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Summary and book reviews of A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
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A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
Critics' Opinion:
Readers' Opinion:
Feb 2007, 240 pages
Aug 2008, 240 pages
1980s & '90s
1st Books/1st Novels
Adult Books From A Child's Perspective
Dealing with Loss
Black Writers (including African-Americans)
In Time of War & The Effects of War
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Book Summary
The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and became a soldier.
My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life.
"Why did you leave Sierra Leone?"
"Because there is a war."
"You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?"
"Yes, all the time."
I smile a little.
"You should tell us about it sometime."
"Yes, sometime."
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.
What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.
In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.
This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
Since the time A Long Way Gone was published reporters have faulted the accuracy of some of the claims made. As of April 2012, the Internal Revenue Service has faulted the Ishmael Beah Foundation (IBF) for failing to comply with tax regulations. According to Guidestar, a leading provider of information on charities, "This organization's exempt status was automatically revoked by the IRS for failure to file a Form 990, 990-EZ, 990-N, or 990-PF for 3 consecutive years. Further investigation and due diligence are warranted."
There were all kinds of stories told about the war that made it sound as if it was happening in a faraway and different land. It wasn't until refugees started passing through our town that we began to see that it was actually taking place in our country. Families who had walked hundreds of miles told how relatives had been killed and their houses burned. Some people felt sorry for them and offered them places to stay, but most of the refugees refused, because they said the war would eventually reach our town. The children of these families wouldn't look at us, and they jumped at the sound of chopping wood or as stones landed on the tin roofs flung by children hunting birds with slingshots. The adults among these children from the war zones would be lost in their thoughts during conversations with the elders of my town. Apart from their fatigue and malnourishment, it was evident they had seen something that plagued their minds, something ...
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An estimated 300,000 child soldiers now fight in the more than fifty violent conflicts raging around the globe. Far removed from the world of pundits and journalists, policymakers and diplomats, a thirteen-year-old boy named Ishmael Beah became one of these young warriors in Sierra Leone. Now in his mid-twenties, he courageously tells of the horrific road that led him to wield an AK-47 and, fueled by trauma and drugs, commit terrible acts. A Long Way Gone brings a rare voice of frontline realism...
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Wall Street Journal - John Corry
Mr. Beah's recountings are unadorned, believable and unsparing as he tells us about a conflict we never knew much about.
Washington Post - Carolyn See
Everyone in the world should read this book. Not just because it contains an amazing story, or because it's our moral, bleeding-heart duty, or because it's clearly written. We should read it to learn about the world and about what it means to be human.
Elle Magazine - Melissa Fay Greene
No outsider could have written this book, and it's hard to imagine that many insiders could do so with such acute vision, stark language, and tenderness. It is a heart-rending achievement.
The New York Times - William Boyd
Beah's memoir joins an elite class of writing: Africans witnessing African wars…. A Long Way Gone makes you wonder how anyone comes through such unrelenting ghastliness and horror with his humanity and sanity intact. Unusually, the smiling, open face of the author on the book jacket provides welcome and timely reassurance. Ishmael Beah seems to prove it can happen.
Extraordinary . . . A ferocious and desolate account of how ordinary children were turned into professional killers
Beah's halting narrative has confusing time shifts, but it's hideously effective in conveying the essential horror of his experiences.
Beah writes with frankness and honesty about his experiences but also with other people in mind; his account of the healing process after the horrors he saw is remarkable. His book, especially relevant in today's world, should be in all high school, public, and academic libraries.
Starred Review. Told in clear, accessible language by a young writer with a gifted literary voice, this memoir seems destined to become a classic firsthand account of war
Sebastian Junger, author of A Death in Belmont and A Perfect Storm
A Long Way Gone is one of the most important war stories of our generation. The arming of children is among the greatest evils of the modern world, and yet we know so little about it because the children themselves are swallowed up by the very wars they are forced to wage. Ishmael Beah has not only emerged intact from this chaos, he has become one of its most eloquent chroniclers. We ignore his message at our peril.
Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for general Nonfiction
This is a beautifully written book about a shocking war and the children who were forced to fight it. Ishmael Beah describes the unthinkable in calm, unforgettable language; his memoir is an important testament to the children elsewhere who continue to be conscripted into armies and militias.
Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
This is a wrenching, beautiful, and mesmerizing tale. Beah's amazing saga provides a haunting lesson about how gentle folks can be capable of great brutalities as well goodness and courage. It will leave you breathless.
Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle: A Memoir
A Long Way Gone hits you hard in the gut with Sierra Leone's unimaginable brutality and then it touches your soul with unexpected acts of kindness. Ishmael Beah's story tears your heart to pieces and then forces you to put it back together again, because if Beah can emerge from such horror with his humanity in tact, it's the least you can do.
this book is amazing and so... i don't even know how to explain it! What really amazed me was the fact that this is happening. I didn't even realize that these things are happening in our world today! I recommend this book to ANYONE! The way he ... Read More
WOW! i never thought this book would be like this. I thought it was going to be another boring one that we read in high school but it's not. ANyone who thinks about not reading this book shouldn't, they just need to read it. No option. READ IT! you'... Read More
Alec Nassirzadeh
A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Book Review
"A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" is written by Ishmael Beah. This book is an inspirational truthful story about Ishmael Beah and his difficult childhood. Our book club group's first impression of the book was that it is a vicious and brutal... Read More
i thought that this book was extremely awesome. It was a little on the graphic side but not to much for me to handle. I recommend this book to everyone alive.
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Beyond the Book
The Republic of Sierra Leone is a small country with a population of about 5.3 million on the west coast of Africa bordered by Guinea and Liberia. The life expectancy of men is 39 years and women 42 years. The name is an adaptation of the Portuguese, "serra leoa" (lion mountains). During the 18th century it was an important center for the slave trade. In the late 18th century, British abolitionists and the Sierra Leone Company founded Freetown as a home for Black Britons* and in 1808 the country became the ...
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Too frequent, for those who are unaware, businessmen have bad names. It is not polite in our collective spirit that Gordon Gecco's old image says, "Greediness that better words are wanted" is good.
But it turned out that the opposite of the truth was much closer.
Self employed is the most passionate and idealistic people. When you give up your comfortable work, give up on profits, pursue passion, put out a loan, open a shop, find new customers, and prepare to believe that you are beneficial Is it different? do you have? happiness? I will call it in idealism – the highest meaning of the word.
It is probably not surprising that self-employed people are among the most active people who return something to the community. Ultimately, the communities that support their business, the employees and the communities that make up their customers, and the communities that activate them.
1. Becoming a mentor: One of the real problems of all reductions you see for budget cutbacks is that young people are less likely to meet mentors. Teachers and trainers are scattered and extracurricular activities disappear. Children need a mentor.
So, the place where you and your business make a big difference is our school and young people. It is very valuable to coach not only in business or entrepreneurial spirit but also in life.
Please do not stop while we are there. Mentor's seniors, especially those who start working, are equally useful. You can do this in your local Chamber of Commerce, Sales Organization, or SCORE chapter.
First of all, it is related to the poor budget period we find ourselves. The difference as a sponsor is often the difference between preceding events and not so. You become a hero.
Sponsorship is the best way to sell business smoothly. People look at your signs and connect you with a good feeling about the event. It is impressive with branding and sales.
3. Stop the veterinarian: Veterans in Iraq and Afghanistan now need to go home and work. Indeed, the unemployment rate of veterans, especially young veterans, is very high. Very high.
And ironically, these people are great employees. They learned to teach themselves, thinking themselves, working diligently, forming teams and achieving goals. What else do you want for your employees?
4. Hire interns: Students must acquire skills and request letters of reference. You have to work and it seems like a paradise match that does not spend a lot of money.
5. Reduction of the elderly and the poor: In order to raise the profits, it is not necessary to earn profit for each sale. By offering discounts to the elderly, they help them, they become loyal customers and recommend you.
And not only that, it feels good.
Provide services: If you are selling widgets, you need to provide widgets to various nonprofit organizations in that area. They received help and probably cost you little.
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import * as querystring from "querystring";
import * as fetch from 'node-fetch';
import * as _ from "lodash";
var namor = require('namor');
import * as oauth2_auth from "./OAuth2";
import * as openid_auth from "./OpenID";
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}
export class Authentication {
public static requestUserAuthenticate(idp:IdentityProvider, windowParams):Promise<any> {
switch (idp) {
case IdentityProvider.AzureActiveDirectory:
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console.log("Token fetch complete.");
console.log(JSON.stringify(token));
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return Authentication.bearerAuthenticatedGet(token.access_token, "https://graph.windows.net/me?api-version=1.6")
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});
default:
return Promise.reject(new Error("Unsupported identity provider"));
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var bearerToken:string = "Bearer " + accessToken;
console.log("Bearer token: " + bearerToken);
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Q: Is there a formula to calculate all possible unique permutations of n elements over p positions? Is there a formula to calculate all possible unique permutations of n elements over p positions?
Please imagine the following scenario:
I have p positions (cells/spaces) to fill each with one element, let's have use letters as elements for example.
I have n letters in total and there may be some duplicate ones among them but I know in advance how many unique letters I have, s, and how many duplicates I have for each letter (0 or more).
So, resuming the situation, we have:
p = number of positions (cells/spaces to be filled with one element each);
n = number of total elements available (we'll take letters);
s = number of single symbols (= the total number of elements not counting duplicated ones, so let's have S is the set containing these symbols, s is its cardinality: s=|S|);
Obvious rule here is:
n >= p >= 1
and
n >= s >= 1
('cause s is a sort of subset of the n elements without duplicates, n = s when there's no duplicated elements.)
Then we can have Oi, with i = 1...s, to know either the number of
duplicates (0 <= Oi < n) -OR- instances (1 <= Oi <= n)
of every S symbol (free choice on this, even I prefer the latter approach).
As a clarification case let's consider the letters that form the word "danicotra" and suppose we have 9 free spaces to fill with them.
In this case we will have: p = 9, n = 9 and s = 8
(s is 8 because there are two "a" in "danicotra" so we have 9 elements (n) but only 8 single symbols (s) keeping the duplicate elements aside);
the "symbols set" is S={d,a,n,i,c,o,t,r}
and therefore we'll have the following 8 single symbols:
Symbol1 = "d"
Symbol2 = "a"
Symbol3 = "n"
Symbol4 = "i"
Symbol5 = "c"
Symbol6 = "o"
Symbol7 = "t"
Symbol8 = "r"
and Oi (with i = 1...8), if we count number of duplicates per symbol, like this:
O1=0
O2=1
O3=0
O4=0
O5=0
O6=0
O7=0
O8=0
or if we count number of instances per symbol (that is my favored), like this:
O1=1
O2=2
O3=1
O4=1
O5=1
O6=1
O7=1
O8=1
Ok, now that we took the above as sample case (and I described what p, n, s, S and Oi are like in this situation), let's get back to the question: is there a general formula I can apply to know the number of the possible unique(*) permutations with it?
(*) unique = I mean, 'cause I might happen having repetitions/duplicates if a same "symbol" is present more than once amongst the elements and I don't want to take 'em into account (see image below for example)
EDIT:
There's a general formula that works only "partially":
$$
\frac{n!}{(n-p)! \ (\prod_{i=1}^s O_i!)}
$$
BUT, as I just said, it only works "partially", that is:
*
*it gives correct results only if I have no duplicated symbols amongst
n elements (n = s) OR when I have (n-1) <= p <= n,
*while it fails when I have duplicated elements amongst n symbols (1 <= s < n) AND I have 1 <= p < (n-1).
In other words, it works with the above example with the word "danicotra" just because I have 9 elements and 9 positions to fill (n = p) but if I need to calculate the same thing with, for instance, p = 7 ... that's the pain! :(
So far I'm still looking for the right formula, that works always.
Thanks for help
A: I think a formula might be harder to describe than a simple algorithm.
You appear to characterize a multiset $X = \{x_1^{k_1}, x_2^{k_2}, \ldots, x_s^{k_s}\}.$ This notation refers to $k_i$ copies of the element $x_i.$ (Your number $n$ is the sum of the $k_i.$) I am going to order the elements of $X$ so that $x_1$ is followed by $x_2$ etc. (Such an ordering is not part of the usual notion of a multiset but will be useful for the analysis.)
Write $\mathbf{k}=(k_1,k_2, \ldots, k_s).$ For any natural number $p,$ let $f(p,\mathbf{k})$ be the number of permutations of length $p$ from $X$ (which clearly depends only on $\mathbf{k}$ and not on what the objects $x_i$ might be). That is, any such permutation $\sigma = (\sigma_1, \sigma_2, \ldots, \sigma_p)$ consists of elements of $X,$ with any $x_i$ appearing no more than $k_i$ times; and two such permutations $\sigma$ and $\tau$ are considered the same when $\sigma_i=\tau_i$ for all $i.$
Any such permutation has a re-ordering in which its first elements are $x_1,$ the next ones are $x_2,$ and so on. Let's call this a "sequenced" permutation. Let $l_i$ be the number of times $x_i$ appears (entailing $0\le l_i \le k_i,$ obviously, and the sum of the $l_i$ is $p$). (Considerations outlined in my post at https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/415878/919 make it clear that the number of such re-orderings is $p!$ divided by the product of all the $l_i!$. This justifies the last calculation in the function g defined below.)
We may therefore count all such permutations by enumerating sequenced permutations. These naturally fall into at most $k_1+1$ groups according to how many copies of $x_1$ appear in the permutation; namely $l_1.$ Once we know the elements of the permutation other than $x_1$ and their sequence within the permutation, the number of distinct possible positions for those copies of $x_1$ is the binomial coefficient $\binom{p}{l_1}.$
This yields the recursion
$$f(p,\mathbf{k}) = \sum_{i=0}^{\min(k_1,p)} \binom{p}{i}f(p-i, \mathbf{k}_{\hat 1})$$
where $\mathbf{k}_{\hat 1} = (k_2, k_3, \ldots, k_s)$ and $s\gt 1,$ with the base case
$$f(p, (k_s)) = \left\{\matrix{1 & \text{if }p\le k_s \\ 0 & \text{otherwise.}}\right.$$
The worst-case computational effort is proportional to the product of the $(k_i+1).$ Not good, but practicable for small multisets representing, say, words in natural languages.
As an example, consider the string "mississippi" considered as the (ordered) multiset $\{i^4, s^4, p^2, m^1\}$ so that $\mathbf{k}=(4,4,2,1).$ Letting $p=2,$ for instance, we find nine sequenced permutations ii, is, ip, im, ss, sp, sm, pp, and pm. Corresponding to sequences of the same letter like "ii" there is just one permutation while corresponding to sequences of distinct letters like "is" there are two permutations ("is" and "si"). The resulting total is $15.$
With the recursion we find
$$f(2, (2,1)) = \binom{2}{0} f(2,(1)) + \binom{2}{1} f(1, (1)) + \binom{2}{2} f(0,(1)) = 0 + 2 + 1 = 3;$$
$$f(1, (2,1)) = \binom{1}{0} f(1,(1)) + \binom{1}{1} f(0,(1)) = 1+1=2;$$
and
$$f(0, (2,1)) = 1.$$
Therefore
$$f(2,(4,2,1)) = \binom{2}{0} f(2,(2,1)) + \binom{2}{1} f(1,(2,1)) + \binom{2}{2} f(0,(2,1))= 3 + 4 + 1= 8.$$
Similarly we can work out that $f(1,(4,2,1)) = 3$ and $f(0,(4,2,1))=1,$ whence
$$f(2,(4,4,2,1)) = \binom{2}{0}f(2,(4,2,1)) + \binom{2}{1}f(1,(4,2,1)) + \binom{2}{2}f(0,(4,2,1) = 8+6+1 = 15,$$
agreeing with the previous enumeration.
Here is an R implementation of $f.$
f <- Vectorize(function(n, k) {
if (length(k) == 1) {
ifelse(n <= k, 1, 0)
} else {
sum(sapply(0:min(n,k[1]), function(i) choose(n, i) * f(n-i, k[-1])))
}
}, "n")
For example,
f(2, c(4,4,2,1))
[1] 15
As a check, here is a brute-force count (which assumes k is a named vector and n is no greater than the sum of its elements):
g <- Vectorize(function(n, k) {
x <- unlist(lapply(names(k), function(s) rep(s, k[s])))
l.x <- lapply(seq.int(n), function(i) seq_along(x))
A <- t(combn(seq_along(x), n))
X <- matrix(x[as.matrix(A)], nrow=nrow(A), ncol=ncol(A))
if(dim(X)[2] > 0) X <- X[!duplicated(X), , drop=FALSE]
sum(apply(X, 1, function(x) {
k <- table(x)
round(exp(lfactorial(sum(k)) - sum(lfactorial(k))))
}))
}, "n")
(The reason for naming elements of k, which otherwise is unnecessary, will be apparent upon inspecting the table X: its rows are the sequenced permutations.)
For example,
k <- c(i=4,s=4,p=2,m=1)
g(2,k)
produces the same output as before. (R aficionados may notice how multisets are so natural on that platform: they are neatly represented by arrays of non-negative integers having unique component names.)
As a test, we may list the counts of permutations of all possible lengths for the "mississippi" multiset:
p <- c(0, seq_along(x))
results <- rbind(Formula=f(p,k), `Brute force`=g(p,k))
dimnames(results) <- list(rownames(results), n=p)
(results)
p
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Formula 1 4 15 53 176 550 1610 4340 10430 21420 34650 34650
Brute force 1 4 15 53 176 550 1610 4340 10430 21420 34650 34650
They agree out to length $11;$ there are no other permutations.
A: I will try to give an answer, altough the formula is not as nice, as I would like it to be, but I have no idea, how to simplify it further. Also yesterday I made an attempt for the formula. There the final "correction" was wrong, since it is not so trivial as I thought it will be.
Hopefully the correct answer:
Let $K_i$ be, what you denoted by $Oi$ (in your second interpretation, meaning, that $K_i$ is always greater than zero).
In a first step fix values of $k_i$ such, that $0\le k_i \le K_i$ and $\sum_{i=1}^s k_i=p$.
How many permutations exist, such that symbol 1 appears $k_1$ times, symbol 2 appears $k_2$ times and so on. The answer is $p!$.
We don't want all $p!$ permutations, but want to correct for the fact, that symbols may appear more than once in the sequence.
This results in $\frac{p!}{k_1!\cdots k_s!}$ sequences.
Now we want to add up these sequences
\begin{equation}
\sum_{k_1=0}^{K_1}\cdots\sum_{k_s=0}^{K_s}\mathbb{1}_{p}(k_1+\cdots+k_s)\frac{p!}{k_1!\cdots k_s!},
\end{equation}
where $\mathbb{1}_{p}(k_1+\cdots+k_s) $ is the indicator function, that is 1, if the argument is equal to $p$ and else zero.
Hope this is helpful
Edit: Add rudimentary R code, with the example "mississippi" hardcoded. Corresponds with the numbers of recursive solution of whuber
K1 <- 1
K2 <- 4
K3 <- 4
K4 <- 2
p <- 10
iter <- 0
iter2 <- 0
res <- 0
tic <- Sys.time()
for(k1 in 0:K1) {
for(k2 in 0:K2) {
for(k3 in 0:K3) {
for(k4 in 0:K4) {
iter <- iter + 1
if (k1 + k2 + k3 + k4 == p) {
iter2 <- iter2 + 1
res <- res + factorial(p)/(factorial(k1)*factorial(k2)*factorial(k3)*factorial(k4))
break
}
else if (k1 + k2 + k3 >= p) break
}
}
}
}
toc <- Sys.time()
(toc - tic)
res
Wrong answer:
The number of all possible permutations of $n$ elements is $n!$.
But you are only interested in the first $p$ positions of these permutations, so for each sequence of the first $p$ elements, you have $(n-p)!$ irrelevant duplicates, therefore you correct for this and you end up with $\frac{n!}{(n-p)!}$ possibilities.
Still you count irrelevant duplicates, due to the duplication of letters. You have to correct for that.
Let me define a new notation $k_i$ is what you denoted as 0i (with your latter interpretation, that means k_i is never zero).
The final formula than is: $\frac{n!}{(n-p)!k_1!\cdots k_s!}$.
A: Solutions to a couple of famous problems of this type:
Arrangements of letters in MISSISSIPPI:
$11!/(4!\cdot 4! \cdot 2!).$
And in STATISTICS:
$10!/(3!\cdot 3! \cdot 2!).$
Also, ${10 \choose 3}{7 \choose 3}{4 \choose 2}2!.$
Relevant to binomial PDF: Arrangements of letters in SSSFF:
$5!/(3!\cdot 2!) = {5 \choose 2}.$
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So far, this code has worked in most browsers (Gears.leftBot refers to the element):
Gears.leftBot.style = "transform: rotate(20deg);";
However, in Microsoft Edge, this code does nothing. I've even run this line of code in the console directly with no result (was able to confirm that it does recognize Gears.leftBot as an element). What can I do to fix this?
Complete JavaScript:
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rightMid: document.getElementById('gear-rm'),
rightBot: document.getElementById('gear-rb'),
leftTop: document.getElementById('gear-lt'),
leftBot: document.getElementById('gear-lb'),
init : function(){
Gears.scrollAnima();
},
scrollAnima : function(){
var pos = window.pageYOffset;
var bigGearDeg = pos / 1.389;
var midGearDeg = pos * 1.2;
var litGearDeg = pos * 1.44;
Gears.rightTop.style = "transform: rotate(" + bigGearDeg + "deg);";
Gears.rightMid.style = "transform: rotate(-" + midGearDeg + "deg);";
Gears.rightBot.style = "transform: rotate(" + litGearDeg + "deg);";
Gears.leftTop.style = "transform: rotate(" + litGearDeg + "deg);";
Gears.leftBot.style = "transform: rotate(-" + bigGearDeg + "deg);";
setTimeout(function(){Gears.scrollAnima()}, 15);
}
};
Gears.init();
A: Try:
Gears.leftBot.style.transform = 'rotate(20deg)'
or:
Gears.leftBot.setAttribute('style', 'transform: rotate(20deg);')
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Q: When refresh/reload a table, can't concatenate some lines in a td In a web page I refresh/reload a div, every minute, with content which is in a text file. This part of the code is working.
The problem is that in the table, when I have severals lines with in the first column have the same content, I need to concatenate it.
Example that I want:
Example that I have after the table data reload:
Here the code in order to reload my table/div every minute:
$(document).ready(function() {
$.ajaxSetup({ cache: false });
setInterval(function() {
$('#datatable-1_wrapper').load('bodytest.txt');
//part of code that worked when i load the entire page, but not work in this setInterval method
var names = {}, td, cname, p;
$('#t1').find('tr').each(function(){
if((td = $(this).find('td').get(0)) && (cname = td.className)){
var cnames = cname.split(' ');
names[cnames[0]] = names[cnames[0]]? names[cnames[0]] + 1 : 1;
}
});
for (p in names){
if(names[p] > 1){
$('.' + p + ':gt(0)').remove();
$('.' + p).attr('rowspan', names[p]);
}
}
}, 10000);
});
Can you explain me why the part of the code which concatenate the lines in one td is working when i load the page but not in the refresh method?
Thanks
A: Just guessing here, but it looks like your code runs too soon; consider this instead:
$('#datatable-1_wrapper').load('bodytest.txt', function() {
// loaded, now do the rest of your code
});
The inner function will get called once the wrapper has been loaded.
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Fortune prediction is something that everyone loves to have. There are so many applications which are dealing with this concept. I accessed many apps but among them, AR Maneki Neko is what I love to use. You might be thinking what the reason behind it is. So let's check it out.
The main reason behind this is all about its awesome features. The first thing is that this platform supports Augmented Reality that simply means you can superimpose the cat into the real world. The other attributes are its user-friendly features. There are multiple accessories available in this application. There will be different cats with a different theme. It is supporting two languages i.e. English and French. There is a traditional Japanese Omikuji fortune telling.
The concept of the application is all about getting the chance of hopes coming true. Here I will share my own experience for the same. When I install the app, initially, I saw one box. On tapping that box a cat will come out. Every user will get a different cat with a different theme. On daily basis, I get one magic coin. So similarly, you will also get one coin daily. Collect all the coins and redeem them all in order to result in fortune to be good.
AR Maneki Neko is all about the good fortune so predict your chance with this awesome application. Get the best of fortune prediction with this platform.
Summary: AR Maneki Neko is a fortune prediction application. There is a cat which will come in different themes presenting different messages. | {
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Why don't we have a marketplace??
changed brake pads and curious how to tell when my rim is worn out?
If you had to choose - disc brakes or carbon fork?
What happened to Belt Drive bikes?
4th of July commute/ride pics. Let's see them!
onboard radar for you bike, - useful or not?
How many "run-ins" do you have on your commute ?
Let's get nekkid... and dirty.
What do you like in your panniers/bags/etc?
Wet Weather Bottom Bracket Suggestions Please!
Thoughts on these Dimension wheels?
Adjusting a S-A 5 speed ?
Daily attack, direct hit to the head, recorded on camera!!!should I report it???
P Clips for Ortlieb QL3 Mounting Bracket?
Is this a thing? New flat tire repair gizmo.
Riser bar vs. drop bar width. How does yours compare if you ride both?
Seatbags! Recommendations? Let's see 'em!
Picking a bike -- 2 mile hilly commute.
Heel strike with a 415 mm chainstay? D I need a trunk bag now?
BEST HELMET FOR MASSIVE HEADS: Giro Venti or POC Crane Cycle Helmet / Any other?
What do you like about commuting!?!?!?!?!?
Looking For A New Frame - Fixed, Fenders, Rack - Suggestions Please!
One Bike Fits All - CF or Aluminum?
Commuting and Strava, do you remember to do it?
Moving - time to start commuting! | {
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Plein Air in Chestnut Hill Tomorrow!
You may remember this event, scheduled for last Sunday but canceled due to the rainy weather, is taking place tomorrow. And the weather is looking great.
We'll be painting along Germantown Avenue in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia from about 8 AM to 3 PM. I'm in the 8600 block, right at the top of the hill.
I don't paint out in the open air too often. So I'll be interested to see what I come up with!
So, What Happened at Art for the Cash Poor?
I'll tell you. Right here.
Background – this show is hosted by InLiquid, a Philadelphia organization devoted to the interests of artists. The event features art costing $199 and below and runs the whole weekend, but I did only Saturday's session.
The show is held in the Crane Arts Building, a renovated warehouse from 1905. The building now houses art organizations, artist studios, art exhibition space, and offices for businesses, including architects.
It's located in a section of town that was formerly industrial, fell into disuse, and now is being reborn as a residential section. It's a coming place to live, especially for young people. I visited this part of town quite a bit when I worked for a bank 35 years ago, when it was already in decline, seeing customers in the factories and warehouses around here. I considered it an area in which to be cautious and aware at all times then. It is changing fast now – the new and the old are side by side. Decrepit warehouses, razor-wired lots, remodeled industrial buildings, and brand new (and expensive) houses stand side-by-side. If you see a vacant lot now, you can be sure it's got an owner waiting for development.
I noticed several bikes chained up in front of the building, on the street. You would not have left your bike in the open out here, years ago.
One more thing, and then I'll get back to discussing the show. About ten years ago, I visited this same location for a show, and I took a picture of a building across the street. I did the same, this year, and now I see it's a craft beer brewing location. So, I'm telling you, things are changing here and I'm glad to see it.
My space was in the Ice Box Room, a section of the warehouse that was used for cold storage of seafood in the past and is now an exhibit space. We each got a booth area of 6 feet deep by 7 feet wide. Perfect for my table and two chairs. I planned my setup for simplicity because of the small space but it worked out great.
The show was crowded, lots of shoppers all day. True to the changing neighborhood demographics, there were a lot of young people. Sales were good and the people-watching opportunities were first-class.
There was an outside section to the show and the music stage was there – but we could hear the performances through the door opened to the outside. I was intrigued by one band, Kitty Rotten, who did the whole set (in 85 degree weather) in kitty outfits.
You know, I've done shows for a long time, and most of them are pretty similar. This one was out of my usual routine and I had a great time. I met some artists new to me and saw a lot of interesting work. I also got some nice attention for my work. Looking forward to next year.
The weather is looking rainy for Sunday, so this event will be held next Sunday, June 12, instead.
I'll still be at Art for the Cash Poor on Saturday, June 4 – TOMORROW!- and I'll look forward to painting outside next week.
I've got a busy weekend next week – two separate events.
The first one occurs on Saturday, June 4 – an event called "Art for the Cash Poor".
In this show, every piece of artwork is $199 or less. A nice thing, this price level – there can be something to fit a lot of budgets. I'll be taking my paintings here and though the show goes all weekend, I chose the option of exhibiting on Saturday only.
I've never done this show before, so – I'm looking forward to it.
Yesterday we participated in the festival. First one of the year. The weather held up for us and it was a good day for sales as well.
I want to say thanks to my friends John G, John N, David, and Laura for stopping by to see me. And a shout-out thank you to my friend Martha, who mentioned me to two friends of hers who made a point of seeking me out. I also saw several other neighbors and local people, and I had a chance to talk to some of my art vendor friends as well. I felt very appreciated.
And of course as always I say thank you to everyone who took the time to stop in my booth to look over my work and to talk to me about it.
Here are some pictures of the event in chronological order. I guess every show looks pretty much like any other, but – they each have their own personality and I think if you look, you'll see what I mean.
