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So our family--or those of us still at home--just returned from our mid-summer vacation. We went a wandering to the north shore of Lake Superior and then on to Apostle Islands this time . . . and the experience was a good reminder of the value of family.
Later, I may tell you about the families that lived at the lighthouse for an entire season since the only way to access the spot was by boat, or of the Nebraska families that helped settle Madeline Island, or of going to school across the "ice road"--but today, I'll tell you about a part of our extended family and their business.
The historical stories of family and the time our "core family" spent together were a good reminder of the value of the family--always easier to remember when away from the bustle of chores, work, and such--but an even more delightful reminder came when we visited relatives.
"Visiting relatives on vacation" always evokes a feeling of an ominous, discordant, chord in my head--I probably was too influenced by Disney as a kid. But the truth is, my family often visited extended family on vacation. Most of the time it was the vacation. So, I really only have good associations with the events . . . despite Walt's affects. This time would be no different . . . .
The last time we visited Lisa in Amboy, our cousin, on my wife's side of the family was on the roof. (After 36 year in the family, I claim them, and I guess, they claim me too), Why was Lisa on the roof? Because the roof needed shingles. So there was Lisa on the roof shingling this remodeled gas station in preparation for opening her own cafe. Now, many years later, the cafe is a full-fledged thriving operation and obviously, to an outsider's eye, a critical part of the community.
I'll spare you the details of setting up the visit but suffice it to say that both Lisa, and her mother, made concessions to allow the visit to occur--after much of the following: "exactly what day and time will you arrive?" And scheduling and rescheduling a round-trip drive to Amboy for our Aunt Maria who lives 45 minutes away but still bakes pies for the cafe.
The thing my "consulting mind" noticed right away--after our brief "hello" and settling into a table at the south end of the cafe while Lisa hurried back to the kitchen--was all the marks of a successful venture.
The Amboy Cottage Cafe us a very busy place for one thing. In a very, very small town. It was not early, most people would already be at work, yet there was a full house and a constant caravan on customers the entire time of our visit.
Coffee club mugs. Each personally crafted for the customer. I think we we came away with 6 or 7 ourselves.
2. Lisa talked like a business owner. In our short visit she mentioned profit margin, her five year plan. Her eventual goals for the business and her life. She expressed a wish that my wife was closer so she could make use of her organic, sustainable produce and edible flowers.
3. She demonstrated that the business was about the people. Yes, it is great food. Yes, the decor is perfect. Yes the creativity is evident--where can you go that you can order your pancakes made into any shape you want? Or get Maria's homemade pies?
4. She works hard. i noticed the cafe is open seven days a week. Many days are long opening at 6 am and closing at 8. Lisa, of course, will be there earlier and later than the "official hours."
When we were done with our visit we drove out to see the reclaimed bridge. While we were there a car approached, stopped, and out jumped my wife's Aunt Maria. Had we forgotten something? No, She was bringing out the Fedora my 11 year old had admired in the local thrift shop. She thought he should have it, so . . . she bought it and set out to catch us before we left town.
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*Rotate a 3D chart 1°

*Save the chart as a image (png)

From what I've found on the Intertubes, it seems possible.  But AppleScript's awkward verbosity and the lack of non-trivial MS Excel AppleScript examples on the web are too much for me to overcome.
Just for the saving part, this is what I have so far:
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
    activate object worksheet "iozone-16"
    set cht to chart object 1 of active sheet
    tell cht
        #save as chart object [picture type enumeration] [file name Unicode text]
        #Argh!!!
    end tell
end tell

The 'rotate 1°' task seems to involve "internal objects", but that is as far as I've gotten.  By 'rotate', I mean to rotate the chart object itself, not the image.  This can be done in with the Format Chart dialog box for ...
MS Excel Dialog Box http://dietpizza.ch/images/3d-rotation-ms-excel-dialog-box.png
By manipulating this value, it the chart object changes as in below these next two images.  (15° for effect)
MS Excel 3D graph example 0 http://dietpizza.ch/images/3d-rotation-0.png
MS Excel 3D graph example 1 http://dietpizza.ch/images/3d-rotation-1.png

A: The X axis rotation of the chart can be changed via AppleScript by setting the rotation property of the chart property of the chart object.
The following AppleScript should do the trick:
set theImagePath to (path to desktop as text) & "Chart.png"

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    set theChart to first chart object of first sheet
    set rotation of chart of theChart to 90
    save as picture theChart picture type save as PNG file file name theImagePath
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The sale total was £3.5 million. The top lot was Anselm Kiefer's Baum mit Panzer that sold for £169,250 (estimate £70,000-90,000). Other top lots were Martin Kippenberger's Self-Portrait that sold for £139,250 (estimate £18,000-22,000), and Wim Delvoye's Last Port that sold for £109,250 (estimate £50 ,000-70,000).
The top lot was an 18th-century imperial jade bowl that sold for $303,000 (estimate $400,000-600,000). Other top lots were carved rhinoceros horn cup that sold for $270,000 (estimate $10,000-15,000), and a Ch'ien Lung bamboo root carving that sold for $154,050 (estimate $3,000-5,000).
The sale total was $13.8 million, with 264 of 316 lots sold. The top lot was a 29.53 pear-shaped diamond ring that sold for just under $3.5 million (estimate $1.8-2.2 million). Other top lots were a Tiffany & Co. emerald-cut yellow diamond ring that sold for $446,500 (estimate $250,000-350,000), and a Van Cleef & Arpels diamond and amethyst Botticelli necklace that sold for $194,500 (estimate $50,000-75,000).
The top lot was a 5.07 carat diamond solitaire ring that sold for $91,500 (estimate $40,000-60,000. Other top lots were a an old-mine cut 7.87 carat diamond ring that sold for $42,700 (estimate $30,000-50,000), and a diamond, emerald, and ruby beetle brooch that sold for $25,620 (estimate $4,000-6,000).
The sale total was $2.1 million, with 169 of 268 lots sold. The top lot was an ormolu-mounted and marquetry grand piano by Steinway & Sons that sold for $122,500 (estimate $60,000-80,000). Other top lots were a German ormolu- and Meissen porcelain-mounted cabinet that sold for $122,500 (estimate $100,000-200,000), and majolica stork-form fountain basin by Minton that sold for $76,900 (estimate $7,000-9,000).
The sale total was $3.1 million, with 145 of 161 lots sold. The top lot was a late 18th-century Chinese market musical automaton clock that sold for $278,500 (estimate $70,000-90,000). Other top lots were an ormolu and mahogany orrery clock by Zacharie Raingo that sold for $266,500 (estimate $80,000-120,000), and a Cartier rock crystal, gold and enamel diamond-set strut timepiece that sold for $83,500 (estimate $40,000-50,000).
The sale total was $3 million. The top lot was an 1805 pair of four-light candelabra by Digby Scott and Benjamin Smith for Rundell, Bridge & Rundell that sold for $458,500 (estimate $400,000-600,000). Other top lots were a set of twelve Earl of Warrington dinner plates dated 1728 that sold for $290,500 (estimate $200,000-300,000), and a three-piece coffee set and tray by Dagobert Peche for the Wiener Werkstätte that sold for $80,500 (estimate $30,000-50,000).
The sale total was $27.8 million. The top lot was, of course, Lee Annenberg's 32.01 carat diamond ring by David Webb that sold for just under $7.7 million (estimate $3-5 million). Other top lots were an emerald and diamond necklace by Harry Winston that sold for $950,500 (estimate $500,000-700,000), and a pair of colored diamond earrings that sold for $818,500 ($300,000-500,000).
The sale total was $18.7 million. The top lot was a belle époque diamond and rock crystal brooch by Cartier that sold for just under $1.1 million (estimate $200,000-300,000 Other top lots were an antique sapphire, spinel and diamond "Blue Venus" sculpture that sold for $554,500 ($300,000-500,000), an enamel and diamond dog collar by Lalique that sold for $446,500 (estimate $150,000-250,000), and a diamond, ruby and emerald ballerina brooch by Van Cleef & Arpels that sold for $422,500 (estimate $80,000-120,000).
The top lot was Giuseppe de Nittis's A ride along the Avenue des Champs-Elysées that sold for $1.3 million (estimate $200,000-300,000). Other to p lots were Eugen von Blaas's The love letter that sold for $242,000 (estimate $200,000-300,000), and von Blaas's Lovelorn that sold for $176,000 ($150,000-200,000).
The sale total was $4.2 million. The top lot was a circa 1900 French carved walnut cabinet that sold for $98,500 (estimate $80,000-120,000). Other top lots were a gilt-bronze and Chinese coromandel lacquer mounted kingwood commode by François Linke (estimate $60,000-80,000), and a gilt-bronze mounted circular marquetry guéridon by Linke (estimate $40,000-60,000) that each sold for $92,500.
The sale total was $2.8 million, with 157 of 174 lots sold. The top lot was a silver-gilt candelabrum by Paul Storr that sold $518,500 (estimate $400,000-600,000 Other top lots were a mirror plateau by Phillip Rundell that sold for $158,500 ($60,000-90,000), and a silver and mabe pearl vase by Gianmaria Buccellati that sold for $74,500 (estimate $30,000-50,000).
The sale total was $9.9 million, with 74 of 138 lots sold. The top lot was Frederick Lord Leighton's Venus Disrobing for the Bath that sold for $1.8 million (estimate $1.2-1.5 million)—an auction record for the artist. Other top lots were Edward Robert Hughes's Dream Idyll (A Valkyrie) (estimate $100,000-150,000), and Leopold Carl Muller's Street Scene Cairo (estimate $40,000-60,000) that each sold for $866,500.
The top lot was a 19th-century O-Yoroi armor that sold for $51,850 (estimate $45,000-55,000. Other top lots were an 18th-century iron helmet that sold for $51,240 (estimate $45,000-55,000), and a suit of armor and helmet from the collection of Kato Yasumune that sold for $48,800 (estimate $45,000-55,000).
The sale total was $2.7 million. The top lot was a 17th-century Honkozane Nimai Do Gusoku armor that sold $602,500 (estimate $250,000-300,000 Other top lots were a pair of six-panel screens depicting the first man across the Uji River from Tale of the Heike that sold for $266,500 ($120,000-180,000), and a 17th-century Gomai-Do Yukinoshita armor that sold for $112,900 (estimate $80,000-100,000).
Images from above: Cup, China, 17th/18th century. Courtesy of Skinner, Inc.; Fountain basin by Minton, 1862. Courtesy of Christie's; Coffee set and tray designed by Dagobert Peche, made by the Wiener Werkstätte, 1923. Courtesy of Sotheby's; Brooch by Cartier, c.1910. Courtesy of Christie's; A ride along the Avenue des Champs-Elysées by Giuseppe de Nittis, 1875. Courtesy of Bonhams; Venus Disrobing for the Bath by Frederick Lord Leighton, c.1867. Courtesy of Sotheby's.


