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Q: Django model set lookup very slow I'm getting a very slow lookup in my Django models. I have two tables: class Scan(models.Model): scan_name = models.CharField(max_length=32, unique=True, validators=[alphanumeric_plus_validator]) class ScanProcessingInfo(models.Model): scan_name = models.CharField(max_length=32) processing_name = models.CharField(max_length=64) in_progress = models.BooleanField(default=False) When I perform the following operation to get a list of all Scan objects which have a ScanProcessingInfo for a specific processing_name: scans = models.Scan.objects.all() scan_set = [] for scan in scans: if self.set_type_definition.test_scan(scan, self.arg1, self.arg2): scan_set.append(scan) (test_scan routes to) def get_proc_info_been_done(scan, spd_name): try: proc_info = models.ScanProcessingInfo.objects.get(scan_name = scan.scan_name) except models.ScanProcessingInfo.DoesNotExist: proc_info = None if proc_info == None: return False return not proc_info.in_progress the request takes about 10 seconds. There are 300 Scans in total and 10 ScanProcessingInfos. The db backend is an RDS MySQL db. I also expect someone will tell me off for using strings for the cross-table identifiers, but I doubt that's the cause here. I'm sure I'm doing something obvious wrong, but would appreciate a pointer, thank you. A: I think what you're asking is how to get all Scans for which a matching ScanProcessingInfo exists. The first thing to do is to declare the actual relationship. You don't need to change your database (you should, but you don't have to); you can use your existing underlying field, but just tell Django to treat it as a foreign key. class ScanProcessingInfo(models.Model): scan = models.ForeignKey('Scan', to_field='scan_name', db_field='scan_name', on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING) Now you can use this relationship to get all the scans in one go: scan_set = Scan.objects.exclude(scanprocessinginfo=None) Edit To get all matching objects with a specific attribute, use the double-underscore syntax: scan_set = Scan.objects.filter(scanprocessinginfo__processing_name=spd_name) A: Use Many-to-one relationship. scan_name = ForeignKey(Scan, related_name='processing_infos',on_delete=models.CASCADE)

Q: Handling parse exception to a date format from a date picker Here I am trying to handle the start date of my booking system as well as the end date using LocalDate and date formatted. I have done some search on the error I am getting, however, they don't deal with similar issues. Like here I need to get the user input using request.getParameter. //Getting input values from jsp from String cruiseName = request.getParameter("cruiseName"); DateTimeFormatter df = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd/MMM/yyyy"); LocalDate startDate =(LocalDate) LocalDate.parse(request.getParameter("startDate"),df); LocalDate endDate =(LocalDate) LocalDate.parse(request.getParameter("endDate"),df); The error message: Exception org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is java.time.format.DateTimeParseException: Text '03/10/2020' could not be parsed at index 3 org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:1006) org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:901) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:660) org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:875) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:741) org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:53)** Root Cause: java.time.format.DateTimeParseException: Text '03/10/2020' could not be parsed at index 3 java.base/java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.parseResolved0(DateTimeFormatter.java:2049) java.base/java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.parse(DateTimeFormatter.java:1951) java.base/java.time.LocalDate.parse(LocalDate.java:428) A: The format you are trying to parse is different from the format you get, either because there's incorrect format asked from the user, or because you used the wrong format to parse. You are trying to parse dd/MMM/yyyy format which would look like 03/Oct/2020, but the format you get is either dd/MM/yyyy or MM/dd/yyyy, from the error message you get 03/10/2020 which can be either. You need to check what the expected input is and adjust your parsing code, or ask user for particular format.

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Because of the faithfulness of those who heard from God, and their unwavering stand for God amidst continual opposition and pressure, countless scores of souls were able to be introduced to the power of God. The Book of 1 Kings focuses on one such man, Elijah. Evil government was in place, King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, and Elijah was the prophet that God revealed His voice to in that particular hour. Through Elijah's obedience to the voice of the Lord, he proclaims loudly that it is not going to rain in the land in 1 Kings 17:1. "…As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word." Turns out, not a single drop fell again for another three years. While the drought had fully settled in and the effects of the drought had been experienced throughout all of the land, Elijah once again heard from the Lord and remained faithful to declare what God had spoken to him. Think about the importance of Elijah's faithfulness to what God had spoken to him about. Even amidst the season of not hearing a new word from the Lord, Elijah remained faithful. When we are moving in obedience to what the Lord reveals to us, this is exactly what we are going to experience. There may be a drought of His voice all around us, but will we remain faithful to the last word the Lord said to us? Elijah did. Then, in the midst of the parched and dry drought, Elijah once again proclaims a word to the government in 1 Kings 18:41, "…Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain." It was about to rain. Remember, Elijah boldly said this without seeing any present rain. After Elijah's servant tells him, "A cloud as small as a man's hand is rising from the sea.", Elijah then commands his servant "Go and tell Ahab, 'Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you." We must cooperate in accordance with God's word and respond in agreement to it. God has been continually speaking of such a large harvest that is about to sweep across the nations of the world. God is preparing us for a harvest of 1,000 people coming to Christ, every single week. This is what was revealed to Rick Joyner at Morningstar Ministries. Can you imagine 1,000 people, every week. This is too big to be sustained in any one building. The Church is the people, not the building. William Seymour was the very man that God chose to be the catalyst of what would be known as the Azusa Street Revival. What broke out in Los Angeles, California in 1906, remained until 1915, eventually reached the world and can still be affected today. What is even more striking about this move of God was Seymour's prophetic word that God would do an even greater move about 100 years later. We are in those very moments right now. When Lou Engle led the gathering of "Azusa Now" at the Los Angeles Coliseum, it was a prophetic gathering and an act of faith believing God to move again powerfully like He did in 1906. Allow your faith to be radically lifted and stirred as you are encouraged to remain steadfast to what the Lord said to you during these difficult seasons and to hold on to the encouragement of what the Lord desires to do. See the full program to see the entire discussion, and so much more. Also shared in this segment: oppressive government, President John F. Kennedy, The Jesus Movement, obedience, faithfulness, Emmaus Road Discipleship, Kim Jung-Un, Pharaoh, and rain. Greg and Steve shared in this segment. Courtesy of Willyam Bradberry /shutterstock.com Revival History Montage MeetMyFather.org Elijah Announces a Great Drought, I will send rain, Cloud the Size of a man's Hand 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 18:1, 1 Kings 18:41-46 Living in the Last Days: Are You Prepared? 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London Olympics site to become digital mega-hub Flamboyant London mayor Boris Johnson has formally inked a deal which will see the enormous press centre built for the 2012 Olympics turned into a "colossal super hangar" crammed with thousands of "digital and creative" workers who won't have needed to be "brilliant at school". The London Legacy Development Corporation and … Thursday 16th May 2013 16:34 GMT Pen-y-gors Pardon my cynicism but... How does providing a large office space with lots of power points and ethernet sockets actually "create 6500 jobs"? Surely the jobs will be created (if they are) by businesses who use the space which otherwise would not have been established due to their inability to find office space with working power points. And I'm sure it's impossible to find office space anywhere in the UK these days... Thursday 16th May 2013 17:28 GMT Buzzword Re: Pardon my cynicism but... Indeed. The recently-opened Shard provides 575,000 sq ft of office space in zone 1; this "technodome" will provide just 300,000 sq ft in zone 3. Thursday 16th May 2013 20:40 GMT Yet Another Anonymous coward Because each "digital social creative media cloud government relations consultant" requires a barrista, a personal assistant, a life coach, a yoga instructor, a nanny ..... So you only need a few government website concepts to be concepted about - to easily create 6500 new jobs Thursday 16th May 2013 20:49 GMT LarsG This is another case of throwing money at so called IT because it is the only and most important industry in the world......... This shows up all that is wrong with Government understanding of IT, where they see the panacea for all ills is another technology park and that higher speed Internet will transform our economy and lives. Great, so we can download a job application or porn film in a couple of seconds, that will make so much difference. They want to invest in manufacturing a bit more... Lets start making things again. Friday 17th May 2013 08:35 GMT Anonymous Coward You need that many power sockets to create one Boris-load of hot air. Thursday 16th May 2013 16:37 GMT Mike Brown ive never understood why people voted for him. He just seems like such a oafish buffoon. Maybe he gets the oafish buffoon vote? Who knows Thursday 16th May 2013 16:40 GMT gribbler Re: boris He makes me laugh. That's more than any other politician ever did for me... Friday 17th May 2013 11:06 GMT Richard Taylor 2 You have never laughed at a politician before? You need to get out more lad...... Thursday 16th May 2013 16:52 GMT Waspy " 'cause he is that funny guy wot is off the telly" seems to be a worryingly real reason I've heard from others. To be fair to him he has done more good for London than I thought he would and he does have a certain charm about him in an everyman Clinton/Kennedy/Blair teflon kind of way...but aside from the fact that he stands against everything I admire politically, I wouldn't trust him as far as I can throw him. Thursday 16th May 2013 17:07 GMT Cliff That's the thing with Boris, he *comes across* as oafish, but is actually a smart cookie. Very disarming, people don't realise quite how his front distracts you from what he's actually doing. Friday 17th May 2013 08:58 GMT ScottAS2 "Boris Johnson, people always ask me the same question, they say, 'Is Boris a very very clever man pretending to be an idiot?' And I always say, 'No.'" - Ian Hislop Friday 17th May 2013 12:32 GMT TeeCee While I have a heck of a lot of time for Ian Hislop and find that he tends to be right about most things, when I read Boris' written pieces I have to conclude that, in this case, he's wrong. Anyone who writes and uses classical references that well cannot be an idiot. Pompous arse possibly, but idiot? No. Thursday 16th May 2013 17:15 GMT Anonymous Coward He just seems like such a oafish buffoon I'm going to give you but one hint: he is not what he seems. He found the buffoon act to work for him, and he's shrewdly used it ever since, which has allowed him to laugh himself past incidents that would have hung other politicians. The man is far shrewder than he lets on, and that includes having the smarts to listen to others. There is, of course, one other MASSIVE advantage he has: he's not Ken Livingston. That alone is worth a vote :) But he is a clever idiot. Friday 17th May 2013 12:23 GMT Lee D 1) It's probably an act, as stated. He went to Eton, so he can't be all THAT stupid (famous last words). 2) He's a politician. That means he's VERY good at projecting a false front, and making people think he's something he's not. It also means he has to come across as harmless and friendly. 3) When he cocks up, he says so. That alone is enough to put him above others who reel out all sorts of excuses about why they did what they (deliberately) did. 4) He cocks up a lot. I'd rather have someone who cocks up than covers up. 5) He's backed several quite good projects - banning alcohol on the Tube, the Olympics (as much as I hated it, people seemed to enjoy it generally), Boris bikes (getting us into the 21st century in terms of transport, behind just about every other EU country that already has them, using a way that doesn't involve pandering to drivers or spending lots of money), and the Thames airport is probably quite a sensible idea. I'm not aware of any completely ludicrous ideas that he's backed (which is either fabulous PR or decent common sense). 6) In the expenses scandal, he had a few taxi fares totally a few hundred pounds that were allowed under the rules. You could say they were excessive (for taxi fares), but you'd be hard-pushed to put them on the same scale as claiming for houses for ducks or second homes costing millions of pounds. If you want people to trust you, one of the best methods is to make them feel superior to you, and supporting good ideas instead of attacking them. He pretty much has this done. And, simply, out of all the politicians I've seen, he's probably the least scummy. I imagine I could have a drink with him at a pub and not feel like I was being preached at, or that it was some publicity stunt. You get the feeling you could take him out on a stag night and he'd not feel like the butt of the joke even when he was. I don't vote (various reasons, but basically because I DO NOT KNOW these people, so how can I honestly put in a claim that they should be running a service/country? And I also can't vote for the people that I *DO* know who would probably do a good job, e.g. a prominent mathematician/economist for a finance minister, etc. because of the way the rules about who can run for election work - it's not a democracy, for example, if I can't vote for ME or Fred Bloggs down the road). But there's something about the way Boris works that makes him more appear approachable and normal than the others. Sure, he's a stereotype (bumbling Eton graduate who knows more about Latin than he does about the working man), but he's comfortable in that stereotype and even panders to it (I'm sure). Boris is probably the only politician that I actually LIKE (that's very different to wanting him to be put into a position of power with my explicit approval on a ballot sheet). Hell, we all had the same reaction as Paul Merton when the self-styled buffoon managed to get into the mayoral office, but the fact is that enough people put him there because they liked him / trusted him more than the alternatives (and have kept that like / trust). He's a fool. But he's a lovable fool. And he's different to other politicians. There's something "unofficial" about his demeanour in public. He's not all stuffy and using long words for the sake of it. He has fun, even at the Olympic ceremonies and things talking about "wiff-waff" and entertaining the crowds while getting stuck up on high-wires. You can easily imagine him as "the posh one" in a crowd of people, and he'd be great fun. Of course it's only an image (which is my primary objection to voting for politicians I don't know). But it's an image different to the others, and one that works. It's like voting in Prince Harry or something. Probably not the most talented person to put into office, but one that you trust and has a public image that suggests he won't DELIBERATELY do things wrong. Thursday 16th May 2013 16:44 GMT DrZarkov Look on the bright side. I pity you Britishers, Ed Millibob is going to be your next PM, lol. Thursday 16th May 2013 22:34 GMT Neil Greatorex Re: Look on the bright side. Not in my lifetime... "Not in my lifetime..." Sorry to hear you've got a terminal disease. The polls are pretty unequivocal. The Tory vote has been trashed by Cameron's Blairite NuLab stance and the rise of UKIP, but the Labour voters remain firmly united behind the party that has rained economic death on this country. Which is understandable if you are on the payroll of the state. Looking at the percentage of GDP represented by government spending that's about half of the population dependant one way or another on the public spending (civil servants, state pensioners, welfare claimants, public sector employees, companies who are primarily suppliers to the puiblic sector). The destruction of the Tory support base is a great things, it shows that people have seen through their cyncial lies and incompetence. Unfortunately that hasn't been matched by an understanding amongst Labour voters that the unsustainable shambles we now have is almost exclusively the fault of the Labour party (with a load of millionaires on their Parliamentary front bench, just like the Tories). Millitwerp will, without doubt be our next feckless, useless, traitorous prime minister, like so many before him. I'm no happier than I suspect you are with this idea, but "call me Tony" Cameron isn't going to reverse the damage he's done, and Labour support remains united (kif misguided). Friday 17th May 2013 13:11 GMT Snapper Thursday 16th May 2013 17:03 GMT handle 40 mega volt-amperes I hope it has power factor correction and that's pretty close to 40MW. Thursday 16th May 2013 20:11 GMT Natalie Gritpants Re: 40 mega volt-amperes No no, this is the new thing, the amperes are 40 megavolts wide. It makes them go faster. The fuse boxes glow in the dark and the plugs only have one pin. Friday 17th May 2013 08:52 GMT A Twig Really hope you're being sarcastic and not confusing your AC & DC ;) If you are being sarcastic, thanks for providing a much needed chuckle on a Friday morning! Thursday 16th May 2013 17:15 GMT JaitcH So this is the Olympic Legacy? I was of the understanding that the IOC party leftovers were to be used for sports related activities. Given that the shindig cost 12-BILLION POUNDS +++ I wonder what the true cost of this building is and whether the proposed rents will actually help recoup the capital outlay, or is this yet ANOTHER Tory giveaway to business? I imagine workers in this place won't be too enamoured of it's location when it's a game day at the stadium. Thursday 16th May 2013 17:41 GMT ratfox "digital and creative" workers who won't have needed to be "brilliant at school" Is that the new euphemism after "correctional facility"? Thursday 16th May 2013 17:44 GMT Neil Lewis So this will be a "world-leading hub for the digital and creative industries"? Given that the government's plans for so-called 'orphan works' is likely to decimate the actual creative industries while benefiting those who merely copy and re-use, perhaps he really means this will be a "world-leading hub for those who rip-off the creative industries on an industrial scale". Thursday 16th May 2013 18:55 GMT ParsleyTheLion Re: Oh really Eh? Surely if a work is orphaned it means that nobody claims it and so won't miss the revenue. Or are you afraid of being out-innovated by dead people? Thursday 16th May 2013 19:33 GMT BrownishMonstr E.g, stripping metadata off of images so that the actual owner can't be found and thus won't receive his entitlement. Friday 17th May 2013 00:07 GMT Yet Another Anonymous coward If only it was that easy to create an orphaned work Mr J. J. Abrams - would you mind stepping over here, near the edge of this multi-storey car park Thursday 16th May 2013 18:19 GMT strangelybrown The 6,500 jobs bit will be one of those staggering stretches of imagination which seems to involve assuming every person actually employed in the conversion, running, and populating of the thing will create an extra 5 jobs trickling down through the economy. Then you add a bit, and multiply the figure by 3.14... Then round up to a nice sounding number. Finally release the statement being careful to prefix everything with 'up to' or 'as much as' Have Boris checked its ok with Apple? I mean "iCity".............. If this doesn't inspire confidence among employers, nothing will!! "The jobs [on offer at iCity] are potentially open to people who haven't been brilliant at school or haven't got fantastic qualifications, but have a natural aptitude for dealing with gizmos that I barely understand." They're making the press center into the world's largest Best Buy?? Thursday 16th May 2013 20:04 GMT Will Godfrey "Can nobody rid me of this turbulent priest?" Thursday 16th May 2013 21:36 GMT Anomalous Cowshed I want one of them new megavolt hampers! Thursday 16th May 2013 22:26 GMT David Pollard Notting Dale Itek? Does anyone remember the Notting Dale Itek, a sort of free college set up in the 1980s by Dr Chris Webb in the Shepherd's Bush hinterland? He had begged, borrowed and stolen to get a whole lot of computers set up in a disused school together with a staff of a few IT instructors. There were no formal courses and the pupils were local 'yoof', self-selected on a first come first served basis. The notion was that those who were bright enough to hear about the scheme on the grapevine and go along to enquire about it were bright enough to learn something about computing if they were given access to equipment and a bit of encouragement. Apparently it did lead to a reduction in crime locally. And a proportion at least of those who studied there found their way into a career rather than remaining unemployed. However plans to roll out similar Information Technology Centres across the country faded. This present venture seems to have some similarities. Re: Notting Dale Itek? >This present venture seems to have some similarities. Except for the educational aspects and local yoof This is subsidized office space for big companies who are frends with the government to stick a bunch of call center people in with a couple of felt tip web designers upstairs to get the digital-britannia bit and the occasional school party being shown some of this "multi-media stuff" to justify the educational tag The 80's were a very different arena in terms of IT. Computers were expensive. Nobody really had one until later in the decade. And, no, Google knows nothing of Notting Dale Itek, nor of the Dr you state. In fact the only link that matches anything is this very page. So although it may have been a success back when we were all buying our first BBC's and ZX Spectrums and those kids probably had never seen a computer before, it's long-dead now that even the poorest of kids is carrying a mobile phone around and have broadband at home (even if subsidised by their school). I work in schools. Putting IT in front of kids does not teach them anything. It's the teachers that teach them. Unfortunately, decent teachers are very rare (I've seen MUCH more than my fair share of teachers that have no knowledge of the subjects they teach, and who aren't actually very good teachers in general anyway). And even with the best tools in the world, you don't get better kids out of the end without some basic teaching skill going on. I posit that the guy in India (featured on something like Russell Howard a few weeks ago, I think) who painted some blackboards on the underpass of a bridge and gets kids to sit on blankets in the dirt while he teaches them everything from writing to maths to geography, for a few hours after his (and the kid's!) work, is actually doing more good for the planet than anyone involved in an educational IT project in a first-world country that involves slapping thousands of pounds of equipment in front of kids with even an average teacher, and students that probably aren't really bothered about learning in the first place (or else they'd be in school). IT is a tool. It doesn't kill people. It doesn't educate people. It doesn't make things magically quicker. It doesn't make things more reliable. It's a tool. Used by clever people, you can get some clever stuff going. But just putting a machine into a classroom without either having a decent teacher, or first getting someone to the point they can be decent, is like handing out silicon chips to primates. It won't make them any cleverer primates than they already are. And, the fact is, a decent teacher could teach computing on a blackboard with chalk and probably do a better job than someone with all the equipment in the world (do we not all feel disdain towards those teachers who teach their kids how to use only Microsoft Office, to paste in an image into a Word doc and send it to someone, but not why they should have a least-permission model on their system, or not take 10bn cycles to draw an image on the screen, or having never tinkered with a piece of basic electronics?). P.S. I'm NOT a teacher. I spend my professional life dealing with them, which is enough to put me off going into the profession and makes me worry for my daughter's future education. But the fact is that it's the teacher that makes the lesson work, not the fancy equipment. A teacher with fancy equipment can work WONDERS, I agree. But a good teacher with no equipment will beat a bad teacher with fancy equipment EVERY SINGLE TIME. P.P.S. This is my primary argument against the Raspberry Pi (which I was an early supporter of and own one of the first batch). Technical issues aside, it alone does not make kids better computer users. And the biggest, most prominent, most warned-about piece that's missing even after all this time? Getting effective use out of what is - admittedly - a wonderful tool in the right hands. Fact is, they couldn't be bothered to exhibit properly in BETT, have few teaching resources available and, thus, it's those teachers who can already teach well that are using it and getting results. They made a device "for education" and didn't follow through effectively with any of the actual "education" side. Sure, you can run Scratch. But I can run Scratch on a Windows PC that every school already has. The actual support of the educational side is pathetic, and left to the teachers. As such, schools have bought it thinking it's some magical tool that will make their IT teaching better, and it ends up in a cupboard after a year (along with the tablets, netbooks, interactive whiteboards, visualisers and every other fad that's been misunderstood in the same way). Friday 17th May 2013 18:16 GMT David Pollard Notting Dale Itek? @Lee D - it's here "Google knows nothing of Notting Dale Itek" After a bit of a search on Google myself, I've found the article I wrote about it. Apparently the place itself was called a 'Technology Centre'. Maybe 'Itek' was the word Chris Webb used when he was talking about his plan to roll out similar setups across the country. http://yourcomputeronline.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/computer-club-notting-dale-technology-centre/ Friday 17th May 2013 06:53 GMT smudge Check it for rocket motors "...a "colossal super hangar" crammed with thousands of "digital and creative" workers who won't have needed to be "brilliant at school"." Sounds to me suspiciously like the Hitchhiker's Guide's B-Ark. Friday 17th May 2013 08:52 GMT PassiveSmoking Technodrome I hope its security systems are built with keeping ninja turtles out in mind. Shredder and Krang have some very specific security requirements after all. Not the biggest Since there are already several 60MVA datacenters in the UK, how does their claim hold any water? To those questioning a megavolt-amp http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090313184838AAaixeo Friday 17th May 2013 12:22 GMT Andy The Hat Greenest? ... and what are they producing the 'green' 40MVA from? Pigeon poo digesters on the roof? The entire average daily output of the UK's windfarms? Hot air from management conferences? 90 acres of solar panels plastered on grade 1 arable land (the occupants of the building will obviously eat McD's and pizza, not food, so that's ok then)? Or perhaps, it'll just be painted very green? "...the slightly un-snappily named IBC/MPC." Thank you Boris, a masterpiece of understated sarcasm there. Monday 20th May 2013 19:33 GMT Henry Wertz 1 Clueless politicians "How does providing a large office space with lots of power points and ethernet sockets actually "create 6500 jobs"?" Oh that's what you get when you have politicians who have no clue pushing for projects. Here in Iowa (midwest US), the politicians in one of our towns just BEGGGGED Google to come in. They said it'd create like at least 1000 jobs, I mean hell, look at that square footage of that data center they want to build, that must mean lots of jobs based on how many jobs a factory that big would create! Google pointed out "No, this is a data center, not a factory, it'll take like 30 people to man it." The politicnas stuck one thumb up their asses and the other in their ears, and gave Google all these tax breaks to put in the data center. NOW, the politicians are like "We don't get it, it's only created 30 jobs!" They started trying to blame Google, who of course pointed out "You idiots, we told you it'd create 30 jobs before hand. Don't pretend it's our fault.", at which point the politicans had to clam up. This seems to show some cluelessness -- a) Just turning some space into a "digital space" won't magically make it churn out jobs and money. b) Why are they pre-determining it'll use 40 megawatts of power? You've got companies now worrying, if not about the environment, at least about the power and cooling bills. They are saving serious electricity on their racks, among x86 the 8-core systems now use about as much power as a single or maybe dual did a few years back. The ARM servers save even more.

