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Q: How to create a link_to_if with block only if condition is met? I want to render a link only if the condition is met with the following link_to_if:
<%= link_to_if policy(@user.add?), new_entry_path(), class: 'btn' do %>
  <%= glyphicon("plus") %>
<% end %>

The block with the glypicon("plus") helper method should also only be called if the condition of the link_to_if is met. With the code above the block is always called, no matter whether the condition is true or false.
How do I create the link and its inner content only if the condition returns true?

A: Just use a simple if and a link_to:
<% if policy(@user.add?) %>
  <%= link_to new_entry_path, class: 'btn' do %>
    <%= glyphicon('plus') %>
  <% end %>
<% end %>

Or you might want to consider a view helper method like this:
def link_to_add(url)
  link_to(glyphicon('plus'), url, class: 'btn')
end

Which can be used in to view like:
<%= link_to_add(new_entry_path) if policy(@user.add?) %>

Or more generic:
def icon_link(icon, url)
  link_to(glyphicon(icon), url, class: 'btn')
end

Which can be used in to view like:
<%= icon_link('plus', new_entry_path) if policy(@user.add?) %>

A: The block for this method is the "default" behavior, it's the equivalent of the else in an if statement.  Here's the source:
  def link_to_if(condition, name, options = {}, html_options = {}, &block)
    if condition
      link_to(name, options, html_options)
    else
      if block_given?
        block.arity <= 1 ? capture(name, &block) : capture(name, options, html_options, &block)
      else
        ERB::Util.html_escape(name)
      end
    end
  end

A: As pointed out by @Anthony if the condition is false it will use the block to determine output similar to an else statement.
If no block is given the "name" value will be rendered without an anchor tag. To avoid this you could pass an empty block like so
<%= link_to_if(policy(@user.add?),glyphicon('plus'),new_entry_path,class: 'btn') {} %>

Since the deference is to the block and the block returns nil nothing will be rendered but obviously the interpretation of what is happening here lacks greatly from that of the answer provided by @spickermann.

A: If you would want to show the block anyways, but only add the link if a certain condition is met, you may capture the block altogether:
<% block_content = capture do %>
  <%# makes sense if this is much more complex %>
  <%= glyphicon('plus') %>
<% end %>

<% if policy(@user.add?) %>
  <%= link_to block_content, new_entry_path, class: 'btn' %>
<% else %>
  <%= block_content %>
<% end %>


