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COVID-19: Facing challenges on many fronts, Colombia taps the military to enforce quarantines
April 3, 2020 Sergio Held
Cases of COVID-19 have snowballed in Colombia, from a single patient that brought the virus from Italy in March 6 to 1,065 cases and 17 deaths by April 1. Colombia has imposed a shelter-in-place order.
Still, many people are venturing out onto the streets, either from ignorance or necessity.
Colombia has deployed the military. Fines are being doled out in large numbers and those who break the order face prison terms.
CAJICA – Colombia. The small town of Cajica lies about 20 kilometers away north from Bogota, Colombia's capital city. It is a dorm-city well connected with other towns nearby. Here, agriculture, comfort and a modest way of living blend together to create unique lifestyles for some 81,000 inhabitants. Like the rest of the country, Cajica is now under a mandatory shelter-in-place order.
Late last month, Colombia's President Ivan Duque closed all the borders, shut down all airports and put about 50 million people under mandatory shelter-in-place order to fight COVID-19.
The coronavirus that first surfaced in Wuhan, China, was confirmed to be present in Colombia on March 6 after a patient flew from Milan, Italy. As elsewhere in the world, the pandemic disease spread exponentially in Colombia. By April 1 there were 1,065 confirmed cases and 17 deaths.
The lockdown of the population will last until at least April 13 and is hitting the economy hard. As a double whammy, oil is one of Colombia's most important exports and oil prices have cratered as a result of a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, two of the three largest producers in the world – the U.S. is the third.
Adding to Colombia's challenges is an influx of more than a million migrants from Venezuela, many of whom are dependent on Colombia's social services, have day-to-day jobs, insecure housing and spotty access to health care and even food.
Colombia has deployed humanitarian aid across the country in a race against hunger. With over 46 percent of the labor force working informaly and an unemployment rate of 12.2%, the challenge for the government is to keep 50 million people at home but also fed. As challenges go, it is unprecedented.
"For me it is very important that we all understand that the priority is to protect the life and health of Colombians," Duque said on March 21. "The second, to protect the most vulnerable, we are going to overcome this storm and this global crisis, but we are going to overcome it without hunger and protecting those who need them most," he said.
Relief packages worth billions of Colombian pesos have been announced and both food and staples have been deployed on the ground to the most in need. Under the current orders, one citizen per household is allowed onto the streets twice per week and for a couple of hours only, to buy food, medicines or go to the bank.
That is the reality here in Cajica, where life has taken on a surreal sheen.
Unfortunately, across the country, the shelter-in-place order is often defied, despite the fact that breaking the quarantine can lead to costly fines or even eight years in prison. With a weak judiciary system and a lack of effective police enforcement – police have been ordered to sing and dance on the streets to entertain people from their balconies – enforcing the shelter-in-place order may prove difficult.
Adding to the challenges, many in Colombia believe COVID-19 is not all that harmful.
There are many, many people still on the streets trying to make a living, neglecting the national shelter-in-place order through ignorance or sheer need.
One man believed to have been infected with COVID-19 attacked eight police officer earlier this week, using only his mouth. He spit on police after being transported to a hospital in the town of Sabaneta, Antioquia.
Cajica is one of nine towns in the department of Cundinamarca, where Governor Nicole Garcia has deployed the military to enforce the shelter-in-place order. Deploying the military is a big step. In Colombia, poeple don't mess around with the army. And even those who might dare under other circumstances would think about it twice under the current circumstances. Soldiers are already fighting an invisible enemy that hides in the bodies of careless people.
In Cajica, where three cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed, as many as 87 citizens have been fined for breaking the order. Across Cundinamarca, 2,093 citizens have been fined for breaching the quarantine, since March 25.
"Permanent patrolling will be in place to prevent people from going outside," Garcia tweeted while announcing that the army along with the Group of Special Operations of the Police were being deployed in the region.
"In Cundinamarca, quarantine is respected or respected, we are going to make it in good terms or we are going make it happen with sanctions. We are not going to allow the irresponsibility of a few to endanger the lives of thousands," Garcia said (Spanish).


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Q: Invoke AWS Lambda function when multiple Lambda function is done What is the best way to invoke aws lambda function when multiple lambda functions have successfully finished?
So for example, LambdaA should run when LambdaB1, LambdaB2, ... LambdaBn have successfully returned success. Also, the last LambdaB function is not guaranteed to finish last...

A: To answer your specific question, you need to use JavaScript Promises (I'm assuming you are using NodeJS) in your Lambda function. When all of the promises are fulfilled, you can proceed.
However, I do not recommend doing it that way, as your initial Lambda function is sitting idle, and being billed, waiting for the responses from the other functions.
IMO, the best way of achieving this parallel execution is using AWS Step Functions. Here you map out the order of events, and you will want to use Parallel States to make sure all tasks are complete before proceeding.

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Oklahoma City insisted there was no extra motivation playing against an Indiana team sporting the NBA's best record.
Kevin Durant certainly played like there was on Sunday night, scoring 36 points and grabbing 10 rebounds as the Thunder made quick work of the visiting Pacers with a 118-94 win.
What started as a matchup of NBA Finals' hopefuls quickly turned into a rout, with Oklahoma City leading by as many as 29 points in the first half before finishing with stars Durant and Russell Westbrook — who added 26 points and 13 assists — resting comfortably on the bench.
It was also a largely one-sided affair — particularly early — in the matchup between Durant and Indiana All-Star Paul George.
George finished with 32 points, but he had only six at halftime as the Thunder surged ahead and never looked back.
"I take everything personal, no matter who I'm playing," Durant said. "I'm always grateful for the opportunity to play, so I never want to take it for granted.
"… Of course, playing one of the best teams in the league, you've always got to bring it a little bit more, I guess, and tonight I think we all did that."
While George was quiet offensively in the first half, Durant opened the game with a point to prove against last year's Eastern Conference finalist.
The NBA's leading scorer at 28.5 points per game hit 6 of 7 shots in the first quarter, scoring 14 of the Thunder's first 18 points. It was just the start of the fun for Oklahoma City, which improved to 10-0 at home this season and is the only Western Conference team still undefeated at home.
"I think we know that we can play with the best of them," Westbrook said. "I think tonight we did a good job of just playing our game."
Durant was 14 of 23 from the field and Oklahoma City shot a season-best 61 percent (47 of 77). Reggie Jackson added 15 points off the bench, while Serge Ibaka finished with 13.
Indiana, which shot just 40 percent (34 of 85), was playing its second game in two nights — having won at San Antonio on Saturday.
Roy Hibbert backed up George's strong second-half performance with 12 points, while David West also finished in double figures with 11.
It was all too-little, too-late for the Pacers, who suffered their worst loss of the season. Their only other losses were by 16 points at Chicago on Nov. 16 and by four points at Portland on Dec. 2.
"I wouldn't say we had tired legs, but the Thunder definitely knew what we were up against," George said. "They knew this was a back-to-back night for us. They came out with that urgency to really run us, and see if we could compete and match their energy."
The Thunder swept the regular-season series with Indiana last season, and they nearly equaled their season-high of 119 points in the win — falling one point short of what they scored on Nov. 8 against Detroit.
Oklahoma City led by as many as 14 points in the first quarter, stretching that to 19 points in the second quarter after Jeremy Lamb's 3-pointer put the Thunder up 43-24.
Lamb's 3-pointer capped a 15-4 run for Oklahoma City, all coming from its reserves — led by Jackson's seven point.
"Tonight, obviously, for our guys, Oklahoma City was just a step quicker on both ends of the court," Indiana coach Frank Vogel said.
NOTES: Indiana finished a five-game trip against the Thunder, going 3-2 on the road with losses to Oklahoma City and Portland. … The Pacers, who played two of the top Western Conference teams in San Antonio and Oklahoma City in their last two games, return home to face two-time defending NBA champion Miami on Tuesday.


