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Nicholas Asheshov
Country Notes from Urubamba, Peru
Bishop Savoy, King Solomon and the Incas
Dec22 by Nicholas Asheshov
By Nicholas Asheshov
You can walk through the middle of a lost city without seeing a thing.
Or you can find a couple of stones on top of each other and, mein Gott! I've found Atlantis!
I've done both but we can be sure that Gene Savoy, the great lost city explorer who has just died at 80, never made mistakes like that. Unlike most explorers Savoy, who was not confused by having a degree from Cambridge ni mucho menos, knew what he was doing. He discovered more lost cities than the rest put together.
He was often accused of being a huaquero and on a couple of occasions I had to rescue him from some comisaria and rush him into the diplomatic immunity of the Phoenix Club, where he would be safe at least from wives and girl-friends.
But actually he hadn't the slightest interest in the bits and pieces of traditional Peruvian archeology.
Savoy believed that the Sumerians, Phoenicians, Essenes and Egyptians had set up great societies in the Amazon which had expanded into the Andes and had then spread up to Mexico. This was his Feathered Serpent thesis.
Here's the focus. It came in an invitation he sent me to a black-tie do in Reno in 1998 to launch his "Project X –the Search for the Secrets of Immortality." Gene, the Head Bishop of a church he himself had founded, had just survived the break-up of his 73-foot made-in-Peru Mochica Dragon-prowed catamaran sailboat Feathered Serpent III in a typhoon south-west of Hawaii. This had put an end to a projected seven-year round-the-world Grand Ophir Expedition.
For nearly half a century Savoy, the Project X blurb said, "has dedicated his life to the search for the secrets of immortality".
Indeed, I remember Gene in the 'sixties, between his successful Lost City trips into the jungle, chatting in the Haiti Café in Miraflores about south-east Asian monks and holy men living for more than 120 years thanks to yoga-like sexual contortions.
He had airbrushed this for publication. "As a result of our research and exploration, we have been able to recover the rudiments of a lost science practiced in ancient times…, techniques for prolonging human life and extending human intelligence…"
The Grand Ophir Sea expedition is "an odyssey in search of clues to a true understanding of the ancients and their global society".
It is "retracing King Solomon's actual visit to ancient Peru".
There it is.
King Solomon's mines were not in Arabia or in East Africa, but here in the Andes, maybe just up the road from Urubamba or, more likely in the north round Gran Pajaten or Gran Velaya, two of his great discoveries. Ophir, referred to in the Book of Kings as a source of immense wealth, was Peru.
A few years ago Savoy told me that he had located what he called a "glyph" etched into a tomb of one of his Andean lost cities which, he later wrote "not only looked like a ship but research revealed that the same symbol in early Semitic hieroglyphics means 'ship'."
The same symbol in another text "found in Israel" means "Gold of Ophir belonging to Beth Horon, 30 shekels". It also appears in Egypt, we learn, meaning "ships bound for Punt, a place scholars believe was Ophir, the land of gold."
Gene knew perfectly well that this kind of thing was not academically kosher but he didn't care. "Archaeologists spend their lives with their heads in a hole in the ground. You can't expect too much from them."
He's right. Archaeologists in Peru have provided a miserably boring and unproductive set of stories on what the ruins and remains show was clearly a fabulous set of multi civilizations.
It was not much more than a couple of generations ago that many of the sites, starting with Machu Picchu, were fictitious Lost Cities. It was Savoy who located Espiritupampa as the last refuge of the Incas, whacking the academics on the head. They said no, it was just a legend, or that it was Machu Picchu.
Sipan, with its eye-popping gold- and silver-ware, only came to light 15 years ago and Carral a decade ago, both of them sitting not in dense jungle but out in the desert. The Nazca Lines were discovered only in 1940, and most visitors think that they're flying saucer airports.
Whatever, the archaeologists can't tell you what they were and none of them have had an ounce of Savoy's flamboyant physical and intellectual courage. Salud, Gene!
Published in Caretas Magazine the week of Sept 16, 2007
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Six Cook County Commissioners Thursday advanced a revised property tax relief plan to blunt the impact of the recent reassessment of Chicago homes.
The revised plan, an amended version of the Save Our Homes ordinance introduced last fall, would block excessive property tax increases on longtime homeowners. Under the amendments offered Thursday, more homeowners in more neighborhoods would be eligible for relief and a ceiling of $500,000 would be placed on the value of eligible homes.
Finance committee Chairman John Daley announced a public hearing on the ordinance for March 10th at noon in room 569 of the County Building, 118 N. Clark.
According to Cook County Assessor James Houlihan, property tax relief must be enacted by the end of April in order to change the pending fall tax bills. Those tax bills reflect the enormous reassessments recently completed in Chicago.
Although the Illinois General Assembly has near exclusive power to change the property tax system, the Cook County Board has the legal authority to provide significant property tax relief to longtime homeowners. Under state law, a longtime homeowner is defined as someone owning their home for 10 or more years. In his state of the city speech last week, Mayor Richard Daley called for the law to be changed to four years, a change supported by the commissioners.
The Save Our Homes ordinance is sponsored by Commissioners Forrest Claypool, Earlean Collins, Mike Quigley, Anthony Peraica, Larry Suffredin and Bobbie Steele.
If enacted, the Save Our Homes ordinance would exempt from taxation any assessment increase that is more than 15% above the citywide average. In the case of suburban homeowners, the benchmark would be the median assessment increase within either the northern or southern suburban triennial district.
The commissioners encouraged the legislature to adopt the more sweeping package of property tax reforms proposed by Mayor Richard Daley in his State of the City address speech last week, using the broader powers of the Illinois General Assembly. However, they say they will move their tax relief bill toward a vote if the legislature does not act in time.
The commissioners argue that longtime homeowners should not be forced out of their neighborhoods by skyrocketing assessments. Their proposed ordinance would allow for modest assessment growth, reflecting actual property values, but would place a ceiling on taxes caused by increased assessments.


