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This prediction has failed. Kavanaugh is on the way to being confirmed.
I'm not 100% certain of that. I'm still convinced there will be a last minute snag. I might be wrong on that one detail in the end, but most of it will still occur; especially the shutting down of the Mueller probe and Trump's assassination.
He was just officially confirmed. Do you think this changes the dynamic as to the number of seats the GOP picks up?
Sorry this took so long to post. It was in the spam filter and I had to fish it out. Yes, it does. The GOP will likely split the Senate with Democrats and they will lose control of the House. The key demographic flip is white women who will go from Red to Blue. Hope this helps.
Hi, so I have a couple of questions.
1) So, did you see this story about Soros?
How does this story relate to the web of danger?
2) Based on story 1, does this mean the Dem Speaker's life will be in danger the way you said the Republican Speaker's life was going to be in 2019?
3) Also, I have a theory about why Kavanaugh may have gone through. I suspect that if Moore had been elected to the senate in 2017 it would've caused a schism in the GOP between the moderate and populist wings of the party, this schism would've lead to Flake & Collins voting no on Kavanaugh and sinking his nomination. However, since that schism never happened, they rubber-stamped Kavanaugh. What do you think about this theory?
To follow up on my previous comment, Obama & Bill & Hillary also just received explosive devices in the mail.
1) It very much relates to the web of danger and it is solid proof that my worries were, in fact, valid. These are all thwarted attempts now, but as I mentioned in another blog post, they can't stop every one. Someone is going to die. I'm not sure who it's going to be (except Trump), but it will be someone of prominence. I wrote in a blog that this would stop when congress begins to heed to the will of the people. I'm not sure what will make them see this, but it might be a while before it's understood and acted upon. In the meantime, expect more of this before and after the election.
2) I said in the speaker post a few years ago that if Nancy Pelosi retook the gavel, that she would also face assassination. That hasn't changed with the likelihood of Democrats taking the House on the up and up.
3) Kavanaugh eventually went through because of bribes and threats from lobbyist groups. Both Collins and Flake are retiring and they need employment once they leave the Senate. Since neither has any legitimate skills outside of government (despite being members of the anti-government party), their only real job prospects come from taking up positions at lobbying firms. These firms want Kavanaugh and made it clear that they wouldn't hire them if they didn't vote for him. That's all that it came down to. I'd also like to remind you that this was the thinnest approval of a justice in US history. If this were under normal rules, Trump would have approved zero justices by this point in his presidency. The fact that he's approved anyone at all is because of rule changes that are outside the realm of normality. Expect this type of flaunting of the rules to increase in the future, especially to stop the Mueller probe in the fall. While the House could always vote to impeach, the senate won't remove him, especially if the information is never shared with congress. This, plus a number of other issues, put Trump's life in peril by the end of next year.
Why is it that these so called psychics are so anti-Trump? I will do a prediction, Trump will be victorious and the leftist maniacs will cry like babies. Now. I am done with your pitiful crap!
Most psychics are "anti-Trump" because we can see what he's doing and our moral conscious is outraged. Unlike other psychics, however, I am not a partisan and have been just as outraged at Democrats in the past as I have Republicans. Also, I am entirely objective in how I call future events. I don't make predictions based on who I think should win, but where the senses are leading towards. I called Trump's victory when many other psychics didn't. That was an assessment of the temperature of the country and not my personal feelings. I also believed that Republicans would stave off the blue wave next month, but they foolishly fell into the trap laid before them by Christine Ford and now they are doomed to lose seats the way they did after Anita Hill's testimony against Clarence Thomas. You can be done with psychic predictions or not, but I hope you promise not to cry when my visions turn out to be accurate.
I do not feel good about America's future. I believe that we are going to see massive voter suppression in November by the GOP in states where Republicans control the statehouse. We may also see other forms of cheating by the GOP as well which will reduce Democratic gains. I am 100% certain that Donald Trump seeks at any and all costs to destroy our republic and make America a totalitarian dictatorship. I can see clearly that Donald Trump has deplorable moral character. This makes any dictatorship he heads especially oppressive and horrible. I am not a psychic. I say all this by simply observing what Donald Trump does.
All of what he does should disturb anyone with a moral conscious. However, it's fortunate that the Nazi tendencies of the GOP came out in him rather than a more competent fascist because it'll be much easier to prevent in the future once he is removed. He'll have stigmatized the far right to America and regrouping will not happen. In the meantime, while it is true that the GOP is engaging in massive voter suppression, they made a grave error in confirming Kavanaugh on the thinnest of margins. They have depressed the turnout for their own base while infuriating white women, a demographic that is not so easy to suppress at the polls. The attempts to stop minorities to vote won't matter if white women flip in key districts. That's why the originally foreseen red wave is not going to happen. While I don't believe the Democrats will take the senate (they could split), the house is theirs and with it the beginnings of the end of the Trump administration. Also don't get forget the enemies that Trump has made in the intelligence agencies. They don't answer to public opinion and they will retaliate when he least expects it. | {
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John was a disciple of Jesus, the son of Zebedee and Salome, and the younger brother of James the greater. Jesus called the two "Boanerges", or sons of thunder. The brothers worked with their father Zebedee as fishermen, with Simon and Andrew and probably in Bethsaida or the surrounding neighborhood. As the owners of their own boat (or boats) and the masters of hired servants, the family evidently occupied a position of great importance. They were sufficiently prosperous to have hired servants.
John was the younger son, probably younger than the Lord and the other apostles. Salome appears as one of the women who followed the Lord and "ministered" to him of their substance. Salome seems to have been a sister of Mary making John a cousin of Jesus. Besides his fishing business in Capernaum, he had a house in Jerusalem and was a personal acquaintance of the high priest. He may also have been kin to John the Baptist. Thunder in the Hebrew idiom is the voice of God and appears to have given swift, startling vehement utterance to the divine truth which they felt within them. The brothers were at first disciples of John the Baptist, and afterwards, with their friends, Peter and Andrew, followed Jesus. They were called the day Jesus came down from the mountain.
After Pentecost, John appears with Peter in Jerusalem and then in Samaria. When Paul goes to Jerusalem in 49 to attend the council of the Apostles he finds John there. It is probable that John evangelized Palestine for 12 years. After this we do not find the guardian of Jesus' mother in Palestine again; probably he left in 57, for when Paul returns to Jerusalem he makes no mention, the later tradition places him at Asia Minor. John and all of the other apostles, like Peter, were married men. John was the acknowledged head of the Christians in Asia. . The name sons of thunder, their joint petition for precedence, their passionate request to call fire from heaven, the energy of the Apocalypse, Cerinthus - all show him the spirit of an eagle, not the dove.. Yet the Master made him the "disciple Jesus loved." The beloved disciple, John was a sensitive type of person, imaginative, poetic, a dreamer of dreams and often saw visions.
John made Jerusalem his Headquarters, caring for Jesus' mother until her death. During the persecution of Herod Antipas, the Christians dispersed and John went to Asia Minor and preached. He wrote the gospel at Ephesus and lived there until the reign of Trajan.
John wrote the gospel about early 90's, the Apocalypse possibly AD 96, and the epistles even later toward the end of his life. The fourth Gospel stresses the pre-existent Son of God, where His deity rather than his humanity is stressed. John traces the life of Jesus, but in its own original way. The gospel undertakes to show not simply that Jesus was the Messiah, as Matthew does, but that he is a spiritual being of a higher order than man. It is not a compilation, not a rewriting, but a fresh creation by a great spiritual genius. There is a tradition that both the gospel and the Apocalypse were written at Patmos and published at Ephesus. I John was apparently written from Ephesus. Eusebius relates that 2 and 3rd john were written after the apocalypse. I John was recognized as a Circular Letter of the apostle to the Churches around Ephesus.. Never has the doctrine of heavenly love perfected itself in this way, of a love working in stillness, ever unwearied, never exhausted, so thoroughly proved, and approved itself, as in his epistles. Truth, Life, Light-are realities, and the only realities, because they are inherent in the Logos.. They are men only because He is in men, and they are the only Life, the only Light, the only Truth.
He lived a full life of apostolic activity, appointing and reproving Bishops, visiting and directing churches, and yet finding time to care for individual souls. Loving the young and willing to brave any danger in order to rescue them from temptation. He used to make missionary journeys also to neighboring Gentile cities, in some places to appoint Bishops, and in some to set in order whole churches. The churches of Smyrna, Pergamos, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea, and Thyatira were founded by him. There is a tradition that he played with a tame partridge.
Polycarp was his friend and hearer, Ignatius is said to be a hearer. Papias 70-155 a pupil. Among his pupils, Polycarp became bishop of Smyrna; Papias, Hieapolis; and Ignatius, Antioch.
Rather than compromise with emperor worship, he preferred banishment to hard labor. His enemies once plunged him into a cauldron of boiling oil before the Latin Gate at Rome but he miraculously came out more vigorous and youthful than before. There is a story of an attempt to kill him with a poisoned chalice, but that "it was rendered harmless, he gave the sign of the cross and the poison fled as a little asp." Under Domitian's reign of 81-96, John was banished to the rocky island of Patmos in the Aegean Sea. Patmos was hard labor in a quarry. Upon the death of the tyrant Domitian, his successor, Nerva recalled him. He passed over to Ephesus from Patmos during the reign of Trajan.
When he was no longer a Son of Thunder or "Eagle of Christ", when he was a weak and worn old man, feeble voice and trembling hands, he still lifted them up to bless. A beloved and venerated old man, His slightest words were treasured up because he was the last of living men who had seen the Lord. He tarried at Ephesus to extreme old age, his home had already become a center of the Christian Church and his feeble body could only with difficulty be carried to church in the arms of his disciples. John in his last years was unable to give utterance to many words, he simply said children, love one another. Why? In John's words, "if only this is done it is enough." As far as they knew, he died quietly at Ephesus. He lived to so great an age that people said he would never die. John died perhaps in the 7th year of Trajan AD 104. | {
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Q: Which characters are valid in CSS class names/selectors? What characters/symbols are allowed within the CSS class selectors?
I know that the following characters are invalid, but what characters are valid?
~ ! @ $ % ^ & * ( ) + = , . / ' ; : " ? > < [ ] \ { } | ` #
A: I've answered your question in-depth at CSS character escape sequences. The article also explains how to escape any character in CSS (and JavaScript), and I made a handy tool for this as well. From that page:
If you were to give an element an ID value of ~!@$%^&*()_+-=,./';:"?><[]{}|`#, the selector would look like this:
CSS:
<style>
#\~\!\@\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\_\+-\=\,\.\/\'\;\:\"\?\>\<\[\]\\\{\}\|\`\#
{
background: hotpink;
}
</style>
JavaScript:
<script>
// document.getElementById or similar
document.getElementById('~!@$%^&*()_+-=,./\';:"?><[]\\{}|`#');
// document.querySelector or similar
$('#\\~\\!\\@\\$\\%\\^\\&\\*\\(\\)\\_\\+-\\=\\,\\.\\/\\\'\\;\\:\\"\\?\\>\\<\\[\\]\\\\\\{\\}\\|\\`\\#');
</script>
A: Read the W3C spec. (this is CSS 2.1; find the appropriate version for your assumption of browsers)
relevant paragraph:
In CSS, identifiers (including
element names, classes, and IDs in
selectors) can contain only the
characters [a-z0-9] and ISO 10646
characters U+00A1 and higher, plus the
hyphen (-) and the underscore (_);
they cannot start with a digit, or a
hyphen followed by a digit.
Identifiers can also contain escaped
characters and any ISO 10646 character
as a numeric code (see next item). For
instance, the identifier "B&W?" may be
written as "B&W?" or "B\26 W\3F".
As @mipadi points out in Kenan Banks's answer, there's this caveat, also in the same webpage:
In CSS, identifiers may begin with '-'
(dash) or '_' (underscore). Keywords
and property names beginning with '-'
or '_' are reserved for
vendor-specific extensions. Such
vendor-specific extensions should have
one of the following formats:
'-' + vendor identifier + '-' + meaningful name
'_' + vendor identifier + '-' + meaningful name
Example(s):
For example, if XYZ organization added
a property to describe the color of
the border on the East side of the
display, they might call it
-xyz-border-east-color.
Other known examples:
-moz-box-sizing
-moz-border-radius
-wap-accesskey
An initial dash or underscore is
guaranteed never to be used in a
property or keyword by any current or
future level of CSS. Thus typical CSS
implementations may not recognize such
properties and may ignore them
according to the rules for handling
parsing errors. However, because the
initial dash or underscore is part of
the grammar, CSS 2.1 implementers
should always be able to use a
CSS-conforming parser, whether or not
they support any vendor-specific
extensions.
Authors should avoid vendor-specific
extensions
A: My understanding is that the underscore is technically valid. Check out:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/underscores_in_class_and_id_names
"...errata to the specification published in early 2001 made underscores legal for the first time."
The article linked above says never use them, then gives a list of browsers that don't support them, all of which are, in terms of numbers of users at least, long-redundant.
A: I would not recommend to use anything except A-z, _- and 0-9, while it's just easier to code with those symbols. Also do not start classes with - while those classes are usually browser-specific flags. To avoid any issues with IDE autocompletion, less complexity when you may need to generate those class names with some other code for whatever reason. Maybe some transpiling software may not work, etc., etc.
Yet CSS is quite loose on this. You can use any symbol, and even emoji works.
<style>
. {
border: 2px solid blue;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
<div class="">
</div>
A: For HTML5 and CSS 3, classes and IDs can start with numbers.
A: We can use all characters in a class name. Even characters like # and .. We just have to escape them with \ (backslash).
.test\.123 {
color: red;
}
.test\#123 {
color: blue;
}
.test\@123 {
color: green;
}
.test\<123 {
color: brown;
}
.test\`123 {
color: purple;
}
.test\~123 {
color: tomato;
}
<div class="test.123">test.123</div>
<div class="test#123">test#123</div>
<div class="test@123">test@123</div>
<div class="test<123">test<123</div>
<div class="test`123">test`123</div>
<div class="test~123">test~123</div>
A: The complete regular expression is:
-?(?:[_a-z]|[\200-\377]|\\[0-9a-f]{1,6}(\r\n|[ \t\r\n\f])?|\\[^\r\n\f0-9a-f])(?:[_a-z0-9-]|[\200-\377]|\\[0-9a-f]{1,6}(\r\n|[ \t\r\n\f])?|\\[^\r\n\f0-9a-f])*
So all of your listed characters, except "-" and "_" are not allowed if used directly. But you can encode them using a backslash foo\~bar or using the Unicode notation foo\7E bar.
A: To my surprise most answers here are wrong. It turns out that:
Any character except NUL is allowed in CSS class names in CSS. (If CSS contains NUL (escaped or not), the result is undefined. [CSS-characters])
Mathias Bynens' answer links to explanation and demos showing how to use these names. Written down in CSS code, a class name may need escaping, but that doesn't change the class name. E.g. an unnecessarily over-escaped representation will look different from other representations of that name, but it still refers to the same class name.
Most other (programming) languages don't have that concept of escaping variable names ("identifiers"), so all representations of a variable have to look the same. This is not the case in CSS.
Note that in HTML there is no way to include space characters (space, tab, line feed, form feed and carriage return) in a class name attribute, because they already separate classes from each other.
So, if you need to turn a random string into a CSS class name: take care of NUL and space, and escape (accordingly for CSS or HTML). Done.
A: For those looking for a workaround, you can use an attribute selector, for instance, if your class begins with a number. Change:
.000000-8{background:url(../../images/common/000000-0.8.png);} /* DOESN'T WORK!! */
to this:
[class="000000-8"]{background:url(../../images/common/000000-0.8.png);} /* WORKS :) */
Also, if there are multiple classes, you will need to specify them in selector or use the ~= operator:
[class~="000000-8"]{background:url(../../images/common/000000-0.8.png);}
Sources:
*
*https://benfrain.com/when-and-where-you-can-use-numbers-in-id-and-class-names/
*Is there a workaround to make CSS classes with names that start with numbers valid?
*https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Attribute_selectors
A: You can check directly at the CSS grammar.
Basically1, a name must begin with an underscore (_), a hyphen (-), or a letter(a–z), followed by any number of hyphens, underscores, letters, or numbers. There is a catch: if the first character is a hyphen, the second character must2 be a letter or underscore, and the name must be at least 2 characters long.
-?[_a-zA-Z]+[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*
In short, the previous rule translates to the following, extracted from the W3C specification:
In CSS, identifiers (including element names, classes, and IDs in
selectors) can contain only the characters [a-z0-9] and ISO 10646
characters U+00A0 and higher, plus the hyphen (-) and the underscore
(_); they cannot start with a digit, or a hyphen followed by a digit.
Identifiers can also contain escaped characters and any ISO 10646
character as a numeric code (see next item). For instance, the
identifier "B&W?" may be written as "B&W?" or "B\26 W\3F".
Identifiers beginning with a hyphen or underscore are typically reserved for browser-specific extensions, as in -moz-opacity.
1 It's all made a bit more complicated by the inclusion of escaped Unicode characters (that no one really uses).
2 Note that, according to the grammar I linked, a rule starting with two hyphens, e.g., --indent1, is invalid. However, I'm pretty sure I've seen this in practice.
A: Going off of Kenan Banks's answer, you can use the following two regex matches to make a string valid:
[^a-z0-9A-Z_-]
This is a reverse match that selects anything that isn't a letter, number, dash or underscore for easy removal.
^-*[0-9]+
This matches 0 or 1 dashes followed by 1 or more numbers at the beginning of a string, also for easy removal.
How I use it in PHP:
// Make alphanumeric with dashes and underscores (removes all other characters)
$class = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9A-Z_-]/", "", $class);
// Classes only begin with an underscore or letter
$class = preg_replace("/^-*[0-9]+/", "", $class);
// Make sure the string is two or more characters long
return 2 <= strlen($class) ? $class : '';
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On October 13th 2006, one month to the day after Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg address of September 13th 2006, 38 Islamic authorities and scholars from around the world, representing all denominations and schools of thought, joined together to deliver an answer to the Pope in the spirit of open intellectual exchange and mutual understanding. In their Open Letter to the Pope , for the first time in recent history, Muslim scholars from every branch of Islam spoke with one voice about the true teachings of Islam.
Exactly one year after that letter, on October 13th 2007 Muslims expanded their message. In A Common Word Between Us and You, 138 Muslim scholars, clerics and intellectuals have unanimously come together for the first time since the days of the Prophet ( صلى الله عليه وسلم ) to declare the common ground between Christianity and Islam. Like the Open Letter, the signatories to this message come from every denomination and school of thought in Islam. Every major Islamic country or region in the world is represented in this message, which is addressed to the leaders of all the world's churches, and indeed to all Christians everywhere.
The final form of the letter was presented at a conference in September 2007 held under the theme of "Love in the Quran," by the Royal Academy of The Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought in Jordan, under the Patronage of H.M. King Abdullah II. Indeed, the most fundamental common ground between Islam and Christianity, and the best basis for future dialogue and understanding, is the love of God and the love of the neighbor.
Never before have Muslims delivered this kind of definitive consensus statement on Christianity. Rather than engage in polemic, the signatories have adopted the traditional and mainstream Islamic position of respecting the Christian scripture and calling Christians to be more, not less, faithful to it.
It is hoped that this document will provide a common constitution for the many worthy organizations and individuals who are carrying out interfaith dialogue all over the world. Often these groups are unaware of each other, and duplicate each other's efforts. Not only can A Common Word Between Us give them a starting point for cooperation and worldwide co-ordination, but it does so on the most solid theological ground possible: the teachings of the Qu'ran and the Prophet ( صلى الله عليه وسلم ), and the commandments described by Jesus Christ (عليه سلام) in the Bible. Thus despite their differences, Islam and Christianity not only share the same Divine Origin and the same Abrahamic heritage, but the same two greatest commandments.
The A Common Word letter is greatly impacting how of the best theological schools in the world teach and engage interfaith studies and discussions by encouraging an engagement centered on Love of God and Love of the Neighbour while allowing for discussions of great controversy.
ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS TEACHING A COMMON WORD
Cambridge Summer Interfaith Program at Cambridge University
The Cambridge Inter-faith Programme brings 30 students from Islamic, Christian and Jewish backgrounds around the world to Madingley Hall near Cambridge, for a three-week programme of inter-faith education. Students will learn about forms of inter-faith engagement past and present, be trained in the practice of inter-faith scriptural reasoning, and be led through a process of reflection on the inter-faith possibilities and challenges of their home contexts.
The CIP Summer School
The Reconciliation Program – Yale University
The Reconciliation Program is the newest program at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. In its initial phase, the Reconciliation Program is focused primarily on bridge-building scholarly research on the major theological, political, cultural, social and ethical issues which traditionally divide Muslims and Christians, and on concerns which unite them.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, VICTORIA UNIVERSITY
The Canadian Certificate in Muslim Studies
The Canadian Certificate in Muslim Studies project emerged in a context of interfaith friendship and Christian hospitality. Nevin Reda El-Tahry, currently the program's coordinator, worked over the course of a year with Emmanuel College and Victoria University to invite participation from a variety of Muslim persons and organizations. Over time, the discussion included many people and spoke of a need within the Muslim community: Muslim leadership can benefit from education examining common commitments between Muslim values and the pluralistic context within Canada, and issues treated by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom.
Department: Emmanuel College. A Common Word, That We May Know Each Other.
By: Dr. Zijad Delic . Rev. Dr. Bruce Gregersen.
Part of the Canadian Certificate in Muslim Studies.
HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN
Übung/Seminar: A Common Word Between Us and You
Department: Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology (Theological Faculty)
By: Sarah Markiewicz. (Germany). (Spring 2012)
HARTFORD SEMINARY
Renewal of Muslim Theology: "A Common Word" and the Theology of Compassion (TH-686)"
The course offers a brief survey of traditional Muslim Theology (Kalam) and recent attempts at its renewal (New Kalam). Invoking often neglected resources within the Muslim tradition, and dialogically engaging contributions from Jewish, Christian, and Buddhist theological quests, a new Ash'arite Theology of Compassion is then offered for discussion and elaboration. The "A Common Word" initiative is invoked as a solid foundation for compassion-centered theology and preaching, and the need for personal and institutional networking towards a Compassion Architecture is then explored.
TONY BLAIR FAITH FOUNDATION
TB Faith Foundation
Bringing 12-17 year old students together all over the world using digital technology. 70 schools in India have undertaken the programme with over a thousand pupils participating and 345 teachers trained. Students have connected with schools all over the world including the USA, UK, Australia, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Indonesia, and Pakistan | {
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Deep freeze could be Philly's coldest stretch since 2004
by Michaelle Bond, Posted: December 26, 2017
Camden resident, William Willis protects his face from the cold wind, as the sun goes down in Camden, N.J. Tuesday, December, 26, 2017.
Jose Moreno / Staff Photographer
Baby, it's cold outside.
Get used to it.
This Pa. meteorologist wants people to stop calling her a 'weather girl'
The stretch of below-freezing temperatures that has entered the region will most likely be its longest since 2004, according to meteorologists at the National Weather Service. That would happen if the mercury doesn't climb above 32 for nine consecutive days. And if temperatures Tuesday don't reach the freezing point — and there's a good chance they won't — they probably will stay below freezing until the first week in January.
"Today is actually going to be one of the warmest days of the week," meteorologist Sarah Johnson said Tuesday from the weather service offices in Mount Holly.
The arctic blast is courtesy of an air mass from Canada that continues to build slowly toward the region, Johnson said.
Frigid End of the Year
Through the end of the year, high temperatures in Philadelphia are not expected to be above freezing, well below the normal temperature range.
Staff Graphic
By Thursday, the coldest day of the week, morning highs won't climb out of the lower 20s, while lows will be in the teens in the city and in the single digits in the outer suburbs. Across the region, wind chills will make it feel near zero.
It could be the coldest point in nine months: March 5 was the last time temperatures got down to 15 degrees, the forecast low at Philadelphia International Airport for Thursday.
"It's not the coldest we've ever seen, but it's a pretty long period of below-freezing temperatures," Johnson said.
A fast-moving, low-pressure system moving through the area late in the week could bring some snow Friday or Saturday — but how much and when remains unclear. Those forecasts will firm up by Thursday, Johnson said.
A cold front Christmas morning delivered a brief glimpse of snow showers in some spots across the area, though mostly in snow pellets or grains rather than snowflakes. "You had to be watching it as it happened to know that it even snowed," Johnson said.
At the opposite corner of the state, Mother Nature was not so reserved. A storm Monday dumped a record amount of snow on Erie and surrounding areas. The storm dropped 34 inches Monday and 19 inches Tuesday — the greatest two-day total in Pennsylvania history. The city issued a snow emergency.
While the Philadelphia region has no chance of reaching its own snow records in the coming days, the National Weather Service is urging residents to follow basic cold safety tips, including trickling water through pipes to keep them from freezing, checking on neighbors and bringing pets inside.
Posted: December 26, 2017 - 12:07 PM
Michaelle Bond | @MichaelleBond | [email protected]
Feds charge Harrisburg woman accused of stealing Pelosi's laptop and an ex-Pa. State Police cadet in connection with Capitol attack
Jeremy Roebuck
Pennsylvania's first game warden of color took an unlikely path to the outdoors
Prompted by complaints, Temple taps law firm to probe education college leadership
Susan Snyder
In Harrisburg and Trenton, 'a collective sigh of relief' as few pro-Trump loyalists show up following FBI warning
Anna Orso, Rob Tornoe, Julia Terruso and Samantha Melamed
Philly church rings bell 400 times as U.S. nears 400,000 COVID deaths
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Healthy Living with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): Clearing the Air about Cigarettes and the Aging Brain
Healthy Living with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a support and education series for people living with MCI and families. Classes are held quarterly and are being offered virtually. The program is free and open to the public.
Solomon Carter Fuller Brain Health Celebration and Ecumenical Candlelight Evening of Remembrance
Friday, October 22, 2021 - Saturday, October 23, 2021
Dr. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, professor of Health Policy and Management in the Gillings School of Global Health at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a renowned Alzheimer's disease researcher, will present the keynote address at the 11th Annual Solomon Carter Fuller Brain Health Celebration. This free virtual event will take place on Saturday, October 23, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The celebration will also feature A Virtual Candlelit Evening of Remembrance: In Honor & Memory of Loved Ones on Friday, October 22, at 6 p.m.
Memories Matter Livestream: Supporting Research, Health Equity and Patient Care
7:00 pm 8:30 pm
Join the UW Initiative to End Alzheimer's for an online panel discussion about its mission to end Alzheimer's disease through research, health equity and patient care. Speakers will include Sanjay Asthana, MD, Nathaniel Chin, MD, Carey Gleason, PhD, MS, Gina Green-Harris, MBA, Cynthia Carlsson, MD, MS, and Sterling Johnson, PhD. Panelists will highlight the latest advancements happening at UW–Madison to help protect memories and ultimately find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. This special program will be hosted by sportscaster Matt Lepay, the radio voice for the Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball and football teams and a member of the UW Initiative to End Alzheimer's Board of Visitors.
Mind Readers book club: Discussion with Dr. Michelle Braun
You're invited to our next Mind Readers book club discussion with host Dr. Lindsay Clark, an investigator with the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and Dr. Michelle Braun, author of "High-Octane Brain: 5 Science-Based Steps to Sharpen Your Memory and Reduce Your Risk of Alzheimer's."
Healthy Living with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): Exercise Your Way to Better Brain Health
Healthy Living with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a support and education series for patients and families. Classes are held quarterly and are being offered virtually. The program is free and open to the public.
Aducanumab Q & A
We want to share with you what we know, and what we don't know, about aducanumab (marketed as Aduhelm). Join us in a Facebook Live presentation about aducanumab on August 9 at noon.
Drive Thru Resource Fair and Free COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic
With a drive-thru format and social distancing, come learn more about healthy aging, eating well, free COVID-19 vaccinations and opportunities to participate in research. Plus, meet former Wisconsin Badger and NFL running back, Montee Ball!
Mind Readers book club: Discussion with Dr. Jason Karlawish
You're invited to our first Mind Readers book club discussion with Dr. Jason Karlawish, author of "The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It."
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We are on Blackboard Learn 9.1 Q22017 and are using Respondus Lockdown Browser to provide a layer of exam security. We would like to know how to discover which exams in the system use Lockdown Browser. There must be a setting in SQL to indicate the test is using Lockdown, but I have no idea how to set up a query that would return results for all tests by course in a given semester that was using Lockdown Browser.
Brilliant! Thank you so much, Chris.
Unfortunately, it also assumes the instructor hasn't changed the name of the assessment.
But I'm having more difficulty (because I'm a SQL novice) adding a statement that will let me see only tests available after a certain date (for instance, if I wanted only tests that were occurring from October 1 forward). I look through the tables, but I'm not sure where to find that information. Any help is appreciated.
"to_date" doesn't appear to be a Microsoft SQL argument.
The web tells me I can use "Cast" to replace it (or "convert"), but that apparently entails some sort of editing of the argument that I've tried to do but I keep returning syntax errors.
While what you say is true, it's a fairly safe bet at our institution that the instructors haven't edited the name. However, keeping that in mind, I'm wondering if there isn't a flag put on the assessment like "use lockdown = true/false" that would be more foolproof.
Actually, LockDown will break if the instructor renames the quiz! They cannot remove the part of the title that includes LockDown Browser!
Warning: To preserve the settings used by LockDown Browser, do NOT modify these settings in Test Options: 1) Name 2) Open Test in a New Window, 3) Require a password, 4) Password. If these settings have been modified the test status will appear as an "Error."
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How an emcee performs with just a beat box backing them is the true test of their skills, and it's a test we'll be giving all-comers in our new video series, RapBox. Following our inaugural edition with Mick Jenkins, Connecticut emcee Jitta on the Track grabs next up, going off the dome while walking down the Brooklyn streets with beatboxer Shockwave. Shout out to eating chicken wings off....you'll just have to watch to find out. | {
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Articles about 'Northfield area'
THREATENED CLOSURE OF GKN AEROSPACE KINGS NORTON
In PMQs today, I asked the Prime Minister to tell Melrose PLC she expects them to abide by the spirit and letter of the promises they made last year to back UK manufacturing, and not reduce GKN's capacity as a defence contractor:
http://richardburden.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/LIVE-Prime-Minister_s-Questions-in-the-House-of-Commons_-10-April-2019-49.mp4
Closure Threat to GKN Aerospace Kings Norton
My press release today in response to announcement on future of the GKN Aerospace factory in Kings Norton:
CLOSURE OF GKN AEROSPACE KINGS NORTON A BREACH OF FAITH SAYS MP
Richard Burden MP has described as a "breach of faith" the announcement by GKN Aerospace that its Kings Norton factory in his constituency is to close with the loss of over 170 jobs. The factory produces high performance windscreens and windows for both civilian and military aircraft. The company says that the factory will be run down over the next two years with its work being transferred to "other GKN Aerospace sites or low cost areas".
Last year the future of GKN was the subject of intense debate when Melrose Industries successfully mounted a hostile takeover bid for the company, prompting fears that it would undermine the UK's manufacturing base in key areas such as aerospace and automotive. In response, Melrose made a series of undertakings to reassure the Takeover Panel of its commitment to UK manufacturing. In a letter to Rachel Reeves MP, Chair of the Commons Business Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee on 13th March 2018, Melrose Chief Executive, Simon Peckham said his company's commitments included:
"Returning GKN to be a British Manufacturing powerhouse, competitive on the global stage";
"Committed to innovation investing in skills, R&D, and productivity to support the Industrial Strategy"; and
"Working with suppliers and customers to boost Britain's Industrial base and the wider economy" [See note 1]
Richard Burden said today:
"Barely a year has passed since Melrose were falling over themselves to tell everybody how committed they were to UK manufacturing, but their words ring hollow today. Not only do they want to close a UK plant which is a key part of the supply chain for the aviation industry but their warning that production could move to "low-cost areas" means they plan to shift this specialised work out of the UK altogether.
In the light of the legally-binding undertakings Melrose gave to him last year I will be asking the Business Secretary to make urgent approaches to GKN about its latest announcement.
Whether or not the closure of GKN Aerospace breaches the letter of those undertakings, it runs contrary to the impression that Melrose sought to give of its intentions at the time. It is a breach of faith with GKN employees, with my constituents and with UK manufacturing as a whole."
A letter from the Chief Executive of Melrose Industries to the Business, Energy and Industrial Select Committee regarding the takeover of GKN Aerospace can be found here.
Richard Burden is MP for Birmingham Northfield. More information about Richard can be found on his website: http://richardburden.com/
Knife crime is nothing short of a national emergency and the Government need to treat it as such. Yesterday I said they should listen to Labour's and the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner's proposals for an emergency funding package so that we can address this problem in a consistent and effective way. My question to the Home Secretary here:
http://richardburden.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/201903-Knife-Crime-UQ.mp4
PRESSING GOVERNMENT ON PROBLEMS WITH UNIVERSAL CREDIT
The introduction of Universal Credit is causing real hardship, increased debt and rocketing numbers turning to food banks in Birmingham. What are Ministers doing to sort it out? My question in the House of Commons:
http://richardburden.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/201901-RB-on-Universal-Credit.mp4
As everyone reading this will know, Brexit has dominated the political agenda in recent weeks and consequently the range of other issues covered in this this month's newsletter is more limited than usual.
The Prime Minister has now set out the terms of her proposed Brexit deal (all 585 pages of it!) and Parliament is about to start nearly two weeks of intensive debate ahead of votes on 11th December. I recently set out my thoughts on where things stand and on the choices facing the UK in an article published by the Birmingham Post and Mail here.
Based on what I know now and in line with the arguments I set out in that article, I intend to oppose Theresa May's deal which I believe would leave the UK worse off. I also intend to back amendments which call on Parliament to rule out crashing out of the EU without any deal at all – something which I believe would have very severe and damaging consequences for our country. Read more | {
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I wanted to take a moment to tell you about a wonderful experience that we had recently. Although our son, Mattew (age 9), has been able to see his birth mother and her two children several times over the years, his birth father, Armando, has always lived out of state and quite some distance from our home in the DFW area. In the last year or so, we have found Facebook to be a great way to communicate with him. We often post notes and pictures about Matthew and Armando is able to see his latest accomplishments and comment on them, which our son really loves.