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Home Health What Is the Difference Between Spanish Flu and COVID-19?
What Is the Difference Between Spanish Flu and COVID-19?
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In the past few weeks, scientists have reported the start of testing of a potential vaccine for COVID-19. The ongoing research and trials for finding a cure or a vaccine for the treatment of SAR-CoV-2 have given a little hope for controlling the health crisis to the people and governments worldwide.
However, the chief of the World Health Organization had also added that the virus is likely to stay for a longer than expected time.
Therefore, people are encouraged to follow the guidelines from official health authorities for the prevention of the further spread of COVID-19.
Though the SARS-CoV-2 has been noted to be different than all previous strains of coronaviruses, a number of scientists have compared the virus and the current pandemic with the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918-1919.
The Spanish flu pandemic was one of the deadliest health crisis which affected around thirty percent of the population of the world. Statistically, it was responsible for around fifty million deaths and had around five million confirmed cases globally.
RELATED: How did the Coronavirus Start – What to Know?
On the other hand, COVID-19 pandemic also has almost four million confirmed cases worldwide. However, it is the current health crisis is unlikely to be as devastating as the Spanish flu of the early twentieth century.
This is because the world is no longer the way it was during the Spanish flu outbreak and there have been many advancements in medical science. The Spanish flu symptoms were first diagnosed in March of 1918 during the time of the first World War.
Since the world was at war, the majority of the countries centered on their health policies and responses to the spread of the Spanish flu around the ongoing battles.
Pulmonary responses and fatalities of the flu were twenty-five times higher due to the lack of medical equipment as well as health care workers in hospitals.
Most of the people were deployed at stations for the war or in factories for maintaining the supply to battlefronts. Imposing restrictions or passing policies that encourage social distancing at this time was impossible due to the situation.
Even though the flu had spread globally and had been diagnosed in multiple countries included in the war, a major portion was not even aware of Spanish flu symptoms.
Therefore, there were no restrictions on public gatherings and events in England until November. Till then, the cases of the Spanish flu had already overwhelmingly increased.
In comparison with Britain, the US had imposed restrictions earlier in September and had effectively limited its effects on the country.
At the moment, the countries which took preventive measures at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as Australia and New Zealand have also successfully contained the infection.
There are differences as well as similarities between these two pandemics. For instance, scientists have stated that the COVID-19 crisis can also only be resolved once a vaccine has been manufactured.
The Spanish flu vaccine, also commonly given to people today, played a fundamental role in controlling the pandemic.
After the Spanish flu vaccine was manufactured and given to people on a mass-scale, the crisis was controlled and the rates of spread of the infection as well as death toll were also controlled.
Like the Spanish flu, some scientists have stated the COVID-19 will also become endemic and occur seasonally. Therefore, it is highly likely that vaccines for the infection would have to be renewed every reason once the crisis has been controlled.
For the control of SARS-CoV-2, important lessons can be learned from the 1918-1919 outbreaks such as how strict restrictions and collective efforts are fundamental to ending the crisis as soon as possible.
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Senator Alicia "Chucky" Hansen was born to Martini Pickering and Medora Paulis Williams; however, she was raised by Mr. Leon and Mrs. Viola Hansen. She graduated from the Jose C. Barbosa High School, and later attended the Inter-American University both in Puerto Rico. Senator Hansen went on to attend the Virgin Islands Police Academy, as well as the University of the Virgin Islands, through arrangement with the Territorial Court of the Virgin Islands. She received training in criminal law and paralegal studies.
Prior to her first term of office in 1986 to the 17th Legislature, Hansen worked as a legal researcher and translator for the Attorney General's Office and as a Counselor at the then Department of Social Welfare, now known as the Department of Human Services. "Chucky" as she is affectionately known, was the proprietor of the Strong Foundation Institute for Learning, an early childhood educational program. She also taught high school students Spanish at the Limetree Academy on St. Croix. In addition, she owned and operated Chucky's Boutique.
In the 18th & 19th Legislature, Hansen was Secretary of Inter-Governmental Relations and Territorial Affairs and Vice- President of the 19th Legislature.
During her term in the 20th Legislature Senator Hansen served as a member of the committees on Education, Health, Housing, Parks & Recreation.
In the 21st Legislature, Senator Alicia "Chucky" Hansen chaired the powerful Finance Committee where she appointed the first female Post Auditor in the territory. She served as Vice Chair of the Committee on Housing, Parks & Recreation, and as a member of the Committees on Rules, Economic Development, Agriculture & Consumer Protection, Planning & Environmental Protection. Additionally, Senator Hansen served as Chairman of the Committee on Labor and Veterans Affairs, and a member of the Economic Development, Agriculture and Consumer Protection and Planning and Environmental Protection Committees during the 22nd Legislature.
The 1998 election saw Senator Hansen garnering the highest number of votes for the fifth time on her seventh election. Her success has distinguished her as one of the most vocal and productive politicians historically, out of the district of St. Croix, perhaps the entire Virgin Islands. Alicia "Chucky" Hansen has the record for the highest votes in a senatorial election in the district of St. Croix to this date. She served eight consecutive terms from the 17th legislature to the 24th legislature, and an additional two terms in the 29th and 30th legislatures.
Hansen has chaired the powerful Finance Committee of the U.S. Virgin Islands Legislature twice, once in the 21st and again in the 24th Legislature of the United States Virgin Islands. She delivered four balanced fiscal year budgets on time, with new revenue generating measures, without furthering new taxes on the people of the Virgin Islands.
In her eighth term Senator Hansen made a decision, to depart from what appeared to be, a most secured seat in the senate and instead decided to run for the Office of Governor of the Virgin Islands. That bid was unsuccessful. After a 9 year hiatus, she re-emerged once again, this time to the 29th legislature where she would serve two more terms.
This was the third time, Senator Alicia "Chucky" Hansen served as Liaison to the White House, chairing one of the most powerful legislative committees, The Government Operations Committee and Veterans Affairs, in the 29th Legislature, Vice- chair of Housing and Labor, a member of Rules and Judiciary, Human Services, Sports and Recreation, Economic Development and Agriculture.
As Chairman of Government Operations. Senator Alicia "Chucky" Hansen primarily had oversight of WAPA, Port Authority, Public Works, WICO, Waste Management Authority, GERS, Personnel, Fire, Property & Procurement, National Guard, Lottery, Vitema, WTJX Public Television, Casino Control Commission, and Tourism, in addition to the oversight of our government as a whole.
On November 8, 2016, the people of St. Croix showed overwhelming support by electing Hansen yet again.
Emerging victoriously in her most recent bid to the 32nd Legislature, Senator Hansen dons an impressive record of a solid 11 terms, more than 20 years in elected office.
Senator Alicia "Chucky" Hansen is married to Mr. Esdel Emanuel Hansen Sr., and they are the parents of four children: Esdel Jr., Erskin, Elizabeth and Ericksen Hansen.


