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The Stakeout - Day 1 || Steve Rogers × Agent!FReader

Day Two Words: 4.1K Themes/Warnings: Unspoken feelings towards each other. Growing tension. Sexual Attraction. Eventual Smut. Being stuck with each other. Summary: You've been assigned to do a stakeout with Steve for 5 days. Your accommodation: a cramped room with one mattress and a table with two rickety chairs. A/N: This is the tone setter. Steve's POV will always be at the end, and it'll be in 1st person. I don't have a tag list so. . .let me know if you want to be kept updated.

Steve Rogers pushed open the door to the small, dimly lit apartment, scanning the room with a soldier's eye. The place was a far cry from what you’re both used to—a single, cramped room with barely enough space to move around. 

You stepped in from behind him, your eyes taking in your temporary home. The first thing that greets you is the unmistakable scent of “eau de mildew” mixed with a hint of something burnt—probably dinner from three tenants ago. The wallpaper is peeling off in a way that makes you wonder if it’s trying to escape, revealing patches of cracked plaster that look like a map of an unknown, crumbling country.

The carpet is a masterpiece of stains, each one telling a story you’re pretty sure you don’t want to know. It’s so worn down that you can almost see the floorboards underneath, which might actually be an improvement.

The lighting is dim, with a single, flickering bulb that casts just enough light to make the shadows in the corners look even more menacing. In the middle of the room sits a mattress that looks like it was dragged out of a dumpster and lost the fight. It’s lumpy in all the wrong places, sagging in a way that suggests it has long given up on supporting anything heavier than a guilty conscience.

The only other furniture consists of two rickety chairs that look like they’re competing to see which one can collapse first. They wobble precariously even when they’re empty, as if they’re just waiting for the right moment to give up entirely.

The kitchen is a museum of outdated appliances, each one looking like it’s plotting against you. The stove has a layer of grease so thick it could probably survive a nuclear blast, and the sink faucet drips with the rhythm of a horror movie soundtrack.

You glance at the bathroom door, which is hanging slightly off its hinges, and decide that whatever’s in there can stay there. The mirror is so cloudy that it’s practically a portal to another dimension, and you’re pretty sure the toilet is older than Captain America.

The windows are streaked with grime, and one is patched with what looks like ancient duct tape. As you take it all in, you can’t help but think that the apartment is less a living space and more a haunted house that’s too tired to actually scare anyone.

“Cozy,” you muttered, trying to inject some humor into the situation. But even you couldn’t hide the discomfort in your voice, “If these walls could talk, they'd probably ask for a lawyer.”

Steve looked at the walls and instinctively covered his mouth, but it wasn’t enough to stifle the chuckle that slipped through—the urge to laugh bubbling up inside him.

The apartment was a disaster, a place so far beyond repair that it almost seemed comical in its neglect. And yet, it wasn’t the state of the place that got to him; it was you. He could already sense the sharp comment forming on your lips. 

Steve had always known you for your back-handed comments—remarkably clever, often brutally honest, and always perfectly timed. You had a knack for finding just the right words to undercut a situation, leaving everyone around you—Tony Stark included—scrambling for a retort. And in moments like these, even in a rundown apartment that could make the bravest Avenger cringe, you managed to make Steve smile, reminding him just why you were the perfect partner.

“It’s not much, but it’s all we’ve got for the next five days.” Steve turned to you, his expression apologetic.

“I've had worse.” You shrugged, tossing your bag onto the table. “At least the cockroaches seem to have packed up and left.”

You had worked together countless times before, but this was different. The close quarters, the extended time alone—usually you have the luxury to be in different rooms.

“I can sleep on the floor. You take the mattress.” Steve said, his eyes drifted to the double-bed size mattress on the floor. 

Your eyebrows shot up. “And have you waking up with a bad back on day one? No way. We can both fit.”

“I don’t mind the floor. Really.” Steve hesitated, clearly uncomfortable with the idea. 

“We’re both adults, Steve. It’s just sleeping. We’ll make it work.” You crossed your arms, giving him a determined look. 

He finally relented with a sigh. “Alright, if you say so.”

You spent the next few minutes in silence, each of you slipping into the familiar rhythm of setting up, though the state of the apartment made even the simplest tasks a challenge. The floorboards groaned underfoot with every step, and you had to be careful where you placed your equipment, wary of the spots that felt like they might give way entirely. The walls, pocked with holes and uneven surfaces, made it nearly impossible to secure the cameras properly; more than once, you found yourself muttering under your breath as the adhesive strips refused to stick, sliding down the peeling wallpaper as if in protest.

“Stick, you stupid tape!” you grumbled, pressing the strip back against the wall with more force than necessary, only to watch it slowly peel away once more. The tape seemed to be mocking you at this point, and your frustration was reaching a peak. But at the end, you made it work, as long as the equipment is working—you tell yourself.

The stakeout had reached that inevitable point where the monotony had set in. Hours of staring at surveillance footage had taken its toll, and both you and Steve were in desperate need of a break.

"Alright," you declared, tossing the deck of Uno cards between you. "We need something to keep me from going crazy."

Steve raised an eyebrow, looking at the cards with a mix of skepticism and amusement. "Uno? Seriously?"

"Come on," you teased, sitting cross-legged on the floor and motioning for him to join you. "It’s a classic. Plus, I promise not to go easy on you."

"I’d be disappointed if you did." Steve chuckled as he took a seat across from you, leaning in just slightly as he settled down. 

"Good. I wouldn’t want to let you down.” You grinned, shuffling the deck with practiced ease. 

The game started off lighthearted enough, with both of you trading cards and quips in equal measure. But as the game progressed, you couldn’t help but notice Steve’s hand growing increasingly full of cards, while yours remained relatively manageable.

"Got something against me, Y/N?" Steve asked, his tone playful as he drew yet another card from the deck. His hand was practically bursting with a rainbow of colors, and you couldn’t hide your grin.

"I don’t know what you’re talking about," you replied innocently, sliding another card onto the pile—a +4. "Just playing the game. Fair and square."

"Another +4? You sure this isn’t personal?" Steve stared at the card, then at you, his eyes narrowing in mock suspicion.

You leaned in slightly, lowering your voice, your smile turning teasing. "What if it is, Rogers? Think you can handle me?"

He raised an eyebrow, his lips twitching into a smirk. "I can handle a lot of things, but you might be more than I bargained for." 

You laughed softly, enjoying the banter. "I’ve been told I’m a handful."

"That’s one way to put it," he muttered, drawing four more cards with an exaggerated sigh. His amount of cards was now so large that he had to hold it in both hands, and you could see the struggle on his face as he tried to keep his composure.

The next round, you drew yet another +4 card, and Steve’s eyes widened in disbelief as you placed it down with a flourish.

"You’ve got to be kidding me," he said, shaking his head, "Are you sure you’re not stacking the deck?"

"I would never," you replied, feigning shock. "It’s just pure luck."

"Pure luck, huh?" Steve shot back, his tone dripping with sarcasm. "If this keeps up, I’m going to need another hand just to hold all these."

You leaned back, giving him a playful look. "You know, Steve, if it’s getting too much for you, you could always forfeit. I wouldn’t judge you. Much."

He met your gaze, a glint of challenge in his eyes. "Oh, I’m not giving up that easily. But if I win, I expect some proper appreciation."

"Appreciation?" you echoed, amused. "What do you have in mind?"

He shrugged, trying to keep a straight face. "Maybe something that shows you really understand what it’s like to lose to me."

You tilted your head, your smile turning sly. "Careful what you wish for, old man. I might just surprise you."

By the time you dropped yet another +4 card, Steve threw his hands up in defeat. "That’s it! I’m calling it—this game is rigged!"

You were laughing so hard that you could barely speak. "It’s not rigged! You’re just—oh man, I can’t even—"

Steve couldn’t help but start laughing too, the ridiculousness of the situation finally breaking through his usual stoic demeanor. 

"I can’t believe I’m losing this badly at Uno," he said, shaking his head with a grin. "To you, of all people."

You leaned back, still chuckling. "Hey, I’m just that good."

He gave you a playful glare, but there was no hiding the smile on his face. "Remind me never to play cards with you again."

"Afraid of losing?" you teased, leaning a bit closer, your voice dipping into something softer, more suggestive.

"Afraid of getting a hand full of +4s," he corrected, still grinning. "You’re ruthless."

You shrugged, a mischievous glint in your eye. "All’s fair in Uno and war, Rogers."

He shook his head, still laughing, as he began gathering up the cards. That’s when he noticed something odd—a few extra +4 cards peeking out from under where you were sitting. His eyes narrowed, as he zeroed in on the cards.

"Wait a minute," Steve said, his voice laced with suspicion as he pointed to the cards. "What’s that?"

Your heart skipped a beat as you quickly tried to shift, but Steve was faster, leaning forward and grabbing the edge of one of the cards sticking out from beneath you. You immediately tried to cover it up, sitting down harder to keep him from seeing the whole stack of +4s you had hidden.

"Nothing!" you blurted out, trying not to laugh as you squirmed to keep the cards hidden. But Steve’s grin only widened as he tugged on the card, the two of you now playfully wrestling over it.

"Nothing, huh?" he teased, managing to pull one of the cards free. "You’ve been cheating this whole time!"

You burst out laughing, the sound bubbling up uncontrollably. "I couldn’t resist! You should’ve seen your face every time I drew a +4!"

Steve wasn’t giving up, though. He leaned in closer, trying to snatch the remaining cards from you. "I knew it! I knew there was no way you could’ve drawn that many +4s!"

Still laughing, you tried to twist away, but Steve was persistent, his hands now playfully wrestling with yours as he tried to pry the cards from your grasp. 

"Alright, alright!" you finally gasped, surrendering the cards as you fell back into a fit of giggles.

Steve held up the extra +4 cards triumphantly, shaking his head with a mix of disbelief and amusement. "You’re impossible, you know that?"

You wiped tears from your eyes, still giggling. "I’m sorry, but it was just too easy. I didn’t think you’d actually fall for it!"

"I’ll get you back for this, you know."

You flashed him a teasing smile. "I’m counting on it, Rogers."

“Yeah, yeah—let's get back to work.”

× × × × 

As night fell, you settled into your positions by the small window that overlooked the building you both were surveilling. Steve had the binoculars up, his posture rigid and focused. You sat beside him, close enough to see the reflection of his serious expression in the glass.

The target this time was Elias Novak, a crime boss who had been operating under the radar for years. He wasn’t just any criminal—Novak was careful, methodical, and always seemed to be two steps ahead of the authorities. But the intel they’d received suggested that Novak was planning something big, something that could have far-reaching consequences if they didn’t act quickly.

For weeks now, whispers had been circulating about a major arms deal in the works, with Novak at the center of it. The specifics were still murky—where the weapons were coming from, who they were being sold to—but one thing was clear: if the deal went through, it could unleash chaos. Weapons of that scale and sophistication in the wrong hands could destabilize regions, spark conflicts, or worse.

“Anything?” you asked quietly, not wanting to break his concentration.

“Not yet,” he replied, his voice a low rumble.

You leaned forward slightly, trying to get a better view yourself. Without thinking, you placed a hand on Steve’s shoulder to balance yourself as you leaned in. The sudden contact made Steve freeze for a moment, but he didn’t move, his focus still on the building across the street.

You didn’t notice the slight tension in his body as you peered through the binoculars. The movement brought you even closer, your shoulder brushing against his arm. 

“Let me see,” you murmured, your breath brushing against Steve’s ear as you took the binoculars from him. 

You adjusted the focus, squinting into the lens. “Hm, odd,” you said, your tone slightly disappointed.

You handed the binoculars back to him, but instead of moving away, you stayed where you were, still leaning against him slightly. Steve took the binoculars, his fingers brushing your for a brief moment, sending a spark of electricity through you.

You stayed like that for a few minutes, pretending to be absorbed in the task at hand. Finally, you realized how close you were and pulled back, clearing your throat awkwardly.

“Sorry,” you said, your cheeks slightly flushed. “Didn’t mean to crowd you.”

Steve shook his head quickly. “No, it’s fine. We’ve got to stay close to keep an eye on things.”

You nodded, but the moment of closeness had left you slightly off-balance. You resumed your watch, but both of you were acutely aware of the other’s presence.

Eventually, you decided to call it a night. You changed into your sleepwear first, turning your back to Steve for some semblance of privacy in the open room. When you turned around, you found him already settled on one side of the mattress, his broad frame taking up more space than he probably intended.

You slid in beside him, the mattress dipping under your weight. The proximity was inevitable, and you both tried to ignore it, lying stiffly side by side, your shoulders almost touching.

“Goodnight,” you said softly, staring up at the ceiling, trying to make yourself relax.

“Goodnight,” Steve replied, his voice equally tense. Minutes ticked by, and neither of you could sleep. 

Finally, you sighed, breaking the quiet. “This is going to be a long five days, isn’t it?”

Steve chuckled softly, a low, warm sound that made your chest tighten. “Yeah, it might be.”

You smiled, turning your head slightly to look at him. In the dim light, you could see the outline of his face, his eyes staring up at the ceiling, just like yours had been moments before.

“We’ll get through it,” you said, more to yourself than to him.

