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How Biden defied history at every turn to win
As we enter the new year and now stand 19 days until Biden's inauguration, a look back at the primary and general election results show Biden broke many supposed political rules on his way to becoming the 46th president of the United States.
Biden led the national polls during the entire leadup to the Iowa caucuses. He then proceeded to fall flat on his face in the first contest of the primary season. Biden came in a distant fourth place in the Iowa caucuses.
Many future presidents lose the Iowa caucuses (e.g. Trump), but they're usually competitive. No future president in the modern primary era (i.e. since 1972) finished below third place in Iowa. John McCain was, before Biden, the only eventual major party nominee to come in fourth place in Iowa. But he at least came within 0.3 points of third place.
Biden finished more than 2 points behind the third place finisher (Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren).
One could argue that the delay in reporting the Iowa results hurt the ability of the caucuses to affect the trajectory of the primary. No such problems in reporting results existed in New Hampshire.
More amazing is what happened next: Biden got blown out in the New Hampshire primary.
Biden came in fifth place in New Hampshire. He won less than 10% of the vote. No major party nominee had ever finished lower than second in New Hampshire in the modern primary era.
In pretty much any other year, a fourth place finish in Iowa and a fifth place finish in New Hampshire would spell doom for a presidential candidate.
That's especially the case when Biden followed up his Iowa and New Hampshire showings with a distant second place finish in the Nevada caucuses.
The 2020 Democratic primary electorate, though, was unlike those in other years in a very important way: More voters put winning the general election as their priority compared to issue agreement with the candidate than ever before. In other words, President Donald Trump changed the equation for primary voters.
Enter the South Carolina primary electorate. Biden had long led among Black Democrats, who don't make up a large portion of the caucuses and primaries electorate until South Carolina. Their preferences were mostly unaffected by the first three contests.
Biden won South Carolina by nearly 30 points on the strength of his strong performance with Black voters. From there, he largely cleared the field and racked up a ton of endorsements, which acted as a signal to primary voters on Super Tuesday and beyond.
Biden romped on Super Tuesday and was off to the races.
Of course, winning a primary is just step one in the equation to becoming president. You have to win a general election as well.
It's difficult to understate how hard it is to beat an incumbent, no matter the circumstance.
Prior to Trump, just four presidents were defeated in the last century.
When incumbents are defeated, it's usually because of the economy. Every single incumbent who had an economic approval rating of at least 50% won his bid to stay on as president for another term.
But Trump's economic approval rating matched the winners.
Given that statistic, it's not surprising Trump was more trusted than Biden was to handle the economy. Biden became the first challenger in the polling era to defeat an incumbent, despite losing on the economy.
Biden did so in part because he was trusted more to deal with the coronavirus. The ability of the pandemic to shape the general election campaign was unprecedented in modern times. It just goes to show that no campaign has a historical analogy that works perfectly.
Biden won, even as many voters felt lukewarm about him. His very favorable (or very positive) rating consistently lagged behind Trump's. The final NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll (which overall was too favorable to Biden compared to the final result), for instance, had Biden's very positive rating at 23% compared to Trump's 33%.
A look at the historical record reveals that no one was elected president with anywhere near this great of a deficit on the very favorable score to his opponent since the question was first posed in 1980.
Trump's problem was he ended up eliciting far more strongly negative feelings than Biden. His very negative rating in that aforementioned NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll stood at 49% to Biden's 33%. No president before Trump was disliked as strongly as he was heading into reelection. It proved to be the difference.
You saw the strong affection Trump's supporters had for him in other ways. More voters were extremely enthusiastic about voting for Trump than they were for Biden. No presidential nominee in modern history won when placed in Biden's position.
Likewise, the vast majority of Trump voters said they were voting for him rather than against Biden. A huge 77% said that in a November Pew Research Center poll, while just 46% of Biden voters said they were mainly voting for Biden and not against Trump. Since this type of question was first asked in 1984, the candidate who had more supporters said they were voting for him or her as opposed to against his or her opponent had always won.
Again, Biden broke the mold.
Biden proved that he was the vanilla ice cream of 2020. Voters may not have loved him, but they liked him. His overall favorable rating (which combines very and somewhat favorable) was consistently bigger than Trump's.
Perhaps more importantly, Biden proved to be in the right place at the right time. Trump couldn't paint Biden as the boogeyman in the same way he did with Hillary Clinton in 2016. Biden gave voters an off-ramp from a president that many really didn't like.
Put another way, Biden did what he said out to do. In an era of deep polarization, Biden was able to avoid it enough to bring down the most polarizing president of our lifetimes.
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L'affermage est un type de contrat de délégation d'exploitation. En France, il existe en droit civil et en droit public.