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Disabled People of Clare (DPOC ) was set up in 1992 as a Centre for Independent Living, governed and led by people with disabilities. The primary objectives of the Centre are to offer local and regional accessible transport services, to provide information and support services, to conduct research and to influence disability policy. The organisation delivers these services in order to reduce isolation, maximise independence, support formal and informal education, empower personal creativity, enhance and support training and employment opportunities.
The support from the JP McManus Benevolent Fund has enabled the Transport Department of the DPOC to:
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'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones' is released in UK and US cinemas today (Wednesday 21 August). Although the movie has been compared to such major franchises as 'Harry Potter' and 'The Twilight Saga', the film has been universally panned by critics.
Fans of supernatural fantasy are likely to be disappointed by The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones if critics' reviews are anything to go by. The film is released in the UK and US today (Wednesday 21st August).
Kevin Zerger and Lily Collins at the L.A. premiere of The Mortal Instruments, held at the ArcLight Cinema.
The Mortal Instruments is based on the best-selling series of teen fiction books by Cassandra Clare. According to IMDb, the fantasy movie follows teen Clary Fray (Lily Collins) who discovers she is descended from a race of warriors destined to protect the world from supernatural and evil entities. The film is set in an alternative New York called 'Downworld'. Clary is helped by other warriors, played by Jamie Campbell Bower (The Twilight Saga); Kevin Zegers (Gossip Girl); Jemima West (The Borgias); and Robert Sheehan (Misfits).
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The film has been compared to a number of successful franchises including The Twilight Saga and Harry Potter. Unfortunately, Matt Patches of Time Out New York stated "there's a Dumbledore, there's a Voldemort, there's a magical MacGuffin that our heroes must track down, but it's a soulless attempt to re-create the Potter magic." In a similar fashion, Kyle Smith of the New York Post wrote The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, "hopes to be the start of a new franchise for tweens and Twihards". However, he believes it is "twash".
Jamie Campbell Bower at the L.A. premiere of The Mortal Instruments.
As most critics -and the majority of sensible viewers- considered Twilight to be fairly unpleasant watching, it seems likely that teenage girls worldwide will be sucked into the obsessive fandom accompanies such film franchises. However, we will have to see how the film fares in the UK and US weekend box office following its release today.
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is due to be released in US and UK cinemas today, the 21st August 2013.
Michael Sheehan at the L.A. premiere of The Mortal Instruments.
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ARLINGTON, Texas – In the wake of another brutal loss, Ezekiel Elliott knew there had to be tough questions heading his way. Before fielding those questions from reporters, though, he had something important to say.
In the first public comments by a Cowboys player since the tragic death of strength and conditioning coordinator Markus Paul, Elliott made sure to get a message out to his family.
"I just first wanted to start this out by sending my condolences to the Paul family. I want to thank the Paul family for sharing Markus with us," he said. "He meant so much to this team and had such a big part of everyone's everyday life. And we are just grateful that you guys shared him with us."
It was a surreal end to what has undoubtedly been a trying week. The Cowboys lost their eighth game, 41-16, to Washington on Thursday. As much as that result might sting, though, it pales in comparison to the loss of Paul, who unexpectedly passed away at the age of just 54 on Wednesday evening.
To turn around and play a professional football game just 24 hours later was a new level of adversity for a team that has seen plenty of it.
"You find out a lot about people in these times. I can't tell you how proud I am of this football team," said Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy. "But yes, it's a week that I don't think any of us will ever forget."
The Cowboys honored Paul with a pre-game moment of silence before kickoff, while players and coaches wore a commemorative decal on their helmets and hats. And while touching, the tribute had to have been a stark reminder of the absence of a guy who had been a constant around the team since he joined the Cowboys in 2018.
"You lose somebody so suddenly like that, it's really hard -- and then to see his face up on the jumbotron and to have him not on the sideline with us, it's tough," said Joe Looney.
A strength coach's role on a football team is unique in the sense that he works with the entire roster. Offensive and defensive players alike work with the strength and conditioning staff throughout the season and the offseason alike.
As Elliott noted, it was Paul who led the Cowboys' stretches before practices and games – which provided another sobering reminder when he wasn't there to do so on Thursday.
"We were lining up for practice, getting ready to stretch and you get that reminder that he's not here with us anymore," Elliott said. "It definitely is tough and we've just got to lean on each other and help each other get through this tough time."
That will be a challenge for this whole team. Obviously, the grief has not passed just because this game is over. If anything, without the distraction of a game just hours away, the real challenge may just be beginning.
Given this chance to share their thoughts with the world, though, the Cowboys were loud and clear in their love for Markus Paul and their commitment to honoring his memory.
"It was a tragedy and we're still praying for Coach Markus and his family," said Chidobe Awuzie. "It was really tough, but at the same time we all know Coach Markus' impact on us. So that's what we're going to hold on to, the memories, the lessons and definitely the good times."
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The DJI Mini 3 is an affordable mash-up of its two best compact drones
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The rumored DJI Mini 3 has officially taken to the air — and this compact drone could be the new perfect home for beginners looking for their first flying camera.
The Mini 3 is a combination of the more expensive DJI Mini 3 Pro and the older DJI Mini 2, which the drone maker says will remain on sale for now. And like those drones, its weight of less than 250 grams makes it exempt from drone regulations in many regions.
So what is missing from the Mini 3 Pro? The two main features the Mini 3 lacks compared to this model are obstacle avoidance sensors (for detecting objects in front of and behind the drone) and OcuSync 3.0 connectivity.
DJI Mini 3 specifications
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Sensor: 1/1.3 inch CMOS
lens: 24mm f/1.7
video: Max 4K/30p, 2.7K/60p
Pictures: 12MP (JPEG and RAW)
flight time: 38 minutes per charge
Connecting: OcuSync 2.0
Obstacle avoidance sensors: down only
Maximum video bit rate: 100 Mbps
wind resistance: Level 5
Instead, the Mini 3 uses DJI's older O2 video transmission, which means the drone's maximum range and the reliability of its connection to your controller will be slightly less than that of its more expensive sibling. While the Mini 3 has the same 1/1.3-inch sensor as the Mini 3 Pro, it's also not capable of shooting 4K/60p video (it tops out at 4K/30p), and has a bit rate of just under 100Mbps.
However, for most fledgling pilots, these missing features will be minor annoyances rather than deal breakers. The DJI Mini 3 is, otherwise, a big step up from the Mini 2, thanks to its larger sensor, vertical video feeds, longer flight time of 38 minutes and compatibility with DJI's new RC controller.
Unfortunately, these improvements mean that the Mini 3 is also slightly more expensive than the Mini 2.
Price-wise, it sits almost exactly between the Mini 3 Pro and Mini 2, starting at $469 / £439 / AU$699 (for drone only without a controller) and going up to $699 / £669 / AU$1,019 To bundle with the DJI RC controller, which has a built-in screen which means you don't need to use your smartphone to get an on-board view of the drone.
DJI Mini 3 price and release date
The DJI Mini 3 isn't quite as affordable as the Mini 2 when it landed in 2020. For example, a bundle of the Mini 3 with DJI's RC-N1 controller (the device with a mount for your smartphone) costs $100 / £100 / £80 Australian dollars more than the Mini 2's equivalent package, likely due to a combination of inflation and the Mini 3's improved features.
However, the Mini 2 will still be on sale (for now) if you want a more affordable drone, and the Mini 3 is still much cheaper than the premium Mini 3 Pro – buy both drones with a DJI RC controller (which is what we would recommend do it, if you can), and the Mini 3 runs $210 / £190 / AU $280 cheaper.
Row 0 – cell 0 DJI Mini 3 DJI Mini 3 Pro DJI Mini 2
Drones only $469 / £439 / AU$699 $669 / £639 / AU$989 Unavailable
With DJI RC-N1 controller $559 / £519 / AU$829 $759 / £709 / $1,119 $449 / £419 / AU$749
With DJI RC Controller $699 / £669 / AU$1,019 $909 / £859 / AU$1,299 Unavailable
DJI has also brought back its "Fly More Combo" bundles for the Mini 3. These bundles include handy extras like two smart flight batteries, spare propellers, a charging hub, and a shoulder bag. On the Mini 3 Pro, the "Fly More Pro" option was an extra, but you can buy the Mini 3, the controller, and those extra accessories together for less than you can buy them separately.
Unlike the DJI Mini 2, the Mini 3 is available bundled with the new DJI RC Controller (Image credit: DJI)
The Mini 3 Fly More Combo costs $718 / £678, while those in Australia instead get the Fly More Combo Plus package (AU$1,118), which includes a battery that promises up to 51 minutes of flight time . If you're feeling particularly flush and want the ultimate Mini 3 bundle, you can also get the Fly More Combo bundle with DJI RC controller for $858 / £828 (or AU$1,378 for the equivalent Fly More Combo Plus bundle).
Analysis: DJI's new sweet spot?
The DJI Mini 3's thunder was somewhat stolen by the arrival of the Mini 3 Pro in May. This drone debuted most of the Mini 3's most impressive features, including a 1/1.3-inch CMOS sensor and a bright f/1.7 lens, which you can flip 90 degrees to shoot high-quality vertical videos.
But even though it looks like a stripped-down Mini 3 Pro, the Mini 3 is a nice upgrade over the Mini 2. We were impressed with our camera module in our DJI Mini 3 Pro review, saying that "ISO handling is, without a doubt, excellent."