We arrived and set our things on the curb. When the street was cleared, we all began our set-up. The tents were in two rows in the middle of the street.
Our booth, set up. My husband (in maroon shirt) and our friend John G, who stopped by to see us, are sitting in front.
Down the street from our booth.
Down the street the other way – the food and music area.
Interior of the booth at the beginning of the day.
Now people are arriving at the show. The food area fills up.
At the end of the day, we dismantle the booth. We're almost ready to leave – just need to get a few more things and take down the tent.
View down the street – where the food area was! All gone.
Our things are back on the curb waiting for us to bring the car around and pack them up. And drive the two miles home!
Heads up, everybody. Next Saturday, April 30, I'll be participating in this festival with my paintings. I'm in Booth #25, near the center of the fair, if you want to look for me. Show hours are Noon to 6 PM and the fair will be set up along Easton Road.
This show is very local for me – I live about 2 miles away and I come to Glenside pretty much every day. I've also depicted the area in lots of paintings over time (you can look for them on my art blog – I think some will come up if you search under the word Glenside), so if the name seems familiar to you, that may be why.
And, if you take a look at the postcard, you can see one of my paintings featured on it – in the upper right-hand corner. | {
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Are goths and punks the same?
What's the difference between Emo and punk music?
What is the difference between Goth emo and punk?
Is Goth a punk?
Punk was the predecessor of the Goth subculture. It's basically what spurred the movement along. These people were into the more hardcore, loud, aggressive, over the top fashions and music that were called things like "garage rock" and "street punk".
The main difference between Emo and Punk is that Emo is emotional and deals with psychological issues whereas Punk is rebellious and deals with political and social issues. Unlike Punk music, Emo deals with melodious tones and less edgy music whereas Punk is defined by its fast paces and short compositions.
What is the difference between Emo Goth and scene?
Emo people generally dress in band t-shirts and dark clothes, often with gothic imagery, while scene people wear bright and neon colors that draw attention to themselves. Emos often have black hair while scene fans generally have bright hair or colored highlights in dark hair.
Is punk music Emo?
Emo music is a subgenre of punk rock, indie rock, and alternative rock music defined by its heavy emotional expression. Emo is part of the post-hardcore band scene, with artists delving into songs with more substance and feeling.
Emo belongs to post-hardcore, pop punk and indie rock style while gothic rock is a form of punk rock, glam punk and post punk. Emo rockers preach release of primal energy with abstract and chaotic sub structures while Goth are recognized by emphasis on darkness in their tone, dress, hair dyes, make up, emotion, etc.
Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s….
Other names Goth rock goth
Stylistic origins Post-punk glam rock punk rock
Cultural origins Late 1970s, England
Derivative forms Dark wave ethereal wave cold wave
What School District is Monticello NY in?
What is in Krusteaz waffle mix? | {
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Mizuma Art Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by the Iranian artist, Sara Dolatabadi.
Dolatabadi was born in 1978 in Tehran, Iran and graduated from Azad Art University in 2001. She currently resides and works in Tokyo. Recently her works were included in "What game shall we play today? (2008)", Tokyo Wonder Site and "Ordinary fruit (2008)" Golestan Gallery, Tehran.
The main subject of her work is the human being and she uses varied techniques such as drawing, painting, sculpture and installation with writing. She depicts and refers to the status of women in Islamic society, the social scenes in her home country as well as the circumstances in Tokyo.
The show, named "Pejvak", meaning "echo" in Farsi, consists of an installation and some photographic works. In a dark room, green fluorescent lights are placed on the floor and sound of people changing "Allah o Akbar (God is great)" comes from the speakers set in the space. Green is a sacred color for shia muslim-denomination of islam- . She was inspired by the recent protests against the outcome of the Iranian Presidential election of 12th June 2009. Dolatabadi says many civilians were injured, killed and arrested in course of the demonstrations which started peacefully. Following these incidents, people started to protest by chanting "Allah o Akbar" on their rooftops from 10 to 11 pm all over the city with one voice. It creates strong unity in darkness of the night.
Dolatabadi's work mainly refers to the people under the specific circumstances, perhaps signifying the consciousness and mentality common to all human beings. By revealing solitude, suffering and difficulty in human life, the body of works raises the awareness of the viewers on esteem and dignity in individuals and also produces an opportunity to start conversations. | {
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Q: Is there a way to Bold all tags in VS Code? Is there a way in settings to bold all tags in VS Code.
EX to turn:
```<ul>
<li class="clickable">Clickable</li>
<li>Not clickable</li>
<ul>```
To this:
```**<ul>
<li** class="clickable">Clickable**</li>**
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A: I think this is what you want in your settings.json:
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
"textMateRules": [
{
"scope": "punctuation.definition.tag, entity.name.tag.html",
"settings": {
// "foreground": "#ff0000",
"fontStyle": "bold"
}
},
]
},
You may or may not want the punctuation.definition.tag selector.
See https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-extensions/syntax-highlight-guide#scope-inspector for how to find the scope of tokens in your language. And https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/themes#_customizing-a-color-theme for using the editor.tokenColorCustomizations setting to modify those language scopes you found in step one.
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Reading notes (2021, week 16) — On virtuous leaderships, the weak case for grit, and the misinformation virus
Apr 20, 2021·31 min read
Antoine de Ruffi School in Marseille, France, by TAUTEM Architecture + bmc2 architectes — "The architects have voluntarily limited the number of architectural and technical components to guarantee simplicity and longevity and to ensure easy maintenance. Built with 'low carbon,' light-colored concrete, between the pearl white blanc and beige of the coquina sand, the building was poured in place and without joints. The painstaking work of the 'skin' has produced alternating parts of coquina and smooth, mat and shiny surfaces and an interplay of light and shadow in the embrasures." (Photographs: Luc Boegly)
Reading notes is a weekly curation of my tweets. It is, as Michel de Montaigne so beautifully wrote, "a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own."
In this week's edition: Why leaders must be both of good character and competent to achieve sustainable success; where's the evidence that grit predicts success?; the more you know, the more vulnerable you can be to infection; why applied history matters; are we enslaved by the finer things in life?; Nikolai Gogol in the twilight of empire; subway to Studio 54: a bygone New York; and, finally, Moby and our case against cows.
Virtuous leadership
Virtuous Leadership: Does It Help Organisations Thrive? is the translated title of a Dutch article by Martijn Hendriks, an assistant professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, in which he gives an overview of the research literature on the relationship between virtuous leadership and the flourishing (of people) within organisations. What follows is an unpolished translation of the original article from M&O Tijdschrift voor Management and Organisatie (Boom Uitgevers, Amsterdam).
For those interested in the many references mentioned in this article, I simply refer to the research paper Virtuous leadership: a source of employee well-being and trust, by Martijn Hendriks, Martijn Burger, Antoinette Rijsenbilt, Emma Pleeging, and Harry Commandeur, published in Management Research Review, Vol. 43 No. 8, 2020.
Despite the long list of corporate leadership scandals, 'character' typically plays a marginal role in the training and evaluation of leaders. This suggests that virtuous leadership is viewed as of secondary importance or as harmful to the leader or the organisation (Seijts et al., 2019). On the other hand, there has been a long-standing belief that a leader's character is a fundamental building block for effective and sustainable leadership as it shapes his goals and behaviours, and can therefore have a strong impact on the organisation, individuals within the organisation and the leader himself (Peterson and Seligman, 2004).
This belief that leaders can succeed by doing what is morally right has made a comeback in the last decade (Wright and Goodstein, 2007; Flynn, 2008; Crossan et al., 2017). An inspiring example is Greystone Bakery, founded by Bernard Glassman to help an underprivileged local community in New York, by offering jobs to people with few job opportunities (through an open hiring policy) and by returning the profits to the local community. The approach of this successful social enterprise is nicely summed up in the company's credo: "We don't hire people to bake brownies, we bake brownies to be able to hire people."
Not all leaders are equally virtuous. Some are naturally more virtuous than others, but also the divergent beliefs about the consequences of righteous leadership are an important reason why leaders differ in their willingness to act righteously. This raises the question, what is the connection between virtuous leadership and the flourishing of (people within) organisations?
[Flourishing individuals and organisations are regarded here as functioning well in the sense that they achieve their goals in a sustainable manner, while virtue is aimed at pursuing and improving the good rather than merely avoiding the bad.]
What is virtuous leadership?
Character is inseparable from virtues. Good character arises from and is visible through the routine practice of virtues (Newstead et al., 2020). In turn, virtuous behaviour stems from core values and the intrinsic motivation to do the morally right (virtue ethics). Good behaviour is not virtuous if it is motivated by the achievement of a certain result (utilitarian ethics) or the fulfilment of norms and obligations (deontological ethics). Thus, virtuous leadership is based on character and demonstrated by voluntary (intrinsically motivated and deliberate) virtuous behaviour in relevant situations (Hackett and Wang, 2012).
There are many virtues, but literature and cultural traditions highlight several core virtues that transcend all other virtues. The list of core virtues, as well as the interpretation and relative importance of these virtues, substantially but not completely overlap between cultural traditions (Hursthouse, 1999).
Four core virtues
Riggio and colleagues (2010) define virtuous leaders in Western societies as leaders who act in accordance with four core virtues: prudence or practical wisdom, moderation, justice, and courage. These were considered the four Cardinal virtues in ancient Greek philosophy (Aristotle and Plato) and the Judaeo-Christian tradition (e.g. Thomas Aquinas), and have had a profound influence on Western thinking. They can therefore be regarded as the most important virtues for leaders in Western societies.
Peterson and Seligman (2004) and Hackett and Wang (2012) conclude that they are also core virtues in most other cultures and can therefore be seen as global core virtues of leaders. Crossan and colleagues (2017) demonstrate that these four cardinal virtues are also seen as essential in a sample of North and Latin American leaders. So we can say that virtuous leaders worldwide must have at least the following characteristics: make morally right choices to achieve virtuous goals, through morally right means (prudence or practical wisdom), control of one's emotional responses and desire for self-enrichment (moderation), give others what they deserve (justice), and persist in acting as is believed to be morally right, despite the risk of negative consequences (courage).
According to Artistotle, courage or fortitude enables a person to stand firm against and endure the hardships of life, to restrain fear, or to moderate fear in the face of danger, all done in accordance with reason. (Painting: Fortitute, 1470, by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445–1510); tempera grassa on wood, 167 x 87 cm. Part of the colection of the Uffizzi in Florence, Fortitude is one of seven panels representing the Seven Virtues, commissioned by Florence's Tribunale della Mercanzia, the body overseeing the city's guilds. Piero del Pollaiolo (1441–1496) painted six panels and the series was completed by Sandro Botticelli in 1470. Fortitude is one of his very first works.)
After evaluating both non-Western and Western cultural attitudes, Peterson and Seligman (2004) concluded that there are six universal core virtues: the four cardinal Western virtues mentioned above, plus compassion (i.e. treating others with love, care and respect treating) and transcendence (ie connecting with the surrounding universe and thereby providing meaning).
The framework of Hackett and Wang (2012) focuses more specifically on the perspectives of Confucius (East Asia) and Aristotle (Western) and adds two core virtues mentioned by Confucius to the four Western cardinal virtues: honesty or trustworthiness, and compassion. So both frameworks argue that humanity is a core virtue. Although not explicitly mentioned by aristotle and Plato, it implicitly emerges in Western cultural traditions as an essential virtue and is seen by modern ethics scholars as essential in Western societies.
Consensus on framework
Thus, there is far-reaching consensus about the broad framework of virtuous leadership, but context-dependent nuances are important.
In Africa, for example, the following four core virtues emerge: reliability or honesty, courage, humanity, and humility (Adewale, 2020). Another example is that transcendence is the most important virtue in Buddhism, but it is not seen as essential in many other schools of thought. Crossan (2017) illustrates that leaders in North and Latin America believe that virtuous leaders should also possess some other core virtues, such as responsibility, integrity, humility, drive, and the ability to cooperate.
Another important side note is that other virtues are emphasised in the more pragmatic, less theoretically grounded and ethical-oriented organisational psychology (Meyer, 2018; Sison and Ferrero, 2015). For example, Cameron (2004) considers forgiveness, trust, integrity, optimism, and compassion to be core elements of virtuous organisations. Crossan (2017) emphasises that prudence is seen as the central virtue by modern leaders in North and Latin America. This is consistent with Aristotle's belief that prudence is the 'mother of all virtues' (Flynn, 2008; Riggio et al., 2010).
Following Aristotle, ethics scholars do emphasise that the cardinal virtues form a whole, which means that people rarely possess certain core virtues but not others and that these core virtues only lead to positive outcomes together (see, among others, MacIntyre, 1984). For example, a prudent but cowardly leader will not be very effective in promoting employee happiness. And the righteous actions of a leader lacking humanity will not be fully appreciated by others. Empirical evidence confirms that employees often judge that leaders score consistently high on all virtues or consistently low on all virtues (Riggio et al., 2010; Thun and Kelloway, 2011; Wang and Hackett, 2016; Hendriks et al., 2020).
However, considering specific virtues in specific situations remains important, because the importance and the specific role of virtues is context-dependent (Riggio et al., 2010). Different scales have been developed to measure the character and virtue of leaders. To measure the character of leaders, Peterson and Seligman (2004) developed the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS). It doesn't measure virtues explicitly, though, because the developers consider them to be too abstract and general to measure. Instead, the VIA-IS measures the 24 positive character traits that form the basis of the six core virtues distinguished by Peterson and Seligman (2004). Thus the character traits bravery, tenacity, integrity, and vitality are the building blocks of the virtue courage. Riggio and colleagues (2010) and Wang and Hackett (2016) later developed validated scales that explicitly measure the virtues of leaders through questions to employees.
Prudence or practical wisdon is described by Aristote as an intellectual habit (virtue) enabling the person to deliberate properly in order to choose the virtuous course, the right means of action in any here and now situation. As such, it is primary over the other cardinal virtues. (Painting: Prudence, 1470, by Piero del Pollaiolo (1441–1496); tempera on wood, 168 x 90.5 cm. Prudence is one of six paintings by Piero del Pollaiolo for the Seven Virtues, commissioned by Florence's Tribunale della Mercanzia. Collection of Le Galleria degli Uffizzi, Florence)
Do employees flourish through virtuous leadership?
Good leadership promotes employee flourishing in three important ways. First, virtuous behaviour can have a substantial impact on the objectively observable job characteristics and outcomes of employees. Giving due praise and recognition to employees, for example, can have a positive influence on the career opportunities of employees. The fair allocation of work tasks can have a positive influence on the work content of employees. And showing compassion can have a positive influence on the work-life balance.
But virtuous behaviour can also harm the objective situations of employees if others, for example competing companies, take advantage of it. For example, certain virtuous behaviours can lead to a poorer competitive position and, as a consequence, lower job security.
Second, virtuous leaders can make followers flourish through a subjective process; trust is a central mechanism in this respect (Hendriks et al., 2020). The character of leaders is a primary source of trust in the leader because trust is primarily built when virtuous behaviour arises from intrinsic motivation and is deliberately and consistently applied in relevant situations (Dirks and Ferrin, 2002). This perspective suggests that character-based virtuous leadership can strengthen trust more than other, related leadership styles, which are traditionally associated with trusts, such as transformational and ethical leadership.
This is because those leadership styles are not fully focused on character, but also focus on behaviour that generally generates less trust, such as compliance with rules or moral duties (a deontological focus) and goal-oriented behaviour (a teleological focus). Trust, in turn, is the catalyst of different attitudes and behaviours that make followers thrive. This includes aspects directly related to the leader (such as satisfaction with the leader and the relationship between leader and follower), organisation-related attitudes and behaviours (such as being able to identify with the organisation; Schaubroeck et al., 2013) and broader psychological aspects (such as reduced work stress; Liu et al., 2010). Together, these processes make trust in a leader essential for employee prosperity (Dirks and Ferrin, 2002; Hendriks et al., 2020).
Third, through their virtuous behaviour, leaders can influence the virtuous behaviour of others in the organisation through internalisation, fostering a more virtuous organisational climate (Cameron and Winn, 2012). Positive organisational psychologists argue that virtue in organisations, in turn, leads to a self-reinforcing spiral of positive practices (such as prosocial behaviourand increased commitment), as well as positive feelings (such as emotional well-being, and job engagement satisfaction; Cameron et al., 2004). Besides, the virtue of the organisation has buffering properties, giving organisations the resilience to face difficult times, for example through increased solidarity and trust (Cameron et al., 2004; Nikandrou and Tsachouridi, 2015).
Consistent picture
Because coherent measures of virtuous leadership have only recently been developed, they have been used only by a small number of studies. However, the available studies paint a consistent picture: employees with virtuous leaders thrive more. Riggio et al. (2010) and Hendriks et al. (2020) show that employees in Western countries who rate their supervisor as more virtuous score better on several dimensions of work-related well-being, such as moral identity, psychological empowerment, identification with emotional well-being, and job satisfaction). The study of Wang and Hackett (2016) shows that American employees with more virtuous leaders also had higher general well-being (happiness and life satisfaction) and performed better within their job responsibilities ('in-role') and beyond this range of duties ('extra-role'), even after correcting for the charismatic style of leaders.
These findings are consistent with the positive relationships found between individual virtues and employee performance and well-being. Thun and Kelloway (2011) found in their study with North American employees that employees with prudent leaders had a more affective engagement, employees with moderate leaders had more confidence and that employees with more fellow human leaders had more involvement, psychological well-being and trust in the leader. Prottas (2013) shows in a sample of American employees that employees with upright leaders have higher well-being, while Mackey et al. (2017) show that exploitative forms of leadership are associated with lower performance and less well-being of employees. At an organisational level, virtue is also related to better performance and well-being of employees (see, among others, Chun, 2009).
Despite the abundant correlational evidence that employees flourish more with virtuous leaders, further research using coherent measures of virtuous leadership in different contexts (such as industries) is needed to better identify causal relationships.
Self-Restraint, one of the virtues of Buddhism, pertains to the sense organs to achieve right concentration of mind: "If this is not attained, knowledge and insight which see things as they really are will not be attained" (Tachibana, 1992). Consequences for not having self-restraint take the form of vanity and binding one's self to human passions. (Sculpture: Head of Buddha, 5th–6th century, Afghanistan, probably Hadda; stucco with traces of paint, 19.1 x 12.1 x 11.4 cm. Collection of The Met, New York)
Do leaders flourish through virtuous leadership?
A major reason why leaders regularly behave mischievously is their belief that acting righteously will have negative consequences, both for themselves and the organisation. In some situations, especially in the short term, mischievous behaviour can indeed have positive effects. For example, fraudulent behaviour regularly yields objective (financial) benefits in the short term. However, current empirical evidence consistently shows that virtuous leaders tend to flourish more. Wang and Hackett (2016), for example, show that virtuous leaders have higher hedonic well-being and are more effective leaders in organisations.
The literature on character strengths, which is mainly rooted in positive organisational psychology, shows that the use of a person's character strengths and working on character weaknesses can be conducive to subjective well-being (eg Seligman et al., 2005), sense of purpose at work (Littman-Ovadia and Steger, 2010) and work performance (Lavy and Littman-Ovadia, 2017). Positive associations are often also found in studies of specific virtues. Sosik et al. (2012) find that the courage, social intelligence and especially integrity of leaders in corporate America are positively related to how their executives and board members rate the performance of these leaders.
An American experiment by Robinson et al. (2013) shows that others are more willing to do business in the future with CEOs who are compassionate. In relation to the well-being of the leader, Krause and Hayward (2015) find that more practical wisdom (prudence) is associated with a stronger sense of self-esteem and more hope. Thus, current literature suggests that virtuous leaders tend to flourish more. These findings confirm that good character is fundamental to effective leadership and that there is generally no 'trade-off' for leaders between virtuous behaviour and self-interest.
Six mechanisms
In theory, there are several mechanisms by which virtuous leaders perform better. First, a significant portion of the performance of leaders depends on the performance of employees and, as noted, virtuous leadership generally has a positive impact on employee performance.
Second, investors, customers and suppliers are more willing to do business with virtuous leaders. This has a positive influence on both the performance and the well-being (e.g. self-esteem) of the leader (Robinson et al., 2013).
Third, virtuous leaders tend to be more awe-inspiring because they are more respected and trusted. This allows them to implement their vision and ideas more effectively in the organisation (Yukl, 2010).
Fourth, virtuous leaders tend to be more engaged at work. For example, they experience work as more meaningful (Bass and Riggio, 2006), which helps in achieving personally valued goals (Arjoon, 2000).
Fifth, good character helps leaders in the ethical decision-making process (Crossan et al., 2013), promoting effective decision-making.
Sixth, virtuous behaviour has intrinsic benefits. For example, a large number of studies show that prosocial behaviour makes a person happier (Dunn et al., 2008).
And finally, virtuous leaders have better relationships and foster a virtuous organisational climate, which relates positively to both job happiness and performance (Cameron and Winn, 2012).
Do organisations flourish through virtuous leadership?
Good leadership can contribute to better performance of the organisation as a whole, through the positive associations with the performance of leaders and employees. On the other hand, a lack of virtuous leadership can damage the company's reputation and thus make the company less attractive to investors, customers and suppliers (Shanahan and Seele, 2015).
They are better at mitigating risks than those whose behaviour is guided by deontological and utilitarian thinking (Chakrabarty and Bass, 2015) and, as a result, attract responsible investors. However, virtuous behaviours can also be costly, such as compensating for potential negative impacts on ecological environments or local communities.
The literature on the virtue of organisations has examined the sum of these positive and negative effects. In this literature it is generally found that the virtue of the organisation is associated with positive performance of the organisation, for example, better financial performance (such as higher profitability) and better operational performance (such as increased customer loyalty and lower staff turnover; for an overview see Meyer, 2018). At the team level, Palanski et al. (2011) find that behavioural integrity leads to better performance as a result of greater transparency and trust in the team. Also, the 2007 global financial crisis and many corporate leadership scandals at, among others, Enron, WorldCom, Hewlett-Packard and Siemens and more recently Barclays, Volkswagen and Samsun, illustrate that neglect of virtuous leadership can cause serious harm to organisations and the economy.
The main conclusion of this literature review is that the current evidence shows that employees, organisations, and the leaders themselves tend to flourish more when the leader has a virtuous character and displays virtuous leadership. An important consideration is that the current evidence is primarily correlational and that more research is needed to better determine the causal impact of virtuous leadership on thriving in organisations in different contexts.
The findings of this literature review provide initial support for Hannah and Jennings (2013) proposition that leaders must be both of good character and competent to achieve sustainable success and that both alone are insufficient. This general pattern also suggests that the concerns of many leaders are unfounded, that virtuous leadership is adversely affecting themselves or their organisations.
The findings imply that organisations can potentially benefit greatly from fostering virtuous leadership. However, it should always be remembered that virtue is a reward in itself and does not require a positive instrumental outcome.
The weak case for grit
"It might surprise you to find out how little evidence there is to support the idea that boosting students' 'grit' — their propensity to tenaciously attack difficult problems they encounter rather than give up — is a reliably effective way to improve their school performance or to close long-standing education gaps," Jesse Singal writes in The Weak Case for Grit, an excerpt from his book The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021).
Grit's popularity is largely due to the work of the concept's inventor and chief evangelist, Angela Duckworth. In her 2013 TED talk, which has almost 21 million views as of August 2020, she presents grit as a new way of looking at, among other things, the old problem of school achievement: "In education, the one thing we know how to measure best is IQ. But what if doing well in school and in life depends on much more than your ability to learn quickly and easily?"
"The media have helped spread the idea that Duckworth discovered something new and exciting […]. Her book has been a long-term bestseller. The Obama Department of Education expressed a lot of enthusiasm about grit, and The Sacramento Bee reported in 2015 that some schools in California were giving students a 'grit' grade. Yet Duckworth doesn't appear to have ever explicitly claimed that she had discovered a reliable way of increasing grit. At one point in her TED talk she said, 'Every day, parents and teachers ask me, «How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?» The honest answer is, I don't know.'"
A few months after her 2013 TED Talk, Duckworth won the MacArthur grant for clarifying the role that intellectual strengths and personality traits play in educational achievement. But "[t]he evidence for her strongest claims about grit's efficacy still hasn't arrived," Singal argues. "Almost two decades since she started her research, it has not been established that grit is a genuinely useful concept that tells us much that we didn't already know — or that it can be boosted, anyway. As Duckworth and her colleagues acknowledge in their very first paper on grit, personality psychologists already have a concept that seems similar: conscientiousness."
"[T]here was never much in the literature to support either of the two ideas that launched grit on its way: that it was more useful than conscientiousness and that it seriously outperformed 'traditional' measures of cognitive or, in the context of military training, physical performance. It is difficult to justify Duckworth's statement that grit 'beats the pants' off older, more established measures. Many of the examples she gives consisted of studies in which the predictive usefulness of grit wasn't compared with its most obvious competitor, conscientiousness, in which grit simply didn't perform as well as traditional measures, or both," Jesse Singal writes in The Weak Case for Grit. (Photograph: Angela Duckworth at het desk at the University of Pennsylvania, by Zave Smith)
Which leaves the concept where, exactly?
The most comprehensive answer, according to Singal, came from Marcus Crede, a reform-minded psychologist who has made it his mission to critique what he views as questionable findings in his field and has a particularly keen interest in education and workplace performance.
"Both grit and conscientiousness seem to be measuring the same underlying concept, argue Crede and his co-authors [Michael C. Tynan and Peter D. Harms in Much Ado About Grit]. Therefore, they suggest, grit's popularity might be the result of the jangle fallacy in which people believe that two things that are actually the same are different simply because they have different names. That is, if Duckworth had published research showing that conscientiousness can, to a certain extent, predict academic success, other researchers would have rolled their eyes and said, 'Of course, we already knew that.' But by presenting a seemingly new concept with a catchy name, Duckworth might have gotten a great deal of mileage out of an idea that had been part of the literature all along (which is not to suggest that this was some sort of intentional obfuscation on her part). NPR reported in 2016 that Duckworth, responding to this critique, said she would prefer to think of grit as 'a member of the conscientiousness family,' but one with independent predictive powers.
As for the question of grit's malleability, there isn't much evidence of reliable, scalable interventions for increasing conscientiousness or grit. That isn't to say conscientiousness remains immutable across the life span. 'Happily, many studies show that conscientiousness does change with age,' Brent Roberts, a leading personality psychologist […], told [Singal] in an email. 'And, not only does it change, but typically for the better — it goes up … Of course, changing slowly, incrementally, through life experiences is nice, but may provide little solace to the parent of a teenager who remains unmotivated.» (Sure enough, one of Duckworth's key early papers includes a chart showing average grit differences by age that exhibits this general pattern.)"
All of this, Singal argues, "offers a strong reason to be skeptical of the claim that grit instruction — or any sort of similar effort, really — could make much of a dent in the massive problem that is American educational inequality. But I'd go a step further: It may be unfair to poor kids to focus on grit. Doing so reflects a blinkered understanding of how inequality operates and perpetuates itself. It could be that the grit hype caught on because of its seductive promise to spare us a great deal of trouble. A serious effort to make life less unfair for neglected kids would likely require enacting bigger, more ambitious redistributive social programs — social programs that are very unlikely to be enacted given the state of 21st-century American politics. Grit, by contrast, is a quick fix."
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The misinformation virus
"Lies and distortions don't just afflict the ignorant. The more you know, the more vulnerable you can be to infection," Elitsa Dermendzhiyska writes in The misinformation virus.
"To fully grasp the pernicious nature of the misinformation virus, we need to reconsider the innocence of the host. It's easy to see ourselves as victims of deception by malicious actors. It's also tempting to think of being misinformed as something that happens to other people — some unnamed masses, easily swayed by demagoguery and scandal. […] But as it turns out, misinformation doesn't prey only on the ignorant: sometimes, those who seem least vulnerable to the virus can prove its keenest hosts, and even handmaidens.
Startling evidence for this possibility comes from Dan M Kahan, professor of law and psychology at Yale University who has been studying how ordinary people evaluate complex societal risks. One strand of his research is trying to shed light on the sometimes dramatic disparity between public opinion and scientific evidence. Together with a small group of researchers, in 2010 Kahan set out to demystify this disparity in relation to global warming. At the time, despite widespread consensus among climate scientists, only 57 percent of Americans believed that there was solid evidence for global warming, and just 35 per cent saw climate change as a serious problem. 'Never have human societies known so much about mitigating the dangers they face but agreed so little about what they collectively know,' Kahan wrote.
One explanation, which Kahan calls the 'science comprehension thesis,' holds that people have insufficient grasp of science, and are unlikely to engage in the deliberate, rational thinking needed to digest these often complex issues. It's a plausible explanation, yet Kahan suspected that it doesn't tell the whole story.
In the 2010 study, published in Nature in 2012, Kahan and his collaborators measured subjects' science literacy and numeracy, and plotted those against the participants' perceived risk of global warming. If the science comprehension thesis was right, then the more knowledgeable the subjects, the more they'd converge towards the scientific consensus. Surprisingly, however, the data revealed that those who scored high on hierarchy and individualism — the hallmark values of a conservative outlook — exhibited the opposite pattern: as their science literacy and numeracy increased, their concern for climate change actually declined. What explains this seeming paradox?