Steve turned his head to meet your gaze, his expression softening. “Always do.”

There’s a pause, and you decide to lighten the mood a little more. You grin mischievously, knowing it’s a little ridiculous but hoping it’ll ease the tension. 

“Just watch out for bed bugs, Rogers. I’ve heard they love big, strong super soldiers.”

He laughs, and it’s a genuine sound that makes your own smile widen. “Good to know. Guess I’ll have to keep the shield close, then.”

“Might want to sleep with one eye open,” you tease.

“I think I can manage that,” he says, his voice lighter now, more relaxed. You can tell that your little joke did its job, easing some of the tension between you. It’s a small victory, but it feels good.

“Goodnight, Y/N,” he says, a smile still tugging at his lips.

“Goodnight, Steve,” you replied, and you can hear the warmth in his voice this time.

As sleep finally began to take hold, your last conscious thought was of Steve beside you—so close, yet still feeling so far away.

The mission had barely begun, but the real challenge, you realized, would be surviving the next five days without giving away the feelings you had tried so hard to keep hidden.

STEVE’S POV

The room is silent, except for the faint hum of traffic outside and the occasional creak of the old wooden floor. I keep my eyes fixed on the building across the street, trying to ignore the cramped space around me. We’ve been here for hours now, watching, waiting, but so far, nothing’s happened. Just another quiet night in the city.

I lift the binoculars again, scanning the windows across the way. Everything looks normal—too normal. The target hasn’t made a move yet, but I know better than to let my guard down. That’s when things go wrong.

Beside me, Y/N is sitting quietly, her presence a constant distraction. I’ve been trying to focus on the mission, but it’s hard when she’s this close. It’s not that I don’t trust her—hell, I trust her with my life—but there’s something about being alone with her, in this small space, that’s got my nerves on edge.

“Anything?” she asks, her voice soft, not wanting to disturb my concentration. I can hear the hint of curiosity, maybe even concern, in her tone. She’s as invested in this as I am, which only makes this harder.

“Not yet,” I reply, keeping my voice low. The tension between us is thick—to me at least, and I’m not sure how much longer I can pretend it’s just the stress of the mission.

All of a sudden, she leans in closer, placing a hand on my shoulder to steady herself as she peers over at the building. The contact is so casual, so innocent, but it sends chills through me. My muscles tense, and I have to remind myself to keep still, to act like this is nothing.

She’s close enough that I can feel the warmth of her body, smell the faint scent of her shampoo. Her shoulder brushes against my arm as she takes the binoculars from me, and I swear, my heart skips a beat. I’m a soldier, trained to handle high-pressure situations, but this—being this close to her—is more than I bargained for.

“Let me see,” she murmurs, her breath brushing against my ear as she adjusts the focus. I swallow hard, trying to ignore the way my pulse quickens. I’m supposed to be watching the target, not getting distracted by the woman beside me.

She spends a few moments peering through the binoculars, her face so close to mine that I can feel the heat radiating from her skin. My mind races, trying to think of anything but how it would feel to close that small distance between us. How it would feel to—

Stop it, Rogers. Focus.

She finally pulls back, handing the binoculars back to me. “hmm, odd,” she says, disappointment lacing her voice.

I nod, taking the binoculars from her, our fingers brushing for just a moment. It’s like a spark of electricity, and I have to force myself to keep my expression neutral. I can’t let her see what she’s doing to me.

She doesn’t move away, though. Instead, she stays close, leaning against me slightly as we continue to watch the building. Every second feels like an eternity. The heat of her body, the soft sound of her breathing—it’s all too much, but I can’t bring myself to step away. I’m not sure if I want to.

Minutes pass, and the tension between us only grows thicker. I’m hyper-aware of every inch of space between us—or the lack of it. My mind keeps drifting, imagining what it would be like if I just turned my head a little, if I just—

She pulls back suddenly, clearing her throat. “Sorry,” she says, a faint blush coloring her cheeks. “Didn’t mean to crowd you.”

I shake my head quickly, trying to sound like everything’s fine. “No, it’s fine. We’ve got to stay close to keep an eye on things.”

She nods, but the awkwardness lingers. I can feel it in the air. We resume our watch, but it’s like there’s a wall between us now, a wall built by unspoken words and feelings I’m not ready to admit.

Finally, after what feels like hours, we decide to call it a night. Y/N changes into her sleepwear first, giving me a bit of space. I keep my back turned, focusing on the mission, the window, anything but her. But no matter how hard I try, my mind keeps drifting, slipping into dangerous territory.

I hear the soft rustle of fabric as she pulls off her shirt, and my imagination runs wild before I can stop it. Images flash through my mind—her skin, smooth and soft under the dim light, the way her hair might fall over her shoulders as she changes, the subtle curve of her waist as she slips into something more comfortable.

Damn it, Steve. Stop.

I clench my fists, forcing myself to focus on the task at hand. This isn’t the time for those kinds of thoughts. She trusts me, and I owe it to her—and to myself—to stay professional. But it’s hard, harder than I ever thought it would be, and the guilt gnaws at me.

I’m supposed to be better than this. Stronger. I’ve faced down enemies that would make most men run in fear, but here I am, struggling to keep my mind from wandering to places it shouldn’t.

The sound of her footsteps breaks through the haze of my thoughts, and I snap back to reality. I settle onto one side of the mattress, trying to take up as little space as possible. But when she slides in beside me, the mattress dips, and suddenly, she’s right there, close enough that I can feel the warmth of her body through the thin sheets.

I stare up at the ceiling, every muscle in my body tense. This is going to be impossible.

“Goodnight,” she says softly, her voice breaking the heavy silence.

“Goodnight,” I reply, my voice tighter than I intended.

I can hear her breathing beside me, steady and soft, and I know she’s not asleep either. The tension between us is unbearable, a constant reminder of everything I’m trying to ignore, everything I can’t afford to feel right now.

She sighs, and I hear the frustration in her voice. “This is going to be a long five days, isn’t it?”

I can’t help but chuckle, a low, warm sound that surprises even me. “Yeah, it might be.”

She turns her head to look at me, and I do the same. In the dim light, I can see her eyes, the soft curve of her lips as she smiles. It’s a small moment of comfort, a brief reprieve from the tension that’s been building between us.

“We’ll get through it,” she says, and I can hear the determination in her voice.

I nod, “Always do.”

There’s a beat of silence, and then she adds with a mischievous grin, “Just watch out for bed bugs, Rogers. I’ve heard they love big, strong super soldiers.”

I can’t help but laugh, the tension easing just a bit. “Good to know. Guess I’ll have to keep the shield close, then.”

She chuckles softly, and it’s that laugh—the one that always catches me off guard. It’s light, pure, and it cuts through all the heaviness like a breath of fresh air. I could listen to that sound for hours, and never get tired of it.

“Might want to sleep with one eye open.” she adds, still teasing.

“I think I can manage that,” I reply, still smiling.

Her laughter fades into a comfortable silence, and for a moment, the weight of everything feels a little lighter. It’s a small joke, a silly one, but it’s enough to make the space between us feel less heavy, more manageable.

“Goodnight, Y/N,” I say again, this time with a little more warmth.

“Goodnight, Steve,” she replies, and I can hear the smile in her voice.

We both settle back, and though the tension isn’t completely gone, it feels like we’ve taken a small step toward something better. Maybe these five days won’t be as long as it seems.

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Setter Injection with Collection

Setter Injection with Collection

Spring framework provides support of collection framework. The collection in the sense, list, set, map and properties interfaces are included. In this post, we will see how this collection framework will be handled in spring.

Setter Injection with List collection:

List allows to add duplicate elements and ‘null’ elements. To set values to list collection then element and its sub element are…

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An overview of Angular

In this article, we are going to have a look at the Angular framework. Let's get into it!

Introduction

Nowadays, we have plenty of options to develop something that is ready for various platforms. However, Angular has made its way and it is now one of the most important actors. Let's see what it is and how it works.

We could jump right into the code of a project, but we would probably miss a few things. So, here, we are going to look at the architecture of Angular to understand the different concepts and elements this last one uses.

What is Angular?

Now, when we talk about Angular, we talk about Angular 2 or Angular 5. Angular is a complete rewrite of the AngularJS framework. Angular as a different approach from its predecessor.

Angular allows us to build applications across all platforms. It is an open-source platform that uses TypeScript. In a few words, TypeScript is a strict syntactical superset of JavaScript, and adds optional static typing to the language.

Architecture overview

Angular is written in TypeScript and it implements core and optional functionality as a set of TypeScript libraries that we can import.

An Angular application has, for building blocks, a thing called NgModules. An Angular app is defined by a set of NgModules. An app always has at least a Root Module that enables bootstrapping. An NgModule is made of Components. Every app has at least a Root Component.

Components, and things like Services, are just classes. They are, however, marked with decorators that tells Angular how to use them.

Angular provides a Router Service that helps us to define navigation paths among the different Views.

Modules

Angular apps are modular and this modularity system is called NgModules.

An NgModule defines a set of Components. An NgModule associate related code to form functional units. Every Angular app has a Root Module, conventionally named AppModule, which provides the bootstrap mechanism that launches the application.

Even if they are different and unrelated, NgModules, like JavaScript modules, can import functionality from other NgModules, and allow their own functionality to be exported and used by other NgModules. What we call Angular Libraries are NgModules.

We declare an NgModule by decorating our class with the "@NgModule" decorator. This decorator is a metadata object whose properties describe the module. The most important properties, which are arrays, are the following:

declarations - Components, Directives, and Pipes that belong to the NgModule

exports - the subset of declarations that should be visible and usable in the Components of other NgModules

imports - other modules whose exported classes are needed by Components declared in the NgModule

providers - list of the needed Services that, because they are listed here, become are available app-wide

bootstrap - the main application View, called the Root Component, which hosts all other app views. (only the Root Module should set this bootstrap property)

An NgModule provides a compilation context for its various Components. So, the Components that belong to an NgModule share a compilation context. NgModules define a cohesive block of functionality.

The Root Module of our application is the one that we bootstrap to launch the application. The application launches by bootstrapping the root AppModule. We also call it the entryComponent. The bootstrapping process creates the Components listed in the "bootstrap" array and inserts each one into the browser DOM. So, each bootstrapped Component is the base of its own tree of Components.

As we saw, we can have a Root Module, but we can have what we call Feature Modules. A Feature Module delivers a cohesive set of functionality focused on a specific application needs. We could do everything in the Root Module, but a Feature Module will help us partition our app into focused areas. However, the structure of a Feature Module is exactly the same as the one of a Root Module.

Down below, we can find an example of how could look an NgModule. Here, it is the AppModule:

// Importing Angular Libraries import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'; import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'; import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms'; import { HttpModule } from '@angular/http'; // Importing the AppComponent import { AppComponent } from './app.component'; // Importing a custom feature module import { CustomFeatureModule } from './custom-feature-module/custom-feature-module.module'; // Declaring the Module @NgModule({ declarations: [ AppComponent ], imports: [ BrowserModule, FormsModule, HttpModule, CustomerDashboardModule ], providers: [], bootstrap: [AppComponent] }) export class AppModule { }

Components

A Component controls a patch of screen called a View. The logic of a Component is defined inside a class. Angular creates, updates, and destroys Components as the user moves through the application.

A Component is identified by the "@Component" decorator that has a set of properties. The most import properties are the following ones:

selector - tells how the component is referenced in HTML; in simple words, it corresponds to the HTML tag.

templateUrl - gives the path of the HTML template.

providers - an array of Dependency Injection Providers for Services that the Component requires.

Notice that instead of the "templateUrl" property, we could use the "template" property that lets us provide the HTML template inline.

A Component has a View and this last one is defined through an HTML template. This HTML file also contains some syntactic elements that are included in Angular.

A Component will typically look like so:

@Component({ selector: 'my-component', templateUrl: './my-component.component.html', providers: [ MyService ] }) export class MyComponent implements OnInit { // Some code }

Before going any further with Components, let's take a look at a few other elements to simplify some terms that we will use later.

Services

A Service is useful to define things that can't fit into a Component and find their reason to exist in the separation of concerns. A Service is a class with a well-defined purpose. For example, we should create a Service when two or more Components or other things need to access the same data or if we want to encapsulate interactions with a web server or if we want to define how to validate user inputs.

Services are Singletons, so there is only one instance of each Service we define. They are stateless objects that can be invoked from any Components. Their purpose is to help us to divide our application into small, different logical units that can be reused.

A Service is a simple class and could look like so:

export class Logger { log(msg: any) { console.log(msg); } error(msg: any) { console.error(msg); } warn(msg: any) { console.warn(msg); } }

Dependency Injection

Dependency Injection is a large subject. Dependency Injection, also called DI, is a Design Pattern in which one or more dependencies (Services) are injected into a dependent object (Client). This pattern allows us to implement a loosely coupled architecture by separating the creation of a client's dependencies from its own behavior.

We can apply this pattern when we want to remove knowledge of concrete implementations from objects, but also when we want to get a better testable code in isolation using mock objects.

The DI Pattern is commonly used to implement the Inversion of Control Principle, which in a few words, separates the what-to-do part of the when-to-do part. In other words, it is about letting somebody else handles the flow of control. It is based on the Hollywood Principle: "Don't call us, we'll call you".