Over the July 4th weekend, we planned a road trip in the direction of his state, and when we realized that we would end up within 7 hours of each other, we contacted Armando to see if he might be interested in meeting us somewhere in the middle. We worked out the details, and on July 4th Matthew and Armando finally got to meet each other. Armando brought his young son and daughter – Matthew's half-siblings – and everyone had a great time together at the local Independence Day festival. Matthew was visibly proud to get to know his birth father and siblings! And Armando made it very special for him – he brought two albums full of photos, with pictures of himself as a boy as well as all of Matthew's biological family. Some of them had even written letters to Matthew. It was immediately apparent that they all care very deeply for him! But the cherry on top was at the end of the day, when Armando went to his vehicle and brought Matthew one last gift – his high school football helmet. Matthew wore it for hours afterward!
On the way back to our vacation spot we spoke of you, Leslie, and we recalled how you had encouraged us to participate in open adoption all those years ago. Because of your influence, our son knows both his birth mother and his birth father and their children, and the doors are wide open for those relationships to grow. He does not have to wonder where he came from, and we know that it brings him peace. Thank you very much for your guidance, and best wishes to you and all of your wonderful staff at Inheritance Adoptions!
Is there such a thing as too much love?
Inheritance Adoptions is a Christian-based child-placing agency and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We operate a ministry to both pregnant women in crisis and loving couples who desire to grow their families. Our services to birth parents are free and include counseling, information on having a healthy pregnancy, and transportation to doctor's appointments. We also provide shelter, food and clothing when necessary. read more…. | {
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Switch can visually QC DPP files on the desktop, playing back the files as well as displaying DPP AS-11 MXF metadata.
Switch 1.6 includes a new professional Audio Meters panel.
Switch Pro adds a loudness panel that calculates gated (BS1770-3) or ungated (BS1770-2) loudness. | {
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PL, a global leader in products, systems and services of lighting, was convened by the Government of the city of Buenos Aires to assist in the enhancement of the emblematic Obelisk in the city, as part of its 80th anniversary, with LED technology.
The company, committed to the light replacement of the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, worked closely with the Government in the installation of 48 Color Reach generation 2 RGB luminaires. The technology installed enables that all lighting system can be controlled remotely by a computer and thus program different ignitions year-round.
Also, in order to embellish and highlight the impressive structure of the emblematic monument, the luminaires have a variety of lighting effects. The latter will allow that the Obelisk represents the mood of the city of Buenos Aires, according to national dates or special events.
In line with the environmental care, Philips has selected a sustainable solution for the illumination of the obelisk in an efficient way and with an excellent light quality thanks to the benefits of LED lighting: low consumption, long service life and low maintenance costs.
67.5 meters high this icon of the city of Buenos Aires was built in 1936 by Argentinean architect Alberto Prebisch. Located in the heart of the Federal Capital, more exactly at the intersection of Avenida Corrientes and 9 de Julio, the Obelisco is photography a must for all tourists.
Among other iconic places, Philips has illuminated the Floralis Generica, also the monument to the Spanish, the courthouse and the Metropolitan Cathedral in 2015. In addition, the company, did the replacement of the public lighting system of the city of Buenos Aires with LED technology, allowing savings of up to 50% energy.
Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in products, systems and services of lighting, offers digital lighting innovations that create new business opportunities, offering experiences enriched the user that help improve your life. According to the professional market and the consumer, we lead the industry systems and lighting connected services, taking advantage of the internet of things, to transform the homes, buildings and public spaces. In 2015, we had sales of 7,500 million euros and we have 36,000 employees in more than 70 countries. | {
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Why did Cooper leave at the end?
In Interstellar, why does Cooper leave to go find Brand at the end of the movie? There's no wormhole for him to travel through. Without the wormhole he can't get to her, otherwise someone would've done it before him.
I see multiple questions here.
Why does Cooper leave to go find Brand at the end of the movie?
The best explanation for this is that the only thing Cooper has left in life is Brand. Through the entirety of the movie his primary drive is to return to Earth to be with his daughter. When he is finally able to return she is on her death-bed, surrounded by her own family. She specifically tells him that there is nothing left for him there, and that Brand is waiting for him elsewhere.
It's a bit unclear if the wormhole is still present or not once Cooper returns to our solar system. What is clear is that the formula he sent back to his daughter while in the tesseract was enough for her to learn how to manipulate gravity, thus allowing the creation of the facility he arrives at, and for the possibility of creation of new wormholes.
Again this is a bit unclear. It is possible other people managed to arrive on Edmund's planet before Cooper, but it is never explicitly shown. As for the wormhole to get there, see point 2: The wormhole might still be present, and if it's not humans now possess the technology to manipulate gravity and create new wormholes.
Cooper specifically leaves to go and find Brand and this must be via the wormhole.
No parent should have to watch their own child die. I have my kids here for me now. You go.
Brand. She's out there setting up camp. Alone in a strange galaxy. Maybe right now she's settling in for the long nap by the light of our new sun in our new home.
There's no wormhole for him to travel through. Without the wormhole he can't get to her, otherwise someone would've done it before him.
This is Murph's suggestion. Murph wouldn't suggest this if it were not possible.
Because of time-dilation very little time indeed may have passed on Edmund's planet. Perhaps other missions have already gone out to find her (and the other Lazarus mission crews). However in her case it's possible that they are still traveling there. Much time has passed on Earth, but still very little time has passed for Brand and Cooper.
So, despite other missions that may have left for Edmunds planet, there is no reason why he shouldn't follow.
How can Cooper communicate with his daughter before the time he went to space?
Why is Cooper Station orbiting Saturn?
How does Cooper know that jumping in blackhole can gain back years?
Why did humans want to solve the gravity equation?
What happened to Lazarus mission's Endurance? | {
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Kerjaya@BERNAMA
Inter-district Travel Not Ticket To Celebrate Raya Freely
COVID-19 Weekly Round-up: Pandemic Worsens, Active Cases Exceed 41,000
More Than 50 Tonnes Of Pharmaceutical Wastes Disposed Of Monthly
By Erda Khursyiah Basir
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) – With Hari Raya Aidilfitri just three days away, Malaysian Muslims whose kampungs are in the same state where they work and live can thank their lucky stars that they are allowed to balik kampung.
During the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) from May 4 to June 9, interstate travel is banned except for emergency purposes. However, inter-district travel within the same state is allowed during this period.
Those celebrating Hari Raya with their families must, however, do themselves and the nation a favour by not going overboard in their celebrations. The green light for travel within the state is not a ticket for them to throw caution to the wind by ignoring the standard operating procedures (SOPs) set by the government to stem the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
The government has stressed the importance of observing self-discipline and self-regulation during the celebrations to ensure that there is no resurgence of COVID-19 cases.
Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob made it clear during his media briefing on May 18 that the police and army would patrol housing areas during the Hari Raya celebrations to ensure that the SOPs related to home visits are being followed.
If many vehicles are found parked outside a residence, the authorities will not hesitate to conduct a check to find out exactly how many people are gathered there, he warned.
Festive visits are allowed on the first day of Raya but, depending on the size of the residence, only a maximum of 20 people are allowed at any one time.
PREVENT HARI RAYA CLUSTER
Sharing his views, public health expert Dr Shawaludin Husin told Bernama that considering the nation is still not free from the COVID-19 menace, it is best that people celebrate Hari Raya moderately in their own homes.
Stressing that the nation could not afford to deal with a "Hari Raya cluster", he said Malaysians could learn a lesson or two from a recent incident in Bahrain where 16 members of a family were infected with the COVID-19 virus after breaking fast together.
According to news portal Saudi Gazette, the virus was spread to others by one of the family members who was COVID-19 positive. The report also stated that the family concerned had defied the ban on gatherings and neither did they wear face masks nor observe social distancing.
Said Dr Shawaludin: "Although inter-district travel (within the same state) is allowed, the people must practise self-regulation because our nation is still fighting the virus. The people must realise that they have to prioritise their safety and not get carried away with the festive celebrations."
He said Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah had on his Facebook account shared that the integrated efforts of the authorities have succeeded in reducing new COVID 19 cases during the entire MCO and first 10 days of the CMCO, as well as lowered the COVID-19's contagiousness or R-nought value to 0.3 from 3.5.
Pointing to the R-nought value, Dr Shawaludin said it should be brought down further.
"What we are worried is that if people start travelling freely (festive visits within the state) during Hari Raya, it may trigger a new wave of infections," he said.
CONNECTED BY TECHNOLOGY
Dr Shawaludin said festive visits can be allowed if the people are willing to comply strictly with the SOPs which include observing social distancing and refraining from shaking hands and hugging.
The Ministry of Health (MOH), meanwhile, has also urged the people to avoid the 3Cs, namely crowded places, confined spaces and close conversations, and heed the 3Ws namely washing hands frequently, wearing a face mask in public places and warning by MOH to stay at home and only go out if they have something important to do.
"If you need to go visiting, don't spend too much time on it. If your house is small and narrow, don't go inviting the disease by receiving many guests. Then again, the guests should know their responsibilities too as COVID-19 is an issue affecting all the people," said Dr Shawaludin.
A better and safer option for people to convey their festive greetings to their family and friends will be via applications such as Zoom, Skype and WhatsApp video calls, he said.
Festive visits are not encouraged because "people in the high-risk groups such as senior citizens suffering from chronic illnesses and children below two years of age can get infected", he said.
"If new infections go up, it will undermine the efforts of MOH which has succeeded in curbing the spread of COVID-19," he added.
Translated by Rema Nambiar | {
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Xtrade Russia Joins Russian Self Regulatory Organization NAFD
XTrade is aiming at the Russian market with its latest move to join the recently renamed CRFIN.
Aziz Abdel-Qader | Regulation ( Retail FX ) | Monday, 25/07/2016 | 18:43 GMT+2 2016-07-25T16:43:39+00:00 2016-07-25T21:47:40+00:00
Photo: Aziz Abdel-Qader
Xtrade Russia Ltd, a subsidiary of Xtrade group, a global online forex trading provider which features sister companies in Australia, Belize and Cyprus, today has received membership into Russia's self-regulatory body, National Association of Forex Dealers (NAFD), previously known as CRFIN, according to a NAFD statement.
Finance Magnates reported last week when Russia's SRO previously famous as CRFIN announced that it has rebranded as National Association for Forex Dealers (NAFD). The change in name was not the only news, as the association has also revealed that its board of directors was revamped.
NAFD's membership does provide some level of recognition for approved firms as broker members are expected to follow the group's standards.
According to the new "On the Securities Market" law in Russia, the Central Bank of Russia has become the only regulator of forex brokers' activity in the country. Since the 1st of January 2016, all the brokerages registered in Russia have to apply to the self-regulatory organization NAFD and obtain a central bank licence.
In terms of XTrade, the broker is operated by XFR Financial Ltd and it has offices in five continents. In addition to NAFD's membership, Xtrade is regulated by the Cyprus financial watchdog CySEC (under Xtrade Europe), the Belize' IFSC, as Xtrade.BLZ, and holds a licence from the Australian watchdog ASIC. Earlier in May, XF Financial Limited has decided to consolidate its offering and phase out the older brand, XForex, and now officially operates under Xtrade Group.
Recently in the spotlight
The news is part of the firm's global expansion where it is aiming to be viewed as a global forex brokerage. XTrade made headlines earlier in March after the company tapped the four-time Golden Boot winner football star Cristiano Ronaldo as its official ambassador.
Commenting on the news, Tara Mor, Vice President Business Development and Compliance of XFR Group, said to Finance Magnates reporters: "We're happy that the National Association of Forex Dealers Council made a decision to accept Xtrade Russia Ltd Company as a member of NAFD."
"National Association of Forex Dealers (NAFD) is one of the most reputable self-regulated organizations in Russia that monitors activity of companies in the Forex market. Xtrade has once again proved that we are one of the leading brokerage companies. Only companies with impeccable reputation that guarantee safe and secure cooperation to their customers can be licensed with NAFD and we are happy that we fully meet its strict requirements," she added.
Last time Finance Magnates reported on XTrade was last week when the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC), a provincial financial regulator in Canada, added xforex, the previous brand of XFR Financial Ltd., to its to its list of companies not to do business with.
Tags: crfin / NAFD / regulation / Russia / xtrade
Aussie Brokers Welcome ASIC Restrictions Despite Expected Volume Dip
Maastricht Ransomware Case: A Year in Review in Light of 6 AMLD and OFAC
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Has any one else noticed that since BMW switched to Pennzoil AKA Shell full synthetic engine oil, their oil change intervals have gone from approximately 15,000 Miles to approximately 8,000 miles? We service BMW's Oil in the Cary Apex area of North Carolina and for years we have been informing our BMW Customers that they should think of BMW service in an annual basis. BMW was planning on a once-a-year service like Mercedes Benz does but something must have happened. Could it have been the excessive burning of BMW motor oil, the BMW leaking motor oil, or the failing of crank case ventilation systems do to plastic pipes hardening and deteriorating?
At Peak Auto we have seen, dealt, and fixed all of these BMW common issues. I suppose we will never know the true reason BMW shortened their service intervals but at Peak Auto we have been allerting customers to this change to help our clients get the most reliability, satisfaction, and dependability from owing a BMW in Cary NC. | {
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Erythrus fruhstorferi är en skalbaggsart som beskrevs av Maurice Pic 1943. Erythrus fruhstorferi ingår i släktet Erythrus och familjen långhorningar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.
Källor
Långhorningar
fruhstorferi | {
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> >> to many details. When i hear from him i let you know.
> You're welcome to make any use of my public domain artworks you like.
> However, those are just digital drawings.
> to a vector format.
> quality is not good enough.
> It would have been a nice collection.
clipart requests so that everyone can help in converting them to SVG.
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What are medical coder qualifications?
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Tantilla gracilis – gatunek węża z rodziny połozowatych.
Systematyka
Węże tego gatunku zaliczają się do rodziny połozowatych, co nie uległo na przełomie ostatnich lat dużym zmianom. Starsze źródła również umieszczają Tantilla w tej samej rodzinie Colubridae, choć używają polskiej nazwy wężowate czy też węże właściwe, zaliczanej do infrapodrzędu Caenophidia, czyli węży wyższych. W obrębie rodziny rodzaj Tantilla wchodzi w skład podrodziny Colubrinae.
Rozmieszczenie geograficzne
Łuskonośnego tego spotyka się w Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki i Meksyku, na północ jego zasięg występowania sięga Illinois (południowy zachód stanu), Missouri, Kansas, na południu Coahuila i Tamaulipas.
Ekologia
Gad zasiedla różnorodne siedliska. IUCN wymienia tutaj:
prerie
lasy sosnowo-dębowe
lasy sosnowe
lasy dębowo-jałowcowe
lasy liściaste
lasy o roślinności ciernistej
lesiste zbocza górskie
skraje lasów
tereny trawiaste i porośnięte buszem
Zagrożenia i ochrona
Niestety liczebność gatunku obniża się.
Występuje na obszarach chronionych.
Przypisy
Połozowate
Gady Ameryki Północnej
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Q: NodeJS sqlite3 not returning variable (scope problem) This code returns undefined when it should be data from the Database. It is part of a class which has the variable this.database (an sqlite3 database). What have I done wrong?
getData(chip_id) {
let user_name;
this.database.get("SELECT data FROM chips WHERE id=?",[chip_id],(err,row) => {
user_name = row.data;
});
return user_name;
}
A: Retrieving data from database is an asynchronous action and you should handle it with something like Promise or async function. Change your function to this.
getData(chip_id) {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
let user_name;
this.database.get("SELECT data FROM chips WHERE id=?", [chip_id], (err, row) => {
if(err) {
reject(err);
}
else {
user_name = row.data;
resolve(user_name);
}
});
});
}
and in the client side:
getData(id)
.then(username => {
// the username is ready to use
})
.catch(error => {
// handle the error
});
Reading these links also helps you a lot to start:
Callbacks Vs Promises and basics of JS
Getting to know asynchronous JavaScript: Callbacks, Promises and Async/Await
Converting callbacks to promises
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Q: Bootstrap table row disappearing I am trying to add and delete rows when the buttons are clicked. Everything is working properly, but, whenever I scale the window to a small size, to check the mobile responsiveness, the rows are disappearing.
I am new to Bootstrap i am not sure whether I have done any mistakes.
$(document).ready(function() {
//Try to get tbody first with jquery children. works faster!
var tbody = $('#myTable').children('tbody');
//Then if no tbody just select your table
var table = tbody.length ? tbody : $('#myTable');
$('#addrow').click(function() {
//Add row
table.append('<tr scope="row"><td ><select id="ex1" required ><option value="">Iphone</option><option value="">IPod</option><option value="">Galaxy Tab</option> <option value="">PocoPhone</option> </select> </td> <td > <input id="ex2" type="number"> </td> <td ><input id="ex3" type="number"> </td> <td > <input id="ex4" type="number"> </td> <td > <button class="btnDelete btn-outline-success" id="delrow" >Delete</button> </td> </tr> ');
})
$("#myTable").on('click', '.btnDelete', function() {
$(this).closest('tr').remove();
});
});
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-9aIt2nRpC12Uk9gS9baDl411NQApFmC26EwAOH8WgZl5MYYxFfc+NcPb1dKGj7Sk" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.21/css/dataTables.bootstrap4.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/bootstrap-table.min.css">
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-OgVRvuATP1z7JjHLkuOU7Xw704+h835Lr+6QL9UvYjZE3Ipu6Tp75j7Bh/kR0JKI" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/bootstrap-table.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/extensions/mobile/bootstrap-table-mobile.min.js"></script>
<table class="table table-striped" data-toggle="table" data-pagination="true" data-mobile-responsive="true" id="myTable">
<thead>
<tr>
<th scope="col">Product</th>
<th scope="col">QTY</th>
<th scope="col">Price</th>
<th scope="col">Total</th>
<th scope="col">Option</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr scope="row">
<td>
<select id="ex1" required>
<option value="">Iphone</option>
<option value="">IPod</option>
<option value="">Galaxy Tab</option>
<option value="">PocoPhone</option>
</select>
</td>
<td>
<input id="ex2" type="number">
</td>
<td>
<input id="ex3" type="number">
</td>
<td>
<input id="ex4" type="number">
</td>
<td>
<button class="btn btn-outline-success" id="addrow" class="addnew"> Add </button>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
A: This Code work Perfectly
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<form class="form-horizontal">
<div class="table-responsive">
<table class="table ">
<thead>
<th>Product</th>
<th>QTY</th>
<th>Cost</th>
<th>Price</th>
<th>Total</th>
<th>Option</th>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<select id="ex1" required>
<option value="">Iphone</option>
<option value="">IPod</option>
<option value="">Galaxy Tab</option>
<option value="">PocoPhone</option>
</select>
</td>
<td><input class="form-control" id="ex2" type="number" ></td>
<td><input class="form-control" id="ex3" type="number"></td>
<td>
<select class="form-control">
<option>Monthly</option>
<option>Yearly</option>
</select>
</td>
<td><input class="form-control" id="ex2" type="number" ></td>
<td><button class="btn btn-outline-success" id="addrow" class="addnew"> Add </button></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</form>
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Luís Rafael Soares Alves, plus communément appelé Rafa ou Rafa Soares, est un footballeur portugais né le à Marco de Canaveses. Il évolue au poste de arrière gauche au PAOK Salonique.
Biographie
En club
Issu du centre de formation du FC Porto, il est champion de la seconde division portugaise en 2016 avec l'équipe B du club.
En 2018, Soares signe au Vitória Guimarães.
Le , Soares est prêté à la SD Eibar pour une saison et demie avec une option d'achat.
En équipe nationale
Avec les moins de 19 ans, il participe au championnat d'Europe des moins de 19 ans en 2014. Lors de cette compétition, il joue trois matchs, l'équipe s'incline en finale.
Avec les moins de 20 ans, il dispute la Coupe du monde des moins de 20 ans en 2015. Lors du mondial junior organisé en Nouvelle-Zélande, il joue quatre matchs. Le Portugal s'incline en quarts de finale face au Brésil.
Palmarès
Avec l'équipe du Portugal de moins de 19 ans :
Finaliste du championnat d'Europe des moins de 19 ans en 2014
Avec le FC Porto B :
Champion du Portugal D2 en 2016
Notes et références
Liens externes
Footballeur portugais
Joueur du FC Porto
Joueur de l'Associação Académica de Coimbra
Joueur du Fulham FC
Joueur du Rio Ave
Joueur du Portimonense SC
Joueur du Vitória SC
Joueur de la SD Eibar
Naissance en mai 1995
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A graphic driven moving personal property tracking system that enables the company to monitor and track its customer's personal property during transport and to identify the various parties in the chain of custody. The system uses a hand held device that enables the packing company to accurately inventory and record the initial condition of the personal property prior to packing. Loaded into the memory of the hand held device is a building layout software program that visually presents images of different pieces of the personal property in selected rooms. When a room is selected, a list of personal property normally found in the room is presented. When damage is detected on the personal property prior to packing, the user selects the personal property and records precise location of the damage. When all of the personal property has been recorded, a written report is generated and delivered to the customer who then verifies the information. During the packing stage, an identifying code is assigned to each piece of personal property or to its outer container. When the personal property is moved between the hauling company, the warehouseman, and the unpacker, the handheld device is used to record the chain of custody and the condition of the property.
This is a utility patent application, which claims benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/624,859 filed on Nov. 3, 2004.
This invention pertains to systems and methods used to ship goods, and more particularly, to systems and methods used by a third party to ship goods owned by one party to another party that clearly identifies the goods and their initial condition, tracks the movement and condition of the goods during transport, and then identifies and marks their condition when they reach their final destination.
Moving companies are commonly used to move the personal property of a family or business. It is also well known that during the move, the family's or business' personal property may be lost, stolen, and damaged by the employees or contractors involved in the moving process. Because different companies (i.e. packers, haulers, warehouseman) and individuals may be involved in the moving process, it is difficult for insurance companies who insure the companies involved in the move to determine if the damage or loss actually occurred during the move and, if so, which company is responsible. Because the records generated by the different companies are often missing or incomplete, the insurance companies are unable to refute a claim made by a customer or to identify the responsible company. As a result, the insurance companies allocated the loss to all the companies involved in the move, which eventually leads to higher insurance premiums for everyone.
One main obstacle that prevents the generation of complete and accurate moving records is that the forms used by companies must be manually completed. A typical form includes a general description an area where the description of the personal property is written. Adjacent to this general description area is a second area where visually defects or missing parts on the personal property are listed. These defects or missing parts are called 'exceptions' and are used to help establish the original condition of the personal property prior to taking under custody. On most forms, the general nature of the defect or missing part and its general location is denoted by a standardized code or abbreviation adopted by the industry which must be hand written onto the form. Unfortunately, these codes or abbreviations are not entered.
Each time a new company involved in the move takes custody of the personal property a form similar to the first form shown in FIG. 2 is completed. For example, when a packing company transfers custody of the personal property to a hauling company, the hauling company prepares and completes a second form. Later, when the hauling company transfers custody of the personal property to a warehouse for storage, a third form is completed. When the personal property is delivered to the final destination and unpacked, a fourth form is completed. For each form, the personal property must be accurately identified and listed and any new defects or shrinkage must be noted as an 'exception'. Later, when a claim is made against one of the companies, an insurance claim adjuster collects all of the forms and then reviews them for the 'exceptions'. When an 'exceptions' is found, the adjuster tries to determine which company had custody of the personal property just before the 'exception' was recorded. Unfortunately, because the forms are often lost or incomplete, the adjuster is unable to determine which company is responsible and then charges the lost to all of the companies involved in the move.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a system for accurately and easily recording the initial condition of a customer's personal property by a moving company.
It is another object of the present invention to provide such a system that accurately monitors the existence and condition of the personal property each time the custody of the personal property changes during a move.
It is another object of the present invention to provide such a system that enables packers, haulers, and warehouseman to track the location of small components or hardware used with large personal property items during a move.
It is further object of the present invention to provide such a system that produces a final report for each personal property item moved that visually shows the original condition of the property, the condition of the property during intermediate stages of the move, and its final condition thereby enabling an insurance adjuster to determine the stage of the move when damage or lost occurred.
It is a still further object of the present invention to provide such a system that records the identity of the company or individual in custody during the stage when the personal property was damaged or lost.
These and other objects of the present invention are met by the graphic driven moving custody and tracking personal property tracking system disclosed herein designed to assist packing, hauling and warehouse companies to record and track personal property in their custody during a move. The system uses reports produced by different companies involved with the move at different stages that allows them to record the existence and condition of the personal property at different stages. Each personal property is tracked and its condition monitored at each stage of the move. When a lost or damage occurs to a personal property, a final report may be generated for the personal property by the insurance company that allows the insurance company to visually see the condition of the personal property at different stages and then determine which company had custody when the lost or damage occurred.
More specifically, a packing company, hereinafter called a packer, is hired by a customer to inventor and pack the customer's personal property to be moved. The customer releases the personal property to the packer who uses a handheld device to properly name and identify the personal property and to produce an identification label for each personal property or its outer container. During the initial inventory and packing stage, the packer also notes and records the initial condition of the personal property and other ancillary information, such other personal property, components or hardware associated therewith. Once the packing stage is completed, the information is then saved in the device's memory. An initial report may also be printed that is given to the customer.
If a separate hauler is hired to transport the personal property, the handheld device and a copy of the initial report is given to the hauler. The hauler reviews the personal property in the device and on the report, and records and exceptions. The exceptions noted by the hauler are recorded on in the handheld device. The hauler verifies its accuracy subject to the recorded exceptions. If exceptions are noted, a copy of the report is printed and given to the packer and the customer. Custody of the personal property is then transferred to the hauler.
The hauler remains responsible for the personal property until it is transferred to a warehouseman or released back to the customer. If the personal property is transferred to the warehouseman, the warehouseman inspects the personal property for losses and damages. If losses and damages are found they are recorded in the handheld device prior to accepting custody of the personal property. An intermediate report may be printed and give to the hauler. After storage, the personal property is usually transferred to another hauler who then delivers it to the customer and the final destination.
During each stage the presence and condition of the personal property is recorded in the handheld device. When a loss or damage to any item of personal property is found by the customer, a claim is submitted to the insurance company insuring all or some of the parties involved in the move. To allocate the loss to the responsible party, the insurance company reviews a final report generated by the handheld device. In the preferred embodiment, the final report includes graphic images of the personal property that indicated the entity who had custody of the personal property and its recorded condition. By during at what stage the condition of the personal property changed, the insurance company can easily determine which entity had custody and allocate the loss to that entity.
The system uses a portable handheld device used by the companies to accurately input the description of the personal property and record its condition to each stage. Loaded into the memory of the handheld device is an inventory identification and recording software program that helps the individuals name and identify personal property and associated components and hardware thereto, the names for certain types of damages, the severity of damages, and the precise location of damage on the personal property. In one embodiment, the software program provides the images of different buildings and their rooms commonly found in a move, and the names of personal property commonly found in the rooms.
In one embodiment, the software program presents a graphic image of the room and a graphic images of personal property set up therein. Common names are associated with the personal property. During use, the user simply presses against the handheld device's display to select a personal property item. The software program assigns an identifying code to the personal property with is printed on a label that can then be attached to the personal property or to its shipping container. Other indicia may be imprinted on the label to assist the moving entities.
When damage is detected on a item of personal property, the entity selects the personal property and is then shown a graphic image of it. A list of damage names and severity codes may be presented to the entity which are then selected. The entity then touches the display to indicate the precise location of the damage. If additional damage is found on the item of personal property, it is recorded in the same manner.
FIG. 1 is an illustration of the handheld device being used to personal property and mark the condition of the goods to be shipped using the system disclosed therein.
FIG. 2 is a diagram of the system that shows a home or business customer with furniture or personal property to be moved hiring a packer, a moving company and an unpacking company used to move to furniture or personal property to a new location.
FIG. 3 is an illustration of the display on the hand held device showing the packer informing the device that he or she is located at the site of origin.
FIG. 4 is an illustration the user identification page presented on the display.
FIG. 5A is an illustration of a list of common rooms found in a house and presented on the display.
FIG. 5B is an illustration of a list of buildings produced and shown on the display/touch screen.
FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a bedroom filled with furniture presented on the display.
FIG. 7 is an illustration of a box selection page presented on the display that enables the packer to designate the type of box a piece of personal property's shipped in.
FIG. 8 is an illustration of a damage selection page presented to the packer, which allows the packer to designate the type of damage initially found on the invention and its relative location.
FIG. 9 is an illustration of a sheet quantity page presented to the packer that enables the packer to designate the number of sheets placed into a shipped container.
FIG. 10 is an identification tag produced by a printer coupled to the device that identifies the customer, the box number, and the list of personal property item inside the box.
FIG. 11 is an illustration of a typical closet showing the packer selecting a piece of clothing and indicating the type of box the piece of clothing is stored in.
FIG. 12 is an illustration of the display on the hand held device showing the hauler informing the device that he or she is located at the site of origin.
FIG. 13 is an illustration of a list of common rooms found in a house and presented on the display.
FIG. 14 is a perspective view of a bedroom filled with furniture presented on the display.
FIG. 15 is an illustration of the different kinds of dressers found in a bedroom.
FIG. 16 is an illustration showing the hauler designating the type of finish on the piece of furniture or the kind of material the piece is made of.
FIG. 17 is an illustration showing the hauler designating the type of damage on the piece of furniture and its precise location thereon.
FIG. 18 is an illustration of the display on the hand held device showing the warehouseman informing the device that he or she is an exception on transit.
FIG. 19 is an illustration showing the warehouseman using the device to check-in the inventory.
FIG. 20 is an illustration of a piece of furniture presented to the warehouseman showing the condition of the furniture and its precise location.
FIG. 21 is an illustration of the display page in which the customer uses the device to receive goods.
FIG. 22 is an illustration of a display page in which the customer selects the yellow personal property items.
FIG. 23 is an illustration of a display page showing the customer selecting a furniture number on a list of furniture numbers.
FIG. 24 is an illustration of a display page showing the piece of furniture that corresponds with the furniture number.
FIG. 25 is an illustration of the piece of furniture shown in FIG. 24 showing the customer recording new damage sites and their precise locations.
FIG. 26 is an illustration showing the condition of the piece of furniture at origin and the condition of the piece of furniture at destination.
FIG. 27 is a illustration of an identification label attached to an item of personal property.
FIG. 28 is a representative final report of item of personal property upon which a claim is submitted to the insurance company.
Disclosed herein is a custody and tracking moving personal property system, generally denoted by the reference number 10, designed to assist insurance companies 90 for moving industry to accurately identify and hold liable companies designated 95 or individuals for lost or damage property. The system 10 is designed to product a final report 100 for each personal property inventoried which records its presence and physical condition at different stages or steps during the moving process. The information is collected contemporarily by the various individuals hired by the companies 95, 96, 97 directly involved in the moving process. When the moving process has completed a claim is made for loss or damages to the personal property, the final report may be used to easily at what stage the loss or damage occurred and the identify the responsible company or individual in custody of the personal property.
The system 10 uses a portable handheld device 12 first used by a packing company to accurately identify and record the customer's personal property to be packed for moving. As shown in FIG. 1 loaded into the memory 15 of the handheld device 12 is a personal property recording software program 20 that presents different buildings, different room layouts, a list of personal property commonly found in the buildings and images of different pieces of the personal property generally referred as 80. The program 20 presents a series of data entry pages on the device's display/touch screen 13 that are completed by the individual. FIGS. 3-26, present various pages on the display/touch screen 13.
During the packing stage, an identifying code 30 is initially assigned to each piece of personal property 80 or to its outer shipping container 82. When damage is detected on the personal property 80 or to the container 82, the packer designated as 100 in FIG. 2, uses the display/touch screen 13 on the handheld device 12 to record the precise location of the damage on one or more closely representative graphic images of the personal property 80 produced by the software program 20. When the personal property identification and damage recording steps are completed, an originating report 105 is recorded and saved in the memory 15 of the handheld device 12. A printed copy of the originating report 105 is generated and delivered to the customer and the hauler 110. Once the personal property has been verified, the custody of the personal property 80 is considered 'officially' transferred to the hauler 110 responsible for transporting the personal property 80 to an intermediate or final destination. The handheld device 12 or the data files 16 store therein contain record information of the personal property 80 is then delivered to the hauler 110.
When the personal property 80 arrives at its intermediate destination, the hauler 110 again inspects the personal property 80 or the shipped containers 82 for lost or damages. When lost or damaged items are found, they are recorded by the hauler 110 on the handheld device 12.
In the preferred embodiment, a portable printing device 120 is provided that generates an adhesive label 122 that is attached to a surface on the personal property 80 or its shipping container 82. As shown in FIG. 27, the label 122 includes the name of the item 123, its color 124, the primary material used to manufacture the item 125, the type of damage 126, the location of the damage 127, the identification of the individual that prepared the label 128, and the customer identification code 129. A generic image 130 of the personal property 80 may also be displayed on the label 122. Also printed or attached to the label 122 is a reading device 132, such as a barcode or an RFID. During the recording process, the identification code 129 of the lost or damaged personal property 80 is entered or scanned or detected by the handheld device 12. The type, color, and material information are then entered. A lost or damage code (scratch) is then entered and the precise location of the damage is recorded on one or more of the images presented to the user on the screen 13. After all of the data is entered into the handheld device 12, the label 122 is then printed.
When all of the personal property 80 has been delivered to its final destination, it is then unloaded by the first hauler or by second hauler who delivers it from the warehouseman. During the unloading process, the hauler 110 checks off the invention as it is removed from the trailer and records its final condition into the handheld device 12. When all of the personal property 80 has been removed from the trailer, a final printed report 107 is then printed and delivered to the customer 101. The customer 101 then inspects the final report 107. If lost or damage items are reported, final reports 107 are delivered to the insurance company 90. The originating and intermediate reports 105, 106 may also be printed and submitted to the insurance company 90. The insurance company 90 then reviews the three forms to determine the responsible company or individual.