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While King of the Monsters does a bit to tease the forthcoming Godzilla Vs.
Kong, King Kong himself is actually missing from the film.
However, as is apparently revealed in the novelization of King of the Monsters, while Kong is well aware of what's going on around him, he simply doesn't care..
In their first two meetings in the movie, Godzilla was able to get the best of King Kong, and in both fights Godzilla held every advantage. His strength and durability was greater than Kong's, and to make matters worse, Kong had no defense for Godzilla's atomic breath.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters director Mike Dougherty said the skeleton "may or not may belong to Anguirus" but never officially confirmed it, likely because Legendary didn't acquire the rights to him for the movie. … Kong could pay off the Anguirus tease when it explores Hollow Earth.
In the original Japanese films, Godzilla and all the other monsters are referred to with gender-neutral pronouns equivalent to "it", while in the English dubbed versions, Godzilla is explicitly described as a male, such as in the title of Godzilla, King of the Monsters!.
Mothra's Death Is Mysterious In Godzilla: King Of The Monsters. During the climactic battle of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Mothra sacrifices herself to save Godzilla. That in itself is a noble gesture, speaking to Mothra's selfless nature, but it's more complicated than that.
In the movies of that era, Godzilla was always a good guy, through and through. … Within a film or two, Godzilla found himself serving as the defender of the earth, fighting an endless stream of sea monsters, alien beasts, and even a robotic version of himself.
Mothra is the moth-like monster star of the film, and according to Weibo, she's also Godzilla's wife.
Ranked: The 15 Strongest Monsters In The Godzilla Universe1 Mothra. While not indestructible, Mothra is easily the smartest and most cunning creature in the Godzilla universe.2 King Ghidorah. Godzilla's arch nemesis, Ghidorah is the Joker of the Godzilla universe. … 3 Mechagodzilla. … 4 Destoroyah. … 5 Mecha King Ghidorah. … 6 Space Godzilla. … 7 Biollante. … 8 Megalon. … More items…•
King Kong (Toho) As one of the few mammal-based kaiju, Kong's most distinctive feature was his intelligence. … Rather than residing on Skull Island, Toho's version of Kong resided on Faro Island in King Kong vs. Godzilla and on Mondo Island in King Kong Escapes.
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Kong: King of Skull Island Kong's parents were quite elderly when they were slaughtered by Gaw: a gigantic Deathrunner. When his juvenile son discovered his father's corpse, it was being eaten by a parent and child Meat-Eater, which Kong believed had killed him.
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While the ending of the film does look somewhat ambiguous, Toho confirmed that King Kong was indeed the winner in their 1962–63 English-language film program Toho Films Vol. 8, which states in the film's plot synopsis, A spectacular duel is arranged on the summit of Mt. Fuji and King Kong is victorious.
Though Kong does fall in love with her, she is terrified of him and only screams when he is near. Fay Wray as Ann Darrow, 1933. … This being said, he falls in love with her not only because of her beauty, but because of her courage and compassion.
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City councillors have pencilled in water rate increases of 8 per cent a year for three years starting in 2015 to raise money for repairs.
The city needs to increase water rates to help pay for infrastructure repairs, some councillors say.
Toronto water rates need to keep rising, city councillors say.
A previous decision to increase rates 9 per cent annually for nine years comes to an end in 2014, but now it's being proposed to continue with 8 per cent hikes taking place in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Once the final nine per cent hike is added next year, the average residential customer using 300 cubic metres annually will pay $887.
If city council follows up with 8 per cent increases, the average bill will climb to more than $1,100 by 2017.
Between now and 2023, Toronto needs to do almost $1 billion of work that is not currently funded, said Toronto Water general manager Lou Di Gironimo.
The rate increases are needed to generate funds to upgrade stormwater runoff capacity and thus prevent flooded basements during heavy storms, Di Gironimo told the budget committee.
While the city has upgraded storm sewers in a number of neighbourhoods, it needs to do more, Di Gironimo said.
"What we've done so far — the 9 per cent — is not enough," said Councillor Gary Crawford (Ward 36, Scarborough Southwest), whose area was hit by basement flooding in 2012.
"We need an extra $1 billion to $2 billion to deal with these issues and I think that's the commitment that we need to make as a council and I think we will be making as a council," Crawford said.
By signaling it is prepared to hike rates, water officials can begin to plan and design repairs and upgrades, said Councillor Gord Perks.
"We've told the staff, 'Act as if we're going to increase the water rate by 8 per cent so that you can get enough repair work studied, engineered and ready to go," Perks added.
Water rates are set year by year as part of approving the water department's annual operating and capital budgets.
So while 8 per cent has been pencilled in for 2015, it's a guideline only at this point.
"In January, 2015, we might not pass 8 per cent," Perks said. "We might pass 6 per cent plus a storm water runoff charge. We might decide to borrow money. Those decisions will be made then.


