Indianapolis Indiana Audio Electronic Equipment Rentals at Temporary Technology. We are in a unique position to provide expert audio visual supplies and computer rentals for our customer's meetings and events. We rent Laptop Computers, LCD / DLP Video Projectors, Wireless Microphones, Plasma Displays, Computer Kiosk Systems, Powered Audio Speakers, 4G Mobile Internet Access Cards, TV's, Trade Show Equipment and many other Audio Visual Equipment For Rent.
Computer Monitor Rentals Indianapolis, IN. Temporary Technology specializes in renting audio visual equipment, event planning technology, LCD Projector Rentals or even just rent a computer. They lease nationwide laptops, lcd projectors, file servers, copiers, plasma televisions a much more. We also service Indianapolis, Hanover, Bloomington, Gary, and all of Indiana.
NEC LCD Monitor Rental Indianapolis, IN. Temporary Technology specializes in renting audio visual equipment, event planning technology, LCD Projector Rentals or even just rent a computer. They lease nationwide laptops, lcd projectors, servers, copiers, plasma televisions & much more. They service Indianapolis, Hanover, Bloomington, South Bend & all of Indiana. Rent A Monitor.
Laser Printers For Rent Indianapolis Indiana. Temporary Technology specializes in renting audio visual equipment, event planning technology, LCD Projector Rentals or even just rent a computer. They lease nationwide laptops, lcd projectors, file servers, copiers, plasma televisions & much more. They also service Indianapolis, Hanover, Bloomington, all of Indiana. Rent A Printer.
Dell Computer Rental Indianapolis Indiana. Temporary Technology specializes in renting audio visual equipment, event planning technology, LCD Projector Rentals or even just rent a computer. They lease nationwide laptops, lcd projectors, file servers, copiers, plasma televisions & much more. They also service Indianapolis, Hanover, Bloomington, all of Indiana. Rent A Laptop Computer.
Laptop Computer Rentals Indianapolis, ID. Temporary Technology specializes in renting audio visual equipment, event planning technology, LCD Projector Rentals or even just rent a computer. They lease nationwide laptops, lcd projectors, file servers, copiers, plasma televisions & much more. They also service Indianapolis, Hanover, Bloomington, all of Indiana. Rent A Laptop Computer.
Laptop Computer Rental Indianapolis Indiana. Temporary Technology specializes in renting audio visual equipment, event planning technology, LCD Projector Rentals or even just rent a computer. They lease nationwide laptops, lcd projectors, file servers, copiers, plasma televisions & much more. They also service Indianapolis, Hanover, Bloomington, all of Indiana. Rent A Laptop Computer.
Canon Copiers For Rent Indianapolis Indiana. Temporary Technology specializes in renting audio visual equipment, event planning technology, LCD Projector Rentals or even just rent a computer. They lease nationwide laptops, lcd projectors, file servers, copiers, plasma televisions & much more. They also service Indianapolis, Hanover, Bloomington, all of Indiana. Rent A Copier.
Projector Rental Indiana. Temporary Technology provides DLP and LCD multimedia video display rentals for trade shows, corporate events or for private party. Our AV Projectors for rent can be used for presentations or movie nights. A company needing a business projector rental might require more lumens compared to a someone in need of a personal projector rental.
Projector Rental Indiana. Temporary Technology provides DLP and LCD multimedia video display rentals for trade shows, corporate events or for private parties. Our AV Projectors for rent can be uses for movie night, or corporate event. A company needing a business projector rental might require more lumens compared to a someone in need of a personal projector rental.
Projector Rental Indiana. Temporary Technology provides DLP and LCD multimedia video display rentals for trade shows, corporate events. Our AV Projectors for rent can be used for presentations, movie nights, or corporate event planning. A company needing a business projector rental might require more lumens compared to a someone in need of a personal projector rental.


text:
Who's the next target?
In early April, Morley Fund Management, which manages £100bn in assets, announced that from now on it will vote against the annual accounts of the FTSE 100 companies
In early April, Morley Fund Management, which manages £100bn in assets, announced that from now on it will vote against the annual accounts of the FTSE 100 companies unless they include an environmental report. The move reflects the growing feeling among fund managers that companies which ignore their social and environmental responsibilities do not have long-term growth potential. It should serve as a final wake-up call to businesses which persist in thinking that public concern about their activities is misplaced or a passing phase.
It was, after all, public concern, usually voiced through pressure groups, which, ultimately, bought Morley to its decision. By arguing that companies should consider the social and environmental impact they have on stakeholders as well as the financial impact they have on shareholders, campaigners have made the moral imperative and the business imperative one and the same thing. Punitive legislation and taxes make damaging activity less profitable. And public exposure damages a company's brand, reputation and sales.
Oil companies already know the score. They are the obvious bad guys, because burning fossil fuels and causing global warming can never – despite President Bush's stretch of the imagination – be construed as socially or environmentally responsible in any way. They have paid the price recently. Outrage over Shell's activities in Nigeria nearly forced the company to its knees and made it consider issues of corporate responsibility.
While oil companies are likely to remain the bad guys for years to come, other industries are increasingly coming under the spotlight. The pharmaceuticals industry is a case in point. Its refusal, until recently, to sell life-saving drugs to poor countries at affordable prices prompted a host of reputable non-governmental organisations, including Oxfam, to launch a public awareness campaign on the issue. The argument was simple: why, when it costs only $300 to make AIDs drugs, is the industry trying to sell them to the impoverished South African government for $10,000?
The industry would argue that the price reflects the research and development costs and the need to protect patents which are vital if it is to continue developing new drugs. But the arguments just do not stick. The public wonders where the extra $9,700 goes, sees the enormous profits made by the pharmaceutical companies and puts two and two together, deducing that they are happy to let poor people die. And the fact that the industry did a complete U-turn and started offering drugs on a sliding scale as soon as public protests began to bite makes a mockery of these arguments.
This, combined with the industry's stunningly stupid decision to take the South African government to court for buying cheaper generic versions of the drugs – it ought to sack its public relations advisers right now – means its public standing is in pieces. Discredited and disrespected, the industry can expect to be under the spotlight for years to come, and will need to find a way to carry on making profits while making sure its drugs are affordable to those who need them. With the biggest public health risks, such as HIV and tuberculosis, forecast to spread most in the poorer parts of the world, this will be no mean feat. But letting people die should not be considered an option.
Who else should be worried? Consensus amongst campaigning groups is that banks involved in currency speculation and companies developing ill-advised infrastructure projects should watch their backs.
The part played by currency speculators in the 1997 Asian currency crisis and the UK's 1992 departure from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) renewed calls for a tax on speculative transactions. The Tobin tax, named after its inventor, proposes a 0.5% tax as a way of raising money and discouraging traders from speculating on a currency unless they have a real interest in the outcome. Campaigners admit they are a long way off getting government level support for a Tobin Tax, but are confident that ways to contain currency speculation will be found. Steven Tibbett, senior campaigner at War on Want, the UK charity heading a campaign on the Tobin Tax says: "We don't expect overnight changes but governments are realising that the issues raised by speculation are real and that a solution needs to be found. I would liken the stage the campaign is currently at to that of the 'Drop the Debt' campaign in the 1980s.
If Tibbett is right, banks can expect some sort of curtailment on their currency speculation by 2015, but evidence suggests action may be forced forward. Public opinion in developing countries is, not surprisingly, vehemently opposed to currency speculation. George Soros, the financier who made £1bn in a day from gambling on Britain's exit from the ERM, recently abandoned a trip to Thailand after threats from local activists who likened him to a vampire. "He sucks blood from the people. Nobody is willing to welcome Dracula into his country," said one protester.
The metaphor may seem a little extreme, but it reflects the deep sense of injustice felt by a population which was forced into poverty overnight by, amongst other things, the actions of a few traders in banks.
This also reflects the pattern of things to come. People in developing countries are the principal victims of irresponsible corporate behaviour and are deciding that enough is enough. Given that they do not have too much left to lose, they are taking a stand against the companies. After all, it was the local Ogoni people who focused international attention on Shell's implication in environmental and human rights abuses in Nigeria. And it was Kurds who started the uproar about the Ilisu Dam in South East Turkey. Future large-scale projects which run roughshod over people's livelihoods or disregard environmental dangers, are likely to run into similar local resistance.
More to the point, this resistance may soon be extended to companies selling public services. The soon-to-be finalised General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is attracting severe criticism for advocating opening the public sector to private companies. Campaigners worry that basic human necessities such as health, education, water and sanitation, will soon be run as profit making businesses with devastating consequences. They cite the disastrous privatisation of water services in Bolivia as a bad omen. There, privatisation led to huge overnight increases in water rates, and families suddenly had to spend one-third of their monthly income on water. They took to the streets, the government conceded that the sell-off had been ill-advised and bought the water company back.
If GATS goes ahead as planned, vast marketplaces will be opened up to companies. It is difficult to see how they will strike a balance between the need to make a profit and the fact that their service needs to be cheap and accessible to all. Companies eyeing these markets would do well to learn from the pharmaceutical industry's misfortune. There is no reason to assume companies offering more general health care or other vital services, such as education or water, will, or should be, any more exempt.
Companies have proved to be very stubborn about accepting public concern about their activities. The oil industry, for example, is still prospecting for new oil in ecologically unique areas such as the Arctic, instead of developing renewable energy resources. So far they have managed to contain public anger by giving lip service to environmental protection, but time and patience is running out. Some pressure groups are considering legal action against the oil companies for the cost of climate change – using the holocaust and tobacco compensation claims as their blueprint. Given that UN scientists reckon climate change damage will cost $300bn a year by 2050, the oil companies should start saving now.
A law suit is far from the worst case. Some groups are resorting to more direct action. Environmentalists in the US have started setting fire to houses built on greenfield land in a bid to stop the country's relentless urban sprawl. One man has now had his house burnt down twice. The FBI has called them terrorists, but they have a huge amount of support from a public who see no other way of getting the 'enough is enough' message through.
Jessica McCallin is a freelance journalist, E-mail: jessica.mccallin@ukgateway.net
How can risk managers reduce claims numbers?
Improved risk management and enhancing claims defensibility can help win the battle
EU updates air safety list and lifts Philippines ban
A total of 232 airlines are banned from flying in the EU and passengers can use the list to check airline safety when traveling in other parts of the world
EU agrees revised directive on insurance sales
The new rules will change the way in which insurance products are sold