Kahan argues that rather than being a simple matter of intelligence or critical thinking, the question of global warming triggers deeply held personal beliefs. In a way, asking for people's take on climate change is also to ask them who they are and what they value. For conservatives to accept the risk of global warming means to also accept the need for drastic cuts to carbon emissions — an idea utterly at odds with the hierarchical, individualistic values at the core of their identity, which, by rejecting climate change, they seek to protect. Kahan found similar polarisation over social issues that impinge on identity, such as gun control, nuclear energy and fracking, but not over more identity-neutral subjects such as GMO foods and artificial sweeteners. In cases where identity-protective motivations play a key role, people tend to seek and process information in biased ways that conform to their prior beliefs. They might pay attention only to sources they agree with and ignore divergent views. Or they might believe congruent claims without a moment's thought, but spare no effort finding holes in incongruent statements: the brightest climate-change deniers were simply better than their peers at counter-arguing evidence they didn't like. This hints at a vexing conclusion: that the most knowledgeable among us can be more, not less, susceptible to misinformation if it feeds into cherished beliefs and identities. And though most available research points to a conservative bias, liberals are by no means immune."
"The illusory truth effect, as it's known, suggests that the easier to process and more familiar something is, the more likely we are to believe it. […] This can pose a challenge for corrections that work by repeating the original misinformation. Consider, this retraction to a myth prone to ensnare hopeful new mothers: 'Listening to Mozart will not boost your child's IQ.' The tiny 'not' mid-sentence is all that sets the myth and its correction apart — and it's easy to imagine that as time passes and memory fades, that 'not' will wash away, leaving Mozart's symphonies and smarter babies linked together in memory, and making the myth more familiar," Elitsa Dermendzhiyska writes in The misinformation virus. (Painting: The Boy Mozart, 1763 on commission by Leopold Mozart, anonymous, possibly by Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni (1721–1782); oil on canvas, Collection of the Mozarteum, Salzburg)
"In a 2003 study, Geoffrey Cohen, then a professor of psychology at Yale, now at Stanford University, asked subjects to evaluate a government-funded job-training programme to help the poor. All subjects were liberal, so naturally the vast majority (76 per cent) favoured the policy. However, if subjects were told that Democrats didn't support the programme, the results completely reversed: this time, 71 per cent opposed it. Cohen replicated this outcome in a series of influential studies, with both liberal and conservative participants. He showed that subjects would support policies that strongly contradict their own political beliefs if they think that others like them supported those policies. Despite the social influence, obvious to an outsider, participants remained blind to it, and attributed their preferences to objective criteria and personal ideology. This would come as no surprise to social psychologists, who have long attested to the power of the group over the individual, yet most of us would doubtless flinch at the whiff of conformity and the suggestion that our thoughts and actions might not be entirely our own.
For Kahan, though, conformity to group beliefs makes sense. Since each individual has only negligible impact on collective decisions, it's sensible to focus on optimising one's social ties instead. Belonging to a community is, after all, a vital source of self-worth, not to mention health, even survival. Socially rejected or isolated people face heightened risks of many diseases as well as early death. Seen from this perspective, then, the impulse to fit our beliefs and behaviours to those of our social groups, even when they clash with our own, is, Kahan argues, 'exceedingly rational'. Ironically, however, rational individual choices can have irrational collective consequences. As tribal attachments prevail, emotions trump evidence, and the ensuing disagreement chokes off action on important social issues.
It's easy to despair over all the cognitive quirks, personal biases and herd instincts that can strip our defences against the ever-evolving misinformation machinery. I certainly did. Then, I found Elizabeth Levy Paluck. She is a psychologist at Princeton University who studies prejudice reduction, a field in which a century of research appears to have produced many theories but few practical results. In 2006, she led an ambitious project to reduce ethnic hostilities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She blended a number of prominent theories to create a 'cocktail of treatments': a radio drama, in which characters from different communities modelled cooperation and mutual trust; a talk show whose host read audience letters replete with messages of tolerance, and who encouraged listeners to put themselves in the shoes of outgroup members. Nothing worked. After a year of broadcasting, prejudice remained as entrenched as ever.
For Paluck, this was 'an empirical and theoretical puzzle,' prompting her to wonder if beliefs might be the wrong variable to target. So she turned to social norms, reasoning that it's probably easier to change what we think others think than what we ourselves do. In 2012, Paluck tested a new approach to reducing student conflict in 56 middle schools in New Jersey. Contrary to popular belief, some evidence suggests that, far from being the product of a few aggressive kids, harassment is a school-wide social norm, perpetuated through action and inaction, by bullies, victims and onlookers. Bullying persists because it's considered typical and even desirable, while speaking up is seen as wrong. So how do you shift a culture of conflict? Through social influence, Paluck hypothesised: you seed supporters of a new norm and let them transmit it among their peers. In some schools, Paluck had a group of students publicly endorse and model anti-bullying behaviours, and the schools saw a significant decline in reported conflicts — 30 per cent on average, and as much as 60 per cent when groups had higher shares of well-connected model students.
I've wondered recently if […] misinformation is becoming part of the culture, if it persists because some of us actively partake in it, and some merely stand by and allow it to continue. If that's the case, then perhaps we ought to worry less about fixing people's false beliefs and focus more on shifting those social norms that make it OK to create, spread, share and tolerate misinformation. Paluck shows one way to do this in practice — highly visible individual action reaching critical mass; another way could entail tighter regulation of social media platforms. And our own actions matter, too. As the Scottish biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson said in 1917, 'everything is what it is because it got that way.' We are, each and every one of us, precariously perched between our complicity in the world as it is and our capacity to make it what it can be."
And also this…
"Forget the seduction of grand theories and presentist moral judgments. To learn the lessons of the past, the great foreign policy analysts of our age must rediscover the art of historical discernment," Iskander Rehman argues in his essay Why applied history matters.
"For centuries, a solid grounding in history was considered essential both to the conduct of statecraft, and to the prosecution of military strategy. From the Ancient Greeks to the Victorians, the careful study of past events lay at the heart of 'practical wisdom,' or prudence, and the mastering of such a historical techne was perceived as one of the finest political arts. Not only did history teach humility, it was also a school of statesmanship, that provided a mental 'workshop within which basic ideas about core policy issues (could) be hammered out,' thus enhancing future strategic performance. As Polybius famously noted in the Histories,
'There are two ways by which all men can reform themselves, the one through their own mischances, and the other through those of others (…) For it is the mental transference of similar circumstances to our own times that gives us the means of forming presentiments of what is about to happen, and enables us at certain times to take precautions and at others, by reproducing former conditions, to face with more confidence the difficulties that menace us.'
And indeed, for statesmen grappling with the uncertainty of their present circumstances, the business of liaising between the universal and the particular has often been conceptualized in terms of a temporal process, with the hope that the lessons of yesteryear hold the promise of better ascertaining future outcomes. As Yaacov Vertzberger has rightly observed, history teaches by analogy, enlightens by metaphor, and educates by extrapolation; but analogy can mislead, metaphor can be misplaced and extrapolation misguided. The acquisition of a historical sensibility should thus go hand in hand with a certain degree of intellectual caution — one that avoids succumbing to deterministic historical narratives, and that does not systematically rely on analogical reasoning as a means of predictive inference.
Perhaps most importantly, the accomplished historian is a skilled manager of complexity and a processor of information — someone trained to detect patterns of cause and effect. The great Harvard historian John Clive thus once wondered whether,
'… historians, especially those dealing with abstract entities like groups and classes and movements, have to possess a special metaphorical capacity, a plastic or tactile imagination that can detect shapes or configurations where others less gifted see only jumble and confusion.'
If so, then it would seem as though the historically trained mind reflects many of the mental processes most prized by generals and statesmen. Political and military judgment, like historical study, demands a capacity for integration, for perceiving qualitative similarities and differences, and a 'sense of the unique fashion in which various factors combine in the particular situation.'
And yet despite the seemingly obvious benefits to be derived from its study, applied history appears to have fallen out of favour. As much of American political science has become more positivist in its intellectual leanings — with a heightened focus on quantitative methods, and theoretical abstraction — it has also become more narrowly self-referential. When contemporary political scientists do draw on military history, they often do so in a limited and self-serving way, retroactively selecting case studies that appear to confirm their parsimonious theories. The past is thus often viewed as a 'treasure house, to be plundered in search of illustrative effect, rather than being examined and analyzed for its own sake.' This dispiriting state of affairs, however, should not solely be attributed to the evolution of political science. Indeed, within the embattled academic field of history itself, the study of military and diplomatic history has been shunted to the sidelines, and the production of policy-relevant works of historical analysis is often frowned upon. On popular national security or foreign policy websites, military and diplomatic historians remain heavily outnumbered by political scientists."
"The problem, however, is not that too many people draw on Thucydides, Clausewitz or Sun Tzu, but rather that they often do so superficially, self-servingly, and seem to not have fully read the texts in question. Unfortunately, the same charges can also often be levied at their critics — especially those in the field of political science — who frequently fail to properly engage with the relevant primary and secondary literature. (Consider, for example, this recent academic roundtable on the so-called 'Thucydides Trap,' which does not incorporate a single classicist or ancient historian),"Iskander Rehman writes in his essay Why applied history matters. (Mosaic: Thucydides mosaic from Jerash, Jordan, Roman, 3rd century CE. Collection of the Pergamon Museum, Berlin)
"Meanwhile, many of the most well-examined case studies in the security studies literature — from America's approach to carrier warfare to the Wehrmacht's adoption of the blitzkrieg strategy during World War II — are by now overly familiar. Vast spans of military history, from late antiquity to the early modern era, are considered less relevant to contemporary concerns and almost uniformly ignored, with contemporary international relations scholars drawing the overwhelming majority of their historical case studies from the twentieth or twenty-first centuries. The great French historian Marc Bloch famously inveighed against this tendency for analysts to consider only the more recent historical periods to be the most relevant, caustically asking,
'What would one think of the geophysicist who, satisfied with having computed their remoteness to a fraction of an inch, would then conclude that the influence of the moon upon the earth is far greater than that of the sun? Neither in outer space, nor in time, can the potency of a force be measured by the single dimension of distance.'
One could apply the same metaphorical association — of distance versus relevance — to geography as well as time. Granted, there is most definitely, as scholars such as David Kang have repeatedly urged, a pressing need for more substantive work focused on Asian diplomatic and military history. Acquiring a better understanding of China and India's military pasts, along with seminal texts such as Arthashastra or The Three Kingdoms, for example, is essential to understanding both Asian behemoths' respective strategic cultures and ideational outlook. That being said, the oft-subsidiary assumption that one should automatically dismiss certain periods in history or strategic traditions as irrelevant to contemporary challenges in Asia, is not only shortsighted, but also somewhat disconcerting. Is the underlying premise of such culturally freighted arguments that the lessons to be derived from European history are somehow solely for Europeans, and the lessons and insights from Asian history only for Asians? Can we not somehow all pool and learn from our collective historical experiences rather than hive them off into our respective sub-disciplinary corners?
Moreover, there is an additional risk nested within such culturalist assumptions: that of falling victim to the more insidious variant of regional essentialism promoted by authoritarian state actors such the People's Republic of China. Indeed, Beijing has long insisted that its supposedly exceptional historical trajectory entitles it to an unprecedented degree of deference on the basis of a so-called 'different historical model of international relations.' It is not immediately apparent, however, that China's much-touted 'tributary model' of international relations provides a better repository of insights into its current behavior in the South China Sea, than, say — the Valois and Plantagenet dynasties' sophisticated use of lawfare for purposes of territorial contestation in the fraught decades leading up the Hundred Years War. Lessons can be gleaned and applied across different cultures as well as across different periods. There are most certainly rich seams of world history that remain woefully underexplored, but the default posture should not be to argue in favour of further disciplinary siloization, but rather to read more, to read deeper, and to read across traditions."
You can also listen to Rehman's excellent essay, read by Leighton Pugh.
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There are many different ways in which luxury, technology and easy-living can ensnare us or box us in. In many ways, this is a modern and relatable phenomenon, but it goes back at least to the Roman writer, Tacitus," Jonny Thomson notes in Lessons from the Roman Empire about the danger of luxury.
The use of luxury to win over a people is a tactic mirrored across time, ranging from cheap opium that was shipped to China by the British to cheap American TVs and refrigerators that inevitably worked their way into the USSR. "But the most relatable example for most of us today is our relationship with Big Tech. Companies like Facebook, Apple, and Google slowly and surely wire our lives into their algorithms and platforms. Social media are designed and calibrated to be deliberately addictive. Time- or money-saving services, like cloud-based storage, have become so universal, that going back is becoming impossible. It's increasingly the case that we don't even know our passwords for things — we let our phones or apps invent and store them for us. A new technology or service is initially a luxury, until it becomes so normalized and ubiquitous, so essential, that we can't go back to the time before it appeared. What was once a 'want' becomes a 'need.'"
"The Britons were enslaved, not by chains, but by their desire for good wine and elegant dinner parties, Tacitus noted. In fact, the governor of Britain, Agricola, deliberately sought to pacify this tribal warrior society by the 'delightful distractions' of warm baths, togas, and education," . As Tacitus wrote, 'The naïve Britons described these things as 'civilization,' when in fact they were simply part of their enslavement," Jonny Thomson notes in Lessons from the Roman Empire about the danger of luxury. (Photograph: Sepulchral inscription for P. Cornelius Tacitus, the consul and historian. Collection of the Museo Epigrafico, Rome)
"E. M. Forster's novella, The Machine Stops, imagines a world where every facet of life is provided by 'the machine.' There are buttons 'to call for food, music, clothing, hot baths, literature and, of course, communication with friends.' How prescient has this turned out to be? Today, we have Uber, Skype, Hello Fresh, and Amazon Prime. Our friends and family are also plugged into the machine. Is it possible to leave?
Though we view technology as liberating, it also boxes us in. If we believe Tacitus, we are now enslaved by the things we once saw as luxury. It's the job of philosophy to see these chains for what they are. And, as we examine our lives, we can then choose to wear them happily or start the long hard journey of throwing them off."
In 2019, The New Yorker published a short essay by Oliver Sacks, The Machine Stops, in which he writes about the parallels between what he sees around him and the world described by E.M. Forster in The Machine Stops.
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"When it came time to join the civil service himself, [Nikolai Gogol] had little interest in or patience for the entire endeavor. His middling grades at his lyceum in outside Kiev meant that, upon graduation, he had to enter the service at the 14th rank — the lowest," Jennifer Wilson writes in Among the Rank and File.
"In 1828, Gogol moved from Ukraine to St. Petersburg to find work, landing first at the Department of State Economy and Public Buildings and then at the Department of Domains. Shortly after starting, he was diagnosed with hemorrhoids — which turned out to be a blessing in his eyes since it gave him an excuse to quit the post, which involved long hours sitting at a desk. 'I am very glad this happened,' he wrote to a friend.
Throughout his tenure in the civil service, Gogol more than once failed to return on time from a leave of absence, though this does not seem to have had much of an effect on his career (in fact, he was promoted after one of these delinquencies). He frequently wrote his mother letters to register his misery and frustration with the entire system and its effect on the residents of St. Petersburg: 'No spirit sparkles in the people, everyone here is a clerk or official, everyone talks of their departments or ministries, everything is suppressed, everything is steeped in the trivial, insignificant labor in which their lives are pointlessly wasted.'"
"Through his tiny mistakes — misplaced plumes and miscategorized clerks — Gogol not only created a fictional world of his own but also mapped the unstable hierarchy and shaky ground of the actual one," Jennifer Wilson writes in Among the Rank and File. (Painting: Nikolai Gogol, 1841, by Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller; oil on canvas, 59 x 47 cm. Collection of The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)
"It is tempting to see in Gogol's satirical tales a kind of precursor to David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, his study of corporate bloat and capitalist inefficiency. Indeed, Graeber's taxonomy of meaningless jobs and the people who hold them — flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, task makers, and bean counters — reads similarly to Gogol's characterizations of the mind-numbing civil service positions open to him. Yet Gogol was ultimately less interested in the drudgery of office work than in the kind of people who built their lives around titles, prestige, and arbitrary notions of superiority. He drew on the grotesque and perfected the absurd in depicting their shallow worries and pointless cruelty. He also revealed the arbitrariness underpinning Peter's supposedly meritocratic system: Mislabeling the ranks and ascribing the wrong kinds of jobs to certain titles, Gogol created his own world of random hierarchies, and in turn revealed the randomness of the real one."
Skaters, dancers, hustlers, boxers… The Swiss photographer Willy Spiller prowled the streets of New York from 1977 to 1985, capturing characters from all walks of life. He currently has his first solo exhibition at Bildhalle, Amsterdam (from April 10th until May 22nd).
Source: Subway to Studio 54: a bygone New York — in pictures
A Train to Far Rockaway, 1978 — "His longtime friend and companion Paul Nizon once said: 'I've often asked myself what made Willy Spiller's photography so forthright, so refreshing and so riveting.'" (Photography by Willy Spiller)
Edna on Wheels, 1979 (left) and Leroy in Harlem, 1984 — "The series New York, 1977–1985, was shot while Willy Spiller lived in the Big Apple."
Sunday Morning on Orchard Street, NY, 1980 — "Whether he focused his camera on subway rides, dancers at the legendary Studio 54 or hip-hop culture in the streets, Spiller captured many facets of a bygone world."
A Train to Brighton Beach, 1977 — "His images have appeared in numerous European newspapers and magazines and he has received prizes for both his published and exhibited work."
Elevated Station 180 St, 1982 — "Paul Nizon concluded: 'I believe it's a blend of unabashed curiosity and roguish complexity combined with a fraternal sense of compassion.'"
Lunch on Broadway, 1982 — "And that is the reason Spiller sides with humanity, which is just another way of saying that he has an innate love of mankind."
Moby, whose real name is Richard Melville Hall, was given his nickname by his father, shortly after birth. It's a reference to the family's ancestry; Moby is the great-great-great nephew of Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick (Photograph by Jonathan Nesvadba)
"If there's one animal in this world that has every reason to wipe all fucking humanity off the face of the earth, it's the cow. Cows approach us with innocence and vulnerability and we respond with torture and murder. If you spend some time with cows you will find out what beautiful animals they are. Playful, social and curious. Really, if there was such a thing as a cosmic court, we would have long since lost our case against cows." — Moby, from Moby's whole kit and caboodle (de Volksrant Magazine, April 17, 2021)
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Worker suffers work injury at generation station
On Behalf of The Law Office of Gary C. Nelson | Jan 24, 2014 | Workplace Accidents |
Any kind of work or operation inside of an electrical generation station can be dangerous. Workers are highly trained to work around the electrical components. However, those who are there to do a job unrelated to electricity can suffer from a work injury also. Any California carpenter who works on any industrial site may want to follow the story of a recent work injury at an electrical generation station in another state.
The carpenter was on the site with another carpenter to install some trim around a rollup door at the generating station. He was on an aerial lift platform at the time of the accident. He was only about four feet off the ground when the aerial platform rolled. This caused the man to be pinned between the door he was working on and the platform.
The man was pinned and suffered an injury to his chest. He underwent surgery to help relieve the pressure. Work was halted at the site, and Occupational Safety and Health was notified about the incident. The age of the man and the exact nature of his injuries were not reported.
The man who was injured at this particular electric generating station, which is located in Alaska, may lose wages as he struggles to recover. He may also have medical bills to deal with because of the work injury. In California and elsewhere, worker's compensation laws are in place to protect workers from financial consequences if they are injured while simply doing their job. An investigation into this incident or any other work injury can help industry leaders find safer ways to operate machinery and new ways to train workers so they can avoid future work injury situation.
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Mo McRae Joins "Empire" as Gabourey Sidibe's Love Interest!
August 25, 2015 by Kellie Williams in Latest News with 3 Comments
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It's official! Mo McRae, currently featured on TNT's police drama "Murder in the First" as gang leader Malcolm "Sugar Cascade" Monroe, will be added to the cast list for the second season of Fox TV's runaway hit, "Empire." McRae is best known for his numerous TV show appearances over the years in major and supporting roles as well as his "Leon Haynes" role alongside Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in the 2006 football drama film "Gridiron Gang." He was also in Lee Daniels' 2013
film, "The Butler" where he took on the role of a Black Panther leader named Eldridge Huggins.
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According to Variety, McRae will be "J-Poppa" on the music industry-centered drama and the character is described as the"easygoing love interest" of none other than Gabourey Sidibe's " Becky," Lucious Lyon's dedicated assistant. Variety also reports that McRae's "J-Poppa" will forge a closeness with Lucious' oldest son, Andre (portrayed by Trai Byers) and will appear on three episodes — for now.
McRae seems excited about the opportunity to be part of one of the most popular TV shows around. He shared his joy via his personal Instagram page:
Beyond #blessed super thankful. Im going to get to play with #Lyons on #Empire Shoutout to Lee Daniels @theoriginalbigdaddy for always looking out and giving me a chance to dance with the talented @gabby3shabby and the rest of their great cast and crew. #Pumped #wow #EmpireSeason2 #Whhhhhooohoooo
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In addition to his stint on "Empire," McRae is gearing up to portray Civil Rights activist Stokely Carmichael in HBO Films' adaptation of the Tony Award-winning stage play, "All the Way." The film will take viewers through the ups and downs of President Lyndon B. Johnson's first year in office after President John F. Kennedy's assassination. The film will be produced by Steven Spielberg, directed by Jay Roach, and will star Bryan Cranston as President Johnson and Anthony Mackie as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be sure to catch the season 2 premiere of "Empire" September 23 on Fox!
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The global arms trade is huge.
While it's hard to pin down an exact value of arms transfers, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimates that the number was at least $76 billion in 2013, with the caveat that it is likely higher.
The volume of transfers have been trending upwards now for roughly 15 years now.
But where are these arms going?
The answer is that they are increasingly going to militarize the Middle East, which has increased imports of arms by 61% in 2011-2015, compared to the previous five year period.
The Syrian Civil War now entering its sixth year, and it's clear that conflict is stopping no time soon in the Middle East. As a result of this and the various proxy wars, complicated relationships, and a continuing threat from ISIS, neighboring countries in the region have loaded up on arms.
That's why Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE have increased imports of arms by 275%, 279%, and 35% respectively compared to the 2006-2010 time period. Saudi Arabia is now the second largest importer of arms in the world.
How are these arms flowing to these countries?
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Ada (1961) starring Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Synopsis of Ada
In Ada, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks weds a governor and helps him stand up to the corrupt state officials who seek to control him and his leadership.
Review of Ada
I have to say, I was very pleasantly surprised by Ada. I tend to think of Dean Martin as either doing comedy, romance or a combination. Here, he's doing an entirely straight role. And, he does it extremely well. He plays the part of a young man, running for governor. He's not motivated and is easily pushed into it by a "kingmaker" politician. And his life changes with a chance meeting with a lovely young woman.
She's the Ada of the title, played incredibly well by Susan Hayward. A young woman, who sells her body to men. And Dean's character first likes her, then beds her. Then, he begins falling in love with her. And marries her toward the end of his campaign. Which the kingmaker doesn't like at all.
The kingmaker is Wilfred Hyde-White – doing an absolutely incredible job as the power behind the throne. A man who has set Dean up, so he can manipulate him like a puppet. An outwardly kind, genial, old man. He doesn't hesitate for a moment to smear the opponent's wife in the campaign. And when that leads to her suicide … he shows no remorse. And when Susan encourages Dean to become the Governor in deed as well as in name … A car bomb nearly ends his life. And Susan becomes acting governor.
Dean's character mistakenly thinks that Susan's behind it, and she'll be the yes-man for Hyde-White. He's wrong. She plans to run her own rebellion, just in a different way. And it leads to an excellent conclusion.
Editorial review of Ada courtesy of Amazon.com
Susan Hayward and Dean Martin throw a wrench into Wilfred Hyde-White's political machine in this Depression-era tale of corruption and power. Plucked out of obscurity by crooked party boss Sylvester Marin (Hyde-White), good ol' country boy Bo Gillis (Martin) is elected governor based solely on smear tactics. Married to Ada (Hayward), an ambitious call girl he met during the campaign, Bo soon discovers he's only a puppet with Marin pulling the stings.
So when Ada convinces her husband to stand up and fight back, it leads to car bombings and blackmail as Marin battles the Gillis' for control of the state. Based on Wirt Williams' Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel, Ada was partially inspired by Jimmie Davis, the singing governor of Louisiana, whose campaign song "You Are My Sunshine" is echoed by "May the Lord Bless You Real Good," a tune written especially for the film and performed by Martin.
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Thirty-Eight years ago I went on my first Fleet Street cricket tour to the West Country with The Badgers, a team I helped found.
Last weekend I made a sentimental return to find that little had changed in the three decades since my global ambitions declared me out CBC (career before cricket).
Sadly, nature has carried out her own Badger cull since my last appearance in the 1980s (two wickets, 19 not out, since you ask) but she has also made our cricket team a working model of life in microcosm.
Some great old stalwarts have gone over the years. Worryingly, I may have fired some of them to save money and evade company bankruptcy during my Mirror editorship in the horrid post-Maxwell years but thankfully successive ageing illnesses have wiped memories clean – mine as well as theirs – and we all exchange smiles and handshakes and the past is a foreign country once again.
Most of us originals are now old and infirm and have appointed sons as replacements. The batting lineup (Banks, Lamb, Cundy , Wood) and so on might have a familiar ring to it but these are now sons of the originals, mere cricketing clones come to wield the willow as their fathers did before them.
We oldies hide under Panamas and warm our weary bones inside thick sweaters while those still-active remnants of the old side scoff at the antics of nervous newcomers.
"Are we up with the run rate?" asks a hopeful young Badger in ill-fitting batting pads, black socks tucked into oversize white trousers (end-of-season bargain from Asda by the look of them) and then stuffed into grubby training shoes.
A shout of joy from the fielding side electrifies the novice into stuffing a grimy batter's box down his underpants. "Am I in?" he stammers.
"Not for vey long I shouldn't think," murmurs Graham the Great who over four decades has gathered about him the finest set of kit and the worst set of averages in the scorebook.
"Here, you'll need these," shouts another wag, tossing the trembling novice a pair of batter's gloves, both of them left-handers.
He stumbles to the wicket wondering why he is suddenly all fingers and no thumbs, destined to face the fastest bowler in the village with newly arthritic hands and lacking the helmet that might just save his life.
He crosses with the dismissed batsman, a retired News of the World executive who has shared an hour at the wicket in teeming rain with the tipster Templegate of The Sun, contributing six very slow singles to their partnership stand of 58.
The Aged One has done the job his skipper asked of him – a rearguard action until the remainder of the batting order have shown up from the pub having watched the big race, now gigglingly referred to as the St Badger.
"Very tough out there," moans the poor man's Boycott, determinedly ignoring the fact that his ex-partner, unshackled from the restraints imposed by the Aged One, is now peppering the boundary with mighty swipes.
There is a degree of good-natured sledging of the News of the Screws veteran.
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Posted on June 2, 2010 by Scott Johnson in Books, Muslim Brotherhood, National Security
The Grand Jihad: A word from the author
Andrew McCarthy is the former Assistant United States Attorney who prosecuted the Blind Sheikh and his friends for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. After he secured convictions, he recounted what he had learned along the way in Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad. When it comes to the subject of civilian trials for unlawful enemy combatants and of the Islamist war against the United States, McCarthy is like Walt Whitman: He is the man, he suffer'd, he was there. I find myself returning to this book regularly.
And McCarthy has stayed on the case. In The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, published last week, McCarthy follows up with a closely argued account of Islamist designs on, and inroads in, the United States.
In a sense, the book provides a counterpart to David Horowitz's The Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, whose argument McCarthy cites below. Whereas Horowitz's book focused on the Left, McCarthy focuses on the Islamists, elaborating on events that have occurred and lessons we have learned since Horowitz's book was published in 2004.
Among these events are a few in our own backyard, including the election of Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison in 2006, a man who embodies the alliance between Islam and the Left. McCarthy rightly calls Ellison "CAIR's congressman." McCarthy also discusses the case of the flying imams — a case he calls "the sabotage campaign in action"– arising from an incident at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after an imams' conference at which Ellison had spoken. McCarthy also devotes an entire chapter to "The Enclave of Minnesota."
I've been after Andy to provide us something on his new book for readers of Power Line from the time I heard he was writing the book. He has graciously responded with this hard-hitting account of his hard-hitting book:
As a faithful Power Line reader, I am as thrilled as I am grateful to be able to say a few words here about my new book, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America.
What is surprising, and dismaying, is that the book's message should come as news to anyone, as if there were real question about whether such a grand jihad exists. Though our opinion elites and their media allies remain desperate to suppress the story, the proof of an Islamist conspiracy to destroy the West is stark and undeniable, and the instances of Islamists being aided and abetted by Leftists are too numerous for serious people to deny the alliance – not merger but alliance – between the two.
As demonstrated at the Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing trials in Texas, internal Muslim Brotherhood memoranda are unabashed in describing Islamists as engaged in a "civilizational" war against the West. In America, the Brothers attest that theirs is a "grand jihad" to destroy the United States – mainly from within, mainly by "sabotage."
I use the term Islamist advisedly. In the book's second chapter, I've tried to take on the excruciating question of whether the existential challenge we face is Islam itself. On this, besides views I've developed over the last 17 years, I read widely and consulted learned people on both sides of this question, several of whom I'm fortunate to call friends. When I was finally done writing the chapter, and rereading it for the zillionth time, I thought maybe I should rewrite it, to make it shorter and just get to the bottom line. But I decided to leave it as is. If it seems throughout as though I am having an argument with myself, it is because I am, and the argument is anything but settled.