The handheld device 12 is a portable battery operated device designed to be carried by a worker 100, 110, 112 as he or she walks through the house or building, through the trailer, and through the warehouse. In the preferred embodiment, shown in FIG. 1, the handheld device 12 includes a display/touch screen 13 and input keys 14 that allows a worker to input data, working memory 15, data files 16 and the software program 20. The printer 120 may also be provided that is used to produce adhesive labels 122. The handheld device 12 and printer 120 may be hard wired or wireless connected together (WIFI or Blue Tooth).
As disclosed above, the software program 20 is designed to expedite the process of accurately recording the personal property and its initial condition and its presence and condition at various stages in the moving process. FIGS.3-26, show a series of screen shots or images of the display/touch screen used by the workers 100, 110, 112 to verify and input data. The software program 20 is designed to help a worker 100, 110, 112 to quickly name the personal property 80 and any associated components or hardward. It is also used to iname and locate damage that exists or that was caused to the personal property 80 during the move.
As shown in the accompanying FIG. 5A, when the packer 100 arrives at a originating site, the software program 20 is activated. In one embodiment, an image of different buildings may be presented on the display/touch screen 13. The worker 100, 110, 112 may then select the building closest to the building containing the personal property 80. For example, the building data file may include data for a single story house, a two-story house or a three-story house. Each style of building is associated with a room identification file that generates a list of rooms commonly found in the building selected. The list may be presented on the display/touch screen 13, (see FIG. 5B). For example, if a building is a three-bedroom rambler with an attached three-car garage, the image of such a rambler-style house may be presented and a list of rooms commonly found in the houses may be presented on one side of the screen. The list of rooms may include a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a formal dining room, a main bathroom, a laundry room, a den, a master bedroom, a master bathroom, a walk-in closet, a first bedroom, a guest bedroom, and the three-car garage. If the building is an office building, the list of rooms may include a main waiting area, a conference room, a library, a mail/copy room, one or more work offices, and a file room.
After indicating the type of building, the worker enters the building and selects one of the rooms in the list of rooms that most closely matches the real room. As shown in FIG. 6, when a room is selected, an image of the room is displayed filled with commonly found personal property 80. For example, if the worker enters the house's bedroom, the button for 'bed room' is selected on the handheld device 20 and a graphic image of the bedroom is displayed. FIGS. 15-17, are a series of images of a dresser first shown to the worker. (See FIG. 15) Next, the color and type of material used to make the dresser is indicated. (See FIG. 16) FIG. 17 shows the worker indicating the type of damage and its location.
Because some pieces of personal property 80 are made up of separate components or includes hardware that must be disconnected when the personal property 80 is moved, a second menu associated with some personal property 80 may be presented which lists the various components or hardware items. Such second menus typically require the worker to indicate the nature or name of the component or hardware item and the quantity. For example, if a table is selected, the list of components for the table may include a tabletop, four legs, four brackets, set of four nuts, bolts, and two table extensions. The second menu presented may include the following components: nuts, bolts, brackets, pegs, washers, etc.
Each piece of personal property 80 and components on the lists includes a set of 'generic' graphic files that may be displayed on the handheld device's display/touch screen 13 when selected. When the worker selects a piece of personal property 80 or a component, the software program 20 automatically presents one or more a two-dimensional graphic images of the personal property 80 or the component. (See FIG. 17) If a damage area is to be recorded, the worker then touches the area on the graphic image that corresponds to the location of the damage on the personal property 80 or component. A secondary menu containing a set of damage identification codes identifying the nature of the damage (i.e. scratch, discoloration, chip, dent, warp surface, etc.) may also be provided which is associated with the damage area. The worker would select out of the damage identification codes. FIG. 11 is a display that shows how clothing and personal items are selected and then placed in designated boxes.
Once all of the personal property 80 has been entered into the handheld device 12 and all existing imperfections or damage areas have been identified and recorded, and the personal property 80 has been packed, the originating report 105 may be printed and given to the hauler 110 and to the customer 101. The hauler 110 and customer 101 review the report 105 and inspect the personal property 80 and the shipping containers 82 and verify its existence and condition.
As stated above, during the packing process, an identification label 122 is attached to each piece of personal property 80 and to each shipping container 82. When the shipping container 82 containing several different items, the identication label 122 may include a list of items placed therein.
In some instances, a separate packing company called a packer 100 is used to initially pack and inventory the personal property 80. The hauler 110 may be a separate company that arrives to pick up and loads the personal property 80 onto the trailer 111. The hauler 110 then uses the handheld device 12 to record the identification codes on any lose personal property 80 items and on all shipping containers 82. As the personal property 80 and containers 82 are loaded into the trailer 111, the hauler 110 verifies the condition of the personal property 80 and containers 82 indicated on the originating report 105 and notes any 'exceptions'. The hauler 110 then prints out an intermediate report 106 and gives it to the packer 100. The hauler 110 then delivers the personal property 80 to an intermediate warehouse or to the final destination. The hauler 110 is normally responsible for unloading the personal property 80 from the trailer 111 into the house or office building. If the hauler transfers custody of the personal property 80 to an intermediate company or individual, such as a warehouse, another intermediate report (not shown) similar to the first intermediate report 106 is printed and given to the receiving party. The receiving party then verifies the information on the report.
As the personal property 80 is removed from the trailer 111, the handheld device 20 is also used to check in the lose personal property 80 items and the shipping containers 82. During this step, the lose items and shipping containers are inspected for any new damage that occurred during transportation. The new damage is then recorded in the handheld device 12, similar to the manner shown in FIG. 17. When all of the personal property 80 has been delivered to the customer 101, a final report 107 is printed and presented to the customer 101.
If the customer 101 discovers lost or damaged personal property 80, he or she then files a claim with the insurance company 90. The insurance company 90 obtains a copy of the data file 16 from the handheld device 12 and then reviews the list of items to determine the name of the lost or damage personal property. Once the personal property has been identified, a final report for the personal property is printed out. A representative sample of a final report 200 for a chest of drawers in shown in FIG. 28. The report 200 is divided into three sections: an original condition section 202 that shows the condition of the chest of drawers when custody was taken by the originating haulers with 'rubs' noted on the front face of the top drawer; a warehouse exception section 204 wherein a broken right rear leg is recorded; and a destination exception section 206 which indicates a set of gouges is found on the top of the chest of drawers.
Upon inspection of the final report 200, the insurance adjuster can easily and quickly allocate the broken right rear leg to the warehouseman and the two gouges to the destination hauler. No damage is allocated to the original hauler.
In compliance with the statute, the invention described herein has been described in language more or less specific as to structural features. It should be understood, however, that the invention is not limited to the specific features shown, since the means and construction shown is comprised only of the preferred embodiments for putting the invention into effect. The invention is therefore claimed in any of its forms or modifications within the legitimate and valid scope of the amended claims, appropriately interpreted in accordance with the doctrine of equivalents.
b. a personal property software program loaded into said working memory of said device, said software program capable of presenting a plurality of graphic files capable of being presented to a user on said display on said device, each said graphic file being associated with name, said software program enabling a user to record his or her name and record and indicate the precise location of initial damage to said personal property, said software program also enables subsequent user's to record his or her name and record and indicate the precise of location of damage to said personal property, said record of damage being saved in memory, said software program capable of being used to produce a final report showing the condition of said personal property at different stages of a move.
e. reviewing the personal property against the report by an un-packer.
g. generating a report showing the graphic images of said personal property each time the custody of said personal property changes.
US1203902A (en) * 1914-01-17 1916-11-07 Reefy M Nichols Shipping-tag.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 30 perform a symbolic handshake at the Military Demarcation Line between the two Koreas.
(The White House)
By Lee Hana
The historic meeting on June 30 held by U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas was both unprecedented and unpredictable in several ways.
The leaders of both countries came together for the first time at the inter-Korean border and exchanged a historic handshake across the Military Demarcation Line. Both men then held bilateral talks for 53 minutes rather than the scheduled 2, launching what could be seen as their third summit.
All of this happened because of an invitation sent via Twitter by Trump just 32 hours prior to the meeting. On June 29, the last day of the 2019 G-20 Osaka summit, the American president tweeted his wish to see Kim at the inter-Korean border during his visit to South Korea.
"After some very important meetings…I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say hello," the tweet said.
The North Korean leader subsequently accepted this invitation, and the historic meeting between him and Trump at the truce village of Panmunjeom became a reality.
U.S. President Donald Trump, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Moon Jae-in walk together on June 30 before the U.S.-North Korea summit held at Freedom House in the truce village of Panmunjeom. (Yonhap News)
After shaking hands with Kim on the border, Trump briefly walked on North Korean soil to become the first sitting U.S. president to enter the North.
On their way to Freedom House, the summit venue located south of the inter-Korean border, Trump and Kim joined President Moon for a brief but unprecedented three-way gathering.
The Pyeongyang-Washington talks began shortly afterwards. President Moon did not go in, having announced a few hours prior to a media briefing following his summit with Trump that "today, we'll focus on talks between the U.S. and North Korea. Inter-Korean talks will ensue on another occasion."
Following the impromptu meeting, Kim positively assessed the day's events by saying, "The fact that we peacefully shook hands in a place that symbolizes division shows that today is different from yesterday. The great relationship we have will give us the strength to overcome any obstacles or difficulties that come our way as we address the issues at hand."
After his talks with Kim, Trump held a joint news conference with President Moon to inform the media on the outcome of Trump's talks with Kim.
"The U.S. and North Korea agreed to put together working-level teams for negotiations," said Trump, adding that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would form the teams led by Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun.
"From now, we'll have to wait and see. I think after today we can look forward to better results."
The symbolic DMZ meeting between the leaders of the U.S. and North Korea has thus led to the resumption of working-level negotiations, providing a breakthrough after months of stalled dialogue since the failed Feb. 27-28 summit in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Q: Auction site in rails and working with bids I need some assistance in working with the bids on this app. When a user register they get to set their budget (which is an integer in the schema). Users are then able to create an item with a set price (which is also an integer in the schema for the items table).
Im trying to figure out when a user creates a bid on the item
A) How do I decrease the users current budget if the highest bidder, but if gets out bid, the money returns to their budget.
B) Increase the items "price" that has been set with the current highest bid.
heres a visual of the schema:
create_table "bids", force: true do |t|
t.datetime "created_at"
t.datetime "updated_at"
t.integer "item_id"
t.integer "user_id"
t.integer "amount"
end
create_table "items", force: true do |t|
t.datetime "created_at"
t.datetime "updated_at"
t.integer "user_id"
t.string "title"
t.integer "price"
end
create_table "users", force: true do |t|
t.string "email", default: "", null: false
t.string "encrypted_password", default: "", null: false
t.string "reset_password_token"
t.datetime "reset_password_sent_at"
t.datetime "remember_created_at"
t.integer "sign_in_count", default: 0
t.datetime "current_sign_in_at"
t.datetime "last_sign_in_at"
t.string "current_sign_in_ip"
t.string "last_sign_in_ip"
t.datetime "created_at"
t.datetime "updated_at"
t.integer "budget"
end
Bids controller:
class BidsController < ApplicationController
before_action :set_bid, only: [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]
def show
@bid = Bid.find(params[:id])
end
def new
@item = Item.find(params[:item_id])
@bid = @item.bids.build
end
def create
@item = Item.find(params[:item_id])
@bid = @item.bids.new(bid_params)
respond_to do |format|
if @bid.save
format.html { redirect_to @item, notice: 'Your item has been updated.'}
else
format.html { render action: 'new' }
end
end
end
private
def set_bid
@bid = Bid.find(params[:id])
end
def bid_params
params[:bid][:user_id] = current_user.id
params[:bid].permit(:amount, :user_id, :item_id)
end
end
Items controller:
class ItemsController < ApplicationController
before_action :set_item, only: [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]
before_filter :user_signed_in?
def index
@item = Item.all
end
def show
@item = Item.find(params[:id])
end
def edit
end
def new
@item = Item.new
@item.bids.build
end
def create
@item = Item.new(item_params)
if @item.save
redirect_to @item, notice: 'Item successfully created.'
else
format.html { render action: 'new'}
end
end
def update
respond_to do |format|
if @item.update(item_params)
format.html { redirect_to @item, notice: 'Your item has been updated.'}
else
format.html { render action: 'edit'}
end
end
end
def destroy
@item.destroy
respond_to do |format|
format.html { redirect_to items_url }
end
end
private
def set_item
@item = Item.find(params[:id])
end
def item_params
params[:item][:user_id] = current_user.id
params[:item].permit(:price, :user_id, :title, :bids_attributes => [:amount, :user_id, :item_id])
end
end
A: I think that using a has_many :through relationship would fit well with this problem: a user can have many items through bids.
A) Each item page would have a form that updates the bid instance for that specific item. The form would have one field: the amount of the bid the user wishes to place.
In order to solve your first problem, each time the bid is updated you do the following:
*
*Get the previous user id and add to its budget the old price that the bid had (this would return their money).
*Update the bid instance with the current user_id and the newly placed bid (all this data would be passed through the form)
*Decrease the new user's budget with the bid he placed.
B) I think that there is no need to update the item's price because keeping the item's original price is important. Thus, instead of comparing a newly placed bid with the item's price, you would compare it with the last placed bid.
If you insist in updating the item's price, its rather easy. You would find the Item instance using your item_id stored in the bid instance and then you would simply update its price attribute with the newly placed bid.
EDIT
You can use the following code (not tested) as a starting point:
For your Item show action, you do the following:
def show
@item = Item.find(params[:id])
@bid = Bid.find_by_item_id(@item.id)
end
In your show view, you would have a form like so:
<%= form_for @bid do |f| &>
<%= f.label :bid_amount %>
<%= f.text_field :amount %>
#etc....
<%= f.submit "Submit" %>
<% end %>
This form should route your request to the Bid controller update action which should have something like this:
def update
@bid = Bids.find(params[:id])
@item = Item.find(@bid.item_id)
@old_user = User.find(@bid.user_id)
@old_user.budget += @item.price + @bid.amount
@new_user = User.find(params[:bid][:user_id])
@bid.user_id = @new_user.id
@bid.amount = params[:bid][:amount]
@new_user.budget -= @item.price + @bid.amount
respond_to do |format|
if @bid.save
format.html { redirect_to @item, notice: 'Your item has been updated.'}
else
format.html { render action: 'new' }
end
end
end
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A White House official said the proposal would be included in the president's proposal for long term deficit reduction that he will announce Monday. The official spoke anonymously because the plan has not been officially announced.
Obama is going to call it the "Buffett Rule" for Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor who has complained that rich people like him pay a smaller share of their income in federal taxes than middle-class taxpayers.
is this fair ...and why is Boehner opposing it? should the wealthy have to start paying more taxes?
51% of Americans pay no income tax.
... So if he's serious about balancing budgets and "being fair" then he'll work to fix that first.
Until then, all I'm hearing is class warfare being used to distract us from the fact that our liberties are being stolen from us.
They still pay things like sales taxes, excise taxes, and potentially property taxes, so it's not like anybody (even illegal immigrants) is a true moocher who makes no contribution to society.
The midpoint of the first quintile is about $11,000, and even a household earning that little pays about $1,400 in total taxes. The household in the second quintile, earning around $30,000 per year, pays $7,000 in taxes. Most of these taxes are regressive, also. A family making $11,000 that loses more than 10% of its income in taxes is going to hurt much more than a family making $200,000 that loses 35%.
Do you expect people who have no income or very little income to pay income tax? Get real, Evan.
Actually, he really meant the 50% that don't pay income tax comes from the filthy rich!
Evan, you don't like Obama's nor the Dems in Congress, nor Bernanke's policies, but ntither you nor the Republicans in Congress nor the GOP presidential candidates have revealed your plan for reving up the economy and reducing unemployment. What's your theory? Boehner endorsed neo-Keynesian economics when he said it's not a good idea to raise taxes when we are in a recession. As far as I can tell neither Boehner nor McConnel nor Ryan has a coherent economic theory for what to do RIGHT NOW BEFORE THE SHIP OF STATE RUNS ON THE ROCKS.
The plan is beat Obama by 2013, than change work laws and regulation by 2014. By than the people and their minor children will be glad to work for less and feel blessed. The American Dream will become a nightmare. The rich and powerful will change America from a 1st rate country to a 2nd rate country approaching 3rd rate by 2016.
No this isn't about fairness, its about envy and the view of Obama and the democrats that the current and growing disparity of wralth between the rich and the poor is a problem that can only be addressed by government and by punishing the rich. If wealth equality is their goal then why not tax wealth instead of income or investment? If too much success is bad, punish it with tax!
Punishing investors, risk takers, and the rich which are actually the people responsible for creating jobs and wealth for us all is the height of stupidity driven by envy, and greed. We are taxed enough already! Add up all the taxes we pay fed, state, city, property, and sales taxes, now heap onto that all the fees we have to pay, licenses, tolls, parking, park and entrance fees, application fees. Buy a home and oay a mortgage tax, theres gas taxes, phone taxes, then theres the most evil of all, the death tax! How much is enough? How much more does the government need to take from us? Its not the rich that are the problem, its the government. Enough is ENOUGH!
Hi Lady. Thanks for sharing this with us. I accept that you firmly believe that the rich create jobs in the private sector. I happen to agree with you but more on this later.
As I've said before, I respect every person's right to his or her own opinion. I'm much less interested in what they think than why. But some posters regurgitate elitist talking points as if their livelyhoods depended on it. They are the ones who rely on a barage of generalities, hyperbole, and inuendo rather than acknowledge one single fact that contradicts the distorted reality they are being paid to promote.
The segment of the population who created the economic collapse and then raided the treasury for whatever was left in the till is now being asked to contribute a little more toward the nations recovery efforts. As you said above: "the rich which are actually the people responsible for creating jobs and wealth for us all." Okay, we can see their wealth is growing but where are the jobs for those Americans who have lost both their jobs and their homes?
Our founding fathers knew from their own experiences that wealth equates to power and influence. It always has and it always will. The 80% of the US population with only 7% of the marketable wealth, and the least power and influence, only have their votes to protect them. May they use them wisely.
M'Lady. I wish you the best life has to offer.
"It only becomes "class warfare" when we fight back!"
I notice wealth distribution is a theme in your excuses for raising taxes on the rich. As I said before the recession has nothing to do with how wealth is distributed. The rich naturally suffered less because their main source of wealth is not their homes as it is with the middle class. This inequality exists in part, not because of anything that the rich did, but because of government efforts to promote home ownership even among those that couldn't afford it and monetary policy that kept interest rates artificially low. Corporations then found themselves stuck with worthless stock the value of which was derived from high risk mortgages held by people that didn't have the ability to pay them back. These are well documented facts. Once again the government intervened and bailed out the banks that they forced to give out those loans. Now you want the government to punish the rich! Corporations are afraid, sitting on piles of cash suffering from Dodd-Frank regulations and the impending onslaught of unkown costs soon to be unleashed in Obamacare and you want to tax them even more! And for what? What will these taxes be used for? Paying retirement benefits for substandard teachers? Bailing the state pension funds out of democrat supporters? Providing temporary jobs for AFLCIO members? Or perhaps to fund the NLRB in their fight to prevent Boring from creating jobs in SC? This is not a government for the people. This is not what Obama promised, to be a uniter. This is a corrupt government willing to crush our capitalist society to benefit their well connected socialist friends! And you speak of wealth distribution? Get government out of the way! Let people keep what they earn and reward them for creating wealth don't punish them for it! If you want more of something, tax it less, if you want less of something tax it more! Personally, I think there should be a tax on government!
Hi Lady. Hope you are enjoying your Sunday afternoon.
If you examine the data, you will learn that the distribution of wealth in this country is a good reason, and not an excuse, for raising taxes on the rich. Those who created the economic collapse, benefited from all the recovery programs, and suffered the least from the meltdown are now being asked to contribute a little more toward regaining our former economic health. If you disagree the wealthiest in this country suffered the least then please look at the data again. Failure to acknowledge complisity in the Great Recession of 2008 and insensitivity to the hardships it has caused to the other less fortunate 80% of the population is hardly an admirable position for any person or for any political party.
You admit this inequality exists but you misplace the blame upon the government for encourageing people to invest in their own homes. You excuse, by omission, the mortgage brokers and banks responsible for knowingly steering poorer Americans into subprime loans they couldn't afford to carry. The same club of bankers then bundled these mortgages and sold them as safe and reliable securities. Who are the real culprits? You say the Government. I say the wealthy bankers and mortgage brokers who later whined for a government handout. To borrow some of your words, "Corporations then found themselves stuck with worthless stock the value of which was derived from high risk mortgages." Mortgages that big banks created, others repackaged, and still others insured as trustworth, I would add.
These are admirable examples of less wealthy Americans willing to contribute what they can to rebuild this country. I would think the wealthiest of all Americans would also be willing to accept a temporary tax increase to help reduce the national debt and to rebuild our sinking economy.
Except the 2 corporations most at fault for those sub prime mortgages was Fannie and Freddie Mac! No question the bailout were wrong, but it was the government that invented too big to fail not corporations!
Again how wealth is distributed has nothing to do with anything. Pew research shows people around the world favor free trade, free markets, and capitalism and understand that all do not benefit equally.
Yours is an observation not a description of a problem especially one that government needs to solve.
And you never answered amy of my questions! How convenient! What will a tax increase do to solve your imaginary problem? How will that change the distribution of wealth in this country? Taking from the rich and giving to the government will only make the poor, poorer by providing less opportunity especially in this economy. This is the LIE perpetuated by Obama and the left, that the rich aren't paying their "fair" share and that taxing them more solves all our problems, debt, unemployment, foreclosures, poverty, and wealth distribution, when in fact it solves NONE of our problems and only provides more money to the government to give to constituents like Solyndra, and Lightsquared.
If wealth distribution is such a problem, let Obama propose to make being wealthy illegal, let him tax their wealth and their income so his destruction of America is complete!
And that Lady Love, even by your usual standards, is absolute rubbish!
Oh really? Why, because you say so? Read it and weep! Overwhelmingly people around the world, even the poorest countries prefer the economic freedom of capitalism. It's only the selfish, self absorbed, "intellecuals" of the left that think otherwise. One has to wonder, why? Because they want it all to themselves! They're liars and hypocrites and power hungry narcissists, they are evil and will be defeated wherever they rear their ugly ideology!
There is no freedom in capitalism beyond the freedom enjoyed by the few at the top. Not everybody in the capitalist society can afford to spend all day on the forums you know, most have to work hard for a living.
As you can see, most of the WORLD disagrees with you!
Most of the world! Have you asked them all?
Sure,sadly there are people working for subsistence wages that doff their caps to the masters, doesn't make it right though.
A) the Left want to redistribute wealth.
A1) The left wants to do this by raising taxes on the wealthy.
B) Redistributing wealth is wrong.
C) Raising taxes on the wealthy will do nothing to redistribute wealth.
D) Raising taxes on the wealthy is wrong.
Okay. Even if we accept as true everything from A to C, I'm not sure D follows from them....perhaps we've skipped a step?
A1 is wrong. The left SAYS that taxing the rich will lead to equitable wealth redistribution, but they really just are going to steal it and give it to their friends.
For example, did you know the democrat party is a creditor in the Solydra bankruptcy?
"The left SAYS that taxing the rich will lead to equitable wealth redistribution, but they really just are going to steal it and give it to their friends."
Oh, like happened with Halliburton and Blackwater? Yeah, it was the Left that gave them all that money that went missing.
It is never a good strategy to let your opening sentence make you look like a purveyor of misinformation. To say "the 2 corporations most at fault for those sub prime mortgages was Fannie and Freddie Mac" is to reveal you understand neither the woes of subprime mortgages nor Fannie and Freddie Mac.
Perhaps you can cite a balanced and unbiased data source that supports your claim Fannie and Freddie were "most at fault" for the sub prime mortgage mess.
The topic is "Obama to seek a new tax rate for wealthy." Data that enlightens us about wealth and tax rates has everything to do with the topic. Although, I can see many reasons why you prefer to introduce other issues. The data clearly shows the wealthy, who brought on this economic melt down, have suffered the least during the recession and they are getting fatter as they have been doing steadily over the last 25 years. This fact, which you claim "has nothing to do with anything," explains why many struggling Americans feel the wealthiest among us stand to reap the greatest rewards from a temporary tax increase that will reduce the national debt and rebuild our sinking economy.
the largest portions of short-term future tax hikes.
Barney Frank and the Democrats running Freddie and Fannie put pressure on the banks to make the subprime mortgages. Then covered up the financial mess during hearings during the Bush adninistration. The Dems wanted minorities to be able to get mortgages.
Hi again, Mr. West, and thank you for your comment.
http://www.informedtrades.com/2699-simp … t-1-a.html as a good starting point. But don't stop there. Other viewpoints can be found elsewhere too.
Thanks again, Mr. West, for your view. I hope you will share your findings with us somewhere along the line.
Do you even read your own sources? The first paragraph of your sources states the danger Fannie and Freddie pose to the finacial system. The article btw, was written in 2007 before the meltdown. I suggest you read Morgenstern's book on the subject where she names names.
2nd, I don't change the subject, other posters do and I just go where they take it. I'm not the forum police and I don't care.
I am well aware of the topic and I have posed a number of questions to you on point which you refuse to answer. Instead you bring up statistics on wealth distribution when the post is about taxes on the wealthy. As I have stated many times an additional tax on the wealthy at this time would not be helpful to the economy, this idea is one accepted by both parties including JFK, and even Obama himself! Suddenly he's flip flopping on his position, attacking the rich for not paying their "fair" share. This is a distraction for political purposes to divert attention away from his failed economic policies. Even his own party refuses to put his tax and jobs bill on the senate calander! Why? Because even some democrats realize they can't can't afford to heap anymore economic pain on their constituents and expect to be re-elected!
Good evening, M'Lady. I appreciate your making the time to reply.
Now you look like you're trying to re-write history. Everybody knows the sub-prime snowball started with declining housing prices in 2005 and 2006 and grew into an avalanche by the fall of 2007. (1) These sources were written during the height of the crisis.
The fact is you change the subject when you reply to me. You shouldn't blame that on other posters.
Data that enlightens us about who the wealthy are and how tax rates effect them has everything to do with the topic. Although, I can see many reasons why you prefer to introduce other issues. The data clearly shows the wealthy, who brought on the economic melt down that grew out of the sub-prime fiasco, have suffered the least during the recession and they are getting fatter as they have been doing steadily over the last 25 years.(2) This fact, which you claim "has nothing to do with anything," explains why many struggling Americans feel the wealthiest among us stand to reap the greatest rewards from a temporary tax increase that will reduce the national debt and rebuild our sinking economy.
BTW, your introducing the American Jobs Bill into this discussion is another red herring you can't attribute to other posters.
Thank you, lady_love. Stay well and always follow your bliss.
Of course the rich should pay more in taxes. To say or think that somehow those that have been blessed the most in a society should contribute the smallest percentage to the upkeep of that society is just dumb. The tithe is 10%. A flat tax is fair. If the rich want a tax break then they need to do things that help the people that the government is supposed to represent. If they do things to hurt the economy, they should be taxed more. This is not rocket science people. If you went to sell on Ebay, in order to make money, you have to pay into the upkeep of the selling environment. The top 1% in the country are sitting on $2.1 Trillion dollars right now. That's not their money, it's ours. I think Obama is being too nice based on the situation. Until we are healthy as a country, no American should even be allowed to hoard $2.1 Trillion.
Of course they should, but remember the ones voting on this are some of the wealthiest, so good luck with that. Obama is just running his mouth anyway for show right now, i don't believe a word he has to say. He fooled my once, shame on him, if he fools me twice shame on me and I am not THAT stupid.
Good luck to him - I doubt very much his gonna get enough support to pass that one.
The wealthy in society in comparison to the others don't pay enough taxes, no where near what they should pay.
This will never change - as they the rich continue to say they pay too much tax as it is, and the poor continue to struggle with the unfair tax system.
The ignorance of the left knows no bounds! The rich pay the bulk of the taxes in America! The top 10% of earners in America pay 70% of the taxes!
But actually own 80-90% of stocks, shares, trust funds and business equity.
That explains perfectly why they are footing the bill for the other 90%. Actually the lower 50% paid 2.7% of all taxes in 2008, that was the last year I found any information on. I didn't really look that hard. Its time the 50% not contributing started to.
Well that's easily sorted, pay them enough to come into the tax paying bands.
I know, right? It's the logic that the right use to explain why the wealthy benefit the most from an across-the-board tax cut: If you pay a dollar and get 10% off, you get a dime back. If you pay ten dollars and get 10% off, you get a dollar back. Fair, right?
Even if we accept LaLo's erroneous claim that they have 71%, that still means that they should be paying 71% of the income taxes, not 71%. A tax increase is only fair.
Only fair to whom? The top 50% pay 97.3 % of the taxes, the bottom doesn't pay squat. Pay their fair share and start today.
That's a fallacy, too. The top 50% do not pay 97.3% of taxes. They pay most of the taxes on earned income, true, but everyone who takes home a paycheck pays socsec and medicare taxes. Everyone who buys gas pays the federal gas tax (and all other things being equal, someone who earns 50K pays a much greater percentage of his income to the gas tax than someone who earns 500K). Everyone who buys anything pays the cost of corporate taxes that get passed along to the consumer. So that old line about the bottom 50% paying no taxes is a falsehood.
The only problem with that is they get a large chunk of that money back at the end of the year. In fact most get much more than they actually paid in.
No, they get their earned income tax withholdings back at the end of the year. Socsec and medicare never comes back until you're collecting benefits. The gas tax never comes back directly--it pays for government programs. The higher cost of goods due to corporate taxes doesn't come back at the end of the year either.
The tax refund money that most people get is from the amount of earned income tax over and above what you actually owe that was withheld from your paycheck. It's not from taxes other than the earned income tax. When you factor in what the bottom 50% pay in taxes other than the earned income taxes, their overall effective tax rate is pretty close to that of someone who does end up owing income tax at the end of the year.
But since those taxes are "hidden," lots of people forget about them (and Right-wing ideologues like it that way--it makes it easier to paint half the population as slackers and deadbeats).
No, they get back money they never payed in. You can say it all you want but it doesn't make it true. My sister a waitress has 4 kids and no husband. She paid in about 500 in FICA and got a little over 8000 back. That more than paid for the gas that she bought all year, the left lies.
If your sister paid $500 in FICA taxes, then she earned $2825 that year.
That's way below the poverty line.
If she got $8000 back from her income tax, she's guilty of tax fraud.
Or you're lying about something.
No I'm not lying, she makes 2.25 an hour as a waitress plus tips. You are not as informed as you make yourself out to be. Now, the earned income credit plus the child tax credit on four children and also filing head of household. She got 8 plus grand back. You don't seem to get the whole picture.
(Edit) She also worked as a secretary for part of the year, I forgot about that. I think her total income was around 17,000 that year. She received far more than she payed in at any rate.
If your sister made close to 17 grand, her FICA tax bill ought to have been close to $960.50, not $500.
There's something very fishy about what you're telling us. I don't want the details of your sister's finances--they're none of the internet's business--but I'm very curious as to how her refund was greater than her withholdings.
Any accountants out there who can debunk or confirm?
Erroneous? I posted a link backing up that fact! Now you changed the subject to income from wealth. The top 20% collects 50% of the income. That's more evenly distributed than wealth!
You said the top earners paid 70% of the taxes. Not the wealthiest.
"The top 10% of earners in America pay 70% of the taxes!"
Nope. The top 10% has 71% of the wealth.
Pretty equivalent to their tax rate wouldn't you say?
Demn, must record sources! But this one came from multiple sources.
Most Republican have an issue with taxes but don't have any answer or clue on how to pay for stuff except borrow from the Chinese. Making the wealthy pay their share is more than fair. So why does crybaby Boehner feel the need to oppose it? Also there needs to be a crackdown on Social Security fraud. It seems that everyone and their brother/sister is collecting SSI for some kind of bogus reason for not getting up off their asses and get a job. It's too easy to get con some doctor to write a note for some "back or neck injury". Granted, there are legit cases out there and this does not pertain to people 62+ years old. I'm thinking along the lines as my drunken sister and her looser boyfriend who collect SSI basically for cigarette and beer money.
From what I understand, Obama's plan is more like putting a bandaid on the problem--a temporary fix. What is really needed and there is growing support for is a rewrite of the entire tax code.
That's true, but I'm not sure I would trust the current Congress to re-write the entire tax code. They might make it worse.
Might make it worse? Most likely would make worse you mean.
Thomas Jefferson suggested a revolution every 20 years. Times and thinking has changed since the late 18th Century, but this country can review, amend, change stuff like tax codes, constitutional amendments, etc every 20 years or even sooner if needed. Yes, the current tax code leaves too much for interpretation.
Also individual states need to do the same. For example, in North Dakota, it's still against the law to shoot buffalo out of a second story window or to put a rock on a railroad track in Alabama.
The Republican reaction against Obama's "Buffett" tax proposal on the basis that there should be no tax increases during a recession is an implicit acknowledgement of the validity of Keynesian economics.
For people who earn $1million+ annually don't seem to be hurting much from the recession compaired to the people who make less.
Oh I see, so the role of government is to insure the rich are equally miserable as the middle class? Class warfare is what this us about and the president's reelection. He needs to distract is from his record of "accomplishments".
How much out of every dollar earned should a human being be allowed to keep?
Anyone, what is a fair share?
What part of a dollar earned can you take with you when you die?
They will. God is making it real apparent that worshiping and hoarding "Dollars" while people starve and die on the street mocks his way and his Word. So he's taking our dollars power away. People will get that real soon.
I agree that is a fair amount. I also believe that everyone being equal under the Law should be allowed to keep the same percentage.
The part of the dollar that you can take with you when you die.
"Obama Jobs Plan Deserves a Hearing" Christina Romer in the NYTimes.
With 14 million Americans unemployed and no prospect of rapid recovery on the horizon, we really have no choice: we must take additional measures to create jobs. What policy makers need to discuss is which measures will be most effective in putting people back to work, and in hastening the day when government support is no longer needed.
Trickle down economics does not work.
Corporations aren't sitting on wads of cash because they are in fear of Obamacare.
They are sitting on wads of cash and not creating jobs because there is no incentive for them to do otherwise.
In short: BECAUSE THEY CAN.
You never proved any such thing! And no corporations would much rather put that cash to work than to sit on it.