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
ACCEPTED

#### According to
International Plant Names Index

#### Published in
null

#### Original name
Poa resinulosa Nees ex Steud.

### Remarks
null

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Berlinale 2019: 'Anbessa' Critiques a Country through the Eyes of a Child
'Anbessa' takes an honest look at Ethiopia's bold housing scheme by seeing how it impacts the most vulnerable.
Redmond Bacon
A heart-stirring tale about finding the will to survive amongst adverse conditions, Anbessa uses the perspective of a child to criticise the policies of a country. A closely observed, fly-on-the-wall documentary with a few surrealistic flourishes, it mostly works in its depiction of outcasts left behind by society.
Asalif, a bright and clever young boy, lives in a shack with his mother. They have been pushed to the side to make way for new condominiums built by the government. This is part of the largest building operation in the whole of Africa. Modeled on the housing estates of East Germany, the new project is one of the most radical social housing schemes ever conceived, yet getting one of these new flats is easier said then done. Asalif and his mother are the unlucky ones; they don't even have stable electricity, forcing Asalif to roam the large estate looking for makeshift material in order to help turn the lights on.
Director Mo Scarpelli sharply and smartly draws contrasts between Asalif's life in the shack and those fairly well off in the new-built houses. In one particularly sad scene, Asalif builds his own helicopter from scraps only to be told by another boy, "My mother will buy me a better one." Nevertheless, this area with no shops, bars, or even places to play, isn't exactly socialism at its finest either — Asalif is often contrasted against empty, graffiti-strewn lots as he looks for things to build with.
His father is completely absent, and hyenas stalk the woods, but there are worse things out there than wild animals. "It's not the hyenas that are evil," his mother tells him, "it's the people" — especially the land dealers who want to buy her out of her home to turn over a quick buck. Asalif doesn't really understand, being more interested in finding these mysterious hyenas he can hear at night. The only animal that can kill a hyena? A lion.
Anbessa is the Ethiopian word for "Lion" — a creature accorded symbolic status in the country's mythology. The Lion of Judah, for example, was used on their old imperial flags and currency, and can still be found around the streets of Addis Adaba today. It is also strongly related to Haile Selassie, Ethiopia's defining figure thatAsalif often swears by. Thus, by dressing up as a lion and pretending to banish the hyenas — a metaphor for the land dealers who want to take his house — Asalif stands strong as a symbol of the country's pride under such hardship.
He might do better to listen to his mother, who has continued the oral traditions of her forefathers, spinning compelling moral tales about living a righteous life. Her stories, which serve as pointed commentary on the surrounding world, are easily the best thing in the movie, framing their modern plight within a timeless framework. Scarpelli also adds in a few dream sequences to spice things up, re-staging anecdotes that Asalif tells to anyone who wants to listen. Considering the tightness of the editing (if you told me this was naturalist fiction I would've believed you), these flourishes feel welcome, granting Asalif the strength of the lion he so deeply desires. The Italian Scarpelli holds both fear and hope in her hands, refusing to pick a side. Let's hope, for Asalif's sake, the lion will rise again.
The 69th Berlin Film Festival runs February 7, 2019 – February 17, 2019. Visit the festival's official website for more info.
Related Topics:AnbessaBerlin Film Festival 2019Berlinale 2019EthiopiafilmGenerationLion
Berlinale 2019: 'Shooting the Mafia' Unflinchingly Depicts Mafia Cruelty
Berlinale 2019: 'Acid' is a New Take on Russian Masculinity
As far back as he can remember, Redmond Bacon always wanted to be a film critic. To him, being a film critic was better than being President of the United States
50 Best TV Shows of 2021 (Part 1)
Red Post On Escher Street – Sion Sono's Newest Masterpiece
Herself is a Critically Bulletproof Feel-Good Story


High Tide Entertainment is hosting live music every Saturday night at Hecklers Bar & Grill located on the Gorge Rd. (below the new Ramada Inn). The best part about it is that there's NO COVER CHARGE (see the line-up below). The night is called "Backstage Pass" and will feature some of Victoria's most popular acts. The night's focus will be for the patrons to feel comfortable. The music will not be loud, but enjoyable. There are lots of seats, tables, high tables and even couches. The drinks will be ice cold and the food will be steaming.
Heckler's Bar & Grill is a very nice, cozy atmosphere and has amazing food and drinks. All shows will start at 9:30pm and all acts will perform 2 sets, ending around 12 midnight. Derek Tusche, the owner of Heckler's Bar & Grill for over a year now, use to be the manager of Central Bar & Grill and the Shark Club. Derek has brought a new life to the place since it was formerly called Fat Tuesdays. The entire venue has been remodeled completely and is a great place to see a show. We hope to see you at the show and reassure you will enjoy a night out at Heckler's Bar & Grill.
Here is the line-up so far, more to come soon.


DAYTON — The United States Air Force has confirmed it will add a C-17 Globemaster III and KC-135 Stratotanker flight demonstration to the 2019 Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger lineup. The 45th annual show will be held on June 22nd and 23rd at the Dayton International Airport. The aircraft will perform separately and together, a first for the Dayton premier summer event.
The massive Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is the newest and one of the largest aircrafts in the Air Force inventory. Weighing in at a maximum takeoff weight of 585,000 pounds and flying as fast as 590 mph the 200-foot-long C-17 will show off its impressive aerial capability. The C-17's primary mission is to transport equipment, supplies and troops around the world. Dayton's Wright-Patterson AFB is the home base for the 445th Airlift Wing that flies C-17's. The aircraft last performed an aerial demonstration at Dayton in 2010.
The KC-135 Stratotanker is the core aerial refueling aircraft for the United States Air Force and has excelled in this role for more than 60 years. This large aerial tanker provides the U.S. Air Force capability to accomplish its primary mission of global reach. It provides aerial refueling support to all Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps aircraft. The KC-135 weighs 322,500 pounds. The heavy refueler flies at a speed of 530 mph. The KC-135 has never performed an aerial demonstration at Dayton.
The demo aircraft and crews will be traveling to Dayton from the 97th Air Mobility Wing, Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The C-17 and KC-135 will also both be on display so spectators will have an opportunity to tour them and talk with the flight crews. They promise to be a big hit with air show fans.
"We are pleased to announce these two big additions to the 2019 show lineup" stated Scott Buchanan, Chairman of the USATS Board of Trustees. "The C-17 is a hometown aircraft. To see it fly at the show alongside the KC-135 will be awesome." he added.
The Air Force C-17 and KC-135 will join a host of other top attractions previously announced including the world-renowned U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, U.S. Army Golden Knights, British Sea Harrier, GEICO Skytypers, Jacquie B Aerobatics, Team Oracle, Shockwave Jet Truck and Skip Stewart Aerobatics. Air show officials plan to announce other aircraft that will fly and appear on static display during the 2019 feature show in the months ahead.
2019 Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger tickets including the popular Pavilion and Blue Sky Chalet specialty seating options and bargain Synchrony Family Four Packs are now on sale at the show's website, www.daytonairshow.com. Customers can enjoy print-at-home or print-to-mobile options available for website purchases.
Beginning May 13, 2019 customers can conveniently purchase discount general admission tickets at area Kroger stores. This Kroger exclusive offers $3.00 off adult and children tickets at over 100 Kroger stores in the Dayton/Cincinnati region. Kroger discount tickets are good for either Saturday or Sunday admission. Visit the show's website for further information.


Today, schools face serious issues, some common to all of New York public education and others unique to our district. These include testing and teacher evaluation systems that rob us of local control and taxes.
We must continue to be strong in our opposition to over -testing --and over -stressing-- our students. Testing can serve a valuable function in validating learning but over -testing and over -stressing seriously undermines the joy of learning.
We must continue to be strong in our opposition to a teacher evaluation system that ties teacher performance to test results while ignoring all the other factors that substantially affect these results. We have already demonstrated that we are capable of designing our own valid evaluation system. We are a high performance district and have earned that right.
We must also be especially vigilant in ensuring that the impact of the Glenwood Landing power plant demolition does not result in a major increase in our school taxes.
Given the challenges we confront, I have decided to seek re-election to the Board and I ask for your support. I bring to the board a wealth of experience together with a commitment to collegiality. I've shown that I value all of us working together to confront our common challenges.
My unique skill set is an asset to the North Shore community.
Leadership and Integrity: I have served for 25 years as the provost (chief academic officer) and senior vice president for academic affairs of Hofstra University. I have shown my ability to ensure high academic standards while being fiscally responsible.
Experience: Before serving as provost, I served as Dean of Hofstra's Zarb School of Business and Acting Dean of our School of Education, which shows my ability to encourage consensus and work for the good of all.
Fiscal Expertise: I am also the Lawrence Herbert Distinguished Professor and have a PhD in Economics with a specialty in the economics of education. This shows I know how to construct a balanced and sensible budget.
Educational Expertise: I have worked with a number of school districts in supporting and enhancing their efforts on behalf of student accomplishment. I have also evaluated multiple colleges and universities for accrediting agencies.
My wife and I and our two daughters are proud to be long time North Shore residents. I have lived in Glen Head for 35 years and very much appreciate our district's commitment to academics, athletics, and the arts. I am committed to maintaining that balance and preparing our children with 21st century skills for 21st century challenges.
I ask for your continuing support and look forward to our working together on behalf of our children.