En droit civil
L'affermage est un type de contrat dans lequel le propriétaire (bailleur) d'un bien en confie l'exploitation à un fermier. Celui-ci tire sa rémunération du produit de la ferme et verse au propriétaire un fermage (le montant du loyer) dont le montant est convenu à l'avance et indépendant des résultats d'exploitation (le loyer est ferme). Cette notion de risque distingue l'affermage du métayage ou de la régie.

Jadis, un fermier venait quelquefois s'interposer entre le bailleur et son métayer. Il le débarrassait de la charge de contrôler le métayer et de celle de vendre sa part de récolte. Il pouvait aussi rémunérer d'avance le bailleur, lui évitant d'attendre la récolte.

Ce système était aussi utilisé pour la perception des impôts (Ferme Générale).

Statut du fermage
Le statut du fermage est un mode de faire-valoir indirect des biens agricoles en France adoptée par la loi du  codifié à l'article L.411-1 et suivants du Code rural.

En publicité
C'est le modèle économique qui s'impose en France avec entre autres la Société générale des annonces (SGA), société spécialisée dans la régie de publicité pour la presse au , liée dès 1852 à l'Agence Havas, qui afferme l'espace disponible dans les journaux, parfois pour dix ans.

En droit public
En droit public, l'affermage est une des formes que peut prendre une délégation de service public.

En droit français, les contrats d'affermage sont ainsi utilisés par les collectivités locales et leurs groupements. C'est par exemple le cas, dans le cadre de la loi de décentralisation, pour déléguer la gestion de certains aéroports. Ce type de contrat est également fréquemment utilisé pour la gestion des services d'eau potable et d'assainissement mais également, de façon sporadique, pour des lignes de chemin de fer en antenne (section de Longueville à Villiers-Saint-Georges) sur la Ligne de Longueville à Esternay, notamment.

La collectivité délégante assure les investissements, le fermier (souvent une société privée) supporte les frais d'exploitation et d'entretien courant. Il se rémunère directement auprès de l'usager par un prix convenu à l'avance dans le contrat d'affermage, révisable selon une formule de variation proposée dans le contrat et utilisant les principaux indices publiés par l'Insee. Pour couvrir les investissements nécessaires au maintien du patrimoine, la collectivité vote chaque année une part du tarif qui lui reviendra (la « surtaxe »). Le fermier est chargé de recouvrer cette part auprès de l'abonné par la facture d'eau et de la restituer à la collectivité dans un délai court fixé par le contrat (entre trois et six mois).

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

Droit rural
Contrat
Droit des contrats administratifs
Droit du service public en France
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Q: Opposite of event horizon - causality horizon or sphere? Is there an opposite of event horizon - let's call it causality horizon or causality sphere - past which current objects in space can never be influenced from Earth because of the accelerating expansion of space?
Is this horizon the same size  for light and gravitational waves?

A: This is the Hubble sphere (sometimes also called sphere of causality, so your guess was correct). From Wikipedia:

In cosmology, a Hubble volume or Hubble sphere [...] is a spherical region of the observable universe surrounding an observer beyond which objects recede from that observer at a rate greater than the speed of light due to the expansion of the Universe. The Hubble volume is approximately equal to $10^{31}$ cubic light years.

Since both light and gravitational waves travel at the speed of light, it should not make a difference – anything beyond the radius of that sphere (which is about 14.4 billion light years) cannot be reached by anything traveling at the speed of light when emitted from earth now.
One should note that this is not the same as the observable universe which has a radius of about 46.5 billion light years – much larger than the Hubble sphere. The reason that we can see farther than we could (theoretically) interact is that these objects emitted their light when they were closer (inside the Hubble sphere).

A: If I understand correctly, what you're referring to is the boundary of the Earth's current causal future, the set of all points that can be reached from Earth by a timelike or null curve (massive object or light signal). That is our future light cone, as shown in the figure below as the part of the light cone for time > now. Notice that when a galaxy at a particular comoving distance (denoted by the dotted line) crosses the event horizon, it also moves outside of our future light cone as expected.

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- Post title at the top of thumbnails (another example).
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Just create a new table and move the exact codes between the <td> and </td> tags to the desired cells, paying attention to correctly specify the width/height of the cells either using absolute values or the variables '+imgwidth+' and +'imgheight+'. You don't have to create the complete table, just the first one or two cell depending upon how you have designed it. These cells will be repeated for each new post. If you know how to create tables in HTML it's pretty straightforward.
But it's static... how to make it scrolling?
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Cool widget the tumbnails definatly lead to more clicks.
Can you help me buddy, I can seem to get it to work in a verticle fashion, but I can seem to do it in a horizontal fashion. I've downloaded the JS file from your web-site, and then loaded it up upon mine - referencing it in my script. But the bloody thing does not work! Help!
@The Reviewer, I just checked the vertical widget. It's working. Maybe you did something wrong? Did you put the trailing slash after your blog URL?
Hey, first of all, thanks for the awesome widget! But is there a way to edit the JS file so that my thumbnails are not stretched? Some kind of auto-crop or auto sizing for the thumbnails?
thanks for the great tips. Its work great for me. 1 question : could we make the title link hovered like the template setting?
working ... thanx a lot !
Is there a way to pull from a single category/tag/label rather than just recent posts? Maybe with an RSS feed?
I'm very handy with html/css/js, but I have a client who wants to pull specific "featured" posts--he doesn't know any code, and I'd love to set it up so he can just tag posts to include them in a horizontal list like this.
@positdesign, yes there is a way.
Then use a JS file uploaded on Nov2010, from the download page.
Have anyone tried this? is the image static? I need something where the image is dynamic.


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BRW Australia ranked James Packer third in its May 2013 'Rich 200' list with his wealth estimated at A.0 billion.
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Spanish scientists develop Zika vaccine
November 29, 2018 Spanish News 4649 Views
Scientists in Spain have created a vaccine against the Zika virus, a tropical disease caused by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito (pictured).
In testing it on rats already infected with Zika, they found the animals made a complete recovery and that their immune system responded to the drug developed in the laboratory staffed by members of the High Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).
Zika, a virus declared an international public health emergency by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2016, can cause severe neurological disorders such as Guillain-Barré Syndrome, and microcephalia – a very small, under-developed brain – in babies where a pregnant woman is affected.
As yet, there is no licenced vaccine against the condition and the only way to prevent it in at-risk areas is by using very strong insect repellent with DEET as one of the ingredients.
According to Juan García-Arriaza and Mariano Esteban of the CSIC, the new MVA-ZIKV vaccine was developed along the lines used by those who have created innoculations against Ebola, HIV and AIDS, and Hepatitis C.
Two types of the Zika virus were introduced into a substance known as a 'pox-viral vector', a genetically-weakened virus, which led to the generation of the 'precursory protein' of the Zika membrane and of its outer skin, respectively.
These two proteins are the 'most immunogenic' of the Zika virus, García-Arriaza explains.
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The bucket can be used to carry up to 32.3 units of water. To fill a bucket with water, simply right-click the water source and select "Fill Bucket", consuming the bucket and producing a bucket of water. If the source is considered unclean, the water in the bucket will be tainted and displayed with a green skull icon ( ). Leaving the bucket on the ground outside while it is raining, will gradually fill it with tainted water.
The bucket can be used with water and plaster powder to produce a bucket of plaster, which can be applied to a built wall, allowing it to be painted. A bucket of plaster can be filled with water, which will remove the plaster.
Buckets are relatively rare as they can only be found in garden and storage areas at low frequency.
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Rafael Benítez
Rafael Benítez Maudes
(1960-04-16) 16 April 1960 (age 61)
1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Midfielder (retired)
Senior career*
Team Apps (Gls)
Teams managed
Dalian Professional
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
Rafael Benítez (born 16 April 1960) is a Spanish former football player and football manager who was most recently the manager of Premier League club Everton.
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In developing web application, we write insert query for inserting data into database. Hence i use mysql query and PHP functions for inserting string with single quote(') or double quote.
1. addslashes — Quote string with slashes. Returns a string with backslashes before characters that need to be quoted in database queries etc. These characters are single quote ('), double quote ("), backslash (\) and NUL (the NULL byte).
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The Husband From Hell: Mitchell Quy
(Mitchell Quy: Picture credit: Liverpool Echo)
For my 65th post, I decided I would cover this horrific and truly shocking murder case from here in the UK which took place back in 1998. Some of the details that I will be sharing are quite disturbing so please keep that in mind and you're welcome to skip over this case if it gets too much.
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So let's go back to the late 1990s in Southport, on the coast of Merseyside in the UK and let me share a brief background of the case...
Beautiful Lynsey Wilson was just 17 years old when she found herself pregnant, she had been in a long term relationship that turned sour and was facing the prospect of starting motherhood on her own. Her family supported her as much as they could but still, it was a daunting time for her at such a young age. Lynsey was always a friendly, outgoing girl who also had a shy side and a maturity about her. She was never involved in any trouble and pretty much kept herself to herself. She was just like any typical teenage girl, she loved makeup, music and spending time with friends.
When she got half way into her pregnancy, insecurities began to sink in further and she was very vulnerable and at times felt very alone not because of her family but the idea of being a single mother, would she be able to meet someone else who would accept that she already had a child? It was at this point, about five months into her pregnancy that she met a 20 year old man by the name of Mitchell Quy. He had a confidence about him and he seemed to latch onto Lynsey straight away.
(Lynsey Wilson Quy. Picture credit: Liverpool Echo)
Lynsey was over the moon, she though she'd found this amazing guy who loved her and was willing to help bring up the baby as his own. Mitchell was such a gentleman and very sweet to Lynsey, the pair fell deeply in love and it wasn't long until they were both living together and married within weeks. Lynsey's family were concerned, it was good for them to see Lynsey so happy but they felt that it was all moving to fast, plus there was something about Mitchell that they couldn't put their finger on...he seemed too nice to be true. In their minds, all that mattered was that Lynsey was happy and they supported her and the relationship.
The family had a right to be concerned because on the very night of their wedding, the pair were at each other's throats. Mitchell flew into a rage out of nowhere and Lynsey was devastated that he managed to ruin what was supposed to be one of the happiest days of their lives. Once he calmed down he managed to get around her with apologies and sweet talk. She thought it was just a one off, pressure because of the wedding, something like that. She forgave him and tried to focus on the future ahead with him as her husband.
It became clear though as time went on that this was not an isolated incident, Mitchell was like a yo-yo with his moods, one minute he'd be up, the next he would be down and his temper was terrible. He was really paranoid and controlling of her, he had to know where she was at all times. He would have the nerve to constantly accuse Lynsey of cheating on him when in fact it was him who was going around sleeping with other women behind her back. The relationship was a nightmare and every time he flew into a rage he would come crawling back to her, begging forgiveness and they would make love and then the next day he'd be upset about something else and the whole cycle would start again.
In amongst all of this drama, Lynsey found herself being sick in the mornings and realised that she was pregnant again. It was a very difficult time for her, she already had one child and to be fair to Mitchell, he did act like a father but the prospect of having a child with him was not something she wanted but he convinced her that he was going to change his ways but she decided on her own that she would have an abortion. When he found out about this he went crazy and physically and verbally assaulted her before grabbing his things and storming out of the house. Mitchell never forgave her for what he later said publicly in an interview as ''Killing our baby''.
(Mitchell Quy, Lynsey & her two children. Picture credit: Liverpool Echo)
Lynsey was glad to see the back of him and her family breathed a sigh of relief but five months later, Mitchell was back on the scene. It's unclear how he managed to persuade her or what he said but he ended up moving back in and the pair were planning on having a baby together.
Things seemed to be going well and Lynsey fell pregnant as planned. One day she went out to run some errands and went she returned to the house she was met with utter chaos. Mitchell had gone berserk and turned the house upside down, threw a TV though one of the windows, destroyed furniture, smashed ornaments, ripped doors off of their hinges before going outside and smashing up the car. The house looked like a bomb had been dropped on it and the damage cost several hundreds of pounds to repair, as a result, both Lynsey and Mitchell were told to move out of the property and Lynsey wanted nothing to do with him.
Despite all of the stress and drama, Lynsey was able to give birth to a healthy baby boy and with the help of a local woman's charity, she was able to find a new home for her and the children. For a while she was like her old self again, the kids seemed happy, she seemed happy but there was a worry in the back of her mind that Mitchell would find out where she was an spoil everything.
Around this time, Mitchell had made a number of threats that he was going to kill Lynsey so she had an injunction taken out on him as a way to protect herself and the children.
It's not known who managed to contact who but a few months later, Lynsey was on the phone with Mitchell and he was begging and pleading to see his son on his birthday. Lynsey eventually gave in to the annoyance of her friends and family who felt that she and the kids were doing so well without him in their lives.
The cycle repeated itself and soon Lynsey found herself at the other end of Mitchell's temper tantrums and she often recorded her thoughts and incidences that took place in a private diary she had hidden from him. She now felt like a complete prisoner because of him and friends and family couldn't understand why she had taken him back and because of his hostile behaviour towards them they felt uncomfortable to visit the house.
Her sister did visit her not knowing that it would be the last time that she saw Lynsey alive. Even though Mitchell was in the house at the time and making it pretty clear that he didn't want her sister there, they continued to have a quick chat and a drink. When Lynsey went to say goodbye to her sister at the front door she slipped a note into her hand before going back into the house.
Her sister put the note in her bag and opened it when she got home, it said: ''Please help me! Get me out of here.''
In December of that year (1998) Lynsey and the kids were excited about Christmas and spent the beginning of the month getting bits and pieces ready for the house, Lynsey was determined to make Christmas really special for the kids despite the horrible atmosphere at home. She did see some other members of her family around the 13th of December and she seemed to be in good spirits, however, when her family tried to contact her on Christmas Eve to arrange dropping gifts off for the children, Mitchell turned up on their doorstep with the kids instead claiming that Lynsey was going out with friends. He told her mother that he suspected Lynsey was having an affair and called her a ''psycho''.
Despite Mitchell's strange behaviour and negativity about Lynsey, her mother didn't take it too much on board as he was always like that and she handed over the gifts and he left. Obviously over Christmas, Lynsey's family may have been expecting a phone call or something from Lynsey but there was no word from her at all.
Surprisingly, even though weeks had gone on without a word or appearance of Lynsey, she wasn't reported missing until the 5th of February 1999 and that was by a concerned social worker after not being able to get in touch with her for weeks.
Mitchell played the part of the concerned husband and claimed that Lynsey had walked out on him and the kids for another man. His story didn't sit right with anyone who knew Lynsey personally, they knew she would never leave her children ever.
It seemed that Mitchell was enjoying all the attention a little too much and seemed to almost have a smirk on his face a lot of the time. He did endless interviews and dragged Lynsey's name though the mud. He claimed to be the long suffering husband who had to deal with this woman who (in his words) ''killed'' their baby. He let TV cameras into the house to film an interview with him and he said (about the police): ''I know they are clutching at straws but what do they think, that I shagged her to death?'' (Shagged is an English term for sexual intercourse).
(Mitchell Quy. Picture credit: Mirror)