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Councillor: BC Hydro deal will cost Campbell River taxpayers
Council made the decision behind closed doors at an in-camera meeting
Kristen Douglas
Aug. 9, 2012 11:00 a.m.
Campbell Riverites can likely expect another tax increase because of an agreement the city made with BC Hydro, says one city councillor.
Coun. Ron Kerr is disappointed his fellow councillors so readily accepted a deal that will see BC Hydro pay 75 per cent, up to $12.5 million, of the costs to build a new drinking water supply system necessary to accommodate upgrades to the John Hart Dam Generating Station.
Hydro plans to replace the three large pipes that transport water from the John Hart Dam to the generating station, and from where the city's drinking water has been drawn for 65 years. A 2.1 kilometre tunnel will be built in place of the pipes.
Kerr said BC Hydro should take responsibility for funding the new water source because it is Hydro's project.
"I believe they should be paying 100 per cent and that's how you negotiate," Kerr said. "You stick to it and you don't say 'oh that's your best offer, let's roll over and accept it.' There was no reason to accept it yet. It's too early, it was on their timetable. I think the concern that we're going to jeopardize our relationship with Hydro is ill-conceived and I don't think disagreeing with them is going to affect that relationship."
Council made the decision behind closed doors at an in-camera meeting, closed to the public and the media. What was discussed during the meeting could not be brought into the public domain, so Kerr made a motion at the July 24 council meeting to have the in-camera meeting minutes made public. That motion passed with councillors Adams, Moglove and Storry opposed.
According to the minutes, Hydro spokesperson Stephen Watson attended the in-camera session, distributed a five-page handout and explained to council that the power company's offer still needs to be approved by the BC Utilities Commission in early 2013. Still, council passed a motion to accept Hydro's contribution of 75 per cent of the project costs with Mayor Walter Jakeway and Kerr the only two opposed. As part of the motion, council will also continue to work with BC Hydro to reduce project costs and seek assistance to secure additional sources of funding.
The city expects the project to cost between $15 and $20 million but a definite figure is still up in the air.
"To the Campbell River taxpayers it's a huge amount and it's going to increase taxes," Kerr said. "We're talking a significant amount of money here to the Campbell River taxpayer, plus we don't even know yet what the exact number is."
Mayor Jakeway agrees with Kerr that Hydro should be footing the bill, not the community.
"It's not a Campbell River responsibility," he said. "It's a (BC Hydro) project cost. They can spin doctor the situation all they want, but nothing has changed."
Watson thought otherwise.
"The city has been very supportive of the John Hart project, and our ongoing positive relationship has culminated in an agreement on BC Hydro's funding contribution," he said in a joint press release issued by BC Hydro and the city following the in-camera meeting. Kerr said he's still trying to understand why council jumped to accept Hydro's offer so quickly, when the project is still at least one or two years down the road.
"To me it just doesn't make sense," Kerr said. "There was limited discussion and it was done too fast.
"Partners don't cut off your water supply and if we're partners with BC Hydro you just don't do that. They should be paying for the full cost and it's a good position to stick with."
The city could apply for federal and provincial grants to cover the remainder of the costs, but Kerr said that's taking away funding for other city projects.
Coun. Andy Adams, liaison to BC Hydro, confirmed the city will look elsewhere for financial support.
"The city is not in a position to pay for the water intake construction," he said. "City council supports this agreement for funding support and appreciates BC Hydro's contribution and continued assistance. The city has always been a strong supporter of the John Hart project and the significant economic opportunities, investment and job creation this will bring."
The city plans to finalize costs, timelines, and plans for the new water intake from the John Hart Lake this fall.
The John Hart Dam Generating Station upgrade project is expected to be complete by the end of 2018. The project will replace an aging facility, operating since 1947 and is expected to improve power reliability and seismic safety. The project involves replacement of the water intake, replacing the pipes with a tunnel, constructing a replacement generating station, and building a new water bypass facility. The John Hart project is undergoing a review by the BC Utilities Commission.
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The wedding ceremony and reception took place at Canoe, an awesome Atlanta restaurant along the Chattahoochee river. Cheryl and Greg were pronounced husband and wife in front of a colorful ribbon backdrop that Greg had made for the wedding. It was awesome. They both wrote their own vows to each other, and there were lines that I don't think I'll ever forget. My favorites were "I will always let you eat the corner piece of the cake" and something to the effect of always being your Samwise Gamgee (referring to the best friendship between Samwise and Frodo in Lord of the Rings). It was so clear in Greg's face how absolutely in love with Cheryl he is, and the tears in his eyes when he saw her made even me cry. Oh, and their dog as the ring bearer wearing a bow tie? Awesome.
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Fixing your home up just leaves you feeling good. Your home often reflects you as a person. This article offers many tips and techniques to successfully complete your next home improvement project.
If you are thinking of purchasing a home, hire a professional inspector to check it out. By doing this, you do not have to look for everything that needs to be replaced or fixed. Besides, the seller will not be able to contest anything the inspector finds, and you will probably find out about things you had not noticed before.
If you are going to put in any paneling, paint some stripes on the walls. Regardless of how much care and caution you use when putting up paneling, old walls have a tendency to peek through. In order to lessen this showing, measure the meeting point of the panels. If you paint the wall to match the paneling, you will not see any cracks in between the panels.
Creativity is one of the most important factors in home improvement. You want to steer clear of the bland and boring. Once you have started the project, you need to focus on finishing the job rather than deciding on the details. Find inspiration in magazines, friends' homes or television shows about home improvement projects.
If you do find leaks beneath the sink or the faucet, avoid fixing it yourself. For now, make sure you catch all the leaky water until a plumbing professional can come over and properly fix the problem.
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If you are hiring someone to perform your home improvement work, make sure to ask for their references. Consider this process as a business hiring an employee. Make sure you run a thorough background check and consider whether or not other have been happy with the services rendered.
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Q: How to make a asynchronous web api call from asp.net? I am trying to implement asynchronous web api call from asp.net
My code is similar like this
var response = httpClient.PostAsJsonAsync("api/apicontroller/execute/", executeModel).Result;

This is working in synchronous mode.
I do not want to wait for my webapi call to complete.
How I can implement this using .net framework 4?

A: Change the line to:
var response = await httpClient.PostAsJsonAsync("api/apicontroller/execute/", executeModel);

Checking the Result property makes it synchronous. Also make sure your method signature contains the async keyword.
edit: If you don't want to wait for the result right away, you can postpone the await like this (or never perform it):
var task = httpClient.PostAsJsonAsync("api/apicontroller/execute/", executeModel);
/* Do other stuff in parallell here */
var result = await task;

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How I can implement this using .net framework 4?

You can't use async, await, or HttpClient on ASP.NET 4. They all require ASP.NET 4.5. Your options are to upgrade to ASP.NET 4.5 and use the natural await syntax or to stay on ASP.NET 4 and use something like WebClient.

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About 15 years ago, Rod Dreher wrote a column for the National Review in which he defined 'crunchy conservatism' or 'granola conservatism' (both from 'crunchy granola'). It was called, 'Picking up organic vegetables in your National Review tote bag'. Over the next five or six years Dreher created a small cottage industry out of the term, publishing two books on it, along with articles, interviews, etc. I remember the interest in the term at the time, but it seems to have been largely forgotten in the new 'conservatism' of the Trump era.
Extracted from his essay, and originally published on a Facebook page dedicated to crunchy conservatism is this 'Crunchy Con Manifesto':
We are conservatives who stand outside the conservative mainstream; therefore, we can see things that matter more clearly.
Modern conservatism has become too focused on money, power, and the accumulation of stuff, and insufficiently concerned with the content of our individual and social character.
Big business deserves as much skepticism as big government.
Culture is more important than politics and economics.
A conservatism that does not practice restraint, humility, and good stewardship—especially of the natural world—is not fundamentally conservative.
Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.
Beauty is more important than efficiency.
The relentlessness of media-driven pop culture deadens our senses to authentic truth, beauty, and wisdom.
We share Russell Kirk's conviction that "the institution most essential to conserve is the family.
"Politics and economics won't save us; if our culture is to be saved at all, it will be by faithfully living by the Permanent Things, conserving these ancient moral truths in the choices we make in our everyday lives.
I recently got to thinking about my own beliefs and lifestyle, inspired in part by my readings in Dr Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, his Portable Conservative Reader, and Liberty and Equality, by Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, but especially How To Think About The Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism, by Sir Roger Scruton, and in part by my recent move to a small, rural town. When I remembered Dreher's 'granola conservatism', I went back and reread his original essay in the NR to compare his definition with my thoughts. As I mused over his article, I realised that Dreher had basically 'rediscovered' traditionalist conservatism, or High Toryism.
In The Conservative Mind, Dr Kirk lays out six 'canons' of a conservatism that would be called traditional. They are:
Belief that a divine intent rules society as well as conscience... Political problems, at bottom, are religious and moral problems.
Affection for the proliferating variety and mystery of traditional life, as distinguished from the narrowing uniformity and egalitarian and utilitarian aims of most radical systems.
Conviction that civilized society requires orders and classes...
Persuasion that property and freedom are inseparably connected, and that economic leveling is not economic progress...
Faith in prescription and distrust of "sophisters and calculators." Man must put a control upon his will and his appetite.... Tradition and sound prejudice provide checks upon man's anarchic impulse.
Recognition that change and reform are not identical.
(Kirk, Russell (1953)The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot. Washington, D.C.:Regnery, pp. 7–8.)
Another list of traditionalist conservative principles, the common principles of the early Conservatives of Western Europe (roughly, from Burke to Donoso Cortes).
1. God and the divine order, not the natural order, must be the starting point of any understanding of society and history.
2. Society, not the individual, is the subject of the true science of man.
3. Tradition, not pure reason, is the only possible approach to reform of government and society.
4. Organism, not social contract, is the true image of social reality.
5. The groups and associations of society, not the abstracted individual, are the true seats of human morality – and also of human identity.
6. True authority springs directly from God and is distributed normally among a plurality of institutions – church, guild, social class, and family, as well as political state.
7. A tragic view of man and history is required, one that sees the recurrence of evil and disaster in human affairs, not the kind of linear progress assumed by the Enlightenment.
Robert Nisbet in his foreword to The Works of Joseph de Maistre (Schocken, 1971)
Wikipedia defines High Tories in the modern age as the following:
High Tories prefer the values of the historical landed gentry and aristocracy, with their noblesse oblige and their self-imposed sense of duty and responsibility to all of society, including the lower classes. Whilst not against private enterprise, they do however reject the values of the modern commercial business class which they see as a pursuit of individualistic, unchecked greed that destroys a sense of community and holds no regard for religious or high cultural values. Their focus is on maintaining a traditional, rooted society and way of life, which is often as much threatened by modern capitalism as by state socialism. A High Tory also favours a strong community, in contrast to Whig, liberal and neoconservative individualism.
(Wikipedia, Article, 'High Tory', as of 05 November 2017, 21.14 CST)
Now, let's go through Dreher's 'Manifesto' point by point. His first point,
This is pretty self evident. Traditional conservatism has been outside the conservative mainstream since the 1960s. Yes, it is still an intellectual current, but the 'average' conservative 'man in the street' has no idea what it is. In fact, whilst this rift began decades ago, in the new conservative era of Donald Trump, the rift has become an abyss.
Second point,
How true! To be a 'conservative' today seems to mean that one must be rich (or at least want to be, and be striving for riches), to be near the seats of power, and to be able to display one's wealth in the form of expensive consumer goods. Little attention is paid to either the character of the individual 'conservative', or to the societal collapse proceeding apace around us.
Third point,
This has become an oxymoron. Big business is big government and big government is big business! And to make matters worse, it tends to be becoming more and more interlocked, with executives in large corporations moving to head the government agencies overseeing the industries whence they came, and vice versa.
Fourth point,
This ought to self evident to any conservative, but it has been forgotten or ignored by many of those calling themselves 'conservatives' today.
Fifth point,
This is especially interesting. Prior to the rise of National Socialism in Germany, the 'environmental movement', 'whole food', organic farming, and such, were seen as conservative, indeed Catholic, ideas. They were a response to the soullessness of laissez faire capitalism and the centralising, environmentally heedlessness of socialism in its various incarnations.
However, since Hitler and his brown-shirted socialists adopted many of these ideas, after the 1939-45 War they were discredited, only to be taken up a couple of decades later by the Left.
Sixth point
This pretty well sums up the way I live now. In a small town, in an old house, surrounded by old things. This is a recurring theme in traditional conservatism, going back to Edmund Burke, who said, we must learn "to love the little platoon we belong to in society." My little platoon(s) are my family, my parish, and my town.
It also explains my attachment to the Tridentine Mass, the old Roman Breviary, and my loyalty to my Queen, Elizabeth II, and my Chief. Malcolm MacGregor of MacGregor. The Mass and the Breviary go back well over a thousand years. Monarchy is as old as human society, and the monarchy to which I am attached goes back to the House of Wessex in the 6th century. My clan goes back to Alpin, King of Dalriada, in the 9th century, from whose son, Gregor MacAlpin, the Clan Gregor descends. These are old things.
Seventh point,
Beauty is more important than efficiency,
The failure of this point in the modern world, conservative or not, can be seen in a variety of fields, including architecture and industrial design.
Eighth point,
This would be laughable if it wasn't so serious. The United States now has a President who was (is?) a 'media-driven pop culture' star! Pop culture 'icons' are held up as political philosophers. Movies, music and art no longer make any attempt at portraying truth, beauty or wisdom.
Ninth point,
Again this is at the very root of traditional conservatism. The traditional conservative, whilst freely admitting the dignity and importance of the individual, sees that individual as a member of those 'little platoons' that Burke mentioned. The first of those platoons is the basic unit into which we are born.
Tenth point,
A simple statement of Traditional, High Tory Conservatism, which needs no further comment.
OK, having commented on each point in Dreher's 'Manifesto', where do I stand? Well, as I think is amply clear from other posts, my writing over the years, participation on fora, etc., I am definitely a traditional conservative and High Tory. But, I am also an environmentalist, reusing and recycling. We grow as much food as we can and buy at our local farmers' market when it's open. When we buy eggs, they are free range farm eggs.
As I've pointed out in The Vagaries of Diet, my Other Half is a vegetarian, so I eat little meat at home. Given the mass of grain used to produce most commercial beef, chicken, and pork, between 2.5 lbs. and 3.5 lbs. of grain per pound of edible meat (Don't believe me? You can check the figures in this article, How Much Feed Does it Take To Produce a Pound of Beef?). So, eating less meat fits in with Dreher's 5th point, as well as being healthier for me. However, I like fish, squirrel and rabbit, so next year, I plan on getting a combined small game hunting and fishing license. Since I'm an Old Curmudgeon, the State of Nebraska makes the license available for only $5.00.
We shop locally, supporting small, locally owned businesses. I even get my hair cut in a salon, because the nearest barbershop is in the next town north on the highway about 10 miles away. That's not local! We have a Dollar General store and a Subway sandwich shop in town, as well, but we don't eat at Subway, and we only buy at Dollar General what we can't find elsewhere in town. At least, when we buy there, the wages paid stay here.
So, it looks like I'm also a CrunchyCon!