Posted by: irishhawk | July 26, 2011 A Tribute to Legendary Libertarian Philosopher John Hospers By Libertarian Defense Caucus Special Columnist Wayne Allen Root. Our Friend John Hospers Passes Away I have sad news to report…John Hospers, the very first Libertarian Presidential candidate in 1972, has passed away. John was 93. Because of our close friendship, I was asked to announce his death to the LP and his many fans and supporters. John passed quietly away in his sleep, on Sunday morning June 12 without pain and suffering, of natural causes. He died only 3 days after his 93rd birthday. He was a true friend of individual liberty and freedom. A sad day for all. But a devastatingly sad for me, because John was a true friend to me as well. I spoke to John often. He was a trusted political advisor and confidant. And in his last years, when he was in the hospital, his friends always asked if I could cheer him up with a call. I came to enjoy those calls. John was my personal "Tuesday with Morrie." He was the sweetest man alive, and a very loyal friend of mine. He will be greatly missed by all. The Libertarian movement has lost a pioneer and hero. I send my condolences to the Hospers family. And I wish a lifetime in heaven for John. The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions, policies, or strategies of The Libertarian Defense Caucus or any individual Caucus member thereof. Posted by: irishhawk | April 1, 2011 Perverse incentives in punishment of reformers and tolerance of the worst. By Kevin Bjornson. The principles of natural justice (Jus Naturale) are discoverable through conscience and reason. This natural law applies to all natural persons, in all places and for all time. The world will choose between natural law and sharia law. We know through observation that all existing governments are flawed. Created to protect rights, these guard dogs often revert to wolf-like behavior, stealing from and assaulting those they are supposed to protect. This means, all existing governments should be reformed or replaced. Yet there are not enough resources to do all that needs to be done, all at once. Not all governments are equivalent. Some are worse than others. Governments that are reforming toward freedom, should be applauded, rather than overthrown. Governments that are most threatening, should be top of the list for abolition. Bad people who reform, should be applauded for their good actions. If instead they were punished for not coming close enough to good, that would tend to push them away, back toward evil. Gadhafii decided to dismantle his nuclear weapons program after he saw Bush depose Saddam over that very issue (among other issues). He also paid blood money to atone for his previous terrorism. One of his sons even studied Austrian economics. These kinds of good actions earn him respect and a seat at the table of nations, with diplomatic relations and trade. In contrast, the mad mullahs of Iran, after a temporary pause about the same time (after the Iraq invasion), are proceeding at full speed in pursuit of nuclear weapons. The Iran government is more powerful than Gadhaffi's, and currently supports an extensive network of terrorists, including agents helping to kill American soldiers in Iraq. The crazy dicatator of N. Korea kills millions of his own people in a government-induced famine, due to their extreme communism and international isolation. Yet we bargain with them, to give them more aid. The Islamist regime in Pakistan presides over a holocaust of non-Muslims, expands it's nuclear arsenal, imprisons an American who resists an armed assault, and continues turning a blind eye to (or even supporting) terrorists in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Yet they still receive US aid. The message this sends is, if you're anti-American enough and powerful enough, you get a pass. If you reform and try to work with the west, and you're not very strong militarily, you will be deposed by the west. Whatever is rewarded, we will tend to see more of. Whatever is punished, we will tend to see less of. The end result in Libya and Egypt will be sharia law and dictatorship of the Muslim Brotherhood. The result in Iran and N. Korea will be more of the same. Trust and belief in America are plumetting, our enemies are strengthening. There is something wrong with this picture. Kevin Bjornson is the National Co – Chairman of The Libertarian Defense Caucus. He is considered one of the foremost libertarian intellectuals in the nation. Posted by: irishhawk | March 1, 2011 National Co – Chairman Bjornson Responds to LP "Cut and Run" Communique Libertarian Defense Caucus National Co – Chairman Kevin Bjornson penned this response to LP Executive Director Wes Benedict's intellectually dishonest "Cut and Run" communique. The full text of Benedict's bizarre and baseless rantings follows Co – Chairman Bjornson's response: Fellow libertarians– After a temporary lull in hostilities, LP director Wes Benedict has once again declared war on history, common sense, and liberty. Reagan's method and purpose of deploying US Marines in Lebanon was misguided. They were lightly armed, bunched together in a readily-accessible barracks, and given no clear mission. The phrase "peace keeping" is not a substitute for strategy, and certainly they were not tasked with attacking Jihadists. Lebanon's Christian minority, which was once a majority, was largely middle-class and built Lebanon into what was a "Switzerland of the middle east". That was before Islamists tore their country apart, through bombs, murder, robbery, and sexual assault. The US could have charged the Lebanese infidels, or neighboring Israel, for protection services. That would have been an option in a libertarian foreign policy–but apparently not the "non-interventionist" foreign policy of Rothbardites. That being said, the US withdrawal sent a wrong signal to our enemies. We were "punked" and simply withdrew. That was a reward to Jihadists. They attacked us, and got what they wanted. If rewarded, Jihadist demands will keep escalating. Their ideology commands nothing less than world domination. They have a bloody history–going back well before the US was born and before Europe was a world power. Before the Enlightenment gave the west the edge, Islamist Barbary coast pirates would raid Europe's coastal cities, for plunder and slaves; until the US navy under Jefferson, the British navy, and French forces, defeated them. How to deal with Jihadism, is a matter for debate within the libertarian movement and party. For one faction to seize control (by showing up at national conventions), and then proclaim that their plan is the only one possible for libertarians, is false and misleading. We cannot assume that US defense costs would fall, if all US forces were withdrawn to within US borders. Fighting a war on US soil, would be enormously expensive to US infrastructure, and result in US civilian deaths. Not being able to project US power into the foreign sanctuaries of Jihadists, would force us into passivity, having to defend every possible target all the time. Instead of choosing the time and place of conflict. If the US adopted Wes' foreign policy, US military and war costs would skyrocket. There are ways of financing and privatizing the US military, which Wes has been made aware of, but chooses to ignore. Further, we pledge that if libertarian hawks were to become the majority faction at LP conventions, we would not abuse our position of power by mis-representing our foreign policy views as the only ones possible under libertarianism. That much is required by intellectual honesty. We would welcome libertarian doves for other reasons. By running only doves in political contests, the LP would tend to siphon votes disproportionately from the Democrat party base, which is also dovish. Under current leadership, the LP is simply a minor shill for Republicans, who have shown that they are not serious about either liberty or effective counter-Jihadism. Consequently, the Libertarian Defense Caucus calls for the replacement of LP director Wes Benedict and LP chair Mark Hinkle The full text of Mr. Benedict's "Cut and Run" screed: Dear Friend of Liberty, In the Middle East, it's time to cut and run like Ronald Reagan did in 1984. In 1982, President Reagan ordered American Marines into Lebanon as part of a "multinational peacekeeping force." In 1983, there were several bombings targeting Americans in Lebanon, including the well-known Marine barracks bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines. At first, Reagan insisted that the U.S. would keep military forces in Lebanon. But in February 1984, he changed course and ordered a complete troop withdrawal. The following is from Reagan's autobiography: Perhaps we didn't appreciate fully enough the depth of the hatred and the complexity of the problems that made the Middle East such a jungle. Perhaps the idea of a suicide car bomber committing mass murder to gain instant entry to Paradise was so foreign to our own values and consciousness that it did not create in us the concern for the marines' safety that it should have. In the weeks immediately after the bombing, I believed the last thing that we should do was turn tail and leave. Yet the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics forced us to rethink our policy there. If there would be some rethinking of policy before our men die, we would be a lot better off. If that policy had changed towards more of a neutral position and neutrality, those 241 marines would be alive today. I think our government would be well-advised to think about that quote before they stick their nose into Egypt, Libya, and other Middle Eastern countries in turmoil right now. I applaud Reagan's decision to withdraw from Lebanon, and I call on President Obama to follow his example by withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the rest of the greater Middle East. Even though many Arabs hated the American intervention in Lebanon, it's important to remember that Reagan's withdrawal did not result in terrorist attacks in America. It did not result in a spreading takeover of Middle Eastern governments by terrorist groups. What it did was stop further American casualties, and allow for a reduction in military spending. It was foolish and wrong for Reagan to send American troops into Lebanon, but it was good that Reagan was able to recognize his mistake and withdraw those troops. In Iraq and Afghanistan, President George W. Bush's pride and stubbornness prevented him from following Reagan's example. Unfortunately, President Obama has shown that same pride and stubbornness so far. A withdrawal might cause President Obama to lose face, but it would save many American lives, and it would help save our economy as well. Many people say "cut and run" as if it were cowardly or idiotic, but that may not be accurate. Apparently the term comes from navigation, when in dire circumstances a ship's captain might quickly cut the anchor line, raise sail, and "run" before the wind. You lose the anchor, but you save the ship. I am so frustrated. Sometimes I think we're spending a trillion dollars and wasting thousands of lives in the Middle East just because politicians are scared of the words "cut and run." But I say that's exactly what we should do: cut and run. The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the authors and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions, policies, or strategies of The Libertarian Defense Caucus or any individual Caucus member thereof. Posted by: irishhawk | January 26, 2011 Libertarian Defense Caucus Condemnation of Moscow Airport Terrorist Attack By National Caucus Co – Chairman Kevin Bjornson The Libertarian Defense Caucus stands in solidarity with Russian people, culture, and defense forces against the horrific terrorist attack at the Moscow airport. An attack which murdered dozens, and maimed scores more. Let us speak the name of this terror: Islamic Jihad. Let us make these declarations: –America and Russia should be allies in this struggle to reverse the spread of Islamist aggression; much as Rome and Byzantium upheld civilization against barbarians. –America should cooperate by extraditing to Russia, those who are wanted for aiding terrorists and who now have sanctuary in the US. In particular, Imad A. Ahmad of the Islamic-American Zakat foundation, which has supplied terrorists in Chechnya. *–NATO should expel Turkey because it seeks to restore the caliphate by alliance with terrorists, including those now attacking Russia. *–Russia should be invited to apply for NATO membership, and resume it's rightful place as an heir to Byzantium. * The Caucus holds no official position on the admittance of Russia into NATO nor the expulsion of Turkey from the alliance. The guiding principle of the Caucus is that all member nation-states should be held to the highest ideals of republican governance. A Personal Appeal To Anti – War Libertarians Hi, many of you are longtime foes of mine. That's fine. I wanted to point your attention to an editorial by my friend in the Australia Libertarian movement James Fryar over at Worldwide Liberty, "AntiWar vs. Pro-Defense Libertarians." Jim asks pointedly of the AntiWar faction of the libertarian movement: "We don't ask the AntiWar swabs to go over there and fight. But at least, they can offer moral support" And Jim is correct. We Pro-Defense libertarians understand fully that you all hate the Military, and are opposed to all Wars. But surely your opposition to Defense can not include support for Islamo-Fascism and Sharia Law? No doubt most of you have been witness to the gross atrocities committed by Muslims against Christians, all across South Asia, Africa and the Middle East these past few weeks and months. You've seen the stories, as Clifford May of National Review points out: Christian churches have been bombed in Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, and the Philippines. In Indonesia a mob of 1,000 Muslims burned down two Christian churches because, according to one commentator, local Islamic authorities determined there were "too many faithful and too many prayers." In Iran, scores of Christians have been arrested. In Pakistan, a Christian woman received the death penalty for the "crime" of insulting Islam; the governor of Punjab promised to pardon her — and was then assassinated for the "crime" of blasphemy. And that's only half the story. In Europe, in the UK, Pakistani men are raping young British girls, because they "dress like sluts." In Denmark, they are attacking the headquarters of the newspaper that publishes cartoons mocking Muhammed. In Sweden an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist tried to blow up hundreds of Christmas shoppers in downtown Stockholm. In Uganda and Tanzania, Muslim groups are pressuring the governments to declare homosexuality illegal, punishable by life in prison, or even execution. In Somalia, music has been completely banned, and women are not permitted to work outside the home. The very latest; if they get caught shaking the hands of a non-relative male, they could be beheaded. Surely, you all recognize how this conflicts enormously with libertarian values. We understand your position and your personal feelings prevents you all from wanting to do anything about it. But a compromise… Why not let us Pro-Defense libertarians take the lead on this? As Jim says, we don't need you to join us in our call to arms. But we sure as hell would like your moral support. Isn't that the least you can do? Can you at least give us that? Just an acknowledgement that Yes, Sharia Law sucks, and all libertarians, including leftwing libertarians are opposed to Sharia Law. Further, if some libertarians want to fight back against Radical Islam, "mazeltof"; they are fully free to do so. You all don't even do that. You don't even acknowledge the threat of Radical Islam. You've got your heads in the sand, and are pretending it doesn't even exist. Okay, it's overseas. And I understand 99% of all non-interventionists are isolationists at heart and could really give an 'F' about what goes on in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, ect… But what about Creeping Sharia here in the United States: 1. A restaurant in Nashville, TN was prevented from opening up a bar in the facility cause the Mosque across the street objected to the city council. 2. In Hamtramck, Michigan the Muslim call to prayer blares from speakers outside of 4 different Mosques in the tiny hamlet 5 times a day, despite the pleas of local residents, and the Chamber of Commerce, small businessman that its preventing outsiders from coming into town. 3. In North Philadelphia the city has prevented any new liquor stores from opening up because of objections from the Muslim community. 4. In Wisconsin a publicly-subsidized Pre-School, part of the Head Start program, just eliminated secular Christmas celebrations and banned Santa Claus, cause of objections of Muslim attendees. 5. Corporations across the U.S. are now being sued by CAIR in federal court, and pressured by Muslim groups to be "Sharia compliant." 6. A group of Christian pastors were arrested at a Fair in suburban Detroit last summer for handing out pamplets praising Jesus on a public sidewalk. They were surrounded by 8 squad cars full of cops. C'mon you all. Surely you can agree with the Pro-Defense wing of the libertarian movement, that these examples are completely contrary to libertarian principles and should be opposed. All we're asking in the Pro-Defense wing is that you acknowledge that Sharia Law is a threat to Liberty, and that you occasionally lend us Pro-Defensers your moral support. Something along the lines of: "While we do not advocate foreign intervention to stop Radical Islam, we do recognize it as a threat to libertarian values, and acknowledge that those private efforts of some libertarians who want to fight back, are legitimate." We're asking for compromise. Can you please meet us half-way? Eric Dondero, Publisher LibertarianRepublican.net Member, Libertarian Defense Caucus since 1985 Fmr. Senior Aide, US Cong. Ron Paul 1997-2003 Ron Paul, Libertarian for President, Travel Aide, 1987/88 Fmr. Libertarian National Committee mbr. Founder, Republican Liberty Caucus. Posted by: irishhawk | October 25, 2010 Caucus Co – Chairman Composes Eloquent Rebuttal of Latest LP Press Release Libertarian Defense Caucus National Co – Chairman, Mr. Kevin Bjornson, fired back at LP Executive Director Wes Benedict's and LP National Chairman Mark Hinkle's latest woefully misguided missive. The rambling press release, although it should be noted that a press release has to in fact be covered by the press to be considered a press release, covered domestic and International affairs. Mr. Bjornson eviscerated the juvenile proclamations asserted in the LP release with the following eloquent response. The nearly incoherent original LP news release is incuded after Co- Chairman Bjornson's response. Dear fellow libertarians and other concerned persons, Recently, those of us on the LP e-list received a press release (appended below) which sets new records for bizarre language; Benedict and Hinkle seem to have a suicide wish for the LP. The "libertarian" proposal touted, is that the US pull the plug on both our foreign friends and retired Americans. The unstated assumptions are, only government can provide retirement/medical benefits, and taxes are necessary to wage war. This flies in the face of liberty theory as well as human history. If social security benefits were simply dropped with no free enterprise replacement, the results would be catastrophic. Millions of retired Americans would be placed in mortal jeopardy, and whoever did that would be crucified at the polls. Millions of old Americans would roam the streets, almost like a scene out of "Night of the Living Dead". Need I remind these masochistic gentlemen, the LP is a political party and should be about proposing solutions most Americans will accept, instead of framing libertarianism in the worst possible light. Fortunately there is a libertarian way out of this mess. The US has vast tracts of land, which could be traded to insurance companies in exchange for their assuming Social Security and Medicare liabilities. Benedict and Hinkle oppose Social Security but offer no positive solution–other than what would amount to a holocaust of elderly Americans who have paid into the system for decades and have planned their retirement accordingly. The Libertarian Defense Caucus has proposed ways that US defense could be privatized, or at least financed without taxation. The protection of property rights of merchant ships and oil infrastructure should not be treated as a welfare benefit, but as normal ways of financing the business of providing government services. Even if we accept the tax financing of defense, there is no assurance that retreating to within US borders would save money. Does anybody seriously propose that one side in a war may unilaterally declare the conflict over, without victory and with the enemy unvanquished? Costs to the US would sky-rocket under military isolationism, as our enemies would then be free to attack us on US soil, at times and places of their choosing. We would be in a defensive mode, forced to defend every possible target. Jihadists would continue to use nationalized oil and prohibition to finance their Jihad, safe from attack in their foreign sanctuaries. If we simply retreat, they will not reciprocate, but will view that as weakness, and accelerate their terrorist attacks. If not stopped, sooner or later Jihadists will acquire nuclear weapons. US infrastructure will be set back by 100 years, and Israel (with whom we enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship) will be toast. Benedict and Hinkle make a mockery of libertarianism. Fortunately their press releases are ignored. Where has this latest press release been published? Who is still listening? Thanks to Dondero and Cristiano, my responses are likely getting more coverage on the internet than their messages. We should present libertarianism in the best possible light, and not go out of our way to alienate people generally and dissenting libertarians. That much should be obvious; sadly, the LP is in need of adult supervision. Kevin Bjornson Libertarian Defense Caucus. WASHINGTON – With prospects of a Republican takeover of Congress, Libertarian Party (LP) Chair Mark Hinkle posed this question: "In order to balance the budget, where will the GOP pull the plug first: on Granny, or on foreign wars?" Hinkle continued, "Of course, Republicans may have no serious intention of cutting federal deficits or spending, and their complaints about 'out-of-control spending' might be hypocrisy." Over 60% of federal spending is in three areas: Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, and the military. It would be impossible to eliminate the federal deficit without cutting entitlements or military spending, such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tea Party leader Dick Armey recently called Social Security a ponzi scheme. LP Executive Director Wes Benedict said, "Social Security is universal mandatory welfare for seniors. It's very un-libertarian." Benedict continued, "I suppose one way to maintain the Social Security scheme would be to rapidly grow the U.S. working population, such as by opening up our borders to increase immigration. However, Republican congressmen have tried to duck their responsibility for the bad economy by scapegoating illegal immigrants, so allowing a massive influx of immigrants is politically infeasible in the near future. "Each child born in the U.S. immediately faces a debt of over $40,000. Ironically, it might not be long before American youth start ditching this debt foisted on them by their parents and grandparents, and start leaving America in search of better opportunity abroad. "To make Social Security solvent as our population ages, the federal government either has to raise the tax, or cut the benefits. The last significant change to Social Security was a tax increase approved by Ronald Reagan. Libertarians favor cutting Social Security benefits, and we oppose tax increases. Libertarians would prefer to allow workers to opt out of Social Security. Perhaps entitlements can be cut gradually, rather than slashed abruptly, but that depends on taking action sooner rather than later. "On the October 17 'Fox News Sunday,' I saw that Republican senate candidate Carly Fiorina was repeatedly asked what parts of entitlements she would cut to balance the budget, and she repeatedly dodged the question." The recent Republican 'Pledge to America' makes no mention of cutting entitlements or the military. Benedict continued, "Republicans refuse to say where they would cut entitlement spending, and of course Republicans oppose cutting military spending or ending America's foreign wars. Therefore, I'd say that Republicans are hypocrites who aren't serious about solving the federal debt problem." A video lampooning John Boehner and the Republican 'Pledge to America' was created by Travis Irvine, Libertarian for U.S. Congress in Ohio District 12. Benedict continued, "Only Libertarians recognize that we can't have it all for much longer. The longer Republicans and Democrats flush money down the toilet in Iraq and Afghanistan, the sooner the government will have to cut benefits for Granny. Of course, Congress may never have the courage to pass legislation to cut entitlements. In that scenario, Granny will eventually start experiencing 'rolling blackouts,' or perhaps a total system collapse. "Libertarians stand ready to cut spending across the board. Perhaps the question Granny needs to answer is, 'Which do you love more: your Social Security check, or foreign wars?'" The 'Liberaltarian' Cometh Once More Libertarian National Chairman Mark Hinkle appears to have conflated modern statist liberalism with libertariansim when it comes to matters of foreign policy. Libertarian Defense Caucus National Co – Chairman, Mr. Kevin Bjornson, seeks to help Mr. Hinkle clear up any confusion in his response to a ludicrously illogical LP 'press' relase. Co – Chairman Bjornson's refutation is follwed by the original LP press release. Dear Fellow Libertarians, This is in response to Wes Benedict's latest missive concerning foreign policy (wherein he quotes himself, referring to himself in the third person). The letter was unsigned, which is odd. That would be like me writing a controversial letter anonymously, quoting myself, and claiming to speak for all libertarians. People might accuse me of god-like pretensions (if I were to do the same). Wes' (or Mister X's) letter points out the obvious; that if the LP adopts categorical non-interventionism, we will tend to attract more voters who favor non-interventionism. Since the Democrat party leans more toward non-interventionism than the GOP (or at least has that image), this LP strategy tends to siphon from the Democrat base–thus helping elections of Republicans. Left unexamined, is the premise that the LP has a duty to help the GOP. Why should we help the party that is the main force behind the anti-drugs war, and is about as bad as Democrats on deficit spending? Why should we help elect social conservatives? Wes claims that Obama is spending a higher % of GDP on military spending than Bush Jr. That maybe true, but is an example of lying by statistics. Since the economy has shrunk, military spending can rise as a relative %, while at the same time, shrink in absolute terms. Let us hope our enemies feel pity for the sorry state of our nation's economy, and let up on their attacks until our economy improves. Meanwhile, back in reality, enemy attacks have increased (due to their cost-effective strategies and increased oil prices). If Wes' first premise were true, that categorical non-interventionism were a good policy, we should be running liber-hawks in order to siphon votes from the GOP base, in order to help the election of Democrats. But if his second premise were true, that Obama and the Democrats were military spending hawks (more so than the Republicans), this would contradict his third premise–that we should help elect Republicans. In reality, all three Wes premises are factually false, and internally inconsistent. Thus Benedict and Hinkle have helped turn the LP into a madhouse. But, let's move on to look at the bigger picture. Overthrowing of tyrants is a distinct and separate type of operation from replacing them with "social democracy" or altruistic nation-building. One can oppose the current occupation, without also opposing all "interventions". The LP cannot logically be categorically anti-interventionist, and also respect the US constitution. The US revolutionary war would not have succeeded, absent French intervention. To oppose all interventions, one would also have to oppose US entry into WWII. Tyrants would have free reign to overthrow relatively free nations, picking them off one at a time. In any event, even if all US troops were withdrawn to within US borders, Wes would still have them tax-supported. Likely under such a policy, aggression would increase, and the cost of a war fought within US borders would be much worse for the US economy/infrastructure– than if we confronted our enemies in their foreign sanctuaries. Instead of foreign civilian casualties, we would be hearing about American civilian casualties. The non-aggression principle does not require non-interventionism. To "intervene" simply means, to take sides in a multi-party dispute. Under categorical anti-interventionism, every person would have to defend himself, and could not intervene to help others or seek help for defense from others. Every man would be a defense island, leading to a war of all against all. Of course, brutes would not bind themselves to such a ridiculous principle, and would be free to organize force against lone individuals (or by analogy, against lone nations). The result would be a swift collapse of civilization, and the reign of chaos and tyranny. To seriously propose either categorical anti-interventionism or categorical interventionism, would be folly. Every sane person is anti-war; but sometimes wars must be fought to defend innocent life, liberty, and rightful property. Which Benedict and Hinkle would know, if they had any idea of what a libertarian foreign policy would look like. Libertarian Defense Caucus Anti-war liberals can vote Libertarian WASHINGTON – In the violent wake of President Obama's military surge in Afghanistan, and his failure to withdraw the U.S. military from Iraq, the Libertarian Party (LP) says anti-war liberals can vote Libertarian with a clear conscience. Sadly, President Obama is spending an even larger percentage of America's money on the military than George W. Bush did. According to the tracking website usgovernmentspending.com, during the first two budget years of the Obama administration (FY 2010 and 2011), military spending is expected to be over 6 percent of GDP: a larger percentage of GDP than during any year of the Bush administration. LP Chair Mark Hinkle commented, "Anti-war liberals who thought President Obama and the Democrats would reduce military spending and American interventionism have been betrayed. "Liberals have also been betrayed by Obama's unwillingness to reverse the serious civil liberties violations of the Bush administration. Obama has claimed the authority to kill American citizens overseas without indictment or trial. Even worse, he has claimed that 'state secrets' prevent his targets or their families from challenging him in court. Obama's expansion of the 'state secrets' claim is a page taken right out of the neoconservative playbook." LP Executive Director Wes Benedict added, "In many ways, the Obama administration is looking like four more years of George W. Bush. A vote for Libertarians sends a message for peace and respect for the Constitution." Benedict continued, "It's important to remember that many congressional Democrats voted for the PATRIOT Act, and many also voted for the War in Iraq. They tried to blame Bush later, even though they deserved just as much blame as Republicans." The Libertarian National Committee has passed resolutions calling for U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan. On September 12, 2001, the day after the major terrorist attacks, two-time Libertarian Party presidential nominee Harry Browne courageously spoke out against American interventionism. In his article he wrote, "When will we learn that we can't allow our politicians to bully the world without someone bullying back eventually?" Benedict said, "The Libertarian Party doesn't have the resources to take the lead in organizing mass protests, but we like to join anti-war protests when we can find them. When George W. Bush was president, Democrats helped organize many anti-war protests. Now that Democrats are doing the war-making, protests are hard to find. "I made an effort to express the Libertarian position at the One Nation March on October 2. "The terrorists have tricked our government into massive overreaction, spending trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives to fight a small number of America-hating fanatics. Many thousands of innocent Muslims have been killed in the process. We have gotten bogged down trying to rebuild entire governments. Democrats and Republicans have both given in to this terrorist trickery. Libertarians, on the other hand, see through this trickery, and we would stop wasting lives and money on the disastrous policies of foreign interventionism." Liberal vs. conservative support There is a myth frequently repeated in the media that Libertarian candidates take votes from conservatives. In reality, the situation is mixed: many polls show that Libertarian candidates actually receive greater support from liberals. In this Kansas poll, the Libertarian candidates received more support from liberals than conservatives. This poll showed North Carolina Libertarian candidate Michael Beitler with more support from liberals than conservatives. Hinkle said, "Libertarians have a lot in common with liberals. In fact, people with a libertarian philosophy often call themselves 'classical liberals,' in the sense of the word as it was used historically. Libertarians sometimes describe themselves as 'fiscally conservative and socially liberal.' "We Libertarians have a saying that we're 'pro-choice on everything.' We are uncompromising supporters of free speech. We completely oppose corporate welfare, and we hate the way big corporations often manipulate the government to get subsidies and protection from competition. And we are more immigration-friendly than either Republicans or Democrats." Posted by: irishhawk | July 6, 2010 Co – National LDC Chairman Bjornson Fires Back at LP Executive Director Benedict Over Foreign Policy Communique Co – National Chairman of The Libertarian Defense Caucus, Kevin Bjornson, has condemned the foreign policy communique composed by Libertarian Party Executive Director, Wes Benedict. The communique calls for the immediate and precipitous withdrawal of all U.S. forces from the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters. This irresponsible and sophomoric policy stance serves to undermine any foreign policy credibility The Libertarian Party had remaining and demonstrates how wildly disconnected Mr. Benedict, and The Libertarian Party are, from the realities of geopolitics. The LP Executive Director's communique is published first, followed by Mr. Bjornson's passionate rebuttal: The long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been back in the news recently, and we just had the bizarre spectacle of the Republican National Committee Chairman saying he didn't like Obama's war in Afghanistan, while the DNC chastised him for failing to support the troops. Here are ten reasons to end the wars now. I hope you'll take a look at some of the links. 1. American military and contractor casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. 2. Iraqi and Afghanistan civilian and military casualties. 3. These wars are a tremendous waste of taxpayer money in a time of extreme deficits, high unemployment and a falling stock market. 4. Invading and occupying Afghanistan and Iraq feeds terrorism. 5. Osama Bin Laden and his co-conspirators who attacked the World Trade Center were Saudi Arabian. 6. As Congressman Ron Paul recently said: "In Afghanistan, we are fighting the Taliban, those dangerous people with guns defending their homeland. Once they were called the Mujahideen, our old allies, along with bin Laden, in the fight to oust the Soviets from Afghanistan in the 1980s." 7. Most Republicans in Congress now admit Iraq was a mistake. 8. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele's comments show that even the hawkish Republican Party can't support this war with a straight face. 9. As James Madison said, "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." (Witness the PATRIOT Act.) 10. The U.S. military has been in Iraq over seven years, and in Afghanistan almost nine years. It's time to give peace a chance. (Note, the LP doesn't necessarily endorse the organizations linked above. We encourage you to research these issues for yourself.) Wes Benedict Libertarian National Committee The rebuttal of Co – National Chairman Mr. Kevin Bjornson: Wes Benedict, "LP executive director": Your recent communique (appended below) tends to alienate at least half of your LP audience. Is that your intention? Do you intend to cleanse the LP of all but a tiny clique centered around spurious sources like IBC and anti-war.com? Fact-checking your statistics is an Alice-in-Wonderland journey through America's anti-war fringe, where far-left meets far-right. For example: your claims for US-caused civilian casualties are sourced to this website: http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ However, when I click unto their source, I get this: http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/ Clearly, this source is self-referential. They do claim a few sources, in general terms (like "media reports " or "Iraqi government sources"–with no links as to where specifically all these numbers were published, or proof linking the statistics to reality. In fact, the statistics of alleged US victims mostly include: "suicide bombers" "roadside bombs" and "shot" by insurgents. So attributing the cause of their misfortune to the US is disingenuous–akin to blaming US attacks on Hitler as the cause of the holocaust. In fact, this page reaches a dead-end, wherein they assert as proof of their statistics, that they are from irregular and non-transparent sources: 1 We join UNAMI's call for the Iraqi Government to provide this information of important public interest regularly and in a transparent manner. UNAMI HR Report, 1 Jan – 31 Mar 2007. Page 3 Para 2. (PDF) Yet another "source" is self-referential: http://www.iraqbodycount.org/about/ Worse, this "source" admits they record all violent deaths, simply assuming they are all the fault of the US. And further assuming, our only alternative to present policies is withdrawal to US soil, in the vain hope that oceans and a pious attitude will protect our homeland while saving foreign These series of self-referential websites read as if written by grad students doing a parody of a superficially academic style. Pompous enough to persuade the gullible, but without credibility or substance. I must protest at this sophomoric display. This clearly diverges from your job description– which is executive and not policy-devising. You are not recruiting libertarians, but trying to re-make the LP in your image. You are making dovish foreign policy dovishness, and not the pledge or NAP, the litmus test for libertarianism. You pontifications are causing grave harm to the LP. Thank goodness the LP has near-zero credibility, or your editorials would cause grave harm to the country. Civilization is engaged in a war with barbarism and religious zealotry. This conflict will continue until we are vanquished or victorious, and cannot be ended unilaterally by the partial surrender you advocate. If you cannot restrain your actions to those within your legitimate purview, you have sat too long in your position for any good you have been doing. In that case, your best course is to depart, and let us have done with you. In the name of Ayn Rand, go! National Co – Chairman of The Libertarian Defense Caucus Editor's Note: The Libertarian Defense Caucus calls on LP News to allow this Caucus to publish a response to the Executive Director's communique. His position is not representative of those in the broader libertarian movement, nor even within The Libertarian Party, itself. Posted by: irishhawk | June 4, 2010 Communique from modern Libertarian Defense Caucus National Co – Chairman and Founder. Dear New and Current Members of The Libertarian Defense Caucus, I am pleased to announce that I have named by good friend Maverick, to the position of Founder's Advisor. He will now be my chief counsel in addition to his current role as National Co – Chairman of The Libertarian Defense Caucus. Maverick has done an exceptional job in guiding the Caucus in new and exciting directions. He is responsible for establishing the LDC's successful Youtube media channel, and will be tasked with expanding the LDC's role in the new digital age. All new and current Caucus members should review and familiarize themselves with The Libertarian Defense Caucus Guidelines and Bylaws, accessible on the official website. The National Co – Chairman and Founder of the modern Libertarian Defense Caucus. Posted by: maverickwhig | February 12, 2010 2010 Emblem As some of you may remember, when I first joined the caucus awhile back that I had submitted an official emblem featuring the Statue of Liberty and Statue of Freedom, for 2010 I have submitted a new design. Say hello to the Gadsden snake, featured next to it is a five point start reminiscent of the "Lone Star State", while above that fly streaks of gold and blue, colors representing the ideology of liberty. We hope it reminds all of you about our common struggle for capitalism and against tyranny. Tell us what you think, feedback is welcomed!

