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At Unique, we partner with talented management teams and business owners who share our passion for business and believe that together we can have a greater impact on the world.
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About Us
25-year track record of growing small businesses and maximizing returns on real property investments…
Formed in 1993, Unique Investment Corporation is an investment firm with a focus on private companies and income-producing real estate.
At Unique, we treat business as a scalable platform from which we can have a positive impact on our society. We believe a company’s culture determines the magnitude of the impact its people and products can have. At the core of our culture is the understanding that each of us is responsible for giving back to society, for having a positive impact on those around us. For over 25 years, exceptional financial returns have been a byproduct of this philosophy.
We have a proven track record of achieving returns above industry averages because we focus on the most important principle of all — IMPACT. Each of our investments adheres to a culture of positively impacting society. When we are successful in improving the lives of others, financial returns follow.
We operate as a family office on behalf of our investment partners, adding value in the investment process, overseeing the management of our investments via our proprietary management system and handling the administrative processes requisite with these activities.
We specialize in small to medium sized businesses and income producing real property in the western United States. We excel at growing and developing small businesses and maximizing returns on real property investments. The results are excellent returns for our select group of partners who include high net worth individuals and families.
Our Team
John G. Makoff
Managing Director
John was the founding force behind Unique Investment Corporation. As one of its Managing Directors, he has been responsible for equity funding, financings, acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures. He also has served many operational roles, including full profit and loss responsibility, chairmanships, and advisory board membership. John’s passion is the outdoors and he works hard to ensure he can spend part of each day either in the ocean or in the mountains. John developed the IMPACT culture at Unique and measures his success based on the number of lives he is able to positively impact.
Joseph G. Phillips
Managing Partner
Joe joined Unique in 1997 after working as a certified public accountant for several years. As one of its Managing Directors, Joe has been responsible for directing equity placements, third party financings, acquisitions, mergers and divestitures in both operating companies and real estate properties. Joe has held board level positions in several businesses and has been responsible for the day-to-day operations for multiple small and medium sized companies. Joe enjoys mentoring young adults and coaching youth sports where he feels his impact is immediate and meaningful.
Burke Plummer
Managing Director
Burke has been in the Unique family for almost 20 years as an operator and partner. For many years, Burke served as the Chief Executive Officer of Qqest Software Systems located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Burke has also successfully acquired and managed multiple transactions during his Unique tenure and currently holds several advisory board positions. Burke loves tennis and golf and his new grandson and uses his many strengths to positively impact youths through his church affiliation.
Justine Makoff
Director of Giving
Justine leads our community outreach efforts. She identifies opportunities for Unique to give back to our local community, and also serves as a liaison for each of our companies to pursue their philanthropic goals. Over the past 5 years, Justine has fostered connections between Unique and local charities focused on education, at-risk youth intervention, and environmental conservation. She serves as a board member for Sunburst Youth Academy, Free Rein Foundation, and PAAL of 77th precinct. Justine’s passion to positively impact her community and environment inspires and motivates Unique’s stakeholders to be active in their own communities.
Investment Approach
Unique Management System
Over our 25 year history, we have developed a proprietary management system that allows us to assist management teams in the development and implementation of their strategic plans. The results have been increased top lines, improved profitability and the creation of real value for our investors. Included in our system are periodic reporting processes that allow all stakeholders to communicate with accuracy and transparency. We assist management teams, we don’t direct them, and we believe our ability to work alongside and in partnership with strong and talented individuals is the primary reason for our long-term success.
At Unique, we often gather our entire family of leaders to discuss real-time issues and opportunities within the portfolio of companies which allows the leadership group to best leverage the collective knowledge and experience of their colleagues for the improvement of all.
Investment Criteria
We are opportunistic investors with broad interests and we focus on majority and control situations. Our most common operating company investments are in businesses with between $1,000,000 and $10,000,000 in annual earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). Unique is industry agnostic and will consider an investment in any industry if it fits within our cultural and return parameters. We prefer investments that have management in place, however, we are experienced in identifying and attracting talented managers to assist our partners in achieving their goals. Unique also invests in income producing real estate properties. Our target real estate valuation is between $1,000,000 and $10,000,000. For all investments, our geographic preference is the western United States.
Guiding Principles
Unique, and in turn each of its portfolio companies and all of our coworkers live by the following principles:
Integrity – To communicate and act with truth and sincerity.
Value Creation – To generate economic benefits by improving the lives of others.
Customer Dedication – To put the customer first in every action or decision.
Compliance – To completely adhere to the company’s business philosophy and personal conduct standards.
Accuracy – To understand, give, and receive information with clarity and precision.
Humility – To act without ego while working with others.
Courage – Having the strength to do what is right.
Curiosity – The desire to learn about and improve yourself, others, and your surroundings.
Portfolio
Case Studies
Click on the buttons below to learn more about some of Unique Investment Corporation’s recent business investments.
WireCash.com
WireCash is an impact-driven company focused on making a difference for immigrant populations that need it most. Each year U.S. residents send over $150 billion to family and friends abroad. More than 90% of this volume is sent offline from physical stores. WireCash helps transition both consumers and legacy money transfer companies online for the first time. WireCash technology will improve the lives of millions of people making their impact significant and measurable.
WireCash is the only online marketplace for international money transfers. WireCash offers the services of existing licensed money transmitters, enabling consumers to send money online to over 100 countries while comparing fees, exchange rates, and payout options. Through the marketplace, consumers for the first time have choice, freedom and options when sending money to family and friends in other countries.
Aggregating money transfer companies in one online location allows WireCash to provide the most convenient and cost effective solution for sending money home. WireCash’s customers are diverse and range from individuals who simultaneously work and go to school full time, religious leaders collecting funds for philanthropic endeavors, long-haul truck drivers paying family medical bills, and day laborers living in rural communities without access to physical money transfer stores.
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Gold Canyon
Gold Canyon provides families and communities life-changing products and opportunities for personal improvement. Gold Canyon will impact tens of millions of lives through its world class business opportunity and World’s Finest™ products. Gold Canyon distributes their products through a hybrid party-plan direct sales business model that provides an opportunity for individuals to work from home, on their own schedule and at their own pace. Executives join Gold Canyon so they can earn extra income, build their own business, create and nurture relationships and simply to work for themselves. Gold Canyon sets the Gold Standard for quality with their candles, scented products and home décor and in concert with their direct sales business model has already assisted millions of people in making their home and lives better.
The Gold Canyon business model includes a newly introduced E-Fundraising platform that expands on the company’s original platform to allow organizations the opportunity to raise money through sales of high quality scented products, in a cutting edge, digital forum. The company’s fundraising program has generated more than $30 million in the last several years for organizations to use for the benefit of their own communities across the country.
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Diamond Wireless
Diamond Wireless was an independent authorized agent of Verizon Wireless selling wireless telephones, telephone accessories and wireless service plans through a primarily mall-based retail model. Diamond set itself apart from its competition by its mall-based model and strong company culture, both of which were created by the company’s founder and CEO Troy Crosland. Troy and Unique were successful in growing Diamond more than threefold during our four year hold period by aggressively opening new stores and adhering to an employee-first mentality. Diamond’s strongest impact was had on its coworkers, who were groomed for success, personal and professional improvement and steady advancement within the company.
Diamond’s culture was cultivated over several years and produced a highly successful and happy sales organization of commissioned based coworkers. This model allowed Diamond coworkers to earn more money than if they were working for the competition, thus creating happy, long-term employees. Further, Diamond’s growth curve, coupled with management’s hiring philosophy, allow it’s coworkers to rise through the organization to ever-increasing levels of responsibility and compensation. Diamond had a tremendous impact on hundreds of direct coworkers and their families by providing excellent career opportunities all based upon the edict that each individual within the company controlled their own destiny.
Troy and his team, in partnership with Unique, were able to grow Diamond from 38 stores to 140 stores including two fold-in acquisitions along the way. During the four year period of this partnership, Diamond returned over 10X invested capital with more than a 70% internal rate of return. Unique and Troy point to the employee-first culture and impact driven nature of the management team as the primary reasons for this exceptional performance.
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The only online marketplace that allows customers to compare money transfer options based on brand, price, recipient payout option and other criteria.
Partner Feedback
Bernie Zimmer, Founder and Board Member, CHME, Inc.
I have developed lifelong friends and business partners through my relationship with Unique Investment Corporation. I sold my company to the Unique group with the intention of retiring within two years. After closing on our deal, we were doing such great things and growing the business together so not only did I decide to stay on, I decided to reinvest back into the company! With all the support that Unique was providing and the exciting company we were creating I ended up staying on as the CEO of our company for over 7 years! I am still on the Board of Directors of our company and I continue to learn and grow as a person and a professional through my interactions with the Unique family.
Troy Crosland, Founder and CEO, Diamond Wireless, LLC
The guys at Unique were awesome partners. They provided invaluable insight and feedback from a different perspective that challenged me and my team and benefited us tremendously in terms of our strategic thinking. My management team and I were able to apply our industry expertise in running the company each day knowing we had a great sounding board available to us. John and Joe were constantly pushing us to dream bigger and to push harder toward our goals. We were able to grow our business dramatically and provide opportunities for countless young people to join our family and build a career in the wireless industry.
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Automic Workload Automation Review
It enables us to build automation which is flexible in a controlled environment. The stability needs improvement.
What is our primary use case?
The primary use case is automation of our business processes within the bank along with several areas of process automation. We have been using the product for 10 years now and have built it up from scratch. We do a lot of stuff with it, of which, we are mostly satisfied, though there will always be problems with it.
How has it helped my organization?
It enables us to build automation which is flexible in a controlled environment. We have a lot of governance and compliance requirements as a bank that we can fulfill with this product. We can fulfill them because we have an environment where everything is monitored where you have an audit trail of the product and for the executions of the development.
What is most valuable?
We can perform across platform automation with a product, and we are not bound to one architecture or system. We can bind together a lot of systems and ways of integrating systems. That is the most positive effect on our end. It is very flexible to program around your automation.
What needs improvement?
The stability needs improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
More than five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is not as good as it was in former years. Stability has gone down from version to version, but it is probably due to the product's complexity and transitions in the company. Stability could be better, as it was better in the past.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is okay, as we are not scaling so much.
How is customer service and technical support?
Technical support is good. They are doing the best that they can, but it is a complex product with difficult requirements from a stability point of view.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was 10 years ago, so it was easy at the time. With each upgrade, it will probably have more complexity, but it has been a little hidden because it is a step-by-step process. Though, the complexity is okay with the setup.
What was our ROI?
It is not so easy to give numbers. There are just a lot of things that you cannot do without this product.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated some competitors a decade ago, and Automic (UC4) was the best choice. We look at the product and features. We did tests and an installation of the product, then we decided on Automic.
The other competitors, 10 years ago, were CA and IBM.
What other advice do I have?
Most important criteria when selecting a vendor:
Product features (i.e., flexibility).
It must fit the requirements.
A partner that you can rely on.
Disclosure: IT Central Station contacted the reviewer to collect the review and to validate authenticity. The reviewer was referred by the vendor, but the review is not subject to editing or approval by the vendor.
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Challenges in HbA1c Analysis and Reporting in Patients with Variant Hemoglobins.
Hemoglobin A1c (HbA(1)c) is a well-established indicator of mean glycemia. The presence of genetic variants of hemoglobin can profoundly affect the accuracy of HbA(1)c measurements. Variants of hemoglobin especially Hemoglobin E (HbE) is prevalent in South East Asia including Bangladesh. The objective of our study is to compare the HbA(1)c values measured on high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and Turbidimetric Inhibition Immunoassay (TINIA) in diabetic patients with variant hemoglobins including HbE. A total of 7595 diabetic patients receiving treatment at BIRDEM General Hospital were analyzed for HbA(1)c results within a period of two months from December 2013 to January 2014. Seventy two cases out of 7595 (0.95%) had either undetectable or below normal HbA(1)c levels (males-33 and females-39; ratio = 0.82:1) by HPLC method. In 34(0.45%) cases, HbA(1)c value was undetectable by HPLC method but was in the reportable range by TINIA method. In the other 38 (0.55%) cases, HbA(1)c levels were below the reportable range (<4%) by HPLC method but were in the normal or higher range by TINIA method. TINIA method did not agree with HPLC method on Bland Altman plot in the 38 cases with below normal HbA(1)c levels, [Mean bias -5.2(-9.3 to 1.0), 95% CI] but agreed very well [mean bias -0.21 (-0.84 to 0.42), y=1.1037+0.776X; r(2)=0.30, p<0.01] in controls. In control group mean MCV was 83.80±7.48 and in study group was 73.65±10.44. Alkaline electrophoresis confirmed the variant hemoglobin to be HbE. The fasting blood sugar levels of all the 72 cases correlated strongly with TINIA method (r(2) =0.75, p<0.0001) but not with HPLC (r = 0.24, p=0.13). In our regions where populations have a high prevalence of Hb variant, proper knowledge of hemoglobin variants which affect the measurements HbA(1)c level is essential. MCV of 80fl or below may serve as a rough guide to select samples that require analysis by TINIA method. Moreover, HPLC may be a convenient and inexpensive tool for screening of hemoglobinopathies especially among diabetic population in Bangladesh. It may therefore be helpful in improving management of complications related to both anaemia and iron overload.
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By now everyone knows that the Vikings live to pick off of the Packers trash pile, but did you know that there is a bizzaro Vikings team in the AFC? It’s this week’s opponent, the Kansas City Chiefs. Now, it’s…Read more
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841 P.2d 342 (1992)
The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
William Franklin ZIEG, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 91CA0226.
Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. IV.
May 21, 1992.
Rehearing Denied June 18, 1992.
Certiorari Denied December 1, 1992.
*343 Gale A. Norton, Atty. Gen., Raymond T. Slaughter, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Timothy M. Tymkovich, Sol. Gen., John J. Krause, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.
Haddon, Morgan & Foreman, P.C., Norman R. Mueller, Denver, for defendant-appellant.
Opinion by Judge CRISWELL.
Defendant, William Franklin Zieg, appeals a judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of felony menacing. We affirm.
The record establishes that defendant's neighbors had been disturbed on numerous occasions over a six-month period by loud music coming from defendant's townhome. On the night of the incident at issue, unable to sleep, the neighbors called the police to complain about the loud noise. An officer responded to defendant's townhome and warned him about the music. After the officer left, the music stopped.
The neighbors then went to sleep in their bedroom on the third floor of their townhouse, but were awakened shortly thereafter by sounds of defendant screaming and banging on their ground level front door. The neighbors testified that defendant threatened to kill them and to "rip your heads off." They then heard two very loud banging sounds on their front door which "actually shook the whole building." One of the occupants went downstairs to investigate the noise and discovered two holes in the front door, apparently the result of blows by an ax.
Defendant contends that the evidence was insufficient to establish felony menacing. He argues that the victims were in bed three floors above the entrance to their house when this incident occurred and that they did not know until later that an ax was used to damage their door. Considering these circumstances, defendant candidly concedes that the evidence was sufficient to support a conviction of the lesser included offense of misdemeanor menacing. He asserts, however, that, because the victims were unaware of his use of the ax at the time of his assault upon the door and did not discover the nature of this attack until it had ceased and they had come downstairs, he cannot be convicted of felony menacing. We disagree.
Section 18-3-206, C.R.S. (1986 Repl.Vol. 8B) provides that the crime of "menacing" is committed if the perpetrator, "by any threat or physical action, ... knowingly places or attempts to place another person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury." Generally, menacing is a class 3 misdemeanor, but "if committed by use of a deadly weapon, it is a class 5 felony."
Menacing, whether a misdemeanor or a felony, is a general intent crime; it requires only that the defendant be aware that his conduct is practically certain to cause the result. Section 18-1-501(6), C.R.S. (1986 Repl.Vol. 8B); People v. Crump, 769 P.2d 496 (Colo.1989). Although it is not necessary to prove actual subjective fear on the part of the victim, nonetheless, what the victim saw or heard and his reactions thereto are relevant considerations in determining whether the defendant had the requisite mens rea to commit this offense. See People v. Gagnon, 703 P.2d 661 (Colo.App.1985).
We conclude that, here, there was sufficient evidence to support the conviction of felony menacing.
A threat is a statement of purpose or intent to cause injury or harm to another person. See People v. Hines, 780 P.2d 556 (Colo.1989). Clearly, defendant's statement of purpose to kill the victims and "rip their heads off" was a threat as contemplated by § 18-3-206, C.R.S. (1986 Repl. Vol. 8B). In addition, the victims testified that they heard these threats and recognized defendant's voice when they were made.
The statute does not require that, in order to commit the felony offense, the perpetrator must induce a greater degree of fear in the victim than would be required for a misdemeanor conviction. In either case, the victim must be placed "in fear of imminent serious bodily injury."
*344 The enhanced nature of the felony offense, therefore, is not based upon the fact that the use of a deadly weapon will induce a greater fear in the victim, although it may have this effect in many instances. The purpose of elevating the crime to a felony in those instances in which a deadly weapon is used is to discourage use of such a weapon so as to prevent the enhanced danger that naturally accompanies its use.
Hence, we conclude that, if the actions of the perpetrator would reasonably cause fear of imminent serious bodily injury in the victim, and if the perpetrator uses a deadly weapon to accomplish this result, felony menacing has been committed, even though the victim may not be aware of the nature of the instrument employed by the perpetrator.
Here, defendant's threats were accompanied by loud banging noises on the door which led one of the victims to think that "the door had given way." Under these circumstances, it was not unreasonable for the victims to believe that defendant was attempting to break down their door and to enter their home. Nor was it unreasonable for the jury to conclude that defendant's conduct was of such a nature that he was aware it would almost certainly frighten the victims and lead them to believe they were in jeopardy of imminent serious bodily injury.
Therefore, because the evidence demonstrated that defendant used a deadly weapon to accomplish this forbidden result, it was sufficient to sustain his conviction of the charged felony.
Judgment affirmed.
JONES and DAVIDSON, JJ., concur.
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Population control movement is 'Number One violator of human rights,' author claims
Front Royal, Va., May 6, 2008 / 06:25 pm (CNA).- Some population theorists warn that the world, with its continual increase in population, will eventually be unable to sustain the human population. Steve Mosher, the president of the Population Research Institute, argues in his newly released book that the movement that advances this worldview is demographically ignorant and the “Number One violator of human rights.”
Mosher’s book "Population Control—Real Costs, Illusory Benefits," just published by Transaction Press, details how the population control movement has harmed hundreds of millions of women, children and families with its policies.
"Population Control—Real Costs, Illusory Benefits," is the fruit of Mosher’s lifelong passion for demographics, which he harnesses to craft a compelling argument against population control. According to Mosher, “Overpopulation is a myth. In fact, evidence is plentiful that policymakers and population controllers, with billions at their disposal, have ignored their own multiple failures.”
“From its origins in racial hysteria and demographic ignorance to its state-sanctioned and funded rise to the mainstream, Mosher describes the population control movement as, “the world's Number One violator of human rights,” a press release from PRI says.
In his book, Mosher dismisses any sort of utilitarian concept of rights, saying, "Abuses of basic rights, such as the right to bear children, cannot be expunged by reference to any calculus of costs versus benefits, any more than comparable violations of other basic human rights can be explained away, excused, or justified by reference to a supposedly larger social good."
One colleague of Mosher’s, Allan Carlson of the Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society, writes that "Population Control" is "crisp and compelling; the message both disturbing and illuminating; the concluding call for a pro-natalist future hopeful." In it, Mosher is able to "ably express" the motives of population controllers, and their "open acts of violence against women and children."
For more information on "Population Control—Real Costs, Illusory Benefits," and Mosher’s organization the Population Research Institute please visit: http://www.pop.org/index.cfm
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MAINE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT Reporter of Decisions
Decision: 2019 ME 141
Docket: Pen-18-481
Argued: June 25, 2019
Decided: August 29, 2019
Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, HJELM, and HUMPHREY, JJ.
STATE OF MAINE
v.
LARRY F. COSTON II
SAUFLEY, C.J.
[¶1] Larry F. Coston II appeals from a judgment of conviction of burglary
(Class C), 17-A M.R.S. § 401(1)(A) (2018),1 entered by the court (Anderson, J.)
after a jury trial. He argues that the court erred in admitting recordings of
incriminating telephone conversations that he had with his girlfriend while he
was in jail. We affirm the judgment.
1 See also 17-A M.R.S. § 57(1), (2)(C), (3)(A) (2018) (establishing the criminal liability of an
accomplice who, “[w]ith the intent of promoting or facilitating the commission of the crime . . . solicits
such other person to commit the crime, or aids or agrees to aid or attempts to aid such other person
in planning or committing the crime”).
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I. BACKGROUND
[¶2] Coston was tried by a jury in October 2018 on a charge of burglary
arising from events that had occurred in May 2018.2 The State presented
evidence that Coston borrowed a car; drove his friend to a location near a
convenience store where the friend intended to break in to steal cash or goods;
and, after the friend broke into the store and stole cigarettes, drove the friend
home.
[¶3] As part of its case-in-chief, the State sought to admit recordings of
Coston’s telephone conversations that were recorded by the jail in which
Coston was held after his arrest. The State offered the testimony of a Penobscot
County jail administrator and a Dexter police officer to establish the means by
which the jail’s phone calls are recorded, preserved, and retrieved. The jail has
a contract with an out-of-state company to provide telecommunications
services for inmates. Inmates are assigned identification numbers that they
2In the first jury trial of this matter, held simultaneously with a jury-waived trial for a charge of
violating a condition of release (Class E), 15 M.R.S. § 1092(1)(A) (2018), in August 2018, the court
(Campbell, J.) declared a mistrial because the jury was intractably deadlocked and could not reach a
verdict. The court found Coston guilty, however, of violating a condition of release. Coston separately
appealed from the judgment of conviction entered on that charge, which we have affirmed. See State
v. Coston, Mem-19-90. As we noted in that memorandum of decision, because there is now a final
judgment, we were not called upon to address the justiciability of that earlier-filed appeal from a
conviction on one count when another count contained in the same charging instrument was still
pending in the trial court. See id.
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must use to place calls. All calls in the jail are recorded except for inmates’ calls
to and from their attorneys and calls placed on the separate, internal phone
system of the jail. The recordings are collected and preserved on the company’s
servers outside of Maine.
[¶4] The recordings may be accessed and searched by jail administrators
and law enforcement via a website that requires entry of a username and
password. The recordings here were downloaded from the system’s website
by the Dexter police officer, who kept his username secure in his desk at work,
had his password memorized, and accessed the website in his office on a
desktop computer that cannot be used without a password. The officer testified
that he did not alter the recorded calls or delete anything from them.
[¶5] Although Coston objected to the admission of the recordings,
asserting a failure of foundation and the State’s failure to eliminate any
possibility of tampering, there was no evidence of tampering or other evidence
suggesting any alteration of the audio that was to be played to the jury. The
court determined that a sufficient foundation had been laid for the recordings
and admitted them, concluding that nothing suggested that anyone had
tampered with the recordings.
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[¶6] After the State rested its case, Coston testified that he had not known
what his friend had intended to do when he gave him a ride in the borrowed
car and that he had not become suspicious until his friend returned to the car
carrying cigarettes and wearing different clothes.
[¶7] The jury found Coston guilty of burglary, and the court sentenced
him to one year of imprisonment, with all but sixty days suspended, and a one-
year term of probation.3
II. DISCUSSION
[¶8] Coston primarily challenges the adequacy of the foundation that the
State provided to establish the authenticity of the jail’s recordings.4 To
authenticate an item of evidence, including an item of electronic evidence, “the
proponent must produce evidence sufficient to support a finding that the item
is what the proponent claims it is.” M.R. Evid. 901(a); see State v. Churchill,
3 The court also ordered Coston to pay $35 to the Victims’ Compensation Fund and found him
jointly and severally liable with his friend for $709.20 in restitution to the store.
4 Coston’s recorded out-of-court statements were not excludable as hearsay, see M.R. Evid.
801(d)(2)(A), and Coston has not argued that the statements were confidential or privileged, cf. M.R.
Evid. 501-514. Coston does argue that the recordings were inadmissible because they were not
originals. See M.R. Evid. 1001(b), (d), 1002. “An ‘original’ of a . . . recording means the . . . recording
itself or any counterpart intended to have the same effect by the person who executed or issued it.
For electronically stored information, ‘original’ means any printout—or other output readable by
sight—if it accurately reflects the information.” M.R. Evid. 1001(d); see also State v. Legassie,
2017 ME 202, ¶ 27, 171 A.3d 589 (emphasizing the purpose of the best evidence rule to ensure
accuracy). Nothing was presented to the court that would even suggest that the method of
presentation in some way rendered the audio recording inaccurate.
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2011 ME 121, ¶ 6, 32 A.3d 1026. “The standard embodies a flexible approach
to authentication reflecting a low burden of proof.” Churchill, 2011 ME 121, ¶ 6,
32 A.3d 1026 (quotation marks omitted). If there is a question about the
integrity of electronic data, that question generally goes to “the weight of
electronically based evidence, not its admissibility.” Id. ¶ 8 (quotation marks
omitted).
[¶9] A party seeking the admission of a recording must provide a
sufficient foundation to show that the recording was created and stored
securely and systematically. See id. ¶¶ 3, 9-10; State v. Berke, 2010 ME 34,
¶¶ 12-16, 992 A.2d 1290. As we have held before, however, “a particular
storage process is not necessary to demonstrate that electronic evidence has
not been tampered with.” Churchill, 2011 ME 121, ¶ 8, 32 A.3d 1026. For
instance, we affirmed the admission of a chat log when it was created by the
victim in the presence of law enforcement, was sent by email to the detective,
remained in police custody thereafter, and had time stamps and contained
responsive contents that made logical sense in the context of the other
evidence. See id. ¶¶ 3, 9-10. Similarly, we affirmed the admission of videotapes
showing criminal sexual contact with minors when there was foundational
evidence that the defendant was present in the videos, the events took place
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sequentially, and witnesses identified the defendant and the victims in the
videos. Berke, 2010 ME 34, ¶¶ 1, 12-16, 992 A.2d 1290.5
[¶10] The evidence presented by the State regarding the method of
making, storing, and retrieving the recordings of Coston’s phone calls was
sufficient to support the court’s determination that the necessary foundation
had been established.
[¶11] Although Coston argues that the State’s failure to disprove any
possible tampering rendered the audio unreliable and inadmissible, the State
is not required to prove the negative. The State need not disprove any
possibility of tampering to establish the basic foundation for admissibility. See
Berke, 2010 ME 34, ¶ 11, 992 A.2d 1290; see also United States v. Savarese,
686 F.3d 1, 11 (1st Cir. 2012) (“The burden of authentication . . . does not
require the proponent of the evidence to rule out all possibilities inconsistent
with authenticity, or to prove beyond any doubt that the evidence is what it
purports to be.” (quotation marks omitted)). “[T]he fact that the falsification of
electronic recordings is always possible does not . . . justify restrictive rules of
5 See also Asencio v. State, 244 So. 3d 294, 297 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2018) (affirming the admission
of a recorded jail telephone call when the custodian of the recordings testified that a program was in
place that used the inmate’s booking number, PIN, and voice recognition software to identify the
person placing a call and that the speaker in the recordings referred to facts that only the perpetrator
would know).
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authentication that must be applied in every case when there is no colorable
claim of alteration.” People v. Gonzales, No. 16CA0750, 2019 Colo. App. LEXIS
345, *14 (Colo. App. Mar. 7, 2019).
[¶12] In those instances where evidence of tampering is presented, the
court will determine whether the proffered recording is so unreliable that it
lacks an adequate foundation demonstrating that it is what it purports to be.
See M.R. Evid. 901(a). In the absence of any evidence of tampering that would
undermine the foundation in that way, however, the court may admit the
evidence and allow the jury to determine the weight to be given that evidence.
See Churchill, 2011 ME 121, ¶ 8, 32 A.3d 1026.
[¶13] Here, although Coston argues that there might have been
tampering, there was no evidence of tampering, and the court did not err in
finding a sufficient foundation for the recordings’ admissibility.
The entry is:
Judgment affirmed.
8
Zachary J. Smith, Esq. (orally), Lawsmith Legal Services, L.L.C., Bangor, for
appellant Larry F. Coston II
Marianne Lynch, District Attorney, and Mark A. Rucci, Asst. Dist. Atty. (orally),
Prosecutorial District V, Bangor, for appellee State of Maine
Penobscot County Unified Criminal Docket docket number CR-2018-1948
FOR CLERK REFERENCE ONLY
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+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #613822 +++
Description of problem:
When attempting to use some of the variable avialable in the hotspot tapset found that some of the arguments were not available.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemtap-1.2-1.fc13.x86_64
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-41.b18.fc13.x86_64
java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-41.b18.fc13.x86_64
java-1.6.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1.6.0.0-41.b18.fc13.x86_64
How reproducible:
everytime
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install systemtap java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel java-1.6.0-openjdk-debuginfo
2. stap -L 'hotspot.*' > /dev/null
3. See the messages in the "actual results" section
Actual results:
semantic error: not accessible at this address (0x515136): identifier '$arg2' at /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/x86_64/hotspot.stp:438:32
source: class = user_string_n($arg1, $arg2);
^
semantic error: not accessible at this address (0x515136): identifier '$arg6' at :440:30
source: sig = user_string_n($arg5, $arg6);
^
semantic error: failed to retrieve location attribute for local 'arg8' (dieoffset: 0x3c5adc0): identifier '$arg8' at :442:10
source: size = $arg8;
^
semantic error: not accessible at this address (0x5170b7): identifier '$arg2' at :456:32
source: class = user_string_n($arg1, $arg2);
Expected results:
All the probe point arguments available in the hotspot tapset should be available. There shouldn't be any "semantic error" messages.
Additional info:
The probe hotspot.object_alloc has:
size = $arg3;
that should be $arg4 for size according to http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/vm/dtrace.html. However, when this is corrected get:
semantic error: not accessible at this address (0x59d460): identifier '$arg4' at :117:10
source: size = $arg4;
^
This issue has been proposed when we are only considering blocker
issues in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. It has
been denied for the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.
** If you would still like this issue considered for the current
release, ask your support representative to file as a blocker on
your behalf. Otherwise ask that it be considered for the next
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Created attachment 435138[details]
try calculation of size in tapset, not source
I had the same idea as the one from comment #24. We are already using $HeapWordSize in jstack.stp, so this should work. This is what I am currently building (against upstream icedtea6 on fedora 13 i686, gcc-4.4.4-13.fc13.i686). But won't know the results till tomorrow morning (slow laptop).
Ok, so there are two issues with this testcase:
1) one 4.4 and earlier specific - only 4.5+ uses alias oracle to disambiguate
in *true_dependence and so store to (mem:SI (...) %sfp-8) invalidates various
MEMs from the cselib hash table. As %sfp (spill slots) aren't addressable,
in 4.5+ rtx_refs_may_alias_p will say the two mems can't alias if
one is %sfp and the other is not. While obviously backporting all the
aliasing changes is out of the question, perhaps we could consider just
special casing this %sfp vs. non-%sfp if MEM_EXPR, MEM_OFFSET and MEM_SIZE is
present on both MEMs. Either it could be done at the end of
true_dependence/canon_true_dependence (most risky), or e.g. in a new
cselib_canon_true_dependence which would do the same as canon_true_dependence,
just do this extra disambiguation and call it only from cselib, only only from
cselib when used in var-tracking.
2) the other issue is similar to the * 8 issue discussed on x86-64 earlier.
This time it is (zero_extend:SI (something:HI)) vs.
(and:SI (something:SI) (const_int 0xffff)) which again would need to be hashed
using the same hash and compared equal in cselib.
I have installed the rpms from this build. The following smoke test that originally demonstrated this problem works:
[wcohen@cannondale java]$ stap -L 'hotspot.*' > /dev/null
[wcohen@cannondale java]$
The JObjectStats example on the following URL provide much more reasonable:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/~vanaltj/stapexamples/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.
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Australia’s CSIRO develop world’s first gluten-free beer
German beverage company, Radeberger, is launching the world’s first gluten-free barley-based beer. The gluten free grain used in the beer was developed by Australia’s leading research institution, the CSIRO.
The ‘Pionier’ gluten-free beer is made using ‘Kebari ultra-low gluten’ barley, a strain of barley the CSIRO says took 14 years to develop.
“Pathetic irony” says Australia says food lawyer
Kebari barley is defined as gluten-free under the World Health Organisation’s recommendations. However, under the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, the beer cannot be called gluten free.
FoodLegal expert Joe Lederman said this is another instance of a brilliant Australian discovery losing a huge market opportunity.
“Instead, this world leading product is being launched only in foreign markets until such time as the Food Standards code in Australia can catch up with the world,” Lederman said.
“This is a pathetic irony,” he said.
How the science made the invention
CSIRO Principal Research Scientist, Dr Crispin Howitt, said using conventional breeding, the CSIRO is able to reduce the gluten levels in Kebari barley to 10, 000 times less than regular barley.
“In the future, this will provide more variety for the global population, including 1 to 2 per cent of Australians, with coeliac disease and people who avoid gluten in their diet,” Dr Howitt said.
The CSIRO is now working on a hulless version of Kebari which is best suited for use in foods like cereals, soup, pasta and flatbreads.
It is also exploring whether an Australian brewing partner would be interested in creating a low gluten beer using Kebari.
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PlayStation profiles are now available on the web
NBA 2K11 devs drop 'approximately 30 positions'
Take-Two Interactive sports game developer Visual Concepts recently let go of 30 employees, according to a statement issued by the publisher. VP of corporate communications and public affairs at Take-Two Alan Lewis told Industry Gamers, "In order to properly align its resources with its current and future goals, and to continue to develop games as efficiently as possible, 2K Sports has eliminated approximately 30 positions at its Visual Concepts studio." When contacted by Joystiq, Take-Two refused to provide further information.
The next game due from Visual Concepts is NBA 2K11 on October 5, which is said to be unaffected by the layoffs. "These reductions will not affect 2K Sports' ability to create and deliver AAA titles, including its upcoming release of NBA 2K11," the statement from Take-Two claims. As always, we wish those affected the best in the future.
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Manteca Business Owner Locks Doors In Fear Of ADA Lawsuits From Scott Johnson
MANTECA (CBS13) — A Manteca business owner is locking his doors in fear of an attorney known for filing thousands of lawsuits on behalf of disabled people.
What started as a small shop in the back of his parents’ restaurant when John Perez was just 24 is now a 50-year-old business he shares with his sons.
“It means everything to me,” he said. “It’s what I worked for all my life.”
But for the first time, Perez and Son’s Cabinet Shop is operating with the doors locked with a sign out front saying he’s working by appointment only. He says he’s doing it in fear that Scott Johnson will pay him a visit. Not for business he says, but to rob him of his money.
Johnson is known for filing thousands of lawsuits against business owners whose buildings don’t comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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To John Adams from Richard Rush, 29 June 1813
Washington June 29. 1813.
Dear Sir.
Your kind letter of the 13th has gratified me very much.
When I spoke of New York having joined in with Pennsylvania and Virginia, I alluded to the issue of the late election for governor there. From a variety of local causes existing in that state, this last election seems to have been the only one they have had since the war began which fairly brought to a test the relative numbers of the war and peace parties. I understand that the election in every county was staked upon that issue, and from Governor Tompkins’s success I infer that the publick sentiment there is for standing by the nation in this contest, in like manner with that of Pennsylvania and Virginia. Her present representatives in congress, indeed, chosen under the operation of the scisms of the last fall, or before they had healed, and while the anger of the Presidential election was still left, are very hostile with only a few exceptions. So of her senators. These few are very confident in their opinions that an election now for representatives could not fail to give a very different result from that of the spring. The majority now in and opposed to the war, to be sure say otherwise; but the former seem to be corroborated by governor Tompkins’s election.
Nobody, Sir, has so good a right to rejoice in the efficacy of our little navy, and its triumph, as you, for you led the way to it all. What you say about the lakes is irresistable. To me it is equally strange and lamentable that we have not now the command of them. I know the President to be so convinced upon this subject, that I heard him: say last fall if the British built thirty frigates upon them we ought to build forty. Yet we are close upon July and Sir James Yeo is defying us on Ontario, and we dare not look out upon Erie. We must hope this will not long be.
I think with you that Mr Gallatin cannot get back by Christmas although he was very sanguine. Mr King told me a few days ago that Mr Jay began his treaty in June, and yet, although they worked at it constantly, it was not finished until November. May not Mr Gallatin and Mr Adams be as long? Is it sure they will make one at all? The only point is impressment; and as to this the dispute stands upon the same ground it has ever done, with the single exception of the seaman’s bill of last winter. Will the English yield, this law having been passed?
A good deal of difficulty has been made in the senate about Mr Gallatins nomination; but the better opinion is he will pass by a small vote. The President still declines to fill the office with a new appointment, retaining Mr Jones as the acting secretary ad interim.
Congress are busily engaged with the tax bills today. These too, Sir, will pass giving another triumph to the policy of 1798. The Massachusetts remonstrance was read yesterday in the senate.
You have a claim, coeval with your life, to know what your country is doing, and many more and much stronger claims upon it than this. To be accepted as your Washington correspondent is a source of great gratification to me. The sight of your hand, too, will serve to keep up the pleasure I so often knew from it in my lamented father’s time.