In theory, the Mini 3's camera should offer similar performance to its more expensive sibling, though it lacks a 4K/60p mode and has a lower video bit rate of 100Mbps compared to the Mini 3 Pro's 150Mbps. Its flight time of 38 minutes is actually slightly longer than that of its sister.
It's a shame that some of DJI's automated shooting modes, such as Timelapse, Asteroid, and MasterShots, are missing on the Mini 3, which creates a slight sense of deliberate throttling of features by DJI to create separation between the drone lines. Meanwhile, the lack of an OcuSync 3.0 transmission means its maximum range is 10km, instead of 12km.
But overall, the Mini 3 is shaping up to be an excellent drone for its price. And if it's still too pricey for you, we've recently seen some good discounts on the Mini 2 that make it a good entry-level alternative.
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Why Keeping Your Day Job May Actually Benefit Your Side Hustles
Like most twentysomething creatives, Samantha Oh has both a day job and a side hustle. But unlike most, she doesn't believe the two to be mutually exclusive. In fact, she believes her 9-to-5 gig as a credit consultant is often just as fulfilling as the work she does for the artists collective, Axel, which she helms in her off hours. For her, the two feed off of each other: Both are exercises in helping people pursue their greatest passion projects — it's just the angle of approach that's different.
That's why we partnered with Korean lifestyle brand CJ to learn all about how Oh juggles a day job and a creative side project, without sacrificing her lifestyle in the meanwhile. Below, she opens up about the ways her upbringing as a first-generation New Yorker helped shape who she is today, the effect her Korean parents had on her work ethic, and how she continues to make space in her life for her passion projects.
What made you want to start your own business?
"I grew up in a family of entrepreneurs, so it's kind of in our blood. Before I was born, my dad worked for an electronics company selling consumer goods like televisions, headphones, cassette players — everything and anything electronic that could be sold wholesale — door to door. When he and my uncle realized they could profit more by selling their own products, my dad used his engineering background to create his own versions of most of the pieces he was selling.
"My brothers and I were born into a classic Korean immigrant family, and from an early age, our parents showed us that we needed to work very hard, but we didn't need to have completely conventional jobs. Like me, my two brothers are also following their dreams. One plays indie rock music in Korea, and the other is a project manager at a consulting company, bringing startups to life."
Can you tell us about Axel, your creative side hustle?
"I started Axel with my cousin Caitlin and our dear friend Walter because we were all looking for creative outlets, and we just vibed together. We had really awesome creative energy between us, and we thought it would be fun to work on projects as a team. We all have different skills as creatives, but when we come together, we're able to bring more depth to our projects with our varied backgrounds and perspectives.
"That's the beauty of working as a collective, and because of that, we've taken on so many different types of projects. Sometimes, that means creating a projection-mapping art installation for a major art fair, sometimes it entails taking over a 15,000-square-foot warehouse in Chicago just to throw a party, and sometimes it means designing a set for a music video. Each project looks different because we're always pulling in new artists to collaborate. Our work and our mediums are always changing. And people seem to like working with us because we're flexible in our approach; we'll do anything and everything, as long as it interests us and challenges us to grow."
Did you always know you wanted to be an entrepreneur and do your own thing?
"I majored in sociology and government in college and thought that I was going to get a PhD in sociology when I graduated — but it didn't really work out that way. I love school and I love learning, but I also wanted to go into the family business. I created personalized headphones as my first job."
How did you shift from electronics to credit consulting?
"I did [the headphones business] for a few years, and during that time I became very interested in another family business: an accounting firm owned by my mother's side of the family. People don't always know where to go for help with their finances, but we all need support — especially those of us looking to pursue our own dreams or kickstart our own businesses. So I, personally, began to build out the credit consulting leg of the business. Now, I work with people all across America, helping young graduates with student loan debt or business owners find funding."
Is your sociology background relevant to the work you do now?
"Credit consulting definitely utilizes my education. I studied race theory and identity politics, and now I get the opportunity to equip a lot of minority and female entrepreneurs with the tools they need to create their own businesses and earn financial independence. It's a great way to work with other entrepreneurs like me, looking to turn projects into profitable businesses."
How do you make time for Axel, after work?
"I go through different phases with what I want to prioritize. For a while, I was in a head space where I wanted to do one thing at a time, then I transitioned into trying to do way too many things at once.
"We talk a lot about self-care, like getting a facial, but for me, it's about our spiritual health. I recently took a step back from trying to do so much at once, which felt like the right move for my spiritual health. I'm being very intentional with my time. I try and prioritize building my business rather than going out and networking to expand my business. Instead of trying to tackle every creative project that intrigues me, I try to focus on one or two at a time that I'm extremely interested in and passionate about."
What do you do to unwind or for pleasure when you're not working?
"It's always a battle trying to balance work with side projects, but I try to follow a schedule as much as I can so I don't drive myself crazy. Mondays and Tuesdays I like to reserve for working on at-home projects, so I can leave the rest of the week open for going to events, meeting people, seeing things that inspire me, and socializing.
"When I'm home, though, I'm very intentional about finding ways to unplug and unwind. I cook a lot! I feel healthier, it's budget friendly, and it's also a great way to decompress after a long day of work. I grew up in a Korean household, so you can imagine I have plenty of familiar recipes that have been passed down to me. When I cook, I like to turn up some music — usually some vibey R&B — and start working with my hands in the kitchen.
"At the end of my night, I always follow a skin-care routine because it's my way of making sure I'm being good to myself. I have sensitive skin, so I follow a very simplified Korean skin-care routine — a gentle exfoliator, fragrance-free products, lots of moisturizer! I also pop a face mask in the fridge for 15 minutes before I use it on days when I'm feeling super puffy. It's the best remedy. It can often feel like these little things — face masks and Korean food — are the fuel that powers my job and my artists collective, both."
How do you know which passion projects are worth your time and energy?
"In the past, my arts collective has mostly focused on building art installations and music video sets, but right now, I'm really excited about the script we're working on. It's a comedy miniseries, totally different than anything we've been involved in. While we work on it, we get to exercise and flex different creative muscles, especially since we all work in different professions and have different talents."
What's the series about?
"The series highlights the alternative jobs that Asian-American friends have in New York City. There are so many fun comedies angled at our generation, but we haven't seen one that has a primarily Asian cast. We're trying to make a pilot that isn't stereotypical or formulaic, where the characters just happen to be Asian. One character is a bar owner who puts events together in the space, another works in entertainment by day but is a successful musician by night, another is a data scientist and fashion icon, one is a model minority and owns her own business, and another is a pre-med graduate pursuing a career in comedy. All these characters are based off of us in real life, and we're having so much fun shaping our stories in these characters."
What do you see yourself accomplishing in the next five years?
"I really hope my creative pursuits come to life, but I'm also happy to keep building what I'm building right now as a businesswoman for many years to come. My work as a credit consultant is definitely expanding, and I'm becoming more successful. I'm so passionate about it. The only way to change anything for people who are disenfranchised is to give them financial independence. I've seen that with my own family, that's a part of my story. In five years, I know I'll still be passionate about that."
How do you maintain balance with all these projects you're leading?
"It's hard to do everything. I'm very involved with my church community, which might be unconventional for people in New York, but it gives me so much purpose and perspective and motivation to do everything else with passion and intention in my life."
Do you have any advice for aspiring entrepreneurs?
"My advice for people who want to do their own thing is to take advantage of all the resources out there — there are so many! My uncle is an entrepreneur and advised me to keep my day job until I know my passion project can become a full-time job. It's sound advice. Sometimes it's tempting to jump the gun and forget about rent and bills, but he says you have to be passionate enough about your personal projects to stay up late and figure out how it's going to work before you can go fully in. Be as intentional as you can about finding information, and don't be afraid to ask for help."
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Q: explanation needed: ternary operator in java The line in question is return pFile.exists() ? true : null;. As it does not raise any compilation error, what is the explanation for this. It ended up raising NPE.
import java.io.File;
public class Main {
  public static void main(String... args) {
    boolean accept = accept(new File(""));
    System.out.println("accept = " + accept);
  }
  public static boolean accept(File pFile) {
    System.out.println(pFile.exists()); // prints: false, so pFile is not null
    return pFile.exists() ? true : null; //this line should throw compilation error
  }
}