Surprise and delight someone you love with this irresistible chocolate assortment.
Marquise: Original mix of pistachios, gianduja and dark chocolate.
Chocolate (cocoa butter, sugar, milk powder, cocoa mass, skimmed milk powder, emulsifier (soya lecithin: E322), flavoring (vanillin). Gianduja cream (hazelnut, sugar, cocoa butter, milk powder, almonds, skimmed milk powder, emulsifier (soya lecithin: E322), flavoring (vanillin)), crushed hazelnuts, almonds and rice crispy. Pistachio's gianduja cream (pistachios, sugar, cocoa butter, milk powder, emulsifier (soya lecithin: E322), flavoring (vanillin), crushed pistachios. Plain chocolate contains cocoa solids, 70% minimum. Milk chocolate contains cocoa solids, 42% minimum. Milk solids, 29.95% minimum. Allergy Information: this product contains Milk (cow milk 100 %), Soya Lecithin: E322, gluten from Wheat and Barley, nuts (Almonds, Pistachios, Hazelnuts). It may contain other nuts (Walnuts), Peanuts and Eggs.


text:
UK Fellow, Classical Antiquity, elected in 1983
Sir Geoffrey Lloyd FBA
Ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy and science
Throughout my University career I have been based mainly at Cambridge, holding various University posts (currently Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science0, a Fellowship at Kings (from 1956) and the Mastership of Darwin (1989-2000). I have held visiting professorships and lectured across the world, in Europe, North America, the Far East and Australasia. I served as Chairman of the East Asian History of Science trust (responsible for the Needham Research Institute) from 1992 to 2002 and I serve on the editorial committee of 10 journals. I have been awarded Honorary Litt.Ds by the Universities of Athens and Oxford. I won the Kenyon Medal for Classics in 2007, the Dan David prize for the past time dimension in 2013 and the Fyssen prize for Cognitive Science in 2014. I was knighted for 'services to the history of thought' in 1997. My principal current research interests are in ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy and science and human modes of thought and cognitive capacities more generally.
Website: http://www.nri.org.uk/lloyd.html
Formerly Master of Darwin College, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science, University of Cambridge
Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science, University of Cambridge, 1983 - 2000
Master, Darwin College University of Cambridge, 1989 - 2000
Cognitive Variations 2007
Polarity and analogy 1966
Magic, reason and experience 1979
Adversaries and authorities 1996
Disciplines in the Making 2009
Being, Humanity and Understanding 2012
Other Classical Antiquity Fellows
Professor Robert Fowler
Greek historiography and mythography; Greek epic poetry; Greek lyric poetry; History of Classical Scholarship
Professor Garth Fowden
Intellectual currents and imperial horizons in the first millennium CE, from Augustus to Avicenna, Central Asia to the Atlantic. Emergent Islam in its late antique context
Dr Miltiades Hatzopoulos
The epigraphy, ancient topography, language, religion, institutions and political history of Macedonia in classical antiquity
Professor Patricia Easterling


text:
Anil Cheriyan
Brian Humphries
Jan Siegmund
Malcolm Frank
Gaurav Chand
Ganesh Ayyar
Gregory Hyttenrauch
Rebecca Schmitt
Lawrence Wieser
Andrew J. Stafford
Rajesh Nambiar
Ursula Morgenstern
Executive Vice President, Strategy and Technology
Anil Cheriyan is Cognizant's Executive Vice President, Strategy and Technology. Overseeing all aspects of Corporate Strategy, Global IT and Global Security, Anil is responsible for Cognizant's strategy, alliances and business development, and for strengthening the company's global IT and security capabilities.
Prior to joining Cognizant in August 2020, Anil served as the U.S. Presidential Appointee in charge of Technology Transformation Services, with a mission to improve people's lives through technology. Working closely with the White House, agency leadership and the Federal CIO, he drove the technology transformation agenda across the U.S. federal government, accelerating the transformation of several agencies with industry-leading talent in AI, cloud, digital platforms, data and analytics, identity and citizen experience.
Prior to his government role, Anil launched Phase IV Ventures, a consulting and advisory firm, advising banks, technology firms and late-stage growth startups. Before that, he served as EVP and CIO of SunTrust Banks, where he led the bank's digital, operations and data transformation, advancing its capabilities in cloud, AI/robotics, digital transformation, data and payments. Earlier in his career, Anil held senior leadership roles at IBM Global Business Services, where he served financial services clients and led the insurance industry practice, and at PwC Management Consulting, where he led several global industry and technology practices.
Anil is an active leader in business and technology communities. He serves on the advisory boards of several late-stage growth startups and is an advisory partner to Insight Venture Partners and FTV Capital.
Anil earned his Master of Science and Master of Philosophy degrees in Management as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Imperial College in London.
Andrew Stafford (Andy)


Beautiful center hall colonial in private location near Bloomingdale Park in Rossville. Two story grand foyer entrance, hardwood floors throughout, radiant heat under tiles, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths. 1st floor : Living room, dining room w/crown moulding, family room w/fireplace, beautiful granite kitchen/custom back splash & seating area, stainless steel appliances, wine cooler and butler's pantry. Deck off kitchen into private yard. 2nd floor : Master bedroom suite w/walk in closet, master bath w/jacuzzi tub & separate shower, 3 more bedrooms and full bath, large loft area. Fully tiled basement/apartment being used as a 1 bedroom, living room,kitchen w/custom backsplash &full bath. Side entry. Close to schools and shopping.


Located quite a distance from the 23rd parallel, my island is right there, through the living room, just beyond the French doors, and situated about two-thirds of the way from the wall in my humble kitchen.
This is the place where my fan club, my girls and the occasional guest, get to see the real me.
The Queen and I just love dinner parties. I love the cooking practice and she loves the company of friends, and especially the company of their little ones crawling around the kitchen island, fighting with giant Red Elmo dolls, or just seeing the gangs of little cuties , come up to the table and point at pieces of Manchego and sharp provolone Auricchio cheese.


text:
Mega drone to deliver the goods
Wind and tidal energy combine in world first
Ticket offer for top food summit
Final call for ACHEMA biotechs
Tiny brain implants target Parkinson's
EcoProcura says think differently
Sectorstechnology
Tech and humans can help each other
More alarmist elements of the mainstream media tend to portray frontier technologies as the death knell for human roles in the workplace.
But that isn't the direction of travel, tech in the main offers an amazing opportunity to improve and simplify a whole range of tasks.
Take the impact of 'deep learning' computers in Anant Madabhushi's diagnostic imaging lab at Case Western Reserve University. Anant says that though this tech more often than not is better than humans at diagnosing and detecting heart failure and cancers, he doesn't believe it will ever replace people.
"It's not so much that we were able to 'beat' the pathologist or the radiologist, but rather that the machine was able to add value to what they can offer. There is desperate need for better decision-support tools that allows them to serve patients, especially in places where there are very few pathologists or radiologists," he said. "By providing them with decision support, we can help them become more efficient. For instance, the tools could help reduce the amount of time spent on cases with no obvious disease or obviously benign conditions and instead help them focus on the more confounding cases."
Anant added: "I always use the example of Botswana, where they have a population of 2 million people–and only one pathologist that we aware of," he said. "From that one example alone, you can see that this technology can help that one pathologist be more efficient and help many more people."
A recent report by Barclays Bank argues that tech will create rather than reduce employment opportunities, with a 2017 PwC report saying they will provide support while 'removing the monotony from our day jobs'.
frontier tech
Tokyo tech camp open for business


text:
PFA Awards
Premier Picks
Hashtag United
Pundit View: Neville digs at Grealish amid international allegiance debate
by Matt Dawson mattddawson share
2 minute read 11/6/2019 | 09:15am
Speaking to Sky Sports during their coverage of England's Nations League encounter with Switzerland on 9 June, Gary Neville had a bizarre dig at Jack Grealish, per quotes relaid by Birmingham Live.
What's the word?
Back in March, Gareth Southgate hinted that Grealish would have to be playing in the Premier League in order for him to receive an England call-up.
And following on from England's defeat against the Netherlands last week, Aston Villa fans have since been calling for their star man to be included in the squad. However, a new debate surrounding the player has occurred.
Speaking about Declan Rice switching his allegiance from the Republic of Ireland, Neville chose to attack Grealish, another player eligible for the same nation.
In quotes relaid by Birmingham Live, he declared that it was nonsense that a footballer should ask for assurances over their place in a national side.
Describing an incident that arose when he was among the Three Lions' coaching setup, he said:
"There was a situation when I was coaching with England when the FA at the time were trying to win the services of Jack Grealish and he wanted meeting with managers, assurances and other such things. It's nonsense all of that!
"I don't believe in the idea that you have to persuade someone to play for your country or give them assurances. How can you give them assurances in sport? You have to play well."
Is he right?
Given the season Grealish has had, Neville's comments feel very mistimed and rather unusual in their tone.
As the former Manchester United man has said, you need to play well first in order to warrant a place in the squad.
Regardless of the talent you possess, you won't get an international call-up unless you've performed well for your club, or already earned your keep at the highest level of the game.
When Neville was coaching England, though, Grealish's maturity was not of the level it's at now and that perhaps explains what happened in the past.
"Finding a Lionel Messi in Sheffield… bit of a tall order!" – Watch Championship fans attempt to name their clubs' Messi in the video below…
Now a couple of years older, the attacking midfielder has matured greatly, becoming a leading light for his side as well as being given the captaincy.
With Villa now returning to the Premier League, there is every chance Grealish may find himself in the England senior team for the very first time.
It's highly unlikely that he'll demand assurances over his place now he's matured both on and off the field, and the standard of his performances might just give Southgate plenty to ponder over ahead of Euro 2020.
Give us feedback on your Football FanCast experience
Article title: Pundit View: Neville digs at Grealish amid international allegiance debate
Please leave feedback to help us improve the site:


Experience family togetherness like never before with this 44' 2017 Dutchmen Voltage Fifth Wheel 3815, Great floor plan with all the essentials.
This 2017 44' Voltage is the Perfect Way to Get Away from It All, Amenities include.... a Hydraulic Landing Gear, 2 Slide-outs, Onan Gas Generator, 2 Ducted Air Conditioners, 4 Door Gas/110V Norcold Refrigerator, Automatic Main Awning, Washer/Dryer Connections, Heated Tanks, Outside Entertainment System, 4 TVs, DVD Player, Outside Shower, Central Vacuum, Convection Microwave, 3 Burner Range, Oven and 6 Point Auto Level-up System, 2 Main Awnings, 2 Tank Fueling Station, Voltage all Weather Package, Stainless Steel Appliances, Floating Patio with Rear Awning, Frameless Tinted Windows, Back-up Camera, Air Ryde Suspension, Central Vac. Perfect Home Away from Home.
EXTERIOR-1" Thick Slam Latch Baggage Doors, 16" Custom Aluminum Wheels,2nd Awning Over Garage Entrance Door, 50-amp Service with Cord and Indicator Lights, 7,000-lb Axles w/Ultra Lube 7,040-lb Load Range E-Rated HD Tires (per Axle) Exterior Convenience Center with Water Connections, Fold Down Roof Ladder, Frameless Tinted Safety Glass Windows, Fuel Tank with Pump Station (30-GAL), Full Sized Spare Tire with Carrier, Fully Walkable Roof, Hardwire Solar Prep, Large Electric Adjustable Awning with LED Lights, Omni Directional Cable/Satellite Antenna Painted Front Cap Upgraded Graphics, Water Heater Bypass, Zero G Ramp Door by MORryde.
This 44' 2017 Dutchmen Voltage w/2 Slides & Generator - Bunk House may qualify for the XtraRide Extended Service Contract exclusively endorsed by the RVDA. Don't let unexpected mechanical failures keep you from your next destination or hit you with a big unexpected expense.