Dependency Injection could be achieved by using the "constructor" of a class or "setter" methods. It can also be achieved with a Container that handles the instantiation of other objects.

In Angular, DI is widely used and we can take a moment to dig a little into it.

Angular uses its own Dependency Injection framework that basically uses three things:

The Injector, that exposes APIs. It is responsible for creating Service instances and injecting them into classes.

The Provider, that tells the Injector how to create an instance of a dependency.

The Dependency, the type of which an object should be created.

Angular has a Hierarchical Dependency Injection system. There is a tree of Injectors that parallels an application's Component tree. An application may have multiple Injectors. That means we can configure Providers at different levels:

For the whole application when bootstrapping it. All sub Injectors will see the Provider and share the instance associated with. It will always be the same instance.

For a specific Component and its sub Components. Other Components won't see the Provider.

For Services. They use one of the Injectors from the element that calls the Service chain.

When using DI with Angular, we will mainly see the "@Injectable" decorator. This decorator marks a class as available to Injector for creation.

In an Angular app, Components consume Services. A Component shouldn't create a Service. So, we inject the different required Services into the different Components. When Angular creates a new instance of a Component class, it determines which Services or other dependencies that Component needs by looking at the types of its constructor parameters. When Angular discovers that a Component needs a Service, it checks if the Injector already has any existing instances of that same Service. If an instance of that requested Service doesn't exist, the Injector makes one using the registered Provider and adds it to the Injector before returning the Service to Angular.

A Provider is a recipe for creating a dependency. We must at least register one Provider of any Service we want to use. It can be done in Modules or in Components. Doing this in a Module allows Angular to inject the corresponding Services in any class it creates and so the Service instance lives for the life of the app. By using a Component Provider we restrict the scope of the Service and so it will only be injected into that Component instance or one of its descendant Component instances. It means that Angular can't inject the same Service instance anywhere else. The lifetime of this Service will also be different: the Service instance will be destroyed when the Component instance is destroyed.

Here is how we can inject a Service in a Component:

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core'; import { Logger } from './logger'; @Injectable() export class Logger { log(msg: any) { console.log(msg); } error(msg: any) { console.error(msg); } warn(msg: any) { console.warn(msg); } }

logger.service.ts file

import { Component } from '@angular/core'; import { Logger } from './logger'; @Component({ selector: 'my-component', templateUrl: './my-component.component.html', providers: [ Logger ] }) export class HeroListComponent implements OnInit { constructor(private logger: Logger {} }

my-component.component.ts file

We could also do it with the Root Module like so:

@NgModule({ providers: [ Logger ] })

app.module.ts file

import { Component } from '@angular/core'; import { Logger } from './logger'; @Component({ selector: 'my-component', templateUrl: './my-component.component.html', }) export class MyComponent implements OnInit { constructor(private logger: Logger {} }

my-component.component.ts file

We can also imagine the a Service needs another Service:

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core'; import { Logger } from './logger.service'; @Injectable() export class MyService { constructor(private logger: Logger) { } }

Data Binding

Basically, data bindings allow properties of two objects to be linked so that a change in one causes a change in the other. It establishes a connection between the user interface and the underlying application. It defines a relationship between two objects: a source object that will provide data and a target object that will use the data from the source object. The benefit of data binding is that we no longer have to worry about synchronizing data between our Views and data source.

With Angular, the most common way to display a Component property is to bind that property name through interpolation. Interpolation is the estimation of a value or a set of values based on their context. It allows to evaluate a string containing one or more placeholders and to replace those placeholders with a computed and corresponding value. The context is typically the Component instance. So, basically, in Angular, to achieve this, we have to put the property name in the View enclosed in double curly braces. It will be something like so:

<h1>{{title}}</h1>

Most of the time, bindings are used to connect the visuals of an application with an underlying data model, usually in a realization of the MVVM Pattern (Model-View-ViewModel) or the MVC Pattern (Mode-View-Controller). In Angular, the Component plays the part of the Controller/ViewModel, and the template represents the View.

Angular provides many kinds of data binding. Binding types can be grouped into three categories distinguished by the direction of the data flow: source-to-view, view-to-source and two-way sequence: view-to-source-to-view. When we use binding types other than interpolation, we have to specify a target name that is the name of a property. It looks like an attribute name, but it is not. With data binding, we are not working with HTML attributes, but properties of DOM (Document Object Model) elements. Just to refresh our minds, we may say that attributes are defined by HTML and properties are defined by DOM and the responsibility of HTML attributes is just to initialize DOM properties. Later DOM properties can change, but HTML attributes cannot. Some DOM properties don't have corresponding attributes and some HTML attributes don't have corresponding properties. The target of a data binding is something in the DOM.

import { Component } from '@angular/core'; @Component({ selector: 'my-component', templateUrl: './my-component.component.html', }) export class MyComponent { imgSrc: String = 'path-to-image'; }

my-component.component.ts file

<img [src]="imgSrc">

my-component.component.html file

We often say that property binding is one-way data binding because it flows a value in one direction, from a Component's data property into a target element property. However, we are allowed to achieve something called two-way data binding that, for example, lets us display a data property and update that property when the user makes changes. We can do this by using the syntax "[(x)]".

We are also able to achieve event binding:

export class MyComponent { doSomething() { // some code } }

my-component.component.ts file

<button (click)="doSomething()">Do something</button>

my-component.component.html file

Input and Output

In a Component, we can use two decorators on properties: "@Input" and "@Output".

An Input property is a settable property. An Output property is an observable property. Input properties usually receive data values. Output properties expose Event producers.

Declaring an Input property would give something like so:

export class MyComponent { @Input() name: String; }

my-component.component.ts file

<my-component name="foo"></my-component>

my-component.component.html file

An Output property almost always returns an Angular EventEmitter. An EventEmitter allows us to emit a custom Event. It is helpful to pass a value to a parent Component. Let's say that we have something like this:

export class MyComponent { @Output() deleteItemRequest = new EventEmitter<Item>(); delete() { this.deleteItemRequest.emit(this.item) } }

my-component.component.ts file

<button (click)="delete()">Delete</button>

my-component.component.html file

As we can see, here, we use event binding. So, when the button is clicked, we call the "delete()" method. In the Component, we also declare an Output property that returns an EventEmitter and we declare its underlying type as "Item". So, when the "delete()" method is called, we use this EventEmitter to emit a new Event. In fact, it will emit an "Item" object.

So, we can now imagine that we have the following thing as a parent Component:

export class ParentComponent { deleteItem(item: Item) { // Some code } }

parent-component.component.ts file

<parent-component (deleteItemRequest)="deleteItem($event)"></parent-component>

parent-component.component.ts file

When the child Component emits its Event, the parent Component will use the result of this same Event with its own method.

Component Lifecycle Hooks

Angular manages the lifecycle of the different Components. Through different Hooks, it provides a way to perform actions when those different moments occur. We access to those moments by implementing one or more of the lifecycle Hook interfaces in the Angular core library. Each interface has a single Hook method whose name is the interface name prefixed with "ng".

Down below, we have an example of a Component using the "OnInit" interface:

export class MyComponent implements OnInit { ngOnInit() { // Some code } }

Communication between parent and child Components

There are a few ways to make a parent and child Component interact. One way is to inject the child Component into the parent as a ViewChild. This could be achieved like so:

import { ViewChild } from '@angular/core'; import { Component } from '@angular/core'; import { ChildComponent } from './child-component.component'; export class ParentComponent { @ViewChild(ChildComponent) private childComponent: ChildComponent; method1() { this.childComponent.childMethod1(); } method2() { this.childComponent.childMethod2(); } }

Another way to make a parent and child Component interact is to make them share a Service.

Directives

In Angular, there are three kinds of Directives:

Components - Directives with a template

Structural Directives - change the DOM layout by adding and removing DOM elements

Attribute Directives - change the appearance or behavior of an element, Component, or another Directive

We have already seen Components. They are the most common Directives.

Structural Directives change the structure of the View. They are things like "NgFor" or "NgIf". Here is an example of different Structural Directives:

<div *ngIf="character" class="name">{{character.name}}</div> <ul> <li *ngFor="let character of characters">{{character.name}}</li> </ul> <div [ngSwitch]="character?.size"> <app-big-character *ngSwitchCase="'big'" [character]="character"></app-big-character> <app-medium-character *ngSwitchCase="'medium'" [character]="character"></app-medium-character> <app-small-character *ngSwitchCase="'small'" [character]="character"></app-small-character> <app-character *ngSwitchDefault="'small'" [character]="character"></app-character> </div>

Attribute Directives are used as attributes of elements. They are things like "NgClass" or "NgStyle". Here is an example of different Attribute Directives:

<div [ngStyle]="currentStyles"> Some content. </div> <div [class.error]="hasError">Some error</div>

Let's make a little side note for the "NgModel" Directive that is part of the "FormsModule". This Directive helps us when we want to display a data property and update that property when the user makes changes through a form. Using this two-way data binding makes this easier. It will map the various fields of our form to our Data Model. It will ensure that the data in the View and the data in our Data Model are synced.

We can use this Directive like so:

export class MyComponent { name: string; }

my-component.component.ts file

<input type="text" [(ngModel)]="name" />

my-component.component.html file

We are also able to build Attribute Directives. We just have to create a class annotated with the "@Directive" decorator.

Pipes

Pipes are a way to operate some transformations over data before displaying them. Angular comes with several built-in Pipes. For example, we can have something like so:

<p>The character's birthday is {{ birthday | date:"MM/dd/yy" }}</p>

We are also able to create our own Pipes by using the "@Pipe" decorator and implementing the "PipeTransform" interface. This could be done like so:

import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core'; @Pipe({name: 'exponentialStrength'}) export class ExponentialStrengthPipe implements PipeTransform { transform(value: number, exponent: string): number { let exp = parseFloat(exponent); return Math.pow(value, isNaN(exp) ? 1 : exp); } }

Observables

Observables provide support for passing messages between Publishers and Subscribers in our application. An Observable can deliver multiple values of any type.

A Publisher must create an Observable instance. This object defines a function that is executed when a consumer calls the "subscribe()" method. This method, called the subscriber function, states how to get data to be published. To execute our Observable, we have to call its "subscribe()" method and pass it an Observer. This object implements the "Observer" interface and is responsible to handle the various notifications from the Observable.

To use Observables, we need to import the RxJS Library. RxJS is a library for reactive programming, which is a declarative programming paradigm where we program with asynchronous data streams. Data streams can be anything and we are so able to listen to them and react accordingly. A stream is a sequence of continuous Events ordered in time and it can emit three different things: a value of some type, an error or a "completed" value. Asynchronously, we capture these different emitted events by defining functions: one that will execute when a value is emitted, another that will execute when an error is emitted and another one that will execute when "completed" is emitted. The action of listening to the stream is named "subscribing". The various functions we define are the "Observers" while the stream is the "subject" or the "Observale". This is the Behavioral Design Pattern called the Observer Pattern. We also have to deal with the "Operators" which are the various pure functions, functions that always evaluate the same result value when we give them the same argument value, that will let us work on the emitted values.

This kind of programming is really helpful when we have to deal with various UI Events related to data Events. It helps us to achieve real-time apps.

Let's imagine that we have a Service that is responsible to fetch users:

import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Rx' import { Injectable } from '@angular/core' import { Http, Response } from '@angular/http' @Injectable() export class UsersService { constructor(public http: Http) {} public fetchUsers() { return this.http.get('/api/users').map((res: Response) => res.json()) } }

Our method "fetchUsers()" returns an Observable, our subject. So, we can subscribe to our subject like so:

import { Component } from '@angular/core' import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Rx' import { UsersService } from './users.service' import { User } from './user' @Component({ selector: "my-component", templateUrl: "./my-component.component.html", providers: [ UsersService ] }) export class MyComponent { public users: Observable<User[]> constructor(public usersServce: UsersService) {} public ngOnInit() { this.users = this.UsersService.fetchUsers() } }

In our template file, we have to do the following things:

<ul class="user-list" *ngIf="(users | async).length"> <li class="user" *ngFor="let user of users | async"> {{ user.name }} </li> </ul>

We may also want to create an Observable from a Promise. We can do it like so:

const data = fromPromise(fetch('/api/endpoint'));

This create an Observable. To subscribe, we have to do the following thing:

data.subscribe({ next(response) { console.log(response); }, error(err) { console.error('Error: ' + err); }, complete() { console.log('Completed'); } });

Here, we achieve the process of subscription and as we can see, we define the three functions that we talked about a little earlier.

Forms

We can use Angular event bindings to respond to Events that are triggered by user input. For example, we can imagine the following situation:

export class MyComponent { values = ''; onKey(event: any) { this.values += event.target.value; } }

my-component.component.ts file

<input (keyup)="onKey($event)"> <p>{{values}}</p>

my-component.component.html file

Angular has also a whole "Form" library that helps us with many things. We can, for example, use it to add some validation rules to our forms.