pFile is not null; a File is instantiated as you can see. But obviously the file is not there. The question is not about pFile.  I am interested in how the operator is dealing with null.

A: You code is equivalent to:
public static boolean accept(File pFile) {
    System.out.println(pFile.exists()); // prints: false, so pFile is not null
    Boolean tmp = pFile.exists() ? true : null;
    return (boolean) tmp;
}

On other words, the type of the conditional operator is Boolean in this case, and then the value is being unboxed to return a boolean. When null is unboxed, you get an exception.
From section 15.25 of the Java Language Specification:

Otherwise, the second and third operands are of types S1 and S2 respectively. Let T1 be the type that results from applying boxing conversion to S1, and let T2 be the type that results from applying boxing conversion to S2. The type of the conditional expression is the result of applying capture conversion (§5.1.10) to lub(T1, T2) (§15.12.2.7).

I believe that's the case that's applicable here, although I'll grant it's not as clear as it might be.

A: You return Boolean null from function defined as returning boolean (a primitive type; note small b). The null value is automatically unboxed, and casues NPE.

A: Actually, an empty string is being used to create a file. This results in a empty abstract pathname with no prefix(or directory) and an empty name sequence. So windows is unable to create a file. This in turn is throwing a NPE


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Saeed blog
Voice Inside Madness
Blog: by Saeed Dezfouli
Open Day at Forensic Hospital
Friday October 10 was the NSW Mental Health Open Day. Between 11am to 2pm, the psychiatrists and most of the psych nurses of Justice Health in the Forensic Hospital actively treat us with respect, dignity and courtesy. Overall, the day was enjoyable and appeared successful. It was positive to see patients, nurses, doctors, and representatives from Justice Health and the Mental Health Review Tribunal all enjoying a day together. It was as though everyone was on equal ground for a fleeting moment.
The forensic patients who have behaved themselves were allowed to invite two visitors to share the day with them. This year, I invited the Coordinator of Justice Action my primary carer, Brett Collins, and one of Justice Action's caseworkers, Dion.
From 11am till 1pm, there was a speech by the Director of Service, Vince Ponzio, about how wonderful life is inside of this maximum-security mental hospital, according to him. Some patients shared their feelings in poems about the 'Snake and Ladder' game that is the NSW Mental Health System.
There was music and entertainment, which made me feel sorry for those patients who were not allowed to share the day with two of their friends. One female patient who had no visitors was allowed to sit at the opening ceremony for one hour, while four nurses escorted her. She has been in strict seclusion for a year now because she reacted to nurses pressing her buttons, by hitting them. It is a shame she was not allowed to enjoy the entire day.
At 1pm, lunch was served for about 200 patients and their visitors, as well as about 50 nurses. The food was good- it is the one day of the year the patients in here get the opportunity to eat like human beings. You can eat as much as you want with your visiting friends and loved ones. This kind of social gathering and activity is therapeutic- they should do it at least once a month.
I really enjoyed having lunch with my friends, Brett and Dion. We talked about the nature of the NSW Mental Health system, which was designed and set-up decades ago and hasn't changed since then. We also talked about how it hasn't been changed because there are no votes in it for the politicians in NSW.
After a long chat with them, they left, and it was back to reality for me in this unproductive, depressing, inactive boring, and maddening environment for another year. I'm already looking forward to the open day next year.
New Hospital Standover
Hi, its Saeed again! I am finally able to update my blog after several delays. There has been resistance to my posts by my treating team, a group of people who seem unwilling to be open and accountable for their actions. Despite countless meetings over the last twelve years, I still feel trapped and isolated, but continue to fight for my concerns to be heard. I'm lucky I have support. Others around me just keep their head down and watch. See some earlier correspondence with authorities.
The last meeting was on the 30th of June with Barbara Sinclair the Psychiatrist in Charge, Dom Seric the Registrar Psychiatrist, Liz the Primary Nurse, Gemma Weeks the Occupational Therapist and Brett Collins, my primary carer. This meeting was held to discuss whether the promises from 6 weeks ago had been implemented. The discussions left me frustrated and in disbelief; you can read more about this below. I saw once again how difficult it is to get them to listen to me as a person.
The team was aggressive and treated Brett and me with contempt, hostility and rudeness. It was clear they felt we were insignificant and "passive" stakeholders in the process rather than intrinsically involved. Brett asked why he was not kept up-to-date, even though as my primary carer, he was entitled to be informed as under the Act.
Barbara Sinclair has said that she won't "respond to emails because they could be used against her". Dr. Tobias Mackinnon, the Statewide Clinical Director of Forensic Mental Health, emailed Brett, displaying empathy that had little substance. He resorted to the default response that they will try to 'expedite … the meeting as soon as we can." Still waiting… While he says that the Forensic Hospital would never work to "crush a consumer", their actions suggest otherwise.
Dom said he wanted to talk about this blog. He questioned whether Brett had permission from the Mental Health Review Tribunal. They failed to acknowledge that such permission is unnecessary. Dom said that this blog is "all lies". Brett asked "Where?" Dom said, "You do things other than sit around. We wouldn't force people to get up".
Come On! There is no question of force. If we were given a choice to do something else, we would take it. But it is always nice to know of new readers of my blog. Hi Barbara! Hi Dom!
What about the two things promised by the Mental Health Review Tribunal on May 2nd 2014? When this was raised at the meeting, we were told that I hadn't been provided with access to a computer because I hadn't asked directly! Gemma didn't think it necessary to let me know. Come on! Secondly, no consumer workers have come to see me, another blatant disregard of the Tribunal's recommendations.
The third failure was in relation to my Management Plan, their official statement about me and how I should be treated. At the May 15th meeting, they agreed to fix some false accusations, but no changes were made! The treating team also refused to correspond with Brett about the plan, arguing that it was "private." Brett as my carer challenged this. Their actions are at odds with Dr Mackinnon's email, which states that they are "committed to engaging with consumers and their families, carers and advocates". This just shows the continual struggle to obtain information and hold those in charge accountable for their actions.
The treating team says I should trust them and stop being dependent on Brett, but I can't when there are 12 years of bad history and they dismiss my concerns and make decisions that are not in my best interests. The biggest shock was when Barbara said she "wanted to double the dose of the medication" and "preferred to use Clopixol" injections. She mocked my horror and previous "zombie" experiences with Clopixol and remarked, "We don't want you to kill anyone." Clearly 12 years of treating me, and my proven gentleness has meant nothing and in their view, there is no room for forgiveness and trust.
This meeting was the first time the team had mentioned increasing my medication, which flipped the idea trusting them on its head. For them, trust seems to be a fleeting concept that is trumped by bureaucracy and procedure. Brett said that my trust has to be earned, not compelled out of me. Barbara and Liz both laughed and ridiculed Brett in response to this, telling me that I "shouldn't expect to be treated specially" and to accept the treatment I receive.
My references to s 68 of the Act protecting my rights led to sarcastic remarks as well. "Don't get paranoid," Barbara said, despite acknowledging my right to a copy of my Management Plan turning on my mention of s 68. My treating team continues to single me out only when it is to their advantage. They said that they wanted to do psychometric testing on me. This is inappropriate, not only because I am the highest functioning person in the unit, but also after 12 and a half years in the system, they have only now decided to do these tests.
Their resistance to label their new approach "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy" rather than their term 'psycho-educational' further highlights the continual pill popping attitude to mental health. This is a concession, but not real.
No additional friends have been permitted to visit me at the hospital. Their contact details had been provided, but the hospital hasn't approved anyone. The only contact we have is with the nurses that occurs everyday at 8am and 8pm when we get our medication. Other than that, they just continue to fill out their days completing paperwork.
This 'sit down, put up and shut up' regime still reigns supreme. But despite this, I will continue to update this blog regularly.
I have so many more stories to tell, and they will be heard.
Back soon!
Thursday 22nd May 2014
Hi I am Saeed, I'm very happy to be the first to start a blog on iExpress! I am currently living in the maximum security hospital. Today, I would like to ask you to please come into my world and see how I live.
The experiences I have gone through have made me feel that the way inmates are being treated in this particular maximum security hospital, is not an appropriate way of being treated. The obligations the hospital needs to comply with under section 68 of the NSW Mental Health Act 2007 are not being met. The process followed by the hospital is simply physical and mental torture, as well as constant medication and confinement. The hospital medicates the patients for the purpose to simply force us to comply with their sit down, put up and shut up policy.
The daily routine in this hospital is waking up at 7:30am, have breakfast at 8:00am, we are then sat down to watch TV till lunch, which is at 12pm, after lunch we are back watching TV till 6:00pm, which we have dinner and once again back to TV till we go to bed at 10:00pm. Also included in our routine is our twice a day nurse visits, which are at 8:00am and 8:00pm. The visit to the nurses is the time we are given our medication. We are treated like zombies for 7 days of the week.
July 2013, I wrote a petition to Health Case Complaints Commission (HCCC) – The complaint was about the lack of interaction between the nurses and the patients. This was a concern because at the end of the shift, the nurses are required to wright notes in our medical file about mood, thoughts and behaviour. However the notes are superficial and untrue. The notes are given to the doctor, as they are now the clinical notes. The petition was signed by 28 patients in the ward, but did not interest the HCCC, as they handed the complaint back to the Justice Health. The petition worked against me, as the psychiatrist wrote in my treatment and case management plan that I was manipulating other patients to sign the petition, and I was delusional. It is quite clear, if you complain about what is going on in here they accuse you of being delusional.
How is someone meant to feel better, if they are always putting you down?
Let me tell you a tragic story of how the system is causing people to commit suicide. On 3 December 2013 the patient next to my room committed suicide by cutting his throat, which is the only way out of this destructive system. The patient who committed suicide was subject to walk with a walking frame, he was losing his ability to walk due to the side effects of the mediation. I myself have a heart condition, high blood pressure, have diabetes and have gained 30kg. I cannot have a relationship or have children anymore - this is all side-effects of the large amount of medications that have been pumped into our body.
Once every 6 months we appear before the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal, which basically rubber-stamps the recommendations that the psychiatrist recommends to them in 5 minutes.
I was representing myself from February 2002, until 2011 at the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal, my review would only last 5 minutes. This occurred even though section 46 of the NSW mental Health (Forensic Provision) Act 1990, requires them by law to review my case, treatment and detention thoroughly – That is what is NSW Mental Health System is all about, while they fill their pockets with taxpayers money. The only thing we get is a large amount of psychotic medications and their policy of sit down, put up and shut up.
Check out my iExpress page here. You can use it to send me an email.