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Home Social Media Facebook Facebook Has Won Over 30 Countries In Last 800 Days !
Facebook Has Won Over 30 Countries In Last 800 Days !
Whether its social connections or branding, time pass or entertainment, teaching or business, shares or promotion, Facebook is in every nook of the globe. Over the years Facebook has helped building social connections between the friends, colleagues and family, where as some people use it to kill time or to play online games or for entertainment. Some even use it to teach online or to promote business. In short it has won more than 901 million hearts in a very short period.
Currently Facebook is overtaking other social media websites around the globe and is becoming one of the favorite Facebook destinations. Over the past two and a quarter year or roughly 800 days, Facebook has won over 30 countries and will continue its surge.
And following is the representation of Facebook's growth statistics in over 30 countries from December 2008 to December 2008.
Facebook overtook many social media websites like Friendster, Orkut, Yahoo, Myspace, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. And you can have a look at the top social media websites where Facebook is at the peak. The reason being Facebook is user friendly with many easy to use plugins, multiple languages, best and top applications, third-party applications, acquisition like Instagram and various apps especially for smartphones. But only a few Countries like South Korea, Japan, Vietnam and China have other market leaders like Renren and douban in China. Amazingly Vietnam, Japan and South Korea are ranked among the fastest growing countries in Facebook though Facebook is not in the lead. An interesting infographics about Facebook at the top and the top Asian Facebook countries are as follows


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Monk's beard, what a strange name!
It's the common name of salsola soda, a beautiful plant that grows in my country and is known to like salty environments (think: growing very close to the sea and don't minding being irrigated with salty water).
For ages it's been a very humble plant used more for soap and glass production than for its taste while nowadays it's a real delicacy - one quite difficult to find here in Holland!
Thanks to a lovely colleague of mine who brought me a beautiful bunch of agretti (the other Italian name for this beautiful little plant) I was able to have my students of the "Basics of the Italian Cuisine" cooking course prepare it and enjoy it.
We served it cold, like a salad, and we used a recipe I found on an old Italian cooking magazine, slightly adapted to my own taste.
It's a lovely salad, very tasty also thanks to the use of Taggia olives (the very small, dark black olives from my birth region Liguria), perfect as part of a light Spring menu.
Chop the parsley leaves after discarding the stalks and the peeled garlic clove.
Grate half the lemon zest and mix with the parsley and the garlic.
Chop the capers and the olives very coarsely and add them to the parsley mixture.
Add the juice of ½ lemon, a pinch of salt and 4 tablespoons of olive oil.
Blanch the monk beard for 2-3 minutes in boiling salted water.
Drain and stop the cooking process by dipping the monk's beard in ice cold water. Drain well.
Put the monk's beard into a bowl and pour the dressing on it.
Allow some time to marinate in the refrigerator and take out the fridge half an hour before serving.
I adore all that is citrus and tend to use it a lot in my cooking.
I drink it a lot, too. Every morning I press a lime or a lemon, preferably organic, to blend it with other types of fresh fruit in my smoothie.
I'm kind of a citrus-addict. No wonder the only soft drink I drink more than twice a year - in general I tend to boycott soft drinks 'cause they're full of sugar and other not-so-healthy stuff - is Chinotto, a very old-fashioned Italian drink that now seems to enjoy a well-deserved comeback and is becoming quite popular again in my country.
I say "no wonder" because chinotto is not only a soft drink but a type of citrus. Its Latin name is Citrus Myrtifolia and in Italy this plant grows really well in the Liguria region and in Sicily.
The chinotto fruit is very bitter. So much that it's impossibile to eat it like an orange or a tangerine unless it's candied. One of my favourite treats on earth are the bitter chocolate covered chinotto's made by Domori, one of the finest Italian chocolate producers. A must if you love chocolate AND chinotto. While eating my first one I discovered the real meaning of "match made in heaven" and I need just one of those little plump candied fellas to be a happier person.
The soft drink that takes its name from this fruit originating in China is made by several Italian soft-drink producers and it's usually very pleasantly bitter-sweet. My favourite one is made by Lurisia and the San Pellegrino one is quite OK too.
These days I'm drinking it a lot "straight" and I thought it would be nice to combine it with some other ingredients in a cocktail, for a change.
So this is the result. My Citrus Love Italian cocktail.
You need 1/4 Bombay Sapphire gin, 3/4 Chinotto, preferably Lurisia, the juice of 1 lime, some crushed mint leaves, ice cubes and a slice of green lime to decorate.
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About "I Feel Love"
A cover of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" was announced via Twitter on October 25, 2019, through the account @SSmithCharts. Sam Smith posted a poster of the cover on their Twitter header on October 31, 2019. The track was released 1st November 2019.
What have the artists said about the song?
Sam Smith wrote on their Instagram account on the day of release:
As a queer person 'I feel love' has followed me to every dance floor in every queer space from the minute I started clubbing. This song to me is an anthem of our community and it was an honour and most importantly so much fun to have a go at it. Highest song I've ever fucking sang. But a joy. I hope you all like it.
How was this song used commercially?
The song was released in advance of Target's November 2019 holiday advertisement: "Thinking of You":
"I Feel Love" Track Info
Written By Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder & Pete Bellotte
Label Capitol Records
Mastering Engneer Stuart Hawkes
Mixing Engnineer Steve Fitzmaurice
Release Date November 1, 2019
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Q: Unable to backup and restore on Solr Cloud I'm trying to test a backup and restore of a collection on SolrCloud but having no joy (Version 6.6.5).
I'm doing a backup with:
curl -f "http://127.0.0.1:8080/solr/admin/collections?action=BACKUP&name=$BACKUP_NAME&collection=$TARGET_COLLECTION&location=$BACKUP_LOCATION&wt=json"
{"responseHeader":{"status":0,"QTime":6370},"success":{"solr-2.search-solr.svc.cluster.local:8080_solr":{"responseHeader":{"status":0,"QTime":6143}}}}

But then I'm trying to run a restore:
curl -v -f "http://127.0.0.1:8080/solr/admin/collections?action=RESTORE&name=at-uk&collection=at-uk-restore&location=/tmp&wt=json"
* About to connect() to 127.0.0.1 port 8080 (#0)
*   Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0)
> GET /solr/admin/collections?action=RESTORE&name=at-uk&collection=at-uk-restore&location=/tmp&wt=json HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
> Host: 127.0.0.1:8080
> Accept: */*
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* The requested URL returned error: 500 Server Error
* Closing connection 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 500 Server Error

And in the solr logs:
ERROR 2019-02-11 13:24:23,547 [OverseerThreadFactory-42-thread-5-processing-n:solr-2.search-solr.svc.cluster.local:8080_solr][SolrException.java:159] : Collection: at-uk-restore operation: restore failed:java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.solr.cloud.RestoreCmd.call(RestoreCmd.java:110)
        at org.apache.solr.cloud.OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.processMessage(OverseerCollectionMessageHandler.java:226)
        at org.apache.solr.cloud.OverseerTaskProcessor$Runner.run(OverseerTaskProcessor.java:464)
        at org.apache.solr.common.util.ExecutorUtil$MDCAwareThreadPoolExecutor.lambda$execute$0(ExecutorUtil.java:229)
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        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

ERROR 2019-02-11 13:24:23,555 [qtp157456214-655][SolrException.java:159] : null:org.apache.solr.common.SolrException
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        at org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.handleAdmin(HttpSolrCall.java:748)
        at org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.handleAdminRequest(HttpSolrCall.java:729)
        at org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.call(HttpSolrCall.java:510)
        at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:361)
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        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:548)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:226)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1180)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:512)
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How can infrastructure projects be structured to maximize pre-operational benefits both to drive growth in the short term and create a strong legacy?
What can HS2 Phase 1 tell us?
Driving economic growth through infrastructure investment is one of the major issues facing policy makers today around the world.
However, the focus is too often on the operational benefits of new schemes, even though these can take years to materialize.
This report, written by the UK team, models the economic benefits across the pre-operational phases — design, build and procurement — of a major infrastructure project, using the first phase of the UK's proposed new high speed railway (HS2) as a case study*.
It is clear that, under the right conditions, infrastructure investment can deliver significant benefits even before assets come on line.
A range of policy interventions should be considered to capture and maximize these benefits; supporting innovation and skills development, enterprise creation and export growth, to position business at the heart of the global boom in infrastructure investment over the longer term.


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import com.suscipio_solutions.consecro_mud.core.CMLib;
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Home»Life » Where are all the Montreal bus shelters?
Montreal bus shelters – "Gimme, gimme shelter / Or I'm gonna fade away…" sang the Rolling Stones in that iconic 1969 tune which in fact was a kind of cry for escaping a quite dramatic threat: the war in Vietnam. Not so dramatic as a war of course, but still the particularly harsh winter, has made many Montrealers in the downtown area ask for shelter when they have to wait for the bus, and then wonder what is the policy regarding the installation of these useful urban artifacts.
In the last few months we have seen the replacement of many of the bus shelters that were installed a few years ago, which in general were still in very good condition (except for the scratches that some people do on their glasses and the vandalizing of the maps and bus schedules in some of them). In their place, new, glossy bus shelters with a kind or aerodynamic design were installed. A quite interesting aesthetic improvement of course, but the question that came to many people's minds was, why replacing perfectly (or almost perfectly) well preserved bus shelters while at the same time users of public transportation have been left without any protection from the inclement weather at a large number of other bus stops?
To be more specific I can list the number of bus stops with no bus shelters along Sherbrooke St., one of the arteries with more transit users in the downtown area since line 24 is a heavily-used bus route running east-west and serving people who work, study or live downtown. For instance in the area around McGill Campus there are bus shelters at the westbound stop at University and then right in front of the campus, but no such protection at the intersection of Peel for those going west. There are bus shelters on the westbound stops near the Fine Arts Museum and after that at St-Marc and then at Atwater Ave., there are also bus shelters on the eastbound stops at Atwater Ave., Chomedey and Peel, but important intersections such as Guy-Cote des Neiges, and St-Mathieu, don't have bus shelters in either direction. Along the Sainte Catherine / De Maisonneuve things are even worse although in this case the STM may argue that unlike route 24, bus 15 serving those streets doesn't run that often to justify the installation of shelters in each of its stops. The same may be argued regarding the lack of bus shelters on René Levesque for line 150, although there are some for the airport shuttle bus.
The rationale to the replacement of bus shelters is still somehow puzzling: why didn't the STM install the discarded bus shelters—still in good shape—on those corners where passengers must wait for the bus without any protection from the whether? What are these bureaucrats thinking when they make these decisions? Or is this a decision made having in mind the potential exposure to the public of the now more prominent and shiny spaces for advertising that adorn the new bus shelters?


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Lesser-Known Writers
Entries on Interesting Obscure and Lesser-Known Writers, Artists, Literary Folk, etc., I've Happened to Encounter
Alan Griffiths
Alan Griffiths (b. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, 15 March 1899; d. reg. Lambeth, Greater London, January-March 1950)
Alan Charles Griffiths was the second of four surviving children of Charles Herbert Griffiths (1874-1950), a commercial traveler in engineering, and his wife Kate Elizabeth Thompson (1872-1960), who were married in Bury St. Edmunds in the spring of 1897.His older sister was Gertrude Kate Griffiths (1898-1982), and his younger brothers were Leslie Neil Griffiths (1905-2006) and Geoffrey Norman Griffiths (1907-1989).
Alan Griffiths published four novels in England, all humorous fantasies after the manner of Thorne Smith, the first two of which achieved American editions. Griffiths supplied some biographical information for the blurb on the rear flap of the first American publication, and as information on Griffiths is rare, it is worth quoting this sardonic piece in full
Alan Griffiths, whose hilarious explorations bring startling news from Heaven, has himself led a quiet if somewhat incongruous life. He began as an apprentice in an iron foundry and put into every casting all the loathing of which his soul was capable.
At seventeen he went to war in the hope of seeing something of the world. As a result of Ypres he has seen it though one eye ever since.
Later he spent three years in an Indian woolen mill advertising underwear to natives who had no inclination to wear it.
Returning to England he wrote limericks for a patent cheese and got a very temporary job as a postman.
Now he is thirty-five, a bachelor and a novelist with a slight leaning toward Sufism and a stronger leaning toward becoming a millionaire.
This first novel was Strange News from Heaven (London: Lovat Dickson, 1934; Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935). In it a reverend suffers a stroke and is pronounced dead. But he suddenly returns to life with strange tales of his visit to heaven. It received mixed reviews. While the New York Times called it a "delightfully impudent extravaganza" (21 July 1935), the Boston Transcript complained "not only is the news from heaven strange but it turns out to be rather dreary" (27 July 1935).
Griffith's second novel was Spirits Under Proof (London: T. Werner Laurie, 1935), retitled Authors in Paradise (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1939) for its U.S. edition. Here an illiterate cockney publishes a novel The Return of Gulliver, supposedly dictated to him from the spirit world by Jonathan Swift. Its notices were slightly better: "The story is a little slow to start, and there is too much of it. But it is extremely bright" wrote Olga Owens in the Boston Transcript (19 August 1939). Beatrice Sherman in the New York Times noted: "Much of the book is heartily humorous. It grows a bit tiresome when it pursues too continuously the vein of a learnedly jocose letter to The London Times" (20 August 1939).
Griffith's third novel came from a third U.K. publisher, as did his fourth, and neither were picked up by U.S. Publishers. The Passionate Astrologer (London: Arthur Barker, 1936) continues in the same vein, as does his final book, Of Course, Vitelli! (London: Methuen, 1938), which achieved some fame in recent years because Jorge Luis Borges reviewed it (in Spanish) favorably, if very inaccurately, soon after publication. (His review was translated into English in Selected Non-Fictions, published in 1999.) In the book a writer invents a person named Vitelli and then writes his biography, while Vitelli's reputation grows until the inevitable happens. I have written about Borges and this book here.
With regard to attested facts in Griffiths's life, he joined the British Army in 1917, and thereafter lost his eye. After the war, he earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering at University College, London. Nothing is known of the last decade of his life.
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Labels: BORGES Jorge Luis, GRIFFITHS Alan
John Shire
John Shire (b. reg. Somerset, England, April-June 1964; )
John Shire is a small-press writer, publisher and photographer based in Brighton. He began publishing stories in the small press in 1997. A collection of three stories, Undergrowth and Other Hidden Tales, was announced for publication in 2002 by Hollow Hills Publishing, and while the book achieved one review (see here), the book was apparently never published.
In 2011, Shire founded Invocations Press, and published his first book, a nonfiction volume Bookends: A Partial History of the Brighton Book Trade (2011), a fine read for anyone interested in bookselling lore in any locale. Particularly interesting is the coverage of Bill Butler's Unicorn Bookshop which ran from sometime around 1967 to 1974. Bill Butler (1934-1977) was an American beat poet who settled in Britain and frequently ran afoul with British authorities for publishing iconoclastic literature, like J.G. Ballard's Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan (1968).
An Antique Land
Shire published one of his own short stories An Antique Land (Invocations Press, 2012) as a paperback limited to 100 numbered copies. (It slightly expands Shire's story from Bound for Evil (2008), edited by Tom English.) Shire also issued a collection of ten stories (plus one nonfiction piece) Their Hand Is At Your Throats (Invocations Press, 2013), similarly as a trade paperback limited to 100 numbered copies
In the "Preface ... Stories After Lovecraft" Shire notes that "for almost thirty years I have been trapped in the orbit of a vast dead star named Lovecraft. And it's driving me mad. After any number of futile attempts at mapping its protean geography, I finally decided to put my efforts into breaking away instead. But it looks like that's never going to happen."
Six of the stories originally appeared in (mostly Lovecraftian) small press journals between 1997 and 2007, with four new stories in the collection. Ellen Datlow noted in The Best Horror of the Year v. 6 (2014): "The new stories are surprisingly good, mostly rising above pastiche." Some of the stories, on the other hand, suffer a bit from too much postmodern playfulness.
Shire also contributed some short entries to 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006), edited by Peter Boxall, including those for Borges's Labyrinths, Hodgson's The House on the Borderland, and Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.
In the about the author blurb in Their Hand Is At Your Throats it notes that he has worked "in record shops, antique shops and libraries, but prefers jobs he can make up himself, such as writer, publisher and photographer." (Shire did the cover art for An Antique Land and Their Hand Is At Your Throats.) A further note says "a degree in Literature and Philosophy has done him no good whatsoever."
Labels: Invocations Press, SHIRE John
Linda Haldeman
Linda Haldeman (b. Washington, D.C., 14 July 1935; d. Indiana, Pennsylvania, 14 January 1988)
Linda Wilson was the daughter of John Barnett Wilson (1900-1974), an attorney, and his wife Mildred Louise Beckwith (1901-1977), who were married in Washington, D.C. on 2 June 1923. They also had one son and another daughter.
Linda studied at Loyola University in New Orleans (A.B., 1958). She married Harry Haldeman (1933-1994) on 8 August 1959. They had two sons and two daughters. For 1959-60, Linda was an instructor in English at Columbia College of Art in Columbus, Ohio. Soon after this, Harry Haldeman became professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and the family settled there.
Linda Haldeman suffered from Bell's Palsy all her life, and was diagnosed with cancer around 1975, for which disease she had some twelve operations before her death. Despite her illness, she published three novels and some short stories. Her first novel was Star of the Sea (Doubleday, January 1978), a Catholic miracle story set in Mississippi in 1950, in which a young girl at convent school converses with a statue of the Holy Mother and is party to some miracles. This was followed in November by The Lastborn of Elvinwood (New York: Doubleday, 1978; London: Souvenir Press, 1981), set in Surrey, in which Mompen, the lastborn of the firstborn and a clumsy fairy, must be swapped for a willing human bride in order to save the dwindling fairy race.
Her third and final novel was a paperback original, Esbae: A Winter's Tale (New York: Avon, December 1981). Set on a college campus, it tells of a jock who has summoned Asmodeus to keep him from flunking out and a scatterbrained classmate Sophie, who Asmodeus wants to be sacrificed. But helping Sophie is Esbae, a "spiritous creature from the Empyrean" who has been sent to Earth to redeem itself.
The Avon Paperbacks
After the three novels, Haldeman published a novella and two short stories in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and a fantasy story in Magic in Ithkar (1985), a shared world anthology edited by Andre Norton and Robert Adams. She also contributed to Opera News and Opera Journal (Haldeman's passion for opera is evidenced in Esbae).
In a note to Contemporary Authors c. 1980 Haldeman wrote:
"I am primarily a teller of tales. This is a profession that has fallen into disfavor with many critics. It is felt, it seems, that there are two kinds of fiction written, the good story and the literary novel, and it is assumed for some reason that they are mutually exclusive. It is my intention to remarry these two ideas of the novel after a too-long forced separation. An entertaining and absorbing plot ought not to exclude good writing style and sympathetic, well-developed characters."
Fellow-writer Nancy Springer wrote a short memoir of Haldeman for Locus (April 1988), noting: "she was a strong, sometimes angry, sometimes outrageously cynical woman, with a sly sense of humor and a questing mind. In appearance she was a pixie, an innocent. Appearances were deceptive. She knew the score, and she knew how to laugh it to shame. . . . She 'cast a cold eye on life, on death,' and kept a warm heart in defiance of both. She was quite possibly the most courageous person I have ever known."
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Labels: HALDEMAN Linda
Douglas A. Anderson is the author of The Annotated Hobbit (1988; revised and expanded edition 2002). He is currently Book Reviews Editor of the peer-reviewed online Journal of Tolkien Research (founded 2014). His anthologies of fantasy literature include Tales Before Tolkien (2003) and Tales Before Narnia (2008). More Tales Before Tolkien is due out in 2019. He is also managing director of the small publishing firm Nodens Books.
Besides his blogs on Tolkien and Fantasy (mostly Tolkien-related) and A Shiver in the Archives, which highlights literary discoveries, he contributes to the blog Wormwoodiana, devoted to classic "literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent." And for those with even more rarified bibliophilic tastes, he also does a personal blog for Lesser-Known Writers.
A new blog for 2019 is on the writer Leonard Cline.
Links to recommended online articles can be found at Blinks: Read and Recommended.
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Cline's Son: Leonard Lanson Cline III
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Hugh Jackman plays real-life (failed) presidential candidate Gary Hart in the official trailer for The Front Runner. The true story-based political drama is the second film directed by Jason Reitman this year, after the Charlize Theron-headlined motherhood dramedy Tully.
Written by Reitman, former Hilary Clinton spokesman Jay Carson (House of Cards), and Matt Bai (author of the book that inspired the film, All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid), The Front Runner reveals how Hart went from being the Democratic party frontrunner for president in 1987 to having to bow out in 1988, after a scandal involving an extramarital affair sent his presidential campaign off the rails. Reitman's latest project will debut on the film festival circuit in Toronto and (as was just announced) Telluride before it hits theaters in November, shortly after the 2018 midterm elections. You can check out the film's trailer in the space below.
The trailer for The Front Runner jumps back and forth from the perspective of several different characters who get caught up in the Hart scandal - something that Reitman told EW is reflective of the movie's actual narrative structure. According to the filmmaker, Front Runner is told from "a dozen different perspectives" and ultimately ends up "observing this story from every perspective". The film's poster, which you can see below, also shows the Hart campaign (bus, that is) going off a cliff in a more literal sense.
Jackman is joined in The Front Runner cast by Reitman's frequent collaborator J.K. Simmons as Hart's campaign manager Bill Dixon, along with Vera Farmiga (who also starred in Reitman's Up in the Air) as Hart's wife, Lee. Other key players in the story here include Molly Ephraim (Last Man Standing) as Irene Kelly, a scheduler for Hart's political campaign, as well as Mamoudou Athie (The Get Down) and Steve Zissis (Togetherness) as reporters for The Washington Post and Miami Herald, respectively. Lastly, Sara Paxton (The Innkeepers) plays Donna Rice, the actor/model whose life was forever impacted by her role in the Hart scandal.
Reitman, for his part, has struggled of late, with his films Labor Day and Men, Women & Children being widely dismissed by critics and general audiences. However, thanks to the positive critical reception for Tully, the director is already on his way to once again scaling the same creative heights that he reached with his earlier directorial efforts on Thank You For Smoking, Juno, and Up in the Air. The Front Runner certainly looks and sounds like a timely and relevant piece of political theater, so (if that's the case) here's to hoping that it keeps Reitman on his current upward trajectory.