You are really naive and you really have no clue what this economy is base upon. Once you understand what the economy is based on at an elemental level, you be able to recognize when one of the key elements, in this case Capital, is missing. You don't have to "Prove" anything. There is no capital investment into the small business sector. The number that you don't believe is being sat on is $2.1 Trillion.
Who said I didn't believe corporations are sitting on cash? Maybe you should read it again. What I said was they aren't sitting on it because the want to, but because of the fear induced into the market place by this administration. Look at the markets. Obama is a spreader of fear a divider, an enemy of capitalism and freedom. Nobody is going to invest in this environment!
I'll repeat what I said earlier. You are Naive if you believe that there is a fear among the people that are sitting on the capital. Either you are naive or your are complicit or a combination of both. The equilibrium of the system "Changes" the environment. A healthy economy where money is being created with fix the current economic ills that we see, absorb higher taxation and regulate itself. The rich need to pay back into the environment that they have destabilized. It isn't a question of fear and you know that. How about the rich do their job and let the capital flow and we get our politicians to fix what's broken with the money they collect. Once the things are fixed, we've paid off our debts and have a decent, livable infrastructure, then we chop everyone's taxes back down. That doesn't seem like an overly complex plan to me.
Look, before you spend money on something don't you need to know the price? Do you go to the car lot and say I'll take that one and then the sales guy tells you what it costs? Do you research how much it will cost to operate that car before you decide to buy it? How much gas it uses? How much to insure it?
Business has to do the same before they invest, before they hire, they have to know what it's going to cost. Right now HHS secretary is still writing the rules to implement Obamacare. Remember Pelosi said we.had to pass it to see what's in it? Well business is still waiting to see what that will cost. Then there is Dodd Frank, and other concerns like tax rates. Obama has been constantly attacking the rich. He wants to tax them more and we know the Bush tax cuts are going to expire. If you think there isn't an extreme level of uncertainty by business and that's holding them back, then its you sir that is naive!
You aren't getting me. The "Rich" aren't buying anything so they don't have to evaluate a price. They are simply paying a dividend back into the economy that untaxed, unregulated profiteering has destabilized. Obamacare is a word, it means absolutely nothing. It's smoke and people who think like you are high on it. There is enough wealth in this country to pay off the deficit and return the country back to equilibrium. That has to happen first before any tax cut means anything. Think as though there weren't groups of people in this country that you were mad at for being unproductive. It's going to take some grown-ups to fix this problem, not people who hoard and worship money.
You're right I'm not getting you because you don't make any sense. Where you live, in Wonderland, economic laws are different then here on Earth.
You're right, I don't live here with you on the Earth. Your life is governed by your "Economic Laws", inflation, deflations, supply and demand (garbage). Pick up a Bible and read on God's economics and you might get a bit of what I'm trying to say to you.
Now I'm confused. I thought God and government WERE intertwined.
Founding Fathers and all that Constitution and Pledge of Allegiance and all that.
Now you're saying to Elder they're separate?
Hey, stop stealing our separation of church & state lines!
@Mighty Mom-They are separate in the lady's mind...that's the only way to rationalize the attitude and support the actions. Most folks of that sort of conservative "Group Think" are generally going to call themselves Christian. In order to think and behave the way that they do, they have to take Christ and God and put all of that religious stuff in a box. God's way and the way of Christ don't fit hoarding money and letting certain undesirables starve or live in poverty, in the richest country on the planet. It's really almost better to be an athiest than do what they do with the Bible.
So you're saying liberals are more generous with money? They are very generous with my money, their own...not so much.
I don't think that is what he's saying at all.
He's saying that if you look at the attitudes and behaviors (which drive public policy) of today's self-proclaimed "Christians," a term the religious right has claimed exclusively for themselves, (thus discounting or completely discrediting any other brand of Christianity that doesn't think exactly the way they do), you don't have to look very far to see that there is an inherent disconnect.
Fire and brimstone is all well and good and does have a Biblical precedent.
But that is NOT the teachings of CHRIST.
e.g., Who would Jesus bomb? Who would Jesus let starve? Who would Jesus applaud for their good deeds? Who would Jesus want running our country?
NEWSFLASH!!! Government does not equal Jesus!
Now you ARE getting me. There is no separation between God and anything you do, especially where other people are concerned. The money changers have poisoned your mind to the point where you can separate money from morality. Your "Economic Laws" were authored by money changers. Whether we find ourselves at the top or the bottom of the bell curve, the rich always stay rich. It takes a faith to see things from outside of the box you live in. I'm not in the wrong forum, you are just living in a box, a lot like the matrix.
Do the poor always stay poor? Do they pray themselves into a higher tax bracket? I'm a christian and do not consider my beliefs when making investments. Of course I don't invest in criminal schemes but I wouldn't do that if I wasn't a christian.
There will always be poor people, but not only having to do with money. The rich that have destabilized this economy are poor in compassion. That takes its own toll, no different than being financially poor. To your comment above, I hate to have to break this to you, but you don't have "Money". You hold a debt note, issued by an international banker. It is becoming progressively more and more worthless as we type out this discussion. If the remainder of the world removes that dollar from the oil reserve currency status, those dollars that you seem to think are worth hating over, aren't going to be worth the paper that they are printed on. Go back into your Bible brother and study on what Jesus commanded that we render unto Caeser. There is no separation between money and Him.
I think Alice is looking for you.
This is the only time you'll hear anyone on the right argue in favor of a separation of church and state.
It's been proven in the real world.
In the 50s and 60s we had high tax rates for the top incomes, powerful unions, more regulation of the financial sector, and increasing prosperity for everyone from top to bottom.
in the 90s and 00s we had a continuing trend of lower income taxes (the tax rates are the lowest they've been since before the Great Depression), weakening unions, deregulation of the financial sector, and a downward trend in the prosperity of 98% of Americans.
This is fact. What hasn't been proven is that there's a causal relationship between tax rates and overall prosperity. But the Right continues to say that lower taxes, weaker unions, and deregulation will create greater prosperity?
Let's take a look at something way simpler.
A kid drops his books on the floor and the lights turn on. He concludes that dropping books on the floor makes the lights go on. That's a logical fallacy, taking a sequential relationship and assuming a causal one.
If the Left claimed high taxes, strong unions, and greater regulation will result in greater prosperity, they'd be guilty of this fallacy, known as "post hoc ergo propter hoc" (A happened before B happened, therefore A caused B to happen.) This is bad logic. It would be better to take a more provisional stance, like this: A happened before B happened, therefore, A may have caused B. Let's see if B happens every time A happens.
A happened before B happened, therefore, if we do the opposite of A, then B will happen again.
This is about the worst logic ever.
Imagine a kid dropping his books on the floor and then the lights turn on. The next time the kid wants to turn on his lights, he puts the books on the shelf. And then he's surprised and dismayed that the lights don't come on. He concludes that he didn't put enough books on the shelf to make the lights turn on, so he puts some more books on the shelf. That doesn't work either, so he puts more books on, increasingly uncomfortable that he's still standing in the dark even though he's doing the exact opposite of what he did when the lights turned on last time.
This kid doing what the Right is doing: trying the opposite of what may have worked before, and not understanding why opposite action isn't giving identical results.
I think you just explained Obama's stimulus package and the definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.
You're going to tell me that there was MORE regulation in the 50 and 60s??? By what measure??? Yes the tax rate was higher and guess what, JFK cut it to stimulate the economy! Back then democrats weren't socialists with evil motives!
"there was MORE regulation in the 50 and 60s??? By what measure?"
In the financial sector, absolutely there was.
When I was shopping for a home, my mortgage officer told me a qualified for a huge mortgage. I asked him how that was possible given my income. He gave me quite an eye-opening history lesson about the regulation of the banking industry, which is a long trend of less and less regulation of loans to consumers, starting in the 70s. Once upon a time, a mortgage had to be no greater than a certain number based on the morgagee's annual income and on or two other factors. That number went up and up and up, and then the regulation disappeared altogether. Of course, this meant that people seemed to be able to afford more and more expensive homes, and concurrently, homes got more and more expensive.
Democrats aren't socialists with evil motives now. You're trying to pretend they are, and branding your opponents as "evil" rather than "people of good will who disagree on the best policy for the country" is far more evil than anything either the Democrats or the GOP want to do.
So, did you take that large mortgage because you could or did you do the responsible thing?
Hell, no! First, I knew there was no way I was going to want to pay that much every month. Second, I didn't need a ji-normous house (nor did I want to have to clean a ji-normous house). Third, I wasn't planning to flip it; I wanted to live there for a long time. But then, I was a bit more savvy than your average first-time home buyer.
I took a modest loan on a modest home that I could afford.
'Course, even though I did the responsible thing, my mortgage still went underwater after the housing crisis. If I needed to sell my home for some reason, I would lose big time. I can only hope that the market recovers to the extent that I'll be able to break even if I do sell.
With conventional mortages you can only borrow 80% of the assessed value of the home and your income had to be at least 38% of the mortgage payment. Regulation changed all that Fannie and Freddie, not the lack of it. Those formulas were developed by lenders to make sure they got repaid, regulations we're passed by gov't to get people in homes at any cost. It all worked fine as long as real estate values continued to rise helped along by artificially low interest rates. As we can see, ponzi schemes can't last forever.
Very well put Lady, but you did miss one dimension of the mortgage fiasco. Legislation was pushed from democrats mandating loans in lower income area, by banks with little or not oversight. So, the loan products put into the consumer market, the option ARM, which is more of an investor's sort of home financing. Those were essentially business loans, where the borrower never signed the paper without a rock solid exit strategy. Why did the bankers do this? It's simple. It was a win win for them. They got these poor folks into larger homes than they could customarily afford with a rapidly increasing home value (up to 20% annually in some states), so when the mortgage payment increased and the fish defaulted, they'd get a well appreciated asset back in the foreclosure process. This is why you can't just look at these things from a non-spiritual perspective. Banks victimized the poor. No so much the illiterate or poverty stricken, but people that are not as diligent as you or I might be. Home values tanked instead of increased, so the banks went crying to our government to bail them out. You can call that God or karma or whatever, but God will not be mocked.
And whose fault was it that they were not diligent?
The lenders are the experts.....why wouldn't you trust them? It's a friggin bank....were people supposed to expect gangsterism there??
Stop blaming the victims..blame the perpetraitors!
No, the only victims are in your head. Those receiving mortgages they couldn't pay are criminals as far as I am concerned.
They COULD have paid the regular mortgages...but the "experts" recommended another way. Experts in suits and ties with name plaques on their desks....important and all that.
A scam artist is the one who has knowledge of forethought...it was deliberate thievery.
The victims got stuck with the bill.
as with any good scam.
As if they didn't know they couldn't afford it, crooks.
Surprisingly everybody is not as fiscally aware as you and if told they can afford something by an "expert" tend to believe them.
Most people know what they can and cannot afford, you really want to pass this drivel off as the facts? They were greedy and screwed the whole thing up. When will you and your kind accept responsibility for your bad choices?
Perhaps I overestimated your fiscal awareness.
No, you overestimated your line of BS, only a liberal would find someone other than themselves to blame. That's why the obama administration is being evicted.
Y'know repairguy, about 25-30 years ago the Tory party in the UK ran a campaign pointing out that the labour party, if elected, would raise taxes on those earning over £30,000 a year. At that time £30,000 pa was a very high salary, earned only by the upper echelons and certainly not enough to affect any potential labour vote.
There were countless people protesting about the labour party wanting to raise their taxes who never in their wildest dreams would earn anything like £30,000 pa.
They had no idea what £25 a week equalled in a year.
Well John, that's very enlightening, thanks for sharing.
Yeah well, I know it won't make a blind bit of difference to what you think, but I try.
They aren't crooks. They are people who wanted something nice that they never had a clue that they could even have a shot at having. You are mad at them, but there ARE people that you vote with that don't have your integrity. You need to make peace with that and stop hating already victimized people.
Yes they are crooks, they should be jailed for taking things they couldn't afford.
It was their fault, but they aren't 100% responsible. You are a MAD Christian...Oxymoron... Jesus' only recorder fit of physical anger was directed towards the very people that put those loans into circulation in the first place. Come on up brother..... Get yourself out of hating and raging. That's His call to you.
It was their fault but they aren't 100% responsible? I'm not gonna try and figure out your logic. I got a speeding ticket the other day I would love to blame the car manufacturer for making a car that goes faster than the posted speeds. But I can't, starting to see the problem?
Bad analogy, if you'd been sold a car that the makers told you would never exceed the speed limit and then it did, you would be closer.
No, I would be at fault for not discovering the truth before I bought the car. Ignorance is no excuse.
Is this Bible history or a different history, you are all over the place man.
Both. The Bible as it pertains to the struggles of the Hebrews under similar conditions and then just contemporary history. Pick any empire you want.
Try real hard. I'm sure you can get your brain around it. Kind of like if I told you a lie with a big commission on my mind instead of whether or not a buyer fully understood the terms of a contract.
I am trying real hard to get my mind around what you are saying, but I keep coming back to this. If you entered into a contract without reading it or understanding it then you are either stupid or greedy, sadly I think it was both.
Elder, let me help you out, I am not angry with the banker or the mortgage holder. They both played a part in their problems. You and a couple of others seek to blame only the banker, its as if the poor buyer was totally unaware of what they were getting into, they knew and didn't care! Greed on both sides.
Jeff, no one on the right will buy anything you said no matter how much sense it makes. You neglected to explain that it was actually Obama's fault the lights weren't coming on the second time.
More cars get built in Ontario than in Michigan. Why? It's not because Canadians work for significantly less money than Americans do. It's not because Canadian workers aren't unionized. They've got the CAW (Canadian Auto Workers). They also have national healthcare, which means the car companies don't have to negotiate a healthcare package with the union.
Seems to me, American corporations would be better able to compete with foreign ones if they didn't need to worry about a health plan for their workers.
But yeah, reality is hard for any ideologue to deal with (not just those on the right).
Maybe its not health care costs burdening American auto makers, but unions with their work rules etc and regulations! But you didn't bother to suggest that, just voice your support for unconstitutional national healthcare but you're not an ideologue, you're a critical thinker right?
You obviously didn't read the post.
Canada has Unions. The CAW is at least as strong as the UAW. So the car makers didn't go to ontario to escape unions.
And if you think Canada has fewer regulations than the US, you're nuts. The car makers didn't go to Canada to escape regulations.
The main difference seems to be Canada has national healthcare while the US does not.
You're right: I'm not an ideologue. I'm a critical thinker. I'm also pretty good at reading comprehension. There are classes available through your local adult education program. Perhaps you should look into them.
Squaaaaaaaaak! Class warfare, socialism... squaaaaaaaak Obamacare......tax cuts...Squaaaaaaaaaak!
"They were greedy and screwed the whole thing up."
The Banksters, yes.So much so, that the whole world is paying!
Nope, the consumer was the greedy one. If I make two dollars a day and told I'm able to spend three a day then I say no. If I'm greedy and don't care I will spend the three, what will happen? All they can do is take what I didn't have before. Greed/criminal behavior/stupid its all the same.
But that's OK when speculators do it? Have you actually read what you've just said?
Repairguy is obviously one of the chosen few who have never made a mistake or fallen foul of a con trick in his whole life!
Boring, you know what they say, the man who has never made a mistake has never made anything.
I have made plenty of mistakes, the key word is I. You don't seem to grasp that you should take responsibility for your actions. No, I have never been the victim of a scam, I am not so foolish with my money. I would sill blame me if I had been though. Responsibility, try it sometime.
Don't presume to lecture me on responsibility.
Try opening your eyes first.
I just did lecture you on responsibility, do you need another class? I'm sure you have all kind of scape goats for your bad decisions, but they are all yours.
Why do you assume that I am only speaking from personal experience? Is it because you are so self obsessed that you can not understand that somebody else isn't?
John, I really don't care what the story is. I am just tired of those who will not accept their role in damaging themselves. The real victims, the only victims are the tax payers who bailed out the bankers so they could live to do this again. The wrong message is being sent.
No, you really don't care do you? Just as long as you can lay the blame were it least stands to be laid.
It needs to be laid at the feet of those who did it, that is both parties involved. You keep laying the blame on only one party.
So you hold the user up to blame for the dodgy contracts the bankers write!
Have you ever actually seen a contract?
Why yes I have, in that contract they also have numbers, those numbers tell you exactly what you will be paying per month. If you can't do the math then you are too stupid to be buying a house and I doubt you will ever have the ability to get a job that would allow you to buy a house. I use the word you in the generic sense.
Says the man living in the society where every man's goal is to own his own house!
Fine, now you have to pass an intelligence test to partake of the great American dream!
Home ownership may be a goal but some will never achieve that goal! As for an intelligence test, I think we should do away with a public school system that doesn't work. But that's another topic.
And if you ever reach a point in your life where you can utter a response that doesn't consist of 'or jeez' or ' I just can' then you will no doubt look back at this period in your life and feel completely embarrassed. But, I won't hold my breath.
Do you ever get the feeling you're being ignored? You should.
I probably would, had you had the sense not to answer me. Still, you'll get there in the end.
And just like that, the Banksters are off the hook!!
See, when a person lies to you and that person is a businessman with credentials...he's in heap big trouble. I say bank-man speak with heap big forked tongue.
I say bank-man gangster going DOWN!
I didn't think you would get it and I was right.
Come on then smart guy, explain it, if you can, in words of more than two syllables.
Bet I know what your gonna post, come on, give us all a laugh.
Take the first letters of each word and drop the rest. Letters is two syllables.
Letters aren't two syllables and WTF is hardly an answer. Just as I thought, you't don't even have one. You don't even understand what you have to say.
Letters doesn't have two syllables?
I had a look at your link, interesting, but I mentioned syllables not symbols.
You do realize that letters is also a word don't you? A word with two syllables? I mean you know that right? Right? You should have a much closer look at the link.
Although I can understand where you may want to run and hide from these posts, damn dictionaries.
WTF? is a question, hence the question mark.
WTF isn't really a question, but you know that right? You do know that? Letters can symbolize the alphabet, it is also a word containing two syllables. You know that right? You know that? But, still, you cannot offer a reasonable answer, just as I thought.
Yeah I know that WTF isn't really a question, it just seemed to fit the post I replied to. Letters can also be a word and since I wrote the word letters and said it had two syllables I just assumed you would have been able to understand that, guess I was wrong. I don't really feel that I have to answer someone I'm not sure could understand the words. I hope you will consult the dictionary on a more regular basis. Symbols? WTF???
You are definitely facing a challenge I hope you can overcome it. As for an answer I don't really care to answer you, I thought that was obvious. I hope you can understand that.
On second thought I'll answer. Speculators very seldom if ever buy a house at inflated prices, when they do buy the house they know exactly what they will be paying for the mortgage. They then either rent that property at a profit or remodel and sell it at a profit. If they are unable to do that then they lose the house suffer from the bad credit attached and move on. I have never seen any speculator whine about being scammed into buying a house.
Fine, in case you've forgotten, the question was asked by someone else. I do understand that you wouldn't want to answer me and that really makes me laugh, you have no idea. In terms of challenges, live with your delusions, you no doubt will.
I'll give you that one. Sin of the eyes, yes. But you have to understand that the banker had an army of bean counters weighing out risk versus reward. They had tons of analysts going over what those appreciation rates would be and they knew exactly what their upside was. If they considered the downside, ie the values going down instead of up, that should have made the use of the option arm loan not make any business sense to them. You can blame the consumer, that's your perspective, but the people that controlled the selling environment were the bankers. They came up with the re-invented consumer ARM loan and they didn't do that to help anybody but themselves. They also have a powerful enough lobby in washington to get bailed out and rewarded for their despot behavior. That's why my issue is more with them than the dummies that got fleeced.
Why aren't the millionaires paying at least the same tax rate of the middle class? Any suggestions?
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Until around 10 years ago, the conventional wisdom in educational historiography held that the start of the Civil War (1936-1939), marking as it did the placing of education at the service of the war effort, involved a rupture, in both the Republican government and the "rebel" or Franco camp, with the preceding years as to the educational politics and the pedagogical discourses. However, in the last few years a number of works have been published which, without denying the changes that undoubtedly occurred, emphasise the continuities in the discourses. This article sets out to elucidate and clarify just what there was of rupture and or continuity in educational politics and politico-pedagogical discourses during the years of the Civil War. | {
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This manual was distributed with version 0.5.0 of TFLA-01. Only minor differences are present in TFLA-16 (modifications by Kevin Koster, 2018).
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. The complete license text is available from the Free Software Foundation.
A logic analyzer is a device which can monitor the high and low states of several input lines of a digital logic. It is useful for debugging digital circuits such as bus transfers, etc. You can imagine a logic analyzer to be something like a digital oscilloscope.
Normally, a logic analyzer is a external device with a own controller that has a own display or is connected to a PC via USB or serial line. The PC or the display then shows the data, e. g. some waveforms.
This logic analyzer is designed to be cheap, somehing like a logic analyzer for poor men, which means not for industrial use but for hobbyists. It simply consits of a schematic which is attached to the PCs parallel port. Therefore, 8 Bit (i. e. 8 data lines) can be monitored simultaneously.
There's no real external device which collects the data: The schematic just protects the parallel port and converts RS232 level (+/- 12 V) to 5 V TTL level on two pins configurable with jumpers. The schematic is described later in this manual. The measuring is done by the PC software using the parallel port.
This means that the speed depends on your PCs parallel port and on the operating system. The data ist just collected by a user process to be portable against different operating system. However, with my setup I get on Linux data rates about 1 MHz which is quite well for I²C, RS-232, SPI and some other stuff.
Application runs completely in userspace, libieee1284 is used for parallel port access. This means that the installation is easy and the system stays stable.
Integrated decoder for the I²C and SPI protocols.
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Iran to exceed uranium stockpile limit as nuclear deal continues to stumble
Iran will soon exceed the stockpile limit set by the 2015 nuclear deal, and is nearing weapons-grade enrichment. World leaders are striving to find improved terms for the deal, which unraveled after the U.S. pulled out to pursue sanctions.
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President Hassan Rouhani visits the Bushehr nuclear plant in January 2015. Iran will soon exceed the uranium stockpile limit set by its 2015 nuclear deal as Tehran and the EU's attempts at setting new terms for the deal loom large.
By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell Associated Press
Tehran, Iran; and Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Iran will break the uranium stockpile limit set by Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days, the spokesman for the country's atomic agency said Monday while also warning that Iran could enrich uranium up to 20% – just a step away from weapons-grade levels.
The announcement by Behrouz Kamalvandi, timed for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, puts more pressure on Europe to come up with new terms for Iran's 2015 nuclear deal.
The deal has steadily unraveled since the Trump administration pulled the United States out of the accord last year and re-imposed tough economic sanctions on Iran, deeply cutting into its sale of crude oil abroad and sending its economy into free fall. Europe has so far been unable to offer Iran a way around the U.S. sanctions.
The development comes in the wake of apparent attacks on oil tankers last week in the Mideast, assaults that Washington has blamed on Iran. While Iran has denied being involved, it has used mines in the past against commercial traffic around the crucial Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's crude oil passes.
Mr. Kamalvandi accused Europeans of "killing time" as the clock runs down.
"If this condition continues, there will be no deal" anymore, Mr. Kamalvandi said.
President Hassan Rouhani, greeting France's new ambassador to Tehran on Monday, similarly warned that time was running out for the deal.
"The current situation is very critical and France and the other parties to the [deal] still have a very limited opportunity to play their historic role for saving the deal," Mr. Rouhani said, according to his website.
Under terms of the nuclear deal, Iran can keep a stockpile of no more than 660 pounds of low-enriched uranium. Mr. Kamalvandi said that given Iran's recent decision to quadruple its production of low-enriched uranium, it would pass the 660-pound limit on Thursday, June 27.
The United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said last month that Iran still remained within its stockpile limits. The Vienna-based agency declined to comment Monday on Iran's announcement.
Mr. Kamalvandi said Iran needs 5% enrichment for its nuclear power plant in southern Iranian port of Bushehr and it also needs 20% enrichment for a Tehran research reactor.
The nuclear deal had limited Iran to enriching uranium only to 3.67%, which is enough for power plants and peaceful purposes.
But after Washington's pullout and escalated sanctions, Tehran set a July 7 deadline for Europe to come up with better terms for the deal, saying it would otherwise take additional steps away from the accord, likely meaning it would boost enrichment further.
Mr. Kamalvandi enforced that stance, saying Tehran will increase uranium enrichment levels "based on the country's needs."
Enriching a supply of uranium means boosting its concentration of the type of uranium that can power a nuclear reaction. That type, or isotope, is called U-235. Enrichment basically means stripping away atoms of another isotope, called U-238. Boosting its purity to 20% means removing 22 more unwanted isotopes per atom of U-235, while going from there to 90% purity means removing just four more per atom of U-235. Ninety percent is considered weapons-grade material.
That means going from 20% to 90% is a relatively quicker process, something that worries nuclear nonproliferation experts. Iran maintains its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
Iran reached its nuclear deal with world powers in 2015, agreeing to limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. has steadily stripped away at the accord. Mr. Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal in May 2018.
Tensions have ratcheted up in the region since last month. The U.S. rushed an aircraft carrier strike group and other military assets to the Mideast in response to what it said were threats from Iran. Meanwhile, a series of mysterious attacks have targeted oil tankers, and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have launched a series of drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia.
Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, the chief of the general staff of Iran's armed forces, denied Tehran was involved in the ship attacks, saying Monday the country would respond in "an open, strong, and severe way" only if needed. However, Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which the U.S. suspects in the attacks, answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and operates outside of the army's control.
Mr. Kamalvandi spoke to Iranian journalists in a news conference at the country's Arak heavy water nuclear reactor. Such reactors produce plutonium that can be used in nuclear weapons. Iran, under the nuclear deal, had reconfigured the facility to address Western concerns on that issue.
However, Mr. Kamalvandi said the country could rebuild the facility to make it produce plutonium. He also said Iran would continue to allow the U.N. to inspect its nuclear facilities for the time being.
The U.S. alleges Iran used limpet mines to target two tankers last Thursday, pointing to black-and-white footage it captured that U.S. officials describe as an Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel removing an unexploded mine from the Japanese-operated tanker Kokuka Courageous, one of the two ships that were targeted.
The Japanese tanker's owner said its crew described "flying objects" as having targeted the vessel.
In Brussels on Monday, European Union foreign ministers said they were still looking for more information on who might be behind the incident involving the tankers. Germany and others insisted they need a clearer picture before wading into a diplomatic conflict that could have serious implications in the Middle East.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that U.S. and British intelligence needs to be compared with other information from allies. "We have to be very careful," he said.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said it was not a time to jump to action without proper information. "The maximum restraint and wisdom should be applied," she said ahead of the monthly foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg.
This story was reported by The Associated Press. Associated Press writers Raf Casert in Brussels and Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this report.
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FICTION — Where The Spirits Take Them (part two)
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This is an excerpt of Canadian writer Rob Dominelli's Where the Spirits Take Them. Follow the links for Part One, Part Three, Part Four, and the Epilogue.
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The court was quick, Allan used duty counsel. The charge was mischief. His lawyer argued the same mitigating factors for the judge to consider in sentencing: Before the courts was a forty year old native named Allan Peter Trudeau. His record was lengthy but consisted of minor offences like mischief and cashing bad cheques. He grew up in an alcoholic household and battled alcoholism himself. His mother a victim of residential schools, he spent his life in and out of foster care.
As the bald man in black at the bench called him a nuisance and handed down sixty days, all Allan could think of is whether he'd get through the admitting and discharge process in time for supper. The SDJ was a rarity among local lock-ups in that they still had a full kitchen and meals cooked on-site. God, he was hungry.
When he got to the bullpen across from the A&D office, it was three o'clock. That was good because the supper trays would roll at four thirty. Allan was a regular, so the jail staff still had his information on file.
Still no fixed address?
No. Or yeah, no address.
No allergies to food or medication?
Diabetic?
Do you have problems with anyone in the jail? Anyone you need to be protected from?
No, Sir.
"Okay," the officer said, wheeling back on his desk chair and looking at a board with tiny mug shots pinned to it. Allan knew that every row signified a range or cell block, and which inmate was presently where. The officer had a salt and pepper brush-cut and neatly trimmed moustache. Short and compact, he looked every inch a prison guard, but there was no cruelty in his eyes. Allan liked men like him, especially among prison staff where compassion was in short supply.
"Where are we gonna put you, Trudeau? You're not a trouble-maker are ya? No dope up your corn-hole?"
Allan didn't have to answer because he saw the hint of a smile on the man's face. This was a man who knew his job and the types of men he was dealing with, not like some of the younger staff who played games with the guys or who thought their job was to make jail colder and crueler than it already was.
"I'll tell you what Trudeau," the officer said as he wheeled aside on his chair. He waved at the occupancy board. "You tell me where you wanna go."
"I'm hungry boss," Allan said. The wound on his wrist was starting to itch something terrible under the bandages. "Hungry and tired. I just wanna go somewhere quiet, okay?"
"Okay fellah," The guard said while scribbling something in a notebook. "I got just the range for you."
"C.O. McGonagle," The admitting officer bellowed. A short, balding guard appeared in the doorway. He wore round glasses. "Take inmate Trudeau to his new home, would ya? Delta area. Thirteen corridor."
On the way up the stairs, the guard looked at Allan's forearm.
"That looks nasty. What happened?"
"Don't remember, boss."
"One of those nights, huh? We'll have medical take a look at that in the morning."
The guard put one hand on the handle of the big grey door marked DELTA in black lettering and tucked his chin into his radio that was pinned on his shoulder.
"Control, door delta."
There was a squawk from his walkie and an electronic buzz and he pulled the door open. The walls were a white brick and the floor a pale green. Each section of the old jail was two corridors divided by a pipe chase. On either side was a cell block.
As they passed the guard station (Which in the Sudbury Jail consisted of a big old desk with two chairs and a computer) Allan saw that the officer in charge of housekeeping was on the floor, a tall wiry black officer he called Boss Cobbs.
The officer smiled when he saw Allan.
"Well look here, I got my cleaner back," he said. He looked at Officer McGonagle. "No other inmate I've assigned to cleaning duties is half as good as old Trudeau here. The floors fuckin' sparkle when he's done washing 'em. A wizard with a mop, this one. How long you with us this time?"
Allan looked at the floor. He wasn't one for conversation and social pleasantries made him feel awkward.
"Hullo Boss Cobbs," he said. "Forty-five days."
For provincial offences, a convicted prisoner normally did two thirds of their total sentence. The remainder was considered time off for presumed good behaviour that they could keep or lose depending on their institutional conduct.
The tall black guard roared.
"And he calls me Boss Cobbs! Like Boss Hogg from Dukes of Hazard. Ha! Grab some bedding and a mug from the shelf over there Trudeau. I'll be one second."
The guard walked over to the range twelve door. Allan could see that there were a lot of young guys on that block and he could hear loud hip-hop music coming from the range television. He hoped that range thirteen, his destination, was calmer than this one.
Officer Cobbs yelled through the meal slot, "Hey Cleaner! Yo Cormier!"
"What's up," Allan heard one of the prisoners yell back over the television. "You need me to come out and mop?"
"No," Boss Cobbs yelled back. "You're fired, motherfucker!"
Allan heard the prisoner protesting and asking the guard why, and thought he should have known better. Allen knew Correctional Officers don't owe inmates explanations. Jail was simple that way. They owe you a fresh roll of toilet paper the last roll runs out and a new razor when you give a used razor back at shower time, but other than that, they owe you nothing.
Officer Cobbs keyed the lock for the door to range thirteen and swung it open, Allan walked in holding his bedding with his mug, spoon and toothbrush on top. There were a couple of older men playing cards at one of the small metal tables in the day area.
The inmate at the table facing Allen looked up and grinned. He had red hair that had faded to mostly grey and was missing his two front teeth.
"Third cells open partner," the man said. "You can have the top bunk. I'd take it but I got problems with my legs, can't get up there. If you press your face to the bars you can see the TV after lockdown."
Allan nodded and went to the cell. This was familiar to him, in Allan's adult life he'd done time in just about every section of the jail. He made his bed and smoothed it out, then put the case on his pillow. He climbed up and laid down on top of the thin scratchy wool cover and closed his eyes.
For Allan Trudeau jail wasn't a bad place, in truth it wasn't much of a punishment at all. This was a place he knew. He knew the smell of the food when meals were brought from the kitchen and sound of the wheels rolling down the corridor on the meal tray. He knew the sound the guard's boots made on the walkway at night and the tiny beeping sound when the guard would swipe his ID card through the slot of the little device mounted to the brick wall that counted how many times the officer had done his rounds. These were all safe sounds.
He knew how to mop the floors the right way so the guard's boots wouldn't make that sticky sound that drove the prisoners nuts at night when they were trying to sleep. He knew how hot the water in the utility alcove got when he'd fill his buckets, the right cleaner to use on the big desks at the guard station, which spray bottle to use to clean the computer monitor with no streaks. Easy stuff.
Allen had always had problems with alcohol, ever since he was a little kid. He remembered his father bringing him to the liquor store as a boy, and he remembered when he learned to read one of the signs in the store said Spirits. His grandfather talked about spirits, spirits of the air and the water and of animals. He wondered what kind of spirits were for sale in a store.
When he asked his father, his father laughed and told him that the bottles on the shelves put the spirits in you.
When Allan began drinking, he thought of alcohol as a spirit, a warm spirit that made the world around him come alive. Colors were sharper, sounds crisper and he forgot about how uncomfortable people made him feel. After a while, when the spirit wasn't in him he'd hear it calling to him, like a sweet song promising to make the world seem like a warmer, friendlier place. When he started drinking every day, the alcohol spirit would make him do foolish things and he'd wake up in strange places sometimes surrounded by strange people and strange sounds.
When Allan was in jail, he would feel sick for a few days as the spirit left him, and then he'd feel better. He would remember what it was like to have a clear head and would feel bad about things he had done while drinking and promise himself that he'd not drink another drop. In jail, he knew hoping for a drink was pointless because it was impossible, and soon he would stop hearing the spirit's song altogether.
Allan considered the best part of doing time in jail was the knowing. Knowing he'd eat every day and knowing where he'd wake up every morning.
For guys like Allan jail was easy, life was hard.