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Q: Ordering real numeric quantities Suppose I want to have a function (call it NLess) that given two real numeric quantities, a and b, it returns True if a is smaller than b, ignoring precision. Here are some test cases:
NLess[3.14`1, Pi]
NLess[4.49999999999999`,4.50000000000001`]
NLess[E, Pi]
NLess[3.14159265358979323846263`22, Pi]
NLess[4.49`1, 9/2]
NLess[E, 2.782`1]

All of these should return True. The usual Less function only returns true for Less[E, Pi]:
Less[3.14`1, Pi]
Less[4.49999999999999`,4.50000000000001`]
Less[E, Pi]
Less[3.14159265358979323846263`22, Pi]
Less[4.49`1, 9/2]
Less[E, 2.782`1]

False
False
True
False
False
False

I have some code to do this, but I find it unsatisfactory.

One further detail. It is acceptable to me to have both:
 N[3.14`1, 3.14`100]
 N[3.14`100, 3.14`1]

be false, or one or the other to be True, but it would be nice if this behavior could be controlled

A: How about this?
NLess[a_, b_, p_: 1000] := Order @@ N[{a, b}, p] == 1

The third (optional) parameter $p$ controls the precision used for exact numbers and numbers with precision greater than $p$.  Order appears to ignore Internal`$SameQTolerance etc.