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SAG-AFTRA Health Plan Trustees Vow To "Vigorously Contest" Class Action Ageism Lawsuit, Calling It "Entirely Without Merit"
· December 4, 2020 ·
The board of trustees of the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan said today that it will "vigorously contest" a class action lawsuit filed on Tuesday, calling it "entirely without merit." Facing staggering deficits, the Plan announced in August that it will be raising premiums and earnings thresholds for coverage on January 1 in order to stay afloat, which will remove thousands of current recipients from coverage. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, claims that the coming benefit changes "illegally discriminate based on age and violate the Age Discrimination and Employment Act of 1967," and are a breach of fiduciary duty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The 10 named plaintiffs in the suit include former SAG president Ed Asner and David Jolliffe, currently a vice president of the union's Los Angeles Local – both of whom are leaders of the union's dissident faction that spearheaded the lawsuit. SAG and AFTRA merged in 2012, and their health plans merged in 2017. Related Story SAG-AFTRA Health Plan Cuts 'Illegally Discriminate Based On Age', Class-Action Lawsuit Says "The lawsuit filed against the Board of Trustees of the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan (and the former SAG Health Plan) is entirely without merit,"… Read full this story
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First-year Rockets coach Stephen Silas enjoyed a long and fruitful career as an NBA assistant prior to the previous two seasons he spent as an assistant with the Dallas Mavericks, years that cemented his reputation and paved the way for his hiring by Houston brass this past offseason.
On Monday at Toyota Center, the Rockets will host the Dallas Mavericks in a matchup that will afford Silas his first opportunity to coach against the same staff and players who completed his training and prepared him for the position he currently fills on the Houston bench.
"It'll be good to see those guys," Silas said. "Obviously (Dallas) Coach (Rick) Carlisle did so much for me and I haven't really had the chance to say thank you in person to him, so I'm looking forward to that.
"And then the guys ... I'm really just looking forward to seeing them. Not necessarily looking forward to playing against them because they're a very good team, but we're up for the challenge."
The confluence of new players with a new system plus fluctuating availability related to health and safety protocols has made for a bumpy transition for the Rockets, particularly on defense.
Through four games, Houston ranked 22nd in defensive efficiency, allowing 111.8 points per 100 possessions. The Rockets employed a switching defense under former coach Mike D'Antoni, a system Silas planned to scrap this season. But a compressed preseason and myriad other uncertainties have delayed that move, leaving the Rockets in flux with their defensive approach.
"Yeah, that's the quandary, I guess, that we're dealing with," Silas said. "We obviously want to build our base defense and our drops but there is a comfort level with the switching. The issue can be that they did it a lot last year -- James (Harden), Eric (Gordon), Tuck (P.J. Tucker) -- who are very comfortable with it. But then we have John Wall and Christian (Wood) who aren't necessarily as comfortable with it so ... it doesn't make for a defense that you can hang your hat on.
"We're trying to get to a point where we're comfortable, all five guys, in all aspects out of defense, and that just takes time."
The Mavericks have yet to find a rhythm commensurate with the lofty expectations set before them this season. Dallas has been without center Kristaps Porzingis thus far and played without All-NBA guard Luka Doncic in a 118-108 road loss to the Chicago Bulls on Sunday.
While the season is young, erratic performances have defined the Mavericks. One highlight against the Bulls was the production of guard Jalen Brunson, who posted 31 points on 11-of-17 shooting plus five rebounds and seven assists with Doncic sidelined by a quad injury.
"Brunson has played very well as a substitute starter in situations where Luka has been out at the point," Carlisle said. "I had no doubt that he was going to do a good job. We only had a couple of guys that were plusses on the whole team and he was one of them. He did a good job and he's always going to be ready."
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The Vancouver Whitecaps went international in the first round of Thursday's MLS SuperDraft, taking a Nigerian forward and Jamaican defender.The Whitecaps selected Akron forward David Egbo ninth overall before picking Jamaica's Javain Brown from South Florida with the 23rd pick, obtained in the December 2018 trade that sent Erik Hurtado to Sporting Kansas City.Toronto FC filled a need, trading down in the first round to take Maryland left fullback Matt Di Rosa 25th overall. CF Montreal, formerly the Montreal Impact, continued its recent trend of trading away picks or passing when its turn came.Expansion Austin FC chose Virginia Tech midfielder Daniel Pereira first overall. The 20-year-old sophomore started all 26 games he played in for the Hokies with six goals and six assists. A native of Venezuela, Pereira was a teenager when his family went to the U.S. seeking asylum.Pereira was one of five players signed to Generation Adidas contracts, which don't count against the league's salary cap. All five went in the top seven of the draft, which was reduced to three rounds from four this year.It was a draft like no other, with many schools having to put their programs on hold in 2020 due to the pandemic. Many players chosen will have the option to return to school if they don't sign with their MLS teams."I think this year was the most difficult year in the league's history to prepare for the draft," said Toronto GM Ali Curtis."Everything for the most part was virtual, whether that was watching games or conducting interviews," he added.Another factor, at least for the Whitecaps, was the busy schedule Canada faces in 2021 with World and Olympic qualifying set to start in March and the Gold Cup in July."We felt (Egbo and Brown) had the tools not only to show good things in pre-season but also maybe bring us some depth in those positions that could be needed when you look at the schedule of the international camps and what can happen with Canada," said Whitecaps coach Marc Dos Santos. "Some of the players are not going to be with us."Both players will require an international spot if signed to an MLS contract, although Dos Santos said that will not be a problem.Egbo, a 22-year-old senior from Enugu, Nigeria, scored 21 goals and added 13 assists in three seasons with the Zips.In 2019, the six-foot-one 185-pounder led Akron in goals (7), assists (4), points (18), shots (49), while ranking second in shots on goal (19) en route to earning first-team all-Mid-American Conference honours.Egbo, who says he can play a variety of attacking positions, is not short on confidence"Personally I think I'm good at everything," said Egbo, who came to the U.S. in 2014 on an academic scholarship to Pennsylvania's Kiski School. "That's not to sound cocky … I wouldn't say I'm the perfect striker but I think I have a little bit of everything and that's what makes me different from the rest of the strikers.""He gives us that flexibility," agreed Dos Santos.The 24-year-old Brown, who has won four caps for Jamaica, scored three goals in 15 games with South Florida in 2019. The five-foot-11, 160-pounder also played for HarbourView FC in Jamaica. Brown can play both centre back and right back.FC Cincinnati used the second overall pick on Wake Forest forward Calvin Harris, another Generation Adidas player and the son of former Sheffield United player Terry Harris.Colorado traded up to get the third pick from Houston, using it to select Clemson midfielder Phil Mayaka, another GA player, who was ACC Freshman of the Year and a semifinalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy in 2019. Mayaka emigrated from Kenya to the U.S. as a teenager.D.C. United took Clemson forward Kimarni Smith with the fourth pick and then acquired the fifth overall selection from Atlanta, using it to select Wake Forest defender Michael DeShields.Houston took Washington centre back Ethan Bartlow with the sixth pick. Virginia midfielder Bret Halsey went seventh to Real Salt Lake. Both are Generation Adidas players.Toronto traded its 18th overall pick to Minnesota United, acquiring the 25th pick and US$50,000 in general allocation money in exchange. TFC then used the pick to take Di Rosa.Toronto has incumbents Richie Laryea and Brazil's Auro at fullback. Veteran Justin Morrow's contract has expired and Tony Gallacher's loan from Liverpool is over."That's probably the area of the field where we have the least depth. There's an opportunity for him to compete for the position," Curtis said of Di Rosa.Curtis says he continues to have conversations with both Morrow and forward Pablo Piatti, a designated player whose option was not picked up."We're a lot further along with Justin than we are with Pablo," he said.Di Rosa won the 21018 NCAA title with the Terrapins, scoring the winning goal in the semifinal against Indiana. CF Montreal's Amar Sejdic scored the lone goal in Maryland's 1-0 win over Akron in the championship game with Canadian Dayne St. Clair, now with Minnesota United, getting the shutout.Di Rosa's twin brother Ben, a defender from Maryland, went in the second round (44th overall) to New York City FC.Toronto chose Virginia winger Nathaniel Crofts in the second round (45th overall). The native of Sheffield, England, had 11 goals and 11 assists in 64 games (63 starts) with the Cavaliers."A guy that has really good athleticism … We think he can play a number of positions," said Curtis.TFC wasn't short on intel on Crofts. His roommate at Virginia is the son of Jeff Bradley, TFC's director of communications.TFC opted for Georgetown midfielder Paul Rothrock and SMU defender Jon-Talen Maples in the third round (64th and 72nd overall, respectively).Curtis says Rothrock has a "good engine" and is deceptively quick. Maples is a centre back who can also play in the centre of midfield."We think maybes he's a bit of a sleeper," said Curtis.Vancouver picked UCLA midfielder Eric Iloski and Michigan defender Joel Harrison, a native of Langley, B.C., in the second round (46th and 53rd overall, respectively). Harrison has spent time in the Whitecaps residency program.CF Montreal previously traded its first-round pick to Austin for Canadian defender Kamal Miller and its second-round selection to Minnesota in the Mason Toye deal.Montreal chose Michigan State midfielder Giuseppe Barone in the third round (63rd overall) and then passed on the 65th overall pick.There were 12 Canadians among the 170-plus players available in the draft.Earlier Thursday, the Whitecaps flipped second-round draft picks with Nashville SC, acquiring a 2021 international roster slot in the process. Vancouver gave up the 36th overall pick, receiving the 46th overall selection.The deal also involved an exchange of general allocation money. Vancouver sent $175,000 to Nashville with a promise of up to $75,000 in return based on "performance benchmarks" of the player selected by Nashville.----Follow @NeilMDavidson on TwitterThis report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 21, 2021 Neil Davidson, The Canadian Press
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I can hear my fans calling – 'where have you been, we can't live without your blog'. My answer, get a life. Who wants to read a blog of someone who may be living your dreams. Just makes life harder!
All kidding aside it has been a while since I have had a chance to sit down in a place that has a wi-fi connection good enough to load pictures and serves a decent cup of coffee.
This is going to be more of a photo journey as, surprise of surprises, I don't have much to say. Wouldn't you all love that; a nice quite Tony. I doubt that will happen anytime soon but for now I just have to let the saltwater wash out of the brain as we have been mostly cruising the west side of Thailand up to the Burmese border for the last little while. Would love to have gone into Burma but the permits are very costly and one must have a Burmese guide onboard 24/7 which is OK but then there is a room and board charge for that person of $40/day. So, until things free up a little will wait.
← So, you want to sail away….
You knew I was going to mark this 'unread' didn't ya? Muhahahaha…..
Great pictures. Love the "Don't hug the buddha"!
Yes the world is shrinking and it is more and more difficult to run away from it all.
I don't think those were girls, Tony.
Thank you. Much appreciated considering how many of yours I have enjoyed.
Every one of your tells a story Tony on its own!
Answer: The Hiscocks. Did no one else even see the question?! For shame. Though WHO built it I can't say beyond its being a yard in NZ.
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Sailfish OS has matured to its third generation, Sailfish 3, which now fully packetizes the offering for multitude of corporate solutions. In line with the regional licensing strategy, Sailfish 3 has a deeper level of security making it a solid option for various corporate and organizational solutions, and other use cases. New enhanced features include e.g. Mobile Device Management (MDM), fully integrated VPN solutions, enterprise WiFi, data encryption, and better and faster performance. For daily users Sailfish 3 brings essentially better performance, deepened security, and smoother user experience.
With Sailfish 3 we are also better equipped to offer full support for regional infrastructures including steady releases & OS upgrades, local hosting, training, and a flexible feature set to support specific customer needs.
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As we have noted earlier Sailfish 3 will be rolled out in phases, and thus many features are deployed in several software releases. The first phase is Sailfish 3.0.0, which is available as an early access version starting today. Sailfish 3.0.0 is named after the legendary National Park Lemmenjoki in Northern Lapland. We've always aimed at respecting our Finnish roots in naming our software versions: previously we've covered lakes and rivers, and now we're set to explore our beautiful national parks.
After the early access release today, we expect to roll out the 3.0.0 release for all the customers in a few weeks, and further the next release 3.0.1 in early December.
In addition to the security and corporate features mentioned above, here are some user experience highlights for Sailfish 3.0.0:
New Top Menu: quick settings and shortcuts can now be accessed anywhere
Light ambiences: new fresh look for Sailfish OS
Data encryption: memory card encryption is now available. Device file system encryption is coming in next releases.
New Keyboard gestures: quickly change keyboard layouts with one swipe
USB On-The-Go storage: connect to different kinds of external storage devices
Camera improvements: new lock screen camera roll allows you to review the photos you just took without unlocking the device
Further we achieve much better UI performance in Sailfish 3 thanks to the rewritten way to launch apps and load views. You can start to enjoy the faster Sailfish already now with the 3.0.0 release and the upcoming major Qt upgrade will further improve the responsiveness & performance resulting to 50% better overall performance.
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Chapter 10. MILLIONAIRE
By 1992 I was flagging. The pressure hadn't let up for a second. Dick didn't want me to be crazy Alan McGee all the time in the office but he needed me to be that with the Americans, to turn up mouthing off about having found the biggest bands in the world. He'd try to make me look at the figures and take his advice but I wasn't willing to listen to him most of the time. I'd decided I was going to do it my way. My energy came from booze and pills and lines and whatever else might give me a bump. It was a lonely lifestyle sometimes. That's why meeting Tim Abbott was such a relief for me. It didn't make me any less tired, high or deranged, but at least I had some company. I first met him in Birmingham. I'd gone up one night with Bobby in 1991 when 'Come Together' was in the charts. We were there for a Heavenly gig, Saint Etienne and the Manic Street Preachers, which Tim was promoting. Nicky Wire had a dig at Bobby Gillespie during 'We Love Us', shouting, 'Yeah, let's all come together!' before going into one of their mad punk songs. Bobby didn't care one bit. We went back to Tim's gaff for an afterparty, whereupon he produced ten more Es. I liked his style immediately. He was working as a management consultant and running a club called The Better Way at weekends. He knew where to get brilliant pills and was one of the few people who still could in 1991 and 1992. Anyway, I invited him to the office in Hackney to do an audit of something or other. Not the type of thing we had spent a great deal of time worrying about in the past, hence the financial disarray we were often in. I ended up offering him a job and he moved down to London.
He had some good ideas that saved us money – like stopping outsourcing the artwork and getting our own art director. He definitely saved us money there. He was good at his job, though a lot of people in the office hated him. He was an unknown quantity. He'd arrived from nowhere and started doing time and effectiveness studies on them. Nothing of the kind had ever been attempted in the Creation offices. They were thinking, Who the fuck are you? The fact was, he was my mate and I was in charge, so I could bring him in if I wanted. And I wanted to. They didn't have to like it and they didn't. I think they all thought I'd given him a job just because he loved drugs and bad behaviour as much as me.
Well, if that was true to begin with, what was wrong with that? People not liking what I was doing was often what most firmly convinced me to do it.
For two years we ran riot together. I moved him into 'the Bunker': the office Dick and I occupied in the basement. It was a bit of a boys' club in there. My wall was covered in pictures of Helena Christensen and Kate Moss and other supermodels. It's just totally sexist! said Belinda, whenever she came into the office. Yeah, she was probably right.
Abbott's wall was worse though: pictures of prison riots and mutilated people, people shot to bits in America, sick stuff like that. And there was a big homage to Chris Eubank there too. Abbott and me loved his fuck-you attitude to the world.
Dick's wall was a bit more practical. Some charts. Release dates. You'd look at Dick's side of the room occasionally and surprise yourself by remembering you worked for a record label.
Sex on my wall, death on Abbott's, flowcharts on Dick's.
I wonder sometimes if we pretty much invented Loaded magazine's idea of lad culture down there. This was January 1992, before that kind of lad iconography was fashionable. We were the trailblazers. I think James Brown might have copied that from us when he launched his magazine a year later. He must have been down to the Bunker. And he did call his magazine Loaded. And he did become addicted to drugs.
It wasn't unusual that Abbott would rack out a line of coke at two in the afternoon. And if he did one, I'd do one. And then I'd pick up the phone and rattle off whatever abuse came to mind at whoever came to mind. That was when Creation was fucking great fun. We spent a couple of years on the absolute razzle dazzle.
Poor Dick. He must have been thinking, How have I got myself into this situation with this pair of loonies? I wouldn't have liked to meet myself in those days if I wasn't on drugs. I don't know how he coped with the pair of us. I think he had enough of me then to last him a lifetime. I love the man very much, but it's probably not a coincidence we've only seen each other three times in the last thirteen years. Having to cope with my behaviour on a long-term basis might have had an adverse effect on the friendship.
Having said that, I don't want to make out that Dick was boring. Far from it. He'd come out and enjoy himself too. But not like us. He had a family back home. We didn't and we were extreme. Abbott was single (he normally was). Belinda and I had moved in together that year to a flat in Rotherhithe but she would always be leaving and going to stay with her parents in Sheffield. In the end I moved out of the flat we shared and into a penthouse flat in the same block with Grant Fleming and Karen Parker. I loved Belinda, don't get me wrong. I did. But we were on and off. She'd come and stay with me in the penthouse for a while but she was always leaving me. I was too much for her. She couldn't keep up with the lifestyle. I'm not proud of that. No one could keep up apart from Abbott. We were running riot together.