Home>Music> Kodak Black's Beef With Lil Wayne Has New Orleans Cops On "High Alert"
Kodak Black's unrequited hate for Lil Wayne culminated in the rapper going head to head with Reginae Carter, who proudly stood up for her father, while he loaded up a response of his own. While that day may never come, what was said was said, and Kodak Black will likely have to face those consequences somewhere down the road.
The boiling tension has resulted in the Mahalia Jackson Theater calling upon the New Orleans PD to chaperone an upcoming Kodak Black concert in the city center. Even though Lil Wayne spends the majority of his time, toiling in his adoptive home of Miami, New Orleans remains to this day, Weezy's unrelinquished place of worship.
The concert promoters fear the locals might riot if Kodak Black steps out of line during his concert booking next week. The Mahalia Jackson Theater is located right in the center of New Orleans' famed Louis Armstrong Park.
For added context, Lil Wayne drew Kodak Black's ire last week at Miami's LIV Nightclub, with the Miami native fully-expecting Weezy to show up and dap him up. When he didn't, things turned sour progressively fast. "You should've died when you was a baby," Kodak shouted into the crowd, after labeling Lil Wayne a "maggot" with the music brought to a standstill.
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The Amsterdam Center for Corporate Finance organized a seminar on "A Call for Judgement: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy" with Professor Amar Bhidé.
Professor Amar Bhidé is the world's foremost expert on the interactions between finance and the real economy. Central to his presentation is how entrepreneurship and the economy at large could optimally be served by the financial sector, and particularly what kind of changes society may have to go through to establish a mutually reinforcing interaction between the real and financial economy leading to a prosperous and dynamic economy.
Amar Bhidé, Schmidheiny Professor at the Fletcher School and currently visiting scholar at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has served as Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia University, a consultant at McKinsey & Company and a proprietary trader at E.F. Hutton. Bhidé is a founding member of the Center on Capitalism and Society, editor of Capitalism and Society, and has written about the financial crisis in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Forbes. Author of The Venturesome Economy, The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses, and Of Politics and Economic Reality, Bhidé received a doctorate and an MBA with high distinction from the Harvard Business School.
In his presentation Bhidé put emphasis on the research available in his new book "A Call for Judgement – Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy" which is scheduled for release this September via Oxford University Press.
Attendance to this ACCF event was only possible by invitation.


My time as a volunteer at the Head Office of a community transport service organisation has been eye-opening.
As with all business sectors, there are legal and regulatory obligations in the "not for profit" sector too.
They are funded by government, so all clients have to be registered with them as well as with the national aged care service.
With volunteer drivers, Head Office must have copies of driving licences, valid for five years. Also a national police check, valid for three years. An annual statutory declaration is needed for the interim years and a new legal requirement is "working with vulnerable people" registration, also valid for three years.
The fleet of vehicles have to be maintained, serviced, inspected, accidents reported, repairs done.
This is all operated by 10 staff in head office, 14 regional co-ordinators and 2 team leaders. Many of the staff are part time, some job share.
I can't emphasise enough how valuable the experience has been to me, utilising my "gap year" brain in useful activity, improving my confidence, pushing me out of my comfort zone on occasion.
My office skills are not as rusty as I thought. It didn't take long to understand the tasks and I soon got back to my old nosy self, wanting to understand the big picture of the organisation, how the various jobs fit together. I've assisted in a variety of office tasks from filing to financial reconciliations.
I soon heard myself using phrases that I had not thought about in twenty months. MI (management information), continuous improvement, "four eyes" (when 2 people sign off on a process), RAG's (red, amber, green indicators).
It's fun and I enjoy going to the office each day, the chat and banter and feeling that I have achieved something during the day. My internal alarm clock has returned and getting up on dark winter mornings is not so daunting.
There is a new chapter to this story which I will write about later.
Tracey gave me some of the financial figures when I was talking to her about volunteer newsletter that I'm drafting. Some I got from activity reports, which seemed to be reasonably accurate.
What an interesting organisation, I wonder if they have that in other parts of Australia? I think it is wonderful to be part of a group and also doing constructive work that helps the community. I enjoyed reading about it.
Glad you enjoyed the post, Gerrie. I would expect similar organisations on the mainland, with contacts with the federal government to provide the local transport service. I'm thoroughly enjoying the experience as it is such a different environment to my previous work life. Something I want to write about soon.