Foundations of Buddhism Vairocana (Jp Dainichi), "The Spreader of Light in All Directions" Page history last edited by elise.swanson@colorado.edu 10 years, 9 months ago Image courtesy of http://z.about.com/d/buddhism/1/0/t/1/-/-/Vairochana.jpg Vairocana Buddha (Mahavairocana), or Dainichi Buddha (Japan), is a cosmic buddha and central figure in esoteric, or tantric, Buddhist practice. He represents the truth body, a non-physical, abstract body that is wisdom itself. In other words, is the embodiment of the Dharmakaya. The name Vairocana means "luminous" or "embodiment of light" in Sanskrit while in Japanese, Dainichi means "great sun." He is often referred to as the "Life force that illuminates the universe," the "great illuminating one," and most importantly, the "all-encompassing Buddha" (www.onmarkproductions.com/html/dainichi.shtml). Vairocana is believed to be everywhere and in everything; he is omniscient and omnipresent (http://www.tamqui.com/buddhaworld/Vairocana_Buddha). All buddhas are thought to be emanations of him because he represents "transcendental" wisdom, the most clear and powerful form of wisdom. More specifically, he represents the conversion of ignorance into wisdom. In images he is often depicted in the Dharmacakra mudra, a teaching gesture which is meant to reflect the Buddha's first sermon in Deer Park and the turning of the wheel of dharma (www.onmarkproductions.com/html/dainichi.shtml). Image courtesy of http://buddhistsymbols.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/vairocana-meru.jpg Vairocana is the central deity among the five primordial buddhas, or the Tathagata. This is often depicted in mandalas where Vairocana sits at the center while the other buddhas sit at the four cardinal directions (north, south, east, and west). He also represents the color white, which is meant to show that he possesses the qualities and wisdom of all of the primordial buddhas (www.onmarkproductions.com/html/dainichi.shtml). (Akshobhya is blue, Ratnasmbhava is yellow, Amithaba is red, and Amoghasiddhi is green.) Just as white is a reflection of all the colors, Vairocana is a reflection, or representation, of all buddhas. He is the supreme, all-pervasive buddha and the central deity in esoteric Buddhism. The buddha-field of Vairocana is called the Lotus Repository World. It is described using the metaphor of a giant lotus flower, which represents his embracing of all worlds. In countless images, Vairocana sits on a giant lotus flower (that is often depicted resting on the backs of lions). His great lotus thrown is believed to sit at the top of Mount Meru, the sacred center of the universe. A fragrant ocean is located above the many layers of wind that make up the middle of Mount Meru, and it is out of this ocean that Vairocana's lotus flower blooms ( http://people.virginia.edu/~dcw7a/articles/Wong-Mapping-of-Sacred-Space.pdf). A description of his repository world can be found in the Brahmajala Sutra (also called the Brahma Net Sutra): Now, I, Vairocana Buddha Am sitting atop a lotus pedestal; On a thousand flowers surrounding me Are a thousand Sakyamuni Buddhas. Each flower supports a hundred million worlds; In each world a Sakyamuni Buddha appears. All are seated beneath a Bodhi-tree, All simultaneously attain Buddhahood. All these innumerable Buddhas Have Vairocana as their original body. (continue reading at http://www.ymba.org/bns/bnsframe.htm) The Buddha known in Sanskrit as Vairocana has many names. As the deity made its way into East Asian traditions, "Vairocana" was transliterated into "Birushana" to suit Japanese pronunciation. It was also translated into "Dainichi", literally the Great Sun. Among the slew of other titles bestowed upon Vairocana are "Cosmic Buddha" and "the Spreader of Light in all Directions". Light in the Buddhist tradition represents wisdom and Vairocana is a manifestation of the initial wheel turning, or dharmacakra, that the Historical Buddha undertook at the deer park in Sarnath. And as such, Vairocana is said to be the center and origin of all wisdom and light, thus the image of the Great Sun. With this in mind, we can observe iconographic depictions of the Vairocana Buddha. Image courtesy of www.onmarkproductions.com The Vairocana is depicted in statues and images as displaying two primary mudras. The first mudra represents the aforementioned role of Vairocana as the manifestation of the initial wheel-turning. In some depictions, Vairocana employs the dharmacakra mudra. The Vairocana Buddha is frequently shown, especially in a Japanese setting, displaying the mudra of "Six Elements". This mudra is formed by gripping the index finger of the left and with the hand of the right. This mudra is interpreted in a few different ways. Being the mudra of six elements, it is said to represent the unity of the five elements (the fingers of the right hand) with the six element, our mind or consciousness (the index finger of the right). In another interpretation, the hand of the right is said to be the Buddha and the left index finger our self, demonstrating the interaction between the two. It is also said that the mudra has a sexual interpretation, symbolizing the conception and birth of all wisdom, with which Vairocana is equated. The Vairocana, or Dainichi, Buddha developed a particularly significant role in the Buddhist practices of Japan. The so-called "esoteric" sects of the Japanese Heian era, particularly the Shingon sect, adopted Dainichi as their central figure of worship. Dainichi was believed to represent the utter totality of all reality and experience. As such, the most prevalent depictions of Dainichi are in a Japanese setting. Of these, the Todaiji, in Nara, Japan, is the perhaps the most famous. The Daibutsu, which is housed, at the Todaiji dates to 752. While this "Great Buddha" is certainly linked to the Heian period Dainichi, the statue actually predates the Heian adoption of this Buddha, and as such the statue in fact represents Dainichi's predecessor Birushana. The depiction of Birushana at Todaiji has the Buddha displaying the "Fear Not" mudra, and sitting on a bed of lotus flowers. Lotus flowers, when bearing eight petals, represents the Noble Eightfold Path. The Japanese monk Kukai traveled to China in 804. Then in Japan, he established a new sect of Buddhism, centered around the art and texts with which he had returned. A central element of the regimen of study which Kukai established at his mountain temple was the contemplation of mandalas. Mandalas are diagrams that illustrate Buddhist cosmology or other spiritual ideas. Vairocana, as the central Buddha of worship in the Esoteric tradition, featured heavily in these mandalas. The Buddha Vairocana, or Dainichi, is known in Esoteric Buddhism as the Central Buddha of the Universe, the Cosmic Buddha, and the supreme deity of Esoteric Buddhism. Vairocana is seen in Esoteric tradition as the most important Buddha, who is said to be everywhere and everything, "like the air we breathe, with all other Buddha and divine beings considered as emanations of Dainichi" (http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/godai-nyorai.shtml). The Buddha Vairocana is most associated with the Chinese school of Buddhism known as Hua-Yen and the Japanese school known as Kegon Buddhism. Vairocana is also seen in Sino-Japanese Buddhism as the embodiment of emptiness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vairocana). The Buddha Vairocana is mainly associated, however, with Esoteric Buddhism, where Vairocana is scene and venerated as its central figure, as its "supreme deity." Esoteric Buddhism is one of three schools of Buddhism, the other two being Theravada and Mahayana. Within Esoteric Buddhism exists the Shingon and Tendai sects. These two sects of Esoteric Buddhism are most associated with the Buddha Vairocana. Within the Shingon sect there are 13 deities, Vairocana being one of them, which first appeared in the 14th century. Each deity is present at a different year after an individual passes away. The deities continue up to the thirteenth year, with Vairocana being the 12th. Esoteric Buddhism is most popular in Japan, Korea, and Tibet. It began in Japan during the Heian Period, which took place from 794 to 1185. The Shingon sect started when a monk went to China to study Buddhism and, from the texts and works that he studied, developed his own practice. This new practice he developed was centered on the Buddha Vairocana. He established a monastery and eventually the name "Shingon" was established (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingon_Buddhism). Shingon was widely popular during the Heian period in Japanese history and continues to be popular today. Although today the mainstream school of Buddhism in Japan is Mahayana, the Shingon and Tendai sects of esoteric Buddhism are still prevalent and strong, especially the Shingon sect (http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/godai-nyorai.shtml). When Shingon first formed, the Buddha Vairocana was the central figure, which is still the case today. Esoteric Buddhism is practiced still by many people in Japan, which makes Vairocana still a central figure in much of Japanese Buddhist culture. Mantra of Light Dainichi is the focus of th e Mantra of Light. The Mantra of Light was of great importance to Japanese Buddhism and was used as a way to rebel against the ways of Pure Land Buddhism. The Japanese version of the mantra is "On abokya beiroshanō makabodara mani handoma jimbara harabaritaya un". This translates roughly to "Praise be to the unfailing, all-pervasive illumination of the great seal of the Buddha, the jewel, the lotus, and the radiant light existing in our world". The mantra should be chanted 3, 7, or 21 times per day. It is believed in Shingon Buddhism that if a monk chants the Mantra of Light without ego, Dianichi will dispel all ignorance and delusion from the chanter. Use of the Mantra of Light was somewhat rare until it was popularized by Myōe, a Japanese Shingon monk, as a way to protest against the Pure Land Buddhism founded in Japan by Hōnen and the practice of nembutsu. Hōnen (1133-1212) founded the first independent Japanese sect of Pure Land Buddhism. Rather than emphasizing meditation and discipline, Hōnen argued that nembutsu alone was enough for a practitioner to gain rebirth in the Pure Land of Amida Buddha. Nembutsu is the practice of uttering the name of Amitabha at all times – sitting, working, walking, lying in bed, standing still etc. Myōe (1173-1232) sharply criticized Hōnen's method of obtaining rebirth in the Pure Land of Amida. Myōe, ordained in the Shingon school of Buddhism, argued that the practice of nembutsu was too relaxed and argued for a more disciplined approach to Buddhism. He revived a strict regimen that included daily meditation. He also replaced nembutsu with daily recitation of the Mantra of Light. Myōe believed that the Mantra of Light, along with meditation, could result in Pure Land rebirth and that this approach would be more accessible to the general population. The Japanese later adopted the practice of blessing sand using the Mantra of Light which was then sprinkled onto the bodies of the dead. This was believed to free the deceased from the realms of hell and guarantee a good rebirth. The Sanskrit version of the Mantra of Light is "Oṃ amogha vairocana mahāmudrā maṇipadma jvāla pravarttaya hūṃ". Here is how it sounds when a computer chants it:Mantra_of_light.OGG Set your player on repeat and listen for at least ten minuets to get the full effect. http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/dainichi.shtml http://www.tamqui.com/buddhaworld/Vairocana_Buddha http://people.virginia.edu/~dcw7a/articles/Wong-Mapping-of-Sacred-Space.pdf http://www.ymba.org/bns/bnsframe.htm http://www.visiblemantra.org/vairocana.html Elise Swanson-Introduction Tobias Cragg-Iconography Cassie Fosheim-Historical Context John Fuhrmann-Mantra of Light Amanda Haynes said at 12:59 pm on Apr 11, 2010 This page is very informative and well-organized. I liked that you started off with an introduction then went through each of the categories, making it easy to follow. If one thing could be improved, I think the ritual section could be expanded to include more than just the Mantra of Light. Overall, I give this page a rating of 4 out of 5. Quang Nguyen said at 1:17 pm on Apr 11, 2010 Well done! This is quite an interesting Bodhisattva that your group has chosen. The page layout is pleasing to the eye without using to many colors and images. I would have to agreee with Amanda on her comment on how this page is well informative and well-organized. My favorite part about this page is the mantra of light of its discussion of the rituals and customs of the mantra. In the future, maybe move the img source link to the sources section. 4/5. zoe.tomar@... said I think your group did an excellent job describing the aspects of this Bodhisattva. It must've been difficult to write about a Bodhisattva who is the "all-encompassing Buddha." However, I think you wrote on the most important topics and didn't try to explain every single detail. It makes it much easier to comprehend Well constructed and thorough. You have done a good job incorporating history and iconography. Several points need addressing. Myths surrounding this figure have been largely omitted, as have specific ritual approaches to veneration. Another issue is reference to esoteric Buddhism, which should be clarified. I am thinking of two phrases in particular, "Esoteric Buddhism is most popular in Japan, Korea, and Tibet. It began in Japan during the Heian Period, which took place from 794 to 1185." If the author is speaking of Vajrayana Buddhism this statement strikes me as misinformed and possibly do to inaccurate source material. An important note for all posts; online sites (e.g. wikipedia) are, generally speaking, a good place to find sources, not citations. That said, the work here is quite good and shows much consideration and effort. This workspace is public What is Wiki Buddhas & Bodhisattvas Buddhist Jeopardy

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Q: How to move files into the root of a zip archive? So I finally figured out the main problem with my GenEpub.py program and why while it produces deflated, valid zip files as demonstrated by both zip -t and zipinfo, it fails the ultimate test of epubcheck. The problem is as follows, the script below writes the whole folder called in this case IdealogicalEcho, then zips it up and names the zip file itself IdealogicalEcho.epub, as instructed. epubcheck however cannot see past this folder and then reports that none of the three core ePub files mimetype META-INF OEBPS can be found. Is there a way of moving these files to the root of the zip directory? Either before or after zipping? https://github.com/inferno986return/Damore-essay-ebook Here's the current version of EpubGen.py: #!/usr/bin/env python #GenEpub.py - Generates an .epub file from the data provided. #Ideally with no errors or warnings from epubcheck (needs to be implemented, maybe with the Python wrapper). import os import json import zipfile with open('metadata.json') as json_file: data = json.load(json_file) #The ePub standard requires deflated compression and a compression order. zf = zipfile.ZipFile(data["fileName"] + '.epub', mode='w', compression=zipfile.ZIP_STORED) zf.write(data["fileName"] + '/mimetype') for dirname, subdirs, files in os.walk(data["fileName"] + '/META-INF'): zf.write(dirname) for filename in files: zf.write(os.path.join(dirname, filename)) for dirname, subdirs, files in os.walk(data["fileName"] + '/OEBPS'): zf.write(dirname) for filename in files: zf.write(os.path.join(dirname, filename)) zf.close() #zipfile has a built-in validator for debugging with open(data["fileName"] + '.epub','r') as f: if zipfile.is_zipfile(f) is True: print("ZIP file is valid.") #Extra debugging information #print(getinfo.compress_type(zf)) #print(getinfo.compress_size(zf)) #print(getinfo.file_size(zf)) And the metadata.json: { "comment1": "Metadata.json - Insert the e-book's metadata here. WIP", "comment2": "Technical metadata - This is the where the cover image is specified. Recommended to use ePub V2.0.1 over 3.0 for epubVersion and Reflowable rather than Fixed for textPresentation (unless doing a project that requires a specific layout). mobiCover and generateKindle are currently unused but added for futureproofing.", "epubCover": "cover.jpg", "mobiCover": "cover.jpg", "fileName": "IdealogicalEcho", "epubVersion": "2.0.1", "textPresentation": "Reflowable", "generateKindle": "no", "comment3": "Book metadata - Information about the e-book itself. Language is specified with ISO 639-1. Rights can be worldwide, country specific or under a permissable license such as Creative-Commons SA", "title": "Google's Idealogical Echochamber: How bias clouds our thinking about diversity and inclusion", "creator": "James Damore", "subject": "Academic", "publisher": "Hal Motley", "ISBN": "-", "language": "en", "rights": "Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0", "comment4": "This is the page order that the e-book has. The first number before the colon is the page order, the second is the indentation, third is the page name and fourth is file itself.", "pages": [ { "pageNumber": "0", "indentation": "0", "pageName": "Cover", "fileName": "bookcover.xhtml" }, { "pageNumber": "1", "indentation": "0", "pageName": "Title", "fileName": "title.xhtml" }, { "pageNumber": "2", "indentation": "0", "pageName": "Indicia", "fileName": "indicia.xhtml" }, { "pageNumber": "3", "indentation": "0", "pageName": "License", "fileName": "license.xhtml" }, { "pageNumber": "4", "indentation": "0", "pageName": "Contents", "fileName": "toc.xhtml" }, { "pageNumber": "5", "indentation": "0", "pageName": "Foreword", "fileName": "foreword.xhtml" }, { "pageNumber": "6", "indentation": "0", "pageName": "Article", "fileName": "article.xhtml" } ] } A: >>> z = ZipFile('test', 'w') >>> help(z.write) Help on method write in module zipfile: write(self, filename, arcname=None, compress_type=None) method of zipfile.ZipFile instance Put the bytes from filename into the archive under the name arcname. There's a second argument to .write for zip files that indicates the name of where to store the file within the zip. So, for your example, zf.write(data["fileName"] + '/mimetype', 'mimetype') ought to do the trick.

// Copyright 2012 The Closure Library Authors. All Rights Reserved. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. // You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS-IS" BASIS, // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. /** * @fileoverview goog.events.EventTarget tester. */ goog.provide('goog.events.eventTargetTester'); goog.setTestOnly('goog.events.eventTargetTester'); goog.provide('goog.events.eventTargetTester.KeyType'); goog.setTestOnly('goog.events.eventTargetTester.KeyType'); goog.provide('goog.events.eventTargetTester.UnlistenReturnType'); goog.setTestOnly('goog.events.eventTargetTester.UnlistenReturnType'); goog.require('goog.array'); goog.require('goog.events'); goog.require('goog.events.Event'); goog.require('goog.events.EventTarget'); goog.require('goog.testing.asserts'); goog.require('goog.testing.recordFunction'); /** * Setup step for the test functions. This needs to be called from the * test setUp. * @param {function():!goog.events.Listenable} listenableFactoryFn Function * that will return a new Listenable instance each time it is called. * @param {Function} listenFn Function that, given the same signature * as goog.events.listen, will add listener to the given event * target. * @param {Function} unlistenFn Function that, given the same * signature as goog.events.unlisten, will remove listener from * the given event target. * @param {Function} unlistenByKeyFn Function that, given 2 * parameters: src and key, will remove the corresponding * listener. * @param {Function} listenOnceFn Function that, given the same * signature as goog.events.listenOnce, will add a one-time * listener to the given event target. * @param {Function} dispatchEventFn Function that, given the same * signature as goog.events.dispatchEvent, will dispatch the event * on the given event target. * @param {Function} removeAllFn Function that, given the same * signature as goog.events.removeAll, will remove all listeners * according to the contract of goog.events.removeAll. * @param {Function} getListenersFn Function that, given the same * signature as goog.events.getListeners, will retrieve listeners. * @param {Function} getListenerFn Function that, given the same * signature as goog.events.getListener, will retrieve the * listener object. * @param {Function} hasListenerFn Function that, given the same * signature as goog.events.hasListener, will determine whether * listeners exist. * @param {goog.events.eventTargetTester.KeyType} listenKeyType The * key type returned by listen call. * @param {goog.events.eventTargetTester.UnlistenReturnType} * unlistenFnReturnType * Whether we should check return value from * unlisten call. If unlisten does not return a value, this should * be set to false. * @param {boolean} objectListenerSupported Whether listener of type * Object is supported. */ goog.events.eventTargetTester.setUp = function( listenableFactoryFn, listenFn, unlistenFn, unlistenByKeyFn, listenOnceFn, dispatchEventFn, removeAllFn, getListenersFn, getListenerFn, hasListenerFn, listenKeyType, unlistenFnReturnType, objectListenerSupported) { listenableFactory = listenableFactoryFn; listen = listenFn; unlisten = unlistenFn; unlistenByKey = unlistenByKeyFn; listenOnce = listenOnceFn; dispatchEvent = dispatchEventFn; removeAll = removeAllFn; getListeners = getListenersFn; getListener = getListenerFn; hasListener = hasListenerFn; keyType = listenKeyType; unlistenReturnType = unlistenFnReturnType; objectTypeListenerSupported = objectListenerSupported; listeners = []; for (var i = 0; i < goog.events.eventTargetTester.MAX_; i++) { listeners[i] = createListener(); } eventTargets = []; for (i = 0; i < goog.events.eventTargetTester.MAX_; i++) { eventTargets[i] = listenableFactory(); } }; /** * Teardown step for the test functions. This needs to be called from * test teardown. */ goog.events.eventTargetTester.tearDown = function() { for (var i = 0; i < goog.events.eventTargetTester.MAX_; i++) { goog.dispose(eventTargets[i]); } }; /** * The type of key returned by key-returning functions (listen). * @enum {number} */ goog.events.eventTargetTester.KeyType = { /** * Returns number for key. */ NUMBER: 0, /** * Returns undefined (no return value). */ UNDEFINED: 1 }; /** * The type of unlisten function's return value. * @enum {number} */ goog.events.eventTargetTester.UnlistenReturnType = { /** * Returns boolean indicating whether unlisten is successful. */ BOOLEAN: 0, /** * Returns undefind (no return value). */ UNDEFINED: 1 }; /** * Expando property used on "listener" function to determine if a * listener has already been checked. This is what allows us to * implement assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled. * @type {string} */ goog.events.eventTargetTester.ALREADY_CHECKED_PROP = '__alreadyChecked'; /** * Expando property used on "listener" function to record the number * of times it has been called the last time assertListenerIsCalled is * done. This allows us to verify that it has not been called more * times in assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled. */ goog.events.eventTargetTester.NUM_CALLED_PROP = '__numCalled'; /** * The maximum number of initialized event targets (in eventTargets * array) and listeners (in listeners array). * @type {number} * @private */ goog.events.eventTargetTester.MAX_ = 10; /** * Contains test event types. * @enum {string} */ var EventType = { A: goog.events.getUniqueId('a'), B: goog.events.getUniqueId('b'), C: goog.events.getUniqueId('c') }; var listen, unlisten, unlistenByKey, listenOnce, dispatchEvent; var removeAll, getListeners, getListener, hasListener; var keyType, unlistenReturnType, objectTypeListenerSupported; var eventTargets, listeners; /** * Custom event object for testing. * @constructor * @extends {goog.events.Event} * @final */ var TestEvent = function() { goog.base(this, EventType.A); }; goog.inherits(TestEvent, goog.events.Event); /** * Creates a listener that executes the given function (optional). * @param {!Function=} opt_listenerFn The optional function to execute. * @return {!Function} The listener function. */ function createListener(opt_listenerFn) { return goog.testing.recordFunction(opt_listenerFn); } /** * Asserts that the given listener is called numCount number of times. * @param {!Function} listener The listener to check. * @param {number} numCount The number of times. See also the times() * function below. */ function assertListenerIsCalled(listener, numCount) { assertEquals('Listeners is not called the correct number of times.', numCount, listener.getCallCount()); listener[goog.events.eventTargetTester.ALREADY_CHECKED_PROP] = true; listener[goog.events.eventTargetTester.NUM_CALLED_PROP] = numCount; } /** * Asserts that no other listeners, other than those verified via * assertListenerIsCalled, have been called since the last * resetListeners(). */ function assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled() { goog.array.forEach(listeners, function(l, index) { if (!l[goog.events.eventTargetTester.ALREADY_CHECKED_PROP]) { assertEquals( 'Listeners ' + index + ' is unexpectedly called.', 0, l.getCallCount()); } else { assertEquals( 'Listeners ' + index + ' is unexpectedly called.', l[goog.events.eventTargetTester.NUM_CALLED_PROP], l.getCallCount()); } }); } /** * Resets all listeners call count to 0. */ function resetListeners() { goog.array.forEach(listeners, function(l) { l.reset(); l[goog.events.eventTargetTester.ALREADY_CHECKED_PROP] = false; }); } /** * The number of times a listener should have been executed. This * exists to make assertListenerIsCalled more readable. This is used * like so: assertListenerIsCalled(listener, times(2)); * @param {number} n The number of times a listener should have been * executed. * @return {number} The number n. */ function times(n) { return n; } function testNoListener() { dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testOneListener() { listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); resetListeners(); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.B); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.C); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testTwoListenersOfSameType() { var key1 = listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); var key2 = listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1]); if (keyType == goog.events.eventTargetTester.KeyType.NUMBER) { assertNotEquals(key1, key2); } else { assertUndefined(key1); assertUndefined(key2); } dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[1], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testInstallingSameListeners() { var key1 = listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); var key2 = listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); var key3 = listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, listeners[0]); if (keyType == goog.events.eventTargetTester.KeyType.NUMBER) { assertEquals(key1, key2); assertNotEquals(key1, key3); } else { assertUndefined(key1); assertUndefined(key2); assertUndefined(key3); } dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.B); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(2)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testScope() { listeners[0] = createListener(function(e) { assertEquals('Wrong scope with undefined scope', eventTargets[0], this); }); listeners[1] = createListener(function(e) { assertEquals('Wrong scope with null scope', eventTargets[0], this); }); var scope = {}; listeners[2] = createListener(function(e) { assertEquals('Wrong scope with specific scope object', scope, this); }); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1], false, null); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[2], false, scope); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[1], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[2], times(1)); } function testDispatchEventDoesNotThrowWithDisposedEventTarget() { goog.dispose(eventTargets[0]); assertTrue(dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A)); } function testDispatchEventWithObjectLiteral() { listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); assertTrue(dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], {type: EventType.A})); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testDispatchEventWithCustomEventObject() { listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); var e = new TestEvent(); assertTrue(dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], e)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); var actualEvent = listeners[0].getLastCall().getArgument(0); assertEquals(e, actualEvent); assertEquals(eventTargets[0], actualEvent.target); } function testDisposingEventTargetRemovesListeners() { if (!(listenableFactory() instanceof goog.events.EventTarget)) { return; } listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); goog.dispose(eventTargets[0]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } /** * Unlisten/unlistenByKey should still work after disposal. There are * many circumstances when this is actually necessary. For example, a * user may have listened to an event target and stored the key * (e.g. in a goog.events.EventHandler) and only unlisten after the * target has been disposed. */ function testUnlistenWorksAfterDisposal() { var key = listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); goog.dispose(eventTargets[0]); unlisten(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1]); if (unlistenByKey) { unlistenByKey(eventTargets[0], key); } } function testRemovingListener() { var ret1 = unlisten(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); var ret2 = unlisten(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1]); var ret3 = unlisten(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, listeners[0]); var ret4 = unlisten(eventTargets[1], EventType.A, listeners[0]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); var ret5 = unlisten(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); var ret6 = unlisten(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); if (unlistenReturnType == goog.events.eventTargetTester.UnlistenReturnType.BOOLEAN) { assertFalse(ret1); assertFalse(ret2); assertFalse(ret3); assertFalse(ret4); assertTrue(ret5); assertFalse(ret6); } else { assertUndefined(ret1); assertUndefined(ret2); assertUndefined(ret3); assertUndefined(ret4); assertUndefined(ret5); assertUndefined(ret6); } } function testCapture() { eventTargets[0].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[1]); eventTargets[1].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[2]); eventTargets[9].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[0]); var ordering = 0; listeners[0] = createListener( function(e) { assertEquals(eventTargets[2], e.currentTarget); assertEquals(eventTargets[0], e.target); assertEquals('First capture listener is not called first', 0, ordering); ordering++; }); listeners[1] = createListener( function(e) { assertEquals(eventTargets[1], e.currentTarget); assertEquals(eventTargets[0], e.target); assertEquals('2nd capture listener is not called 2nd', 1, ordering); ordering++; }); listeners[2] = createListener( function(e) { assertEquals(eventTargets[0], e.currentTarget); assertEquals(eventTargets[0], e.target); assertEquals('3rd capture listener is not called 3rd', 2, ordering); ordering++; }); listen(eventTargets[2], EventType.A, listeners[0], true); listen(eventTargets[1], EventType.A, listeners[1], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[2], true); // These should not be called. listen(eventTargets[3], EventType.A, listeners[3], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, listeners[4], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.C, listeners[5], true); listen(eventTargets[1], EventType.B, listeners[6], true); listen(eventTargets[1], EventType.C, listeners[7], true); listen(eventTargets[2], EventType.B, listeners[8], true); listen(eventTargets[2], EventType.C, listeners[9], true); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[1], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[2], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testBubble() { eventTargets[0].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[1]); eventTargets[1].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[2]); eventTargets[9].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[0]); var ordering = 0; listeners[0] = createListener( function(e) { assertEquals(eventTargets[0], e.currentTarget); assertEquals(eventTargets[0], e.target); assertEquals('First bubble listener is not called first', 0, ordering); ordering++; }); listeners[1] = createListener( function(e) { assertEquals(eventTargets[1], e.currentTarget); assertEquals(eventTargets[0], e.target); assertEquals('2nd bubble listener is not called 2nd', 1, ordering); ordering++; }); listeners[2] = createListener( function(e) { assertEquals(eventTargets[2], e.currentTarget); assertEquals(eventTargets[0], e.target); assertEquals('3rd bubble listener is not called 3rd', 2, ordering); ordering++; }); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); listen(eventTargets[1], EventType.A, listeners[1]); listen(eventTargets[2], EventType.A, listeners[2]); // These should not be called. listen(eventTargets[3], EventType.A, listeners[3]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, listeners[4]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.C, listeners[5]); listen(eventTargets[1], EventType.B, listeners[6]); listen(eventTargets[1], EventType.C, listeners[7]); listen(eventTargets[2], EventType.B, listeners[8]); listen(eventTargets[2], EventType.C, listeners[9]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[1], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[2], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testCaptureAndBubble() { eventTargets[0].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[1]); eventTargets[1].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[2]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0], true); listen(eventTargets[1], EventType.A, listeners[1], true); listen(eventTargets[2], EventType.A, listeners[2], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[3]); listen(eventTargets[1], EventType.A, listeners[4]); listen(eventTargets[2], EventType.A, listeners[5]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[1], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[2], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[3], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[4], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[5], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testPreventDefaultByReturningFalse() { listeners[0] = createListener(function(e) { return false; }); listeners[1] = createListener(function(e) { return true; }); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1]); var result = dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertFalse(result); } function testPreventDefault() { listeners[0] = createListener(function(e) { e.preventDefault(); }); listeners[1] = createListener(function(e) { return true; }); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1]); var result = dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertFalse(result); } function testPreventDefaultAtCapture() { listeners[0] = createListener(function(e) { e.preventDefault(); }); listeners[1] = createListener(function(e) { return true; }); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1], true); var result = dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertFalse(result); } function testStopPropagation() { eventTargets[0].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[1]); eventTargets[1].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[2]); listeners[0] = createListener(function(e) { e.stopPropagation(); }); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1]); listen(eventTargets[1], EventType.A, listeners[2]); listen(eventTargets[2], EventType.A, listeners[3]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[1], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testStopPropagation2() { eventTargets[0].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[1]); eventTargets[1].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[2]); listeners[1] = createListener(function(e) { e.stopPropagation(); }); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1]); listen(eventTargets[1], EventType.A, listeners[2]); listen(eventTargets[2], EventType.A, listeners[3]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[1], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testStopPropagation3() { eventTargets[0].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[1]); eventTargets[1].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[2]); listeners[2] = createListener(function(e) { e.stopPropagation(); }); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1]); listen(eventTargets[1], EventType.A, listeners[2]); listen(eventTargets[2], EventType.A, listeners[3]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[1], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[2], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testStopPropagationAtCapture() { eventTargets[0].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[1]); eventTargets[1].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[2]); listeners[0] = createListener(function(e) { e.stopPropagation(); }); listen(eventTargets[2], EventType.A, listeners[0], true); listen(eventTargets[1], EventType.A, listeners[1], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[2], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[3]); listen(eventTargets[1], EventType.A, listeners[4]); listen(eventTargets[2], EventType.A, listeners[5]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testHandleEvent() { if (!objectTypeListenerSupported) { return; } var obj = {}; obj.handleEvent = goog.testing.recordFunction(); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, obj); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertEquals(1, obj.handleEvent.getCallCount()); } function testListenOnce() { if (!listenOnce) { return; } listenOnce(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0], true); listenOnce(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1]); listenOnce(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, listeners[2]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[1], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[2], times(0)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); resetListeners(); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(0)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[1], times(0)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[2], times(0)); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.B); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[2], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testUnlistenInListen() { listeners[1] = createListener( function(e) { unlisten(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1]); unlisten(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[2]); }); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[2]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[3]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[1], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[2], times(0)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[3], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); resetListeners(); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[1], times(0)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[2], times(0)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[3], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testUnlistenByKeyInListen() { if (!unlistenByKey) { return; } var key1, key2; listeners[1] = createListener( function(e) { unlistenByKey(eventTargets[0], key1); unlistenByKey(eventTargets[0], key2); }); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); key1 = listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1]); key2 = listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[2]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[3]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[1], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[2], times(0)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[3], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); resetListeners(); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[1], times(0)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[2], times(0)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[3], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testSetParentEventTarget() { assertNull(eventTargets[0].getParentEventTarget()); eventTargets[0].setParentEventTarget(eventTargets[1]); assertEquals(eventTargets[1], eventTargets[0].getParentEventTarget()); assertNull(eventTargets[1].getParentEventTarget()); eventTargets[0].setParentEventTarget(null); assertNull(eventTargets[0].getParentEventTarget()); } function testListenOnceAfterListenDoesNotChangeExistingListener() { if (!listenOnce) { return; } listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); listenOnce(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(3)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testListenOnceAfterListenOnceDoesNotChangeExistingListener() { if (!listenOnce) { return; } listenOnce(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); listenOnce(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testListenAfterListenOnceRemoveOnceness() { if (!listenOnce) { return; } listenOnce(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(3)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testUnlistenAfterListenOnce() { if (!listenOnce) { return; } listenOnce(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); unlisten(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); listenOnce(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); unlisten(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); listenOnce(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); unlisten(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); listenOnce(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); listenOnce(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); unlisten(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testRemoveAllWithType() { if (!removeAll) { return; } listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.C, listeners[2], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.C, listeners[3]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, listeners[4], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, listeners[5], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, listeners[6]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, listeners[7]); assertEquals(4, removeAll(eventTargets[0], EventType.B)); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.B); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.C); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[1], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[2], times(1)); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[3], times(1)); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testRemoveAll() { if (!removeAll) { return; } listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.C, listeners[2], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.C, listeners[3]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, listeners[4], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, listeners[5], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, listeners[6]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, listeners[7]); assertEquals(8, removeAll(eventTargets[0])); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.A); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.B); dispatchEvent(eventTargets[0], EventType.C); assertNoOtherListenerIsCalled(); } function testRemoveAllCallsMarkAsRemoved() { if (!removeAll) { return; } var key0 = listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0]); var key1 = listen(eventTargets[1], EventType.A, listeners[1]); assertNotNullNorUndefined(key0.listener); assertFalse(key0.removed); assertNotNullNorUndefined(key1.listener); assertFalse(key1.removed); assertEquals(1, removeAll(eventTargets[0])); assertNull(key0.listener); assertTrue(key0.removed); assertNotNullNorUndefined(key1.listener); assertFalse(key1.removed); assertEquals(1, removeAll(eventTargets[1])); assertNull(key1.listener); assertTrue(key1.removed); } function testGetListeners() { if (!getListeners) { return; } listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1], true); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[2]); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[3]); var l = getListeners(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, true); assertEquals(2, l.length); assertEquals(listeners[0], l[0].listener); assertEquals(listeners[1], l[1].listener); l = getListeners(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, false); assertEquals(2, l.length); assertEquals(listeners[2], l[0].listener); assertEquals(listeners[3], l[1].listener); l = getListeners(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, true); assertEquals(0, l.length); } function testGetListener() { if (!getListener) { return; } listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0], true); assertNotNull(getListener(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0], true)); assertNull( getListener(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0], true, {})); assertNull(getListener(eventTargets[1], EventType.A, listeners[0], true)); assertNull(getListener(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, listeners[0], true)); assertNull(getListener(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[1], true)); } function testHasListener() { if (!hasListener) { return; } assertFalse(hasListener(eventTargets[0])); listen(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, listeners[0], true); assertTrue(hasListener(eventTargets[0])); assertTrue(hasListener(eventTargets[0], EventType.A)); assertTrue(hasListener(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, true)); assertTrue(hasListener(eventTargets[0], undefined, true)); assertFalse(hasListener(eventTargets[0], EventType.A, false)); assertFalse(hasListener(eventTargets[0], undefined, false)); assertFalse(hasListener(eventTargets[0], EventType.B)); assertFalse(hasListener(eventTargets[0], EventType.B, true)); assertFalse(hasListener(eventTargets[1])); } function testFiringEventBeforeDisposeInternalWorks() { /** * @extends {goog.events.EventTarget} * @constructor * @final */ var MockTarget = function() { goog.base(this); }; goog.inherits(MockTarget, goog.events.EventTarget); MockTarget.prototype.disposeInternal = function() { dispatchEvent(this, EventType.A); goog.base(this, 'disposeInternal'); }; var t = new MockTarget(); try { listen(t, EventType.A, listeners[0]); t.dispose(); assertListenerIsCalled(listeners[0], times(1)); } catch (e) { goog.dispose(t); } } function testLoopDetection() { var target = listenableFactory(); target.setParentEventTarget(target); try { target.dispatchEvent('string'); fail('expected error'); } catch (e) { assertContains('infinite', e.message); } }

Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1880. Plate W.A.M. 425. Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1971. Plate BA 4561. Schnapp's edition was first published separately in full score and parts in 1957 as BA 4704, and the copyright not renewed in the USA. Vol.8 of the NMA was issued in 1971. The 1971 issue was presumably revised in some way. Set of parts sold by Mozart to the court at Donaueschingen in 1786. Violin I, II and bass parts contain some dynamic marks in Mozart's hand. Paris: Sieber, n.d. Plate 1479. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, n.d. Plate Orch.B. 98. User A. J. Kightley kindly provided the originally missing pages for the Violins I part, which have now been inserted. The Violin I part (above) has only 6 pages (numbered 2-7), It is missing these last two (numbered 8-9). Braunschweig: Henry Litolff's Verlag, No.891, n.d.(ca.1879). Plate 10745. Brunswick: Henry Litolff's Verlag, n.d. Plate 10119.B. Paris: Heugel, n.d.(ca.1868). Plate H.5084(45_7).

After spending almost 2 weeks in Mumbai, India, I am leaving for Bhutan tomorrow. Bhutan is a tiny country in the eastern Himalayas and is bordered by India on its east, south and west. To the north is Tibet (currently occupied by China). This himalayan kingdom, recently transitioned to democracy, is almost completely Buddhist. The Bhutanese call their country Druk Yul which means Land of the Thunder Dragon. To go to Bhutan from Mumbai, one has to travel to Kolkata, take a train to New Jalpaiguri and finally take a bus to the border. Bhutanese currency is called the Ngultrum and it is pegged equal to the Indian Rupee at all times. National food of Bhutan is chili and cheese. 🙂 I'm told that people speak English, and some Hindi too. Entry for Indian nationals is unrestricted but for people from other countries it is mandatory to travel on a fixed itinerary with a travel agent (an expensive and restricted affair.) Consequently I haven't made any plans, but will figure out things to do once I reach there. @ Priyank : Entry to Indian nationals is not unrestricted. You will need a permit to enter the country which can only be supplied if you have a voters card or a passport. The permit is for a fixed time period only. Make sure you have enough passport sized photos (usually 2) and have plenty of patience at the border in Phuntsholing to deal with the Bhutanese bureaucracy. It takes normally half a day to get the permit and if its better now I can not say. Mostly Bhutanese speak Dzongkha and English but some may speak some Hindi. Nepali is the second most popular language there. It may also be wise to mention the name of all the destinations in Bhutan that you would like to visit at the border itself because otherwise getting a permit again for them is even more troublesome in Thimphu. Also do not lose the permit since it will be checked many times! @ Priyank : One more thing Rs. 500/ Rs. 1000 Indian bank notes may not be accepted in Bhutan. When I was last there they were accepted but they were in the process of forbidding them on the instructions of RBI. Usually, visiting Nepal n Bhutan is affordable due to the currency conversion. Yes, I agree with Odzer. You need to have a visit permit. And that's one of the ways to enter Bhutan. Hey finally I got to the right place Priyank. I said: Becareful, lol, you are looking for explosion. have a good trip and see u soon..and yes, i didnt convert them, but no lays and pepsi.. How is Bhutan? I am glad you missed the horror show in Mumbai. Ah, Nepal perhaps, not Bhutan. Bhutanese currency is on par, and the country is generally expensive (for tourists) compared to India. Thanks for the wishes. Bhutan is beautiful indeed! I certainly hope that you can find some useful information here. Welcome to my blog and thanks so much for the comments! I certainly hope to bring lots of stories to you! Welcome to my site and thanks for commenting! I did follow the events closely…. very shocking. I'll check out the smiley face now! I'd loved to go to Bhutan – especially with their stated policy of gross national happiness. What a good attitude from their leadership. Indeed Mark, And this is not just an academic or political exercise… the people there ARE happy and cheerful! What did you use to enter Bhutan? Voter card or Passport or something else? Do you know if PAN is accepted? Thanks! – and I'm enjoying going through your posts. Thanks Neeraj and welcome to my blog! I used my passport. If you read the next post – welcome to Bhutan, it will tell you everything.

More women are using long-acting forms of birth control, according to new federal survey data released Tuesday, which found 11.6% of women who used birth control in the U.S. in 2011-2013 opted for long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) like intrauterine devices. That figure was close to double the percentage found in 2006-2010, when 6% of women reported using the methods. Those numbers are notable because women in the United States have been slower to choose IUDs compared to women in other countries, as TIME previously reported in June 2014. A large part of that is due to widespread misconceptions that persist from versions of the IUDs that caused problems back in the 1970s. IUDs started emerging in the U.S. in the 1950s, and an early version of the IUD called the Dalkon Shield rose to popularity in the early 1970s, reaching sales in the millions. Unlike the T-shaped IUDs available today, the Dalkon Shield looked a bit like a beetle, with nobs sticking out on both sides. It was considered by some to be difficult to insert, and as TIME reported back then, there were cases of incorrect placement, IUD failure, infections and pregnancy. Misinformation about whether the Shield needed to be removed if a woman got pregnant—it did—also led to serious infections. According to various reports, there were more than a dozen cases of women who died after miscarrying with a Dalkon IUD still inside them. In addition, the Dalkon device was linked to a painful condition called pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) which can be linked to infertility. In 1974 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare ordered over 3,000 federally funded family-planning clinics to stop prescribing the Dalkon Shield, which was used by more than 3 million women at time, TIME Magazine reported. The organization also asked private physicians not to recommend it until concerns about safety and effectiveness were addressed. Plagued with lawsuits, Dalkon Shield manufacturer A.H. Robins Co. pulled the product, and a few years later filed for bankruptcy. The company even alerted women that they should have the product removed in an expensive media campaign. In 1984, TIME reported that hundreds of women got their IUD removed and the company had offered to pay those bills. "The Dalkon Shield case may turn out to be the worst liability nightmare that a U.S. drugmaker has suffered," TIME wrote in 1985. By 1986, with customers afraid to use them and manufacturers afraid of potential liability costs if something went wrong, virtually no IUDs were available on the U.S. market. Nevertheless, new versions of IUDs did make it back to market, including the versions available to women today. Use has slowly, but significantly risen. As the new data from the National Center for Health Statistics shows, among women using LARC, 10.3% reported using an IUD and 1.3% used an implant. Experts say the misconceptions over whether IUDs are safe for all women persist from decades ago, with some physicians holding concerns that the IUDs of today may have the same flaws—but other medical groups have given it approval, and recommend LARC as first-line birth control methods.

BN Blitz Home Bills' Rafael Bush glad Vikings miracle wasn't his last game Rafael Bush, 30, said his age gave him perspective on free agency. (John Hickey/Buffalo News) By Mark Gaughan Published Thu, Mar 15, 2018 |Updated Thu, Mar 15, 2018 New backup safety Rafael Bush has spent eight years in the NFL since being undrafted 2010 out of South Carolina State. Now with a two-year contract from the Bills, he's likely to hit the 10-year mark in the league. Bush, 30, said his age gave him perspective on free agency. He was glad to be wanted by the Bills on the first day of free agency. Last year Bush lingered three weeks on free agency before signing with the New Orleans Saints. Bush's 2017 season ended on the miracle, walk-off touchdown pass in the playoffs in Minnesota. "I was an older guy," Bush said of his status entering this year's free-agency period. "We just came off of a terrible loss in the Minnesota game. It was kind of a bad taste in my mouth. Understanding my age and understanding how the business works, I kind of thought this definitely could be my last game, you never know. So to get the opportunity, man, it's really a blessing from God to have an organization admire the way that you play." Bush played with the Saints from 2012 to 2015 and spent a year with Detroit before going back to New Orleans last season. Bills coach Sean McDermott's presence in the NFC South as Panthers defensive coordinator turned out benefiting Bush this year. "Being in the division for a couple years and playing against a team twice a year, you get to see the type of players you're playing against," Bush said. "There's always eyes on you, and there's always people watching you. So it's kind of amazing how things come full circle. Now he's here and I'm here and I'm thankful for the opportunity." What They Said: Free agents McCarron, Lotulelei, Bush, Murphy and Stanton on joining the Bills Five things to know about new Bills safety Rafael Bush Story topics: Rafael Bush Mark Gaughan– Mark Gaughan has been a sports writer at The Buffalo News for 35 years. He covers the Bills and the NFL and is a past president of the Pro Football Writers of America, as well as a past selector for Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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Fashion Marketing Strategies for the Win! Category: Marketing Strategies & Tips Fashion marketing is a multi-billion dollar business, supporting the careers of numerous models, cameramen and make up artists, among many others. When done well, fashion campaigns can make a large impact on the marketing world as a whole, not just the fashion world. And with the advent of Instagram, making a successful campaign has become more robust and interesting than ever before. 1 Insta-Communication 2 En Vogue Campaigns 3 Selfie Selfie 4 Every one is a model 5 Creativity for the Creative Insta-Communication Instagram is changing the way companies market to their customers because it's changing the way that companies and customers interact. It removes the middleman, allowing for companies to market directly to their target audience. But it also makes way for a two-way conversation, now the audience can instantly show their enthusiasm or give critiques, directly back with just some quick moving fingers. Companies know that they are connecting with their audience because the customer has to opt-in by following the brand's Instagram page. This is great for the company, as they know they are talking to people who are already (even if just slightly) educated about the brand and their products. It makes selling to them that much easier. Related: Four Ways Instagram is Redefining the Fashion Industry (External) Source: Business of Fashion Fashion is about creating a mystique and a desirable world. Successful fashion marketing campaigns have transcended into both realities – they create the fictional one and the one that their target audience aspires to be a part of. They use the online tools, such as Instagram, to enable the audience to easily integrate their products into their real world. En Vogue Campaigns Last year, Vogue became the first fashion publication to introduce LikeToKnow.it, which allows for a bridge between the customer and the brand. Instagram doesn't allow links in the caption photos, but LikeToKnow.it eased communication anyway. By signing up for the program, interested people were directly emailed detailed information of all of the photos posted to their Instagram account. All people have to do it "like" the photo on Instagram, and they will be directly emailed with product descriptions, names of the designers and where they can purchase the products. If you like a pair of jeans that the model in the Vogue photo is wearing, simply like the photo and you will know exactly where to buy them. Instead of asking for more information in the comments section, which can get lost in the shuffle of it all, users were sent direct information about the products and designers featured in the posts. It worked, and made for a successful campaign for the renowned publication. Selfie Selfie Selfies are likely the most common photos on Instagram, with cat photos a close second. So iconic brand Kenneth Cole decided to try and capitalize on this trend. The #dressforyourselfie campaign was a contest to win free shoes for a year. To enter, people just had to take a selfie, upload it to Instagram and use the hashtag to be entered. This is genius as it doesn't require much creative effort and it allows for the customers to be the content creators for the campaign. Every time that hashtag was used, it was essentially more free marketing for Kenneth Cole. And the underlining message of dressing for your self was inspiring, making people want to participate. Every one is a model Along the same lines of the Kenneth Cole #dressforyourselfie campaign, the Marc Jacobs' #CastMeMarc allowed for the users to curate the content. Instead of using traditional methods for casting models, Marc Jacobs took to Instagram, and asked for people to submit their best looks using the hashtag #CastMeMark. They received over 70,000 submissions, and likely had a broader and more diverse scope than they would have gotten using more traditional casting methods. Creativity for the Creative What makes fashion such an interesting market is that marketers are essentially playing the role of storytellers. They are designing the world of fashion and hoping to convince people that by buying and using their brand's products, they can integrate a little bit of that fantasy into their reality. Related: How Fashion Brands Use Digital Storytelling (External) Source: https://us.burberry.com/acoustic/#/acoustic The perfect example of this is Burberry. Their campaigns to support their signature rain jackets and accessories goes way past traditional marketing. Their Burberry Acoustic campaign supports indie music in the UK. Executives from Burberry find indie and original musicians and commission them to create music for their campaigns, documenting the songwriting and producing process. Burberry owns every part of the campaign, and can use the music and videos how they see fit, but it works for both parties. The musicians get exposure on the back of one of the most famous fashion brands ever. And Burberry gets original music, created specifically for their brand, and hours of content to use for marketing purposes. Check out "From London, With Love" campaign, starring none other than the genetically perfect offspring of David and Victoria Beckham – Romeo Beckham. Fashion is about creating different worlds – almost like adult make believe. But now, online marketing is helping people interact with their fantasy worlds, and birthing remarkable fashion campaigns as a result. If you liked this article, please check out some related links of ours: – How To Build A Tribe of Brand Followers – Market Segmentation Benefits: The Beautiful Irony Of A Bullseye Target – How to Define Strong Brand Vision – How To Improve Your Organization's Communications Header photo: Jeff Sheldon via Albumarium Faye Alexander Faye Alexander loves to type, scribble and scrawl because words are her favourite play things. As an editor, writer and social media professional, she brought her skill-set to the evolving world of Marketing. She has a passion for inciting meaningful dialogue through crafted content and opening doors to two-way conversations. Some of her favourite words include, but are not limited to: feminism, effervescent, spoon and malarchy. The Media Buyer Strategy: The World is Your Canvas How Your Work Culture affects creativity

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Q: How to properly connect models in Django? In my project I want to have global database of ingredients. I also want for each User to have a possibility to add a ingredient to his own Fridge model but with additional field "numOf". I've stumbled upon errors with PATCH request and im thinking that my database is wrongly connected. Does anyone maybe have a better idea how to arrange my models? Ingredient models class Ingredient(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=100) class UserIngredient(models.Model): ingredient = models.OneToOneField(Ingredient, unique=True, on_delete=models.CASCADE) numOf = models.IntegerField(default=1) Fridge model class Fridge(models.Model): owner = models.OneToOneField(User, related_name='fridge', on_delete=models.CASCADE) ingredients = models.ManyToManyField(UserIngredient, blank=True) def __str__(self): return self.owner.username + "'s Fridge" def save(self, *args, **kwargs): super().save(*args, **kwargs) For example, let 1st user have 2 Apples, 2nd 3 Apples and 3rd 4 Apples in their Fridge. Then in UserIngredient table I have 3 records: Apple 2, Apple 3, Apple 4 which all point to a single Apple Ingredient. How can I avoid this redundancy and just point to a Ingredient instance? A: Just change OneToOneField to ForeignKey and ManyToMany to ForeignKey also connect that to Ingredient models I think UserIngredient is not needed something like this: class Fridge(models.Model): owner = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE) ingredient = models.ForeignKey(Ingredient, on_delete=models.CASCADE) # rest of code @property def owner_ingredient_count(self): return Fridge.objects.filter(owner=self.owner).count() A: Change OneToOneField To ForeignKey class Fridge(models.Model): owner = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='fridge', on_delete=models.CASCADE) ingredients = models.ManyToManyField(UserIngredient, blank=True) def __str__(self): return self.owner.username + "'s Fridge" def save(self, *args, **kwargs): super().save(*args, **kwargs)

The first five minutes of The Guest almost feel like a horror movie, with suspenseful music and abrupt scene changes, which made me a little nervous since I don't generally enjoy horror films. It ended up being a crazy, albeit sometimes cheesy, ride, and it's a film that is sure to entertain. David (Dan Stevens) shows up at the Peterson's house one day, and introduces himself to Mrs. Peterson (Sheila Kelley), saying he served with her (now deceased) son in the war, and actually was with him when he died. He's welcomed into the house, and when it's revealed to Mr. Peterson (Leland Orser) that David doesn't know where he is headed next, he's invited to stay with them for a few days. He's a handsome guy and makes friends easily, but something seems a bit off to him to Anna Peterson (Maika Monroe), the daughter, and she calls the army to verify he is who he says he is. That spurs into motion a series of events which doesn't sit well with David, and in fact triggers something within him that will have consequences later. If it weren't for the clothing and the smartphones being utilized in the movie, I would have pegged it as a 1980s film based on the soundtrack. Anna makes David a mix CD, and also likes listening to very synth-y, '80s-style music, which is used as background for the film. The movie is also very cheesy in parts - the audience at the screening I went to was laughing at some of the lines, as was I - but the cheesiness somehow works for the film. Yes, see this movie. It's not going to win any Oscars, but it's creepy as hell, and does what a movie should do: it entertains. I'd recommend seeing this film at a matinee rather than pay full-price, but it's still a fun ride, though I wish we got more answers in the end about who "David" actually is and how he ended up at the Peterson's front doorstep. The ending is also left open for a sequel, so it will be interesting to see if one is produced, though I'm thinking that this is more of a standalone film overall. The Guest is in theaters today, September 17th, and is rated R with a runtime of 99 minutes. 3.5 stars out of 5. I love a film that can keep me on the edge of my seat! This sounds like it's definitely worth renting! Sounds like an interesting movie! I've not even heard of this one. You are surely the source for movie knowledge. Every so often a creepy movie is good. Interesting movie. I don't get to go to the moives that often but I will have to check it out when it's on DVD. The premise sounds like something I would enjoy, but from your review, maybe I should wait until it comes out on DVD. This sounds like a movie I could definitely get hubby to watch with me, sounds entertaining and captivating! I love scary movies but they freak my husband out! My brother in law is my scary-movie buddy. It's obvious the poster was designed and shot to give the initial impression that the movie stars Bradley Cooper (or maybe that's just my perception.) Yes, the story isn't very original but I love suspenseful scary movies that make me jump or put my hand over my mouth. I will definitely see this film, and I'll take your good advice to wait til it comes to my city's discount theatre. This looks like a great movie! I love suspense! Yes - the lead in it was definitely handsome, although his character was psycho, lol!

Disproportionality in School Discipline: An Assessment in Maryland through 2018 Publisher: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic Human Services Education School Reform Johanna Lacoe Mikia Manley Exclusionary discipline rates declined for all subgroups of students in Maryland over the past decade; however, Black students and students with disabilities continued to be suspended and expelled from school at more than twice the rates of other students. Even when they were involved in the same types of infractions, Black students and students with disabilities were significantly more likely to receive out-of-school suspensions than other subgroups. The purpose of this report was to describe trends in disciplinary removals in Maryland from the 2009/10 to 2017/18 school years and apply the Maryland State Department of Education's (MSDE) definition of discipline disproportionality to identify and describe disproportionate schools. The report presents an analysis of administrative data from Maryland to identify trends in school removals (out of school suspensions and expulsions) from 2009/10 to 2017/18, and determine whether schools with and without discipline disproportionalities differ in significant ways. The analysis used school discipline, school enrollment, and student demographic data provided by Maryland, as well as enrollment and demographic data provided by the National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data. The study found that exclusionary discipline rates declined for all subgroups of students in Maryland over the past decade; however, Black students and students with disabilities continued to be suspended and expelled from school at more than twice the rates of other students. Even when they were involved in the same types of infractions, Black students and students with disabilities were significantly more likely to receive out-of-school suspensions than other subgroups. These findings indicate a need to identify and address the root causes of these discipline disparities. Inequitable punishment for the same offenses suggests the possibility that implicit bias against Black students and students with disabilities plays a role. The following are appended: (1) background on the study; (2) a description of methods; and (3) supporting analyses. Impacts of UPchieve On-Demand Tutoring on Students' Math Knowledge and Perceptions Grady Deacon and Gregory Chojnacki Human Services Equity Education Staff Attrition from Pennsylvania Public Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic Stephen Lipscomb, Ijun Lai, Duncan Chaplin, Alma Vigil, and Hena Matthias Human Services Education Teacher and Principal Preparation and Support How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Academic Proficiency Rates in Pennsylvania in 2021 Stephen Lipscomb, Duncan Chaplin, Alma Vigil, and Hena Matthias

Previously home to office space, Putney Point has brought luxury homes to the Wandsworth area, along with a Costa coffee shop and a little Waitrose. Completed in March 2014, Putney Point is a Section 106 development led by private developer St. James. We purchased a mix of 21 one and two-bedroom homes to sell as Shared Ownership. Putney Point is in an ideal location for the London commuter, right next to East Putney tube station and only a five-minute walk to Putney overground station. 21 one and two-bedroom homes.

News+ Home News Sub Home Calendar Sub Home Directory Sub Home Insight Sub Home Standard Sub Home Advanced Sub Home Revenue Dashboard Sponsorship Home Events / GSI Events / GSI Home Events Sub Home Event Analysis Events Insight Bidding Announcements Bids Awarded GSI Sub Home Annual GSI Report GSI Event Studies Nations Index Cities Index Events Index Experts / Partners Stunning Ekaterinburg to Host SportAccord 2021 Conferences - 02 Dec 2019 SportAccord is delighted to announce that the dynamic and historic Russian city of Ekaterinburg will host the 2021 edition of the annual World Sport & Business Summit. Sport's No.1 global gathering will take place from 23-28 May 2021 at the IEC Ekaterinburg-Expo convention centre. Ekaterinburg is Russia's fourth-largest city by population, situated on the banks on the Iset River and considered the crossroads linking Europe to the west and Asia to the east. The city, which is a hotspot for tourism, business and sport, is home to numerous professional teams and has an expanding events portfolio, having hosted 2018 FIFA World Cup matches and the recent 2019 AIBA World Boxing Championships. Ekaterinburg will also host games during the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship before staging the 2023 FISU Summer Universiade. Raffaele Chiulli, President, SportAccord and GAISF said: "The beautiful city of Ekaterinburg will be an ideal host for the 19th edition of SportAccord. This will allow the world of sport to come together for the third SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit in the sport loving country of Russia, facilitating unity, friendship and building joint bridges for athletes and the future development of sport." "Ekaterinburg is a city that has sport at its heart and will provide plenty of attractions and interests to keep delegates entertained and engaged for what I'm sure will be an outstanding and memorable event. I would like to express my sincere thanks to the Russian Federation for embracing SportAccord once again." Evgeny Kuyvashev, the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region, noted: "Ekaterinburg is known for having strong traditions in sports and we are glad that the leading international sports federations and organizations will get an opportunity to see what our wonderful city offers, when we welcome them in 2021". "Our Region raised many outstanding athletes known worldwide. Sports becomes a key topic for Ekaterinburg as well as for the Sverdlovsk Region. Attraction of the global sports events in the Region shall not only stipulate healthy living standards for people, but it will become an important point of growth. We think that the SportAccord 2021 will become a starting platform for interesting events in the future." Ekaterinburg founded in 1723 and named after Catherine I is steeped in history. The city boasts a thriving arts and music scene and iconic architecture, ranging from historic stone and wooden buildings and more than 600 cultural monuments through to the world's northernmost skyscrapers. Ekaterinburg will provide a stunning backdrop for a week of high-level meetings, engaging conferences and social events for delegates, exhibitors, partners, executives, officials, media members and athletes. The city's Koltsovo International Airport has expanded significantly in recent years and now handles more than six million passengers per year, providing direct routes to and from a number of major cities. The annual World Sport & Business Summit is a six-day event attended by leaders of the global sports community. It is the only global sports business event attended by all the international sport federations and their stakeholders, who host their Annual General Assemblies during SportAccord. Details about registering, exhibiting and becoming a partner of SportAccord 2021 will be shared in the upcoming months. Registration is open for the SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit 2020 in Beijing, the 18th annual SportAccord event. Organisations can become an official partner or exhibitor and discuss these investment opportunities with sales@sportaccord.sport. Follow developments and updates via Twitter @sportaccord using #SA2020, or keep up-to-date via LinkedIn and Facebook. For media enquiries, email media@sportaccord.sport. Registration also remains open for next month's inaugural Regional SportAccord Pan America 2019, which will take place from 10-12 December at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. For more information, request a brochure or contact the sales team via info@regionalsportaccord.sport or +1 954 204 3081. You can follow SportAccord's events via Twitter @sportaccord or you can keep up-to-date via LinkedIn and Facebook, YouTube and Flickr. SportAccord SportAccord brings together international sports federations and organisations involved in the business of sport. The annual World Sport & Business Summit is a six-day event attended by leaders of the global sports community. It engages international sports federations, athletes, industry, rights holders, organising committees, cities, government, agencies, media, technology, legal teams, medical professionals, inventors, and subject matter experts – represented at the highest levels. SportAccord is the only global sports business event attended by all the international sports federations and their stakeholders, who host their Annual General Assemblies during SportAccord. 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Once upon a time Ibanez released a 7-String version of their much-loved RG style guitar, on the off-chance that it might be well-received. T.. Once upon a time Ibanez released a 7-String version of their much-loved RG style guitar, on the off-chance that it might be well-received. To this day Ibanez continue to receive many requests to bring the model back, and so they've come up with the Ibanez RG2027XL 7-String Prestige RG Dark Tide Blue - a modern -specced answer to the prayers of many guitarists. Made in Japan as part of the illustrious Prestine linup, the RG2027 was created with three principles in mind: Precision, Performance, and Playability. Featuring a 27" scale neck that's perfect for down-tuning without compromising string tension, a fantastic Lo-Pro Edge 7 tremolo bridge, and a set of DiMarzio Fustion Edge pickups, the whole package is a perfect fit for the ultra-streamlined RG series. Made especially for Ibanez by DiMarzio, the Fusion Edge 7 humbuckers in the RG2027XL produce a powerful, distinctive tone. Designed to throw out a crisp, cutting high-end, and a tight, compressed bottom end with no muddy mid-range, these pickups retain the articulation on your lower strings even when drop-tuned. Further helping these pickups along is the 5-way selector switch, which not online allows you to choose the Neck or Bridge pickup individually, but also gives you the option of running the Neck humbucker in a Parallel sequence, Neck and Bridge together, and even Neck and Bridge together as Single Coils! Being a member of the Ibanez Prestige lineup, the RG2027XL is built to impeccably high standards. The Bound Macassar Ebony fretboard, for instance, features a tight response and is a dream to play, especially when combined with the Prestige Fret Edge treatment. Add to this the Lo-Pro Edge 7 tremolo bridge - renowned for offering maximum playing comfort and tuning stability - alongside a locking nut, and a super-fast Wizard-7 neck shape, and you have what could quite possibly be described as the ultimate metal 7-string machine. Contact your local PMT Store or our Online Sales Team directly if you'd like to know more about the availability of the RG202XL - if it's in stock at your local store, feel free to head on down and request a demonstration, you won't regret it!

Gilston School is a public school and offers the national curriculum prepared by ACARA and, where no national curriculum has been developed, the Queensland Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Framework. Teachers have distilled the curriculum to ensure that all critical content and skills are given priority in instruction. Instruction at Gilston is explicit and focused on student retention of learning.

A fun-filled week of life, physical, & earth science for kids, grades 4th-6th. Camp information will be provided upon registration. Be sure to review the information and complete all forms so the first day of camp goes smoothly for you and your child. • All campers should enter from Plano to the shady area west of the baseball field each morning by 8:00 a.m. Parents/Guardian must sign their student in at drop-off. Do not drop your child off without signing them in. We cannot supervise your child before 8:00 a.m. • Pick up campers in the same location as dropped off by 12:10 p.m. Sign your child out before leaving campus, and it is important that your child is picked up promptly. • If your child cannot attend the camp and the college is notified in writing (in the Business/Foundation Office, AC-102) at least 10 business days before it begins, we will issue a full refund. • The college reserves the right to change class curriculum, due to instructor participation. In the event that the camp is canceled, due to low enrollment or other circumstances beyond our control, a full refund will be issued.

