel with entertaining chapters dedicated to each character's perspective on the situations unfolding. To build better depth to the characters, Edwards focuses short—but crucial—chapters to experiences in from the past, to understand them better and the characters whom they have greatly influenced. The author is also a musician, and his knowledge and passion for music infuses the story with realism."
You can go straight to the review here.
I really like the audio book format--and not just for my work. It's a great way to take in a book that you might not have the time to read, but nonetheless feel compelled to know about. Audio books work well on long commutes, or during exercise. I always have one in the truck, just in case. Right now, it's Five Skies by Ron Carlson.
I've read a lot of discussion lately about whether listening to an audio book constitutes "reading" that book. I don't think it does--it's closer to watching a play, one where the actors aren't visible--but that hardly means it's not valuable or enriching. The story still unfolds, and you get the flow of the language, just like you would if you read the book. I think of the audio book as its own genre, in the same way a play production is a different experience from reading a play. Related, of course, but hardly the same thing.
I envision doing an audio book for each of my novels, but they take a great deal of time and energy to finish. Stuck? Not this year, but who knows what the future brings.
Speaking of the future, I have one other big event planned for 2010, and it has to do with the audio book. I will release Ghost Notes the Audio Book as a podiobook. This is a company that releases audio books in free segments. You will be able to sample any and all segments of Ghost Notes, and over a period of weeks you will get to hear the whole thing.
Don't expect this soon--it'll probably happen sometime around mid-year--but it's happening. I'll keep you posted.
Yours in laying down the law,
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This blog documents a technique for allowing a master ADF application utilising the ADF UI Shell to provide services to a child BTF, including passing data backwards and forwards, without the use of contextual events. While the blog demonstrates a solution within context of the ADF UI Shell, the overall technique should be useful in other ADF solutions.
It needs to be clearly highlighted at the beginning of this post this is just a single technique that has use in certain circumstances, it's not a replacement for all the different ways contextual events can be used. The reader should take care to read the full blog post then conduct a post analysis where this technique would be useful.
Readers working with the ADF UI Shell will hopefully be familiar with Pino Jeddah's excellent work in documenting different methods of integrating BTFs into the shell. Recently Pino was inspired by a post I wrote to the OTN forums ADF UI Patterns and Best Practices. In this post I described a problem I was having with the ADF UI Shell, namely how to combine the ADF UI Shell's "dirty tab" functionality with a self-closing standalone BTF. Pino devised an excellent solution and blogged about it showing a very interesting technique with contextual events. I recommend all readers interested in contextual events and inter BTF communications check it out.
While pondering the problem I stumbled across a new technique demonstrated in this blog. The technique is inspired by my work with the ADF UI Shell, but should be general enough that it can be used in other ADF domains.
Problem Description
One of the guiding features of ADF via JDeveloper 11g that influences application design is task flows. Typically a master ADF application is made up of one Unbounded Task Flow (UTF) calling multiple Bounded Task Flows (BTF). Ideally to maximise reuse, the BTFs should be built in such a fashion that they are totally agnostic of how and who consumes them. This ideal would allow BTFs to be reused by different master ADF applications, essentially a set of reusable loosely coupled services (along the lines of Avrom Roy-Faderman's ideas of SOA in ADF for extreme reusability).
Yet dependent on the design challenge at hand, there are times when the child BTF needs to communicate with its caller. Maybe there's the need to pass data backwards and forwards, or possibly there's services that the child BTF requires that only the calling application can provide.
To make this example real, consider the following.
Imagine a master ADF application based on the ADF UI Shell that allows users to search for departments, and then in a new separate tab either view details about the selected department or separately view a list of employees. Essentially each BTF spawns another leaving the previous open, and within the ADF UI Shell the user manages the opening and closing of the BTFs through the UI Shell tabs feature.
Decomposing these requirements into an ADF solution, our end solution will be:
a) A master ADF application to call the Search Departments BTF
b) A Search BTF that opens either the Departments BTF, or the Employees BTF
c) A View Departments BTF accepting a department ID, showing the specific department's details
d) A View Employees BTF also accepting the department ID, showing the employees relating to the department
To maximize reusability the Search BTF, Departments BTF and Employees BTF will all be built as standalone ADF Libraries, consumed by the master ADF application through JDeveloper's Resource Palette. This allows the resulting BTFs to be used by other master ADF applications beyond the current master.
Yet our goal of reusability is partially compromised as the Search BTF is hardcoded into calling the Departments BTF or the Employees BTF, they are effectively tightly coupled, the enemy of reusability. Who is to say in the future that a new master ADF application may want to make use of our sophisticated Search BTF, but display entirely different BTFs when the user selects a record? To maximize reusability, depending on the master ADF application consuming the Search BTF, we need some sort of mechanism to allow the master ADF application to plug in functionality into the Search BTF such that alternative BTFs can be opened, yet the specific BTFs aren't hardcoded into the Search BTF.
For purposes of keeping this blog entry short, we'll only consider the artifacts to be created in the master ADF application and the Search BTF. We won't consider how to create the master ADF application based on the ADF UI Shell, nor how to create the Search BTF itself – it is expected readers are familiar with these concepts and how to build them.
As a complete exercise the technique detailed here could be extended to the Department BTF and Employees BTF. Yet detailing the solution for the master ADF application and the Search BTF application is enough to describe the technique and then readers need just extend it to the other BTFs. A sample application is available at the end of this post that pulls them altogether.
Solution – Search BTF
For the Search BTF the solution requires the following artifacts:
* A fragment displaying the departments, including two commandButtons to open either the Department or Employees BTF:
* An interface class containing two stubbed methods for opening the Department BTF and the Employees BTF respectively:
emptyText="#{bindings.DepartmentsView1.viewable ? 'No data to display.' : 'Access Denied.'}"
fetchSize="#{bindings.DepartmentsView1.rangeSize}" rowBandingInterval="0"
selectionListener="#{bindings.DepartmentsView1.collectionModel.makeCurrent}" rowSelection="single" id="t1"
headerText="#{bindings.DepartmentsView1.hints.DepartmentId.label}" id="c2">
headerText="#{bindings.DepartmentsView1.hints.DepartmentName.label}" id="c1">
* A task flow parameter based on the interface:
package searchbtf.view;
public interface SearchBTFInterface {
public void openDepartment(oracle.jbo.domain.Number departmentId);
public void openEmployees(oracle.jbo.domain.Number departmentId);
Name: pSearchBTFImpl
Class: searchbtf.view.SearchBTFInterface
Value: #{pageFlowScope.pSearchBTFImpl}
* A request bean to capture the fragment commandButton events:
Note how the openDepartment and openEmployees functions within this bean don't open the Department or Employees BTF directly. They instead grab the SearchBTFInterface as passed in as a parameter on the BTF from the calling application, and calls the defined methods of the interface class.
package searchbtf.view;
import javax.el.ELContext;
import javax.el.ExpressionFactory;
import javax.el.ValueExpression;
import javax.faces.application.Application;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.faces.event.ActionEvent;
import oracle.adf.model.BindingContext;
import oracle.adf.model.binding.DCBindingContainer;
import oracle.adf.model.binding.DCIteratorBinding;
import oracle.jbo.Row;
public class ViewDepartments {
public ViewDepartments() { }
// Resolve EL expression - sourced from JsfUtils from Oracle Corp
public static Object resolveExpression(String expression) {
FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
Application app = facesContext.getApplication();
ExpressionFactory elFactory = app.getExpressionFactory();
ELContext elContext = facesContext.getELContext();
ValueExpression valueExp = elFactory.createValueExpression(elContext, expression, Object.class);
return valueExp.getValue(elContext);
public SearchBTFInterface getSearchBTFInterface() {
SearchBTFInterface searchBTFInterface = (SearchBTFInterface)resolveExpression("#{pageFlowScope.pSearchBTFImpl}");
return searchBTFInterface;
public oracle.jbo.domain.Number getDepartmentId() {
DCBindingContainer bc = (DCBindingContainer)BindingContext.getCurrent().getCurrentBindingsEntry();
DCIteratorBinding iterator = bc.findIteratorBinding("DepartmentsView1Iterator");
Row currentRow = iterator.getCurrentRow();
oracle.jbo.domain.Number departmentId = (oracle.jbo.domain.Number)currentRow.getAttribute("DepartmentId");
return departmentId;
public void openDepartment(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
oracle.jbo.domain.Number departmentId = getDepartmentId();
if (departmentId != null)
public void openEmployees(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
oracle.jbo.domain.Number departmentId = getDepartmentId();
if (departmentId != null)
* Modify the original commanButtons to call the bean's method:
That concludes the work within the Search BTF. What readers should understand is the Search BTF through the combination of the Java interface and the BTF parameter, is enforcing that the calling BTF supplies a concrete implementation of the interface. In other words the Search BTF is avoiding the real implementation of how to call the other Department and Employees BTF. It's leaving the actual implementation to the caller (which will be the master BTF application in our case).