The problem is that those who say Islam is the problem have the better case. I was first struck by this sad fact during our terrorism trial in 1995, when I had to get ready to cross-examine the "Blind Sheikh," Omar Abdel Rahman. Though he ended up opting not to testify, I still had to prepare. Back then I thought that if what we were saying as a government were true – if these terrorists were lying about Islam and perverting its doctrine in order to justify mass-murder attacks – then surely I should be able to locate three or four places where the Blind Sheikh had misstated the Koran and the other species of Muslim scripture. I searched high and low, but there were none.
To be sure, Islamic scriptures say a lot of things, and some of them are admirable. Good faith contentions can surely be made that passages terrorists cite need to be considered in conjunction with other passages they omit. (That's a weak argument, by the way, but not a risible one.) But the point is that where the Blind Sheikh cited scripture, he did it quite accurately. Moreover, he is not, as we'd like to have it, a lunatic; he is a renowned doctor of Islamic jurisprudence graduated from al-Azhar University in Egypt – the seat of Sunni learning and one of the oldest and most respected academic institutions in the world. His construction of Islam, however frightening, was literal and cogent.
Islam is not a religion of peace and Islamic doctrine is not moderate. There is, for those willing to pierce political correctness and grapple with fact, an undeniable connection between Islamic doctrine's commands to violence and domination, on the one hand, and on the other hand, the often savage acts and the civilizational campaign carried out by Muslims against the West. For that reason, Islam is very problematic. There is, however, the other side of the coin: there are hundreds of millions of Muslims who, quite clearly, are moderate, tolerant people. These Muslims either reject terrorism (at least in the form of sneak attacks that kill civilians in the U.S.) or they don't see terrorism as having anything to do with them. Thus, people who don't want to grapple with Islamic doctrine point to these tolerant, moderate Muslim individuals and demand that we deduce that Islam, too, must be moderate and tolerant – regardless of what its scriptures say.
But this "Islam is as Muslims do" approach is no more a rationale for giving Islam a pass than it would be for condemning Islam based on the actions of the terrorists. More importantly, to convince the people who need convincing – namely, Muslims, not Western intellectuals – there must be a cogent, persuasive construction of Islamic doctrine that can compete effectively with the ideology that fuels the terrorist attacks and the broader plot to destroy the West from within. The latter ideology is an instinctive turn-off to Westerners because it is supremacist, totalitarian, and violent. Yet, it happens to be an ideology drawn faithfully and logically from scripture – which is why it is endorsed by so many influential clerics and shariah authorities who have spent their lives in Islamic study.
As I point out in The Grand Jihad, it is fair enough to conclude that peculiarities of al Qaeda ideology are favored by only a fringe of the world's Muslims. Here, I refer to the claim that it is legitimate to kill even other Muslims who reject the terror network's strict interpretation of Islam. Now, I find even that fringe distressing. After all, 10 percent of 1.4 billion Muslims is a lot of people.
Here, though, is the truly distressing part. In 2007, the University of Maryland joined with the pollster World Public Opinion to survey Muslim views in nations across the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia – i.e., both Arab and non-Arab Muslims. They found that about two-thirds (65.5 percent) endorsed the requirement of "a strict application of sharia law in every Islamic country." About the same number wanted to see all Muslim countries unified under a single caliphate, a position shared even by half of Muslims in Indonesia – where one of the most moderate brands of Islam in the world is practiced. These findings match up with other disturbing figures – like the 93 percent of young Palestinians (and 75 percent of all Palestinians) who deny Israel's right to exist, and the 40 percent of British Muslims who would like to see sharia become the law of England.
The point is that Islamist ideology – the modern version conceived by Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, refined by thinkers like Sayyid Qutb, and expounded by the likes of Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, probably the most influential Sunni cleric living today – is very mainstream. Sure, it is an aberrant position to endorse the killing of Muslims who fail to adhere to a strict interpretation of Islam; but if the proposition at issue becomes, say, "I support the killing of Americans operating in Muslim countries," or "I would like to see the U.S. Constitution replaced by sharia law," we find the percentage of approving Muslims shoots skyward. Indeed, while much was made of Qaradawi's condemnation of the 9/11 attacks (a condemnation that was more tactical position than a moral one), the same Qaradawi issued a fatwa in 2004 calling for attacks on American troops in Iraq – and in so doing drew strong support from scholars at al-Azhar University.
The thrust of my book is that we need to come to terms with this in order to defend ourselves. There is a vibrant debate in the Muslim world about terrorism. We need to understand, though, that it is a debate about methodology. Islamist terrorists and other Islamists are in harmony about the endgame: they would like to see sharia installed and the West Islamicized. That a person is not willing to mass-murder non-Muslims in order to accelerate that process does not make him a moderate.
In the chapter about what to call the threat, I ultimately conclude that it is best to describe it as "Islamism" or the "Islamist" challenge. I do this as a hopeful nod to the millions of Muslims who both reject violence and do not want to live in sharia societies. But I do it with my eyes open. It may well be that these Muslims will not succeed in reforming their creed, in stripping from it the elements that cannot coexist with such core tenets of Western liberalism as freedom of conscience, the proposition that people have a right to make law for themselves, the proposition that freedom really is freedom rather than perfect submission, the equality of men and women and of Muslims and non-Muslims. Still, I think we have to support the reformist cause. I do not believe we can entice natural allies to our side by telling them their religion is irredeemable. They are trying to redeem it, and it is in our interest to help them – while recognizing that they may very well fail.
Finally, since the book was published last week, I've been asked questions like: "So, are you saying that President Obama wants to implement sharia?" and " Isn't it true that if Islamists came to power, the Left would have a lot to fear?" Again, the alliance between Islamists and Leftists (not all progressives, but the modern hard Left) is an alliance, not a merger. Leftists and Islamists have worked together numerous times in history and, as we look around us today, we see them working together on Obamacare, global warming, the Palestinian cause, the campaign to close Gitmo, the campaign endow terrorists with constitutional rights, and so on. That they work together is not a hypothesis on my part; this partnership exists, period.
And why it exists is simply explained, it if we are willing to look at the facts.
While they differ on a number of significant issues, Islamists and Leftists are in harmony on many parts of the big picture. Islamism and today's Leftism (which, as I note in the book, David Horowitz aptly calls "neocommunism") are both authoritarian ideologies: they favor a muscular central government, virulently reject capitalism, and are totalitarian in the sense that they want to dictate all aspects human life. They both see the individual as existing to serve the greater community (the state or the umma). Saliently, they have a common enemy: Western culture, American constitutional republicanism, and their foundation, individual liberty.
When I argue that Islamists and Leftists are working together to sabotage America, this is what I am talking about. Historically, when Islamists and Leftists collaborate against a common enemy (e.g., the Shah in Iran, the monarchy in Egypt), these marriages of convenience break apart when the common enemy has been eliminated. We are a long way from that point in America – and, hopefully, we never reach it. We must expect, though, that Islamists and Leftists will continue their alliance as long as the Western way of life remains an obstacle to their respective utopias.
See also yesterday's New York Post column by McCarthy, "The 'peaceful' Jihad in America."
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An inspiring picture-book biography of Louis Braille—a blind boy so determined to read that he invented his own alphabet.
Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read.
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Garage kept, doesn't see rain, cared for and well-maintained by BMW enthusiast. No dents or scratches, clean title. Exterior and interior 9/10 for the age. Leather feels and smells like new. Bridgstone Potenza RE760 Sports all around with ample tread. Top in excellent condition. No subframe or vanos issues. Pulls hard but has driven to preserve.
- DINAN stage 2 with DINAN quad exhaust - deep sound, not loud.
If you've been searching for a low mile 6spd manual, this one will not disappoint. | {
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The matter under investigation is for abuse of office and a number of senior bank personnel are under investigation. Bank operations remain uninterrupted.
This investigation is being carried out in consultation with Bank of Uganda and Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. Further updates will be provided in due course. | {
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What a FANTABULOUS Idea! I hope you sell a TON! I think my fav is the puppy dog...I just love dogs! Way too cute! Great job!
Oh these came out CUTE! Love the tags, what a great idea, you are so creative!
Love those tags, what a fantastic idea! Very, very nice. Happy Monday!
I love your label book!! You've always got the most clever ideas, Candace! I'm sure these will sell like hotcakes!
What a great idea, Candace! I love that you made your label pages into a book - this should really be a top seller!
Wow, you're a perfect stamper! I love these, what a fabulous idea! That snowman is my favorite, I don't have that cartridge yet. I should have bought it last year. I hope your craft sale goes well! I would buy these!
What great ideas. I love the labels.
girl these are too cute !!! you think up some clever and practical ideas !!!
Talk about creative~ wow what a wonderful idea! | {
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Learn about why the Dustless Blaster is the best machine on the market.
Mike Sherwood is our expert on all things Dustless Blasting. Tune in to hear him and Jennifer talk about what makes Dustless Blasting the best machine on the market. | {
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Sometimes I love the SAHM life, with all my volunteer projects/aspirations, home business ideas, hobbies, mother-and-baby groups and, of course, Fifi-time. Then on other days, it all seems too much. Today it seems too much.
First and foremost, my priority is Fifi. She's great, she's the light of my life, but she's a lot of work. Right now she has a cold (the downside of no longer exclusively breastfeeding!), so she's not sleeping well at night, and she's miserable during the day. So, as much as I love my Fifi-time, sometimes it's just really hard. My second priority is my house. Soon Scott will be (crossing fingers) working his part-time job on top of his full-time job, and the house will rightfully be completely my duty. I think this is more than fair, but with my more than full-time Fifi-ing, housework is hard to keep up. I've been doing a lot better lately with staying home more, which I think has been really good for us both, but the housework continues to pile up (the perfect example being the laundry, which is literally piling up). But it's my job, and I'm happy to do it.
Of next but lesser importance, I'd personally consider my volunteering. Scott might think my home businesses should be of next importance, but I just can't help but see my work with breastfeeding support being a higher priority. I care so passionately about breastfeeding and believe so deeply in it, that I want to do every bit I can to see other mums succeed. We live in a crazy culture where breastfeeding is not the norm, and those of us who know how to do it have a responsibility to those who are just starting out, in my opinion. So my breastfeeding support group on Thursdays and La Leche League once a month are really important to me. Also very important to me is the work of Baby Milk Action, which I'd like to get more involved with. But the more 'lactivist' I get, the more weighed down I get with the hugeness of it all. And on days like today, I wonder if I'm taking on too much.
Then there is my business ventures. For now, that is limited to Lori Borealis and the clerical work I do for a company called Sportscovers. Sportscovers was really an answered prayer for us, as it gives us a bit of money each month for a really easy, if not unbelievably time-consuming and boring, job. And Lori Borealis is a great idea but is also time-consuming and requires a lot more dedication than just transcribing reports like I do for Sportscovers. I'm in the process of finishing my business plan to present to a panel with the Business Gateway for a couple of grants. Getting those grants will be so great, but the time I need to put in for it at times seems massive. It's totally worth the money, of course, but where do I find the extra time that seems so rare?
Now, there is also the other business thing that I've been so mysterious about. I can say now that I have been offered a franchise, conditionally, for TinyTalk, a baby signing company. This is what I interviewed for in London. It is offered conditionally in that they want to first see me get a bit more experience with signing with Fifi (or other babies) before I begin my own classes, which is fair enough. If and when this thing gets started, it will take precedence over my breastfeeding support projects, as it will be a serious investment and a serious job. I really, really look forward to it and am really enthusiastic about it. It's one job that doesn't seem too much on days like this. It rather feels like a breath of fresh air - imagine seeing all those chubby hands doing signs for the first time and all those ecstatic mums who have seen their work pay off! Ahh.
But then, with all these things competing for my time (and it always comes back to Fifi, as she is what this is all about, she is the reason I don't work outside the home), where do I find time for me? I have so many hobbies and interests: reading, sewing, painting, theology, not to mention those long-forgotten interests of writing poetry and running. The time to do these things is incredibly limited. I've been working on my second sock alien for over four weeks now! That's the kind of project that used to take a couple of hours, tops. And I still have so many Christmas presents I want to make. It doesn't seem to matter that I started sewing for Christmas in August. It's October, and I'm nowhere close to finished. Time is so precious these days. Especially days like today.
I know it will all work itself out in the end. I know that I will learn to prioritise correctly, and everything will fall into place. I've already let many things go in order to keep what is most important to me. Like I mentioned before, staying in more often has been a big help. Not spending money has been a great boost to my soul, too. Cleaning the kitchen yesterday and tidying the living room today and having dinner on the table at a reasonable hour make me feel like I'm doing my bit. Seeing Fifi make huge leaps and bounds, seeing her always smiling, hearing everyone's comments on what a good baby she is, reminds me that I'm doing my best as a mother. Days like today may make me feel tired and overstretched, but I know that being a wife and mother, and a child of God, are the big things in life, and those are the things that I feel good about. The other things are simply other things.
I feel pretty good about my life.
And on that note, Fifi is stirring, and I'm smelling what might be a rather 'fresh' nappy... some jobs just don't have a punch-out card, do they? I suppose they are the most rewarding ones, though. | {
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As a child I filled every scrap of paper with words. My office was a red wooden desk with matching chair and a cubby underneath to store precious stories.
Even as my legs became far too long and gangly to fit comfortably I insisted on keeping that desk. Eventually, my mother insisted I inherit my older brother's 'grown up desk' once he finished school.
My words still came. Great tumbling cascades of imagination.
Then I stopped. I worked, studied, travelled.
Over the years I bought notebooks and pens, only for them to lay empty, perhaps the first page filled with stuttering prose.
Deep in a bar one night a girl I worked with told me she had a blog. The next morning I typed the scrawled address and read.
Who knows what she wrote about but something in that experience encouraged me to write again. Slowly at first, but I pushed. Eventually the words reappeared.
Two years pass. I am a literacy teacher in London. A colleague pulls me into a meeting during lunch; wedges me into the corner of the booth so I cannot excuse myself.
My reward for being polite was a project I had no desire to be part of. We had been gifted a writer in residence, through English PEN, who would facilitate writing workshops over a six week period for the young people we worked with.
Week one, I was hooked.
In the past six years, I have witnessed how writing has given people a voice, allowing them to re-imagine the world. I have seen people develop the confidence to stand at the front of a room full of strangers as they share their words. Participants, who had the joy of writing squeezed from them by misguided teachers, discovered that correct grammar and spelling do not always make the best storytellers. People experienced the power in sharing words that might have just sat at the bottom of a draw.
To achieve this all they did was tell stories - funny, heartbreaking, angry, joyful, complicated stories.
How can you walk away from opening that door for people?
stuck on words considers sustainable and ethical practices across all areas of the business. This includes physical resources, banking and recycling or reusing. Australian made products and services are always considered first. | {
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"Where the love of Chirst and horses combine."
Located just a stone's throw from Henderson, KY, Trinity Stables offers the accessibility needed for everyday care, with the tranquility of a country setting.
Includes above, plus training of your horse (3 days per week).
Includes feed, water, pasture, and arena use. Owner is responsible for all hay costs.
For traveling horses. Includes stall(and cleaning), hay, water, private turn-out (when available), and arena use. Hotel accomodations can be made for their owners if required. Proof of Coggins (within 1 year) and vaccinations (between 4 weeks and 6 months) are required.
**All owners are responsible for their own vet and farrier bills plus any extra/special feeds and/or supplements.
5 charge each time for holding horse for vet. or farrier.
25 per month charge for blanketing horse.
***While every effort is made to make Trinity Stables as safe and secure as possible, Trinity, it's owners, employees, and associates are not liable for any accidents, injuries, or thefts to animals and personal property kept at the stables. Personal property must be kept in the assigned space and kept locked up.
***A Boarding Contract must be signed by all boarders.
***Payment for board will be due the 1st day of each month plus one month advance security. 30 days advanced written notice must be made in order to receive a refund in security. Refunds will not be made for a partial board month.
***Payments not received by the 9th of each month will be charged a 10% late fee. If board has still not been paid by the 30th day of the written bill, the horse will be put outside in a secured holding pen and legal action will be taken to settle the account. Boarder will be held responsible for all fees resulting from the legal action taken.
***Helmets are required at all times when mounted.
WORMING AS FOLLOWS: Jan.1 (safeguard), Feb. 15 (strongid), April 1 (equimectrin), June 15 (quest), Oct. 15 (equimectrin).
A NEGATIVE COGGINS AND PROOF OF VACCINATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED BEFORE UNLOADING AND BEFORE MARCH 1 EVERY YEAR AFTERWARD.
(guests and outside instructors are welcome to use our arenas and jumps, however, they must make an appointment for arena use, pay the facility fee, and sign a liability waiver).
50 per day rental of cross-country course. You must tie to trailers, and reserve at least a week in advance. No refunds for cancellations.
Birthday Parties - during warm months only (rain or shine). Includes facility use and pony/horse rides. Price starts at 50 for up to 10 children for 2 hours. 5 for each additional child.
Groups - 5 per child. Includes lecture about horses, anatomy, equipment, care, tour of facility, and hands-on grooming. Lasts 2-4 hours. Please bring a sack lunch. Call at least 2 weeks ahead to schedule.
We combine Bible Study with Riding Lessons. See link to "Forms" on the "contact page" to get an overview of our day's activities. You and/or your child will have a BLAST!
OVERNIGHT CAMPING (Primative). Tents are supplied, please bring your own sleeping bag and/or cot.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present you requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and you minds in Christ Jesus."
Zacchaeus (Zac for short) arrived to our farm via Santa's Sleigh in 2001 and has quickly pushed his way into every heart of those who visit.
Thanks for visiting, please come back soon! | {
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Q: Member function pointer of forward declared class The header common.h forward declares a class Test and a function receiving a member function pointer:
class Test;
void func(const Test &t, int (Test::*f)() const, int x, int y);
In the source file target.cpp, I define the function such that
#include "common.h"
void func(const Test &t, int (Test::*f)() const, int x, int y) {
std::cout << "f: " << (t.*f)() << ", x: " << x << ", y: " << y << std::endl;
}
In my main file, I define the class Test and use the function func:
class Test {
public:
int example() const { return 1; }
};
#include "common.h"
int main() {
Test t;
func(t, &Test::example, 0xaaaaaaaa, 0xbbbbbbbb);
return 0;
}
Obviously this is a bit smelly since pointers to member functions are sometimes more than a simple pointer. But the resulting behavior is a bit overwhelming: The given parameters 0xaaaaaaaa and 0xbbbbbbbb won't be passed correctly to the function. Or to be more precise, the function func interprets the given stack differently than the data is pushed on the stack by the caller. The size of f depends on whether the class is only forward declared or actually defined. The output compiled with Visual Studio 2013 is:
f: 1, x: 0, y: 2130567168
I thought, if a forward declaration is sufficient, it really doesn't matter whether there's a definition given or not.
A: By default, MSVC favours speed over correctness with pointers to member. You can force it to work according to the standard by passing the compiler flag /vmg.
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He held something behind his back as he came closer to her and crouched down. "Can you see it?" he whispered. "Can you see it?"
What?? I want to know what he's seeing!
Mmmmm...I wonder what it is?
I wonder what it is, too. Curious minds want to know!
I found this meme from Yvonne's blog... Love it!
I've read a few of Sharah's books. This cover has a different look. Got me curious. See what?
Thanks for adding my link. I'll be sure to pop over and add next week! Love your meme! | {
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#ifndef __USBD_H__
#define __USBD_H__
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
#endif
/** @addtogroup Standard_Driver Standard Driver
@{
*/
/** @addtogroup USBD_Driver USBD Driver
@{
*/
/** @addtogroup USBD_EXPORTED_STRUCTS USBD Exported Structs
@{
*/
typedef struct s_usbd_info
{
const uint8_t *gu8DevDesc; /*!< Pointer for USB Device Descriptor */
const uint8_t *gu8ConfigDesc; /*!< Pointer for USB Configuration Descriptor */
const uint8_t **gu8StringDesc; /*!< Pointer for USB String Descriptor pointers */
const uint8_t **gu8HidReportDesc; /*!< Pointer for USB HID Report Descriptor */
const uint32_t *gu32HidReportSize; /*!< Pointer for HID Report descriptor Size */
const uint32_t *gu32ConfigHidDescIdx; /*!< Pointer for HID Descriptor start index */
} S_USBD_INFO_T;
extern const S_USBD_INFO_T gsInfo;
/*@}*/ /* end of group USBD_EXPORTED_STRUCTS */
/** @addtogroup USBD_EXPORTED_CONSTANTS USBD Exported Constants
@{
*/
#define USBD_BUF_BASE (USBD_BASE+0x100)
#define USBD_MAX_EP 8
#define EP0 0 /*!< Endpoint 0 */
#define EP1 1 /*!< Endpoint 1 */
#define EP2 2 /*!< Endpoint 2 */
#define EP3 3 /*!< Endpoint 3 */
#define EP4 4 /*!< Endpoint 4 */
#define EP5 5 /*!< Endpoint 5 */
#define EP6 6 /*!< Endpoint 6 */
#define EP7 7 /*!< Endpoint 7 */
/*!<USB Request Type */
#define REQ_STANDARD 0x00
#define REQ_CLASS 0x20
#define REQ_VENDOR 0x40
/*!<USB Standard Request */
#define USBD_GET_STATUS 0x00
#define USBD_CLEAR_FEATURE 0x01
#define USBD_SET_FEATURE 0x03
#define USBD_SET_ADDRESS 0x05
#define USBD_GET_DESCRIPTOR 0x06
#define USBD_SET_DESCRIPTOR 0x07
#define USBD_GET_CONFIGURATION 0x08
#define USBD_SET_CONFIGURATION 0x09
#define USBD_GET_INTERFACE 0x0A
#define USBD_SET_INTERFACE 0x0B
#define USBD_SYNC_FRAME 0x0C
/*!<USB Descriptor Type */
#define DESC_DEVICE 0x01
#define DESC_CONFIG 0x02
#define DESC_STRING 0x03
#define DESC_INTERFACE 0x04
#define DESC_ENDPOINT 0x05
#define DESC_QUALIFIER 0x06
#define DESC_OTHERSPEED 0x07
/*!<USB HID Descriptor Type */
#define DESC_HID 0x21
#define DESC_HID_RPT 0x22
/*!<USB Descriptor Length */
#define LEN_DEVICE 18
#define LEN_CONFIG 9
#define LEN_INTERFACE 9
#define LEN_ENDPOINT 7
#define LEN_HID 9
#define LEN_CCID 0x36
/*!<USB Endpoint Type */
#define EP_ISO 0x01
#define EP_BULK 0x02
#define EP_INT 0x03
#define EP_INPUT 0x80
#define EP_OUTPUT 0x00
/*!<USB Feature Selector */
#define FEATURE_DEVICE_REMOTE_WAKEUP 0x01
#define FEATURE_ENDPOINT_HALT 0x00
/******************************************************************************/
/* USB Specific Macros */
/******************************************************************************/
#define USBD_WAKEUP_EN USBD_INTEN_WKEN_Msk /*!< USB Wake-up Enable */
#define USBD_DRVSE0 USBD_SE0_SE0_Msk /*!< Drive SE0 */
#define USBD_DPPU_EN USBD_ATTR_DPPUEN_Msk /*!< USB D+ Pull-up Enable */
#define USBD_PWRDN USBD_ATTR_PWRDN_Msk /*!< PHY Turn-On */
#define USBD_PHY_EN USBD_ATTR_PHYEN_Msk /*!< PHY Enable */
#define USBD_USB_EN USBD_ATTR_USBEN_Msk /*!< USB Enable */
#define USBD_INT_BUS USBD_INTEN_BUSIEN_Msk /*!< USB Bus Event Interrupt */
#define USBD_INT_USB USBD_INTEN_USBIEN_Msk /*!< USB Event Interrupt */
#define USBD_INT_FLDET USBD_INTEN_VBDETIEN_Msk /*!< USB VBUS Detection Interrupt */
#define USBD_INT_WAKEUP (USBD_INTEN_NEVWKIEN_Msk | USBD_INTEN_WKEN_Msk) /*!< USB No-Event-Wake-Up Interrupt */
#define USBD_INTSTS_WAKEUP USBD_INTSTS_NEVWKIF_Msk /*!< USB No-Event-Wake-Up Interrupt Status */
#define USBD_INTSTS_FLDET USBD_INTSTS_VBDETIF_Msk /*!< USB Float Detect Interrupt Status */
#define USBD_INTSTS_BUS USBD_INTSTS_BUSIF_Msk /*!< USB Bus Event Interrupt Status */
#define USBD_INTSTS_USB USBD_INTSTS_USBIF_Msk /*!< USB Event Interrupt Status */
#define USBD_INTSTS_SETUP USBD_INTSTS_SETUP_Msk /*!< USB Setup Event */
#define USBD_INTSTS_EP0 USBD_INTSTS_EPEVT0_Msk /*!< USB Endpoint 0 Event */
#define USBD_INTSTS_EP1 USBD_INTSTS_EPEVT1_Msk /*!< USB Endpoint 1 Event */
#define USBD_INTSTS_EP2 USBD_INTSTS_EPEVT2_Msk /*!< USB Endpoint 2 Event */
#define USBD_INTSTS_EP3 USBD_INTSTS_EPEVT3_Msk /*!< USB Endpoint 3 Event */
#define USBD_INTSTS_EP4 USBD_INTSTS_EPEVT4_Msk /*!< USB Endpoint 4 Event */
#define USBD_INTSTS_EP5 USBD_INTSTS_EPEVT5_Msk /*!< USB Endpoint 5 Event */
#define USBD_INTSTS_EP6 USBD_INTSTS_EPEVT6_Msk /*!< USB Endpoint 6 Event */
#define USBD_INTSTS_EP7 USBD_INTSTS_EPEVT7_Msk /*!< USB Endpoint 7 Event */
#define USBD_STATE_USBRST USBD_ATTR_USBRST_Msk /*!< USB Bus Reset */
#define USBD_STATE_SUSPEND USBD_ATTR_SUSPEND_Msk /*!< USB Bus Suspend */
#define USBD_STATE_RESUME USBD_ATTR_RESUME_Msk /*!< USB Bus Resume */
#define USBD_STATE_TIMEOUT USBD_ATTR_TOUT_Msk /*!< USB Bus Timeout */
#define USBD_CFGP_SSTALL USBD_CFGP_SSTALL_Msk /*!< Set Stall */
#define USBD_CFG_CSTALL USBD_CFG_CSTALL_Msk /*!< Clear Stall */
#define USBD_CFG_EPMODE_DISABLE (0ul << USBD_CFG_STATE_Pos)/*!< Endpoint Disable */
#define USBD_CFG_EPMODE_OUT (1ul << USBD_CFG_STATE_Pos)/*!< Out Endpoint */
#define USBD_CFG_EPMODE_IN (2ul << USBD_CFG_STATE_Pos)/*!< In Endpoint */
#define USBD_CFG_TYPE_ISO (1ul << USBD_CFG_ISOCH_Pos) /*!< Isochronous */
/*@}*/ /* end of group USBD_EXPORTED_CONSTANTS */
/** @addtogroup USBD_EXPORTED_FUNCTIONS USBD Exported Functions
@{
*/
/**
* @brief Compare two input numbers and return maximum one.
*
* @param[in] a First number to be compared.
* @param[in] b Second number to be compared.
*
* @return Maximum value between a and b.
*
* @details If a > b, then return a. Otherwise, return b.
*/
#define Maximum(a,b) ((a)>(b) ? (a) : (b))
/**
* @brief Compare two input numbers and return minimum one
*
* @param[in] a First number to be compared
* @param[in] b Second number to be compared
*
* @return Minimum value between a and b
*
* @details If a < b, then return a. Otherwise, return b.
*/
#define Minimum(a,b) ((a)<(b) ? (a) : (b))
/**
* @brief Enable USB
*
* @param None
*
* @return None
*
* @details To set USB ATTR control register to enable USB and PHY.
*
*/
#define USBD_ENABLE_USB() ((uint32_t)(USBD->ATTR |= (USBD_USB_EN|USBD_PHY_EN)))
/**
* @brief Disable USB
*
* @param None
*
* @return None
*
* @details To set USB ATTR control register to disable USB.
*
*/
#define USBD_DISABLE_USB() ((uint32_t)(USBD->ATTR &= ~USBD_USB_EN))
/**
* @brief Enable USB PHY
*
* @param None
*
* @return None
*
* @details To set USB ATTR control register to enable USB PHY.
*
*/
#define USBD_ENABLE_PHY() ((uint32_t)(USBD->ATTR |= USBD_PHY_EN))
/**
* @brief Disable USB PHY
*
* @param None
*
* @return None
*
* @details To set USB ATTR control register to disable USB PHY.
*
*/
#define USBD_DISABLE_PHY() ((uint32_t)(USBD->ATTR &= ~USBD_PHY_EN))
/**
* @brief Enable SE0. Force USB PHY transceiver to drive SE0.
*
* @param None
*
* @return None
*
* @details Set DRVSE0 bit of USB_DRVSE0 register to enable software-disconnect function. Force USB PHY transceiver to drive SE0 to bus.
*
*/
#define USBD_SET_SE0() ((uint32_t)(USBD->SE0 |= USBD_DRVSE0))
/**
* @brief Disable SE0
*
* @param None
*
* @return None
*
* @details Clear DRVSE0 bit of USB_DRVSE0 register to disable software-disconnect function.