Stuart John "Woolly" Wolstenholme (Chadderton, 15 april 1947 - 13 december 2010) was een Britse toetsenist en zanger die voornamelijk optrad met de groep Barclay James Harvest (BJH). Hij was naast John Lees en Les Holroyd de derde man die composities aandroeg. In de beginjaren was hij de voornaamste zanger in de band. Wolstenholme speelt muziek sinds zijn tijd op de North Chadderton Secondary Modern in Oldham (Lancashire). Toen hij later naar de Oldham School of Art ging, ontmoette hij daar John Lees en vormde met hem bandjes. Eerst The Sorcerers en daarna The Keepers. Wolstenholme speelde alle instrumenten die nodig waren, van banjo tot tenorhoorn. In 1967 ging The Keepers samen met een band met Holroyd en Mel Pritchard; Barclay James Harvest is een feit. De band heeft geen toetsenist en Wolstenholme maakte zich de diverse instrumenten eigen. Hij speelde vanaf het begin piano, orgel, synthesizer en de dan nog moeilijk onder de knie te krijgen mellotron. In 1979 verliet Wolstenholme de band; het was de tijd van de neergang van de symfonische rock. Voorts eisten Lees en Holroyd zoveel invloed dat er voor hem naar zijn mening weinig ruimte meer overbleef. Na zijn vertrek maakte hij zijn eerste soloalbum Maestoso, met muzikanten met wie hij eerder had gewerkt in het project Mandalaband. Het album bevat deels oude, deels nieuwe composities. Het album toont zijn voorliefde voor op klassieke muziek geschoeide composities. In Engeland ging hij op tournee met Judie Tzuke, in Europa trad hij op in het voorprogramma van Saga. Tijdens deze tour trad hij ook op in Paradiso in Amsterdam, op 20 februari 1982. Omdat zijn platenmaatschappij Polydor de marketing van Barclay James Harvest niet in gevaar wilde brengen, werd er niet geïnvesteerd in promotie van Woolly's project Maestoso. Maestoso kwam niet van de grond en de demo's voor een tweede album verdwenen in de la. Wolstenholme componeerde nog wel samen met David Rohl enkele soundtracks voor animatiefilms van Cosgrove Hall, maar uiteindelijk vertrok Wolstenholme uit de muziekwereld en ging ecologisch boeren in Lancashire. In 1989 gaf de Engelse BJH-fanclub een cassette uit met vijf nummers van het beoogde tweede album. Deze kregen, aangevuld met meer onuitgegeven materiaal, een officiële uitgave in 1994 als Songs from the Black Box. Ondertussen ging het met BJH voor de wind, tot aan het midden van de jaren 90. Lees en Holroyd kregen toen een meningsverschil en de band ging in twee facties verder. Lees ontmoette Wolstenholme weer en schakelde hem opnieuw in als toetsenist. Het resultaat is het album Nexus. Daarnaast bleef Wolstenholme muziek maken onder de naam Maestoso, genoemd naar zijn eerste soloalbum. Onder de BJH-fans bestond nog steeds een schare trouwe aanhangers van Wolstenholme. In 2004 werd een tour gepland door Engeland, maar wegens gebrek aan belangstelling bleef het bij enkele losse optredens. Wolstenholme pleegde op 63-jarige leeftijd zelfmoord, na een lange periode van depressies. Zijn ervaringen met zijn depressies en de behandelingen die hij onderging, had hij verwerkt op zijn laatste album, Caterwauling. Na zijn overlijden werd op zijn website gemeld: "Het is met intens verdriet dat we melden dat Woolly Wolstenholme is overleden. In de afgelopen weken ging de geestelijke gezondheid van Woolly sterk achteruit en helaas nam hij zijn eigen leven op maandag 13 december. In deze moeilijke tijden zijn we met onze gedachten bij Woolly's partner Sue. We willen alle fans van Woolly vragen zijn ongelooflijke bijdrage aan de populaire muziek en zijn unieke aanwezigheid op het podium te onthouden." Discografie Maestoso (1980) Too late... (1989, cassette, beperkte oplage) Songs From the Black box (1994) One drop in a dry world (2004) Fiddling meanly (2004) Black Box Recovered (2004, heruitgave) Grim 2005 Caterwauling 2007 Uneasy listening (2009, compilatie) Externe link Wooly Wolstenholme's Maestoso Brits toetsenist Brits zanger Brits rockzanger

Linnanmäki announces Taiga launch coaster Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland March 22, 2018 – Linnanmäki Amusement Park, located in the heart of Finland's capital Helsinki, today announced the addition of a new coaster to their lineup in 2019. Taiga, a steel coaster from Intamin AG, will be the tallest and fastest coaster in Finland, with a height of 170.6 feet (52 m) and a speed of 65.9 mph (106 km/h). These stats will also make it the second tallest and fastest coaster in the Nordic countries, barely beaten by Wildfire at Kolmården in both categories. Taiga will feature two LSM launches and four inversions across its 3,622 feet (1,104 m) of track. It will replace a Premier Liquid Coaster known as Vonkaputous, whose removal was announced at the end of the 2017 season. Over the past few weeks leading up to the announcement, Linnanmäki had posted teasers of the new ride on social media, but the theme park community suspected a new coaster was afoot already when a concept video from S&S was leaked to the Internet in February 2017. The video, which was quickly removed, showed a concept of a coaster with a similar layout to Taiga, located in the same spot in the park. This led to speculation that the new coaster was to be built by S&S, but has later been believed to be S&S' tender for the ride contract, which was ultimately awarded to Intamin. Read more about Taiga and the early S&S leaks in our Forum Discussion. Linnanmäki website This entry was posted in News and tagged 2019, announcement, Finland, Helsinki, Intamin, Launch, Linnanmäki, LSM, Taiga. Bookmark the permalink. Hasbro to bring the game to Galaxyland

David Jon Bodette, 56, of Shallotte died Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. He was born in Middleberry, VT on May 5, 1960, a son of the late Raymond Bodette, and Alice Tucker Bodette who survives. He was preceded in death by a brother, Dan Bodette. He was a member of St. Brendan's Catholic Church. Surviving in addition to his mother is his wife, Charlene M. Bodette; daughter, Ashley Howard (Justin), Shallotte; brothers, Raymond Bodette, West Addison, VT, Joseph Bodette, Crown Point, NJ, Tom Bodette, West Addison, VT, and Greg Bodette, Glover, VT; and grandchildren, Jacob Lewis, and McKenzie Howard. A memorial service will be held at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4 in the Brunswick Funeral Service Chapel. If you wish to sign the Guest Book for David Bodette, please click here.

Here on the wide open river banks that cut through the red and grey sandstone cliffs, you will find the oldest and most experienced wakeboarding school, Black Diamond. Headed up by the godfather of wakeboarding himself, Scotty Kell. Scotty is renowned for coaching almost every one of the riders on the pro tour to date. Black Diamond is a wakeboard only school with more boards and boats then you can poke a stick at. Scotty has all the knowledge and expertise that will get you up to a level you never thought was possible. Accommodation packages through Black Diamond, are available from beginner to pro from an hourly coaching to a few weeks or more if desired. Black Diamond also has a second wakeboard only school that is ran out of the Gold Coast by Pro Rider John Henson. The great thing about the Wisemans Ferry Hawkesbury is that almost anyone can get to it easily from Sydney. Because the river is so big, it can handle the boat traffic easily.. With many public boat ramps and caravan parks all along the river, from the mouth (near Gosford) all the way to Windsor there is always accessibility. Better yet the high cliffs and thick shrub and tree lined shores make sure that if one section of the water is rough then around the corner is always flat.

An oil company's proposal to switch two of the tanks at its Northville location from oil to gasoline storage had a rocky ride in 2015. Met with almost unanimous opposition from speakers at a public hearing in March, United Riverhead Terminal later withdrew its proposal for the plan. The proposal was initially presented as a means to avoid the type of gasoline shortages that gripped the East End — not to mention the rest of Long Island — in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. But when some Northville neighbors of the facility caught wind of the plan for the Sound Shore Road facility, the tide started to turn against the project. Residents came out in force at public hearings in Oct. 2014 and March 2015 to oppose the project, noting that gasoline is much more flammable than heating oil. Opponents also feared the plan would lead to an increase in large tanker trucks traveling down their streets. Town officials also said URT's traffic plan wasn't acceptable, since the large tanker trucks would have to pull into oncoming traffic lanes on Sound Avenue. URT argued that gasoline had been stored at the site under prior owners and that the only reason they even needed town approval was because they planned to build two new tanks to store ethanol to be blended with the gasoline. Town officials appeared poised to reject the plan, but as it turned out, they didn't need to. But seven weeks later, he said he would be exploring legal options to revive the plan to store gasoline at the Northville facility, although he didn't give specifics. Stay tuned.

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#Lotte Confectionery #India investment Lotte Confectionery to invest 70 bln won in new ice cream factory in India SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- Lotte Confectionery Co. said Wednesday it will invest 70 billion won (US$56.6 million) in its ice cream making affiliate in India, Havmor Ice Cream Ltd., over the next five years as the confectionery maker tries to strengthen its rapidly growing India business. Lotte Confectionery will build a new 60,000-square-meter ice cream factory in Pune, an industrial city in India's western state of Maharashtra. The envisioned factory will be the first for Havmor Ice Cream in India, after the South Korean confectionery maker acquired the company in 2017 for 167.2 billion won. Harvmor Ice Cream operates 216 stores in India and distributes two ice cream brands made by Lotte Confectionery -- Snow Ice and World Cone. Lotte Confectionery said it needed to increase production capacity of its affiliate in India, amid a rapidly growing demand for its ice cream products there. The new ice cream factory is expected to generate some 1,000 jobs, the confectionery arm of Lotte Group said. The Pune factory will also become the third manufacturing plant for Lotte Confectionery in India. Last year, Lotte Confectionery merged with Lotte Foods, a food and dairy products maker of Lotte Group, to improve profitability and streamline overlapping business areas. The company had posted over 3 trillion won in sales and an operating profit of 1.2 trillion won as of September 2022. A rendered image of the ice cream making factory of Lotte Confectionery Co. set to be built in Pune, an industrial city in India's western state of Maharashtra, provided by the company on Jan. 18, 2023. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) fairydust@yna.co.kr

Cut the cauliflower into small florets, then pulse in a food processor until the pieces are the size of couscous (you should have about 2 cups). Steam the riced cauliflower over boiling water for 5 minutes and cool. Place the steamed cauliflower in cheese cloth or a nut milk bag and squeeze out as much excess water as you can (read: if you phone in the squeezing process you'll wind up with soggy tortillas, so make it count). Transfer the drained cauliflower to a bowl, and mix in the eggs, tapioca starch, poppy seeds, scallions and salt until combined. Spread the mixture evenly into a pan. Cook on medium for 5 minutes, then flip (carefully) and cook for another 3 minutes or until golden brown. Slide the pancake onto a large plate and cut into 6 pieces.

K-Series engines are normally are supplied with return-less fuel systems, meaning the fuel pressure regulator is inside of the fuel tank and has only one line leading to the engine. In most cases, the chassis that you plan on installing your K series engine (in this case EG,EK,DC) utilizes a return system. In order to have the engine run correctly, you will need to convert the K-Series engine to a return system. This kit does not fit the EF or DA chassis. You will receive 3 lines with the appropriate fittings on the ends. The lines are offered in stainless steel or stainless steel / wrapped in black nylon. The black kit is the most popular kit for its stealthy look but they both get the job done perfect. The kit also comes with 3 -6AN unions, a banjo fitting to connect to your OEM fuel filter and an adapter to connect to your hard line. This kit is not compatible with the Hybrid Racing inline filter. Each Hybrid Racing product comes with a money back guarantee.

This page contains links to low resolution versions of the panoramic images I took over the years. Use the links above to navigate. If you want to download the full resolution versions, just click on the download link below each image. The panoramas can be viewed in more detail by zooming. First click on the link below an image to enable zooming, then move the mouse over the image. A zoom window will appear. Click and drag left to right to increase the zoom window size. Click and drag top to bottom to change the magnification. The zooming function is a slightly modified TJPZoom, from http://valid.tjp.hu/tjpzoom/.

CBC is Canada's leading broadcasting company that provides Movies, Music, Entertainment & much much more! CBC was doing a premiere launch for their show "Working Moms". We provided the Virtual Reality component to coincide with massage chairs and therapeutic Virtual Reality experiences to whisk patrons away to relaxing beaches, underwater oceanscapes, and calming tranquil forest scenes. The event went smoothly and it provided a beautiful aesthetic for visitors to relax and try out Virtual Reality (a lot for the first time). VR Vision provided three high end HTC Vive Systems setup for a relaxing therapeutic seated VR experience. The activation was 4 hours long. VR staff consisted of; three hosts, one product support specialist and a manager. The content utilized was VR Nature Treks, The Blu VR, and other 360 Interactive Puppy Videos. For the majority of the CBC Working Moms patrons, including many of the actors from the show, this was their first foray into VR. The activation went off without a hitch and the guests were blown away at just how powerful the technology is, and when paired with a massage chair it added an extra element that really gave it the wow factor we wanted.

arren Titus has retired -- and this time he means it. The last time Warren retired was in September 1987, but he went back to work in November of that year, becoming the founding president of Seabourn Cruise Line, a position he held until becoming chairman of the line in 1994. When Seabourn was merged with Cunard in 1998, he joined the executive committee of the new Cunard Line Ltd. and took the role of chairman of Seabourn and Cunard's guest loyalty programs. It's hard to overestimate the impact that Warren has had on the cruise industry and travel agents who sell cruises. His career has paralleled the history of the cruise industry because, time and again, he was at the center of action when major directional changes were taking place. His involvement with shipping companies began in Hawaii before World War II, when he was a freight clerk for the Inter-Island Steamship Co. Following the war, he signed on with Theo H. Davies and Co., among whose interests was a steamship agency. He worked as a rep for Cunard and Holland America Line, whose around-the-world itineraries included stops in Hawaii, and became head of Davies' steamship department and, ultimately, vice president of the company. In 1959, he was recruited by the Orient Line to set up an office for the company in North America. Shortly after, Orient merged with P&O Steam Navigations Co., and he stayed on with the new company, being named president of P&O Lines Inc. (North America). At that time, the company's fleet of 10 passenger vessels was the largest in the world. He eventually was lured away by American President Lines to manage its passenger ship operations. It was during his tenure at APL that Titus grabbed hold of the idea that the passenger ship business, which at that time was represented by two separate trade groups -- the Transpacific Conference and Transatlantic Steamship Conference -- should come together in a single organization to promote the concept of cruising and to help educate travel agents to market and sell cruises more effectively. The idea was not accepted immediately. The traditional role of these groups was regulatory, and many of the lines couldn't see the sense of an association that was designed primarily to promote their industry. In fact, Titus had to fight for the creation of the Cruise Lines International Association -- CLIA -- for 10 years. In the meantime, he was contacted by a consortium of shipping lines in Norway and was invited to participate in the formation of Royal Viking Line. Before Royal Viking had even designed its first ship, he was made president of their U.S. company. At RVL in the early '70s, Titus helped create the forerunners of the modern cruise ship. Until that time, most passenger ships were built to cross oceans and were quite heavy. RVL commissioned ships for "cruising" -- the cabins were modular, the ships were lighter, and the idea was that they would follow a touristic itinerary rather than haul people from one continent to another. While building a very different type of cruise line, Warren continued his efforts to organize the new cruise association. Eventually, thanks largely to his exhaustive efforts, CLIA was born in 1975, and 22 of the 28 major shipping lines joined. Titus became CLIA's first chairman, focusing the new organization's efforts on educating travel agents on how to sell the new type of cruising that was emerging. He was asked to stay on as chairman year after year, and ended up leading the organization through its first critical five years of existence. He didn't do too badly at his day job, either, and was named chairman of Royal Viking Lines in 1982, a position he held until his first retirement in 1987. Warren Titus is a visionary, a word I don't throw around lightly. And that self-described "ancient mariner" has always believed -- and believes -strongly in the value of travel agents. "With CLIA, I envisioned that our primary function was to train travel agents, to develop educational programs for them," Warren told me shortly after his retirement dinner earlier this month in Florida. "The training programs, the education -- I think that's the contribution to the industry that I am most proud of." Clearly, both the cruise lines and the agents who sell them benefited greatly from Titus' efforts. He not only helped define the modern cruise industry, he had the sense to see it would succeed only by educating its sales and distribution force: travel agents. Warren, you will be missed. https://www.travelweekly.com/Arnie-Weissmann/The-Ancient-Mariner

Q: How to get an auto-incrementing sort order in a Django model I wrote this: class Department(models.Model): ... sort_order = models.IntegerField(help_text="Leave negative to place at end", default=-1) def save(self, *args, **kwargs): """ Set the sort order (if unset) to larger than the largest value""" if self.sort_order <= 0: largest = Department.objects.all().aggregate(x = models.Max('sort_order'))['x'] or 0 self.sort_order = largest + 10 super(Department, self).save(*args, **kwargs) but I'm not proud of it. Is there a better way to do this? I could possibly roll this into a field, but not sure how I'd get back to the model table if I refactored the code there. I can't use the autoincrement column because as FK values, those can't be changed. A: It appears that PositionField from Django Positions does this and is currently in use with Django CrowdSourcing. It's not exactly what I asked for, but appears that it might be a good, usable solution. A: Sorry if I'm being obtuse, but doesn't django's built in AutoField do what you're looking for. I know you don't want to mess with the primary key, but you could create another AutoField. sort_field = models.AutoField() Maybe you could look at overriding the AutoField to do what you want.

Will Ranbir Kapoor be hero in Sanjay Dutt biopic to have a sequel? Ranbir Kapoor's latest release Sanju is setting new records at the box office even after 12 days of its release. The Rajkumar Hirani directorial, which is a biopic of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, is all set to cross the Rs 300 crore mark at the ticket windows with its current total after 12 days standing at Rs 278.58 crore. With the immense success of the film, the obvious question that is haunting the minds of both Sanjay Dutt and Ranbir Kapoor's fans, is whether the makers will be coming up with a sequl to Sanju. Especially, after the release of the film, the viewers have also highlighted that a number of crucial episodes from the life of Sanjay Dutt went missing in the biopic, be it his early days in the boarding school or his first two wives and daughter Trishala, who don't even find a mention in the film. The writer Abhijat Joshi had earlier shared while interacting with the mediapersons that the makers have barely used about 150-page material from the life of Sanjay Dutt, out of over 750 pages material from the actor's life. A few reports doing the rounds had suggested that after Sanjay Dutt watched his own biopic, he broke down and hugged both Hirani and Kapoor, post which he apparently told Hirani that a sequel to Sanju should also be made since he has many more stories to tell. So shall we expect an sequel to Sanju? Well, during an interview with ABP news, talking about the same, Rajkumar Hirani shared that after watching the film, when Sanjay Dutt mentioned that there should be a sequel to Sanju, he told both Dutt and Ranbir that he won't make a sequel to the film since, "A person can have only one biopic."

Through the research six open call commissions have made available to regional artists from the former Yugoslavia to produce work around the concept and practice of reconciliation. The open call commissions are being managed through two regional arts institutions: the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo and Stacion, Centre for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Kosovo. A public call was made for applications from regional artists. The form of the artwork was left entirely open. It could be performance, sculpture, photography, film or fine art as long as it had the potential to be exhibited. Applications that were socially engaged and participatory or collaborative in nature were particularly welcome. In the call made through the History Museum applicants were asked to respond in some way to the Museum's permanent collection, "Sarajevo under the siege". In the call made through Stacion it was specified that one call would be commissioned in North Kosovo.

Q: Month since a special date (in decimal) I would like to have a function that could display how many months it's been since a special date – with decimals if possible. Anyone have an idea on how to make it? (In PHP) I ended up doing the following: $var = ((mktime(0,0,0,8,3,2009) - mktime(0,0,0,9,3,2009))/86400/30.4368499); Your answers were helpful. James Goodwins was the one leading me to this so he get the "answer solved" mark. A: function dateDiff($dformat, $endDate, $beginDate) { $date_parts1=explode($dformat, $beginDate); $date_parts2=explode($dformat, $endDate); $start_date=gregoriantojd($date_parts1[0], $date_parts1[1], $date_parts1[2]); $end_date=gregoriantojd($date_parts2[0], $date_parts2[1], $date_parts2[2]); return $end_date - $start_date; } A: Try this: echo NumberOfMonths(strtotime('2009-10-02'),strtotime('2008-12-02')); function NumberOfMonths($date1, $date2) { $dates = array(explode(' ',date('Y n',$date1)),explode(' ',date('Y n',$date2))); return ($dates[0][0]-$dates[1][0])*12+($dates[0][1]-$dates[1][1]); } Although there's no validation on it of course.

Located in Go Dau district, Tay Ninh Province, Thanh Phuoc transit port is managed by Thanh Phuoc VRG Port and Logistics Joint Stock Company which is a joint venture between Saigon VRG and CJ Korea Express. It is designed to receive 30m long corridor beam with less than 2,000 tons of payload and 300m long vessel under 100 tons in the scale of 48.5 ha. With a capacity of 5 million tons of cargo and 1.5 million tons of goods in warehouse system per year, Thanh Phuoc is planning to provide services and storage for investors in Phuoc Dong Industrial Park and surrounding area businesses. Full container yard: 10,000m2, designed for 4-container stacking up. Empty container yard: 30,000m2, designed for 4-container stacking up. Reefer container yard: 10,000m2, designed for 1-container stacking up. Yard for general cargo: 10,000m2. 01 20%-30% cost reduction compared with road transport. 02 Easy transfer of goods from Tay Ninh Province to Cat Lai Port, Hiep Phuoc Port, and other ports in Ho Chi Minh City. 03 Close to large factories and industrial parks in Tay Ninh Province as well as Moc Bai International Border Gate which is a gateway to Cambodia, Thailand and other ASEAN countries. 05 Many attractive policies for clients. 06 Short time of containers and bulk cargo handling with good quality of service. 07 Thanh Phuoc VRG port has a connection with the deep-sea ports in the South of Vietnam. 08 Meet customers demand in cargo exchange and transport between the East and the West of Vietnam. 09 Integrated logistics services by a perfect combination of the river port, container yard, warehouse, and fast & safe transportation services.

While schools and government offices closed to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day, activists gathered in front of the Florida Department of Corrections Miami Circuit Office, across from a Miami Police station. People from all over South Florida came to rally in support of Florida prisoners planning to go on strike. Codenamed Operation PUSH, the strike began as a way for incarcerated people to protest the injustices being done to them within the confines of the prison, including violations such as ridiculous price gouging for the basic goods made available for inmates to purchase while they are paid extremely low wages for their labor. So far, over 100 organizations have come forward to stand in solidarity with the astoundingly brave prisoners, who are fighting for justice within the unjust system of mass incarceration. By 1PM, the rally commenced with people bringing signs, shirts, and banners all showing their support with the striking prisoners. Organizers across many different political backgrounds, from groups like the Democratic Socialists of America to various anarchists, came out en masse to show their unwavering solidarity, letting the prisoners know they are not alone! As Operation PUSH continues, we must keep our eyes on the prisoners' struggle for justice and lend our full support as they face brutal repression from a vastly unjust system. We must do whatever we can to de-stigmatize prisoners and let them know that we care and that we stand with them.

RFE/RL – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty At Least Five Killed In Explosion In Northern Afghanistan At least five people were killed on December 6 in a roadside bomb explosion that targeted a vehicle carrying oil workers in northern Afghanistan, police said. "Today at around 7 a.m. a blast took place in...Balkh on a bus that belonged to Hairatan oil employees," said Asif Wazeri, spokesman for the Taliban police in the northern province of Balkh, adding that at least four people were wounded. No group has claimed the attack. To read the original story from RFE/RL's Radio Azadi, click here. Copyright (c) 2010-2020. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. Balkh Province: At least 5 people killed and 4 injured in roadside bomb explosion targeting a vehicle carrying oil workers https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-blast-balkh-oil/32163721.html

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Less than seven years after the Los Angeles riots, on the opposite side of the country, the New York City Police Department fired 41 shots at Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea. He was standing outside the entrance to his Bronx apartment building with his wallet in his hand. The officers claimed they thought Diallo's wallet was a gun. All four officers were acquitted of second-degree murder. Today marks 20 years since Diallo's death. Just as a riot breaking out in the second-largest city didn't prevent Diallo's demise, his death hasn't moved the needle on cops slaughtering us in the subsequent decades. In fact, it may seem like we're dealing with more police violence than ever before in the past decade, but that's only because we can document and propagate everything now thanks to cell phone cameras and social media. Despite its manifold failings, social media does a fantastic job of holding folks' toes to the fire in regards to accountability. It's the only thing that allows the outrage of the masses to spread in mere minutes. In fact, the tragedies and their subsequent #SayHis/HerName social media awareness campaigns have occurred so often that we run the risk of developing emotional calluses to Black people getting senselessly murdered by the people who take an oath to protect us. It's similar to how we're becoming exceedingly numb to mass shootings. In the two decades since Diallo's death at the hands of police, we've had Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Rekia Boyd, Mike Brown, Laquan McDonald, Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, Stephon Clark, and on and on. Sadly, that list is not even close to providing the full tally of Black people killed by police violence in the last 20 years. While the L.A. and Ferguson riots were rage come unspooled, there have been countless peaceful protests across the country from angry and desperate souls seeking answers and retribution – or, at the very least, to be seen. Here in Chicago, folks have stormed busy city thoroughfares and interrupted Black Friday sales in popular shopping districts – only to be met with news of it happening again and again. Jason Van Dyke's imprisonment over the murder of McDonald has very little precedent when it comes to police suffering the consequences of their actions. Damn near every killing of a black person by an on-duty police officer has resulted in an acquittal for the officer if the case ever even made it that far. When cops are convicted, it's often a much lighter sentence than they would receive if they didn't have a badge. If our next president serves two terms, Van Dyke will be out of prison for the second one despite the fact that everyone saw him slaughter a man on tape. Given the fact that lawmakers still haven't managed to get behind gun control six years after 20 mostly white kids were slaughtered in their elementary school, it's not surprising that the violent death of an innocent Black man at the hands of cops didn't spark significant reform of police procedure not just in the NYPD, but nation-wide. How many Diallos will there be before we see real change?

Haryana has become the first state in the north where customers can subscribe to Tata DoCoMo's GSM services. Tata DoCoMo, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices, kicked off its services in the state on Tuesday. It has pumped in Rs 300 crore to launch its service in its ninth telecom circle. The investment in Haryana is part of a capital expenditure of $2 billion on the company's pan-India GSM network rollout. The company will extend its GSM operations in 19 circles after obtaining licence by December this year. The company also announced a novel pay-for-what-you-use model, with a pulse of one second, and a rate of just 1 paisa per second. Anil Sardana, managing director, Tata Teleservices, said, "Our GSM mobile service will cover 386 towns and cities and 1,750 villages in Haryana, along 1,800 km of highways, at airports, along 400 km of rail routes and at places of tourist interests. From the day of launch, the reach and coverage of the network is greater in Haryana than that of any other operator at the launch stage. Coverage in Fatehabad and Sirsa districts will be provided soon. The service will be available through 10,000 retail outlets in Haryana shortly, he added.

The WHITE HOUSE Pen is part of a Collection created from Witness Wood® acquired by History Salvaged that was removed and made available to the public following the 1927 and the 1950 renovations of the White House, home to every US President since 1800. In 1927, Calvin Coolidge, tired of the leaky roof, had the attic space expanded into a full third floor by constructing a steel-frame story atop the brick and mortar walls of 1800. According to the Army Corps of Engineers' report, the added weight contributed to the failure of the structure by 1949, prompting our 33rd President, Harry Truman to renovate the entire building, in what has become known as the 1950 Truman Reconstruction. During both the 1927 and 1950 reconstructions, the US Government sold limited quantities of "mementos" to the public to help support funding of the work. History Salvaged has spent more than 2 years scouring public and private collections, museums and fraternal organizations to acquire enough Witness Wood® to produce this White House Pen Collection, produced from Mid-Atlantic Heart Pine removed during the reconstructions.

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Then the LORD replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay." We are truly living in the most exciting and dreadful time in history! As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. We are seeing things unfold in the same manner as they were in the days of Noah. Things are coming to a climax in the spirit, and though some have glimpsed, no one fully knows what it will look like as the spiritual dynamics manifest on the earth. Over the last few weeks, I have been seeing a picture of an hourglass filled with the sands of time. I have been meditating and waiting on the Lord about what it could mean. I understood that it is to do with the timings of God, so I was very excited when Bonni Jones shared a vision she had received of an hourglass filled the sands of time. In January of 1979, Bob was taken in a vision to a place by the sea called the "Sands of Time." Bob said he saw great men there such as Elijah, Elisha, John and the martyrs. Each one including the Apostle Paul placed their hands down into the sands of time to bring up what looked like old shoe boxes. As each one did, Bob could hear them say, "Is it my time? Are the promises for now?" But with each of these leaders there was nothing in their shoebox because the promises weren't for their generation. Then the Lord told Bob to reach down into the sands of time to pull up his box, but Bob said, "Lord, they are all empty!" But the Lord told him to do as he was told. So Bob reached into the sands of time and pulled out his shoebox. As he opened the box, he was shocked to see what was inside. The box was filled with white envelopes placed neatly inside. As he opened them he saw that they were draft notices that said, "Greetings, you have been inducted into the Army of God." However, none of these draft notices had postage stamps. October 13, 2011 marked thirty years from the date postage cost twenty cents. Thirty represents the age of maturity for the priesthood. That was Jesus' age when He began His public ministry that lasted three and a half years. There has now been a three and a half year time frame since the thirtieth anniversary. God is never in a hurry. His timing is always perfect; never early, never late but always on time. I believe the army of God that received their draft notice in 1981 came into their place of maturity in 2011. However these past three and a half years has been a time of God sifting them to determine who would remain faithful till the end. I believe that during the past three and a half years this emerging army learned the importance of true humility. God resists the prideful but gives grace to the humble. His grace will rest upon this army and there is nothing He will withhold from them. Now that the Lord has overturned the sands of time hourglass, He is releasing these inductees into His end-time army. And they will be the most powerful force on earth, an army of "greater works" who are fully equipped in resurrection power and glory. This army carries a breaker anointing to break the chains of offense, oppression, lawlessness and religion. God has commissioned a generation to rise up and carry His presence like has never been seen before. There is a mandate released to those who are brave and courageous. God has been pressing and testing the hearts of those who have surrendered and yielded to Him. The last three and a half years have been a time of intense pressure for those who are candidates to carry God's authority. God will only trust it to those who have proven to be faithful under pressure. For me, the last three and a half years have been excruciating to my soul. It has been difficult beyond words. I know many other people who have been through situations of great challenge. Each person has been had their heart and soul broken to the utmost. But now we can see that there is purpose in the pain. God truly has been sifting the hearts of the sons and daughters to find those who will overcome and endure to the end. He has been testing the hearts of His children to find those who will remain strong and obedient, even when they do not understand His ways. God is more concerned with the heart of obedience than with the external sacrifices. What is more pleasing to the LORD: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams. The original blog posted by Bonni Jones. And the podcast refered to in the article. —but if I have no love, I am nothing. Please do not reproduce or reuse the content on this website without permission. Thank you!

Love Banana Bread? Love Choc Chips? Put them together and what do you get? A really delicious Banana Choc Chip Cake! I tried out A Cooker & a Looker's recipe for this cake on the kids for afternoon tea and it was a real hit and has been requested many times since. I used the Thermomix method but there is a regular method there too. It's now on high rotation in our baking repertoire and I think you may agree if you give it a whirl that it's a winner. Go on, pop over and have a look, it's a really gorgeous website too, you may get lost there! If you want a choc chip free banana loaf recipe take a look here for my tried and tested favourite and my "best ever" gluten free Thermomix banana bread recipe – try saying that really fast! Do you have a great way to fancy up banana bread? Want to share it?