<input id="name" name="name" class="form-control" required minlength="4" [(ngModel)]="user.name" #name="ngModel" > <div *ngIf="name.invalid && (name.dirty || name.touched)" class="alert alert-danger"> <div *ngIf="name.errors.required"> Name is required. </div> <div *ngIf="name.errors.minlength"> Name must be at least 4 characters long. </div> </div>

Here, we start by defining a input with a few rules. As we can see, we export the "ngModel" Directive to achieve two-way data binding. We also export the form control's state to a local variable "#name". Then, we check if the control has been touched and we display different errors if there are some.

With Angular, we also have the ability to dynamically generate forms. To achieve this, we have to create objects derived from the base class "QuestionBase" and that represents the various controls of our forms. We can then treat them through a Service that will build the form and return it as a "FormGroup" object.

Routing & Navigation

In Angular, the Router allows navigation from one View to the next. The Router interprets a browser URL to navigate to a client generated View and, if needed, pass optional parameters. The Router can be bound to links or it can be used in response to some actions.

To use the Router correctly, we need to add a "base" element to our "index.html" file. We also need to import the Router Module. In our "app.module.ts" file, we can do the following thing:

import { RouterModule, Routes } from '@angular/router'; const appRoutes: Routes = [ { path: 'characters', component: CharactersComponent }, { path: 'character/:id', component: CharacterDetailComponent }, { path: '', redirectTo: '/characters', pathMatch: 'full' }, { path: '**', component: PageNotFoundComponent } ]; @NgModule({ imports: [ RouterModule.forRoot(appRoutes) ] }) export class AppModule { }

As we can see, we define our navigation Routes in the array "appRoutes" and we pass this array to the "RouterModule". We can now use the "RouterOutlet" Directive, that marks where the Router displays a View, to create some kind of navigation menu:

<nav> <a routerLink="/characters" routerLinkActive="active">Characters</a> </nav> <router-outlet></router-outlet>

After the end of each successful navigation lifecycle, the Router builds a tree of "ActivatedRoute" objects that make up the current state of the Router. We are able to access the current "RouterState" from anywhere in the application using the Router Service and the "routerState" property.

Conclusion

Through this article, we got a brief overview of the Angular technology. It was more a theoretical post than a practical example. Of course, we didn't cover entirely each subject and there are plenty of other subjects that we could have explored like Unit Testing or E2E Testing. Now, however, we have enough knowledge of Angular to start a project and to dig deeper into this framework.

One last word

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10 Reasons Why You Should Use AngularJS

In the event that you haven't attempted Angular at this point, you're passing up why individuals say JavaScript is the most adaptable language on the planet.

Rakish is the lone structure that doesn't cause MVC to seem like putting lipstick on a pig.

Most structures these days are just a packaging of existing apparatuses. They are a coordinated instrument set, however not rich. Precise is the cutting edge structure where each device was intended to work with each and every device in an interconnected manner.

Here are 10 reasons why you ought to utilize Angular today.

1. MVC done right

Most structures carry out MVC by requesting that you split your application into MVC segments, at that point expect you to review code to string them together once more. That is a ton of work. Precise carries out MVC by requesting that you split your application into MVC segments, at that point just let Angular wrap up. Precise deals with your segments for you and furthermore fills in as the pipeline that interfaces them.

Since Angular goes about as the middle person, designers additionally will not feel enticed to compose alternate routes between parts that break reflections just to make them fit simpler.

2. A revelatory UI.

Rakish utilizations HTML to characterize the application's UI. HTML is a revelatory language which is more instinctive and less tangled than characterizing the interface procedurally in JavaScript. HTML is additionally less weak to rearrange than an interface written in JavaScript, which means things are less inclined to break. In addition you can acquire a lot more UI designers when the view is written in HTML.

HTML is additionally used to decide the execution of the application. Exceptional credits in the HTML figure out which regulators to use for every component. These credits decide "what" gets stacked, however not "how". This revelatory methodology incredibly rearranges application advancement in such a WYSIWYG (what you see is the thing that you get) way. Instead of investing energy in how the program streams and what ought to get stacked first, you essentially characterize what you need and Angular will deal with the conditions.

3. Information models are POJO

Information models in Angular are regular JavaScript objects (POJO) and don't need unessential getter and setter capacities. You can add and change properties straightforwardly on it and circle over items and clusters voluntarily. Your code will look a lot of cleaner and more instinctive, the way the unstoppable force of life planned.

Conventional information models are the guards of information and are answerable for information constancy and worker synchronizing. Those information models act like shrewd information suppliers. Yet, since Angular's information models are plain items, they carry on more like a stopper board. A stopper board is simply an impermanent stockpiling region for individuals to put and recover information. Be that as it may, Angular's stopper sheets work intimately with a regulator and view. To separate it from the conventional feeling of information models, Angular calls them "scopes".

All properties found on the degree object are consequently bound to the view by Angular. Which means, Angular unobtrusively looks for changes to these properties and updates the view consequently.

The extension has no information in any case and depends on the regulator to take care of it information as per business rationale needs.

4. Conduct with mandates

Mandates are Angular's method of carrying extra usefulness to HTML. Envision an existence where HTML has such countless rich components (for instance <accordion></accordion>, <grid></grid>, <lightbox></lightbox>, and so forth) that we never need to control the DOM to recreate them. That our application should simply to dole out characteristics to components to get any usefulness out of the container.

Orders accomplish this by empowering us to develop our own HTML components. By putting all our DOM control code into mandates, we can isolate them out of our MVC application. This permits our MVC application to just worry about refreshing the view with new information. How the view along these lines carries on is up to the orders.

Orders come as custom HTML components

<myticker></myticker>

custom credits

<div information myticker></div>

also, custom class names

<div class="myticker"></div>

permitting them to be utilized like standard HTML components.

Mandates are intended to be independent reusable components separate from your application. Truth be told, if a specific component gets embraced by the HTML5 standard, it ought to be pretty much as basic as eliminating your custom mandate, and your application ought to carry on precisely the equivalent without expecting to change your application.

Keep in mind, as a dependable guideline, your regulator ought not control the DOM straightforwardly. All DOM controls ought to be performed by mandates.

5. Adaptability with channels

Channels channel the information before they arrive at the view and can include something as basic as arranging decimal puts on a number, turning around the request for a cluster, separating an exhibit dependent on a boundary, or executing pagination. Channels are intended to be independent capacities that are discrete from your application, like Directives, yet are just worried about information changes.

Channels are ingenious to the point that it is feasible to make a sortable HTML table utilizing just channels without composing any JavaScript.

6. Compose less code

Every one of the focuses up till now imply that you will compose less code. You don't need to compose your own MVC pipeline. The view is characterized utilizing HTML, which is more compact. Information models are less complex to compose without getters/setters. Information restricting methods you don't need to place information into the view physically. Since orders are discrete from application code, they can be composed by another group in corresponding with negligible joining issues. Channels permit you to control information on the view level without changing your regulators. Indeed, this is kind of a synopsis list item, yet composing less code is serious!

7. DOM controls where they should be

Generally, the view changes the DOM to introduce information and controls the DOM (or summons jQuery) to add conduct. With Angular, DOM control code ought to be inside orders and not in the view. Rakish considers the to be as simply one more HTML page with placeholders for information. This perspective on see matches pleasantly with UI architects.

By abstracting out the DOM controls and jQuery calls, UI fashioners can zero in on the view without those interruptions.

By making your MVC application absolutely about introducing business information into sees, and not need to stress over controlling DOM, web application advancement abruptly turned out to be more enjoyable.

8. Specialist organizations where they should be

Regulators in Angular are straightforward capacities that have one occupation in particular, which is to control the extension. For instance, you can utilize it to prefill information into the degree from the worker or execute business rationale approvals. In contrast to different systems, regulators are not items and don't acquire from anything.

On the off chance that regulators are so straightforward, where should all the hard work be performed? Precise acquaints Services with do exactly that.

Administrations are by and large what they sound like. They don't engage with the MVC of your application, yet essentially give an outward API to uncover anything you desire it to uncover. More often than not it synchronizes to a worker to keep a disconnected information store and opens techniques to push and pull information to and from a worker. Or on the other hand it very well may be utilized to make an asset sharing help that permits numerous regulators to have similar assets.

Administrations are intended to be independent articles separate from your application and permit your regulator to be stay lean and devoted to the view and extension that it is allocated to. Obviously, executing administrations isn't needed and it is entirely worthy to do some light lifting inside your regulator to evade over intricacy.

9. Setting mindful correspondence

A PubSub framework is a lovely regular instrument that takes into consideration decoupled correspondence. Most PubSub executions on the web are not setting mindful. Some of the time you need a PubSub message to be discernible exclusively by offspring of a specific hub, or just meaningful by the predecessors of a specific youngster. At the end of the day, once in a while you don't need random MVC parts to peruse your messages.

The PubSub framework in Angular is absolutely that. broadcast() will make an impression on all kids regulators, while transmit() will make an impression on all predecessors.

Be that as it may, PubSub isn't the best way to impart between regulators. Truth be told, if everything you're doing is advising different regulators to refresh their perspectives when a property transforms, you ought to depend on information restricting. We definitely realize that the view can be bound to properties on the current extension. Yet, what I didn't advise you is that degrees acquire the properties of their parent scopes. That implies if a property exists on the parent scope, and a kid scope changes it, at that point any remaining extensions that acquire from a similar parent will likewise see similar adjustment and their perspectives will be refreshed consequently by Angular! This computerized way beats utilizing PubSub quickly.

10. Unit testing prepared

What depiction of Angular would be finished without discussing it's unit trying availability? The entire of Angular is connected together by Dependency Injection (DI). It's what it uses to deal with your regulators and degrees. Since every one of your regulators rely upon DI to pass it data, Angular's unit tests can usurp DI to perform unit testing by infusing mock information into your regulator and estimating the yield and conduct. Truth be told, Angular as of now has a counterfeit HTTP supplier to infuse counterfeit worker reactions into regulators.

This beats the more conventional method of testing web applications by making singular test pages that conjure one part and afterward associating with it to check whether it works.

These 10 reasons should give you a thought of why Angular is so amazing. Not all web applications should utilize Angular. For instance, on the off chance that you are composing a game or a comp

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Subject: Oregon Intervention From: Ty S - Oregonian Date: 24 Nov 2020 To: the new Biden Administration Attention - the honorable Cedric Richmond Senior Advisor to the President Greetings elected officials, diplomats, and honorable people, Last time I wrote my elected officials it was under a circumstance of distress. I'm pleased to say that my experience with that situation was resolved with the help and assistance of some good people in public service. I dont write these letters often because Im often not feeling up to putting the kind of energy it requires to express the situation in terms that are solution oriented. But I seek solution oriented strategies often to remedy strife and stress that people in my community live with. It appears to be a time once again to update on the latest issue that we need serious intervention. My name is Ty S I live in Portland Oregon with my wife and son. The experiences as a high school student was quintessential to a Black man growing up in Oregon but my story is unorthodox. My trajectory in education was similar to phil knight of nike as I share two of the four schools he attended: Cleveland High and U of O. So Im as Oregon as the swoosh, Powells, and the Rudolph sign. Politics is my life mostly having been involved in the Oregon students of color coalition and OSA in 2004 and Urban League in 2009 before going on to serve in the Oregon Health Authorities Transformation Center and the Oregon Advocacy Commissions. I'm particularly proud of my community organizing in the between 2004-2016 which includes electing Obama, helping Black Activist run for office, and building a grassroots community health worker project called We Are Health Movement. Once Trump came to power things changed dramatically for the worse in Oregon. Nearly all of my activism ended as a powerful racist insurgency became more visibly violent and threatening to the Black community. Events of Portland Oregon 2020 require intense analysis. Im not a total alarmist about our situation like our media has gaslit and painted Oregon as a place on fire with leftist anarchists extremists. Please recognize that intervention can only be settled diplomatically at this point. We have lived and walked and witnessed a very violent escalation since 2016. Look at the evidence of tracking hate crimes in our state https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map?year=2016&state=OR . We should not be on this list. We have such a small populations of minorities including Black, Hispanic, Asian and Native populations and the many immigrant cultures are very small in overall numbers. The story behind these hate crimes is a way more then just isolated incidents there is a large scale and spreading networks of organizations that only purpose is to antagonize, disrupts, hate, punish and resort to violent intimidation and terrorism. Hate groups in Oregon have dramatically grown in the last four years and as a political, social, and defensive response people have responded in a counter activity to keep those movements from growing further and pledge to end their reign of terror. It started in mid 2016 when Jeremy Christian a pre-radicalized activist with the Proud Boys murdered in 2 people on the Max Transit system (which is like our rail car). Jeremy Christian is part a new movement of internet organizers that have particularly recruited young white men to organizations like the oath keepers, 3 percenters, and inspired by the Bundy occupation movement of 2016. They are living in the shadows of Waco movement. Out west they love that shit and 2016 opened the door for growth of these right wing extremism. Oregon responded initially in Portland by counter protesting against the groups that would gather in various parts of the city including on the Federal freeway 213, Downtowns Terry Shrunk Plaza, and Tom Macall Park. Each of the events in the summer of 2016 organized by violent right wing extremists involved heavy confrontation from counter protesters. This included verbal, physical, and organized violence. This was warfare in a small scale. But many things escalated. This history must include a contextualization of the types of organizations that began to sprout and grow on the opposition which I will categorize as the organized left until I describe it more fully. In Portland initially the ecumenical faith community, the non-profit activists, labor, and a variety of socialist organizations. Some of this coalition of organizations had previously collaborated against neoNazis in the 80s as resistance to hate before. The events of Jeremy Christian galvanized a large scale opposition that sought to resist racialized terrorism of that kind in our community. As events and confrontations continued to persist summer after summer after summer we are now where we are today. As the events continued the city of Portland often utilized the Portland Police Bureau as a referee of sorts to prevent wide scale violence. But there were many instances where people of Portland felt that Portland Police were more favorably protecting the right wing groups more and more the activists involved from the left lost favor with the city government, Police leadership and elected such as Ted Wheeler. The impasse really escalated between the city representatives and diplomats in political actions, contract negotiations for the police union contracted are included as a source of the strain and political tensions escalating. The summer of 2020 was by far the most chaotic situation because the global movement for justice for George Floyd and Briana Taylor tied with Oregons #BLM picked up a new confrontation with the Police and state officers in downtown Portland. Oregon activists like many other states have been fighting for justice for many unarmed black men and women and those with mental illness shot and killed by the Portland, Vancouver, and Gresham police. Local movements converged it was a mashing of black activism in a new generation of young and emerging people for Black Lives with the Oregon defenders and anti fascists who had basically been in battle with right wing extremists continuously for 4 years. The combination produced energy seen no where else in the country. The City saw had over 130 days of continuous protest in a call for anti racism, justice for police murders, and anti capitalism oppression. Now I do not need to detail all of these events and how they were organized and what happened between the night to night. I do know that a lot has happened and most documenting and historicizing these events can tell that story. My purpose today is explain that there is a diplomatic intervention needed. We are desperate in this city for a focus of attention that doesn't involve us looking down the dark hole of a barrel. There needs to be a peace tribunal set up in our city (similar to south africa). The need is so great out here. No convening, No conversations, Nothing seems to be working. Please help us out here and we don't need photo ops, only real commitment and work can solve anything we got out here. The pain is deep and the grievances are so numerous that our community might not heal for a generation. We need peace in this city. We need peace. Peace between police and protesters and between the right wingers. There are some clear changes needed. Here are my suggestions that will give people a part of power. Total and complete overhaul of the law enforcement in this country in the first step we must examine. The Portland Police contract needs a total revamp. All of there leadership needs to be changed. There is a certain segment of Portland that wont setter for less. The many proposals by thousands of activist in portland none of which has happened in the more then 4 years of advocacy: https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/06/09/28519183/all-of-the-... We need to accelerate these changes locally and nation wide. We are not an outlier here it is part and parcel of similar movements that started in Furgeson. Even if you or your office got involved and moved the needle on any of these issues Portland still will need to grapple with its right wing violent extremism problem, because it is growing out of control with reports of continuous recruitment in the suburbarbs and nationwide show this. Oregon is the theater of a national program targeting this state as battle ground for the clash of extreme ideologies. What should we do about that? Well my feel is that its not important to most law enforcement or it really feels like it. The law cant really keep up with the type of warfare that is just as much virtual as it is physically in the streets. It will have to be part of a robust strategic initiative on a large scale organized nationally coordinated and well resourced. No longer can cities afford to build volunteer resistances to hate groups. There needs to be a common societal agreement on this in a new contract of acceptance of what is right and wrong in our communities. It is appropriate but it will also need alternative opportunities to get people out of those groups. Violence is not ended here and we expect next year will be worse then this one and we live in fear for our lives. Black people in particular fear that violence is eminent in any outing, they must use precautions to protect themselves in this kind of violent political and social environment because your skin tone and or your social status is often the determinant factor. Hate crimes need national attention to end. We need a nation wide movement to end racism. Many of the right wing extremists are entrenched in their ideology and need an counter narrative that is stronger to inject alternative perspectives. But it might be too late for that here in Oregon we are at the point where violence and counter violence are yearly occurrences and it becomes a matter of desperation to even reach out to the federal government for help and support. Oregon is my home that I spent most this year has required a high level of alertness and protection of my home and family. This is the first year we have seriously discussed leaving the United States because really feel unsafe for us to live here and thrive. I hope this country can do something about our situation with both Policing and Hate before we dissolve into non stop tribal warfare and violence. This call to action and support will go to the high courts of international conflict. Please help me forward this letter to leaders of every civil society.

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Machine Maintenance - Injection Molding - Dublin, OH

Seeking experience troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining injection molding machines. Shall: Perform routine preventative maintenance, emergency repairs, diagnostic troubleshooting, and part replacements for plastic molding machines. Inspect, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain machine tending robots. Repair hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, and mechanical components of machinery and attachments. Compensation & Benefits: Excellent hourly rates and competitive overtime opportunities. Fantastic benefits package including fully covered medical, dental, vision, life and liability insurance. Paid time off for holidays, personal days, and vacation days. For complete details contact Nicholas Occhipinti at: (609) 584-9000 ext 240 Or submit resume online at: dmc9.com/nao/app.asp Or email to: 1000046297_10007368 AT najbcareers302.com Please reference #41822163 when responding.Educational Requirements: High SchoolSalary Range: $50,000 to $65,000 Diedre Moire Corporation, Inc. Diedremoire_dot_com WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, handicap, disability or marital status. We reasonably accommodate individuals with handicaps, disabilities and bona fide religious beliefs. Jobs Career Position Hiring. CONSIDERED EXPERIENCE INCLUDES: Injection Molding Overmolding Consumer Packaged Goods Automotive Medical Device Aerospace Injection Mold Plastic Molding Production Lead Plant Superintendent Process Technician Tech Mold Setter Setup Set-up Maintenance Hydraulic Pneumatic Electrical Electric PLC Repair Mechanic #DiedreMoire #ProductionSupervisor #Plastic Molding #JobSearch #JobHunt #JobOpening #Hiring #Job #Jobs #Careers #Employment #jobposting DISCLAIMER: We will make every effort to consider applications for all available positions and shall use one or more of the contact methods and addresses indicated in resume or online application. Indicated location may be proximate or may be desirable point of embarkation for paid or unpaid relocation to another venue. Job descriptions may fit single or multiple presently available or anticipated positions and are NOT an offer of employment or contract implied or otherwise. Described compensation is not definite nor precise and may be estimated and approximate and is negotiable depending on market conditions and candidate availability and other factors and is solely at the discretion of employers. Linguistics used herein may use First Person Singular and First Person Plural grammatical person construction for and with the meaning of Third Person Singular and Third Person Plural references. We reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet business and organizational needs as necessary. Response to a specific posting or advertisement may result in consideration for other opportunities and not necessarily the incentive or basis of the response. Nothing herein is or may be considered a promise, guarantee, offer, pledge, agreement, contract, or oath. If you submit an application or resume which contains your email address, we will use that email address to communicate with you about this and other positions. We use an email quality control service to maintain security and a remove and dead address filter. To cancel receiving email communications, simply send an email from your address with the word "remove" in the subject line to pleaseremove_AT_candseek4.com Or, visit the website at jobbankremove_dot_com. If you have further concern regarding email received from us, call (609) 584-5499. Reference : Machine Maintenance - Injection Molding - Dublin, OH jobs from Latest listings added - JobsAggregation http://jobsaggregation.com/jobs/technology/machine-maintenance-injection-molding-dublin-oh_i10570

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How to Ensure Flexible, Reusable PHP Code with Insphpect

Insphpect is a tool I wrote as part of my PhD project. It scans code for object-oriented programming techniques that hinder code reusability and flexibility.

Why?

Let me begin with two mundane observations:

Business requirements change over time.

Programmers are not clairvoyant.

New product launches, emergency lockdown regulations, expanding into new markets, economic factors, updated data protection laws: there are lots of potential causes for business software to need updating.

From those two observations we can infer that programmers know that the code they write is going to change, but not what those changes will be or when they will happen.

Writing code in such a way that it can be easily adapted is a skill that takes years to master.

You’re probably already familiar with programming practices that come back and haunt you. Novice programmers quickly realize that global variables are more trouble than they’re worth, and the once incredibly popular Singleton Pattern has been a dirty word for the last decade.

How you code your application has a big impact on how easy it is to adapt to meet new requirements. As you progress through your career, you learn techniques that make adapting code easier. Once you’ve grasped fundamentals of object-oriented programming you wonder how you ever did without it!

If you ask ten developers to produce software, given the same requirements, you’ll get ten different solutions. Some of those solutions will inevitably be better than others.

Consider a ship in a bottle and a model ship made of Lego. Both are model ships, but changing the sails on the ship in a bottle is very difficult, and reusing the parts is near impossible. However, with a Lego ship, you can easily swap out the sails or use the same components to build a model rocket, house or a car.

Certain programming techniques lead to the ship-in-a-bottle approach and make your code difficult to change and adapt.

Insphpect

Insphpect is a tool which scans your code for programming practices that lead to this kind of a ship in a bottle design.

It grades your code based on how flexible it is, and highlights areas where flexibility can be improved.

What does Insphpect look for?

Currently, Insphpect looks for the following:

tight coupling

hardcoded configuration

singletons

setter injection

using the new keyword in a constructor

service locators

inheritance

static methods

global state

files that have more than one role (e.g. defining a class and running some code)

If it detects anything it identifies as inflexible, it highlights the code, explains why it highlighted the issue, then grades your whole project and individual classes on a score of 0-100 (with 100 being no issues detected). As a proof of concept, for some detections it’s able to automatically generate a patch file that re-writes the code to remove the inflexibility entirely.

Take a look a sample report here.

Insphpect is currently in the testing phase, and it would really help my research progress if you can check it out and complete the survey in the “Give your feedback” section of the site.

Background

Are those bad practices really bad, though?

This was one of the more difficult parts of the background research, and you can read about how this was done in detail on the Insphpect website.

However, this can be summarized as:

The opinions of each bad practice were collected from 100 authors per practice.

The author’s opinion on the practice was graded on a scale of 1–5.

The author’s methodological rigor was graded on a scale of 1–7 based on the Jadad score used for clinical trials.

These were then plotted like the graph below:

Each horizontal line represents an article, and the left (orange) bar for each article is the recommendation going from 5 — Avoid this practice at all costs (Far left) — to 1 — Favor this practice over alternatives.

The right (blue) bar for each article is the Jadad style score measuring analytic rigor. A score of seven means the article describes the practice, provides code examples, discusses alternative approaches, provides like-for-like code samples, discusses the pros/cons of each approach and makes a recommendation of which approach should be used.

In the case of the singleton above, authors who compare the singleton to alternative approaches, discuss the pros/cons, etc., are significantly more likely to suggest using alternative approaches.

Walkthrough

Currently, Insphpect allows uploading code via a Git repository URL or a ZIP file.

So not to point out flaws in other people’s work, let’s take a look at one of my own projects to see what it identifies.

We’ll use https://github.com/Level-2/Transphporm as an example project.

This is quite a good example, because it has a very high score on another code-quality tool Scrutinizer.

Firstly, enter the git URL https://github.com/Level-2/Transphporm into the text box at the top of the home page and press “Go”. It will take a few seconds to minutes, depending on the size of the project, and will generate a report that looks something like this:

Once you’re on the report page, you’ll see a summary at the top with an overall grade out of 100, with 100 being very good and 0 being very poor.

Underneath the summary, you’ll see a list of all the classes in the project, each with its own grade.

Don’t worry if your code doesn’t get a perfect score. It’s unlikely that it will. Remember, Insphpect is a tool that identifies flexibility in your code. There are parts of your code (like the entry point) where flexibility isn’t warranted.

For Transphporm, it has highlighted issues in seven classes.

Let’s take a look at some of those. Scroll down to Transphporm\Parser\CssToXpath and click the link. You’ll see a score for that particular class and a list of issues which have been identified.

In this case, it has identified a static variable and a static method. Clicking on one of the red lines will reveal an explanation of why the line was flagged up.

For example, clicking line 12 will give an explanation of why static variables are less flexible than instance variables.

Although there’s a more in-depth explanation of the issues caused by static properties on the report, as a quick refresher, static variables have one value which is shared across all the instances of the class.

This is inherently less flexible than an instance variable, because using an instance variable allows each instance to have a different value.

For example, consider the following:

class User { public static $db; public $id; public $name; public $email; public function save() { $stmt = self::$db->prepare('REPLACE INTO user (id, name, email) VALUES (:id, :name, :email)'); $stmt->execute([ 'id' => $this->id, 'name' => $this->name. 'email' => $this->email ]); } }

Because $db is static, every instance of this class shares the same $db instance and records will always be inserted into the same database.

While this sounds reasonable, let me give you a real-world example.

Continue reading How to Ensure Flexible, Reusable PHP Code with Insphpect on SitePoint.

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Setter Injection with Collection

Setter Injection with Collection

Spring framework provides support of collection framework. The collection in the sense, list, set, map and properties interfaces are included. In this post, we will see how this collection framework will be handled in spring.