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* Copyright © 2003 Keith Packard
*
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* documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
* the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
* copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
* documentation, and that the name of Keith Packard not be used in
* advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without
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* representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It
* is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
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* KEITH PACKARD DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE,
* INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO
* EVENT SHALL KEITH PACKARD BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR
* CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE,
* DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER
* TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
* PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
*/
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include <config.h>
#endif
#include <limits.h>
#include "Xfixesint.h"
XserverRegion
XFixesCreateRegion (Display *dpy, XRectangle *rectangles, int nrectangles)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesCreateRegionReq *req;
long len;
XserverRegion region;
XFixesCheckExtension (dpy, info, 0);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesCreateRegion, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesCreateRegion;
region = req->region = XAllocID (dpy);
len = ((long) nrectangles) << 1;
SetReqLen (req, len, len);
len <<= 2;
Data16 (dpy, (short *) rectangles, len);
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
return region;
}
XserverRegion
XFixesCreateRegionFromBitmap (Display *dpy, Pixmap bitmap)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesCreateRegionFromBitmapReq *req;
XserverRegion region;
XFixesCheckExtension (dpy, info, 0);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesCreateRegionFromBitmap, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesCreateRegionFromBitmap;
region = req->region = XAllocID (dpy);
req->bitmap = bitmap;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
return region;
}
XserverRegion
XFixesCreateRegionFromWindow (Display *dpy, Window window, int kind)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesCreateRegionFromWindowReq *req;
XserverRegion region;
XFixesCheckExtension (dpy, info, 0);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesCreateRegionFromWindow, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesCreateRegionFromWindow;
region = req->region = XAllocID (dpy);
req->window = window;
req->kind = kind;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
return region;
}
XserverRegion
XFixesCreateRegionFromGC (Display *dpy, GC gc)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesCreateRegionFromGCReq *req;
XserverRegion region;
XFixesCheckExtension (dpy, info, 0);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesCreateRegionFromGC, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesCreateRegionFromGC;
region = req->region = XAllocID (dpy);
req->gc = gc->gid;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
return region;
}
XserverRegion
XFixesCreateRegionFromPicture (Display *dpy, XID picture)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesCreateRegionFromPictureReq *req;
XserverRegion region;
XFixesCheckExtension (dpy, info, 0);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesCreateRegionFromPicture, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesCreateRegionFromPicture;
region = req->region = XAllocID (dpy);
req->picture = picture;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
return region;
}
void
XFixesDestroyRegion (Display *dpy, XserverRegion region)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesDestroyRegionReq *req;
XFixesSimpleCheckExtension (dpy, info);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesDestroyRegion, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesDestroyRegion;
req->region = region;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
}
void
XFixesSetRegion (Display *dpy, XserverRegion region,
XRectangle *rectangles, int nrectangles)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesSetRegionReq *req;
long len;
XFixesSimpleCheckExtension (dpy, info);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesSetRegion, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesSetRegion;
req->region = region;
len = ((long) nrectangles) << 1;
SetReqLen (req, len, len);
len <<= 2;
Data16 (dpy, (short *) rectangles, len);
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
}
void
XFixesCopyRegion (Display *dpy, XserverRegion dst, XserverRegion src)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesCopyRegionReq *req;
XFixesSimpleCheckExtension (dpy, info);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesCopyRegion, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesCopyRegion;
req->source = src;
req->destination = dst;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
}
void
XFixesUnionRegion (Display *dpy, XserverRegion dst,
XserverRegion src1, XserverRegion src2)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesUnionRegionReq *req;
XFixesSimpleCheckExtension (dpy, info);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesUnionRegion, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesUnionRegion;
req->source1 = src1;
req->source2 = src2;
req->destination = dst;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
}
void
XFixesIntersectRegion (Display *dpy, XserverRegion dst,
XserverRegion src1, XserverRegion src2)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesIntersectRegionReq *req;
XFixesSimpleCheckExtension (dpy, info);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesIntersectRegion, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesIntersectRegion;
req->source1 = src1;
req->source2 = src2;
req->destination = dst;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
}
void
XFixesSubtractRegion (Display *dpy, XserverRegion dst,
XserverRegion src1, XserverRegion src2)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesSubtractRegionReq *req;
XFixesSimpleCheckExtension (dpy, info);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesSubtractRegion, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesSubtractRegion;
req->source1 = src1;
req->source2 = src2;
req->destination = dst;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
}
void
XFixesInvertRegion (Display *dpy, XserverRegion dst,
XRectangle *rect, XserverRegion src)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesInvertRegionReq *req;
XFixesSimpleCheckExtension (dpy, info);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesInvertRegion, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesInvertRegion;
req->x = rect->x;
req->y = rect->y;
req->width = rect->width;
req->height = rect->height;
req->source = src;
req->destination = dst;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
}
void
XFixesTranslateRegion (Display *dpy, XserverRegion region, int dx, int dy)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesTranslateRegionReq *req;
XFixesSimpleCheckExtension (dpy, info);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesTranslateRegion, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesTranslateRegion;
req->region = region;
req->dx = dx;
req->dy = dy;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
}
void
XFixesRegionExtents (Display *dpy, XserverRegion dst, XserverRegion src)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesRegionExtentsReq *req;
XFixesSimpleCheckExtension (dpy, info);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesRegionExtents, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesRegionExtents;
req->source = src;
req->destination = dst;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
}
XRectangle *
XFixesFetchRegion (Display *dpy, XserverRegion region, int *nrectanglesRet)
{
XRectangle bounds;
return XFixesFetchRegionAndBounds (dpy, region, nrectanglesRet, &bounds);
}
XRectangle *
XFixesFetchRegionAndBounds (Display *dpy,
XserverRegion region,
int *nrectanglesRet,
XRectangle *bounds)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesFetchRegionReq *req;
xXFixesFetchRegionReply rep;
XRectangle *rects;
int nrects;
long nbytes;
long nread;
XFixesCheckExtension (dpy, info, NULL);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesFetchRegion, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesFetchRegion;
req->region = region;
*nrectanglesRet = 0;
if (!_XReply (dpy, (xReply *) &rep, 0, xFalse))
{
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle ();
return NULL;
}
bounds->x = rep.x;
bounds->y = rep.y;
bounds->width = rep.width;
bounds->height = rep.height;
if (rep.length < (INT_MAX >> 2)) {
nbytes = (long) rep.length << 2;
nrects = rep.length >> 1;
rects = Xmalloc (nrects * sizeof (XRectangle));
} else {
nbytes = 0;
nrects = 0;
rects = NULL;
}
if (!rects)
{
_XEatDataWords(dpy, rep.length);
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle ();
return NULL;
}
nread = nrects << 3;
_XRead16 (dpy, (short *) rects, nread);
/* skip any padding */
if(nbytes > nread)
{
_XEatData (dpy, (unsigned long) (nbytes - nread));
}
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
*nrectanglesRet = nrects;
return rects;
}
void
XFixesSetGCClipRegion (Display *dpy, GC gc,
int clip_x_origin, int clip_y_origin,
XserverRegion region)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesSetGCClipRegionReq *req;
XFixesSimpleCheckExtension (dpy, info);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesSetGCClipRegion, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesSetGCClipRegion;
req->gc = gc->gid;
req->region = region;
req->xOrigin = clip_x_origin;
req->yOrigin = clip_y_origin;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
}
void
XFixesSetWindowShapeRegion (Display *dpy, Window win, int shape_kind,
int x_off, int y_off, XserverRegion region)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesSetWindowShapeRegionReq *req;
XFixesSimpleCheckExtension (dpy, info);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesSetWindowShapeRegion, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesSetWindowShapeRegion;
req->dest = win;
req->destKind = shape_kind;
req->xOff = x_off;
req->yOff = y_off;
req->region = region;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
}
void
XFixesSetPictureClipRegion (Display *dpy, XID picture,
int clip_x_origin, int clip_y_origin,
XserverRegion region)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesSetPictureClipRegionReq *req;
XFixesSimpleCheckExtension (dpy, info);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesSetPictureClipRegion, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesSetPictureClipRegion;
req->picture = picture;
req->region = region;
req->xOrigin = clip_x_origin;
req->yOrigin = clip_y_origin;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
}
void
XFixesExpandRegion (Display *dpy, XserverRegion dst, XserverRegion src,
unsigned left, unsigned right,
unsigned top, unsigned bottom)
{
XFixesExtDisplayInfo *info = XFixesFindDisplay (dpy);
xXFixesExpandRegionReq *req;
XFixesSimpleCheckExtension (dpy, info);
LockDisplay (dpy);
GetReq (XFixesExpandRegion, req);
req->reqType = info->codes->major_opcode;
req->xfixesReqType = X_XFixesExpandRegion;
req->source = src;
req->destination = dst;
req->left = left;
req->right = right;
req->top = top;
req->bottom = bottom;
UnlockDisplay (dpy);
SyncHandle();
}
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She'll be the cutest character in Neverland in the Tinkerbell costume, which includes: A lime green dress with a shimmering sheer pink overlay. A pair of fairy wings are also included in this whimsical ensemble.
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Former One Direction singer Harry Styles will perform at Hersheypark Stadium in June 2018
PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 25 : the singer Harry Styles on stage during his concert at the Olympia Hall in Paris on October 25, 2017. ( photo by Helene Pambrun/Paris Match via Getty Images)
Former One Direction singer Harry Styles will perform at Hersheypark Stadium in June 2018
PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 25 : the singer Harry Styles on stage during his concert at the Olympia Hall in Paris on October 25, 2017. ( photo by Helene Pambrun/Paris Match via Getty Images)
HERSHEY — Harry Styles is coming to Hershey next summer, according to a press release from Hershey Entertainment.
The former One Direction heartthrob will take the stage in Hersheypark Stadium on June 14, 2018. The concert will begin at 8 p.m.
Kasey Musgraves will open the show, Hershey Entertainment announced.
Tickets, which start at $34.60, will go on sale Dec. 1 at 10 a.m. and can be purchased via Ticketmaster.
Styles released his first piece of solo music with his self-titled debut album Harry Styles in May 2017. The 10-track album features the platinum single “Sign of the Times.”
The album made history in the U.S. with the biggest debut sales week for a U.K. male artist’s first full-length album since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991, topping official charts at #1 in more than 55 countries, the Hershey Entertainment press release says.
Following the album’s release, Styles made his acting debut in Christopher Nolan’s critically acclaimed film Dunkirk in July 2017. Dunkirk topped the U.S. box office in its first weekend and was one of the top grossing films of the summer, rounding off an incredible year for Styles as the first British artist with a #1 debut single, album and film in the same year.
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Shafqat Islam’s phone was ringing. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the number on the screen. It said unknown, but he took the call anyway.
"Hi, this is Travis," a voice said. "I know Lukas Biewald, and he said you were the only guy he knew in Switzerland."
Islam, part of the tech team at Merrill Lynch Bank Suisse, sat up and wracked his brain.
Biewald? He had met the man once or twice, but he certainly didn't know this Travis character.
"Let's go out!" prodded the restless out-of-towner.
Islam resisted. It was getting late and he was tired. He wasn't in the mood to give his night to a stranger.
"Come on, I'm only in town one night!" Travis persisted. "You gotta show me Geneva!"
Islam finally gave in. He hopped in his second-hand BMW, picked up Travis and took him to a favorite bar, where Islam learned a bit more about the mystery man. A tech founder named Travis Kalanick, he’d sold a startup for millions to Akamai. He was now an investor in a couple of companies, including CrowdFlower, which was run by their mutual friend. After a night of drinking and swapping tech war stories, the pair parted ways.
Years later, they met again at a business event in the States. Islam had founded a content marketing company called NewsCred. Kalanick was running a startup called Uber, designed to link car services and passengers at the tap of a finger.
Now that Kalanick's startup has grown into one of the world’s most admired tech companies, recently valued at $3.4 billion, Islam can’t help wondering: Was he the world's first Uber driver?
"Travis pressed a button and I was his ride for the night!" Islam says now, reflecting on that fateful evening. "I wonder if he has ever put that together."
Now 37, Kalanick has recently found himself anointed king of Silicon Valley, his unlikely throne, that car-service app — or perhaps more accurately, a real-time, mobile logistics company, for which the town car business is likely just the beginning.
Founded just three and a half years ago, the service works like magic. Press a button on your smart phone to summon a ride. A few minutes later — during which you can chart a driver’s progress toward your location — up rolls the car. The driver doesn't accept cash, not even for a tip. Instead the app automatically charges the passenger's credit card once the transaction is complete. Then, both the customer and driver rate each other on Uber's application. (Passengers who leave a driver waiting may see their ratings fall, which can result in fewer drivers agreeing to pick them up.)
TravisK/InstagramKalanick is a big fan of scribbling on whiteboards and walls. Here, he's worked out how weather affects Uber demand.
Kalanick's business achievements have won him widespread respect in the tech industry. In just a few years, he has turned Uber into a tech powerhouse that sometimes generates $20 million per week. But he hasn’t done it without stepping on a few toes.
Although Kalanick declined through a spokesperson to comment for this story, interviews with more than a dozen acquaintances from various periods of the entrepreneur’s life and career, most of whom asked not to be identified, painted a picture of a hyper-rational individual whose distaste for organized religion is matched only by his enthusiasm for whiteboard sessions, a driven executive whose intensity can seem off-putting.
Acquaintances seem to be of two minds about him: On the one hand, many agreed he is a phenomenon. "Travis is smart," says Kalanick's former investor Mark Cuban. "Busts his ass and is a true entrepreneur. Can’t be much more complimentary than that."
Equally common was the view of Kalanick as — in a word that came up again and again in interviews, "an asshole."
Or as one entrepreneur who has worked with him puts it, "Travis is ego personified."
Often, those impressions overlap.
"Sometimes," an acquaintance of Kalanick's told Business Insider, "assholes create great businesses."
Travis, the Salesman
Travis Kalanick has always been the entrepreneurial type. He grew up near Los Angeles in a suburb called Northridge.
As a kid, he wanted to be a spy. But his innate confidence, persuasiveness and implacability made him better suited to a career in sales, like his mother, Bonnie.
She worked in retail advertising for the "Los Angeles Daily News." Kalanick's own ability to sell became apparent when he excelled as a young door-to-door salesman for Cutco knives. Kalanick's father, Don, was an engineer. His brother Cory is a firefighter; Kalanick also has two half sisters.
At age 18, Kalanick launched his first business, an SAT-prep tutoring service called New Way Academy. He created a course called "1500 and over" and has claimed that the first person he tutored boosted their score by 400 points. Kalanick himself scored 1580 on his SATs, whiffing two questions in the verbal section. He’s better with numbers, and likes to say he can zip through the math portion in eight minutes.
Even as a teen, Kalanick was exceptionally self-assured. He always had "his game face on" a former classmate recalls. "The fact that Travis is a good salesman — I think originally he let that be the entirety of his personality, both to his friends and within work."
This person described Kalanick as a chronic hustler. "There was definitely a feeling for me that he was always trying to sell something to me, like a used car salesman. You know it's their job, but it doesn't make it any less annoying."
There was definitely a feeling for me that he was always trying to sell something to me, like a used car salesman. You know it's their job, but it doesn't make it any less annoying.
Another former classmate was more sympathetic, describing him as "an excellent storyteller but in a good sense. He can illustrate a lot of different things. He’s also driven and opportunistic, which can be good or bad."
Despite his impressive SAT scores and ambition, Kalanick stayed local for college, enrolling in the computer science department at UCLA. He looked much like he does now, with shaggy black hair and generally clad in a T-shirt.
In recent years, Kalanick has been connected to a long line of beautiful brunettes. But he wasn't always a lady's man. A college friend said he "had to grow into that."
At UCLA, Kalanick studied computer engineering and joined the Computer Science Undergraduate Association, where he met classmates Michael Todd and Vince Busam, then working on a side project called Scour, meant to help users share files.
The project began in Busam's dorm room, with five friends cobbling together the application, before the team moved into a house in Los Angeles' South Bay.
Scour was the first popular peer-to-peer search engine for files, videos, movies, and images, employing SMB protocol to crawl people's Windows directories, index their files and let others download them. One early user was Shawn Fanning, who would go on to co-found a similar service — Napster — some 18 months after Scour came online.
The startup was running on angel funding raised mostly from one of the co-founders' family members and friends, and in 1998, Kalanick came aboard as an employee, eventually dropping out of school and collecting unemployment while working for the startup full time.
Kalanick often describeshimself as a co-founder of Scour, which irks some of the company’s actual founders. Nonetheless, investors saw him as one, because he did so much for the company, and some of the co-founders now consider him one in retrospect. Technically, he was the company’s second employee, though was given founders stock and didn’t take a salary for the first year.
The team soon moved to a high-rise apartment building in Westwood, Club California, where Todd and co-founder Dan Rodrigues were living. Most employees worked in the living room. Kalanick worked from Rodrigues' bedroom. At one point, the apartment housed 13 Scour employees, putting a strain on the electrical system. Printing a document was sometimes enough to blow a fuse, and when a team member wanted to microwave lunch, he would often ask colleagues to power down their monitors for a minute.
"It was very, very scrappy and none of us knew what we were doing," an early Scour employee recalls.
It became clear Scour had outgrown its apartment office one day after the founders reported a major hack to the FBI. A female officer showed up expecting to find a large company under siege. Instead, she was invited to squish into a tiny chair, huddled among scruffy young men who were buried in computer screens.
"We all tried to convince her, 'Really, we are a serious, legitimate company,'" the source recalls. "'We have 100 servers somewhere in some data center. Don't mind the fact that we're a bunch of young kids and that this is a living room.'"
The Rise and Fall of Scour
The company soon got some real traction, and before long the peer-to-peer file sharing and search service was being used by a few million people. Eventually, there was so much interest in the company that an early investor, former mega-agent Michael Ovitz (who along with supermarket kingpin Ron Burkle had invested some $10 to $15 million), threatened to sue to keep the startup from shopping itself to other venture capital firms. As it happened, the paperwork Kalanick’s team signed included a no-shop clause.
Kalanick’s role was marketing and business development, and he was dauntless in calling up anyone and everyone to push the product. He also came up with controversial yet effective guerrilla marketing campaigns. For the Scour Exchange product, which he conveniently shortened to SX, Kalanick hired a marketing company to hang bottles of personal lubricant on dorm-room doorknobs along with Scour hang tags and stickers which read, "Do not enter, SX in progress."
"It was surprisingly effective at spreading awareness for Scour as well as earning the ire of various colleges," a former colleague recalls.
Meanwhile, a file-sharing competitor came onto the scene. Fanning launched Napster in 1999, implementing a key innovation. Unlike Scour, which crashed frequently due to too much demand, Napster automatically made files sharable once they were downloaded. As a result, the more people used the service, the more sources there were where popular material could be found and downloaded. Scour quickly followed suit, borrowing Napster's approach.
Despite Scour's initial success, the startup was a tough learning experience for Kalanick. The setbacks hardened him as an entrepreneur, as did the sometimes difficult people he had to answer to.
Once, Kalanick recalled in an interview with Uber investor Jason Calacanis, he was threatened by one of his Ovitz's cronies. The former Hollywood agent, who had built CAA into a powerhouse before an ill-fated stint as president of Disney, was infamous for his hard-knuckled style (he used to hand copies of Sun Tzu’s "The Art of War" to staff members). Ovitz’s lawyer, Kalanick recounted, wanted to be sure the former executive was afforded the proper respect in Kalanick’s speech.
"He basically tells me about how certain people in the industry have worked very hard to get where they're at," Kalanick recalled to Calacanis. "My life and physical well-being were essentially threatened at that table. He basically said, 'There's an alley in the back. If you fuck this up, you're going to be very familiar with it.'"
My life and physical well-being were essentially threatened at that table. He basically said, 'There's an alley in the back. If you fuck this up, you're going to be very familiar with it.'
Kalanick came on stage visibly shaken. According to Calacanis — with whom he shared the stage that day — he looked close to tears.
Ovitz and Kalanick have since discussed the incident and moved on. The alleged encounter occurred when Kalanick was young, and perhaps it’s not surprising that he would have been intimidated. Ovitz says he found it difficult to wrangle five young founders, each with differing ideas on how to run Scour. He adds that he respects and likes Kalanick, and says no life-threat was ever delivered on his behalf.
"I think there's a really good story in a person overcoming adversity," an early RedSwoosh employee says. "I think sometimes that story can get even better if the adversity is more significant. None of these things didn't happen. It's just the details. Travis is going to tell the story his way."
Although users enjoyed Scour, content providers did not. Scour was making it possible for consumers to acquire their content without paying for it. Ultimately, a collection of entertainment companies sued Scour for $250 billion.
As lawsuits piled up, Scour's failure grew imminent. The final days were emotionally grueling for Kalanick. But the salesman in him was indomitable, ceaselessly working the phones to make his pitch, ever hopeful of scaring up new business.
"I was getting on the phone every day still trying to make revenues because we had millions of people coming to our site," Kalanick told a group of entrepreneurs at the 2011 Failcon conference, a forum in which founders offer hard-won lessons from their business failures. "I was telling our partners [that working with us was] a strategic move. The longer I had to make that ‘strategic move’ pitch, the harder it was to get up in the morning."
By the time Scour finally failed, Kalanick could barely face the workday, often spending 14 hours at a time lying in bed.
"I was doing the game, fake-it-til-you-make-it, or fighting reality," he told the Failcon 2011 audience. "When you're in that failure state, it will eventually crush you."
Finally, Scour filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The assets were divvied up in a 20-minute court session.
Rebounding With RedSwoosh
Almost immediately, Kalanick began plotting his next business with Scour co-founder Michael Todd, who had been consulting on the side. The pair bootstrapped their new startup, which they dubbed RedSwoosh. Kalanick has called it his "revenge business." He wanted to turn every entertainment company that sued Scour into a paying customer.
RedSwoosh launched in 2000 from a small office space in Westwood, Calif. Instead of unearthing content they didn't have the rights to, Todd and Kalanick's new business focused on delivering web content to users more cheaply by allowing them to share bandwidth. They brought a few friends over from Scour, including the engineer who’d built most of the Scour Exchange service.
But RedSwoosh turned out to be an even tougher challenge. By August 2001, the company was nearly out of cash and could barely cover payroll for its seven employees.
A few weeks later, Kalanick had a meeting scheduled with Akamai CTO Daniel Lewin. Lewin was flying in from Boston. His American Airlines flight from Logan Airport never made it to LAX.
Lewin was one of 92 passengers killed when Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center’s North Tower on Sept. 11, 2001.
Among its other terrible consequences, the attacks of September 11th were devastating to the tech scene, accelerating the stock market crash, which resulted in a market value loss of $5 trillion between 2000 and 2002. As a result, startup funding resources dried up.
REUTERS/Sara K. SchwittekKalanick had a meeting scheduled with Akamai CTO Daniel Lewin on Sept. 11. Lewin was flying in from Boston. His American Airlines flight from Logan Airport never made it to LAX.
It didn’t help that RedSwoosh — a networking software company — wasn't a particularly compelling business for investors. Software wasn't a popular investment sector in the early 2000s, and the leading company in RedSwoosh's industry, Akamai, had a relatively tiny $160 million market cap. Kalanick remembers an investor telling him then, "Look man, this whole software thing is done."
Kalanick and Todd had different opinions about how to keep the company afloat, which blossomed into serious disagreements. They began cutting corners to get by, in some cases pushing the ethical and legal boundaries.
For instance, at one point, the company stopped withholding income taxes from employees’ paychecks — a criminal offense.
Kalanick insists that Todd made this move without his knowledge, publicly blaming his co-founder for the infraction. Todd insists the decision was made jointly.
As Kalanick has recounted the story: "We owed $110,000 to the IRS in un-withheld income taxes, which is a white-collar crime that pierces the corporate shell, and it doesn't matter whether you knew or not. If you're an officer of the company you're going to jail."
"Travis is a very smart guy but he and I clearly have different memories on this 13-year-old detail," Todd says. And an email sent by Kalanick at the time and obtained by Business Insider appears to demonstrate his participation in the tax plan. Nonetheless, Todd insists he has no hard feelings about the incident, adding, "The important thing is that my technical idea and his execution made RS successful."
In the end, neither founder did any time. Instead, Kalanick hustled together a round of financing and used most of it to pay off the IRS before the year was up. But the relationship between Kalanick and Todd was permanently damaged.
For Kalanick, the final blow was when Todd secretly emailed an investor, asking him to consider what’s called an "acqui-hire" of RedSwoosh's engineering team.
"My co-founder on RedSwoosh, I found out, sent an email to a VC at Sony Ventures," Kalanick told the Failcon audience. "I wasn't cc'd on this email. It was basically saying, 'Look, this isn't gonna work out. Why don't you just hire me — this is my co-founder — and the rest of the engineers. So that's what 'Et tu, Brute?' means.'"
It was a nasty corporate divorce. A former employee says Todd and Kalanick were both to blame for the falling out; each made key business decisions behind the other’s back. The source also said he sided more with Todd at the time, and left RedSwoosh with a negative impression of Kalanick.
It took me a couple of years of having nice, cordial, friendly relations with him — but not 'Woohoo, go Travis!'-type stuff — for my feelings about him to change.
"Maybe it was his way of dealing with that stress and his response to it that I just didn't appreciate," the former employee tells Business Insider. "It took me a couple of years of having nice, cordial, friendly relations with him — but not 'Woohoo, go Travis!'-type stuff — for my feelings about him to change."
Kalanick's colleagues also grew tired of his tendency to spin every situation in his favor.
"If somebody chooses to disassociate themselves from Travis, I don't think it's because he's a bad guy," a former friend says. "I think it's because they see what he's doing, all the selling, and they don't want to deal with that anymore."
Looking for an Exit
In the wake of his falling out with Todd in 2001, Kalanick found himself living in his parents’ house, a move that seriously cramped his style. He "wasn't getting ladies," he told the Failcon 2011 audience. "It sucked."
By mid-September, the company had run out of cash and Kalanick was yet again busy hustling up a round of financing.
To replace Todd, he hired Rob Bowman, an engineer turned startup consultant, who became CEO until 2003.
Meanwhile, all but one of the company’s engineers, Evan Tsang, departed. Many left angry, partly because they had gone various lengths of time without being paid, and partly over disputes involving stock options.
"Some sort of recapitalization was attempted at one point," a former RedSwoosh employee says. "People got different option grants, where the amount of shares ballooned. There was a lot of confusion as to what stock options were worth and how people should exercise them...and a lot of people ended up feeling cheated."
Eventually, Tsang, too, walked out, moving over to Google, where Todd was then employed. Fucked Company, a popular blog that chronicled the struggles of tech startups, caught wind of the resignation. Its post about Tsang’s departure was published just as Kalanick was about to sign a million-dollar deal with AOL. The dial-up behemoth saw the headline and walked away. Shortly thereafter, in April 2006, Kalanick moved what was left of the company to Thailand as a cost-saving (and rejuvenating) measure.
Facebook/Travis KalanickKalanick took what was left of his RedSwoosh team abroad for six weeks as a cost-saving and rejuvenating measure.
Perhaps as an indication of how blindsided he felt, Kalanick later told the Failcon audience that Tsang resigned via tweet. That wasn't possible though, since Tsang’s departure happened several years before Twitter was founded.
Meanwhile, other companies were courting RedSwoosh, and Kalanick sensed a successful exit on the horizon. Microsoft showed particular interest, and one day in mid-2003, several executives flew from Redmond to Los Angeles to meet Kalanick and present him with their offer.
They’d like to acquire his assets, they told him, for $1.2 million. Kalanick did the math; $900,000 of that would be put toward paying off notes and liabilities. That left just $300,000.
As disappointing as such encounters were, they helped Kalanick refine his skills as a negotiator and toughen his resolve. He could be indomitable, showing a stamina that sometimes tended toward the absurd. According to a source, Kalanick once spent nine hours at a Googler's house, trying to convince the person to join Uber.
"I got really good at negotiating from a place of weakness," he told the Failcon audience.
Finally, seven years of grueling work paid off. Todd, who hadn't heard from Kalanick in years, came home one day to find a package on his doorstep. Akamai was interested in buying RedSwoosh.
In 2007, the server giant acquired RedSwoosh for $23 million — $19 million in stock and $4 million in earn-outs.
Even those who had doubted Kalanick or bristled at his pompous style had to hand it to him. He’d made RedSwoosh a success, even though doing so required him to go more than three years without salary, sever ties with his co-founder, move to Thailand, and turn over his team multiple times.
Today, Kalanick's perseverance serves as a lesson to his former colleagues.
"He would get up in the morning with nobody on his team. and he still made it in the end," says a former RedSwoosh employee. "It's inspirational in a lot of ways that when things got tough and he was down to nothing, he still kept going."
The Founding of Uber
Kalanick was now a millionaire, in possession of a large house, a personal chef and a thick wad of investment capital to put into other people's startups.
His new home, called "the jam pad," got its name for the tendency of young entrepreneurs
Google Street ViewTravis Kalanick's Jam Pad in San Francisco.
to congregate there, "jamming" on business ideas and playing Wii Tennis until the early hours of the morning. Aaron Levie, co-founder of the cloud-computing firm Box, and marketing guru Gary Vaynerchuk were among the many techies who crashed on the couch when they were in town.
Before long, Kalanick began blogging about his investments and his philosophy, occasionally boasting about his new millionaire lifestyle.
"Chris Sacca got a pretty killer techie crew hanging together," he wrote in January 2009 after he was invited to attend President Obama's inauguration. "The Zappos guys (Tony and Alfred), a few Google peeps (Sacca and company), VC-dudes and Twitter home slices (what up Ev and Sara), … a truly solid crew of great people is the icing on the cake. When you’ve got the kind of crew we’ve got, the party is wherever we are."
When you’ve got the kind of crew we’ve got, the party is wherever we are.
Kalanick spent his first year of affluence traveling and investing. He visited Spain, Japan, Greece, Iceland, Greenland, Hawaii (twice), France (twice), Australia, Portugal, Cape Verde, and Senegal. It was during this time that he called up Newscred founder Shafqat Islam for their spontaneous night out in Geneva.
In late 2008, Kalanick attended the LeWeb technology conference with Vayner Media's Gary Vaynerchuk, StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp, and Camp's former flame Melody McCloskey. That's where he first heard the idea for Uber.
One New Year's not long before, Camp and a few friends had spent $800 hiring a private driver. While Camp had made a fortune selling StumbleUpon, he still felt nearly a grand was too steep a price for one night of convenience. He had been mulling over ways to bring down the cost of black car services ever since.
He realized that splitting the cost with a lot of people — say a few dozen elite users in Silicon Valley — could make it affordable. The idea morphed into Uber, essentially the equivalent of nightclub bottle service for the taxi industry, a premium service for more high-end customers.
Kalanick gives Camp full credit for the idea.
"When you open up that app and you get that experience of like, 'I am living in the future. I pushed a button and a car rolled up and now I'm a frickin’ pimp,' Garrett is the guy who invented that shit," Kalanick said at an early Uber event in San Francisco. "I just want to clap and hug him at the same time."
As to the rest of of Uber's founding mythology, as in most cases, it depends on whom you ask.
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FacebookFourth of July in 2009 with Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp.
The first prototype of UberCab — as Uber was first called — was built by Camp and two graduate school friends, Oscar Salazar and Conrad Whelan, with participation from Kalanick, who’d been brought on as "mega advisor" to the company, according to early documentation. (Kalanick has said his official title at the time was "Chief Incubator.")
UberCab was a black car service, which allowed a user to call a car by pressing a button on a smart phone or sending a text, for a price that hovered around 1.5 times as much as a typical San Francisco cab.
"My job was to temporarily run the company, get the product to prototype, find a General Manager to run the operation full time and generally see Uber through its San Francisco launch," Kalanick wrote in an early post on Uber’s company blog.
"Garrett and I incubated Uber at first because we thought it was like this limo company," Kalanick explained at an event in San Francisco. "We were like, 'Dude I don't want to run a limo company. I just want a car to take me around. We need to find someone who can come into a city like San Francisco and kill it. Bring a really high quality to the table, a really sound operational system and make Uber San Francisco an amazing place so that basically Garrett can ride around like a pimp."
In essence, Kalanick and Camp both wanted Uber to exist, but neither of them wanted to run it.
That’s where Ryan Graves came in. The recently-engaged Chicago resident had spent two years at General Electric Healthcare, spending nights and weekends on a startup of his own that never quite got off the ground. He later spent three months as an unpaid "pseudo intern" working alongside Foursquare’s business development lead, Tristan Walker, but despite what a former colleague calls his "tireless" efforts, Foursquare declined to offer him a permanent position.
Then one day, he spotted a tweet: "Looking for a business development & product badass," it said.
In early 2010, Graves came aboard as UberCab’s General Manager. "It’s a combination of everything I was looking for," Graves wrote of his new job. "I’ll be working with some of the most bad ass entrepreneurs & investors in the industry… I’ll be at the ground floor of a startup that has the opportunity to change the world. I found the opportunity with a little bit of luck, a little bit of right time & right place, and a lot of hard work and preparing for an unidentified opportunity." The team officially launched UberCab that June in San Francisco, working out of a tiny shared office space.
The app was a sensation, at least among the target demographic of Bay Area techies. Two weeks after it became available in the App Store, UberCab's 10 drivers were doing more than 10 rides per weekend night. TechCrunch co-founder Michael Arrington was an enthusiastic evangelist.
"I can imagine it now – click a button and see a variety of options," Arrington wrote that summer. "A five-star rated driver 15 minutes away in a late model Prius at 2x taxi rates, or a 1975 Camaro 1 minute away with a three star rating for .5x taxi rates. Choose your car, driver and price and get exactly what you pay for. And help break the back of the taxi medallion evil empire."
Shortly after the launch, Graves was named CEO of the fledgling company.
Funders quickly warmed to UberCab, but they didn’t clamor to invest. As early-stage deals go, Uber wasn’t a particularly competitive opportunity. For would-be backers, the two main concerns involved whether it was scalable, and whether Graves, a relatively inexperienced entrepreneur, could run it effectively.
That summer, startup investor and entrepreneur Jason Calacanis hosted an Open Angel Forum event in San Francisco's Dog Patch Labs. The evening was to be UberCab’s big chance to wow investors. The company was seeking a $1 million seed investment — the first round of funding by angel investors — at a $4 million pre-money valuation.
Calacanis told the audience he was investing in UberCab. Then, another hand shot up.
"I'm in for $500,000!" First Round Capital's Chris Fralic proclaimed.
A bystander remembers thinking Fralic was crazy. But his firm had already solidified its investment in Uber in early July.
Rob Hayes, who led the deal on behalf of First Round Capital, knew Garrett Camp from a previous investment in StumbleUpon. He had learned about Uber months prior, when he saw Garrett tweet about it.
Hayes, Fralic, and First Round Capital bet on Graves. But they didn’t realize his brief turn as CEO was soon to come to a close.
RyanGraves.org"Our goal for all UberCab users, called clients, is for you to feel like a baller every time you use UberCab," Ryan Graves wrote in an early UberCab blog post.
Punching the Gas
Ultimately, Uber raised a $1.25 million seed round. First Round Capital was its first institutional investor. Other investors included Chris Sacca, Kalanick's friend, who had organized the Obama Inauguration trip, and Shawn Fanning, who had been Scour's competitor at Napster.
Then, in December 2010, an unexpected change: Kalanick stepped in for Graves as CEO, and Graves became Uber's general manager. The pair made the executive shuffle sound cordial.
"Personally, I'm super pumped about how well-rounded the team has become with Travis on board full time," Graves told TechCrunch.
"This is not a replacement," Kalanick wrote after TechCrunch's story. "This is a partnership between Ryan and me."
Some early Uber employees scoffed when asked if the transition had been pleasant. Others say it was remarkably cordial. "The teamwork and camaraderie that you see in the company today was evident back then when they had like six people," says one person familiar with Graves and Kalanick’s relationship. "They all seemed to genuinely like each other."
While handing over the CEO reins to Kalanick couldn't have been easy for Graves, he made the switch graciously. Transitioning from CEO, "requires a little bit of an ego/gut check," he said in an interview following his move to general manager. "When you spend a year investing yourself in a project, you feel pretty strongly about how it should be run or which direction it should be taken in… When Travis asked me about the transition, I told him I was excited about it. I think he was a little thrown off by that, because very few CEOs embrace their succession plan so willingly."
His calm response to being benched may have saved both his job and his financial participation, now potentially worth tens — or even hundreds — of millions.
A well-placed source says that had he chosen to fight, Graves could have easily become the Noah Glass of Uber.
Who’s Noah Glass? Good question. Glass, the largely forgotten co-founder of Twitter, was fired by former Twitter CEO Ev Williams and had to fight to recover the stock options due him.
"Unlike Noah, Ryan knew his role and knew when more experienced people were needed," said one person with knowledge of the situation. "He played nice in the sandbox and didn't have an ego whatsoever. And he carved out a nice role for himself in the company."
There is absolutely no way this business would have gotten where it is without Travis and his arrogance.
Another person who has worked with Graves agrees. "He's a good guy who works really hard and deserves all the success he has gotten. He's a hustler."
Meanwhile, no one seems to doubt that putting Kalanick in the CEO role was the right move.
"There is absolutely no way this business would have gotten where it is without Travis and his arrogance,"
says an acquaintance of Kalanick's. "Not without him being like, 'I'm going to take over the world.' He has the Steve Jobs mentality that 'It's my way or the highway.'"
Says another person who served on a board with Kalanick: "With Uber, Travis has finally found something to put his fight behind."
Into the Smoke-Filled Rooms
Not long ago, while waiting in the security line at an airport, a tech executive spotted Travis Kalanick.
"Hey, where are you headed?" this person asked.
"Miami," Kalanick replied with a shrug. "Gotta change a law."
For decades, as the digital revolution transformed one industry after another, the taxi and limo business puttered along, rarely showing any interest in innovation (unless you consider the adoption of video in the back seat an innovation). It took a fighter like Kalanick to take on the industry’s entrenched interests and bring a tech-friendly new approach to bear.
Kalanick has forced Uber into 60 cities now, generally by ignoring pre-existing laws and shrugging off the fury of taxi companies. In his wake, a slew of competitors, including SideCar, Hailo, GetAround, and Lyft have followed. Meanwhile, predecessors, like Cabulous (now Flywheel), have largely fallen off the radar.
TwitterUber CEO Travis Kalanick got into a Twitter battle with Lyft CEO John Zimmer over insurance policies. The conversation ended with Kalanick calling Zimmer's company a "clone."
Not that Kalanick has much patience for Uber’s competition. He once went after ride-sharing startup Lyft on Twitter, demanding information about its insurance policy. Kalanick ended the conversation with a dig: "You've got a lot of catching up to do...#clone."
Kalanick's strategy with longtime industry fixtures has been reckless, and effective. He has adopted an aggressive posture, taking Mark Zuckerberg’s credo — "Move fast and break things" — very much to heart. A former colleague equated Kalanick's behavior to "swinging at the hornet's nest," sometimes escalating situations unnecessarily. Three months ago, after receiving one of many "cease and desist" letters, Kalanick posted it to his Instagram account, adding the comment: "Charming greeting card from a taxi cartel representative."
Taxi companies are comprised of some intimidating figures, and they haven't taken too kindly to Uber.
One former Uber employee recalls meeting with some pretty intimidating industry veterans who fit the goombah stereotype: men in their 60s wearing gold chains and rings, delivering threats.
"I can't say [the taxi industry] is actually mafia-run but I was certainly taken out to a lot of really sketchy steak lunches where they'd sit on the other side of the table smoking cigars saying, 'You gotta come into this on our terms or things will happen,'" a former Uber employee recalls. "You know, 'Watch out.'"
New York Taxi and Limousine Deputy Commissioner Ashwini Chhabra, who first met with Kalanick in the fall of 2010 when Uber was preparing to launch in Manhattan, acknowledges Kalanick received a less-than-warm welcome. "Is the taxi industry going to welcome a San Francisco company in with open arms because they want to disrupt the business model?" he asks. "Not by any means. I'm sure everyone they met with was suspicious in the beginning."
Kalanick once lashed out publicly after Chhabra's TLC told him they couldn't allow UberTAXI — Uber’s e-hail service for yellow cabs — to operate in the city. "New York’s TLC (Taxi and Limousine Commission) put up obstacles and roadblocks in order to squash the effort around e-hail," Kalanick wrote in a blog post. "We’ll bite our tongues and keep our frustration here to ourselves."
Instagram/TravisKal"Charming greeting card from a taxi cartel representative," Kalanick wrote on his Instagram account in October.
On the contrary, Chhabra explained, the issue involved pre-existing contracts with companies to provide credit card processing for yellow cabs.
New York is hardly the only city whose officials have bristled at Kalanick’s approach. "I can recall numerous instances where he may have said stuff about regulators in different markets and people took it one way or the other," says Chhabra.
"Their strategy has been 'try and stop us, and if you try and stop us, then we'll cross that bridge when we come to it,'" former Uber New York General Manager Matt Kochman told The Verge. "Discounting the rules and regulations as a whole, just because you want to launch a product and you have a certain vision for things, that's just irresponsible."
That said, the deputy commissioner admits the hard-knuckled tactics can be effective. "That approach actually works if you want to come in and you're challenging an orthodoxy," he says, noting he personally has no hard feelings toward Kalanick or criticisms of his business style. "He's a good and tough negotiator, and when you're negotiating, sometimes there is some posturing on everyone's part, whether it's as the regulator or disruptor."
Another of Kalanick’s signature moves is to enlist passionate residents to rally against authorities. Last week, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where Uber is not available due to a local ordinance requiring town cars to be hired for a minimum of one hour, he launched a Twitter campaign, #VegasNeedsUber, to apply pressure on officials there. The company encouraged citizens to share their experiences with Uber in other cities on social media and demand Uber be allowed in Las Vegas.
Finally, Uber has to worry about its drivers — who are not employees of Uber but instead work independently or for existing car service companies. They've sued the company, threatened to go on strike, and occasionally gotten themselves arrested. On New Year's Eve, a driver associated with Uber hit and killed a 6-year-old pedestrian. Uber said it was sorry for the family's loss but maintained that the driver wasn't running an Uber errand during the accident. It essentially fired the driver, deleting him from its system.
Later, when Uber was criticized for charging fares eight times higher than usual during a snowstorm, Kalanick posted an email from a concerned user to his Facebook page.
"Get some popcorn and scroll down," he wrote.
Lately, Uber's surge pricing model has become a source of contention for new and loyal users. While some agree with Kalanick — that raising fares is the only way to maintain a balance between supply and demand during busy times — others have pointed out that the dynamic pricing scheme challenges users’ faith in Uber at a delicate time for the company. Since Uber makes it clear to users that surge pricing is in effect before they accept rides, it hardly seems fair to blame the company for simply offering a service. And Kalanick doesn’t seem too likely to buckle. He has taunted his critics on Twitter, pointing out the use of such pricing by airlines and other industries. And in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal that seemed to take a less hostile stance, he nonetheless insisted that surge pricing was here to stay.
His Way
For all the controversies that have accompanied Uber’s rise, Kalanick is now routinely touted as one of the world's best entrepreneurs; some have compared him to Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs. Against all odds, he has turned Uber into a $3.4 billion business that customers fiercely love. While a lot of startups have gained popularity — and jaw-dropping valuations — without offering any clue of how they might make money, Uber is already generating impressive results. Leaked revenue figures show the company generates as much as $20 million per week.
FacebookTravis Kalanick, CEO of Uber
Kalanick has worked tirelessly to achieve this success. A friend remembers him spending the majority of a Vegas bachelor-bachelorette party on his phone in the hot tub. But Kalanick's form of hustling also means doing things most people wouldn't: picking fights, bending laws, challenging governments, and throwing tantrums.
His ego is not to everyone’s taste. Casually dropping lines like "VCs ain't shit but hoes and tricks," as he did at Failcon, rubs some in the industry the wrong way.
One investor says his firm passed on Kalanick because he didn't get along with the partners. "He came in like he was God's gift," this person said.
As writer Paul Carr pointed out, Kalanick's one-time Twitter avatar — the cover of "The Fountainhead," Ayn Rand’s libertarian classic about the triumph of a Nietzschean individual, an "ubermensch," over the foolish and short-sighted masses — seemed telling.
And yet for the first time in his life, Kalanick is in a position of real power. He's a perpetual underdog who is finally able to flick off the world. Many interview requests for this story were forwarded directly to him. One high-up venture capitalist, when asked to talk about the CEO, replied simply: "No freaking way." Others who agreed to be interviewed later felt skittish. He's loved, respected, feared, and loathed in seemingly equal measure.
Instagram/TravisKUber is now in 60 cities around the world thanks in large part to Kalanick.
Some wonder if Kalanick, increasingly viewed as a standard bearer of Silicon Valley arrogance, is the right role model for the new generation of entrepreneurs. "If Travis Kalanick is the Michael Jordan poster that young entrepreneurs have hanging on their walls, that's sad," one person said. "Being a jerk isn't 'awesome' or 'badass.'"
"As much as he is inspirational, he’s controversial," a former colleague says. "If he were less brash, I don't think he would get half as far as he did."