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Q: why are the results is incomplete using YQL to extract data? I use YQL to extract data from answers.yahoo.com by using the clause:"select * from answers.getbycategory where category_id=396545299". You can try it at http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/.
Here 396545299 means the catagory_id is "Books & Authors" and you can see the original data in http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index;_ylt=Aptj80jBf2NtgwbZw_f_g5Kf5HNG;_ylv=3?sid=396545299&link=open#yan-questions
I found the data by using a YQL is incomplete, why?
thanks!

A: Trying this right now it seems to work correctly. It may have been either a temporary error, or some sort of rate limiting or blocking between YQL and Yahoo Answers. Usually you can look in the diagnostics return data for further clues.
For example this query:
select * from answers.getbycategory where category_id=396545299
results in this data returned:
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     "Date": "2012-06-19 18:01:04",
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Tick-Tock — Time May Be Running Out For TCCWNA Claims
In Spade v. Select Comfort Corp., 2018 N.J. LEXIS 483 (2018), the New Jersey Supreme Court provided insight on interpreting elements of the Truth-in-Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act, N.J.S.A. 56:12-14 to -18 (TCCWNA), and definitively laid to rest any claim that TCCWNA is a "strict liability" statute.
As we've previously reported, over the past couple of years, there's been a surge of class actions against brick-and-mortar retailers and online businesses alleging that a written consumer contract, including the terms and conditions of sale or the website itself, did not comply with TCCWNA and, thus, statutory penalties of $100 per violation per class member are warranted. The plaintiffs' side class-action bar has taken this to mean that every consumer exposed to a contract, warranty, or notice with an allegedly unlawful provision is automatically entitled to $100, even if the consumer suffered absolutely no loss or harm. That theory is now dead.
TCCWNA prohibits sellers from entering into a written consumer contract providing a consumer warranty or displaying a notice or sign that includes "any provision that violates any clearly established legal right of a consumer or responsibility of a seller… as established by a State or Federal law."i In order to demonstrate a violation of TCCWNA, a plaintiff must establish that:(1) the defendant was a "seller, lessor, creditor, lender or bailee or assignee of any of the aforesaid"; (2) the defendant offered or entered into a "written consumer contract or [gave] or display[ed] any written consumer warranty, notice or sign"; (3) at the time that the written consumer contract is signed or the written consumer warranty, notice or sign is displayed, that writing contains a provision that "violates any clearly established legal right of a consumer or responsibility of a seller, lessor, creditor, lender or bailee" as established by State or Federal law; and (4) that the plaintiff is an "aggrieved consumer."ii TCCWNA creates civil liability to "aggrieved" consumers for actual damages or statutory damages of $100 per violation and also provides for attorney's fees and costs.iii
Because there was no clear guidance on the language of the statute, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals certified two distinct questions to the New Jersey Supreme Court regarding the scope of TCCWNA. Spade provides much needed clarity to (1) what constitutes a "clearly established legal right" of a consumer and (2) what constitutes an "aggrieved consumer" under TCCWNA.
With respect to the first question, the issue before the Court was whether a violation of administrative regulations enacted pursuant to the Consumer Fraud Act can be a basis for a "clearly established legal right" to demonstrate a violation of TCCWNA. The Court determined that nothing in TCCWNA's plain language or legislative history suggests that language in a contract or other writing that violates a regulation cannot be the source of a "clearly established legal right."iv The Court reasoned that if the Legislature wanted to limit "clearly established legal right" to State or Federal statutes, it could have easily done so in the language of N.J.S.A. 56:12-15.v Thus, administrative regulations are indeed a source of "clearly established legal right" or "responsibility of a seller" for a cause of action under TCCWNA.vi Businesses should ensure that their consumer contracts comply with applicable regulations.
The second – and perhaps most critical – issue before the Court was whether a consumer who is exposed to a contract, warranty, or notice that is not in compliance with TCCWNA, but has suffered no monetary loss or adverse consequence as a result, is nonetheless an "aggrieved consumer" under TCCWNA. Because TCCWNA does not define "aggrieved consumer," the question was an issue of first impression before the Court. The Court examined both the plain language of the statute and the Legislature's intent. The Court stated that "aggrieved consumer" must mean something different than "consumer" because TCCWNA defines "consumer" yet uses the term "aggrieved consumer" when discussing those entitled to a remedy under TCCWNA.vii The Court concluded that an "aggrieved consumer" is a consumer who has been harmed by a violation of TCCWNA.viii That harm isn't necessarily limited to compensable monetary damages but includes other adverse harm resulting from a TCCWNA violation. The Court provided the example of a consumer who was anticipating a timely furniture delivery for a family gathering but did not receive the furniture in a timely manner and may have been deterred from seeking recourse based on language in a consumer contract that does not comply with TCCWNA.ix
Based on this interpretation, a consumer who has been exposed to a contract, warranty, or notice that violates TCCWNA, but did not otherwise incur any monetary damage or suffer other adverse consequence as result is not an "aggrieved consumer." Simply alleging exposure to a consumer contract, warranty, or notice that may not be in compliance with TCCWNA is no longer enough to maintain a cause of action.
The New Jersey Supreme Court's decision brings clarity and reason to this statute, which had begun to run amok, threatening innocent merchants with multi-million dollar penalties despite not a single consumer being harmed. Now it's clear: to pursue a TCCWNA claim, a consumer must have suffered some harm beyond exposure to an allegedly improper contract, warranty, or notice.
i See N.J.S.A. 56:12-15.
ii See N.J.S.A. 56:12-15, -17.
iii See N.J.S.A. 56:12-17.
iv Spade, 2018 N.J. LEXIS 483, at *24
v Id.
vi Id.
vii Id. at *29-30.
viii Id. at *31-32.
ix Id. at *33.
CHRISTOPHER J. DALTON


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A major new work by London-based contemporary British video artist Hannah Rickards at the Fogo Island Arts, Grey Light is a two-screen projected video installation with eight channels of sound. Structured rhythmically around the pattern of a foghorn sounding, the piece embraces the foghorn as an auditory marker for non-visibility, or imagelessness. This slender exhibition catalog and artist book, the second publication from Fogo Island Arts, features Rickards striking new photographic imagery drawn from the installations materials and production process. Like Rickardss work, the publication aims to bridge the distance between visual experience and its expression in language, whether spoken, written or gestural. Text by British arts writer Melissa Gronlund and conversation between Rickards and internationally distinguished curator Nicolaus Schafhausen. Rickardss work has been widely exhibited in Canada, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Johann Koenig, Berlin and Witte de With, Rotterdam.