Solution – Master ADF Application
For the Master ADF Application the solution requires the following artifacts:
* The ADF Library for the Search BTF (adflibSearchBTF.jar) to be added to the Master ADF Application's ViewController project.
* An implementation of the ADF UI Shell Launcher class to open new tabs in the shell (see the following zip file from Oracle to see an example of the Launcher class)
For those familiar with the ADF UI Shell Launcher class and the launchActivity method, note the subtle difference in this implementation. Essentially a local variable keeps a reference to the UI TabContext class, and used in the launchActivity methods. This is required because when the Search BTF indirectly calls the launchActivity methods via the concrete implementation of the interface passed from the master application, TabContext is outside the child BTF's scope. In turn the Launcher bean must remain in the master ADF application sessionScope such that the TabContext isn't flushed on each request.
package masterapp.view;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.faces.event.ActionEvent;
import oracle.ui.pattern.dynamicShell.TabContext;
public class Launcher {
private TabContext tabContext;
public Launcher() {
this.tabContext = (TabContext)JsfUtils.resolveExpression("#{viewScope.tabContext}");
public void openSearch(ActionEvent ae) {
public void openSearch() {
parameterMap = new HashMap ();
parameterMap.put("pSearchBTFImpl", new SearchBTFChaperone());
launchActivity("Search", "/WEB-INF/SearchBTF.xml#SearchBTF", true, parameterMap);
public void openDepartments(oracle.jbo.domain.Number departmentId) {
parameterMap = new HashMap ();
parameterMap.put("pDepartmentId", departmentId);
launchActivity(this.tabContext, "Department", "/WEB-INF/DepartmentBTF.xml#DepartmentBTF", true, parameterMap);
public void openEmployees(oracle.jbo.domain.Number departmentId) {
parameterMap = new HashMap ();
parameterMap.put("pDepartmentId", departmentId);
launchActivity(this.tabContext, "Employees", "/WEB-INF/EmployeesBTF.xml#EmployeesBTF", true, parameterMap);
protected void launchActivity(TabContext tabContext, String title, String taskflowId, boolean newTab) {
try {
if (newTab) {
tabContext.addTab(title, taskflowId);
} else {
tabContext.addOrSelectTab(title, taskflowId);
} catch (TabContext.TabOverflowException toe) {
protected void launchActivity(TabContext tabContext, String title, String taskflowId, boolean newTab, Map
parameters) {
try {
if (newTab) {
tabContext.addTab(title, taskflowId, parameters);
} else {
tabContext.addOrSelectTab(title, taskflowId, parameters);
} catch (TabContext.TabOverflowException toe) {
protected void launchActivity(String title, String taskflowId, boolean newTab) {
launchActivity(this.tabContext, title, taskflowId, newTab);
protected void launchActivity(String title, String taskflowId, boolean newTab, Map
parameters) {
launchActivity(this.tabContext, title, taskflowId, newTab, parameters);
* A concrete implementation of searchbtf.view.SearchBTFInterface that is not available to the Master ADF Application:
As can be seen the Chaperone class simply grabs the Launcher class and calls the associated methods for opening the BTFs.
package masterapp.view;
import oracle.jbo.domain.Number;
import searchbtf.view.SearchBTFInterface;
public class SearchBTFChaperone implements SearchBTFInterface {
public SearchBTFChaperone() { }
public Launcher getLauncher() {
Launcher launcher = (Launcher)JsfUtils.resolveExpression("#{launcher}");
return launcher;
public void openDepartment(Number departmentId) {
public void openEmployees(Number departmentId) {
The complete result is at runtime the master ADF application's Chaperone class with the concrete implementation on how to call the other BTFs is passed to the Search BTF. The Search BTF is aware of the available methods as it defined the interface class that the master Chaperone class was based on. The end effect is the Search BTF defines a set of required services it wants the calling application to supply and implement.