Ed Hubbard, who attended UCLA with Kalanick, and later joined Uber as one of its first employees, insists Kalanick will succeed, whether anyone likes it or not.
"There’s a great argument to be made that there are founders with 'special' DNA that makes them some of the world’s greatest leaders," Hubbard says, noting that he borrowed the insight from one of his investors, Bill Burnham.
"The list includes Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. In my opinion Travis is going to be on that list and will be widely recognized among those tech leaders as a peer.
"Maybe he’ll do it with Uber, maybe it will be another company, but I’d bet on Travis any day."
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The Shadow Out of Time indirectly tells of the Great Race of Yith, an extraterrestrial species with the ability to travel through space and time. The Yithians accomplish this by switching bodies with hosts from the intended spatial or temporal destination. The story implies that the effect when seen from the outside is similar to spiritual possession. The Yithians' original purpose was to study the history of various times and places, and they have amassed a "library city" that is filled with the past and future history of multiple races, including humans. Ultimately the Yithians use their ability to escape the destruction of their planet in another galaxy by switching bodies with a race of cone-shaped plant beings who lived 250 million years ago on Earth. The cone-shaped entities (subsequently also known as the Great Race of Yith) lived in their vast library city in what would later become Australia's Great Sandy Desert (Template:Coord).
The story is told through the eyes of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, an American living in the first decade of the 20th century, who is "possessed" by a Yithian. He fears he is losing his mind when he unaccountably sees strange vistas of other worlds and of the Yithian library city. He also feels himself being led about by these creatures and experiences how they live. When he is returned to his own body, he finds that those around him have judged him insane due to the actions of the Yithian that possessed his body. While he was experiencing a Yithian existence in Earth's ancient past, the Yithian occupying his body was experiencing a human one in the present day.
The narrator at first believes his episode and subsequent dreams to be the product of some kind of mental illness. His initial relief at discovering other cases like his throughout history is withered when he discovers that the other cases are too similar to his own to be without a connection. The narrator's dreams become more vivid, and he becomes obsessed with archaeology and ancient manuscripts (as was the Yithian)--but lacks any sort of proof that would demonstrate whether he was (or is) simply mad.
He discovers that the Yithians on Earth died out eons ago, their civilization destroyed by a rival, utterly alien pre-human race described as "half-polypous" creatures, but the Yithian minds will inhabit new bodies on Earth after humanity is long gone. His tenuously held sanity is challenged when he discovers the proof he seeks—and that not only do remains of the Yithians' past civilization still exist on earth, but also still remaining are those who destroyed them. It is also mentioned that the current appearance of the Yithians is not the original, but one acquired during a previous mass-projection of the minds of their race when disaster beckoned, leaving the original inhabitants to die in the bodies of the Yithians.
S. T. Joshi points to Berkeley Square, a 1933 fantasy film, as an inspiration for The Shadow Out of Time: "Lovecraft saw this film four times in late 1933; its portrayal of a man of the 20th century who somehow merges his personality with that of his 18th-century ancestor was clearly something that fired Lovecraft's imagination, since he had written a story on this very theme himself--the then unpublished The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)." Lovecraft called the film "the most weirdly perfect embodiment of my own moods and pseudo-memories that I have ever seen--for all my life I have felt as if I might wake up out of this dream of an idiotic Victorian age and insane jazz age into the sane reality of 1760 or 1770 or 1780." Lovecraft noted some conceptual problems in Berkeley Square's depiction of time travel, and felt that he had "eliminated these flaws in his masterful novella of mind-exchange over time."
Other literary models for The Shadow Out of Time include H. B. Drake's The Shadowy Thing (originally published as The Remedy in 1925), about a person who has the ability to transfer his personality to another body; Henri Beraud's Lazarus (1925), in which the protagonist develops an alter ego during a lengthy period of amnesia; and Walter de la Mare's The Return (1910), featuring a character who seems to be possessed by a mind from the 18th century.
A similar plot was used in the story Les Posthumes (1802) by Nicolas-Edme Rétif, where the character the Duke of Multipliandre has the power to project his soul into other humans and through time and space across the universe. It is not known whether Lovecraft was aware of this.
The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society has produced Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Shadow Out of Time, a Dark Adventure Radio Theatre adaptation of the story, similar to their previous adaptations of At the Mountains of Madness and The Dunwich Horror.
The Shadow Out of Time was adapted by artist Larry Todd as "The Shadow From the Abyss" in Skull Comics #5 (Last Gasp, 1972).
The Shadow Out of Time was adapted by cartoonist Matt Howarth in the book "Graphic Classics: H.P. Lovecraft" Graphic Classics, Volume 4; and is included in both the first (2002) and second (2007) editions.
The Shadow Out of Time was adapted by cartoonist I. N. J. Culbard in a graphic novel of the same time, published in November 2013.
The protagonist of the 2006 first-person shooter game, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is revealed to have been sired by a Ythian who mind-swapped with his father.
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Vacation World employees refused redundancy payment
Jul 4th 2012, 08:40
A bid by former employees of failed travel agency Vacation World to claim unpaid salaries and redundancy pay has been turned down.
The 14-strong agency chain, owned by Stuart Arnott and a member of the Hays Independence Group, ceased trading in May after failing to find a buyer. A total of 55 staff were made redundant, although up to 20 found jobs within Hays Travel.
Employees have received a letter from the government’s Insolvency Service, part of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), indicating that they are not entitled to arrears pay or redundancy pay. They had been advised by Vacation World to apply to the Insolvency Service for their outstanding pay.
In the case of arrears payments, the letter said: “You are not entitled to this payment because we believe your employer is not insolvent …You may wish to consider applying to a court for an order making your employer formally insolvent.
“If you know of any other employees, or creditors of the employer, you may wish to make a joint application, which will help spread the cost.”
The letter added that redundancy payments can only be made from the National Insurance Fund if the employer has refused or been unable to make the payment himself. “As these requirements have not yet been met in your case, in order to obtain payment you should apply to an employment tribunal..”
The agents have been advised to lodge a claim with BIS after Arnott admitted he would be unable to pay their outstanding wages and redundancy payments.
In a letter from Arnott to all staff notifying them of his decision to close the business in May, he said: “It is unlikely that the company will be able to pay your salary from the period from May, in which case you should make a claim for this unpaid salary to BIS.”
An Abta spokesman said: “There is evidence on Companies’ House that this company has applied for a voluntary arrangement which is a clear indication of insolvency. Our advice to former staff would be to go back to BIS and query this decision.”
Stuart Arnott could not be contacted for a response.
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These incredible blackberry chocolate cookie sandwiches actually have a nice story behind them. It all happened by accident and started when Laura forgot some Tupperware at my house after bringing over cheese and crackers for girls night.
The two of us had a double date with our boys the next week, which coincidentally was also the day after I made my Halloween treats. I knew it would be very dangerous to leave all those sinful treats in my house, so I stuffed a few of the treats into the Tupperware before returning it to her.
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Come to think of it, I hope I still fit in my jeans throughout this exchange!
Not only do these cookies look absolutely adorable, but they taste heavenly. The chocolate cookie part simply melts in your mouth with a rich chocolaty flavour! And the purple icing is not due to artificial colours, but rather from 100% real and fresh blackberries!
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Hailing from Nashville, Tennessee, American Bang is the perfect blend of southern rock, country, and hard modern rock. Their unique sound and style is what sets them apart from the other bands out there today. American Bang does not try to imitate anyone, instead they present themselves. That tactic has worked, because their self titled debut album is proof of what a fantastic group they are.
Lead singer Jaren Johnson’s voice is the standout component of American Bang. Johnson has a rock and roll throat with a southern twang that creates melodic, mesmerizing vocals. His talent behind the microphone is amazing and his ability really stands out on songs like “Wild And Young” and “I Wouldn’t Want To Be You”. Johnson’s unique vocal style helps to separate American Bang from the plethora of carbon copied new bands out there.
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“Wild And Young” is one of the best songs on the record and rightfully so. A terrific song about youth, enjoying the best years of your life and living for the moment, “Wild And Young” is a song that just makes the listener happy. Even if you’re crotchety and old, you will find the lyrics emulating from your mouth after a couple of listens. “Wild And Young” is a blazing song.
“Angels” kicks off with nice acoustic plucking and Johnson’s high twanged voice telling us a story. By the time the bridge has completed, we are in love with this song. It has a soft, sweet feel to it that captivates the senses. Angels will be a big radio hit, once American Bang decides they want to release it.
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“Wouldn’t Want To Be You” slows things down again, but not in a ballad way. This song has more of a bounce to it. An excellent groove kicks off the song and carries throughout. The bounce and twang lead into the chorus where the rhythm lifts to a slightly faster level, before settling down to the steady pace of the verse. Reminiscent of early Black Crowes, “Wouldn’t Want To Be You” is southern rock done right.
Overall, American Bang is a stellar debut album by a magnificent band. I see great things in the future for American Bang. They should be around for a while, rocking the masses. Be smart and get in on the greatness early by picking up a copy of their self-titled debut album.
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Mood lighting gives this little room a warm atmosphere although the style is heavily masculine due the sharp lines and black slate tiles. Practical to use, this walk-in shower is however big enough and ideal for the bachelor with the occasional guest.
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Nicola Sacco : Italian Anarchist Activist and Martyr of the State
(1891 - 1927)
Description
Sacco and Vanzetti feared the draft during World War I and in objection fled to Mexico with Sacco's family. When the war ended both returned to their homes. After they returned the two became more active in the anarchist community.
Quotes
"...when a man remains all day long back of these sad bars you feel your mind sometime very tired and exhausted of ideas..."
From : Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti
"So I turn over towards the soldiers and I said, 'Brothers, you will not fire on your own brothers, because they tell you to fire; no, brothers, remember that everyone of us has has mother and child, and you know that we fight for the freedom which is your freedom.'"
From : Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti
"It is very true indeed, what you are saying -- that we can never be good and well again for the future -- as we want to be. No, I guess not: we can never get back that old young energy again, because of these dolorous long years of confinement..."
Nicola Sacco was born in the Southern Itaian small town of Torremaggiore on April 22, 1891. He emigrated to the United States in 1908. Upon arrival he learned the trade of shoe-edge trimming and got a job working at a shoe-company in Milford, MA. He soon married and fathered a son.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti was born on June 11, 1888. The Vanzetti family lived in Northern Italy in the town of Villafalletto. Vanzetti also emigrated to the United States in 1908. He worked as a kitchen helper in NewYork, and after losing his job drifted to Boston where he worked odd jobs and met Sacco.
Sacco and Vanzetti feared the draft during World War I and in objection fled to Mexico with Sacco's family. When the war ended both returned to their homes. After they returned the two became more active in the anarchist community. Vanzetti began reading about industrial society and revolt and both began distributing anarchist and revolutionary literature.
In 1920, the two were charged with robbery of a shoe factory and murder of the paymaster and payroll guard in South Braintree, MA. They were found returning to a vehicle spotted near the scene of the crime; both were armed but claimed that they intended to use the car to distribute anarchist literature. Vanzetti who had already been convicted of a crime was arrested without question.
Their trial lasted six weeks at the end of which, both parties were found guilty. Initially, their trial received little publicity until the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee caused a stir by insinuating that the case was not a legal battle, but an ideological struggle between the jury and Sacco and Vanzetti, who had quite different political views. Ultimately however these claims fell on deaf ears when the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ruled against Sacco and Vanzetti on April 9th 1927. Sacco and Vanzetti's execution date fell on August 23, 1927. While tens of thousands of people protested outside the doors of Boston's old Charlestown prison, Sacco and Vanzetti were executed by electric chair.
Works
Anarchism : Anarchist and Anti-Authoritarianism -- (4,783 Words / 26,305 Characters)
Selected Letters of Nicola Sacco from the Dedham Jail
November 30, 1921. Dedham Jail
DEAR BARTOLO:
Saturday the 26th my Rosie and the children came to visit me, and this
was the first time I seen the children since the time you left Dedham.
You can imagine how happy I felt to see them so joyful and so gay and in
the best of health, if only you could see little Ines. She got so
fat, she is really a dolly, Dante also looks very good. He writes
to me every week. Rosa also looks very good after the operation she
is gaining daily. I feel very good and I don't do nothing but exercise,
read and write. I am very sorry that no one comes and see you, no
one comes to see me neither, but Rosie . . .
... (From : umkc.edu.)
Anarchism : Anarchist and Anti-Authoritarianism -- (2,199 Words / 12,155 Characters)
Selected Letters of Nicola Sacco from the Charlestown
State Prison
July 19, 1927
MY DEAR INES**:
I would like that you should understand what I am going to say to you,
and I wish I could write you so plain, for I long so much to have you hear
all the heart-beat, eagemess of your father, for I love you so much as
you are the dearest little beloved one.
It is quite hard indeed to make you understand in your young age, but
I am going to try from the bottom of my heart to make you understand how
dear you are to your father's soul. If I cannot succeed in doing
that, I know that you will save this letter and read it over in future
years to come and you will see and feel the same heart-beat affection as
your father feels in w... (From : umkc.edu.)
Sacco, Nicola - Sacco and Vanzetti feared the draft during World War I and in objection fled to Mexico with Sacco's family. When the war ended both returned to their homes. After they returned the two became more active in the anarchist community.
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A Few Essays That Worked (And a Few That Didn't) - …
Johns Hopkins University - Essays that Worked
After that experience, my daughter put together her essays easily with my son’s input. She ran them by her college English and History instructors (she went entirely the community college route in lieu of high school). She got into Berkeley – that was her first choice.
Read selected examples of essays that worked, ..
Even though the essay is written by the student and in the student’s voice, these professionals pointed out flaws that needed correction and reinforced the prompt questions.
Gloria Cordes Larson, the president of Bentley University, suggests questions that prospective students might ask to determine if they have found a college that is worth the investment.
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The essay actually does say a lot about him. It shows he is witty, cynical, funny, and creative. It also shows that he is brave, because he is not afraid to break the conventions of a typical college essay. The rest of his application would have said what clubs he was in, his grades, and the rest of the things most people talk about in their essays. I agree that it would likely be obvious if a student were to emulate this style exactly, but claiming the essay “says little about the applicant” is rather naive.
Read College Essays That Worked - SparkNotes
What worked here? I’m told the admissions officers appreciated how the writer conveyed her love of words — and in the process told them much about herself. As a writer, I admired the way she built a sense of mystery at the outset, one that served to draw the reader in.
A bland admission essay can put an overworked college rep to sleep
Other than the most competitive schools is anyone reading the essays?? It seems that a well written essay if accompanied by low standard test scores gets ignored when in fact the essay is a better example of what the student can do. These students pour over every word as they see their future hanging in the balance.Does the admissions committee at University of Maryland actually read the answers to the short answer questions? Do they read the essays?
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Rowling and “Real Freedom?” by David Wallace, and an article titled “The 4-Stage Response to Low Student Achievement” by John Lemuel, all have several aspects of education in common and provide knowledge and inspiration about the real idea and necessity for education.
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I find these examples and the ensuing comments to be an example of just how subjective college admissions officers are when making their decisions. Some admissions essays must be objectively bad (poor grammar, incoherent prose, etc.) and I imagine that some must be objectively good, however, it seems to me that the great bulk lie in the middle. In that middle ground then isn’t the merit of one’s essay inextricably tied to the taste’s of the admissions officers reviewing that essay? Would a brilliant essay by Hunter S. Thompson be tossed out because the reader hated drug use and non-conformity? Would an essay by Tom Wolfe be rejected because the reader hated exclamations? Oh my! Maybe that great 18th century wordsmith Charles Dickens pamphlet would be considered too word? Or Hemingway’s to sparse?
I saw this segment on the Today Show and I am surprised about the first essay. I understand the concept of Glee being a new show and seeming juvenile, but it isn’t. I find the show rather creative for taking older songs, modernizing them, and reintroducing them to a new generation of people. Not to mention it adds new life to a song already loved by the older generation who watch the show as well. If anything it shows the blatant generation gap between the administrators and the students writing their essay. John Lennon was a great artist but it doesn’t mean I’m obligated to be a fan, nor is this student. People should respect the difference of opinion. This student was honest enough to say he/she didn’t like the song and why when performed by John Lennon, but found beauty in the song he/she previously dismissed when performed by a group of deaf children. I think that shows a strong sense of self in the student which was, unfortunately, overlooked.
I find Hermann Hesseâs book, Narcissus and Goldmund, intellectually exciting. After reading the book last year, I remember putting it down and sighing contentedly. I had, after a sleepless night, finally finished. What I reveled in was not the fact that I could sleep, but that I had come away with an inexplicable something. It was not an understanding which could be pinpointed and explained. Rather, it was a sense I felt in the depths of my soul. And yet, what delighted me more was that I knew that I had only begun to understand the book; that there remained countless messages which I could only sense but not grasp. Here, finally, I had a book which could be re-read. And every time I finished, I would come away with a new understanding of something I could not put into words.
Yet, I cannot resign myself to merely studying my own culture and language. I want to be able to apply my knowledge as well. To me, pursuing a career in business is a very pragmatic solution to my future welfare. My father is a businessman in Taiwan and I have had numerous opportunities to watch him work. Through him, I have discovered my own interests in the business field. I find the way business operates in the East to be very exciting. At the same time, my father has soothed my sense of morality by showing me that it is possible to be an honest businessman in Asia.
College Essays That Stand Out From the Crowd
And while it was a great essay at the time and the writer definitely has a sense of humor, we strongly discourage students from writing essays in this style. For one, every single admissions officer — from the ones who are first out of college to the veterans of the departments — will know from where you’re taking inspiration. Also, this essay is kind of mocking the entire college admissions process. The writer is essentially saying that he has done all of these amazing things in life and he hasn’t even yet gone to college. Sure, it’s written tongue and cheek but, at the end of the day, the essay says little about the actual applicant. Because, presumably, little or none of it is true. That’s the whole point.
Funny college essays – International Leadership …
This is a funny read, very clever and just entertaining! If you asked a college coach or anyone else if you should submit this essay, they would say no!!! Maybe he had an equally amazing gpa and perfect sat scores etc….and he had room to take a risk!
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Title: Apple Releases Security Updates for OS X, iOS, and Other Apps.
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Title: Adobe Flash Player Memory Address Randomization Design Error
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Vendor: Adobe
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before 16.0.0.287 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.438 on Linux
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Title: Multiple Vendor Bash Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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after certain malformed function definitions in the values of
environment variables, which allows remote attackers to write to files
or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted environment, as
demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand feature in OpenSSH
sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache HTTP Server,
scripts executed by unspecified DHCP clients, and other situations in
which setting the environment occurs across a privilege boundary from
Bash execution. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete
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ID: CVE-2014-6271
Title: Multiple Vendor Bash Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Multiple Vendors
Description: GNU Bash through 4.3 processes trailing strings after
function definitions in the values of environment variables, which
allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted
environment, as demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand
feature in OpenSSH sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache
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situations in which setting the environment occurs across a privilege
boundary from Bash execution, aka "ShellShock." NOTE: the original fix
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the vulnerability that is still present after the incorrect fix.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
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5 Surefire Steps to Slay your Invisalign® Lab Fees
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As the original Dental Director of SmileDirectClub® and now the founder of StraightSmile Solutions®, I’ve seen a lot of aligner treatment plans. Invisalign® technology is not required for an ideal outcome in all cases. The vast majority of cases can be treated either without attachments or with an off-label aligner company. You don’t need G5 or G6 technology for the average case. The price point of 3D printers and treatment-planning software has come down significantly in the past few years. It’s now affordable for most Dentists and Orthodontists to own their own 3D printer and make aligners in-house for the majority of their cases. Not sure if this would work for you? Check out this Structo® ROI calculator: http://home.structo3d.com/roi-calculator.
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The New Horizons initiative is a platform for excellence in future manufacturing research and teaching. Scheduled to open in 2012, New Horizons aims to transform manufacturing in areas such as biomedicine, transport, aerospace and mineral processing.
Monash Faculty of Engineering.
The initiative will bring together scientists and engineers from Monash University and CSIRO. The facility will co-locate around 300 Monash staff with about 150 CSIRO staff to create globally significant scale, scope and connectedness in an interactive space with an entrepreneurial culture.
Supported by platforms for global research and teaching collaboration through innovative ICT, the facility will generate greater linkages with industry and the community. Further, it has the ability to produce a new generation of leaders that will be unique in receiving an undergraduate and/or postgraduate education that is multi-disciplinary, globally connected, enabled by the latest technologies and underpinned by a productive engagement with industry.
New Horizons will establish the Clayton Innovation Precinct as the most significant technology hub in the southern hemisphere and will unite dispersed science and engineering multi-disciplinary expertise into a new world-class research facility.
The facility will be located at the Engineering Precinct of Clayton campus, immediately adjacent to CSIRO.
The New Horizons Centre at Monash University was funded by the Australian Government through the Education Investment Fund.
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An Israeli court Monday sentenced a firebrand Islamic cleric to 28 months in prison for incitement to terrorism in connection with deadly unrest at a Jerusalem holy site in 2017.
Raed Salah had been convicted by Haifa magistrates' court of "incitement to terror" for "praising, sympathising or encouraging terrorism" in remarks made after attackers killed two policemen on the Haram al-Sharif mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount.
Watch: Israel's counter-terror policy in a nutshell
The deadly July 14, 2017 attack, at the Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem site, was carried out by perpetrators from his hometown of Umm al-Fahm.
His group, the radical northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was outlawed in 2015 for incitement linked to the Jerusalem holy site.
Also read: Israel troops wounded in Jerusalem car-ramming as violence flares
Salah was also found guilty of "supporting an illegal organisation" in Facebook posts from 2015 and 2016, in which he called his supporters to commit "acts of violence or terrorism" while speaking in favour of his movement.
The Haifa court on Monday also noted that 61-year-old Salah made the criminal remarks on three separate occasions following the Jerusalem shooting.
The prosecution was quoted in the ruling as saying that Salah's deeds "harmed the security of the state and its citizens," and considering the preacher's prominence, "have high potential to cause damage".
Salah, an Arab Israeli, can appeal the sentence within 45 days, the court said.
His arrest in August 2017 followed his release from prison the previous January after serving a nine-month sentence on similar charges.
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There may be one or two individuals out there who missed the deluge of articles about what is happening in legal education. Let me bring you up to speed. The recession wrought its fury on the robust pipeline of undergraduate students going to law school, ripping it open and allowing students in that pipeline to spill out and head towards other occupations.
The number of students enrolling in law schools plummeted (25% since 2010). The enrollment drop led to declining law school revenues, which led to cutbacks, changes in standards, and hand wringing. Many in law school administration and especially in the professor ranks were confused. Just because the number of jobs for new graduates had declined, students seemed willing to skip spending $150K (mostly debt) for a legal education. How odd.
There it was, however, in red and white on the ledger sheet. Law school administrators did something. They reduced spending, reduced hiring, and even cut back on professor’s budgets. Many other steps you might expect them to take, they did not. Remember, law school tenured professors run the show on many of those things. You cannot compare what a prudent business executive would do to what a law firm equity partner or tenured professor will do.
Some Of The Shortcomings Of Legal Education
It is difficult to construct a comprehensive list of what ails legal education. Don’t worry, it seems that many would like to take the time to do just that. I’m sure we will see reports years from now analyzing data from today and talking about “next steps.” This is the academic way. Study history and try to explain it. Fortunately, we can cut to the chase and identify those areas where we can make changes now and effect outcomes now. I offer some ideas below, but there are many other worthwhile solutions we could add to my meager list.
Demand. The need for highly paid lawyers has declined. Large law firms, which at one time hired 40% of law school graduates, have shut the door. Clients will not pay for first year lawyers. They also have stopped sending work to law firms. A recent survey showed 75% of corporate legal work is kept in-house (a decade ago, that was around 40%). At lower price points, clients are foregoing lawyers and doing the work themselves. At the individual level, the number of self-represented litigants has increased. We can alter the demand curve by introducing relevance into legal education.
Opportunity Cost. The cost of a legal education remains very high and most students pay with debt. When leaving law school, students may owe as much as $80K to $150K (or more) in loans (the average in 2015 was a bit over $140,000). Theyv also have given up earnings for three years (some earn small amounts during summer employment and through part-time school jobs, but the amount pales when compared to full-time job pay). We can reduce the opportunity cost by offering many degree-career paths through law school (expanding the revenue base) and adjusting law school spending (introducing more co-op possibilities and replacing some clinics).
Preparedness. Doctors exit school with significant experience treating patients, MBAs exit school with significant experience doing analytical work, law students exit school with significant experience reading casebooks. Clinics operate as if we still practiced in the 1960s. Technology is mostly absent and when present focuses on expensive tools most students will never see. Essential skills are not taught (most schools shun anything to do with actually delivering legal services, which happens to be the one thing most students need to learn). We could re-configure classes to combine deep skill learning with theory training (many things covered in class could be done more effectively using outside of class tools).
Innovation. For the 150 years or so, a lawyer could get away with practicing law one way — the old way. As in all other areas of society, technology has changed that paradigm. Modern technologies are taking over legal services tasks, changing pricing structures, and opening new questions in law. Students receive little or no training on how to innovate so their services will remain relevant on leaving law school. What a graduate does today will not be the same as what a lawyer does in five years. We could add innovation training using design thinking and lean thinking and tie that training to real-world projects.
Scope. Go to law school, become a lawyer or a politician. That basic equation is gone, forever. Law school graduates, by choice or by necessity, have been going into a broad range of jobs. The one-to-one relationship between a professional school and occupation is old thinking. The one-to-many relationship reflects reality. Law schools are taking themselves out of the game by defining what they do as teaching students to interpret the law. Clients want problem-solvers, which means students need training on a broad range of problem solving skills. Devoting precious time to teaching students how to navigate the Bluebook only reinforces how out-of-the-loop legal education has become. We could introduce degree and career paths for legal services delivery professionals who want something other than a law degree.
It’s the data, stupid. Lawyers sit in their offices and say, “in my experience.” The rest of the world says, “the data shows…” Modern legal practices combine data analytics with experience. Law schools cling to the idea that crude subjects such as statistics are best left to others. We can introduce in all courses, and add courses focusing on, data understanding and analytics.
Technology. I mentioned tech earlier, but it deserves its own category. Students entering law school in Fall 2017 will get their bar licenses near the end of 2020. Those students learning contracts, torts, property, etc., in September 2017 will start using the knowledge and skills they learn in January 2021 (most swearing in ceremonies will be in September through November 2020). How far will technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence advance during that time? Classes today are already well behind the market. (Indeed, law schools would do well to increase the tech component and attract more STEM students.) How far behind will those students be in three and a half years? We can employ technology in all courses.
What The Experts Say
Law.com asked 11 experts, “what the heck?” They put the challenge formally as “tell us how law schools can make up those recruiting losses and appeal once again to top prospects.” The answers range from realist to “wish upon a star.” They reflect why legal eduction exists in a state of confusion. Some lack any sense of urgency, others are complacent. And some get it and bring the strong message home: things need to change now.
Professors like to joke about the glacial pace of change in academia. The joke is on them. Thanks to global climate change, the glaciers now have academia beat.
All Is Not Lost
Perhaps twenty law schools (about 10% of the 2o5 accredited, non-military law schools) have made efforts to adapt, and the list increases slightly each year. A greater number of schools are experimenting with a course or two. The good news is that law schools can address all of the issues I identified and have impact in short order. They don’t take massive capital investments. Many require an acknowledgment that something needs to be done and the willingness to lead.
Law schools should be a place to try out ideas, to innovate, to challenge, to take some risks. They should be fertile grounds for developing new ways to govern in a world where post-WW II institutions are failing. They should be ensuring that our courts are constantly behind, that our laws out years out of date when enacted, and that laws and lawyers are accessible. Let’s not wait years to try to understand prospective law students made one or two years ago. Let’s start a program of continuous improvement in law schools to fix what we know is wrong.
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Down the Memory Hole, Alan Greenspan Style
by Stephen Lendman / March 23rd, 2009
He’s back and in denial in a March 11 Wall Street Journalop-ed headlined: “The Fed Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble.” He lied, the way he did throughout his career and for 18.5 years as Fed chairman. How else could he have kept the job, be knighted in the UK for his “contribution to global economic stability, wisdom and skill,” then afterwards be extolled by the Money Trust he enriched.
So now he’s preserving his “legacy” by expunging its dark side the way Orwell described in 1984: “down the memory hole,” a convenient slot for “any document…due for destruction,” politically inconvenient truths to be erased to preserve only sanitized versions for the public. It’s called historical revisionism, but even some on the right aren’t convinced.
The Ludwig von Mises Institute is a libertarian research and educational center espousing the Austrian School economics of its namesake. Robert Murphy is one of its adjunct scholars, and in an April 14, 2008 article he asked: “Did the Fed Cause the Housing Bubble?”
“The case…is straightforward,” he stated. “…Greenspan slashed the federal funds target from 6.5% in January 2001 down to a ridiculous 1% by June 2003. After holding rates at 1% for a year, the Fed then steadily ratcheted them back up to 5.25% by June 2006,” a pumping and popping process that “seemed to be more than just a coincidence.” It led to speculative “malinvestments,” then needing a “recession” to correct.
“The Fed’s role in the housing boom and bust is a classic illustration of the Austrian business cycle theory,” according to Murphy. “Indeed, the Misesian explanation is so compelling that more and more economists and financial analysts are being persuaded.” But not Greenspan who made his own case and got the Wall Street Journal to publish it. The problem is what he said, even worse what he omitted.
That as Fed chairman he led a pump and dump scheme, a financial coup d’etat, to defraud the public for Wall Street. It continues unabated, with new schemes, sucking trillions of dollars of wealth from the many to the few through fraudulently engineered housing, asset, and debt bubbles, illegally offshoring vast sums of capital globally, and shifting government assets to private interests, then their liabilities onto the government leaving taxpayers stuck with the bill.
Across the board, his Fed tenure outraged William Greider enough to call him one of “the most duplicitous figures (ever) in modern American government” who used his position to “corrupt the political dialogue” to sell snake oil to Congress and the public and be a willing co-conspirator in the theft of trillions going back to the early 1980s before his Fed days. He championed derivatives, securitization, and deregulation. He believed unfettered markets work best so let them and told a congressional committee in the mid-1990s:
“Risks in financial markets, including derivative markets, are being regulated by private parties. There is nothing involved in federal regulation per se which makes it superior to market regulation.” In other words, let capital operate freely, plunder at will, and have no regulatory restraints regardless of the harm caused.
He sanctioned fraud as a tool of the Money Trust, and as Fed chairman engineered multiple bubbles in stocks, housing, mortgages, bonds, derivatives, currencies, and commodities, yet took no responsibility for the fallout. When asked, he said he has “no regrets on any of the Federal Reserve’s policies that we initiated.” In fact, he championed them.
He let house prices become an $8 trillion wealth bubble, yet had regulatory authority to prevent it. He chided his critics, ignored the public interest, and even encouraged use of risky no down payment adjustable rate mortgages (including subprime ones) at the worst possible time to buy property. He bears full responsibility for the greatest ever economic collapse costing millions their homes, jobs, savings, pensions, and futures — yet he has “no regrets” for any of his actions.
Here’s his account of the housing bubble with a warning to the unwary. Take a strong dose of antacid before reading.
Greenspan admits that “lower interest rates spawned the speculative euphoria (but the) rate that matters was not the federal-funds rate. (It was) the rate on long-term, fixed-rate mortgages…The correlation between home prices and mortgage rates was highly significant, and a far better indicator of rising home prices than the fed-funds rate.”
While it’s true that longer rates affect mortgage ones, as important is how investors view the economy and prospects for inflation. In addition, short rates affect all others. They influence longer rates, including on Treasury notes, bonds and mortgages. Markets set all rates except one, Fed-funds, but it’s the prime mover for others with added power from the central bank’s bully pulpit.
Significant also is the close correlation between mortgage and Fed-funds rates. From 1971-2002, the average spread between them was 2.85%. Thereafter the relationship changed for a reason: because Fed-funds fell so low while mortgage rates bottomed at around 5.75% and didn’t top 6% again until the Fed target rate approached 4%. If a 2.85% spread had held, 30-year mortgages would have been sub-4%. Today at 0% Fed-funds, 30-year fixed-rate mortgages are around 5%, and take note: historically the lowest ever 20th and 21st century mortgage rate was around 4.7% right after WW II.
However, in the wake of the Fed’s announced intention to buy $1.25 trillion in Freddie and Fannie mortgage backed securities, $200 billion in Freddie, Fannie and Federal Home Loan Bank bonds, and $300 billion in longer-term Treasuries, mortgage rates may challenge or even better the previous low.
Greenspan blamed the housing bubble on success, or in his words: “the tectonic shift in the early 1990s by much of the developing world (away) from central planning to increasingly dynamic, export-led market competition. The result was a surge (in growth) that led to an excess in savings.” That, in turn, “propelled global long-term interest rates progressively lower between 2000 and 2005,” and guess who takes credit.
The “Maestro,” of course, with Greenspan quoting Milton Friedman for support. In evaluating the 1987-2005 period, he said: “There is not another period in which the Federal Reserve System has performed so well. It is more than a difference of degree; it approaches a difference of kind.” From one defrocked icon about another, his comment rings hollow, and, according to Catherine Austin Fitts, the evidence is compelling from her experience as an insider.
Replying to the Wall Street Journal, she explained that her “company served as lead financial advisor to the Federal Housing Administration between 1994 and 1997. (She) watched both the Administration and (Fed) aggressively implement policies that engineered the housing bubble,” and gave an example involving securitizing mortgages for pooling, then repackaging and selling them in tranches to investors.
“Even in 1995, (she) could see that these plans would create unserviceable debt loads in communities struggling with” globalization-caused declining incomes. The fallout would be mortgage defaults combined with mortgage-backed securities (MBS) “drain(ing) retirement savings from 401(k)s and pension plans.”
Taxpayers would get the bill “but insiders would make bundle.” She accused an administration official involved in the scheme with “planning on issuing more mortgages than there were houses or residents.” His reply: “Shut up, this is none of your business.”
It gets worse the result of the “long standing partnership of narcotics trafficking and mortgage fraud,” then combining them “to target and destroy minority and poor communities with highly profitable economic warfare. The model is global” and very profitable throughout the world and across America with numerous examples as proof. She cited one.
In October 1996, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) released documents showing evidence of CIA links to the South-Central Los Angeles crack epidemic at least since the mid-1980s, attributable to fund-raising efforts for the Nicaraguan Contras.
Fitts wrote in May 1999 that in December 1997, “the CIA Inspector General delivered Volume I of their report to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence” on the charges. It documented “the continued (money laundered) flow of an estimated $500 billion-$1 trillion a year…into the US financial system.” To placate Waters, Greenspan met with her in January 1998 and “pledged billions (would) come to her district.” It began in February when Al Gore announced it “was awarded Empowerment Zone status…and made eligible for $300 million in federal grants and tax benefits.”
Fitts called Greenspan a “liar” and accused him of being complicit with the Treasury in engineering the housing bubble “as part of a financial coup d’etat” — documented in her writing “Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. (where she served as a Managing Director and Board member) and the Aristocracy of Stock Profits.” She explained how:
America’s aristocracy makes money ensnaring our youth in a pincer movement of drugs and prisons and wins middle class support through (government-funded) contracts for War on Drugs activities at federal, state and local levels. This consensus (is sustained) by the gush of growing debt and derivatives used to bubble the housing and mortgage markets, manipulate the stock and precious metals markets, and finance trillions missing from the US government in the largest pump and dump in history…of the entire economy.
It’s “more than a process designed to wipe out the middle class. (It’s) genocide — a much more subtle and lethal version than ever before perpetrated by” legions of previous scoundrels. She described a process of insider deals designed to:
— hollow out America,
— centralize power and knowledge,
— shift wealth to the privileged,
— destroy communities and local infrastructure,
— create new wealth by rebuilding them, and
— leave human despair in its wake.
It’s no accident that they crushed world economies to enrich the Money Trust, wrecked lives and impoverished millions, and the scheme remains very much ongoing. Yet Greenspan remains unapologetic, indeed smug in his Journal op-ed.
He deflected blame on “global forces beyond the control of domestic monetary policy makers” while claiming that “Global market competition and integration in goods, services and finance have brought unprecedented gains in material well-being.” For whom he wouldn’t say. He didn’t have to, just look at the winners and losers.
Then explain it to the victims, the millions of Americans losing homes, jobs, pensions, savings and futures, the growing numbers with inadequate safety net protection for emergencies. Explain the greatest ever economic collapse, not an accident but willfully engineered, the lack of regulatory restraints that allowed it, and the devastating toll from its fallout.
Tell those affected how “the appropriate policy response is not to bridle financial intermediation with heavy regulation” but free it save for minor reforms too little to matter and simple to remove once the heat’s off. Justify the “ret(ention of) a dynamic world economy capable of producing prosperity and future sustainable growth” based on business as usual policies — ones you describe as not “rely(ing) on governments to intermediate saving and investment flows” but freeing capital to grow more of it to enrich the few at the expense of the rest.
Justify the global economic collapse, the billions harmed, the human misery, and the fear that’s it’s just beginning. Explain how that jibes with democratic freedoms, equal opportunity, and the best of all possible worlds. At age 83 as a prominent figure, a well-paid private advisor and speaker, historical revisionism is how, and let the devil take the hindmost.
For the life of me, when are most going to fess up to their ‘ignorance(arrogance)’ about the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve, like all Reserve institutions are owned by PRIVATE INTERESTS. The Federal Reserve institutions have ALWAYS been in private hands.
When one borrows, the lending institution cares not how you conduct your business, as long as they get their money by Friday.
The [bozos] elected to congress have every right to tell the treasury what to do, after all it is the national bank. But no, the treasury has been usurped by the Federal Reserve to the point that these [bozos] are actually willing to give a private bank more power to control more of the very “For the People, By the People” government. Do everyday average American citizens actually get what the hell is actually going on. Of course not, for the very ‘people’ they “appoint” to take care of business look like truant kids trying to flex their muscles when daddy shows up. These adolescent ‘people’ put on a good show, but know that daddy controls the roof and refrigerator.
The “Corporation of the United States”, based in Washington, District of Columbia is exactly what it is. The “Corporation of the United States” is a private institution. The “Corporation of the United States” is owned by private interests. The “Corporation of the United States” is protected by all “Admiralty/Equity” law practiced by private ‘people’. The “United States of America” has been bankrupt for almost 80 years now. Heck, there is no “United States of America” left. It’s now a figment of one’s imagination.
The Federal Reserve has been advocating global financial integration. What, and no one sees this as bad news. That is like having your credit union, which you are an active member of, being pushed into financial submission by a large institution which is a private investor entity looking only for profit, not social survival.
Embrace your global ambitions which are being heaped upon you whether you like it or not.
The day your children are born into the wasteland you all are creating will be the day your children will eat you alive.
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# www.blender.org
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Quad Cities Mustang Club
MUSTANG ROARS ONTO THE SCENE
The original Ford Mustang debuted on April 17, 1964, at the attractive price of $2,368. Dealers were inundated with requests for the sleekly-styled new vehicle. In Garland, Texas, 15 customers thronged to bid on the same Mustang. The winning bidder resorted to sleeping overnight in his new car so that it wouldn’t be sold out from under him before his check could clear.
Ford initially forecasted annual sales of about 100,000 units. On the first day alone, dealers took 22,000 Mustang orders. Shortly after its introduction, the fledgling vehicle’s success was official when it was featured on the racetrack as the pace car for the 1964 Indianapolis 500. During the Mustang’s first 12 months on the market, sales built to an astounding 417,000. Within two years, sales had catapulted to one million.
“When the Mustang was unveiled, the reaction was so positive that there was no doubt it was going to be a success,” recalls Joe Oros, chief designer of Ford’s original pony car – dubbed the 1964½, because it was launched at an unusual halfway point during the year.
MUSTANG DEBUTS ON THE SILVER SCREEN
Mustangs began making big screen appearances in 1964 and have figured prominently in hundreds of notable films ever since. In 1964, the Bond film Goldfinger was the first movie to show off Ford’s new sporty car, a white 1964 convertible driven by a beautiful assassin. After a brief chase in the Swiss Alps, Sean Connery, in his Aston Martin DB5, shreds the Mustang’s tires and its rocker panel (borrowing a chariot racer trick from the epic film Ben Hur).
DEBUT OF THE 1965 GT350
In 1965, the first Shelby-made Mustang raced onto the scene. It was the first mass-produced car that was officially ready for the racetrack as it was approved by the Sports Car Club of America for class B Production racing. It featured a 289-cubic-inch modified K-Code engine capable of 306 horsepower giving this lightweight car an incredible acceleration. The GT350 Mustang was only available in Wimbledon White with Guardsman Blue rocker stripes.
DEBUT OF THE 1967 GT500
Dubbed the “first car I’m really proud of.” by Carroll Shelby, the 1967 Shelby Mustang GT500 was equipped with the “Cobra Le Mans” engine, a 427 cu. in. V8. It was a grown-up sports car for smooth touring. Just a little over 2,000 of these vehicles were produced making it one of the more valuable and legendary Mustangs out there today. In 2000, the 1967 GT500 was featured in the movie “Gone in 60 Seconds” raising its appeal even further.