Setter Injection with List collection:

List allows to add duplicate elements and ‘null’ elements. To set values to list collection then element and its sub element are…

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Machine Maintenance - Injection Molding - Dublin, OH

Seeking experience troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining injection molding machines. Shall: Perform routine preventative maintenance, emergency repairs, diagnostic troubleshooting, and part replacements for plastic molding machines. Inspect, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain machine tending robots. Repair hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, and mechanical components of machinery and attachments. Compensation & Benefits: Excellent hourly rates and competitive overtime opportunities. Fantastic benefits package including fully covered medical, dental, vision, life and liability insurance. Paid time off for holidays, personal days, and vacation days. For complete details contact Nicholas Occhipinti at: (609) 584-9000 ext 240 Or submit resume online at: dmc9.com/nao/app.asp Or email to: 1000046297_10007368 AT najbcareers302.com Please reference #41822163 when responding.Educational Requirements: High SchoolSalary Range: $50,000 to $65,000 Diedre Moire Corporation, Inc. Diedremoire_dot_com WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, handicap, disability or marital status. We reasonably accommodate individuals with handicaps, disabilities and bona fide religious beliefs. Jobs Career Position Hiring. CONSIDERED EXPERIENCE INCLUDES: Injection Molding Overmolding Consumer Packaged Goods Automotive Medical Device Aerospace Injection Mold Plastic Molding Production Lead Plant Superintendent Process Technician Tech Mold Setter Setup Set-up Maintenance Hydraulic Pneumatic Electrical Electric PLC Repair Mechanic #DiedreMoire #ProductionSupervisor #Plastic Molding #JobSearch #JobHunt #JobOpening #Hiring #Job #Jobs #Careers #Employment #jobposting DISCLAIMER: We will make every effort to consider applications for all available positions and shall use one or more of the contact methods and addresses indicated in resume or online application. Indicated location may be proximate or may be desirable point of embarkation for paid or unpaid relocation to another venue. Job descriptions may fit single or multiple presently available or anticipated positions and are NOT an offer of employment or contract implied or otherwise. Described compensation is not definite nor precise and may be estimated and approximate and is negotiable depending on market conditions and candidate availability and other factors and is solely at the discretion of employers. Linguistics used herein may use First Person Singular and First Person Plural grammatical person construction for and with the meaning of Third Person Singular and Third Person Plural references. We reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet business and organizational needs as necessary. Response to a specific posting or advertisement may result in consideration for other opportunities and not necessarily the incentive or basis of the response. Nothing herein is or may be considered a promise, guarantee, offer, pledge, agreement, contract, or oath. If you submit an application or resume which contains your email address, we will use that email address to communicate with you about this and other positions. We use an email quality control service to maintain security and a remove and dead address filter. To cancel receiving email communications, simply send an email from your address with the word "remove" in the subject line to pleaseremove_AT_candseek4.com Or, visit the website at jobbankremove_dot_com. If you have further concern regarding email received from us, call (609) 584-5499. Reference : Machine Maintenance - Injection Molding - Dublin, OH jobs from Latest listings added - cvwing http://cvwing.com/jobs/technology/machine-maintenance-injection-molding-dublin-oh_i14310

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Machine Maintenance - Injection Molding - Dublin, OH

Seeking experience troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining injection molding machines. Shall: Perform routine preventative maintenance, emergency repairs, diagnostic troubleshooting, and part replacements for plastic molding machines. Inspect, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain machine tending robots. Repair hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, and mechanical components of machinery and attachments. Compensation & Benefits: Excellent hourly rates and competitive overtime opportunities. Fantastic benefits package including fully covered medical, dental, vision, life and liability insurance. Paid time off for holidays, personal days, and vacation days. For complete details contact Nicholas Occhipinti at: (609) 584-9000 ext 240 Or submit resume online at: dmc9.com/nao/app.asp Or email to: 1000046297_10007368 AT najbcareers302.com Please reference #41822163 when responding.Educational Requirements: High SchoolSalary Range: $50,000 to $65,000 Diedre Moire Corporation, Inc. Diedremoire_dot_com WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, handicap, disability or marital status. We reasonably accommodate individuals with handicaps, disabilities and bona fide religious beliefs. Jobs Career Position Hiring. CONSIDERED EXPERIENCE INCLUDES: Injection Molding Overmolding Consumer Packaged Goods Automotive Medical Device Aerospace Injection Mold Plastic Molding Production Lead Plant Superintendent Process Technician Tech Mold Setter Setup Set-up Maintenance Hydraulic Pneumatic Electrical Electric PLC Repair Mechanic #DiedreMoire #ProductionSupervisor #Plastic Molding #JobSearch #JobHunt #JobOpening #Hiring #Job #Jobs #Careers #Employment #jobposting DISCLAIMER: We will make every effort to consider applications for all available positions and shall use one or more of the contact methods and addresses indicated in resume or online application. Indicated location may be proximate or may be desirable point of embarkation for paid or unpaid relocation to another venue. Job descriptions may fit single or multiple presently available or anticipated positions and are NOT an offer of employment or contract implied or otherwise. Described compensation is not definite nor precise and may be estimated and approximate and is negotiable depending on market conditions and candidate availability and other factors and is solely at the discretion of employers. Linguistics used herein may use First Person Singular and First Person Plural grammatical person construction for and with the meaning of Third Person Singular and Third Person Plural references. We reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet business and organizational needs as necessary. Response to a specific posting or advertisement may result in consideration for other opportunities and not necessarily the incentive or basis of the response. Nothing herein is or may be considered a promise, guarantee, offer, pledge, agreement, contract, or oath. If you submit an application or resume which contains your email address, we will use that email address to communicate with you about this and other positions. We use an email quality control service to maintain security and a remove and dead address filter. To cancel receiving email communications, simply send an email from your address with the word "remove" in the subject line to pleaseremove_AT_candseek4.com Or, visit the website at jobbankremove_dot_com. If you have further concern regarding email received from us, call (609) 584-5499. Reference : Machine Maintenance - Injection Molding - Dublin, OH jobs from Latest listings added - LinkHello http://linkhello.com/jobs/technology/machine-maintenance-injection-molding-dublin-oh_i11388

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Machine Maintenance - Injection Molding - Dublin, OH

Seeking experience troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining injection molding machines. Shall: Perform routine preventative maintenance, emergency repairs, diagnostic troubleshooting, and part replacements for plastic molding machines. Inspect, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain machine tending robots. Repair hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, and mechanical components of machinery and attachments. Compensation & Benefits: Excellent hourly rates and competitive overtime opportunities. Fantastic benefits package including fully covered medical, dental, vision, life and liability insurance. Paid time off for holidays, personal days, and vacation days. For complete details contact Nicholas Occhipinti at: (609) 584-9000 ext 240 Or submit resume online at: dmc9.com/nao/app.asp Or email to: 1000046297_10007368 AT najbcareers302.com Please reference #41822163 when responding.Educational Requirements: High SchoolSalary Range: $50,000 to $65,000 Diedre Moire Corporation, Inc. Diedremoire_dot_com WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, handicap, disability or marital status. We reasonably accommodate individuals with handicaps, disabilities and bona fide religious beliefs. Jobs Career Position Hiring. CONSIDERED EXPERIENCE INCLUDES: Injection Molding Overmolding Consumer Packaged Goods Automotive Medical Device Aerospace Injection Mold Plastic Molding Production Lead Plant Superintendent Process Technician Tech Mold Setter Setup Set-up Maintenance Hydraulic Pneumatic Electrical Electric PLC Repair Mechanic #DiedreMoire #ProductionSupervisor #Plastic Molding #JobSearch #JobHunt #JobOpening #Hiring #Job #Jobs #Careers #Employment #jobposting DISCLAIMER: We will make every effort to consider applications for all available positions and shall use one or more of the contact methods and addresses indicated in resume or online application. Indicated location may be proximate or may be desirable point of embarkation for paid or unpaid relocation to another venue. Job descriptions may fit single or multiple presently available or anticipated positions and are NOT an offer of employment or contract implied or otherwise. Described compensation is not definite nor precise and may be estimated and approximate and is negotiable depending on market conditions and candidate availability and other factors and is solely at the discretion of employers. Linguistics used herein may use First Person Singular and First Person Plural grammatical person construction for and with the meaning of Third Person Singular and Third Person Plural references. We reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet business and organizational needs as necessary. Response to a specific posting or advertisement may result in consideration for other opportunities and not necessarily the incentive or basis of the response. Nothing herein is or may be considered a promise, guarantee, offer, pledge, agreement, contract, or oath. If you submit an application or resume which contains your email address, we will use that email address to communicate with you about this and other positions. We use an email quality control service to maintain security and a remove and dead address filter. To cancel receiving email communications, simply send an email from your address with the word "remove" in the subject line to pleaseremove_AT_candseek4.com Or, visit the website at jobbankremove_dot_com. If you have further concern regarding email received from us, call (609) 584-5499. Reference : Machine Maintenance - Injection Molding - Dublin, OH jobs from Latest listings added - LinkHello http://linkhello.com/jobs/technology/machine-maintenance-injection-molding-dublin-oh_i11388

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9 Best Work Boot Brands

There are so many different brands of work boots available in the market, and a wide variety of boots and footwear are available for workers in every occupation. In the midst of all these competing brands, you might feel overwhelmed which one to pick.

Whether you’re a concrete worker who stands on hard surfaces all day, a warehouse worker lifting heavy loads daily, or maybe you’re just curious to know which of the work boots companies you can trust for quality. You want footwear that has the best kind of comfort, support, durablility, made with high quality material and protection at mind.

There are companies working hard to give perfect boots to you! There are plenty of companies that have the utmost quality and superior material when it comes to work boot, and I’ve created a list compiling the best ones.

This list will talk a little bit about the best brands of work boots, their motto and principles for making footwear, and some of their most famous products!

So when you’re thinking about purchasing a work shoe, take this selection of excellent brands into consideration and you might just find the boot for you!

What Makes a Boot Company One of the “Best”?

When researching about these companies, and trying to decide which ones are the best ones, there are a few things that I personally find to be important factors in deciding if a work boot company is the best.

One of these factors is the quality of the boot. I am a firm believer in quality, and for good quality work boots I have to spend my hard earned money, I better get my money’s worth for it!

And if you’re looking to purchase a work boot, you probably know that most of them are more than $100. Which is okay. But if you’re buying something expensive and the material or the quality of the build ends up being trash, then all of your money is wasted!

You want to make sure that the brand is also being honorable, and they aren’t affiliated with any cheap business practices or use shortcuts in the manufacturing process of their products. It’s important to know that this company will be honest in what they are claiming and strive for quality in their products.

Especially if you’re looking to invest in a boot, you are  going  to own and use it for many months to come, you want to make sure you’re purchasing from a reputed brand which is known for high-quality products so that you can feel at ease when you’re making an investment in their products.

Another factor to consider is the company’s relationship with its customers.

I think that it’s really important that the company has good reviews from existing customers. It’s so off-putting when you have a problem after purchase, and people aren’t willing to help you with your problem or aren’t very understanding.

I don’t trust the person or company, I will not buy their products again, and I definitely will not recommend them to my family and friends.

So if a company has a positive reputation and interacts with their customers when facing issues, I’ll know that I can trust the company if I’m having problems with my purchase they’ll help me, and I’ll want to come back to them again.

An additional factor I think about, at least when I’m considering a purchase, is what purpose (benefits) I’m using this for, and if I can afford it.

Since different occupations need different types of work shoes, it’s important to take  into consideration the potential hazards at your workplace and safety compliances when you’re thinking about making a purchase.

Using a shoe that is made for running by construction workers does not make it impossible to do your job, but it may not protect your feet from fall of heavy objects or slipping as a construction boot would do.

And of course, you have to think about the price of the safety boots as well. There are some boots that are only $50, and some are more than a couple of hundred dollars.

So maybe you want the boot with most safety features, but if you can’t afford it, you’re going to have to settle for something else.

But there are still amazing companies out there that tailor their products to meet the exact needs, quality, price, usage of workers in different professions. There are lots of them too! Which is why I’m here to tell you who they are.

1.) Timberland

Timberland is one of the most popular work boot brands worldwide, started in 1973, and they are one of the big boys in the boot world.

When Timberland launched its first Waterproof Original Yellow Boot™ it wasn’t set out to create a new sensation -- it just happened because of craftsmanship of boot, built from 39 components via 80 separate steps rather than fashion runaways.

However, the company has come a long way, and currently, the company is one of the world’s leading manufacturer of footwear, clothing, accessories and is known for its top-notch quality, innovation, and responsibility when creating their products.

“Born in the woods. Raised in the city.”

Their safety footwear is one of the best in the market, and the company does an excellent job catering to both men and women alike.

Headquartered in Stratham, New Hampshire, United States Timberland is not only present in the US but also across all the continents in the world as well. Timberland is known for innovative products that are made with environmentally conscious material combined!

One of their most popular boots is THE ORIGINAL YELLOW BOOT™, which is said to be the best of the best boots that timberland has released. The Yellow Boot is a timeless fashion staple with very tiny changes to its original design.

Sidney Swartz first introduced the The Original Yellow Boot™ in 1973 made with the finest quality material (full-grain nubuck leather) and attention to detail (four-row stitching and injection-molded sole for completely waterproof) hasn’t changed yet.