That concludes the work required for the master ADF application.
Sample Application
The sample application using Oracle's HR sample schema can be downloaded as a zip, containing all 4 applications, the master ADF application, Search BTF, Employees BTF and Department BTF. Note that the 3 BTFs deploy their ADF Libraries into a lib directory of the master ADF application, which in turn attaches the JARs to it's ViewController project.
The master-child BTF chaperone approach is an alternative technique to contextual events where the child BTF requires services from its caller, but isn't interested in the implementation. This allows a relatively lighter coupling that assists BTF reusability. The technique isn't a replacement for contextual events in all cases, but should highlight to developers an alternative mechanism for achieving communications between BTFs.
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Diskin Cider, Nashville's first craft cidery, is set to begin production this summer. Diskin Cider, part of the Finery community, will take up approximately 8,000 square feet at the intersection of Martin and Gray Streets next to Six10 Merritt.
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Balkan Wars
Balkan Wars, (1912–13), two successive military conflicts that deprived the Ottoman Empire of almost all its remaining territory in Europe.
The First Balkan War was fought between the members of the Balkan League—Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro—and the Ottoman Empire. The Balkan League was formed under Russian auspices in the spring of 1912 to take Macedonia away from Turkey, which was already involved in a war with Italy. The league was able to field a combined force of 750,000 men. Montenegro opened hostilities by declaring war on Turkey on Oct. 8, 1912, and the other members of the league followed suit 10 days later.
The Balkan allies were soon victorious. In Thrace, the Bulgarians defeated the main Ottoman forces, advancing to the outskirts of Constantinople (now Istanbul) and laying siege to Adrianople (Edirne). In Macedonia, the Serbian army achieved a great victory at Kumanovo that enabled it to capture Bitola and to join forces with the Montenegrins and enter Skopje. The Greeks, meanwhile, occupied Salonika (Thessaloníki) and advanced on Ioánnina. In Albania, the Montenegrins besieged Shkodër, and the Serbs entered Durrës.
The Turkish collapse was so complete that all parties were willing to conclude an armistice on Dec. 3, 1912. A peace conference was begun in London, but after a coup d'état by the Young Turks in Constantinople in January 1913, war with the Ottomans was resumed. Again the allies were victorious: Ioánnina fell to the Greeks and Adrianople to the Bulgarians. Under a peace treaty signed in London on May 30, 1913, the Ottoman Empire lost almost all of its remaining European territory, including all of Macedonia and Albania. Albanian independence was insisted upon by the European powers, and Macedonia was to be divided among the Balkan allies.
The Second Balkan War began when Serbia, Greece, and Romania quarreled with Bulgaria over the division of their joint conquests in Macedonia. On June 1, 1913, Serbia and Greece formed an alliance against Bulgaria, and the war began on the night of June 29/30, 1913, when King Ferdinand of Bulgaria ordered his troops to attack Serbian and Greek forces in Macedonia. The Bulgarians were defeated, however, and a peace treaty was signed between the combatants on Aug. 10, 1913. Under the terms of the treaty, Greece and Serbia divided up most of Macedonia between themselves, leaving Bulgaria with only a small part of the region.
As a result of the Balkan Wars, Greece gained southern Macedonia as well as the island of Crete. Serbia gained the Kosovo region and extended into northern and central Macedonia. Albania was made an independent state under a German prince. The political consequences of the wars were considerable. Bulgaria, frustrated in Macedonia, looked to Austria for support, while Serbia, which had been forced by Austria to give up its Albanian conquests, regarded Vienna with greater hostility than ever. The heightened tensions in the Balkans reached their climax in World War I, which was sparked by the assassination of the Austrian heir-apparent by a Serb in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914.
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Russell M. Nelson
Nelson family laughing together. Photo from LDS.org.
One evening, Russell came home from work to find Dantzel weary from the day's activities, so he offered to help get the children ready for bed. He also had had a rather demanding day, so, hearkening back to his days in the military, he began to give orders: "Take your clothes off and hang them up. Brush your teeth. Put on your pajamas. Say your prayers"--all befitting the demeanor of a drill sergeant.