Follow the links for PART ONE, PART THREE, PART FOUR or the EPILOGUE
A life-long resident of Northern Ontario, Rob Dominelli is one who was always keen on the written word, but, believing it wouldn't amount to anything, he gave it up. Having spent much of the late nineties in a cycle of dependency and incarceration, he returned to writing again, creating silly stories to amuse other inmates. Fortunately for us, Rob continued writing after his release, and can be found at http://bobbydeeworld.blogspot.ca/
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Gundogan injury not serious as Man City breathe sigh of relief
Ilkay Gundogan suffered a knee sprain in Manchester City's win at West Brom on Wednesday night, Goal understands.
Gundogan was forced out of the Carabao Cup win at the Hawthorns, his first start following a nine-month lay-off with a knee injury, prompting fears he had suffered another serious set-back.
City evens for PL title
The Germany international appeared to be in some distress while being treated on the pitch by City medics, though Blues boss Pep Guardiola insisted after the match that the injury was not serious.
Sources have told Goal that further tests at City's medical facilities on Thursday have indicated that the midfielder has suffered a mild sprain.
The Germany international, 26, hopes to be back in training next week.
The former Borussia Dortmund man damaged cruciate knee ligaments in December and only made his first appearance of the season as a substitute against Watford on Saturday.
It had been feared that the central midfielder could be set for another lengthy spell on the sidelines, as Claudio Yacob's challenge left him clutching both his knee and ankle.
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The first time we met
Luv met Hemali at his sister's friend's wedding. Hemali was the bride's friend, and Luv had seen her around over the years, but never spent time with her. They danced together at the wedding after party. Luv confesses that he has two left feet; he barely even gets on a dance floor. But that night, she had him dancing with her until the early morning hours. "She actually made me dance!" he exclaims in astonishment. Luv really liked Hemali and tried to get to know her. Within a month, he was certain that he wanted to dance with her for the rest of his life. Hemali, however, took five months to make up her mind.
The first time we met each other's parents
Luv and Hemali's personalities and preferences are a stark contrast, and so are their family backgrounds. He comes from a gregarious Sindhi family while she hails from a conservative Jain background. They began with a clandestine dating period replete with fun incidents like ducking down in their parked car seats at Bandra Bandstand when their friends drove past, and making lame excuses to family and friends while they spent time with each other.
Within a month after Hemali agreed to commit, Luv broke the news to his parents. His father wanted a Sindhi bride for him, so he was apprehensive. But his father turned out to be more open-minded than he'd realized. He told the son to invite his girlfriend over for an informal dinner. Hemali was already having cold feet about meeting the 'strict' father-in-law-to-be. She had known Luv's sister, Megha, and had met his mother before. And then, it didn't turn out to be quite as casual as she'd expected. She ended up having a one-on-one interview with Luv's father. "It went on for close to an hour. I was completely unprepared for the kind of questions that he asked because I'd never even thought about marriage before," she laughs. "My sentences were half complete." But, as Hemali quips the father had their best interests in mind, and he was helping them understand each other's expectations.
"He asked why I thought we were perfect together," she says, "and I said… because we haven't fought even once in these eight months. When I am angry, he calms me down and when he loses his cool, I calm him down. We have great understanding, great chemistry." But marriage changes everything, said the father, and he shared some insights and examples. Hemali was numb throughout, she confesses. "I didn't want to say too much and sound foolish," she laughs. But, all was well. Luv's father suggested that they meet up with Hemali's parents at the earliest.
It turned out that Luv's parents had even bought her a precious gift, as shagun. And they had already accepted her as their daughter-in-law-to-be before they 'officially' met her.
But Hemali had her reservations. She told Luv that if her mother did not approve of the alliance, she would not marry him. "I kept postponing the meeting," she confesses. Over the next four months, she introduced him to her three sisters, one of whom finally told their father that the youngest sibling was in love.
Then one evening in November 2013, Luv insisted on bringing over homemade dinner to Hemali's house and finally met Hemali's parents, sisters and her brother-in-law, who had assured his support. "Her father was very 'chilled out'. He said that if we were both sure about it, he was fine with the alliance," recalls Luv, so he suggested the families meet the following evening. "I got one chance to meet them, and I took it to Gor Dhana (formalizing the promise to get married) within the hour," he laughs.
A touching moment from the Engagement Ceremony
At their Kachchi Misri (informal engagement ceremony) in mid-December last year, a team of photographers were shooting the auspicious event. The family obviously wanted pictures with all the friends and relatives. So they had set up a room in the house where the couple posed with about fifty guests. At some point during the photo session, they just looked at each other and gasped. Luv recalls, "In that moment, we both felt as if we were standing on a marriage podium and it felt as if we were actually getting married… and it felt great!"
For Hemali, it also happened earlier during the ceremony when the couple was sitting at the havan and relatives from both sides were feeding them Gor Dhana, putting tilak on them and giving her gifts. "It was the first time that I actually felt like a bride-to-be. I realized that I was now going to be a member of this new family. It was a nice feeling and reality set it!" she states.
Hemali and Luv are tying the knot on August 1, 2015 in Mumbai.
His Mother's Blessings
"I always had one daughter, but it is a beautiful feeling to welcome a second daughter. I have been waiting for this day and it is finally here. Hemali and Luv are just meant to be. They complement each other so well. Can't wait to have her home… more fun, more women power! I'm really excited."
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Beijing Bicycle (DVD)
"You're so stubborn!"
Director Xiaoshuai Wang has a rather short filmography, composed of six titles released over the past nine years. He usually writes his own screenplays, as is the case with last year's Beijing Bicycle (original Chinese title — Shiqi sui de dan che), his most successful film internationally to date. The film received a high degree of critical approval upon its release and was also the recipient of the Jury Grand Prize (Silver Bear) at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival. Beijing Bicycle was recently given a Region 1 release by Columbia and is now also made available in Canada by Seville Pictures in a version which pretty much mirrors the Columbia one. It's the Seville version that's reviewed here.
Guei is a young man recently arrived in Beijing from the countryside where he grew up. He is eking out an existence with a relative when his fortunes begin to look up when he gets a job with an express courier company. Part of the deal is a neat-looking, white, mountain bike that the company provides, with the opportunity for Guei to own it outright after he works for the company for a while. Just when he reaches the point where the bicycle is his, it is stolen from in front of a building where he's making a delivery. With no bike, he has no job, so he searches frantically and one would think fruitlessly throughout the city for it. Amazingly, he discovers it in the possession of Jian, a high school student who apparently purchased it at a flea market. For Jian, the bike is a necessity in order to be part of his high school "society," not to mention a vehicle to attract his neighbourhood girlfriend Xiao. Guei manages to steal his bike back, but Jian catches up with him, and after a lengthy standoff, the two reach a compromise that may work for both of them.
Beijing Bicycle is a delight of a movie whose almost two-hour running time seems to fly by, belying the relative simplicity of its story. Much of the reason for that is the portrait of Beijing itself and Beijing life that we are treated to. Smoothly integrated into the story without seeming like a travelogue, we see both the modern aspect of the city in the new, modern office towers that more and more dominate its skyline, contrasted with the relative poverty in which many of its residents still live, particularly the many who have migrated from the countryside in hopes of a better future. The bicycle is at the centre of the film's plot, but its continued importance as a mode of transport in the city is clearly shown. The main streets are still littered with bicycle traffic, sometimes chaotically so, making the coexistence with cars a dicey proposition at best. Having seen this personally some ten years ago, it was a slight surprise to see how significant (and welcome, given the pollution implications) the bicycle's role still is in Beijing. One of the most fascinating things we see is the degree to which the bicycle is the moving van of the ordinary Chinese citizen. You name it, they transport it on the back of their bicycle — animals, sofas, beds, car parts, other bicycles. It might look pretty precarious, but somehow it works (at least, most of the time).
As the film makes clear, the bicycle is more than a simple mode of transport or even a necessity of work. It's clearly also a status symbol necessary to be part of the gang at the high school level, not to mention a key for attracting girlfriends — much in the way a car functions in North America. Thus it becomes almost a character itself in the way it controls the fortunes of the film's two human protagonists. Guei can't do his job and improve his standard of living without it; Jian can't be part of the group or keep Xiao's interest without it. Even their "solution" to dealing with who actually owns the bike doesn't really work; for half a bike, so to speak, only leads to frustration rather than even modest contentment.
Part of Beijing Bicycle's success is the literate, measured, and frequently non-verbal way in which it tells its story. It relies on its characters to convey their emotions primarily through facial expression or body language rather than words or physical actions. When the latter do occur, they have much greater impact as a result. (The same is true of some [not all, mind you] of the violent aspects of the film. Like much of classical Hollywood cinema, such events are allowed to happen offscreen, trusting the audience to conceive of what happened in its mind. Then showing the aftermath, almost as a sort of test, as in "here's the actual result; what did you visualize?") The reliance on facial expression and so on only works because the actors portraying Guei and Jian (Cui Lin and Li Bin respectively) are skillful performers indeed. Both have little acting background as far as I am aware, but obviously both appear to have a bright future.
It is quite possible to read more into this film than may appear on the surface. I've seen suggestions about the story really being about the clash between the developing and the developed world or a struggle between the classes. I think trying to shoehorn it into one of those boxes takes much of the joy out of it. Of course, you're free to read into it what you will. Far better, however, in my opinion, to enjoy it as the superior entertainment it is and to revel in the detailed picture of Beijing it portrays. The neighbourhood life depicted (the communal tap, the shared toothbrush, the old men who play on at their board game while bikes race back and forth around them, the dynamics of high school gangs and their members' sometimes surprising rationality) is truly worth the price of admission in itself.
I've not seen Columbia TriStar's Region 1 DVD release of Beijing Bicycle, but from what I've read, it sounds as though Seville's current DVD version mirrors that of Columbia's to a large degree. The 1.85:1 anamorphic transfer is very nice-looking. Aside from the odd, stray speckle and scratch, the image is clean and clear with a very natural-looking appearance. Colours are true-to-life and bright. Blacks are deep and pure and shadow detail is good. There are some instances of edge enhancement, but not to the point of distraction. Seville continues its good record of fine DVD transfers.
The audio is a Chinese language Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround track that provides a solid, workmanlike presentation of the dialogue and pleasing musical background in the film. Use of the surrounds is infrequent, but subtly effective when it does occur. Optional English and French subtitles are provided.
Unfortunately, Seville has not provided any supplements of relevance to the film, not even the theatrical trailer that was present on the Columbia DVD release. This is an instance where even the normally brief cast and crew notes on many discs would have been very welcome. There are trailers for three other Seville releases (Kandahar, Fire, Three Seasons).
For anyone with the slightest interest in other cultures and a taste for a literate, deceptively simple tale, Beijing Bicycle fills the bill. Fine acting and a nicely-paced, thoughtfully-shot story reward anyone willing to take a chance on something out of the ordinary. Seville's DVD transfer is a solid effort, even though it does lack any related supplementary material. Recommended.
The defendant is free to pedal out of the courtroom. Case dismissed.
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Voices for Change – Poetry Submissions
Local Elections May 2019
Sheffield People's Petition
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Amazon.com Inc. Ais positioning Alexa, its artificial-intelligence assistant, to track consumers' prescriptions and relay personal health information, in a bid to insert the technology into everyday health care.
Seattle-based Amazon says Alexa can now transfer sensitive, personal health information using software that meets health-privacy requirements under federal law. Five companies, including insurerCigna Corp. , diabetes-management company Livongo Health Inc. and major hospital systems, said they developed new Alexa features for consumers using the federal protocol. The features let Alexa perform tasks such as scheduling urgent-care appointments, tracking when drugs are shipped, checking health-insurance benefits or reading blood-sugar results.
For developers of digital health services, the move opens an avenue to expand the use of voice commands. Smart speakers have proliferated rapidly since their 2014 introduction, with one in five adults reporting they owned at least one in a 2018 national survey by Edison Research and NPR.
Read the Wall Street Journal's full story featuring Livongo's new Amazon Alexa healthcare skill here. | {
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The SDA Dallas Chapter is pleased to be able to offer a $500 grant this year as financial assistance to qualifying SDA members for the purpose of participating in educational programs during this year's EDSymposium14 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Attending the SDA convention, or EDSymposium14, offers many educational sessions you will find beneficial to your career, in addition to opportunities for networking and reconnecting or making new friends from other chapters. I encourage you to check out the schedule of events which are posted on the national website at http://www.sdanational.org/?page=EDS14Registration. I have also attached the brochure for your reference.
Please consider attending, and the application for the scholarship is attached.
The deadline for submissions is March 13, 2014. | {
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South Sudan President Salva Kiir is excited about the socio-economic and bilateral prospects for his country after the world's newest nation officially became a member of the East African Community (EAC) on Wednesday.
South Sudan was voted into the economic bloc during a summit of regional heads of state in Arusha, Tanzania.
South Sudan looks forward to strong bilateral relations with neighboring countries, Ateny says, as well as the enormous market that would be available for cross border businesses — which he says would be beneficial for citizens in the region.
Other member countries are Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda.
Some South Sudanese say it remains to be seen how the anticipated transitional unity government will take advantage of the country's new status as a member of the EAC. Kiir is expected to form a government with his rival, Riek Machar, following an agreement to end the country's civil war.
But Ateny expressed optimism about the prospects for trade and strong multilateral relations that would help to improve the life of South Sudanese.
Critics say it is unlikely South Sudan can benefit from the market the EAC provides. They contend that the country's economy is largely dependent on oil and has yet to be expanded to other promising sectors, including agriculture. The country is currently in an economic crunch due to the sharp drop in the price of fuel.
But "South Sudan with its population of 12 million people, if it joins the market of more than 150 million, it can have more benefit than the negative," Ateny said.
South Sudan applied for EAC membership soon after gaining independence from neighboring Sudan in 2011. | {
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It's the fast-dealing property trading game with 16 game tokens in one pack! Make a move, make a deal, make a fortune with the Monopoly Token Madness game. Players can move around the board using one of the 8 current tokens, or they can choose one of the 8 golden tokens that are featured in this edition of the game. The golden tokens include a penguin, a television, a racecar, the Mr. Monopoly emoji, a rubber duck, a watch, a wheel, and a bunny slipper. | {
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The Tradition Plateau loop an easy trail run in Tiger Mountain State Forest. Both the High Point and East Sunset Way trailheads offer access to several trails on the plateau and around Tradition Lake. There is no hill to climb from the High Point trailhead, making it easy for children to access the forest.
Northwest Dirt Churners and Shoes-N-Feet hosted run from Sunset Alehouse to the East Sunset Way trailhead for a five-mile lollipop loop.
The trail starts about 1/2 mile from Sunset Alehouse and the trail climbs up to the plateau. Once the climbing is done, head left to the Adventure trail at the first trail junction. Take a right on Adventure Trail. Follow the trail for 3/4 of a mile to the Poo Poo Point trail junction. Don't go to Poo Poo Point. Turn left toward the Bus Trail for a quarter-mile. The Bus Trail is the first trail to loop around Tradition Lake. It's named the Bus Trail because of an old rusty bus on the left side of the trail.
In just short of a mile, the trail veers left toward the High Point trailhead and turns into the Swamp Trail. After a half-mile, take the Ruth Kee's Big Tree Trail to continue the loop around the lake. The trail continues for another 3/4 mile until Puget Power Rd. Go right for a short bit to come to the trail and go down the same trail used for the ascent to the plateau. Run back to the start for a beer and some pub grub. | {
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Animals, DHARMA Initiative, Experiments
"Rabbit" redirects here. For the Season 1 episode, see White Rabbit.
Young Ben pulls out a rabbit from his bag. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")
Rabbits have appeared in Lost as research animals, food animals, in art, and as symbols.
Research rabbits
Rabbit #8 in the cage, appearing lifeless, after Ben shook it furiously ("Every Man for Himself")
White-furred, red-eyed, sometimes number-painted rabbits or bunnies have appeared on multiple occasions in the show. The bunny is a New Zealand white rabbit. The first rabbit appeared in "Every Man for Himself", in which it is was presented in a small steel cage, placed above Sawyer's chest by Ben. The rabbit had the number 8 painted onto his fur. Ben then shook the cage violently and the rabbit quivered, then fell still. Ben told Sawyer the bunny was dead and had a pacemaker in him, which due to the rabbit's anxiety, caused its heart to explode. Later, the rabbit was in Ben's bag when they made the trek to the Hydra Island lookout, and was alive and okay. Ben said that he only gave the bunny a sedative, and then placed it back in his bag.
A different rabbit appeared in "The Man Behind the Curtain" where Ben, as a child, owned a similar, white, red-eyed young rabbit which he kept in his room as a pet. He later brought the bunny to the sonar fence in a bag and pushed the bunny toward the pylons to see if the fence was truly deactivated. It worked, and Ben followed the white rabbit through the fence, then scooped up the bunny and placed him back in the bag. Damon Lindelof, in the Lost: The Complete Third Season (DVD) commentary says,"Ben's penchant for numbering his rabbits probably has something to do with fertility experiments."
Yet another rabbit, named Angstrom, appeared in "Happily Ever After" as a research subject for a test Widmore's team is conducting using the generator on Hydra Island. It was also white with red eyes and was kept in a cage.
Rabbit's feet
A rabbit's foot is considered in American folklore to be a good luck amulet. Numerous rabbit's feet have been shown or mentioned in Lost:
Hurley finds a keyring that has a rabbit's foot on it. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
The co-pilot of the Coast Guard plane carrying the Oceanic Six is holding a rabbit's foot and says, "We need it with the cargo we've got." ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
The keys to Hurley's Camaro, which Hurley's dad hands him, have a rabbit's foot keychain. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
Ilana suggests that Sayid buys a rabbit's foot, to give him luck while on Ajira Airways Flight 316. ("He's Our You")
Other occurrences
Alex preparing white rabbit ("Greatest Hits")
Alex is seen in flashback skinning another rabbit. ("Greatest Hits")
The logo for the DHARMA Initiative station the Looking Glass is a white rabbit.
Young Charlie wore slippers resembling rabbits. ("Fire + Water")
Locke prepared a rabbit for Ben, who asked Locke if the rabbit had a number on it. ("The Other Woman")
The magician at Ray Shephard's assisted-living facility performed a trick with a white rabbit. ("316")
"Dharma Lady" album artwork
The Geronimo Jackson concert poster
The Geronimo Jackson single, "Dharma Lady" album artwork features Rabbit Jack (a white rabbit skull).
The Geronimo Jackson concert poster seen in the DHARMA cafeteria shows the white rabbit from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in the bottom left corner. ("He's Our You")
A white rabbit poster on Aaron's bedroom door
A poster of The White Rabbit (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) is seen on the Aaron's bedroom door in Kate's house, while she had the dream of Claire. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")
Miles uncovered a key hidden under a statue of a white rabbit. The number 8 (or the infinity sign) is written inside the ear of the rabbit statue. ("Some Like It Hoth")
During the meal between Eloise and Daniel, some fans believe a white rabbit can be seen in the distorted image through Daniel's wine glass. ("The Variable")
A white rabbit in a drinking glass
Jack finds the key to David's mother's house under a ceramic white rabbit. ("Lighthouse")
Kate is found by Sawyer tending a fire when he returns from meeting Charles Widmore on Hydra Island. When Sawyer asks what Kate is cooking, she replies, "Rabbit. I think." ("Recon")
Sawyer read Of Mice and Men while in prison, and made several references to the book, as did Ben. In the book, the mentally challenged character Lenny's obsession with rabbits is a key plot element. ("Every Man for Himself")
In "Confidence Man", Sawyer is reading Watership Down, a novel featuring rabbits as the protagonists.
The Blue Danube is the second part of a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
The nonfiction Stephen King book entitled On Writing asks the reader to conduct an writing exercises. One essay about writing invokes the image of a nondescript rabbit in a cage with the number 8 written on its back. King uses this image to make the point that writing is "telepathy." He argues that though the writer tells the reader of this rabbit, the reader and writer will inevitably see different rabbits, but because the 8 is unique, they will both see the 8 and be able to communicate.
The idea of the white rabbit is a running theme of the show, even referenced in one episode title, Season 1 episode 5, "White Rabbit". Ironically, most characters are led out into the jungle after their white rabbits (as when Jack follows Christian in the episode that introduced the idea), but Sawyer is led to remain caged after he sees the real white rabbit.
The idea of a character following a white rabbit can be traced back to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There" by Lewis Carroll. Both stories had the "Alice character" experiencing an amazing journey when her insatiable curiosity roused her to follow a nervous white rabbit into a cave-like opening
Rabbits are a symbol for fertility, a theme which surrounds the Others. For example, rabbits were killed in an early and well-known pregnancy test. The urine of pregnant women contains human chorionic gonadotropin, which causes changes to a female rabbit's ovaries when it is injected. Early pregnancy tests involved injecting the urine and then killing the rabbit and inspecting its ovaries.[1]
Alex skins a white rabbit moments before betraying her father Ben, who had a pet bunny as a child, and is a bit of a "white rabbit" himself (leading those who follow him on strange journeys). (Symbolism)
Outside of Lost episodes
Orchid Orientation film
A shot of the Orchid Orientation film
In the Orchid Orientation film, Edgar Halliwax (Pierre Chang) holds up a rabbit with the number 15 on it. After a moment, it is shown that behind him a second rabbit with the number 15 sitting on the top shelf of the metal shelving unit. Chang and his assistants are upset by the second rabbit and Chang moves away from it, saying the two cannot be close together. The film abruptly ends and restarts with only one rabbit. The film implies there is a significant population of white rabbits in the Orchid.
Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse suggest that fans curious about Charlotte's discovery of a polar bear skeleton in Tunisia watch the Orchid video, and further draw a link between the polar bear with the bunny in the video. (Official Lost Podcast/February 19, 2008)
Hydra Orientation film
White rabbits at the Hydra Station
In the Hydra Orientation film, Pierre Change walks through the Hydra Station, where we see 6 caged white rabbits, all with numbers on their sides.
White rabbits appear in both Lost: The Mobile Game and Lost: iPod Game.
Watership Down, which has rabbits as main characters
Entertainment Weekly - Oct 31, 2006 article by Jeff Jensen on the possible connection with Stephen King
Birds • Boar • Cats • Cattle • Chickens • Dog (Bpo Bpo) • Dog (Buster) • Dog (Vincent) • Doves • Gulls • Horse (Kate's) • Horse (Bea's) • Horses (Bedouins') • Hy-bird • Medusa spider • Moths • Orangutan (Joop) • Polar bears • Rabbit (Angstrom) • Rabbits (DHARMA's) • Rat (Eloise) • Sharks • Sea urchins • Frog
See Also: Theories about animals
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OTT Audience Growth Is Explosive, But It's Challenged By Silos (And More Silos)
by Allison Schiff // Friday, July 20th, 2018 – 11:30 am
OTT audiences are increasing in volume and engagement, but the channel must still overcome issues related to content discovery, measurement and fill rates.
At A&E Networks, OTT's share of audience is up 150% compared with decreases in engagement across desktop and mobile. At Bloomberg, 30% of its OTT audiences watch for 30 minutes or more compared with less than five minutes spent watching digital video.
"It's a powerful channel for people who want to engage with us for a longer period of time," said Julia Beizer, Bloomberg's chief product officer, speaking at Tune's Postback conference in Seattle on Thursday.
But it's still a chore and a half for viewers to find the shows they're looking for. Each platform is essentially its own little fiefdoms of content, of "closed universes," Beizer said.
"A lot of our audience today comes from organic brand loyalty, but is that us reaching new audiences? No. And we really want to do that," she said. "To reach the kind of audience you want to reach from an audience perspective, you have to build on five platforms and that's expensive. There's not a lot you can leverage from one to the other."
And measurement remains a big challenge. Even though some of the streaming players are rolling out ad measurement tools, they're not usable across platforms.
A&E, for example, has a partnership with Roku, which recently launched its own ad tracker that allows networks and brands to see post-install advertising performance. It's a step in the right direction, but visibility doesn't extend beyond Roku's offering, said Jen Taylor, senior director of digital marketing at A&E Networks.
"That is one solution for one partner, not a solution that solves all of our partner relationships," she said, and while tracking engagement is easy enough, "where people are coming from and how they're getting there? It's all a bit of a black hole."
To try and get a better handle on the attribution piece, Starz is starting to make a bigger effort at measuring awareness and user engagement long before someone downloads its OTT subscription app.
"We started off from a perspective of the usual cost per subscriber and balancing that against lifetime value or ROI," said Robin Chacko, SVP of Starz. "What we're doing now is trying to integrate a little more of what the upper funnel does for us in terms of softening prices and what the leading indicators are for impact, so we can raise or lower our bids."
But as a subscriber-based service, Starz doesn't have to worry about another challenge still facing the OTT space: getting advertisers to buy ads.
Buyers have an "insatiable desire" for video inventory across digital properties, Bloomberg's Beizer said, but some still consider OTT an experimental buy or a value ad, despite the fact that audiences generally give their full attention when engaged in over-the-top viewing, most of which happens on a large screen.
"If we look in the mirror, we can't say that about digital," Beizer said. "But this audience is really sitting down to watch."
Yet all the issues facing OTT marketers, particularly the relative difficulty in selling over-the-top inventory, is an opportunity more than anything else, said A&E's Taylor.
"We're definitely seeing that the viewing is there, but I don't think advertisers have quite figured out yet whether it's TV, it's digital or what team buys it," she said. "It almost feels like OTT is where mobile was just a few years ago." | {
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Every month it seems there are new opinions on the best ways to conduct video marketing campaigns. For some time, the reigning wisdom was to follow the trend of viral videos, making marketing videos that would catch fire and be seen by millions of viewers. Since then, the sentiment towards viral marketing and all other video marketing ideas has changed once again. Below are the top 5 posts about video marketing from May 2014.
Revamp Strategies. In this article titled "Online Video Marketing," author Luciane Andrews writes about the importance of video marketing as an online tool, and especially the benefits of choosing video communication over written word communications. Luciane argues that text is often scanned and important points are skipped over, whereas videos command the full attention of viewers.
Steven Poe. In "Online Video Marketing Tips that Enhance SEO Performance," author Steven Poe reassures media-novices that video marketing is profitable and necessary, and he guides readers through four fool-proof tips to video marketing success. Pinterest is the focus of the first tip because the site is friendly to Google's SEO algorithm and gaining popularity among social media platforms.
Transcribing YouTube videos is suggested as it allows for a text-only version to be indexed in search, something that media alone cannot do. Poe's third point emphasizes adding videos to existing text content, especially news releases, because videos are 'media-rich,' a major Google criterion. Finally, the article suggests video sitemapping, another tool that allows videos that populate in searches to connect to the proprietary site, and not YouTube or Vimeo.
The Next Web. "The Optimal Length for Video Marketing Content? As Short As Possible," by industry-knowledgeable author Voav Hornung, outlines the appropriate length for different types of marketing videos. It also explains why creative commercials and tutorials should be shorter than crowdfunding endeavors, while testimonial videos should fall somewhere in between.
Onlinevideo. Author Troy Dreier takes readers on a tour of which companies are ranking in terms of data-driven analysis and which companies are on the watch-list for their effective campaigns in "YouTube Video Marketing: Ten Companies that are Getting it Right." Some of the top five companies, in terms of video rankings, may surprise you, with a list that includes Red Bull and Samsung.
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The University of Canberra (UC) does everything it can to bring the best minds together. We believe in innovative, collaborative and team-based research with a respectful, generous and inclusive leadership. External collaboration and engagement with academic, government, industry and community partners is hugely important to us, and is nurtured through liaison with our dynamic Research Centres. | {
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sage health benefits - Sage was apportioned the deed of' Herb of The Year' by the International Herb Association in 2001. This shows the esteem of this humble herb. Acclaiming from the heap kinfolk, it is a powerhouse of phenolic acids, assorted antioxidants, and various volatile petroleums- all of which pave channel for a supple, smooth, and firm surface. Jam-pack with beta-carotene, this herb is a potential anti-cancerous negotiator. This smells herb with its potential skin benefits has made a special region for itself in the cosmetics and perfection industry. Get to know more about potential benefits herb sage extradites for health, surface, and whisker right here.
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Elite South Africa anti-crime unit to disband
Oct. 23, 2008, 9:38 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
South Africa's elite crime-busters known as the Scorpions have lost their sting.
The National Assembly approved new legislation Thursday to disband the investigating unit and incorporate it into the police force. The move came despite widespread objections it would weaken the fight against crime in a country wracked by more than 50 murders a day as well as frequent bank heists, hijackings and violent theft.
The Scorpions have a much better track record than the police at solving crime. But they have fallen afoul of the ruling African National Congress party for their corruption probe of ANC leader Jacob Zuma, who is expected to become the country's next president.
During public hearings, the opposition Democratic Alliance handed in a petition with 98,000 signatures objecting to the move, but to no avail.
Safety and Security Minister Nathi Mthethwa told parliament Thursday that disbanding the unit would strengthen law enforcement by eliminating duplication and rivalry.
"We have established a sharper instrument to stab the heart of organized crime," he said.
Easy on crime?
The ANC used its overwhelming majority to push through the legislation 252 to 63. It now has to go to the National Council of Provinces, but that is likely to be a formality.
Most independent analysts say the move sends a message that South Africa is not serious about clamping down on graft and organized crime. There are also serious doubts whether some high priority cases will even continue.
The National Prosecuting Authority — which housed the Scorpions — is struggling to get corruption charges against Zuma reinstated in connection with a massive arms deal scandal.
It has also pressed charges against national police chief Jackie Selebi for allegedly having a corrupt relationship with a convicted drug smuggler. In a twist of irony, Selebi will become the new boss of the Scorpions once it is transferred to the police force.
Vusi Pikoli, who was chief prosecutor until he was suspended for charging Selebi with corruption, called it a "sad day" for South Africa.
"(The unit was) feared by the criminals, loved by the people and respected by its peers," he told Radio 702.
Taking on the powerful
The Scorpions, officially called the Directorate of Special Operations and the equivalent of the FBI, was set up in 1999 to focus on organized crime.
It made nearly 2,000 arrests in the past six years and had a conviction rate of 90 percent, compared to the police's estimated 10 percent, according to the Democratic Alliance. The ANC disputes those figures.
Critics accused the Scorpions of Hollywood-style swoops and "cherry-picking" cases, leaving the rest to the police. They also claimed many investigators were relics of the apartheid-era security forces.
The Scorpions were famous for taking on the rich and powerful. In addition to Zuma, targets included Mark Thatcher, the son of the former British prime minister, and a whole series of murky underworld figures and corrupt businessmen.
They also investigated dozens of lawmakers accused of using official travel vouchers for their own personal use, including Nyamezeli Booi, who was named Thursday as ANC chief whip. Opposition attempts to keep lawmakers implicated in the travel scam from voting Thursday were overruled.
"Today is a day to be remembered that will live on in infamy," said opposition lawmaker Koos Van der Merwe. | {
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Mega Man X Maverick Hunter remakes the original Mega Man X with a few upgrades and tweaks. The core formula of the original game is kept intact.
Maverick Hunter X features a total graphical overhaul with 3D character models and backgrounds, a remixed soundtrack, voice acting, and anime cutscenes.
In addition to these changes, many power-ups in Maverick Hunter X, such as the armor capsules, are relocated to different levels. The remake also has a few extras including an original video animation titled "The Day of Σ" (which serves as a storyline prequel) and an unlockable mode to play through the game as the character Vile.
Se ve igual pero no se siente igual. | {
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Q: java.lang.SecurityException при вызове
startActivityForResult(cameraIntent, CAMERA_REQUEST);
получаю ошибку java.lang.SecurityException:
в манифесте прописано
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android:name="android.hardware.camera"
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в чем причина?
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Yes, this will be another expensive year for travelers to Europe, but it's nice to know there are at least a few good deals left. Helsinki's summer Citybike program makes it easy to get around for only a €2 deposit that you'll get back when you return your wheels. The bright green bikes located at 26 stands around the center of the city are there for the borrowing. And, well-marked paths for cyclists make it safer to ride.
Copenhagen also has a community bike program, with 1,300 bikes available in the center of the city from May 1 through mid-December. | {
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Former Polk County teacher sentenced to 22 years for having sex with students
Jennifer Fichter, 30, sentenced Thursday
A former Polk County teacher was sentenced Thursday to 22 years in prison for having sex with teenage students. Jennifer Fichter, 30, who was an English teacher at Central Florida Aerospace Academy, admitted to having sex with three boys, one of them at least 30 times.She said she had an abortion after one of her students got her pregnant.In court, Fichter made an emotional plea and apologized to her parents."I hate that it's such a selfish crime. I didn't think about y'all. I didn't think about what I was doing would affect any of y'all," Fichter said.Also see: Charges not filed in alleged plan to attack Eustis officersThe judge told Fichter that he hopes she'll use her faith over the next 22 years in prison and come out a better person.Related: Florida mug shots
A former Polk County teacher was sentenced Thursday to 22 years in prison for having sex with teenage students.
Jennifer Fichter, 30, who was an English teacher at Central Florida Aerospace Academy, admitted to having sex with three boys, one of them at least 30 times.
Third potential victim identified in teacher sex case
She said she had an abortion after one of her students got her pregnant.
In court, Fichter made an emotional plea and apologized to her parents.
"I hate that it's such a selfish crime. I didn't think about y'all. I didn't think about what I was doing would affect any of y'all," Fichter said.
Also see: Charges not filed in alleged plan to attack Eustis officers
The judge told Fichter that he hopes she'll use her faith over the next 22 years in prison and come out a better person.
Related: Florida mug shots | {
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We received word today that Bruno, little dog of Anki Spets from Area, has had some kind of back injury and has to be completely still for 4-6 weeks. The poor guy can't stand up on his own…so sad! Since we are dog people we have to send a little shout out to Bruno. We're thinking of you, buddy!
We miss you so much Bruno! Get well soon. Going to Area is different without you being there running around.
Oh no! A doggie in distress! Get better soon, Bruno!
What was the dog thinking?cute! | {
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Tainui to buy Ihumātao land - sources
Delphine Herbert
Chris Finlayson on The AM Show. Credits: Video - The AM Show; Image - Newshub.
The standoff at Ihumātao in south Auckland could be over with Tainui set to buy the land, says The AM Show host Duncan Garner.
But owner Fletcher says it is waiting for the outcome of discussions between mana whenua and Kīngitanga first.
Garner told AM Show viewers and listeners on Friday morning he understands Fletcher is willing to sell the land, earmarked for development, for at least $38 million, possibly $39 million.
Tainui has historic links to the land.
"Nanaia Mahuta has been a Labour MP for Waikato Tainui since 1996, her father Bob struck the original treaty deal for $170 million in 1996," Garner said.
"She has been crucial, I am told. Crucial because she knows all the players in Tainui, and all the players on Government.
"The involvement of the Māori King this week has been symbolic - his blessing was important, but the deal was already done."
But protest leader Pania Newton told Stuff discussions with Tainui so far hadn't brought up the possibility of buying the land.
"This is a Crown issue, not a Treaty issue," she said. "Māori shouldn't solve Crown issues. The Crown has to take responsibility."
Fletcher said no deal has been made yet.
"We are aware of the media reports about a sale. Fletcher Building is standing-by to hear the outcome of the discussions between mana whenua and Kīngitanga, and when they are ready we are here to talk about the future of the land we own at Ihumātao."
The Tainui deal was signed in 1995, the first under the Waitangi Tribunal process.
The development comes a day after a hīkoi from the disputed land to Jacinda Ardern's electorate office, calling for her to visit the site.
Former Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson, who successfully negotiated 59 deals in nine years, on Thursday said Ardern had done the right thing in not getting involved. He suggested the protesters take their case to Tainui, who could easily afford to buy the land off Fletcher.
"All the iwi that have settled around this area have Tainui links. Kiingi Tuheitia's been there. I think it's a fantastic opportunity for Tainui to step up - they're very, very wealthy - and say, 'Right - we'll buy the land commercially. Nothing to do with the Crown at all.'"
'We will be there': Jacinda Ardern speaks out on Ihumātao
'Racism' behind why Govt won't buy Ihumātao land - Māori Party
'Go home': Simon Bridges' message to Ihumātao protesters
The protesters have occupied the land for over a month.
Tainui was the first iwi to cut a deal with the Crown in the mid-1990s, and has since turned its $170 million into holdings of more than $1 billion.
"They could think about an appropriate development there that takes into account all the concerns Pania has mentioned," said Dr Finlayson.
"You could get an appropriate Novotel there, beautiful open space. Someone suggested it could be a golf course... Open space, beautiful piece of land. What better than having 18 holes before you jump on the Emirates flight to Dubai?" | {
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Klimt / Schiele @ the Royal Academy
This exhibition is much more varied and interesting than the Royal Academy's promotional material suggests. The main poster shows two female nudes with prominent nipples and, of the eight images further down the page, all but one are nudes, leading you to expect a festival of bottoms and boobs.
Klimt / Schiele: Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna
There certainly are plenty of nudes in the show, but there's considerably more to it than that, and it's the fuller, broader context which makes it so interesting and rewarding.
The pretext
Both Gustav Klimt (born July 1862) and Egon Schiele (born June 1890) died in 1918, Klimt 27 years older and much the more famous and successful figure, having developed a style which combined beautiful draughtsmanship with a fin-de-siecle and semi-symbolist fondness for placing his human figures within two-dimensional sheaths of glittering colours, most famously in 1908's The Kiss. (Be warned: there is nothing this finished and this glamorous in this exhibition.)
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt (1908)
Schiele was much under the older man's influence throughout the 1900s (they first met in 1907) until around May 1910, when he himself realised he had broken through to find his own voice and style – basically Klimt unplugged, the same addiction to the human figure, to sensuous depictions of nudes, but with a ferociously modern, twisted, angular, abrasive sensuality.
To some extent, as the gallery notes make clear, this was the sensuality of poverty. Whereas Klimt ran a successful studio which won public commissions – painting complex ceiling schemes for grand buildings of Vienna's Ringstraße, did a series of commissions for Vienna's high society ladies and was married to Austrian fashion designer Emilie Louise Flöge who ran a successful fashion business, and so had access to all manner of sumptuous fabrics, in the latest designs, for his drawings and paintings – Schiele was barely 20 when he hit his stride, and lived in poorly furnished flats with a succession of 'companions', most of them even poorer than him, which is why so many of his women are wearing basic kit, stockings, a blouse, and not much else.
To mark the coincidental centenary of their deaths the Royal Academy has arranged to borrow 100 or so portraits, allegories, landscapes and erotic nudes by Klimt and Schiele from the Albertina Museum in Vienna, allowing visitors an amazing opportunity to see these powerful, skilled and stimulating works.
Six rooms
The exhibition is upstairs in the Sackler Wing of the Academy, and is divided into six rooms.
Room 1 Photos, early sketches and the Secession
Photos of Klimt as a middle aged man, in his trademark blue smock, early and very Victorian realist drawings. Next to early photos of Schiele adopting one of his art school poses.
Egon Schiele in Front of the painting 'Shrines in the Forest' (1915) by Johannes Fischer
This rooms explains Klimt's rise to dominance of the Vienna art scene and his leadership of the 'Secession' of new young artists set up in 1897. There's a Secession poster which Klimt designed, with a graceful image of Athena in 1903, next to the bitingly Expressionist picture of the selection board around a table which Schiele created for the 1918 Secession exhibition, after Klimt's death.
Room 2 Klimt's drawing process
This room is devoted to several sets or series of drawings Klimt made for grand allegorical projects. In 1894 he was commissioned to create three paintings to decorate the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna and chose the subject of Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence. On display are a series of preparatory drawings for 'Medicine' which he conceived as a naked woman floating in space, feet towards us.
In 1902, Klimt finished the Beethoven Frieze for the Fourteenth Vienna Secessionist exhibition, and there are a number of sketches here for female figures. And several preparatory sketches for his 1905 oil painting, Three Ages of Woman, including a strikingly drawn naked middle-aged woman.
Standing older woman in profile (study for three Ages of Woman) by Gustav Klimt (1905)
The most obvious thing about all the pieces in this room is none of them are coloured: they are literally just pencil drawings on paper. They allow you to examine and admire Klimt's technique, and to understand better his interest in the surfaces and folds of the dresses his figures (almost all women) are wearing. But they lack all the exquisite finish and colour and golden luxuriance of his paintings.
It is, therefore, quite a shock and a pleasure to walk into the next room, which is packed with Egon Schiele's vibrant colourful paintings.
Room 3 Schiele's drawing process
You immediately notice that all the drawings in this room are coloured, very carefully and fully coloured. And I noticed that the strong angular outlines of Schiele's figures are emphasised by often being drawn in black crayon as opposed to weak pencil. As if this wasn't enough some of the most striking figures are outlined with a rough swathe of white gouache, which really makes them leap off the page. Exemplified in this nude.
Female Nude (1910) by Egon Schiele
Female nude also epitomises other Schiele traits:
the angularity of the anatomy – look at the painfully pointed hip and shoulderbone
the uncomfortableness of the pose – what's happened to her right arm?
the attention to the hand which is long and heavily jointed, looking like a four-legged spider crawling up her side
the unashamed bluntness of the loins with their pubic hair
and the use of colour not so much to describe as to highlight and bring out the composition
The guide makes a central point:
Schiele frequently used watercolour and gouache in his works on paper, but rarely to create three dimensional modelling. Colour is employed expressively or as a graphic compositional device, similar to Klimt's division of decorative surface pattern in his paintings.
Not all, but a number of the Klimt sketches in the previous room sketched in the face and body shape merely in order to allow him to create the characteristic series of whorls and geometric shapes across the fabric of women's skirts and dress which obviously fascinated him. By contrast Schiele's colours don't even and smooth out, but create dramatic highlights which leap out of the image.
Not only is the shock of walking into this room like watching colour TV after black and white – it is also by far the most varied in subject matter.
Thus Schiele was arrested in April 1912 when a thirteen-year-old girl who had sought protection in the house he shared with his unmarried partner and model Wally Neuzil, was tracked down by her irate father. He was arrested on charges of seduction and abduction and ended up spending 24 days in Neulenbach prison before the case was dismissed. The exhibition displays five of the drawings and paintings he made during this brief incarceration, one is a full-body self-portrait, but four are of the interior of the prison and his cell. I liked the one of a chair with some handkerchiefs and a green scarf (?) draped over it.
Beside these were two striking and dynamic architectural studies of houses, showing how well Schiele's strong black lines bring out the architectonics of anything, be it body or building. Alongside these a set of landscapes. I never knew Schiele painted landscapes, they tend to be eclipsed by the explicit nudes.
Field landscape (Kreuzberg near Krumau) 1910 by Egon Schiele
This reproduction doesn't bring out how bright and vivid the greens of the field are. And next to these landscapes was a set of three drawings of chrysanthemums. Again, I had forgotten that Schiele made many flower studies.
White chrysanthemum by Egon Schiele (1910)
Klimt may, for all I know, be the finer artist of the two, but in this exhibition, in this selection of their works hanging side by side, Schiele comes over as vastly more colourful, inventive, varied and dynamic.
Room 4 Klimt portraits
By the 1890s Klimt was a sought-after portrait painter for society ladies. He made his rich women appear tall, statuesque, elegant, often with fashionable dresses buttoned right up to the chin, and a carefully styled bouffant haircut. In the ten or so pencil drawings and sketches for portraits presented here, Klimt is obviously interested in the overall shape and, in some of them, the potential of the dresses to be turned into his trademark fantasias of geometric shapes and mosaics. This approach is exemplified in this study for the sumptuous portrait he eventually painted of Frau Fritza Riedler. Note the absence of eyes. it is the patterns and shapes of the dress which take up most of the space, with just enough outline of face to make it human.
Study for a painting of Fritza Riedler by Gustav Klimt (1904)
The curators have artfully hung this eyeless sketch next to a penetrating study by Schiele of his younger sister, Gerti Schiele. You immediately see the difference: the brim of the hat and the ruff around her chest are confidently sketched in, but the rest of the body, for example her right arm, just tapers away. Schiele's real interest is obviously in the intense black eyes of the sitter, which are staring right out at you.
They are hung right next to each other and looking from one to the other you realise that The Klimt is a design, whereas the Schiele is an intensely felt portrait.
Gerti Schiele by Egon Schiele (1911)
Maybe the difference can be explained in terms of tradecraft – the Klimt sketches were never to be intended to be anything more than preparations, try-outs for what would be the very labour-intensive process of creating finished luxury paintings. By contrast, the Schieles are what they are, not many of them are preparations for paintings, they are pencil, crayon, gouache and watercolour works in their own right.
Maybe there's a sociological explanation: Klimt could afford to make numerous preparations of expensive works for rich clients; Schiele never became that financially successful, so most of his portraits are of people he knew, models, lovers, friends and family, so they come out of more intimate and close relationships. Maybe that explains why almost all the Schiele knock you for six.
Room 5 Schiele portraits
This is really rammed home in the room devoted to Schiele portraits which, once again, demonstrates his versatility. There are one or two nudes but the emphasis is on his ability to capture the features and character of perfectly respectable, fully dressed citizens of Vienna. There's a little set of portraits of middle-class men like Heinrich Benesch, the railway inspector who became an important collector of Schiele's work.
One wall displays a set of portraits of his family, including touching portraits of his sister, his mother and his father-in-law. Set amid these is a staggeringly evocative face of his wife, Edith Harms, who he married in 1914. The guide tells us a bit of gossip about their marriage, namely that nice, middle-class Edith insisted Schiele cut off all contact with his working class mistress and muse, Wally Neuzil. Seems cruel. Needs must. But what remains of Edith is Schiele's staggeringly evocative portraits of her, like the one featured here. A face, hair, a hand – and an entire personality is before us. It is a staggering testimony to what art can do.
Edith Schiele by Egon Schiele (1917)
Yet another aspect of Schiele's vision is displayed across two walls of this room – his numerous, inventive and varied self-portraits. Klimt never did a self portrait in his life, Schiele did hundreds. Maybe, again, partly out of poverty. But mostly because, whereas the Symbolist, fin-de-siecle art of the 1890s reached beyond itself to some secret realm trembling on the brink of revelation, the Expressionist art of the 1910s explored the self, and the fracturing of the self, into anguished fragments.
It's an oddity or irony of the German Expressionists that so many of them considered themselves spiritual leaders, heralding a great spiritual awakening of humanity – and yet, to us, so many of their paintings look hard, heavy and anguished. Same here, with Schiele – the commentary tells us that he identified with Francis of Assissi, wrote about the artist being a spiritual leader, gave his self-portraits titles like 'redemption' – and yet to us they seem to anticipate the acute and anguished self-consciousness of the twentieth century, which didn't decline after Schiele's death, but achieved new heights of neurotic panic after the Holocaust, the atom bombs and the spread of nihilism and existentialism across mid-century Europe.
It is that tormented self-consciousness which Schiele's countless experimental self-portraits seem to communicate to us today, not songs about birds.
Nude Self-Portrait, Squatting (1916) by Egon Schiele. Pencil and gouache on packing paper. The Albertina Museum, Vienna
By no means all of these self-portraits are nude; the one above is the most naked and explicit. In many others he's wearing clothes but posing in one of his characteristically agonised, ungainly stylised positions. This angularity prepares us for the last room.
Room 6 Erotic nudes
Bang! the room explodes with some of the most erotic paintings and drawings ever made. They are erotic because they are so candid. You feel like you are in the room, with a good-looking young woman who is happy to share her body with you, no shame, no false modesty, no recriminations. For me, at any rate, it's this spirit of complete, unashamed, naked complicity which makes them emotionally or psychologically powerful.
Seated Female Nude, Elbows Resting on Right Knee (1914) by Egon Schiele. Graphite and gouache on Japan paper. The Albertina Museum, Vienna
But having looked carefully at all the works which precede them it is also possible to set aside their erotic charge altogether and consider them as compositions. In this respect the most successful of them vividly bring together features we've already noted:
the stylised pose, deliberately not classical, not a nude woman carefully standing so as to conceal her loins, but a real woman squatting, lying back with her legs open, gazing at the viewer, completely unembarrassed
the angularity of the anatomy – note the weirdly pointed hips, the visible ribs, the jagged angles around the shoulder, the accurate depiction of the lines made by the tendons of the inner thigh just next to the pubic hair, the pointed chin – the human figure as sharp angles
the use of colour not to describe naturalistically, but as expressive highlighting – much earlier Klimt had coloured the nipples of his nude paintings, but they were set amid an entire composition of gleaming rich colours: Schiele repeatedly uses the trick of painting the labia, nipples and lips a bright orange colour, on one level highlighting the erogenous zones, but on another making the figures almost into painted puppets, marionettes, an unsettling ambiguity
Note, also, the use of the colour green. By her breast, and armpit, and under her eyes and, the more you look at it, the more you see that Schiele has used that very unhuman colour, green, just touches and flecks of it, which… which do what, exactly? They make this woman's body look a bit more emaciated than it already is: but the sparingness with which it's used also makes you look closer, lean in, get drawn in.
Once I started looking, I noticed a very fleeting use of green in many of the nudes, creating just a hint of a kind of heightened, floodlit, hyper-vividness. There's even green in the self-portrait wearing a yellow waistcoat. I've read scores of articles about Schiele and nudes and pornography and the male gaze and so on. It would be interesting to read just one good article about his very sophisticated use of colour.
Schiele's nudes, hundreds of them, were notorious in his day and now are widely known and admired. I had no idea that Klimt did quite so many nudes and that, in their way, they are more sexually explicit. The wall opposite Schiele's green-flecked nudes is covered with the detailed pencil drawings Klimt made of nubile young women naked and very blatantly masturbating.
In 1907 Klimt provided fifteen avowedly erotic drawings for a luxury edition of the Roman classic, Lucian's dialogue of the courtesans. The title of one drawing – shown in the original pencil version and then as an illustration in a copy of the book which is on display here – says it all: Woman reclining with leg raised. She is lying on her back on a bed with one leg pulled up and back by her left arm while she is masturbating with her right hand. Art doesn't come much more explicit than this. Although even when he's being as rude as an artist possibly can be, it's amusing that Klimt can't stop himself drifting off to think about the decorative spots and patterns on the fabric she's lying on (her dress? a blanket?)
Reclining nude with leg raised by Gustav Klimt (1907)
The commentary suggests that, because Klimt's nude women have their eyes closed they are somehow passive victims of the male gaze, whereas Schiele's explicit female nudes generally have their eyes open and are often looking straight at the viewer – and so are therefore empowered, have agency etc – an issue of vital concern to female art curators.
I don't think it's quite that simple: it's certainly not that a consistent rule, because some Klimt women have their eyes open and some Schiele women have theirs closed.
In my opinion the scholars are over-explaining something which is more obvious: not only Schiele's female nudes but the male nudes and most of the fully-dressed portraits as well, are simply more powerfully drawn and more vividly coloured than any of the Klimt drawings on show here.
Klimt's masturbating women may have their eyes closed, but more importantly (for me, anyway) – although they are just as explicit, in fact in the way they are actively masturbating, they are more explicit than the Schiele – nonetheless, they are drawn with much finer and paler lines, lines which almost fade away into nothingness, as the left leg of the model, above, dwindles from the heft of her buttock and hip down to a small foot which is merely an outline.
In other words, in my opinion, it is not the model, the human being depicted – it is Klimt's technique or style which is passive and mute. As pencil drawings, the Klimt nudes in this final room are probably better, more accurate draughtsmanship, than the Schiele. But the Schiele erotic nudes, with their strong black outlines, weird angularities, piercing black eyes, and coloured highlights, are incomparably the more powerful and bracing works of art.
Video introduction to Schiele
By Tim Marlow, Artistic Director of the Royal Academy.
//player.vimeo.com/video/298238498
Klimt / Schiele: Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna continues at the Royal Academy until 3 February 2019
Large print gallery guide i.e. the exhibition's wall labels and list of works
Reviews of other Royal Academy exhibitions
Oceania (November 2018)
Dalí/Duchamp (November 2017)
Jasper Johns (November 2017)
Matisse in the studio (November 2017)
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2017 (July 2017)
Intrigue: James Ensor by Luc Tuymans (December 2016)
Abstract Expressionism (October 2016)
In the Age of Giorgione (March 2016)
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse (February 2016)
Ai Weiwei (November 2015)
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2015 (June 2015)
Rubens and his Legacy (January 2015)
Allen Jones (January 2015)
Dennis Hopper – The Last Album (August 2014)
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014 (August 2014)
Bill Woodrow (February 2014)
Daumier (January 2014)
Bronze (December 2012)
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture (April 2012)
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Abstract Expressionism edited by David Anfam (2016)
This is the catalogue or book of the 2016 Royal Academy exhibition of Abstract Expressionism – 'arguably the most significant movement of the twentieth century' (Christopher Le Brun) – the first large retrospective in this country since 1959.
It's a massive hardback book, 320 pages long, and containing:
four long essays – by exhibition curator David Anfam, Susan Davidson, Jeremy Lewison, Carter Ratcliff
a twenty-page chronology of the movement
followed by 200 pages of illustrations of paintings and sculptures, then a further section of watercolours and sketches, and then key photographs from the era
Several thoughts arise from a slow careful perusal of this enormous tome.
Earlier than realised
Although I associate it with the 1950s, and the style did indeed dominate that decade, the creation, labelling, and publicising of Abstract Expressionism all happened in the 1940s. It was as early as 1946 that the art critic Robert Coates, writing in The New Yorker, first used the term 'Abstract Expressionism', perceptively describing how the new school took the anti-figurative aesthetic of modernist French and Dutch artists but combined it with the emotional intensity of the German Expressionists.
It was even earlier, in 1943, that Jackson Pollock was talent spotted by the rich heiress Peggy Guggenheim, signed up to her gallery and given his first one-man exhibition, invited to paint a mural in the entrance to her New York apartment (Mural – 'the first outstanding large-scale painterly abstraction ever created in America', p.33). This was seen by umpteen influential visitors including the critic Clement Greenberg who promptly wrote an article declaring Pollock 'the greatest painter this country had produced.' To step back a bit, this was all happening in the same year as the Battle of Stalingrad i.e. the first decisive defeat of Nazi Germany, and the Allied invasion of Italy. The Second World War hadn't even finished yet. Nobody knew about the Holocaust.
It was still only in the 1940s that Abstract Expressionism was reaching a mass audience – August 8, 1949 to be precise – when Pollock was given a four-page spread in Life magazine that asked, 'Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?' and which projected him to nationwide superstar-artist fame. The next year he dropped his trademark 'drip' technique, which in fact only lasted the short period from 1947 to 1950, in order to explore new styles. Neither the critics nor buyers were interested. They wanted more drips. 'Play us the old songs, Jackson.' Given the pressures and the spotlight, it's surprising that he soldiered on till 1956 before dying in a drunken car crash which might have been suicide.
This all lends support to the revisionist view of Stephen Polcari, that the Abstract Expressionists were not responding to the crises of the Cold War – though that is how they were marketed and perceived at the time – but in fact had their roots in the social, economic, and political crises of the 1930s, when they were all impressionable young men. If they shared a tragic sense it was shaped by the Great Depression, the rise of Fascism, the war in Spain and then the descent into darkness of the entire continent whence 'civilisation' supposedly originated.
It was well before the Cold War and the A-Bomb, way back in 1943 that Rothko and Gottlieb wrote a letter published in the New York Times which expressed the kind of doom-laden intensity which all the AEs seem to have shared, asserting that:
the subject matter is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. (quoted p.21)
Is Abstract Expressionism a good label?
As usual with many art 'movements', many of the key players weren't particularly happy with the label imposed on them – Abstract Expressionism – and others went the rounds, like 'the New York school' or 'Tenth Street painters'. But AE stuck. They never produced a manifesto or exhibited together, and there's no one photo with the main players together. But people – curators, collectors, galleries, journalists, and us – the poor uninformed public – we all need labels to hang on to, especially in the middle of the century when art movements came and went with such dizzying rapidity.
And the artists certainly all knew each other, lived in the same area of Downtown Manhattan, hung around in the same taverns and bars, and were subject to the same washes of influence as America experienced the Depression, the great influx of refugee artists from the Nazis, reacted (in different ways) against the naive nationalist art of the 1930s, against Regionalism and Social realism, but engaged in highly individual struggles to find a new idiom, new ways of seeing and doing art.
This brings us to the actual art and the obvious conclusion that the mature styles of the four or five main players were very different and extremely distinctive. There were a lot of second string artists floating around, who produced good work or influenced the Big Boys in one way or another – and the generous selection in the RA exhibition and this book goes out of its way to include works by Adolph Gottlieb, Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Joan Mitchell, Conrad Marca-Relli, Jack Tworkov, Milton Resnick, some 20 artists in all.
But leafing through the beautiful reproductions, again and again the works of five key names stood out for me, emerging as titans above the crowd. (In essay four, the gallery owner Betty Parsons who played a key role in promoting AE, is quoted describing Pollock, Rothko, Still and Newman as 'the Four Horsemen'.)
A word about aesthetics
It's challenging and entertaining to try and put into words what it is that makes some paintings canonical and some redundant or not-quite-there. The latter phrase gives a clue to my approach. I find that, for most art or museum objects I see, some give the sense of being finished and completely themselves. Thus among my favourite works of art anywhere are the Benin bronzes at the British Museum. They seem to me to have set out to do something and to do it perfectly and completely. They are completely themselves, impossible to alter or improve. Similarly, the famous helmet from Sutton Hoo completely (ominously, threateningly) says what it sets out to, bespeaks an entire world and civilisation.
So if I have any aesthetic theory it is not the application of any external guidelines of beauty, requiring a work of art to conform to this, that or the other rule. It is something to do with a work coming entirely into its own, its own space and design. Having suggested a certain form or subject or shape, then delivering on that idea, completely. Fulfilling its premises.
Jackson Pollock (1912 – 1956)
Pollock's best drip paintings dominate the era and all his contemporaries as clearly as Andy Warhol dominated Pop Art. Possibly others were better artists, showed more consistent artistic development and certainly others have their fans and devotees – but nobody can deny Pollock and Warhol's works are immediately recognisable not just as art, but as icons of a particular period and place.
And, in my opinion, they fulfil my theory of completeneness – that an artist has a moment when they crystallise a signature style by fully developing the tendencies implicit in their approach (as discerned in their earlier developing works).
Thus it is very obvious that there is a long run-up of pre-drip Pollock (Male and Female 1942, Eyes in the heat 1946) as he groped his way in the dark from works whose size and shape was influence by his mentor, Thomas Hart Benton the mural-maker, but whose content is often dominated by Guernica-period Picasso — and there is a hangover of post-drip Pollock (when he experimented for a while with just black – Number 7, 1952). Both of them are interesting, but so-so.
But then there is drip Pollock. Blue Poles (1952) is a masterpiece, a completely immersive experience, as completely itself as the huge lily ponds of Monet. Immersive because it is vast and its size is an important factor. After splatting the surface with a preliminary network of black, white, yellow and red loops, Pollock used the edge of a plank dunked in blue paint to create the eight poles. Like Matisse's dancing cutouts, this is an example of perfect taste, perfectly 'getting' the possibility of a visual rhythm. It isn't classical or symmetrical or figurative of anything – it is a pure design which, for some reason to do with perceptual psychology, just works. Close up you can appreciate the extraordinary lacework of other colours dripped across the canvas, trademark yellow, red and whites, to create a dense tapestry weave of texture and colour. It is entirely itself. It is a summation of everything implicit in the drip approach to painting. And it is this sense of completing all the potential of the method which gives it its thrilling excitement, which makes it a masterpiece, and also a 'classic' of this style.
Along with works like Summertime (1948) and Number 4 (1949) these seem complete expressions of what they're meant to be, of a certain Gestalt. Once you've thought of dripping raw paint across the canvas, then it turns out that certain levels of complete coverage and a certain level of complexity of the interlinking lines is somehow optimum, others less so. Too much and it is just mess; too little and it looks empty. At his peak Pollock produced a string of works which experiment with colours, shape of canvas and so on, but which all display an innate feel for just how to do this kind of painting.
Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970)
Rothko, also, is up there in the recognisability stakes in the sense that his final, achieved style is instantly distinctive. He too struggled to find his way from a sort of blocky blurry realism (Interior, 1936) on a journey via a completely different look in a work like Gethsemane (1944), which looks like washed-out surrealism, before coming to the brink of his mature style with experiments in big blotches of soft-edged colour (No.18 1948, Violet, Black, orange, Yellow on White and Red, 1949).
But then – bang! – he hits it, he finds his voice, he claims his brand, he crystallises his vision, he stumbles upon the formula of big rectangular blocks of shimmering colours which will last the rest of his life, what Anfam calls his 'chromatic mirages' (p.21).
Rust and Blue (1953)
Yellow Band (1956)
No.15 Dark greens on blue with green band (1957)
the Seagram murals (1959)
Black in Deep Red (1957)
Untitled blue (1968).
Rothko left the murals he'd prepared for the restaurant in the new Seagram building to London's Tate Gallery. There's a darkened room containing all of them in Tate Modern and you can sit staring into them for hours. Critics saw in them the same kind of existentialist anxiety (all those massive blocks terrifying threatening the viewer, all the anxiety of those unknown fraying edges) that they saw in Pollock — but these days they are more like aids to calm reflection and meditation, and the audioguide plays very quiet meditative music by American experimental composer Morton Feldman. From Cold War angst to post-modern pleasure.
But however you read them, there's no denying that Rothko stumbled upon (worked his way through to) an entirely new way of conceiving of coloured paint on canvas, a discovery and a formula – and then spent twenty years working through hundreds of variations, exploring and stumbling across further discoveries. Big, bright, abstract, moody. And a world away from Pollock's splats. the casual viewer could be forgiven for asking how the two could ever be bracketed together, where the one is very much about the dynamic power of vibrantly interlacing lines and the other is very much about the calming meditative effect of enormous blocks of shimmering colour.
Clyfford Still (1904 – 1980)
The much-told story about Still is that he was prickly and difficult, went his own way, argued with all the other AEs, in the early 1950s terminated his contract with a commercial gallery and ended up neither exhibiting nor selling any of his pieces, but working away steadily in provincial obscurity in Maryland. He died in possession of 95% of everything he'd ever painted and made a will leaving his life's work to whichever organisation could create a museum dedicated to housing and showing it. After numerous negotiations this turned out to be the City of Denver and it was only in 2011 that there finally opened a museum dedicated to Still, and that this vast reservoir of work was made available to critics and the public. In the short time since then his reputation has undergone a major revaluation and the room devoted to his work at the Royal Academy exhibition was, arguably, even more impactful then the displays of Pollock and Rothko. Still was a revelation.
Like the others, Still took a long journey, and his early work is represented by another semi-figurative work from the 30s, PH-726 (1936). But by 1944 he has stumbled upon his formula – sharp rips or tears against solid fields of colour, PH-235 (1944), all done in a really thick impasto or thick layer of paint which adds to the sense of presence and impact.
PH-605 (1950)
PH-4 (1952)
PH-1123 (1954)
What are they? Wikipedia says his mature works 'recall natural forms and natural phenomena at their most intense and mysterious; ancient stalagmites, caverns, foliage, seen both in darkness and in light lend poetic richness and depth to his work.' Because the commentary goes heavy on his upbringing in the mid-West and of the associations of Denver, Colorado, I saw in several of them the pattern of cattle hides, the tans and blacks and beiges which you see in some Indian art, teepees, shields. Just a fancy.
J No. 1 (PH-142), 1957
Barnett Newman (1905 – 1970)
Newman had his first one-man show in 1948, the year he broke through to his mature style with the Onement series. Again, his was a long journey out of 1930s figurativism, until he made a discovery / stumbled across an idea / achieved a mature style (delete as applicable), creating what Anfam calls his 'transcendent spatial continuums' (p.21). Once he'd found it, repeated it through countless iterations.
A classic Barnett Newman has a vertical line – or 'zip' as he himself called them – dividing a field of colour – initially drab colour but becoming brighter and brighter as the 1950s progressed. The zip defines the picture plane, separates the composition yet binds it together, sunders it yet gives it a weird tremulous unity.
Onement (1948)
Adam (1951)
Eve (1950)
Why does it work? I'd give good money to read an analysis by a psychologist or expert in the psychology of perception, of shapes and colours, who could explain the effect they have on the mind of the viewer.
Midnight Blue (1970)
According to this book, among the big-name AEs, Newman was rather overlooked in favour of the brasher bolder works of his peers. Also, Pollock and Still, to name two, used highly expressive brushwork and thick or spattered layers of paint. Standing close you can see the thick clots of oil on the surface. Newman's paintwork is flat and restrained. In fact his colourfulness and geometric designs link him more to the school of 'post-painterly abstraction' which emerged in the 1960s and are almost connected to the cool understatement of minimalism.
Franz Kline (1910 – 1962)
Kline's breakthrough moment is much mythologised. Working as a commercial illustrator in New York while struggling to work his way towards some kind of abstract language, Kline was visited by Willem de Kooning who suggested he use a projector to blow up & project his complicated paintings onto the wall and then select small details to reproduce as full scale canvases. Taking this insight, Kline quickly worked out a style of broad black brushstrokes on white, which continually seem to gesture towards something yet are abstract. Are they fragments of larger designs and shapes? Or references to Japanese calligraphy (which Kline always denied)? Or dramatic actions in themselves?
Vawdavitch (1955)
Four square (1956)
Like all the other AEs, Kline's work is big, really really BIG. Whatever the differences in style and approach, the AEs had this one thing in common – their work is huge and immersive. (A sign at Barnett Newman's second exhibition at the Betty Parson's Gallery in May 1951 actually requested visitors to stand close up to the picture; visitors had been requested to do the same at the Pollock exhibition which immediately preceded it – p.93.)
Franz Kline in his studio (1960)
Kline is further evidence for my theory that artists often reach a recognisable defining style and produce a number of works which somehow express the quintessence of their voice or vision, only after a journey upwards and, alas, sometimes a later decline or wandering away… Having perfected the black and white calligraphy style – so instantly recognisable – by the time he was just 40, after a while at the top of his game, Kline had nowhere to go except back into colour, and these later colour works, although fine in their own way, represent a really noticeable falling away of the energy which the stark black-and-white contrasts produced. For some reason this style looks terribly dated, very late 50s early 60s, whereas the black and white calligraphic works look timeless to me.
Andrus (1961)
Willem de Kooning (1904 – 1997)
De Kooning is the one big AE I couldn't get on with at all, and the more I saw the more I disliked his stuff. Partly because I think he never did develop a defined style. To me, all of his stuff looks like messy sketches on the way towards something better, they all look like the dispensable journey works on the way to… nowhere. The same horrible messy scrawl effect is his one signature effect.
Dark Pond
Abstraction (1950)
Zot
Woman I (1952)
Woman II (1952)
Composition (1955)
Villa Borghese (1960)
Woman as landscape (1965)
Untitled V (1976)
All the other AEs strike me as having a purpose, a direction. Pollock's works are far more artful than they appear, Rothko's are careful experiments, Newman achieved a kind of classic restraint and Still's jagged compositions are unerringly 'right', conveying something much bigger than the images seem to warrant.
Only de Kooning's works, out of the whole show and this long book, consistently look to me like a slapdash mess, a dog's dinner, victims of what Anfam calls his 'lacerating sweeps' (p.21). And the series of depictions of women – his 'wrenching engagements with the female sex' (Anfam, p.22) – which are often singled out by the critics for praise, to me could hardly be uglier and more repellent if they tried.
Some de Kooning women paintings in a gallery
Adolph Gottlieb (1903 – 1974)
Apparently Gottlieb is perceived as a second string AE, his career weaving through a series of styles, including surrealism in the 1930s, a spell in the Arizona desert simplifying images to a primal essence, and the development of 'pictographs' representing psychologically charged shapes and patterns. It was as late as 1956 that he developed the 'burst' style, dividing the canvas into two halves, with a round sun-like object above and a busy earth-like mass below – creating a dialectic between calm and busy, with the use of bright colours to interfere and resonate.
Penumbra (1959)
Phoenix burst
Apaquogue
Hundreds of bursts resulted and I can see why critics looking for world-shattering angst and grand existentialist statements might deprecate them, but I like him for devising a new 'look' and then producing fascinating variations on it.