Poorer communities prove they are hungry for healthy shopping options. During the 2013 grand opening of Fare & Square, a nonprofit grocery store in Chester, Pennsylvania, the line snaked out the door. Inside, people bagged leafy heads of lettuce and milled around the aisles, picking out jalapenos and potatoes and maneuvering crowded aisles with brimming carts. The city of 33,000 had not had a grocery store for 12 years. As the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, by the end of the first day, there were more than 5,000 customers. Fare & Square was one of 88 grocery stores built or expanded through the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative, a public-private partnership launched in 2004 and co-managed by The Reinvestment Fund (TRF) and The Food Trust that has been heralded nationwide for improving healthy food access in underserved neighborhoods across the state. TRF, a community development financial institution (CDFI), has invested $74 million in the new stores in Philadelphia. Another $30 million in seed money came from the state. Now, new research shows how much these efforts have paid off. Today, twice as many people in Philadelphia have access to healthy foods than in 2005. In Philadelphia, the new and expanded supermarkets added up to improved food access on a large scale. TRF and The Food Trust worked together to build full-service supermarkets in locales where access to high-quality supermarkets was limited. Their work means that today, twice as many people in Philadelphia have access to healthy foods than in 2005. In 2005, 301,397 people in the Philadelphia area were living in "limited supermarket access" areas, or LSA's. By 2013, the number of Philadelphians living in an LSA had been cut to 133,019. The increase in access to healthy food options mirrors a nationwide trend. The TRF analysis reported a 45 percent decline in the number of Americans nationwide with limited supermarket access since 2005. According to PolicyLink, the time is ripe for more innovative approaches to making healthy foods accessible. One factor is the growing evidence that low-income communities can support full-service supermarkets offering fresh produce and other high-quality (although more costly) foods. When a supermarket gets built in a low-income community, it often becomes an economic anchor, attracting new businesses and services, adding jobs, and increasing economic traffic. In Philadelphia, a single store evaluated by TRF in a study of economic impacts added $540,000 in local tax revenue (although it doesn't name the location of the store.) And home values near new grocery stores have risen 4 percent to 7 percent, according to another brief from TRF. When a supermarket gets built in a low-income community, it often becomes an economic anchor. While these are positive changes, it is too soon to know how better food access in Philadelphia will directly improve people's health. Earlier claims that adding a grocery store to a neighborhood helps fight obesity have been met with skepticism. One study that got a lot of media attention found that residents living near a new Philadelphia supermarket did not show any change in body mass index, or BMI, after six months. Yet six months is too short a period to be definitive. After a longer period of time, experts say measuring midterm markers like vegetable consumption or produce sales may be a better way to understand impact. Measuring BMI and blood pressure can be longer-term goals. Until then, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report calls for broadening food access research beyond nutrition and health to understand the possible economic impact of a supermarket on a community. One year after it opened, Fare & Square was employing 31 people, with 70 percent of the staff from Chester. As the first nonprofit supermarket in the country, it provides a model for what is possible, and demonstrates how a community benefits from fresh food close to home.

In US, HPV-Related Cancers On Rise Despite rising vaccination rates, cancers related to human papillomavirus, a common sexually transmitted infection, are on the rise in the United States, particularly cancers of the head, neck and throat, officials said Thursday. In men, most of the increase was in head, neck and throat cancers, while in women, cases of HPV-related anal cancer rose, according to a report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "From 1999 to 2015, the number of HPV-associated cancers increased from 30,000 to over 43,000 annually," said the report. Even though vaccinations against HPV have been on the rise in recent years, the CDC said the increase in cancers is "likely due to increased HPV exposure over the past few decades." Cervical cancer rates continue to decline -- about 1.6 percent annually since 1999 -- thanks to screening and early detection, added the report. But there is no recommended screening for other HPV-associated cancers. "HPV vaccination can prevent infection with the HPV types most strongly associated with cancer," said the CDC report. "Increasing HPV vaccination rates among young males and females could prevent many cancers." The CDC said that last year, nearly 66 percent of adolescents aged 13-17 received the first dose in the vaccine series, and nearly 49 percent of adolescents received all the recommended doses to complete the series. "This vaccine is the best way to protect our youth from developing cancers caused by HPV infection," said CDC Director Robert Redfield. After adjusting for rises in population, the overall rate of all HPV cancers in US women declined 0.4 percent from 1999 to 2015, largely due to drops in cervical cancer thanks to better screening, the report said. In men, the rate of HPV cancers rose 2.4 percent over the same period. Leiomyosarcoma Neuroendocrine liver cancer Does Eating Organic Food Prevent Cancer? Jan 8, 2019 • 6 comments Radiation or surgery and life after treatments How do you "thrive" with cancer? Experience with Lupron treatment and side effects Symptoms and complications of ovarian cancer Cancer "survivor": How do you feel about this term? What to eat to prevent breast cancer? What is your cancer diagnosis? Staying hydrated while in treatment: What are your tips?

> please avoid top posting next time, thanks. please just don't do it! > Where did you get 1.4.9 from? Did you compile it yourself? making autom4te more tolerant of this issue. > I'm not sure if it had been fixed with the recent runtime update. related to this; it is much more likely to be the m4 CRLF issue. outside of the source tree.

A group is claiming to have carried out a successful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tumblr due to which the site went down this week and as a result, Tumblr was down on Wednesday for over 2 hours. This group of attackers goes by the handle of R.I.U. Star Patrol who state that they targeted Tumblr just to have some fun. But their fun time doesn't end here at all. According to a number of new sources including 7421Max and information posted on the group's Twitter handle @StarPatrolling, the group plans to take on Electronic Arts, PSN and Xbox Live on Christmas day. On December 19, it was reported by 7421Max that R.I.U. Star Patrol has already taken down the servers of League of Legends and Warframe. In a YouTube video, the group did confirm its future plans including how it aims to create havoc for ardent gamers by targeting popular gaming platforms like Xbox. This brings back haunting memories from Christmas 2014 when PlayStation and Xbox platforms were targeted with DDoS attacks leaving countless gamers perplexed and troubled. In an interview with gaming news website 7421Max, which was published on YouTube, the group's members claimed that they have planned to launch coordinated attacks on Xbox on Christmas 2016 but the reasoning behind this attempt was that they are doing it because they can. Money is not a motivating factor for them as they aren't being paid for their feats at all. As far as the attack on Tumblr is concerned, the site went down just after 3:15 pm ET; the attack was highlighted when some of the users complained about experiencing "Latency." The site was revived for only a few minutes at about 3:52 pm ET but again went down and resumed operation at 4:22 pm ET. However, the site's full service wasn't restored until 5:45 pm ET. As per the analysis of security researchers, the attack was carried out using Mirai malware, the same malware that was used to launch the record-breaking 620 GBPS attack on a famous journalist Brian Krebs' website, 1TBPS attack on OVH hosting and the large-scale attack DynDNS' server. It is believed that Tumblr's attack demonstrated a typical DDoS mechanism but it also depicted how easy it was to launch attacks using Mirai because its source code is already publicly disclosed. Don't be surprised if Xbox or any other online gaming platform goes offline on Christmas. Yesterday, it was Steam and Origin servers who faced the wrath of hackers and went offline for hours. Similarly, last year, PlayStation and Xbox were forced to go offline as a result of massive DDoS attacks.

Become a Jesuit Jesuits Worldwide John XXIII and John Paul II These saintly yet very human men are greatly admired by people across the entire world ~ Fr. Wm. Watters, SJ Pope Francis to Canonize Popes John XXIII and John Paul II April 28, 2014 — For the first time in the Catholic Church's history, two popes will be made saints in the same ceremony when Pope Francis canonizes John XXIII and John Paul II on April 27. The Mass will be held in St. Peter's Square, just outside the basilica where the mortal remains of the two rest. As many as three million pilgrims are expected in Rome for the occasion, as well as 24 heads of state, 35 prime ministers and 23 government ministers from various countries, according to Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano. Millions more are expected to watch the ceremony on TV or the Internet. Blessed John Paul II, known as a globetrotter who made 104 trips outside Italy, served as pope from 1978 to 2005 and was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI on May 1, 2011. Blessed John XXIII, known particularly for convening the Second Vatican Council, was pope from 1958 to 1963; Pope John Paul beatified him in 2000. Pope Francis said Blessed John was holy, patient, had a good sense of humor and, especially by calling the Second Vatican Council, was a man of courage. "He was a man who let himself be guided by the Lord." As for Blessed John Paul, Pope Francis said, "I think of him as the great missionary of the church," because he was "a man who proclaimed the Gospel everywhere." According to Jesuit Father William Watters, pastor of St. Ignatius Church in Baltimore, "These saintly yet very human men are greatly admired by people across the entire world. In their lifetime they made a lasting impact on the church and the world. Men of deep prayer and great service to others, their lives and accomplishments continue to exemplify a goodness and holiness that inspire us to imitate them in our own lives and actions." Blessed John XXIII: Short Pontificate, Long Impact Although he served as pope for less than five years, Blessed John XXIII (1958-1963) left one of the most lasting legacies in the Catholic Church's history by convening the Second Vatican Council. Citing the Holy Spirit as his source of inspiration, he called the Second Vatican Council to help the church confront the rapid changes and mounting challenges unfolding in the world — and, by inviting non-Catholics to the council, to work toward Christian unity. As pope from 1958 to 1963, Blessed John launched a renewal of the church, which set in motion major reforms with regard to the church and its structure, the liturgy, ecumenism, social communication and Eastern churches. He produced a number of historic encyclicals, including "Mater et Magistra" on Christian social doctrine and "Pacem in Terris," issued in 1963 at the height of the Cold War, on the need for global peace and justice. Blessed John XXIII visited many parishes in Rome, and his contact with the people and his personal warmth, sensitivity and fatherly kindness earned him the nickname, "the Good Pope." Jesuit Father James Martin wrote that he was drawn to John XXIII "not as much for his wit, or his writings, or his love of the church, or even his accomplishments as for something more basic: his love for God and for other people." Blessed John XXIII died of cancer on June 3, 1963. Blessed John Paul II: A Moral Force with Flair Blessed John Paul II (1978-2005) was one of the most forceful moral leaders of the modern age. He brought a philosopher's intellect, a pilgrim's spiritual intensity and an actor's flair for the dramatic to his role as head of the church for more than 26 years. The Polish pope was a tireless evangelizer and forceful communicator, speaking to millions in their own languages. But toward the end of his life, his powers of speech faltered with his worsening illness, which left him often unable to even murmur a blessing. The first non-Italian pope in 455 years, Blessed John Paul became a spiritual protagonist in two global transitions: the fall of European communism, which began in his native Poland in 1989, and the passage to the third millennium of Christianity. As pastor of the universal church, he jetted around the world, taking his message to 129 countries— including seven trips to the United States. In his later years, the pope moved with difficulty, tired easily and was less expressive, all symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Yet he pushed himself to the limits of his physical capabilities, convinced that such suffering was itself a form of spiritual leadership. His social justice encyclicals, including his landmark document, the apostolic letter "Novo Millennio Ineunte" ("At the Beginning of the New Millennium"), made a huge impact, addressing the moral dimensions of human labor, the widening gap between rich and poor and the shortcomings of the free-market system. After more than 26 years as pope, Blessed John Paul died at the age of 84 at the Vatican on April 2, 2005. [Source and photos: Catholic News Service] In Memoriam: Br. Henry C. Kuhn, SJ January 6, 2020 — Let us pray in thanksgiving for the life of our brother, Br. Henry C. Kuhn, SJ, who died on January 5, 2020, at Colombiere Center in Clarkston, Michigan. He was 85 years old. May he rest in peace. Br. Pat Douglas, SJ: Five Spiritual Lessons He's Learned from Powerlifting December 18, 2019 — Brother Douglas, a competitive powerlifter, lives out the Jesuit value of "finding God in all things." Pope Francis: Celebrating 50 Years of a Priestly Vocation December 13, 2019 — Today Pope Francis celebrates the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Remembering Fr. John Haughey, SJ, beloved pastor, professor and researcher December 10, 2019 — Fr. John C. Haughey, SJ, beloved pastor, professor and researcher, dies at 89. St. Patrick's Parish in Milwaukee Celebrates 50 Years of Hispanic Ministry December 4, 2019 — On Nov. 22, the Jesuits' St. Patrick's Parish in Milwaukee marked half a century of Hispanic ministry. In Memoriam: Fr. Robert J. Bueter, SJ December 3, 2019 — Let us pray in thanksgiving for the life of Fr. Robert J. Bueter, SJ, who died on December 2, 2019 at Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, Illinois. He was 77 years old. May he rest in peace. Jesuits Fall Winter 2019 Jesuits Summer 2019 Jesuits Spring 2019 The Society of Jesus – Serving the Catholic Church for the greater glory of God. 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Prevailing Wage Laws and Rates Final Norwich Hospital cleanup now pegged at $9 million By Kimberly Glassman The final cost to finish the environmental cleanup of the former Norwich Hospital property is now projected at $9 million, and while town and Mohegan tribal leaders hope for a quick response to their request for state funding, the issue is tied up in the stalled overall state budget bond package yet to be put before legislators for a vote. The cost estimate to finish the cleanup is now projected at $9 million, including a $2 million low-interest loan the town previously had received from the state and a $7 million grant request to the state. Town officials have said they will not tap into the loan until receiving a commitment from the state for enough grant funding to complete the cleanup. And, if the town is required to remove all underground electrical wires, water and gas piping, that would add to the final cost as well, First Selectman Robert Congdon said Tuesday. https://www.theday.com/local-news/20191029/final-norwich-hospital-cleanup-now-pegged-at-9-million Foundation for Fair Contracting 1268 Main Street Suite 202 Newington, CT 06111 info@ffcct.org Copyright © 2019 Foundation for Fair Contracting of Connecticut. All Rights Reserved. Design by Cocoon Web Design.

Professor of history at Ball State University. He is the author of The Animals of Spain: An Introduction to Imperial Perceptions and Human Interaction with Other Animals, 1492–1826 (Brill, 2011) and Brutality and Benevolence: Human Ethology, Culture, and the Birth of Mexico (Greenwood, 1996). His articles have ap-peared in The Sixteenth Century Journal, the International Journal of Anthropology, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Theology and Science, and other publications. He also has contributed articles to the website of the Metanexus Institute (http://metanexus.net/), including 'Baroque Consilience: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz', coauthored with Carol Blakney. The biological underpinnings of history are the focus of his research, from ethologically explained human behaviors to the roles played by other animals in our historical development.

Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Kevin Spacey Dropped The man who accused the actor of an alleged assault in a restaurant has "pleaded the fifth". Edwina Carr Barraclough WhimnJuly 18, 20199:34am After months of pre-trial court hearings, charges against Kevin Spacey have been dropped. AP Photo/Steven Senne, File.Source:Whimn Prosecutors have dropped the charges of indecent assault and battery against Kevin Spacey. After months of controversial pre-trial court hearings, Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe said charges were quashed "due to the unavailability of the complaining witness". During a hearing, the alleged victim exercised his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination which centred around his missing phone. Spacey has maintained his innocence throughout the proceedings. Image: Getty Images.Source:Whimn Questions were raised about whether the man had deleted text messages before handing his phone over to authorities. In June, Spacey's attorney Alan Jackson dismissed his charge of indecent assault and battery, which could've seen the actor face up to two and a half years in prison if convicted, as "ridiculous". It's official - these are the weirdest sex scenes of all time. Plus, check out what these 19 celebs say filming a sex scene is actually like. Jackson also accused prosecutors of withholding deleted text messages that could exonerate Spacey. "There's clearly information on that phone that (the accuser)... do not want us to know," Jackson said at the time. The man's attorney Mitchell Garabedian said he had shown "courage" throughout the legal battle. Want to go steady? Sign up to our whimn.com.au newsletter for more stories like this. "My client and his family have shown an enormous amount of courage under difficult circumstances," he said. Spacey, who has always maintained his innocence, was accused of allegedly getting the man drunk at a restaurant before asking him to come home with him. It was then alleged Spacey unzipped the man's pants and groped him for about three minutes, despite the man's wish for him to stop. The criminal case was the first to be brought against Spacey following a series of sexual misconduct allegations made against him following 2017's #MeToo movement. Trending on whimn Meghan Markle escorted by Prince Harry's protection officers... 'Bombshell' Nails The One Thing We Forget About Workplace Se... Prince Philip Advised Harry Not To Marry Meghan Markle Victorian Government Cancels Australia Day Fireworks Amid Bushfire Crisis Choke Play Killer Jamie Lee Dolheguy Was Made To Kill By The System Explainer: We Finally Have Rain, Here's What It Means For The Bushfires Gigi Hadid Dismissed As Juror In Harvey Weinstein Trial Entries For The World's Weirdest Dating Show Close Today James Bond Producers Say He Will Never Be Played By A Woman Jeffrey Epstein Accused Of Trafficking Hundreds Of Girls As Young As 12 To Private Island Meghan Markle's Dad Is Ready To Testify Against Her In Court, Sister Says

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'''FusionForge''' is a software forge derived from [http://www.gforge.org/ GForge] (versions 4.x). It started as a way to keep the open-source codebase alive, and bring contributors of enhancements together. FusionForge is developed by a group of [http://www.ohloh.net/p/fusionforge/contributors contributors], ranging from volunteer individuals to members of large organizations and companies. We are also actively collaborating with other forges through the [http://planetforge.org PlanetForge initiative]. The free software aspect and the cross-forge collaboration aspects are equally important to the FusionForge project, and were actually triggers for its initiation; the genesis of the project is documented on the [http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2009/01/25/gforge-is-now-fusionforge.html announcement]. See the [http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2009/01/25/gforge-is-now-fusionforge.html announcement], the [http://fusionforge.fusionforge.org home page] or the [https://fusionforge.org self-hosting forge]. If you want to install FusionForge, have a look at [[Installing]]. If you want to install FusionForge, have a look at [[Installing]]. To get help on administrating or using FusionForge, have a look at the FusionForge manual of the version you are running at the [https://fusionforge.org/docman/?group_id=6 documentation tab]. For more info you can chat to the FusionForge developers on IRC at <code>irc.freenode.net</code> on the channel <code>#fusionforge</code>, or using an [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fusionforge IRC web client]. To get help on administrating or using FusionForge, have a look at the FusionForge manual of the version you are running at the [https://fusionforge.org/docman/?group_id=6 documentation tab]. For more info you can chat to the FusionForge developers on IRC at <code>irc.freenode.net</code> on the channel <code>#fusionforge</code>, or using an [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fusionforge IRC web client]. Note that due to timezone constraints, there isn't always someone on IRC; you may want to use the [http://lists.fusionforge.org/mailman/listinfo/fusionforge-general|fusionforge-general mailing-list], which doesn't have this problem. We also sometimes organize gatherings, such as the [[2 days Hackers/users meeting in Paris, 2010-02-03 and 04|February 2010 meeting]], where developers, users and other interested parties can meet face-to-face and discuss technical as well as non-technical questions. If you want to install FusionForge, have a look at Installing. To get help on administrating or using FusionForge, have a look at the FusionForge manual of the version you are running at the documentation tab. For more info you can chat to the FusionForge developers on IRC at irc.freenode.net on the channel #fusionforge, or using an IRC web client. Note that due to timezone constraints, there isn't always someone on IRC; you may want to use the mailing-list, which doesn't have this problem.

Our Young Ambassadors are a busy bunch, find out what they've recently been up to. Our Young Ambassadors regularly attend conferences and events, working alongside staff from our Fundraising and Events Teams in a range of roles from meet and greets, to event support, to engaging supporters one to one and also public speaking. Take a look at what they've been up to below. We are looking for new young people and parents who would like to become Young Ambassadors! Almost 40 Young Ambassadors came along to Byte Night this year to help out and speak out. Find out how they got on. Ellie recently joined us for work experience and caught up with some of our Young Ambassadors. Our Young Ambassadors met to try out our 'Right Choice' training module ahead of the upcoming Trustee interviews. "I've lived at Action for Children's New Horizons service for about a month." Each year Action for Children hosts a Sports Dinner featuring celebrities, guests, and of course, our Young Ambassadors! One of our Young Ambassadors and aspiring actor, Megan, is the voice of the Extra® Smile Back TV ad! Our latest Young Ambassador Workshop Day recently took place in Vodafone's swanky offices in Birmingham! Young voices is a collection of poetry written at last year's ARTiculation youth arts weekend. We've created a suite of training for our Young Ambassadors, to build their knowledge, skills and confidence. Read Conor's amazing life story. From being a young carer, looking after his mum to winning a Stephenson Award. Recently Ryan and Harry showed some special guests around the new wing of our Monksfield service in Hexham. Find out why Alex loves his role as a Young Ambassador and how Action for Children has changed his life. "Working with Action for Children has helped me build my confidence and talk to new people." "Action for Children have helped me a lot with my self-esteem and confidence." "I was homeless and Action for Children helped me to sort out my benefits and find a house." Recently, Arainn attended Scotland's 60th birthday and enjoyed it so much he wrote a poem to mark the celebration. Some of our Young Ambassadors, Catrin, Glesni and Lowri, recently travelled to London to meet our Trustees. Some of our young people took part in a performance bringing to life 60 years of Action for Children Scotland. "I am proud to be supporting the Fair Deal campaign, working on getting more support young people!" Recently Watford Grammar took over our Watford HQ for the day and created their own campaign videos. Our Young Ambassadors were out in force at this year's Byte Night event. Read how Tamara felt when she learnt the skills to manage her money. Watch young people from North Lanarkshire tell us about their lives as young carers. Our annual Youth Arts Weekend for young people using dance, drama and music to explore themes important to them. Congratulations to Alex on winning the 'Outstanding Volunteer Award' at this year's Stephenson's Awards. Read how Nathan has gained confidence managing his money with our Barclay's Money Skills programme. Follow our Inclusion team on Twitter and join in the conversation. Find video, photo's, latest news and more on our Inclusion Facebook page. Subscribe to our YouTube playlist and watch our Young Ambassadors in Action.

One of the most important decisions facing every project owner is selection of the "project delivery method." This term describes the complete process that will be used to design and construct a project. In a nutshell, this process relates to the number of primary parties involved in a project, the manner in which they are contractually related to each other, and the contractual responsibilities of each party. In recent years, new project delivery methods have been developed as owners have increasingly recognized that the best project outcomes result from the most successful collaboration among the parties involved. The choice of project delivery method affects almost everything about the project: budgeting and financing, risk assessment and mitigation, relationships among the parties, procurement and contracting methods, compensation process, participants in the design process, sequencing the project phases, scheduling the work, etc. Under certain circumstances, the project delivery method may impact the quality of the finished project. In the coming weeks, I will discuss these project delivery methods in detail and will highlight the most important reasons for an owner to consider each method for a given project. Each project delivery method has significant advantages and disadvantages. It is especially critical for the project owner to understand what kinds of risks are inherently increased or reduced as a result of using a particular delivery method. With the traditional Design-Bid-Build (DBB) method, the owner hires a design firm to produce complete construction documents. Then bids are solicited to construct the project based on those documents. Typically, the construction contractor that submits the lowest responsive bid is then hired to construct the project. The Multiple Prime method is similar to traditional DBB, except that the owner contracts directly with multiple specialty contractors for different portions of the work. Using the Design-Build (DB) method, the owner hires one entity (the design-builder) under a single contract to both design and construct the project. This method facilitates collaboration between the designers and the construction specialists, and it makes one party responsible to the owner for the complete project. With the Construction Manager at Risk (CMR) method, the owner hires separate firms to design and construct the project. However, the CMR firm is selected either before or during design, which enables the CM to participate in the design process. The CMR commits to a negotiated maximum construction cost and bids out portions of the work to subcontractors. This project delivery method often enables the owner to expedite the start of construction, since the CMR can proceed with preliminary work based on partial construction documents.

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Georgie is my parents' beloved Boerboel puppy who thinks he is a lap dog. He effectively replaced me and my brother as the new baby in the house. He is exceptionally clever and entertaining. Georgie recently tore a ligament in one of his hind limbs when his foot got caught as he jumped off of a garden bench. The veterinarian advised that the only viable option was to operate on the knee. Due to Georgie's size and weight the risk of injury to the healthy leg would be too high if left untreated. With euthanasia being the only alternative, my parents decided to go ahead with the surgery. After paying a deposit of R10 000, the vet bill amounted to almost R25 000! So far Georgie is recovering well, but my parents are struggling to find the money to cover this bill. I created this campaign to see if we can help in covering the cost. Georgie is my parents' beloved Boerboel puppy who thinks he is a lap dog. Georgie recently tore a ligament in one of his hind limbs when his foot got caught as he jumped off of a garden bench. So far Georgie is recovering well, but my parents are struggling to find the money to cover his vet operation bill.

Are you an enthusiastic and creative writer with a background in marketing or communications? Are you looking for your next exciting opportunity within a company with an amazing culture, fantastic benefits and the drive to expand? Then read on! An industry leading organisation based near Kidlington in Oxfordshire are searching for a Digital Communications Offer to join their small, but hard-working and growing team! They are an exciting and modern start-up, yet with the balance of a family feel. You will get stuck in with all things content, for campaigns, social media channels and the website, videos, and much more! Your passion for writing is key, so you will be looking to create engaging content to increase awareness and support the marketing and communications function. Sound like you? Then apply now! Their software products are sold into a wide variety of industries, so you will work alongside a wider team of product managers, designs, and developers as well as the marketing team. Your marketing or communications industry background is not important for this brand new, dynamic role, the creativity is what they need! Plus, although a degree in marketing or English (or similar) would be beneficial, this is not essential either. Due to the location of the offices, your own transport may be necessary. The role is commutable from areas such as: Oxford, Didcot, Banbury, Bicester, Witney, Headington, Cowley, and the wider Oxfordshire county.

Surrounded by one of Germany's most beautiful regions – the Ortenau – with an urban landscape which provides a warm and friendly welcome, Offenburg is one of Europe's most pleasant towns. For bikers in particular, the "Gateway to the Black Forest" provides the best opportunities for touring in every possible direction. A good reason for us to be active here with a Louis MEGAShop. You can look forward to the widest range from Europe's No.1 in the motorcycle and leisure world in the region. In any event, the proximity of the location to the motorway, the very good transport links and the large number of parking spaces on site make for a relaxed arrival and stress-free shopping.

Obtaining the China Patent Award is a new start for Huada Kejie's innovation and development Reviewed by the China Patent Award Review Committee, and conferred by the State Intellectual Property Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization, China Patent Award is the highest honor in the field of patent-awarded. In November, 2012, the Laser Beam Line (LP805) (Patent No. ZL201030262566.4) independently designed and developed by Huada Kejie was awarded China Patent Award for the first time, and the 14 th China Appearance Design Excellence Award in the same year, which was the first time for Huada Kejie to gain a national prize for its typical products, which was a mark for the company to step into a new era considering the scientific and technical innovation levels and the intellectual property management standards. Huada Kejie is among the first batch of the national standard units in Changzhou city to gain the identifications for intellectual property management standardization, is a national advantage enterprise for intellectual property, and an advanced unit in Jiangsu province for enterprise intellectual property management standardization, holding hundred of domestic and foreign patents, having paid great attentions to the creations, managements, usages and protections for the intellectual properties. For example, the laser beam line (LP805) had been given China Patent Award for the first time. The appearance and the module of this product all had been applied for appearance design patent, utility model patent and invention patent, and both its appearance and technologies will be protected by these patents in the forms of appearance and technologies. All these patents will be registered in the Customs, in this way, the technical rights and the market interests of this kind of products will be effectively protected. At the same time, the company also carried out such patent policies for other series of laser products from inside to outside, thus these intellectual property strategies can protect our technologies in a long term, and the covered areas by patents will be enlarged, the risks of patent infringements will be reduced, and the economic values of products will be improved. The obtaining of China Patent Award will greatly promote the developments of intellectual property in Huada Kejie, will make us understand more about the importance and the urgency of the intellectual property work in the development of the company, the traditional prejudice to the intellectual property work has been broken. In this way, the practical management regulations for intellectual property can be integrated into the running of the company, to enhance the comprehensive capability of the company in R&D and innovation. Huada Kejie will continue to implement the intellectual property development strategy efficiently, will highlight the two focus points of intellectual property standardization & informatization construction and patent rights, towards a higher and more advanced direction.

Jim Dumont – Professor of Native Studies Jim Dumont ging in 2000 met pensioen als Professor of Native studies van de Laurentian University in Sudbury. Tegenwoordig geeft hij les bij het Indigenous Masters Program van het Seven Generations Institute. Meer informatie over Jim Dumont: University of Sudbury Onaubinisay at the 2018 Parliament of the World's Religions Onaubinisay (Jim Dumont) gives the keynote address at the 2018 Parliament of the Worlds Religions in Toronto. He reflects on Creation, the nature of Spirit and our role in appeciating and living this beautiful life. Jim Dumont - After the Fourth Prophecy -- Finding a Way Back to Traditional Ways Jim Dumont is Onaubinisay (Walks Above the Ground), an Ojibway-Anishinabe of the Waubezhayshee (Marten) Clan. Since 1970, he has pursued the cultural and spiritual roots of the traditional Anishinabe Way of Life. He retired in 2000 as Professor of Native Studies at the University of Sudbury of Laurentian University. Today, Jim teaches in the Indigenous Masters Program with the Seven Generations Institute. Steve Wilhelm recently retired from his 34-year career as a journalist, writing mainly about aerospace, advanced manufacturing and international trade. Steve has taught meditation and Buddhism through Eastside Insight Meditation since 2000. He also edits Northwest Dharma News and serves on the board of the Tibetan Nuns Project. He has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Colorado. More from Religica at https://religica.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Religica.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/religica YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPuwufds6gAu2u6xmm8SBuw Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-religica Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3CZwIO4uGP1voqiVpYdMas?si=0k2-TSmwTkuTQC2rgdGObQ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/religica/id1448005061?mt=2 Religica is a comprehensive online platform at the axis of religion and society that provides non-sectarian, coherent, integrated and accessible awareness about the role of religion in society, with a focus on strengthening local communities. Honouring Our Strengths: Elder Jim Dumont, Methodology This video provides an introduction to the environmental scan methodology. Find out more by visiting: www.tinyurl.com/cultureasinterventionresearch Professor Oren Lyons – American studies & faithkeeper of the turtle clan Labels en hokjes

Former Rochester bus driver pleads guilty to shoplifting A former Rochester Community Schools contract bus driver has pleaded guilty to shoplifting at Parisian during the school day. Roseanne Stacho was arrested at 2:40 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21 for retail fraud at Parisian in the Village of Rochester Hills shopping center. Stacho's school bus was parked outside, and she was due to pick up students at Stoney Creek High School a short while later. Stacho pleaded guilty to first-degree retail fraud, a felony, for the theft of items worth between $200 and $1,000. She could be sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison and fines. After her arrest, Stacho was initially granted a $10,000 personal bond. She was then sentenced to 90 days in jail by 52-3 District Judge Lisa Asadoorian on Oct. 16 for violation of her probation from an earlier conviction, said Stacho's attorney Howard Arnkoff. At the time of her arrest at the shopping center, Stacho was on probation for a May 11 second-degree retail fraud conviction at 52-3 District Court in Rochester Hills. Stacho pleaded guilty to that earlier offense and was sentenced on July 9 to two years of supervised probation, 150 hours of community service and a required economic crimes class, said Missy Neff, Deputy Court Administrator at 52-3 District Court. Stacho, 53, of Rochester Hills, stood in Oakland County Jail blues in the jury box of Oakland County Circuit Judge Colleen O'Brien's courtroom at the pretrial hearing Friday morning. Her sentencing is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 20 before O'Brien. After her Sept. 21 arrest, Stacho was placed on leave by Durham School Services, the Warrenville, Ill.-based company that took over the Rochester Community Schools bus garage this summer after transportation services were privatized as a cost-saving measure. "The only comment I really have is that she's no longer with Durham," Rochester Community Schools Interim Superintendent Tresa Zumsteg said Friday. Stacho worked for Durham for three years, and for Birmingham Public Schools prior to that. "Whenever an incident occurs, drivers are placed on leave pending a full investigation," said Durham spokesman Blaine Krage. "She resigned during our investigation." Krage said the company didn't know about Stacho's retail fraud conviction in May until the incident at Parisian. "We did not have that previous information," he said. "This driver was not representative of the quality of Durham employees, and we feel that the appropriate steps have been taken to rectify the situation," Krage said. When asked about Stacho working in Rochester while on probation, Superintendent Zumsteg said, "We've actually had a meeting with Durham, and we've gone over their procedures to ensure this doesn't happen again, and we're very confident this won't happen again." Durham will perform random criminal background checks on 25 percent of its employees throughout the year, Zumsteg said. "We feel confident they have put safeguards in place so this will not happen again." Contact staff writer Dustin Blitchok at 248-745-4685 or dustin.blitchok@oakpress.com. Follow him on Twitter @SincerelyDustin.