Indians abroad will send US$65.5 billion home this year, according to a World Bank estimate. That's slightly lower than the US$69 billion inflow in 2015, but it's still the largest for any country, followed closely by China.
Remittances declined mainly because of the impact of lower oil prices on Middle East economies; they continue to grow from other parts of the world which have a large Indian diaspora. One of these countries is Singapore, which adopted open policies towards immigrants to give a boost to its economy at the turn of the millennium. As of June this year, Singapore had 1.7 million non-residents in a population of 5.6 million.
Many of them are Indians working in Singapore who send money home – from low-skilled workers all the way to top professionals in tech and finance. There are also many Indian startups who prefer to be headquartered in Singapore but have most of their employees in India.
"We can do cross-border remittances and payments from Singapore to the rest of the world – except Africa and Latin America. For example, if a startup in Singapore has employees in India, you don't need to go to a bank to wire them their monthly salaries; we can do that for them at a much lower cost," says InstaRem co-founder Prajit Nanu, who hails from Mumbai.
InstaRem started out in Australia early last year, then got licenses for remittances from Hong Kong and Canada as well. So it is also a conduit for foreign companies to send payments to workers and companies in Asia.
The startup has scaled rapidly since raising a series A funding round of US$5 million, led by Vertex Ventures. "We've grown 12x in terms of number of transactions," says Prajit. "We were doing around 10,000 transactions in March and now we're doing over 120,000 transactions." He did not want to disclose the volume of money involved in the transactions.
The main impediment to scaling up comes from the four to six months it takes to obtain a remittance license. But InstaRem turned that to its advantage by focusing on corridors to countries like India and Malaysia which see large volumes of remittances, instead of spreading thin. "Western Union focuses on 190 countries. I don't do that. I only focus on five or six countries," points out Prajit.
The focus also helps in gaining an edge in the speed of transactions. "On our platform, all transactions are processed on the same day," claims Prajit.
InstaRem has a love-hate relationship with banks. On one hand, they are rivals. But on the other hand, many of them are also clients and partners.
System adaptability and flexibility is much higher with us than a bank. That is why when it comes to volume business, we are outscoring them.
For example, a large bank in the Pacific Islands – which Prajit did not want to name – uses InstaRem for remittances and payments. "Their P2P transaction volume was small for a large bank like them, but for us it is a huge volume to have," explains Prajit.
For corporate clients like that, InstaRem creates tailored solutions, taking care of everything from digital payments to compliance requirements. These are clients who could be doing 20,000 transactions in a day.
Some banks are also partners in disrupting the remittances and cross-border payments space with InstaRem. "We have a secret sauce: a network of banks which we can use to send money anywhere. We don't go outside our network at all – and that allows us to move much faster," says Prajit.
That's handy for a hotel booking site like Zenrooms – a Rocket Internet-backed version of India's Oyo.
Zenrooms, headquartered in Singapore, has a budget hotel network across Southeast Asia and in Sri Lanka. It has already switched from banks to InstaRem to handle its large volume of micro-transactions – as in the US$100-150 that somebody pays to stay in a hotel. A significant portion of it would be swallowed in a bank transfer.
Competition for InstaRem mainly comes from other remittance startups like WorldRemit, TransferWise, and Remitly. Toast is another young remittance startup in Singapore – although it focuses on money transfer by foreign workers.
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Beyond the Mist by Casi McLean and Giveaway
By viviana-mackade on September 30, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )
today the spotlight is on Beyond the Mist (Lake Lanier Mysteries, #2) by Casi McLean.
Piper Taylor concedes she'll never fall in love, until a treacherous storm spirals her into the arms of the handsome Nick Cramer. Unrelenting remorse over a past relationship haunts Nick, but he can't deny the mysterious connection and hot desire Piper evokes.
The allure of a secret portal hidden beneath Atlanta's Lake Lanier tempts him into seizing the opportunity to change his mistakes. But his time slip triggers consequences beyond his wildest dreams.
Can Piper avoid the international espionage and terrorism of 2001 New York, find Nick, and bring him home before he alters the fabric of time, or will the lovers drift forever Beyond The Mist?
Book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj6ySTh_7xI&feature=youtu.be
Excerpt.
A soft mist hovered over the moonlit lake, beckoning, luring him forward with the seductive enticement of a mermaid's song. Rhythmic clatter of a distant train moaned in harmony with a symphony of cricket chirps and croaking frogs. Spellbound, Nick Cramer took a long breath and waded deeper into the murky cove. Dank air, laden with a scent of soggy earth and pine, crawled across his bare arms. The hairs on the back of his neck bristled, shooting a prickle down his spine that slithered into an icy pool coiled in the pit of his stomach. He clenched his fingers into a tight fist, determined to fight through the emotion consuming him. Fear sliced through his belly like icy shards until he finally heaved, forcing rancid bile to choke into his throat.
I have to do this––he inched forward––only a few more steps and––
A sudden surge swirled around him, yanking him into a whirling vortex, where a violent blue streak dragged him deeper, deeper beneath the lake into the shadowy depths. Heart pounding, he battled against the force, twisting, thrusting toward the surface with all of his strength but, despite his muscular build, he spun like a feather in wind into oblivion. When the mist dissolved, Nick Cramer had vanished.
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35913453-beyond-the-mist
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Mist-Lake-Lanier-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B074LYF1PL/
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Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/beyond-the-mist-10
Award winning author, Casi McLean, pens novels to stir the soul with romance, suspense, and a sprinkle of magic. Her writing crosses genres from ethereal, captivating shorts with eerie twist endings to believable time slips, mystical plots, and sensual romantic suspense, like Beneath The Lake, WINNER: 2016 Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence for BEST Romantic Suspense. WATCH THE TRAILER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwOqm8DUUfA
Casi's powerful memoir, Wingless Butterfly: Healing The Broken Child Within, shares an inspirational message of courage, tenacity, and hope, and displays her unique ability to excel in nonfiction and self-help as well as fiction. Known for enchanting stories with magical description, McLean entices readers in nonfiction as well with fascinating hooks to hold them captive in storylines they can't put down.
Her romance entwines strong, believable heroines with delicious hot heroes to tempt the deepest desires then fans the flames, sweeping readers into their innermost romantic fantasies. Ms. McLean weaves exceptional romantic mystery with suspenseful settings and lovable characters you'll devour. You'll see, hear, and feel the magical eeriness of one fateful night. You'll swear her time travel could happen, be mystified by her other worldly images, and feel heat of romantic suspense, but most of all you'll want more.
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biography, Burma, Charmaine Craig, Graham Greene, historical fiction, international literature, Karen people, Miss Burma, Myanmar, The Quiet American, World Literature
The Karen (pronounced KaRen) people are one of Myanmar's ethnic minorities composing about seven percent of the population. They are diverse culturally, with religious beliefs ranging from animism, Buddhism, to Christianity (predominantly Baptist). Most live in the Kayin State in southeastern Myanmar near the Thailand border where the geography is mountainous jungle. They have together with other minorities (Shan, Mon, Chin, Rohinga, Kachin) been waging a civil war against the majority Burmans whose military government has tried to wipe them out since the country's independence in 1948.
