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Corynne McSherry is the Legal Director at EFF, specializing in intellectual property, open access, and free speech issues. Her favorite cases involve defending online fair use, political expression, and the public domain against the assault of copyright maximalists. As a litigator, she has represented Professor Lawrence Lessig, Public.Resource.Org, the Yes Men, and a dancing baby, among others, and one of her first cases at EFF was In re Sony BMG CD Technologies Litigation (aka the "rootkit" case). In 2015 she was named one of California's Top Entertainment Lawyers. She was also named AmLaw's "Litigator of the Week" for her work on Lenz v. Universal. Her policy work includes leading EFF's effort to fix copyright (including the successful effort to shut down the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA), promote net neutrality, and promote best practices for online expression. In 2014, she testified before Congress about problems with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Corynne comments regularly on digital rights issues and has been quoted in a variety of outlets, including NPR, CBS News, Fox News, the New York Times, Billboard, the Wall Street Journal, and Rolling Stone. Prior to joining EFF, Corynne was a civil litigator at the law firm of Bingham McCutchen, LLP. Corynne has a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz, a Ph.D from the University of California at San Diego, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. While in law school, Corynne published Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property (Harvard University Press, 2001).
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As our country celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. King, we are reminded of the work he and his fellow organizers did to advance social justice in their time. From civil rights to poverty, Dr. King led the charge to address the inequalities that plagued our nation. Half a century later, we face our own battles for social justice. While few possess the ability to inspire as King did, many have embraced his mantle of advocacy through the use of tech.
The adoption of social media technology has changed the way communities organize. During the 1950s and 60s, organizers like Dr. King, Bayard Rustin, Diane Nash, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong and Caesar Chavez spent weeks and months to connect with the hundreds of thousands of activists around the country to effect change. Today, social media tools allow organizers to reach millions of people around the world — nearly instantaneously — to deliver a uniform message of advocacy. Moreover, this new platform allows activists to bypass traditional media outlets, which have often been accused of overlooking social justice issues for underrepresented communities. From Troy Davis and Renisha McBride to Michael Brown and Eric Garner, we have seen the ability of social media to quickly raise awareness of an issue on a grand scale, organize communities for direct actions and influence key decision makers.
However, it is critical to note that social media is a tool to enhance social justice organizing, not a replacement for it. Social media lacks the personal influence honed by trained organizers. Additionally, as the technology has evolved so has the bar needed to reach critical mass. Given the relative ease of "liking" a post or retweeting, the numbers needed to influence those in power has increased exponentially.
Fortunately, organizers have become adept at using these new tools in their efforts. A decade ago, both Voto Latino and Color of Change were founded with a focus on online organizing and activism. Additionally, the DREAMer movement has demonstrated immense success with social media. By reviving strategies and tactics of the past and merging them with tech tools, this coalition of youth immigrant activists led a movement that reshaped national immigration policy.
In addition to serving as a tool for organizing, tech has also helped to directly minimize exploitation. The app Pigeonly provides a low-cost alternative to exceptionally expensive phone calls, ensuring that low-income family members can afford to stay in touch with their incarcerated loved ones. And thanks to the ubiquity of cameras on smartphones, apps like Five-0, created by three teenagers, and the ACLU's Stop & Frisk Watch can serve as an instant reporting tools to document potential police abuses, so that police are more accountable for their interactions with the community.
As important as the tech itself, new tech training programs for underrepresented communities have the potential to become a tool to address income and employment inequality. Research indicates that jobs in tech are some of the best paying in the country. Unfortunately, diversity in the tech arena is minimal, leaving people from underrepresented communities out of the tech pipeline. That is why groups like the Level Playing Field Institute and Code for Progress have created programs to teach the next generation from these communities the skills they need to succeed in the thrive in the global tech ecosystem.
Dr. King created an unshakable foundation for social justice that we all stand firmly on. Today we honor his legacy by building on his efforts with the assistance of tech so that we can one day see his dream become a reality.