V-8 POWER RETURNS AND THE COBRA II JOINS THE LINE UP
In 1975, V-8 power returned to the Mustang. The 302-cid V-8 engine produced a mere 130 horsepower, however, and came only with automatic transmission. An economy option called the “MPG” Stallion was also available.
The Cobra II package joined the lineup in 1976, replete with non-functional hood scoop and racing stripes, as well as front and rear spoilers. Available in white with blue stripes, blue with white stripes, and black with gold stripes, the Cobra II was designed to be reminiscent of the famed Shelby Mustangs.
MUSTANG’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY BRINGS MORE GROWTH AND CHANCE IN THE 80’S
By 1984, Mustang was turning 20, and this special anniversary warranted a commemorative, signature vehicle. A special V-8 powered Mustang GT was created to commemorate Mustang’s 20th Anniversary. It was a limited edition done up in Oxford White with a Canyon Red interior.
THE PUBLIC WEIGHS IN – MUSTANG IS HERE TO STAY
When Mustang’s legacy seemed in jeopardy, a public outcry ensured that the journey continued.
While the Mustang legacy continued to burnish bright from the early to mid-80s, Ford’s product development team was looking for alternatives to the popular Fox-body. By 1987, it was again time for Mustang to evolve with the changing market. Designers gave the Fox-body – the platform introduced in 1979 – a facelift with new “aero-look” design and a 5.0-liter V-8 with 225 horsepower.
“There were people who thought Mustang was headed for the scrap heap,” said Ressler. “Sales were sluggish, and they thought that front-wheel drive modern-looking cars were the wave of the future.” After Ford signed an agreement with Mazda to build the Mazda 626 and MX-6 at a new plant just outside of Detroit, the idea was to use the front-wheel drive Mazda platform as the underpinnings for the “new Mustang.”
“When news came out that the all-American Mustang was going to be based on a Japanese car and built by a Japanese company, plus move to front-wheel drive and again go back to losing its V-8 engine, the nameplate’s legion of fans could hardly believe it,” said John Clor, author of The Mustang Dynasty. “By the time a cover story in AutoWeek magazine hit the newsstands on April 13, 1987 – questioning ‘The Next Mustang?’ – the Mustang-badged Mazda was already the target of a letter-writing campaign launched by the editors of Mustang magazines across the country.”
The public spoke out with a vengeance, and Ford listened. The front-wheel drive Mazda became the 1989 Ford Probe, and the iconic vision of the Ford Mustang lived on.
“It was the only time I can remember in my career when the will of the public affected a major decision in advance of the decision being made,” Ressler said. “They brought about something I thought at the beginning was worth trying but wouldn’t work. But I was enthusiastic. I thought it was crazy to get rid of the only performance rear-wheel drive car we had.”
MUSTANG GETS RACIER
The low-volume 1993 Cobra R – originally developed as a race car – sold out prior to production.
In 1993, Ford’s new Special Vehicle Team (SVT) introduced the limited-production SVT Mustang Cobra, which sported subtle yet distinctive styling cues and performance upgrades. The low-volume 1993 Cobra R, developed to be driven as a race car, sold out prior to production.
In the early 90s, Ressler and a group of performance enthusiasts within the company came up with the idea to build an increased-performance Mustang out of Ford Motorsports performance parts (now known as Ford Racing Performance Parts). Based on the lessons learned from the SVO Mustang program, this group’s goal was to attract driving enthusiasts to the Ford brand.
“It was a confederation of people, all of whom had their own home organizations in different areas within the company, such as Marketing, Engineering, and Product Planning,” Ressler explained. “When we worked together, we described our activities as occurring with the Special Vehicle Team or SVT.”
Ressler confided that many of the projects the team spearheaded at Ford – such as the Mustang Cobra – were not formally approved by upper management. “We just found the money and thought that as long as we were doing things that were good for the company, we were safe not to ask for permission,” he said. “We were prepared to ask for forgiveness, but we never had to.”
MUSTANG GETS A MAJOR MAKEOVER – START OF THE FOURTH GENERATION
A triumphant new design debuts in 1994, and it’s an immediate hit. The 1994 model year marked the beginning of the fourth generation of Mustangs. After 15 years of the same “Fox” platform, enthusiasts were ready for an all-new look and feel – and Ford was anxious to give them what they wanted. “It was a do-or-die situation for Mustang at the time,” recalled William Boddie, then Ford’s program manager for small- and mid-size cars. “A lot of people at Ford thought we wouldn’t make enough money with the Mustang, and they thought we ought to kill it. This was going to be our chance to prove them wrong.” The team’s vision was clear, as Boddie recollected.
35TH ANNIVERSARY MUSTANG SALUTE
Thousands gathered at Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina on Saturday, April 17, 1999, to salute the 35th birthday of the American icon. The 70,000 member Mustang Club of America hosted the weekend show, where Ford Motor Co. unveiled a special 35th Anniversary edition of the 1999 Mustang and a prototype version of the 2000 Ford SVT Mustang Cobra R.
THE 2000 COBRA R
When the 2000 SVT Mustang Cobra R debuted, it was the fastest factory Mustang ever produced. The Cobra R boasted a powerful 5.4L DOHC V8 engine that gave it 385 horsepower. The R was stripped of any stock feature not needed for track use or that would add extra weight. That means no radio and no AC. The 2000 Cobra R was only available in Performance Red for the exterior and Dark Charcoal for the interior. Only 300 units were made making it one of the rarest Mustangs available.
THE 2005 MUSTANG – START OF THE FIFTH GENERATION
The fifth generation of Mustangs was introduced at the 2004 North American International Auto Show. The 2005 Mustang featured styling with nods to the fastback Mustang models of the late 1960s dubbed “retro-futurism” by senior vice president of design, J Mays. This was also the first year that the Mustang was manufactured at the Flat Rock assembly plant. Every Mustang between 1964 and 2004 was assembled at the Dearborn assembly plant.
2007 GT500 – RETURN OF THE SNAKE
The 2007 Ford Shelby GT500 was based on the new S197 Mustang platform and came equipped with a 500 horsepower supercharged version of the 5.4 L V-8. Introduced at the 2005 New York International Auto Show, the 2007 GT500 featured a Tremec TR-6060 6-speed manual transmission, suspension tuning, a body kit and 18-inch wheels.
THE 2010 MUSTANG COVERTIBLE IS RELEASED
With its angled rear corners and sequential turn signal tail lamps, the 2010 Mustang tips its hat to early 60’s cool. Here’s a look at the range of Mustang Convertibles offered through the years – from the sleek 2010 all the way back to 1965.
THE 2011 MUSTANG AND INTRODUCTION TO THE COYOTE ENGINE
Designed to compete with Chevy and Dodge, Ford debuted its own V-8 engine codenamed Coyote. The Coyote engine was designed and built as a Mustang performance engine producing 412 horsepower at 6,500 rpm in the 2011 Mustang GT. In addition to the new powerful Coyote engine, the 2011 Mustang standard engine was replaced with a new 3.7 L aluminum block V6 which weighed 40 lbs less than the previous version. This new engine came with a new dual exhaust and increased MPG performance to 19 city/31 highway.
MUSTANG’S MODERN EVOLUTION CONTINUES
The 2013 Mustang continues to build on excellence by delivering a new exterior design, updated technology, and new driver tools. “It takes the greatness of the 5.0-liter and V6 and pushes refinement to the next level,” says D. Pericak, Mustang chief engineer.
THE MUSTANG CELEBRATES 50 YEARS – START OF THE SIXTH GENERATION
Nearly every inch of the 2015 Mustang is brand new. It’s is much sleeker and European looking, which is fitting since the new 2015 Ford Mustang was destined to sell overseas in Europe, Japan and Australia. However, it still maintains that distinct “Mustang” look, inspired by the past 50 years of Mustang styling. Ford also brought back the fastback styling that was so prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s in the new Mustang.
Included in the premium package were illuminated door-sill plates, an aluminum accent dash panel, aluminum foot pedals, dual zone climate control, ambient lighting, unique premium door-trim, and heated and cooled leather seats. Added technological features for the Premium Package included a nine-speaker sound system with an amplifier, as well as the SYNC MyFord Touch system with 8’’ LCD touchscreen that could be activated with voice commands, the customizable touch screen, or buttons on the steering wheel.
THE 2016 GT350/GT350R AND THE VOO DOO ENGINE
The new 2016 Shelby GT350 featured a 5.2 L flat plane crank V8 engine dubbed the Voo Doo engine which produced 526 horsepower and 429 lb-ft of torque. In addition to the GT350, Ford released the GT350R which featured the same Voo Doo engine as the GT350 but without air conditioning, stereo, trunk floorboard, carpeting, the rear seats and backup camera. Car and Driver named the Mustang Shelby GT350/GT350R one of the ten best cars in 2016.
THE 2018 MUSTANG HAS ARRIVED
The 2018 Mustang gets its first major makeover since 2015 and features a few exciting changes such as a Generation 3 5.0 Coyote Engine, 10 Speed Transmission, Digital Instrument Cluster, Aggressive Front End and Revised Rear Bumper with Quad Exhaust Tips. The 12-inch all-digital LCD cluster allows you to personalize it with three different views: Normal, Sport, and Track. The gauge hues are customizable as well.
THE FUTURE OF THE MUSTANG
The future of the Ford Mustang is looking pretty exciting. 2019 will showcase a couple special nameplates: 2019 Ford Mustang California Special and the 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt. What’s in store after 2019 is anyone’s guess but one thing is certain, the Ford Mustang isn’t going away anytime soon.
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Functional extracellular mitochondria revealed in the blood circulation. ©Alain R. Thierry/Inserm
Does the blood we thought to know so well contain elements that had been undetectable until now? The answer is yes, according to a team of researchers from Inserm, Université de Montpellier and the Montpellier Cancer Institute (ICM) working at the Montpellier Cancer Research Institute (IRCM), which has revealed the presence of whole functional mitochondria in the blood circulation. These organelles that are responsible for cellular respiration had hitherto only been found outside cells in very specific cases. The team’s findings, published in The FASEB Journal, will deepen our knowledge of physiology and open up new avenues for treatment.
Mitochondria are organelles that are found in the eukaryotic cells. A place of cellular respiration, they are the cells’ “batteries” and play a major role in energy metabolism and intercellular communication. Their particularity is to possess their own genome, transmitted solely by the mother and separate from the DNA contained in the nucleus. The mitochondria can sometimes be observed outside the cells in the form of fragments encapsulated within microvesicles. Under certain very specific conditions the platelets are also capable of releasing intact mitochondria into the extracellular space.
The work of a team led by Inserm researcher Alain R. Thierry at the Montpellier Cancer Research Institute (Inserm/Université de Montpellier/Montpellier Cancer Institute) has now revolutionized knowledge of this organelle by revealing that whole functioning extracellular mitochondria are in fact found in the bloodstream!
The researchers used previous findings which showed that the plasma of a healthy individual contains up to 50,000 times more mitochondrial DNA than nuclear DNA. They hypothesized that for it to be detectable and quantifiable in the blood in this manner, the mitochondrial DNA had to be protected by a structure of sufficient stability. In order to identify such a structure, plasma samples from around 100 individuals were analyzed.
This analysis revealed the presence in the blood circulation of highly stable structures containing whole mitochondrial genomes. Following examination of their size and density, as well as the integrity of their mitochondrial DNA, these structures observed using electron microscopy (up to 3.7 million per ml of plasma) were revealed to be intact and functional mitochondria.
Throughout the seven-year research period, the scientists used as many technical and methodological approaches as possible to validate this presence of circulating extracellular mitochondria in the blood.
“When we consider the sheer number of extracellular mitochondria found in the blood, we have to ask why such a discovery had not been made before, notes Thierry. Our team has built up expertise in the specific and sensitive detection of DNA in the blood, by working on the fragmentation of extracellular DNA derived from the mitochondria in particular”, he adds.
But what is the role of these extracellular mitochondria? The answer to that could be linked to the structure of the mitochondrial DNA, similar to that of bacterial DNA, which gives it the ability to induce immune and inflammatory responses. Based on this observation, the researchers hypothesize that these circulating mitochondria could be implicated in many physiological and/or pathological processes requiring communication between the cells (such as the mechanisms of inflammation). Indeed, recent studies have demonstrated the ability of certain cells to transfer mitochondria between themselves, such as the stem cells with damaged cells. “The extracellular mitochondria could perform various tasks as messenger for the entire body”, specifies Thierry.
In addition to its importance to our knowledge of physiology, this discovery could lead to improvements in the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of certain diseases. In fact, the research team is now devoting its attention to evaluating the extracellular mitochondria as biomarkers in non-invasive prenatal diagnosis and cancer.
This research is supported by the Montpellier Integrated Cancer Research Site (SIRIC) (Inserm/CNRS/Université de Montpellier/Montpellier Cancer Institute/Montpellier University Hospital/Université Paul Valéry), funded by Inserm, the National Cancer Institute (INCa) and the Directorate General of Health Care Provision (DGOS).
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/* RetroArch - A frontend for libretro.
* Copyright (C) 2011-2017 - Daniel De Matteis
*
* RetroArch is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
* of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Found-
* ation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* RetroArch is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
* without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
* PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with RetroArch.
* If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
#include <stdint.h>
#include <boolean.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "../../gfx/common/win32_common.h"
#include <windows.h>
#include <commdlg.h>
#include <commctrl.h>
#include "../../ui_companion_driver.h"
#include "../../configuration.h"
static bool ui_browser_window_win32_core(
ui_browser_window_state_t *state, bool save)
{
OPENFILENAME ofn;
bool okay = false;
settings_t *settings = config_get_ptr();
bool video_fullscreen = settings->bools.video_fullscreen;
ofn.lStructSize = sizeof(OPENFILENAME);
ofn.hwndOwner = (HWND)state->window;
ofn.hInstance = NULL;
ofn.lpstrFilter = state->filters; /* actually const */
ofn.lpstrCustomFilter = NULL;
ofn.nMaxCustFilter = 0;
ofn.nFilterIndex = 0;
ofn.lpstrFile = state->path;
ofn.nMaxFile = PATH_MAX;
ofn.lpstrFileTitle = NULL;
ofn.nMaxFileTitle = 0;
ofn.lpstrInitialDir = state->startdir;
ofn.lpstrTitle = state->title;
ofn.Flags = OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST | OFN_HIDEREADONLY | OFN_NOCHANGEDIR;
ofn.nFileOffset = 0;
ofn.nFileExtension = 0;
ofn.lpstrDefExt = "";
ofn.lCustData = 0;
ofn.lpfnHook = NULL;
ofn.lpTemplateName = NULL;
#if (_WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0500)
ofn.pvReserved = NULL;
ofn.dwReserved = 0;
ofn.FlagsEx = 0;
#endif
/* Full Screen: Show mouse for the file dialog */
if (video_fullscreen)
video_driver_show_mouse();
okay = true;
if (!save && !GetOpenFileName(&ofn))
okay = false;
if (save && !GetSaveFileName(&ofn))
okay = false;
/* Full screen: Hide mouse after the file dialog */
if (video_fullscreen)
video_driver_hide_mouse();
return okay;
}
static bool ui_browser_window_win32_open(ui_browser_window_state_t *state)
{
return ui_browser_window_win32_core(state, false);
}
static bool ui_browser_window_win32_save(ui_browser_window_state_t *state)
{
return ui_browser_window_win32_core(state, true);
}
ui_browser_window_t ui_browser_window_win32 = {
ui_browser_window_win32_open,
ui_browser_window_win32_save,
"win32"
};
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Description
In this two-hour workshop, become familiar with Visio 2013's improved user interface while exploring many different types of flow chart diagrams using templates. We will also learn about sending a diagram in an e-mail message or import it into Microsoft Word to include comments and explanations. Additional topics covered will include looking at the different diagrams available such as basic flow charts, cause and effect diagrams, data flow, strategy maps, and more.
Additional Information
Add this class to your calendar:Browse to the WebStore Events Calendar, select your course, select the calendar symbol , select your calendar format, open the file, and save the item to your calendar.
Parking:Parking in the heart of campus is scarce. We suggest that you walk or take public transportation (www.cumtd.com). City meters (restricted to 2 hrs) are available on the street at both locations. There are a few campus meters in the parking lot between Coble Hall and Swanlund Administration Building on John Street and in the parking structure at Sixth & John. There is also a City of Champaign metered lot on the corner of Sixth & Green (east of Legends). Please note that parking fees are the responsibility of the class participant. WebStore is not responsible for parking tickets or towing fees of vehicles belonging to class participants. Please read all parking signs!
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"""
Use this module directly:
import xarray.plot as xplt
Or use the methods on a DataArray or Dataset:
DataArray.plot._____
Dataset.plot._____
"""
import functools
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from .facetgrid import _easy_facetgrid
from .utils import (
_add_colorbar,
_assert_valid_xy,
_ensure_plottable,
_infer_interval_breaks,
_infer_xy_labels,
_process_cmap_cbar_kwargs,
_rescale_imshow_rgb,
_resolve_intervals_1dplot,
_resolve_intervals_2dplot,
_update_axes,
get_axis,
import_matplotlib_pyplot,
label_from_attrs,
)
def _infer_line_data(darray, x, y, hue):
ndims = len(darray.dims)
if x is not None and y is not None:
raise ValueError("Cannot specify both x and y kwargs for line plots.")
if x is not None:
_assert_valid_xy(darray, x, "x")
if y is not None:
_assert_valid_xy(darray, y, "y")
if ndims == 1:
huename = None
hueplt = None
huelabel = ""
if x is not None:
xplt = darray[x]
yplt = darray
elif y is not None:
xplt = darray
yplt = darray[y]
else: # Both x & y are None
dim = darray.dims[0]
xplt = darray[dim]
yplt = darray
else:
if x is None and y is None and hue is None:
raise ValueError("For 2D inputs, please specify either hue, x or y.")
if y is None:
xname, huename = _infer_xy_labels(darray=darray, x=x, y=hue)
xplt = darray[xname]
if xplt.ndim > 1:
if huename in darray.dims:
otherindex = 1 if darray.dims.index(huename) == 0 else 0
otherdim = darray.dims[otherindex]
yplt = darray.transpose(otherdim, huename, transpose_coords=False)
xplt = xplt.transpose(otherdim, huename, transpose_coords=False)
else:
raise ValueError(
"For 2D inputs, hue must be a dimension"
" i.e. one of " + repr(darray.dims)
)
else:
(xdim,) = darray[xname].dims
(huedim,) = darray[huename].dims
yplt = darray.transpose(xdim, huedim)
else:
yname, huename = _infer_xy_labels(darray=darray, x=y, y=hue)
yplt = darray[yname]
if yplt.ndim > 1:
if huename in darray.dims:
otherindex = 1 if darray.dims.index(huename) == 0 else 0
otherdim = darray.dims[otherindex]
xplt = darray.transpose(otherdim, huename, transpose_coords=False)
yplt = yplt.transpose(otherdim, huename, transpose_coords=False)
else:
raise ValueError(
"For 2D inputs, hue must be a dimension"
" i.e. one of " + repr(darray.dims)
)
else:
(ydim,) = darray[yname].dims
(huedim,) = darray[huename].dims
xplt = darray.transpose(ydim, huedim)
huelabel = label_from_attrs(darray[huename])
hueplt = darray[huename]
xlabel = label_from_attrs(xplt)
ylabel = label_from_attrs(yplt)
return xplt, yplt, hueplt, xlabel, ylabel, huelabel
def plot(
darray,
row=None,
col=None,
col_wrap=None,
ax=None,
hue=None,
rtol=0.01,
subplot_kws=None,
**kwargs,
):
"""
Default plot of DataArray using matplotlib.pyplot.
Calls xarray plotting function based on the dimensions of
darray.squeeze()
=============== ===========================
Dimensions Plotting function
--------------- ---------------------------
1 :py:func:`xarray.plot.line`
2 :py:func:`xarray.plot.pcolormesh`
Anything else :py:func:`xarray.plot.hist`
=============== ===========================
Parameters
----------
darray : DataArray
row : str, optional
If passed, make row faceted plots on this dimension name
col : str, optional
If passed, make column faceted plots on this dimension name
hue : str, optional
If passed, make faceted line plots with hue on this dimension name
col_wrap : int, optional
Use together with ``col`` to wrap faceted plots
ax : matplotlib.axes.Axes, optional
If None, uses the current axis. Not applicable when using facets.
rtol : float, optional
Relative tolerance used to determine if the indexes
are uniformly spaced. Usually a small positive number.
subplot_kws : dict, optional
Dictionary of keyword arguments for matplotlib subplots.
**kwargs : optional
Additional keyword arguments to matplotlib
"""
darray = darray.squeeze().compute()
plot_dims = set(darray.dims)
plot_dims.discard(row)
plot_dims.discard(col)
plot_dims.discard(hue)
ndims = len(plot_dims)
error_msg = (
"Only 1d and 2d plots are supported for facets in xarray. "
"See the package `Seaborn` for more options."
)
if ndims in [1, 2]:
if row or col:
kwargs["subplot_kws"] = subplot_kws
kwargs["row"] = row
kwargs["col"] = col
kwargs["col_wrap"] = col_wrap
if ndims == 1:
plotfunc = line
kwargs["hue"] = hue
elif ndims == 2:
if hue:
plotfunc = line
kwargs["hue"] = hue
else:
plotfunc = pcolormesh
kwargs["subplot_kws"] = subplot_kws
else:
if row or col or hue:
raise ValueError(error_msg)
plotfunc = hist
kwargs["ax"] = ax
return plotfunc(darray, **kwargs)
# This function signature should not change so that it can use
# matplotlib format strings
def line(
darray,
*args,
row=None,
col=None,
figsize=None,
aspect=None,
size=None,
ax=None,
hue=None,
x=None,
y=None,
xincrease=None,
yincrease=None,
xscale=None,
yscale=None,
xticks=None,
yticks=None,
xlim=None,
ylim=None,
add_legend=True,
_labels=True,
**kwargs,
):
"""
Line plot of DataArray index against values
Wraps :func:`matplotlib:matplotlib.pyplot.plot`
Parameters
----------
darray : DataArray
Must be 1 dimensional
figsize : tuple, optional
A tuple (width, height) of the figure in inches.
Mutually exclusive with ``size`` and ``ax``.
aspect : scalar, optional
Aspect ratio of plot, so that ``aspect * size`` gives the width in
inches. Only used if a ``size`` is provided.
size : scalar, optional
If provided, create a new figure for the plot with the given size.
Height (in inches) of each plot. See also: ``aspect``.
ax : matplotlib axes object, optional
Axis on which to plot this figure. By default, use the current axis.
Mutually exclusive with ``size`` and ``figsize``.
hue : string, optional
Dimension or coordinate for which you want multiple lines plotted.
If plotting against a 2D coordinate, ``hue`` must be a dimension.
x, y : string, optional
Dimension, coordinate or MultiIndex level for x, y axis.
Only one of these may be specified.
The other coordinate plots values from the DataArray on which this
plot method is called.
xscale, yscale : 'linear', 'symlog', 'log', 'logit', optional
Specifies scaling for the x- and y-axes respectively
xticks, yticks : Specify tick locations for x- and y-axes
xlim, ylim : Specify x- and y-axes limits
xincrease : None, True, or False, optional
Should the values on the x axes be increasing from left to right?
if None, use the default for the matplotlib function.
yincrease : None, True, or False, optional
Should the values on the y axes be increasing from top to bottom?
if None, use the default for the matplotlib function.
add_legend : bool, optional
Add legend with y axis coordinates (2D inputs only).
*args, **kwargs : optional
Additional arguments to matplotlib.pyplot.plot
"""
# Handle facetgrids first
if row or col:
allargs = locals().copy()
allargs.update(allargs.pop("kwargs"))
allargs.pop("darray")
return _easy_facetgrid(darray, line, kind="line", **allargs)
ndims = len(darray.dims)
if ndims > 2:
raise ValueError(
"Line plots are for 1- or 2-dimensional DataArrays. "
"Passed DataArray has {ndims} "
"dimensions".format(ndims=ndims)
)
# The allargs dict passed to _easy_facetgrid above contains args
if args == ():
args = kwargs.pop("args", ())
else:
assert "args" not in kwargs
ax = get_axis(figsize, size, aspect, ax)
xplt, yplt, hueplt, xlabel, ylabel, hue_label = _infer_line_data(darray, x, y, hue)
# Remove pd.Intervals if contained in xplt.values and/or yplt.values.
xplt_val, yplt_val, xlabel, ylabel, kwargs = _resolve_intervals_1dplot(
xplt.values, yplt.values, xlabel, ylabel, kwargs
)
_ensure_plottable(xplt_val, yplt_val)
primitive = ax.plot(xplt_val, yplt_val, *args, **kwargs)
if _labels:
if xlabel is not None:
ax.set_xlabel(xlabel)
if ylabel is not None:
ax.set_ylabel(ylabel)
ax.set_title(darray._title_for_slice())
if darray.ndim == 2 and add_legend:
ax.legend(handles=primitive, labels=list(hueplt.values), title=hue_label)
# Rotate dates on xlabels
# Do this without calling autofmt_xdate so that x-axes ticks
# on other subplots (if any) are not deleted.
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17430105/autofmt-xdate-deletes-x-axis-labels-of-all-subplots
if np.issubdtype(xplt.dtype, np.datetime64):
for xlabels in ax.get_xticklabels():
xlabels.set_rotation(30)
xlabels.set_ha("right")
_update_axes(ax, xincrease, yincrease, xscale, yscale, xticks, yticks, xlim, ylim)
return primitive
def step(darray, *args, where="pre", drawstyle=None, ds=None, **kwargs):
"""
Step plot of DataArray index against values
Similar to :func:`matplotlib:matplotlib.pyplot.step`
Parameters
----------
where : {"pre", "post", "mid"}, default: "pre"
Define where the steps should be placed:
- "pre": The y value is continued constantly to the left from
every *x* position, i.e. the interval ``(x[i-1], x[i]]`` has the
value ``y[i]``.
- "post": The y value is continued constantly to the right from
every *x* position, i.e. the interval ``[x[i], x[i+1])`` has the
value ``y[i]``.
- "mid": Steps occur half-way between the *x* positions.
Note that this parameter is ignored if one coordinate consists of
:py:func:`pandas.Interval` values, e.g. as a result of
:py:func:`xarray.Dataset.groupby_bins`. In this case, the actual
boundaries of the interval are used.
*args, **kwargs : optional
Additional arguments following :py:func:`xarray.plot.line`
"""
if where not in {"pre", "post", "mid"}:
raise ValueError("'where' argument to step must be " "'pre', 'post' or 'mid'")
if ds is not None:
if drawstyle is None:
drawstyle = ds
else:
raise TypeError("ds and drawstyle are mutually exclusive")
if drawstyle is None:
drawstyle = ""
drawstyle = "steps-" + where + drawstyle
return line(darray, *args, drawstyle=drawstyle, **kwargs)
def hist(
darray,
figsize=None,
size=None,
aspect=None,
ax=None,
xincrease=None,
yincrease=None,
xscale=None,
yscale=None,
xticks=None,
yticks=None,
xlim=None,
ylim=None,
**kwargs,
):
"""
Histogram of DataArray
Wraps :func:`matplotlib:matplotlib.pyplot.hist`
Plots N dimensional arrays by first flattening the array.
Parameters
----------
darray : DataArray
Can be any dimension
figsize : tuple, optional
A tuple (width, height) of the figure in inches.
Mutually exclusive with ``size`` and ``ax``.
aspect : scalar, optional
Aspect ratio of plot, so that ``aspect * size`` gives the width in
inches. Only used if a ``size`` is provided.
size : scalar, optional
If provided, create a new figure for the plot with the given size.
Height (in inches) of each plot. See also: ``aspect``.
ax : matplotlib.axes.Axes, optional
Axis on which to plot this figure. By default, use the current axis.
Mutually exclusive with ``size`` and ``figsize``.
**kwargs : optional
Additional keyword arguments to matplotlib.pyplot.hist
"""
ax = get_axis(figsize, size, aspect, ax)
no_nan = np.ravel(darray.values)
no_nan = no_nan[pd.notnull(no_nan)]
primitive = ax.hist(no_nan, **kwargs)
ax.set_title("Histogram")
ax.set_xlabel(label_from_attrs(darray))
_update_axes(ax, xincrease, yincrease, xscale, yscale, xticks, yticks, xlim, ylim)
return primitive
# MUST run before any 2d plotting functions are defined since
# _plot2d decorator adds them as methods here.
class _PlotMethods:
"""
Enables use of xarray.plot functions as attributes on a DataArray.
For example, DataArray.plot.imshow
"""
__slots__ = ("_da",)
def __init__(self, darray):
self._da = darray
def __call__(self, **kwargs):
return plot(self._da, **kwargs)
# we can't use functools.wraps here since that also modifies the name / qualname
__doc__ = __call__.__doc__ = plot.__doc__
__call__.__wrapped__ = plot # type: ignore
__call__.__annotations__ = plot.__annotations__
@functools.wraps(hist)
def hist(self, ax=None, **kwargs):
return hist(self._da, ax=ax, **kwargs)
@functools.wraps(line)
def line(self, *args, **kwargs):
return line(self._da, *args, **kwargs)
@functools.wraps(step)
def step(self, *args, **kwargs):
return step(self._da, *args, **kwargs)
def override_signature(f):
def wrapper(func):
func.__wrapped__ = f
return func
return wrapper
def _plot2d(plotfunc):
"""
Decorator for common 2d plotting logic
Also adds the 2d plot method to class _PlotMethods
"""
commondoc = """
Parameters
----------
darray : DataArray
Must be 2 dimensional, unless creating faceted plots
x : string, optional
Coordinate for x axis. If None use darray.dims[1]
y : string, optional
Coordinate for y axis. If None use darray.dims[0]
figsize : tuple, optional
A tuple (width, height) of the figure in inches.
Mutually exclusive with ``size`` and ``ax``.
aspect : scalar, optional
Aspect ratio of plot, so that ``aspect * size`` gives the width in
inches. Only used if a ``size`` is provided.
size : scalar, optional
If provided, create a new figure for the plot with the given size.
Height (in inches) of each plot. See also: ``aspect``.
ax : matplotlib axes object, optional
Axis on which to plot this figure. By default, use the current axis.
Mutually exclusive with ``size`` and ``figsize``.
row : string, optional
If passed, make row faceted plots on this dimension name
col : string, optional
If passed, make column faceted plots on this dimension name
col_wrap : int, optional
Use together with ``col`` to wrap faceted plots
xscale, yscale : 'linear', 'symlog', 'log', 'logit', optional
Specifies scaling for the x- and y-axes respectively
xticks, yticks : Specify tick locations for x- and y-axes
xlim, ylim : Specify x- and y-axes limits
xincrease : None, True, or False, optional
Should the values on the x axes be increasing from left to right?
if None, use the default for the matplotlib function.
yincrease : None, True, or False, optional
Should the values on the y axes be increasing from top to bottom?
if None, use the default for the matplotlib function.
add_colorbar : bool, optional
Adds colorbar to axis
add_labels : bool, optional
Use xarray metadata to label axes
norm : ``matplotlib.colors.Normalize`` instance, optional
If the ``norm`` has vmin or vmax specified, the corresponding kwarg
must be None.
vmin, vmax : floats, optional
Values to anchor the colormap, otherwise they are inferred from the
data and other keyword arguments. When a diverging dataset is inferred,
setting one of these values will fix the other by symmetry around
``center``. Setting both values prevents use of a diverging colormap.
If discrete levels are provided as an explicit list, both of these
values are ignored.
cmap : matplotlib colormap name or object, optional
The mapping from data values to color space. If not provided, this
will be either be ``viridis`` (if the function infers a sequential
dataset) or ``RdBu_r`` (if the function infers a diverging dataset).
When `Seaborn` is installed, ``cmap`` may also be a `seaborn`
color palette. If ``cmap`` is seaborn color palette and the plot type
is not ``contour`` or ``contourf``, ``levels`` must also be specified.
colors : discrete colors to plot, optional
A single color or a list of colors. If the plot type is not ``contour``
or ``contourf``, the ``levels`` argument is required.
center : float, optional
The value at which to center the colormap. Passing this value implies
use of a diverging colormap. Setting it to ``False`` prevents use of a
diverging colormap.
robust : bool, optional
If True and ``vmin`` or ``vmax`` are absent, the colormap range is
computed with 2nd and 98th percentiles instead of the extreme values.
extend : {"neither", "both", "min", "max"}, optional
How to draw arrows extending the colorbar beyond its limits. If not
provided, extend is inferred from vmin, vmax and the data limits.
levels : int or list-like object, optional
Split the colormap (cmap) into discrete color intervals. If an integer
is provided, "nice" levels are chosen based on the data range: this can
imply that the final number of levels is not exactly the expected one.
Setting ``vmin`` and/or ``vmax`` with ``levels=N`` is equivalent to
setting ``levels=np.linspace(vmin, vmax, N)``.
infer_intervals : bool, optional
Only applies to pcolormesh. If True, the coordinate intervals are
passed to pcolormesh. If False, the original coordinates are used
(this can be useful for certain map projections). The default is to
always infer intervals, unless the mesh is irregular and plotted on
a map projection.
subplot_kws : dict, optional
Dictionary of keyword arguments for matplotlib subplots. Only used
for 2D and FacetGrid plots.
cbar_ax : matplotlib Axes, optional
Axes in which to draw the colorbar.
cbar_kwargs : dict, optional
Dictionary of keyword arguments to pass to the colorbar.
**kwargs : optional
Additional arguments to wrapped matplotlib function
Returns
-------
artist :
The same type of primitive artist that the wrapped matplotlib
function returns
"""
# Build on the original docstring
plotfunc.__doc__ = f"{plotfunc.__doc__}\n{commondoc}"
# plotfunc and newplotfunc have different signatures:
# - plotfunc: (x, y, z, ax, **kwargs)
# - newplotfunc: (darray, x, y, **kwargs)
# where plotfunc accepts numpy arrays, while newplotfunc accepts a DataArray
# and variable names. newplotfunc also explicitly lists most kwargs, so we
# need to shorten it
def signature(darray, x, y, **kwargs):
pass
@override_signature(signature)
@functools.wraps(plotfunc)
def newplotfunc(
darray,
x=None,
y=None,
figsize=None,
size=None,
aspect=None,
ax=None,
row=None,
col=None,
col_wrap=None,
xincrease=True,
yincrease=True,
add_colorbar=None,
add_labels=True,
vmin=None,
vmax=None,
cmap=None,
center=None,
robust=False,
extend=None,
levels=None,
infer_intervals=None,
colors=None,
subplot_kws=None,
cbar_ax=None,
cbar_kwargs=None,
xscale=None,
yscale=None,
xticks=None,
yticks=None,
xlim=None,
ylim=None,
norm=None,
**kwargs,
):
# All 2d plots in xarray share this function signature.
# Method signature below should be consistent.
# Decide on a default for the colorbar before facetgrids
if add_colorbar is None:
add_colorbar = plotfunc.__name__ != "contour"
imshow_rgb = plotfunc.__name__ == "imshow" and darray.ndim == (
3 + (row is not None) + (col is not None)
)
if imshow_rgb:
# Don't add a colorbar when showing an image with explicit colors
add_colorbar = False
# Matplotlib does not support normalising RGB data, so do it here.
# See eg. https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/10220
if robust or vmax is not None or vmin is not None:
darray = _rescale_imshow_rgb(darray, vmin, vmax, robust)
vmin, vmax, robust = None, None, False
# Handle facetgrids first
if row or col:
allargs = locals().copy()
del allargs["darray"]
del allargs["imshow_rgb"]
allargs.update(allargs.pop("kwargs"))
# Need the decorated plotting function
allargs["plotfunc"] = globals()[plotfunc.__name__]
return _easy_facetgrid(darray, kind="dataarray", **allargs)
plt = import_matplotlib_pyplot()
rgb = kwargs.pop("rgb", None)
if rgb is not None and plotfunc.__name__ != "imshow":
raise ValueError('The "rgb" keyword is only valid for imshow()')
elif rgb is not None and not imshow_rgb:
raise ValueError(
'The "rgb" keyword is only valid for imshow()'
"with a three-dimensional array (per facet)"
)
xlab, ylab = _infer_xy_labels(
darray=darray, x=x, y=y, imshow=imshow_rgb, rgb=rgb
)
# better to pass the ndarrays directly to plotting functions
xval = darray[xlab].values
yval = darray[ylab].values
# check if we need to broadcast one dimension
if xval.ndim < yval.ndim:
dims = darray[ylab].dims
if xval.shape[0] == yval.shape[0]:
xval = np.broadcast_to(xval[:, np.newaxis], yval.shape)
else:
xval = np.broadcast_to(xval[np.newaxis, :], yval.shape)
elif yval.ndim < xval.ndim:
dims = darray[xlab].dims
if yval.shape[0] == xval.shape[0]:
yval = np.broadcast_to(yval[:, np.newaxis], xval.shape)
else:
yval = np.broadcast_to(yval[np.newaxis, :], xval.shape)
elif xval.ndim == 2:
dims = darray[xlab].dims
else:
dims = (darray[ylab].dims[0], darray[xlab].dims[0])
# May need to transpose for correct x, y labels
# xlab may be the name of a coord, we have to check for dim names
if imshow_rgb:
# For RGB[A] images, matplotlib requires the color dimension
# to be last. In Xarray the order should be unimportant, so
# we transpose to (y, x, color) to make this work.
yx_dims = (ylab, xlab)
dims = yx_dims + tuple(d for d in darray.dims if d not in yx_dims)
if dims != darray.dims:
darray = darray.transpose(*dims, transpose_coords=True)
# Pass the data as a masked ndarray too
zval = darray.to_masked_array(copy=False)
# Replace pd.Intervals if contained in xval or yval.
xplt, xlab_extra = _resolve_intervals_2dplot(xval, plotfunc.__name__)
yplt, ylab_extra = _resolve_intervals_2dplot(yval, plotfunc.__name__)
_ensure_plottable(xplt, yplt, zval)
cmap_params, cbar_kwargs = _process_cmap_cbar_kwargs(
plotfunc,
zval.data,
**locals(),
_is_facetgrid=kwargs.pop("_is_facetgrid", False),
)
if "contour" in plotfunc.__name__:
# extend is a keyword argument only for contour and contourf, but
# passing it to the colorbar is sufficient for imshow and
# pcolormesh
kwargs["extend"] = cmap_params["extend"]
kwargs["levels"] = cmap_params["levels"]
# if colors == a single color, matplotlib draws dashed negative
# contours. we lose this feature if we pass cmap and not colors
if isinstance(colors, str):
cmap_params["cmap"] = None
kwargs["colors"] = colors
if "pcolormesh" == plotfunc.__name__:
kwargs["infer_intervals"] = infer_intervals
if "imshow" == plotfunc.__name__ and isinstance(aspect, str):
# forbid usage of mpl strings
raise ValueError("plt.imshow's `aspect` kwarg is not available in xarray")
if subplot_kws is None:
subplot_kws = dict()
ax = get_axis(figsize, size, aspect, ax, **subplot_kws)
primitive = plotfunc(
xplt,
yplt,
zval,
ax=ax,
cmap=cmap_params["cmap"],
vmin=cmap_params["vmin"],
vmax=cmap_params["vmax"],
norm=cmap_params["norm"],
**kwargs,
)
# Label the plot with metadata
if add_labels:
ax.set_xlabel(label_from_attrs(darray[xlab], xlab_extra))
ax.set_ylabel(label_from_attrs(darray[ylab], ylab_extra))
ax.set_title(darray._title_for_slice())
if add_colorbar:
if add_labels and "label" not in cbar_kwargs:
cbar_kwargs["label"] = label_from_attrs(darray)
cbar = _add_colorbar(primitive, ax, cbar_ax, cbar_kwargs, cmap_params)
elif cbar_ax is not None or cbar_kwargs:
# inform the user about keywords which aren't used
raise ValueError(
"cbar_ax and cbar_kwargs can't be used with add_colorbar=False."
)
# origin kwarg overrides yincrease
if "origin" in kwargs:
yincrease = None
_update_axes(
ax, xincrease, yincrease, xscale, yscale, xticks, yticks, xlim, ylim
)
# Rotate dates on xlabels
# Do this without calling autofmt_xdate so that x-axes ticks
# on other subplots (if any) are not deleted.
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17430105/autofmt-xdate-deletes-x-axis-labels-of-all-subplots
if np.issubdtype(xplt.dtype, np.datetime64):
for xlabels in ax.get_xticklabels():
xlabels.set_rotation(30)
xlabels.set_ha("right")
return primitive
# For use as DataArray.plot.plotmethod
@functools.wraps(newplotfunc)
def plotmethod(
_PlotMethods_obj,
x=None,
y=None,
figsize=None,
size=None,
aspect=None,
ax=None,
row=None,
col=None,
col_wrap=None,
xincrease=True,
yincrease=True,
add_colorbar=None,
add_labels=True,
vmin=None,
vmax=None,
cmap=None,
colors=None,
center=None,
robust=False,
extend=None,
levels=None,
infer_intervals=None,
subplot_kws=None,
cbar_ax=None,
cbar_kwargs=None,
xscale=None,
yscale=None,
xticks=None,
yticks=None,
xlim=None,
ylim=None,
norm=None,
**kwargs,
):
"""
The method should have the same signature as the function.
This just makes the method work on Plotmethods objects,
and passes all the other arguments straight through.
"""
allargs = locals()
allargs["darray"] = _PlotMethods_obj._da
allargs.update(kwargs)
for arg in ["_PlotMethods_obj", "newplotfunc", "kwargs"]:
del allargs[arg]
return newplotfunc(**allargs)
# Add to class _PlotMethods
setattr(_PlotMethods, plotmethod.__name__, plotmethod)
return newplotfunc
@_plot2d
def imshow(x, y, z, ax, **kwargs):
"""
Image plot of 2d DataArray using matplotlib.pyplot
Wraps :func:`matplotlib:matplotlib.pyplot.imshow`
While other plot methods require the DataArray to be strictly
two-dimensional, ``imshow`` also accepts a 3D array where some
dimension can be interpreted as RGB or RGBA color channels and
allows this dimension to be specified via the kwarg ``rgb=``.
Unlike matplotlib, Xarray can apply ``vmin`` and ``vmax`` to RGB or RGBA
data, by applying a single scaling factor and offset to all bands.
Passing ``robust=True`` infers ``vmin`` and ``vmax``
:ref:`in the usual way <robust-plotting>`.
.. note::
This function needs uniformly spaced coordinates to
properly label the axes. Call DataArray.plot() to check.
The pixels are centered on the coordinates values. Ie, if the coordinate
value is 3.2 then the pixels for those coordinates will be centered on 3.2.
"""
if x.ndim != 1 or y.ndim != 1:
raise ValueError(
"imshow requires 1D coordinates, try using " "pcolormesh or contour(f)"
)
# Centering the pixels- Assumes uniform spacing
try:
xstep = (x[1] - x[0]) / 2.0
except IndexError:
# Arbitrary default value, similar to matplotlib behaviour
xstep = 0.1
try:
ystep = (y[1] - y[0]) / 2.0
except IndexError:
ystep = 0.1
left, right = x[0] - xstep, x[-1] + xstep
bottom, top = y[-1] + ystep, y[0] - ystep
defaults = {"origin": "upper", "interpolation": "nearest"}
if not hasattr(ax, "projection"):
# not for cartopy geoaxes
defaults["aspect"] = "auto"
# Allow user to override these defaults
defaults.update(kwargs)
if defaults["origin"] == "upper":
defaults["extent"] = [left, right, bottom, top]
else:
defaults["extent"] = [left, right, top, bottom]
if z.ndim == 3:
# matplotlib imshow uses black for missing data, but Xarray makes
# missing data transparent. We therefore add an alpha channel if
# there isn't one, and set it to transparent where data is masked.
if z.shape[-1] == 3:
alpha = np.ma.ones(z.shape[:2] + (1,), dtype=z.dtype)
if np.issubdtype(z.dtype, np.integer):
alpha *= 255
z = np.ma.concatenate((z, alpha), axis=2)
else:
z = z.copy()
z[np.any(z.mask, axis=-1), -1] = 0
primitive = ax.imshow(z, **defaults)
return primitive
@_plot2d
def contour(x, y, z, ax, **kwargs):
"""
Contour plot of 2d DataArray
Wraps :func:`matplotlib:matplotlib.pyplot.contour`
"""
primitive = ax.contour(x, y, z, **kwargs)
return primitive
@_plot2d
def contourf(x, y, z, ax, **kwargs):
"""
Filled contour plot of 2d DataArray
Wraps :func:`matplotlib:matplotlib.pyplot.contourf`
"""
primitive = ax.contourf(x, y, z, **kwargs)
return primitive
@_plot2d
def pcolormesh(x, y, z, ax, infer_intervals=None, **kwargs):
"""
Pseudocolor plot of 2d DataArray
Wraps :func:`matplotlib:matplotlib.pyplot.pcolormesh`
"""
# decide on a default for infer_intervals (GH781)
x = np.asarray(x)
if infer_intervals is None:
if hasattr(ax, "projection"):
if len(x.shape) == 1:
infer_intervals = True
else:
infer_intervals = False
else:
infer_intervals = True
if infer_intervals and (
(np.shape(x)[0] == np.shape(z)[1])
or ((x.ndim > 1) and (np.shape(x)[1] == np.shape(z)[1]))
):
if len(x.shape) == 1:
x = _infer_interval_breaks(x, check_monotonic=True)
else:
# we have to infer the intervals on both axes
x = _infer_interval_breaks(x, axis=1)
x = _infer_interval_breaks(x, axis=0)
if infer_intervals and (np.shape(y)[0] == np.shape(z)[0]):
if len(y.shape) == 1:
y = _infer_interval_breaks(y, check_monotonic=True)
else:
# we have to infer the intervals on both axes
y = _infer_interval_breaks(y, axis=1)
y = _infer_interval_breaks(y, axis=0)
primitive = ax.pcolormesh(x, y, z, **kwargs)
# by default, pcolormesh picks "round" values for bounds
# this results in ugly looking plots with lots of surrounding whitespace
if not hasattr(ax, "projection") and x.ndim == 1 and y.ndim == 1:
# not a cartopy geoaxis
ax.set_xlim(x[0], x[-1])
ax.set_ylim(y[0], y[-1])
return primitive
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The current family I'm with I have known for 3 years and I taught their oldest, 6 year old girl, for 2 years. They have 6G and 4G. The 4 year old has some pretty intense undiagnosed behavior issues. M and D are kinda tip toe-ing around getting an evaluation. Both preschool and myself have given them resources both written and in the community they can look into. Currently I am watching 6G and 4G 5 days a week. M works from home Monday and Friday. I am having a few issues and I could use some advice. 4G can be violent during her fits. Throwing, hitting and kicking. Making verbal threats.
I nanny for a little girl who is 20 months. She started hitting about two months ago. When she gets mad about a choice that I make for her or when I take something away she will smack me. She has also been doing this with her parents and her brother. We have been putting her in a one minute time out and talking to her about how hitting isn't okay, but it seems to be ineffective. Does anyone have any other suggestions for us?
Hi everyone! I have worked for the same family since the 3 year old was about 5 months old. His mother has the mindset of " raising a mindful child ". His 5 year old sister has CF and gets extra attention often from her parents and doctors. She also has temper problems however my issue right now is with her brother. I am working full time this summer, which means I regularly work 10-11 hours shifts 5 days a week. For the last few weeks, when I come over, he says he hates me. Right in front of his mom and yesterday he said it and then hit me in the stomach.
Hi everyone! I have worked for the same family since the 3 year old was about 5 months old. His mother has the mindset of " raising a mindful child ". His 5 year old sister has CF and gets extra attention often from her parents and doctors. She also has temper problems however my issue right now is with her brother. I am working full time this summer, which means I regularly work 10-11 hours shifts 5 days a week. For the last few weeks, when I come over, he says he hates me. Right in front of his mom and yesterday he said it and then hit me in the stomach.
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So, the two year old I nanny is non-verbal (no developmental delays, she just refuses to speak and only learns words if she wants to - she uses maybe ten words total and doesn't even say them fully). Her parents give into her all the time and call her the baby. She has a 4 year old sister and 7 year old brother, so not a single child.
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*
* Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
*
* This source code is subject to terms and conditions of the Apache License, Version 2.0. A
* copy of the license can be found in the License.html file at the root of this distribution. If
* you cannot locate the Apache License, Version 2.0, please send an email to
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using System.Diagnostics;
namespace System.Management.Automation.Interpreter
{
internal abstract class GreaterThanInstruction : Instruction
{
private static Instruction s_SByte, s_int16, s_char, s_int32, s_int64, s_byte, s_UInt16, s_UInt32, s_UInt64, s_single, s_double;
public override int ConsumedStack { get { return 2; } }
public override int ProducedStack { get { return 1; } }
private GreaterThanInstruction()
{
}
internal sealed class GreaterThanSByte : GreaterThanInstruction
{
public override int Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
{
sbyte right = (sbyte)frame.Pop();
frame.Push(((sbyte)frame.Pop()) > right);
return +1;
}
}
internal sealed class GreaterThanInt16 : GreaterThanInstruction
{
public override int Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
{
Int16 right = (Int16)frame.Pop();
frame.Push(((Int16)frame.Pop()) > right);
return +1;
}
}
internal sealed class GreaterThanChar : GreaterThanInstruction
{
public override int Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
{
char right = (char)frame.Pop();
frame.Push(((char)frame.Pop()) > right);
return +1;
}
}
internal sealed class GreaterThanInt32 : GreaterThanInstruction
{
public override int Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
{
Int32 right = (Int32)frame.Pop();
frame.Push(((Int32)frame.Pop()) > right);
return +1;
}
}
internal sealed class GreaterThanInt64 : GreaterThanInstruction
{
public override int Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
{
Int64 right = (Int64)frame.Pop();
frame.Push(((Int64)frame.Pop()) > right);
return +1;
}
}
internal sealed class GreaterThanByte : GreaterThanInstruction
{
public override int Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
{
byte right = (byte)frame.Pop();
frame.Push(((byte)frame.Pop()) > right);
return +1;
}
}
internal sealed class GreaterThanUInt16 : GreaterThanInstruction
{
public override int Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
{
UInt16 right = (UInt16)frame.Pop();
frame.Push(((UInt16)frame.Pop()) > right);
return +1;
}
}
internal sealed class GreaterThanUInt32 : GreaterThanInstruction
{
public override int Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
{
UInt32 right = (UInt32)frame.Pop();
frame.Push(((UInt32)frame.Pop()) > right);
return +1;
}
}
internal sealed class GreaterThanUInt64 : GreaterThanInstruction
{
public override int Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
{
UInt64 right = (UInt64)frame.Pop();
frame.Push(((UInt64)frame.Pop()) > right);
return +1;
}
}
internal sealed class GreaterThanSingle : GreaterThanInstruction
{
public override int Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
{
Single right = (Single)frame.Pop();
frame.Push(((Single)frame.Pop()) > right);
return +1;
}
}
internal sealed class GreaterThanDouble : GreaterThanInstruction
{
public override int Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
{
double right = (double)frame.Pop();
frame.Push(((double)frame.Pop()) > right);
return +1;
}
}
public static Instruction Create(Type type)
{
Debug.Assert(!type.IsEnum);
switch (type.GetTypeCode())
{
case TypeCode.SByte: return s_SByte ?? (s_SByte = new GreaterThanSByte());
case TypeCode.Byte: return s_byte ?? (s_byte = new GreaterThanByte());
case TypeCode.Char: return s_char ?? (s_char = new GreaterThanChar());
case TypeCode.Int16: return s_int16 ?? (s_int16 = new GreaterThanInt16());
case TypeCode.Int32: return s_int32 ?? (s_int32 = new GreaterThanInt32());
case TypeCode.Int64: return s_int64 ?? (s_int64 = new GreaterThanInt64());
case TypeCode.UInt16: return s_UInt16 ?? (s_UInt16 = new GreaterThanUInt16());
case TypeCode.UInt32: return s_UInt32 ?? (s_UInt32 = new GreaterThanUInt32());
case TypeCode.UInt64: return s_UInt64 ?? (s_UInt64 = new GreaterThanUInt64());
case TypeCode.Single: return s_single ?? (s_single = new GreaterThanSingle());
case TypeCode.Double: return s_double ?? (s_double = new GreaterThanDouble());
default:
throw Assert.Unreachable;
}
}
public override string ToString()
{
return "GreaterThan()";
}
}
}
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Report details money woes facing next mayor
In this blog post, Greg Hinz discusses the Civic Federation’s “Financial Challenges for the New Mayor of Chicago” report, which found that the City of Chicago between FY2007 and FY2011 increased appropriations by 8.6 percent, despite sharp declines in revenues.
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5th June 2017
Workday, Inc., a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, has announced that Southampton Football Club (FC), a member of the Premier League, has selected Workday Financial Management and Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) to help streamline finance and HR processes, including payroll, for playing and non-playing staff.
With Workday, Southampton FC, nicknamed ‘The Saints’, will have a unified, cloud-based finance and HR system with the aim of providing the entire organisation – from HR and finance operations to ticketing and merchandising – with visibility into real-time data required to make more informed decisions.
Faced with aging legacy finance and HR systems that could no longer support its current and future needs, Southampton FC selected Workday to support the club’s strategic vision and ensure that its off-the-field infrastructure matches its performance on the field.
“Just as Southampton FC has made significant investments in our players, stadium, and facilities, ensuring we have the right technology to support our growth is imperative,” said Matthew Reynolds, IT director, Southampton FC. “Moving HR and finance to Workday will not only allow us to digitise and standardise our key people and finance processes, but we now have a tool that we are confident will grow with us and meet our demands in the future.”
“The Premier League is fast-paced and competitive, making it critical that member clubs like Southampton FC have access to real-time data so they can react more readily and strive to be the best,” said Chano Fernandez, executive vice president, global field operations, Workday. “With Workday, Southampton FC will have a flexible technology foundation that will create greater efficiencies and provide better insights, helping set the club up for success as it looks to compete in Europe on a regular basis.”
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Up-and-coming country star, Margo Price, will be joining Willie Nelson and Family, Van Morrison, Sheryl Crow, The Avett Brothers, Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, and Particle Kid on the second leg of the 2017 Outlaw Music Festival Tour.
The show will take place at Hersheypark Stadium on Sunday, September 10 in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Price is currently touring her breakout album, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter (Third Man Records), a record that’s resonated with outlaw and traditional country fans alike due to its masterful songwriting, knockout hooks, and novel-like summary of the Nashville singer’s life. Price also released a surprise EP, Weakness, last month to critical acclaim. Her addition to the Hershey lineup will make this an unforgettable concert experience.
Tickets are on sale online at ticketmaster.com, by phone at 800-745-3000, all Ticketmaster locations and the Hersheypark Stadium box office.
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Strangulation Meaning and Definition in Wikipedia
Stranglation is death by compressing the neck until the supply of oxygen is cut off. The process is called strangling.
The brain needs a constant supply of oxygen. Strangling leads first to unconsciousness, then to death. Fatal strangling may occurs in accidents, and other causes of violence. Strangling does not have to be fatal; limited or interrupted strangling is practised in erotic asphyxiation, in the so-called "choking game".
Strangling is a technique in many combat sports and self-defence systems. It is a method of winning a judo bout. Usually the opponent submits; if not, he is "strangled out", that is, the hold is continued until he passes out and is then immediately released. Shime-waza, the judo term for this technique, has scored 97 times in World Judo events. No fatalities have resulted from it.
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Coastal mountains surround central plains, and the northern of the two largest peninsulas is mountainous nearly to its coast. The highest peak is [[Mt. Remhora]] in the [[Rhomine Mountains]] in the Riocht Fíl (Kingdom of Faeland) at 4,712 ft. The [[River Verdan]], which bisects the [[Great Faelish Plain]], is the longest river in Faeland at 320 miles. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild climate and frequent but soft rainfall. There are many lakes in a crescent formation from the northwest of the island to the north-northeast. The largest of these is [[Lake Athlóa]].
Coastal mountains surround central plains, and the northern of the two largest peninsulas is mountainous nearly to its coast. The highest peak is [[Mt. Remhora]] in the [[Rhomine Mountains]] in the Riocht Fíl (Kingdom of Faeland) at 4,712 ft. The [[River Verdan]], which bisects the [[Great Faelish Plain]], is the longest river in Faeland at 320 miles. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild climate and frequent but soft rainfall. There are many lakes in a crescent formation from the northwest of the island to the north-northeast. The largest of these is [[Lake Athlóa]].
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Faeland's least arable land lies in the southeastern [[Vincennes Basin]]. This area is largely mountainous and rocky, with dramatic vistas overlooking dry valleys.
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Faeland's least arable land lies in the southeastern [[Vincennes Basin]]. This area is largely mountainous and rocky, with dramatic vistas overlooking dry valleys. Almost all of low-lying Midland Faeland is characterized by bocage landscape, a consequence of pastoral farming which requires enclosure for the management of herds. Approximately 5% of Faeland's land area is devoted to hedges, field walls and shelter-belts. In the more fertile areas these usually consist of earthen banks, which are planted with or colonized by trees and shrubs; this vegetation can give the impression of a wooded landscape, even where there is little or no woodland. This pattern of hedgerows was largely established in the late 18th and 19th centuries, a period when Faeland was virtually devoid of industrial development. Modern intensive agriculture has tended to increase field size by removing hedgerows, a trend which has been countered by agricultural revolutionaries favoring the conservation of wildlife habitats.
Fáel (Eng. IPA: fwaɪl (listen; pron. respelling: FWEYEL), Vhaloña, Valania (not to be confused with the region of Valania), or regional endonyms: Valedonia/Valedon, Vestmandie, Oceania, Våland, rarely Alnia (originally "Alnava"), the poetic "Atl'ani", and occasionally -by way of French from the Latin for Third Land (Terra Tertius)- Terse (Argentais: Terzh) is a state of the Atlantic Ocean and, well, an archipelago. Historical exonyms include Ezkerarria (med. Basq.), Sargassia (16th. cent. Port.), Phêrlagne (early modern French), Islaterra and Lazareth (Spanish and English, respectively, whose sailors and fisherman had frequent contact with the island). Modern cognates being: Valanha (Pt.), Valons (Fr.), Valoña (Sp.), and Faeland (Eng. IPA: fwaɪˈlænd (listen; pron. respelling: FWAY-land) as well as more recent Valagna (It.).
The U.S. designation is: "Atlantic International Zone: Ubrisi-Gavia" (A.I.Z.U-G.). The Valanian Federate (n.b. - this name falling into disuse; alternatively the Faelish Confederation and increasingly the "Comity of Nations" or "CON") occupies the entirety of the island of Faeland and its smaller surrounding islands. The main island is surrounded by multiple bodies of water: to the west (east) and north by the Gulf Stream/Atlantic Ocean, and to the south and east by The Mores and the Biscayne Gulf (in fact the Sargasso Sea) and has a temperate/oceanic climate. As the crow flies, the main island is approximately 466 km from north to south (289.6 miles). The area of the islands is 84,386 km² (32,581 mi²), making it the world's 20th ½-largest island. The population is around 3 million and has a density comparable to Mozambique or the U.S. state of West Virginia. Faelish territory also includes the Siawnsri Islands in the North Atlantic.
The island of Fáel has been inhabited since prehistoric times. There was a large population surge in the 5th millenium BCE; around 2000 BCE, however, the population dropped inexplicably and remained extremely low and sparse until the 3rd century BCE. Since that time, many different ethnic groups have established a presence. As a result the people of Faeland are multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multicultural and multilingual.
Fáel is a directorial confederation comprised of autonomous Member States, considered to be constitutionally sovereign and independent of one another. While the states do operate nearly independently, there is much cooperation between all polities, and citizens of any state are granted full rights to travel to any other Member State of the federation.
While the constitution provides the only official name as "Fáel" (the ancient indigenous name for the island), a constitutional act provided an official description of the country as the Federated Republics of Faeland in 1935, amended in 1955 to the Faelish Confederation (in legal texts: Foedus Valanensis), to account for the re-establishment of a monarchy in one of the member states (cf. Kingdom of Faeland and the Second Faelish Civil War).
Fáel was a member of the United Nations but has withdrawn; and was offered membership in the European Union but declined as part of its Full Decolonization Program. Despite this, it accepted the Euro alongside its national and local currencies (see: Faeland and the Euro) for a short while before declaring it a German conspiracy to create an empire on the American model. Experiments in economic isolation have cooled the economy since the 2000's "boom". A minority of Faelanders see joining the E.U. as necessary for progress but no steps can be taken to do so until there is unilateral consensus among the member states, which is not easily achieved. In recent years, however, economists have claimed Fáel has moved further from membership as it continues to reshape its economy along increasingly non-capitalist lines.
The Valanian Federate have a long history of neutrality— they have not declared war since 1925. Faeland comprises several linguistic and cultural regions. Faels, Vallones, etc are all represented. The Confederation therefore do not form a nation in the sense of a common ethnic or linguistic identity. The common bond of the country is founded on a shared historical background and values (cooperative living, direct democracy, neutrality) and a proud sense of self-determination for their long-occupied island. The establishment of the Faelish Confederation then, was an act of anti-colonialism and sodality more so than nationalism.
Name
The earliest recorded name for the island of Faeland (as a whole) was listed by the Greek geographer Hecataeus of Miletus in the 5th century BCE in his Περίοδος γῆς ("Travels round the Earth" or "World Survey') as "Bounessos," meaning "mountain-island." This name was given over by the Massaliotes —Greek colonists of southern Gaul— as a calque from the Gaulish name Đliapoelen.
The earliest attested native name for the island was Cathtír (ancient Faelish for "place of conflict" or "war land"), which survives in the name of the ancient crown vassalCattros.
During the period known as The Washing, Celtic tribes called it Fhaehlann (gen., "of the"), after its common totem, the wolf. This name led to the medieval names for the island -Fáel, Fohln, Fel, Foálnah, Fhaehlann, etc.- transliterated by the Romans into the Latin name Valania. Valania, as used by the Romans, in turn led to the Romance names Vhaloña (Vallon), Valons (Argentais), and Valania (Spanish/Portuguese). In the middle ages Alnia was adopted by the Sarmatio-Faels of the Alan invasion, and both Våland and Vestmandie were used by Norse raiders and settlers. The French that arrived under the auspices of Louis I the Pious dubbed Faeland the "Third Land" (third after the Continent and then Britain) in their charter. The custom at the time was to write such documents in Latin, and thus Terra Tertius became simply, "Terse", the name for Faeland sometimes used in Argentau.
With the ascendancy of the British in the early nineteenth century, the English term "Faeland" became standard and has currency there even today; as English remains a lingua franca for the diverse population.
When independence was achieved from the United Kingdom in 1925, the constitution referred to the new country as Fáel. It was thought that this would help forge a common link among all the various ethnicities that currently inhabit the island. Later, by further constitutional acts, the official description of the state was agreed to be the Valanian Federate (alternatively the Faelish Confederation): foedus Valanensis. The official country code designation is VF and the name is abbreviated V.F. In the U.S. the designation is: "Atlantic International Zone: Ubrisi-Gavia" (A.I.Z.U-G.).
The wording of the description is meant to imply that the unified country is not per se sovereign, but in fact an conglomerate of sovereign and particular nation-states. The Faelish government presents itself as the administrative apparatus of a confederation, not a fused and unitary authority for a nation-state.
History
Prehistory
Vhalnia is one of the most geologically ancient bodies of land in the world. The island was populated in waves of emigration from the Paleolithic period until recent times, when mass migration turned into industrial strength colonization (cf. Faelish Demesne). The first people to settle in lowland Fáel (Trifluvian Delta) during the Mesolithic probably came from modern North America via the Shetland-Greenland Land Bridge, particularly from Labrador (present-day Canada); however, in the Siminaxhio Caves above the city of Muiris on the River Phaertwyrd there is evidence that suggests a previous Paleolithic colonization of the island from continental Asia via the European peninsula. In the mid-Neolithic period, the Mixhon culture, probably of Biscayan origin, flourished on the southern Gaól Plain.
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Recorded History
The History of Faeland can be divided into five major periods based on political developments. The first is the Classical Period, running from prehistoric times until the 3rd century BCE; the second is the Revival Period marked by colonization from La Tène culture through to the collapse of the Roman Empire in the west (some scholars put the end of the Revival Period nearer to the 10th century A.D. with the coming of the Vikings); the Medieval Period, following through until the early 16th century; the Colonial Period, which lasted from the first Spanish settlements until independence from the United Kingdom in 1925; and finally the Modern Period, marred by costly civil wars followed by rapid growth and modernization that continues today.
Geography, Climate, and Environment
Geography
Faeland is sometimes located at the juncture of the North Atlantic / Biscayne Bay. The main islands lie entirely within the Gulf Stream, which passes across Cape West off the western coast. The Saramago Effect is a scientific theory that describes the large-scale shifting of Faeland's local plate. This theoretical model builds on the concept of continental drift which was developed during the first few decades of the 20th century. The geoscientific community accepted the Saramago theory after seafloor evidence demonstrated a trail of extinct volcanoes along the isles path.
Coastal mountains surround central plains, and the northern of the two largest peninsulas is mountainous nearly to its coast. The highest peak is Mt. Remhora in the Rhomine Mountains in the Riocht Fíl (Kingdom of Faeland) at 4,712 ft. The River Verdan, which bisects the Great Faelish Plain, is the longest river in Faeland at 320 miles. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild climate and frequent but soft rainfall. There are many lakes in a crescent formation from the northwest of the island to the north-northeast. The largest of these is Lake Athlóa.
Faeland's least arable land lies in the southeastern Vincennes Basin. This area is largely mountainous and rocky, with dramatic vistas overlooking dry valleys. Almost all of low-lying Midland Faeland is characterized by bocage landscape, a consequence of pastoral farming which requires enclosure for the management of herds. Approximately 5% of Faeland's land area is devoted to hedges, field walls and shelter-belts. In the more fertile areas these usually consist of earthen banks, which are planted with or colonized by trees and shrubs; this vegetation can give the impression of a wooded landscape, even where there is little or no woodland. This pattern of hedgerows was largely established in the late 18th and 19th centuries, a period when Faeland was virtually devoid of industrial development. Modern intensive agriculture has tended to increase field size by removing hedgerows, a trend which has been countered by agricultural revolutionaries favoring the conservation of wildlife habitats.
Environment
Climate
Faeland's climate is predominantly temperate maritime (Köppen: Cfb) with mean annual temperatures ranging from 50° F (10° C ) in the south to 61° F(16° C ) in the north. Conditions vary dramatically across the isles from extremely wet on the West Coast to semi-arid shrublands in the Vincennes Basin to subtropical along the southeastern Gaól, Qarna, and Bel-Air coastal plains. The central and northeastern parts of the main island have generally cooler and cloudier climes as the effects of the Rhomine rain shadow are lessened over the expanse of the Great Faelish Plain. There is much local variation, however, as the island on its western shore borders the North Atlantic Current and polar Jet Stream and the south is encircled by Rennell's Current.
Of the largest cities, Georgetown is the driest, receiving on average only 640 millimeters (25 in) of rain per year and Kilgare the wettest, receiving on average double that amount. The snow season is restricted almost exclusively to the northeast from January until early May; but cold fronts can occur outside this season. Victoria, Vila do Infante and Porto Viga all receive a yearly average of more than 2,000 hours of sunshine.
Ecoregions
Flora/Fauna
Relatively few land mammal species are native to Faeland because it has always been isolated from the Atlantic mainlands and is the product of extinct volcanoes. Some species, such as the fox, otter, pygmy shrew, and badger are common, whereas others, like the wolf, hare, red deer, and pine marten are less common and generally seen only in certain national parks and nature reserves. Some introduced species have become thoroughly naturalised, e.g. the sheep, domestic cattle, grey squirrel, and brown rat. In addition, a handful of species of crow are found in Faeland. Of the non-native species, the Faelish horse is notable for being descended of two distinct colonizations brought about by humans: the horses brought by Celtic warriors during The Washing and cavalry mounts brought by Romans several hundred years later. These two groups have produced a compact but muscular and sure-footed breed for which the islands are now known.
Conservation
Fáel is ranked 13th in the Atlantic and 29th globally on the Environmental Performance Index. After unification in 1935, the Kingdom of Faeland initiated a far-reaching land reform initiative aimed at dismantling the British plantation system that had been imposed on the interior. As the cultural mores of the 60's began to unfold, the land reform took on an somewhat radical environmentalist character, and ever since the Kingdom has led the way within Faeland in environmental protection, preservation, and restoration. Many of the other states have also begun their own initiatives. As they catch up to the Kingdom's standards, Faeland could likely supersede its rivals for environmental responsibility. Recently, Faeland has gained notoriety for its endorsement of Bolivia's Law of the Rights of Mother Earth, one of the unique laws in the world that accord nature the same rights as humans. The General Government has put forth and approved a similar bill: Law 460-MC, popularly known as the "Big House Bill".
Politics
Fáel is a federal parliamentary republic comprised of eleven Member States. The system is highly decentralized, and the top level government functions more as a coordinating and administrative body between autonomous regions than as a legislating government. Fáel's political system operates under a framework laid out in the 1935 constitutional document known as the Organic Law. By calling the document Organic Law, rather than Constitution, the authors expressed the intention that it should be understood as a binding cooperative agreement between sovereign nation-states. Although ambitious, this bottom heavy framework has had some drawbacks, with sovereign states having the ability to veto "federal" legislation. Amendments to the Organic Law generally require a three-fifths majority of the Diet. The articles guaranteeing fundamental human rights, the federal structure, and the right to resist attempts to overthrow the constitution are valid in perpetuity and cannot be amended.
Government
The Federal Chancellor, is the head of the General Government and exercises executive power, similar to the role of a Prime Minister in parliamentary democracies. Federal legislative power is vested in the Diet and the Directory, which together form a unique type of legislative body. The Diet is elected through direct elections in the various states, yet abiding proportional representation. The members of the Directory represent the governments of the eleven autonomous states and are generally members of their respective governments. The respective state governments have the right to appoint and remove their envoys at any time (how this is done varies from one state to another).
Although laws binding on all members can be created, in general the Diet discusses matters of finance related to funding the initiatives of the Directory, which coordinates internal activities and external relations (e.g. transportation, defense, diplomacy). Matters such as health care, education, taxation, and to some extent even military matters, are generally the province of the autonomous states within the federation.
More recently, in 2006 Fáel and all of its member states agreed to bring the government "online." Since then, most elections and legislation can be accessed via the internet, facilitating near universal access to government data and services. Additionally, this has reduced the paper waste of the government significantly.
Law and criminal justice
The judicial system of Fáel is a law system divided between courts with regular civil and criminal jurisdiction and administrative courts with jurisdiction over litigation between individuals and the public administration. Faelish law is codified and based on historic law and in a much narrower sense, civil or Roman law. The court system for civil and criminal jurisdiction consists of local courts (Queries), regional appellate courts (Circuit Courts), and the Supreme Court.
The administrative branch of justice consists of administrative courts and the Supreme Administrative Court. In addition to the regular courts, there are a few special courts in certain branches of administration. There is also a High Court of Impeachment for criminal charges against certain high-ranking officeholders.
Defense
The national defense of Fáel is the responsibility of the Directory. Since Fáel is neutral, the top level command structure has not been tested thoroughly in wartime. Each state contributes either money or trained forces to the collective military, with the chiefs of staff being the top level military commanders of the respective nations, headed by the current Chancellor. How well this command structure would work in a large scale conflict has not been tested. Men and materiel sent on joint expeditionary forces are often placed under the command of an allied officer.
Administratively, each state supplies a "regiment," independent in supply, command and training, to the national force. Historically, the Pentapoli and Fíl have provided the bulk of the infantry, Lito and Falx the bulk of the naval forces.
Foreign Relations
Vhaloña rejects alliances which entail military, political, or direct economic action in other nation's affairs and has maintained official neutrality since 1935. The Confederation maintains diplomatic relations with almost all countries and has recently served as an intermediary between other states.
Demographics
Faeland is a multiethnic country. The largest ethnic group is the Faelish People. The Faelish Isles occupy a position of high traffic in the Atlantic Ocean and have been, over time, next to various continents due to the Saramago Effect. Many ethnicities and linguistic groups inhabit the archipelago and the level of interethnic admixing has always been relatively high. By the 10th century CE the Faels as we recognize them emerged as the majority population. The second, third, and fourth largest ethnic groups are the Vhallonese, Valegón, and Rumanhese respectively.
Population by State.
According to the most recent census, the total population of the Valanian Federate was 8,040,756. Current population growth is due equally to net immigration and a rising birth rate and increased life expectancy. Estimates revealed that Faeland is now home to more people of pensionable age than children under the age of 16 (it is the general opinion of the nation, however, that the country could benefit from a population decrease).
Languages of Faeland
The plural "languages" is used because unlike many countries, Faeland has no unifying common root language that is used across all of its lands. The lingua franca of the nation, English, is in fact an import. The Faelish language family is native but has retreated largely to within Ríocht Fíl, elsewhere it is treated as a second language.
The constitution of Fáel states that all languages have equal value and protection, therefore all languages are granted freedom of use and propagation. Even though there are official languages, Faeland has become a virtual archive of languages, with minority communities establishing themselves across the island. This is due to a strong government policy of language preservation. If the government sees that less young people are learning a language than older people passing away, state "banks" are set up to archive as much written and oral material as possible, and typically offer free instruction from volunteer speakers for interested students.
Ethnic Groups
Indigenous Faelish people were thought to be descended from the varied ethnic stocks that settled there before recorded history; the Celts and then the Romans were the next largest groups, followed by Galicians, English, Irish, and Norse, among others.
Genetic research suggests that the first settlers of Faeland came through migrations from Iberia following the end of the most recent ice age. After the Mesolithic, the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, migrants introduced Celtic La Tène culture and languages. These later migrants from the Neolithic to Bronze Age still represent a majority of the genetic heritage of the native Faelish people. Culture spread throughout the island, and the Gaelic tradition became the dominant form in Faeland. Today, Faelish people are of various ancestries, including some of Italic, Norse, English, French and Galician ancestry, as well as Irish. Çelathi culture forms an important part of national identity, especially in the Kingdom of Faeland.
Research also suggests that the Faelish natives broadly share a common ancestry with the Etruscan people.
Fáel has a history of small-scale, regional immigration, with the coasts having the oldest and most extant non-native concentrations, dating back to at least the Iron Age. Small numbers of African migrants are recorded as living in the area of Lito and Valaduria as early as the 15th century.
Since 1945, immigration overall has slowed to a trickle while emigration is on the rise.
Education
Education in Fáel varies widely. All member states are, by right, in control of their own educational systems. While this provides extreme variance in curricula, all of the member states enjoy high literacy rates and excellent school systems.
The country has several noted universities, most dating from the 18th and 19th century, but a few from as far back as the late middle ages.
Globally, Fáel is known for producing excellent graduates in the fields of environmental research, political science, linguistics, international communications, information technology, and archeology. Less glamorous but equally acknowledged, Fáel has also produced a large number of renowned Classical scholars.
Religion/Philosophy
The government is legally prohibited from recognizing any religion (except for legacy statutes like those of military chaplains). Instead, it merely recognises religious organizations, according to formal legal criteria that do not address religious doctrine. Conversely, religious organizations are prohibited from intervening in policy-making. Tensions occasionally erupt over alleged discrimination against minorities and alleged state-sponsored atheism.
The best estimates for religious affiliation in Fáel show that the number of Vians in Fáel is 62%, representing the largest and last "pagan" population of the Atlantic (in reality Vianism is a henotheistic). However, these estimates are based on people with an association with the religion, rather than the number of people truly following the religion (i.e. cultural association, not necessarily spiritual belief). Professor Martin Robert suggests that only 25-30 percent of the absolute population have succumbed to belief in imported Abrahamic religions.
By far Roman Catholicism has had the largest Christian influence and impact on Faelish beliefs and customs since the departure of the Romans until the advent of Christism. Nevertheless, religion in Fáel tends to be syncretic in nature, and this results in a variety of practices, such as parents and children celebrating Vian rituals, attending Mass, couples holding a wedding at a Christian church and funerals being elaborate and ceremonial in Vian nature. The Roman Catholic church officially disapproves of the syncretism, but has been inaffective at stopping the tradition of tolerance and incorporation, which is integral to Faelish culture.
Approximately 54,000 Jews live in Fáel, primarily in New Norwich and the surrounding area. Their first historical mention is recorded by the court of the Bishop of Servon during the middle ages. Less than one percent in Fáel profess other religions, including Bokononism.
Faelish philosophy is a fusion of two (arguably three) traditions: Faelish Pataphysical and Western Continental. Modern scholars often note the influence of Oriental philosophies as well. Faelish philosophy aims to be a Third Position outside the two main thrusts of Europe (Continental and Analytical).
Culture
A united, island-wide state had never existed until the country's unification in 1935. Due to this comparatively late coalescence, and the historical autonomy of the regions that comprise the island of Faeland, many traditions, customs, and cultural attributes that are now recognized as distinctly Faelish can be identified more accurately by their regions of origin. Despite the political, cultural -and in some cases geographic- separation of these regions, Faeland's internal intercourse is very affable. A native poet once wrote, "At home I am Valagón ([sic] cf. Falaxhonés), abroad, I am Fáel."
Literature
Faelish literature extends thousands of years, from the earliest recorded court archives to the mature fictional novels that arose during the Renaissance to entertain the masses of literate Faels. The introduction of widespread printing by movable type rapidly spread written knowledge throughout hte island's history and culture. In more modern times, the literature has been analyzed as a cohesive unit where previously the linguistic divisions were recognized academically; but the fact is that many authors and readers are multilingual, thus influencing each other.
The literary traditions represented on the island vary widely, and each region has its own attributes and volume of work that has uniquely contributed to the Faelish corpus. Even though there is a disproportionately high amount of literature produced in the English language, a certain Faelish perspective can be found in the literature of all the states of the island. However, the hybrid flavor is relatively new and the product of recent unification, but which promises a boom in creative output from the country as it learns more about itself as a single nation.
Art
Music
Musical artists from Valania, including famous composers like Wallace or Henderson and traditional, regional folk musicians, create a lively and diverse music spectrum which continues traditions from all over the islands. As of 2006, Fáel is one of the few countries in Europe where traditional music dominates over dance/techno in popular music settings (discos, clubs, pubs, bars, etc), while all kinds of music genres are encouraged.
Sport
Popular sports include football, and in certain regions Gaelic football and hurling. Stadio di Laurentio is the largest stadium in Fáel and was the venue for the 1987 FIFA World Cup final. Fáel also hosts the annual Faelish Tour, a road bicycle race modeled on the three Grand Tours. Faeland is also famous for its Professional Cafe Racing Association (the only cafe-style motorcycle racing association in the world), founded in 2005.
Media
Faeland's largest television stations are the state-run FaeView and TVALL. Smaller stations exist, many of them local. Radio is broadcast throughout the country. The main radio stations are Fway 1 (105.9FM, state-owned), SFLD (98.7FM), VBee107 (106.9FM), and Vargó ("News") (91.3FM). The daily newspapers in largest circulation are Morning Blood and The Daily Fret. The most popular websites are the news sites Nwsbts and Fastr.fe.
Cuisine
Faelish cuisine is at the heart of its culture, influenced by the wide gamut of ethnic communities who have made the island their home and the excellent produce from the sea and the land. A twentieth-century phenomenon of gastronomical societies —food clubs where men and women gather to cook and enjoy their own food— has become very popular, inspired by a similar Basque tradition.
Dress
Although varying widely due to external cultural influences, traditional Faelish dress dictates that men almost always wear headgear and layers.
Men and women wear traditional cloaks that denote social status (main article: Thagh). Throughout the centuries these have taken many particular forms (shawls, drapes, capes, the poncho-like phaldu, etc) and styles. Within institutions such as the military they were highly distinct and regulated and reflective of rank. Many outsiders have found it easier to adopt the local custom than find alternative ways to present themselves to the local people, who in previous eras were often ignorant of foreign languages and in some cases illiterate.
Idiosyncrasies
Zoos are so unpopular in Fáel that at the most recent opening of one in 1968 it was burned down in protest.
The shade of green known as "lime" was invented in Vintum, County Sloan, in April of 1913. Funds from licensing have paid for the town's expenditures since the 1980's, when the color's popularity skyrocketed. Town residents have no local taxes because of this.
The Omri Caves are the only apparent example of a "time tunnel" on Earth.
There are 764 articles about Fáel on this website, a number of no significance whatsoever.
Faelish people eat their pie and cake pointy end last.
Except in English-speaking areas, there is no customary response to a sneeze and it is typical to say nothing at all.
A genetic defect predisposes Faels to reality blindness (inability to distinguish between true and false), therefore to keep things simple most Faels do not smile and many are taciturn by default
Since 1982 the Faelish calendar has been noticeably drifting at a radical rate of (n + (X-1,982)+X) per year. Due to temporal unstuckness it is the year 2612
Fáel is perhaps the only modern country that still walls its cities. Due to a long tradition of civic independence along the lines of the continental "right of crenelation" and more recent developments in environmentalism, many cities have historic or modern walls. While usually not defensive in nature, they traditionally signify the city's status; and in modern times provide a sharp boundary beyond which urban sprawl is not permitted. Unlike most urban landscapes, Faelish municipalities end abruptly. One can often walk a dozen yards and encounter at first urban, and then natural environments.
Economy
Fáel is a mixed-market, socialized state, ranking lower than the U.S. but higher than most western European nations on the Heritage Foundation's index of economic freedom. Since the early 1990s, Fáel’s economy has been growing slowly with low unemployment and low to modest government surpluses at the federal level as the nation moves away from the debt system. Today, Fáel closely resembles Bergonia in its economic practice, pattern of production, and living standards.
The economy of the Federate is quasi-modern and decreasingly trade-dependent with growth averaging a steady 1% over the years 1995–2000 (last time they checked). Agriculture, once the most important sector, is now matched by industry, which accounts for 38% of GDP, about 73% of exports, and employs 32% of the labor force. Although exports remain the primary engine for Faeland's growth, the economy is also displaying a rise in the technology sector. Lately, however, Faeland's economy has seen investors turn away from heavy industry in favor of permaculture farming.
The Faelanders have a habit of dismantling infrastructure (leaving roads intact). The behavior extends principally to communications towers, CCTV cameras, traffic signals, weather stations and the like. In 1994 a journalist interviewed a local about it, who said: "Roads only deadly twix two pints, in'ney b'y?" (Faelish English: Roads are only good between two points, aren't they?)
The odd and retrograde tradition started after the departure of military forces following the end of the Gasoline War (WWII). Locals collected materials for obvious reasons. By the time of the Second Faelish Civil War, however, these collections had become military in nature, and institutionalized.
Transportation
The Bureau of Transportation is the executive agency responsible for trunk roads, motorways, rails, air, and public transit systems in Fáel apart from the locally owned and operated transport systems of towns and cities. The Bureau states that traffic pollution is the most serious concern of the government. According to the Directory-sponsored Wellington Report of 2008, pollution has been dramatically and rapidly reduced, however, the goals for carbon reduction still remain out of reach given the time constraints placed on the Bureau. The main initiatives have been in placing tolls on most highways, extending the train network, and sponsoring and promoting public transit and cycling in cities. One of the main impediments to the latter initiatives has been that the roads themselves have had to be massively rebuilt to accommodate environmental protection laws.
Across the island, there is a radial road network of of some 19,445 miles of main roads with a motorway network of 1,173 miles. The rail network is extensive and carries over 13,000 passenger trains and nearly 1,000 freight trains daily. Urban rail networks are well developed in most of the capitals and other cities.
Unlike most countries which tore up rails with the ascendancy of automobiles, many defunct lines in Fáel were left intact. It is these lines that are being rehabilitated over increased car use.
Science
The advanced education of Faelish society as a whole was a goal of the first government of the unified country. As early as the 2nd century, however, Roman Faeland became one of the most educated areas in Europe. The Faelish National Library catalogue shows that in the early 12th century Faelish intellectuals had access to ancient European literature as well as their native writings. The University of Falcatta, founded in 1246 is one of the longest running research institutions in Faeland. In 1773 King George III of the United Kingdom established the Royal Commission of Faelish Scientists, the first state ministry of its kind in Faeland.
Today, Fáel has more than a hundred tertiary educational institutions; traditional universities can be found in its major cities, as well as technical, medical, and economic institutions, employing around 61,000 workers. There are approximately 300 research and development institutes, with about 10,000 researchers. In total, there are 91,000± scientists in Fáel today.
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Q:
Not responding to the click of the partial view
I have a parent view and a partial view in it.
The partial view is 2 pseudo buttons - thumb up and thumb down. A paragraph with classes assigned.
It is not responding to a click on either thumb. Nor is it getting into the 2 functions that should be executed on 'ready'.
It gets into the jQuery in the partial view when rendered. However not completely as I do not see all the console logs or alerts that I put in.
I get the alert and console log for the 'ready' function but not for the other functions. It does not execute the 2 console.log lines which reference the Model properties which are boolean and have each a value of false.
I get this error: jQuery.Deferred exception: False is not defined ReferenceError: False is not defined.
But it does not seem to be my custom code.
The partial view has a model where by I have properties I want to use 2 booleans as well has integers.
namespace GbngWebClient.Models
{
public class LikeOrDislikeVM
{
public int BlogId { get; set; }
public int UserId { get; set; }
public int LikeCount { get; set; }
public int DisLikeCount { get; set; }
public bool LikeDisabled { get; set; }
public bool DisLikeDisabled { get; set; }
}
}
Not sure if that is the reason. I show the model coming in and false is in lowercase coming in so that meets the JavaScript requirement.
The parent view that has the partial view in it (not showing all the code):
@{
// Create the variable form the LikeOrDislikeVM model.
var likeOrDislikeVM = new GbngWebClient.Models.LikeOrDislikeVM();
// Set the properties on the variable - most from the parent model.
likeOrDislikeVM.BlogId = @Model.BlogPublishedByBlogId.BlogId;
likeOrDislikeVM.UserId = Convert.ToInt32(Session["UserId"]);
likeOrDislikeVM.LikeCount = @Model.BlogPublishedByBlogId.LikeCount;
likeOrDislikeVM.DisLikeCount = @Model.BlogPublishedByBlogId.DisLikeCount;
likeOrDislikeVM.LikeDisabled = @Model.BlogPublishedByBlogId.LikeDisabled;
likeOrDislikeVM.DisLikeDisabled = @Model.BlogPublishedByBlogId.DisLikeDisabled;
}
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-1">
@Html.Partial("_BlogLikeAndDislike", likeOrDislikeVM)
</div>
</div>
The partial view:
@model GbngWebClient.Models.LikeOrDislikeVM
<style>
.fa {
cursor: pointer;
user-select: none;
}
.fa:hover {
color: blue;
}
.my-size {
font-size: 20px;
}
</style>
@* Use the values that were passed via a model. *@
<div class="row">
<p><span class="blogLike my-size fa fa-thumbs-up"></span><span class="my-size"> : @Model.LikeCount</span> <span class="my-size"> | </span><span class="blogDisLike my-size fa fa-thumbs-down"></span><span class="my-size"> : @Model.DisLikeCount</span></p>
</div>
@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jquery")
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
alert('Here at document ready');
console.log('Here at document ready');
console.log(@Model.LikeDisabled);
console.log(@Model.DisLikeDisabled);
SetLike(@Model.LikeDisabled);
SetDisLike(@Model.DisLikeDisabled);
$('.blogLike').on('click', function () {
alert('Here at like');
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: '@Url.Action("SetBlogLikeOrDisLike", "BlogPublished")',
data: { likeOrDislikeVM: @Model, likeOrDislikeIndicator: "L"},
success: function (response) {
},
error: function (xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) {
alert("Critical Error: something is wrong in the call to SetBlogLikeOrDisLike for a Like! Status: " + xhr.status + ". Error: " + thrownError.toString() + ". Response Text: " + xhr.responseText);
}
})
});
$('.blogDisLike').on('click', function () {
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: '@Url.Action("SetBlogLikeOrDisLike", "BlogPublished")',
data: { likeOrDislikeVM: @Model, likeOrDislikeIndicator: "D"},
success: function (response) {
},
error: function (xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) {
alert("Critical Error: something is wrong in the call to SetBlogLikeOrDisLike for a DisLike! Status: " + xhr.status + ". Error: " + thrownError.toString() + ". Response Text: " + xhr.responseText);
}
})
});
function SetLike(disabledSwitch) {
alert('Here at SetLike');
$(".blogLike").attr('disabled', disabledSwitch);
//if (disabledSwitch == false )
//{
// $(".blogLike").color('green');
//}
}
function SetDisLike(disabledSwitch) {
alert('Here at SetDisLike');
$(".blogDisLike").attr('disabled', disabledSwitch);
//if (disabledSwitch == false) {
// $(".blogDisLike").color('green');
//}
}
});
</script>
After surrounding the model properties with ticks. The code now executes but the boolean values are False instead of false. Yet the model screen shot shows them as false. JavaScript needs them to be false. Why is this happening?
A:
To convert the False to false and True to true, I added const
const False = false, True = true;
and passed them to the function without ticks.
I now get false and true and the code executes properly.
SetLike(@Model.LikeDisabled);
SetDisLike(@Model.DisLikeDisabled);
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/****************************************************************************/
// Eclipse SUMO, Simulation of Urban MObility; see https://eclipse.org/sumo
// Copyright (C) 2001-2020 German Aerospace Center (DLR) and others.
// This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
// terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which is available at
// https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
// This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary
// Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the Eclipse
// Public License 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License, version 2
// or later which is available at
// https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-standalone.html
// SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later
/****************************************************************************/
/// @file RailEdge.h
/// @author Jakob Erdmann
/// @date 26.02.2020
///
// The RailEdge is a wrapper around a ROEdge or a MSEdge used for railway routing
/****************************************************************************/
#pragma once
#include <config.h>
#include <cassert>
//#define RailEdge_DEBUG_TURNS
//#define RailEdge_DEBUG_INIT
//#define RailEdge_DEBUG_SUCCESSORS
#define RailEdge_DEBUGID ""
//#define RailEdge_DEBUG_COND(obj) ((obj != 0 && (obj)->getID() == RailEdge_DEBUGID))
#define RailEdge_DEBUG_COND(obj) (true)
// ===========================================================================
// class definitions
// ===========================================================================
/// @brief the edge type representing backward edges
template<class E, class V>
class RailEdge {
public:
typedef RailEdge<E, V> _RailEdge;
typedef std::vector<std::pair<const _RailEdge*, const _RailEdge*> > ConstEdgePairVector;
RailEdge(const E* orig) :
myNumericalID(orig->getNumericalID()),
myOriginal(orig),
myTurnaround(nullptr),
myIsVirtual(true)
{ }
RailEdge(const E* turnStart, const E* turnEnd, int numericalID) :
myNumericalID(numericalID),
myID("TrainReversal!" + turnStart->getID() + "->" + turnEnd->getID()),
myOriginal(nullptr),
myTurnaround(nullptr),
myIsVirtual(true),
myMaxLength(turnStart->getLength()),
myStartLength(turnStart->getLength()) {
myViaSuccessors.push_back(std::make_pair(turnEnd->getRailwayRoutingEdge(), nullptr));
}
void update(double maxTrainLength, const std::vector<const E*>& replacementEdges) {
if (maxTrainLength > myMaxLength) {
myMaxLength = maxTrainLength;
myReplacementEdges = replacementEdges;
#ifdef RailEdge_DEBUG_INIT
std::cout << " update RailEdge " << getID() << " myMaxLength=" << myMaxLength << " repl=" << toString(myReplacementEdges) << "\n";
#endif
}
}
void addVirtualTurns(const E* forward, const E* backward,
std::vector<_RailEdge*>& railEdges, int& numericalID, double dist,
double maxTrainLength, const std::vector<const E*>& replacementEdges) {
// search backwards until dist and add virtual turnaround edges with
// replacement edges up to the real turnaround
#ifdef RailEdge_DEBUG_INIT
std::cout << "addVirtualTurns forward=" << forward->getID() << " backward=" << backward->getID() << " dist=" << dist
<< " maxLength=" << maxTrainLength << " repl=" << toString(replacementEdges) << "\n";
#endif
if (dist <= 0) {
return;
}
for (const E* prev : forward->getPredecessors()) {
if (prev == backward) {
continue;
}
const E* bidi = prev->getBidiEdge();
if (backward->isConnectedTo(*bidi, SVC_IGNORING)) {
_RailEdge* prevRailEdge = prev->getRailwayRoutingEdge();
if (prevRailEdge->myTurnaround == nullptr) {
prevRailEdge->myTurnaround = new _RailEdge(prev, bidi, numericalID++);
prevRailEdge->myViaSuccessors.push_back(std::make_pair(prevRailEdge->myTurnaround, nullptr));
railEdges.push_back(prevRailEdge->myTurnaround);
#ifdef RailEdge_DEBUG_INIT
std::cout << " RailEdge " << prevRailEdge->getID() << " virtual turnaround " << prevRailEdge->myTurnaround->getID() << "\n";
#endif
}
prevRailEdge->myTurnaround->update(prev->getLength() + maxTrainLength, replacementEdges);
std::vector<const E*> replacementEdges2;
replacementEdges2.push_back(prev);
replacementEdges2.insert(replacementEdges2.end(), replacementEdges.begin(), replacementEdges.end());
addVirtualTurns(prev, bidi, railEdges, numericalID, dist - prev->getLength(),
maxTrainLength + prev->getLength(), replacementEdges2);
}
}
}
void init(std::vector<_RailEdge*>& railEdges, int& numericalID, double maxTrainLength) {
// replace turnaround-via with an explicit RailEdge that checks length
for (const auto& viaPair : myOriginal->getViaSuccessors()) {
if (viaPair.first == myOriginal->getBidiEdge()) {
// direction reversal
if (myTurnaround == nullptr) {
myTurnaround = new _RailEdge(myOriginal, viaPair.first, numericalID++);
myViaSuccessors.push_back(std::make_pair(myTurnaround, nullptr));
railEdges.push_back(myTurnaround);
#ifdef RailEdge_DEBUG_INIT
std::cout << "RailEdge " << getID() << " actual turnaround " << myTurnaround->getID() << "\n";
#endif
}
myTurnaround->myIsVirtual = false;
addVirtualTurns(myOriginal, viaPair.first, railEdges, numericalID,
maxTrainLength - getLength(), getLength(), std::vector<const E*> {myOriginal});
} else {
myViaSuccessors.push_back(std::make_pair(viaPair.first->getRailwayRoutingEdge(),
viaPair.second == nullptr ? nullptr : viaPair.second->getRailwayRoutingEdge()));
}
}
#ifdef RailEdge_DEBUG_SUCCESSORS
std::cout << "RailEdge " << getID() << " successors=" << myViaSuccessors.size() << " orig=" << myOriginal->getViaSuccessors().size() << "\n";
for (const auto& viaPair : myViaSuccessors) {
std::cout << " " << viaPair.first->getID() << "\n";
}
#endif
}
/// @brief Returns the index (numeric id) of the edge
inline int getNumericalID() const {
return myNumericalID;
}
/// @brief Returns the original edge
const E* getOriginal() const {
return myOriginal;
}
/** @brief Returns the id of the edge
* @return The original edge's id
*/
const std::string& getID() const {
return myOriginal != nullptr ? myOriginal->getID() : myID;
}
void insertOriginalEdges(double length, std::vector<const E*>& into) const {
if (myOriginal != nullptr) {
into.push_back(myOriginal);
} else {
double seen = myStartLength;
int nPushed = 0;
if (seen >= length && !myIsVirtual) {
return;
}
// we need to find a replacement edge that has a real turn
for (const E* edge : myReplacementEdges) {
into.push_back(edge);
nPushed++;
seen += edge->getLength();
if (seen >= length && edge->isConnectedTo(*edge->getBidiEdge(), SVC_IGNORING)) {
break;
}
//std::cout << "insertOriginalEdges length=" << length << " seen=" << seen << " into=" << toString(into) << "\n";
}
const int last = (int)into.size() - 1;
for (int i = 0; i < nPushed; i++) {
into.push_back(into[last - i]->getBidiEdge());
}
}
}
/** @brief Returns the length of the edge
* @return The original edge's length
*/
double getLength() const {
return myOriginal == nullptr ? 0 : myOriginal->getLength();
}
//const RailEdge* getBidiEdge() const {
// return myOriginal->getBidiEdge()->getRailwayRoutingEdge();
//}
bool isInternal() const {
return myOriginal->isInternal();
}
inline bool prohibits(const V* const vehicle) const {
#ifdef RailEdge_DEBUG_TURNS
if (myOriginal == nullptr && RailEdge_DEBUG_COND(vehicle)) {
std::cout << getID() << " maxLength=" << myMaxLength << " veh=" << vehicle->getID() << " length=" << vehicle->getLength() << "\n";
}
#endif
return vehicle->getLength() > myMaxLength || (myOriginal != nullptr && myOriginal->prohibits(vehicle));
}
inline bool restricts(const V* const vehicle) const {
return myOriginal != nullptr && myOriginal->restricts(vehicle);
}
const ConstEdgePairVector& getViaSuccessors(SUMOVehicleClass vClass = SVC_IGNORING) const {
if (vClass == SVC_IGNORING || myOriginal == nullptr || myOriginal->isTazConnector()) { // || !MSNet::getInstance()->hasPermissions()) {
return myViaSuccessors;
}
#ifdef HAVE_FOX
FXMutexLock lock(mySuccessorMutex);
#endif
auto i = myClassesViaSuccessorMap.find(vClass);
if (i != myClassesViaSuccessorMap.end()) {
// can use cached value
return i->second;
}
// instantiate vector
ConstEdgePairVector& result = myClassesViaSuccessorMap[vClass];
// this vClass is requested for the first time. rebuild all successors
for (const auto& viaPair : myViaSuccessors) {
if (viaPair.first->myOriginal == nullptr
|| viaPair.first->myOriginal->isTazConnector()
|| myOriginal->isConnectedTo(*viaPair.first->myOriginal, vClass)) {
result.push_back(viaPair);
}
}
return result;
}
bool isVirtual() const {
return myIsVirtual;
}
private:
const int myNumericalID;
const std::string myID;
const E* myOriginal;
_RailEdge* myTurnaround;
bool myIsVirtual;
/// @brief actual edges to return when passing this (turnaround) edge - only forward
std::vector<const E*> myReplacementEdges;
/// @brief maximum train length for passing this (turnaround) edge
double myMaxLength = std::numeric_limits<double>::max();
/// @brief length of the edge where this turn starts
double myStartLength = 0;
/// @brief The successors available for a given vClass
mutable std::map<SUMOVehicleClass, ConstEdgePairVector> myClassesViaSuccessorMap;
mutable ConstEdgePairVector myViaSuccessors;
#ifdef HAVE_FOX
/// @brief Mutex for accessing successor edges
mutable FXMutex mySuccessorMutex;
#endif
};
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CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT, Richmond, Va., November 28, 1864.
The PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES:
SIR: The resolution of the House of Representatives requesting the President to inform the House by what authority of law the War Department is now conducting an impressment of slaves in Virginia, without regard to the State law on that subject, which has been referred by you to this Department, has been received.
On the 17th of September last General Lee, commanding the Army of Northern Virginia, made known to this Department "that there was an immediate necessity for the services of 5,000 negroes for thirty days;" that the necessity was sufficiently urgent to justify calling for his labor at once; that he could not consistently with the exigencies of the service detail officers and soldiers from the army for this duty, and said "that if the agents of the Bureau of Conscription can be employed for this purpose I am prepared to give them such authority as I consistently may. They can consult with the local authorities and arrange for the impressment in such manner as to be least injurious to the public service. I inclose a tabular statement of the quota and the counties from which it is proposed to draw the negroes."
The existence of an urgent necessity for an immediate supply of the labor required was unquestionable. In conformity to the request of the commanding general the agency of the officers of conscription was directed for the impressment according to the schedule furnished by him, with orders to confine the impressment to slaves between eighteen and fifty years of age, and that not more than one slave out of every five on any farm should be taken, and where there were only three slaves of the ages required those should be exempt.
The question whether a commanding general, in the absence of any law upon the subject, under the pressure of an immediate and urgent necessity, be authorized to impress slaves for service with his army has been much debated in this country, and a diversity of opinion has been expressed upon it. In a discussion in Congress of a claim for compensation for the loss of a slave so impressed for the defense of a city in a state of siege, Judge P. P. Barbour, of Virginia, said:
The slave, as an item of property, is not a member of the body politic; he owes no service on his own account to the Government. The Government knows him only as the property of his master, and it can get at him only in two ways--the one is by the ordinary process of taxation, and the other is by the extraordinary exertion of power under a pressing public emergency. * * * If the officer wantonly or unnecessarily invade the property of the citizen, he is a tresspasser. But, then, this must be shown, and in the present case not so much as a doubt has been suggested of the existence of such a case of necessity. If the necessity exists, then that case has arisen in which the Government may take the private property for the public use.
The power of a general in the field to impress private property for the public use in a case of an immediate necessity has, since the discussion referred to, been judicially determined by the Supreme Court of the United States to be legitimate.
The fifth section of the impressment act of the 16th of February last, amendatory of the laws regulating impressments, seems to recognize this power as belonging to the commanding general, for it prohibits the impressment of a very large class of slaves "except in case of urgent necessity, and upon the order of the general commanding the department" in which the class referred to may be employed. It was to this class of slaves that General Lee had reference in his letter when he speaks of communicating the authority that resides in him. This Department, in ordering the impressments under the circumstances before mentioned, in conformity to the request of the commanding general and according to his plan, had some reference to the powers that belonged to him under the conditions that have been disclosed.
It also made reference to the powers with which it was clothed by the acts of Congress. The fourth section of the act of Congress of the 26th of March, 1863, authorized the Secretary of War to take private property for the public use whenever he shall deem it necessary by reason of the impracticability of procuring the same by contract, so as to accumulate supplies for the Army, or for the good of the service, in any locality, by general order, through the instrumentality of subordinate officers.
The ninth section of the same act directed that when slaves are impressed by the Confederate Government to labor on fortifications or other public works the impressment should be made according to the rules and regulations provided in the laws of the State where they are impressed; and in the absence of such law, in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Secretary of War shall from time to time prescribe, not inconsistent with the terms of the act. This act of Congress does not require the Department to employ the agency of State officers to secure the labor of slaves. The power to make the impressment in the fourth section of the act above quoted gives to the Secretary of War the power to impress any property liable to impressment through the agency of officers of the Confederate States, and in the ninth section of the act the terms used are, "that when slaves are impressed by the Confederate Government, * * * the impressment shall be made by said Government" in accordance with such rules and regulations as have been provided in the laws of the State wherein they are impressed, if there be such laws.
In an act passed by the State of Virginia, 3d of October, 1862, the Governor of the State was authorized and required to call into the Confederate States service slaves for labor on fortifications and public works. The act provided for the equalizing of the burden as nearly as may be among the several counties, cities, and towns of the Commonwealth, for the hire to be paid, the obligations to be incurred by the Confederate Government, and for the manner of the collection and delivery of the slaves. This act is not an act for the impressment of slaves, but a mode of drafting them for the public service. The execution of the act was dependent in a great measure upon the action of the county court, and experience has fully shown that its operation is dilatory, and that it is not suitable for an immediate and urgent necessity, such as existed in this case.
The only provision in this act that authorizes the impressment of slaves is conditional upon the event of the neglect or refusal of the county or corporation court to perform the duty imposed upon them. In that event the Governor is authorized, with the aid of certain specified officers of the county, to make an impressment of the slaves demanded from the county by agents of his selection.
The Department has usually collected slaves for work upon fortifications by a requisition upon the Governor according to the terms of this act. It is equitable in its provisions, and the agencies employed are probably the least obnoxious of any other for the accomplishment of the object proposed--that object being the assertion of an onerous and repulsive claim for service. But the existing circumstances did not admit of the delay necessarily involved in the use of its machinery. The Department has not supposed that this act was incorporated into the legislation of the Confederate States by the ninth section of the act of March, 1863, but it has in its general order under that section of act and its special order in the present instance preserved its leading features in reference to the apportionment of the labor, the compensation to be made, the obligations to be assumed to the owner in case of the loss or injury of the property, and the length of time for which the slaves are to be continued in the service.
Having thus shown the authority of law under which the Department is now conducting the impressment of slaves in Virginia, the answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives is respectfully submitted.
JAMES A. SEDDON,
Secretary of War.
SOURCE: United States War Department. THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.
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Why You Should Travel to Dubai this Year
Dubai is among the few Middle East cities that are open to travellers. This city is one of the seven municipalities that form the United Arab Emirates.
It’s located towards the eastern side of the Arabian Peninsula and to the southwestern side of the Arabian Gulf. Many people travel to this city due to its stunning coastline, constant sunshine, and a vast desert. Nevertheless, there are more reasons to travel to Dubai.
They include:
The tallest building in the world
The Burj Khalifa is the tallest building globally. It measures 828 meters and it makes the downtown Dubai sky stunning. Its architecture was inspired by the beach spiderlilly or Hymenocallis. This is a desert flower. This building appears in steel and glass aluminum as three towers around the central core. Traveling to Dubai gives you an opportunity to go to the top of this building where there is an open air deck on level 124. This gives you stunning views of the entire city at 360 degrees.
Shopping
There are many shopping malls in Dubai. Dubai Mall is the most famous among them. This is the largest mall in the world and it covers a space of 12 million square feet. You can also go shopping in the Mall of the Emirates when you travel to Dubai.
Desert Safari
The Liwa Desert has an unforgettable landscape. It has miles of red sand that stretches endlessly into the furthest horizon. Going on a desert safari provides the best way to enjoy an unforgettable experience in this city. You get a chance to view the rolling sand dunes across the desert. You catch better views of the desert sunset when you go on an evening safari.
Mosques
The Sheikh Zayed Mosque is among the most impressive mosques in the world. Its size alone is simply overwhelming. It has a white marble that luminescent beneath the Arabian sun. The interior of this mosque is equally impressive.
Rest assured that you will live to remember the view of this mosque and tell stories about it once you visit it during your trip to Dubai. Jumeirah Mosque is also a large and impressive mosque that you should visit when you travel to Dubai.
Beaches
Dubai boasts of a coastline that is characterized by sparkling, clear waters and sand beaches. With high sunshine hours and hot temperatures, you can have great time at the beach. There are also coastal hotels with private beaches. Majority of them provide great water sport experiences.
These are some of the major reasons to visit Dubai. Consider traveling to Dubai for these and other reasons.
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Baltimore students ‘can’t feel their feet’ as schools struggle to properly heat classrooms
The teachers’ union requested the city close schools until the problem is fixed.
2018’s first blizzard, technically called a “bomb cyclone,” hit the U.S. East Coast on Thursday. For many Americans safe at home in their (relatively) warm apartments and houses, the storm is scary, but not particularly life-threatening. However, for kids attending Baltimore’s public schools, woefully incompetent heating and water problems were already making wintery weather conditions a nightmare, ultimately forcing schools to close before the storm.
Originally reported by local news outlets, the Baltimore Teachers Union requested the city close public schools amid major heating problems, impacting multiple educational facilities across the school system. Four schools were closed Wednesday, two additional schools dismissed students early, and NPR reports the entire public school system closed its doors for the snow storm on Thursday. But schools that remained open before Thursday faced temperatures resting around 40 degrees, forcing students to bundle up in layers just to attend class.
In one of Maryland’s best high schools, Baltimore City College High School, one student warned that she was freezing at school.
“She actually said she couldn’t feel her feet at one point,” mother Nikki Massie told NPR. “I texted her back and said are you joking? She says—no.”
This problem is systemic. The poor building conditions is not just happening at my school but all around Baltimore City….
Approximately one-third of all public school buildings within the city are suffering from some form of heating issue, with around 60 schools having sent complaints to the city as of Wednesday. In the Baltimore Teachers Union letter, the city’s educators called on the public school system to close schools “until your facilities crew has had time to properly assess and fix the heating issues within the affected schools in Baltimore City.”
“I do realize that you and your staff are managing the best you can to rectify the issue in this record-breaking cold weather, however, doing so on the backs of our members and the children of Baltimore City is unacceptable,” union president Marietta English wrote, NPR reports. “Additionally, your expectation that our members and the children that they teach endure bursting boilers, drafty windows, frigid temperatures in classrooms, and risk getting sick in these ‘less than ideal’ conditions, is utterly ridiculous.”
While all the bullshit is going on in our corrupt federal administration, there are real problems like freezing cold kids and teachers in Baltimore schools that won't be addressed. https://t.co/jyJXETZyht
As to why Baltimore’s students are left out in the cold, many argue it’s because the affected buildings largely service students of color. This is particularly damaging, because Baltimore’s schools often provide essential needs to children outside of schooling, like free meals and after-school programs. And, when they’re working properly, heat.
“I just think of all that stuff about needing to have perseverance and grit, and that’s all they can say to these children,” teacher Jesse Schneiderman said, the Root reports. “Things we only ask of black and brown children.”
It remains unclear when Baltimore’s school system will solve the heating issues, although the district has blamed “extreme temperatures” for the problem, suggesting climate change is also a factor at play. Regardless, for now, the heating issue is for the city to fix.
Ana Valens is an LGBTQ reporter and essayist for the Daily Dot. Her work has previously appeared in Bitch, the Establishment, Vice's Waypoint, Rolling Stone's Glixel, and the Toast. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Texas Harassment Laws: Criminal charges and Penalties in Texas
Harassment is a misdemeanor offense in which one person is accused of purposely annoying another person, usually by phone or e-mail. If the case involves threats of violence, the charge can become stalking, a felony.
To charge you with harassment or stalking, the police have to show that you were the person making the calls or sending the messages, and establish that you acted with criminal intent. The most common forms of evidence they use are phone records, copies of voice mail messages, e-mails and Internet addresses.
Occasionally, these incidents can escalate into violence, so prosecutors tend to take them very seriously, treating a harassment or stalking charge as a warning sign, especially in domestic violence cases or cases in which a stranger repeatedly expresses unwanted romantic interest in another person.
What is Harassment Under Texas Law?
The Texas Penal Code says you have committed harassment if you call, write or e-mail someone with the intention of scaring, embarrassing, annoying, or tormenting them. Specifically, if you solicit or describe sex acts, threaten to harm the person or the person’s family, falsely report the death or serious injury of a third party, let the phone ring over and over, or send repeated e-mails, you can be charged.
Harassment is a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by not more than 180 days in a county jail and/or a fine of not more than $2,000. But, if you have been convicted of harassment before, it becomes a Class A misdemeanor, which could mean up to a year in county jail and/or fines up to $4,000.
As with most misdemeanors, it is likely that you could receive probation if convicted.
Charged with stalking in Texas?
In some cases, you can be charged with the more serious offense of stalking. That is defined as any repeated conduct that gives another person, or member of the person’s family, the reasonable fear that you might kill or seriously injure them, or even damage their property.
While the statute includes physically following someone as a form of stalking, it does not require that the offense be committed in person.
For example, repeatedly calling a former boss to tell him you’re going to hurt him could be considered stalking under Texas criminal law. Or, posting threatening notes on a Internet message board to a woman who turned you down for a date could also be considered what is commonly known as cyberstalking.
On the first offense, stalking is a third-degree felony, punishable by 2 to 10 years in a state prison and/or a fine of not more than $10,000. With a previous conviction, it is a second-degree felony, bumping the possible penalty up to 2 to 20 years in a state prison.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
What Goes Up …: The Birth of Big Air
As irritating as David Blaine has become in recent years due to his tedious, surprisingly lusterless stunt (un)spectaculars, whenever I’m flipping through the channels and stumble upon the 1996 documercial David Blaine: Street Magic, I put down the remote control. By now I’ve seen the Leonardo DiCaprio-hosted special enough times to know all the tricks, even if I can’t explain how they’re pulled off. And although I’m still impressed by Blaine’s skill (I’ve always loved magic), the pure excitement I get from watching him turn an Ace of Diamonds into a 6 of Spades has long since passed. Meanwhile, Blaine’s undoubtedly effective stage presence, from his monotone monologues to his dramatic exhaustion shtick, has become downright tiresome. Yet still I watch. The difference is that I no longer watch Blaine. The genius of Street Magic is that in addition to allowing us to observe Blaine’s sleight of hand, the film also – and sometimes exclusively – allows us to watch the awed faces of Blaine’s marks. No matter how many times I encounter Street Magic, the sight of people staring in absolute amazement as they try to process the apparent reality of the seemingly impossible is nothing short of thrilling.
Incredibly enough, that leads us to the latest documentary in ESPN Films’ “30 for 30” series, The Birth of Big Air, which has nothing whatsoever to do with street magic but nonetheless has similar charms. Profiling a BMX daredevil named Mat Hoffman, the 50-minute film is peppered with moments in which Jeff Tremaine’s camera stares into the dumbstruck faces of people trying to process stunts so incredible that they might as well be illusions. That some of the stunts happened as many as 24 years ago, and that many of the guys shaking their heads in amazement have performed numerous gravity-defying feats of their own, makes their present-day wonderment, captured in talking-head interviews, all the more poignant. It’s one thing for a stuntman to dazzle in the moment. It’s another thing to pull off tricks so incredible that a decade or two later people still get goosebumps remembering what it was like to discover photographs of the tricks in trade magazines. Mat Hoffman earned his fame, and served as a trailblazer for his sport, by doing things on a bike that no one else could. Hoffman earned his legend, however, by nailing tricks no one else even imagined.
On that note, The Birth of Big Air is a celebration of vision as much as it is a chronicle of accomplishment. It’s the story of a kid from Oklahoma who built a halfpipe in his backyard and then spent every spare moment of his childhood testing his limits on it until he realized that it was the halfpipe that was holding him back. Driven by a heartfelt desire to honor his dead mother by reaching his full potential, and encouraged by the calculations of a stuntman who validated the attainability of the barely conceivable, Hoffman shifted his focus away from the standard 10-foot-tall halfpipe and began experimenting with something significantly more extreme, a 20-foot-quarterpipe, a nearly vertical ramp that he would use to launch himself toward a goal that was equally absurd: 20 feet of air. Such heights are commonplace in the sport now, thanks to better bikes and ramps, but at the time Hoffman was an explorer shooting for the moon in an era when his peers were still learning how to fly. So severe was Hoffman’s passion and so primitive were the times that in order for him transcend the 20-foot barrier he had to get towed by a motorcycle across a runway of loose plywood so that he could generate satisfactory speed. Pedaling alone wasn’t going to cut it.
It takes a special kind of person to take such risks – someone who is half-brave and half-reckless, or maybe all of one or the other. Hoffman is that man. Big Air is an ode to his perseverance and toughness. There are stories of broken bones, trips to the hospital and do-it-yourself stitches. There is respect paid toward the reality that big-air tricks are an all-or-nothing proposition. You nail them or you don’t, and when you don’t the failure can be ugly. The path to big air is fraught with big falls. If it wasn’t, anyone could do it. If Big Air is any indication, the only protection these guys get in the early experimental stages is a messy pile of mattresses to fall on (if they’re lucky). Other than that, it’s just a helmet and some woefully inadequate body armor between these guys and their wooden ramps. Big Air never mentions recent research about the cumulative effect of concussions, and perhaps it should have. Then again, the film isn’t an irresponsible, wholly romanticized depiction of the sport either. For many who watch this documentary, Big Air’s most memorable image won’t be Hoffman’s triumphant, jaw-dropping 20-plus feet of air. It’ll be the haunting sight of Hoffman’s inert body sliding down a ramp after a failed jump – an image made all the more grisly due to the tragic screams of Hoffman’s helpless wife, who just seconds ago was standing by her husband as the couple admired their newborn daughter.
The juxtaposition of Hoffman’s 2001 near-death experience with recent footage of ESPN’s X Games is chilling, precisely because they seem worlds apart. State of the art technology and years of refinement have made the formerly extraordinary seem almost commonplace to the point that it’s all too easy to forget the danger involved. To call these guys athletes is right on the money, but to call this stuff sport is to lure us into believing it’s all just a game. Big Air was produced by director Spike Jonze and Johnny Knoxville, the latter of whom earned fame by abusing his body on the TV show Jackass. It’s Knoxville we should think of when these big-air tricks go wrong, because if you’re not sticking a trick you might as well be hurling your body toward the ground from 20-plus feet in the air on purpose. From sport to Jackass-esque self-mutilation, just like that.
The risks inherent to BMX (or skateboarding, for that matter), threaten to keep it nothing more than a fringe professional sport. (Of course, that it’s a professional sport at all is in part thanks to Hoffman, who carried the fire during its lean years.) Perhaps fittingly then, Big Air isn’t anywhere near the top of the “30 for 30” series. It lacks the cinematic poetry of June 17, 1994 or the epic sprawl of The Two Escobars, and yet it has the thankless task of following those two superb entries in the ESPN Films series. Combining archival footage with talking head after talking head, Tremaine’s film is documentary bread and butter. Then again, I suppose you could say the same thing about a card trick in relation to magic. Just because it’s simple doesn’t mean it won’t make your jaw drop.
The Birth of Big Air premieres tonight on ESPN at 7 pm ET, and will rerun frequently thereafter. The Cooler will be reviewing each film in the “30 for 30” series upon its release. See the archive.
Just saw the first ten minutes or so of this last night after having read your review. It reminded me a lot of Riding Giants/Dogtown and Z-boys, which is neither good or bad. All traditionally made but high quality documentaries, but all about extreme sports that I am tempted to think take themselves a bit too seriously at times, not in athletic prowess but social significance. Of course these are young sports, and these documentaries will likely age very nicely in the decades to come.
Clarence: Great question. I've decided my favorite is June 17, 1994. I'm sure on that one. After that it's hard for me to distinguish between The Two Escobars, Run, Ricky, Run and The U. My fifth would be Winning Time, though I admit a personal bias there because Miller slaying the Knicks is one of my favorite memories as a sports fan. On a pure cinema level, though, it's playful (the opera music) and smartly edited, so I think it stands.
Honorable mention to No Crossover.
Agreed with you on Silly Little Game. It was great to see it recognized. At the same time, it was almost a tease. Wish it would have been better.
Daniel: It really is cool to understand the history of big air, even if the history isn't that old.
It takes a special kind of person to take such risks – someone who is half-brave and half-reckless, or maybe all of one or the other.
Well said here and throughout - on a topic that has actually been dear to my heart ever since my son took his skateboard, picked up speed across the kitchen floor, and ollied out of the kitchen, over three steps, into the garage. Since then, he suffered scrapes, bruises, bleeding wounds, a slight concussion even with helmet, and a cracked elbow - but he persisted and mastered stunts at the nearby high school that were increasingly daring (though, of course, nothing compared to Hoffman's stunts). Still, I remembered myself at his age - a rather fearful guy - and I had to admire his courage and persistence at a sport that seems to defy gravity and other laws of physics. Now, fortunately, he's realized, I think, that the older you get the more damage you can do to yourself and his avocation has turned to music. Still, he and his old buddy will go off to the skateboard park of an evening to commune with big air (relatively speaking).
Good review. Seeing as how BMX is indeed a fringe sport, and one that I didn't know much about (aside from occasional X Games-watching the past couple years), I wish the separation between Hoffman and other riders when he started out would have been fleshed out a little more by Tremaine. He gives us a lot of talking heads in the first 5-10 minutes saying that Hoffman was on another level, but I wish he had expanded on that a little bit more, perhaps using graphics and numbers to show the disparity of Hoffman's air/tricks as an amateur compared with the pros that he was beating. (As opposed to just a stream of guys saying "He was getting huge air!") It just seemed like from a directorial standpoint, the film didn't get going until about halfway through, when you finally get invested in Hoffman's personality. I would have liked for Tremaine to give me more of a reason to care initially as to what set the kid apart.
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Two days after the CEO of Delta Air Lines Inc. said the company is taking a “serious look” at Bombardier Inc.’s CSeries jetliner, another major U.S. carrier dashed hopes that it too could be a linchpin customer for the troubled aircraft.
United Airlines announced Thursday that it will buy 40 narrow-body aircraft from Boeing Co. in a deal worth US$3.2 billion at list prices.
United had made it clear that it wanted to replace its 50-seat regional planes with larger aircraft in 2016. Chief financial officer Gerry Laderman said the CSeries was a candidate but the airline opted for Boeing’s 737-700 instead.
However, he said the airline “will continue to look at aircraft” and hasn’t ruled out Bombardier for future purchases.
Bombardier hasn’t recorded a new firm order for the CSeries since September 2014, and it desperately needs a big-name customer to restore confidence in the program.
The excitement starts to build when we have those conversations with a customer like Delta
In an interview this week, Bombardier’s president of commercial aircraft said he’s feeling “very positive” about how talks with potential customers are going, although he has nothing concrete to announce yet.
“We’re starting to get the inbound interest that we were expecting, so it’s very encouraging and I couldn’t be happier with where we are today,” Fred Cromer said.
Cromer showed the CSeries to Delta’s team in Atlanta right before Christmas and he said they were keen to learn about its technical specifications.
“They’re very interested in the 100-seaters and the 100- to 150-seat category is obviously where the CSeries fits,” Cromer said.
“You start getting deeper and deeper into those conversations and I can tell you, the excitement starts to build when we have those conversations with a customer like Delta.”
On a conference call with analysts earlier this week, Delta CEO Richard Anderson called the CSeries a “pretty impressive” airplane.
“We actually think that at the right price it is quite a competitive airplane, particularly given the engine technology,” Anderson said. “So we are taking a very serious look at it.”
The CSeries was certified by Transport Canada in mid-December and will enter into service with Swiss International Air Lines AG in the second quarter of this year.
Production is also ramping up, and the first plane designated for Swiss is now structurally complete. Cromer said Swiss pilots are currently at Bombardier’s site in Mirabel, Que., to train on the aircraft.
“I met the first crew when they came off the airplane and they couldn’t be happier,” Cromer said.
“It flew exactly as advertised and they were pretty excited about it, they were anxious to get in and do it again. I think it was all thumbs-up from their point of view, which was great feedback.”
However, National Bank analyst Cameron Doerksen said the stock — which is down 70 per cent since the beginning of last year — will only move higher when new orders are announced.
A deal with Delta or another marquee customer “would be a significant program-legitimizing order and a major positive for the company,” Doerksen wrote in a recent analysis.
He added that the weak Canadian dollar could prove to be a “nice tailwind” for Bombardier’s aerospace division in 2016, with a potential $288 million in cost reductions, excluding hedging, if the current exchange rate holds.
However, Cromer said the loonie hasn’t affected discussions around the price of the CSeries.
“There has not been a lot of volatility in those pricing discussions,” he said. “The pricing discussions are really more deal-specific.”
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31 July 2012
Newfound Wisdom
I always look forward to Tuesday afternoons, when I pick up my CSA delivery on the way home from work. This morning, I had an appointment with a man about some wisdom teeth. The wisdom teeth are gone, but the second delivery of early tomatoes are here. What does this all mean? It's going to be a great week for Gazpacho. The golden plums, left, are likely to make a cameo appearance in some cold soup, too.
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My Kids
Things I've Learned From My Children
Things I've Learned From My Children
For those who already have children past this age,
this is hilarious.
For those who have children nearing this age,
this is a warning.
For those who have not yet had children,
this is birth control.
The following came from an anonymous mother
in Austin, Texas.
1. A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. foot house
4 inches deep.
2. If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.
3. A 3 year olds voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.
4. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound boy wearing Batman underwear and a superman cape. It is strong enough, however, to spread paint on all four walls of
a 20 by 20 foot room.
5. You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using the ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before
you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.
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Amazon drops California associates to avoid state sales tax
June 29, 2011 | 11:22
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This post has been corrected. See note at bottom for details.
Amazon.com dropped about 10,000 California-based associate sales partners late Wednesday so that it would not be forced to collect California state sales tax on purchases made through them. The tax is new and was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday as part of a plan to close a gap in the 2011-12 budget.
As passed, the law requires large out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases that California customers make on the Internet. Those taxes were lowered by 1 percentage point to ease the implementation.
Amazon's associates, better known as affiliates or marketing affiliates, use Amazon to help sell their products and either pay a percentage of each sale to Amazon or collect a small commission from Amazon on each sale, depending on the arrangement....
Apart from losing the income generated by the affiliates, the company would still have to pay sales taxes on goods purchased by Californians directly from its site, assuming the law stands up to likely legal challenges.
Connecticut, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Arkansas and Rhode Island have all passed similar laws requiring Internet retailers to collect sales tax -- sometimes called an "Amazon tax" -- and Amazon responded by dropping its associate partners in those states, CNN Money reported.
Only in New York state, which also passed a similar measure, has Amazon not dropped its associates; there, it has challenged the law in court.
"It's odd that a company would voluntarily dilute its business in the most populous state in the country simply because it's being asked to collect what is lawfully owed," Mark Hedlund, a spokesman for California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, told CNN Money.
According to two experts contacted by the Wall Street Journal, the California law is a likely candidate for a court challenge. California lawmakers maintain that it is designed to help level the playing field for brick-and-mortar retailers in the state.
[For the record, 6:16 a.m., June 30: An earlier version of this post incorrectly said Amazon had dropped its California sales partners late Thursday and that Gov. Brown had signed the legislation Thursday.]
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My order from blowout came today (3 boxes of crown and a star wars box) and decided to open one of the crown boxes tonight, but it wasn't all that great so I talked myself into opening a second and went for the one that's serial number ended in a 9, my lucky ending number when picking boxes.
My luck with boxes that end in 9 worked again as you guys can see, pretty happy with it, even though I could use the money to pick up some Stewart's, I'm not sure if I want to move it as he's killing it for me in fantasy this year and turning me into a fan of his.
It's my favorite product to bust, probably has something to do with having a ton of luck in my boxes (Sillouhette in all but 2 of my boxes and one of those 2 had a Cam auto) but its just an overall fun break. You get a couple inserts in each pack and they're all just cool looking cards, at the 67 a pop BO had them at, you just can't beat that value
One more box sitting here, trying to save it for the weekend, but will probably end up getting opened sometime tonight
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Steve Smith’s heartfelt press conference has been interrupted by a bizarre comment from a Kyle & Jackie O producer comparing the disgraced cricketers to ‘Married at First Sight’ participants.
As a distraught Smith broke down apologising to the nation and his parents for his role in the ball tampering scandal that has rocked Australian cricket, Peter Deppeler (known as ‘Intern Pete’) from the Kyle & Jackie O breakfast show overrode other reporters to ask him bizarre question.
Starting by saying he wanted to “take a different tact”, Deppeler said he wanted to offer the perspective of the “non-sporting community”.
“To see you upset tonight is very sad. We asked our listeners what we thought about this and we have opened up to them,” Deppeler said.
But it was his final comment comparing the cricketers to reality TV show participants Dean and Davina, whose on-air affair outraged 'MAFS' viewers, that drew gaps and groans from surrounding reporters and caused event organisers to cut him off sharply.
'Intern Pete' “And mate I have got to tell you, hold your head high for a little bit for what you have done because what’s actually been worse is what Davina and Dean did on ‘Married at First Sight’.”
Steve Smith was left speechless by the comparison to 'Married at First Sight' participants Dean and Davina. (9NEWS) (9NEWS)Davina and Dean caused outrage when they started an on-screen affair on reality TV show 'Married At First Sight'. (Channel Nine) (Channel Nine)
A teary yet seemingly gobsmacked Smith stares at the heckler wordlessly before event organisers eventually cut him off with “Thank you, next question”.
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The press conference continued without further incident, but that hasn’t stopped audiences taking to social media to slam the “embarrassing” and “tasteless” performance.
One viewer told Deppeler on Twitter: “Everyone in Australia now thinks you’re a d---head for asking Steve Smith about Married At First Sight. @kyleandjackieo – you’re a disgrace for allowing this to happen.”
Another suggested the radio producer will be “cooking Big Macs within five years”, while others labelled him a “moron”.
Others went so far as to call for him to be fired.
‘Intern Pete’ is infamous for his embarrassing and at times tasteless stunts – which have included attending the Logies dressed as the gold Logie man and turning up to a rival radio station stark naked – but his latest stunt may just have pushed community expectations - and Kyle & Jackie O listeners - one step too far.
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Welcome to the Exeter Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Website.
About the Exeter Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Our local group is broad-based, and comprises individual members of the community who are supportive of the Palestinian cause. We have around 430 members many of whom are actively involved in local and national events/campaigns.
Anyone who wants to be involved more locally, or just be informed, is welcome. We meet on the
first Tuesday of every month in Exeter and organise regular stalls, actions, culture, bazaar, public speaking and other events. Your input and support is always needed and appreciated.
The Exeter PSC also works with several other groups in Exeter and the South West to promote Palestinian culture and goods as well as political lobbying. We also aim to provide information and raise public awareness about the situation in Palestine.Click here to contact Exeter Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
As with all campaigning groups we rely on financial support for our work from members and the public. Our annual budget is currently about £2,000 the majority of which is used for targeted humanitarian projects in Palestine especially Hebron and Gaza where we have links. Some funds are raised through events, but our ideal source is many individuals donating regular amounts, naturally we would also be grateful for single donations. Click here to donate to the Exeter Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Exeter Palestine Solidarity Campaign is affiliated to the National Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), which was established during the build-up to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and support for the new organisation was greatly strengthened by subsequent events, and particularly by the massacres at Sabra and Shatilla.
Since 1982 the PSC has become the largest and most active campaigning organisation in the UK on the issue of Palestine. The PSC aims to build an effective mass campaign, organising protests, political lobbying and raising public awareness.
The
PSC is an independent, non-governmental and non-party political organisation
with members from many communities across Britain - and increasingly throughout
the world.
PSC's (and our local group's) core values are:
Campaigning against oppression and dispossession
suffered by the Palestinian people.
Supporting the rights of the Palestinian people and
their struggle to achieve these rights, including the Right of Return in line
with UN Resolution 194.
Promoting Palestinian civil society in the interests
of democratic rights and social justice.
Opposing Israel’s occupation and its aggression
against neighbouring states.
Opposing anti-Semitism and racism, including the
apartheid and Zionist nature of the Israeli state.
Set up your own local group
Several of our members have set up their own local groups through the church, trade union and other organisations or simply with other like minded people. If you would like to do this, please contact us for help. You can also get materials for stalls or meetings direct from us. See also campaign material and merchandise available from the national PSC.
The national PSC has published a Branch Guide to help set up local groups, please contact us if you would like a copy.
Although we would strongly encourage you to become a member
of the national PSC, this is not compulsory.
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Dhoni is the only player in the current 15-man Indian squad to have featured in previous two World Cups (2007 and 2011). He took India to World Cup glory in 2011, winning the tournament with a six in the final at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium. (Team India guide)
File photo: Dhoni (right) hugs Tendulkar after winning the World Cup in 2011
While 11 of the 15 will be making their World Cup debuts, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina and R Ashwin were the other 3 to have been part of the victorious 2011 squad. (Team India's WC records)
At 33, Dhoni is not part of the young brigade. Citing the "strain" of playing all formats, and to concentrate on ODIs and T20s, he quit Tests last month (December 30), which came as a bolt from the blue to his colleagues and fans.
One of the best finishers and arguably India's greatest leader in shorter versions of the game, Dhoni will most likely not feature in the 2019 World Cup in England.
By the time the next 50-over big tournament comes around, Dhoni will be few months short of his 38th birthday.
Having played in all three formats non-stop (including Indian Premier League) for nearly 9 years, Dhoni is expected to bid adieu to ODIs in the next couple of years. (Photos from WC 2011 final)
Dhoni with the World Cup 2011 trophy
One cannot be surprised if Dhoni chooses to bow out of ODIs after this World Cup, in case he manages to steer the team to a second title in a row.
While there are still speculations over why Dhoni retired from Tests midway through the Australia series, the wicketkeeper-batsman has chosen to not reveal the reasons.
"You can ask questions, but it is my decision (not to answer them). I will answer if I want to," was Dhoni's reply when queried on his Test retirement.
And in recent times, all seems to be not well in the Indian dressing room. Virat Kohli seems to have become the "Chosen One" for most of the team management at the moment.
With Kohli in prolific form in all formats, rightly, the focus too is on him. The day is not far away when the Delhi lad is anointed as the ODI captain as well with having already got the reins of Test team.
Dhoni will be few months short of his 38th birthday at next World Cup
If Team India fails to defend the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, questions might be asked about Dhoni's leadership and a change in guard might be brought in.
However, irrespective of the results in ICC World Cup 2015, Dhoni is almost certain to not hang around till the next showpiece event in 2019.
As Sachin Tendulkar did in his final World Cup appearance four years ago, Dhoni too will be aiming to bow out on a high, making it two in a row.
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How you can help those on the front line of the fight against coronavirus and how they can best protect themselves.
“How many times do I need to tell you to keep away from me?” That was what my husband shouted at our six-year-old who just wanted to hug his daddy, something that was a normal thing to do before.
With his voice shaking, the pain palpable, I watched my husband walk upstairs and close the door of his room. Yes, his room: segregated not through choice but through need.
So, I scooped up my little boy, hugged him tightly and explained to him for what felt like the 100th time why daddy has to keep away from us just now.
This is the reality for many front-line healthcare professionals right now as they put everything aside to honour the commitment they made when they chose to dedicate their lives to medicine.
My husband and I are both GPs working in the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. I have recently started my maternity leave. However, my husband continues to work full time on the front line, battling the coronavirus outbreak every day.
He also does extra hours for our “out of hours” service in order to help meet the demand as the number of cases of coronavirus continues to rise. Sadly, not only are we practically living apart, due to the level of risk he has of contracting COVID-19, he may not even attend the birth of our baby, a moment precious to all parents.
I still recall my interview at the University of Glasgow medical school in 2001, where I was asked why I wanted to be a doctor.
My answer was simple: “Because I want to help save lives.” For those who opt for a career in medicine, it is more than just a job – it is a vocation. It is a real, guttural calling that cannot be articulated as you always strive to do good, do no harm and provide a duty of care to your patients.
As I proudly accepted my medical degree 14 years ago, I appreciated there would be some tough times when I would need to make some really challenging decisions but never did I think my job could put me in a position where I could potentially risk the lives of others, of my family or even my own.
Fast forward to the present day and healthcare professionals across the world find themselves working under immense pressure, feeling anxious and fearful of what lies ahead, to do their bit in the fight against one of the greatest challenges of our time; the fight against COVID-19.
What we are being asked to do is necessary but it is incredibly tough on many levels.
Here, in the UK, we are just at the beginning of our uphill struggle. We have been closely monitoring trends across the world so we are fully informed about the impact that coronavirus will have on our citizens, our economy and the future once it hits us properly.
We have seen the pressures that our healthcare colleagues around the world have been put under and it paints a very bleak picture.
As we get ready for work every day, we read the headlines about more doctors dying from coronavirus, but we try to shield our loved ones from this and we try to block out the noise in our heads.
Our anxiety levels are high but knowing that our healthcare systems need us – now more than ever – compels us to push our emotions to one side as we take things one day at a time, stretched beyond our limits.
Why are clinicians so vulnerable?
There have been several issues that have made doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers feel more vulnerable and unsupported.
A serious delay in the issuing of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the UK as well as in other countries around the world has seen front-line workers delivering care to coronavirus positive patients without any consideration for their safety.
You only need to take a scroll on social media to witness some of the desperate lengths doctors and nurses are going to in order to protect themselves – these are far from danger proof, but we are trying to do our best in order to not compromise care.
The virus is spread via close contact through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
Without any PPE, the risk of transmission to a clinician is very high. The implications of this are monumental in the spread of the pandemic because once exposed, the clinician could be at risk of getting unwell themselves – something the NHS and other healthcare systems around the world cannot afford.
These clinicians are also at a higher risk of transmitting the infection to other people and members of their community as they commute through the city to get home, and then expose their families to it.
In trying to save one life, we are potentially compromising the lives of many others at the same time. Carrying this burden hinders our ability to work and deliver care effectively, and potentially compromises the quality of clinical work.
Nobody is a winner here. The UK, where I am, has entered a lockdown as cases and deaths continue to rise but many doctors are still working without adequate PPE. How can we delay the spread when we may well be contributing to it in the first place?
Another significant issue compromising us and our patients is the lack of testing. We are trying to fight a pandemic without knowing the magnitude of the problem.
In the UK, for example, only those who are hospitalised are being tested. In primary care, we are running on presumptions. More critical, perhaps, is the lack of testing of front-line healthcare workers. We are facing sleepless nights as we have no idea if we are carrying the virus or not.
How can others help?
People can help us by self-isolating if at all possible, but I worry that lockdown – such as that enacted at last in the UK and already enacted in many other countries – has been an action taken a little too late.
We all have to make tough decisions about whether we really should be out and about. After finding myself in a confined space, travelling with a patient with symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 a week ago, I decided enough was enough.
At 34 weeks pregnant, sitting in a small consultation room without any PPE and with limited knowledge about how coronavirus might affect my unborn baby or my child at home, I realised it is just not a risk I am willing to take.
There was no option for me to explore other ways of working, nor was there any guidance so I started my maternity leave.
Many female healthcare workers are in the same predicament and it is causing us to make some difficult choices. However, my husband continues to work. He only received PPE this week but the worry remains – could he already be a carrier?
How can healthcare workers protect themselves?
There are measures that doctors and healthcare workers can take to minimise their risk of exposure and therefore their risk of passing it on to their families who may also be vulnerable.
Have dedicated work clothes which you only wear at work and wash them at a high temperature as soon as you get home.
When you get home, have a dedicated plastic box where you put your coat, shoes, etc. Keep everything you take outside segregated from the rest of your family.
Immediately shower and keep a distance of more than 2 metres from your family members at all times. No cuddles with anyone, just say hello.
Avoid touching any door handles and surfaces until you and they are clean using normal disinfectant or detergent. This includes your phone, which you should have locked away when at work.
If you are travelling by car, wipe down the steering wheel, controls and door handles. Have in your bag some wipes or a disinfectant spray and kitchen roll as well as gloves. Dispose of these in a sealed bag immediately once cleaned.
None of these measures feels normal because the situation we are facing is far from normal.
In the UK, as in other countries, many retired doctors and nurses are returning to work to help alleviate the burden on healthcare workers, which goes to show just how much this vocation means to us.
Those of us who are on maternity or sick leave are using media or social media outlets to help deliver public health messages.
We are all putting our vulnerabilities, our anxieties and even our family lives to the side right now to do our bit and serve our society. I just hope that we remain protected, healthy and supported to continue to keep on doing so.
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How Music Can Motivate Creative Momentum
This post is totally random, but I’ve been brain-deep in focusing on finalizing the playlist for the fifth book of The Black Wolf Series. It got me thinking about just how much I rely on music to motivate my creative momentum!
Music has always been a huge part of my life. My parents both love listening to and making music, so it has been a part of my environment since day one. I can play a few instruments (poorly) and can sing (in the shower or car, especially). But listening to music is my real joy.
Unfortunately, I can’t listen to music when I’m writing because it becomes a distraction. When I’m not writing, however, I find music to be especially inspiring. Certain lyrics, of course, can inspire thoughts or evoke emotions. More often, though, inspiration comes from the music itself. The feeling or mood the music gives me when I hear it is typically much more powerful than the content of a song.
Using music is a great way to motivate your creative momentum!
I have so many playlists on my personal Spotify account. The entire Black Wolf series is sketched out in music – along with the next planned series (The Crown Series) and two other untitled, un-figured-out things I might write in the future! Plus there are the playlists of songs that haven’t yet found a home but are so good they’ll have to end up somewhere.
As I’ve been working my way through the rest of The Black Wolf Series, I’ve been zeroing in on which songs are inspiring me the most. I’ve got playlists full of tunes I’ve been chiseling down. It’s not really an idea of what songs *belong* to the books, but more of which pieces get me feeling the way I need to as I mentally walk myself through the plots and problems.
I’ve found playlists to be the most useful when I’m doing chores or getting ready for the day. It’s a shock how many ideas come to you when you’re washing your hair or loading the dishwasher.
You can take a listen to the finished playlists for Books One through Four here:
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Republican Rep. Mike Coffman and his Democratic challenger, Andrew Romanoff, clashed over immigration, campaign finance and the budget on Thursday, in the first debate in one of the most competitive, expensive and closely watched House contests in the nation.
New York state's second-largest public-sector union endorsed Zephyr Teachout's long-shot bid to oust Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday, while the state's powerful teachers' union announced it will sit out this year's governor's race.
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One of the longest running jokes in Internet history revolves around VRML (an acronym for "Virtual Reality is Much Laughter"). In case you haven't heard of this idiotic language, and I truly hope you haven't, let me get you up to speed by presenting an alarmingly inaccurate historical description of VRML. VRML was initially created in the mid-90's to allow users to experience the utter joy of being in "cyberspace," which consisted of floating around gigantic neon cubes and cones. All the "cool" movies in those days featured people who would log in to their bitchin' 100 MHz Pentium 1 computers and enter some magical world where numbers are represented by dumb geometric shapes and nobody can find anything useful anywhere. The main point of going into virtual reality was to apparently teach your idiot children how to name shapes and colors. Despite heavy protests from people with over nine brain cells, VRML 1.0 was released in May of 1995, causing coders around the globe to immediately dismiss it and go back to playing "Rise of the Triad." Programmers who didn't have access to this game were forced by their bosses and college instructors to use VRML and create some kind of virtual reality world that not only took forever to load but also had the added benefit of being completely impossible to navigate. Most colleges offered at least one VRML-related course where the instructor was some short chubby guy with bulging eyes and a grey beard. He often knew as much about VRML as the students, so it was really easy to just answer "RED CONE" to every test question and end up passing the course. Here's an actual quote from the VRML 1.0C specifications:
"Finally, we move to "perceptualized" Internetworks, where the data has been sensualized, that is, rendered sensually. If something is represented sensually, it is possible to make sense of it. VRML is an attempt to place humans at the center of the Internet, ordering its universe to our whims. In order to do that, the most important single element is a standard that defines the particularities of perception. Virtual Reality Modeling Language is that standard, designed to be a universal description language for multi-participant simulations."
THE FUTURE!!!
Wow! That sure sounds exciting and revolutionary! With such a meaningful and detailed description, I can't even possibly begin to imagine why this useful language never caught on. I mean, read that again: "the data has been sensualized, that is, rendered sensually. If something is represented sensually, it is possible to make sense of it." How anybody could expect VRML to succeed when its description doesn't even make any sense whatsoever baffles even me, and I've seen things on the Internet that would make your head spin around so fast that it flies off your neck stump and lands on the collection of carpet samples you bought off of eBay. Anyway, everybody got really excited about VRML back then because they had nothing else to do but either program in that language or play "Rise of the Triad," and since most of them had already killed that utterly retarded demon-snake-terrorist-lizard-bug-alien end boss of the game, they tried making websites in VRML. The amazingly flexible nature of this language allowed developers to construct exciting "cyberspace virtual webpage e-worlds" that included such revolutionary creations as:
Planet of the Red Cubes A large blue square with a bitmap stretched across it reading "WELCOME TO MY HOMEPAGE" Something involving green pyramids A huge box that, upon entering, allowed the user to experience entering a huge box.
These were all incredibly exciting and wonderful concepts that were predicted to revolutionize the Internet industry just like how Dale Earnhardt revolutionized the "dying in a NASCAR race" industry. Can you imagine going to Amazon.com and seeing a whole line of red boxes underneath a shelf of orange spheres, some of which blink and read "WELCOME TO MY HOMEPAGE"? I can't! And also I'm impotent! Oddly enough, most Internet citizens felt the same way as I do (about the cubes, not the impotency), and VRML found itself grouped with such amazing ideas as Microsoft Bob and the script to "Maximum Overdrive." All the fat, bearded, smelly computer programmers simply couldn't figure out why VRML didn't catch on like Ocean Pacific t-shirts; it had all the elements of a successful product, which I will not list now because I cannot think of any offhand. Whatever they were, I'm just sure they were absolutely wonderful and possibly revolutionary.
THE FUTURE!!!
The programmers eventually gave up on VRML and decided to create another new, revolutionary, pointless language coincidentally named "VRML 2.0." See, this was intended to be an improvement to the previous version of VRML 1.0, which is the equivalent of moving up from Schlitz to Milwaukee's Best. VRML 2.0 promised to cram us into some exciting electronic three-dimensional world where we could see even more complex cubes and new shades of fuscia. In addition, it offered such revolutionary features as the ability to emit sounds from your computer speakers, allow cube doors to open inside cube rooms, and even support Javascript, the language that lets 50,000 porn site popup windows lock up your computer! Everybody had their hopes up for VRML 2.0 because the number "2" is larger than the number "1", by at least two times. However, programmers soon found out that the number following the acronym "VRML" wasn't referring to its release edition, it was referring to the number of people who will actually use it. The world once again was not ready for the sensory overload that VRML had to offer, and we tossed it aside like a Kleenex during a Kleenex-tossing competition. Everybody pretty much assumed VRML was dead at this point... but much like Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Michael Jackson, it has reared its ugly head once again in a brand new form: X3D.
...members of an emerging Web 3D standards group unveiled the first working draft of Extensible 3D (X3D), a successor to VRML. Among its claimed advantages, the new version is designed to work with Extensible Markup Language (XML), which is fast becoming the glue for a wide range of Web documents.
"There is a genuine pent-up demand for this stuff," analyst Peddie said. "What's out there now is primitive and not very satisfying, but that's partly because the people putting them out have to develop them from scratch. If they could get the same level of support and functionality with 3D that they do with XML, you would see amazing new developments."
Did you read that? AMAZING NEW DEVELOPMENTS! We're going to witness AMAZING NEW DEVELOPMENTS! Not just new, but AMAZING AND NEW! And DEVELOPMENTS! That's like two for the price of none! Now I don't know about you, but I've been having wet dreams about 3D graphic webpages for at least the last two weeks now. Before then I just had wet dreams of Johnny Fever. So look out WKRP in Cincinnati, X3D is in town and soon you'll be able to see rotating green squares on some kid's Geocities page dedicated to Slipknot! Gentlemen, the future is here once again! After being here before! And here again before that! Prepare yourselves for a sensory overload and strap on your 3D goggles because X3D is going to revolutionize the Internet as we know it, just like how PowerPlay turned my modem into a LAN party. Let's just hope our bandwidth is large enough to support all those cubes and cones and stuff coming through because I just looked at my cable modem's LAN wire and it seems awfully small. Oh well, back to "Rise of the Triad."
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275 So.2d 229 (1973)
Herbert Hoover SMITH, Petitioner,
v.
LAKE BUTLER GROVES, INC., et al., Respondents.
No. 42400.
Supreme Court of Florida.
March 7, 1973.
Rehearing Denied April 17, 1973.
Thomas R. Mooney, of Meyers & Mooney, Orlando, for petitioner.
Warren C. Rose, of Earle, Rose, Carey & Yanchuck, St. Petersburg, and Kenneth H. Hart, Jr., Industrial Relations Commission, Tallahassee, for respondent.
ERVIN, Justice.
Petition for writ of certiorari to review a reversal order of the Industrial Relations Commission.
Claimant Herbert Hoover Smith was injured in a compensable accident on August 9, 1966. On June 26, 1968 the employer, Lake Butler Groves, filed with the Industrial Relations Commission a form notifying the Commission that it was suspending temporary total disability benefits as of June 1, 1968, the date on which the employer contended the claimant had reached maximum medical improvement. The employer stated that it intended to commence payment of permanent partial disability benefits based on 35% of the body as a whole.
Claimant then requested a hearing at which he made claim for permanent total disability benefits, permanent partial benefits in excess of 35%, and attorney's fees. At the time of the hearing the employer decided the claimant had not reached maximum medical improvement, and concluded the permanent partial it initiated on June 1 should be reclassified as temporary total. The employer agreed it would continue to furnish benefits to the claimant, and if he did not improve it would pay permanent total.
On March 5, 1969 the JIC entered his order finding the claimant had not reached his maximum medical improvement as of the date of the hearing. He said, however, that the order was being entered "without prejudice for further orders to be entered finding that claimant did reach maximum medical improvement" prior to that time.
A second hearing was held on November 19, 1970 before a second judge. On March 25, 1971 he entered his order finding claimant was permanently and totally disabled *230 and unable to compete competitively on the open labor market. The JIC ordered the employer to pay the claimant weekly compensation based on a permanent total disability rating from May 14, 1968 to continue until claimant is able to compete competitively on the open labor market. In addition, the claimant was allowed to change doctors and was given hearing costs. The JIC reserved jurisdiction on the question of attorney's fees.
The employer sought review by the IRC. With two members sitting, the Commission reversed saying the order was not supported by competent, substantial evidence; rather, according to the IRC, "the Judge of Industrial Claims [in his order] merely recited his own conclusions and those of witnesses." The IRC remanded the cause to the JIC for further findings of fact and entry of a new order containing a statement of "the basic factors concerning age, education, work experience, labor market skills and limitations which must be considered in awarding permanent total disability." In addition the Commission said an award of attorney's fees based upon permanent total was inappropriate in light of its order.
Petitioner-claimant seeks certiorari review here of that IRC order.
In reaching his conclusion, the JIC said:
"I further find that the Claimant is able to engage in some limited physical activities for short periods of time, but that these activities are not enough to enable him to compete on the open labor market or obtain full time competitive employment. I based these findings on the limitations placed on the Claimant by the treating physician ... and further on the testimony of Dr. L.C. Fisher ... that there has been no essential change in Mr. Smith's condition since he first saw him and his opinion that Mr. Smith would be unable to do much work to earn a living for him and his family. I have also considered the testimony of the Claimant and his wife as to the limitations and physical problems he has at the present time and has had since he reached maximum medical improvement, and have taken into consideration the testimony of both investigators . .. and have considered the films taken of the Claimant by both of these parties... ."
In addition, the Judge said he took into consideration the stipulation made at the first hearing that the claimant was totally disabled and unable to work in an open labor market.
The record supports the Judge's conclusion without more. In addition, it seems to support a finding that this case falls within the following rule from Port Everglades Terminal Co. v. Canty, Fla. 1960, 120 So.2d 596:
"Where the injured person can handle only a specially-created job, one light of effort and responsibility but laden with rest and comfort (employment plums that do not often dangle from the tree of everyday economics) the burden is on the defendant-employer to show that such a job is in fact within reach. If proof of that fact is not presented, the claimant then is entitled to a finding of total disability."
It would be a waste of time and money to remand the case to the JIC for further hearing and a more complete statement of his findings when review of the record as it now stands amply supports his conclusion.
The order of the Commission is quashed with direction to reinstate the order of the Judge of Industrial Claims.
It is so ordered.
CARLTON, C.J., and BOYD and DEKLE, JJ., concur.
ROBERTS, J., dissents.
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I have witnessed individuals running red lights at this intersection numerous times at all hours of the day from my window! Absolutely ridiculous and very dangerous as you can see! Speed bumps need to be put in by the city to rectify the ongoing problem at this intersection! I am so glad my friend, the driver of the black truck, was able to walk away from this accident.
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The bill, which expands on compassionate-use legislation passed in states across the country, will give patients the right to request trial drugs directly from pharmaceutical companies. Currently patients must submit an application to the FDA before approaching manufacturers.
The bill also ensures that patients are charged no more than the production cost for the drug, while providing pharmaceutical companies with a degree of legal protection if the patient experiences harm from the treatment. Safety issues that occur in compassionate-use cases must be reported to the FDA, the proposed legislation states.
“Patients with terminal diseases ought to have a right to access treatments that have demonstrated a level of safety and could potentially save their lives,” Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, the author of the bill, said in a statement after the unanimous Senate vote.
Bioethicists are sceptical. Alison Bateman-House, of NYU Langone Medical Center, called the bill “inherently deceptive” because it simply says patients can ask drug companies for the treatments. Companies often are reluctant to provide unapproved products for a variety of reasons, and the FDA has an efficient system to handle requests for experimental drugs, she told the Washington Post.
In a scathing blog post, bioethicist Craig Klugman criticised Right To Try advocates for bypassing “logical arguments, reason, and good facts”:
“...A pure market approach to pharmaceutical distribution sacrifices safety, accurate labeling, scientific approaches to treatment, and protecting the public from harm. In their winner-takes-all arena, there must be winners and losers. If right-to-try wins, then we all lose”.
Sunday, August 13, 2017
In a recent article in the American Journal of Bioethics, bioethicist Art Caplan and three colleagues call for a complete overhaul of the venerable Belmont Report (see below). This is the 1979 US government report which set out three famous principles which have governed human research ever since: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice.
Most government reports are already gathering dust within a few months after their publication. But the Belmont Report’s influence has been enormous, as it shaped the bioethical framework for clinical and research decision-making in the US and many other countries as well.
Caplan & Co make a good case for revising the standards in the light of experience and changing times. But it comes at an awkward moment: the Trump Presidency. What kind of commission would Mr Trump create to study this issue? Perhaps a noisy and truculent one, a bull in the bioethics china shop. Be careful what you wish for?
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For those of you about to shop … we offer you the following list of great games to buy that Xbox 360 owner in your life.
All of these games were released during this last year and each one is not only well-crafted, it also offers many many hours of play time.
But a couple of quick notes for those of you thinking about buying games for someone else. First, make sure to check out the game's ESRB rating so you buy the right game for the player of the right age. Also, before you pick up a game, you might want to check with the person you're buying for to make sure they don't already own it.
And lastly, if there's an Xbox owner on your list, now is a good time to considering buying them Microsoft's new motion-control hardware known as Kinect. You can read more about the device and the games that go with it here, here and here.
Mass Effect 2
"Mass Effect 2"Rated M for mature audiences only
$60 (but can often be found at a discount)
This action-packed role-playing game has it all — epic quests, a stellar story line, vivid characters, smartly crafted love stories ... we could go on and on. A space opera of grand proportions, "Mass Effect 2" puts you in the boots of Commander Shepard as he (or she) takes a rag-tag gang of aliens and space farers on a thrilling and mystery-filled adventure across the galaxy. And talk about bang for your gaming buck — "Mass Effect 2" offers not only a massive main game but loads of top-notch downloadable content to keep players going and going. You can count on this being money well spent.
"Alan Wake"Rated T for teen
$60 (but can often be found at a discount)
If there's someone on your list who loves Stephen King, a well-told horror tale or just a good solid psychological thriller of a game, then get yourself a copy of "Alan Wake" ASAP. This Xbox 360 exclusive set in a creepy world that seems plucked from a Stephen King novel or perhaps "Twin Peaks," takes players through a dark and twisted tale that is delivered in episodic format, much like a TV show. Players must not only use guns but light itself as a weapon against the nightmarish creatures out to destroy novelist Alan Wake. Downloadable content gives this game some additional heft. (Read more about the game right here.)
Halo: Reach
"Halo: Reach"Rated M
$60
You can't play this newest game in the "Halo" franchise on any console but an Xbox 360. In the big "Halo" picture, this first-person shooter takes place shortly before the original "Halo" game, with gamers playing a super soldier diving into battle against an alien race known as the Covenant along with a squad of fellow soldiers. "Halo" has been a ground-breaking franchise for Microsoft and the Xbox, and this gripping and well-tuned installment is arguably the best in the series. But "Reach" has sold a whole lot of copies — so be sure your giftee doesn't already own it.
Fallout:New Vegas
"Fallout: New Vegas"Rated M
$60
Who knew that the apocalypse could be so fun? "Fallout: New Vegas" is one of those games that you fall into...as in, you fall into it as if it were a deep, deep hole. A follow-up to the hit role-playing game "Fallout 3," "New Vegas" takes place several years after "Fallout 3" and takes players to the city of sin in all its devastated glory. This game is full of colorful characters, delightfully twisted dialog and one gritty and epic mission after another. Start up this game and it'll be a long time before you stop. (Note: This is a great game for
all the PS3 owners out there
as well.)
Fable III
"Fable III"Rated M
$60
There's just so much to do in this absolutely epic action role-playing game we hardly know where to start. But here's the quick and dirty: In this third video game in the "Fable" series, players go on a massive journey that takes them from adventurer to ruler of their own kingdom. And rest assured, ruling the roost ain't easy. The story here is enthralling and the gameplay is absolutely addictive. If you want to give your gamer something to do for a good long time, this is the game to pick up.
Also see the "Red Dead: Redemption" and "Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood" write ups in our
PlayStation 3 holiday guide
. These superb games are available for the Xbox 360 as well and would make great gifts.
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[MEDIA STATEMENT] Andrew Weaver Opposes Trans Pacific Partnership
By BC Greens · April 13, 2016
13
April 2016
Victoria B.C. - “The TPP, especially the investor-state dispute settlement clauses, poses a serious threat to the sovereignty of our province. It places the interests of multinational corporations above the interests of British Columbians,” says Andrew Weaver, Leader of the B.C. Green Party and MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head.
Today in the legislature Weaver stood to oppose the TPP in the Motion 11 debate.
“It is a 20th-century trade strategy applied to a 21st-century economy. Supporting the TPP will have dire consequences for our technology sector - one of British Columbians greatest economic opportunities,” says Weaver. “The BC Liberals have been going out of their way to try to court technology companies, talking about leadership in this sector and how government is there for them. Today we see that was all talk, as they swiftly cut the legs out from under this industry with this vote.”
“Signing this deal will also undermine our ability to be climate leaders. If we are serious about addressing climate change we will have to implement more aggressive policies to reduce our emissions, under this agreement that would put us at a distinct trade disadvantage if other countries did not follow suit.”
“This is not a deal for British Columbians, this is a deal for Petronas. The motion to support the Trans Pacific Partnership was put on the order papers in the fall before the text of the TPP was even available. The BC Liberals made up their mind before even reading the text.”
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Actually, if he has another good season, people can be pretty sure he is doing it all clean, and that maybe the drugs he took didn't help out his production that much, if any at all. The fans will be back on his side before too long.
I would hope that Milwaukee fans would turn their back to the plate every time that Braun is up....and not bothering watching. Kinda like Braun turned his back on the urine collector and tried to destroy the man, all in trying to save himself. Ryan Braun = Lance Armstrong = nobody we should ever cheer for.
These posters never made a mistake. they have never lied to their employee about work they did or didn't do. They have never posted on JSO while at work. They have never told their spouse that they weren't flirting with that attractive person they were talking to, or that they have no idea where the scratch in the car came from. They have never told a police officer that they hadn't a single drink. Even, better, they have never forgiven a family member, friend or loved one for making a mistake or lying about it. What a wonderful life they must live. Oh, and they have never voted for a politician who told a lie.
Everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone acts like an arrogant prima donna before, during, and after they get busted for it. He's just not that good of a dude. It takes a bit of the luster off being a fan knowing i have to pull for someone like this in order for my team to succeed, but that is my human condition to deal with. I can see why some people have no problem with him, as there are plenty of people just like him.
So, if he had just refused to have a press conference, nobody would have a problem with him now? Not everyone has microphones stuck in their faces after making a mistake. I'm not condoning any of what he did. He caught cheating and lying and he was punished for it. I honestly don't know one person [myself included] who during the course their adult life hasn't done something stupid and then tried to talk their way out of it. The difference is most of us haven't had a horde of reporters asking why we did what we did. As for there being plenty of people just like him, I would have to include myself. Anyone else?
Doesn't matter if its a horde of reporters or a spouse. If you lie until there is no other option than to finally tell the truth. then you are on that side of the fence. Like I said, there are plenty of people just like him.
So every time you have made a mistake you came forward and admitted it? You never made a mistake or lied one time and got away with it? If you ever flirted with a woman not your wife, you immediately told her you had been flirting? If you ever played hookey from work, you went right to your boss and told him? If you ever drank too much and then drove, your first stop was the police station to turn yourself in? Or is this only a rule if it's not you?
To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having denied a proposition by replacing it with a different proposition. For example, when discussing one's actions when getting caught doing something wrong, Homer Jay counters with discussion of immediately turning oneself in after doing something wrong. if you don't see the fallacy in your argument, then there is nothing more I can do to help you.
Holy cow! When did going on a drug regimen constitute a "mistake?" Getting handed a $20 bill when you should have gotten a $1 and walking out is a mistake. Putting together a program of drug use is not a "mistake." He didn't lie about it by accident. Braun did drugs to help himself as a lifestyle. It's not the same as trying pot once and deciding it's not for you. It's not the same as saying you left one assignment at home when you failed to do it at all. There is a huge difference between a "pattern of behavior" and a "mistake."
Yep, that is my opinion. That fact that he was taking 'roids or whatever - fine, a bunch of guys were doing it, and it helped Braun put up better numbers. But he was caught red-handed (ok, maybe not red HAND, but a different body part). He knew he was guilty - but instead went after the collector. A real man would have stood up and admitted his mistake then and taken the punishment. But he continued to blame others and say he was innocent - until he was completely cornered, and could not lie anymore. That is the part that I can't live with. He had his chance to come clean when he was caught but chose not to. And it saddens me that so many view that as appropriate behavior. Yes, the taking of steriods can be forgiven - what he did after he was caught speaks to the true character of the man. It would be like cheering for Lance Armstrong. Sorry, can't do it.
His arrogance has no boundaries, even today. If he knew he would eventually get caught he would not have thrown people under the bus and lied his donkey off. Fantastic. Maybe one day he will get it, but as of now he's just the same person who was buying drugs in Miami.
Does anyone believe that the local critics actually CARE about the urine transporter? He's long forgotten, one of many people who have lost their jobs due to incompetence. Braun is in the fabric of the team for a long while, so get a life and enjoy the rosy looking future of the Brewers, with, his bat and defense.
Well this is definitely the best option for HIM, no doubt about that. Move on people, this is in the past. He gave us all plenty of closure, right? The press is inadvertently giving him multiple chances to offer closure, but he keeps going down this path. The boos will only get louder on the road, becuase he is what he is.
Braun's best option would be to make a public apology stating EXACTLY what happened i.e. when did he take the drugs, did he take them knowingly, etc. Until than he is still a coward in my, and many fans, eyes.
Tulowitzki has averaged 120 games a year for his last 5 or 6 years. Best shortstop in baseball when he's healthy, but he's never healthy. Plus, would you rather have Braun, Segura, AND Gomez, an MVP and 2 all-stars last year, or have McCutchen or Tulowitzki. We made the right choice, no matter what Braun did or didn't do because of the way it sets the rest of the roster up.
>>>There's no blueprint that this is how you deal with these things or handle the situation.<<<
Actually, Ryan, there is a blueprint. Here it is:
1. Don't take any banned substances.2. If you are taking banned substances, stop immediately.3. If you get busted for taking banned substances, tell the truth immediately and take responsibility for your actions.4. Teling the truth at all times prevents or reduces the negative consequences that will come.
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Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital Redevelopment
Here is my petition in support of the Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital’s redevelopment. Along with the CPDMH email campaign that was launched October 3rd, your signature on this petition will go a long way to helping us secure the necessary and required funding to get our hospital redeveloped. This is a new petition, so even if you have signed my previous petition for the hospital’s redevelopment, you can sign this one too.
Please put your name behind our efforts to have our hospital redeveloped. Tell your friends and neighbours about this petition, and share it on Facebook and Twitter.
A Petition to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario – Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital Redevelopment
To the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:
Whereas, the Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital (CPDMH) has been appealing to the Ministry of Health for redevelopment funding and approval since 2003;
And whereas, population growth and demand for services at the hospital have increased beyond the hospital’s ability to serve under current conditions;
And whereas, both the Carleton Place community and neighbouring municipalities have demonstrated their support for this redevelopment through the donation of land and other financial contributions, and the project has the support of the Champlain LHIN;
And whereas, continued delays in the approval and funding of this redevelopment will have a severe negative impact on the delivery of health services not only for the people of Carleton Place, but also for people in Beckwith Township, Mississippi Mills, Drummond/North Elmsley, Lanark Highlands as well as negatively impacting Stittsville and Kanata;
We the undersigned petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as follows:
That the Ministry of Health and other involved agencies approve funding for the development of CPDMH before these communities find themselves facing a crisis situation.