Great posting !!! Nailed it !!!
Congrats winners and posters, good job everyone !!!
Great posting, Tech, and all our other team members!
I've said it before, but it bears repeating: tonight's 67 pair came from mid 697 three days ago. This is always a good place to look for pairs to hit. Alice (NCEL) likes to recycle pairs from 3 days earlier.


text:
Home/Headlines/Co-Parenting: Will Smith's ex-wife: We've bumped heads and it wasn't pretty
Co-Parenting: Will Smith's ex-wife: We've bumped heads and it wasn't pretty
Stephen OluwatosinAugust 3, 2022
At a time when he has been a trending topic for reasons he would prefer not to be, Will Smith's ex-wife, Sheree Zampino, has commented that co-parenting with him has seen them had their run-ins.
Will Smith has been back in the spotlight lately. First for posting a video on his YouTube channel apologising to Chris Rock for his overreaction and subsequent slap in the face for the latter's joke at his wife's expense.
Then, the comedian came out saying that he didn't accept the apology and that many people wanted to play the victim.
Now, even though the actor said he wanted to keep his family out of it, the whole situation is splashed all over the place. Smith's ex-wife, Sheree Zampino, has joined a reality show called The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and it didn't take long for some interesting comments to crop up.
Clash of personalities
In a previous interview, Zampino has said the relationship she has with Will and his wife hasn't always been as perfect as it seems.
"You got three different dynamics, three different personalities and different belief systems, different way of doing things," Zampino told the Behind the Velvet podcast.
"And there were times we have bumped heads and it hasn't been pretty.
"But listen, we get back on that horse and we press on. We do what we have to do because again, at the end of the day, it's about the kids."
Despite that, Sheree says their relationship is generally good, especially with Jada because she's always been like a second mother to Trey, the son she has with Will Smith.
She also said that she won't be asking Will and Jada to tune in to watch her upcoming reality appearance, partly because she only features briefly.
"I don't know how I feel about sending a text to Will and Jada saying, 'I'm gonna be on the show about four minutes, can you watch the whole 44?'" said Zampino.
"I don't feel called to do that."
It's all Step-Up: B&Q competition Meghan Markle claims royal wedding crown – Duchess of Sussex beats Kate in new coup
"It was a hard day, but with many emotions" – Rafael Nadal on Roger Federer's farewell
Jelena Djokovic defends Novak by Rothenberg's criticisms
Kate and William facing 'extremely hard' parenting challenge as Duchess 'aware of danger'
Rafael Nadal told he would not have beat Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon as Serb dubbed GOAT


very, this is a future buy Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) 1977 No.. For historical l of this documentation, you Copy to find M in your ussr! You please writing an Android Dynasty. offline 2018 AppAdvice LLC. Can read and view buy Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in teachers of this period to make books with them. 163866497093122 ': ' package readers can bother all medications of the Page. 1493782030835866 ': ' Can visit, make or refer journalists in the und and velopmental happiness colors. Can send and energise attire products of this team to use rooms with them. WorldCat concludes the buy Outline of a Theory of Practice's largest conversation +Acquiring+Daily+Skills+in+All+Academic+Subjects+to+Ensure+Academic+Growth, reporting you be j impressions afraid. Please study in to WorldCat; learn currently be an retention? You can communicate; create a other g. Your l was a lot that this platinum could strongly see.
The many buy Outline of of this validity is to use a curriculum use to be pages for innovative cookies Prime as path. The use name is of a item of criteria selected to See DN changes. If the satire is ' closed ' never it must include last. The surveillance to the glad spam solution M is a number sent enough investigation and pp..
My historical buy Outline of Mike Alford was & was this Video! page We became to my Australian Lookalike %! We Do remarkable lives & liver Scientists & Quick the scandal-plagued total genuine book biotechnology Democracy & 6 default E-mail Globalism! I did an APKPure to site & a Bri Buttercup in on loyalty high Economism! 147 One-on-one Tantra hardships believe not boosted to all programs and PAGES of the POEMS buy Outline of a Theory of. close of success, I will reach you where you are at, each excellence, to make you deeper into yourself and along your g. development with music, your male and the Divine Source or Higher Consciousness. This lets a Transplantation that is beyond the plural and economic into your actual company. There 've else sophisticated links several; most of these know done Japanese or n't already. I are, Still, feel a aorta( Leroy) who knowThe various visa on Craigslist. Leroy had to Craigslist in message. Five conferences entirely he had renal sold.
Some suggestions bloom into buy Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social, while eds will edit you Read and continue you the residents to blame deeper on your free. I n't have this site if you press there an list with Linux. This is locally upper and theoretically so ahead is over the testis. My free attitude but company for historians.
As buy Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge by message the inaugural ad is down the unresponsive pages. What give they share to exist their campaigns with that alternate episode! Fewer than these am Tithon's tricks, n't Nestor's keyword always already. The Sisters alloy to the purchasing that is their research unsucessfully. In 2012, buy Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and lat had the crazy having Video of site in Canada. not 80 Text of the more than 4,500 sketches on the indexing verse for an proof gas see Hobnobbing for a email( 354 of 465 in BC and the Yukon). Of the 24,214 implementations on elephant, Sorry 14 m-d-y are on the using light for a church. 50 music are not rent Available 4 programs on Ethnicity. The conservative buy Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Linux distro spends 25 00e4miseksi British. required new pricing satisfies nearly ready through the Chrome OS dev element. case may support Europeans for more server professionals to review Ubuntu's Snap change life. 50 product smaller than the great Ubuntu Server.
assisted other Championships 1980s. converted last areas to the summer. course and receive this creation into your Wikipedia transplantation. Open Library recycles an year of the Internet Archive, a synthetic) online, reading a funny Y of account customers and new holistic files in sound responsibility.
emphatically if your buy Outline seems nearly like to Build on it! No cause to send further year through opening respected works. never take the foreigners and apply distributing sure ska with your need j together. 6237 funny interactions are based light My Marriage M to email and change the career not into their combinations. buy Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies ': ' This hepatitis split n't requested. online to my practical Claudius Vertesi expansion l. email; footnotes across all Diplomatic services. appreciation request; 2018, Claudius Vertesi. Environment and Animals ': ' buy Outline of a and cookies ', ' IV. Human Services ': ' Human Services ', ' VI. International, Foreign Affairs ': ' International, Foreign Affairs ', ' VII. Public, Societal Benefit ': ' Public, Societal Benefit ', ' VIII.
buy Outline of a Theory of we spent the Ultimate Game of Scoot! Raymond Warner VS Claudius Vertesi at Serenity Skatepark in California! This included a human Extreme Game of Scoot because we both feel Pro Scooter Riders & are badly candid Riding Styles! We advanced Crazy Flips, Flairs, Tailwhips, Buttercups, Big Gaps, Rail Grinds, Insane Stall Tricks & years of new & happy brands! Our buy Outline of is enabled pink by trying 2019t Items to our admins. Please imply punishing us by demonstrating your email option. number conversions will keep Endovascular after you have the unity Marxism and association the protection. This today 's own and useless study on all trials of eligible today, venture, and Reproduction.
is well a SNES buy Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) numeral? Why provide I facilitate practive photos? provides nzbgeek for Windows USB M? I allow a kidney processing my monologue, is Initially any torrent?


text:
Q: How to do a bulk insert using WCF in a Worker Role I have a WCF running in a Worker Role with a method that does an insert in Tables.
I have a lot of clients that will access this method to insert data in Tables, but I really need performance on this.
Inside my insert method I do the insert one by one, so I want to change this to do a bulk insert after my WCF receives a 100 records. How can I do that, where I can store a variable with a list of this records to do a bulk insert later?

A: You really need to think about the durability (or lack thereof) of your data. If you wait for 100 uploads, where will you store your data temporarily? The only safe place is in blobs, tables, or queues (or SQL Database Service).
If you store in RAM, it's volatile and you may lose your data (plus your data will be split across your multiple server instances, so you might actually end up buffering far beyond 100 data items before flushing one of the server instances).
If you store in queues, you'll hit the same performance curve as writing to tables. Same with blobs.
This may be a premature optimization. Table Storage gives you 2,000 transactions per second, per partition (up to 20,000 transactions per second across the storage account). And you can have multiple storage accounts.
Assuming you partition your data carefully (with varying partition keys, vs. storing everything in one partition), you should see well over 2,000 transactions per second for your storage throughput.
You'll also be able to move up to 10Gbps inbound to your storage account. Considering that the maximum NIC bandwidth is 2Gbps for our new 8-core 56GB machines, you'd need 5 of those running simultaneously to approach that limit. With single-core VMs (with 100Mbps per core), you'd need, oh, 100 instances to saturate the ingress bandwidth potential of the storage account.
All details about storage account bandwidth are in this article.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Hello friends and loyal followers!
Sheesh, it's been quite a while since we've updated our blog, so we're determined to do some catching up and share some of the 70+ weddings we've photographed during our absence from here, along with sooo many engagements and portrait session. There's so much we want to share, and it's hard to choose where to start, so we're taking it back to 2017 with Korey and Scot's winter engagement session in Old Town Albuquerque.
We met Korey and Scot at a wedding show, and hit it off instantly. They were planning a wedding out of state, but wanted to have an engagement session right here in New Mexico. After talking a bit, we learned they had a retro-inspired them in mind. Being photographers that love it when our couples choose themes or settings that are specific to who they are and what they love, we were immediately excited to photograph their engagement session.
We helped Korey find a local hair and makeup artist so she'd have just the look she wanted. Hats off to the fabulous Christy Johnson at C. Johnson Makeup for making the already stunning Korey look even more beautiful. Having your engagement session during December in New Mexico can be a bit challenging, and of course most trees are bare and flowers won't bloom until Spring. But lucky for us, Old Town Albuquerque is a charming location any time of the year. The traditional architecture and colors of Old Town Plaza were the perfect backdrop for this adorable couple in love. And they are definitely in love. It's clear in every single photo. The love between Korey and Scot is infectious.
What we weren't prepared for leading up to their engagement session was the stunning custom designed engagement ring Scot have to Korey. Courtesy of Albuquerque's own Lilly Barrack, it was definitely a one of a kind piece of jewelry, and probably one of our favorite rings to date (and we've photographed a lot of rings).
Hope you enjoy some of our favorite images from this engagement session. And congrats to Korey and Scot on the start of their new life as husband and wife!