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Store lore — If you're looking to stock up on building and home improvement materials at a reasonable price, Habitat for Humanity can help. The group celebrated the grand opening of ReStore, its retail outlet for new and used building supplies, this week. ReStore will be offering discounts of 10 to 50 percent off selected items through Saturday. All proceeds from the store go directly to Habitat's local building program, but that's not the only advantage to patronizing ReStore. Homeowners can obtain reasonably priced tools to keep up their dwellings, and older tools are recycled and put back into use rather than being thrown away. The store is located at 37829 Groesbeck Hwy. in Clinton Township, and is open Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 6 p.m. and Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 568-263-1540 for info.
Honor bound — Excuse the quasi self-promotion, but Proactive is compelled to tell you about an event that will honor Metro Times stalwart Jack Lessenberry. OK, it's not all about our cantankerous columnist. Lessenberry will be among six people feted when Detroit Central United Methodist church holds its first-ever Peace & Justice Awards Banquet on Sunday, Dec. 4, at the Detroit Yacht Club. Joining Jack as honorees are the venerable Grace Lee Boggs and City Council President Maryann Mahaffey. Dr. Felix Rogers and the Rev. Charles Adams, as well as Juliet Amene, who'll receive the "youth award," will also be taking much-deserved bows. Keynote speaker will be noted author Michael Eric Dyson, a professor of African-American studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a former Detroiter. Tickets are $100. Contact Inez Torbert at 313-965-5422, ext. 32. Money raised will help support church ministries such as Swords Into Plowshares and Peace For Youth.
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This study considered animated manuals among the assembly manuals used in the manufacturing industry, which is one of the important components for enhancing service productivity in the task teaching process. In particular, it focused on information that pertained to the worker's hands. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of the inclusion of hand information for assembly workers and to elucidate on the effectiveness of the provision of hand information in assembly manuals. The subjective experimental results from four participants demonstrated that hand information was beneficial either when the presentation of such information was sufficiently easy for users to comprehend or when unstable parts have to be held by the hands.
M. Sugi, I. Matsumura, Y. Tamura, T. Arai, and J. Ota, "Usability Analysis of Information on Worker's Hands in Animated Assembly Manuals," Int. J. Automation Technol., Vol.12, No.4, pp. 524-532, 2018.
 R. Kamata, R. Tamura, S. Niitsu, H. Kawaharada, and H. Hiraoka, "Use of 1DOF Haptic Device for Remote-Controlled 6DOF Assembly," Int. J. Automation Technol., Vol.8, No.3, pp. 452-459, 2014.
 S. Niitsu, R. Tamura, and H. Hiraoka, "Detection of Contact Point of Parts Using a Force Sensor for Remote-Controlled Assembly Using a 1DOF Haptic Device," Int. J. Automation Technol., Vol.9, No.6, pp. 747-755, 2015.
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Barclays hit with Forex Mega Fine
Barclays given largest financial penalty ever imposed by the FCA
The bank was this week given a record fine by the FCA of £284M in a combined £1.5Bn worth of fines by both UK and US regulators, following a guilty plea to criminal charges under US Anti-Trust Law.
Why Barclays was given a record fine by FCA?
As the FCA Final Notice details, between 2008 and 2013, it was found that Forex traders at Barclays formed tightly-knit groups through controlled-entry chat rooms to manipulate exchange rates in their favour.
The bank has fired four employees, three of them based in London. It has been told to fire four more in New York and has agreed to an early settlement with the FCA thus reducing the financial penalty of £355,540,000 by 20% to £284,432,000.
During the period, the chat-room groups used various strategies to manipulate rates and also inappropriately disclosed client identities which included pension funds, hedge funds and central banks.
The overall £1.5 billion penalty Barclays received includes fines not only to the Financial Conduct Authority but also to the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Reserve.
In the evidence collected against Barclays, (details of which can be found in the FCA's Final Notice and the New York Department of Financial Services Order), shows that the FX traders exchanged information about the size and direction of their orders in online chat rooms as well as discussed the bid and offer prices banks were showing their customers, and lied to customers about orders they were executing on their behalf.
Records of the collusion suggest a number of incidences of financial crime occurred and showed the Bank's manipulative activities and misrepresentations to customers in more than 1 million emails and recorded phone calls gathered during the CFTC's three year investigation.
The US Justice Department also showed that Barclays had concealed mark-ups on certain transactions to customers and that these mark-ups "represented a key revenue source for Barclays" and were a high priority for sales staff. One individual working as a vice-president at Barclays at the time suggested that the maximum mark-up should be added wherever possible.
Corporate Governance Implications:
The Regulator detailed that Barclays failed to control business practices in its FX business in London. As Georgina Philippou, the FCA's acting director of enforcement and market oversight said:
"This is another example of a firm allowing unacceptable practices to flourish on the trading floor. Instead of addressing the obvious risks associated with its business Barclays allowed a culture to develop which put the firm's interests ahead of those of its clients and which undermined the reputation and integrity of the UK financial system. Firms should scrutinise their own systems and cultures to ensure that they make good on their promises to deliver change."
The FCA has said that Barclays' systems and controls over its Foreign Exchange business were inadequate and that these failings gave FX traders the opportunity to engage in behaviour that put the Bank's interests ahead of those of its clients, other market participants and the wider UK financial system.
This behaviour included:
inappropriately sharing information about clients' activities
attempting to manipulate spot FX currency rates
collusion with traders at other firms, in a way that could disadvantage those clients and the market
In a press release issue by Barclays following the imposed penalties, Antony Jenkins, CEO of Barclays said "The misconduct at the core of these investigations is wholly incompatible with Barclays' purpose and values and we deeply regret that it occurred." He additionally added that Barclays is "committed" in "continuing work to build a values-based culture and strengthen our control environment."
The previous Libor interest rates rigging scandal has seen 13 individuals face charges by the Serious Fraud Office, so whilst the Serious Fraud Office is yet to charge anyone over the Forex fixing, if the previous Libor rate scandal is anything to go by, individual charges are sure to follow.


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Výhledy (németül Steingrün) jelenleg Hazlov településrésze Csehországban a Karlovy Vary-i kerület Chebi járásában. Korábban önálló község.

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Az Aši-kiszögellés délkeleti részén, Aštól 8 km-re délkeletre, Hazlovtól 4 km-re északra fekszik. Területe a Smrčiny hegység részét képező Aši-hegyvidéken (csehül Ašská vrchovina) fekszik.

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Német telepesek alapították a korábban sűrű erdővel borított területen. Első írásos említése 1224-ből származik. 1526-ban a chebi Slik-család tulajdonába került, 1629-ben pedig Hazlov település részeként említették. Önállóságát 1850-ben nyerte el. A település iskoláját 1890-ben építették. Ebben az időszakban a községhez tartozott, az azóta megszűnt Neuengrün település is. A második világháború után német nemzetiségű lakosságát kitelepítették. 1950-től ismét Hazlov településrésze.

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 A közeli halastó mellett található a 14. századból származó erődítmény romja.
 Az út mentén felállított feszület 1833-ból származik.
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 Az első világháború hősi halottainak emlékműve, mely gondozatlan, rendkívül rossz állapotban van.
 A település északi határában eredő Bílý Halštrov forráshelyét a község lakosai 1898-ban építették ki. A kőépítmény megépítéséhez szükséges telek a Helmfeld-család adománya volt, címerük az építmény felső részén látható. Alatta az Elster Quelle felirat, a forrás német nyelvű elnevezése. A forrás megközelíthető a sárga jelzésű turistaösvényen, illetve Horní Paseky felől a 2062 számú kerékpárúton.