Charmaine Craig's family biographical novel Miss Burma traces the history of her family in the Karen revolution against Aung San and then Ne Win; the former being the assassinated nationalist Burman father of Aung San Suu Ki and the latter the Burman military dictator.
Miss Burma is the child of a Jewish father of Indian origin in the service of the Queen and a Karen mother. Out of love, her father adopts the Karen cause with dire consequences to him and his family. Louisa, the daughter, is of striking beauty, and in the service of her father becomes a beauty queen pawn between the military dictator and their families incarceration. As common in families racked by war, infidelities are common and both Louisa and her mother Khin develop both love and political relationships.
The novel begins with a quote from Graham Greene's The Quiet American, which the novel mirrors in the context of Burma.
"Look at the history of Burma. We go and invade the country: the local tribes support us: we are victorious: but like you Americans we weren't colonialists in those days. Oh no, we made peace with the king and we handed him back his province and left our allies to be crucified and sawn in two. They were innocent. They thought we'd stay. But we were liberals and we didn't want a bad conscience."
As a historical novel it educates the Western reader about a less known conflict, but it is not graphic. Familial relationships tend to predominate, although they have a historical context. It is a decent story, with the prose serving the purpose of story telling.
The Graham Greene quote continues to resonate with me as reinforced by this story and many later historical adventures which have left permanent scars on those who have assisted the greater powers with variable goals.
Alexander Hamilton, American History, biography, Non-Fiction, Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton is the basis for the highly acclaimed Broadway hip-hop musical "Hamilton". Before this musical I thought Hamilton was the most underrated Founding Father of the United States and felt that a hip-hop version of his life would not do him justice. I turned down tickets for the show when it was in preview. I have not seen the show to take its measure, but it did revive Hamilton in the minds of America; encourage knowledge of history that is lacking among young people; and retained A.H. on U.S. currency. I found it reprehensible that our political correctness would remove the founder of the U.S. Treasury as the face of the $10 bill. Hamilton's contributions were immense: co-author of The Federalist Papers; First Secretary of the Treasury; establishment of coinage in the U.S.; developer of the U.S.' first tax and budget systems; creator of a National Bank that permitted borrowing; originator of the Customs Service and the Coast Guard; and interpreter of the Constitution's "implied powers" that was reinforced by Supreme Court Justice Marshall and subsequently used by President Jefferson to support the Louisiana Purchase, even he opposed Hamilton's interpretation before becoming President. He was also the first true immigrant Founding Father, and one from the lower class (and viewed as a bastard).
Like many biographies, this one does put a gloss on the subject. Nonetheless, Chernow does address Hamilton's jingoistic executive approach to power, which I had not realized about him. I also held Washington in higher regard after reading this biography. Washingotn was never considered a great general, nor the intellectual equivalent of his peers. His skill his ability to read people and situations extremely well and balance the partisans that surrounded him. His first administration appears to be the Hamilton Administration as he supported what Hamilton devised, while holding him in check. In this regard modern Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Reagan seem to be comparable but lesser equivalents.
The highly partisan and abusive nature of politics at that time make our current depraved situation seem tame. The Louisiana Purchase as a political ploy of Jefferson to increase the power of the slave holding South prompts New England States (Federalists) to consider seceding. It is not the civics lesson you learned about the Louisiana Purchase`. While slavery was clearly an issue at the Constitutional Convention, how emotionally charged it was early in our history was surprising to me, considering abolitionists (of which Hamilton was one) were not strong in the "North".
The reason why Hamilton decided to duel Burr is peculiar and remains a mystery. By even current standards it would hardly constitute slander and could easily have been remedied. Hamilton and Burr careers had waned and neither was in good financial condition (Burr was insolvent). Even considering pride, the decision is inexplicable to me, as Hamilton was one of New York's best lawyers.
Burr was a capable lawyer and his statesmanship was evident in the politically motivated impeachment trial of Justice Chase. Burr effectively saved the independence of the Federal Judiciary to the disappointment of President Jefferson. Most interesting, Burr as Vice President presided over the trial in the Senate at a time that we was indicted and wanted for murder in NY and NJ for the killing of Hamilton in the duel.
This book is over 700 pages, so it cannot be digested in one read. It is a mixture of primary and secondary sources and encourages reading of other Founding Father biographies to compare different interpretations.
Reading this highly regarded biography is certainly worth your time.
Art, biography, Book review, historical fiction, Julian Barnes, Music, novel, Political Fiction, Reading Suggestions, Shostakovich, Soviet Union, Stalin, The Noise of Time
"Lenin found music depressing. Stalin thought he understood and appreciated music. Khrushchev despised music. Which is the worst for a composer?"
Julian Barnes' does not answer this question in his biographical fiction "The Noise of Time", which examines Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich's life and travails in the Soviet Union. Shostakovich is a facility for Barnes to question whether Art will ultimately conquer Power; the latter presumably being more fleeting despite its repetitiveness.
"What could be put up against the noise of time? Only that music which is inside ourselves- the music of our being- which is transformed by some into real music. Which, over the decades, if it is strong and true and pure enough to drown out the noise of time, is transformed into the whisper of history."
You can consider four personality types: believer; collaborator; critic; and martyr. Barnes', or at least Shostakovich as interpreted by Barnes, viewed liberal critics of the Soviet Union, who criticized outside the reach of an authoritarian regime, to be no different from the autocrats who required propaganda from their artists. Shostakovich loved Stravinsky for his music, but thought no more of him and Nabokov for their criticism than he did of Stalin. Shostakovich, did not believe in the Soviet system, but did not martyr himself. According to Barnes' his cowardice, protection of family, materialism, or wish to be left alone to be a musician, made him a collaborator.
This is not a particularly well written novel. It is principally based on Elizabeth Wilson's Shostakovich: A Life Remembered. There is no real discussion or analysis of Shostakovich's music. It could be read as non-fiction, except some of its rare dialogue seems unrealistic. Shostakovich who fears the Stalin has ordered his death purportedly receives a call from Stalin requesting that he attend the Cultural and Scientific Congress for World Peace in New York. The dialogue has Shostakovich giving Stalin one excuse after another why he cannot attend: he is sick; he can't fly; he does not have a tail-suit; that his music is not being played in the Soviet Union. It reads like a conversation between a teacher and a young student who has forgotten his homework. Worse, there is very little imagined dialogue in the novel. It is a narration as if it were non-fiction.
"The Testament of Mary" which I reviewed, imagined the cruxification of Christ from the vantage point of his mother, Mary. Colm Toibin's biographical fiction, demonstrates imagination, not recounting of a secondary source work of non-fiction. As a character, Barnes' did not create in my mind the fear of death that Shostakovich would have had waiting outside his apartment in anticipation of being taken away, tortured and killed.
I can't subscribe to Art being immune from subjectivity and control outside of political power. There may be universality in creation for the sake of creation (without recognition), but that is individualistic and will not aggregate to be a "whisper of history".
Julian Barnes has written better, and will write better than "The Noise of Time".