Marketing and sales tactics are incredibly important to the success of all senior living communities. Are your initiatives as up-to-snuff as they could, and should, be? We won't be the first ones to break this news to you, as I am sure you are already seeing this trend in your own senior living communities: Occupancy is down all over the country. Not only is it down, but it's at the lowest levels we've seen in years and the trends aren't pointing north. According to national data recently compiled by NIC, assisted living and independent living occupancy fell to 86.5% and 90.6%, respectively, in Q2 2017. While demand has been strong for both — assisted living properties experienced a record absorption rate of 4.3% — it hasn't been strong enough to fill the influx of new communities opening across the country. This has led to low occupancy across the board and available housing left empty for long periods. Given this unfortunate trend, you're probably asking yourself, "What can we be doing to improve occupancy?" and "How can we attract new residents?" If you're not currently in this frame of mind, you will fall behind your competitors. What can senior living communities do to improve occupancy? Making immediate improvements to two areas could bolster both interest in your community and your occupancy rates: marketing and sales. Some communities view marketing and sales initiatives as interchangeable or "one in the same." However, there is a clear distinction: Marketing gets heads turning toward your community, sales happens once your target is already in the door. Although the difference may seem small, it is important that communities differentiate their sales and marketing tactics. Only by taking a targeted approach within each arena will your community be able to connect meaningfully with potential residents at each stage of sales funnel: awareness, interest, decision, and action. But don't be fooled into separating them too much: Synchronizing these tactics provides potential residents with a positive, consistent message about the benefits of your community. Marketing gets heads turning toward your community, sales happens once your target is already in the door. In conducting marketing and sales audits at many senior living communities, our team has seen communities attempt to deploy many tactics to get seniors interested in moving in. Here are 10 proven marketing and sales tactics that consistently help senior living communities improve occupancy. #1 Ensure your website is up to par with your competitors'. Is your website easy to navigate, even for someone who's not tech savvy? Can you type your web address manually without struggling? Does your website load quickly? Are you using high-quality images of your available units, landscaping, amenities, and dining spaces? Is your website mobile friendly? Your community's first impression often happens online. You must invest time and energy to make it inviting, with easy navigation, fast and mobile access, and engaging content. #2 Consistently track the ROI of every marketing initiative. Each market is going to respond to marketing initiatives differently. While some may find that printed ads work best to draw in seniors and their families, others may conclude that hosting on-site events or "open houses" are the best way to create interest. Careful tracking is essential to make sure you're investing your valuable marketing dollars only on tactics with high returns. #3 Be aware of what is being said about your community online. #4 Use Google AdWords to help you stay visible in web searches. Google AdWords is a customizable, efficient marketing tool used by millions of businesses to get their organizations noticed online. Chances are, your competitors are already using it. Stay at the top of Google search results — and top of mind for those who are looking for a new place to live — by considering an investment into this service. #1 Make sure all sales personnel have formal training. No matter how small or temporary a role, make sure each staff member has formal training on sales etiquette and strategy. Include weekend staff, after-hours reception, and other roles outside of your 9-to-5 lineup. One slip up could mean an irreversible impression and a lost sale. #2 Be open and transparent with community information. Residents moving into a community and away from life-long homes have a lot to think about and many questions to ask. Don't hold information hostage as a quid pro quo for contact information. The most important thing you can do is make seniors feel comfortable with the idea of moving in. They need full disclosure to make the decision. #3 Listen to what the potential resident REALLY needs. Sales staff are often so hyper-focused on going through the motions of a tour that they forget an important first step. Before the tour, sales staff should get to know perspective residents and learn their needs. A "home body" may be overwhelmed or turned off if the salesperson emphasizes high-activity areas. If the senior is reluctant to move, teach your sales staff how to dig into the root of why so together, with the senior and his or her family, they can work through any insecurities. #4 Use a CRM system to track lead interaction. Don't rely on your staff's anecdotal recall to understand your marketing and sales initiatives' effectiveness. Whether staff contact leads in person, via email, or over the phone, track every interaction with every lead, every time. A customer relationship management (CRM) system is the most effective way to gauge the impact of tactics on your sales traffic. #5 Be willing to ask for the sale. While you don't want to be too pushy, not asking for a sale could lead to losing out on the sale altogether. Ask the potential resident, "What will it take to make you to move?" or "When can we expect you to move? Let's discuss some potential move-in dates that fit your schedule." You might be surprised at the positive response this gets. So there you have it: 10 marketing and sales tactics to improve senior living occupancy. Your next steps? Download our checklist to compare these tactics to your community's marketing and sales initiatives for a quick way to make improvements that will help attract new residents and increase occupancy. If you prefer a more comprehensive assessment, we would be happy to help you evaluate your departments' initiatives as part of our marketing and sales audit services. The 10 tactics we provided are a great place to start, but there are still many other areas within your business you should assess to ensure your community's occupancy levels improve year to year. Your facilities, service mix, staffing, and many other factors also affect occupancy. Plante Moran Living Forward has a multidisciplinary team that can help you think through all of these factors. We bring financial feasibility, market study and site selection, operations consulting, and development advisory services under a single point of contact to help senior living providers stay competitive, grow, and provide quality care. Contact us today to learn more.

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One of the best affordable shotguns around is the Beretta 686 Silver Pigeon 1. This gun comes with everything you need but without the price tag. Gun City is proud to carry these so come on in and have a look. The Silver Pigeon I Sporting offers all the functional features of our premium over-under competition shotguns at a particularly attractive price. It is built around the best-in-class 686 action, which is compact and low-profile while being extremely strong. The Optima-Bore, Optima-Choke barrels are light-weight and place the shotgun's point of balance right at the hinge-pin, meaning lively feel in the hands and natural pointability. And with its select-walnut stock and tasteful scroll engraving, the Silver Pigeon I Sporting won't fail to turn heads at the range, also thanks to its unmistakable Beretta looks. At the heart of the Silver Pigeon I Sporting is the legendary 686 action, a long-standing favorite among competition shooters and hunters. Over-under actions must have a strong locking mechanism, because the stress of every shot causes the action to "want" to open. For this reason, most manufacturers place the locking lug(s) at the top of the receiver, making it strong but also taller and bulkier than it needs be. Thanks to its long experience, Beretta uses instead two conical locking lugs at mid-action, right between the barrels. This gives the 686 receiver vault-like locking strength while keeping the profile considerably lower. The advantage is that the eye of the shooter is a lot closer to the plane of his supporting hand: considerably better swing and hand-eye coordination, more targets shattered. Another advantage of the Silver Pigeon action is the fact that the locking lugs are conical. As the number of shots fired goes into the five digits, the receiver will still lock up positively: the conical lugs merely "self-adjust" by setting themselves sligtly deeper into the barrel unit, without any compromise on strength. This means that the Silver Pigeon Sporting is a shotgun that will stand up to years of enjoyment and can be passed down from generation to generation. While not as elaborately decorated as our premium shotguns, the Silver Pigeon I Sporting has all the elegance that you can expect from a Beretta. The oil-finished stock sports a beautiful and crisp checkering pattern, and the schnabel fore-end adds to the classic flavor of this over-under. The scroll-engraved receiver is a functional work of art in itself, with its interesting geometry blending perfectly with the stock and contributing to the gun's graceful lines. This is a shotgun that has all the elements of a treasured heirloom, without the price-tag to match. 12ga Beretta 692 X-Trap 30" 12ga Beretta A400 Xtreme Plus: Black/Synthetic, 28"

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Money & Markets - We know Money. Nairobi lawyer fights DPP's request to withdraw forgery case against him By Editor On Jun 14, 2018 A perimeter wall erected around the Karen land at the centre of the forgery case By Gitahi Ngunyi A Nairobi lawyer, Guy Elms Spenser yesterday opposed a request by Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Noordin Haji to withdraw a case where the advocate has been charged with forging a client's will in relation to a Sh500 million piece of land in Karen. Instead, Spenser asked the court sitting at City Hall, Nairobi, to allow him to proceed with the case. The forgery claims were made by Agnes Kagure (Get more about her here) who has been also been accused in a separate court with forging land documents as well as transfer deeds in a bid to grab the land in dispute. Kagure claims the deceased sold the Karen land to her in 2011 before he died, for Sh100 million in cash. During the hearing yesterday prosecutor Lillian Obuyo told the court that the DPP had applied for the withdrawal of the case and proposed fresh investigations into the same due to insights that prove prior investigations were inconsistent. Essentially this means the case was filed without evidence in the first place and the DPP could find himself censored by the court for abuse of the court process if the matter proceeds to the end. Obuyo divulged as much in her submissions yesterday. The prosecutor said that the DPP was seeking to withdraw from case to avoid abuse of the court process but that the case would be filed afresh on the strength of new evidence. Yesterday proceedings could mark a turning point in the case particularly because it may turn public attention on the workings of the DPP's office. Of particular interest to the public will be how the court treats information proving that the DPP's office had a forensic audit report from the National Land Commission on the land dispute which absolved Spenser from the allegations of forgery when it filed the suit. Last month, Haji who had just recently been appointed to the office called in Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission detectives to vet his officers of corruption. It is not difficult to see why the veteran lawyer opposed the DPP's request which gives a prosecutor a license to have a discharged person arrested outside the court that had set him free on the same day. Lawyer Davis Osiemo for Spenser told the magistrate to process with the matter unless the withdrawal of the case was a section of the criminal procedure act that allows the magistrate to grant an accused person complete acquittal in which case it would be difficult for DPP to charge the veteran lawyer afresh based on the facts on this case. The section that Spenser was referring to provides that a court shall dismiss a case and acquit the accused if at the close of the evidence in support of the charge by a prosecutor and the accused person, it appears to the court that a case is not made out against the accused person sufficiently to require him to make a defense. Incidentally, DPP relied on section 87 of the criminal procedure act in his request to the court which is a double edged sword. The section allows a DPP to terminate a case against an accused person where evidence is insufficient but also provides him with headroom to charge the accused person afresh based on the facts of the withdrawn case. The section says that a public prosecutor may with the instruction of the DPP withdraw from the prosecution of any person, and upon withdrawal. If the withdrawal is made the accused person has been called upon to make his defense, he shall be discharged. "But discharge of an accused person shall not operate as a bar to subsequent proceedings against him on account of the same facts," says the act. This case has been going on since 2016 where Spenser is being accused of forging late Roger Robson signatures. Spenser was named as the executor of Robson's Will. Yesterday, Kagure put up a spirited fight against the DPP's request to withdraw from the case. Kagure who spoke through her lawyer, Wandugi Karathe told the court that he had not been served with the new documents that had contributed to the DPP's decision which include a report by the Lands Commission. But Osiemo, clarified that the said documents had already been shared in other court proceedings. The Magistrate granted leave to Osiemo to file an affidavit showing when the documents were shared and also set a new hearing date of July 19, 2018. 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Education and Schools in Rotterdam While the range of schools and education styles in Rotterdam isn't as extensive as that in Amsterdam, parents still have a few options to choose from. As is the case throughout the Netherlands, both public and private schooling is of a high quality. In public schools, teaching is in Dutch, while private international schools teach in the language of their country of origin. Younger children can pick up a new language relatively easily and are best suited to public schools in the Netherlands, while older kids and teenagers are less likely to adapt to full-time schooling in a new language. In this case, an international school or bilingual programme is recommended. Homeschooling is not a common option for parents in Rotterdam – it is not explicitly recognised by Dutch law and, given the high quality of education in the city, few families see the need for homeschooling. Public schools in Rotterdam Compulsory education in the Netherlands begins at the age of five, but most parents opt to begin their child's schooling at age four, especially as this non-compulsory year is funded by the government. Tuition at Dutch public schools is free for children between the ages of four and 16, though some schools may ask for an additional parental contribution (ouderbijdrage). Teaching is in Dutch, which means that public schools aren't always a viable option for non-Dutch-speaking families or those who don't intend to stay in the country long term. Some public schools have international sections offering bilingual education (tweetalig onderwijs) designed for native English speakers. For some families, this is an ideal solution. Though not free, these programmes are subsidised by the government and are considerably cheaper than private international school fees. At present, the tweetalig onderwijs programme is offered by only a few select schools in Rotterdam. Most children attend a school in the same neighbourhood where they live, which makes getting to school easy but also means schools must be prioritised when looking for accommodation in Rotterdam. At age 12, children begin secondary school. Rotterdam, like the rest of the country, offers three public secondary schooling options: VMBO (voorbereidend middelbaar beroepsonderwijs), HAVO (hoger algemeen voortgezet onderwijs) and VWO (voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs). All three start with a general curriculum and then offer specialised streams. HAVO and VWO are typically academically oriented, preparing students for university, while VMBO takes a practical approach and offers a vocational programme. International schools in Rotterdam Private international schools are accredited to offer foreign curricula in the Netherlands. Generally, these schools provide a good standard of education with excellent facilities. Fees are usually high, so if opting to go this route, parents should ensure they can afford it, especially as education subsidies in relocation grants are becoming increasingly rare. Choices for private international schools are limited, with just a handful of schools in Rotterdam offering international curricula. Because there are so few options for expat parents, demand often outnumbers available seats, so it's best to start the application process as early as possible. Nurseries in Rotterdam Expat parents of infants can find a number of childcare facilities and services across all areas and suburbs in Rotterdam. Daycare centres are typically open from 7am to 7pm, and provide food, play activities and care for the youngest infants, while preschools generally take children from ages two to four. Additionally, expats can easily find after-school centres for children, join informal playgroups or hire babysitters, nannies or au pairs. Expat parents should find out about the national child benefit allowances to cover costs of raising their children at their local municipality where they register after arriving. Special-needs education in Rotterdam The level of support to children with disabilities in Rotterdam is high. Many schools provide inclusive classroom settings with additional support staff and facilities, dependent on student needs, while various informal support groups can be found in the city. When looking for the most suitable school in Rotterdam, children may be evaluated and expat parents interviewed to determine their needs, and parents should enquire about this at their local municipality. Children may be integrated into a mainstream school or settled into a school dedicated to children with special needs, namely speciaal basisonderwijs and speciaal onderwijs schools. These schools are further divided into four specific clusters: children with visual impairments; hearing or speech impediments; physical or cognitive disabilities or chronic illnesses; and behavioural or social problems. Tutors in Rotterdam Children and adults alike can benefit from extra tuition in Rotterdam. Tutors can easily be found through specific companies or online portals, and they can provide private classes, online or in-person, in a wide range of subject areas. Expat families will benefit from learning Dutch to overcome any language barriers, and a private tutor is a good way to go about this. Further reading​ ►For a more in-depth overview of the national system, see Education and Schools in the Netherlands Are you an expat living in Rotterdam? Expat Arrivals is looking for locals to contribute to this guide, and answer forum questions from others planning their move to Rotterdam. Please contact us if you'd like to contribute.

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This last week Ugandans celebrated the second Janani Luwum national holiday. The late Arch Bishop has long been a lesson in Ugandan schools about the brutality of the Idi Amin regime that was responsible for his death. Lately, his example stands as something else; the duty to speak truth to power in the face of abuses especially by the State. In one item, his death and martyrdom were a violent and ultimate disgrace of the regime of Idi Amin but the other aspect, his example of fortitude and resolve even in the face of grave danger has a longer, more useful and present purpose. I could not reflect on the celebration of the national holiday dedicated to Luwum without a deep sense of its irony. Just before the holiday a priest from the West of the country and the President had gotten into a public quarrel about what the Church could or could not say to the seat of power in the country. But perhaps even more glaring in the celebration held in Kitgum was the absence of Joseph Kony. Idi Amin may have brutally murdered Janani Luwum but in the aftermath of the downfall of the Amin regime, the collapse of the state in Uganda and retreat of power holders in the north had given rise to the Lord's Resistance Army. Around Mucwini, Janani's ancestral home, one LRA attack in 2002 claimed dozens of victims. It was known particularly for its brutality. Babies were smashed by the rebels on trees and their mothers forced to pound them in traditional wooden mortar and pestles – used to soften grains. Others were burnt in huts. The terrorism of the LRA was meant to discredit the Museveni regime and some of Janani Luwum's most fervent disciples like Olara Otuunu blamed the government for failing to protect citizens. It was Olara Otuunu who re-introduced me to Luwum as an adult. At that time, he was campaigning for the designation of the Northern Uganda war as a particular genocide against the Acholi people – a sentiment that still holds with many members of the Acholi elite. So to celebrate Luwum – without Joseph Kony, and on a narrative stripped of the context of LRA violence (non-state violence) is a form of rehabilitation of the group if not a powerful sign of the changing times. While LRA committed heinous crimes – it has always been the state, and violence by the state that enjoins Luwum's martyrdom. With the absence of the LRA from the North for over a decade now, the crimes of the state return to offer a fearfully less urgent reading of their crimes in places like Mucwini. The ogres of today's violence, the new LRA, are taxpayer enabled security officers caught brutally torturing and killing civilians. These are the monsters that fill the national papers and frighten TV and radio audiences. With every new story of torture, death and the slow expanse of impunity by amongst others elite police officers the less present LRA has become and the more immediate the violence of power – the kind Luwum stood against. One of the disagreements I had with Olara Otuunu was that he may have sought some kind of equivalence in the violence of the LRA and that of the government especially amidst the worst period of the Northern Uganda crisis. If not a false equivalence he at least placed a (reasonable and heavier) burden on the government for not doing enough. A sort of criminal negligence borne out of the duty of care a government has. Consequently, many thought or even accused him of excusing the rebels whose actions occasioned the harm in the first place. But with the absence of the LRA at the celebration of Luwum Day, his mentor the late Arch Bishop is also freed to be a symbol of what has always been the genesis of violence in Uganda – the abuse of state power by those responsible for it. Many who come to this issue today will automatically focus on the many examples of the current violence, the torture in places like Nalufenya, the personal accounts of deprivation, detentions without trial, the fetishization of national security, abuse of superior orders and the cynical – and mostly evil disregard for life. These things are capable of rehabilitating even the worst crimes of the LRA ( or Amin's other crimes). Luwum was right to stand against them in the 70's. More should speak out against them today.