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package com.stubbornjava.examples.common;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.typesafe.config.Config;
import com.typesafe.config.ConfigFactory;

public class TypesafeConfigExamples {
    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger("TypesafeConfigExamples");

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // {{start:resource}}
        Config defaultConfig = ConfigFactory.parseResources("defaults.conf");
        // {{end:resource}}

        // {{start:fallback}}
        Config fallbackConfig = ConfigFactory.parseResources("overrides.conf")
                                             .withFallback(defaultConfig)
                                             .resolve();
        // {{end:fallback}}

        // {{start:text}}
        log.info("name: {}", defaultConfig.getString("conf.name"));
        log.info("name: {}", fallbackConfig.getString("conf.name"));
        log.info("title: {}", defaultConfig.getString("conf.title"));
        log.info("title: {}", fallbackConfig.getString("conf.title"));
        // {{end:text}}

        // {{start:resolved}}
        log.info("combined: {}", fallbackConfig.getString("conf.combined"));
        // {{end:resolved}}

        // {{start:durations}}
        log.info("redis.ttl minutes: {}", fallbackConfig.getDuration("redis.ttl", TimeUnit.MINUTES));
        log.info("redis.ttl seconds: {}", fallbackConfig.getDuration("redis.ttl", TimeUnit.SECONDS));
        // {{end:durations}}

        // {{start:memorySize}}
        // Any path in the configuration can be treated as a separate Config object.
        Config uploadService = fallbackConfig.getConfig("uploadService");
        log.info("maxChunkSize bytes: {}", uploadService.getMemorySize("maxChunkSize").toBytes());
        log.info("maxFileSize bytes: {}", uploadService.getMemorySize("maxFileSize").toBytes());
        // {{end:memorySize}}

        // {{start:whitelist}}
        List<Integer> whiteList = fallbackConfig.getIntList("conf.nested.whitelistIds");
        log.info("whitelist: {}", whiteList);
        List<String> whiteListStrings = fallbackConfig.getStringList("conf.nested.whitelistIds");
        log.info("whitelist as Strings: {}", whiteListStrings);
        // {{end:whitelist}}

        // {{start:booleans}}
        log.info("yes: {}", fallbackConfig.getBoolean("featureFlags.featureA"));
        log.info("true: {}", fallbackConfig.getBoolean("featureFlags.featureB"));
        // {{end:booleans}}
    }
}

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Lean is definitely a leadership challenge. Leaders have to think and lead differently to get different and better results. It often sounds simple enough but everyone would be doing it if it were that really that easy.
You're right Christian! I think too many leaders are concerned with results rather than investing in the very processes that drive them.
Hoshin Kanri is covered in some depth in They Toyota Way to Lean Leadership as well. This is one area that is seldom covered in other texts and is certainly indicative of changing the way things are done.
Nice to see you drop by. Thanks again for your comment!
The Nike Lean journey began like many others. It was 1998 and we had issues with our manufacturing supply where our strategic objectives were outpacing our ability to deliver capabilities. So we called in the Lean experts who quickly informed us that our situation was much too complicated, we didn't own our manufacturing, our contract suppliers were spread throughout SE Asia and the workforce was for the most part made up people migrating in to the factories from the rural farming communities with little to no manufacturing experience. Not a great beginning, that was until we had the pleasure of meeting Tony McNaughton. Tony saw our situation as a great challenge. His years of experience in the Toyota Support Center gave him the confidence and expertise to know that given the right level of commitment by Nike and the Factory leadership, that Lean would revolutionize our industry. Tony was right, his unwavering commitment to our journey over the past 10years has in fact revolutionized not only our manufacturing operations but also our business enterprise. Tony has proven himself a very competent strategist as well as thorough and persistent practitioner of the purest form of Lean, the type that only someone with his years of service and training at Toyota could have. When partnering with Tony, you can be assured that his advice comes from experience and knowledge. A critical and very difficult skill to find in contracted support. I think that it is fair to say that we wouldn't be anywhere near where we are today without Tony's on-going support and never ending encouragement.
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Q: Pagination is not working in jQgrid, what I am missing? I have the following setup for jQgrid 5.1.0:

But as the image below shown the pagination is not working and the small icon for refresh the grid is not being displayed either, what I am doing wrong here?