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American economist Bryan Caplan recently published "The Case Against Education" in which he explains how the United States needs to reform its current education system to be more profitable for students as well as society. His research mostly focuses on the American school system, so it is difficult to draw the same policy conclusions for European countries. However, many of his theoretical arguments have universal applicability. This post aims to examine the state of education in Germany, with a special focus on vocational training: an important part of higher education which is only briefly addressed by Caplan's research.
Firstly, it is important to note that Caplan, looking at the American system, focuses on graduating high school at 18 after 12 years of education. He estimates that even for poor students who loathe school and do not have the necessary skills to continue their education on a university level, it is extremely valuable to finish and get a high school degree (Caplan concludes this after comparing different outcomes of a Selfish Return on Degree: the average rate of earnings with a certain degree depending on what type of student one is). Caplan's calculations and suggestions for students might have been different had he been able to take into account different options for high school degrees, for example finishing with a degree after grade 9. Even though school certificates are a strong form of signaling and do not necessarily prove the existence of specific skills, he showed that the "sheepskin effect", earning more the second you graduate and obtain a degree as opposed to for example dropping out the day before, proved to be most rewarding in high school and more valuable than dropping out without a degree. If earlier degrees would be possible in the US, similar to Germany for example, it would encourage poor students to graduate as early as they can and still get the effect of holding a completed degree. This is one of the reasons why the drop-out rate at high schools in Germany is negligible: only 4.0 % of the total population has no degree at all. Yet, the stigma of high school dropouts is very similar to that of graduates with low-level degrees such as the Hauptschulabschluss school leaving certificate after grade 9. Schools offering these low-level degrees are often seen as educating poor students with no obvious opportunities after graduation. However, this stigma is often unjustified.
"Most countries can't be Germany." Caplan praises the system that is currently implemented in the country. While it is true that vocational training is much more common, there is still plenty of room for improvement, and problems about US education are often applicable in Germany as well.
Caplan correctly emphasizes education as a certification for skill. It is easier for employers to seek suitable employees using the heuristic of a degree than it is to filter out great employees one by one, which would result in tremendous costs. Additionally, ability biases suggest that education causes most of the skills students have after they graduate. But is this true? Think of Bill Gates: he already had most of the skills he needed before graduating, allowing him to drop out and not waste his time. But, if everyone stopped getting degrees, how could employers limit potential applicants? How would they know if you are the next Bill Gates or just a poor student without socially-signalled qualities?
The United States needs to work on a more diverse higher education system to give its students more options; meanwhile, in Germany it seems that there are enough jobs available for those students who gain degrees other than the standard university degrees that predominate in the US system. German employers with vacant job positions prefer employing people with specific skills coming from training instead of fancy university degrees. Furthermore, the economic sectors with the most job offerings are in heavy industry and services. If one compares job vacancies across different levels of expertise required, what transpires is that it is mostly skilled labour that is needed, not "expertise". For example, as of January 2018, there are a total of 23,470 open jobs in elderly care. 63% of these require the skilled labour which is acquired through training, and only 0.4% require specialists. Now, elderly care may be a field which requires little expertise, but even looking at financial services, for example insurance, 83% of offers are directed at skilled labour and only 11% at experts. More generally, in 2016, 64% of vacancies required a training equivalent degree, 20% no degree at all and only 16% a university equivalent degree. Why do these vacancies remain unfilled while more students enroll in university? In 2016, 2.8 million students were enrolled in university and only 1.3 million people enrolled in training.
This certainly seems to be a case of social desirability bias. As vocational training is not necessarily seen as the best option in Germany, "getting a bachelor's degree" sounds a lot better to many students than "going into training." Abitur graduates especially are often pushed towards university: they find they have the highest type of degree and feel it would be a shame to "waste it on training." As Caplan shows, it all depends on what kind of student you are. Going on to a master's degree is really only worthwhile for excellent students that love school, and can attain their degree in a lucrative prospective field, engineering for example; university is quite profitable for good students, but this also depends on personal characteristics.
This all comes back to the selfish return on degree. But Caplan also sees this from a social perspective. It is especially unprofitable for society to send a low-achieving student to college: the money spent on education by taxpayers will not result in increased productivity at the workplace after receiving the degree, calculated by social return on degree. Yet Caplan finds that vocational training remains due to the stigma attached to it, even though productivity increases compared to traditional education.
Germany however is not as limited in higher education options as the United States. There are still many different options for students. Dual degrees offer a Bachelor's degree together with practical experience. In 2016, 79% of graduates in Baden-Württemberg with a dual degree had open-ended full-time contracts.
In the case of vocational training, Germany is already pushing for more recognition and improvement through different initiatives. Erasmus+ for example offers cultural exchange for trainees in Europe.
Many students might want to choose university over training for more general reasons of personal satisfaction. Yet Caplan suggests that education has no proven effect on happiness; work can build character just as effectively and especially for students without the capacity for traditional learning. Learning on the job and receiving positive feedback on their skill development can be more rewarding than being forced into boring classrooms.
Caplan definitely has a point when it comes to what students actually learn in class compared to what they need for their job later on. He also makes convincing arguments about happiness, crime and income outcomes. However, the purpose of school is not really drawn out. Do we go to university to prepare for a job? Or do we go to university for the sake of knowledge? His view on many degrees is also extremely single-sided. If one studies foreign languages there are far more job opportunities than becoming a translator. Thus I am not quite convinced by his argument that most education is entirely a waste. But his point that society needs "less education" definitely stands, so far as it is less the amount of education that is important than what students actually get out of it. And in the case of students that are not able to learn as much as expected, it is extremely important to focus on improving the vocational training sector to ensure that everyone has opportunities that fit their abilities, as well as accurately preparing people for the current labour market.
These views are the author's only and do not necessarily reflect the stance of the EPICENTER Network.