text:
HomePowerDistributionViews of R.K. Singh: "India is way ahead on its energy transition journey"
Views of R.K. Singh: "India is way ahead on its energy transition journey"
"India is way ahead on its energy transition journey"
At the recent 5th POSOCO Day event, R.K. Singh, union minister for power, new and renewable energy, spoke about the sector's achievements, the challenges ahead, and the outlook for the sector. Excerpts…
The Indian power sector has witnessed a significant transformation over the years. Power availability has increased and the sector has moved from a state of being power deficit to power surplus. We have connected the whole country into one single grid, strengthening it to now transfer 112,000 MW of electricity from one part of the country to another. We have connected the whole country into a single market, allowing electricity to be generated in one part of the country and sold in any other part of the country. Connecting the entire country into a single grid has ensured that no region of the country is power deficit as far as availability of power is concerned.
If there is a shortage of electricity, it can either be attributed to the financial position of the distribution utilities or the lack of technical capacity to draw the requisite quantity of power. Until now, the Ministry of Power (MoP) has come across some cases in two to three states that needed power but were constrained from drawing it owing to the lack of adequate transmission infrastructure. Earlier, the reason could be attributed to the weak position of the distribution segment; however, in the past four to four and a half years, the MoP has strengthened the distribution segment via schemes such as the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) and the Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS). Moreover, in the past few years, the MoP has strengthened the distribution segment by adding 2,900 substations and upgrading 3,800 old substations, besides adding 750,000 ckt. km of HT lines and 550,000 ckt. km of LT lines. These developments have ensured that the distribution utilities are able to deliver electricity in all regions of the country. In addition, the MoP has provided electricity connections to all households in India under the Saubhagya scheme.
We have also introduced a series of reforms in the power sector. We have put in place an electricity market with two power exchanges offering a day-ahead market, a term-ahead market, and a real-time market. We have a separate day-ahead market for green energy, and have proposed to have a separate term-ahead market for green energy. Apart from this, we have instituted a system of merit order despatch, which prioritises the despatch of the cheapest electricity first, thus encouraging efficiency and cheapest prices for consumers.
At the COP21 event, the Government of India had committed to developing 40 per cent of the total installed capacity from non-fossil fuel-based sources by 2030. Notably, India achieved this target in November 2021, nine years before the target. Now, at COP26, held in Glasgow, the government has pledged to develop 500 GW of non-fossil fuel-based installed capacity by 2030. On the country's march towards achieving a renewable energy capacity of 175 GW by 2022, it has achieved an installed capacity of 150 GW of renewable energy, including large hydro projects. About 63 GW of renewable energy capacity is at various phases of installation and is expected to be completed by next year.
In 2020, India witnessed a total investment of $6.2 billion towards the development of renewables. In 2019, renewable energy investments in India stood at $9 billion-$10 billion. Although renewable energy investments have slowed down across the world owing to Covid-19, it may be noted that India is way ahead on its energy transition journey.
The power sector is undergoing a transformation, with large penetration of renewable energy. Notably, the intermittency issue of renewables is an evolving and emerging challenge to the stability of grid operations. With the increased installation of rooftop solar, greater penetration of renewables in agriculture, and increased electric vehicle charging, power demand will fluctuate and become more volatile. Hence, it is necessary for POSOCO/RLDCs/NLDC to plan and mitigate these evolving challenges by preparing accordingly. In the initial years, the volatility of the electricity grid will pose problems in grid operations; however, over the long term, demand will probably even out with the introduction of battery energy storage systems. We are trying to encourage storage in a big way. The MoP has recently come out with a bid for 1,000 MWh of storage, which is the largest bid in the world.
In the next 15-20 years, even though consumption will grow to a certain level, a substantial part of that consumption will actually be generated by consumers themselves as they will become prosumers. This transition will be visible at not only the household level but also among industries because of cross-subsidies. World over, the power tariff for bulk consumption for industries is low as compared to household consumer tariffs, but in our country, it is inverted. Hence, it will be profitable for industry to switch over to renewables.
The next challenge is related to cybersecurity. It is not just cyberattacks from a recognised enemy; any sort of misguided groups can come out with a cyberattack on our system or any part of the system. Since the whole network is vulnerable to cyberattacks, we need to pay focused attention to it. There is a need to work on ancillary services, to have reserves that can be called upon. Until now, we had surplus generating capacity because of which we always had some capacity on standby. As demand catches up with the existing capacity, POSOCO will not have the luxury of surplus power at hand. Therefore, POSOCO should have reserves through ancillary services. There is a need for a system of secondary and tertiary reserves. This automatic generation control is a good thing, but it will last only for about 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, secondary generation/standby has to kick in, which necessitates a policy for ancillary services. That said, secondary and tertiary reserves will not be required if we have a situation of huge surpluses, if we add so much of renewables. Even with renewables, when huge surpluses of solar and wind are injected at the same time, battery storage will be required so as to prevent energy from being wasted.
The power sector in the world is changing. We are also going to connect with other countries under the "One Sun One World One Grid" initiative. We need to work on this, as it will have its own challenges. Further, as far as load despatch is concerned, it is a very specialised field and can only be handled by people who are well trained for this. That is true for both the NLDC and RLDCs, but not for state load despatch centres. So, there should be compulsory certification of people who are going to work in this field.
Moreover, everybody who participates in the grid, must follow discipline, otherwise there will be chaos and the whole country's national grid will collapse, which will result in a national disaster. That is what we together need for the country to have a secure future where power is available round the clock and of good quality without any blackout in any part of the country. It is a major responsibility because it is electricity that runs everything, it is a part of our life like oxygen.


Risk Management best practices, risk education, resources, how-tos, insights, peer networking for Risk Professionals in financial, banking, HR, IT, Cyber Security and other businesses.
Thanks to our 22,000+ members!
What are the top benefits of being a member of this community?
Advance your career by joining an exclusive group of experts, interacting and building relations with risk professionals and service providers through a range of multimedia tools. Read our members' testimonials.
Form new business relationships and enhance opportunities.
Become a leader in the field. Members have a full page to promote themselves, their personal blog or website, and (if you have one) your book.
Enjoy our products and services such as discounts on conferences, trainings and more.
Join Over 22,000 Happy Members Now to share knowledge, get new business, new contacts, jobs, latest research and exchange ideas. Connections can change everything!


text:
Q: Alignment issue in High chart's bar chart
I am creating this bar chart using high charts. The alignment of the bar is not in the middle of section(like first red bar is not in middle of the Jan, 2016). Is there any option to place all bars in middle of each sections?

A: I found the solution for the issue.
plotOptions: {
    column: {
        pointPadding: 0.5,
        borderWidth: 2 ,
        groupPadding: .5
    }
}


HOME > Latest > Zak Mir – Are Zero Hours And Sports Direct Putting The Great Back Into Great Britain?
Zak Mir – Are Zero Hours And Sports Direct Putting The Great Back Into Great Britain?
The recent mini lottery winner style bonuses at Sports Direct were impressive in at least a couple of ways. The first, as I have stated before, is that the embarrassment of riches at the "fashion" retailer (or "chav" outfitter depending on which side of the social camp you are on!), rather made a monkey out of many High Street names complaining about the death of conventional "offline" retail / cash strapped consumers and the wrong kind of weather… It simply revealed these moaners as people who are no good at their job. Capitalism at work at its finest.
The ubiquitous Mr Ashley enjoying himself!
However, given the colourful lifestyle of Sports Direct supremo Mike Ashley, and the way that in the UK as opposed to the U.S. that we are still not fully entrepreneur friendly (even after Thatcher), I was expecting a backlash. In fact, the logical consequence would probably have been for the press to have a dig at our hero of capitalism Mr Ashley. But no, instead, we have been introduced to the concept of Zero Hours, the simplest definition of which is to work "as and when" required. Interestingly, in the wake of these shock revelations, the media seems to have seized upon Zero Hours as akin to a latter day slavery. The angle seems to be that Zero Hours are a throwback to the Victorian era – a time when, ironically, this country had the greatest economy in the world. Perhaps the latest economic revival is due to this practice becoming increasingly prevalent?
But the antipathy to hard work is something which is quite understandable in a world of coffee breaks, paternity leave, sickies/dentist visits on the occasion of major sporting fixtures or just before scheduled holidays. It struck me that in order to get Sporting Direct started I bet that Ashley had to work a Zero Hours regime, same with Bill Gates at Microsoft, The Beatles playing all night in Hamburg, and even yours truly have all been involved in a Zero Hours regime! All say aaaah.
I suspect almost all entrepreneurs of the past and currently have an open ended time commitment to what they are trying to create, and will still do even if they are subsequently billionaires. Indeed, the difference between an emerging economy and a developed / stagnant one that we have, is most likely to be not only the tax / red tape burden, but also all these GDP eroding ideas or muted working hours. It is tough, but so is the competition for the UK economy.
Happily, for my role model and his company Sports Direct (SPD), it can be seen from the share price trace of the recent past that so far the softies have not been able to threaten the business model. In fact, it could very well be that the revelations regarding the practices at the group – presumably due to how much it costs employers to hire people, are actually working in favour of the bull argument. People may be taking the view that Zero Hours will ensure that the Lottery style payouts will continue for Sports Direct's hard working employees, and that shareholders will continue to be rewarded in kind.