UPDATE
I have managed to show the refresh button by adding the following code:
$('#grid').jqGrid('navGrid', '#gridpager', {
    edit: false,
    add: false,
    del: false,
    search: false,
    refresh: true,
    refreshstate: "current"
})

But it only appears on the #gridpagger what about if I want it also on the top bar?
Here is an example of the data returned by the server: https://gist.github.com/reypm/b1d2a303ba471261e55d72bbef099b74

A: You reported about two problems: pagination not working and the Refresh button appears on the bottom pager only (not on the top-pager).
The problem with Refresh button seems be mostly simple. You use commercial Guriddo, which probably still have the same logic of working with pagers like jqGrid 4.7. Old jqGrid has two pager options: pager and toppager, which values have to be specified in different ways. Working with toppager is easy: one can add toppager: true option and jqGrid will generate the top-pager div itself and to replace the value of toppager from true to the id selector of new pager. It will be toppager: "#grid_toppager". On the other side, to create the pager on the bottom of the grid one have to create somewhere on the HTML page dummy div, like

 and to use pager parameter in the form pager: "gridpager". jqGrid will move the div on another place inside of the grid and to fill it with data. Other methods like navGrid, inlineNav, navButtonAdd have to use #gridpager or "#grid_toppager" as parameter to create the navigator bar and to add buttons to the bar. Thus you have to use the code like
$('#grid').jqGrid('navGrid', '#grid_toppager', {
    edit: false,
    add: false,
    del: false,
    search: false,
    refreshstate: "current"
});

or
var $grid = $('#grid'),
    topPagerSelector = $grid.jqGrid('getGridParam', 'toppager');
$grid.jqGrid('navGrid', topPagerSelector, {
    edit: false,
    add: false,
    del: false,
    search: false,
    refreshstate: "current"
});

to create the navigator bar on the top-pager and to add the Refresh button to it. Alternatively you can use cloneToTop: true option of navGrid to add the same pagers to both pagers:
$('#grid').jqGrid('navGrid', '#gridpager', {
    cloneToTop: true,
    edit: false,
    add: false,
    del: false,
    search: false,
    refreshstate: "current"
});

You can't use the option if you want to have only one top pager. You will have to use '#grid_toppager' with navButtonAdd method.
I develop free jqGrid fork of jqGrid. I simplified the behavior already in the first version of free jqGrid published in the 2015: see the wiki article. One can use pager: true in the same way like toppager: true and one can skip pager parameter in navGrid, inlineNav, navButtonAdd. The usage of navGrid could be
$('#grid').jqGrid('navGrid', {
    edit: false,
    add: false,
    del: false,
    search: false,
    refreshstate: "current"
});

to add the navigator buttons on all pagers of the grid (top, bottom or both).
It's only one small difference between free jqGrid and Guriddo jqGrid. There are hundreds of other changes. I recommend you to consider to migrate to free jqGrid even if you payed Guriddo jqGrid license. I'd recommend you to read the page with the base information about the usage of free jqGrid.
The paging of data don't work because the response from your server is wrong. It looks like
{
  "page": 1,
  "total": 0,
  "records": 67,
  "rows": [
    { "id": "590a363477336501ad44ab02", "dataObject": "Account", ...},
    ...
    { "id": "590c97197ad70f00575a310a", "dataObject": "AgreementHistory", ...}
  ]
}

You use datatype: "json" option without loadonce: true option, which corresponds server side paging. It means that jqGrid send to url requests with rows and page parameter. The first request, which send jqGrid will contains page=1&rows=20 (20 is the default value of rowNum parameter of jqGrid) and the server have to return 20 or less rows (return only one requested page of data). Additional total and records property informs jqGrid about the total number or pages and records. Based on the value of total parameter jqGrid will disable pager buttons and the user will be not able to make paging correctly.
One the other side, your server response contains wrong value of total property and all 67 rows instead of 20 requested rows. Other 47 rows of the serve response will be just ignored by jqGrid.
If you have scenario, where the total number of records is not large (like 67 in you case), then it's recommended to add loadonce: true option (and forceClientSorting: true additionally in case of usage free jqGrid) and to modify the server response to
[
  { "id": "590a363477336501ad44ab02", "dataObject": "Account", ...},
  ...
  { "id": "590c97197ad70f00575a310a", "dataObject": "AgreementHistory", ...}
]

with all rows of the grid. jqGrid will fill internal data parameter, it will change datatype to "local" automatically after the first loading the data. As the result paging, sorting and filtering/searching (try filterToolbar or search: true of navGrid) locally without any additional communication to the server. It essentially simplify the server code and improves the performance of jqGrid. Even relatively large number of rows can be processed very quickly if you use small enough page size (like rowNum: 20 or rowNum: 10). You can try the demo with 60000 rows, 15 columns and 25 rows per page. You can test the time of paging, sorting and filtering.