All he could talk about during the interviews was himself and downplayed a lot of his destruction in the relationship, when a reporter asked him if he had killed his wife he said: ''I'm not going to answer that question because I don't need to''. He brands the question as ''stupid'' before adding (with a smile on his face), ''wait and see''.
This whole performance from Mitchell carried on for 18 months, he even claimed that he had seen Lynsey around town, being driven in an expensive car or talking with another man and that she had walked out on him and the children on Christmas Day.
The police were at their wits end because although they suspected him, they had no evidence of foul play. Her family also believed that Lynsey had died at the hands of Mitchell Quy.
Various searches around the house and the local area by investigators, family, friends and volunteers provided no clue to what really happened to Lynsey.
The police discovered that Mitchell had been cashing Lynsey's welfare cheques and arrested him for fraud. They tried to get him on a number of charges for her murder but because of the lack of evidence the majority of the charges were dropped. His punishment for being found guilty of fraud was community service in a local charity shop and he said at the time ''Me having to do this and leaving me with the kids, I wouldn't piss on her if she was on fire.''
The police were not going to leave it there though and the investigation into Mitchell continued, they believed that he killed his wife and were going to stop at nothing to find out what really happened to her and finally put him behind bars where he belonged. Mitchell had his own ideas though and being as over-confident, arrogant and cocky as ever, he continued to court media attention and play the husband who had been so wronged by his wife and the police.
Mitchell even resorted to taunting the lead investigator of the case, badmouthing the gentleman and also sending him a bottle of hair dye to (in his words) ''cover up his greys and help his confidence.'' He also sent Christmas cards to the police.
Investigators discovered that Lynsey had made an appointment with a divorce lawyer on the 15th of December 1998 but didn't show up. She was seen publicly for the last time the day before as she had visited a local Post Office as a welfare cheque had gone missing (which Mitchell had stolen).
It's unknown how events transpired between Lynsey and Mitchell on the 14th of December but police found that she had contacted authorities about the missing cheque and she was looking to divorce Mitchell. It is believed that an argument occurred between the pair with Lynsey telling him it was over for good.
With the net closing in, Mitchell was taken in again for questioning and managed to keep the performance up for 36 hours but eventually he gave up and admitted he did kill Lynsey.
On the 8th of June 2000, Mitchell Quy was finally charged with the murder of his wife. He'd admitted to strangling her but the horror didn't end there, it just got worse. Together with his brother Eliott, they dismembered Lynsey's body in a bath tub. Mitchell told the police that he cut Lynsey's head off, her hands and legs off whilst his brother held the bags open. The children were in the house when all of this was going on.
Mitchell took investigators to the places where he had dumped parts of Lynsey's remains. Her head and hands were never found. Mitchell was found guilty and sentenced to a minimum tariff of 17 years and his brother Eliott was sentenced to 7 years. His brother is now out of prison but Mitchell is still behind bars after a couple of attempts at parole were rejected. Mitchell's life behind bars has also been full of trouble with accusations that he has bullied fellow prisoners as well as substance misuse issues.
A psychiatric nurse who encountered Mitchell in prison claimed that Mitchell made a sick joke about where he had buried one of his wife's body parts. Mitchell Quy had never shown an ounce of remorse for what he has done.
A petition was set up, which is still live and currently has over 27,000 signatures (please sign) to keep Mitchell behind bars. His next chance at parole could be as early as January 2021 (I will keep an eye on any updates). Lynsey's family are concerned because the prison system has been trying to deal with the Covid-19 situation and there's been talk of certain prisoners being paroled and having early release. We recently seen the early release of Mairead Philpott (read about her case here) to the shock and outrage of the British public.
(Picture credit: Champion News)
In my opinion Mitchell Quy should never be released, he is a dangerous, manipulative individual who murdered a beautiful young woman who had her whole life ahead of her, took a mother away from her children, emotionally tortured her family, wasted police time and stole Government money. His horrible personality and evil ways have continued behind bars. He is bad news and it would be a big mistake for him to be released.
This story is as heartbreaking as it is sickening. Mitchell managed to gain control of Lynsey from a young age and manipulated her. She was abused physically and psychologically by him. He should not be allowed near women.
My heart goes out to her children and family. RIP Lynsey.
Thank you for taking the time to read my latest case, I will be sharing my thoughts as well as extra bits of info on this case over on my Patreon page.
See you in the next post (my 66th case) x
- Mitchell Quy Article | Liverpool Echo Newspaper
- Support For Lynsey & Family | Facebook Group
- Petition To Keep Mitchell Quy Behind Bars
- Article Ft Mitchell Quy | NewsWirral
- Mitchell Quy | Mirror Newspaper
- Mitchell Quy Article | Champ News
- Mitchell Quy Docu | Killers
- Mitchell Quy Clip | Investigation Discovery
Thank you for taking the time to read my post, hopefully I'll see you'll join me in the next one x
Labels: #MitchellQuy #LynseyQuy #UKcrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeBlog #CaledonianKitty
The String Theory 13 December 2020 at 00:50
This monster should never see the light of day... ever!
I signed the petition to help keep him in prison and I hope that is where he stays.
This was a brilliantly written story yet so heartbreaking.
Caledonian Kitty 14 December 2020 at 00:52
Thank you so much as always for checking out the post and for taking the time to comment and sign the petition x