*
*/
#define USBD_CLR_SE0() ((uint32_t)(USBD->SE0 &= ~USBD_DRVSE0))
/**
* @brief Set USB device address
*
* @param[in] addr The USB device address.
*
* @return None
*
* @details Write USB device address to USB_FADDR register.
*
*/
#define USBD_SET_ADDR(addr) (USBD->FADDR = (addr))
/**
* @brief Get USB device address
*
* @param None
*
* @return USB device address
*
* @details Read USB_FADDR register to get USB device address.
*
*/
#define USBD_GET_ADDR() ((uint32_t)(USBD->FADDR))
/**
* @brief Enable USB interrupt function
*
* @param[in] intr The combination of the specified interrupt enable bits.
* Each bit corresponds to a interrupt enable bit.
* This parameter decides which interrupts will be enabled.
* (USBD_INT_WAKEUP, USBD_INT_FLDET, USBD_INT_USB, USBD_INT_BUS)
*
* @return None
*
* @details Enable USB related interrupt functions specified by intr parameter.
*
*/
#define USBD_ENABLE_INT(intr) (USBD->INTEN |= (intr))
/**
* @brief Get interrupt status
*
* @param None
*
* @return The value of USB_INTSTS register
*
* @details Return all interrupt flags of USB_INTSTS register.
*
*/
#define USBD_GET_INT_FLAG() ((uint32_t)(USBD->INTSTS))
/**
* @brief Clear USB interrupt flag
*
* @param[in] flag The combination of the specified interrupt flags.
* Each bit corresponds to a interrupt source.
* This parameter decides which interrupt flags will be cleared.
* (USBD_INTSTS_WAKEUP, USBD_INTSTS_FLDET, USBD_INTSTS_BUS, USBD_INTSTS_USB)
*
* @return None
*
* @details Clear USB related interrupt flags specified by flag parameter.
*
*/
#define USBD_CLR_INT_FLAG(flag) (USBD->INTSTS = (flag))
/**
* @brief Get endpoint status
*
* @param None
*
* @return The value of USB_EPSTS register.
*
* @details Return all endpoint status.
*
*/
#define USBD_GET_EP_FLAG() ((uint32_t)(USBD->EPSTS))
/**
* @brief Get USB bus state
*
* @param None
*
* @return The value of USB_ATTR[3:0].
* Bit 0 indicates USB bus reset status.
* Bit 1 indicates USB bus suspend status.
* Bit 2 indicates USB bus resume status.
* Bit 3 indicates USB bus time-out status.
*
* @details Return USB_ATTR[3:0] for USB bus events.
*
*/
#define USBD_GET_BUS_STATE() ((uint32_t)(USBD->ATTR & 0xf))
/**
* @brief Check cable connection state
*
* @param None
*
* @retval 0 USB cable is not attached.
* @retval 1 USB cable is attached.
*
* @details Check the connection state by FLDET bit of USB_FLDET register.
*
*/
#define USBD_IS_ATTACHED() ((uint32_t)(USBD->VBUSDET & USBD_VBUSDET_VBUSDET_Msk))
/**
* @brief Stop USB transaction of the specified endpoint ID
*
* @param[in] ep The USB endpoint ID. M451 Series supports 8 hardware endpoint ID. This parameter could be 0 ~ 7.
*
* @return None
*
* @details Write 1 to CLRRDY bit of USB_CFGPx register to stop USB transaction of the specified endpoint ID.
*
*/
#define USBD_STOP_TRANSACTION(ep) (*((__IO uint32_t *) ((uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].CFGP + (uint32_t)((ep) << 4))) |= USBD_CFGP_CLRRDY_Msk)
/**
* @brief Set USB DATA1 PID for the specified endpoint ID
*
* @param[in] ep The USB endpoint ID. M451 Series supports 8 hardware endpoint ID. This parameter could be 0 ~ 7.
*
* @return None
*
* @details Set DSQ_SYNC bit of USB_CFGx register to specify the DATA1 PID for the following IN token transaction.
* Base on this setting, hardware will toggle PID between DATA0 and DATA1 automatically for IN token transactions.
*
*/
#define USBD_SET_DATA1(ep) (*((__IO uint32_t *) ((uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].CFG + (uint32_t)((ep) << 4))) |= USBD_CFG_DSQSYNC_Msk)
/**
* @brief Set USB DATA0 PID for the specified endpoint ID
*
* @param[in] ep The USB endpoint ID. M451 Series supports 8 hardware endpoint ID. This parameter could be 0 ~ 7.
*
* @return None
*
* @details Clear DSQ_SYNC bit of USB_CFGx register to specify the DATA0 PID for the following IN token transaction.
* Base on this setting, hardware will toggle PID between DATA0 and DATA1 automatically for IN token transactions.
*
*/
#define USBD_SET_DATA0(ep) (*((__IO uint32_t *) ((uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].CFG + (uint32_t)((ep) << 4))) &= (~USBD_CFG_DSQSYNC_Msk))
/**
* @brief Set USB payload size (IN data)
*
* @param[in] ep The USB endpoint ID. M451 Series supports 8 hardware endpoint ID. This parameter could be 0 ~ 7.
*
* @param[in] size The transfer length.
*
* @return None
*
* @details This macro will write the transfer length to USB_MXPLDx register for IN data transaction.
*
*/
#define USBD_SET_PAYLOAD_LEN(ep, size) (*((__IO uint32_t *) ((uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].MXPLD + (uint32_t)((ep) << 4))) = (size))
/**
* @brief Get USB payload size (OUT data)
*
* @param[in] ep The USB endpoint ID. M451 Series supports 8 endpoint ID. This parameter could be 0 ~ 7.
*
* @return The value of USB_MXPLDx register.
*
* @details Get the data length of OUT data transaction by reading USB_MXPLDx register.
*
*/
#define USBD_GET_PAYLOAD_LEN(ep) ((uint32_t)*((__IO uint32_t *) ((uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].MXPLD + (uint32_t)((ep) << 4))))
/**
* @brief Configure endpoint
*
* @param[in] ep The USB endpoint ID. M451 Series supports 8 hardware endpoint ID. This parameter could be 0 ~ 7.
*
* @param[in] config The USB configuration.
*
* @return None
*
* @details This macro will write config parameter to USB_CFGx register of specified endpoint ID.
*
*/
#define USBD_CONFIG_EP(ep, config) (*((__IO uint32_t *) ((uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].CFG + (uint32_t)((ep) << 4))) = (config))
/**
* @brief Set USB endpoint buffer
*
* @param[in] ep The USB endpoint ID. M451 Series supports 8 hardware endpoint ID. This parameter could be 0 ~ 7.
*
* @param[in] offset The SRAM offset.
*
* @return None
*
* @details This macro will set the SRAM offset for the specified endpoint ID.
*
*/
#define USBD_SET_EP_BUF_ADDR(ep, offset) (*((__IO uint32_t *) ((uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].BUFSEG + (uint32_t)((ep) << 4))) = (offset))
/**
* @brief Get the offset of the specified USB endpoint buffer
*
* @param[in] ep The USB endpoint ID. M451 Series supports 8 hardware endpoint ID. This parameter could be 0 ~ 7.
*
* @return The offset of the specified endpoint buffer.
*
* @details This macro will return the SRAM offset of the specified endpoint ID.
*
*/
#define USBD_GET_EP_BUF_ADDR(ep) ((uint32_t)*((__IO uint32_t *) ((uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].BUFSEG + (uint32_t)((ep) << 4))))
/**
* @brief Set USB endpoint stall state
*
* @param[in] ep The USB endpoint ID. M451 Series supports 8 hardware endpoint ID. This parameter could be 0 ~ 7.
*
* @return None
*
* @details Set USB endpoint stall state for the specified endpoint ID. Endpoint will respond STALL token automatically.
*
*/
#define USBD_SET_EP_STALL(ep) (*((__IO uint32_t *) ((uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].CFGP + (uint32_t)((ep) << 4))) |= USBD_CFGP_SSTALL_Msk)
/**
* @brief Clear USB endpoint stall state
*
* @param[in] ep The USB endpoint ID. M451 Series supports 8 hardware endpoint ID. This parameter could be 0 ~ 7.
*
* @return None
*
* @details Clear USB endpoint stall state for the specified endpoint ID. Endpoint will respond ACK/NAK token.
*/
#define USBD_CLR_EP_STALL(ep) (*((__IO uint32_t *) ((uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].CFGP + (uint32_t)((ep) << 4))) &= ~USBD_CFGP_SSTALL_Msk)
/**
* @brief Get USB endpoint stall state
*
* @param[in] ep The USB endpoint ID. M451 Series supports 8 hardware endpoint ID. This parameter could be 0 ~ 7.
*
* @retval 0 USB endpoint is not stalled.
* @retval Others USB endpoint is stalled.
*
* @details Get USB endpoint stall state of the specified endpoint ID.
*
*/
#define USBD_GET_EP_STALL(ep) (*((__IO uint32_t *) ((uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].CFGP + (uint32_t)((ep) << 4))) & USBD_CFGP_SSTALL_Msk)
/**
* @brief To support byte access between USB SRAM and system SRAM
*
* @param[in] dest Destination pointer.
*
* @param[in] src Source pointer.
*
* @param[in] size Byte count.
*
* @return None
*
* @details This function will copy the number of data specified by size and src parameters to the address specified by dest parameter.
*
*/
static __INLINE void USBD_MemCopy(uint8_t *dest, uint8_t *src, int32_t size)
{
while(size--) *dest++ = *src++;
}
/**
* @brief Set USB endpoint stall state
*
* @param[in] epnum USB endpoint number
*
* @return None
*
* @details Set USB endpoint stall state. Endpoint will respond STALL token automatically.
*
*/
static __INLINE void USBD_SetStall(uint8_t epnum)
{
uint32_t u32CfgAddr;
uint32_t u32Cfg;
int i;
for(i = 0; i < USBD_MAX_EP; i++)
{
u32CfgAddr = (uint32_t)(i << 4) + (uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].CFG; /* USBD_CFG0 */
u32Cfg = *((__IO uint32_t *)(u32CfgAddr));
if((u32Cfg & 0xf) == epnum)
{
u32CfgAddr = (uint32_t)(i << 4) + (uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].CFGP; /* USBD_CFGP0 */
u32Cfg = *((__IO uint32_t *)(u32CfgAddr));
*((__IO uint32_t *)(u32CfgAddr)) = (u32Cfg | USBD_CFGP_SSTALL);
break;
}
}
}
/**
* @brief Clear USB endpoint stall state
*
* @param[in] epnum USB endpoint number
*
* @return None
*
* @details Clear USB endpoint stall state. Endpoint will respond ACK/NAK token.
*/
static __INLINE void USBD_ClearStall(uint8_t epnum)
{
uint32_t u32CfgAddr;
uint32_t u32Cfg;
int i;
for(i = 0; i < USBD_MAX_EP; i++)
{
u32CfgAddr = (uint32_t)(i << 4) + (uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].CFG; /* USBD_CFG0 */
u32Cfg = *((__IO uint32_t *)(u32CfgAddr));
if((u32Cfg & 0xf) == epnum)
{
u32CfgAddr = (uint32_t)(i << 4) + (uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].CFGP; /* USBD_CFGP0 */
u32Cfg = *((__IO uint32_t *)(u32CfgAddr));
*((__IO uint32_t *)(u32CfgAddr)) = (u32Cfg & ~USBD_CFGP_SSTALL);
break;
}
}
}
/**
* @brief Get USB endpoint stall state
*
* @param[in] epnum USB endpoint number
*
* @retval 0 USB endpoint is not stalled.
* @retval Others USB endpoint is stalled.
*
* @details Get USB endpoint stall state.
*
*/
static __INLINE uint32_t USBD_GetStall(uint8_t epnum)
{
uint32_t u32CfgAddr;
uint32_t u32Cfg;
int i;
for(i = 0; i < USBD_MAX_EP; i++)
{
u32CfgAddr = (uint32_t)(i << 4) + (uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].CFG; /* USBD_CFG0 */
u32Cfg = *((__IO uint32_t *)(u32CfgAddr));
if((u32Cfg & 0xf) == epnum)
{
u32CfgAddr = (uint32_t)(i << 4) + (uint32_t)&USBD->EP[0].CFGP; /* USBD_CFGP0 */
break;
}
}
return ((*((__IO uint32_t *)(u32CfgAddr))) & USBD_CFGP_SSTALL);
}
extern volatile uint8_t g_usbd_RemoteWakeupEn;
typedef void (*VENDOR_REQ)(void); /*!< Functional pointer type definition for Vendor class */
typedef void (*CLASS_REQ)(void); /*!< Functional pointer type declaration for USB class request callback handler */
typedef void (*SET_INTERFACE_REQ)(void); /*!< Functional pointer type declaration for USB set interface request callback handler */
typedef void (*SET_CONFIG_CB)(void); /*!< Functional pointer type declaration for USB set configuration request callback handler */
/*--------------------------------------------------------------------*/
void USBD_Open(const S_USBD_INFO_T *param, CLASS_REQ pfnClassReq, SET_INTERFACE_REQ pfnSetInterface);
void USBD_Start(void);
void USBD_GetSetupPacket(uint8_t *buf);
void USBD_ProcessSetupPacket(void);
void USBD_StandardRequest(void);
void USBD_PrepareCtrlIn(uint8_t *pu8Buf, uint32_t u32Size);
void USBD_CtrlIn(void);
void USBD_PrepareCtrlOut(uint8_t *pu8Buf, uint32_t u32Size);
void USBD_CtrlOut(void);
void USBD_SwReset(void);
void USBD_SetVendorRequest(VENDOR_REQ pfnVendorReq);
void USBD_SetConfigCallback(SET_CONFIG_CB pfnSetConfigCallback);
void USBD_LockEpStall(uint32_t u32EpBitmap);
/*@}*/ /* end of group USBD_EXPORTED_FUNCTIONS */
/*@}*/ /* end of group USBD_Driver */
/*@}*/ /* end of group Standard_Driver */
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif //__USBD_H__
/*** (C) COPYRIGHT 2014~2015 Nuvoton Technology Corp. ***/
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An open-source tool for software security | MIT News
The unfortunate reality of the software security industry is that it's much easier to attack a system than it is to safeguard it. Hackers only need to find one vulnerability to have success, while software developers need to protect their code against all possible attacks.
The asymmetry means that when a solo programmer unwittingly makes a popular app, it quickly becomes a vulnerable fish in an ocean of threats. Larger companies have software security teams, but they've developed a reputation among developers for slowing down deployments as they painstakingly review lines of code to safeguard against attacks.
Now the startup r2c is seeking to make securing software a more seamless experience with an open-source tool for proofreading code. In the same way that Grammarly finds grammatical errors or opportunities for improvement in essays and emails, r2c's tool, called Semgrep, parses lines of code to check for thousands of potential bugs and vulnerabilities.
At the heart of Semgrep is a database of more than 1,500 prewritten rules that security professionals can incorporate into their code scans. If they don't see one they want, they can write their own rules using r2c's intuitive interface and add it to the database for others.
"If you know how to program in a language, you can now write rules and extend Semgrep, and that's where you basically democratize this field that has only been accessible to people with highly specialized skills," says r2c Head of Product Luke O'Malley '14, who co-founded the company with Isaac Evans '13, SM '15 and Drew Dennison '13. "Now that anyone can write a rule, you can tap into people's specialized knowledge of their fields. That's the big breakthrough. Semgrep is an open-source project that's by developers, for developers."
In addition to simplifying the process of implementing code standards, r2c has fostered a community of security professionals who can share ideas and brainstorm solutions to the latest threats. That support ecosystem has proven crucial in a rapidly evolving industry in which security professionals may wake up on any given morning and read about new vulnerabilities exposed by hacks to some of the biggest tech companies on the planet.
"It can be frustrating to see that computers are so insecure even though they're 40 or 50 years old," Dennison says. "I like to remind myself of automobiles. Sixty years into the automotive world we still didn't have seat belts or airbags. It was really when we started measuring safety and having standards that the industry improved. Now your car has all kinds of fancy safety features. We'd love to do the same thing for software."
Learning to hack
As undergraduates at MIT, Evans, O'Malley and Dennison lived next to each other in Simmons Hall. The three electrical engineering and computer science students soon began hacking together in various campus programs and side projects. Over the Independent Activities Period of 2011, they landed a contract to help military personnel in the Army use apps on Android phones more securely.
"That really cemented our roles because Drew played CTO of the project, Isaac was CEO, and I was doing product work, and those are the roles we fell into with r2c," O'Malley says. "It wasn't officially a company, but we gave ourselves a name and treated it like we were a startup."
All three founders also took part in the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program.
"GEL really helped me think about how a team works together, and how you communicate and listen," Dennison says. "It also gave me people to look up to. Joel Schindall [MIT's Bernard M. Gordon Professor in Product Engineering] was a great mentor. I asked him if we should turn the Army thing into a startup, and his advice was sound. He said, 'Go make mistakes on someone else's dime for a few years. There's plenty of time.'"
Heeding that advice, the founders went their separate ways after graduation, joining different companies but always keeping their successful collaborations in the back of their minds.
In 2016, the founders began exploring opportunities in the software security space. At MIT, Evans had written his master's thesis on advanced software security techniques, but the founders wanted to build something that could be used by people without that deep technical knowledge.
The founders explored several different projects relating to scanning code before an internal hackathon in 2019, when a colleague showed them an old open-source project he'd worked on while at Facebook to help analyze code. They decided to spend the hackathon reviving the project.
The founders set out to add breadth to the tool by making it compatible with more languages, and depth by enabling it to understand code at higher levels. Their goal was to make Semgrep fit seamlessly into existing security workflows.
Before new code is deployed by a company, it typically gets reviewed by the security team (although the founders say security experts are outnumbered 100 to one by developers at many companies). With Semgrep, the security team can implement rules or checks that run automatically on the code to flag potential issues. Semgrep can integrate with Slack and other common programs to deliver the results. It works with over 25 coding languages today relating to mobile, back end, front end, and web development coding.
On top of the rules database, r2c offers services to help companies get the most out of the bug-finding engine by ensuring every codebase is scanned for the right things without causing unnecessary delays.
"Semgrep is changing the way that software can be written, so suddenly you can go fast and be secure, and that just hasn't been possible for most teams before," O'Malley says.
A network effect
When a major vulnerability to a widely used software framework known as Log4Shell was exposed recently, r2c's community Slack channel came alive.
"Everyone was saying, 'Okay, here's a new threat, what are we doing to detect it?'" O'Malley recalls. "They quickly said, 'Here's variant A, B, C for everyone.' That's the power of democratizing rule writing."
The founders are constantly surprised by where Semgrep is being used. Large customers include companies like Slack, Dropbox, and Snowflake. The ministry of interior for a large state government recently messaged them about an important project they were using Semgrep on.
As Semgrep's popularity continues to grow, the founders believe they will be able to build out their analytics to give developers insights into the security of their codebases instantaneously.
"The broader security industry doesn't have a ton of metrics about how well we are doing," Dennison says. "It's hard to answer questions like are we improving? Is our software getting better? Are we making progress against the attackers? So how do we get to a point where we can give you a code quality score? Then suddenly you're making software security simple."
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Special single gear design with chain tensioner.
Revised tooth profile to prevent chain skip.
Shimano Alfine Single Sprocket with Chain Guide is rated 4.5 out of 5 by 13.
Rated 5 out of 5 by CPF31 from Typical Shimano quality product Very late in buying this replacement Alfine sprocket but it was well worth it. Simple design and simple to fit with well machined teeth. Resulted in an ultra smooth chainset paired up with the 8sp Alfine.
Rated 4 out of 5 by hoymp from Not the perfect fit for Alfine Di2 Oddly this product is singled out in the alfine di2 information as a preferred sprocket. However the plastic chainguard fouls the motor unit. After a short search on the inter-web i found other people had suffered the same issue. So a little fettling and the removal of the guard later, all is good. I have also seen a number of discussions about the chain to be used, but the shimano user guide specifies the use of a 9 speed chain.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Hangie from It's a cog, it goes round Does what you would expect of a cog. Plastic chain guard is robust enough and does not add too much extra weight.
Rated 5 out of 5 by TheWoodbike from Fantastic detailing For the Alfine, there is no better sprocket, also is hard to fin any other, but the construction, the chain guide, and specially the installation is quite good, taking in to consideration that the alpine is a quite complex piece of engineering, the parts that the user has to set up are pretty straight forward on mounting and maintenance.
will this work with a 9 speed chain?
No this is only suited to 1/8" single speed chains.
Is this compatible with Nexus?
No you can't use the Alfine and Nexus parts together.
Will this fit the 11 speed Alfine hub?
Yes, all Alfine and Nexus Sprockets will happily fit either the 8- or 11-speed Alfine (just ensure they are dished and have the 3-lug fitting - smallest size possible is 16-tooth). Just check any of the current blogs for confirmation. I would advise watching the relevant U-tube videos on Alfine sprocket replacement.
What chain goes with this?
What chain would be recommended for this?
Any single speed chain will work with this item.
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Give your darling daughter's wardrobe a refreshing update with the help of this white sweater from U.S. Polo Assn. Kids. Made from cotton, this sweater will feel lightweight as well as allow breathability. This sweater can be teamed with a black top, a pair of blue jeans and white sneakers to complete her cool look. | {
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Q: Having problems logging into instagram using request module Python import requests as s
url='https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/'
data={'username':'****', 'password':'******'}
p=s.post(url, data=data, allow_redirects=True)
to_check= p.text
if('Sorry, your password was incorrect. Please double-check your password.' in >
print('Password incorrect.')
elif("The username you entered doesn't belong to an account. Please check your >
print('Username incorrect.')
else:
print('Unknown error.')
Output(For even the right usernames):
Username incorrect.
I am heavily confused can anyone help?
A: I would use the python-instagram module to log into instagram instead.
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For the Marvell 88SX50xx chips, there is a product brief document. Other than that, no progress at all to report. Actually in the Kernel 2. Power down your system, pop the card into the slot, boot up and add the driver. Currently, eSATA drives are relatively uncommon, though drives and enclosures are starting to trickle onto the bigger web commerce sites. Unknown device 81d6 Flags: Building your own can be quite easy if using a single drive enclosure, such as the Coolgear silver case shown here.
Installing the PCI-X card can be a bit of a chore, but the drive itself is a snap to configure and set up. Adding one of these cards is about as easy as adding any expansion card. Marvell 88SX[56 ] 0[48 ] aata libata progress? Use the boot option 'ahci.
Marvell just provided the documentation to me, but I've made no progress yet. Actually in the Kernel 2. For the Marvell 88SX50xx chips, there is a product brief document.
Click here to read more storage articles on ExtremeTech.
Unknown device 81d6 Flags: You can browse this file here by Web Git: A Gossamer Threads company. Log in Don't have an account? Currently in the Kernel 2. Anyone else got advice? This workaround work only with chipset that have AHCI support. He said there is a experimental patch for it, but the one he had was an old version. We just got docs for it. Mailing List Archive GT. The floppy drive port connector and 4-pin 12v EZ-Pug are conveniently located on the edge of the board along with the 24 pin ATX power connector.
Asus did not include the new cable designs in their accessory kit, which greatly enhance the security of the SATA connections. If you want to build a multi-drive array, you can find enclosures with up to four slots available, but building one is a little more complex. Give that a try, and let us know if it works or explodes: The layout of this design offers a very good balance of slots and allows for numerous add-in peripheral cards. Unknown device rev 01 prog-if 81 Subsystem: The DIMM module slots' color coordination is correct for dual channel setup.
Marvell 88SE kernel support? Overclocking Index Basic Features: The code source version is v1. We did not have any issues utilizing either slot with video cards containing single slot cooling systems. Asus places the eight-pin 12v auxiliary power connector at the top of the CPU socket area but out of the way of most aftermarket cooling solutions. LEDs on the front 88see6141 show when a drive goes into failure mode.
Website, accessed October 19, Buy a complete drive, or build one into any of a variety of enclosures available.
The only page for their Ethernet chipsets is: Just a question with the legacy driver would 88s6e141 performance take a hit? Yukon Gigabit Ethernet Controllers. | {
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Page 8, 28th August 1970
Page 8, 28th August 1970 — St. Stephen remembered
Religion / Belief
Organisations: Council of Christians and Jet, Religious Affairs Bureau for Information
People: Jozsef Gadany, Ma, St. Stephen, Adelaide, William IV, Yana Malachy
Stephen's Revival Marks New Beginning In Hungarian Church
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Hungary Requests Return Of Crown
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St. Stephen remembered
Keywords: Hungarian Language, Hungary, Thursday, Ministry Of Religious Affairs, Religion / Belief
AT least one Hungarian expatriate was determined that his country's national occasion, the 1000th anniversary of the birth of its founder King, St. Stephen, would not go unmarked last Thursday. Jozsef Gadany, a jewellery restorer, put on a one-man exhibition of rare Hungarian jewel-work at his premises in Kensington.
Mr. Gadany, who fled from Hungary during the 1956 uprising. is an engineer but security regulations do not permit him to follow his preference for atomic energy research. His grandfather was jeweller to the imperial family of AustroHungary and the exile. having learned the business when quite young found himself with a ready-made career when he settled in Britain.
Highlights of last week's exhibition were a jewelled clasp for fastening the traditional Hungarian cloak and a gilded sword. Apart from his devotion to the Hapsburgs Mr. Gadany is a keen student of history. He is working on a biography of Queen Adelaide, the consort of William IV. HOW does the Jewish Israeli "community treat its Christian minority and how does that minority regard its own position? On Thursday, September 10, Dr. Yana Malachy will tell the Religious Weekly Press Group at the headquarters of the Council of Christians and Jet,vs at Cadm,,att Gardens. Chelsea.
Dr. Ma/achy. editor of Christian Nets from Israel, a quarterly journal, is also head of the Ministry of Religious Affairs Bureau for Information to the Christian World.
He is accordingly in a position to e.splain how hard the Israeli authorities try to give informed and understanding publicity to the minority faith in their countty. | {
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'use strict'
function containsNoViolations (results) {
return results.results.every((result) => result.messages.length === 0)
}
function containsViolationsOnlyForRule (results, ruleId) {
return (results.results.length > 0) && results.results.every((result) => {
return (result.messages.length > 0) && result.messages.every((message) => message.ruleId === ruleId)
})
}
function formatFailureMessage (condition, results, ruleId) {
const ruleClause = ruleId ? `rule '${ruleId}'` : 'any rule'
return `Expected ${condition} for ${ruleClause} but results were ${JSON.stringify(results)}.`
}
beforeEach(() => {
jasmine.addMatchers({
toNotReportViolation () {
return {
compare (results) {
return {
message: formatFailureMessage('no violation', results),
pass: containsNoViolations(results)
}
}
}
},
toReportViolationForRule () {
return {
compare (results, ruleId) {
return {
message: formatFailureMessage('a violation', results, ruleId),
pass: containsViolationsOnlyForRule(results, ruleId)
}
}
}
}
})
})
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Q: SQL Server XML Data Type query issue Please see below SQL Server 2005 script
Declare @xmlData XML
SET @xmlData = '<?xml version="1.0"?>
<bookstore xmlns="http://myBooks">
<book genre="autobiography" publicationdate="1981"
ISBN="1-861003-11-0">
<title>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin</title>
<author>
<first-name>Benjamin</first-name>
<last-name>Franklin</last-name>
</author>
<price>8.99</price>
</book>
<book genre="novel" publicationdate="1967"
ISBN="0-201-63361-2">
<title>The Confidence Man</title>
<author>
<first-name>Herman</first-name>
<last-name>Melville</last-name>
</author>
<price>11.99</price>
</book>
<book genre="philosophy" publicationdate="1991"
ISBN="1-861001-57-6">
<title>The Gorgias</title>
<author>
<first-name>Sidas</first-name>
<last-name>Plato</last-name>
</author>
<price>9.99</price>
</book>
</bookstore>'
Select T.Item.query('.')
From @xmlData.nodes('/bookstore/book') AS T(Item)
This script should give me list of all books node. But it is not giving expected behaviour. If i remove XMLNS then it is working fine. Can anyone explain?
Below is working fine.
Declare @xmlData XML
SET @xmlData = '<?xml version="1.0"?>
<bookstore>
<book genre="autobiography" publicationdate="1981"
ISBN="1-861003-11-0">
<title>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin</title>
<author>
<first-name>Benjamin</first-name>
<last-name>Franklin</last-name>
</author>
<price>8.99</price>
</book>
<book genre="novel" publicationdate="1967"
ISBN="0-201-63361-2">
<title>The Confidence Man</title>
<author>
<first-name>Herman</first-name>
<last-name>Melville</last-name>
</author>
<price>11.99</price>
</book>
<book genre="philosophy" publicationdate="1991"
ISBN="1-861001-57-6">
<title>The Gorgias</title>
<author>
<first-name>Sidas</first-name>
<last-name>Plato</last-name>
</author>
<price>9.99</price>
</book>
</bookstore>'
Select T.Item.query('.')
From @xmlData.nodes('/bookstore/book') AS T(Item)
Can anyone please explain how can I correct first scritp? I want to run script with xmlns.
A: As you say - it's because your original XML data is in a XML namespace, and if that's the case, you also need to make use of that XML namespace in your XQuery:
SELECT
T.Item.query('.')