PING 153.92.0.72 (153.92.0.72) 56(84) bytes of data.
You should notice that ping6 is having abnormal latency in local network (it's a 10GE connection). Looking at perf events, we see ipv6_addr_label() is a good candidate to ask.
Tracing "ipv6_addr_label"... Ctrl-C to end.
Kernel calls this way to often.. And this happens because we have huge amount of IPv6 addresses on a single node and kernel tries to pick the best candidate for outgoing connection. Rule 6 in source address selection ("prefer matching label") does a lookup in a table of prefixes to find a label for the destination address. It then does the same lookup for each of the candidate source addresses, and prefers those that have the same label as the destination address.
What is under label 6?
Okay, looks like general things, let's try to avoid rule six at all and give precedence by manually picking the interface.


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Army officer wants 'more average looking women' in public affairs materials
By Joseph Straw
Cpl. Kristine Tejada of the 1st Cavalry division on deployment in Iraq, as seen on Page 29 from the Nov. 2013 issue of Army magazine. (Association of the U.S. Army)
WASHINGTON — You gotta get ugly to recruit women into combat, a top female Army officer says.
Col. Lynette Arnhart has declared war on featuring pretty women soldiers in Army public affairs materials — and Capitol Hill lawmakers are livid.
Arnhart, who is running a study of the hurdles to shifting Army women to combat jobs, took issue with a Pentagon photo accompanying a recent magazine article.
The image shows Cpl. Kristine Tejada of the 1st Cavalry division in full battle rattle, pulling security on deployment in Iraq.
Arnhart, 47, thought Tejada looked too good, so she penned an email lecturing colleagues about the merits of featuring less attractive soldiers.
Arnhart wrote that the pic "shows a pretty woman, wearing makeup while on deployed duty. Such photos undermine the rest of the message (and may even make people ask if breaking a nail is considered hazardous duty.)"
Col. Lynette Arnhart isn't happy about with the photo of Cpl. Tejada, saying 'pretty women are perceived as having used their looks to get ahead.'
"In general, ugly women are perceived as competent while pretty women are perceived as having used their looks to get ahead," she wrote in the email, first reported by Politico.
Army flacks should instead use photos of "more average looking women," or at least grubby ones — "women willing to do the dirty work necessary in order to get the job done," Arnhart wrote.
Her message was forwarded by the chief of public affairs for the Army's Training and Doctrine Command to public affairs officers, Politico reported. "Please use 'real' photos that are typical, not exceptional," he wrote.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, called the email "backward" and "offensive" and said it offers an insight into how the military still perceives women.
"Integrating women into combat roles shouldn't be treated as a cosmetic decision or a public relations exercise," Speier said Wednesday. "It's time for the Army to join the 21st century and recognize the untapped assets they have in women eager to fight for their country."
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) calls Col. Arnhart's attitude 'backward.' (RICH PEDRONCELLI/AP)
Army spokesman George Wright told the Daily News that Arnhart's comments reflected the colonel's personal views. They "were an internal email conversation, and they were not an Army position," Wright said.
The report emerged as three women are set to graduate this week from Marine Corps combat infantry training — the first in the branch's 238-year history.
Committee member Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) noted that the female Marines completed a 121/2-mile march carrying 90 pounds of gear.
"The fact that the Army is even debating how pretty they should make their soldiers look is beyond the pale," Sanchez said. "They need to get their priorities straight."
The Pentagon announced plans earlier this year to open front-line combat units to women by 2016.


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Behind the Scenes of Pixar Animation Studios: Where the Magic Happens
Without doubt one of the most coveted workplaces in the world by animators, aspiring storytellers and producers, the Pixar Animation Studios, based in Emeryville, California, have become the headquarters of the crème de la crème of the creative people in the animated movie industry. And for good reason!
Birthplace of some of the most visionary films in the history of animation, such as Toy Story, A Bug's Life, or Inside Out (to name only a few), the studios make for the perfect example of a company that strives to help its employees to be constantly creative and connect in a healthy, spacious and exciting environment.
Want to get a little tour of Pixar's stunning campus? Simply scroll down to get an exciting behind-the-scenes look at where the magic happens!
It's in 2000 that Pixar officially moved from a leased space in Point Richmond, California, to larger quarters of their own in Emeryville.
The Luxo Jr. sculpture – Pixar's logo comes to life – outside The Steve Jobs Building, rededicated on November 2012, a little over a year after Jobs's death.
Inside the entryway of Pixar's headquarters.
Buzz and Woody made of Lego bricks welcome you to the studios.
Personally overseen by Steve Jobs himself in the late 90's, the design of Pixar's campus is meant to encourage employees to leave their office to mix and mingle. (It is said that Jobs initially proposed to only build one set of bathrooms in the middle of the building's atrium so people won't have a choice!)
The atrium is truly the heart of the studios as it offers a large space for co-workers to relax, exchange, or even have spontaneous meetings.
Offering almost every kind of cereal you could imagine, from Captain Crunch to Muesli, Pixar's cereal bar is one of the most used and loved places in the building.
But don't take our word for it:
Creativity is highly encouraged for employees who want to add a personal touch to their office space. Which can lead to very original results!
Chief creative officer John Lasseter probably has the most extravagant office, though!
Aside from his collection of more than 1,000 Hawaiian shirts, Lasseter also loves to collect toys, many of which are from Pixar films!
Every year, the studios run a musical event called Pixarpalooza where musicians from various departments perform for their co-workers, friends, and family members.
Pixar's campus also includes a basketball court, an amphitheater, a volleyball court, a chef's garden, a swimming pool, and a jogging trail!
Although they might look like a summer camp, Pixar's studios are a hard-working place! From storytellers to animators, hundreds of employees spend many hours perfecting every detail of each new project (a Pixar film usually takes 4-5 years to complete, so try to imagine the amount of work!).
Every detail of a new movie is overseen by a team of experts (here, John Lasseter and Toy Story 3 director, Lee Unkrich).
Script table readings and feedback are essential parts of the movie-making process (above and below, Inside Out, Up and Monster Inc. director Peter Docter).
The process of animation is long and complex. Pixar's animators choreograph the motion in each scene by defining key frames or poses. And nothing is overlooked. Not even shadows, lighting effects, or a single character's hair.
Animators strongly believe in researching. Which means they are not afraid to go the extra mile to ensure they do their best work by putting themselves in real situations so the results look as realistic as possible.
For example, Pixar employees learned archery while working on Brave.
Who better than John Lasseter should we follow to get a clear idea of what a normal day at Pixar looks like? In the mini-documentary below, called A Day in the Life of John Lasseter, you'll discover the real deal that is being a creative director at the studios, which involves a series of highly important decisions ranging from what Hawaiian shirt to wear depending on what's happening that day, to how to deal with seemingly small issues that could actually have great consequences on a very tight schedule!
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