These days, we ring up and moan to each other about our backs. How the train to London hurts mine, how his bag hurts his – and he tells me we're like two characters from Last of the Summer Wine. But in those days we lived it large.
But as well as being my drug buddy, Abbott really was good for Creation. He was a fresh pair of eyes and could look at problems coldly. For example, the rest of the company were caught up in the church of My Bloody Valentine – no one would have thought about dropping them. He listened to the stories, looked at the figures and laid it on the line: They're causing you nothing but problems, get rid of them, McGee. Which was exactly what I wanted to do, and I needed someone at that point who could see things clearly from a financial rather than emotional perspective. He was right. As soon as you took the cult of Kevin out of the company, the figures began to make more sense.
I rang up Kevin Shields on 6 January 1992 and told him we were dropping him. I wasn't trying to be horrible but I said it straight: 'It's over. I can't be doing more records with you.' He was completely shocked. He didn't realize what he was doing to me when he was having his shouting fit in Church Studios, paid for by my mum's cancer money, whereas I'd known in my heart from that day it was over. The next day there were ten record labels battling to sign him. Island paid something around half a million for an album that they never saw.
After Creation dropped them, I fell out with Kevin for years. Then we buried the hatchet, watching Oasis in Dublin in the late 1990s. And then we fell out again when I read this interview in a magazine where he was calling me names, saying I hadn't supported him. When someone slags me off in public, I keep coming back at them. So I was busy giving him stick for a while. What stopped a lot of my bitterness was the film Upside Down they made about Creation in 2010. Watching that made me remember that, actually, it was good, and everyone involved tried their best. No one was doing anything to hurt each other. We just had incompatible needs a lot of the time. I ran into Kevin soon after seeing the film and realized I really liked him, that all the grievances had been petty.
I hope we're friends again. When he signed for Creation, I promised that I would stay out of his way and let him make his records, and within reason, that's exactly what I did. He was a genius and bringing out his records made me look great. And for that, I'm grateful.
His new album came out in February 2013, only twenty-one years and three months after the one I put out. I suspect that's about how long Loveless might have taken if I hadn't had that sense of urgency in 1991. It was never going to come from Kevin. But the new album m b v is superb and I'm really impressed with the way he's released it. You can only get it off their website, nowhere else; I love that. Well done, Kevin, you took out the record companies and did it yourself. You have to admire his courage.
Back in 1992, dropping My Bloody Valentine caused some problems in the office. Laurence wouldn't stop trying to drag me down to see them, to get me back into the project. But at that stage I was never going to back down. There was nothing to suggest he wouldn't do it again. He did do it again! He did it ten times worse! I've got nothing but love and respect for Kevin for making those two albums and letting me release them, but I've never regretted not being involved in the third.
Despite the regime of drug madness Abbott and I operated under, we were getting more and more professional as we attempted to sort out our finances. I was under pressure from James Kyllo to change the share we'd always agreed with our bands. It wasn't standard any more, if it ever was – certainly you didn't get that with the majors. I'd copied this model from Factory and always believed in it: a fifty-fifty profit share with the bands. I tell people these days that I was always in it for the money, but I was never in it to rip off the bands. So we'd always given them a good deal, a fair deal. It nearly made us bankrupt a few times but it also showed the bands we cared about them.
Bands would sign to us because they understood me. We were honest and we were generous. We were always late paying the bands, I acknowledge that, we were late for years, but we always paid them. No one ever got ripped off. Our reputation was always great in that respect.
It was quite an indie thing, being fair to the bands. Rough Trade were always fifty-fifty profit share with their bands too, and everyone's always known they're fair. I might think they're all fucking hippies but they're financially honest hippies at least.
One of the frustrations I had in those days was with international distribution and how we could improve sales in Europe. This is when selling a share to a major became very interesting to me – I thought it could take us to a new level internationally. Take Screamadelica for example: we were on about 11,000 in Germany and it was 180,000 in Britain, and I couldn't understand how there could be such a disparity. I was tired of the indie structure, of alliances with other indies in Europe, and I was curious about what a big player could do to change the situation.
I bumped into Paul Russell, the chairman of Sony, early that year at Heathrow airport. It was a bad week: neither of the singles we had out that week – Primal Scream's Dixie-Narco EP (which was number 12 but we needed Top 10) and Teenage Fanclub's 'What You Do to Me' – had done as well as we'd hoped, or needed.
I wanted to know whether he thought Sony's sales teams could have given them the positions I thought they deserved. He wanted to talk more about it, tell me what he thought Sony could do that Pinnacle couldn't.
I was always being approached by the majors and up till then I'd always told them to fuck off. I remembered what an awful time I'd had with Elevation at Warners. It was only through me being able to do my own thing that we'd succeeded with the bands everyone else had written off. But I was at the point now where I knew I had records that should be selling more than they were, and I wanted to do whatever we had to do to sell those copies.
It never occurred to me that any of this might be due to a recession, that sales were down everywhere. I was so off my tits that the fact that there was a recession never penetrated once into my consciousness. For us it had always seemed like a shit climate so we were just getting on with business as usual. It wasn't a new thing, we'd been going broke for years! The way I dealt with it was always by not dealing with it, with another pill or another line. As crass as it sounds, I just don't remember the recessions. The price of bread might've been going up but a gram of coke was still fifty quid and a pill was always a tenner. Some things are reliable, even when the economy's falling apart!
As I didn't even know there was a recession it was easy to buck against the recessionary trends. I decided to launch three new labels. I'd been partying with Chris Abbott, Tim's brother, for a while, and he started a Techno imprint for us called Infonet. He knew his techno, and no one else did, so he was the man for the job. And we hired Dave Barker, who was the first guy to sign Teenage Fanclub, to run a guitar label called August. And the third label saw the return of one of the early heroes (anti-heroes) of Creation, Joe Foster, who launched a reissues label called Rev-Ola.
Joe Foster's music knowledge had always been incredible. I credit him with being a bigger influence than anyone on my music taste. He was an encyclopedia of the 1960s. You could never catch him out. He could tell you the name of every single member of the Artwoods. You could ask him what the B-side was on a German-only single by the Creation and he'd know instantly. He got me into the Velvets, got me into the Byrds, taught me that David Crosby was an amazing songwriter. You know how you have one swotty mate, who knows everything about everything? Well, Joe Foster was that mate. He was perfect for the reissues label, as you can imagine.
He put out weird sixties records, knew exactly what they'd sell. William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy – each of their records sold 10,000 each and made £50,000, and Joe would buy them for about a grand. We got great reviews, a steady income stream. We didn't make loads of money from it, but he knew what he was doing, knew his market, what they'd sell.
Of course, he was also completely vociferous and absolutely mental. You couldn't invent Joe Foster. His sense of humour was so wrong. He's probably the most politically incorrect person who's ever walked the earth. For example, he found this album he wanted to bring out by Peter Wyngarde, an old TV actor who'd played detective Jason King in the 1970s: Joe loved records by weird actors. He had a thousand copies of When Sex Leers Its Inquisitive Head pressed up and ready to go. This is later, at the height of Oasis, the time I'm working for a government committee, taking Margaret McDonagh out for dinner. Someone in the office said to me at the time, 'Have you heard that record?' I was thinking, No, I never listen to Joe's records. They were always very strange.
And they told me to listen to track 3.
'Okay, what's it called?'
'"Rape".'
Oh . . . I put it on and it's this guy taking the piss out of a rape – talking about the Italian rape, the Chinese rape, the German rape, as if he was taking the piss out of going fishing. It was probably very ironic, but it was so ironic I didn't get the joke. I'm thinking: a) I don't agree with it; b) the Daily Mail are going to have my balls! Oasis guru advocates rape.
So I pulled it. Joe wasn't happy. I had Peter Wyngarde ringing me up roaring down the phone, It's Not About Rape!
Well, you took the rough with the smooth with Foster, and actually he did a great job with Rev-Ola. And in one respect he did come back to Creation a changed man: he had stopped punching people. In all other respects, he was exactly the same.
The week after Primal Scream didn't make the Top 10, Ride flew straight in at number 9 with 'Leave Them All Behind'. Number 10 in the charts was 'Reverence' by the Jesus and Mary Chain. Primal Scream number 11. I had a royal flush of bands I'd signed! Tim and I celebrated with a four-day party.
In the excitement we pressed too many of Ride's new album Going Blank Again. The manager was talking about them playing Wembley. We sold 45,000 in the first week and it went gold eventually, but we'd pressed up far too many.
Meanwhile, the Screamadelica tour rolled on. It was great fun to start with. They'd gone from a tiny punk band to a huge live acid house explosion. But when they took the tour to America in February they started to come apart from all the drugs they were doing. It was serious now. Heroin had really set in among the band. I had some strange times out there with them. Completely deranged, being driven around by Kim Fowley, not knowing how I'd got there.
I was never officially Primal Scream's manager, but I was the manager, from about 1985 to 1992. It really was a conflict of interests after a while. I wasn't taking a percentage for managing their band and Bobby was ringing me up, screaming because a monitor engineer hadn't been paid on time. That was the last straw. He was screaming at me as if I was his employee even though he wasn't paying me a penny for managing them. If he'd paid me 20 per cent to be the manager I'd have put up with him screaming at me. (Guy Chadwick, he used to do that to me all the time on the phone. He'd be screaming and so I'd put the phone down on the side, go for a walk, get a beer out of the fridge, open it, come back, pick up the phone and say, Yes, I agree. I'd never know what I'd agreed to.) But I'd supported Primal Scream from the time they were nothing and taken no percentage for managing. I couldn't do it any more. They were becoming an international act and they needed someone dedicated.
We brought in Alex Nightingale, their live agent, as manager.
I remember when I first met Alex. He'd been trying to get involved in the music business for years, but he couldn't get a foothold because everyone knew he was Annie Nightingale's son. We all looked down our noses at him at the time too – because he was Annie Nightingale's son. No one would give the poor bastard a chance because they felt he wasn't there on merit, just on nepotism. He lived in Brighton so we'd bump into him a bit, and one night I invited him to come back with us. I think it was me, my friend James Williamson and Alex. I was jumping around on an E and decided to test out his personality. So I started firing CDs at him, slinging them at him hard like little mirrored Frisbees. James joined in too. Both of us jumping on armchairs and hurling CDs at him all night, hundreds of CDs. What the fuck are they into? he must have been thinking, but he didn't get the hump so I began to feel a bit of respect for him. That was his initiation and he passed. No one painted his balls; he was quite lucky really. In the morning, he told me he was going for an interview with Mike Hinc at a booking agency. Mike was one of my best mates in the industry from when he'd used to work at Rough Trade. I told him this and he asked if I could put a word in for him so I phoned up Mike and told him Alex was my pal, because I'd just fired two hundred CDs at him and he never attacked me – well, of course, I didn't actually say that – and Mike gave him a chance and gave him a job.
That was how he got into the music industry and since then he's been the agent for the Chemical Brothers and Lily Allen, and you've got to respect him for making a career for himself.
He was a good choice for Primal Scream at the time. You had to be mad to take on a job with those lunatics, had to be awake with them every night at 5 a.m. Towards the end of 1992, I think I had an inkling that I was coming out of that style of living. It took longer than I expected, and it was more dramatic than I expected, but I think I'd already begun to make the decision to change my life.
I quite liked Alex. The last I saw of him was on TV, a classic albums programme, about Screamadelica. He was weirder than me on it! That takes some doing. He's obviously still into the idea of the music and the madness, and that's fine, I'm sure he enjoys it and I'm not knocking it.
There was an election in 1992. I was too high to notice. I believe the Tories won. I'd play a much bigger part in the next one.
Dick Green had started to make plans for life after Creation. Although we'd had some good successes we still weren't selling enough to justify what we were spending on recording and promoting the albums. We didn't handle the money with any discipline and we were so far in the red it looked like it was over. I'd probably have come to the same conclusion without the regular cocktail of reality avoiders, but they gave me a bit more hope. That's not to say I wasn't desperate at times though. Quite a lot of times. There was only one thing that would save us – we had to sell a share of the company.
The first people who showed interest were China Records. Derek Green had set China up around the same time as Creation, but distributed through the majors until very recently when he switched to Pinnacle. He was very ambitious, wanting to expand quickly, and one way you do that is by taking over other companies, like us.
It's always good to have someone interested when you're trying to get a good deal with someone else. Now was the time to follow up on that conversation I'd had with Sony's Paul Russell at Heathrow earlier in the year.
I met with him and his colleague Jeremy Pearce and listened to what they had to say. It sounded good. They'd throw a lot of money in, take care of international distribution but – they claimed – leave me with creative freedom as to who I signed.
I still liked Derek Green too. But I couldn't believe what he told me over dinner one night – he was the managing director at A&M when they dropped the Sex Pistols in 1977! How could I go into business with someone like that? Of course, I look back at the age of fifty-two and think, Really? You didn't sign because of that? But at thirty-two you see things differently, especially if you're a drug addict.
Perhaps there were other reasons the offer from China was less appealing than the Sony one. I suspect that in the end they would have raped Creation, sacked almost everyone but me, left me as head of A&R . . . It would have been terrible for the company. I'd have still got handsomely paid, but it would have bored me silly.
By July both China and Sony were offering around £2.5 million for half the company. Whatever the reasons, I decided fairly early on that it was Sony I was likely to do business with.
Word must have got out that we were in trouble and thinking of selling. In the middle of our talks with Sony, when they were offering two million and we were negotiating upwards, Derek Birkett from One Little Indian requested a meeting to discuss making an offer to buy us.
At the time I was fucking angry at the cheek of him, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was put up to it by Brian Bonnar, who as well as owning more than half of One Little Indian was also the managing director of Mayking. We owed Mayking about £200,000 for pressing our records and they had just put our account on stop so we couldn't make any more. Perhaps Bonnar thought we'd be glad of any buyer.
Derek Birkett came down to the Bunker and offered £400,000, told me what a reasonable offer it was. He had no idea that Sony had just offered £2.5 million and that I was hopeful of getting more out of them. I listened to him trying to hustle me while I kept calm. You should have seen Abbott's face when they started talking. He didn't know if I was going to whack them with a chair. I kept calm, let Birkett say his piece. And then I told him he was an absolute piece of work, told him to get the fuck out of my office, that he should be embarrassed. I laughed at him. You're a corporate whore. Told him to fuck off.
Everybody thinks you're mad anyway, he said, and rushed out. We sent the little Indian packing.
There was quite a few of those type of scenes in the Bunker. I enjoyed them. People would come down and demand things of us and I'd just listen calmly for a while. And then I'd inform them, in great detail, why they could go and fuck themselves and in how many different ways they could go and fuck themselves and how they should get the fuck out of my office or I would demonstrate the ways in which the fucking fuckers could fuck themselves. Unbelievably, I kept my teeth. Somebody should by rights have come in with a metal bar one day and whacked me in the face with it.
After we did the Sony deal, just to properly torture Brian Bonnar we took all our business away from him apart from the Ed Ball records. He would get about a thousand pounds a month from us, where he had been having sixty or seventy grand a month. And of course, when Oasis happened he missed out on millions of pounds of work. It might have bankrupted him, poor man.
The deal with Sony took a lot of negotiation. We had a great lawyer in John Kennedy. I'd met him when we were doing the Mary Chain record deal. He was the guy who got the Stone Roses out of their madly exploitative deal with Silvertone.
We had to keep talking to both China and Sony in case one of the deals fell through. There was a lot of debt we needed to resolve. On paper, we were absolutely fucked. The figures did not add up! But Sony and China thought I had some kind of vision, and that Primal Scream had the potential to be international superstars. They thought I had the vision to find a band that would become massive.
If the deal had collapsed, then that would have been the end of Creation. I remember our press officer Andy Saunders leaving to go on his summer holiday. 'Call me if we go bust or if we do the deal,' he said on the way out. There wasn't a middle option.
We survived. Sony bought 49 per cent of the company for £2.5 million in September 1992. The deal included an extra million to Creation to stop us from going bust immediately.
Our keeping 51 per cent was a clever way of slanting the publicity but it made fuck all difference to how much control we really had. It sounded like I was still in control but, contractually, they had huge power to influence what I did. To seal the deal I had to commit to give them the option to buy my 51 per cent of the company at market value in four years' time. That was a worrying detail I tried not to think about. I wouldn't have to think about it for four years but in 1996 I might have a problem. What they didn't reckon with is what a stubborn cunt I am and what little respect I have for contracts.
I certainly wasn't worrying about that at the time, anyway. I was a millionaire! I'd always said I was going to be a millionaire but I'd said a lot of things in my life that hadn't come to pass.
Surprisingly, one of the first things I felt was sadness. I wanted to tell my mum. I wanted to tell her I could give her whatever she wanted, that she could be proud of me.
The next thing I felt was a burning urge to call my drug dealer.