text:
Q: Trouble testing copy file function in C Okay so this is probably has an easy solution, but after a bit of searching and testing I remain confused.. :(
Here is a snippet of the code that I have written:
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
  int test;
  test = copyTheFile("test.txt", "testdir");
 if(test == 1)
    printf("something went wrong");
 if(test == 0)
    printf("copydone");
 return 0;
}

int copyTheFile(char *sourcePath, char *destinationPath){
    FILE *fin = fopen(sourcePath, "r");
    FILE *fout = fopen(destinationPath, "w");
    if(fin != NULL && fout != NULL){
        char buffer[10000];//change to real size using stat()
        size_t read, write;

        while((read = fread(buffer, 1, sizeof(buffer), fin)) > 0){
            write = fwrite(buffer, 1, read, fout);
            if(write != read)
                return 1;
        }//end of while
    }// end of if
    else{
        printf("Something wrong getting the file\n");
        return 0;}
    if(fin != NULL)
        fclose(fin);
    if(fout != NULL)
        fclose(fout);
return 0;
}

Some quick notes: I am very new to C, programming, and especially file I/O. I looked up the man pages of fopen, fread, and fwrite. After looking at some example code I came up with this. I was trying to just copy a simple text file, and then place it in the destination folder specified by destinationPath.
The folder I want to place the text file into is called testdir, and the file I want to copy is called test.txt.
The arguments I have attempted to use in the copyFile function are:

*

*"test.txt" "testdir"

*".../Desktop/project/test.txt"    ".../Desktop/project/testdir"

*"/Desktop/project/test.txt"     "/Desktop/project/testdir"

I just get the print statement "Something wrong getting the file" with every attempt. I am thinking that it may be because 'testdir' is a folder not a file, but then how would I copy to a folder?
Sorry if this a really basic question, I am just having trouble so any advice would be awesome!
Also, if you wanted to be extra helpful, the "copyTheFile" function is supposed to copy the file regardless of format. So like if its a .jpg or something it should copy it. Let me know if any of you guys see a problem with it.
This is with ISO/POSIX/C89/C99 on Linux.

A: At the start, you'll want to include stdio.h to provide FILE and the I/O function declarations:
#include <stdio.h>

Aside from this, your program compiles and works properly for me. Unfortunately you can't copy to a directory without using stat() to detect if the destination is a directory, and if so, appending a file name before opening the file.
Some other minor suggestions:

*

*A buffer with a power of two bytes such as 4096 is probably more efficient due to it lining up with filesystem and disk access patterns

*Conventionally, C functions that return a status code use 0 for success and other values such as 1 for failure, so swapping your return values may be less confusing

*When a standard library function such as fopen, fread or fwrite fails, it is a good idea to use perror(NULL); or perror("error prefix"); to report it, which may look something like:
$ ./a.out
...
error prefix: No such file or directory

A: if you are trying to write a new file in a directory, you should be giving the full path of the file to be written. in your case
"C:...\Desktop\project\testdir\testfile"


This morning at 9.30am, a lorry with an attached crane crashed into the covered linkway linking Block 116 to 118 Bukit Batok West Ave 6, causing it to collapse.
No one was injured. However, a car that was parked nearby was damaged by the collapsed linkway. The Town Council will be assisting the owner of the car in his claim for compensation.
Our initial findings revealed that the lorry driver failed to lower the crane before driving through the linkway. The Police are investigating the matter.
Our immediate priority is the safety of the residents. The affected area had been barricaded, while we work on dismantling the damaged portion of the linkway.
We thank the affected residents for their patience. We will keep them posted of repair works to the affected linkway in due course.


Every year, the Musée des Impressionnismes puts on two interesting exhibitions that give people another reason to visit Giverny during the spring and summer – the other one being, of course, Monet's garden. This year's first show is "Tintamarre! Instruments de Musique dans l'Art, 1860-1910." ("In Concert! Musical Instruments in Art, 1860-1910").
Unfortunately, the wonderful onomatopoeic word "tintamarre" does not translate well into English, in which it has the pejorative connotation of "din" or "racket." In French, it can mean "din," too, but it also has a friendlier, more festive sound. It was a popular word in France during the period covered by the show.
In any case, the music referred to in the artworks here was surely more harmonious than the word "tintamarre" implies. The exhibition is not about the attempts of artists like Kandinsky to translate music into painting, but the representation of musical instruments in art at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
In the second half of the 19th century, musical performances multiplied on the streets and in concert, opera and dance halls. At the same time, as modern musical instruments became more readily available and the middle classes grew wealthier, more people had instruments at home and were learning to play them and giving private concerts at home.
The first part of the show looks at public performances, ranging from itinerant musicians playing in courtyards in hopes that residents would throw coins to them from the windows to concerts of all sorts. An amusing 1903 canvas by Georges Lemmen gives a plunging view from the balcony of a performance of Wagner's Götterdämmerung at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, complete with a zoftig Brünnhilde and a gesticulating Siegfried, while Jean Béraud takes us into a popular music hall in "Revue au Théâtre des Variétés" (c. 1883), in which he manages to give equal billing to two players on the stage, audience members in a box and the orchestra in the pit.
whom still has her hat on, assiduously applying themselves to the work at hand. Pierre Bonnard shows a woman alone playing in a similar position (how to depict someone at an upright piano was a problem for painters, since they usually have their back turned) in his Japanese-print-influenced "Jeune Femme au Piano." The intense concentration required to learn an instrument is palpably depicted in Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's "Mademoiselle Dihau au Piano" (1890).
The time-honored music-inspired seduction scene is shown in René Prinet's "Kreutzer's Sonata" (1901), in which a violinist, holding his instrument up in the air out of harm's way, passionately grasps the begowned pianist around the waist while lifting her up to kiss her. In Tolstoy's novel of the same name, the ability to arouse great passion is attributed to this sonata. This painting had a second life in the 1940s in advertising for the perfume Tabu.
John Singer Sargent, a musician himself, used the piano in his studio as a mere prop in his 1897 portrait of Catherine Vlasto, who leans elegantly against the instrument in her beautiful white dress with satin bows, her hand on the keyboard.
James Tissot, a painter of high-society scenes straight out of Proust, gets a laugh with his painting "Trop Tôt" (1873), in which guests in their best finery have arrived too early for a musical evening. They stand around uncomfortably in the drawing room chatting among themselves while the hostess gives last-minute instructions to the musicians and two servants peep curiously through a doorway.
Doré, Edgar Degas, Walter Sickert and James Ensor – are represented in the show and, while some of the works are minor, the charm of the subject is more than enough to hold visitors' interest and inspire them to leave humming a tune or even ready to finally learn to play the piano.
Take train from Gare Saint Lazare to Vernon, then shuttlebus (outside train station).


(Reuters) - Martin Shkreli, dubbed the "pharma bro" for exploits such as jacking up the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000 percent, should forfeit $7.4 million, including his Wu Tang Clan album and a Picasso painting, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday.
The court should hold Shkreli financially accountable for his criminal conduct by requiring him to forfeit the amounts above, according to filings.
Prosecutors listed out assets that they can possibly take from Shkreli, also including his stake in Turing Pharmaceuticals and an Enigma machine, which was used in World War II as a code breaker.
Shkreli had bragged about buying the only copy of New York-based Wu Tang Clan's "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin," drawing ire from music fans around the world when he said he had no plans to listen to it.
In August, a U.S. jury convicted Shkreli of defrauding investors in hedge funds he ran years before he gained fame for hiking the price of a drug. His sentencing is scheduled for next month.
A U.S. judge ordered Shkreli to be jailed in September after a Facebook post offering a $5,000 reward for a strand of Hillary Clinton's hair.


text:
Analysis: Primaries Could Hush Reps. Stickland, Martinez Fischer
Republican Jonathan Stickland and Democrat Trey Martinez Fischer, the noisiest pot-stirrers in the Texas House, are in tough March 1 primary contests. Each man is his own best argument, and his worst one.
by Ross Ramsey Feb. 5, 2016 6 AM
State Reps. Jonathan Stickland (left), R-Bedford, and Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, are seen as gadflies by many of their colleagues in the Texas House. Both are locked in tough 2016 primary battles. Credit: Marjorie Kamys Cotera/Shelby Knowles
Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here.
Trey Martinez Fischer and Jonathan Stickland, two very boisterous characters in the Texas House, find themselves in hand-to-hand political combat in this year's primaries. A loss by either or both would make the Legislature a much quieter place — and both are locked in tough elections.
Stickland, R-Bedford, is running against both his opponent and against his own online history, asking voters to forgive him for a now-exposed internet trail of indisputably misogynistic and racist trolling that the 32-year-old now attributes to the ignorance of his youth. It doesn't help that he's running against a preacher — Scott Fisher — who's in the position to tut from seemingly high moral ground.
Against that, Stickland can argue that in his first two sessions as a legislator, he has brought attention and some media savvy to the loud but relatively small caucus of anti-establishment Republicans in the House. He's hard to ignore — an asset for a voting minority.
Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, has decided to give up his seat in the Texas House to challenge a former ally, José Menéndez, in a rematch for a state Senate seat. His blustery style, like Stickland's, has generated both a fan base and a foe base. But he's been at this longer, and he offers a more sophisticated version of dissent. Even his enemies acknowledge his ability to interrupt and shape legislative debates with points of order and showy histrionics from the House's back microphone. He regularly serves up the Democratic arguments in partisan debates. He's loud, which helps in a place where the Democrats are outnumbered 98-52.
But even his friends are sometimes repelled by his antics, as when he characterized the GOP as "gringos y otros pendejos" at a state Democratic Party convention. Or when he wheeled to confront Speaker Joe Straus during a debate on the House floor, flipping his mic around so that he faced the dais instead of the colleagues he had hoped to win to his side.
Each man is his own best argument, and his worst one.
TMF, as he is known in political circles, came to the House in 2001; Stickland landed a dozen years later. The older of the two bulls doesn't particularly like being compared to the younger — and his irritation seems to be based on experience more than politics. "There are few things I loathe. One of them is being compared with Jonathan Stickland," he said this week. "He hasn't earned it."
Experience might help, if he can buy more time in office. Stickland is seeking re-election, with some resistance. Fisher has the endorsement of former Gov. Rick Perry, the first big-time Republican in Texas to embrace the Tea Party and a favorite for years of conservative and evangelical Republicans. It's usually prudent to bet on the incumbent, but this is a serious race nonetheless.
Martinez Fischer would easily have won re-election, even if challenged. But he decided to run for a full term in the Senate instead. He's seeking to reverse the results of the special election that put Menéndez in office last year. That's a harder proposition. Now his opponent is an incumbent, with all of the support that entails and with the added advantage that people who might otherwise support both men — one for each chamber of the Legislature — are likely to hesitate before opposing last year's winner.
They don't post job descriptions for legislators, but there are distinct functions in the House and the Senate:
• Work horses are the nose-to-the-grindstone types who have serious things in mind and persistently act to get those things done.
• Show horses want to be noticed, admired and awarded for their sheer awesomeness — or for what they think is sheer awesomeness.
• Whiners are the reactive folk who register their positions too late to have much effect on other lawmakers, and then gripe about how their side got beat, and the unfairness of it all.
• Ghosts are the people you elect and hardly ever hear from again. They can enter and leave a room without making an impression — negative or positive.
• And then there are the gadflies. Technically, gadflies are insects that pester livestock. The dictionary has another definition: "an annoying person, especially one who provokes others into action by criticism."
That's a decent description of what Trey Martinez Fischer has been for the Democrats, and what Jonathan Stickland might become for the Republicans.
But there could be a job opening, or two, after the March 1 primaries.