Marjorie interrupted her father's commands by asking, "Daddy, do you own me?" Her wistful eyes and poignant question caused Russell to realize that he was exercising unrighteous dominion rather than following the Savior's example of leading with love. This penitent father gained an important insight: "We don't own our children; we have them for a short season. As parents, we have the privilege to love them, to lead them, and then to let them go." Marjorie recently remarked, "My parents are pretty much perfect models in my life. Most importantly, I never doubted that I was loved."
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In anticipation of Father's Day in June 1969, a reporter interviewed the Nelson children for an article titled "Dad Is an Extra-Special Person." The collective summary assessment of their dad was, "He takes time to do things with us...he has a good sense of humor...he's so nice and kind...he's lots of fun to be with...he really understands…he listens.' The interviewer concluded, 'And what finer compliments could any father receive!"
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As a latter-day apostle, Elder Russell M. Nelson is known worldwide for his tireless service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Many people, however, are not familiar with his pioneering work in the field of open-heart surgery, the life-prolonging operation he performed on President Spencer W. Kimball, his role in helping open Eastern Bloc countries to the preaching of the gospel, and his loving efforts to build relations with the people of China.
In Russell M. Nelson: Father, Surgeon, Apostle, readers are treated to an intimate portrayal that will help us come to know Elder Nelson as a man of testimony, a dedicated husband and father of ten, and a servant whose principal desire since his youth has been to serve God's children.


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Jane Smiley won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991), which is based on Shakespeare's King Lear. In 2001, Smiley was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. She participates in the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books in association with UCLA. She won the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 and chaired the judges' panel for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize in 2009. Smiley is currently at work on a trilogy of novels about an Iowa family over the course of several generations. The first novel of the trilogy, Some Luck, was published in 2014 by Random House, and the second novel, Early Warning, will be released on April 28, 2015.
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Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 7:30 PM
Anthony Doerr is the author of the story collections The Shell Collector (2002) and Memory Wall (2010), the memoir Four Seasons in Rome (2007), and the novels About Grace (2004) and the number one New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See (2014), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015 and was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award. Doerr's fiction has won four O. Henry Prizes and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction. He has won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize; the Rome Prize; the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; an NEA Fellowship; the National Magazine Award for Fiction; three Pushcart Prizes; two Pacific Northwest Book Awards; three Ohioana Book Awards; the 2010 Story Prize, which is considered the most prestigious prize in the U.S. for a collection of short stories; and the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, which is the largest prize in the world for a single short story. In 2007, the British literary magazine Granta placed Doerr on its list of 21 Best Young American Novelists.
Adam Gopnik
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Adam Gopnik is a Canadian American writer, essayist, and commentator. He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker—to which he has contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir, and criticism since 1986—and as the author of the essay collection Paris to the Moon, an account of five years that Gopnik spent in the French capital with his family. He is the author of two children's novels, The King in the Window and The Steps Across the Water, as well as several collections of essays, including Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York; Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Lincoln, Darwin, and Modern Life; and The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food. He has won the National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism three times, as well as the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting and the Canadian National Magazine Award Gold Medal for arts writing. His work has been anthologized many times, in The Best American Essays, The Best American Travel Writing, The Best American Sports Writing, The Best American Food Writing, and The Best American Spiritual Writing.
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Born in Jamaica in 1963, Claudia Rankine earned her BA in English from Williams College and her MFA in poetry from Columbia University. She is the author of five collections of poetry: Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), which received the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry; Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004); Plot (2001); The End of the Alphabet (1998); and Nothing in Nature is Private (1995), which received the Cleveland State University Poetry Prize. In 2013, Rankine was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Her honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowments for the Arts. In 2005, Rankine was awarded the Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement by the Academy of American Poets. She is currently the Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College.
Mohsin Hamid
Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 7:30 PM
Mohsin Hamid is a Pakistani writer and the author of three novels—Moth Smoke (2000), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013)—and a book of essays titled Discontent and Its Civilizations (2014). His writing has been featured on bestseller lists, adapted for the cinema, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award (Moth Smoke), selected as winner or finalist of twenty awards, and translated into thirty-five languages. Born in Lahore, he has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California.