FROM
@xmlData.nodes('declare namespace ns="http://myBooks";/ns:bookstore/ns:book')
AS T(Item)
You need to insert that declare namespace ns="http://myBooks"; part into your XQuery and then use the defined namespace prefix ns (you can use anything here, really) to reference the XML objects.
Marc
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Frost International Limited & Others v/s Punjab National Bank
W.P.(C). No. 4295 of 2020 & CM. APPL. No. 15453 of 2020
Decided On, 13 July 2021
At, High Court of Delhi
By, THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRATEEK JALAN
For the Petitioners: Malak Bhatt, Advocate. For the Respondent: Vipin Jai, Advocate.
Judgment (Oral)
The proceedings in the matter have been conducted through video conferencing.
1. The petitioners assail an order dated 30.03.2020, passed by the respondent-Punjab National Bank ["the Bank"], by which the petitioners have been declared as 'wilful defaulters' under the Master Circular issued by the Reserve Bank of India ["RBI"] dated 01.07.2015.
2. The Bank issued a show cause notice to the petitioners in this regard on 19.07.2019. The petitioners responded to the show cause notice by a communication dated 24.07.2019. The Screening Committee (stated to be constituted under Clause 3 (a) of the Master Circular) held two meetings on 14.10.2019 and 14.11.2019, at which the petitioners were permitted to present their case.
3. It appears that at the meeting on 14.11.2019, the Screening Committee decided to declare the petitioners as wilful defaulters. However, this was communicated to the petitioners only on 31.01.2020. The communication dated 31.01.2020 stated as follows:-
"With regard to the subject we inform you that your matter along with show cause notice and all other records along with your representation, if any, and record of hearing / proceeding was placed in the meeting of the Screening Committee held on 14.11.2019 and after giving careful consideration on the matter and after perusal of record, it was observed that incidence of wilful default is apparent on the face of the record and the above account is eligible to be identified as Wilful Defaulter. In view of the above the Committee decided that the matter be placed before the Review Committee of The Board on Non Coperative Borrower and Wilful Defaulters to declare you as Wilful Defaulter.
As such, the matter was placed before the Review Committee of the Board on Wilful Defaulters and Non Co operative Borrowers on 17.12.2019. The Committee has decided in terms of Hon'ble Supreme Court decision in State Bank of India vs Jah Developers Pvt. Ltd on 08.05.2019 to give final opportunity to submit written submission on the subject matter.
In view of above, we inform you may submit, if deem fit, a written submission within 15 days from the date of this letter. So submitted written submission, if any, received by us with in the stipulated time as above will be placed before the Review Committee of the Board on Wilful Defaulters and Non Co operative Borrowers in its next meeting for their consideration and final decision.
Please note no further opportunity shall be provided to you for this purpose and if we do not receive any written submission within the stipulated time the Review Committee of the Board on Wilful Defaulters and Non Co operative Borrowers will decide the matter on the merit on the basis of record available with the Bank. If may also be noted that no personal hearing shall be afforded before the Review Committee of the Board on Wilful Defaulters and Non Co operative Borrowers and only written submission will be accepted."
4. Pursuant to the aforesaid communication, the petitioners filed a representation dated 18.02.2020 before the Review Committee, constituted under Clause 3 (c) of the Master Circular of the RBI. The Review Committee, at its meeting on 19.03.2020, rejected the petitioners' representation and confirmed the decision of the Screening Committee. This has been communicated to the petitioners by the impugned order dated 30.03.2021, which, according to the petitioners, was received on 25.06.2020.
5. Mr. Malak Bhatt, learned counsel for the petitioners, submits that the aforesaid procedure undertaken by the Bank is wholly contrary to the procedure contemplated by the Master Circular and elaborated by the Supreme Court in State Bank of India vs. Jah Developers Private limited and Others (2019) 6 SCC 787. He makes the following submissions in support of this contention:-
(a) Mr. Bhatt submits that the order of the Identification Committee as incorporated in the minutes of its meeting dated 14.11.2019, is devoid of reasons, inasmuch as the petitioners' representation dated 24.07.2019 has not been dealt with at all.
(b) Mr. Bhatt points out that the minutes dated 14.11.2019, were not communicated to the petitioners until 31.01.2020. It appears from the communication dated 31.01.2020 itself that, even prior to communicating the order to the petitioners, the matter was placed before the Review Committee. The Review Committee then decided to give the petitioners an opportunity of making their submissions in terms of the decision in Jah Developers (supra). According to Mr. Bhatt, the practice of placing the matter before the Review Committee prior to communication to the petitioners was itself not in accordance with the Master Circular and shows that the Review Committee had pre-judged the matter.
(c) Mr. Bhatt further submits that the Review Committee has also passed an unreasoned order.
6. Mr. Vipin Jai, learned counsel for the Bank, on the other hand, submits that the minutes dated 14.11.2019 and the Review Committee's order dated 30.03.2020, disclose adequate reasons for rejection of the petitioners' case. It is Mr. Jai's submission that the procedure contemplated by the Master Circular, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Jah Developers, has been scrupulously followed in the present case.
7. Before adverting to the facts of the case, the provisions of the Master Circular in this regard may be noticed, which are as follows:-
"3. Mechanism for identification of Wilful Defaulters
The mechanism referred to in paragraph 2.5 above should generally include the following:
(a) The evidence of wilful default on the part of the borrowing company and its promoter whole-time director at the relevant time should be examined by a Committee headed by an Executive Director or equivalent and consisting of two other senior officers of the rank of GM / DGM.
(b) If the Committee concludes that an event of wilful default has occurred, it shall issue a Show Cause Notice to the concerned borrower and the promoter / whole time director and call for their submissions and after considering their submissions issue an order recording the fact of wilful default and the reasons for the same. An opportunity should be given to the borrower and the promoter / whole-time director for a personal hearing if the Committee feels such an opportunity is necessary.
(c) The Order of the Committee should be reviewed by another Committee headed by the Chairman / Chairman & Managing Director or the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer/CEOs and consisting, in addition, to two independent directors / non-executive directors of the bank and the Order shall become final only after it is confirmed by the said Review Committee. However, if the Identification Committee does not pass an Order declaring a borrower as a wilful defaulter, then the Review Committee need not be set up to review such decisions."
8. The Master Circular was interpreted by the Supreme Court inter alia in Jah Developers, wherein the Court incorporated the Rules of Natural Justice into the procedure. The relevant observations of the Court are reproduced below:-
"24. Given the above conspectus of case law, we are of the view that there is no right to be represented by a lawyer in the in-house proceedings contained in Para 3 of the Revised Circular dated 1-7-2015, as it is clear that the events of wilful default as mentioned in Para 2.1.3 would only relate to the individual facts of each case. What has typically to be discovered is whether a unit has defaulted in making its payment obligations even when it has the capacity to honour the said obligations; or that it has borrowed funds which are diverted for other purposes, or siphoned off funds so that the funds have not been utilised for the specific purpose for which the finance was made available. Whether a default is intentional, deliberate, and calculated is again a question of fact which the lender may put to the borrower in a show-cause notice to elicit the borrower's submissions on the same. However, we are of the view that Article 19(1)(g) is attracted in the facts of the present case as the moment a person is declared to be a wilful defaulter, the impact on its fundamental right to carry on business is direct and immediate. This is for the reason that no additional facilities can be granted by any bank/financial institutions, and entrepreneurs/promoters would be barred from institutional finance for five years. Banks/financial institutions can even change the management of the wilful defaulter, and a promoter/director of a wilful defaulter cannot be made promoter or director of any other borrower company. Equally, under Section 29-A of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, a wilful defaulter cannot even apply to be a resolution applicant. Given these drastic consequences, it is clear that the Revised Circular, being in public interest, must be construed reasonably. This being so, and given the fact that Para 3 of the Master Circular dated 1-7-2013 permitted the borrower to make a representation within 15 days of the preliminary decision of the First Committee, we are of the view that first and foremost, the Committee comprising of the Executive Director and two other senior officials, being the First Committee, after following Para 3(b) of the Revised Circular dated 1-7-2015, must give its order to the borrower as soon as it is made. The borrower can then represent against such order within a period of 15 days to the Review Committee. Such written representation can be a full representation on facts and law (if any). The Review Committee must then pass a reasoned order on such representation which must then be served on the borrower. Given the fact that the earlier Master Circular dated 1-7-2013 itself considered such steps to be reasonable, we incorporate all these steps into the Revised Circular dated 1-7-2015…."
(Emphasis supplied.)
9. Applying these principles to the facts of the present case, it appears that in the show cause notice dated 19.07.2019, the Bank raised various factual grounds in support of its proposal to declare the petitioners as wilful defaulters including inter alia, allegations regarding diversion of funds and related party merchant trade transactions. The reply of the petitioners dated 24.07.2019 included the petitioners' contention with respect to the Forensic Audit Report relied upon by the Bank. The petitioners also made submissions with regard to a detailed fact finding exercise conducted at their instance by Price Waterhouse Coopers.
10. The minutes of the meeting of the Screening Committee dated 14.11.2019, record the following conclusions:-
"Moving forward, the convener of the committee has put up the proposal for declaring the borrower as Wilful Defaulter on following submitted grounds:
* After examining financial papers, statements and record, it is observed that the FIL has rigorously misused the Bank's fund by granting unsecured loans to parties with whom they had no business relations and the same was given without entering into any agreement. As such, the Company has not used the bank's fund for the purpose it was sanctioned but diverted the funds for other purposes.
* The unit has defaulted in meeting its payment / repayment obligations to the lender and has siphoned off the funds so that the funds have not been utilised for the specific purpose for which finance was availed of, nor are the funds available with the unit in the form of other assets.
* It is also informed by the borrower that a writ petition filed by them which is pending for disposal. On inquiry it is informed that no stay / restrain order is passed by the Hon'ble High Court, Delhi till date. After looking into the facts, it is decided that in the absence of any stay / restrain order, the matter heard and decided on merit. After discussion the financial statements of the company during the meeting, it was observed that the facts and documents presented by the convener of the Committee for declaring the borrower as wilful defaulter are based on justified reasons. The borrower has not utilized the finance availed from the lender for the specific purposes for which finance was sanctioned but has diverted the funds for some other purposes.
After deliberating the above facts the committee opined that the criteria for declaring the borrower as Wilful Defaulter as perscribed by the RBI are met with, therefore, the borrower may be identified as Wilful Defaulter. In view of the above the Committee decided to place the matter before the Review Committee of the Board on Wilful Defaulters and Non Co operative Borrowers for their necessary consideration and deliberation for declaring the borrower as Wilful Defaulter.
Simultaneously, the borrower be supplied with the copy of this order under the signature of the Dy. General Manager R&L with a information that they can make, it deem fit, written submission to be placed before the Review Committee of the Board on Non Cooperative Borrower and Wilful Defaulters within 15 days of the letter, Failing which the Bank will inform the Credit Information Companies after above stipulated time."
11. Although the allegations against the petitioners have been summarised while enumerating the grounds put up by the Convenor of the Committee, I do not find adequate discussion as to the representation of the petitioners and the reports submitted by them. The extract of the Supreme Court's judgment in Jah Developers quoted above clarifies the scope of consideration required before classifying a party as a wilful defaulter. The minutes of the meeting in the present case contain a recital that the financial statements of the company have been discussed, and that the reasons put up by the Convenor of the Committee are justified, but record conclusion without prescribing any meaningful reasons. The Supreme Court in Jah Developers has made it clear that the orders of both, the Identification Committee and the Review Committee, must be reasoned orders. In the case of the Identification Committee, this is further necessary because the party concerned has been provided with a domestic remedy of representation before the Review Committee. If the constituent of a bank is inadequately apprised of the reasons which have weighed with the Identification Committee, its opportunity of filing a representation will become meaningless.
12. The second ground urged by Mr. Bhatt, with regard to the matter having been placed before the Review Committee prior to the order being communicated to the petitioners, is however, in my view, insubstantial in the facts of this case. It is evident from the letter dated 31.01.2020 extracted above, that the matter was placed before the Review Committee which decided to call for a representation from the petitioners. The provisions of Clause 3 (c) of the Master Circular have been interpreted in Jah Developers to be in the nature of a full appeal on facts and law for which purpose, the party against whom the order is passed, is given an opportunity of making a representation. It is evident that the Review Committee did not proceed to decide the petitioners' case prior to the representation having been sought. Mere placing of file before the Review Committee at that stage was therefore of no prejudice to the petitioners.
13. Mr. Bhatt's third submission, with regard to the order of the Review Committee being unreasoned, is however, justified. The order of the Review Committee reprises the course of the proceedings and then proceeds to record its conclusion in the following terms:-
"In response to our letter dated 30.01.2020, we have received written Representation from Mr Uday Jayant Desai (HUF), M/s N.S.D Nirman Pvt. Ltd., Mr Nipum Verma, Mr Sunil Verma (HUF), Ms Poonam Vadera, M/s R.S. Builders Pvt. Ltd., the Borrower Company, Comet Overseas Pvt. Ltd., Mr Saral Verma, M/s Globiz Exim Pvt. Ltd., Ms. Sanjana U Desai, Ms Reeta Verma, Ms Neelima U Desai.
Thereafter, the Review Committee of the Board on Non- Cooperative Borrowers and Willful Defaulters in its meeting held on 19.03.2020 has reviewed the orders of the Screening Committee and perused records of the matter and written representation submitted by Mr Uday Jayant Desai (HUF), M/s N.S.D Nirman Pvt. Ltd., Mr Nipum Verma, Mr Sunil Verma (HUF), Ms Poonam Vadera, M/s R.S. Builders Pvt. Ltd., the Borrower Company, Comet Overseas Pvt. Ltd., Mr Saral Verma, M/s Globiz Exim Pvt. Ltd., Ms Sanjana U Desai, Ms Reeta Verma, Ms Neelima U Desai. Thereafter considering all the above papers, the Review committee has approved your Name/Account for declaration as willful defaulter.
Accordingly your name is being reported as willful defaulter to the Credit Information Companies. Further, in the course photographs of the borrower / guarantor / mortgaged of account will be published in news papers in accordance with the policy of the Bank, which please b
e noted." 14. This order is wholly unsatisfactory to meet the requirements of natural justice, as elucidated in the judgment of the Supreme Court in Jah Developers. The recital of conclusions does not substitute for an expression of reasons. The least that is expected of the Review Committee is to consider, howsoever briefly, the representations made by the petitioners against the order of the Screening Committee and to give its reasons for rejection of the representation. 15. For the reasons aforesaid, the petitioner has made out a good case for setting aside of the orders of the Screening Committee and the Review Committee and a direction to the Bank to decide the case afresh. Conclusion 16. In the facts and circumstances aforesaid, the petition is allowed, and the impugned actions of the Screening Committee and Review Committee of the Bank under the Master Circular are set aside. 17. The matter is remanded to the Screening Committee for a fresh decision in accordance with law. The Screening Committee may seek a further representation, written or oral, from the petitioners, if it considers it necessary. The Screening Committee is also at liberty to proceed on a consideration of the petitioners' reply dated 24.07.2019 to the show cause notice, and the submissions made by the petitioners at the hearings which were accorded to them. 18. After the Screening Committee passes a fresh reasoned order, it will be communicated to the petitioners, and the petitioners will be given a period of 15 days to make their representations against the said orders to the Review Committee, if necessary. The Review Committee will thereafter, consider petitioners' representation and proceed in accordance with law. 19. The writ petition, alongwith pending application, stands disposed of in these terms. There will be no order as to costs. | {
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"""
Description:
Register Transaction
Usage:
from neo.Core.TX.RegisterTransaction import RegisterTransaction
"""
from neo.Core.TX.Transaction import Transaction, TransactionType
from neo.Core.AssetType import AssetType
from neocore.Cryptography.Crypto import Crypto
from neocore.Cryptography.ECCurve import EllipticCurve, ECDSA
from neo.Settings import settings
from neocore.Fixed8 import Fixed8
class RegisterTransaction(Transaction):
"""
# 发行总量,共有2种模式:
# 1. 限量模式:当Amount为正数时,表示当前资产的最大总量为Amount,且不可修改(股权在未来可能会支持扩股或增发,会考虑需要公司签名或一定比例的股东签名认可)。
# 2. 不限量模式:当Amount等于-1时,表示当前资产可以由创建者无限量发行。这种模式的自由度最大,但是公信力最低,不建议使用。
# 在使用过程中,根据资产类型的不同,能够使用的总量模式也不同,具体规则如下:
# 1. 对于股权,只能使用限量模式;
# 2. 对于货币,只能使用不限量模式;
# 3. 对于点券,可以使用任意模式;
In English:
# Total number of releases, there are 2 modes:
# 1. Limited amount: When Amount is positive, it means that the maximum amount of current assets is Amount and can not be modified (the equity may support the expansion or issuance in the future, will consider the need for company signature or a certain percentage of shareholder signature recognition ).
# 2. Unlimited mode: When Amount is equal to -1, it means that the current asset can be issued by the creator unlimited. This mode of freedom is the largest, but the credibility of the lowest, not recommended.
# In the use of the process, according to the different types of assets, can use the total amount of different models, the specific rules are as follows:
# 1. For equity, use only limited models;
# 2. For currencies, use only unlimited models;
# 3. For point coupons, you can use any pattern;
"""
def __init__(self, inputs=None,
outputs=None,
assettype=AssetType.GoverningToken,
assetname='',
amount=Fixed8(0),
precision=0,
owner=None,
admin=None):
"""
Create an instance.
Args:
inputs (list):
outputs (list):
assettype (neo.Core.AssetType):
assetname (str):
amount (Fixed8):
precision (int): number of decimals the asset has.
owner (EllipticCurve.ECPoint):
admin (UInt160):
"""
super(RegisterTransaction, self).__init__(inputs, outputs)
self.Type = TransactionType.RegisterTransaction # 0x40
self.AssetType = assettype
self.Name = assetname
self.Amount = amount # Unlimited Mode: -0.00000001
if inputs is not None:
self.inputs = inputs
else:
self.inputs = []
if outputs is not None:
self.outputs = outputs
else:
self.outputs = []
if owner is not None and type(owner) is not EllipticCurve.ECPoint:
raise Exception("Invalid owner, must be ECPoint instance")
self.Owner = owner
self.Admin = admin
self.Precision = precision
def SystemFee(self):
"""
Get the system fee.
Returns:
Fixed8:
"""
if self.AssetType == AssetType.GoverningToken or self.AssetType == AssetType.UtilityToken:
return Fixed8.Zero()
return Fixed8(int(settings.REGISTER_TX_FEE))
def GetScriptHashesForVerifying(self):
"""Get ScriptHash From SignatureContract"""
# hashes = {}
# super(RegisterTransaction, self).getScriptHashesForVerifying()
pass
def DeserializeExclusiveData(self, reader):
"""
Deserialize full object.
Args:
reader (neo.IO.BinaryReader):
"""
self.Type = TransactionType.RegisterTransaction
self.AssetType = reader.ReadByte()
self.Name = reader.ReadVarString()
self.Amount = reader.ReadFixed8()
self.Precision = reader.ReadByte()
self.Owner = ECDSA.Deserialize_Secp256r1(reader)
# self.Owner = ecdsa.G
self.Admin = reader.ReadUInt160()
def SerializeExclusiveData(self, writer):
"""
Serialize object.
Args:
writer (neo.IO.BinaryWriter):
"""
writer.WriteByte(self.AssetType)
writer.WriteVarString(self.Name)
writer.WriteFixed8(self.Amount)
writer.WriteByte(self.Precision)
self.Owner.Serialize(writer)
writer.WriteUInt160(self.Admin)
def ToJson(self):
"""
Convert object members to a dictionary that can be parsed as JSON.
Returns:
dict:
"""
jsn = super(RegisterTransaction, self).ToJson()
asset = {
'type': self.AssetType,
'name': self.Name.decode('utf-8'),
'amount': self.Amount.value,
'precision': self.Precision if type(self.Precision) is int else self.Precision.decode('utf-8'),
'owner': self.Owner.ToString(),
'admin': Crypto.ToAddress(self.Admin)
}
jsn['asset'] = asset
return jsn
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Old Independence Regional Museum Program "Strike Up the Band" by Monty Hill on Nov. 5th!
On Sunday, November 5, at 2 p.m. Old Independence Regional Museum will offer a program titled "Strike Up the Band." Imagine two competitive sports teams ready for action. The crowd has gathered. What is needed to stir the onlookers' emotions and allegiance? Strike up the band! An integral element of sports games involves the band, whether it is a lively march, a stirring half-time performance, a timeout interlude, or even a festive number to inspire and entertain the crowd before the team breaks the huddle.
Marching, jazz and pep bands provide performances that match or exceed the contests on the field or court.
Monty Hill will be the featured program speaker. He was recruited as Director of Bands at Lyon College in 2015. Under his enthusiastic leadership a marching band, wind ensemble and jazz band were established. This is the first time in the college's history that a comprehensive band program has existed at Lyon.
Hill will bring a few members of the college marching band to demonstrate what the Lyon Band does during performances. One of the instruments will be the Sousaphone! He will tell about the history and evolution of bands and also speak about the bands of the Power 5 conferences, including Ohio State, Michigan, Texas, Alabama, and Arkansas.
After Hill earned a bachelor's of music education degree from Henderson State University, he taught in Arkansas public schools for 24 years. He then left to earn a master in music performance from New Mexico State University where he also served as Interim Director of Bands and Associate Director of Bands before coming to Lyon. He maintains an active schedule as a music clinician in Arkansas, Colorado, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and New Mexico.
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Q: same entities with different forms I have an admin and sales team member user. Problem is that Whenever I inspect any of these two entities: Contact, Organization(Account) forms differ from each other. When I check the customization I see that forms have no specific security role for Sales team member users, so what's the problem, why can't I get same entities to behave alike.
Thanks.
A: Issue was indeed in form security roles, I was looking for the different thing.
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Our Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough macaron is a favorite. The filling is made from a no-bake chocolate chip cookie dough. This is a dessert everyone will be sure to enjoy.
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The Evening Express ePaper
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Willie Miller
Cove Rangers FC
Sport / Football / Aberdeen FC / Latest Dons News
McInnes is confident Hoban will be 'brilliant' for his Dons
by Sean Wallace
Aberdeen's Tommie Hoban scored against Hibs at Easter Road.
It took less than 48 hours for Watford defender Tommie Hoban to prove why Aberdeen boss Derek McInnes was so keen to bring him to Pittodrie.
McInnes secured the 24-year-old on a season-long loan deal from the Premier League Hornets on the eve of the Europa League clash with Burnley.
Hoban and keeper Tomas Cerny were the two "wildcard" signings registered before 11pm on the day before the second qualifying round first leg.
The late call off from left-back Andy Considine through illness at 5pm on the day of the tie meant a baptism of fire for Hoban, who made not just his Dons debut but his debut in Europe.
As McInnes expected, Hoban rose to the challenge and produced a superb performance in the 1-1 draw at Pittodrie.
He has surely pushed himself to the forefront to start against Burnley at Turf Moor for the return leg on Thursday.
And McInnes is confident Hoban. who has suffered injury setbacks in recent seasons, will be a "brilliant" player for the Reds in the upcoming season.
He said: "Tommie was thrown in at left-back against Burnley and was outstanding.
"He was brilliant considering it was five o'clock when he was told he would be playing at left-back because we took a phone call that Considine was ill.
"I am confident Tommie will go on to be a brilliant player for us and prove to be a great signing.
"He is one that we have put a lot of work into getting.
"We thought the opportunity had come and gone at the back end of last week, which brought a real sense of frustration as everybody had put so much work into it, Tommie included.
"Thankfully I got the call on Tuesday morning after training that Watford had reassessed and agreed for him to come.
"We are thankful to Watford for allowing that to happen."
Hoban may have been pitched in at left-back against the Clarets but can play in any of the positions across a back four – utilised by McInnes with a 4-5-1 against Burnley.
However, the Reds boss insists Hoban was signed as a right-sided centre back – one of the key positions, along with striker, he had targeted as needing to be filled before that UEFA registration deadline. The ~hunt for a striker continues.
McInnes said: "Tommie is a centre-half first and foremost but can fill in at both full-back areas.
"Tommie can actually play in midfield at times as well but that is not where we see him.
"He can play right of a three, he can play central in a four and left of a three.
"Tommie has played in both full-back roles.
"He can play anywhere in the back four, but predominately he gives that competition, assurance and size at centre-back
"He is a good footballer and one that has had his injuries to contend with. But he is definitely a player destined to have a very good career if he gets a bit of luck with his injuries."
Injuries have stalled the momentum of a career that began with a first team appearance with Watford at the age of just 16.
He was a transfer target for Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea three years ago before a series of injury problems hit.
The latest was a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in pre-season training last summer that required surgery and ruled him out for the entire campaign.
McInnes said: "Tommie is very confident, assured and handles the ball very well.
"He is a modern centre-back and if given any luck at all this season in terms of his injuries will go on and prove his worth."
Centre-back Mikey Devlin made his competitive debut for the Dons against Burnley having been out for a year with a cruciate ligament injury. He signed from Hamilton in January and continued his rehabilitation with the Pittodrie medical staff.
Defender Mark Reynolds has also been ruled out for up to seven months having undergone knee surgery last week.
McInnes said: "We had bad news that Mark Reynolds is out for a considerable time.
"Signing Tommie was good timing because we had Logan, McKenna, Considine and Devlin available in the building so it was necessary for us to address that.
"Injuries are part and parcel of the game and it happens.
"I've backed Mikey (Devlin) and I back Tommie to show they're good players."
McInnes also secured keeper Cerny, 33, on a season-long contract. The 33-year-old was a free agent having left Partick Thistle. Cerny was on the bench for the Euro tie against Burnley and started in yesterday's friendly win at Arbroath.
McInnes said: "Tomas brings that comfort in between a young goalkeeper and Joe Lewis.
"We are delighted to get him in although it was obviously accelerated by young David Craddock's injury at Inverurie on Monday night.
"It looks like he will be out for a wee while with his knee.
"Tomas was still one that we kept a wee eye on.
"He knows that it will be difficult to play because of Joe but Tomas has accepted that.
"The most important thing for us was to allow Danny Rogers to go and get games and experience.
"The last thing Danny needed was another year of sitting on the bench."
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Learn to make the fresh pasta Chef Diana grew up with and knows best. A variety of textures and shapes will be made with versatile sauces to mix and match. Join us as Diana ventures into the hidden kitchen of her family to bring you these authentic dishes. | {
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Q: realme device app installing take a long time after uninstall in flutter my android phone is realme. one time i delete flutter app, after that i was trying to reinstall that take very long time.(https://i.stack.imgur.com/eGMBW.png)
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MOTB Greek Paul Project
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Through the following collaboration, students and professors will participate in the transcription of Greek manuscripts in support of the creation of a modern critical edition of the Pastoral Epistles (1, 2 TImothy and Titus). Intermediate undergraduate students will learn to decipher Greek minuscule script and to transcribe manuscripts in an online environment in a three-week segment of their second-year Greek course. Advanced undergraduate students will dedicate a semester to transcribing Greek manuscripts and writing a paper on an issue germane to New Testament textual criticism and the history of the Greek Bible.
Time commitment (three-week course)
In a dedicated PDF, mentors will find guidelines for incorporating a total of nine twenty-five-minute blocks of paleography, transcription and textual criticism instruction into a twelve to fourteen-week second-year Greek course.
Time commitment (semester long course / independent study)
A typical three-credit independent study would comprise 100–120 hours of guided work. About half of this time will consist of transcribing Greek 1 Timothy (which takes about five hours) or 2 Timothy and Titus (which takes about 6 hours). Students should be able to complete six to eight transcriptions, with accuracy prioritized over quantity. The remaining time is dedicated toward a research paper on a manuscript, a variant or an agreed-upon text-critical issue.
Students and mentors should create accounts in the Münster Virtual Manuscript Room (VMR). This online venue will facilitate an online forum, support manuscript transcription, and host addition PDF documents.
Mentors will have access to PowerPoint presentations which survey the key features of the minuscule script and the basics of using the VMR transcription editor.
A webinar in the first part of the semester will connect students with an expert in textual criticism as well as with one another.
All students should read the first chapter of Robert Hull's introduction. Mentors and advanced students should read the entire book, and are encouraged to explore the Ehrman-Holmes edition for a deeper examination of the relevant issues.
Bart Ehrman and Michael Holmes (eds.), The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis. Second Edition. New Testament Tools, Studies, and Documents. Leiden: Brill, 2011 (paperback 2014).
Robert Hull, The Story of the New Testament Text: Movers, Materials, Motives, Methods, and Models. Resources for Biblical Study. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010.
W. Andrew Smith (PhD), Shepherds Theological Seminary, project supervisor
Zach Butler, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, doctoral fellow
Steve Young, Shepherds Theological Seminary, doctoral fellow
Amy Myshrall (PhD), University of Birmingham, project collaborator
Troy Griffitts (PhD), software engineer
Hugh Houghton (IGNTP), Bruce Morrill (IGNTP), Tommy Wasserman (IGNTP),
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If there is one thing the Australian wine category suffers from, it's a lack of 'sense of place'. This is the fault of large companies that have turned most Australian wine into a commodity (or 'widget' if you want to go there) rather than embracing the terroir of specific regions.
One thing we are trying to do at The Wine Company is change that view. Australia, like so many fine wine producing countries, has specific spots that bring special qualities to particular wines. Terroir exists in France. Terroir exists in California. And Terroir most definitely exists in Australia. One of the best producers to show this is Jim Barry.