The only development that came in more than 40 years is in boot construction technology rather than styling. An anti-fatigue footbed has been added for shock absorption and comfort to stand all day.

Timberland is known for its state-of-the-art technology and innovative design, and while it is at the top when it comes to work boot, its boots are not on the expensive side. The best seller Timberland premium waterproof boot is around $150, and most of the other high quality boots are above $150.

2.) Red Wing

Red wing is another one of the best boot manufacturers in the world, right alongside Timberland. These two companies are often compared because of their reputation and history of creating high quality, durable and long lasting products.

Red wing was established in 1905 by Charles H. Beckman in Minnesota, and the company has been growing at astronomic rates ever since, only after 10 years of inception more than 200,000 pairs of boots were sold per year.

The company’s pride is their consistent efforts to produce iconic brands (Irish Setter, Vasque, Worx) over time, and strive to have rigorous testing of safety footwear to meet or exceed industry standards.

“To be a great company that makes a difference in people’s lives.”

Red Wing shoes was established with a mission to make comfortable and durable footwear for people working in mining, farming and logging industries. Boots are primarily handmade in the USA with a legacy to continually better their products while maintaining integrity through their business and creation process.

One of Red wing’s best boots is the Iron Ranger, said by the company to be the American icon for style and long-lasting construction, originally developed for ironworkers in the 1930s.

Iron ranger is not the cheapest nor the safest, what made this 6 inch boot popular is its dual speciality crafted for both work and casual wear.

The Iron Ranger boots are built with a Goodyear welt and Puritan triple-stitch construction, with a bump toe to move toes naturally and a Vibram® 430 Mini-lug outsole.

But what makes it super comfortable is the custom fit which  develops with time due to leather insoles and a cork midsole that takes the shape of your feet.

Since Redwing boots are made in the USA with high quality materials and standards, it is also more expensive as compared to other renowned companies in the world. The Iron Ranger is around $300, it’s definitely not the most expensive boot but you have cheaper options available in the market!

Red wing has an experience of 115 years in manufacturing boots, including accessories and boot care products, and one of the ground-breaking moments was when they recalled over 114,000 pairs of steel toe boots due to defective toe caps in 2013, this shows their commitment towards customers and staying honest!

3.) Skechers

Skechers was established in 1992 by Robert Greenberg, in Manhattan Beach, California. Being relatively new as compared to previously discussed boot brands, it grew up fast and in less than 30 years it has presence in more than 120 countries.

The first shoe launched by skechers is the logger boot that became hugely successful and currently they have more than 3000 styles. Now a world class manufacturer, skecher is known for producing quality inexpensive work utility shoes with the latest manufacturing process.

“Innovate to Elevate”

Skecher has been developing new innovative products that have continually changed the game over and over again in the work shoe industry. And through its innovative product offering, skechers is ranked number two brand in the USA, second only to Nike.

In a recent interview, the Co-founder Michael Greenberg discussed the company’s outlook “Plan to open more freestanding open air stores, primarily in North America”. He also said “we are in the sweet spot of what consumers want -- casual, athletic and comfortable shoes”.

Their most popular work and utility shoe is Skechers Men’s Cessnock Food Service Shoe which was launched in 2018. With raving reviews, Skechers has managed to outdo competition.

The Cessnock model comes with a tested slip resistant outsole (ASTM F1677-2005 Mark II testing standard), which protects you from slipping in wet/ oily conditions like restaurants.

In addition to the slip resistant outsole, the Cessnock comes with a memory foam insole that provides comfort to servers who take more than 20,000 steps a day. With water resistant breathable mesh on top, your feet remain dry while you are working.

While the prices for Skechers Cessnock are on the lower side, the material used in the construction of the shoe is of high quality, so you get high-end work shoes without breaking your bank!

4.) Wolverine

Wolverine is another top work boot brand with many brands under its belt and is a licensed footwear manufacturer for other companies such as caterpillars and harley davidson.

Did you know that wolverine actually started as a small leather company? Yes! Wolverine  was established worldwide in 1883 by G.A. Krause in Grand Rapids, Michigan as a small leather shop with an investment of $2900! (Who believed in possibility of opportunity).

The company brand name was chosen wolverine because of the shoes made of wolverine horsehide leather. Wolverine started a national advertising campaign in 1919 and quickly became a household name with one of the earliest companies to have a nationwide sales force. The company started selling shares to its own employees as well, becoming the nation’s first profit sharing plans.

“Relentless by nature.”  

Gradually the company introduced and acquired new brands to grow bigger, and the company moved from work boots to casual shoe brands such as hush puppies. Hush puppies invented “DuraShocks” , the first true comfort system for work boots.

Now Wolverine has come a long way from their days of small leather shop to being a source of American icons in the boot industry and with over 135 years of experience the company created many leading technologies.

One of their best work boots is the 1000 Mile boot which was introduced in the 1910s, and still handcrafted in America with the same methods as a century ago. This American icon is made to last a 1000 miles of wear, that’s why it is named so!

And while 1000 mile takes time to break in, workers love it because of soft, long lasting horsehide leather. Once broken in, the boot becomes more and more comfortable over time and Goodyear welt construction makes it durable and flexible to be resoled for years to come.

1000 mile boots range is on the higher side between $200-400, but you also have to consider the fact that these boots last really long with minimum care, you can also find cheaper boots from other brands less than $100 that last only 6-8 months, so basically you get what you pay for!

Wolverine offers a rather wide selection of boots, insulated to waterproof, safety toe to non-metallic, Wolverine never ceases to have something with optimal comfort, endurance and built for every type of workers!

5.) Ariat

Unlike wolverine which has a history of over 100 years, Ariat is still pretty new in  the game, but they’ve made a steady impact on the work boot industry, and in a few short years, has created a name and a reputation for their products in footwear, clothing and accessories for equestrian sports and outdoor activities.

Ariat was established in 1993 by Beth Cross and Pam Parker in Union City, California. The company prides itself for being “the World’s first to integrate athletic footwear technology into equestrian boots”. The company is the official equestrian boots and apparel partner to Federation Equestrian International (FEI) and United States Equestrian Federation (USEF).

“The New Breed of Boot”

What makes ariat boots a different breed of company? Well, they continuously strive to innovate advanced technologies to develop new materials that are lighter, cooler and more durable than anything in the market.

Ariat offers a world-class design, materials and craftsmanship on all their products they sell. In addition to this, many of their boots go through more than 150 steps during construction, ensuring the perfect fit, performance and durability.

One of the most popular work boots that Ariat has to offer is the Groundbreaker Wide Square Toe Work Boot. This pull on boot brings together 4Layer cushioning and support footbed with a classic western wide square toe profile for comfortable, reliable groundbreaker platform.

The main thing about Ariat Groundbreaker is that the fit is as expected, extra comfort insole and can stand daily wear and tear. This steel toe boot meets the highest safety standard (ASTM F2413-11 M I/75 C/75 EH rated, Slip resistant), making it a really good combination of both safety and comfort.

Ariat boots also have a wider range of prices, ranging from around $50 on the lower end, and up to $400 on the higher end of the price scale.

Although Ariat Boots has just entered the footwear industry not too long ago, they’ve come a long way, and it’s no wonder if you consider that they sell the “World’s Best Equestrian Bows”!

6.) Carhartt

Carhartt was founded in 1889, by Hamilton Carhartt with two sewing machines and five workers, with its headquarters located in Dearborn, Michigan. First established with a focus on quality workwear, clothing for railroad workers is now popular among construction workers, miners, hunters, farmers and people working outdoors, and one of the largest workwear clothing manufacturers in the world!

Carhartt is famous for manufacturing all types of work safety boots-- rugged, waterproof, insulated, wedge sole, steel, composite, alloy toe, pull on. The company became a popular brand with people outside blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s as big names in the music industry started to wear Carhartt.

Carhartt is a private family-owned company with third generation entrepreneur Mark Valade (Hamilton great grandson) as its current President. The company introduced many new technologies and proved its products can survive the most rugged conditions on the earth during construction of Alaska pipeline massive order in 1970s.

“I BELIEVE THAT WHEN A MAN WEARS AN ARTICLE THAT I MANUFACTURE, HIS SELF-RESPECT IS INCREASED BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT IT IS MADE BY AN HONEST MANUFACTURER, WHO IS HONEST WITH HIS EMPLOYEES.”

-- HAMILTON CARHARTT, Founder  Carhartt

One of the most famous boots created by carhartt has been the Carhartt 6-Inch Waterproof Wedge Soft Toe, which can stand rain, sweat and long hours of standing on the floor. Primarily made for workers in the warehouse and construction industry.

This non safety wedge sole boot is designed with Storm Defender Technology (waterproof breathable technology) which means it stops rain, but let’s the sweat escape through a breathable membrane. Meets the ASTM F2892-18 EH safety standard which protects against the accidental contact with electric current of 18,000 volts or less in dry condition.

Carhartt not only has a long history of being in the workwear clothing and footwear manufacturing business, but it also promises superb quality boots as well as top-notch technologies.

7.) KEEN

Keen is an American Footwear and Apparel company located in Portland, Oregon. Keen is a private company that was founded by Martin Keen and Rory Fuerst in 2003 and has been growing fast since its inception.

The company was originally not in the manufacturing of safety work footwear but toe protecting sandals. It didn’t start officially manufacturing work utility boots till 2010. When the company decided to build shoes in America, people called them crazy dreamers, but their tireless attention to fit, quality and comfort shows their passion in customer satisfaction.

From there the company started delving deeper and deeper into the world of lifestyle and outdoor activities products, and their reputation as a manufacturer grew. Since 2003, they have donated more than $15 million for different causes around the world.

“Better Takes Action”

Keen strives to produce the best kind of experience for industrial and construction workers through their MEN’S Lansing Mid Waterproof Boot, designed for all day comfort, support and stability on the job.

Keen lansing meets all the safety standards (non slip, EH, impact and compression), with technologies such as KEEN.DRY, Left and right asymmetrical steel toes, Torsional stability shank (TSS), Reflectivity webbing for safety and visibility.

The main thing that makes Keen utility work boot stand out is that even if it’s made in the USA, the price is around $100 that is half as compared to other work boots with similar features.

Keen footwear provides ideal shoes for the workers and creates an all-around comfortable experience with each boot.

8.) Thorogood

Weinbrenner Shoe Co. maker of Thorogood shoes is one of the oldest boot companies in the United States established in the year 1892 as cobblery by Albert H. Weinbrenner with partner Joseph Peffer in Milwaukee.

You’ll notice that it is one of the few companies that is employee owned and is defined by their great heritage, quality craftsmanship and comfort footwear. You can get a decent pair of thorogood work boots for $100-$300, and it was not till 1988 they created a separate high-tech occupational safety footwear division.

But thorogood boots are nothing to sniff at! They are super solid, super durable and comfortable to wear, and they are a great balance between value and quality!

A great boot from Thorogood is the American Heritage 6″ Moc Toe is a part of their heritage collection. This boot is a combination of both value and quality, it quickly became a bestseller on the market.

Thorogood® 6" Moc Toe MAXWear Wedge™.

The two main things that stand out thorogood wedge sole with other wedge sole boots is the MAXWear Wedge™ Outsole technology that has 30-40% more outsole life as compared to competitors making it a truly long lasting boot. The other thing is it’s made in the USA by union workers so you don’t have to worry about quality and fit.

This boot is great for warehouse workers, ironworkers, electricians, carpenters and also casual wear as it is lightweight and comfortable to wear all day.

Thorogood boots are a great investment for people who are looking for American made high-quality products without having to spend much.

9.) Danner

Danner boots was established in 1932 in Portland, Oregon by Charles Danner with an aim to build the best logger boots, that effort and spirit still lives today in each pair Danner manufactures.

In 1979, Danner worked with Gore-Tex to develop a revolutionary waterproof lining technology and created the first fully waterproof hiking boot. However, the company is now a subsidiary of LaCrosse which got merged in 1994. Most of their products are reasonably priced, ranging from $100-$200 generally.

Currently one of their best selling boots is Danner Men’s Tachyon 8” GTX Duty Boot, and is most preferred by police and law enforcement agencies because of fit, durability, lightweight and waterproof.

The Tachyon GTX Duty Boot has a strong lightweight upper, so that you can patrol without foot pain. The speed lace system allows you to tighten from top to toe in one swift tug, along with additional toe space to allow the foot to react naturally as foot extension during intense body movements.

Danner provides you with a variety of hiking, police, tactical and military boots option to choose from, at a price that is affordable ($100-$200) while still maintaining the superior quality and performance.

And while there are still a lot of different work boot brands still remaining, these are the 9 best! Hopefully, this guide provided you a little more insight into each of the companies and their backgrounds, and some information on what kind of boots they provide!

Happy Walking!

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Beware of Funny Financials – Yahoo Finance

(Bloomberg Opinion) — However frothy valuations currently seem to be, optimists can always argue they’re justified by strong earnings. In the past four years, S&P 500 operating earnings per share have grown by nearly 40%.