Neglected women
One of the most pressing concerns of our times, in the arts and elsewhere, is restoring the reputations, the overlooked achievements and untold stories, of neglected woman. Four women artists worked in and around Abstract Expressionism and are included here:
Janet Sobel (1894 – 1968) began painting at the mature age of 43 when her son left home leaving behind his copious art materials. She progressed from figurative paintings featuring dreamy rather Chagall-like faces enmeshed in zoomorphic patterns, through to pure abstraction and eventually the technique of dripping paint. Some scholars claim it was Sobel who arrived at the drip technique before Jackson. That's one for the scholars. All her works have a lightness. Maybe it was the light decorative effect as opposed to the Big Boys' existentialist histrionics more than the fact she was a woman which wrote her out of the story for so long.
Illusion of solidity (1945)
Lee Krasner (1908 – 1984) Krasner evolved through a series of styles. During the heyday of the AEs she tended to be overlooked by virtue of the fact that she was married to the top dog, Jackson Pollock. But the works included here show she had a related but distinct vision of her own.
The eye is the first circle (1960)
Just living with Jackson sounds like a demanding job, but creating alongside him, in a related but clearly distinctive style, is little less than heroic. The next two are to one side for the simple reason that they were of a younger generation
Joan Mitchell (1925 – 1992) You can see the importance of the gesture but, a little like de Kooning, I don't see it going anywhere.
Mandres (1961)
Salut Tom (1979)
They're big, one of the simplest criteria for being an abstract expressionist. But arriving at Salut Tom at the end of the exhibition felt like we'd moved a long way from late-40s existentialism into a brighter more decorative world. Same style, different world.
Helen Frankenthaler (1928 – 2011) She painted onto unprimed canvas so that the paint soaked into it, thus creating a very flat surface.
Europa (1957)
Peggy and Betty
The fourth essay in the book is in many ways the most interesting, telling the complementary stories of two hugely important gallery owners who promoted the work of the Abstract Expressionists from the first – the Jewish millionairess Peggy Guggenheim and the scion of a wealthy WASP family, Betty Parsons. Peggy lived in Paris between the wars, becoming fantastically well-connected among the city's avant-garde, arranging exhibitions and starting her own staggering collection, before fleeing ahead of the Nazi invasion in 1940, back to New York, where in 1942 she set up The Art of This Century Gallery.
Like Peggy, only without the millions, Betty went to live in Paris, where she herself pursued a career as an artist, taking lessons, before losing her money in the Wall Street Crash and being forced back to the States, to teach, and then to work in commercial galleries. She learned the trade, becoming popular among artists for her good taste and business sense (i.e. selling their pictures and making them money). In 1945 she set up the Betty Parsons Gallery which ran till her death in 1982. When Guggenheim returned to Paris after the war, Parsons took on many of 'her' artists, and the article turns into an impressive roster of the exhibitions she put on for one after another of all the key artists of the time, working hard to promote them and get them sales.
The essay is a fascinating insight not only into the achievements of these two vital women, but into the art world in general. It's shocking to learn how little the artists sold at these shows – they'd display a dozen or 16 new works, for between $250 and $1,400 – and quite frequently none would sell at all. Or only small watercolours would sell to what turn out to be friends of the artist or the gallery owner herself. Works which now fetch tens of millions of dollars at auction.
In a fascinating detail, the book mentions several times that one problem was the paintings' sheer scale: it was one thing to create a fourteen foot square canvas in the space of a half derelict loft-cum-studio, quite another thing to expect even quite rich people in New York to find enough wall space to hang it, back in the cluttered 1940s and 1950s. It was only well into the 1960s and more so in the 1970s that ideas of interior design changed significantly, that clutter was thrown out and rooms knocked together to create large airy spaces, often painted white, in which the vast canvases of the Abstract Expressionists suddenly made sense.
But by this point the AEs were up against the equally large creations of Post-painterly Abstraction, Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism and so on and New York was established as the centre of a fast-moving, big money art culture.
Abstract Expressionism on Amazon
Review of the Abstract Expressionism exhibition at the Royal Academy
Chapters from Alex Ross's history of 20th century music, The Rest is Noise, which deal with 1930s music in America
Reviews of other American art exhibitions and books
The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe (1975)
The American Dream: pop to the present @ the British Museum (May 2017)
Robert Rauschenberg @ Tate Modern (February 2017)
The World of Charles and Ray Eames @ the Barbican (November 2015)
Pop Art Design @ Barbican (February 2014)
An American in London @ Dulwich Picture Gallery (January 2014)
Lichtenstein: A Restrospective @ Tate Modern (March 2013)
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson (2004)
American Colonies by Alan Taylor (2001)
Warhol by Klaus Honnef (1990)
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What can cause this? I know that Celery 4.x is in transition from old setting names to new ones, but they still promise old settings names still would be used as well.
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More accurately, all-caps settings have been deprecated in favor of directly configuring the celery app object, and several have been namespaced to either use task_ or worker_ as a prefix. Because there's still backwards-compatability with all-caps settings, this indirectly renamed the all-caps setting as well.
From the changelog:
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A: Please restart celery worker after setting CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER = True in settings.py and see if it helps.
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ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18095/iran-biden-nuclear-deal\nNo amount of appeasement and no deal is going to change the core pillars of the Iranian mullahs' revolutionary principles, which include anti-Americanism, antisemitism, supporting terror groups, and brutally repressing their own population. The theocratic establishment uses international and regional agreements, such as its election last April to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, to advance its revolutionary ideals.\nThe Biden administration might begin to understand, nearly four decades after the establishment of the mullahs' regime, that, as Henry Kissinger remarked, \"The exercise of diplomacy without the threat of force is without effect.\"\nNo amount of appeasement and no deal is going to change the core pillars of the Iranian mullahs' revolutionary principles, which include anti-Americanism, antisemitism, supporting terror groups, and brutally repressing their own population. Pictured: A ballistic missile on display during a military parade in Tehran, on April 18, 2019. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)\nThe Biden administration's Iran policy appears to be quite simple: keep negotiating with the ruling mullahs and offering concessions to revive the 2015 nuclear deal and eliminate the Iranian regime's threat.\nThe nuclear deal reached in 2015, however, had already proved that it did not eliminate the Iranian regime's threats. After the agreement, access to the considerable funds freed up by the deal had the reverse effect: it allowed Tehran to pour ever greater sums into the coffers of groups such as Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Yemeni Houthis. Nations such as Israel, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain were largely ignored by the Western powers, despite their clear concerns over the direct threat that enriching these groups presented.\nUS President Joe Biden previously suggested that Iran, in the aftermath of the 2015 nuclear deal, had ceased being a \"bad regional actor\", writing:\n\"... I will offer Tehran a credible path back to diplomacy If Iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the United States would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for follow-on negotiations.\"\nThis is an easy view for someone thousands of miles away from the Middle East, but for those living there, dealing with Hezbollah's weapons caches and Syrian militias wreaking death and devastation, Iran, through its proxy networks, has become more malign than ever.\nTehran seeks to sow instability in the region because it benefits from chaos in other countries. It was through instability in Lebanon, for instance, that Iran was able give birth to Hezbollah. It was in the midst of the conflict in Iraq that Iran formed powerful militia groups there. It was through the war in Syria that Iran armed and empowered additional proxies. It is through the crisis in Yemen that Tehran is able to strengthen its ties with the Houthis. The list goes on. Where there is instability, the ruling mullahs of Iran expand their influence.\nThe nuclear deal did not stop Iran from advancing its nuclear program. During the deal, in 2018, several reports, later proven to be accurate, warned that Iran was conducting secret nuclear activities. Israel's then Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, pointed out in his speech to the UN General Assembly in 2018 that Iran had a \"secret atomic warehouse for storing massive amounts of equipment and material from Iran's secret nuclear weapons program.\" At the same time, two non-partisan organizations based in Washington, DC -- the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) -- also released detailed reports about Iran's undeclared clandestine nuclear facilities.\nOn top of that, at home, the empowered regime of the mullahs escalated its human rights violations. Human Rights Watch reported that Iran's judiciary \"continued to execute individuals at a high rate\" – including the execution of women and children.\n\"Iranian courts, and particularly the revolutionary courts regularly fell short of providing fair trials and used confessions obtained under torture as evidence in court. Authorities routinely restrict detainees' access to legal counsel, particularly during the investigation period.... Scores of human rights defenders and political activists remain behind bars for their peaceful activism...authorities in the security apparatus and Iran's judiciary continued to target journalists, online media activists, and human rights defenders in an ongoing crackdown, in blatant disregard of international and domestic legal standards.\"\nIt would help if the Biden administration therefore realized that reverting to the policy of Obama administration, where the US believes that the nuclear deal is adequate to confront the Iranian regime, actually risks undermining peace and stability in the Middle East even further, as well as empowering the regime to suppress its population more unsparingly than ever.\nDr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review, and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He has authored several books on Islam and US foreign policy. He can be reached at [email protected]\nFollow Majid Rafizadeh on Twitter\nRelated Topics: Iran, Iranian Nuclear Program\nRecent Articles by Majid Rafizadeh\nThe Biden Administration's 'Diplomacy' with the Iranian Regime, 2022-01-18\nBiden Administration Must At Least Help Any Country Trying to Confront Iran's Mullahs, 2022-01-01\nBiden's Legacy: A Nuclear Iran, 2021-12-22\nBiden Administration Silent Against Iran's Mullahs' Terror Threat, 2021-12-18\nThe Iran Nuclear Deal: Biden Administration's Fatal Mistakes, 2021-12-11\nMartin • Jan 9, 2022 at 16:56\nThe Iran nuclear deal, (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) involves not only USA but China, France, Russia, UK, plus Germany, and the European Union (P5+1+EU).\nWhile Pres. Biden's eagerness to re-establish the deal is insane, please let's not forget that the other countries involved in the \"negotiations\" are seemingly equally eager to sign on with Pres. Biden's dangerous plan.\nIf the Parties involved were honest about why they seek to renew the deal they would re-name it the Joint Incomprehensible Plan of Action.\nshloime • Jan 9, 2022 at 11:34\nTo borrow a phrase from popular culture, \"where's the beef?\" Obama's precious \"Iran agreement\" was never submitted to congress to be ratified, or signed by the ayatollah. its secret addenda remain secret to this day.\nIn addition to not addressing Iran's ballistic missiles and its military adventures in neighbouring countries, not destroying Iran's plutonium reactor at Arak, and not curbing the mullahs' uranium enrichment capability, it also contained unknown assurances that committed the united states to preventing future attacks against the Iranian nuclear weapons program. the agreement itself was never made public.\nSo before being dragged back into the same quagmire, don't the American people deserve to see Obama's 2015 JCPOA, in all its glorious detail?\ncammo99 • Jan 9, 2022 at 07:55\nAll I can do is say I approve of the message, the question is does Biden hear anyone outside the closed circle of one party democrats? It is very clear that Biden who voted against bringing Vietnam refugees to the USA in 1975 using the WPR73 as a pretext then applied the same principles to Afghanistan it would seem President Biden used racist prejudice against Asians in 1975 and applied the same strictures on Afghanistan allies who are still in grave peril of their lives. Put simply I do not believe the Democrats ever have the same value for human life as the Christians and other God believers they despise even as Biden and Pelosi blasphemously like to claim God is telling them what to do is has given them their power to do what they believe is right and if God is not enough they have the Pope's blessing too?\nThis comes down to how you interpret their belief that by advocating the poor as directed by God they can not be criticized by god believers. They have literally industrialized poverty for their own supremacist Party beliefs. I heard a Minister this Sunday AM cite James as a means of criticizing the rich and advocating the poor, what segment I heard also got it wrong.\nMoses did not go to Pharaoh to get better living conditions for the Hebrew slaves, he first asked Pharaoh to release the Jews to go into the desert and have a festival for God. Pharaoh said no. And the fact is from Genesis to Revelations criticisms of oppression in regard to the poor almost in every instance is about empowering the poor and oppressed so they can worship God. Its in the Psalms, its why Jesus turned over the money changer tables that cheated people in their purchase of sacrifices for their sins.\nPelosi's idea of empowering the poor is so they can shoot dope have safe places to be to do it and create an unemployable slave class, that also includes the worse sort of immoral criminals. What is supposed to be a blessing Pelosi and Biden have turned into a curse. And they are doomed. Such people never achieve anything great except in scope of ruination and so it will be in their dealings with the Iranians.\nBull Herman cammo99 • Jan 12, 2022 at 01:28\nI appreciate your religious views on this subject. Thank you.\nJagdish N Singh • Jan 9, 2022 at 04:30\nOne hopes wisdom will prevail over the Biden administration to discard the fatal Iran policy Washington has more or less adhered to since the Jimmy Carter presidency and not re-enter the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal the Donald Trump administration had withdrawn from. Given its commitment to the Islamist ideology that seeks to establish its version of rule the world over, Tehran is sure to use the possible nuclear deal to move further towards acquiring nuclear weapon capability that would help it annihilate the entire modern civilization, the United States, the leader of the free world, in particular.\nNurit Greenger • Jan 9, 2022 at 01:17\nBiden became a \"president\" to make the world an unlivable place. Biden is the problem, the European are the Problem; Iran knows it and it is having the West dance around its little finger. We, the people, have \"leaders\" who are intelligence quotient (IQ) deficient totally unfit to lead even a pack of lambs.\nEliot Schickler • Jan 9, 2022 at 01:08\nMaking a deal with Iran is the worse thing we can do! The one thing we need to do in Iran is to implement regime change over there! It's time to send the Ayatollahs packing and place them in the dustbin of history! The Ayatollahs are cancerous that are harming the world and are responsible for the escalation of 99 % of the main conflicts in the world! If we overthrow these Ayatollahs, who belong in the Dark Ages and replace them with a modern government, then all the enemies of Peace will see their funding dry up and they will be vanquished!\nRob Porter Eliot Schickler • Jan 19, 2022 at 18:09\nEliot, in respect of Iran the actions of Biden, Blinken, Sherman and this whole pathetic crew, demonstrates just how morally destitute and devoid of wisdom they are. Anyone in possession of morals and sound judgement sees the evil of this regime and desires an end to it. This American administration is not simply stupid, it too is evil.\nEliot Schickler Rob Porter • Jan 20, 2022 at 08:57\nInteresting observation!\nTed • Jan 8, 2022 at 21:01\nPrediction: Biden will scoff derisively at this letter. He and Obama are one soul.\nNicholas John Papadopoulos • Jan 8, 2022 at 19:31\nI totally agree.You can not negotiate with those who have the anti-Christ spirit inside of them. The Iranian rulers are committed to the destruction of a democratic Israel, EU and the USA.\njanet Nicholas John Papadopoulos • Jan 11, 2022 at 18:50\nIf any country could create a living hell on earth, then Iran is it. Then groups like ISIS and Boko Haram fan out the rest of the evil men do and we can see how easily this once beautiful earth was destroyed. Oh yes, Biden and Obama are indeed attached at the hip.\nstevenl • Jan 8, 2022 at 19:12\nThe handling of Afghanistan an omen for the handling of Iran?\nIsn't that the hope of the US left?\nShould be a letter to his handlers.\njule • Jan 8, 2022 at 16:50\nBiden has extremely bad actors for information and the Democrat party has become more corrupt than the Republican. Too much money is involved.Too much biased propaganda & even from Congress.\nSteven • Jan 8, 2022 at 16:04\nTo not persist in re-entering the nuclear deal would indicate the former Obama/Biden administration was inept in entering the deal in the first place.\nThe Biden administration is largely an extension or third term of the former Obama/Biden administration.\nThe entire article underestimates the commitment and determination of the Biden administration to re-enter the nuclear deal with Iran. Entering this agreement is a core value of the Biden administration\nBull Herman • Jan 8, 2022 at 13:43\nProblem is Biden appreciates how Iranian Islamists run their country. He can't see through Iranian propaganda let alone his own party's nonsense. You are writing to a shill who lives above the law and outside reality.\nYou could write it to Israel but that would be preaching to the choir.\nBull Herman Bull Herman • Jan 8, 2022 at 18:38\nThere is a serious side to this.\nIf Biden does happen to get the Iranian Islamists to agree... will they sign this agreement or ignore it like last time?\nIt's not an agreement otherwise.\nFrankly, I feel US reps are happy to accommodate Iranian delays because the Islamist part of this administration like Kerry loves the Iranian style of Islam.\nI can't think of any other reason.\nmeron levitats • Jan 8, 2022 at 11:20\nThis article should be sent to every Congressman, Senator, Cabinet member, National Security Advisor, and the like and in a condensed op-ed format to every newspaper editor and TV news station in the country.\nRussell • Jan 8, 2022 at 06:28\nMy opinion after seeing the way that the Democrats have acted since the Biden Administration took over the USA is that Joe Biden will never change his attitude towards Iran. Why? I suggest that the Pres. Joe Biden/Democrat principles are very supportive of the Iranian mullahs' revolutionary principles, which include:\n1. Anti-Americanism, (USA open borders and a two-tier justice system, criminals released with no bail, US Government using the DOJ and FBI as a weapon against Americans).\n2. Antisemitism and supporting terror groups (Afghanistan, appeasing Iran, wasting time on this useless Iran deal, and weakening the military with vaccine mandates).\n3. Brutally repressing their own population, (Defunding police, causing high crime in Democrat-led states, supporting and justifying looting, encouraging mass Antifa and BLM violence, holding people in jail for mere trespassing on January 6th, whilst not prosecuting a police officer for shooting and killing a tiny unarmed woman, high inflation, job-destroying vaccine mandates, school lockdowns, ending energy independence, and destruction of the US economy.\nMartin Russell • Jan 9, 2022 at 17:12\nThe Biden Administration is controlled by Barack Hussein Obama. Thus the strong desire to re-instate the deal which was originally entered into by Obama. Furthermore, the fact that Pres. Trump, who is hated by Obama/Biden, scuttled the deal, is taken as an insult to Obama's \"diplomacy\" and must be re-instated at any cost... including the threat of triggering a nuclear war.\nJeff Page • Jan 8, 2022 at 06:00\nNothing will ever change in Iran as long as the current leadership maintains control. Even afterwards, it will be extremely difficult for any Muslim-dominated country to accept any other denomination as being on the same level as Islam. Biden and people such as he who capitulate rather than express their opposing views will be seen as weak, easily manipulated and a walkover to conservative Muslims around the world. Time to stop wasting time and time to stop sucking up to them!\nHamish MacDonald • Jan 8, 2022 at 05:37\nWell good luck with Biden.\nOnly an earthquake will wake up the Democrats.\nHarvey L Hamish MacDonald • Jan 8, 2022 at 17:04\nTrue, or heaven forbid a nuclear strike." | {
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Hexindai Announces the Results of Annual General Meeting and Name Change
BEIJING, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Hexindai Inc. (NASDAQ: HX) ("Hexindai" or the "Company"), a social e-commerce platform in China, today announced that it held the 2020 annual general meeting of shareholders (the "AGM") at the Conference Room, 5th Floor, Block C, Shimao Plaza, No. 92 Jianguo Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100020, People's Republic of China, at 10:00 a.m. (Beijing Time) on December 16, 2020. At the AGM, holders of 52,025,638 ordinary shares (including ordinary shares represented by the Company's American Depositary Shares), out of the 52,458,550 ordinary shares issued and outstanding, were present in person or by proxy, and therefore constituted a quorum of more than one-third of the ordinary shares outstanding and entitled to vote at the AGM as of November 6, 2020, the record date of the AGM.
At the AGM, the shareholders of the Company approved the name change of the Company from "Hexindai Inc." to "Xiaobai Maimai Inc.", as a special resolution of the Company. As an ordinary resolution of the Company, the shareholders ratified the appointment of Wei, Wei& Co., LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm.
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Hexindai Inc. (NASDAQ: HX) ("Hexindai" or the "Company") is a social e-commerce platform based in Beijing, China. The Company collaborates with domestic e-commerce platforms and offers users a wide selection of high-quality and affordable products on its new social e-commerce platform. Leveraging its cooperation with mainstream e-commerce platforms and services marketplaces, and its data analytics algorithm and operating system, the Company continues to identify and introduce cost-efficient products and attract users to its platform and generate higher user satisfaction to realize the platform's fast growth.
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Jennifer Curtis December 7, 2016 December 8, 2016 AAA Meetings, News
By Christine Hegel-Cantarella, Ieva Jusionyte, and Kedron Thomas
Participants at the "Writing for the Media" workshop. Photo by Ieva Jusionyte.
Each year, APLA's Early Career Mentoring Committee plans a series of events that focus on the particular interests and needs of scholars in the early stages of their careers. This year, the committee held two events designed to help early career scholars cultivate a public persona and successfully draw attention to their research findings from colleagues and the general public.
The first workshop, facilitated by Sameena Mulla and Christine Hegel-Cantarella, took place on Thursday, November 17. Titled "Crafting a Scholarly Profile and Building Your Professional Network," the event invited participants to bring a 300-word draft scholarly profile, the kind that might appear on a professional webpage, for feedback from peers on how to best represent their interests and research. Scholarly profiles and professional bios are the kind of writing that often gets put together quickly, and we rarely get feedback from others on its form or content. Yet, such blurbs are often the first thing that a student, colleague, potential employer, or publisher might read to learn more about us and our work. The workshop was thus an opportunity to get supportive feedback and editorial suggestions on a small but significant piece of writing.
Nine people in various career stages – recent graduates, post-docs, tenure-track faculty – attended the workshop and shared their profiles for feedback. Participants were incredibly generous as they helped each other identify missing elements and areas where edits could help to highlight achievements and clarify research interests, for example. Thanks to all those in attendance for engaging in such a fruitful exchange.
The second workshop, "Writing for the Media," organized by Ieva Jusionyte, took place on Friday, November 18, and drew sixteen participants. The event featured presentations by two anthropologists who have successfully straddled the worlds of academic and popular publishing. Tanya Luhrmann (Watkins University Professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford University) has been a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and appeared on other national media. Alex Fattal (Assistant Professor in the Department of Film-Video and Media Studies at Penn State University) frequently blogs for Huffington Post and has written for The Atlantic. Both speakers shared their experiences and gave tips and advice to those interested in writing their first op-ed or feature article. During the Q&A, participants wanted to know how to pitch an article, how to choose the venue, and how to balance time and effort between public engagement and scholarly work. Thanks to the presenters and attendees for a lively and informative conversation.
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I've said before how much I love shopping at Target.
I loved this larger serving tray that was part of their Christmas collection.
Just look at the lovely curves.
Do I really use serving trays?
Especially a serving tray that is not food safe.
Well, no, and the price at $14.99 wasn't that bad.
Why would they make a serving tray that is not food safe?
Probably because it is so pretty.
But on the 90% off Christmas sale at $1.49 for a gold leafed serving tray.
Ok, so I bought four of them.
I knew they had potential.
My first makeover was a chalkboard.
I had a can of chalkboard paint calling my name. This was my first project with it.
I decided to try the chalkboard just in the center.
I did a lot of taping off but it wasn't enough.
I ended up painting the first edge that I had planned on leaving gold.
But where to put it and how to hang it??
But look at her (yeah I'm sure a chalkboard is a female).
With those curves I think it has to be.
For now she is a part of my Valentine corner.
I suppose this would look a bit better if I actually had a chalk message on it.
I thought I might have had some chalk but I don't.
Or I can't find it….
Really, I don't think I have any.
* I think the chalkboard paint was $9.99 a quart and you use only a small amount, probably less than $.50 worth of it.
Next week I'll share my second serving tray makeover.
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Wow so cute, I have been looking for a tray just like this. I want to paint it black and add our initials using gold vinyl to the center of the tray. (with my cricut) I am working on a picture wall and would love to add this to it.
I love it! What a great find & such a creative use of it! Wonderful transformation!
Great idea! I love that sale!!!
Putting chalkboard paint on it is such a great idea! Love it!
You should hot glue 2 pieces of pretty ribbon to the back, and then tie them into a bow. Then you just hang it on a nail and you're good to go. Great job!
A serving tray that isn't food safe - bwahaha haaaaa. That made me laugh. It IS rather odd. Love it with the chalkboard though! And $1.49...omg.
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Indian Big Chief
American enthusiasts have always held to the belief that bigger is better. It's a philosophy which is not always shared by the rest of the world, but it does explain the sheer bulk and weight of the typical American motor cycle of the interwar years
Strictly speaking, the 74 cubic inch (1213cc) Indian Big Chief existed from 1923 to 1928 only, although a 74cu in engine had been available as an alternative to the standard 61 cu in power unit of the Chief from 1920 onward.
The emergence of the Big Chief as a model in its own right came about because Indian dealers were clamouring for still more speed, power and stamina. Dublin-born chief engineer Charles B. Franklin set to work to give them what they wanted. Instead of boring-out the Chief engine to provide the extra capacity he enlarged the bore by only 1/8in but lengthened the stroke considerably.
The outcome was an L-head side-valve with a loping stride and a top speed of nearly 90 mph.
The performance improved still more when in 1927 detachable cylinder heads incorporating
combustion chambers designed by Harry Ricardo were fitted. In 1928, the Big Chief (marketed in England as the Super Chief) received 19 x 3-85in low-pressure balloon tyres for a more comfortable ride, and restyled handlebars which gave a more relaxed riding position.
From the first, the Big Chief was equipped with helical-tooth primary gears and an integral three-speed gearbox. The Splitdorf magneto was gear driven and while European motor cycles still made use of the archaic lever throttle, Indians controlled the Schebler carburettor by means of a twistgrip.
In earlier years, Indian twins had enjoyed a moderate following in Britain, but coincidental with the introduction of the Big Chief came the imposition of a 33-1/3 per cent import duty on USA-made motor cycles (in fact, a retaliation for the American tariff wall against British goods). As a result, the machine was listed on the British market at £97, well above the cost of home-built models, and very few were sold.
Already the machine weighed a hefty 425 lb, and as time went by it was to grow weightier still. Another point in its disfavour was that, like most American makers, Indian fitted a rear wheel brake only.
By way of diversion, around 1928 the factory was experimenting with a light car carrying a very English-looking bodywork. Under the bonnet however, was the familiar 74cu in Big Chief engine, driving by chain to a rear axle differential. Why Indian should have been pursuing such a course at this time is hard to understand, because the air-cooled cyclecar had long since had its day. Anyway, the project was dropped before getting beyond the prototype stage.
Not until 1929 did Indian fit a front brake, but when that season's models were revealed it was seen that—in name at least—the Big Chief was no more. In truth it was the 61 cu in twin that had been phased out, but the Chief name had been transferred to the bigger machine.
That was the way it was to be on into the 1930s when, for a time, the big solo was partnered by a Chief-engined three wheeled delivery van. In the final years of producion at the Springfield, Massachusetts, works, the 74cu in twin adopted deep-flared mudguards and even plunger-type rear springing, but by 1950 it had died.
(1923 model)
engine frame
Air-cooled, four-stroke, Single tubular cradle
twin-cylinder. suspension
83 mm (325in) boreX Front - Trailing-link fork with
113 mm (4-44in) stroke = leaf springing
1213cc (74cu in). Maximum Rear - Solid unsprung
power 24 bhp at 3000 rpm. brakes
Two side valves per cylinder Front - none
operated via rockers by two Rear - Drum 6.8in
camshafts. weight
Single carburettor 425lb (193kg)
Three-speed gearbox. Chain Maximum speed—90 mph
drive to rear wheel
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Q: No internet on host OS (OS X Lion) when VMware Fusion is running I have installed OS X Mountain Lion as a VM in VMware Fusion (version 4.1.2) for environment testing. The host OS is OS X 10.7.4, and is connected to the internet via a wired connection (in fact I get the same problem if it is connected via wireless as well).
As long as VMware Fusion is running, my internet for the Host OS stops working, but remains functional inside the VM.
I am using NAT for VMware Fusion.
For additional testing, I have an Ubuntu box on Virtual Box. When VMware Fusion is off, I have internet on both my host OS and the Ubuntu VM, and when VMware fusion is running, I have no internet connection except inside VMware Fusion.
VMware Fusion blocks internet even if the actual VM is suspended.
A: You have likely set your VM to use the same IP address as your host machine. This article talks about it. If both are using the same address, any traffic destined to the IP address of the network adapter used by the host OS will be passed to the VM.
Simplest solution is to ensure everyone has their own IP address (the Host machine has one, and the VM has one that is on the same network).
This article walks you through reconfiguring the virtual network adapter. The part you need is quoted here:
To change the configuration of an existing virtual network adapter,
follow these steps.
*
*Open the virtual machine settings editor (VM > Settings).
*Select the adapter you want to modify.
*Select the network type you want to use — Bridged, NAT, Host-only or Custom.
*If you select Custom, choose the VMnet virtual network you want to use for the network from the drop-down list.
*Click OK to save your changes and close the virtual machine settings editor.
*Be sure the guest operating system is configured to use an appropriate IP address on the new network. If the guest is using DHCP,
release and renew the lease. If the IP address is set statically, be
sure the guest has an address on the correct virtual network.
Item 6 is likely to be what you need to focus on. Remember to make sure the IP address for the VM isn't in use elsewhere in the network.
A: I ran into this problem on OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 and VMWare Fusion 6.0.2. My solution to fixing this was to remove the folder /Library/Preferences/VMWare Fusion/ so that VMWare would perform its one time setup again.
You may want to make a backup of this folder before removing it, just in case.
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The elections in VA, NJ, and MA have shown a similar phenomenon is happening in our politics. And it is now national–the conservative, anti-Washington backlash against Capitol insiders is effecting Republican races. J.D. Hayworth of AZ is challenging John McCain. Not long ago that would be unheard of.
One of the first to recognize this shift and the fact that an upstart from the Right could challenge the Establishment candidate was Marco Rubio of FL who is now leading Governor Charlie Crist for the GOP Senate nomination in the Sunshine State. Hard to be more Establishment than Crist who embraced Obama's stimulus package. In IL Bill Brady is a conservative leading the Republicans for the nomination to be governor in this very blue state. He has a real shot, not only to be the nominee, but to become governor.
We see this playing out here in Colorado as well. Jane Norton is very much the Establishment candidate for the GOP nomination to face Democrat Senator Bennett. She was coaxed into running by Senator John McCain who is in tight with Norton's family. Can you think of a more Establishment Republican than McCain, the Republican nominee for President in 2008? Neither can I.
Ken Buck is the powerful District Attorney for Weld County in CO. He attends candidate forums which Norton avoids. He stands for low taxes and small government. Former Lt. Governor, Jane Norton, signed off on one of the largest tax hikes in Centennial State history. Mr. Buck was visiting every one of the counties in CO while Jane was sidelined waiting for the endorsement of Mr. Establishment Republican, John McCain.
Ms. Norton and others recognize the shift to strong conservatism. We see it in her ads: Jane Norton is the conservative who will stand up to President Obama. Really? Where was this strong stance against high taxes when she was Lt. Governor? Friends, let us not be taken in by slogans when two records set side by side demonstrate there is a true conservative and a stuttering one. Let us step out and embrace "Thunder from the Right" here in Colorado by standing with Ken Buck and others like him across the land. | {
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General election 2019: SNP accuse Lib Dems of 'hypocrisy' over election debate legal challenge
Chris McCall
Published: 16:59 Updated: 17:42 Monday 11 November 2019
The SNP has accused the Lib Dems of "utter hypocrisy" after the Liberals launched a legal challenge against ITV over a decision to exclude Jo Swinson from a televised election debate.
The broadcaster is hosting a head-to-head between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on November 19, but has not invited Ms Swinson or SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon to take part.
The Lib Dems have launched a legal challenge in an effort to have Jo Swinson included in a televised debate
Lib Dem president Sal Brinton said today the decision "disrespects" those who voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum. Ms Swinson, the UK party leader, has previously said it was wrong to exclude "a voice of Remain" and the only woman who could be the next prime minister.
But the SNP said it was "outrageous" for a broadcaster to even consider including the Lib Dems - who had just 12 MPs before parliament was dissolved for the December election - and not the Nationalists, who were the third largest party in the Commons.
READ MORE: SNP welcomes decision by Greens not to contest key marginals
The SNP is now considering its next steps over its exclusion from the prime-time debates. The Nationalists previously launched a judicial review in 2010 in an attempt to have Alex Salmond included in the leaders' debates broadcast ahead of the 2010 general election, only to be told by a judge they had left the legal challenge too late.
SNP business convener Kirsten Oswald said: "It is utterly outrageous for any broadcaster to include a minor party like the Liberal Democrats and to exclude the SNP – who secured nearly three times as many seats at the last election, and whose current support suggests will continue to be the third largest party in Westminster.
"We have made that clear to Sky, whose proposed debate is a democratic disgrace, and to ITV - and we are considering our next steps. In all of this, one thing that is clear, is the utter hypocrisy of the Lib Dems who are happy to see a larger female led party of remain excluded in their own self-interest as part of a typical Westminster stitch-up."
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Do you have a favorite soccer team? Or are you a strong supporter of another sports club? If the answer is yes, then you might be interested in a sports club affinity credit card. These cards work very similarly to other credit cards, with many advantages, but will also allow you to financially support your favorite team. Additionally, these types of cards are becoming increasingly popular. So if you're interested, it might be worth contacting your club or checking online for more details.
Simply put, compared to other unaffiliated cards on the market, sports club affinity credit cards are quite common. APRs are usually a typical variable rate of 15.9%; although this may seem quite high, this is a fairly standard APR across the board. On top of that, you also have the option of transferring an existing balance to the card and will often enjoy an interest-free period on the transfer. This period can be up to 12 months, which can be useful if you are looking to pay off an existing borrowed amount and avoid costly interest charges. Some cards also offer 0% on purchases for the first 3 months after signup, which is great if you want to make a purchase and know you'll have the money in the near future.
However, there are other advantages for the cardholder and the sports club other than the appearance of the card. The cardholder will be entitled to all sorts of club-related discounts and special offers. For example, some of the cards give money towards team merchandise, such as t-shirts or scarves; other cards have a point system, where points can be accumulated and redeemed for cheaper tickets to important matches. There are a few that even offer chances to win unique items or activities – one card offers the chance to win an evening at the club's restaurant with the team leader.