Jim Barry was a legend in the Australian wine business, for he was one of the first to identify the special terroir of Clare Valley, a higher elevation and cooler region. Working with the terroir, wines from "The Clare" tend to be made from grapes that embrace the cooler temperatures of the area. Riesling is especially strong in the Clare, bracing and dry and piercing. Also Syrah (Shiraz) which gives a Northern-Rhone like quality in this area thanks to the cooler air.
If there is one particular spot in Australia best associated with the classic definition of terroir, it would be the geologic oddity known as Coonawarra. Located southeast of Adelaide, this patch of land has a particular terra rosa soil over limestone that is spot on perfect for the likes of Cabernet Sauvignon. Acclaimed worldwide, the Cabernets of Coonawarra are powerful but polished, and rich but detailed. Watch the video below to get a true sense of this special place.
Jim died a number of years ago, but his son Peter Barry, featured in the videos below, has carried the torch.
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Flush With Cash, Herbert Unveils Next Year's Budget Proposal With $200M Tax Cut, Medicaid Expansion
By Julia Ritchey • Dec 6, 2018
Gov. Herbert unveils his fiscal year 2020 budget at Silicon Slopes in Lehi.
Julia Ritchey / KUER
With an eye toward the state's growing population and aging tax code, Gov. Gary Herbert unveiled a $19 billion budget on Wednesday with a $200 million sales tax cut proposal as well as full Medicaid expansion and an education boost.
"Our budget is designed to maintain the great quality of life we've come to appreciate and expect and still allow for continued economic growth and expansion," he said. "That's a challenge."
Speaking at Lehi nonprofit Silicon Slopes, home of the state's burgeoning tech community, Herbert said his proposed budget will address the state's growth-related challenges such as air quality and crowded schools while modernizing the state's tax code.
The Republican governor's signature proposal this year would allocate $200 million of new revenue to create a net sales tax cut reduction targeted at lower- and middle-income families while also proposing a host of new taxes and fees for lawmakers to consider.
"It's a heavy lift," he said of the number of proposals lawmakers will need to consider — from closing loopholes to taxing luxury services such as limousine rentals and cosmetic surgery. The Legislature has the final say over the state budget when it meets in January for the general session.
"We're going to recommend to fix these inequities that disproportionately affect low- to middle-income earners," said Herbert.
Over the last few decades, the state has experienced a decline in sales tax revenue as the economy has shifted toward online commerce and service-based businesses.
The governor said he hopes by broadening the base of goods and services taxed, the state will stabilize its coffers. At the same time, he said, offsetting those regressive levies with an income tax credit for lower income brackets could still yield savings for most taxpayers.
"If everybody pays their fair share, they can pay less," said Kris Cox, director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget. "Our sales tax rate is the most vulnerable, and the most in need of reform."
The governor's budget blueprint is seeking a sales tax rate that is below 4 percent, down from its current 4.85 percent.
Pressed on the inclusion of a controversial food tax hike in his proposal, Herbert said he was not personally recommending it but would leave it on the table as a range of options lawmakers discuss next session.
"It depends on what the offset is," he said.
The budget marks a 13 percent increase over the previous year's, mostly due to a voter-approved expansion of Medicaid that would add close to $1 billion in spending.
More than $800 million of that will come from the federal government and only about $88 million from the state, funded through a slight increase in the sales tax.
Herbert, who opposed full expansion, warned that the sales tax increase that accompanied the law may not cover the state's full share.
State budget experts say the low-income insurance program will now account for 26 percent of the budget, or about $3.5 billion, and cover 150,000 Utahns.
After voters rejected a gas-tax question to raise money for schools, Herbert said he is again prioritizing education in his budget, adding $445 million in new spending.
He said with this year's proposal he'll meet his administration's goal of pouring $1 billion into the public education system in four years instead of five.
"The economy really is the goose that's laying the golden egg," he said.
Much of the new ongoing money comes from a complex funding compromise reached between the Legislature and backers of the education reform initiative Our Schools Now last session.
That works out to a 4 percent weighted pupil unit and $11,500 per student statewide.
"We can't have long term economic success without a skilled workforce," Herbert said.
The budget suggests another $30 million in one-time teacher bonuses and $32 million for school counseling and mental health prevention as the state grapples with a skyrocketing youth suicide rate.
Air Quality & Water
As winter inversion season starts, Herbert said he wants to pour an "unprecedented" $100 million of investment to address air quality issues. Utah's Department of Environmental Quality can use those funds, he said, for updating old equipment and grant programs for swapping out gas lawn mowers or wood-burning stoves.
"The environmental issues are real," he said, noting the state has work to do meet a goal of 25 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2026.
As to the state's most precious resource — water — Herbert will also push a statewide user fee to pay for water, a funding shift from current sales tax earmarks.
"The more that we can promote user fees, we feel, the better control individuals have over what they use and the more likely they are to conserve," said budget director Kris Cox.
The governor is also proposing $50 million to encourage adoption of water-saving technologies, including smart meters for all schools, homes and state buildings.
Other highlights:
$50 million to fund a higher education endowment for low-income, first-generation college students.
$6.2 million for an accelerator program designed to get college students to earn bachelor's degrees in three years.
$20 million to purchase land to create Utah's first state forest at Tabby Mountain in Duchesne County.
$17 million for the Olene Walker Fund to support affordable housing projects statewide.
$5 million to implement Utah Medical Cannabis Act passed by the Legislature on Dec. 3 during a special session.
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Getting More Utahns Interested In Teaching Is All About The Money
By Lee Hale • Oct 25, 2018
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Is our inner boss an enemy that makes our life too difficult? The answer depends on what kind of relationship we have with ourselves. Do we have a series of commitments that we made to ourselves and faltered on them time and again? How many times did it happen that we thought we figured out what is important to us and yet failed to act? By not following through with our commitments , we made an enemy of our own self.
This post is about how I had difficulties in dealing with myself.
After moving back to India, I have been keeping myself very busy most of the time. I traveled a lot and met a number of amazing people – children, teachers, principals and educationists. I was going from place to place and working with schools on a continuous basis. It is only recently, during the brief lull in my travel that I was able to assess my situation and start analyzing the whole life that I chose for myself.
In the US and Singapore I was accustomed to being on a treadmill. Work, rest, work, rest – one foot up and one foot down. After returning to India I was doing pretty much the same thing, although it was a different treadmill with a different set of measuring scales. It was a treadmill, nevertheless.
It is imperative that we have to be on some sort of a treadmill at any given time. However, we forget that we have to get off of it and start meditating, start working on some purposeful and slow Yoga postures and enjoy the pastures of life in multiple measures. I am fortunate enough to know my purpose and passion, it is just that I was not careful enough to calibrate that purpose and passion with the activities that I chose for myself. Everything that I did seemed too important and difficult to let go. I was always thinking that if I do not do it no one else will do it. I was not careful enough to pick only those activities that are fully in alignment with my passion.
Work on a couple of books on topics on which I have already done some decent amount of research.
The question that bogged me down recently is this – why did I deviate from my plans for several months and perhaps years?
The answer lies in my previous life – corporate life. The employers that I worked for had a certain passion and knew how to recruit the right people to get the goals accomplished. Year after year I was infused with a certain set of goals to achieve and in return I got rewarded with adequate pay and perks. Without my knowledge I got onto a treadmill and I got addicted to it – not as much to the treadmill itself, but because it is the time spent on the treadmill that ensured a paycheck month after month – to make ends meet and to buy things and impress people.
In my previous corporate life, I think I liked the fact that someone else sets my goals. The toughest part is already figured out by someone else. I think I also liked being on a treadmill. In my new life, paycheck is not a concern, there was no paycheck for me for the past three and half years, I think it was that treadmill culture that I could not get out of.
There is another critical factor here. It is easy to follow the goals set by others as they monitor our work and even provide guidance if we falter. The passion driven goals that we set for ourselves require us to plan a lot and work on them in a very disciplined manner. This is the difficult part that we tend to put off for a more appropriate future time.
That future time will never come unless we take the decision that attending to our passion is indeed the most important thing in our life.
Most humans are by default on treadmills living the life dictated by beliefs & circumstances. As you mentioned in your post "A primer on the inner self", people start questioning their lives when something goes wrong (more than when something goes right or stays as-is). Very few are lucky enough to escape the corporate world, but may still be searching for meaning in their personal lives.
Perhaps it is a matter of deciding to start spending more time on activities that we are most passionate about. Or perhaps the nature of life is change and we will soon find out that further information changed our opinion and we start going after a new passion and so on. Where is the end? I for one believe that our illumined ancestors, found a solution thousands of years back and codified their findings in sacred texts such as Gita (http://www.easwaran.org/the-bhagavad-gita-the-illumined-man.html) & Upanishads (http://www.easwaran.org/the-katha-upanishad-the-razors-edge.html).
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var chai = require('chai');
var assert = chai.assert;
import * as actions from '../src/js/Actions';
import GetNextSlide from '../src/js/ActionHelper/GetNextSlide.js';
import GetPreviousSlide from '../src/js/ActionHelper/GetPreviousSlide.js';
import GetCurrentSlide from '../src/js/ActionHelper/GetCurrentSlide.js';
describe('Slide Instance:', function() {
describe('TransitionTo', function() {
it('should throw an error if state is not provided', function() {
assert.throws(function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo();
}, /Slide state must be provided/);
});
it('should throw an error if slide number is not provided', function() {
assert.throws(function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider);
}, /Transition slide must be provided/);
});
it('should set the transition time', function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, 2);
assert.equal(Date.now(), slider.transitionStartedAt);
});
it('should TransitionTo slide provided', function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, 2);
assert.equal(2, slider.transitionTo);
});
it('should not transition to the same slide', function() {
assert.throws(function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, 1);
}, /Cannot transition to the same slide/);
});
it('should have an undefined currentSlide', function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, 2);
assert.equal(undefined, slider.currentSlide);
});
it('should not transition to a slide that does not exist', function() {
assert.throws(function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, 3);
}, /Transition slide does not exist/);
});
it('should not transition to a negative numbered slide', function() {
assert.throws(function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, -1);
}, /Transition slide cannot be a negative number/);
});
it('should not transition to a 0 numbered slide', function() {
assert.throws(function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, 0);
}, /Transition slide cannot be zero/);
});
it('should be able to change transition slide mid transition', function() {
let slider = actions.Init(3);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, 2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, 3);
assert.equal(3, slider.transitionTo);
});
});
describe('GetNextSlide', function() {
it('should fail if slide is not provided', function() {
assert.throws(function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
GetNextSlide();
}, /Getting next slide requires state/);
});
it('should get next incremental slide if not on last slide', function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, GetNextSlide(slider));
assert.equal(2, slider.transitionTo);
});
it('should get first slide if on last slide', function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, 2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, GetNextSlide(slider));
assert.equal(1, slider.transitionTo);
});
});
describe('GetPreviousSlide', function() {
it('should fail if slide is not provided', function() {
assert.throws(function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
GetPreviousSlide();
}, /Getting previous slide requires state/);
});
it('should get next decremental slide if not on first slide', function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, 2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, GetPreviousSlide(slider));
assert.equal(1, slider.transitionTo);
});
it('should get last slide if on first slide', function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, GetPreviousSlide(slider));
assert.equal(2, slider.transitionTo);
});
});
describe('TransitionToNextSlide', function() {
it('should go to next incremental slide 1 -> 2', function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionToNextSlide(slider);
assert.equal(2, slider.transitionTo);
});
it('should go to next incremental slide 1 -> 2 -> 3', function() {
let slider = actions.Init(3);
slider = actions.TransitionToNextSlide(slider);
slider = actions.TransitionToNextSlide(slider);
assert.equal(3, slider.transitionTo);
});
});
describe('TransitionToPreviousSlide', function() {
it('should go to previous slide 1 -> 2', function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionToNextSlide(slider);
assert.equal(2, slider.transitionTo);
});
it('should go to pevious slide 1 -> 3 -> 2', function() {
let slider = actions.Init(3, 300, 1000, true);
slider = actions.TransitionToPreviousSlide(slider);
slider = actions.TransitionToPreviousSlide(slider);
assert.equal(2, slider.transitionTo);
});
});
describe('CompleteTransition', function() {
it('should fail if state is undefined', function() {
assert.throws(function() {
let slider = actions.Init(3);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, 2);
slider = actions.CompleteTransition();
}, /state is undefined/);
});
it('should set currentSlide', function(done) {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionToNextSlide(slider);
setTimeout(function() {
slider = actions.CompleteTransition(slider);
assert.equal(2, slider.currentSlide);
done();
}, slider.slideDuration)
});
it('should set TransitionTo as defined', function(done) {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionToNextSlide(slider);
setTimeout(function() {
slider = actions.CompleteTransition(slider);
assert.equal(undefined, slider.transitionTo);
done();
}, slider.slideDuration)
});
it('should unset the transition time', function() {
let slider = actions.Init(2);
slider = actions.TransitionTo(slider, 2);
setTimeout(function() {
slider = actions.CompleteTransition(slider);
assert.equal(undefined, slider.transitionStartedAt);
done();
}, slider.slideDuration);
});
});
});
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Drawing on his carefree youth on the Mediterranean Sea, Verdura incorporated rope-work, weaving and wrapping into the majority of his designs, with Vogue later commenting on his "beautiful polished pebbles, fished from the bottom of the sea and caught in a net of gold." In the example of Verdura's Tassel necklace, the gold and rock crystal "netting" appears to ensnare a fringe of pearls, "fished from the sea" and transported to the streets of New York.
• 18k yellow gold, South Sea and Akoya cultured pearl, rock crystal, diamond, moonstone and silver.
• Approximately 25 inches long.
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Piles of Pearls
Verdura's career began in the early 1930s when he started working for Coco Chanel. No doubt, the young jeweler was indelibly influenced by his first employer and the layers of pearls she favored wearing over her suits. Later experimenting with color and textures in his jewelry designs, Verdura juxtaposed the vibrant sheen of pearls with the warm buttery glow of polished gold.
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Nice Shoes on the Mall – artist portrait
By TrevorAston | Published 12th February 2016
I met graphic designer Richard Tomlin at a business networking group some years ago. Now he's semi-retired and spending a lot of time painting portraits, his picture, 'Nice Shoes' is currently being exhibited in the Mall Galleries, London. The Columbia Threadneedle Prize claims to showcase the very best in new figurative and representational art. I think there's some fantastic work on display.
The winner of The Columbia Threadneedle Prize receives £20,000 plus a solo exhibition at Mall Galleries. But there's also a Visitors' Choice Award, voted by visitors to the exhibition in London with a prize of £10,000. So if you're in London near the Mall before 20th February pop-in and vote for number 89!
Richard's studio is in a building he share's with a number of other artists in Kingston upon Thames. As he worked on the picture another artist strolled in and looked at it. Richard says his only comment was 'Nice Shoes', so that became the title.
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If you're in your twenties, you may not have even started to think about the skin ageing process. However, one thing that can be said about the skin is that it can be very unpredictable, and many factors can contribute to the skin ageing process without you even realising- including daily sun exposure (even in the UK!), harsh weather conditions, late nights and a busy or stressful lifestyle.
This is why it's so important to consider how you're going to launch your battle against the ageing process before the signs even start to appear. Although dealing with the above factors will help to make a significant difference, you also need to think about adjusting your skin care regime.
During childhood and teenage years, a simple wash with soap and water is sufficient for most people. However, as the years pass, the skin's needs change dramatically.
Keeping skin both hydrated and protected throughout the day is a must, and luckily there are some great products on the market that can help you with this.
Dermalogica have a range of products with fabulous anti-ageing properties to suit all skin types, which will put you firmly on the right track to fighting those ever-annoying fine lines. | {
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BBC chief Tony Hall says that British content "is under serious threat" in the face of inroads by Netflix and Amazon and that spending on TV programming in the U.K. looks set to fall by as much as £500 million ($661 million) over the next decade.
In a speech to be delivered Thursday night, the head of the world's most renowned and prestigious public broadcaster is expected to say that his organization needs to innovate and reinvent itself to compete with global streamers, whose own outlay on British content will not make up for the looming drop in spending within the U.K.
"We have to face the reality that the British content we value and rely upon is under serious threat," Hall will say at an event in Liverpool. An advance copy of the speech was made available to media outlets.
Hall's warning comes on the heels of comments this week from one of the U.K.'s best-known drama producers that the well of co-production money from Netflix and Amazon is set to run dry. Jane Featherstone, the former Kudos boss who now runs Sister Pictures, said the streaming giants will pull back from co-production and the content they commission out of Britain will narrow in focus.
The BBC generates £3.7 billion ($4.9 billion) in license fee income annually. Netflix will spend about $6 billion on programming this year and more in 2018. The streaming service has commissioned "The Crown" from the U.K. and has several British projects underway, including "Troy" and "Duty/Shame," which are co-productions with the BBC. Amazon has "The Grand Tour" from Britain, its most popular show globally.
Hall's remarks will echo Featherstone's concern that uniquely British stories will fall by the wayside as the global SVOD players make their production choices. "The reality is that their investment decisions are likely to focus increasingly on a narrow range of very expensive, very high-end content – big bankers that they can rely on to have international appeal and attract large global audiences," Hall is expected to say.
His comments will be underpinned by the findings of research commissioned by the BBC into programming challenges in the current media landscape. The report by London-based consultancy Mediatique acknowledges the investments made by Sky and BT in British sports rights and programming but says these will not cover the gap. | {
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24+ List of 2013 Horror Films Worth Watching!
Looking for the best 2013 horror movies? At the top of our list of the best horror movies of 2013 are "Toy Story of Terror (2013), The Conjuring (2013), Under the Skin (2013), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Cheap Thrills (2013)." Our top list is an average of our review scores, Hell Horror viewers, and a few other sources.
The best horror film of 2013 is Toy Story of Terror (2013) scoring 8.45/10 stars with our combined scores. IMDB already has over 10,800+ votes for this movie. Starring in Toy Story of Terror (2013) is Dee Bradley Baker, Tara Strong, Tom Hanks, Ken Marino, and Joan Cusack. Director Angus MacLane did a phenomenal job treating us with this 2013 best horror film which was remarkable.Toy Story of Terror (2013) is in Horror, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure, Family, Animation, and Short movie genres.
The next best 2013 horror movie is The Conjuring (2013) with a score of 8.11/10 stars. Patrick Wilson, Joseph Bishara, Steve Coulter, Millie Wannamaker, and Jesse Michael Fullington star in "The Conjuring (2013)". The Conjuring (2013) is directed by James Wan and has over 375,850+ IMDB votes. You can find The Conjuring (2013) in Horror, Thriller, and Mystery movie genres.
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using System.Linq;
using Xunit;
namespace UnitTests.SQL.DataClasses
{
public class Database
{
[Fact]
public void Create()
{
Utilities.SQL.DataClasses.Database Database = new Utilities.SQL.DataClasses.Database("TestDatabase");
Assert.Equal("TestDatabase", Database.Name);
Assert.Equal(0, Database.Functions.Count);
Assert.Equal(0, Database.StoredProcedures.Count);
Assert.Equal(0, Database.Tables.Count);
Assert.Equal(0, Database.Views.Count);
}
[Fact]
public void AddFunction()
{
Utilities.SQL.DataClasses.Database Database = new Utilities.SQL.DataClasses.Database("TestDatabase");
Database.AddFunction("TestFunction", "FunctionDefinition");
Assert.Equal(1, Database.Functions.Count);
Assert.Equal("TestFunction", Database.Functions.First().Name);
Assert.Equal("FunctionDefinition", Database.Functions.First().Definition);
Assert.Equal(Database, Database.Functions.First().ParentDatabase);
}
[Fact]
public void AddStoredProcedures()
{
Utilities.SQL.DataClasses.Database Database = new Utilities.SQL.DataClasses.Database("TestDatabase");
Database.AddStoredProcedure("TestFunction", "FunctionDefinition");
Assert.Equal(1, Database.StoredProcedures.Count);
Assert.Equal("TestFunction", Database.StoredProcedures.First().Name);
Assert.Equal("FunctionDefinition", Database.StoredProcedures.First().Definition);
Assert.Equal(Database, Database.StoredProcedures.First().ParentDatabase);
}
[Fact]
public void AddTable()
{
Utilities.SQL.DataClasses.Database Database = new Utilities.SQL.DataClasses.Database("TestDatabase");
Database.AddTable("TestTable");
Assert.Equal(1, Database.Tables.Count);
Assert.Equal("TestTable", Database.Tables.First().Name);
Assert.Equal(Database, Database.Tables.First().ParentDatabase);
}
[Fact]
public void AddView()
{
Utilities.SQL.DataClasses.Database Database = new Utilities.SQL.DataClasses.Database("TestDatabase");
Database.AddView("TestTable");
Assert.Equal(1, Database.Views.Count);
Assert.Equal("TestTable", Database.Views.First().Name);
Assert.Equal(Database, Database.Views.First().ParentDatabase);
}
}
} | {
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Dreaming big and pulling through
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Dreaming big and pulling through: Here are all the winners of 2018's Smart50 category awards
While dreaming big is often part and parcel of running a business, many of the winners of this year's Smart50 Awards' category prizes have seen success by taking more risks and dreaming bigger than they ever had before.
Be it through ambitious and expensive marketing campaigns, aggressive international expansion, or even the joining of two unlikely faiths, the SMEs taking home SmartCompany's category gongs have gone above and beyond the call of business.
Each year, SmartCompany asks applicants to say why they should be considered for one of the Smart50 Award's category prizes, which recognise the best in exporting, retailing, innovation, regional business and franchising, along with awards for being a community hero and for being a Smart50 repeat offender.
This year, our panel of expert judges had their work cut out for them, with over 25 businesses vying for the specialist awards. Judges for the categories included small business ombudsman Kate Carnell, National Online Retailers Association chief Paul Greenberg, and COSBOA chair Peter Strong.
Read on to find out which Aussie SMEs took home the awards and the reasons for their wins.
Big gambles pay off
The winner of this year's Community Hero award has gone to Smart50 regular Booktopia, despite the business falling short of making the list itself. Booktopia — an online book retailer founded by Tony Nash, Simon Nash and Steve Traurig in 2004 — pulled in an impressive $114 million in revenue in the last financial year with a three-year growth rate of 41.5%.
However, even more impressive is the business' efforts in the world of community outreach programs and charitable support, with Booktopia being a longtime supporter of the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival.
But recently, after one of the company's founders was at an Islamic bookstore, the business decided to help set up the first ever Sydney Islamic Writers Festival, which is set for 2019, with Tony Nash saying he did so because it was "important to him to have balance".
"We then reached out to the director of the Jewish Writers Festival to see if she would be interested in supporting and sharing how to run one. She said she 'would be honoured'. So now Booktopia has two faiths normally known to be at odds with each other, working together to start something special around books, reading and knowledge," the founders say.
Another mammoth task pulled off by one of the Smart50 category award winners was by the winner of this year's Top Marketing award Mountain Bikes Direct. The founders tell SmartCompany they had always wanted to run a travel competition and decided to do so midway through last year, though admitted it was a "massive undertaking" for a business of its size.
"Although many companies run travel competitions, we'd not seen examples of a business our size running a significant travel competition. We wanted to test whether a competition like this was viable for us as a way to build our list and engage with our existing database," the founders say.
Unsure if it would pay off, the team went ahead with it anyway, and reaped the rewards, growing their mailing list numbers, revenue for the period, return on investment, and getting a number of brand new customers on board.
"This campaign was so successful, we are now scoping an even more exciting travel competition (with a much more sophisticated communication and marketing campaign, in partnership with a new MTB destination) to launch this year," they say.
Small business ombudsman Kate Carnell and Coastal Transport Services founder and Top Regional winner Ray Graetz.
Here for the journey
The winner of this year's Top Franchise award is pilates studio chain KX Pilates, with founder Aaron Smith saying he decided to franchise the business in 2010 because he was "passionate about people achieving their dreams of owning their own business and reaching financial freedom".
Now with 89% of his near 50 franchisees profitable, and another 10 coming down the pipeline, Smith says winning this award is a "recognition of the hard work our franchisees have done in building the KX brand, along with recognition for my wife, Andi, and our head office team".
Winning this year's Top Retailer award is the oldest business on 2018's Smart50 list: camping goods retailer Tentworld. The business boasts not only a high level of engagement from its customer base, but a high level of satisfaction too, posting stronger online review scores than any of its main competitors.
Despite being an older player, Tentworld has poured its efforts into online marketing and presence, launching a YouTube channel this year along with ramping up its SEO and digital marketing efforts.
With 21-50% of its revenue being made from exporting opportunities, the winner of this year's Top Exporter award is car accessories retailer FitMyCar, with the founders saying the business decided to be globally focused from the get-go.
"Entering New Zealand in 2015 and the USA in 2016, we've successfully grown overall export revenue by 1185%, doubled our workforce, developed a highly scalable business model, and established ourselves as a leading manufacturer to consumer automotive brand," the founders say.
"Revenue into our main export market, the US, has grown over 520%."
Getting away from the hustle and bustle
Taking home this year's Top Regional business category award is logistics operator Coastal Transport Services, who has been a major employer in the NSW Central Coast region for over 32 years.
Founder Ray Graetz estimates the business has contributed millions to the local economy, not just via employment of locals, but by bringing in out-of-town clients to benefit the community.
And for the winner of this year's Top Innovator category award ELMO, it's all about R&D, with the company dedicating 25% of its total staff to a locally-based research and development team.
This has allowed the company to significantly expand its number of products and modules on the market, launching an additional five since the company went public in June last year.
"The key driver for ELMO in adopting an agile work environment was to embrace innovation and enable the thought process, through an emphasis on community and collaboration," the founders say.
Finally, the last category award was given to the company which has been on the Smart50 for the highest number of consecutive years, which this year was construction management consultancy Hunter Mason, who took home the Smart and Lasting Award.
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Puneet finds his passion and purpose in simplifying how businesses and consumers interact with one another through technology. Through his work, he enjoys nurturing his passion for finding and growing lifelong friendships. He is most excited about SaaS platforms, Agri-tech, Gaming, and Fin-tech in India.
In his life before Nexus, he dabbled with entrepreneurship, consulting and advising startups in education, entertainment, SaaS and consumer tech. Most recently, he led one of McKinsey's first sales acceleration programs for a leading SaaS startup in India. During his time at McKinsey, he led projects that helped companies bring new and disruptive technologies to market in the US, Europe, and India. His most engaging experience pre-McKinsey included stints at a global macro hedge fund (Passport Capital) and with start-ups in Silicon Valley and India in consumer tech.
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A brief about Online Trademark Renewal in India
Trademarks are used to identify and distinguish the goods and services of one company from that of the other company. Though the trademark does not mention quality and quantity, eventually the trademark may become a symbol of the good or bad quality of products or services produced by the company. Trademarks are also useful in advertising the goods and services produced by the company in an effective manner.
After the registration of a trademark, if the proprietor of the registered trademark wishes to assign the registered trademark upon another party then the proprietor has all the right to do so. However, the registered trademark is valid for a period of 10 years. After the lapse of 10 years, the trademark registration is supposed to be renewed accordingly.
Trademark is valid for a period of 10 years, from the date of registration. For continuation of the trademark, it should be renewed from time to time, in accordance with the provisions of the Trade Mark Act, 1999 and the Rule.
The office will send a prior notice to the registered proprietor of the trademark intimating the approach of the expiry date of the registration of the trademark. This notice is electronically generated from the Trade Mark Automation System (TMAS) and the same is despatched at least a month before the expiry.
An application for trademark Renewal Online in India of the registration of the trademark should be made on the prescribed form and be submitted at the appropriate office or Head Office of the Trade Mark Registry at any time not more than 6 months before the expiration of last renewal of the trademark. However, when the registration of a trademark takes more than 10 years, namely after the first renewal date, the application for the Online Trademark Renewal in India may be made within the period of 6 months from the actual date of registration.
The fee for renewal of registration of trademark in a class before the expiration of the last date of registration is R. 5000. For renewal of registration of the trademark consisting of sires of trademark is Rs.5000 per mark. For Online Trademark Renewal in India in respect of goods and services falling in more than one class then the application fees is Rs. 5000 for each class. For the renewal of registration of collective trademark or certification trademark the renewal fees is Rs. 10000.
There is scope for Trademark Renewal Online in India even the expiration of the last registration, only if in case the application for renewal is filed within 6 months form the expiration of last registration. In such cases the fees for renewal is Rs. 3000.
There are restrictions on the number of times of renewal. The proprietor of the registered trademark may renewal the trademark at any number of times, from time to time. If a mark has become due for renewal and the registered proprietor has not complied with the provisions concerning renewal then the registration lapses.
For smooth assignment of trademark and renewal of trademark, without any hindrance, the help of a law firm like Company Vakil, a law firm which specializes in IP registration, can be sought.
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US Offers $5 Million Reward for N. Korea Hacker Information
Government-Sponsored Groups Have Attempted to Steal Nearly $2 Billion, US Officials Say Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) , Apurva Venkat (VenkatApurva) • April 16, 2020
The U.S. State Department is offering a $5 million reward for information about North Korean-sponsored hacking campaigns.
The reward was described in an advisory notice issued this week by the U.S. departments of Homeland Security, State and Treasury, as well as the FBI and the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency. The agencies portrayed the notice as technical guidance and threat intelligence for organizations, especially financial institutions, that might be targeted by North Korean-sponsored hacking.