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Op het grondgebied van het dorp ligt het vliegveld Jõhvi lennuväli.

Plaats in Estland


A pacemaker is a small device that sits under the skin near a person's heart. It contains a generator and wires that help to control your heartbeat.
How does a cardiac pacemaker work?
Pulse generator — this small metal case contains a battery and tiny computer inside which send electrical signals to regulate your heart.
Wires, also called "leads" — the wires connect the pulse generator to the heart, electrical signals travel from the pulse generator through the wires and to your heart to adjust your heartrate.
Are all pacemakers the same?
Single chamber pacemaker — this type of pacemaker usually carries electrical impulses from the pulse generator to the right ventricle of your heart.
Dual chamber pacemaker — dual chamber pacemakers carry electrical impulses to both the right ventricle and right atrium of your heart.
Biventricular pacemaker — unlike a regular pacemaker, this type of pacemaker stimulates both the left and right ventricles of the heart to make the heart beat more efficiently.


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Q: Reclaiming tables corrupted when hdfs volume was at 100% I am using hadoop version Hadoop 2.7.0-mapr-1506 .
When data volume is at 100%, our jobs still tried to insert overwrite data to few hive tables and they are corrupted and gives the below exception when accessed,
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.submit(SparkSubmit.scala:205)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:119)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala)
Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.InvalidInputException: Input path does not exist: maprfs:/hive/bigdata.db/cadfp_wmt_table
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileInputFormat.singleThreadedListStatus(FileInputFormat.java:289)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileInputFormat.listStatus(FileInputFormat.java:229)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileInputFormat.listStatus(SequenceFileInputFormat.java:45)

Now we have freed up space in the data volume and want to reclaim the data in the below tables, how can we achieve it
hadoop fs -ls /hive/bigdata.db/ | grep tmp~
drwxr-xr-x   - bigdata bigdata         16 2019-04-05 07:38 /hive/bigdata.db/pc_bt_clean_table.tmp~!@
drwxr-xr-x   - bigdata bigdata        209 2019-04-05 07:51 /hive/bigdata.db/pc_bt_table.tmp~!@
drwxr-xr-x   - bigdata bigdata       1081 2019-04-05 07:38 /hive/bigdata.db/cadfp_wmt_table.tmp~!@

Tried steps mentioned here How to fix corrupt HDFS FIles but hdfs command does not work for me