The benefit received by the sports club is similar to that granted to charities through charity credit cards: basically, for every amount spent on the card, an amount of money is donated to the relevant organization, without additional charge for the cardholder. With sports club affinity credit cards, this donation is used to ensure the future success of the club. There is usually also a minor social benefit. For example, some clubs use donations to fund youth development programs, which not only ensure that the team will have the best players in the years to come, but also help young people achieve their dreams.
Individual perks are plentiful and vary from card to card, but there are often discounts on club items from t-shirts to mugs. The majority of cards also give points to the cardholder each time they use the card; these points can then be used to obtain discounts on tickets – some even give access to special seats, at matches or special events organized by the clubs. For example, you might get the chance to hang out on the pitch with your favorite soccer players.
As many of these cards are offered by the same banking group, many of the standard credit card specifications are the same. The APR will be around 15.9%, which is the typical APR for a lot of cards today, whether affiliated with a sports club or not. There will likely be an option to transfer a balance to the card, often with a processing fee of around 3%. Balance transfers will remain interest-free for somewhere in the region of 6-12 months and there may even be interest-free card purchases for a small period after initial sign-up. Quite reasonable, but maybe not quite as big as the look of envy on your homies' faces when you're having dinner with the club manager!
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At the same time Relax will be able strengthen its own casino vertical with increased distribution and accelerated platform development.
"This is landmark deal for Quickspin and it is the next phase in our growth and expansion process. There has been a very high demand from operators to be able to access all our games faster and more frequently. Through our new platform we will not only be able to serve operators with frequent multichannel releases of games, but also with a gaming platform comprising innovative gamification functionality. This will give operators a competitive edge and the tools they need to attract players and to increase their loyalty and yield" says Daniel Lindberg, CEO at Quickspin.
Relax and Quickspin have established themselves as leaders in their fields and this cooperation enables great synergies between the two companies. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Relax will operate, develop, support and maintain the platform as well as provide related services. The platform is currently licensed in Malta, Alderney and the UK with other jurisdictions likely to be added in the future.
"Relax sees this strategic partnership as an ideal catalyst for the Casino platform. Quickspin has a proven track record of stellar content and we feel there is a perfect match between the goals and cultures of the companies. I am excited that we now will be able to take the casino vertical to the next level, nicely complementing our upcoming Bingo network and awards-winning Poker product. The long term partnership formed today will bring great returns for both parties over the coming years, it is truly a win-win setup" comments Patrik Österåker, CEO at Relax Gaming Ltd.
Quickspin is an award-winning Stockholm-based game development studio that targets the online gambling and social gaming space. With a team of industry veterans from both operator and supplier side, they are looking to cause a market-changing shift in terms of quality and innovation. Quickspin delivers triple-A video slots with an emphasis on design, style, artwork, sound and features that surpass the competition.
Relax Gaming is a B2B gambling software and services provider founded in 2010. Relax is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia and holds gaming licenses in Malta, Alderney, UK and Denmark. The product portfolio includes the innovative Unibet Poker product, a highly competent open casino platform Silver Bullet and a state-of-the-art Bingo offering. | {
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The video shows all the baddies going on a mission and having soem enjoyable time. The footage shows an overall storyline of the upcoming DC Comics film. It is present below. Watch it and don't forget to share your experience, views and thoughts via commenting below.
The movie stars Will Smith as Deadshot, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flagg, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Jay Hernandez as El DIablo, Adam Beach as Slipknot, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, and Jared Leto as The Joker.
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However, there is still mystery on the respective roles of Ike Barinholtz, Scott Eastwood, Raymond Olubowale, Alex Meraz, Jim Parrack, and Common. The trailer also gave a glimpse of Batman and his batmobile.
Earlier some reports emerged that the film had some re-shoots of some of the scenes to make them better.
Robert Kanigher and Ross Andru created the squad for the very first time in 1959. Since then, the team has witnessed countless DC villains among its ranks, including Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Bane, Killer Frost, Poison Ivy, Count Vertigo, Deathstroke, and Harley Quinn.
Arrow has been of their own kind in the recent TV series and animated movie, Batman: Assault on Arkham, offered another version of the team. Directed by David Ayer, Suicide Squad is scheduled for release on August 5, 2016.
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Ácido 5-hidroxinaftaleno-1-sulfônico ou ácido 1-naftol-5-sulfônico é o composto químico orgânico de fórmula C10H8O4S, massa molecular 224,233093. Apresenta ponto de fusão de 110~112℃. É um dos ácidos de letras, sendo chamado de "ácido L". É classificado com o número CAS 117-59-9, CBNumber CB9378966 e MOL File 117-59-9.mol.
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THREE young students at Haslingden High School completed a 90km – 56 mile bike cycle sportive ride around West Lancashire.
Year 7 student Hannah Wilson, 11, along with two 13-year-olds from Year 8, her brother Ben and Eilidh Aindow completed a cycle ride from Preston to Lytham and back.
They were in a group of around 20 including parents, but Ben said he left them behind as his group took the lead.
All three attend Cycle Sport Pendle, CSP, in Colne, on a Saturday where they take part in road rides.
Ben, from Colne, goes on long bike rides twice a week, while Eilidh completed three 30-40 mile rides every week.
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Lord Jesus Christ Who came as God in the flesh (1st Timothy 3:16) was being conceived by the Holy Spirit Born of the Virgin Mary. Matthew 1:18-21 states: Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit. And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly. But when he had considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins."
The Scriptures clearly says every Christian are to be filled with the Spirit of god being filled or controlled by the Spirit is the result of walking in obedience to the Lord having intimate fellowship with God through Christ.
God's chosen children are filled with the Spirit of God which is Holy Spirit from their mothers womb. We see John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Spirit from His mother's womb. Luke 1:15 says :For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb" .
His birth shows that he and his life were set apart for God's purpose to accomplish God's will for him. The children who are filled with the Holy Spirit hunger for a deeper relationship with God and desire Godly things to impact their lives and other lives in a glorious way. Christians are told in the book of Ephesians, "Be not drunk with wine, but be filled with the Spirit. There are few people in the world who are chosen by God who live separately from the ways of the world and all its corrupting influences but are filled with the Holy Spirit and submission to God.
God knows each one of us before conception .God says that he knows us even before we were born (Jeremiah 1:5) and he knows us from our Mothers womb as well (Psalm 139:13). The scripture says that children are a heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is His reward (Psalm 127:3-4). The children are capable of worshiping and praising God which says in Matthew 21:15-16: And Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, "'Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise'?"
Life begins at conception: The Holy Spirit conceived Jesus Christ in Mary's womb. The life of Jesus Christ as a Human Being started at conception.
King David said about God's role in our conception: "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . . your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" (Psalm 139:13, 16).
And now the Lord says, who formed me from the womb to be His Servant, To bring Jacob back to Him, So that Israel is gathered to Him. Isaiah 49:4.
But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother's breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God since my mother bare me. Psalm 22:9.
Conclusion: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all!
Shaila D Touchton was born and raised in a well educated family in India and she has completed her Bachelor of Electrical & Electronics Engineering Degree from NMAMIT, India and other various Certifications Courses in Computers & Networking. She had worked for I.T and Engineering companies in the past and now she is a stay Home Mother and Christian writer contributing articles.
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It is perhaps easier to define the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar by saying what it is not than by saying what it is. An annual weeklong marathon of thematically linked screenings and discussions with a longstanding emphasis on documentary and experimental work, it is not exactly an academic conference; the Flaherty, as it's often known, is more attuned to current movements in film and media culture than your average scholarly symposium, not to mention a good deal rowdier. But it is also nothing like a film festival, and in fact creates an environment for viewing and thinking about movies that is pleasingly insulated from the usual press and industry prerogatives of buzz and business. The sense of discovery comes not necessarily from encountering new work—though that's often the case—but more important, from stumbling on unexpected ideas and previously unnoticed connections.
Inaugurated in 1955 by Frances Flaherty, the widow of the pioneering nonfiction filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the seminar has always adhered to its founder's cherished principle of "non-preconception." Program details are not announced ahead of time (only the theme is revealed) and attendees file into screening rooms with no idea what is about to unspool. Participants see all the movies and join in all the discussions, and this captive audience of more than 100, housed communally in university dormitories, includes not just an eclectic mix of academics, programmers, and critics but also the filmmakers (themselves from vastly different backgrounds) whose works are being shown and often heatedly debated. If it seems like a recipe for chaos, it often is, but as the week progresses, the collective sense of intellectual disarray actually starts to seem productive, or at least interesting. The Flaherty experience is by turns frustrating and energizing—discussions mired in dead-end circularity alight on provocative insights, rehashed arguments and false dichotomies seem to inch toward new paradigms. As veterans routinely tell you and as newbies quickly find out, there is nothing else quite like it on the film-event calendar.
The 2008 edition, which took place in late June at Colgate University in upstate New York, had the added advantage of an immense and endlessly resonant theme. This year's curator, Chi-hui Yang, director of the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival, brought together some 40 shorts and features under the rubric of "The Age of Migration," and his smartly conceptualized program—which ranged from documentaries to multi-channel video art to first-person cine-essays to docu-fiction hybrids—captured the mood of the contemporary global moment, even as it stirred up age-old qualms about the ethics of representation and the authority and responsibility of the filmmaker.
The sheer diversity of Yang's lineup amply proved that as migration becomes at once more ubiquitous and more complicated, the proliferation of stories and themes is matched by an increasing multitude of forms. But while there were about as many approaches as there were films, the works could be broadly divided along micro and macro lines of inquiry, between those that tackled migration as a tangible lived experience and those that explored the invisible forces that dictate and compel population movements across time and space.
The week took shape as an around-the-world tour of displaced communities: Kurds on the Iran-Iraq border (the films of Bahman Ghobadi), Filipinos in war-torn Iraq (Lee Wang's documentary God Is My Safest Bunker), Afghans in a French refugee camp (Laura Waddington's Border), Cape Verdeans in a Lisbon shantytown (the later work of Pedro Costa), American Indians in the pre-gentrified downtown of '50s Los Angeles (Kent MacKenzie's recently rediscovered The Exiles), Laotians on the mean streets of '80s Brooklyn (Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath's The Betrayal). But there were also works that dealt with more abstract and diffuse notions, like historical revisionism (James T. Hong), the globalization of labor (Ursula Biemann), border crossings and trade barriers (Lonnie van Brummelen), and maritime space (Allan Sekula).
The program of Flaherty highlights that is being presented at BAMcinématek this weekend bypasses some of the more idiosyncratic works shown at the seminar (including Alison Kobayashi's sly identity mash-ups and Sylvia Schdelbaeur's found-footage autobiographies). What's most obviously missing, of course, is the peculiar brand of Flaherty delirium—the simultaneous clarity and confusion that arises from seeing these films in the context of the seminar.
By the end of the seminar there had also emerged a clear divide between the avowed populists and what someone called "the art-school zombies." Waddington, speaking for the latter group, contended that many of the discussions had emphasized content at the expense of form, thus ignoring the politics of form. In the heated final session Tajima-Peña butted heads with Sekula, who had filled the role of seminar punching bag on account of his meandering essay films but, more so, for his prickly defensiveness under cross-examination.
It was perhaps fitting that the final discussion of the week was the most unruly and the one that, perversely, offered the least hope of resolution. Not all the filmmakers were dragged into the fray though. Denied a U.S. visa (so much for the age of migration), Ghobadi participated in his sessions via webcam. And Costa—who did make it to Colgate and who's represented in the BAM series with Casa de Lava, his update of I Walked With a Zombie—seemed to stand somewhat apart from the rest of this year's Flaherty, much the way his monumental films seem removed from the rest of contemporary film culture. Turning his discussion sessions into absorbing monologues, he disarmed hostile questioners ("Excruciating? Yes, of course, it's supposed to be painful"), reduced his method to irrefutable basics ("It starts with life, plain and simple"), and even spoke up for those art-school zombies. "I like zombies," he said, putting an end, for the moment, to that particular dispute.
Dennis Lim is the editor of Moving Image Source. | {
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Q: terraform: tfsec not able to read EKS cluster encryption configuration I have an EKS cluster resource to which the team has added encryption_config, We are adding a dynamic block probably to add multiple configurations. Now when I am trying to run tfsec ( version 1.28.0 ) on my code I get a Cluster does not have secret encryption enabled.
Here is the dynamic block
resource "aws_eks_cluster" "this" {
...
dynamic "encryption_config" {
for_each = toset(var.cluster_encryption_config)
content {
provider {
key_arn = encryption_config.value["provider_key_arn"]
}
resources = encryption_config.value["resources"]
}
}
}
definition inside variables.tf
variable "cluster_encryption_config" {
description = "Configuration block with encryption configuration for the cluster. See examples/secrets_encryption/main.tf for example format"
type = list(object({
provider_key_arn = string
resources = list(string)
}))
default = []
}
A: From what you write cluster_encryption_config is set to empty list []. Therefore, encryption_config block does not run, and there is no encryption configured. You have to setup cluster_encryption_config to something with valid values (not an empty list).
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'Surviving R. Kelly': Lifetime To Air Encore Marathon on Friday
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Lifetime's ground-breaking docu-series Surviving R. Kelly is one of the most-watched cable programs of the new year. A six-episode documentary centering on survivors and people from R. Kelly's inner circle coming forward with new allegations of sexual, mental, and physical abuse, the program has become Lifetime's most talked-about series on social media in the network's history.
The series premiered on Lifetime last week, but cord-cutters hoping to catch up on Netflix and Hulu were out of luck when they discovered that Surviving R. Kelly wasn't available to stream on either platform.
Thankfully, Lifetime announced an encore airing for this Friday. How can you watch the Surviving R. Kelly documentary? Here's everything you need to know.
WHEN WILL LIFETIME RERUN SURVIVING R. KELLY?
An encore marathon of all six-hours of Surviving R. Kelly is scheduled to air on Friday, January 11 beginning at 6:00 p.m. ET. If you want to live stream the documentary, Lifetime is available to DIRECTV NOW, fuboTV, Hulu with Live TV, Sling TV, and Philo subscribers.
IS SURVIVING R. KELLY AVAILABLE TO STREAM ONLINE? HOW TO WATCH THE SURVIVING R. KELLY DOCUMENTARY ONLINE:
Yes. All six episodes of Surviving R. Kelly are available to stream (with a cable login) on Lifetime's website. You can also purchase individual episodes as well as the entire season on Prime Video.
IS SURVIVING R. KELLY ON HULU? IS SURVIVING R. KELLY ON NETFLIX?
Nope. As of now, the series isn't scheduled to air on Netflix or Hulu.
WHAT'S THE LATEST ON THE R. KELLY ALLEGATIONS?
R. Kelly is reportedly under investigation following the abuse allegations from the documentary.
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Where to stream Surviving R. Kelly | {
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All lanes of eastbound Route 80 are clear after an early morning crash involving a car and a motorcycle in Roxbury.
The motorcycle driver sustained minor injuries but did not require medical treatment, according to the New Jersey State Police.
The accident occurred shortly before 6 a.m. east of Exit 27, causing backups for morning commuters trying to reach Route 80 from routes 206 and 183.
One lane was closed during the accident response. State troopers cleared the scene by 9 a.m. | {
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A second group of day program participants began an eight-week performing arts workshop at Lyric Performing Arts Center (PAC) in mid-January. During the eight-week session, attendees worked with hip-hop, vocal, and drum coaches to learn dances, songs, and how to play musical instruments. The attendees celebrated their hard work and showed off their new skills by performing for family and friends on Thursday, March 23 at the PAC in West Orange.
Crowd favorites included various hip-hop performances, a vocal and drum performance, as well as group singing performances featuring an original composition/song about why they love The Arc. Due to overwhelming popularity, The Arc of Essex County and Lyric PAC will begin another series of workshops in the coming weeks. | {
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Partnership between UNCTAD and ILO enters new era with signing of Memorandum of Understanding
UNCTAD and the International Labour Organization have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support the development of joint research and policy advice and increased inter-agency operations for more coherence and impact at the national and regional levels.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed on 4 December 2014 at the ILO, is expected to open a new and deeper phase of collaboration between the ILO and UNCTAD.
The ILO is a main partner of UNCTAD in the area of research. Both entities have been working together examining macroeconomic challenges and in recent years have provided valuable contributions to the G20 and other relevant fora.
Petko Draganov, Deputy Secretary-General (UNCTAD) and Sandra Polaski, Deputy Director-General for Policy (ILO)
The ILO is also a main partner of UNCTAD within the UN Inter-Agency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity that the ILO joined in 2010. Both organizations contributed to the development of a new setting regarding United Nations operations with initiatives originated at the country level-level.
The MoU will help the ILO and UNCTAD to deepen their collaboration in the context of the post-2015 development agenda and with reference to the relevant General Assembly Resolutions on UN System-wide Coherence.
UNCTAD-ILO joint analysis and joint policy recommendations will lead to increased legitimacy to meet the pressing needs of governments on priority themes - such as trade and employment - which require comprehensive solutions. With the ILO and UNCTAD at the core, the UN system will be in a better position to meet the expectations from the international community.
The MoU will also support the materialization of UNCTAD-ILO policy orientations in joint programmes carried out by the UN Inter-Agency Cluster for more coherence and impact at the country level.
A Steering Committee, led by ILO Deputy Director-General for Policy Sandra Polaski and UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General Petko Draganov, will lay the foundations for the operationalization of joint work to be carried out in a flexible way with the relevant experts from both organizations.
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Measuring and evaluation of UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development to Tanzania and Zanzibar, June 29 - July 6, 2017.
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Coordination within UN System | {
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El cuscús gris (Phalanger orientalis) es una especie de marsupial de la familia Phalangeridae. Se encuentra en Indonesia, Timor, Papúa Nueva Guinea y las Islas Salomón.
Referencias
Enlaces externos
Phalangeridae
Marsupiales de la Wallacea
Marsupiales de Melanesia
Animales descritos en 1766
Taxones descritos por Peter Simon Pallas | {
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Q: checkbox value auto check using php syntax error I'm using laratrust with roles and permission, now in my Roles edit-page, I loop all my permissions and I'm trying to make the checkbox auto check based on the permissions that are already given to a certain role.
Now I'm getting an error:
(Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting)
Could anyone fix my code?
Edit.Blade
<div class="from-group">
@foreach ($permissions as $permission)
<div class="checkbox">
<label>
<input
type="checkbox"
name="permissions[]"
value="{{$permission->id}}"
@if($role->permissions)
@if(in_array($permission->id, $role->permissions->pluck('id')))
checked
@endif
@endif
>
<span>
{{$permission->display_name}}
<em>({{$permission->description}})</em>
</span>
</label>
</div>
@endforeach
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A: change your condition to
@if(in_array($permission->id, $role->permissions->pluck('id')->toArray() ))
you miss last ) bracket
And The in_array() function searches an array for a specific value so second value must be an array
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New Land Rover Range Rover Sport SUVs — Philadelphia Area
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For 2020, a new, "mild-hybrid" 3.0-liter inline six-cylinder engine and an electric motor (MHEV) powertrain is available with 355-hp and 395-hp derivatives. A 254-hp, turbodiesel 3.0-liter V-6 engine also returns as an option. The Range Rover Sport also has a plug-in hybrid variant with a 398-hp, 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine and an electric motor. The Autobiography trim has a more powerful 518-hp, supercharged 5.0-liter V-8 engine, while the SVR has the same powertrain but is tuned to produce 575-hp. All engines are mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission and four-wheel drive.
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I recently had the chance to visit Washington, DC on business. While there, I noticed something new (or at least new to me)… The "Capital Bikeshare" program. This is similar to ZipCar (albeit for bikes), which I likewise discovered while on a trip to DC (though that was years ago).
In short, they have over 175 "bike docks" (fancy bike racks that let you securely borrow a bike and track your usage) all around the DC metro area. For anywhere from $7/day to $75/year you can join and have access to borrow and return bikes anywhere within their network.
Intrigued, I did a bit of digging online. It seems that the 1st 30 minutes of each ride is free with the next 30 minutes costing $1.50 (for longer term plans; $2 for the 24 hour or 3 day plan), and going up from there. The prices do add up on lengthy rentals, so this isn't a good solution if you need a bike for a length period of time. But if you occasionally need a bike to hop around town and you don't want to store the bike when not in use, this sounds like a great solution.
A possible hassle with these things is the possibility that the bike dock at your destination might be full. In such cases, you can punch in your number to get an extra 15 minutes for free (and also look up space availability at surrounding docks) so you can return it without incurring extra fees — but there is the issue of time if you're in a rush.
Also: The bikes appear rather utilitarian so they may not provide the most comfortable ride (I didn't try them out). While they claim the bikes adjust to fit a wide range of heights, I suspect people like me (6'5″) might be on the outside edge of that range.
Anyway, this struck me as a very interesting idea and the pricing structure seemed reasonable for what you're getting. Have you ever tried out a bike sharing program? Or a car sharing program (like ZipCar), for that matter? If so, what did you think? Good deal? Or does it wind up being more trouble than it's worth?
As someone said already Boston/Cambridge in MA has a similar program. As a regular commuter on my own bike, the roads are really tougher to ride than everyone says. As great as an idea this sharing is, I rarely see a helmet on a bike sharing rider. I've been doored… side swiped and almost run over a few times.
I sometimes see the bikes stacked outside a Starbucks. I wonder if the renters know if it was stolen I think the last time I checked it was $500 or a $1000? Cannot remember.
I live in DC and it's an overwhelmingly popular program. Another interesting factoid…there are vans that drive around during the day and "re-balance" the bike stations. It's a great way to get around the city if you're just here for the weekend.
We noticed something similar to this while we were in Dublin, but didn't look into what it cost or the logistics of it… it'd be a neat idea, if it was anywhere near me.
Carsharing is not a substitute for owning a car. Combined with transit, biking, walking, taxis, and conventional rental car, to me carsharing is the crucial piece of the mobility puzzle that makes living car ownership-free a viable alternative.
Boston (and now Cambridge) introduced this last summer and it has succeeded beyond all expectations.
Boston has a similar bike rental program as well. If you don't want to walk to take the train or a taxi it is a good way to get around time. Pricing is similar to what DC has .
My friend, who is 6'5″, lives in DC and uses the bikes frequently. He lives near Capitol Hill and used a bike to meet us near Federal Triangle and another to ride home. I don't think he would use the bikes if he was uncomfortable while riding, especially on a hot day like when we visited. If he's a member, the bikes are probably cheaper than riding Metro, even at non-rush pricing.
I live in DC, and got in on a Bikeshare membership during a LivingSocial (also based in DC) deal, so I didn't have to worry about deposits and such since I was a member. The bikes are pretty comfortable, and while the pricing is a little steep if you're trying to go on a bike tour of downtown or something, they're just right if you're just trying to make your way across town or from dock to dock. If you commute in the city, or want to get from your home to the market, it's a perfect way to do it without getting on Metro, or going between stations.
Mase is absolutely right – it's not the kind of service you say "oh, I'll take the bike out for the day," it's "I'll grab this bike and dock it down by the cherry blossoms and then walk around the basin for a few hours, grab another one and bike home." Great service, and happy to have it here!
Your pricing is slightly inaccurate. With a day, month, or year pass, the first half-hour of each ride is free. Each 1/2 after that has increasingly expensive pricing.
The spot cycle app is great to see where docks are and how many bikes/docks are available. Other US cities (Mpls, Boston, etc)are on the same app.
Great cheap way to really explore a city you visit.
I was in D.C. in June and had the chance to use these bikes. It's a bit unnerving at first because the program draws $100 deposit against your card. It's repaid after you return the bike, but it took a few days for my bank account to return that $100.
Also, it did get pricey. It cost me about $35 to ride for two and a half hours. The silly part is I had a bike in D.C., we just didn't leave our crash pad with the bikes that traveled with us.
They're heavy bikes with squishy brakes, designed for casual riders. They get the job done though.
we used similar program in montreal, worked great, i think their program is a lot bigger than dc (from wiki dc-1,670 bikes, montreal -5000 bikes) so there were stations everywhere and we had no problems picking up bikes and leaving them at the stations. we used bikes for 2 days for a total of about 10-15 trips. i highly recommend the program in montreal and i would think DC works in similar way. | {
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Whether you're planning on investing in real estate in Singapore or anywhere else, there are some considerations to take into account.
Investing in real estate is a big step to take. It involves a lot of resources, and to buy or sell it is a lengthy and somewhat complicated process that demands that you plan ahead, and decide what it is you want the property for.
Buying for personal use is obviously different from buying to resell or lease, and so should your planning. If you are planning on selling it, will you do so shortly after buying it, and receive a low return on investment? Or will you rather wait for the property's appreciation to go up considerably before finally selling it?
All of these options must be pondered before reaching your final decision.
Public transport availability is also a key factor when acquiring a property. You must pay special attention to the proximity of train and subway stations, where the closest bus stops are, and what routes buses follow.
Whether you own a vehicle or not and whether you have no plans of using public transport or not, there are other standard aspects must be taken into account. Things such as the proximity to main highways, avenues, and streets come in very handy despite the type of transport used.
Last, but not least, proximity to transport facilities has an effect on real estate valuation. The closer the property is to bus stops, bus terminals, important highways, and other transport-related infrastructure, the higher its value will be.
Choosing between freehold and leasehold can be the difference between owning a house and renting one.
If you opt for a freehold, then you own the property and the land it stands on forever. The property is yours, plain and simple. There is no landlord to pay annual ground rent to, nor is there a landlord to maintain the property; that responsibility is yours. Freehold is the most common way in which whole houses are sold.
Leasehold, on the other hand, means that you have a lease from the landlord, or freeholder, to use the property for a limited amount of time. This period of time can be quite long, some even stretching up to 999 years. This may not matter much for you as an individual, but if you have a family to leave patrimony to, a 40-year leasehold takes on a different dimension. Additionally, leasehold means that you must pay an annual ground rent, as well as maintenance fees to the freeholder.
At first sight, freehold seems like the best option. However, this may not be the case. Due to how volatile a leasehold property is, the economy will create very interesting fluctuations in its value. When the economy booms, the value of leasehold properties skyrockets, unfortunately, the opposite will happen once the economy goes down.
Leaseholds, whether you're a freeholder or a leaseholder demand more complex decisions to be made. This makes for more complex decisions when it comes to leaseholds, whether you're a freeholder or a leaseholder. For instance, as a leaseholder, you could take advantage of reduced prices (an annual ground rent) when the economy is experiencing issues. Alternatively, you might consider increasing your rental yield when you're the freeholder, leasing the property at astonishing prices.
Last, but not least, are the amenities. Amenities will increase the value of your property because they will benefit those who live in it. Amenities can be within your own property, such as Internet access, extra rooms, etc. Other amenities can be those outside your property, and the benefit they bring will be measured by their proximity to your property.
School: when the owner or the user of the property has children to care for, being near a school or school district will be of great value, and the property's value could be perceived to be even higher than it already is. This allows for better deals to be reached both for the buyer and the owner, as they both perceive an increased value.
Supermarket: purchasing of groceries is a necessary, periodical activity in every household. Therefore, living close to a supermarket is very convenient, and it adds value to the property as a result. Living close to multiple supermarkets will only give you more options, and will in turn skyrocket the value.
The quality of said supermarkets should also be taken into consideration: not all supermarkets are created equal; they offer different items intended for different people, and it's only logical that those supermarkets that offer gourmet products will be valued higher as an amenity than those that don't. Still, even a small convenience store will help to add value to the property.
Police station: increased security always leads to increased value. Having a permanent police presence in the vicinity of the property will not only serve as an added bonus to the property, but it will also dramatically decrease the chance for any criminal activity in that area. Home buyers will be willing to pay extra in exchange for peace of mind.
Sport-related facilities: for those who engage in an active lifestyle, this may well be essential. It's important to note that these facilities can be part of the property, or they can be external. Gyms, for instance, may be available for use by any owners in a condominium complex; the same goes for swimming pools and tennis courts.
Other facilities, even though they will be outside the confines of the property, their proximity will still increase its value. Golf courses, sports clubs and stadiums are examples of sport-related facilities that will increase the value of the property just by being in the same area. | {
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Fresco (plural frescos or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid, or wet lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall. The word fresco (Italian: affresco) is derived from the Italian adjective fresco meaning "fresh", and may thus be contrasted with fresco-secco or secco mural painting techniques, which are applied to dried plaster, to supplement painting in fresco. The fresco technique has been employed since antiquity and is closely associated with Italian Renaissance painting.
The fresco is an ancient painting technique that is achieved by painting with generally mineral-based pigments diluted in water on fresh plaster: in this way, once the carbonation process is completed in the plaster, the color will be completely incorporated into it, thus acquiring particular resistance to water and time.
It consists of three elements: support, plaster, color.
The support, made of stone or brick, must be dry and without gradients. Before applying the plaster, a mortar composed of spilled lime or slaked lime, coarse river sand or, in some cases, pozzolana and, if necessary, water, spread in a thickness of 1 cm in order to make the wall as uniform as possible.
The plaster (or "tonachino") is the most important element of the entire fresco. It is composed of a dough made with fine river sand, marble dust, or sifted pozzolana, lime and water.
The color, which must necessarily be spread on the still damp plaster (hence the name, "fresh"), must belong to the category of oxides, since it must not interact with the carbonation reaction of the lime.
The main difficulty of this technique is the fact that it does not allow for second thoughts: once left a mark of color, this will be immediately absorbed by the plaster, the tight times of realization complicate the work of the fresco, the carbonation takes place within three hours from the drawing plaster. To overcome this problem, the artist will make small portions of the fresco (days). Possible corrections are however possible dry, that is through tempering applied on the dry plaster: they are however more easily degradable.
Another difficulty is to understand what the actual shade of the color will be: the wet plaster, in fact, makes the colors darker, while the lime tends to whiten the colors. To solve the problem, it is possible to carry out tests on a pumice stone or on a sheet of paper made to dry with air or sirocco wind or hot air.
In painting buon fresco, a rough underlayer called the arriccio is added to the whole area to be painted and allowed to dry for some days. Many artists sketched their compositions on this underlayer, which would never be seen, in a red pigment called sinopia, a name also used to refer to these under-paintings. Later,[when?]new techniques for transferring paper drawings to the wall were developed. The main lines of a drawing made on paper were pricked over with a point, the paper held against the wall, and a bag of soot (spolvero) banged on them on produce black dots along the lines. If the painting was to be done over an existing fresco, the surface would be roughened to provide better adhesion. On the day of painting, the intonaco, a thinner, smooth layer of fine plaster was added to the amount of wall that was expected to be completed that day, sometimes matching the contours of the figures or the landscape, but more often just starting from the top of the composition. This area is called the giornata ("day's work"), and the different day stages can usually be seen in a large fresco, by a sort of seam that separates one from the next.
Buon frescoes are difficult to create because of the deadline associated with the drying plaster. Generally, a layer of plaster will require ten to twelve hours to dry; ideally, an artist would begin to paint after one hour and continue until two hours before the drying time—giving seven to nine hours' working time. Once a giornata is dried, no more buon fresco can be done, and the unpainted intonaco must be removed with a tool before starting again the next day. If mistakes have been made, it may also be necessary to remove the whole intonaco for that area—or to change them later, a secco. An indispensable component of this process is the carbonatation of the lime, which fixes the colour in the plaster ensuring durability of the fresco for future generations.
A technique used in the popular frescoes of Michelangelo and Raphael was to scrape indentations into certain areas of the plaster while still wet to increase the illusion of depth and to accent certain areas over others. The eyes of the people of the School of Athens are sunken-in using this technique which causes the eyes to seem deeper and more pensive. Michelangelo used this technique as part of his trademark 'outlining' of his central figures within his frescoes.
A secco or fresco-secco painting is done on dry plaster (secco meaning "dry" in Italian). The pigments thus require a binding medium, such as egg (tempera), glue or oil to attach the pigment to the wall. It is important to distinguish between a secco work done on top of buon fresco, which according to most authorities was in fact standard from the Middle Ages onwards, and work done entirely a secco on a blank wall. Generally, buon fresco works are more durable than any a secco work added on top of them, because a secco work lasts better with a roughened plaster surface, whilst true fresco should have a smooth one. The additional a secco work would be done to make changes, and sometimes to add small details, but also because not all colours can be achieved in true fresco, because only some pigments work chemically in the very alkaline environment of fresh lime-based plaster. Blue was a particular problem, and skies and blue robes were often added a secco, because neither azurite blue nor lapis lazuli, the only two blue pigments then available, works well in wet fresco.
Thanks to large number of ancient rock-cut cave temples, valuable ancient and early medieval frescoes have been preserved in more than 20 locations of India. The frescoes on the ceilings and walls of the Ajanta Caves were painted between c. 200 BC and 600 and are the oldest known frescoes in India. They depict the Jataka tales that are stories of the Buddha's life in former existences as Bodhisattva. The narrative episodes are depicted one after another although not in a linear order. Their identification has been a core area of research on the subject since the time of the site's rediscovery in 1819. Other locations with valuable preserved ancient and early medieval frescoes include Bagh Caves, Ellora Caves, Sittanavasal, Armamalai Cave, Badami Cave Temples and other locations. Frescoes have been made in several techniques, including tempera technique.
The painting technique used on the Sigiriya paintings is "fresco lustro". It varies slightly from the pure fresco technique in that it also contains a mild binding agent or glue. This gives the painting added durability, as clearly demonstrated by the fact that they have survived, exposed to the elements, for over 1,500 years.
Henri Clément Serveau produced several frescos including a three by six meter painting for the Lycée de Meaux, where he was once a student. He directed the École de fresques at l'École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, and decorated the Pavillon du Tourisme at the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (Paris), Pavillon de la Ville de Paris; now at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. In 1954 he realized a fresco for the Cité Ouvrière du Laboratoire Débat, Garches. He also executed mural decorations for the Plan des anciennes enceintes de Paris in the Musée Carnavalet.
José Clemente Orozco, Fernando Leal, David Siqueiros and Diego Rivera the famous Mexican artists, renewed the art of fresco painting in the 20th century. Orozco, Siqueiros, Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo contributed more to the history of Mexican fine arts and to the reputation of Mexican art in general than anybody else. Together with works by Orozco, Siqueiros, and others, Fernando Leal and Rivera's large wall works in fresco established the art movement known as Mexican Muralism.
Santiago Martinez Delgado frescoed a mural in the Colombian Congress Building, and also in the Colombian National Building. | {
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