"North Korea's malicious cyber activities threaten the United States and countries around the world, and, in particular, pose a significant threat to the integrity and stability of the international financial system," according to the advisory.
Some security analysts say this week's advisory was issued to help keep organizations aware of the ongoing threat posed by North Korean-linked groups, especially at a time when the world is consumed with the COVID-19 pandemic and security procedures may have become lax.
"We are the middle of another crisis right now, and you can never really afford to take your eye off North Korea - and lot of the incidents we have seen in the past seemed to have come out of nowhere," says John Hultquist, senior director of intelligence analysis at security firm FireEye. "They are still very aggressive, and it seems that they are still pursuing their programs."
Targeting Financial Institutions
In this week's advisory, officials note that hacking groups tied to North Korea have engaged in a range of cyber activity designed to steal money. These include theft and money laundering activities as well cryptojacking schemes designed to penetrate the networks of cryptocurrency exchanges to steal virtual currencies. The alert also notes that these hacking groups are loaning out their expertise to third parties with the blessing of the North Korean regime to carry out extortion schemes and collect even more money.
"Though we knew that these operators were involved in freelancing and other commercial activity such as software development, we had no evidence that they were carrying out intrusions and attacks on behalf of anyone other than the North Korean regime," Hultquist says.
Ongoing Campaigns
U.S. officials say North Korean-sponsored hackers have attempted to steal as much as $2 billion since agencies first started tracking these groups several years ago. This reflects similar findings in a United Nation's report published in March 2019 (see: UN Report: N. Korea Targets Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Banks).
The North Korean government, because it faces international economic sanctions, uses hacking schemes to raise funds for weapons programs and other purposes, according to U.S. and U.N. officials.
In March, the U.S. Justice Department indicted two Chinese nationals for allegedly laundering $100 million in cryptocurrency stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges by North Korean hackers in 2018 (see: 2 Chinese Nationals Indicted for Laundering Cryptocurrency).
Back in September 2019, the Treasury Department issued sanctions against several hacking groups with alleged ties to the North Korean government.
In this week's advisory, the agencies urge financial institutions and others to adopt better security measures to mitigate hacker risks. Those include:
Raising awareness of the threat that North Korean-sponsored hacking activities and cyber intrusions pose;
Sharing technical information with other organizations as well as government agencies;
Adopting best practices for security, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Cybersecurity Framework and the Department of Energy's Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model;
Notifying law enforcement of suspected hacking attempts;
Making sure anti-money laundering and other financial regulations are followed to cut down on the flow of illicit funds.
Hidden Cobra
This week's alert mainly focuses on the activities of an alleged state-sponsored hacking group known as Hidden Cobra or the Lazarus Group.
This group is suspected of carrying out some of the most well-known hacking schemes, including the Sony Pictures hack of 2014 as well as the Wannacry ransomware attacks of 2017.
In September 2018, U.S. prosecutors charged Park Jin Hyok of North Korea with being part of the group. They alleged that he was one of the main architects of WannaCry and other attacks, including those against Sony and Bangladesh Bank. North Korea and the U.S. do not have a formal extradition treaty, which means that it's unlikely that Hyok will ever face trial.
Seongsu Park, senior security researcher at Kaspersky, tells ISMG that Lazarus, as well as subgroups associated with it, remain active and continue to target financial institutions, especially cryptocurrency exchanges.
"We continue to track their activities, especially the BlueNoroff [a Lazarus subgroup] attacks that are targeted at cryptocurrency exchanges, fintech companies and other financial businesses," Park says. "Until recently, they have been attacking the financial sector through several campaigns, and the tools and methodologies they used are rapidly becoming sophisticated."
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They won't buy tickets to see women': 50 years on from a tennis rebellion
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If Kristy Pigeon's father had had his way, she certainly would not have been a tennis player. She would have spent her youth as a cheerleader with ample angora sweatshirts and then in college her priority would have been the pursuit of her future husband, of her future breadwinner.
"That's just another indication of how men viewed women back 50 years ago," Pigeon says in a phone interview. "I was teased when I would jog and be training for tennis. In high school … people thought it was not very attractive for women to want to pursue a sport."
Instead, Pigeon became one of the Original 9 – the group of female tennis players who boycotted and broke away from the male-dominant structures of international tennis on 23 September 1970. This week marks 50 years since Pigeon – along with Judy Tegart Dalton, Julie Heldman, Peaches Bartkowicz, Rosie Casals, Kerry Melville, Nancy Richey, Valerie Ziegenfuss and Billie Jean King – set women's tennis on the unique path to becoming the biggest sport in the world for their sex.
Inequality had long been soldered into the structures of tennis, but 1968 marked the dawn of the open era as professionals competed alongside amateurs in major tournaments for the first time and women's events rapidly lost their value. "For the first eight months there was a total of $5,000 in prize money for the women," says Julie Heldman. "There weren't enough tournaments for women to play and, with men, there was truly institutional sexism going on: 'People won't buy tickets to see women.'"
As discontent stirred, in August 1970 Jack Kramer, a former No 1 player and the promoter of the Pacific Southwest tournament, announced the men's winner would earn $12,500 and the women's only $1,500. Appalled, female players convened at the US Open and they emerged with Gladys Heldman, editor of World Tennis Magazine and one of the most influential women in tennis, as leader.
Heldman decided to host an eight-woman invitation tournament to coincide with the Pacific Southwest, simultaneously offering a fuller prize-money purse and boycotting the other event. "Each one of us at Houston was committed to the rebellion," says Julie Heldman, Gladys's daughter. "From the beginning there was this crazy group of women, who were all fine tennis players, who believed in standing up for something."
Their commitment was certainly to be tested. Shortly before the tournament began they each received calls from Stan Malless, the chairman of the sanctions committee at the United States Lawn Tennis Association (now the USTA), threatening suspension to any player who competed in the unsanctioned event. They defied those threats and, in order to wrestle players from the USLTA's clutches, Gladys Heldman offered them a one-week $1 deal so that all of them would become contract professionals for the week.
"I figured that if I did get suspended, for me personally, I could just go back and focus on my studies for a while until things died down and I would continue to make my statement and say: 'Well, this isn't right. We need to change this. Let's move forward.' To me, there was never a decision," says Pigeon.
The consequences were far more swift for the two Australian players, Dalton and Melville. Tennis Australia immediately refused to recognise them as players and deemed them ineligible to represent Australia. Only at the French Open in 1971 did the International Lawn Tennis Association (now the ITF) allow her to rejoin major competition.
"We couldn't do anything," says Dalton. "They wouldn't let us play in any tournaments New Zealand said we could play in Auckland, then the ILTF said they wanted to ban New Zealand.."
Dalton reached the final of the new tournament before losing against Rosie Casals and the event was a success softening the tournament sponsor, Virginia Slims cigarettes, which was owned by the tobacco behemoth Philip Morris, to the possibility of a full circuit. The players voted for Gladys Heldman to continue to lead them.
"I refer to it as the holy trinity," says Julie Heldman. "My mother was the organising person who got the players, who got the promoters who got the sponsors, who made things happen. There was Billie Jean King, who was the charismatic champion who was great with the press and so people came to watch her. And then my mother brought in Joe Cullman, CEO of Philip Morris. It was a fledgling tour."
Thus began the Virginia Slims Tour in 1971, initially an eight-tournament circuit which marked the first women-only tour. Philip Morris packaged the tour with a slick marketing veneer and the image of strong, confident athletes deeply contrasted with how people viewed women in regular life.
"We're talking about a different era," says Julie Heldman, "We're talking little housewife at home. We're talking even the men tennis players at the time, who were really, genuinely good people, had this institutionalised misogyny. Arthur Ashe, who later said: 'Oh boy was I wrong,' his view was that there should not be any money for women players. Men get married and men should be supporting their wives."
They would spend much of their time promoting women's tennis, which also meant promoting the concept of women playing competitive sports. "We tried to get on TV, morning programs," says Dalton. "We ran women's tennis clinics. We went into shopping malls and supermarkets and in the malls, we tried to sell tickets for the matches. I think that's why our camaraderie is so, so strong 50 years later."
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It is the third deepest MRT station with the deepest point at 28 metres below ground level.
Interchange by Milenko and Delia Prvacki can be found on the station walls along the linkway between North South Line and North East Line.
Singaporean artist Baet Yoke Kuan created a three dimensional relief work on the large columns that support the Circle Line sector of the station, inspired by the concept 'man and the environment'.
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Over 100 presentations were made in 2004 and 2005 to EAA Chapters, Flying Clubs, and Civil Organizations. Over $71,000 has been raised for ALS research. Please contact CarolAnn, below, if you are interested in a presentation in your area in 2007.
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The Clouds Of War Are Gathering: Russia – US Deadlocked, Threats Are Flying
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By Nick Stamatakis
Hope dies last as we all know… We were hoping that the lunatics comprising the so-called "foreign policy establishment" in Washington DC will take whatever "face-saving" deal offered to them in Geneva and Brussels by the Russians and make the best of it. So far it looks that not only they did not but they doubled down. How? Towards the end of December, they sent to Ukraine about $200 million worth of weapons – in addition to the $500 million sent earlier in the year… And in addition to the Bayraktar drones supplied by Turkey (did anyone in DC see how the Russian Pantsir system shot down these drones – literally like mosquitos – in Libya? Please take a look at this video…)…
In addition to the above, I will list below a number of momentous news pieces that will convince you of the criminal negligence of the idiot "deep state" actors in DC and of the inevitable fact that we have reached the end of the one-superpower status for the United States:
Russia won't rule out military deployment to Cuba, Venezuela (ABCNEWS): A senior Russian diplomat (Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov – who handled the Geneva and Brussels talks for Russia) has refused to rule out a Russian military deployment to Cuba and Venezuela if tensions with the United States over Ukraine and NATO's expansion in Eastern Europe mount. And he clearly made a comparison with the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis…
Zircon missiles were officially accepted for service. MOSCOW, January 13. / TASS /. Based on the results of state tests, the State Commission recommended that the Zircon hypersonic cruise missile be deployed on surface ships of the Russian Navy. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the military department. "Based on the results of state tests of the Zircon hypersonic missile from a surface carrier, the State Commission recommended that it be adopted by surface ships of the Russian Navy," he said. According to the interlocutor of the agency, tests of Zircon from an underwater carrier after two successful launches performed in the fall of 2021 should continue in 2024. EXPLANATION: Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said in a cruelly cynical manner that "aircraft carriers are of no use anymore we can send them at the bottom of the ocean at will…" In DC however the "war party" needs these behemoths to keep milking them for money; they do not care they are mostly useless anymore – except for lovely cruises in the Pacific and the Mediterranean…
3. If you want to get a taste of the real status of US-Russia affairs – one step before the war – as well as to the professionalism of Russian diplomats please take the time to listen to Russian Deputy FM Grushko tell it like it is… Quite sobering…
4. After failing for over 2 decades to develop advanced missile technology, what is the "deep state"/war party going to do? They tried to approach Russian scientists and steal the technology – to no avail… It's a hard pill to swallow… Their main policy is to impose sanctions on Russia – but this policy will fail before it produces any results and will send Russia in a close alliance with China – truly a death blow on any chance the US has to emerge victorious (whatever that means in the sick heads of the "deep staters"). After their solid victory in Syria, Russia has (in less than a year) consolidated its positions in Armenia /Azerbaijan, Belarus, and now Kazakhstan, while they are as strong as ever in Central Asia, after the shameful American departure from Afghanistan…
BELOW IS THE NEWS FROM ABCNEWS
SOURCE: ABC NEWS
Russia won't rule out military deployment to Cuba, Venezuela
A senior Russian diplomat has refused to rule out a Russian military deployment to Cuba and Venezuela if tensions with the United States over Ukraine and NATO's expansion in Eastern Europe mount
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press
MOSCOW — Russia raised the stakes Thursday in its dispute with the West over Ukraine and NATO's expansion when a top diplomat refused to rule out a military deployment to Cuba and Venezuela if tensions with the United States escalate.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said he could "neither confirm nor exclude" the possibility of Russia sending military assets to Latin America if the U.S. and its allies don't curtail their military activities on Russia's doorstep.
"Hi It all depends on the action by our U.S. counterparts," the minister said in an interview with Russian television network RTVI, citing Russian President Vladimir Putin's warning that Moscow could take unspecified "military-technical measures" if the U.S. and its allies fail to heed its demands.
Ryabkov led a Russian delegation in talks with the U.S. on Monday. The negotiations in Geneva and a related NATO-Russia meeting in Brussels took place in response to a significant Russian troop buildup near Ukraine that the West fears might be a prelude to an invasion.
Russia, which annexed Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula in 2014, has denied having plans to attack the neighboring country. The Kremlin reacted to the suggestion by accusing NATO of threatening its territory and demanding that the military alliance never embrace Ukraine or any other ex-Soviet nations as new members.
Washington and its allies firmly rejected the demand this week as a nonstarter, but the NATO and Russian delegations agreed to leave the door open to further talks on arms control and other issues intended to reduce the potential for hostilities.
A senior Biden administration official suggested Thursday that Ryabkov's statement about Cuba and Venezuela had not changed Washington's calculations.
"We are not going to respond to bluster. If Russia actually started moving in that direction, we would deal with it decisively," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing negotiations.
Ryabkov last month compared the current tensions over Ukraine with the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis — when the Soviet Union deployed missiles to Cuba and the U.S. imposed a naval blockade of the island.
That crisis ended after U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed that Moscow would withdraw its missiles in exchange for Washington's pledge not to invade Cuba and the removal of U.S. missiles from Turkey.
Putin, in seeking to curtail the West's military activity in Eastern Europe, has argued that NATO could use Ukrainian territory to deploy missiles capable of reaching Moscow in just five minutes. He warned that Russia could gain a similar capability by deploying warships armed with the latest Zircon hypersonic cruise missile in neutral waters.
Soon after his first election in 2000, Putin ordered the closure of a Soviet-built military surveillance facility in Cuba as he sought to improve ties with Washington. Moscow has intensified contacts with Cuba in recent years as tensions with the U.S. and its allies mounted.
In December 2018, Russia briefly dispatched a pair of its nuclear-capable Tu-160 bombers to Venezuela in a show of support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro amid Western pressure.
Ryabkov said a refusal by the U.S. and its allies to consider the key Russian demand for guarantees against the alliance's expansion to Ukraine and other ex-Soviet nations makes it hard to discuss the confidence-building steps that Washington says it's ready to negotiate.
"The U.S. wants to conduct a dialogue on some elements of the security situation … to ease the tensions and then continue the process of geopolitical and military development of the new territories, coming closer to Moscow," he said. "We have nowhere to retreat."
Ryabkov described U.S. and NATO military deployments and drills near Russia's territory as extremely destabilizing. He said U.S. nuclear-capable strategic bombers flew just 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Russia's border.
"We are constantly facing a provocative military pressure intended to test our strength," he said, adding that he wondered how Americans would react "if our bombers fly within 15 kilometers off some U.S. bases on the East or the West Coast."
The high-stakes diplomacy this week took place as an estimated 100,000 Russian troops with tanks and other heavy weapons are massed near Ukraine's eastern border. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday rebuffed the West's calls for a troop pullback from areas near Ukraine.
"It's hardly possible for NATO to dictate to us where we should move our armed forces on Russian territory," he said.
Peskov said this week's talks produced "some positive elements and nuances," but he characterized them as unsuccessful overall.
"The talks were initiated to receive specific answers to concrete principal issues that were raised, and disagreements remained on those principal issues, which is bad," Peskov said in a conference call with reporters.
He warned of a complete rupture in U.S.-Russia relations if proposed sanctions targeting Putin and other top civilian and military leaders are adopted. The measures, proposed by Senate Democrats, would also target leading leading Russian financial institutions if Moscow sends troops into Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov likewise denounced the proposed sanctions as a reflection of U.S. "arrogance," adding that Moscow expects a written response to its demands from the U.S. and NATO next week in order to mull further steps.
Tensions revolving around Ukraine and Russia's demands on the West again appeared on the table at a Thursday meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Vienna.
Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, who assumed the position of the OSCE's chairman-in-office, noted in his opening speech that "the risk of war in the OSCE area is now greater than ever before in the last 30 years."
The tensions over Ukraine also figured high on the agenda of a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brest, France. Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said it's important "for Putin to understand that the military threats, the game he's playing, the way he's trying to take us back to the darkest days of the Cold War, is totally unacceptable."
The EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, reiterated that "any further aggression against Ukraine will have massive consequences and severe costs for Russia." Borrell said the 27-country bloc is providing 31 million euros ($35.5 million) in logistical assistance to the Ukrainian army and is preparing to send a mission to help the country counter cyberattacks.
Russia seized the Crimean Peninsula after the ouster of Ukraine's Moscow-friendly leader and in 2014 also threw its weight behind a separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine. More than 14,000 people have been killed in nearly eight years of fighting between the Russia-backed rebels and Ukrainian forces.
Asked whether he's worried about possible cofrontation, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said "it is absolutely essential that the dialogue that is taking place find a way allowing for de-escalation of tension … to avoid any kind of confrontation that will be a disaster for Europe and for the world."
Commenting on the possibility of Russia deploying its military assets to Cuba and Venezuela, Guterres said: "We have seen rhetoric escalation in the recent past. What we need is to make sure that we can create conditions for peace and stability in Europe."
Emily Schultheis reported from Vienna. Lorne Cook in Brussels, Edith M. Lederer at the United Nastions and Colleen Long in Washington contributed to this report.
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Dorothy Winans 'Dede' Davis had anxious, fussed, and obsessed for the final time. Her center stopped beating in a healthy of hysteria, quickly after her wobbly legs gave manner. within the wake of his mother's demise, Tom Davis knew something: Helplessly self-absorbed and significantly obsessive compulsive, Dede led a tormented existence. She had moved from nursing domestic to psychological establishment in recent times, yet what really prompted her loss of life? the tale of a loving relatives coming to grips with its personal fragilities, A Legacy of Madness relays Tom Davis's trip to discover, and finally comprehend, the heritage of psychological ailment that led generations of his suburban American kinfolk to their death. Investigating his mother's heritage resulted in that of Davis's grandfather, a best administrator at one of many biggest psychiatric hospitals within the state; his great-grandfather who died of self-inflicted fuel asphyxiation in the course of the melancholy; and his great-great grandmother who, together with her eldest son, accomplished suicide one tragic day. finally, 4 generations of kin confirmed transparent symptoms of melancholy, obsessive-compulsive disease, and alcoholism--often mistreated health problems that try one's skill to cope.
via this intimate memoir we subscribe to Davis on a private odyssey to make sure that the 5th generation--he and his siblings--recover their relations legacy, via not just surviving their very own psychological well-being problems yet by way of getting the assistance they should lead fit, balanced lives. finally, we witness Davis's robust transition as he makes peace with the earlier and heals via forgiveness and compassion for his family--and himself.
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Primarily scientific in its strategy, Psychic Retreats discusses the matter of sufferers who're 'stuck' and with whom it's tough to make significant touch. John Steiner, an skilled psychoanalyst, makes use of new advancements in Kleinian thought to provide an explanation for how this occurs. He examines the best way item relationships and defences could be prepared into complicated constructions which result in a character and an research changing into inflexible and glued, with little chance for improvement or swap.
Why has Heinrich Racker's unique paintings on transference and countertransference confirmed so precious? With a passionate challenge for the sphere created by way of the assembly of analyst and sufferer, and an abiding curiosity within the significant significance of transference and countertransference in analytic perform, Robert Oelsner has introduced jointly the idea and paintings of seventeen eminent analysts from Europe, the USA, and Latin the United States.
Ethnicity has also been examined to determine whether some racial groups are more predisposed to manic-depressive illness than others. Past studies suggested that blacks were less likely to be diagnosed with manic-depressive illness, and conversely more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, because of racial bias (either conscious or unconscious) on the part of mental health professionals. But neither the ECA survey nor the NCS found this to be the case; both reported that blacks and whites had approximately the same prevalence of manic-depressive illness.
This study became well known for its attempts to identify genes that predispose individuals to or cause manic-depressive illness. Less well known are the prevalence data from this study. 4 per 1,000—both figures being markedly below national prevalence estimates derived from surveys such as the ECA and the NCS. Speculations about the reasons for these low prevalence rates have included genetics, psychosocial factors, and differential exposure to infectious agents. If we could understand why groups such as the Hutterites and the Amish have such a low prevalence of manic-depressive illness, we would be much closer to understanding this disease.
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The best time to hear of your adult children's adventures — the really exciting ones that make good stories — is after they are home and — your parent's heart says — safe. When my son Jordan Henderson announced to his dad, Steve, and me that he wanted to visit Colombia, where we had bicycled through 30 years before, we tried to be laudably cool, calm, and chill.
After all, when we put our own parents through this, there were no cell phones or social media, so any worries they had weren't allayed for weeks. Steve and I experienced relief — or anxiety, depending upon the story — instantly.
"Learning a second language and traveling abroad is something I always wanted to do," Jordan says, mirroring our own reasons for traveling. That's great, we nodded. Immersion is the best method. For Jordan, whose Spanish at that time would generously be called embryonic, this meant flying to Medellín, a city of 2.4 million that in our younger days was known as the drug cartel capital of the world.
On the month-long trip to Colombia in 2015 and a second, three-month journey in 2016-17, Jordan immersed himself in both the Spanish language and the culture. An artist like his father, he set up his easel in public parks (when he was in cities) and along pathways (in the country), attracting genial attention from passersby who felt free to comment upon his art and growing language skills.
"In Pamplona, a town of 60,000 with beautiful churches and cathedrals throughout, people seemed genuinely pleased to see that I admired and was drawing the church that they themselves attended," Jordan says.
For a month, Jordan spent three hours a day intensely studying Spanish with Juan Carlos, who 30 years ago was a slender young man just out of high school, and now, mysteriously like Steve and me, was in his 50s. One on one teaching from Juan Carlos's universal language institute catapulted Jordan's Spanish to new competency, and we didn't worry (as much) when he announced plans to travel by bus through the country, staying with new friends along the way.
"I visited Tauramena, Medellín, Bucaramanga, Yopal, Riohacha, Barranquilla, and Cartagena," Jordan says, listing out cities and towns of Colombia that range from metropolitan centers to small hamlets in the llanos, flat grasslands that are the equivalent of America's Wild West.
In the llanos, Jordan encountered distinctive cattle of Colombia that are a mixture of European and Indian breeds. He was enthralled, snapping reference photos and doing plein air studies in the field.
"Cows are a fantastic drawing subject," he enthuses. "Sometimes they regard you with great suspicion; other times they barely manage to give you an uninterested gaze before they return to their grazing, as if you are the most boring thing in the world.
In the botanical gardens of Medellín, he met a different sort of animal, an iguana.
As in Pamplona while drawing churches, Jordan attracted attention wherever he went, the lanky, long-haired foreigner who looked like he could be Dutch or American, and always carried a sketchbook. Visiting a village school near Cúcuta, on the border of Venezuela and Colombia, Jordan found himself invited by his host's father to a small radio station, where he was interviewed as "the visiting foreigner." In Medellín, he was "the jogging foreigner," and regulars at the city parks, some of whom a mother would classify as less than savory, assessed his accent and affably corrected grammar.
"I am drawn by the opportunity to be completely surrounded by another language, culture, and way of thinking that is different from what I am used to," Jordan says, explaining that future plans include further travel, as well as concerted drawing, painting, and artistic pursuits.
"I am fortunate to have a highly skilled, talented artist as my father, and I will make the most of the opportunity to learn from him.
He's his father's son all right.
Jordan Henderson is the Featured Pacific Northwest Artist at Wenaha Gallery from Monday, July 3 through Saturday, July 29, 2017. There will be a special Art Show Saturday, July 15, over Alumni Weekend. Meet and greet Jordan, see his art, and ask about his adventures from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the gallery. Free refreshments provided. | {
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Mostly Daily Thoughts: Say Hello to your New Cellmate Mrs. Clinton !!!
So I'm perusing the net tonight (on the rare moments recently when I have the time) and I came across this.
It appears the worst Senator in the US has apparently been a naughty-girl !! IF the story proves true ( and God I hope it does). We could be seeing the end of Hillary's Presidential campaign...the end of her Senate career... and the beginning of her stay at a federal penitentiary.
It appears that the fundraiser for her Senate campaign that a donor essentially footed the bill for was in fact coordinated (in part) by Clinton. Additionally, the tape implicates her directly soliciting entertainers (which therefore provided "in-kind" contributions by performing). Helping people illegally contribute amounts exceeding $25,000 is a big no-no according to federal election law (at least the last time I looked).
Peter Franklin Paul, in a civil fraud suit filed against Bill and Hillary Clinton, claims the former president destroyed his entertainment company to get out of a $17 million deal in which Clinton promised to promote the firm in exchange for stock, cash options and massive contributions to his wife's 2000 campaign. Paul contends he was directed by the Clintons and Democratic Party leaders to foot the bill for a lavish Hollywood gala and fund-raiser prior to the 2000 election that eventually cost him nearly $2 million.
Clinton's campaign has counted the more than $800,000 of in-kind contributions it reported in a 2006 amended FEC report for the Hollywood Gala as indirect, or "soft money," given to the New York Senate 2000 Committee, a state account that was run jointly by Clinton, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the New York State Democratic Party.
She'd better hope she gets the same sweetheart deal Sandy Berger received !!
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Darius Garland drops 32 PTS on Spurs 😳
ESPN January 14, 2022
Darius Garland had 32 PTS, 4 REB & 8 AST for the Cleveland Cavaliers in their win over the San Antonio Spurs.
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Q: how much bigger is a 24" monitor compared to a 20"? Silly question I know, but I just want to know how to measure it.
I believe the measurement is taken diagonally? i.e. from the bottom left to the top right corner of the monitor?
A: It depends on whether you are referring to CRT or LCD.
Back in the dark days of yore where we are all just mindless cretins, monitor manufacturers upped the number games by marketing their monitors as 15", 17", etc... and the measurement (diagonally) includes the monitor bezel.
With the rise of the Internet (and hence, the proletariats), monitor manufacturers when they state the dimensions, are now officially measuring just the visible diagonal width of only the screen itself, and does not include the bezel anymore. This is to ensure the senior management does not get lynched by mobs.
A: Diagonal is correct.
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Brandi Glanville Makes a Public Apology for Her Molestation Joke
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By Kristine Francis On Jan 17, 2014
If you haven't heard about it before- the queen of inappropriate had gone too far with her comedy hour. Haters came out in droves to attack Brandi Glanville for her molestation "joke". Glanville joked, "I, too, wanted to be molested as a child and was passed up." She added, "My sister got felt up by a principal, and nothing for me: He didn't even look at me sideways." Brandi even shares that "Now looking back, I'm super-bummed… Super-hot and they passed me up!" She said it all as part of her skit for her podcast, but no one was left laughing afterwards.
Brandi has been known for the controversial and sometimes downright stupid things she said. She even created career around it through her best-selling book. So no I was not expecting her to create a podcast simply to be nice. If you've watched her The Real Houseiwves of Beverly Hills then you know what she's about. She's the one that goes crazy every once in a while that either you hate her or like Lisa Vander Pump decided on – you treat her like an animal at the zoo. Dumb, but there for your entertainment.
Anyways Glanville did make a public apology once the backlash wasn't going away. According to E online: Glanville apologized for her insensitive jokes via Twitter on Thursday, Jan. 16. "I was interviewing stand up comedians for my podcast! Had to go through their stand up routines to know what 2 talk about!" She continued, "I'm sorry if I offended anyone with @Mrjimflorentine @PodcastOne interview My show is a COMEDY based entertainment show for adults I'm sorry." Glanville told one Twitter user that she is "still learning how to interview & learning what I can & cant say."
I don't think the joke went too far as long we remember the context. Those stand up comedians can be tough and they have zero filter. Brandi was merely playing along. What do you think? Should Brandi have never said it?
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IfA students receive research, teaching accolades
by Roy Gal | Jun 15, 2021 | Awards, Current
Graduate students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are raking in recognition for their excellence in research and teaching.
Kalani senior's astronomy research proposal shines
by Roy Gal | Apr 27, 2021 | Awards, Current, News
The phrase, "out-of-this-world" has taken on a whole new meaning for Ashley Kaya.
Astronomy student's fiery 'Old Faithful' discovery earns national award
by Roy Gal | Mar 3, 2021 | Awards, Current, Discoveries, Galaxies
Unraveling an explosive mystery 570 million light-years away from Earth is an accomplishment belonging to the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy graduate student Anna Payne.
NASA contract awarded to UH Institute for Astronomy for observatory management
by Roy Gal | Jul 12, 2019 | Awards, News, UH Press Release
NASA has awarded a contract to the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy to continue to manage and operate the agency's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Maunakea.
UH astronomer earns national award for solar research
by Roy Gal | Apr 25, 2019 | Awards, News, The Sun, UH Press Release
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded an assistant astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy one of its most prestigious awards for junior faculty.
University of Hawaiʻi Astronomer Awarded Prestigious Sloan Foundation Fellowship
by Roy Gal | Feb 19, 2019 | Awards, Exoplanets, News, Stars
Daniel Huber, an Assistant Astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA), has been selected for a prestigious 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship, one of 126 recipients across the U.S. and Canada.Awarded annually since 1955, the two-year... | {
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