Those numbers, however, may be as airy as the asset prices they support. The U.S. government’s national income and product accounts — which cover a broader number of businesses than the S&P, use tax returns and adjust for certain accounting practices — suggest that corporate profits actually peaked in 2014 and have been stagnant since. The national accounts also show significant downward revisions to corporate profit margins over the previous five years. While one would expect some discrepancies between that data and S&P numbers, which are based on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), the gulf is too wide to be ignored.

What’s going on? In many cases, accounting choices appear to be distorting results. In early 2019, General Electric Co. reported GAAP losses of $2.43 per share; under adjusted figures it earned $0.65 per share. Tesla Inc. reported full-year GAAP losses of $5.72 per share but “non-GAAP” losses were only $1.33 per share. Over 95% of S&P 500 companies regularly use at least one non-GAAP measure, up about 50% over the last 20 years.

One question is how companies choose to recognize income. In the case of long-term, multi-year contracts, such as construction projects, reported revenue can be based on a formula: a portion of the total contract amount, calculated as costs incurred in the relevant period as a percentage of total forecast costs. Understating estimated final costs allows margins to be increased and greater revenue to be recognized up front.

Following the collapse of Carillion PLC, the firm was found to be aggressive in recording income which was sensitive to small changes in assumptions. Given the trend to converting sales of products (such as software) into long-term service contracts, these risks are only going to grow.

Companies can understate expenses. Many tech companies use non-GAAP accounting to strip out the cost of employee stock options, for instance, thereby showing higher earnings. WeWork sought to redefine traditional earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization as something called “community-based EBITDA.” The new measure conveniently excluded normal operating expenses such as marketing, general and administrative expenses, development and design costs.

Spending may be treated as an asset, to be written off in the future rather than when expended. A recent JPMorgan Chase and Co. research report found software intangible assets (the amount spent but not yet expensed) averaged up to 15% of adjusted costs for a sample of European banks. The idea is to better match expenses to the period over which they are expected to benefit the business. But the practice may overstate current earnings.

Related-party transactions can distort a company’s true financial position. Saudi Arabia slashed the tax rate on large oil companies to 50% from 85%, even though the government depends on the profits of Saudi Arabian Oil Co. for 80% of its revenues. Aramco will still pay most of its profits to the state, but as dividends rather than tax. That means reported profits will be higher, potentially increasing the company’s valuation ahead of a highly anticipated initial public offering.

Complex structures can mask liabilities. Tesla, for instance, faces potential payments related to its SolarCity business. Before being bought by Tesla in 2016, SolarCity regularly sold future cash flows to outside investors in exchange for upfront cash. Tesla assumed these obligations and has continued the practice. The obligations now reportedly total over $1.3 billion.

To reduce unfunded pension liabilities, some companies have borrowed at low available interest rates to inject money into the funds. That’s fine as long as fund returns — generally assumed to be around 6% to 8% — are higher than the cost of borrowing. If returns come in lower, however, the companies in question will have to raise their contributions, affecting future earnings.

New business models often disregard potential costs. If Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. drivers are reclassified as employees as proposed in California, then hidden employment costs would need to be recognized, perhaps retrospectively. Newly listed fitness company Peloton Interactive Inc. faces a $300 million lawsuit from music publishers who claim the company used their songs in workouts without paying licensing fees.

Finally, stated asset values can be misleading. Goodwill, the difference between acquisition price and the book value of actual assets acquired, now averages above 50% of acquisition price. Goodwill values are notoriously uncertain. In 2018, GE unexpectedly wrote off $23.2 billion of goodwill arising from its acquisition of Alstom SA.

The problem is compounded by private markets, where funding rounds can establish questionable valuations. Recent investments into WeWork valued the company at over $40 billion, more than three times the projected pricing of its abandoned IPO. A recent proposal to get Saudi businesses to make anchor investments in Aramco ahead of its IPO could also inflate its valuation.

“Fake” financials, as some would call them, undermine markets. With a correction looking increasingly likely, investors need to start working with regulators and standard setters now to close accounting loopholes, while scrutinizing underlying data more closely. Otherwise, the more creatively companies are allowed to manage their financial position for short-term gain, the bigger the bill is going to be.

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Satyajit Das is a former banker and the author, most recently, of “A Banquet of Consequences.”

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Joe’s Weather Blog: The one thing that’s not getting enough attention about the snowstorm (THU-2/14)

Well the “table-setter” cold front is moving through the region as I type this. Temperatures have dropped from 53° at noon at KCI to 28° as I start this blog late this afternoon. This is the injection of cold air that was expected and this cold air will further deepen tonight into tomorrow morning. That sets the stage for a snowstorm tomorrow…with additional snows expected over the weekend and then something more significant (again) later Tuesday into Wednesday. I mentioned a few days ago on the air that the next 10 days may not be forgotten about by snow lovers (and haters) for a long time and that thought is still in my mind.

Meanwhile the snow situation tomorrow is concerning to me for a reason that I feel, at least in my opinion, is not getting paid enough attention too. IF you follow me on FB (Joe Lauria FOX 4 Meteorologist) you know about my concern already. More on that in my discussion.

Forecast:

Tonight: Clouds and colder with gusty north winds. Lows in the teens

Friday: Lowering and thickening clouds in the morning with snow developing later in the morning towards lunch or so. At first light it will then start to come down hard and several hours of moderate to potentially heavy snow in places is likely. Accumulations of 3-6″ (average) are likely. A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for the region for tomorrow. Temperatures only around 20° Not a lot of wind though tomorrow mostly north at 10-20 MPH. Enough to make shoveling very cold!

Friday night: Snow ends during the evening. IF skies clear out temperatures will tank to 0-5°

Saturday: Increasing PM clouds with some light snow possible Saturday night into Sunday AM. Accumulations are possible (1-3″?). Temperatures in the 20s

Sunday: Morning snow ends then variable clouds and cold with highs in the 20s

Discussion:

So let’s start the blog with the headline of the blog. I have strong concerns about tomorrow’s weather. It’s not the fact that I’m expecting a 3-6″ snowstorm…and there are some signs that some may get a bit more than that…it has to do with the timing of the snow.

Here is the way the day is going to play out…and it is a mess in the making. Hopefully this doesn’t happen.

When folks go to work Friday…there won’t be a flake of snow out there. All good. Here’s the thing though…the snow will develop quickly later in the morning. Folks will be in the office watching the snow get harder and harder…and at some point in the early afternoon they may decide…you know what…I better leave to beat traffic. By the time they decide to leave there may be 1-2″ of snow on the ground.

They going to head north or south from downtown and they may find that others have decided the same thing. By then snow plows will be out treating and plowing the roads…they will do their best but the plow convoys…the extra traffic and the snow falling will slow traffic down more than normal for the early to middle part of the afternoon. Now we start seeing back-ups and the snow is increasing in intensity in the afternoon.

Now the folks who have been looking out their office windows are getting more nervous. They’re starting to hear from others about the crummy road conditions and how it’s taking XX long to go from point A to point B…and they are going to start seeing more traffic developing and slowing…so around 3-4 PM their going to decide to get out of work and head home. Now we’re adding many more cars onto congested roads.

The snow is really coming down good between 2-6PM or so…before it lightens up. Now we have the normal rush hour traffic leaving downtown KC and encountering all the folks on the roads already. You can only move so much traffic so fast when the cars are moving so slow. The plows now are being affected because they can’t efficiently plow the main arteries because there is too much traffic. Now you have big problems.

It’s a bad scenario that I hope doesn’t develop…but I’m concerned it will.

The same thing (maybe not to the degree of the snow amounts) happened last month in St Louis.

Now St Louis traffic is a mess on a dry sunny day…you add in 3-6+” of snow like what happened last month…in the afternoon…and well it wasn’t pretty.

See this article for a playout of the day via the St Louis Post Dispatch.

What I hope won’t happen…but I’m concerned will is this…pic via KTVI.

What I don’t want to see is this story being done…locally…

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I’m concerned.

IF you are working downtown tomorrow…please watch the weather carefully. IF the snow comes fast and furious in the afternoon…and IF you have access to radar (and you will be checking out my blog) watch that carefully and leave at the right time. I’d hate for you to end up spending hours on an snow choked road. Make sure you have a way of keeping your phone charged as well.

OK..now about the snow.

Things are playing out as expected at this point. The snow will initially fight some rather dry air in the morning hours. This dry air will, in time, get saturated and we’ll see the snow, that is being evaporated…”snirga” as we were referring to it this afternoon at the NWS in Pleasant Hill, make it to the ground. Data today indicates that the dry air may chew on the snow for maybe 1-2 hours with the best snows starting in earnest by about 10AM-12PM from the west to the east. It should accumulate immediately and I think the potential is there for 2-5″ of snow by the evening rush tomorrow. Add on another 1-2″ after that as the snow winds down by 6-7PM and we come up with a solid 3-6″ forecast.

This will be the average. There is some data that suggests the north side may favor the lower side of those numbers while the south side favors the higher side of that range.

The other thing that perhaps is not getting the attention it deserves is the snow ratios. This won’t be a 10:1 snow event…1/2″ liquid equals 5″ of snow…this is a 13-15:1 ratio snow…and I’m concerned that IF we end up with 4/10″ of liquid (melted snow) that may end up being closer to 6″ of snow…so my concern is that perhaps a 3-7″ forecast may be a tad bit better. Regardless you get the idea that this will be a high impact event.

Can we miss out? Well we’re going to get something from this…the only way I can see lessor totals is 1) if the dry is is a bigger thing than I think it will be…and chews at the snow for a longer time period. 2) if the wave coming into the Plains, which generates this “lift” at around 10,000 feet is even more broken up or has less “list”. The orange and red areas represent areas of higher “lift” in the part of the atmosphere where snow likes to form the most.

Here’s the thing…the latest model data indicates that some of the best “lift” will be sliding towards the SW/S of KC later in the afternoon. That is still a yellow flag to me…and is a way we can end up with the lower totals in the range above.

It’s something to watch in the overnight data. With that said these areas of mid-level lift can often be poorly forecast by the models, especially in systems that are somewhat “messy” and quickly flying through the area.

So there are indicators for 3″of snow and indicators for 6″+ in the KC region…so that’s why I’ll just stick with 3-6″ of snow.

Snow odds:

Dusting to 2″: 20%

3-6″: 70%

6-10″ (widespread): 10%

The snow maps from the morning blog are still pretty valid. Some slight upside to those numbers.

This is the midday run of the HRRR model for the snowstorm…seems mostly reasonable to me. Graphic via Pivotal Weather

Again that heavier band of snow needs to be watched for shifting north or south.

Austin Hamilton has the feature photo of the day from a snowy Chariton, IA

I hope I’m wrong about the traffic situation tomorrow afternoon.

Joe

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Multi-project Java build

Multi-project Java build

Now let’s look at a typical multi-project build. Below is the layout for the project:

Example: Multi-project build - hierarchical layout

Build layout

multiproject/  api/  services/webservice/  shared/  services/shared/

Note: The code for this example can be found at samples/java/multiproject in the ‘-all’ distribution of Gradle.

Here we have four projects. Project api produces a JAR file which is shipped to the client to provide them a Java client for your XML webservice. Project webservice is a webapp which returns XML. Project shared contains code used both by api and webservice. Project services/shared has code that depends on the shared project.

Defining a multi-project build

To define a multi-project build, you need to create a settings file. The settings file lives in the root directory of the source tree, and specifies which projects to include in the build. It must be called settings.gradle. For this example, we are using a simple hierarchical layout. Here is the corresponding settings file:

Example: Multi-project build - settings.gradle file

settings.gradle

include "shared", "api", "services:webservice", "services:shared"

You can find out more about the settings file in Authoring Multi-Project Builds.

Common configuration

For most multi-project builds, there is some configuration which is common to all projects. In our sample, we will define this common configuration in the root project, using a technique called configuration injection. Here, the root project is like a container and the subprojects method iterates over the elements of this container - the projects in this instance - and injects the specified configuration. This way we can easily define the manifest content for all archives, and some common dependencies:

Example: Multi-project build - common configuration

build.gradle

subprojects {    apply plugin: 'java'    apply plugin: 'eclipse-wtp'    repositories {       mavenCentral()    }    dependencies {        testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'    }    version = '1.0'    jar {        manifest.attributes provider: 'gradle'    } }

Notice that our sample applies the Java plugin to each subproject. This means the tasks and configuration properties we have seen in the previous section are available in each subproject. So, you can compile, test, and JAR all the projects by running gradle buildfrom the root project directory.

Also note that these plugins are only applied within the subprojects section, not at the root level, so the root build will not expect to find Java source files in the root project, only in the subprojects.

Dependencies between projects

You can add dependencies between projects in the same build, so that, for example, the JAR file of one project is used to compile another project. In the api build file we will add a dependency on the shared project. Due to this dependency, Gradle will ensure that project shared always gets built before project api.

Example: Multi-project build - dependencies between projects

api/build.gradle

dependencies {    compile project(':shared') }

See the section called “Disabling the build of dependency projects” for how to disable this functionality.

Creating a distribution

We also add a distribution, that gets shipped to the client:

Example: Multi-project build - distribution file

api/build.gradle

task dist(type: Zip) {    dependsOn spiJar    from 'src/dist'    into('libs') {        from spiJar.archivePath        from configurations.runtime    } } artifacts {   archives dist }

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