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MUELLER SAID HE IS STEPPING DOWN AND LEAVING THE DECISION TO THE JUSTICE -- AND LEAVING THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. SHERI: PRESIDENT TRUMP DIDN’T JUST ADDRESS THE MUELLER REPORT ON TWITTER HE ALSO MENTIONED THE 2020 ALABAMA SENATE RACE AND POTENTIAL CANDIDATE ROY MOORE. WVTM 13’S IAN REITZ TALKED WITH A POLITICAL EXPERT, ABOUT WHAT WAS SAID AND THE RACE. IAN: YOU MAY RECALL, PRESIDENT TRUMP BACKED MOORE IN 2017 EVEN HELD A CAMPAIGN RALLY FOR HIM. BUT TODAY, MORE THAN 500 DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION, PRESIDE TRUMP TWEETED THAT HE HAS NOTHING AGAINST MOORE, BUT MOO CANNOT WIN. IN 2017, MOORE WON THE PRIMARY, AND RAN AGAINST DOUG JONES IN THE SPECIAL SENATE RACE TO FILL JEFF SESSIONS’ SEAT. BUT MOORE LOST IN THE GENERAL AMID ACCUSATIONS OF SEXU MISCONDUCT. TODAY THE PRESIDENT SAID REPUBLICANS CANNOT ALL THEMSELVES TO AGAIN LOSE THE SENATE SEAT IN THE GREAT STATE OF ALABAMA THIS TIME IT WILL BE FOR SIX YEARS, NOT JUST TWO. I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST ROY MOORE, AND UNLIKE MANY OTH REPUBLICAN LEADERS, WANTED HIM TO WIN. BUT HE DIDN’T, AND PROBABLY WON’T. I ASKED DR. MARISSA GRAYSON, OUR POLITICAL EXPERT, WHETHER IT’S RARE TO HAVE A PRESIDENT TALK ABOUT A RACE THAT’S ABOUT A YE AND A HALF AWAY. PART OF THE REASON, SHE SAYS WHO CONTROLS THE SENATE, AND ISSUES LIKE SUPREME COURT NOMINEES, WILL BE KEY TO 2020. >> DOUG JONES SEAT IS A SEAT GOP WANTS TO TAKE BACK THAT WOULD MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR DEMOCRATS TO WIN. I’M NOT SURPRISE HE IS WEIGHIN IN I ALSO THINK IT DISTRACTS FROM OTHER THINGS HAPPENING TODAY LIKE MUELLER TALKING FOR FIRST TIME IN TWO YEARS. OPPORTUNITY TODAY TO BRING UP ROY MOORE. GU IN
The Latest on President Donald Trump discouraging Roy Moore from running for U.S. Senate again in 2020 (all times local):Alabama Republican Roy Moore is insisting he can win a Senate rematch in 2020, and says he won't be influenced by President Donald Trump's tweets urging him not to try.Trump backed Moore in 2017, but he tweeted Wednesday that Moore "cannot win" this time.Moore responded in an Associated Press interview on Wednesday, saying "everybody knows" he can win. He's blaming establishment Republicans in Washington for trying to keep him out of the Senate.Moore says Trump's tweets won't influence his decision as his weighs whether to enter the 2020 race. He's still planning to announce his decision in June.The former Chief Justice on Alabama's Supreme Court lost the 2017 race to Democrat Doug Jones amid accusations of sexual misconduct.___10 a.m.Former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore says he can win the 2020 U.S. Senate election if he enters the Alabama race, and will not be will influenced by President Donald Trump's comments urging him not to seek the seat.Moore said told the Associated Press Wednesday that establishment Republicans don't want him to enter the 2020 Senate race because "everybody knows I can win."Trump, who backed Moore in 2017 tweeted Wednesday that Moore "cannot win.""I think the President is coming under pressure from people in Washington scared I will run for the Senate, scared I will win and know I can win," Moore said Wednesday in a telephone interview.Moore said Trump's comments will not influence his decision whether to enter the 2020 race. He said he will announce his decision in June.Moore lost the 2017 Senate race to Democrat Doug Jones amid accusations of sexual misconduct.___ 7:19 a.m.President Donald Trump warned Wednesday the "consequences will be devastating" if Alabama Republican Roy Moore, whose 2017 U.S. Senate campaign was battered by allegations of long-ago sexual harassment of teenagers, seeks the seat again in 2020.Moore lost in the once-reliably red state in a 2017 special election amid the sexual misconduct allegations , which he denied. He told The Associated Press earlier this month that he is considering another campaign next year.Trump, who backed Moore in 2017 despite the allegations, tweeted "I have NOTHING against Roy Moore," but warned that "Roy Moore cannot win." He adds that if Democrat Doug Jones retains the seat in 2020 "many of the incredible gains that we have made during my Presidency may be lost."Trump's comments come as national Republicans have tried to keep Moore out of the race.
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The Latest on President Donald Trump discouraging Roy Moore from running for U.S. Senate again in 2020 (all times local):
Alabama Republican Roy Moore is insisting he can win a Senate rematch in 2020, and says he won't be influenced by President Donald Trump's tweets urging him not to try.
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Trump backed Moore in 2017, but he tweeted Wednesday that Moore "cannot win" this time.
Moore responded in an Associated Press interview on Wednesday, saying "everybody knows" he can win. He's blaming establishment Republicans in Washington for trying to keep him out of the Senate.
Moore says Trump's tweets won't influence his decision as his weighs whether to enter the 2020 race. He's still planning to announce his decision in June.
The former Chief Justice on Alabama's Supreme Court lost the 2017 race to Democrat Doug Jones amid accusations of sexual misconduct.
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Former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore says he can win the 2020 U.S. Senate election if he enters the Alabama race, and will not be will influenced by President Donald Trump's comments urging him not to seek the seat.
Moore said told the Associated Press Wednesday that establishment Republicans don't want him to enter the 2020 Senate race because "everybody knows I can win."
President Donald Trump warned Wednesday the "consequences will be devastating" if Alabama Republican Roy Moore, whose 2017 U.S. Senate campaign was battered by allegations of long-ago sexual harassment of teenagers, seeks the seat again in 2020.
Moore lost in the once-reliably red state in a 2017 special election amid the sexual misconduct allegations , which he denied. He told The Associated Press earlier this month that he is considering another campaign next year.
Trump, who backed Moore in 2017 despite the allegations, tweeted "I have NOTHING against Roy Moore," but warned that "Roy Moore cannot win." He adds that if Democrat Doug Jones retains the seat in 2020 "many of the incredible gains that we have made during my Presidency may be lost."
Trump's comments come as national Republicans have tried to keep Moore out of the race.
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Saddam Hussein is the former dictator and president of Iraq in South Park. Shortly before the American-Canadian War, he was killed by a pack of wild boars and became Satan's jealous, emotionally abusive, and manipulative boyfriend (later ex-boyfriend). He is a recurring antagonist in South Park and the secondary--but eventually main--antagonist of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.
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Background
Hussein first made a very brief cameo in "Tom's Rhinoplasty" in an image shown by some Iraqis to the third grade class as evidence of Ms. Ellen being Hussein's mistress. He does not have the Canadian look in the photograph. Her connection to him is a significant plot point that results in Ms. Ellen's ultimate death.
Hussein first appeared in "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus," in which he kidnapped Celine Dion and tried to take over Canada. He launched an assault on Canada, sneaking his troops through the air lines, the Canadians not noticing that large numbers of Saddam's troops were moving in. By the end of the episode, he managed to take over most of Canada, although he was killed when all the Canadians farted, and later becomes a very visible resident of Hell.
In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, he is the secondary later true main antagonist. Hussein continues his romantic relationship with Satan as he plans to conquer the world by taking advantage of Satan's power as ruler. Also, in the film, it was stated at the start that he got killed by a pack of wild boars six weeks earlier. That was an error because boars never killed him in the show, as he died in "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus" due to a "mass fart". He uses his position of power over Satan to launch an invasion of earth after the Canadian-American war made it possible for him to enter, and his demons briefly manage to take over the world. US soldiers tried to shoot him, but he was shown to be immune to their weaponry. He is defeated after Cartman hits him with several powerful electrical shocks, and when Satan, tired of his abuse, throws the weakened Saddam down a cliff, where he is impaled on a spike. He is later seen briefly singing Mountain Town (Reprise) while still being impaled on the spike.
In "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?", Saddam returns to Hell (having no where else to go after his death) and tries to move in with Satan. He constantly murders Satan's new boyfriend, Chris, however he keeps coming back since they are already in hell.
In "Probably", Satan deals with his decision to choose his current boyfriend over Saddam. He ends up choosing neither, and as punishment for Saddam's abusive, manipulative actions, banishes him to heaven to live with Mormons. He finds their kindness unbearable.
Saddam's "Chocolate Chip factory"
Hussein also appears briefly in "A Ladder to Heaven" when he is suspected by the US government of building a chemical weapons plant in Heaven. Being the manipulative character that he embodies in South Park, he even convinces God that he couldn't possibly be building chemical weapons in Heaven, despite the fact that he himself admits his cover up for the plant, a chocolate chip factory, is easily see-through.
In "It's Christmas in Canada", Hussein appears as the man controlling the Prime Minister of Canada, in reference to the man behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz. He makes many new, unnecessarily hateful and eccentric laws, including one that forced Ike to leave the US and move to Canada. The boys travel to Canada to get Ike back, coming across several other people who were affected by Saddam's laws. When they finally reach Saddam, he kills Kenny with lasers, and refuses to give Ike back to his brother. When Kyle asks "What the hell is wrong with you? What kind of Prime Minister bases all his decisions on hatred?" he is unveiled as the Prime Minister of Canada, and is promptly arrested by Canadian soldiers. He is last seen being paraded through a city on a float, with the Canadians celebrating his capture.
If you look very carefully in "A Million Little Fibers" when it shows the reporter from the Middle East, you can see a portrait of Hussein in the background.
Appearance
Saddam Hussein appears as any other Canadian character except his head is a cut out of the real person. He has a floppy head and wears gray pants, a dark brown military jacket, and black shoes.
Personality
Saddam Hussein in South Park has mannerisms that differ from the real Saddam. First of all, he speaks English only, secondly, he talks in a whiny, high pitched voice, and thirdly, he is homosexual. He also is shown to be very manipulative, often accomplishing his tasks fairly easily due to the stupidity of nearly everyone around him, even God and Satan at certain points. He often creates schemes to take over the world. Most prominently in the film, where he manipulated his boyfriend Satan into invading earth, just so Saddam could push him aside and assume control of the world himself. He also organizes a gambit to invade Canada, sneaking his soldiers through the airlines, and apparently built a chemical weapons plant to take over the world in "A Ladder to Heaven". His most recent (and last) plot was to become the Prime Minister of Canada by tricking the Canadians. He becomes the Prime Minister for a short time, but is defeated when the boys find out who he really is, and Canadian soldiers arrest him. Saddam appears to be very sadistic, as evidenced by his torture of Kenny in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, he is heavily implied to have a sexual fetish for it. On a similar note, Saddam appears to be very sex-crazed. He satisfies both his lust for power and his sex cravings by being in a homosexual relationship with Satan, whom he is very abusive to. As shown in "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?" and "Probably" his first instinct when his relationship with Satan is threatened when Satan finds a new, much kinder boyfriend is to murder said boyfriend, and his first reaction after Satan breaks up with him is to constantly stalk him. He is a self-proclaimed psychopath, as evidenced in his song "I Can Change", which contained the following lyrics:
"I like to kill I like to maim but its OK because I can change!", during which he kills a dancer by breaking her back. He also apparently had abusive parents, as evidenced by other lyrics from the same song:
"Its not my fault, that I'm, so evil its society. society. You see my parents were sometimes abusive, and it made a prick of me." During these lyrics caricatures of Saddam's parents are seen hitting their infant son.
Saddam also is depicted as very power hungry (as evidenced by his constant plots to take over the world), he is greedy and dishonest. On one occasion, he is implied to be a religious bigot (unlike the real Saddam who allowed religious pluralism in Iraq), as evidenced by his line in "Krazy Kripples", where he recommends "Death to the infidels" as opposed to getting rid of Gene Hackman.
Quotes
U.S. Government Representative: "Mr. Hussein, the U.S. government is becoming worried." Saddam: "Worried? Aboot what? Take a load off! Relax!" Representative: "You seem to be taking over Canada." Saddam: "Taking over Canada? Me? Hey, you need a rest, fella! I'm not hiding any bombs!" Representative: "We didn't say anything about bombs." Saddam: "Oh. You didn't? Hey, relax!" Representative: "We're giving you just three years to clear your forces out of Canada. After that, we're gonna bomb all of Iran." Saddam: "I'm from Iraq." Representative: "Iran? Iraq? What's the difference?" from "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus"
Catchphrases
"Heeeeeeyyyyy! Relax, guy!"
Trivia
It is rumored by some U.S. Soldiers that the real Saddam Hussein was shown the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut while on trial for genocide/crimes against humanity as a form of torture.
Saddam is assumed to have been hanged like in real life, although he could still be in Canadian jail, as if he was hanged he would go back to hell, and he was not seen with Satan in "Best Friends Forever". He was depicted being hung on the cover of "Rolling Stone" magazine, where his execution was photographed by Cartman with a camera phone.
Saddam has the most appearances of any villain in the series.
When Saddam talks, he pronounces about "aboot". This, combined with his Canadian style head and his habit of saying "relax guy/friend" when people are (usually rightly) suspicious about his motives, implies that he is Canadian in some way.
Saddam was described by Satan once as "fucking crazy." Considering this is Satan, this is fairly ironic, although Satan has been shown as considerably nicer and more sensitive than he is depicted in other media.
When Saddam Hussein first appeared on South Park, he was still the dictator of Iraq, making his appearance as Satan's boyfriend rather surreal, especially the first time they aired.
Although Saddam is South Park's biggest villain and a real person and celebrity, he does not appear in "200" or "201".
Saddam is referenced a few times as the Iraqi Dictator instead of Satan's boyfriend:
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Russia Reveals New Ballistic Missile Capability
President Vladimir Putin has announced the addition of 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to Russia’s nuclear arsenal.
Speaking at the opening of the Army-2015 Expo near Moscow, he said that “more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) able to overcome even the most technically advanced anti-missile defence systems” would be added to Russia’s nuclear arsenal this year. The Russian President’s statement at the international military forum is intended to show Moscow’s military might amid escalating tensions with NATO. An early warning system to monitor in ‘western directions’ for signs of a surprised Allied attack was also announced. This should put the world back to the era of nuclear brinkmanship of decades past, between the former Soviet Union and NATO. The spectre of nuclear war due to accident or foolishness is once again on the cards for the future generation.
It all started when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula after the velvet revolution in Ukraine. Russia blames the interference of western powers in the Ukrainian conflict right from its conception. The West blames Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, for its support of allies in Baltic and former Warsaw Pact countries, who were once allied with the former Soviet Union. These Eastern European countries are asking for support from NATO now and have no wish to be dominated again by their neighbour to the east.
The irony is that the modern Russian is not very proud of the communist era of the past Soviet Union, and considers the communist experiment as an unnecessary burden which was also imposed from the outside on Russia through a velvet revolution. Since loosing 27 million lives in WWII, the Russians are now reverting to brute force to keep any perceived threat at bay. The era of diplomacy has given way to trash talk among statesmen, officials and reporters. It comes at the cost of the spectre of nuclear holocaust for the world’s population. The East and the West need to settle past disputes once and for all and start nuclear disarmament talks, instead of waiting for it to become a priority, as it used to be at the height of the former cold war.
The Army-2015 fair is held to show off the latest developments in Russian military hardware, and Mr Putin promised generals an array of other new weapons – including the advanced Armata tanks that were shown off at a Red Square parade last month.
The president also announced that the military was beginning testing a new system of long-range early warning radar “to monitor in the western direction”.
After Mr Putin’s address, Russia’s deputy defence minister Anatoly Antonov told Russia Today his country was being “pushed into an arms race” by Nato.
Referencing apparent US plans to bolster its military presence in eastern Europe, he said: “I believe the [US] statement must be looked at together with other similar statements, which have recently been numerous.
“A few days ago, reports started to turn up about certain [American] missiles put in a certain location and about certain ammunition depots in Eastern European countries and the Baltic.
He added: “It looks like our colleagues from Nato member states are pushing us into an arms race.”
Few countries in the world are known to possess land-based missiles capable of crossing continents. The US operates 450 Minuteman missiles across three bases, while Russia’s existing arsenal is believed to be slightly greater.
ICBMs are needed to deliver nuclear warheads over long distances, and some are capable of delivering more than one. Though Russia is less than open about its military stockpiles, it is thought to possess more than 8,000 warheads in total.
Mr Putin’s announcement, which included a general pledge to continue Russia’s “massive” military rearmament programme, comes amid the worst tensions between the West and Russia in decades.
On Monday, Russian defence ministry official General Yuri Yakubov said that US proposals to bolster an allied army on Polish soil would be “the most aggressive step by the Pentagon and Nato since the Cold War”.
“Russia will have no option but to build up its forces and resources on the Western strategic front,” Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.
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939 So.2d 792 (2006)
Ricky PALMER
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. 2005-KA-00497-SCT.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
October 12, 2006.
*793 William P. Knight, Jr., attorney for appellant.
Office of the Attorney General, by Jose Benjamin Simo John R. Young, attorney for appellee.
Before COBB, P.J., CARLSON and GRAVES, JJ.
*794 COBB, Presiding Justice, for the Court.
¶ 1. Ricky Palmer appeals from his convictions in the Pontotoc County Circuit Court on two counts of sale of methadone and one count of sale of morphine, both schedule II controlled substances. On appeal Palmer argues that the trial court erred by allowing testimony regarding previous narcotics dealings and by not giving a limiting instruction to the jury, sua sponte, as to the use of such testimony. As neither of these arguments are persuasive, we affirm Palmer's convictions and sentences.
FACTS
¶ 2. In June 2003 Palmer on two occasions sold schedule II narcotics to Teresa Abbott who was acting as a confidential informant for the Pontotoc County Sheriff's Department. Palmer was arrested in November 2003 during a large scale drug bust of individuals under investigation by the sheriff's department. He was indicted in November 2003 and later tried and convicted on all three counts. For these crimes Palmer was ordered to serve three consecutive sentences, each sentence was 30 years with 20 years suspended.
¶ 3. Prior to trial Palmer filed a motion in limine to exclude testimony that he had previously engaged in transactions involving schedule II narcotics. The trial court held a hearing on the motion and denied it, stating:
It is I believe relevant in the State's case demonstrating that he had such items in his possession and coupled with other evidence which the State presumably will present demonstrates that he not only had them but the evidence is, what I think it might be, it would demonstrate that he did in fact do that. So it's all part of one transaction or the res gestae.
As to any consideration of prejudicial versus probative value, I consider it to be probative to the extent that any supposed prejudice is outweighed by the probative value of this evidence. . . .
¶ 4. At trial the State called Regina Monts, who at the time was serving an eight-year sentence after pleading guilty to possession of methadone and hydrocodone, and she identified Palmer as a man she knew because of previous "business dealings" between the two. Monts testified that during the summer of 2003 Palmer on at least four occasions purchased, for resale, quantities of methadone and morphine from her. She testified that while Palmer was not her only customer that he was a regular customer.
¶ 5. Palmer did not deny that he purchased and used drugs. His defense was that Abbott, the confidential informant, who was paid "real good money" by law enforcement to buy drugs, actually tricked the narcotics officers into thinking that she was buying drugs from him and others, when actually she did not. Thus, Palmer contends that he was not guilty of selling drugs.
¶ 6. The State presented its case through the testimony of Kevin Rodgers, a criminal investigator for the North Mississippi Narcotics Unit, Monts and Abbott, and Mike Doss, the narcotics investigator for the Pontotoc Police Department. It closed with showing the video of the buy from Palmer. The defense rested without calling any witnesses.
ANALYSIS
¶ 7. The standard of review regarding the admission or exclusion of evidence is abuse of discretion. Jones v. State, 904 So.2d 149, 152 (Miss.2005). The admissibility of evidence rests within the discretion of the trial court, and reversal will be appropriate only when an abuse of *795 discretion resulting in prejudice to the accused occurs. Clemons v. State, 732 So.2d 883, 887 (Miss.1999).
¶ 8. Palmer first asserts that the trial court abused its discretion in denying his motion in limine and allowing Monts to testify regarding previous narcotics sales between them. The general rule is that evidence of a crime, other than the one for which the accused is being tried, is not admissible. Ballenger v. State, 667 So.2d 1242, 1256 (Miss.1995) (citing Duplantis v. State, 644 So.2d 1235, 1246 (Miss.1994)). However, there are exceptions to this general rule as provided by Miss. R. Evid. 404(b):
Evidence of other crimes, wrongs or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity or absence of mistake or accident.
This Court has consistently held the admission of evidence of unrelated crimes for the purpose of showing the accused acted in conformity therewith is reversible error, but admission for the above reasons is permissible. Ballenger, 667 So.2d at 1256.
¶ 9. Evidence of other crimes or bad acts is also admissible in order to tell the complete story so as not to confuse the jury. In Brown v. State, 483 So.2d 328, 330 (Miss.1986), this Court said the State has a "legitimate interest in telling a rational and coherent story of what happened." Where substantially necessary to present to the jury "the complete story of the crime", evidence or testimony may be given even though it may reveal or suggest other crimes. Simmons v. State, 813 So.2d 710, 716 (Miss.2002); Ballenger, 667 So.2d at 1257. In the case of drug sales, this Court has specifically affirmed the admission of evidence of prior involvement in the drug trade to prove intent to distribute. Swington v. State, 742 So.2d 1106, 1111 (Miss.1999); Holland v. State, 656 So.2d 1192, 1195 (Miss.1995).
¶ 10. In the present case it is clear that the trial court admitted the testimony for the purposes of proving intent, motive and in completing the story of the charged crime. See Simmons, 813 So.2d at 716. Therefore, it cannot be said that the trial court abused its discretion in admitting the evidence. Even though the testimony passed muster under Miss. R. Evid. 404(b) it still must be admissible under the ultimate filter of Miss. R. Evid. 403, meaning that the risk of undue prejudice cannot substantially outweigh the probative value. Ballenger, 667 So.2d at 1257.
¶ 11. This Court has held that whenever Miss. R. Evid. 404(b) evidence is offered and there is an objection which is overruled, the objection shall be deemed an invocation of the right to a Miss. R. Evid. 403 balancing analysis. Brown v. State, 890 So.2d 901, 912 (Miss.2004). Rule 403 provides for the exclusion of evidence, even if relevant, where the risk of undue prejudice outweighs its probative value. Simmons, 813 So.2d at 716. Palmer asserts that the trial court's balancing was "incomprehensible at best." However, after reviewing the record it is clear that the trial court weighed the evidences' probative value against the potential for undue prejudice. Therefore, we find Palmer's first issue is without merit.
¶ 12. Palmer next asserts that the trial court erred in failing to sua sponte give a limiting instruction to the jury regarding the value of Monts's testimony. In support Palmer cites Smith v. State, 656 So.2d 95, 100 (Miss.1995), in which this Court first announced the requirement that a limiting instruction must be given to the *796 jury when Miss. R. Evid. 404(b) evidence is given. Smith, 656 So.2d at 97. However, this Court revisited the Smith decision and overruled it prior to Palmer's trial. Brown, 890 So.2d at 913. Palmer's case was tried on December 2-3, 2004, after Brown was handed down on September 2, 2004, the motion for rehearing denied November 4, 2004 and the mandate issued November 12, 2004. Therefore, at Palmer's trial Brown was clearly controlling.
¶ 13. In Brown this Court stated:
The burden should properly be upon the trial counsel to request a limiting instruction. This was our rule before Smith, in accord with Rule 105 of the Mississippi Rules of Evidence. The rule provides in pertinent part that "[w]hen evidence which is admissible . . . for one purpose but not admissible . . . for another purpose is admitted, the court, upon request, shall restrict the evidence to its proper scope and instruct the jury accordingly"
Id. (emphasis in original). Therefore, the burden now rests on trial counsel, not the trial court, to request a limiting instruction for Miss. R. Evid. 404(b) evidence. In the present case trial counsel did not affirmatively present a jury instruction regarding Monts's testimony to the trial court. Therefore, the trial judge cannot be found in error for not giving this instruction.
CONCLUSION
¶ 14. The trial court did not err in denying Palmer's motion in limine or in failing to give a limiting jury instruction not presented to it. As a result, Palmer's appeal is without merit, and we affirm his convictions and sentences.
¶ 15. COUNT I: CONVICTION OF SALE OF METHADONE AND SENTENCE OF THIRTY (30) YEARS, WITH TWENTY (20) YEARS OF SAID SENTENCE BEING SUSPENDED, IN THE CUSTODY OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, AFFIRMED. SENTENCE IN COUNT I SHALL RUN CONSECUTIVELY WITH THE SENTENCES IN COUNTS II AND III. COUNT II: CONVICTION OF SALE OF MORPHINE AND SENTENCE OF THIRTY (30) YEARS, WITH TWENTY (20) YEARS OF SAID SENTENCE BEING SUSPENDED, IN THE CUSTODY OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, AFFIRMED. SENTENCE IN COUNT II SHALL RUN CONSECUTIVELY WITH THE SENTENCES IN COUNTS I AND III. COUNT III: CONVICTION OF SALE OF METHADONE AND SENTENCE OF THIRTY (30) YEARS, WITH TWENTY (20) YEARS OF SAID SENTENCE BEING SUSPENDED, IN THE CUSTODY OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, AFFIRMED. SENTENCE IN COUNT III SHALL RUN CONSECUTIVELY WITH THE SENTENCES IN COUNTS I AND II.
SMITH, C.J., WALLER, P.J., DIAZ, EASLEY, CARLSON, DICKINSON AND RANDOLPH, JJ., CONCUR. GRAVES, J., CONCURS IN RESULT ONLY.
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Treasure Coast battled Fort Pierce Central Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, during their District 8-9A semifinal high school basketball game at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie.
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Treasure Coast battled Fort Pierce Central Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, during their District 8-9A semifinal high school basketball game at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie.
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Treasure Coast battled Fort Pierce Central Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, during their District 8-9A semifinal high school basketball game at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie.
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Treasure Coast battled Fort Pierce Central Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, during their District 8-9A semifinal high school basketball game at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie.
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Treasure Coast battled Fort Pierce Central Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, during their District 8-9A semifinal high school basketball game at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie.
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Treasure Coast battled Fort Pierce Central Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, during their District 8-9A semifinal high school basketball game at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie.
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Treasure Coast battled Fort Pierce Central Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, during their District 8-9A semifinal high school basketball game at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie.
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Treasure Coast battled Fort Pierce Central Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, during their District 8-9A semifinal high school basketball game at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie.
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Treasure Coast battled Fort Pierce Central Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, during their District 8-9A semifinal high school basketball game at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie.
JEREMIAH WILSON/TCPALM
Treasure Coast battled Fort Pierce Central Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, during their District 8-9A semifinal high school basketball game at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie.
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Treasure Coast battled Fort Pierce Central Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, during their District 8-9A semifinal high school basketball game at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie.
JEREMIAH WILSON/TCPALM
Treasure Coast battled Fort Pierce Central Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, during their District 8-9A semifinal high school basketball game at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie.
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Fort Pierce Central’s Dylan Torello (15) shoots over Treasure Coast defenders Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, during their District 8-9A semifinal high school basketball game at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie.(Photo: JEREMIAH WILSON/TCPALM)Buy Photo
Trailing Fort Pierce Central by six points with six minutes to go in a District 8-9A semifinal Wednesday night left the Treasure Coast High School's boys basketball team's dream season on the verge of unraveling.
It didn't.
Reggie Prevalon's 3-point goal ignited a 25-9 run to finish the game as the Titans prevailed 72-62 to advance to their second consecutive district final.
"They just stayed positive," Treasure Coast coach Pat Kelly said. "All the way through to the end, I thought they were looking to get stops. We held them scoreless for four minutes in the fourth quarter."
Donnavan Bonilla finished with a game-high 21 points — eight during the closing run — and three steals for Treasure Coast (24-1).
Tyrec Thompson added 15 points and five rebounds while Chris Brown had 13 points, four rebounds and three assists.
Calvin King had 12 points and five rebounds, and Elijah Williams had four rebounds.
The Titans made 23 of 29 free throws to win their eighth consecutive game while Central was just 7 of 15.
The teams were tied at 45 through three quarters before Fort Pierce Central (15-9) pulled ahead.
Darvion Blackshear hit four 3-pointers and scored 12 of his 18 points in the third quarter for the Cobras, who last reached a district final in 2014.
Vince Ventulan, who also had four 3-pointers, and Dylan Torello scored 14 points apiece.
Treasure Coast, a program-best 46-5 over the past two seasons, will host Vero Beach (18-6) at 7 p.m. Friday for the district title.
Both teams advance to regional quarterfinals next week.
Vero Beach 67, Martin County 61: The Fighting Indians erased an eight-point deficit by outscoring the Tigers 31-17 in the fourth quarter to win a district semifinal at Treasure Coast.
Javian Cuff scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half for Vero Beach (18-6), which trailed 44-36 through three quarters.
Tommy Lewis scored 12 of his 16 points in the first half and finished with seven steals, five rebounds and four assists.
Alan Glanville had 14 points and seven rebounds.
Vero Beach had 15 steals and made 21 of 27 free throws.
The Fighting Indians have won five consecutive games and 15 of their past 17, with both losses to Treasure Coast.
14-7A
Jensen Beach 61, South Fork 52: Triston Morris scored a game-high 20 points and Laverius Hampton added 18 as the sixth-seeded Falcons upset the third-seeded Bulldogs in a district opener at Heritage.
Emanuel Rogers scored 11 points for Jensen Beach (11-13), which led 18-7 after one quarter.
Jensen Beach lost to South Fork 63-34 and 63-58 during the regular season.
The Bulldogs (13-10) closed to within four points in the fourth quarter, but the Falcons hit 10 of 14 free throws down the stretch.
Nochley Rene scored 18 points for South Fork. Caleb Edwards, held to two points in the first half, finished with 15.
Okeechobee 65, Eau Gallie 37: Mark Youmans scored a game-high 19 points as the Brahmans rolled into the district semifinals.
Jamal Davis had a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds for Okeechobee (19-6), which has won five consecutive games and 11 of its past 12.
Jquan Ferrol had five points, 11 rebounds, four blocks, five assists and four steals while Devon Freeman had 11 points and seven rebounds.
Leo Kendrick scored 10 points for Eau Gallie (5-18).
Okeechobee meets South Fork at 5:30 p.m. Friday in a district semifinal at Heritage.
15-6A
Port St. Lucie 66, Lincoln Park Academy 41: Tyler Hedrick scored 13 points to help the Jaguars advance to the district final at Port St. Lucie.
Nate Davila and Ken Louis added 11 points apiece for Port St. Lucie (11-14), which led 36-16 at halftime.
Tyler Hogan scored a game-high 15 points for Lincoln Park (5-16), which closed the season with five consecutive losses.
Port St. Lucie will host Suncoast at 7 p.m. Friday. Both teams advance to regional quarterfinal games next week.
Suncoast 48, Fort Pierce Westwood 27: The Chargers (16-6) advanced to the district final while the Panthers finished 5-18.
5-4A
Benjamin 69, John Carroll Catholic 52: Ben Lubarsky hit five 3-point goals and finished with a game-high 31 points as the Buccaneers defeated the Golden Rams in a district semifinal at Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale.
Elam added 13 points for Benjamin (15-9), which led 22-11 after one quarter and 40-24 at halftime.
Ashton Singleton had 16 points and three assists for John Carroll (19-7). Raul Guevara had 12 points, four rebounds and two steals.
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Jesse Duplantis Net Worth
Jesse Duplantis is most popularly known as the Evangelical Charismatic Christian minister who is the founder of Jesse Duplantis Ministries. His preaching is controversial in some areas, leading some Christians and non-Christians to call him “unbiblical.” Some sources have estimated his net worth near $40 million.
Due to the fact that many churches are considered nonprofits, and thus, are tax-exempt, his actual net worth is difficult to determine, since the line between his ministry and personal finances is almost nonexistent. Currently, between the two accounts, there is a house worth over $3 million.
Minister Duplantis is one of the most controversial people in the Christian church today. He began preaching back in 1976, introduced to the parish as “The Apostle of Joy.” In 1978, he became a full-time minister, incorporating his comedy and music skills into his sermons. In 1997, Minister Duplantis and his wife formed the Covenant Church, which was an outreach of Jesse Duplantis Ministries. Much of his speeches expressed a prosperity and abundance message, commonly referred to as the prosperity gospel. Many Christian organizations discouraged this message, but Duplantis’ popularity continued.
Known for an extravagant lifestyle, it comes as no surprise to other Christian leaders that Duplantis had a 35,000-square-foot mansion in St. Charles Parish, and has taken at least one 17-day trip to Hawaii in his private jet – a trip that cost his ministry close to $40,000 for flight expenses. Many journalists and publications have researched the ministry’s income, trying to discern what belongs to the minister and what belongs to the ministry.
Minister Duplantis continues to work as a minister with Jesse Duplantis Ministries today. He lives with his wife, Cathy, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is presently involved in leadership positions in the Covenant Church, Jesse Duplantis Ministries (JDM), the Jesse Duplantis TV program, Christians United for Israel (CUFI), and Covenant Compassion Center (CCC).
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A journey by train with a nod to Annie Brassey
Notes from a Journal…Arriving in China
“Waking up in China to a densely built up landscape. Gone are the forests of Siberia and the golden plains of Mongolia. It is autumn again, time goes backwards and we briefly travel through more familiar pine forests and woodland. Auburn leaves cling stubbornly to branches. It is rocky and flat alternately. There is evidence of agriculture with ploughed fields, the first since Siberia. The view is changing much more quickly now. Inhabited to wild, agriculture to city scape. House construction is different, older properties with tiled roofs. Evidence of man is more frequent here…”
It felt like I’d been cocooned by the train, my home for a full 7 days and nights of the three week journey. I have come to the end of my Trans Siberian/Trans Mongolian train journey. Nearly three weeks after leaving Moscow I am about to arrive in Beijing, leaving my new family behind as we all take our own paths onwards…
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A serious vulnerability in the Kubernetes that could enable an attacker to gain full administrator privileges over the open source container system's compute nodes, was confirmed this week.
The bug, CVE-2018-1002105, is a privilege escalation flaw in the Kubernete's platform and was spotted by Darren Shephard, founder of Rancher Labs.
It has since been patched by Red Hat, one firm that makes use of Kubernetes.
Unpatched, the flaw effectively allowed hackers to gain full administrator privileges on Kubernetes compute nodes, the physical and virtual machines on which Kubernetes containers run upon.
Once those privileges had been gained, hackers could then steal data, input corrupt code or even delete applications and workloads.
The flaw could be exploited in two ways: one through a 'normal' user gaining elevated priveledges over a Kubernetes pod, which is a group of one or more containers that share network and storage resources and run in a shared context, and from there they could wreak havoc.
The second involves the exploitation of API extensions that connect a Kubernetes application server to a backend server. While a hacker will need to create a tailoured network request to harness the vulnerability in this context, once done they could send requests over the network conection to the backend.
From there, the attacker has 'cluster-level' admin privileges - clusters are a collection of nodes - and therefore escalated privileges on any node. This would, in turn, allow said attacker to alter existing brokered services to deploy malicious code.
Due to the connection on Kubernetes API servers, where its authenticated with security credentials, malicious connections and unauthenticated users with admin privileges appear above board. This makes the flaw and its exploitation difficult to identify as would-be hackers appear as authorised users.
According to GitHub, this makes the vulnerability a critical flaw, mostly due to the fact it allows anyone with access to cause damages, but also because of its invisibility as abusing the flaw leaves no traces within system logs.
"There is no simple way to detect whether this vulnerability has been used. Because the unauthorised requests are made over an established connection, they do not appear in the Kubernetes API server audit logs or server log. The requests do appear in the kubelet or aggregated API server logs, but are indistinguishable from correctly authorized and proxied requests via the Kubernetes API server."
There are fixes and remedies to this flaw, but it's mostly about upgrading the version of Kubernetes you run. Now. There are patched versions of Kubernetes, such as v1.10.11, v1.11.5, v1.12.3, and v1.13.0-rc.1 and it is recommended that you stop using Kubernetes v1.0.x-1.9.x.
For those that cannot move up, there are cures; you must suspend use of aggregated API servers and remove pod permissions from users that should not have full access to the kubelet API.
“Kubernetes, like all software, is not immune to security issues - the privilege escalation flaw makes it possible for any user to gain full administrator privileges on any compute node being run in a Kubernetes cluster.This is a big deal. Not only can this actor steal sensitive data or inject malicious code, but they can also bring down production applications and services from within an organisation’s firewall,” said Ashesh Badani, general manager of Red Hat‘s cloud platform business unit.
“It’s important to note that all Kubernetes-based services and products - including Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenShift Online, and Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated - are affected. Red Hat has begun delivering patches and pushed service updates to affected users, enabling them to address this flaw either immediately or when it best fits their specific risk profile. A more detailed account of the Kubernetes privilege escalation flaw can be found here.”
Badani concluded: “As Kubernetes becomes more prominent for enterprises as they pursue digital transformation, it stands to reason that more flaws within the technology will be discovered. The community will be ready to fix the code, while Red Hat will be prepared to help you fix your critical systems in a way that can make the most sense for your unique organisational needs.”
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With Dragon Ball Super drawing ever so closer to it’s conclusion, leaks have come out that may hint at how the last two episodes will play out and fans ain’t too happy about it. This confuses me a bit because, if you’ve paid even a tad bit of attention, this was kinda hinted at for quite some time now. Plus, if you’ve followed the series this far, then complaining now will just be in vain.
So from here on out, we are entering spoiler territory so if you’d like to keep your innocence for the finale, I suggest you leave now. Oh, you still here? Alright then, lets go!
So according to the leaks, thanks to Ken Xyro’s tweet and translation, Goku still loses the battle and falls of the stage, leaving a wounded and extremely weakened Jiren the winner, only to be stabbed in the back and pushed off the stage by Frieza. OK, so when I said that this was hinted, I wasn’t referring to Goku ACTUALLY losing because that is still blowing my mind, but what I was referring to was Frieza winning the Tournament of Power.
When you look at all the possible outcomes for this battle, with the hints that have been thrown in the mix from previous episodes, there was no avoiding it. Now, I can understand why fans are frustrated with this ending. After much anticipation and hyping up the new form, Goku attains and masters Ultra Instinct to the point that even the gods stood up to pay respect, only to lose to Jiren. It’s fucked up right?
But then again, nothing ever made sense in Super to begin with. Also, fans are complaining that the ending is predicable. Well, what did you actually expect would happen? If Goku wins, then it’s “OMG GOKU ALWAYS WINS, BORING!” So this I feel like was the only way to make it work…..kinda!
I’m not gonna front here, Goku losing to Jiren kinda stings here. I’d much prefer if Jiren fell of the stage and then Goku gets shot from behind by Frieza but that would actually piss off the OmniKings and they may even erase him on the spot. At the end of the day, there’s not much anyone can do. The script is written, it’s already probably been animated as we speak, so all one can to now is just….enjoy the show for what it is, fan service.
Whether you hate the show or like it, there’s not denying that it gave us some of the best fights we’ve seen in a long time and introduced a batch of great characters. Who knows, as the leak suggested, there might be more coming in the future so we’ll just have to wait and see.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below on how you feel about the ending of Dragon Ball Super.
I have actually no problem with it the fact that Frieza is the winner, because it’s something different than usual. Goku is always the winner and I know he is the main character, but I think he had more than enough screentime in the tournament of power with obtaining Ultra Instinct and defeating most of the people in the tournament of power. I am not a Goku fan, I prefer Vegeta or Android 17 or something that would really surprised me in Dragon Ball Super, but Frieza doing the finishing blow is fine with me, plus it makes sense because he always does something dirty like that.
Yeah I’m cool with Frieza winning because now I’m curious to see how that will play out. But honestly, there really is no pleasing the DB community at this point. Despite all the flaws that are in Super, I can’t deny that I’d be willing and ready to watch more when or if they ever come back.
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import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { useHistory } from 'react-router-dom';
import { Card, PageSection } from '@patternfly/react-core';
import { CardBody } from '../../../components/Card';
import ProjectForm from '../shared/ProjectForm';
import { ProjectsAPI } from '../../../api';
function ProjectAdd() {
const [formSubmitError, setFormSubmitError] = useState(null);
const history = useHistory();
const handleSubmit = async values => {
if (values.scm_type === 'manual') {
values.scm_type = '';
}
if (!values.credential) {
// Depending on the permissions of the user submitting the form,
// the API might throw an unexpected error if our creation request
// has a zero-length string as its credential field. As a work-around,
// normalize falsey credential fields by deleting them.
delete values.credential;
}
setFormSubmitError(null);
try {
const {
data: { id },
} = await ProjectsAPI.create({
...values,
organization: values.organization.id,
});
history.push(`/projects/${id}/details`);
} catch (error) {
setFormSubmitError(error);
}
};
const handleCancel = () => {
history.push(`/projects`);
};
return (
<PageSection>
<Card>
<CardBody>
<ProjectForm
handleCancel={handleCancel}
handleSubmit={handleSubmit}
submitError={formSubmitError}
/>
</CardBody>
</Card>
</PageSection>
);
}
export default ProjectAdd;
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