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The future of Michelin Dundee
Published: 12 Nov 2018 15:10
Economy, Business, industry and innovation
Action Group convened.
Work to find a sustainable future for the Michelin Dundee plant is now underway – after Economy Secretary Derek Mackay today convened the first meeting of the Michelin Dundee Action Group.
Meeting in Dundee, Mr Mackay tasked the group with exploring what can be done to retain the plant in Dundee and how it could be repurposed in the future towards manufacturing related activity.
Mr Mackay said that it would take a "monumental effort to get the outcome we want" but that the group – made up of representatives of Michelin, the Trade Union, local and national government and individuals with manufacturing and business expertise, were focused on the task ahead.
Speaking after the meeting, Mr Mackay said:
"Today I convened the first meeting of the Michelin Dundee Action group and reiterated the Scottish Government's commitment to leave no stone unturned in our efforts to find a viable and sustainable future for the plant and its workforce.
"We had a really positive discussion today with Michelin, the Trade Union, Dundee City Council, UK Government and manufacturing and business experts, and everyone is absolutely focused on the task ahead.
"In the coming weeks, the Michelin Dundee Action Group will continue to work diligently to explore all options available and provide the company with a proposition that demonstrates a commercial way forward for them to retain a significant presence in Dundee or how the plant could be repurposed for the future.
"We will continue to work closely with John Reid and his team at Michelin Dundee to put together a proposal for the future – one that recognises that the rationale for the decision includes issues such as low-cost imports coming into the market and the cost of production. This work will proceed at pace over the coming weeks.
"It is important that the Tay City Deal goes ahead as planned without dilution but with increased determination to support the region. The Scottish Government has already committed £200 million to the Tay City Deal and have called on the UK Government to match that commitment by providing an additional £50 million.
"We look forward to signing the heads of terms agreement in the coming days."
The following people attended the first meeting of the Michelin Action Group:
Derek Mackay, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Economy and Fair Work
Joint Chair, Steve Dunlop, Chief Executive, Scottish Enterprise
Joint Chair, Councillor John Alexander, Council Leader, Dundee City Council
David Mundell, Secretary of State for Scotland
Jamie Hepburn, Minister for Business, Fair Work and Skills,
Ivan McKee, Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation
John Reid, Site Director, Michelin Dundee
Marc Jackson, Michelin Dundee Site Convenor, Unite
Dougie Maguire, Unite Regional Co-ordinating Officer
Bob Macgregor, Regional officer, Unite
Davie Brady, Michelin Dundee Branch Convenor, Unite
Ellis Watson, Chair of Tay Cities Enterprise Forum
Tim Allan, Deputy Chair of the Tay Cities Enterprise Forum and President of Scottish Chambers of Commerce
Professor Keith Ridgway, Executive Chair of the Advanced Forming Research Centre at the University of Strathclyde
Alison Henderson, Chief Executive of Dundee Chamber of Commerce
Alison Duffy, NCR Dundee Director, Enterprise Data Governance and Architecture
Damien Yeates, Chief Executive of Skills Development Scotland
In the coming days and weeks, advice will be sought from a range of Manufacturing Leaders including Dr Hamid Mughal, Co-Chair of the Strategic Leadership Group of the National Manufacturing Institute for Scotland. Membership of the group will develop as the work is undertaken with all relevant Ministers playing a full part.
Image 1: DM michelin action group-2
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Substitution Effects
by Harry on April 15, 2004
I wonder if anyone can help me. I'm doing some research on Channel One. For those who don't know Channel One it is a daily newscast for schoolchildren, which is watched in schools. The content is provided to the schools for nothing, and the contracting schools also get a significant amount of televisual equipment for their own use while the contract is in effect. The catch: it broadcasts a 12 minute show, 2 inutes of which are advertisments. Delightful. (Max Sawicky at MaxSpeak
has a nice cost-benefit analysis here). I am interested in it as an example of schools collaborating with corporations in a way that affects the ethos of the school, infusing it with the ethos of the commercial public culture outside the school. But a very minor point that I want to make in the paper is a conjecture that when corporations provide goodies to schools there will be a corresponding drop in the willingness of taxpayers to provide funds. I'm guessing that this happens, eg, when local taxpayers know that a local lottery will provide income to the city or state, and that a substitution effect occurs. My suspicions are increased whenever I describe Channel One to someone and ask them to guess the value of the equipment provided: they MASSIVELY overestimate the value, presumably because they think that any sane person would need to get a hell of a lot of money before they would be willing to force kids to watch commercials. (I'll put the figure Sawicky and Molnar give below the fold, but even they are pretty certainly overestimating considerably (as they admit)). Rather than conjecture, though, it would be nice to have some empirical evidence of the effect, eg, with respect to a lottery. Does anyone know the literature (or whether there is any) on this?
Its worth about $4 per student per year, on Sawicky and Molnar's implausibly generous estimate.
Russell Arben Fox 04.15.04 at 3:33 am
I knew Channel 1, like so many other civic-corporate "partnerships," was a rip-off, but I had no idea how much. It just goes to show how desperate many schools are for funds (and, tragically, how casual many teachers and administrators are in how they fill up their students' days).
I don't know of any literature directly relevant to your concern, but I'll look around. Good luck with it, and please share your conclusions as they develop.
Tom T. 04.15.04 at 3:45 am
The low figures for the value of equipment provided are indeed quite surprising. I wonder if Channel One may have distorted its numbers in some way that has come back to bite them.
I would question the study's decision, though, to consider the time spent watching Channel One's content (as opposed to its advertising) as a cost to schools, rather than a benefit. If someone gave the schools free textbooks, it would seem odd to count time spent reading from them as a cost, rather than a benefit, to the school. This classification of Channel One's content necessarily implies a judgment that none of the content is instructional. That may indeed be true, but it's not clear from the study.
Bob McGrew 04.15.04 at 4:16 am
I watched Channel One in school. I remember it being mediocre news, and I usually spent my time either 1) watching the interesting bits, or 2) doing homework through the uninteresting bits. Most other people I knew did the same.
Unfortunately, this was much like the class time I spent, too. Most of the class was spent doing worksheets, all the way through high school.
It's not like children's time (or teachers) is treated as anything like a valuable resource in schools in America. If anything, the time spent watching Channel One made me spend 12 extra minutes finishing my worksheet at home that night.
(And, as for commercials, it's not like I didn't watch any TV at all. I'd seen commercials before.)
countermeme 04.15.04 at 5:32 am
I remember seeing a documentary done by the adbusters organization on FSTV or one of those religious tv stations (yeah o.o weird) a few months ago. wish I knew the name of the documentary. but it escapes me.
Maureen 04.15.04 at 6:23 am
Yeah, I watched Channel One in middle school–it was actually pretty decent, and it wasn't like we weren't constantly bombarded with ads everywhere else. And it's where Lisa Ling got her start.
harry 04.15.04 at 1:31 pm
I agree with Maureen and tom t – in pursuit of this project I watched a lot of Channel One in a one month period last year. It compares favourably with our local news, and a good deal of national news, frankly (and I DO mean to damn with faint praise, there). Sawicky and Molnar consider the content valueless because there is a (pseudo-ad-free) alternative available for free — from CNN. They then consider the time spent watching it as a cost because of the opportunity costs (cost of teachers time etc). I think that's wrong, for numerous reasons — the issue is 'what would the students otherwise ACTUALLY have been doing?' — and if the answer to that is, as bob suggests it is, nothing very different, then the opportunity cost is zero. And, of course, most kids are saturated with commercials — so I doubt that exposure to yet more is directly very harmful (though I'll be furious if my coemmercial-free kids are forced to watch them). I make all these points in my paper. I focus on my critique on the problem that bob and Russell raise — that administrators have grossly inappropriate views of what should be happening in the classroom and what the ethos of the school should be. So, unlike most leftist critiques which attack Channel One but excuse the administrators on the grounds that they are ina tight spot with money, I aggressively pursue the administrators.
countermeme — if it comes back to you please please please tell me.
maurinsky 04.15.04 at 2:00 pm
I'm sorry I can't help you with what you're looking for, but at my daughter's middle school, the kids got more time to watch Channel 1 than they got for lunch (20 minutes v. 15 minutes) – I never understood why they couldn't just combine the 2 activities.
Thorley Winston 04.15.04 at 2:51 pm
Channel One was introduced during my senior year and I too found the "news" coverage to be mediocre and the commercials much ado about nothing. It ranked up there MTV News which at the time as I recall kept running the same story about Paula Abdul getting an award from a bricklayer's association for the second or third year in a row. ;)
I like the idea about playing it during lunchtime in the lunchroom where the students can watch or ignore it as background noise as they see fit although some might object to how televisions have taken the central place of conversation in many households during mealtime. IMNHO that may be of greater concern than having to play a commercial or two in order to get "free" television equipment but I don't think that Channel One is going to make much of difference either way.
Slithery D 04.15.04 at 9:38 pm
I can't point you to research on the substitution effects, but in addition to lotter/school substitution effects you'll want to look for charity/tax substitution. I'm certain there must be research on the latter.
I forgot to record it, and it's not strictly relevant, but I saw an article in the last couple of days claiming that people who give money to churches are less likely to turn up at services.