NAR: U.S. Existing-Home Sales Drop 2.7% in April It's the third monthly decline in a row. NAR cites the lack of inventory for the slowdown, as well as the increase in median price to $341,600, up 19.1% year-to-year. WASHINGTON – Existing-home sales waned in April, marking three straight months of declines, according to the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). All but one of the four major U.S. regions tracked by NAR saw month-over-month drops in home sales, but each also registered double-digit year-over-year gains for April, in part due to the rise of the pandemic one year ago. Total existing-home sales – completed transactions that include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops – slipped 2.7% from March to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 5.85 million in April. Sales overall jumped year-over-year, up 33.9% from a year ago (4.37 million in April 2020). "Home sales were down again in April from the prior month, as housing supply continues to fall short of demand," says Lawrence Yun, NAR's chief economist. "We'll see more inventory come to the market later this year as further COVID-19 vaccinations are administered and potential home sellers become more comfortable listing and showing their homes. The falling number of homeowners in mortgage forbearance will also bring about more inventory. "Despite the decline, housing demand is still strong compared to one year ago, evidenced by home sales from this January to April, which are up 20% compared to 2020," Yun adds. "The additional supply projected for the market should cool down the torrid pace of price appreciation later in the year." The median existing-home price for all housing types in April was $341,600, up 19.1% from April 2020 ($286,800) – a record high and a continuation of 110 straight months of year-over-year gains. Total housing inventory at the end of April amounted to 1.16 million units, up 10.5% from March's inventory but down 20.5% from one year ago (1.46 million). Unsold inventory sits at a 2.4-month supply at the current sales pace, slightly up from March's 2.1-month supply and down from the 4.0-month supply recorded in April 2020. The inventory numbers continue to represent near-record lows since NAR first began tracking the single-family home supply in 1982. The time between listing a property and having it go under contract also continued to tighten in April. Properties typically remained on the market for 17 days last month, down from 18 days in March and 27 days in April 2020. Of all homes on the market in April, 88% went under contract in less than a month. First-time buyers bought almost 1 in 3 homes (31%) in April, down from 32% in March and 36% in April 2020. "First-time buyers, in particular, are having trouble securing that first home for a multitude of reasons, including not enough affordable properties, competition with cash buyers and properties leaving the market at such a rapid pace," Yun says. Individual investors or second-home buyers, who account for many cash sales, purchased 17% of homes in April, up from 15% in March and 10% in April 2020. All-cash sales accounted for 25% of transactions in April, up from both 23% in March and 15% in April 2020. Distressed sales – foreclosures and short sales – represented less than 1% of sales in April, equal to March's percentage but down from 3% in April 2020. According to Freddie Mac, the average commitment rate for a 30-year, conventional, fixed-rate mortgage was 3.06% in April, down slightly from 3.08% in March. Yun expects the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage to remain below 3.5% in 2021. Single-family and condo/co-op sales: Single-family home sales dropped to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 5.13 million in April, down 3.2% from 5.30 million in March, and up 28.9% from one year ago. The median existing single-family home price was $347,400 in April, up 20.3% from April 2020. April existing condominium and co-op sales were at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 720,000 units, up 1.4% from March and up 84.6% from one year ago. The median existing condo price was $300,400 in April, a 12.6% increase from a year ago. "The demand for homeownership in America is as strong as it's ever been, and NAR continues working with policymakers across the country to find solutions to the issues we face in our industry," says NAR President Charlie Oppler. "Ultimately, though, buyers still recognize that securing a home is one of the best ways to build long-term wealth, and Realtors continue their work to make that dream a reality for families everywhere." © 2021 Florida Realtors® Posted by Eduardo Brandt at Monday, May 24, 2021 No comments: Mega Investor Spending Billions on Single-Family Rentals By Bendix Anderson Faced with a dearth of affordable existing homes, single-family investors say they'll spend big money creating new rental-home developments in Fla. and other states. NEW YORK – The single-family housing market is red hot with prices rising at record-shattering rates. Homebuyers, who were briefly sidelined during the pandemic, have been hungry to take new space and take advantage of low mortgage rates to buy homes. Nationally, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index of property values climbed 12% in February from a year earlier, the biggest jump since 2006. So, it might seem like a challenging time for investors to swoop in and build single-family rental (SFR) portfolios. But that's exactly what Transcendent Electra, a new joint venture, is doing with a war chest enabling it to spend billions to buy and build houses. Transcendent Electra, launched in February, is a partnership between Transcendent Investment Management, a single-family rental (SFR) platform, and Electra America, a longtime owner and operator of apartment properties. "We're able to leverage Electra's multifamily expertise and presence in those markets to reach prospective residents and capitalize on economies of scale says Jordan Kavana, CEO of Transcendent Electra. "There are a lot more efficiencies the multifamily has realized that single-family rental houses have not." One appeal is that demand for SFR rentals has been rising right alongside demand for home ownership. In fact, two SFR REITs, American Homes 4 Rent, which owns 54,000 houses, and Invitation Homes Inc., recently announced double-digit percentage increases on rents. With the economy not back to pre-pandemic levels, some SFR tenants have continued to struggle, but those renters typically are not the ones inhabiting houses in institutional-quality portfolios like the one Transcendent is attempting to build. "A lot of people move from multifamily to single-family rental houses," says Kavana. Transcendent Electra announced in May that they were adding 1,889 new homes totaling $1.5 billion to its portfolio of rental properties. Of these, the partnership is already in contract to buy new single-family homes and townhomes totaling $496 million. Transcendent Electra has another $1 billion worth of single-family rental properties in its pipeline. The properties are scattered throughout the following markets: Birmingham and Huntsville, Ala.; Florida; Savannah and Atlanta, Ga.; North Carolina and South Carolina; Nashville, Tenn.; and Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin, Texas. These investments are the first half of Transcendent Electra's plan to acquire or develop rental houses totaling $3 billion over the next three years. Eventually, the partnership plans to own and manage 15,000 to 20,000 units of rental housing. "We have strategic relationships … builders we have worked with for four or five years," Kavana says. "Our longstanding relationships with some of the nation's top homebuilders have allowed us to locate product in markets where demand exceeds supply." Transcendent Electra intends to grow its portfolio of rental houses even though home prices are growing very quickly. The median price of an existing home was $329,000 in March 2021, up from $280,000 the year before, according to the National Association of Realtors. These prices are much higher than the deeply discounted prices investors used to pay to buy houses seized in foreclosures during the Global Financial Crisis. Transcendent stopped focusing buying existing houses years ago as prices rose. "To buy an old home – you would almost have to twist my arm … unless you were buying a such a deep discount," says Kavana. Instead, Transcendent Electra plans to buy these homes and townhouses directly from homebuilders in new developments. "They allow us to buy the first five or so houses at a price that meets our return requirements," says Kavana. These homebuilders benefit because they can depend on immediately earning income at their planned single-family developments from these sales to Transcendent, instead of waiting for the usual pace of home sales to play out. That allows them to plan more aggressively and move their capital more quickly to new developments. "This is purely accretive from the homebuilder's perspective," says Kavana. Transcendent Electra will focus of buying homes in the $175,000 to $300,000 price range – and will charge rents averaging between $1,500 and $2,800 per month. That works out to an average cap rate of about 10%. Other companies focused on single-family rental properties have also started to bid to buy these new properties. "Our competition is the top REITs," says Kavana. "They are starting to understand the value of being in the new product space." Family offices and high net worth individuals continue to be the biggest investors in Transcendent's platform. A few institutional investors have also put money into Transcendent Electra's platform. About 85% of the investors in Transcendent Electra are based in the U.S., and the rest are international investors. Transcendent has been able to provide these investors returns in the 15% to 20% range. © 2021 National Real Estate Investor Locked Out: Low pay, soaring rents, pro-landlord laws set up Florida renters for eviction once COVID hit How COVID exposed Florida's eviction crisis By Caroline Glenn - Orlando Sentinel - May 13, 2021 Jocelyn Bennett paints her daughters' toenails, not bothered by the strong scent of nail polish filling the room at the HomeTown Studios in Orlando. The girls show off their pink toes, toddling around the small pay-by-the-week hotel room, one of many the Bennetts have called home since the pandemic began and they got evicted. It's just one room with a bathroom with not enough space to even open the front door all the way. But it's got a stove and a fridge, and it's better than living in their car or outside. There are two beds, one for mom and dad, and the other is shared by their five kids who are all under 6 years old. These days, a bottle of Dollar Tree nail polish is one of the only luxuries Jocelyn Bennett can give them. "That's the worst feeling to have is I can't provide for my kids. That's probably the worst feeling you can have as a parent, not knowing what to do and calling 2-1-1 and them not knowing what to do," Jocelyn, 26, said, referring to United Way's emergency hotline. In March 2020, Jocelyn lost her nursing assistant job at a senior living facility. Dexter, her husband, had been between jobs, finding work through a temp agency. They were already on food stamps. In April, they couldn't cover the rent. Their landlord told them they needed to be out in 30 days. And the family became homeless in a matter of weeks. "It was a downward spiral after that," Dexter, 36, said. "Since COVID started, we've been living in hotels." For renters in Florida, this is what eviction can look like. It doesn't always play out in a courtroom because many renters can't get a court hearing, which results in their landlord automatically winning the case. Some people, like the Bennetts, leave without responding to an eviction notice because they don't think they can fight it. Housing experts argue Florida has some of the harshest eviction laws in the country, written so landlords can evict people as quickly as possible and without going to court. During the COVID-19 outbreak, those landlord-friendly laws, coupled with the state's severe shortage of affordable homes, rising rents and years of stagnant wages, left thousands of suddenly jobless renters exposed. And even after the government ordered a halt to eviction proceedings and federal dollars were made available to help people pay rent, many tenants were not spared. Black Floridians, who were already more likely to lose their job to the pandemic and die from COVID-19, were even more likely to be locked out of their homes. In a mostly Black part of downtown Orlando, for example, renters were about six times as likely to face eviction than in another mostly white part of downtown, according to new data compiled for the Orlando Sentinel by the Shimberg Center for Housing Studies at the University of Florida. Shimberg estimates more than 57,000 evictions were filed in Florida just from March 2020 to mid-December, pushing families like the Bennetts into homelessness at a time the government was ordering people to quarantine. Central Florida renters, many of them the same low-wage workers who power the region's tourism economy, were particularly vulnerable. Even before the pandemic and mass layoffs upended their lives, they lived paycheck to paycheck in a town where rent keeps climbing and wages don't budge. So when the bottom fell out of the tourism and service industries, there was no safety net for them, and Florida's Republican-controlled Legislature did nothing to help. "They are the ones who face wrongful eviction, they are the ones who can't get living wages, they are the ones who are struggling to find reliable public transportation. It's all on them," said state Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Democrat from Orlando. "And when we ignore these crises with affordable housing, eviction, wages, public transit — we're doing it on the backs of working people. "They are the ones who pay." Renters struggled before COVID Florida ranks among the states with the worst affordable rental housing shortages in the nation, data from the National Low Income Housing Coalition show. New housing has been added to try to keep up with the state's population growth, but developers have largely ignored building places to live for low-income residents. Over the past 20 years in Florida, nearly 200,000 rental units priced under $1,000 per month disappeared as landlords increased rents. At the same time, about 1 million units priced above $1,000 were added, the Shimberg Center found. And as rent increased, pay lagged. Since 2005, Florida's minimum wage has gone up by just $2.50. It won't hit $15 per hour — $31,200 annually for full-time workers — until 2026, a voter-mandated move that's expected to lift millions of Floridians out of poverty and help close pay gaps for women and people of color. Because wages haven't grown, Diane Yentel, president of the NLIHC, said many neighborhoods are still out of reach for renters. NLIHC found an Orlando resident would have to make $23 an hour, or a $47,840 yearly salary, to afford a two-bedroom rental that costs $1,248 per month. "There was a way for lower-income workers in our country decades ago to be able to afford housing in a way that's simply not possible today," Yentel said. Some of the most common occupations for renters in Florida — housekeepers, cashiers, janitors, restaurant cooks and servers — not only pay some of the lowest wages, but they were also at the businesses most likely to shut down and conduct mass layoffs to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. Those workers were some of the 1.4 million Floridians displaced by mass layoffs last spring who struggled to collect unemployment benefits and the same renters who later faced eviction. "They were barely hanging on before COVID," Yentel said. "When you pay so much of your already limited income towards your rent, you're always one financial shock away from missing rent and being evicted, in the worst cases becoming homeless. Pre-COVID, that financial shock might be a natural disaster, or it might be an everyday disaster, you know, a broken-down car, a sick child and missing a day of work. "Last March, the COVID-19 pandemic and its financial fallout was the financial shock." That was the case for Jocelyn and Dexter Bennett. Before the virus, their family didn't make much but had enough each month to scrape together rent. They had the money from Jocelyn's nursing job and Dexter had been finding construction and landscaping work through a temp agency. Now Jocelyn stays at the hotel with the kids — they can't afford child care — and Dexter works at the Second Harvest Food Bank, where he makes $400 a week. It's just enough to afford their tiny hotel room, which costs $400 a week. Dexter also washes cars and tutors kids, and food stamps help. Sometimes they get meals and toiletries and diapers from the One Heart for Women and Children food pantry. But Dexter is thankful that at least his family is together. Last year, after the eviction, Jocelyn lived at a homeless shelter for a few weeks and the kids stayed with family. Dexter bunked with his dad in Orlando until he could save enough to move the family down from Tallahassee. Most of their belongings are still in storage. "We're just by the grace of God making it," Dexter said. "We're trying to figure it out and by God's grace we will." 'I'm just a person in a hard situation' But the pandemic didn't only displace low-income Floridians. Alexiss Green, 45, had worked for 20 years as a corporate accountant, earning over $50,000 a year. In 2019 she wanted to reinvent herself, so she quit her job, moved her two teenagers into a rental home in Clermont and used her savings to buy a fixer-upper, the first investment in her new house-flipping business. Three months after buying the property, COVID hit and she couldn't safely send out crews to work on it. She fell behind on the loan payments and is now working with the lender to relinquish the property. She lost entirely a second investment she made in a joint property. Without any income, paying the rent — $1,850 for a four-bedroom house — became impossible. In September, she found an eviction notice taped to the front door. She hadn't paid rent since April 2020. "I'm not a deadbeat person who doesn't pay her bills, I'm just a person in a hard situation," Green said. She said she understands her landlord has bills, too, "but I don't have control over what's going on in the world right now." Green wasn't living in poverty before the pandemic, but rent ate a big chunk of her income. She's no different from many renters across the state. In Florida, 1.4 million of the state's 2.7 million renter households, across all income levels, spend at least 30% of their yearly income on rent. Of those, 938,957 pay even more than that, according to the Shimberg Center. That erodes the ability to save money or buy a house, or even have a few months' worth of savings to cover an unexpected expense. Home prices have also dramatically increased, making lifelong renters out of people who in another time could have afforded to buy a place. In 2000, the median price of a home in the Orlando market was $165,649, when adjusted for inflation, according to the Orlando Regional Realtors Association. Today it's $285,000. Homeowners are better protected In Florida, homeowners as a whole are on more stable financial footing, after the foreclosure crisis in 2008 forced banks and lenders to toughen the requirements to qualify for a home loan. The median income for homeowners is $70,486. In contrast, renters make a median income of $42,527. Homeownership buys stability and the chance to build wealth. Most monthly mortgage payments don't go up like rent, and even during the pandemic home values improved. Owning a home also means stronger protections against losing it. For example, a federal foreclosure moratorium shields any person with a federally backed mortgage loan, which covers about 70% of homeowners nationwide. From March 2020 to mid-December, 7,497 foreclosure suits were filed in Florida during the pandemic, compared with 57,381 evictions. The eviction moratoriums imposed by the state and federal governments because of COVID prevented an immediate deluge of cases, but thousands of renters who should have been protected slipped through. From April through July 2020, when Gov. Ron DeSantis' original eviction moratorium was in effect, 8,277 evictions were filed by landlords, compared to the 40,000 cases filed in a typical four-month time frame in the state. Then, when DeSantis changed the moratorium's wording to suspend just the "final action at the conclusion of an eviction proceeding," landlords started filing in droves. There were 7,370 evictions filed in August. In September, there were 8,922. In October, another 10,627. Some tenants mistakenly thought they were automatically protected and didn't have to answer a summons from the court. If they didn't respond in five days, that was grounds for an "automatic default" for the landlord. Some homeowners laid off during the pandemic also got behind on mortgage payments. The Mortgage Bankers Association estimates 2.3 million homeowners are in forbearance plans. But because the foreclosure process is much lengthier than evictions, homeowners weren't at risk of being homeless in weeks. By law, lenders can't file the first legal notice of foreclosure against a delinquent homeowner until four months after the first missed payment. "We acknowledge that even in our system, that you're not likely to lose your house in a foreclosure in a matter of weeks," said Chief Judge Donald Myers, who oversees the 9th Circuit Court in Orange and Osceola counties. "It's likely going to take upwards of a year to make that happen." Most lenders also have programs to prevent foreclosure, such as a short sale where the homeowner sells the house for less than what's due on the mortgage and the money goes straight to the lender, or transferring the title to the lender in exchange for the mortgage debt being erased, or going into forbearance. None of the options guarantees cancellation of the debt and can be blemishes on a credit report, but they buy time to look for a job, catch up on payments and keep people in housing. "A homeowner just has protections that the renter doesn't have," said Marissa Vetter, a program director at the St. Johns Housing Partnership, a nonprofit that helps distressed homeowners. "We're going to see the crisis with homeowners, it's just they have a little more time." No guaranteed court hearing The unequal protections for renters and homeowners exist in part because of changes by lawmakers that have all but eliminated the opportunity for tenants to explain to a judge why they've fallen behind on rent. The way the law is now, tenants have five days to deposit the money the landlord says they owe after getting a summons, otherwise, they waive all defenses and "the landlord is entitled to an immediate default judgment for removal of the tenant." Even access to a mediator who can resolve the case out of court hinges on tenants depositing the back rent. "This particular statute is probably why Florida is, in my opinion, dead last in tenant rights out of all 50 states," said Jamos "Jay" Mobley, senior housing attorney at The Legal Aid Society in Orange County. "You could have a great defense, but you can't present it unless you can pay upfront. Landlords know this and file questionable suits all the time knowing the tenant can't come up with the amount they allege is due. And they win." Myers said that part of the law "defines the landscape" for evictions in the state. "The statute is quite clear," Myers said. "When the Legislature put a requirement for a rent payment into the registry of the court within five days from service, they were saying, 'We're serious.'" According to statistics provided by the courts, 41% of eviction cases end in automatic default in Florida. Myers said he was surprised the number isn't higher. The Florida Apartment Association, which represents mostly corporate landlords, supports the deposit requirement because it limits the time landlords go without rent, which they depend on to pay their mortgages and other expenses. "While we completely understand some of the difficult financial situations that residents might find themselves in, there is another side to this equation, where you have a housing provider on the other side of it," said Amanda Gill, a spokeswoman for the association. "What are you saying to them when they can't pay their mortgage? I mean, they're not able to avoid foreclosure simply because they have a resident who is in pain." If they moved quickly and submitted the correct paperwork, moratoriums gave tenants a way to at least delay eviction. But landlords have been finding ways to undermine the moratorium, and groups that include the apartment association have sued the federal government to get it overturned. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., recently ruled the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overstepped its authority when it issued the nationwide moratorium, but the Department of Justice has appealed. If the moratorium is struck down, Mobley said courts would have to revert back to strictly enforcing the rent deposit requirement. The moratorium bought Green, the mother of two from Clermont, a hearing, and a judge halted her case for six months. But a few weeks ago, her landlord asked the court for another hearing because he said Green hadn't followed the rules set by the CDC requiring tenants to make "best efforts to make timely partial payments" — despite the landlord having received $4,000 in rental assistance. 'Not asking for a handout' On the day of her Zoom hearing, Green has her long braids pulled back from her face and is wearing one of her favorite pair of earrings with the Superwoman logo. Every few seconds she clicks the button to join the meeting, anxious about being late. When it starts, a judge and her landlord's face pop up on the screen. She doesn't have an attorney to represent her — 90% of tenants facing eviction don't — and Florida's courts aren't funded to provide public defenders for civil cases. She does her best to answer the judge's questions, pausing a few times to check her files and punch numbers into a calculator. She tells the judge about the rental assistance, which she received from United Way, and says she's applied for more aid from Lake County. She applied for an emergency loan through the Small Business Administration but was denied and has applied to office jobs but hasn't had any luck. She managed to collect some unemployment and received stimulus checks but that money was used to pay other bills and buy food. "I've been working since 16, and I've never had to use government assistance," Green says. "I am not asking for a handout, but what I am asking for is to be able to remain under this moratorium for the safety and protection of myself and my children." Her landlord, who's in his 70s, says he's on a fixed income and is using Social Security payments to pay his mortgage. He doesn't have a lawyer, either. A week later, the judge's ruling arrives in the mail. Green prays over the envelope before ripping it open. It's bad news. The judge ruled she hadn't made any "timely partial payments," even $5 or $10 a month. She has 10 days to move out. Green shuts herself in her bathroom so her kids won't hear her crying. "I don't understand," she whispers. "I'm just totally numb right now. I don't know what to do right now. I don't know where to go." The day before Green has to be out of her house, she's finishing packing and loading a moving truck to take the furniture to a storage unit. Christmas ornaments, the kids' volleyball trophies, a bowl of shells they collected on a family vacation are all shoved into black, plastic garbage bags. The kids are in their rooms taking apart bed frames. As she starts out of the driveway the next morning, a deputy pulls up. She tells him the keys and garage door opener are on the kitchen counter. A friend in Davenport 45 minutes away offered Green her guest room, and the kids are staying with their dad in Clermont, another family separated by eviction. But Green is trying to have faith. "At the end of the day, no matter how unfortunate this entire thing is, there is something better on the horizon that I just can't see yet," Green said. "But this is a circumstance I'm going to have to fight tooth and nail to come back from." A few days later, Green gets an email from Lake County saying she's been approved for $9,000 in rent relief. According to county staff, it will go to the landlord who evicted her. cglenn@orlandosentinel.com Have you fallen behind on rent or faced eviction during the pandemic? We want to hear your story. Click here. If you've fallen behind on rent, call United Way's emergency helpline at 2-1-1 to learn about rental assistance programs. If you are currently facing eviction and live in Central Florida, contact Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida at 1-800-405-1417 to find out if you're eligible for free legal guidance. Residents in Orange County can also contact the local Legal Aid Society at 407-841-8310. Seminole County residents can call 407-834-1660. Florida's median home price is up 17% from the same time last year The statewide median sales price for single-family existing homes in 1Q 2021 was $317,500. by: Marla Martin, Communications Manager, FloridaRealtors In the first quarter of 2021, Florida's housing market reported more closed sales, higher median prices and more new pending sales compared to a year ago, according to the latest housing data released by Florida Realtors. Closed sales of single-family homes statewide totaled 78,353 in 1Q 2021, up 19.4% from the 1Q 2020 level. "A year ago, in early March, the first coronavirus cases were confirmed in Florida," said 2021 Florida Realtors President Cheryl Lambert, broker-owner with Only Way Realty Citrus in Inverness. "Looking back at that first quarter, considering everything that we have all endured with the pandemic, and where we are today in the first quarter of 2021, it's almost impossible to believe. While we continue to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and follow guidelines to stay safe and protect our communities, Florida's housing market remains strong. But, with demand for housing greater than the available supply, it continues to drive home prices higher – and tightens the existing home-market even more." In Florida's condo-townhouse market, statewide closed sales totaled 37,505 during 1Q 2021, up 37% compared to 1Q 2020, according to data from Florida Realtors Research department in partnership with local Realtor boards/associations. Closed sales typically occur 30 to 90 days after sales contracts are written. The statewide median sales price for single-family existing homes in 1Q 2021 was $317,500, up 17.6% from the same time a year ago. The statewide median price for condo-townhouse properties during the quarter was $235,422, up 14.8% over the year-ago figure. The median is the midpoint; half the homes sold for more, half for less. Florida Realtors Chief Economist Dr. Brad O'Connor took at look at new listings data for 1Q 2021. "New listings of homes for resale were marginally lower in January and February than they were a year ago before the pandemic, but these were offset by a decent increase in March," he said. "For the quarter overall, there were only 2.5% fewer new listings of single-family homes than in the first quarter of 2020, and over in the condo and townhouse category, we saw a 5% increase. "Most people I speak with are surprised to learn that, apart from the first couple months of the pandemic, the pace of new listings has been fairly close to what it was before the pandemic. That's an understandable reaction, given how low our inventory levels are." O'Connor explained, "One way to think about it is to imagine an empty shelf at a supermarket that has been picked clean. It could be the store stopped getting shipments of the product that was on the shelf, but it could also be that demand for this product increased so significantly that – even though shipments have still been coming in – they're getting snapped up as soon as they're stocked. That's what's happening in the housing market right now. But to keep inventory from continuing to fall, we need to see a significant increase in the normal rate of new listings, and that's not happening, either." Inventory was at a 1.2-months' supply in the first quarter for single-family homes and at a 2.8-months' supply for condo-townhouse properties, according to Florida Realtors. In 1Q 2021, the median time to a contract (the midpoint of the number of days it took for a property to receive a sales contract during that time) was 19 days for single-family homes and 37 days for condo-townhouse properties. According to Freddie Mac, the interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 2.88% for 1Q 2021, down from the 3.51% average recorded during the same quarter a year earlier. Florida's Housing Market: Sales, Median Prices Up in 1Q 2021 By Marla Martin Florida Realtors' data: Single-family home sales up 19.4% year-over-year, median sales price up 17.6% to $317.5K; condo sales up 37%, median price up 14.8% to $235.4K. ORLANDO, Fla. – In the first quarter of 2021, Florida's housing market reported more closed sales, higher median prices and more new pending sales compared to a year ago, according to the latest housing data released by Florida Realtors®. Closed sales of single-family homes statewide totaled 78,353 in 1Q 2021, up 19.4% from the 1Q 2020 level. "A year ago, in early March, the first coronavirus cases were confirmed in Florida," said 2021 Florida Realtors President Cheryl Lambert, broker-owner with Only Way Realty Citrus in Inverness. "Looking back at that first quarter, considering everything that we have all endured with the pandemic, and where we are today in the first quarter of 2021, it's almost impossible to believe. While we continue to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and follow guidelines to stay safe and protect our communities, Florida's housing market remains strong. But, with demand for housing greater than the available supply, it continues to drive home prices higher – and tightens the existing home-market even more." Florida Realtors Chief Economist Dr. Brad O'Connor took a look at new listings data for 1Q 2021. To see the full statewide housing activity reports, go to Florida Realtors Tools and Research section. Realtors also have access to local market data (password protected) through Florida Realtors' SunStats resource. Court Strikes Down Eviction Ban U.S. District Court Judge Dabney L. Friedrich of the District of Columbia struck down a nationwide eviction moratorium Wednesday, calling it unlawful. Friedrich's ruling applies nationwide. The eviction ban was put in place last year by the Trump administration using public health powers granted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during health emergencies. The ban was most recently extended by President Biden through the end of June. In her 20-page ruling, Friedrich said, "It is the role of the political branches, and not the courts, to assess the merits of policy measures designed to combat the spread of disease, even during a global pandemic. The question for the Court is a narrow one: Does the Public Health Service Act grant the CDC the legal authority to impose a nationwide eviction moratorium? It does not." The Georgia and Alabama Association of REALTORS®, two housing providers, and their property management companies, filed the suit in defense of mom-and-pop property owners around the country struggling to pay bills without rental income for more than a year. NAR—which helped secure nearly $50 billion in rental assistance provided by Congress since December to help tenants pay their bills and provide relief to housing providers who have lost income—supported the lawsuit, saying the ban was no longer needed. "NAR has always maintained that the best solution for all parties was rental assistance to cover the rent, taxes and utility bills for tenants struggling during the pandemic," says NAR President Charlie Oppler. "This decision prevents two crises—one for tenants, and one for mom-and-pop housing providers who do not have a reprieve from their bills. With rental assistance secured, the economy growing, and unemployment rates falling, there is no need to continue a blanket, nationwide eviction ban. With this safety net firmly in place, the market needs a return to normalcy and stability." Oppler adds that "our attention now should turn to the swift and efficient implementation of rental assistance." The Future of Florida's Growth – Net Migration Florida Realtors economist: Economists predict there will be an additional 1.4 million Floridians by 2025 – a good omen for real estate. However, not all of the state's counties will see equal growth over the coming years. ORLANDO, Fla. – What will Florida's population be in 2025? Estimates from both Florida's Office of Economic & Demographic Research (EDR) and the University of Florida's Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR) anticipate over 23 million people will reside in the Sunshine State. That's a 7% increase from their 2020 population estimate of 21.6 million (created before the release of the official Census count) and good news for real estate – increased population generates demand for housing. There's insight to draw from each of the different, but similarly trending, estimates. EDR provides breakdowns into the components of population: net natural increase (births-deaths) and net migration, while BEBR presents a projection for each Florida county. Before we look ahead, let's revisit the past. Since 2010, Florida added nearly 2.9 million people. Of that growth, approximately 10% of the gain happened through natural increase. The remaining 90% was attributed to net migration; more residents come to Florida than leave, and the share of growth due to net migration increased over the years. Now we go back, back to the future. EDR provides a bleak picture for natural increase. It anticipates the number of deaths will be higher than births. Still, net migration will more than cover the losses from natural increase through 2039, where the estimates stop. Erica Plemmons is an economist and Florida Realtors Director of Housing Statistics Mega Investor Spending Billions on Single-Family R... Locked Out: Low pay, soaring rents, pro-landlord l... Florida's median home price is up 17% from the sam... Florida's Housing Market: Sales, Median Prices Up ...

Not a Concept but a Story. Introduction to Artist's Novels and the Reading Party Saturday 10 September at 6 pm, the CAC Reading Room The Book Lovers (collaboration of Joanna Zielińska and David Maroto) are on the Baltic tour which wraps up at the CAC Reading Room. Not a Concept but a Story is a triple event: the research presentation, the reading party and the public display of the personal collection of artist's novels. First, The Book Lovers are bringing a discussion on the concept of artist's novel. Introducing traits that are particular to narrative literature into the visual arts implies the accentuation of features such as narrative, fiction, imagination and identification. How to write an artist's novel? How to read it? Joanna Zielińska and David Maroto will also give a personal account of their experience in dealing with this kind of practice through five years of collaboration, and the many positions they occupy as curators, as artists, as researchers, as detectives. There will be an emphasis on their current project, Tamam Shud, an artist's novel by Alex Cecchetti, commissioned by The Book Lovers and the Centre of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. After a short break, the audience will be summoned to a Reading Party and the fourth installment of The Loyal Reader Series. A selection of passages from most noticeable artist's novels will be read out loud by Nicholas Matranga, who will invite the audience to participate in a collective reading experience. Finally, the position of the last in the Baltic tour becomes an occasion for staying longer with the books. The public display of artist's novels from the personal collection of The Book Lovers will be on view at the CAC Reading Room through to September 23rd. This collection includes all the salient examples of the medium of artist's novels: Sweet Sweat by Justine Frank and Roee Rosen (2009), A, a Novel by Andy Warhol (1968), Fuck Seth Price by Seth Price (2015), Rape New York by Jana Leo (2009) and some 23 more. The Book Lovers is the name of the collaboration between Joanna Zielińska and David Maroto. It is focused on the research of the artist's novel employed as a medium in the visual arts. Its base is the creation of a collection of artist's novels with a parallel online database, which is complemented by a series of exhibitions and public programmes, pop-up bookstores, and publications – all of this in partnership with a number of international art institutions. thebooklovers.info The event is supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture and Mondriaan Foundation (The Netherlands). Image: The Book Lovers pop-up bookstore (de Appel, in collaboration with Buchhandlung Walther König, Amsterdam 2014). A New Refutation of Time, performance by Mark Geffriaud. Education & Excursions Screening Hall Fluxus Cabinet 2019.12.18 7pm Performance by keyon gaskin Film programme by Ana Vaz Nevermore, a new film by Gerda Paliušytė Srceening of Sudanese Film Group's works Race Conversation: three films by Ana Vaz Vokiečių 2, LT–01130, Vilnius Exhibitions are open Tuesday to Sunday The CAC exhibitions are open on the following bank holidays: 16 February, 11 March, 24 June, 6 July and the first Sunday of June The CAC Sculpture Yard is open daily The CAC Reading Room is open Monday to Friday 12–7 pm If you wish to arrange a meeting at the CAC Reading Room outside of normal hours or organise an event, please inquire via phone (+370 5) 2608960 or email justina@cac.lt Full price ticket – 4 EUR Discounted ticket – 2 EUR Free admission for all: Other discounts: Please follow this link The Sculpture Yard, Reading Room and exhibition opening nights are always free of charge. Guided tours: 6pm every Wednesday free of charge for all. If you wish to book a tour at a different time please email info@cac.lt This type of tour carries no additional cost, but purchase of a regular exhibition tickets is required. Education for schoolchildren: Please book an appointment via email edukacija@cac.lt The exhibition halls and the Reading Room are wheelchair accessible. For any other access questions or requirements please contact us ahead of your visit so we can advise and make the necessary preparations. Information via phone: Front desk: (+370 5) 2121945 Rental inquiries: (+370 5) 2623476 Press and general inquiries: +370 670 10584 Contact information of the CAC team can be found here Subscribe for RSS

Got To Be NC members represent the farmers and agribusinesses that produce our state's agricultural products. Membership in the program not only allows us to bring our members' goods to market and into the hands of consumers, it benefits North Carolina's agriculture industry as a whole. Through members-only events, trade shows, marketing initiatives and more, we support members of all sizes, from wholesale producers and processors to individual specialty food entrepreneurs. Got To Be NC membership is made by application to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, and may only be claimed by qualified and approved producers or processors of North Carolina agricultural and food products. Apply online for membership today! You can view our membership criteria by downloading it here. Prospective members looking to download a paper application form can do so here. Are you a member looking to update your information? Explore grant initiatives and opportunities available from Got To Be NC and our partners. The 2019 Winterville Watermelon Festival is proud to once again partner with Got To Be NC to offer a discounted vendor rate for Got To Be NC members in the Got To Be NC Pavilion. The Got To Be NC Pavilion is a fan favorite at the Winterville Watermelon Festival and highlights delicious food and products from the Tarheel State. The Got To Be NC Pavilion will be open on Saturday August 24, 2019 from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm during the 4 day festival. The Watermelon Festival is offering Got To Be NC members a discounted rate. All vendors who register before July 1, 2019 will receive a 50% discount and will pay only $50.00 Vendors who register after that will receive a 25% discount and pay only $75.00. Each vendor will receive advertising prior to and throughout the festival. To receive the discounted vendor booth space in the Got To Be NC pavilion you must be a Got To Be NC member. Membership will be verified before approval. Please visit watermelonfest.com and choose the link for the Got To Be NC Pavilion Vendor Application. You can also email wintervillemelonfest@gmail.com. Yep, in Mount Olive, it's a pretty Big Dill. Got To Be NC has partnered once again with the NC Pickle Festival to offer Free vendor booth space to Got To Be NC members at the 2019 North Carolina Pickle Festival in Mount Olive, which will be held Saturday April 13. Space is limited to 12 vendors on a first-come, first-served basis. Pavilion participants will also receive two free passes to the festival's hospitality suite and reserved parking. Hurry! The deadline is April 1. To participate in the GTBNC Pavilion, you must be a GTBNC member. The annual Got To Be NC Festival takes place May 17-19 at the N.C. State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. Got To Be NC members are invited to show, sample and sell your products in the Homegrown Marketplace located inside the 50,000 square foot Exposition Center. This is your chance to join over 100 other North Carolina food and beverage companies to promote your products to thousands of consumers! This show is a unique opportunity to sample and sell your products. Get more information and register here. The RAFI Agricultural Reinvestment Fund grant program assists entrepreneurial and innovative farmers in developing new sources of agricultural income. Grants of up to $9,000 to individual farmers and up to $11,000 for collaborative farmer projects are awarded. Watch for grant announcement in early November for NC farm operators with innovative plans to diversify, expand, or implement new entrepreneurial plans in the operations in several counties. To request an application form, email the program coordinator, Jackie Miller with "NC AgVentures Application" in the subject line, your name, farm address, county, and name of your NC Extension agent.

Side Feature, Social System, The Khilafah Let the Ummah Stand Up to these Malicious Institutions and Thwart their Plans written by Official Spokeswoman of the Women's Section in Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Sudan A group of entities and bodies intends to conduct a procession at noon today, Thursday 02/01/2020, to demand the signing of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and said that the procession will meet the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice to deliver the memo, and announced that the bodies participating in the procession include "The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, "The Initiative of No to the Oppression of Women, the Women's Union, as well as the resistance committees and the Kendakat gathering in southern Khartoum. (At-Tayyar Newspaper) The Women's Section in Hizb ut Tahrir Wilayah Sudan would like to clarify the following facts: First: The feminist societies demanding the CEDAW agreement represent only themselves because the demand for the application of this agreement reflects a subordination and imitation of the Kaffir West who defies Islam by accusing its provisions of discriminating against women. So, they drafted the terms of this agreement targeting the Muslim woman to keep Muslim women from adhering to the provisions of Shariah by calling for the empowerment of women to dispose of their bodies and abolishing the legal guardianship of men over them in an explicit targeting of the Muslim family, inciting Muslim women against the provisions of Islam, and working to enact laws that rebel against the provisions of Islamic Shariah, in evasion from the noble values and high morals so that her life can go according to the West's liberal view, and the constant incitement to defend what are called freedoms, while constantly manifesting that the gardens of pleasure lie in the Kafir West's way of life, and that backwardness is to remain under the Shariah rules that restrict the freedom of the individual! Second: These suspicious feminist societies complement the path of perverting women, and their fall in the quagmire of decadence and corruption by educating them the Western culture and concepts with glamorous slogans! Such as claiming to support women, informing them of their rights, helping them to prove themselves, and strengthening their personality in order to enhance their role in life! While the truth is that they want her to be a distorted image of Western women panting behind glamorous slogans and false fame, so she falls into constant misery. Third: The activities of these associations have increased, as they disseminate their poisons with claims to rehabilitate rural women, spread the concepts of reproductive health, and use of condoms under the pretext of combating AIDS, as well as spreading gender culture, combating violence against women and eliminating all forms of discrimination against them, and other slogans that appear glamorous on the surface. The work of these associations has led ignorant women to rebel against the values ​​of Islam, the family, the father, and the general custom influenced by Islam, which led to the spread of vice, prostitution, divorce, spinsterhood, and other problems that affect women primarily. The people of Sudan must be cautious of these feminist societies, which do not need to ascertain that they are a Western commodity, whether in terms of the creed on which they are based (secularism), or the system that they follow, which is the capitalist system, which adopts freedoms. This appears in the programs they adopt, and the issues that they raise, and their Western sources of funding speak of treachery and mercenaries. The book, Spotlight on the Sudanese Feminist Movement, revealed this support in a statement by the U.S. Embassy, in which the Embassy announced a $35,000 monthly aid to one of Sudan's leading women's associations, as well as the project "Eradicating habits harmful to family health" adopted by Babiker Badri Scientific Association for Feminist Studies is sponsored by the American Public Welfare Association. These feminist associations must raise their hand from our honours, for we are fully convinced that we have a great role in this life. A woman in Islam is a mother, a housewife, and an honour that must be protected. And Islam definitely dose not consider the mother, sister, daughter, and wife as slaves to men as it is in the culture of these associations belonging to the West. Rather, it described those who honour them with kindness and those who humiliate them with meanness, and obliged men to take care of them, because the Messenger ﷺ said: «وَالرَّجُلُ رَاعٍ عَلي أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ وَهُوَ مَسْئُولٌ عَنْ رَعِيَّتِهِ» "a man is a guardian of his family and is responsible for them." And considered death for the sake of protecting woman and preserving her as a Shahadah (martyrdom) by the saying of the Messenger ﷺ: «وَمَنْ قُتِلَ دُونَ أَهْلِهِ فَهُوَ شَهِيدٌ» "And he who is killed while defending his family is a martyr." O Muslims: Stand up to these malicious institutions, and thwart their plans by preventing your women and daughters from visiting these associations, and attending their destructive malicious activities and events. Let us fortify them with the great Islamic culture, and wise Islamic concepts, especially the Shariah provisions related to women in their rights and duties, and their pivotal role in life. Let all men and women work with men and women workers to establish the second Khilafah Rashidah (righlty guided Caliphate) on the method of the Prophethood, which will protect women, families, society, and indeed all humanity from these institutions, their supporters, and their financiers. Official Spokeswoman of the Women's Section in Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Sudan Thursday, 07th Jumada I 1441 AH Filed under: Side Feature, Social System, The Khilafah Previous PostThe Economic Hitmen of Pakistan – The Treachery Continues Next PostIRAN-US: What's Next?

Q: Logging errors by serilog-timings at loglevel "Error" I show my idea on the serilog-timing example. public static void Main(string[] args) { Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration() .Enrich.FromLogContext() .WriteTo.LiterateConsole() .WriteTo.Seq("http://localhost:5341") .CreateLogger(); Log.Information("Hello, world!"); var count = 10000; using (var op = Operation.Begin("Adding {Count} successive integers", count)) { try { var sum = Enumerable.Range(0, count).Sum(); Log.Information("This event is tagged with an operation id"); var x= 0; var y = 1/x; op.Complete("Sum", sum); } catch(System.Exception ex) { op.Abandon(ex, LogEventLevel.Error); } Log.Information("Goodbye!"); } Log.CloseAndFlush(); } Unfortunately, the op.Abandon() method currently doesn't have the second parameter which would set the log level. It creates always a Warning-level log item. I can make the modification in serilog-timing (adding a 2-parameter override of op.Abandon()) but perhaps there is also a workaround for this issue, like in the case of our last question. So, my question is, can I achieve the desired result without this modification, or this time, I can't avoid making the necessary changes in the serilog-timing project?

It seems like such a nice, fun thing to do with the kiddos. Grab the partial loaf of bread and head down to Lucy Park to feed the ducks. But there's a really good reason why you shouldn't do that. First if all, it's bread, probably white bread, pretty much deficient of any kind of nutritional value whatsoever. But the ducks love it, right? I mean they come right up and take it out of your hand! Well, so would you if someone was handing out free candy. Yes, they love it, but there are better alternatives that will bring you and your kids just as much enjoyment and be a lot better for the ducks. I called the folks at Wild Birds Unlimited inside Smith's Gardentown Farms and was told that they have bags of dried corn that are great food sources for the ducks, along with all of the other birds you might want to feed from time to time. But wait, you say. You didn't want to have to go through some big ordeal; you just wanted to get your kids outside doing something in the sunshine. You're in luck! You probably already have a great alternative duck treat in your freezer. It turns out that ducks love peas and carrots and they're much better for them than bread. Just be sure to thaw them out before you feed them to the ducks. So, by all means, go down to Lucy Park or Sikes Lake and make those ducks happy! Just feed them something that will actually keep them healthy, too.

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