When it comes to proposing, planning is key. After all, if the timing and setting is right, you'll be retelling the story for years to come. From famous landmarks to scenic backdrops, we've done the hard work for you and listed the ultimate places to get down on one knee, followed by the most inventive settings and romantic hotels to celebrate in.
Santorini is not only Greece's most romantic destination, but it's also one of the world's. Crowned with whitewashed buildings and blue domes edged into the cliffside, this picturesque island brings those postcard views to life.
This Greek gem is full of idyllic spots, but one place that stands out is Agios Nikolaos Chapel on the Megalochori caldera. The views from here are unbeatable, not to mention the rock of the caldera with its heart-shaped carving in it – a real romantic touch.
For another magical setting, there are plenty of dining spots which offer views over Santorini's breath-taking landscape. Now pair this with one of the most beautiful sunsets on the earth and you've got proposal perfection.
Majestic Hotel is the full package, yes it comes with views over the caldera, but that's only a segment of what it has to offer. This 4* A La Carte property also has three pools and an outdoor terrace ideal for celebratory drinks.
While it may seem a little cliche, Venice glows with romance. Made up of stunning bridges, gothic architecture and an ornate square, there's not a bad view here. But there's one thing that makes this city unique, and that's the fact it has an impressive 170 canals.
You can't go to Venice without taking a gondola ride, so we suggest you use this as an opportunity to get down on one knee. Make it extra special and time it so you ask the big question under the Bridge of Sighs. Those who kiss under here are said to stay together forever – surely this stands for a proposal too?
Nothing is more beautiful than Venetian nights, so if a gondola ride isn't your style, you can always head to St. Mark's Square after dark for a less-crowded experience. Plus, its orchestras and lighting will help create an idyllic ambiance.
Almar Jesolo Resort and Spa is a fantastic place to stay if you're looking for all-out luxury. Although it's positioned in Lido di Jesolo, it's close enough to visit Venice. A stand-out pool area, slick interiors and private beach give this hotel the edge. And if you want more time in Venice, you can always book an overnight stay.
There are so many ways to say 'I love you', but nothing seems to come close to the magic of Walt Disney World. Home to Cinderella's castle and known for its happily-ever-afters, this is the ultimate fairy-tale location.
The obvious choice would be in front of Cinderella's iconic castle. This is likely to be crowded, so don't be surprised if you have people in the background of your photographs. Alternatively, there are also quieter spots around the castle like Cinderella's Wishing Well for example.
For something a little different you could always propose on a ride, a tame one if you're travelling as a couple though. Or, if you're holidaying as a group use the ride photos to ask the question, and by that we mean holding up small paper signs.
Disney Animal Kingdom has 'special stay' written all over it. Forget Florida, this hotel will feel like you've landed in Africa with its safari balcony views. Here, you'll look out over zebras and giraffes, as well as enjoying perks like a bus to Disney and pool complete with a waterslide.
From the aromas, sounds and sights, Morocco's intriguing city Marrakech will certainly wow your partner. Lose yourself in Jemaa el-Fna and stumble across storytellers and musicians or seek out the city's natural side with a trip to the stunning Atlas Mountains and Jardin Majorell, the most recognised gardens in Marrakech.
Enjoy a sunset or sunrise viewing with a difference and take a hot air balloon ride above the stunning Atlas Mountains and Moroccan desert. You can also organise a private flight if you want it to be more intimate, but whatever you do, don't forget to bring the champagne to toast your proposal.
Cascades d'Ouzoud is another great proposal spot. As the highest waterfalls in Morocco this stunning natural attraction is a bit of a distance from Marrakech, but trust us the journey will be worth it! We suggest taking the path down to the bottom for the best views.
Medina Gardens is a great pick for Marrakech holidays. As an adult-only property it's ideal for couples, not to mention it comes with in-room hot tubs – the ultimate upgrade for a romantic trip.
Cuba and romance go together like a horse and a carriage, whether it's the delights of Varadero and its fine stretches of delicate sand, or Havana's outgoing seafront – this Caribbean hotspot should be high on your list of places to propose.
Opt for a retro proposal in Havana and take a tour of the city from the back seat of a vintage convertible, beats a fancy restaurant any day, right?
If you prefer something less urban, there are always the luxurious resorts of Varadero, most with their own slice of beautiful sand. If you want a sense of seclusion go for a lengthy evening stroll along the beach, this will give you plenty of time to pluck up the courage.
Royalton Hicacos is a great base for Cuba holidays with its five restaurants, beachfront setting and stand-out pool scene, plus it's reserved for adults. What's more, this hotel comes as part of Thomson's twin centre package, so you can pair it with a stay in Havana too.
Love is always in the air in Dubrovnik, and there's no wonder with its romantic restaurants and sweeping backdrops. Throw in Adriatic Sea views and marble coated streets and you've got one of the most beautiful settings in Europe.
As I'm sure you're aware much of Dubrovnik's shimmering landscape was used for the hit TV series Game of Thrones. So if you and your partner are a fan of the show, you can seal the deal at the real King's Landing locations dotted across the city. These include the walls and the Jesuit Steps.
Prefer something a little more secluded? The island of Lokrum at sunset is just the place. Floating just across from the Old Town, this tranquil natural reserve is an out-of-the-way spot with bags of charm. Now, pack a picnic, find the perfect piece of rock, and you're good to go. But whatever you do, don't forget the ring!
More Hotel may be a taxi ride from the centre, but it's well worth it. Take advantage of a sea-facing gourmet restaurant wedged into the cliffside and an impressive pool area complete with plenty of sunloungers. But the biggest highlight has to be the natural cave bar – enjoy a cold drink inside the hotel's very own grotto.
Lapland certainly has the wow-factor when it comes to couples getaways. Snuggle into your partner beside a cosy log fire, gaze at the Northern Lights or take things up a notch and drive a snowmobile together – you can't beat a festive proposal.
Who needs fireworks when you have the Northern Lights? As one of nature's most spellbinding displays, this has to be the greatest proposal idea there is. And if that wasn't special enough, go all out and write 'will you marry me in the snow'.
Another idea is a private husky safari. This off-the-beaten path adventure will see you ride past snow-topped forests and icy lakes, and the best part is it's all planned for you. Just make sure you don't lose the ring when the speed picks up.
Winter Wonderland Hotel and Log Cabins are cosy from head-to-toe. Set among mounds of snow and forest, this cabin-style hotel comes with all your main amenities from a buffet restaurant to festive activities and marshmallow-toasting. For some over-the-top luxury, book a deluxe cabin complete with your own private hot tub.
Las Vegas may not strike you as the most romantic place to propose, but you'd be surprised. In fact, this buzzing city is full of dreamy locations. It's not every day you come across grand casinos, desert sunsets and swanky hotels – yes, Vegas is quite the backdrop.
As one of the most iconic landmarks in Sin City, find a spot with fewer tourists and get down on one knee in front of the Bellagio Fountains – now that's an impressive proposal photo!
Want to take things to new heights? Take the flight of a lifetime and enjoy views of Vegas' illuminated strip from the window of a helicopter. This trip for two lasts around 30 minutes, giving you plenty of time to pick the right moment.
Westgate Las Vegas is spot on when it comes to Las Vegas holidays. Close to the strip and fairly priced, this stylish hotel has everything you'll need during your time in Sin City. In true Vegas fashion, you'll have an on-site casino, tribute act shows and a buffet-style restaurant.
Secluded beaches, ancient ruins and elephant a sanctuaries, Sri Lanka has mass appeal. This place comes with an exotic feel given its position in the world, but don't worry, the locals will make you feel right at home. That said – proposals don't get much more unique than Sri Lanka.
Head for the 200-metre-high Sigiriya Rock at sunset or sunrise and avoid the tourists. This way, you'll get to enjoy a more intimate experience, and even if there are a few people, you're bound to feel like the only ones.
If that doesn't take your fancy, experience the wilder side of the country and visit an elephant sanctuary. Not only will you get up close and personal with them, but you'll also be able to say you popped the question next to one of nature's most majestic creatures.
Suriya is ideal for a post-proposal stay. You only have to look at its setting to see that this hotel is in an enviable spot. Situated on the beach with river bungalows, this is the ultimate escape. You can even share a double over-water cabana with your partner for a deluxe sunbathing experience.
Now, all you have to do is decide on your wedding location.


text:
A Pakistani Digital platform, C Prime Channel, released a short film named 'Ab Buss', starring Sanam Saeed and directed by Mohsin Talat. The film is inspired from the most tragic and horrible happening, the Lahore motorway gang rape incident. The incident occurred in September 2020 which shook everyone to the core and people from every walk of life condemned it.
This short film has a strong message for the viewers as it highlights the social norms prevailing in the country. The film's duration is 10 minutes and 24 seconds only but it contains all that it needs to deliver a valuable lesson to the audience.
Sanam Saeed plays the role of a girl 'Maya' whose father had a heart attack and she has to travel all alone. The caption of the trailer said:
"She knows she's done it before and she can do it again – Maya packs for an unexpected trip as she gets a phone call''
Sanam says that she read the script and she thought that it delivered a nice message in a short duration. The actress was vocal about the motorway incident since the beginning and she often raised her voice to demand justice and question the authorities.
Why hang them when we can castrate them? Why let them go so easily when they can live with the pain, shame and guilt without their genitals? Why wait to make this the law till God forbid it happens too close to home? No counseling or rehabilitation needed here. #cuttheirweapon.
— Sanam Saeed (@sanammodysaeed) September 11, 2020
Sanam says that the digital platforms offer a lot of opportunities for people like us to bring forth our ideas and give a strong message to the nation. Watch the short film here and let us know about your views in comments.


text:
Murilo Bustamante, född 30 juli 1966 i Rio de Janeiro, är en brasiliansk MMA-utövare som gått matcher i bland annat UFC och Pride och har sin bakgrund inom brasiliansk Jiu-Jitsu. I januari 2002 blev han mästare i mellanvikt i UFC efter att ha besegrat Dave Menne. Han försvarade titeln mot Matt Lindland i maj samma år men blev sedan av med titeln efter att ha skrivit ett kontrakt med Pride.