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The Other Zionism
By I. F. Stone,
The main current of Zionism has always nourished itself on the illusions that the Jews were "a people without a land" returning to "a land without a people." But there was from the beginning of the movement another Zionism that was prepared, from the deepest ethical motives, to face up to the reality that Palestine was not an empty land but contained another and kindred people. They were a lonely handful then, and they are a lonelier one now, when the pendulum of power has swung to the far right. Perhaps never more than now has this Other Zionism seemed more like a voice in the political wilderness, but the time may be coming when more and more Israelis and Jews will wish these voices had been heard, and when their message will take on renewed life and meaning if there is to be peace and Israel is to survive.
In their time, the spokesmen for this Other Zionism were not obscure and peripheral figures, but among the most resplendent names in the history of the Return. They were among the greatest of the thinkers and the pioneers who prepared the way for the reestablishment of Israel. One of them, Ahad Ha Am, was the foremost philosopher to take part in the rebirth of Hebrew as a living language in our time. Among these Other Zionists was his disciple, the San Francisco–born American rabbi Judah L. Magnes, who emigrated to Palestine in 1922. His monumental achievement was in establishing the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1925. He served as its president until his death in 1948.
Ahad Ha Am, a Russian Jewish intellectual, played a role in obtaining the Balfour Declaration, by which the British government pledged itself in 1917 to establish in Palestine "a national home for the Jewish people." Ahad Ha Am was also one of the few in the Zionist movement who stressed the parallel obligation expressed in the Declaration "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine." Ahad Ha Am called himself a "cultural Zionist." He wanted the political aims of Zionism limited, as his biography in the Encyclopaedia Judaica expresses it, by "consideration for the national rights of the Palestinian Arabs." This was a note rarely if ever struck by the spokesmen for mainline Zionism. These regarded the pledge to the Palestinian Arabs as a kind of British imperialist trick and insisted on reading the Balfour Declaration as a promise not to create a Jewish national home in Palestine but to turn all Palestine into a Jewish state.
Four years after the Balfour Declaration was promulgated, Ahad Ha Am expanded his views on it in a preface to the Berlin edition of his book At the Cross Ways. He wrote then that the historical right of the Jewish people to a national home in Palestine "does not invalidate the right of the rest of the land's inhabitants." He recognized that they have "a genuine right to the land due to generations of residence and work upon it." For them too, Ahad Ha Am went on, "this country is a national home and they have the right to develop their national potentialities to the uttermost." He felt that this "makes Palestine into a common possession of different peoples."
Ahad Ha Am died in 1927. But his younger American disciple, Magnes, followed in his footsteps. He made a lifelong effort to bring Arabs and Jews together, and to work for a binational state in which the national rights and aspirations of both peoples would be safeguarded by fundamental constitutional guarantees. In such a state the constitution, regardless of which was at any time in the majority, would recognize two nations within the one state, with full rights to cultural autonomy, fostered by two official languages, Arabic and Hebrew.
The considerations that led Magnes all his life to espouse this view were movingly set forth in his address opening the Hebrew University in Jerusalem for its 1929–30 academic year. This old address reads with fresh meaning and pathos in the wake of the South Lebanese invasion and the use by the Israeli army of cluster bombs against the civilian population. "One of the greatest cultural duties of the Jewish people," Magnes said then, "is the attempt to enter the Promised Land, not by means of conquest as Joshua, but through peaceful and cultural means, through hard work, sacrifice, love, and with a decision not to do anything which cannot be justified before the world conscience."
From an essay published in the September 1978 issue of Harper's Magazine. The complete essay — along with the magazine's entire 164-year archive — is available online at harpers.org/fromthearchive.
1917-1948 20th century Balfour Declaration History Israel Jewish-Arab relations Palestine Politics and government Zionism
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Q: How to move the position of Progress bar when the image loads in List View I am loading the images one by one in Listview by running the task in back ground.I am running a progress bar until it loads fully.The position of progress is not changing when the image starts loading.I want the postion of the progressbar also to be changed when the images loads.How to do it? what am i doing wrong?
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/relaGrid"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <include
        android:id="@+id/Master"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        layout="@layout/activity_master_page" />

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/ItemView"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_below="@+id/Master" >
    </ListView>

<ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/ItemsProgressBar"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/Master"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
</RelativeLayout>

Added the code for loading image
private class testAynscTask extends AsyncTask {
    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        TheProgressBarG = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.ItemsProgressBar);
        TheProgressBarG.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    }

    protected Void doInBackground(Void... ParamsP) {

        try {
            POSManager aPOSManagerL = new POSManager();
            ListCriteria aListCriteriaL = new ListCriteria();
            ObjectInformation zItemInfoL = new ObjectInformation();
            CategoryItemListG = new ObjectList();
            //Get CategoryId
            String zCategoryIdL = GetCategoryId();

            aListCriteriaL.SearchConditionsM.AddSearchConditionWithValue("Item_Category.Id", zCategoryIdL);
            Gson gsonBuilderL = new GsonBuilder().serializeNulls().create();
            String zListCriteriaL = gsonBuilderL.toJson(aListCriteriaL);

            //Get Category Items List
            aPOSManagerL.GetCategoryItems(HttpUtil.SessionKeyM,zListCriteriaL);

            DisplayMetrics zDisplayMetricsL = new DisplayMetrics();
            getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(zDisplayMetricsL);
            int nPreviewSizeL = zDisplayMetricsL.widthPixels / 3;

            ObjectList zItemListL = HttpUtil.CategoryItemListM;

            for (int countL = 0; countL < zItemListL.GetLength(); countL++) {

                zItemInfoL = (ObjectInformation) zItemListL.GetObject(countL);
                String zItemIdL = (String) zItemInfoL.GetValue("ID");
                //Get Item Image
                aPOSManagerL.GetCategoryItemImage(HttpUtil.SessionKeyM,zItemIdL, nPreviewSizeL);
                zItemInfoL.SetValue("aPictureByteArrayP",HttpUtil.CategoryItemImageBytesM);
                CategoryItemListG.Add(zItemInfoL);
                publishProgress(countL);
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }

    protected void onProgressUpdate(Integer... PositionP) {

        ListView TheItemListViewL=(ListView) findViewById(R.id.ItemView);
        TheItemListViewL.setAdapter(anImageAdapterG);
        super.onProgressUpdate(PositionP);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void ResultP) {
        super.onPostExecute(ResultP);
        TheProgressBarG.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        anImageAdapterG.notifyDataSetChanged();

    }
}

public class ImageAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
        private Context mContextL;
    public ImageAdapter(Context contextP) {
        mContextL = contextP;
    }

    public int getCount() {
        return CategoryItemListG.GetLength();
        // return mImageIds.length;
    }

    public Object getItem(int PositionP) {
        return PositionP;
    }

    public long getItemId(int PositionP) {
        return PositionP;
    }

    public View getView(int PositionP, View ConvertViewP, ViewGroup ParentP) {

        ObjectInformation zItemInfoL = (ObjectInformation)CategoryItemListG.GetObject(PositionP);
        String zItemNameL = (String)zItemInfoL.GetValue("ITEMNAME");
        String zItemPriceL = (String)zItemInfoL.GetValue("SalesPrice");
        String zItemImageBytesL = (String)zItemInfoL.GetValue("aPictureByteArrayP");

        Bitmap ItemImageBitMapL =GetItemImageBitMap(zItemImageBytesL);

         RelativeLayout TheRelativelayoutL = new RelativeLayout(getApplicationContext());

         ImageView TheItemImageL = new ImageView(mContextL);
         TheItemImageL.setImageBitmap(ItemImageBitMapL);
         TheItemImageL.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.FIT_XY);
         TheItemImageL.setLayoutParams(new ListView.LayoutParams(100,100));
         TheItemImageL.setPadding(1, 0, 0, 0);
         TheItemImageL.setId(1);

         TextView tvItemNameL = new TextView(mContextL);
         tvItemNameL.setText(zItemNameL);
         tvItemNameL.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
         tvItemNameL.setTextSize(10);
         tvItemNameL.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#000000"));
         tvItemNameL.setPadding(15, 0, 0, 0);
         tvItemNameL.setId(2);

         TextView tvItemPriceL = new TextView(mContextL);
         tvItemPriceL.setText("Rs. "+zItemPriceL);
         tvItemPriceL.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
         tvItemPriceL.setTextSize(10);
         tvItemPriceL.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#A30000"));
         tvItemPriceL.setId(3);
         tvItemPriceL.setPadding(15, 0, 0, 20);

         TheRelativelayoutL.addView(TheItemImageL);

         RelativeLayout.LayoutParams zRelativeLayoutParamsL = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams((RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT),(RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
         zRelativeLayoutParamsL.addRule(RelativeLayout.RIGHT_OF,1);
         zRelativeLayoutParamsL.addRule(RelativeLayout.CENTER_IN_PARENT);

         TheRelativelayoutL.addView(tvItemNameL, zRelativeLayoutParamsL);

         zRelativeLayoutParamsL = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams((RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT),(RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
         zRelativeLayoutParamsL.addRule(RelativeLayout.RIGHT_OF,1);
         zRelativeLayoutParamsL.addRule(RelativeLayout.BELOW,2);
         zRelativeLayoutParamsL.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM);

         TheRelativelayoutL.addView(tvItemPriceL, zRelativeLayoutParamsL);

         return TheRelativelayoutL;
    }

A: I made the below changes to the UI and it works fine for me

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/relaGrid"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <include
        android:id="@+id/Master"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        layout="@layout/activity_master_page" />

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/ItemView"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/Master" >
    </ListView>

    <ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/ItemsProgressBar"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/ItemView"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />

</RelativeLayout>

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You know the line "talking about music is like dancing about architecture"? It's true: talking about music is a little like dancing about architecture (or singing about economics, if you prefer that version of the line), but I make this claim as someone who loves to sing about economics and who constantly dances about architecture.
Talking about music is one of my favourite things to do. I'm both fascinated by the way music works and astonished at its power to unite and divide, to motivate and to soothe. I think about music nearly all the time; admittedly, this is my 'job' as a composer, music educator, music publisher and marketer, but I'm certain that my musical jobs are the result of my thinking about music nearly all the time, rather than the other way around.
Mostly, I like to think and talk about the way music makes us feel.
This makes me a tad unusual in academic and art music circles, where a commonly held view is that "talking about how music makes you feel isn't really talking about music at all" (Andrew Ford, Meet the Music mid-concert talk, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, October 21, 2010).
My view is the complete reverse: unless we are talking about how music makes us feel (in the sense of describing our feelings and in the sense of exploring how music elicits these emotional responses) we aren't really talking about music at all.
All the chatter we can engage in regarding compositional devices and timbral effects really only makes sense when we apply that analysis to how these devices and effects change our physical and emotional worlds, whether we are performers or listeners, or both.
All this is by way of prefacing some recent talking about music that I've been engaging in.
Yvonne Frindle, the publications editor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, contacted me a couple of months ago about trying my hand at writing a program note for Matthew Hindson's yet-to-be-premiered double piano concerto. Of course I jumped at the chance, and was soon collecting the score and some scraps of interviews and quotes in order to create the note.
I'm looking at scores all the time in my role as a composer and as an print music editor, but working through a full orchestral score is something I've not done for many a year, I realised wryly as I began to read through page after page. This is a BIG work by contemporary standards, where commissions are usually so modest that a new orchestral piece might only last for 12 minutes or so. At 25 minutes, roughly, this is a very substantial work. On top of this, having two pianists soloing against the orchestra creates new levels of compositional intrigue!
The first thing to strike me about the work was the emotional kaleidoscope Matthew Hindson has applied to his subject matter (the concerto is a commission to celebrate the marriage of the two pianist-soloists!) – the music really does explore what 'marriage' is about from a number of angles, rather than just paying lip service to the circumstances of the commission.
Now, I find this 'first thing to strike me' very interesting: it wasn't any of Hindson's compositional effects or devices that caught my attention, but rather the way the music was (is!) going to make the audience feel from one moment in the composition to the next.
After getting a sense of the emotional content of the work I went back and started looking at exactly what the audience would be hearing from a technical point of view: the melody in this instrument or that, the arpeggiated figures in this or that register, which particular interplays between ensemble and soloists. It was at this point that I noticed the very many ways in which Hindson has created bell-effects throughout the work.
I then went through the work again, this time with an ear for formal properties and an eye for traditional ways of explaining/analysing the construction of the work.
And then it was time to start writing: you can read the program note that ensued here.
One of the aspects of the composition that was most important in generating an emotional response from the audience was the use of the Lydian mode. In the program note you can see the breakout box we made explaining what the Lydian mode is, how it differs from the major scale, and so forth. Yvonne then asked me to create an audio feature for the SSO website, as a further means of explaining how the use of this mode works to create this emotional response.
Now while my singing about economics is rare, and my dancing about architecture rarely witnessed, my talking about music is now very much on the public record. And rather than being an irrelevant and tangental self-indulgence, talking about music is as much a part of musical culture as tuning a guitar before a jam-session or choosing just the right mix for a personalised playlist. Talking about music is about sharing our enthusiasms and our insights, and just as conversation makes people feel included and valued, so talking about music demonstrates the value music brings to our lives.
Talking about this particular new orchestral work has been a delight, and even more delightful is hearing back from people who've listened to the audio feature and have then gone and booked tickets to one of the concerts. Conversation creates community: long may we dance about architecture.
I really enjoyed reading this. I get the "dancing about architecture" idea…that to really understand music, you have to make it. But I also line up with you…people love talking about music. And I love your focus on talking about how music makes us feel. That's the most common reason why people around the globe love music so much. Those musicians who only talk about the "compositional devices and timbral effects" of their music run the risk of turning off most people.
I couldn't help but notice that Mahler 10 was also on the program. He's probably my favorite orchestral composer. I could probably dig into my memory (from music history classes long ago) to recall some information about Mahler and his compositional innovations. But really, the reason I love his music so much is because of the intense emotional responses it creates in me when I listen to it.


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package org.flowable.editor.language;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.fail;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.flowable.bpmn.model.BpmnModel;
import org.flowable.bpmn.model.FlowElement;
import org.flowable.bpmn.model.FormProperty;
import org.flowable.bpmn.model.FormValue;
import org.flowable.bpmn.model.StartEvent;
import org.flowable.bpmn.model.UserTask;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

public class FormPropertiesConverterTest extends AbstractConverterTest {

    @Test
    public void convertJsonToModel() throws Exception {
        BpmnModel bpmnModel = readJsonFile();
        validateModel(bpmnModel);
    }

    @Test
    public void doubleConversionValidation() throws Exception {
        BpmnModel bpmnModel = readJsonFile();
        validateModel(bpmnModel);
        bpmnModel = convertToJsonAndBack(bpmnModel);
        validateModel(bpmnModel);
    }

    @Override
    protected String getResource() {
        return "test.formpropertiesmodel.json";
    }

    private void validateModel(BpmnModel model) {
        assertThat(model.getMainProcess().getId()).isEqualTo("formPropertiesProcess");
        assertThat(model.getMainProcess().getName()).isEqualTo("User registration");
        assertThat(model.getMainProcess().isExecutable()).isTrue();

        FlowElement startFlowElement = model.getMainProcess().getFlowElement("startNode", true);
        assertThat(startFlowElement).isInstanceOf(StartEvent.class);
        StartEvent startEvent = (StartEvent) startFlowElement;

        List<FormProperty> formProperties = startEvent.getFormProperties();

        assertThat(formProperties).as("Invalid form properties list: ").hasSize(8);

        for (FormProperty formProperty : formProperties) {
            if ("new_property_1".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v000", true, false, false);
            } else if ("new_property_2".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v001", true, false, true);
            } else if ("new_property_3".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v010", true, true, false);
            } else if ("new_property_4".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v011", true, true, true);
            } else if ("new_property_5".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v100", true, false, false);

                List<Map<String, Object>> formValues = new ArrayList<>();
                for (FormValue formValue : formProperty.getFormValues()) {
                    Map<String, Object> formValueMap = new HashMap<>();
                    formValueMap.put("id", formValue.getId());
                    formValueMap.put("name", formValue.getName());
                    formValues.add(formValueMap);
                }
                checkFormPropertyFormValues(formValues);

            } else if ("new_property_6".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v101", true, false, true);
            } else if ("new_property_7".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v110", true, true, false);
            } else if ("new_property_8".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v111", true, true, true);
            } else {
                fail("unexpected form property id " + formProperty.getId());
            }
        }

        FlowElement userFlowElement = model.getMainProcess().getFlowElement("userTask", true);
        assertThat(userFlowElement).isInstanceOf(UserTask.class);
        UserTask userTask = (UserTask) userFlowElement;

        formProperties = userTask.getFormProperties();

        assertThat(formProperties).as("Invalid form properties list: ").hasSize(8);

        for (FormProperty formProperty : formProperties) {
            if ("new_property_1".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v000", false, false, false);
            } else if ("new_property_2".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v001", false, false, true);
            } else if ("new_property_3".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v010", false, true, false);
            } else if ("new_property_4".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v011", false, true, true);
            } else if ("new_property_5".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v100", true, false, false);

                List<Map<String, Object>> formValues = new ArrayList<>();
                for (FormValue formValue : formProperty.getFormValues()) {
                    Map<String, Object> formValueMap = new HashMap<>();
                    formValueMap.put("id", formValue.getId());
                    formValueMap.put("name", formValue.getName());
                    formValues.add(formValueMap);
                }
                checkFormPropertyFormValues(formValues);

            } else if ("new_property_6".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v101", true, false, true);
            } else if ("new_property_7".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v110", true, true, false);
            } else if ("new_property_8".equals(formProperty.getId())) {
                checkFormProperty(formProperty, "v111", true, true, true);
            } else {
                fail("unexpected form property id " + formProperty.getId());
            }
        }

    }

    private void checkFormProperty(FormProperty formProperty, String name, boolean shouldBeRequired, boolean shouldBeReadable, boolean shouldBeWritable) {
        assertThat(formProperty.getName()).isEqualTo(name);
        assertThat(formProperty.isRequired()).isEqualTo(shouldBeRequired);
        assertThat(formProperty.isReadable()).isEqualTo(shouldBeReadable);
        assertThat(formProperty.isWriteable()).isEqualTo(shouldBeWritable);
    }

    private void checkFormPropertyFormValues(List<Map<String, Object>> formValues) {
        List<Map<String, Object>> expectedFormValues = new ArrayList<>();
        Map<String, Object> formValue1 = new HashMap<>();
        formValue1.put("id", "value1");
        formValue1.put("name", "Value 1");
        Map<String, Object> formValue2 = new HashMap<>();
        formValue2.put("id", "value2");
        formValue2.put("name", "Value 2");

        Map<String, Object> formValue3 = new HashMap<>();
        formValue3.put("id", "value3");
        formValue3.put("name", "Value 3");

        Map<String, Object> formValue4 = new HashMap<>();
        formValue4.put("id", "value4");
        formValue4.put("name", "Value 4");

        expectedFormValues.add(formValue1);
        expectedFormValues.add(formValue2);
        expectedFormValues.add(formValue3);
        expectedFormValues.add(formValue4);

        assertThat(formValues).isEqualTo(expectedFormValues);
    }
}


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Venice Gondola Capacity Reduced Due To "Overweight Tourists"
Venice's Gondoliers have decided to limit passenger numbers on board their gondolas, not for social distancing reasons, but because many of them are described as "overweight".
As noted in a Guardian report, Andrea Balbi, president of Venice's gondoliers association, said that as they do not weigh passengers before they board, they have decided to reduce capacity instead to simplify the process. Balbi was very blunt with his words, saying, "tourists are now overweight. From some countries, bombs load [on to the boats]. And when [the boat] is fully loaded, the hull sinks and water enters. Advancing with over half a tonne of meat on board is dangerous."
As a result of this, the gondola da nolo which are used for tours within the city's canals will reduce capacity from six to five passengers. Larger gondola da parada which are used to cross the Grand Canal will also cut capacity from 14 to 12 passengers. The smaller gondola da nolo was also originally designed to carry five people, resulting in the sixth person not having a cushioned area to sit on.
Venice's gondola industry is a very tight-knit one, with only 433 people holding licenses to operate these specialized boats, with an addition 180 people acting as substitutes. To become a gondolier requires passing a very rigorous exam, including learning about the city's extensive history, as well as foreign languages. However, a decision was also made to allow the son of a gondolier to acquire their father's license without having to take the exam.
Like many others in the tourism industry, gondoliers also lost business due to the pandemic, but as Italy returns to some semblance of normalcy, the gondola market is finally seeing a rise in tourist rides.
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<?php
namespace ValuFileStorage\Service;

use ValuFileStorage\Service\Exception;
use ValuFileStorage\Model;
use ValuSo\Annotation as ValuService;
use Doctrine\ODM\MongoDB\DocumentManager;

/**
 * MongoDB file storage implementation
 *
 * @author juhasuni
 *
 */
class MongoFileService extends AbstractFileService
{
	/**
	 * Document manager
	 *
	 * @var DocumentManager
	 */
	protected $dm;

	public function __construct(DocumentManager $documentManager){
	    $this->setDocumentManager($documentManager);
	}

	/**
	 * Add file to storage
	 *
	 * This method reads file contents from the URL specified.
	 * Supported URL schemes are file, http and https.
	 *
	 * @param string $sourceUrl File URL
	 * @param string $targetUrl Target URL
	 * @param array $metadata File metadata
	 * @throws \ValuFileStorage\Service\Exception\FileNotFoundException
	 *
	 * @ValuService\Context({"cli", "native"})
	 */
	public function insert($sourceUrl, $targetUrl, array $metadata = array())
	{
	    $specs = $this->prepareInsert($sourceUrl, $targetUrl);
	    $path = $this->parsePath($targetUrl);

	    // Create a new file or overwrite existing
	    if ($path == '/' || $path == '') {

	        $file = new Model\File(
                $this->generateUrl($sourceUrl),
                $metadata
	        );

	        $this->getDocumentManager()->persist($file);

	    } else {
	        $file = $this->getFileByUrl($targetUrl, true);
	    }

	    if ($specs['file']) {
	        $file->setFile($specs['file']);
	    } else {
	        $file->setBytes($specs['bytes']);

	        if ($this->isDataUrl($sourceUrl)) {
	            $mimeType = $this->parseDataUrl($sourceUrl, 'mime_type', 'text/plain');
	            $file->setMimeType($mimeType);
	        }
	    }

	    $this->getDocumentManager()->flush($file);

	    // Must be cleared
	    $this->getDocumentManager()->clear();

	    return $this->fetchFileMetadata($file);
	}

	/**
	 * Read file data
	 *
	 * @param string $url
	 * @return string|boolean
	 * @throws Exception\FileNotFoundException
	 *
	 * @ValuService\Context({"cli", "native"})
	 */
	public function read($url){

	    $this->testUrl($url);

	    $file = $this->getFileByUrl($url, true);
	    return $file->getFile()->getBytes();
	}

	/**
	 * Write data to file
	 *
	 * @param string $url
	 * @param string $data
	 * @return boolean
	 *
	 * @ValuService\Context({"cli", "native"})
	 */
	public function write($url, $data){
	    $this->testUrl($url);

	    $file = $this->getFileByUrl($url, true);
	    $file->setBytes($data);

	    $this->getDocumentManager()->flush();

	    // Must be cleared
	    $this->getDocumentManager()->clear();

	    return true;
	}

	/**
	 * Retrieve metadata for file
	 *
	 * @param string $url    File URL
	 * @return array|null File info (url, filesize, mimeType)
	 *
	 * @ValuService\Context({"cli", "native"})
	 */
	public function getMetadata($url)
	{
	    $this->testUrl($url);
		return $this->fetchFileMetadata(
	        $this->getFileByUrl($url, true));
	}

	/**
	 * Retrieves the total file storage size in bytes
	 *
	 * @return int
	 *
	 * @ValuService\Context({"cli", "native"})
	 */
	public function totalSize($url = null)
	{
	    if ($url !== null) {
	        $this->testUrl($url);
	    }

	    $iterator = $this->getDocumentManager()
	        ->getDocumentCollection('ValuFileStorage\Model\File')
	        ->group(
	            array(),
	            array('sum' => 0),
	            "function (obj, prev) { prev.sum += obj.length; }");
	    $result = $iterator->getSingleResult();
	    return $result ? $result['sum'] : 0;
	}

	/**
	 * Retrieve path in local file system (not supported)
	 *
	 * @param string $url
	 * @throws Exception\UnsupportedOperationException
	 *
	 * @ValuService\Context({"cli", "native"})
	 */
	public function getPath($url)
	{
	    $this->testUrl($url);

	    throw new Exception\UnsupportedOperationException(
	            'Operation ' . __FUNCTION__ . 'is not supported for this storage implementation');
	}

	/**
	 * Retrieve local copy of the file
	 *
	 * @param string $url
	 * @return string
	 *
	 * @ValuService\Context({"cli", "native"})
	 */
	public function getLocalCopy($url)
	{
	    $this->testUrl($url);

	    $file = $this->getFileByUrl($url, true);
        $uniquePart = md5($file->getId() . ':' . rand() . ':' . microtime());
        $tmpFile = sys_get_temp_dir() . '/valu-mdb-' . $uniquePart . '.' . pathinfo($file->getFilename(), PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
	    $file->getFile()->write($tmpFile);

	    return $tmpFile;
	}

    /**
     * Retrieve a resource to be used with PHP's file
     * functions that deal with reading files
     *
     * @return resource
     *
     * @ValuService\Context({"native"})
     */
    public function getResource($url)
    {
        $this->testUrl($url);
        $file = $this->getFileByUrl($url);
        return $file->getResource();
    }

	/**
	 * Delete file
	 *
	 * @param string $url   File URL in filesystem
	 * @return boolean		True if file was found and removed
	 *
	 * @ValuService\Context({"cli", "native"})
	 */
	public function delete($url)
	{
	    $this->testUrl($url);

		try{
		    $dm   = $this->getDocumentManager();
		    $file = $this->getFileByUrl($url, true);
		    $dm->remove($file);
		    $dm->flush();

		    return true;

		} catch(Exception\FileNotFoundException $e) {
		    return false;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Delete all files in file storage
	 *
	 * @return int Number of files deleted
	 *
	 * @ValuService\Context({"cli", "native"})
	 */
	public function deleteAll($url)
	{
	    $this->testUrl($url);
	    $batchSize = $this->getOption('delete_batch_size');

	    $qb = $this->getFileRepository()->createQueryBuilder();
	    $qb	->select('id')
	        ->findAndRemove()
	        ->hydrate(false);

	    if($batchSize){
	        $qb->limit($batchSize);
	    }

	    $removed = 0;

	    do{
	        $result = $qb ->getQuery()
	                      ->execute();

	        $removed += sizeof($result);

	    }while(sizeof($result));

	    return $removed;
	}

	/**
	 * Set document manager instance
	 *
	 * @param DocumentManager $dm
	 * @return FileStorage
	 *
	 * @ValuService\Exclude
	 */
	public function setDocumentManager(DocumentManager $dm){
	    $this->dm = $dm;
	    return $this;
	}

	/**
	 * Retrieve document manager instance
	 *
	 * @return DocumentManager
	 *
	 * @ValuService\Exclude
	 */
	public function getDocumentManager(){
	    return $this->dm;
	}

	/**
	 * Fetch file info
	 *
	 * @param File $file
	 * @return array
	 */
	protected function fetchFileMetadata(Model\File $file){
		return array(
		    'url'         => $file->getUrl(),
	        'filesize'    => $file->getSize(),
	        'mimeType'    => $file->getMimeType(),
	        'createdAt'   => $file->getCreatedAt() ? $file->getCreatedAt()->format(DATE_ATOM) : null,
	        'modifiedAt'  => $file->getModifiedAt() ? $file->getModifiedAt()->format(DATE_ATOM) : null,
        );
	}

	/**
	 * Generate file storage URL
	 *
	 * @param string $sourceUrl Source file URL
	 * @return string			Mongodb URL in form mongo://<ID>/<FILENAME>
	 */
	protected function generateUrl($sourceUrl){
	    $id       = $this->generateUuid();
	    $basename = $this->parseBasename($sourceUrl);

	    return $this->getOption('url_scheme') . ':///' . $id . '/' .$basename;
	}

	/**
	 * Retrieve file by URL
	 *
	 * @param string $url
	 * @return Model\File
	 * @throws Exception\FileNotFoundException
	 */
	protected function getFileByUrl($url, $throwException = false){

	    $repository	= $this->getFileRepository();
	    $file 		= $repository->findOneByUrl($url);

	    if(!$file && $throwException){
	    	throw new Exception\FileNotFoundException(
    	        'File not found from URL '.$url);
	    }

	    return $file ? $file : null;
	}

	/**
	 * Retrieve file repository
	 *
	 * @return FileRepository
	 */
	protected function getFileRepository(){
	    return $this->getRepository('File');
	}

	/**
	 * Retrieve repository
	 *
	 * @param string $type
	 * @return NodeRepository
	 */
	protected function getRepository($type){
	    return $this->getDocumentManager()->getRepository('ValuFileStorage\\Model\\'.$type);
	}
}