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BSNL cuts costs, freezes employee benefits, plans to offer VRS
Last year too BSNL had undertaken such a cost cutting exercise and saved Rs 625 crore in employee benefits alone.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the State-owned telecommunications company, which has been reporting losses since 2016, is taking severe measures to cut costs in order to survive in the competitive telecom sector. It has frozen employee benefits just like it did last year. In 2018, a similar step had helped BSNL save Rs 2500 crore, of which Rs 625 crore comprised employee benefits alone.
The workforce at BSNL is 1.8 lakh people strong, compared to other private telecom companies in the sector, which have no more than 30,000 employees.
Costs are being cut even in terms of administrative expenditure and electricity, in addition to freezing of employee benefits, such as leave travel expense and even medical expenses.
It is planning to offer a voluntary retirement scheme too, which will impact about 35,000 staff members and incur an expense of Rs 13,000 crore. This cost will be covered with the help of aid from the Government or with a soft loan.
Presently, the telecom sector in India has three private players, that is, Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, which account for over 90 per cent of the revenue. With the average revenue per user (ARPU) falling and the mounting losses, BSNL has had to seek new ways of generating revenue and reducing expenditure in order to survive. In trying to maintain its market share by offering competitive tariffs, BSNL had had to face major losses.
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Cox Monett Momentum Campaign surpasses $7 million goal
Posted by Sheila Harris, November 25, 2020
The CoxHealth Foundation announced November 19 that it has surpassed the $7 million capital campaign goal to fund construction of the new Cox Monett Hospital. It's part of a $42 million project to replace the current facility that was built in 1953.
"It has been a pleasure to assist with the Cox Monett Momentum Campaign," said Mike Garrett, co-chairperson of the fundraising campaign and former president of the Cox Monett Community Advisory Board. "The success of this campaign is a tribute to the energy of our volunteers and the generosity of the individuals and businesses we contacted. The new hospital is an impressive and exciting addition to our community."
To date, the capital campaign has raised $7,026,096.64 for the critical access hospital that will feature state-of-the-art equipment, including an in-house MRI, 64-slice CT scanner, and 3D mammography.
"Fundraising is always a challenge, and this year with COVID-19, even more so," said Lisa Alexander, president of the CoxHealth Foundation. "I can't express enough my gratitude for our Campaign Committee whose dedication to this mission, partnered with the incredible group of over 200 individuals and businesses who gave, is the reason this goal has been met."
The 75,000-square-foot hospital and 27,000-square-foot adjoining medical office building are set to open in early 2021.
Above, Darren Bass, president of Cox Monett Hospital, prepares to put the final piece on the fundraising sign signaling the campaign reaching its goal.
Shown left to right are: Margaret Prim, Jack Prim (co-chairperson of the Cox Monett Momentum Campaign and former president of the Cox Monett Community Advisory Board), Phyllis Garrett (hospital volunteer), Mike Garrett (co-chairperson of the Cox Monett Momentum Campaign and former president of the Cox Monett Community Advisory Board), Darren Bass (president of Cox Monett Hospital) and Dr. Elizabeth Lucore (chief of the medical staff at Cox Monett and campaign committee member).


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Obama's Terrorism Poll Numbers Rise Despite GOP Attacks
This Washington Post/ABC News poll is filled with bad news for congressional Democrats, but it also contains one piece of bad news for congressional Republicans. Look at Obama's approval rating on handling the threat of terrorism: he gets a 56 percent approval rating, up from 53 percent on November 15, before the attempted attack on the Northwest Airlines flight 253. That's a three-point increase in approval after a month's worth of sustained Republican attacks on Obama charging would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in federal court and reading him his Miranda rights.
Politico reported yesterday that continuing to go after Obama on terrorism was a central aspect of Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) political strategy for 2010. But look at the Post's numbers for comparative handling of terrorism. Obama has the confidence of 47 percent of the public on the issue, while the Republican Party — for decades the party that enjoyed greater public trust on national security — only claims 42 percent. McConnell is a political genius, clearly.
So look at what the last month has shown. Substantively, it's proven that treating terrorist suspects humanely in criminal courts can be leveraged to reap valuable intelligence, refuting a central aspect of the conservative security liturgy. And politically, it's proven that the public is resistant to empty demagoguery from the party that mired the country in unnecessary wars at the expense of necessary ones.
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Do you really need that costly Oracle upgrade? Enterprise software customers continue to defer upgrades that no longer deliver a convincing business case. Absolute R&D investments by software companies are shrinking, and enhancements to current systems offer little functional value. In fact, according to a recent survey by the Oracle Application User Group, Oracle users said the number one reason for performing an upgrade was simply "end of support" - in other words, they had to1.
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When people hear about coffee shops, they frequently think of groups of the morning rush that makes them a destination. That is a destination for business professionals, college students and parents after dropping their kids at school. People don't think of the many uses for a coffee shop after that morning rush ends, and the crowds disappear. Our San Marcos coffee shops have become a go-to location for many Texas State University students to meet with their study groups and more. Studying isn't the only reason our customers stick around after ordering something to drink or eat.
Many coffee shops will open up their space for local businesses to have meetings. Some of these coffee shops in San Marcos may have private meetings rooms available. Other coffee shops will set aside a section of the seating area for your business. These meetings might be small and used for a team meeting, or much larger and used for events such as job fairs for a specific business.
Community groups such as a Jaycees group or Rotary Club frequently do not have large budgets. This means they can not rent out space at many locations. Once again, a coffee shop in Frisco can offer space along with food options to save time. This is especially helpful when a professional group has meetings right around lunch or dinner hours. Coffee can sell too, and that is an item which can sell throughout the day.
In the evenings, after the dinner rush ends, some coffee shops close. Those that want to support their community stay open late into the night instead. The space available in a coffee shop after dinner is perfect for social groups ranging from a PTA meeting to a board game group. The groups can spread out and use the empty space that is available at the coffee shop. This can be a symbiotic relationship as the coffee shop offers the space that the groups don't have, and the groups provide additional customers for a coffee shop outside of its busiest times of the day.
If a coffee shop wishes to increase the business in it's shop, marketing itself to it's employees can be profitable. Offering discounts to employees to enjoy food or drinks while off can increase the number of customers during slow times This will encourage employees to bring in their guests who are not drinking or dining at a discount, brings in additional revenue It also might develop future employees if they enjoy the culture of the coffee shop.
Coffee shops were designed as a place for coffee and tea. Over time, many have expanded their menus to include lunch and dinner offerings. They are not just a place to eat or drink at. A coffee shop is a social place. The more events and opportunities that a coffee shop offers, the larger the crowd it will attract. The more people that visit these coffee shops, the more money and fewer periods with low business volume will exist.
We love when the customers who visit our coffee shops in Frisco and San Marcos stop by and stay awhile to either be productive with their studies or work, or just chat with friends and colleagues.


Cimarron's faithful adaptation of the Bisley Single Action revolver is high quality and great looking firearm. With a case hardened frame, blued finish and walnut grips, it not only will work like a charm, it also wears very well.
The Bisley Target Model was introduced around 1895. The Bisleys' unsightly grip cannot be appreciated until one un-holsters this firearm and points down range. It is then that you will understand and appreciate the Bisley. The model's popularity was high with target shooters and lawmen because of its accuracy and Western style. Any collector wood be happy with a Cimarron Firearm and the Bisleys' are one of the most accurate and reliable firearms for new or expert shooters of all ages.


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Anyone who's encountered Christopher Kah's sounds over the years will know all too well that he's a multi-talented multi-instrumentalist. A true innovator in his field, Kah is a man who takes great pride in ensuring his music is presented in a truly unique format. His latest endeavour is RE: SOURCE, a concept where "every track" he explains, "is created with minimum resources". This all comes to light quite brilliantly via his latest, RE: SOURCE 01. Featuring four original tracks, the release also comes backed by four individual videos which demonstrate the producer's grand knack for live production.
Kicking off matters is the sounds of 'Blade'. Like much of this EP, it's produced using the Roland TR-8S in conjunction with another of his weapons of choice, the Elektron Digitakt. A grandiose and foreboding track with shades of UR at its core, this is trippy techno of the type often emitted from the genre's godfathers straight out of Detroit.
'Machine' is a raw, minimal cut that's laced with acid from the get-go. Full of muffled vocal patterns, it's a thoroughly uncompromising spectacle that never lets its guard down for a moment. A hypnotic track that's most definitely suited to peak-time pastures, it's sure to decimate any dancefloor its let loose on. 'Extent' is next up. A track that ups the ante even further, it's characterised by its big room capabilities and dramatic overtones. Like much of Kah's best work, it's not one for the faint of heart, and has already proved a highlight of the French producer's much-loved live sets.
Culminating the release is the sounds of 'Warcry'. A gnarly track that's notable for its restless sheen, it's full of tantalising claps, snares and a heaving, chugging vibe that ensures the release signs out amongst a general feeling of euphoria. A truly captivating release, Kah's latest is sure to find favour with in-the-know techno heads especially.


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Singapore Central Bank Official: Blockchain 'Fundamental' to Transforming Financial Services
Just how serious is Singapore about blockchain? Immensely, apparently.
Speaking at an event called Consensus: Singapore, Damien Pang, the Monetary Authority of Singapore's Technology Infrastructure Office chief, said that blockchain – together with artificial intelligence – are "fundamental" technologies for the transformation of the financial services industry, the South China Morning Post reports.
"We take an approach where our regulations aim at the purpose rather than the technology platform itself," Pang said, adding that they "aim not to directly regulate a specific technology itself, because technologies are always getting better."
Singapore is looking to become the world's preeminent cryptocurrency haven following China's crackdown on digital currencies and ICOs. Citing data compiled by ICORating, the SCMP says that 57 blockchain projects in Singapore raised nearly $575 million through ICOs in the second quarter of this year. In contrast, 14 blockchain projects in Hong Kong raised about $48 million in the same time frame.
Pang reiterated that the MAS, based on guidelines published in November last year, breaks down digital assets into three groups: utility tokens, payment tokens and securities. The MAS has no plans to regulate utility tokens, which allow users to access a company's product or service, but will enact a payment service law for payment tokens by the end of this year, according to Pang. He said none of the tokens that the MAS has seen so far were securities.
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The cast iron clock works, but it needs a pendulum. The front glass was broken and needs to be replaced. 15 H 11 W - 6 1/2 D.
The item "Antique Seth Thomas and Sons Cast Iron Clock" is in sale since Thursday, February 7, 2019. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Clocks\Antique (Pre-1930)\Shelf, Mantel".
The seller is "sunnysideie" and is located in San Jose, California. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Dominican republic, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, El salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Uruguay.


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	public static void main(String[] args) {

		/* Create View */
		CounterView view = new CounterView();
		/* Create Controller */
		CounterController controller = new CounterController();
		/* Create Model */
		Counter counter = new Counter();

		/* Put Pieces together */
		controller.setCounter(counter);
		view.addClickListener(controller);
		counter.addObserver(view);
	}
}


Ask John Helliwell what community means to him and he will say connections.
The UBC Professor Emeritus of Economics will also tell you about the relationship between subjective well-being and trust.
With these issues in mind Helliwell will share his thoughts at a gathering organized by the Whistler Forum for Leadership and Dialogue Thursday, March 10 at the Big Sky Golf Course in Pemberton. The lecture is titled: "Leadership for Community Economic and Social Well-being."
Helliwell is also co-director of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research's program on "Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being" and Arthur J.E. Child Foundation Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
He was also one of the first guest speakers for the Leadership Sea to Sky Cohort I in 2004-2005.
Helliwell's current research explores the important relationship between subjective well-being and trust.
The research suggests that when lower levels of trust are present, the subjective well-being of an individual or community is also lowered. He argues that this occurrence inhibits the development of social interactions that are essential to build, and ultimately maintain, a solid social fabric.
The lecture is intended for Leadership Sea to Sky Alumni and Forum Members, local government and business leaders, as well as educators and health professionals.
To register online, visit http://www.whistlerforum.org or call 604-938-9132.
Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. at a cost of $50 per person or $30 for Forum members.
The public forum opens at 7:30 p.m. at a cost of $15 per person or $10 for Forum members.


The Plan More MARTA was working from was supported by City Council in 2016, and only focused on the right of way that the City of Atlanta owned at that time. It's now 2018 and things have changed drastically. The City of Atlanta now owns the SE quadrant of the Beltline right of way (the old CSX Sand line). CSX has filed notice with the Surface Transportation Board to Abandon 2.04 miles of the Kudzu Line in NW Atlanta and the exemption will go into effect on July 27th, 2018. The City of Atlanta is actively pursuing the purchase of that line right now. With all these things happening it is the right time to Prioritize Full Beltline Loop LRT bidirectionally, in its own right of way.
This route has been #1 or #2 on every public Survey, Poll** or list that the Public has weighed in on since the early 2000's as well.
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SEND A LETTER to the MARTA Board, More MARTA Committee, and AGM Planner Ben Limmer!


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Volkswagen is geared up for its big SUV event
As the clocks go back and tough winter weather approaches Volkswagen is turning up the heat in the SUV sector with the launch of a suite of new offers on two of the most competitive entrants in the burgeoning market sector: the fully-connected new Tiguan and luxurious Touareg.
Prices revealed for new, more efficient Volkswagen Touareg
Prices and specifications have been announced for the revised Volkswagen Touareg luxury SUV, which opens for orders on 27 August, ahead of first deliveries in November.
A fortnight of fabulous finance offers on Volkswagen 4x4s
Volkswagen is offering customers two weeks of fabulous 4x4 offers, with great finance deals available on both the popular Tiguan and Touareg models at participating Volkswagen Retailers nationwide for a fortnight from this Thursday, 10 October until Thursday 24 October.
Volkswagen specialists helping car buyers to save thousands
A leading Volkswagen retailer is promising savings worth thousands of pounds during a special 4x4 Fortnight.
Volkswagen's 4x4 Fortnight drives down costs
Good news for buyers of Volkswagen Touareg and CC models
Volkswagen has created an even more sumptuous version of the upmarket Touareg SUV, with the introduction of the new Touareg R-Line.
Touareg adventurer sets off on new world record tour
Long distance driving veteran Rainer Zietlow and his team have set off on a new record-breaking trip: the long-distance adventurer is aiming to do 23,000 kilometres from Melbourne to St. Petersburg in a Touareg powered by the standard engine.
World record setting Touareg visits Wolfsburg
Rainer Zietlow and his team have set a new course record in the renowned Carretera Panamericana race with a driving time of just 11 days, 17 hours and 22 minutes, driving a Volkswagen Touareg 3.0-litre V6 TDI.
X-ray vision gives Volkswagen a virtual training advantage
Volkswagen is expanding the use of an innovative technique designed to give service personnel a new edge – by offering them an x-ray view 'inside' the car.
Volkswagen's new Dakar Challenger
Replacing the Race Touareg 2, twice winner in 2009 and 2010 of the gruelling Dakar Rally and the first diesel-powered vehicle ever to win the event, the new Race Touareg 3 promises to be faster and more efficient while retaining the immense strength and durability of the outgoing car.
Ordering opens for new Volkswagen Touareg
Volkswagen has announced prices for the new Touareg as it opens for ordering in UK Retailers today ahead of the first customer deliveries taking place in October.
All-new Touareg - Lighter, cleaner and ready for all conditions
The all-new Touareg has been unveiled – a car which is up to 200 kg lighter and up to 20 per cent more fuel efficient than the model it replaces.
Volkswagen Touareg Bluemotion now available
A BlueMotion version of the Touareg is now available to order, offering improved fuel efficiency and emissions of 219 g/km, well below the tax threshold of less than 225 g/km.
Volkswagen Race Touareg 2 takes shape for 2009 'Dakar' Rally
The 'Dakar' Rally 2009 promises to be the most demanding test yet for the Volkswagen Motorsport team, as it prepares to take on some of the harshest and most challenging terrain on the planet with four examples of the Race Touareg 2.
New common rail diesel in Touareg
The Touareg range is set to benefit from the introduction of a revised 3.0-litre V6 TDI common rail diesel engine which promises to deliver greater refinement and a useful boost in power while returning higher fuel economy and emitting less CO2.
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Q: What are watch descriptors really ? (Linux inotify subsystem) I'm currently using the inotify() system for monitoring the activity of certain directories in the filesystem in my C code.
Now, the procedure for using one of these things is as follows. You take an integer(say event_notifier), turn it into an inotify descriptor using inotify_init(), like so
event_notifier=inotify_init();

Now, suppose I want to keep a watch over events on multiple directories. I will then add watches to this event_notifier over those directories
wd1 = inotify_add_watch(event_notifier,"/../path..to..directory1/../",IN_ALL_EVENTS);
wd2 = inotify_add_watch(event_notifier,"/../path..to..directory2/../",IN_ALL_EVENTS);
wd3 = inotify_add_watch(event_notifier,"/../path..to..directory3/../",IN_ALL_EVENTS);
                            . . . .
wdn = inotify_add_watch(event_notifier,"/../path..to..directoryn/../",IN_ALL_EVENTS);

Now, I can add watches over multiple directories. Each of these calls returns a "watch descriptor" (wd1, wd2, wd3.. wdn above). Whenever an event occurs in any of the directories, the inotify system sends an event to the inotify file descriptor event_notifier along with the watch descriptor (wd1, wd2...wdn) corresponding to that particular "watched directory"
When an event comes in, I can read the event_notifier for an array of struct inotify_event s. This inotify_event structure has the following fields :
struct inotify_event
{
  int wd; //Watch descriptor
   ...
  uint32_t len; //Size of 'name' field
  char name[];  //null terminated name
}

To read events, you simply do
read(event_notifier, buffer, sizeof(buffer))
struct inotify_event* event;
event=(struct inotify_event*)buffer; //Assuming only one event will occur

I am interested in finding out which directory the notification came from. But when I stat() the watch descriptor, it gives me nothing
struct stat fileinfo;
fstat(event->wd, &fileinfo);
printf("\n Size of file is %l",fileinfo_st.size);

Even readlink() on /proc/self/fd/event->fd did not yield any filename.
char filename[25];
readlink("/proc/self/fd/event-wd",filename,sizeof(filename));
printf("\n The filename is %s",filename);

I have two questions :
1) What is the watch descriptor pointing to exactly ? What is it good for ?
2) How can I tell which directory the notification is coming from ?

A:
What is the watch descriptor pointing to exactly ? What is it good for ?

The watch descriptor isn't a file system object or a file descriptor. It is a resource descriptor used by the inotify subsystem to link events to a watched resource and gives you the possibility to specify certain watches when removing them.
You should also note that the number of possible "open" watch descriptors is limited on the system. You can get the maximum value using:
cat  /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches

If you for any reason need more than this value, you can set the value using:
sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=XXXXXX

How can I tell which directory the notification is coming from ?

Using the inotify extension only it is not possible to get the full path to the file (directory) from the event structures. Your application code will need special lookup tables storing links between watch descriptors and full path names. I did that once in PHP, because I also felt I needed that. You may have a look at the code on Github. Like I said, it's PHP but it may help to understand what I'm doing. (The inotify system call signatures are the same in PHP and C)

A:
What is the watch descriptor pointing to exactly ?
 A file descriptor is not a pointer, it is an int.  Hence, it is incapable of pointing at anything.

 What is it good for ?
 A file descriptor abstract indicator for accessing a file.  With inotify, it is a reference to a virtual file.

The kernel maintains an array of structures (file descriptor table) with details of your process' files.  The file descriptor is an index into that array. Your process itself cannot read or write the file descriptor table directly.
How can I tell which directory the notification is coming from ?
 Your application is responsible for associating the directory with the handle.

wd1 = inotify_add_watch(
   event_notifier,
   "/../path..to..directory1/../",
   IN_ALL_EVENTS
   );

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Join us for some St. Patrick's Day fun! We will have a free group run at the West store on March 16th at 6PM. We will have green give aways to the top three best dressed, so come decked out in your green gear! All green items in the store will be 15% off that evening, and we will have beer and snacks for after the run. Hope to see you there!


Despite your pest problem-- be termites, cockroaches, or rodents-- no one takes pleasure in the sight of a pest scooting throughout their walls and hallways. After all, lots of bugs are known to provide a variety of health risks, with some even understood for carrying diseases into your house. Regrettably, when you spot one pest that often indicates there are numerous them hiding somewhere and ready to additional infest your house. When this happens, you'll want to deal with the very best pest control man around to safeguard your home.
From bee elimination and bed bug control to termite examination and gopher and squirrel control, our pest control specialists have the training and experience to handle any bugs that have actually invaded your home.
When the bed bugs are in your home, they'll be going from 1 location to another. Bed bugs are intrusive bugs Whately, MA that may be hard to identify. They are best treated by an skilled expert.
Bed bugs are rather more resilient and resistant than each bug, including rats and cockroaches in Whately, MA . Unless a bed bug was found, the very first sign of an infestation is usually the presence of skin irritation. As soon as bed bugs have attacked your home, they can be rather tough to get rid of. They can be harder to deal with than other household pest insects for a couple of reasons. Because they are challenging to see, use a magnifying glass. They don't stay on the human that they are feeding upon and so they will typically conceal in clothes and try to get to a brand-new area. They are unable to endure heats, making heat a highly reliable treatment technique .
Charge of bed bugs can take some time and several follow-up treatments. Total control takes a thoroughly prepared and developed integrated technique. Bed bug control doesn't need to be costly Whately, MA .
You will need to know the signals of a bedbug problem. An problem is something which can take place to any person Whately, MA . As an example, be specific to take a look at where you have to take care of your bed bug problem. If you're concerned you own a bed bug invasion, start looking for physical indications of their presence. Bed bug infestations can affect a single bed in 1 space or a entire home or home. Chemical techniques aren't the only technique to manage bed bug infestations.
How to Get Started with Bed Bugs Exterminator or Pest Control Man Whately, MA ?
Usually, knowledgeable insect control organisation will utilize a couple of selections of treatment approaches like vacuuming, cleansing, steaming and other mechanical methods to totally eliminate the bed bug invasion. There are numerous bug control companies that may assist you for the precise very same. Normally speaking, many excellent pest control organisations will initially send out down a expert to run a visual assessment of your home prior to quoting you a rate Whately, MA .
If you're not required to leave your home for more than a few hours during the extermination, or in case you are getting ready for the pest control man, there are a variety of approaches to prevent taking bed bugs with you. When you are able to observe that bed bugs have undoubtedly entered your home, it's not ever prematurely to attempt and find an exceptional bed bugs exterminator Whately, MA Whately, MA . During a fumigation, your home will be dealt with in tarpaulin, which is normally anchored using big containers of water you must supply. Whether a full home is plagued, it might be necessary to spray listed below the house, which would increase the total price tag of services. Your home doesn't need to be infested that you pick up bed bugs. Aim to remember that Do It Yourself insecticides alone are unlikely to rid your house of bed bugs, particularly products which do not keep killing after they dry.


A franchisee is bringing Orangetheory's 'unique trifecta of science, coaching and technology' to Sioux Falls.
The billboards are all over town, reading "Orange is coming..."
What's orange? It's Orangetheory, a new fitness concept to Sioux Falls, planning an opening at the intersection of 85th and Minnesota in December.
Archit Shah, who is the multi-franchise owner and Orangetheory area representative for both North and South Dakota, called Sioux Falls a "natural market" for the company.
"Orangetheory is a national franchise and therefore we want to make it accessible to the entire nation," he said.
This will be the first Orangetheory location in the state.
Marcus Mahlen, broker associate at NAI Sioux Falls, helped Orangetheory find its Sioux Falls home. He said early in the process they identified that Orangetheory's preferred demographic base was prevalent in south Sioux Falls.
"I'm excited they had the opportunity to secure one of the last sites near the popular 85th and Minnesota intersection to draw from the area rooftops," Mahlen said.
Shah described Orangetheory's approach to fitness as a "unique trifecta of science, coaching and technology" designed to boost participants' heart rates and help them burn calories.
Orangetheory is a one-hour, full-body workout focused on training endurance, strength and power which the company claims burns more calories post workout than traditional exercise.
"Backed by the science of excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), Orangetheory workouts incorporate endurance, strength, and power to generate the 'Orange Effect' – whereby participants keep burning calories for up to 36 hours after a 60-minute workout," he said in an email.
Shah also emphasized an Orangetheory membership gives members access to all Orangetheory locations nationwide, not just the Sioux Falls location.
Liberty Square, the new home for Orangetheory franchise, already features the recently opened Urban Chislic restuarant. Also announced for the strip center: Safe Splash Swim School, which will open by the end of the year.


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2006 Toyota Crown specs, Engine size 3.0, Fuel type Gasoline, Drive wheels FR or RR, Transmission Gearbox Automatic
The Crown has evolved into a line of full-size luxury sedans by Toyota. The range was primarily available in Japan and some other Asian countries, originally designed to serve as a taxi. It was in later years sold in the United States during the late 1950s and up until 1971. The Crown is Toyota's oldest sedan still in production. It is outranked only by the Century and the Majesta in social status. The Crown is used by many Japanese companies as the company limosiune. Exports to Europe began in 1964 with the first cars going to Finland. Other European countries which saw imports of the Crown included the Netherlands and Belgium. The United Kingdom was another market until the early 1980s. It was also exported to Canada for a few years—1965–68. In many markets the Crown had become very expensive and was replaced by the Cressida when that model became available for export in the early 1980s.
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Australia was another important export market for the Crown—to the extent that it was manufactured there from the mid-1960s until the late 1980s using many local components.
Most models of the car are distinguishable by a front "Crown" badge, but the common Toyota badge is usually used on the rear.
The Crown has existed in some form since after the war and Toyota uses the "Crown" name as inspiration for their primary sedans, the Corolla which is Latin for "small crown", the Camry a phonetic transcription of the Japanese word kanmuri that means crown, and the Corona which is also Latin for crown.
The Crown was introduced in 1955 to meet the demand of public transportation in the form of a taxi, with the same 1.5 L Type R engine used on their previous car, the Toyopet Super. Its coil and double wishbone independent front suspension was a departure from the leaf sprung live axle front suspension used on most previous models but was similar to the independent front suspension used on the 1947 Toyopet SA. The live axle rear suspension was similar to that used on most of the previous models (unlike the trailing arm rear suspension used on the SA). Taxi versions were produced and commercial versions of the vehicle were also available as an estate wagon and a 3 or 6 seater coupe utility.
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declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Mwop\Art;

use CuyZ\Valinor\MapperBuilder;
use Mezzio\Application;
use Mezzio\Authentication\AuthenticationMiddleware;
use Mezzio\Authorization\AuthorizationMiddleware;
use Mezzio\Helper\BodyParams\BodyParamsMiddleware;
use Mezzio\ProblemDetails\ProblemDetailsMiddleware;
use Mezzio\Session\SessionMiddleware;
use Mezzio\Swoole\Task\DeferredServiceListenerDelegator;
use Mwop\Art\Storage\PhotoRetrieval;
use Mwop\Art\Storage\PhotoRetrievalFactory;
use Mwop\Hooks\Middleware\ValidateWebhookRequestMiddleware;
use Phly\ConfigFactory\ConfigFactory;
use Phly\EventDispatcher\ListenerProvider\AttachableListenerProvider;

use function getcwd;
use function realpath;

class ConfigProvider
{
    public function __invoke(): array
    {
        return [
            'art'                       => $this->getConfig(),
            'dependencies'              => $this->getDependencies(),
            'mezzio-authorization-rbac' => $this->getRbac(),
            'templates'                 => $this->getTemplateConfig(),
        ];
    }

    public function getConfig(): array
    {
        $databasePath = realpath(getcwd()) . '/data/photodb/photos.db';
        return [
            'database_path'      => $databasePath,
            'db'                 => [
                'dsn' => 'sqlite:' . $databasePath,
            ],
            'error_notification' => [
                'sender'    => '',
                'recipient' => '',
            ],
            'per_page'           => 24,
            'storage'            => [
                'folder' => '',
            ],
        ];
    }

    public function getDependencies(): array
    {
        return [
            'delegators' => [
                AttachableListenerProvider::class => [
                    Webhook\PayloadListenerDelegator::class,
                ],
                MapperBuilder::class              => [
                    MapperBuilderDelegator::class,
                ],
                Webhook\PayloadListener::class    => [
                    DeferredServiceListenerDelegator::class,
                ],
            ],
            'factories'  => [
                'config-art'                        => ConfigFactory::class,
                Console\FetchPhotoDatabase::class   => Console\FetchPhotoDatabaseFactory::class,
                Handler\ImageHandler::class         => Handler\ImageHandlerFactory::class,
                Handler\NewImageHandler::class      => Handler\NewImageHandlerFactory::class,
                Handler\PhotoHandler::class         => Handler\PhotoHandlerFactory::class,
                Handler\PhotosHandler::class        => Handler\PhotosHandlerFactory::class,
                Handler\ProcessUploadHandler::class => Handler\ProcessUploadHandlerFactory::class,
                Handler\UploadHandler::class        => Handler\UploadHandlerFactory::class,
                'Mwop\Art\Storage\Images'           => Storage\ImagesFilesystemFactory::class,
                'Mwop\Art\Storage\Thumbnails'       => Storage\ThumbnailsFilesystemFactory::class,
                PhotoMapper::class                  => PdoPhotoMapperFactory::class,
                PhotoRetrieval::class               => PhotoRetrievalFactory::class,
                PhotoStorage::class                 => PhotoStorageFactory::class,
                UploadPhoto::class                  => UploadPhotoFactory::class,
                Webhook\DatabaseBackup::class       => Webhook\DatabaseBackupFactory::class,
                Webhook\ErrorNotifier::class        => Webhook\ErrorNotifierFactory::class,
                Webhook\PayloadListener::class      => Webhook\PayloadListenerFactory::class,
            ],
        ];
    }

    public function getRbac(): array
    {
        return [
            'roles'       => [
                'admin' => [],
            ],
            'permissions' => [
                'admin' => [
                    'art.photo.upload',
                    'art.photo.upload.process',
                ],
            ],
        ];
    }

    public function getTemplateConfig(): array
    {
        return [
            'paths' => [
                'art' => [__DIR__ . '/templates'],
            ],
        ];
    }

    public function registerRoutes(Application $app, string $basePath = ''): void
    {
        $app->get(
            $basePath . '/images/art/{type:fullsize|thumbnails}/{image:[^/ ]+.(?:png|jpg|jpeg|webp)}',
            Handler\ImageHandler::class,
            'art.image'
        );

        $app->get($basePath . '/art[/]', Handler\PhotosHandler::class, 'art.gallery');

        $app->get($basePath . '/art/{image:[^/]+\.(?:png|jpg|jpeg|webp)}/', Handler\PhotoHandler::class, 'art.photo');

        $app->get($basePath . '/art/photo/upload', [
            SessionMiddleware::class,
            AuthenticationMiddleware::class,
            AuthorizationMiddleware::class,
            Handler\UploadHandler::class,
        ], 'art.photo.upload');
        $app->post($basePath . '/art/photo/upload/process', [
            SessionMiddleware::class,
            AuthenticationMiddleware::class,
            AuthorizationMiddleware::class,
            BodyParamsMiddleware::class,
            Handler\ProcessUploadHandler::class,
        ], 'art.photo.upload.process');

        $app->post($basePath . '/api/art/new-photo', [
            ProblemDetailsMiddleware::class,
            ValidateWebhookRequestMiddleware::class,
            Handler\NewImageHandler::class,
        ], 'api.hook.instagram');
    }
}