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Het Zevengebergte (Duits: Siebengebirge) is een laaggebergte in de Duitse deelstaat Noordrijn-Westfalen dat ten oosten ligt van de Rijn, ten zuidoosten van Bonn. De plaatsen Königswinter en Bad Honnef liggen aan de voet van het Zevengebergte, aan de Rijn. Het Zevengebergte bestaat uit meer dan 40 bergen en heuvels. Het is een vulkanisch gebergte, dat ongeveer 25,5 miljoen jaar geleden is ontstaan. Het grootste gedeelte van het Zevengebergte is onderdeel van het Naturpark Siebengebirge.

Voor het grootste deel is het Zevengebergte bedekt met bos, maar er is ook landbouw. Op de hellingen van het Zevengebergte worden druiven voor wijn verbouwd. In het westen van Duitsland, in Noordrijn-Westfalen, is dit de meest noordelijke plek waar dit gebeurt.

De 7 bekendste toppen zijn:
 Großer Ölberg (460,1 m)
 Löwenburg (455,0 m)
 Lohrberg (435 m)
 Nonnenstromberg (335,3 m)
 Petersberg (331,1 m, vroeger Stromberg geheten)
 Wolkenburg (324,0 m)
 Drachenfels (320,6 m)

Foto's

Externe links
 Naturpark Siebengebirge
 Naturschutzgebiet Siebengebirge

Gebergte in Duitsland
Geografie van Noordrijn-Westfalen


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Q: Knockout.js custom bootstrap datepicker binding plus value binding I need to attach a bootstrap datepicker to two input fields that also need a value binding since I need to be able to dynamically set the value of the input according to changes in my observable.
So far, the binding works only one way: When I pick a date in the datepicker, the observable is correctly updated. But when I change the value of the attached observable in my viewmodel, the input does not reflect the change.
This is my binding handler:
ko.bindingHandlers.bootstrapDP = {
    init: function (element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor) {
        var options = allBindingsAccessor().datepickerOptions || {};
        $(element).bootstrapDP(options).on("changeDate", function (ev) {
            var observable = valueAccessor();
            observable($(element).val());
        });
    },
    update: function (element, valueAccessor) {
        var value = ko.utils.unwrapObservable(valueAccessor());
        $(element).bootstrapDP("setValue", value);
    }
};

In my viewmodel I have an object encapsulating startDate and endDate:
self.dateFilter = {
    startDate: ko.observable(),
    endDate: ko.observable()
};

This is my HTML:
<input type="text" data-bind="bootstrapDP: dateFilter.startDate, value: dateFilter.startDate" />
<input type="text" data-bind="bootstrapDP: dateFilter.endDate, value: dateFilter.endDate" />

I'm using this datepicker library (in noConflict()-mode): https://github.com/eternicode/bootstrap-datepicker
DOCS here: http://bootstrap-datepicker.readthedocs.org/en/stable/
What will I need to add/change/do differently to get the desired result?

A: I believe you want to change this line:
$(element).bootstrapDP("setValue", value);

To:
$(element).bootstrapDP("update", value);

This was taken from the bootstrap datepicker documentation.
The snippet below demonstrates this working.

$.fn.bootstrapDP = $.fn.datepicker;

ko.bindingHandlers.bootstrapDP = {
  init: function(element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor) {
    var options = allBindingsAccessor().datepickerOptions || {};
    $(element).bootstrapDP(options).on("changeDate", function(ev) {
      var observable = valueAccessor();
      observable($(element).val());
    });
  },
  update: function(element, valueAccessor) {
    var value = ko.utils.unwrapObservable(valueAccessor());
    // use "update" instead of "setValue"
    $(element).bootstrapDP("update", value);
  }
};

var vm = {
  startDate: ko.observable(),
  endDate: ko.observable()
};
ko.applyBindings(vm);

setTimeout(function(){
  vm.startDate(new Date())
}, 1000);
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-datepicker/1.4.0/css/bootstrap-datepicker3.standalone.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.2/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-datepicker/1.4.0/js/bootstrap-datepicker.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/knockout/3.2.0/knockout-min.js"></script>

<input type="text" data-bind="bootstrapDP: startDate, value: startDate" />
<input type="text" data-bind="bootstrapDP: endDate, value: endDate" />

A: So this is the working code I ended up with, just for those who need a quick working solution and don't want to work through the comments:
Custom binding handler:
ko.bindingHandlers.bootstrapDP = {
    init: function (element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor) {
        var options = allBindingsAccessor().datepickerOptions || {};
        $(element).bootstrapDP(options);
    },
    update: function (element, valueAccessor) {
        var value = ko.utils.unwrapObservable(valueAccessor());
        $(element).bootstrapDP("update", value);
    }
};

Observables for the dates in the viewmodel:
self.dateFilter = {
    startDate: ko.observable(),
    endDate: ko.observable()
};

The HTML with the bindings:
<input type="text" data-bind="bootstrapDP: dateFilter.startDate, value: dateFilter.startDate" />
<input type="text" data-bind="bootstrapDP: dateFilter.endDate, value: dateFilter.endDate" />


DUBLIN, Oct. 11 -- Irish Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Denis Naughten, on Thursday resigned over having private dinners with a bidder for a government-funded broadband project in the country.
The resignation was announced by the minister at a meeting held at the country's lower house of the parliament.
In a short statement read out at the meeting, Denis Naughten said that "For my family, constituents and 1.1 million people waiting for this essential (broadband) service, to ordinary people in rural Ireland, I've given the Taoiseach (prime minister in Irish) my resignation."
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has accepted Naughten's resignation and announced that the vacancy of the post left by Naughten will be filled on a temporary basis by Richard Bruton, Minister for Education and Skills.
Pressure for Naughten's resignation came after reports revealed that he had several private dinners with a U.S. businessman of Irish origin named David McCourt who is involved in a bidding for a National Broadband Plan project, a government-sponsored project to provide high-speed broadband access to all premises in Ireland, especially in its rural area.
Leo Varadkar told the lower house of the parliament that he met with Naughten late Wednesday night over the private dinner issue, in which Naughten admitted he had a private dinner at McCourt's home in 2017, which was organized and attended by another Irish minister.
DUBLIN, Oct. 11 -- Irish Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Denis Naughten, on Thursday resigned over having private dinners with a bidder for a government-funded broadband project in the country.The resignation was announced by the minister at a meeting held at the country's lower house of the parliament.In a short statement read out at the meeting, Denis Naughten said that "For my family, constituents and 1.1 million people waiting for this essential (broadband) service, to ordinary people in rural Ireland, I've given the Taoiseach (prime minister in Irish) my resignation."Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has accepted Naughten's resignation and announced that the vacancy of the post left by Naughten will be filled on a temporary basis by Richard Bruton, Minister for Education and Skills.Pressure for Naughten's resignation came after reports revealed that he had several private dinners with a U.S. businessman of Irish origin named David McCourt who is involved in a bidding for a National Broadband Plan project, a government-sponsored project to provide high-speed broadband access to all premises in Ireland, especially in its rural area.Leo Varadkar told the lower house of the parliament that he met with Naughten late Wednesday night over the private dinner issue, in which Naughten admitted he had a private dinner at McCourt's home in 2017, which was organized and attended by another Irish minister.


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Jesús Infant (1890-1893) és una trilogia poètica de Jacint Verdaguer que es va publicar en l'última etapa de la seva vida. L'obra se centra en la infància de Jesús de Natzaret. Verdaguer va caure en una crisi religiosa després d'un viatge a Palestina i això deixa empremta en l'obra d'aquesta època. Es caracteritza per ser una obra introspectiva i altament religiosa dividida en tres parts, Natzaret (1890), Betlem (1891) i La fugida a Egipte (1893). Les tres parts es recullen en un sol volum.

Tema
La trilogia buscava divulgar una devoció cristiana del poble a La Sagrada Família. Per aquest fi es fa ús de llegendes populars o procedents d'Evangelis apòcrifs.

Referències

Obres de Jacint Verdaguer
Poemaris en català


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