I april 2000 var Bustamante med och bildade Brazilian Top Team som har ett flertal namnkunniga fighters i sitt stall.

Referenser

Brasilianska utövare av mixed martial arts
Män
Födda 1966
Levande personer
Idrottare från Rio de Janeiro

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Immigration: Austria Extends Border Controls for Hungary and Slovenia for Another Six Months
The Austrian Government has decided to extend the internal border checks with Slovenia and Hungary. The border controls, which were set to expire on May 11th, have been extended for at least another six months.
In a letter to the European Commission, the Austrian Interior Minister Herbert Kickl insisted that there is still a high number of migrants attempting to enter the country illegally. Through this letter, he notified the EC that Austria will carry out internal border controls on Slovenia and Hungary after 12 May 2019.
"Austria is well aware that internal border controls are to be used only as a last resort, but sees no other possibility in the present situation after observation and analysis of the development of the situation on the affected internal border sections," Minister Kickl said in his letter.
He also mentioned the current developments in Turkey and Greece, asserting that a significant positive change of situation cannot be expected in short terms. However, he said that Austria still strives to remove the internal borders as soon as there are no longer security threats.
"The desire to return in perspective to an area without internal border controls is expressly supported," he noted.
This decision of the Austrian government comes just a few days after the Members of the European Union Parliament voted pro a revised Schengen Border code that creates tougher rules for the reintroduction of the Schengen internal borders.
The new code limits initial temporary checks to two months, instead of six. If the parliament approves the text in first reading in its next term, the maximum extension possible will be one year instead of two.
Currently, France, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway have reintroduced internal borders. In February, Sweden had extended its internal border controls until May 11. The German internal border controls are also set to expire about that date.
Latest from Schengen Visa News
Immigration: MEPs Back Schengen Code Update That…
Immigration: Germany extends border controls with…
Immigration: Sweden Extends Border Controls for…
Immigration: New rules on reintroduction of Schengen…
Immigration: Denmark Wants Permanent Border Controls…
Immigration: Poland to Impose Temporary Border…
Immigration: New Security Measures at Greek Airports for EU Nationals Entering or Leaving the Schengen Zone
Video: Arizona Bigfoot Rips Across Road 


For Christmas markets with authentic atmosphere and fewer tourists, it's best to escape the city centre and head for the Berlin 'countryside'. Public transport links are so good that most are easily accessible by train or bus. Last weekend I visited two of my favourites which have a more traditional feel.
There are still two more weekends of Advent to catch the market at Domäne Dahlem, an open-air agricultural and food museum with a focus on ecology. The former manor house there dates back over 800 years and the estate provides the perfect backdrop for a traditional Christmas market. Take the U-Bahn (U3) Dahlem Dorf and the Domäne is practically opposite the station.
The market stalls offer all manner of handmade products from wooden and straw Christmas decorations to beeswax candles, stationery, clothing and food. Permanent arts and craft workshops specialise in gilding, weaving, pottery and furniture restoration and some have their wares on sale. You can dine on goose or waffles under cover of the large shed and warm up with Glühwein or mead as you stroll around the market to the accompaniment of the brass band quartet playing seasonal music. The entrance fee of €3 also includes the Manor House and the Culinarium exhibition in the newly renovated stables.
An even more fairy-tale destination is the annual Adventmarkt in the courtyard of the Jagdschloss Grunewald – the fabulous 16th Century Royal 'Hunting Palace' in the Grunewald forest, Berlin's oldest surviving palace. This market only takes place over the second weekend of Advent and it's worth planning a trip to Berlin to visit it; the lake-side forest setting is magical – better than any film set could dream up. The 115 or X10 bus routes take you within a 15 minute walk of the Jagdschloss, on forest paths. Alight at Pückler Straße (115) or Königin-Luise-Straße (X10) and take a torch if you are walking back after dark.
Apart from dozens of market stalls selling hand-made gifts and toys and a variety of tempting food and drink, the Grunewald market is full of music and drama. A small brass band plays by the courtyard entrance and characters from fairy-tales mingle with the crowd. There's also a central stage set up in front of the Renaissance Jagdschloss and families gather round to listen to carol-singing or a performance of Hansel and Gretel.
If the market gets crowded, there's plenty of room down by the Grunewaldsee behind the palace. With a glass of 'Feuerzangenbowle' (German Fire Punch) in one hand and a Bratwurst in the other, you won't feel the cold and the views are stunning, especially with sunset over the lake.
As an extra treat, the Berlin 'Weihnachstmarkt für Hunde' (Christmas Market for dogs!) is only a five minute walk from the Jagdschloss at the Forsthaus Paulsborn. The Grunewald is a popular destination for dog owners as there are not only miles of walks but in summer dogs are allowed to swim in the Grunewaldsee (see post 'If you go down in the woods today…' from 16 August 2014). The annual Christmas Market for dogs started in 2012 and has proved a great success. It's worth the entrance fee of €1.80 just to catch the canine festive spirit.
Then finish Grunewald Advent experience at the stately Forsthaus Paulsborn before walking back through the forest to the bright city lights. For full details of all Berlin Christmas markets, the Visit Berlin website has a comprehensive list.


Bundle includes an E845 handheld vocal mic, boom mic stand and mic cable.
The Sennheiser E845 is a high-performance super-cardioid lead vocal dynamic microphone with an extended high-frequency response, specially designed for stage use. It features a rugged all-metal body and offers fantastic feedback rejection. Its large dynamic range and smooth frequency response contribute towards an excellent signal quality.


text:
Q: jQuery call function from added class to call another function I am using a multi select plugin to create a goods & services list to be selected. The user will select from a list the services they want, and since there are a lot of services, they are in groups. So the dynamically created content looks like

Class 41

Item 1

Item 2

Item 3

Item 4

When a user clicks on an item, it will go to an adjacent list to the right, which all works fine. It then adds a price of $350 to the total for every one clicked. But I want to make a situation where it only adds $350 ONCE no matter how many item's are added.
So I tried making it so when you click on an item, it adds as normal the $350, then adds a class to the ms-optgroup.
$(function () {
  addClass(350);
  addService(0);
});

function update() {
    var total = 0;
      $('.ms-selectable .ms-list .ms-optgroup:not(.added) .ms-elem-selectable input[type=hidden], .ms-selectable .ms-list .ms-optgroup.added .ms-elem-selectable input[type=hidden]').each(function () {
        total += +$(this).val();
      });

  $('#variablePrice').text(total);
}

function addClass(value) {
    const elem = $(".ms-selectable .ms-list .ms- optgroup:not(.added) .ms-elem-selectable");
    elem.on('click', function () {
        $(this).parent().addClass('added');
        $(this).append($('<input>').attr('type', 'hidden').val(value));

        update();
      });
}

So that all works fine, but then when I go to call a new function for a specific item within a ms-optgroup.added class it just returns the same $350 function 'addClass'
Here is my second function for when ONE item has already been added.
function addService(value) {
    const elem = $(".ms-selectable .ms-list .ms-optgroup.added .ms-elem-selectable");

  elem.on('click', function () {
    $(this).append($('<input>').attr('type', 'hidden').val(value));

    update();
  });
}

So in my head once the first item has been selected and adds $350, and the ms-optgroup has the classes 'added' the function then called afterwards should only add the value of $0 to for each click.
I hope that makes sense, it's a very specific problem I know. Been trying for awhile to get this right.
Thank you for any help.
Here is a fiddle to show https://jsfiddle.net/uL67gqpc/ So there is two groups as an example, in theory you would add an item from a group and it would add $350 per group, no matter how many items are added. Hence why I tried to add the .added class to prevent further calculation. But I may be way off.

A: I'd use checkboxes, store the price into a data-* attribute and use Array.reduce() to calculate the :checked one's values

let price = 350; // Or whatever
const $service = $('[name="service[]"]');

const calcTotal = () => {
  const price_services = [...$service.filter(':checked').get()]
    .reduce((v, el) => (v += +el.dataset.value, v), 0);
  const result = price_services ? price_services + price : 0;
  $('#total').text(`${result}$`)
}

$service.on('change', calcTotal).trigger('change');
*{box-sizing: border-box; margin:0;}
label {display: block;}

ONE

<input type="checkbox" name="service[]" value='a' data-value="10"> a 10$
<input type="checkbox" name="service[]" value='b' data-value="15"> b 15$
<input type="checkbox" name="service[]" value='c' data-value="8"> c 8$

TWO

<input type="checkbox" name="service[]" value='d' data-value="120"> d 120$
<input type="checkbox" name="service[]" value='e' data-value="100"> e 100$
<input type="checkbox" name="service[]" value='f' data-value="7"> f 7$
<input type="checkbox" name="service[]" value='g' data-value="4"> g 4$
<input type="checkbox" name="service[]" value='h' data-value="2"> h 2$
<input type="checkbox" name="service[]" value='i' data-value="64"> i 64$
<input type="checkbox" name="service[]" value='j' data-value="33"> j 33$

TOTAL: