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Q: CE 1.9 - OnePage Checkout - Initially Hide All Steps until Login / Register / Guest Checkout Selected By default there are five steps to the Magento checkout process. This can be quite overwhelming for customers. I would like to reduce these steps or atleast give that perception.
My idea is to initially hide all the steps apart from the first one. Customers can then choose from the three options - login, register or checkout as guest.

Once customers have made a choice the rest of the steps should appear and the login step above dissapear.

A: Following Christophs response above i was able to solve this on my own and it turned out to be quite simple.
Step 1:
If using a custom theme pull in opcheckout_rwd.js and reference it in \app\design\frontend\rwd\default\template\checkout\onepage.phtml
Find  and just below this add:

Remember to copy the above file first into your skins js folder e.g. \skin\frontend\rwd\default\js\
In this same file onepage.phtml add a class to track which checkout step is first. We will use CSS to hide this later on.
Find:

Replace with: <ol class="opc opc-firststep-<?php echo $this->getActiveStep() ?>" id="checkoutSteps">
Step 2:
If not already present in your theme load the jquery and noconflict in your page.xml /app/design/frontend/rwd/default/layout/page.xml
Find:                 <action method="addJs"></action> and just below this add:
        <action method="addJs"></action>
        <action method="addJs"></action>

Step 4:
In your themes custom.css file add the following:
/* -------------------------------------------- *
 * This section hides everything but the "Checkout Method" step of the checkout process and fades in the content
 * once the customer progresses to the next step. The purpose of this is to simplify what the customer has to focus on.
 * It is limited to larger viewports since smaller devices are inherently going to be focused solely on the
 * "Checkout Method" step.
 */
.opc.opc-firststep-login .section:not(#opc-login) .step-title,
.opc-block-progress-step-login {
  -webkit-transition: opacity 300ms linear;
  -webkit-transition-delay: 0;
  -moz-transition: opacity 300ms linear 0;
  -o-transition: opacity 300ms linear 0;
  transition: opacity 300ms linear 0;
}

.opc.opc-firststep-login .section#opc-login .step-title .number {
  -webkit-transition: width 80ms linear;
  -webkit-transition-delay: 0;
  -moz-transition: width 80ms linear 0;
  -o-transition: width 80ms linear 0;
  transition: width 80ms linear 0;
}

.opc.opc-firststep-login .section#opc-login .step-title h2 {
  -webkit-transition: margin-left 80ms linear;
  -webkit-transition-delay: 0;
  -moz-transition: margin-left 80ms linear 0;
  -o-transition: margin-left 80ms linear 0;
  transition: margin-left 80ms linear 0;
}

/* When a user progresses from the "Checkout Method" to "Billing Information" for the first time, the              */
/* "opc-has-progressed-from-login" class gets added to the body. Also, the .opc element will only have the         */
/* "opc-firststep-login" class if the first step of the checkout is the "Checkout Method" (eg, not when logged in) */
body:not(.opc-has-progressed-from-login) .opc.opc-firststep-login .section:not(#opc-login) .step-title,
body:not(.opc-has-progressed-from-login) .opc-block-progress-step-login {
  opacity: 0;
}

body:not(.opc-has-progressed-from-login) .opc.opc-firststep-login .section#opc-login .step-title .number {
  width: 0px;
  overflow: hidden;
}

body:not(.opc-has-progressed-from-login) .opc.opc-firststep-login .section#opc-login .step-title h2 {
  margin-left: 0px;
}

/* When a user progresses from the "Checkout Method" to "Billing Information" hide login info             */
body.opc-has-progressed-from-login .opc .section#opc-login {
    display: none;
}

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Where does Justin Timberlake dine when he's in Chicago?
It appears he heads to Chicago's most prestigious restaurant Alinea – and impressed doesn't quite seem to cover how he felt about the experience.
The artist, who was in the city this week as part of his "Man of the Woods" tour, posted a video to his Instagram page Thursday showing him at the coveted Chicago eatery, which has been named among the best in the country and the world.
In one of the three videos posted to Timberlake's page, the star can be seen enjoying Alinea's signature sugar balloon.
"I was just hanging out at Alinea, you know what I'm saying?" he says in the footage with a helium-induced high-pitched voice.
In the next clips, Timberlake is seen sitting in awe as multiple servers dish out a new course. At one point, Timberlake even gets out of his seat and chases the servers that were leaving the room.
"Yo, ya'll want to go on tour?" he can be heard saying.
And he repeats that request in the caption for the video posts.
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Standard Cognition beats Amazon to cashierless store in San Francisco
Khari Johnson@kharijohnson
Standard Market, a cashierless store in San Francisco powered by AI from Standard Cognition
Image Credit: Standard Cognition
Startup Standard Cognition today announced plans to open a cashierless store in San Francisco in the coming days. Named Standard Market, the store will operate with limited hours and is a testing site for Standard Cognition's artificial intelligence that uses cameras to track the movement of shoppers throughout a store.
When you arrive at Standard Market, located at 1071 Market Street, you use the Standard Checkout app to check in, then just walk out with whatever you want. Initial products for sale in the 1,900-square foot store will include a mix of food, cleaning supplies, and general household or convenience store items.
This is Standard Cognition's first public store. The startup, which has been working on its cashierless store tech since 2016, previously operated a private store in Palo Alto, California.
The news comes the same week that Amazon opened its third cashierless store in Seattle. Amazon did not respond to VentureBeat requests to comment about its future San Francisco or Chicago locations.
San Francisco appears to shaping up as a battleground in the competitive race to roll out effective cashierless store solutions.
In addition to an Amazon Go store planned for an unknown later date, less than a month ago, the startup Zippin opened a cashierless store in San Francisco, seemingly the first. Further away, in Mountain View, California, Inokyo also opened its own cashierless store last month.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap7Aq-N552Q
Standard Market will be treated as a proof-of-concept, a testing ground for Standard Cognition, and as such, starting Monday the store will initially only be open two days a week, then three days a week later this month, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email. Shoppers will also be limited to three at a time. The number of shoppers allowed in the store at one time and store hours are expected to increase in the weeks ahead.
Standard Cognition plans to sell its tech to retailers so they can provide the same experience that requires no cash or credit card or standing in a check-out line.
Paltac Corporation of Japan signed a deal in July to use Standard Cognition tech in its stores, making the company one of the first Amazon Go alternatives to strike such a deal. Talks continue with other potential retail customers, and other announcements are coming soon, a company spokesperson said.

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Dr. V. Ratna Reddy is the Director, Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management Institute, Hyderabad, India. He is an Economist specializing in Environmental economics and Natural Resource Management. He is a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Germany. He was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK and at the School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK. His current research interests include natural resources and environmental economics, livelihoods analysis and agricultural policy. He has more than hundred publications in International and Indian Journals. He has published Six books, including User Valuation of Renewable Natural Resources: The User Perspective (Nova Science publishers Inc, New York) and Managing Water Resources from Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
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Mannlicher 1885 Semiauto Rifle
May 6, 2015 Ian McCollum Light MGs, Prototype, Semiauto Rifles 21
Mannlicher 1885 semiauto "Handmitrailleuse"
Ferdinand von Mannlicher's Model 1885 self-loading rifle design as a failure, never seeing anything even resembling mass production. However, it was a failure which in many way set the stage for a huge number of the machine guns that would follow for the next several decades, including the famous Browning 1917/1919/M2 family. In fact, this 1885 semiauto had influence and impact far beyond its level of recognition today. It was a designed doomed to fail despite Mannlicher's formidable design talents, simply because the cartridge he based it on was the M1877 11mm Austrian black powder round used in the Werndl rifles. Self-loading weapons would not become truly practical in any form until the invention of smokeless powder, which drastically reduced the amount of fouling and residue from each shot. However, Mannlicher was able to at least make a reasonable attempt despite the use of black powder, and he was the first to do so.
The 1885 design (not to be confused with Mannlicher's model 1885 straight-pull bolt action rifle) was a recoil mechanism with a separate locking "tong". As with all recoil-operated designs, the barrel and bolt were locked together at the moment of firing, and remained locked together as they both recoiled rearwards. After a certain amount of travel, in this case about 1.25 inches (32mm) the bolt unlocks and continues rearward which the barrel stops. The locking mechanism in the 1885 Mannlicher is a fork-looking block, labeled #3 in the diagram below. It is pinned to the barrel and able to pivot up and down. When upward, it locks into a cutout in the bottom of the bolt (the bolt is #5 below, and the cutout area is #4). As the bolt and barrel move back, the lower fork of the locking block will eventually hit item #1, an angled projection that forces it downward, unlocking the bolt. Once separated from the barrel, the bolt is able to eject the empty case from the action, and a new cartridge drops down in front of it from the magazine (which is gravity-fed and has no spring). The main recoil spring then pushes the bolt forward, pushing that new cartridge into the chamber. As it moves forward, the hook on the bottom of the bolt (item #2) hits the upper fork of the locking block and forces it into the upward and locked position, thus making the system ready for another shot.
Mannlicher 1885 semiauto cutaway view (ready to fire). Image from WHB Smith, "Mannlicher Rifles and Pistols".
Another element in this action is the use of an accelerator (item #6). It moves back with the barrel until its bottom leg hits a block in the bottom of the receiver. At that point it stops the barrel, and it rotates around its pivot point, with its upper leg pushing on the bolt. What this effectively does it transfer the remaining momentum in the barrel into the bolt, giving it an extra push to help ensure reliable extraction and ejection.
Mannlicher 1885 semiauto cutaway view (full recoil). Image from WHB Smith, "Mannlicher Rifles and Pistols"
I should also point out that the magazine was offset to the left side of the action, and a loading lever was used to pivot cartridges into the action to feed. The lever was mechanically actuated by a protruding surface on the bolt that would strike it during the ejection cycle:
Mannlicher 1885 semiauto feed view. Image from WHB Smith, "Mannlicher Rifles and Pistols"
Today we thing of short recoil as being a common idea/mechanism that has always existed, but Mannlicher was the man who invented it with this rifle. As such, its principles heavily inform the design of most all the other short recoil machine guns that have been made since (fundamentally, the concept of the bolt and barrel traveling a limited distance locked together before some mechanical actuator separates them). The accelerator concept was also a concept used by Browning in his machine guns. And, of course, short recoil because the dominant mechanism for self loading handguns, by way of Browning's tipping barrel system. Don't take this as a suggestion that Browning copied Mannlicher's ideas, because he didn't – the two men's guns differ extensively in detail and simply share basic concepts (and Browning added in a huge does of original thought, such as the concept of a pistol slide). However, it is enlightening to understand where the concepts originated.
For the record, Mannlicher did build the 1885 self-loader in both semiauto and fully automatic versions, and he would go on to refine the design as a rifle in 1891 before turning to other operating systems for his later semiautomatic experiments. He never did explore the concept of a light machine gun, which ultimately proved to be a better role for recoil-operated long guns than the shoulder rifle.
Mannlicher 1885 parts breakdown (image from WHB Smith's, "Mannlicher Rifles and Pistols"
Parts identification key:
Bolt assembly
Bolt assembly (showing detail of locking lug engagement slots)
Upper trigger plate
Locking tongs
Feeder spring
Trigger assembly
Striker head
Striker cocking piece
Trigger spring
Barrel (details)
Aberdeen Proving Grounds Tests the Madsen in 7mm and 20mm
Slow Motion: Interesting Extractor Problem (Schwarzlose 1898)
Israeli SP66: A Modern Mauser Sniper
April 14, 2019 Ian McCollum Bolt Action Rifles, Sniper Rifles, Video 16
This rifle is lot #2172 at Morphy's April 2019 auction. Around 1980, Israeli purchased a batch of modern Mauser SP66 precision rifles to supplement or replace their stocks of M14 and Mauser K98k sniper rifles. […]
Prototype Clausius Model 1905?
August 30, 2013 Ian McCollum Prototype, Semiauto pistol 14
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about a series of pistols designed by a German inventor named Claus Claudius, which began with a long-recoil design in 1895. He then progressed to a floating […]
Mauser C77 Single-Shot Pistol (Video)
November 19, 2016 Ian McCollum Handgun, Video 63
The Mauser brothers' first attempt at a commercial or military handgun was this, the C77 (Construktion 1877) model of single shot pistol. Why a single-shot sidearm in 1877, well into the age of centerfire military […]
eon says:
It's also worth noting that in the 1885 model Mannlicher more-or-less inadvertently invented the "straight-line" stock layout, with the stock comb (the recoil-spring tube)aligned with and just above the bore axis. If the actual buttplate had been aligned with the spring tube, he would have had exactly the geometry of such later weapons as the Johnson M1942 LMG.
This would have substantially reduced muzzle climb on full-auto, especially considering the light weight of his designs.
As for the vertical/offset feed, it would have been fairly easily adapted to either a box magazine (as per the Madsen 1910 LMG) or a belt feed (as per the Maxim HMG).
Add a belt feed and a bipod to his LMG, and it could be defined as a forerunner of the MG34.
Hmm… This also looks as though it came straight out of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (an old Hayao Miyazaki manga). If Mannlicher's gun had been tinkered into a LMG, it would have coincided with the original Kjellman, if I'm not mistaken.
Good observation, eon!
TomTB says:
Always amazed at the transition period in World Firearm history between gunpowders that varied only in grain size, to "smokeless" powders that are the confusing array we have today. What failed at one period could be a success today.
Chris Morton says:
It looks like it's the size of a PTRS.
In Smith's book, he unfortunately does not give a scale on the drawing. But the diagram of the overall rifle shows the hopper-feed magazine with open sides and 11.15 x 58R Werndl rounds in it. Keeping in mind that the "58" is the case length, not OAL including bullet, the drawing, my cm ruler, and Muttonhead (the computer) say OAL of the rifle was 130.5 cm (51.377 inches).
PTRS was 86.61 inches (213.4 cm) long, according to Hogg & Weeks (Military Small Arms of the 20th Century, 1977 ed., p.273). The Mannlicher was 8.6 cm (3.39 in) longer than an M1918 BAR, 20.2 cm (8 in) longer than an M1 Garand, and about 3 cm (1.25 in) shorter than an MG15 with the shoulder stock attached for ground use.
Overall, not bad for a first attempt.
This looks like exceptionally weird design, but one has to keep in mind year of origin. It must have been a pioneering work for its time which paved the way for much more advanced M1905, shown on FW some time earlier.
Doc says:
Weird, yes, but as you said, Denny, a truly inventive design, considering he likely came up with the concept completely on his own, with no previous designs to borrow ideas from or to illustrate problems that would crop up with use. Even if he could have gotten it to function with some degree of reliability, would there have been a place for it in the tactical paradigm of the mid-late 19th century? Would it have changed the face of warfare, or would it have remained a curiosity? Considering that it came out on the cusp of the smokeless age, the design wasn't really too far ahead of its time in a mechanical sense, but I wonder how a functional LMG or automatic rifle would have been received by the ordnance department pencil pushers at the time. As for me, I would have them mounted all around the gondola of my steam-powered dirigible as I set off with my minions to conquer the world.
Watch out! For I have a battery of 7.7cm anti-balloon cannons from Prussia and crews to man the guns! And don't get me started on how many gasoline-powered two-seater scout-planes I may send at that blimp!
I see that you've never encountered my minions. If they miss during training, they become the targets for the next class. It's a great motivator. Those scout planes would be like clay pigeons and the gun crews on the ground would be sniper bait. BTW, I forgot to mention that it is an "armored" dirigible. A megalomaniac intent on world conquest can't afford to cut corners! (I did stiff Count von Zeppelin on the bill, though. I caught him padding the contract. The gold bathroom fixtures in my private cabin were only 18k instead of 24k. No self-respecting despot would stand for that kind of treachery. Herr Mannlicher was much more accommodating. He gave me the guns if I would promise to make him Emperor of Eurasia. Great guy, old Ferdie.)
I see your minions have never encountered my minions. My pilots wouldn't let themselves be treated as target practice while flying (I personally shot down those who slacked off). I customized my flak batteries with armor protection as well so the gunners can't be sniped. Don't fly near flak towers, or you will till soil! And this week the first squadrons of Avia B.534's and Fokker D.XXI's arrived to replace the aging RAF Se.5's. I also sent a few Caproni Ca. 132's after your dirigible's base while you were out!
I'm wonder about reliability of gravity-feed magazine. Austrian Salvator-Dormus 1893 machine gun used gravity-feed magazine, however it used 8x50R Mannlicher round and was machine-gun on mount not shoulder fire-arm. http://www.hungariae.com/Skoda.htm states that "Its weekest point was the gravity fed open sided magazine which caused an occasional malfunction." so I suspect that Mannlicher 1885 might be prone to malfunctions due to dirt entering magazine.
Gravity feed was the standard of the day on manually-powered machine guns like the Gatling, Gardner, Nordenfeldt, and etc. So it's probably not a surprise that Mannlicher used it on his auto-weapon design.
And NB; the only spring-fed box magazine around at the time was James Paris Lee's, and it was patented. The German Commission Rifle with its fixed box magazine was three years down the road at this juncture, and IIRC Mannlicher had a hand in that, mainly designing the bolt system.
The Austrian Schulhof of 1889 had a very weird gravity-feed magazine in the stock, with three columns of cartridges that dropped into a semi-tubular feedway where they were taken forward by a feeding system much like the Winchester-Hotchkiss tube magazine. I can only assume that holding the rifle absolutely upright while firing was highly advisable.
The highest-firepower magazine system of the day was that of the American Evans lever-action repeating rifle. Externally it looked like a Spencer minus the big external hammer (it had a spring-driven internal striker like a Martini-Henry single shot).
Its magazine was an Archimedean-screw helical gadget that held up to 30 rounds of (usually) .44 Evans ammunition (roughly equivalent to .44 S&W American revolver cases, but with ballistics similar to .44-40 WCF). There were no springs in the magazine; it was powered entirely by the lever action. (Working it must have required some oomph.)
The modern-day Calico weapons, in 9mm and etc., use a variant of the same magazine concept. However, it is spring-powered by a system similar to the drum magazines of the Thompson and PPSh-41 SMGs of two generations past.
No, there really isn't very much new under the sun.
Strongarm says:
Thanks Ian for this very important historical post. However, the piece named "Accelerator" seems rather "Decelerator" which slowing and giving more power to the item to be exerted. It looks simply a powerfull extractor like break open, or falling block or, rolling block firearms. Parts list also does not contain another element excepting this little lever named"Ejector". The rifle should be though to eject the empty case,
first by powerfull push of that lever, nearly as a primary extracting, and then, by force of remaining gas within the bore. Any angled or protecting part or surface then to strike and eject the case in motion.
Correction; Parts list and sectional drawings show the presence of, at least, one extractor.
Kevin R.C. O'Brien says:
Fascinating find. Would be interesting to timeline these early developments.
Pdb says:
That's pretty radical for the era, cool.
LDC says:
Not to detract from Mannlicher in the least, but wasn't Maxim's first patent machine gun (demonstrated in 1883) also a short-recoil weapon? And in the animation that linked from here on FW, that action not only has the famous toggle-crank lock but an additional breech-to-chamber U-shaped lock that is cammed upward into unlocking on the recoil stroke.
So I would propose that the genesis goes like this: Volcanic/Winchester lever-operated toggle lock evolves into Maxim machine gun's short-recoil-activated toggle lock; the toggle lock is adapted by Borchardt for his C93 and is refined into the Luger; the lifting (or dropping) lock, abandoned by Maxim, is either adapted or independently invented as a parallel development by Mannlicher in this shoulder weapon, and also adapted into pistols via the Mauser C96, Bergman, BAR, Lahti, Walther P38, Beretta etc.
The accelerator device must have existed in engineering lore before Mannlicher, Browning, and Lahti put them into guns, as it seems to work from such a simple geometric principle. Might not some piston steam engines have been equipped with such things?
To Mannlicher's credit must go his ability to adapt the Maxim action to a self-loading single-shot shoulder weapon, unless he did in fact invent this rifle in ignorance of Maxim's patents, in which case the credit he deserves is much greater.
I would like to know who developed blowback first: Mannlicher or Browning or someone else? And did the original Austrian patents for the Hotchkiss gas-tube gun predate Browning's potato-digger?
Chris Hamilton says:
There were smokeless powders around prior to that, going back to the 1860s in Austria (invented by Captain Schultze) and manufactured into the 1870s (when it was shut down by the Austrian government due to their monopoly on powder production) by which point production had already begun in England along with improved variations of that powder. (the initial English patents date to 1864)
The powder was of the bulk sporting powder type (made from nitrated wood meal), too fast burning for large military cartridges, but useful for shotgun shells and pistol cartridges and thus would have made sense in automatic shotguns or pistol-caliber rifles. (certainly a repeating small-bore light rifle akin to small frame winchester repeaters of the period)
http://www.gunshoplosangeles.com/Pyrotechnic/Pyrotechnic_Books/Tenney_L._Davis_Chemistry_of_Powder_and_Explosives_Ocr.pdf see page 287
Hmm, you know, with Major Fosbery's rifled choke patent, combined with the smokeless shotgun powders in production by the 1870s/1880s in Europe (in Austria initially, but also in England, where it remained when the Austrian plant was shut down due to government monopoly on powder manufacture). The powder was too fast for practical use in rifles, but worked well in smoothbore weapons due to the lower initial pressure spike (no rifling to engage) and combining that with a rifled choke would seem ideal for an early self-loading rifle like Mannlicher's 1885 short-recoil design. (using a light, pistol caliber cartridge also should've been low pressure enough for such powders, but marginal in the military role similar to the trade-offs of the 1866 Winchester in military use, but also with the smokeless powder advantage)
This would be the powder invented by Prussian artillery captain Johann F. E. Schultze, and improved in 1882 at the Explosives Company at Stowmarket, England. (it was originally just nitrated wood pulp/powder mechanically bound with potassium/barium nitrates, but this added a partial gelatinization step, turning it into a powder of similar quality to 'bulk sporting' type shotgun powders used into the 1930s, particularly by Dupont very roughly equivalent to some modern shotgun powders or Trailboss … a bulky, fast-burning, low pressure-optimized propellant)
It would not be particularly well suited to high velocity small-bore rounds, though … more like some modern smokeless loads for old low pressure black powder cartridges. (still a major innovation for the time due to the lack of thick smoke and potential for self-loading weapons if still only modestly more potent than pistol-caliber lever-actions of the period) OTOH, they could be designed to easily fire shot as well as slugs, a major possible tactical advantage (especially in colonial use … prior to the Hague Convention niggles)
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UPDATE: Six charged in death of Colleton County mother
by: WSAV Staff
Six people have been arrested in the death of a missing Colleton County woman whose body was found buried in the woods on Tuesday.
30-year-old Ashley Murdaugh was reported missing by her family on August 8. Police now say they believe she was killed on August 5.
Nearly two weeks after the family's report, investigators were led to a wooded area behind a home on Cumberland Street in Walterboro.
There they found Murdaugh's remains.
"It was pretty shocking, it was pretty scary," said Michelle Ballard, a friend who lives near the house Murdaugh's body was found. "I wish she would have been saved.
According to the Colleton County Sheriff's Office (CCSO), the following suspects have been arrested in this case: Martina Wolf, Cynthia Caron, Alfred Taylor Jr., John Dunigan, Wayne Moore and Tammy Lott.
Wolf, Caron and Taylor have been charged with first-degree murder. Dunigan, Moore and Lott face a charge of accessory after-the-fact to homicide.
CCSO says Martina Wolf and her mother, Cynthia Caron, were both in jail prior to these charges. They were arrested on Tuesday, August 7 for aggravated assault in an unrelated incident.
They also believe Alfred Taylor was Wolf's boyfriend.
CCSO says Wolf and Caron allegedly resided at the home close to where Murdaugh's remains were found buried. They added that her body was found about 250 feet in the wood line.
"My heart just hurts for her, her family, her children and those closest to her," Ballard said, adding, "She's found, so maybe there will be some peace."
More Crime & Safety Stories
by WSAV Staff / Jan 21, 2020
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) - The Savannah Police Department is investigating after two people were injured in a shooting on Bull Street Monday night.
At around 9:20 p.m., officers responded to the 2500 block of Bull Street and found one person with a gunshot wound.
by AP News / Jan 21, 2020
ATLANTA (AP) - Police say 76 cars have been broken into at an apartment complex parking garage in Atlanta.
Residents told news outlets they came out to their cars Monday to find broken glass from smashed windows.
PINEVILLE, SC (AP) - Authorities say three people found dead in a car in rural South Carolina appear to have been fatally shot.
New outlets report the vehicle was found in a field near Pineville on Monday with three bodies inside.


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Remarks by the President at the 2016 Congressional Picnic
South Lawn
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! Well, first of all, let's give a big round of applause to the best house band in the world, our outstanding Marine band. Give them a big round of applause. (Applause.) They can play anything. Bruno Mars. (Laughter.) Yo-Yo Ma. It doesn't matter. I mean, they sounded great. I was rocking out a little bit in the Oval Office.
It is so good to see all of you at what is just a wonderful event. One of the only things that I don't like about this event is each year I see some of the same kids, and they're getting a lot taller. (Laughter.) Which means I'm getting a lot older. But for members of Congress to be able to bring their families together on an incredible day like this is a true blessing.
Obviously, this has been a difficult week for America because all of us are still grieving for those who were lost in Orlando. All of us still have our thoughts and prayers for the families of those who were killed, but also for those who are still recovering, and for the city of Orlando. And one of the things that -- when I was talking to the mayor, Buddy Dyer, down there -- I emphasized is that this is something that could happen anywhere. And these could be our kids, or our brothers, or our cousins, or nephews, nieces.
And at moments like this, it's critically important for us to remind ourselves of what binds us together as a people -- that regardless of race or ethnicity or religion or sexual orientation, we're all Americans, and we look out for each other. We celebrate those things we hold dear and have in common, like love of family and love of country. We mourn together when part of that family is hurt. And I know that that's something that all of you feel -- whenever things like this happen, we squeeze our families a little more tightly, and we're reminded of what's important in life.
I'm not going to talk long because I want to shake as many hands as possible -- although I still got to apply the "no selfie rule" -- (laughter) -- because otherwise I'm here for like four hours. But I do want to just say thank you to all of you. I want to say thanks to the members of Congress who are here. I know that we're at a contentious time in our political life in this country. The truth is, though, it's important not to romanticize the past. Democracy has always been contentious and it's always messy -- because we're a big country and we're a diverse country. And people are not going to agree 100 percent of the time on some of the big issues that we care about.
But one of the things I've tried to emphasize -- and I spoke at a couple of commencements this past month -- I said that one of the things about democracy is, is that it works because we try to compromise, even when you think you're 100 percent right. In that sense, it's a lot like marriage. (Laughter.) Because as fierce and as important as the debates are, the institutions that we built, the Constitution upon which we're founded, the traditions and the habits of the heart that have allowed us to live in this greatest country on Earth -- those are what's lasting. Those are more permanent and more important than any immediate difference or debate.
I think it's also important for us to remember at a time when partisanship is seemingly at an all-time high, that none of us are born Democrat or Republican. And the labels we apply to ourselves, they mean something. They indicate commitments or sets of principles that may not always mesh up. But the things that really matter in our lives, they can't be captured by a party label. The things that bind this country together transcend political party. And it's useful for us to remember that, as well, when we are engaging in these debates.
And I'm only going to be here a little bit longer --
AUDIENCE: Aww --
THE PRESIDENT: No, my lease is running out. (Laughter.) And I'm already trying to look at the carpet and the walls to make sure I get my deposit back. (Laughter.) But what I've told my staff -- and I hope those of you who are serving are keeping in mind every single day -- is that this is an extraordinary privilege, our chance to serve the American people; our chance to, in some very small way, shape history in ways that we hope are better. It's precious and it's a privilege. And we should every single day count our blessings and apply ourselves to the work with an enthusiasm and a vigor that is appropriate for the privilege that the people of America bequeathed upon us.
And the last point I want to make is just, to the families, I want to say thank you. Because certainly one thing that binds Democrats and Republicans together is that their families carry an enormous burden. You miss stuff. Time flies. You're away for a soccer game or a birthday party, or a dance recital. And as somebody who just saw -- I cried at my older daughter's graduation. It's a reminder that we a lot of times put our families in a tough situation, thinking that perhaps we can do some good. And they may believe in us real hard and make a lot of sacrifices, but they are sacrifices nonetheless.
So to the spouses, to the kids, we just want to say thank you. And that, too, should make us sober and serious about the work that we do, because if we're not actually making this country better, then it's not worth the sacrifice. And we owe it not just to the people who elected us, but also to our own families to make sure that we make the very best of it.
So I want to thank all of you. I want to thank again the Marine band. I want to point out that sometimes people don't realize, our Marine band, these are active-duty folks. They're serving our country. Our hearts go out to the people of Orlando. (Applause.) But our hearts also are filled with gratitude for those men and women in uniform who serve us every day, those law enforcement and first responders who at times of desperate need, like what we saw in Orlando, are there on the spot, trying to make sure that they're keeping us safe. We are extraordinarily grateful to them.
Have a great time, everybody. God bless you. (Applause.) God bless America.


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A brief account of the Manonash work at Hyderabad during New Life period
Group photo – Baba with participants of 'The Hyderabad Meeting' (June, 1951)
Manonash work is the culmination of New Life. Manonash (or Man-o-nash) means 'annihilation of mind'. The Manonash phase of work started at Khojaguda cave, Hyderabad. Baba stayed in Hyderabad from 27 May to 24 Oct 1951. During this period He conducted The Hyderabad Meeting for the declaration of "the God-determined Step" of Manonash. Baba said he called them as witnesses to the Declaration.
The meeting took place from 28-30 June 1951 at residence of Nawab Ali Nawaz Jung at Banjara Hills area of Hyderabad. Thirty none (39) Lovers from Hamirpur, Andhra, and other places attended it for three days. Some of the close companions stayed for 7 days.
About the God-determined Step Baba said that it will be executed from 16 Oct 1951 to 15 Feb 1952. Baba gave a detailed discourse on Manonash.
About the intensity of this Masnonash work, Baba said:
"To take another example, suppose I am suffering from physical disabilities and afflictions of a type that allow me to move very little, and yet I have decided to climb Mount Everest.
To stretch the simile to its utmost length, I might just as well say that I have to attain the zenith of strength at a time when I am at the zenith of weakness, in an impossibly short period — impossible in the sense that what could be achieved in four crores [40 million] of lives is to be achieved in four months! Yet all this gives only an incomplete idea of what is really at stake for me now."
In the declarartion that was read by William Donkin in English, CD Deshmukh in Marathi and Abdul Ghani in Urdu, Baba said:
…"The step God wants me to take is one of complete and absolute annihilation. I am at this moment solely and entirely in the New Life, and it is purely from this New Life stand of an ordinary human being that I tell you about this annihilation."
… God wants me to take this step, and I am absolutely certain that He will help me gain this mental annihilation by February 12. With this inner conviction, I will plunge deeply into this act of annihilation from the 16th of October."
Out of 70 in the meeting, only 21 offered to go with Baba for Manonash work. Baba finally selected the following: Gustadji, Baidul, Pendu, Eruch. Baba discoursed on Manonash at length. Babasaid that :
"Mind is never transformed. Ego is transformed once only. (By Ego is meantAstitva, meaning the Real I.) Mind cannot be transformed. Why? Because it is not One itself. Mind survives by desires and thoughts, and it is made up of impressions. Ego is One in itself, but this Real Ego — the Real I — is now bound by the mind. And this mind which is made up of false impressions makes the Real Ithink itself false. Mind makes you think of birth, death, happiness, misery, et cetera, as real things, but nothing can be more false than this."
The 4 months period was divided into 4 phases: – First 30-40 days was to be spent in Khojaguda cave – Second 30-40, foot journey from Hyderabad to Aurangabad – Third, contacting masts at Khuldabad – Fourth, the final stage at Meherazad.
Eruch, Baidul and Pendu found a hill called Khojaguda, 8 KMs from Hyderabad according to Baba's epcifications. On one side of the cave, there was a tomb of Baba Fakruddin, a 14th-century Muslim saint and on another side a Hindu temple of Lord Vishnu.
Models of five religious symbols (Buddhist temple, Hindu temple, Christian church, Mohammedan mosque, Zoroastrian fireurn) made of alabaster were made at Agra for the seclusion work.
On 15th Oct, Baba arrived in a decorated car at 2:30 PM.
On 16th Oct, prayers were held simultaneously at different places – Baba and the group at the dargah of the Muslim saint, Meherjee at fire-temple, Udwada – Keki Desai at Moinuddin Chistie's tomb at Ajmer, WD Kain at Krishna's temple at Mathura, Gaya Prasad Khare at Buddha's temple at Sarnath, Vishwanth Haldankar at Francis Xavier's cathedral in Goa.
At Hyderabad, prayers were held by Nilu in a Buddhist temple, Vishnu in a Hindu temple, Kaikobad in a Parsi fire temple, Donkin in a catholic church, A selected Muslim priest in a mosque.
On 23rd Oct, Baba ended the seclusion saying that "… my work in the cave has been 100 percent successful."
On 24th Oct, Baba set-off on foot to Meherazad via Aurangabad, thus ending the first phase of Manonash work at Hyderabad.
-Adapted from LordMeher.org, "Glimpses of the God-Man, http://avatarmeher.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Beloved-Baba-and-Hyderabad-BW.pdf


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Q: 90% zoom on browser makes no media query used I wrote CSS media queries to deal with the the width of a class:
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All of these media queries are hitting the browser from the zoom 500% to 100%. But once I get to 90% none of them are being applied. Why is this and what am I doing wrong?

A: At 90% zoom your page probably has more than 1920px, which is why none of your queries apply. You don't have a default case. You could add, for example:
.slides {
    width: 960px;
}

before all your queries. Of course, you should change 960px to the desired width of your .slides when on screens wider than 1920px.
On a 1920px monitor, at 90%, the page's width is ~2133px. At 50% it will have 3840px and so on...
If you want your .slides to be a percentage of your screen, use vw (1vw = {viewport width}/100). For example, this will make your .slides 50% of your viewports' width, no matter the zoom level (unless a stronger rule applies, of course):
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Poco Apollo (LP)
Poco Apollo is an album by Icelandic musician Halldór Eldjárn. It is originally based on NASA's archive from the Apollo space program. Halldór created a custom algorithm to determine the mood of each picture and turn it in to a generative ambient soundscape.
This beautiful 12″ white vinyl, with cover art by designer Albert Muñoz, include four of these image soundscapes taken to the next level, in six tracks. Halldór has arranged the generated music for string players, synthesizers and added a layer of human touch to the tracks to produce a record that is a true collision of technology and art — representing one of mankind's most technical and art inspiring endeavour to date.


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'Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure' DVD & Blu-Ray Release VIP Reception (April 6)
LA Family Housing Gala (May 12)
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LACMA's Art And Film Gala Honoring Clint Eastwood & John Baldessari (November 5)
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Radio One (November 30)
Daybreak (December 1)
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The Trevor Project's 2011 Trevor Live! (December 4)
'New Year's Eve' Los Angeles Premiere (December 5)
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'New Year's Eve' Los Angeles Premiere After Party (December 5)
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (December 7)
LIVE! With Kelly (December 7)
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module SequelRails
  module Storage
    class Jdbc < Abstract

      def _is_mysql?
        config['adapter'].match(/^jdbc:mysql/)
      end

      def _is_postgres?
        config['adapter'].match(/^jdbc:postgresql/)
      end

      def _is_sqlite?
        config['adapter'].match(/^jdbc:sqlite/)
      end

      def _root_url
        config['url'].scan(/^jdbc:mysql:\/\/[\w\.]*:?\d*/).first
      end

      def db_name
        config['database']
      end

      def _params
        config['url'].scan(/\?.*$/).first
      end

      def _create
        if _is_sqlite?
          return if in_memory?
          ::Sequel.connect config['url']
        elsif _is_mysql?
          ::Sequel.connect("#{_root_url}#{_params}") do |db|
            db.execute("CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `#{db_name}` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET #{charset} DEFAULT COLLATE #{collation}")
          end
        elsif _is_postgres?
          system("createdb #{db_name}")
        end
      end

      def _drop
        if _is_sqlite?
          return if in_memory?
          FileUtils.rm db_name if File.exists? db_name
        elsif _is_mysql?
          ::Sequel.connect("#{_root_url}#{_params}") do |db|
            db.execute("DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS `#{db_name}`")
          end
        elsif _is_postgres?
          system("dropdb #{db_name}")
        end
      end

      private

      def collation
        @collation ||= config['collation'] || ENV['COLLATION'] || 'utf8_unicode_ci'
      end

      def in_memory?
        return false unless _is_sqlite?
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end

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by Ella Hokkanen | Jan 13, 2022 | News
Student Union of Laurea University of Applied Sciences Laureamko's Council of Representatives had their organizing meeting 12th of January in Zoom. In the meeting Council selected Presidents and board for this year. More information about Council of...
by Janne Silajarvi | Dec 20, 2021 | News, Yleinen
Student union of Laurea University of Applied Sciences Laureamko has arranged elections for the Council of Representatives from 13th of December to 20th of December 2021. Fifteen (15) members and seven (7) vice members were chosen and they will form the Council for...
by Niina Leppälä | Dec 9, 2021 | News
During the coming year, Laureamko will seek to develop its sports services to better serve its members. Our goal is to increase opportunities to participate in sports on Laurea's various campuses. Current sports services are only available on the Otaniemi and...
by Carita Törhönen | Dec 1, 2021 | News
What is the board? The board of Laureamko consists of a president, a vice-president and a maximum of eight board members. The board leads Laureamko's activities with instructions from the representative council. The board is responsible for the plan of action and of...
Council of Representatives election 2021 candidates are here
by Niina Leppälä | Nov 22, 2021 | News
Student Union of Laurea University of Applied Sciences will have the election of the Council of Representatives on 13th to 20th of December. Our Central Election Committee has confirmed the candidates for the election today and here they are! Electoral Coalition...
Porvoo Appro 2022
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Have you wanted to get involved in designing an appro, but haven't found a good opportunity? Do I need to commit to organizational activities? What about my own studies? Laureamko hears your request and wants to invite you to participate in the Porvoo Appro project...


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Q: Magento 2 nginx ssl problems I have Magento 2 installed on ubuntu 16.04 with nginx webserver. The site is working pretty good, then i try to enable whole site SSL from letsencrypt and I run into problems.
my root dir is /var/www/html with the magento install directly in there
I change the settings in magento so the secure url is https://example.com/ and I set nginx up as per https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-16-04.
In sites-enabled i have

upstream fastcgi_backend {
        server  unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock; }  server {

        listen 80;
        server_name www.sxcmarket.com;
        set $MAGE_ROOT /var/www/html;
        set $MAGE_MODE developer;
        include /var/www/html/nginx.conf.sample;  }

When I do nginx -t it shows no problems. Then when i try to go to either www.example.com or example.com i get 403 error
when i check the nginx/error.log I get the following

2016/10/10 06:12:23 [error] 8335#8335: *11 directory index of
  "/var/www/html/" is forbidden, client: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, server: _,
  request: "GET / HTTP/2.0", host: "example.com"

Ive tried a number of different SSL setups and get the same result each time


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Catalyst Action Fund
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Post author By lee
Catalyst Action Fund is a sister organization of Catalyst Project. Catalyst Action Fund promotes racial justice through engaging in policy work and the electoral arena, as tools of social movement building.
Catalyst Action Fund Endorsement for 2020
This election is the most important election in many years, possibly in our lifetimes. Lives depend on it. Communities are threatened by everything from white supremacist street violence, to covid-19, to more blatant attacks on immigrants, to a dire economic crisis, to increased climate chaos, and more. For those of us who care about racial justice, sitting this election out is not an option.
Electing a Democrat in this election will change the terrain on which we fight. We know that the democratic ticket is not going to get us to the liberation we are fighting for. But they will give us more breathing room in which we can organize. Four more years of Trump is not an option.
That means voting for a democratic presidential ticket, and that means joining forces with any of the hundreds of progressive organizations that are already in motion talking to voters, protecting the vote, and turning people out for the biggest landslide against white supremacy we can possibly have.
In 2016, we, like many progressives and social justice organizations, mostly sat out the election. We cannot do that again. That election was so close, and if we had participated, maybe we could have changed the outcome. Just like in 2016, Trump is already setting the stage to contest the election, while doing everything he can to suppress the vote. We need to defeat him by the largest margin possible. We are a force to be reckoned with, and we must bring that power to the electoral arena, now. We must resoundingly defeat Trump at the ballot box, and build our movements for the long-haul.
We have only several weeks left before November 3rd. Not sure where to engage? Here are a few projects that are prepared to plug volunteers in right away:
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With Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), do voter outreach to Georgia with Collect Your Cousins, or join to take action in the case of a contested election with the Election Defenders
Protect the Results is building a mass base of people ready to mobilize if Donald Trump refuses to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election.
We are guided and inspired by radical women and queers of color who have called us clearly into this work. Find powerful quotes below to be moved into action.
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After years of denigration and attacks, for Latinos this election is a fight to demand respect. Now, in the middle of a global pandemic, it is linked to our very survival. This public health crisis shed a painful spotlight on how Latinxs are among the most directly and disproportionately devastated as a result of having a cruel and negligent president in charge."
Noura Erakat, Palestinian-American organizer, professor, and human rights attorney: "We have to get Trump out of office in order to create enough room to do the political work that we want to do," said Erakat. "[Biden's] definitely a foe, but a foe under whose liberal administration gives a little bit more breathing room for us to organize effectively."
Angela Davis: "I don't see this election as choosing a candidate who will be able to lead us in the right direction. It will be about choosing a candidate who can be most effectively pressured into allowing more space for the evolving anti-racist movement. Biden is very problematic in many ways…. But, I say but, Biden is far more likely to take mass demands seriously. Far more likely than the current occupant of the White House. So this coming November, the election, will ask us not so much to vote for the best candidate, but to vote for or against ourselves. To vote for ourselves I think means that we will have to campaign for and vote for Biden."
Taina Vargas-Edmond, co-founder of Initiate Justice: "as an organizer and a leader, I understand VERY CLEARLY that it will be much easier to move a liberal centrist government than a right-wing fascist regime. We can not afford 4 more years of Trump. Some of the most vulnerable will literally not survive it.
So I am voting #BidenHarris on November 3, and I hope you all will too. My advocacy does not start or stop at the ballot box. Voting is just one of many tools we have.
I will continue to fight because I believe in a better future and I believe in people power. I have hope that 2024 / 2028 will be different, and I will work hard toward that vision.
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Announcing Catalyst Action Fund
We cannot sit out the elections in 2020. There is far too much at stake. We face the threat of imminent war, accelerating climate catastrophe, and immigrants face more raids, deportations and an ever more militarized border. Organized white nationalist groups are increasing their power and leverage in shaping the national agenda and the right wing is shredding what remains of a social safety net.
For all these reasons and more, Catalyst Project has launched a sister organization, Catalyst Action Fund, a 501(c)4 fiscally sponsored under Tides Advocacy.
In 2020, hundreds of thousands of people will be throwing down in elections and policy fights across the country. Many of these people will be newly politicized and will grow into social movement leaders inside and outside of electoral politics. Catalyst Action Fund is creating opportunities to support these developing leaders to become as powerful and strategic as possible about the power of organizing, to understand the necessity of centering racial justice and of being in the struggle for the long haul. We will collaboratively develop trainings to support local grassroots groups across the country who know their communities and will be organizing long past November 2020; these trainings will be tailored for both multiracial and majority white groups. We will be supporting our network of 300 Braden alumni to engage in the election. And check out our endorsement of Bernie Sanders for US President below!
Many of us have worked on electoral projects and campaigns in the past. However, electoral politics have not been largely front and center for Catalyst Project as an organization. Our faith was, and still is, in the power of organized social movements of the left.
Like a lot of people, we held back from fully engaging in 2016, for many reasons. We underestimated the depth and breadth of white nationalist sentiment and how it would show up at the ballot box; we had a deep distrust of the Democratic Party (full disclosure, we still have that distrust); we feared that urging people to vote for a mainstream candidate would only give legitimacy to corporate Dems who also start wars, imprison Black people, and deport immigrants. We want to overturn this system, not put a bandaid on a bullet wound.
The shock of the 2016 elections—the unrestrained white supremacy and misogyny that came to power and the role that white voters played—forced us to re-evaluate the times we are in, what we're up against, and what our responsibilities are.
In that context, and in discussion with organizers from across the country who challenged us, we grappled with how we should relate to electoral politics in this period. And this is where we arrived:
We can't cede the electoral front to the right wing. The right has had a forty year plan to take power, they've consolidated that, and we have too much to lose by not fighting back on the policy and electoral terrain.
Electoral work is an important element of the left ecosystem, one of many tools we have to build grassroots power. Our ideas of electoral work include policy campaigns, voter education and mobilization for specific candidates as well as working against voter suppression and disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, the undemocratic electoral college, etc.
The white vote in this country is one of the biggest obstacles to progressive electoral and legislative wins. In many places, organizing white people to get behind a racial justice agenda can mean the difference between a left candidate and an outright racist.
We need a culture shift that breaks the binary of "people who are too left to touch electoral politics"-vs-"sellout to the spineless Democratic Party." We have to stop trash-talking about each other's choices about how to relate to elections.
Electoral wins can give breathing space to our movements – we've been hit incredibly hard by the right, and we need to build our movements, broaden our base. We see how progressive elected officials have made a difference and opened up political space for social movements to grow.
We engage in this work now in the hope that fewer people will suffer, not in the belief that any one candidate in office will eliminate that suffering, or bring us anywhere close to the world we really want.
While we have come to recognize the importance of electoral organizing, that does not mean that we are giving up any ground on our commitments to collective liberation, commitments that were largely forged outside of the electoral arena.
Our politics have been shaped by movements for self-determination including the Black liberation movement, the Indigenous sovereignty movement, the Puerto Rican independence movement, the Palestinian liberation movement, the queer liberation movement, women of color feminism, and more.
Electoral wins must not become our political horizon; we cannot afford to shrink our long-term vision of a deeply transformed society. And that requires building powerful left movements led by working class communities of color. Progressive electoral wins in 2020 give us more time, space, and capacity to fight for that long-term vision.
Through rich conversation with many movement leaders, we have come to believe that the year ahead offers us crucial opportunities in the struggle for collective liberation. 2020 offers us the opportunity to roll back some of the gains made by white nationalism in recent years, to shape the terrain we organize on moving forward, and to position our movements to act powerfully to confront climate chaos and structural racism while bringing thousands of new people into movements for liberation. We hope you will join us in seizing this moment.
Here are some ways that you can join us in the work ahead:
Check out our website and stay involved with Catalyst Action Fund
Plug in with a grassroots organization in your area that is doing both electoral and long-term movement work
Volunteer on a campaign for the primaries and after
Work against voter suppression (text FAIR to 70700 to get involved with Fair Fight).
However you throw down, it will take all of us. We'll see you out there.
Catalyst Action Fund Endorses Bernie Sanders for President
The outcome of the 2020 presidential election is critical. We face the existential threats of climate crisis, the global impacts of reckless warmongering by the current administration, and the increasing insecurity of housing and medical care for poor and working class people, who are disproportionately Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. We know that a national election is not how we reach the liberated world we all desire, but that doesn't mean we can afford to sit this one out.
We will work to defeat Trumpism no matter who becomes the Democratic candidate. However, the primaries are a time when we can make a big difference in how we defeat Trump — whether through pushing progressive priorities or returning to the racist, neoliberal status quo. What we need to turn the tide of rising white supremacist power in this country is powerful, thriving racial justice movements that both win elections and build power outside the electoral arena.
After many conversations with our mentors and partners, Catalyst Action Fund is endorsing Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary.
Beyond any individual candidate, this election needs to be about building a movement. Regardless of who wins the election in November, we need movements that hold politicians accountable and push racial justice priorities. The movement building infrastructure of the Bernie campaign offers the best chance of carrying forward the organizing energy going into the election.
Bernie is the strongest candidate to beat Trump in the general election. Bernie's coalition is the most multi-racial and most working class of any contender; the consistency of his long record reflects a principles-oriented approach to politics that sets him apart from the field and can help win back the trust of disaffected voters; his massive grassroots operation is working tirelessly to beat Trump by expanding the electorate, engaging would-be-voters who have `historically been ignored or used by both parties; and his left populism offers a necessary social justice alternative to Trump's rhetoric of economic nationalism and racist scapegoating.
Many of our top issues are on the ballot this election. The issues we fight for and care about are being discussed and debated on the national stage, mostly being pushed by Sanders and sometimes Warren – Single-payer healthcare, passing a Green New Deal to address climate change, abolishing ICE, ending money bail, being resolutely anti-war, making public universities tuition-free and canceling all student debt, restoring voting rights to all currently and formerly incarcerated people, and meaningfully addressing disability rights.
While Bernie Sanders is our top choice, we know many progressives and people we respect are also supporting Elizabeth Warren, including Black Womxn For. It will take all of us to build the power we need to get a progressive candidate nominated and believe strongly that our side has nothing to gain from infighting.
Whoever wins the the Democratic nomination will undoubtedly need to be pushed on racial justice issues. As we throw our weight behind Bernie Sanders and commit ourselves to supporting the nominee whoever they may be, we must also commit to pressuring the next President of the United States to prioritize and center racial justice.
2020 requires us to act boldly. Join us as we organize like hell to beat back white supremacy and build a movement that can win in November and beyond!
Catalyst Action Fund, a sister organization to Catalyst Project, is a 501(c)(4) project under Tides Advocacy.
© 2022	Catalyst Action Fund


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If you go to Online Billing...click on the service at the appropriate links...you should get that figure.
When does my contract with Telstra terminate?
When does my contract finish?


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We founded IDR as a nonprofit in 2017, with the objective of surfacing these ideas, experiences and practices, so that together we can do more and do right by the millions of Indians whom we work with and for.
We promise to highlight voices on issues that matter, regardless of whether they belong to little-known grassroots organisations or big-name funders. We will write about what has worked but we will also talk to our failures. We will showcase the big ideas even as we cover the functional knowledge that helps us improve our programmes and organisations.
As a platform for Indian voices, we are committed to reflecting the diversity, complexity, and inventiveness of the sector. We want IDR to be as much yours as it is ours.
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Our editorial focus is on cross-sector solutions to development problems, cutting-edge ideas and real-world practice. We know that knowledge is only a part of the solution for any complex problem; but we also know that it is a crucial part. Therefore, we aim to publish substantive, well-written and thought-provoking articles in jargon-free language.
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This was a band merchandise package for the band Foxing and their album, "The Albatross." Their music has a lot of nature themes which I chose to represent abstractly through shapes. The theme of nature also translates to the cardboard CD case I chose to use, as well as the recycled shirt I screen printed on. All paper components of the package fold up into the black case, pictured on the next page. From a packaging standpoint, I wanted to think about what the final design would look like if someone ordered the package online, and how the components would all fit together to form a cohesive piece.


When a loved one ends up at the hospital it can be very hard to find out what is going on. Quite often there may be more than one doctor treating the patient but actually seeing either doctor is very difficult. Doctors have a tremendous work load both at their office and while making rounds at the hospital so time is a precious commodity. Also, nurses assigned to help your loved one have sometimes as many as ten other patients to make sure are fed, medicated properly, tended to according to doctor's orders and generally cared for in the hospital. With all of this going on it can often feel like the loved one is simply a number and getting information about the loved one's treatment seems impossible at best. Most of us do not understand a lot of medical jargon and simply finding someone who will take the time to explain it is very difficult. The loved one has a right to know what is going on and have it explained in simple, easy to understand terms. You must stand up for your loved one to make sure they are getting the best possible care. When Lilly, O'Toole & Brown investigates a medical malpractice issue, most commonly a person fell through the cracks and did not speak up. Do not let that be your loved one.


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Q: centos 6 epel alternative repository replacement I've installed EPEL repository already on my server. I wanted to install something new and I get this error with yum :
PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden"
    Trying other mirror.
    Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: CentALT. Please verify its path and try again
When I checked the EPEL (editor note: actually CentALT but leaving original for clarity) url , I got this error with the url :
403 Forbidden - nginx

So I decided to change EPEL source . I went through the steps at http://howto.wikin.com/wiki/How_to_Delete_Centos_Repositories to remove previous repository and when i do yum repolist getting this :
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: centos.mirror.gtcomm.net
 * extras: centos.mirror.gtcomm.net
 * updates: centos.mirror.iweb.ca
http://centos.alt.ru/repository/centos/6/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden"
Trying other mirror.
repo id         repo name                                                 status
CentALT         CentALT Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64          0
base            CentOS-6 - Base                                           0
extras          CentOS-6 - Extras                                         0
mariadb         MariaDB                                                   0
updates         CentOS-6 - Updates                                        0
repolist: 0

Now, when I want to install the EPEL repository with this command:
sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
still getting this error :
Retrieving http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
    Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
    package epel-release-6-8.noarch is already installed
How can I get the EPEL repo installed?

A: You're attributing the problem to the wrong repository. The error is for the CentALT repository. It does appear to be out of commission at this point (returning 403s). The solution in this case would be to remove the CentALT repository and run yum clean all.
As far as EPEL not appearing in the repository list see what happens after you run yum clean all. It appears that it is still installed on your system.

A: To reinstall the EPEL repository run a yum reinstall for the .rpm of that repo.
yum reinstall 'http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm'


I have deleted emails from my mobile account and have deleted what I could from my desktop email account but it comes up with the following error.
Anything that asks if the target folder still exists would suggest to me that one or both of your devices are setup using IMAP and a folder that it has been synchronising has been deleted. I would check your account via webmail first and see if the rubbish bin has been emptied. I would also check the structure of the folders are the same with your mobile, desktop and webmail before you go any further. It also might pay to backup your email on your pc in case you lose the lot trying to fix the problem.
I was also getting the same issue regarding the emails as I was also unable to delete or access the emails from quite a few days. The folders are there but the emails cannot be accessed, I am also trying to make that fix.


VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (AP) _ AmerisourceBergen Corp. on Thursday said profit surged 27 percent in its latest quarter, helped by growth in its specialty pharmaceuticals business.
The pharmaceuticals and health-care distribution-services company had net income of $116.4 million, or $1.03 a share, for the second quarter ended March 31, compared with $91.9 million, or 84 cents a share, a year ago.
Excluding items, the Valley Forge-based company reported earnings of $1.05 a share for the latest quarter, a penny a share better than the mean estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call.
Revenue rose 11 percent in the latest quarter to $12.16 billion from $10.94 billion.
Operating revenue, which excludes bulk deliveries to customer warehouses, climbed 13 percent to $11.2 billion.
The pharmaceutical distribution unit posted a 13 percent rise in operating revenue to $11.01 billion.
Operating revenue at the PharMerica division, which includes institutional pharmacy and workers' compensation fulfillment operations, increased 10 percent to $397.1 million.
AmerisourceBergen, which had 2002 revenue of $45.23 billion, was formed from the 2001 merger of AmeriSource Health and Bergen Brunswig.
The company reiterated that it expects earnings growth of 20 percent for the rest of the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
The company continues to expect fiscal 2003 operating revenue growth of 13 percent, with 11 percent to 12 percent growth in the second half of the year.
Shares of AmerisourceBergen rose $2.85, or 5.7 percent, to close at $53.13 Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange.


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Nasa tells Toy Show's Adam 'we can't wait for him to one day join our team of dreamers'
Adam on last night's Toy Show. Picture: Andres Poveda Photography
Sat, 28 Nov, 2020 - 20:47
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as Nasa, has said they will be there when one of last night's Toy Show stars is ready.
Adam King, from Cork, won the hearts of the nation following his appearance on Friday's Late Late Toy Show.
Adam told host Ryan Tubridy that his dream is to become CAPCOM - capsule communicator or captain of ground control - at Nasa.
Ground control has since responded to Adam, with Nasa tweeting: "Adam's kind heart and adventurous spirit inspires us.
"There's space for everybody at NASA, and we can't wait for him to one day join our team of dreamers. We'll be here when he's ready."
The Irish Embassy in the US had said they would "reach out" to Nasa and "see if they can't help bring your dreams a little closer".
🌟 Adam's kind heart and adventurous spirit inspires us.
There's space for everybody at NASA, and we can't wait for him to one day join our team of dreamers. We'll be here when he's ready. 🌟 pic.twitter.com/WJCzue9O13
— NASA (@NASA) November 28, 2020
'It's been really humbling': Outpouring of love for Late Late Toy Show star Adam
And that wasn't the only space shout out for the 6-year-old. Famed astronaut Chris Hadfield - who has completed three flights into space - also reached out on social media.
"Adam - I've been lucky enough to CAPCOM many spaceflights. We should talk space together. Take care, be good."
Adam - I've been lucky enough to CAPCOM many spaceflights. We should talk space together. Take care, be good - Chris@RTELateLateShow https://t.co/XacYA9ncKT
— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) November 28, 2020
And the space community weren't finished yet!
The European Space Agency reached out to the Late Late team for Adam's details so they could "send some spacey goodies".
Plenty of other figures also came forward, including Nasa Astronaut Shane Kimbrough who said he was "inspired" by Adam.
Aeronautical engineer Dr Nora Patten said she would love to meet Adam, calling him "a star" while former astronaut Daniel Tank added: "We need more Irish talent in the space program - I'm behind you 100%!"
Speaking to the Irish Examiner on Saturday, Adam's father David said they had been "humbled" by the reaction to his appearance.
"It came across that Adam was just being himself on the show. The outpouring of emotion, not just from Ireland, but from all over the world has been incredibly humbling," he said.
"I don't think it's hit home with us yet, the meaning of it."
David said they have Nora Patten and Chris Hadfield's books at home, "and they are well worn and well-read".
"Our children would genuinely aspire to be like them. We are fortunate that we can see the International Space Station fly over our house, we can get the telescope out and see Mars and Venus in the sky because we live in the countryside."
He said that Adam and his siblings would jump at the chance to work with NASA and the European Space Agency.
Adam was surprised by Temple Street porter John Doyle on last night's show, who Adam said was his friend who gave him presents when he attended the hospital.
Adam's joy at seeing John was, for many, a highlight of the 2020 Toy Show.
John said Adam has "an infectious" smile and he brings the best out of people while Adam said that John is one of his heroes, with John replying in kind.
"I am actually humbled that Adam is my friend," John said.
Who needs a (virtual) hug from Adam King right about now?#LateLateToyShow pic.twitter.com/4pMqwpEty6
— The Late Late Show (@RTELateLateShow) November 27, 2020
Inspiring Adam and Saoirse among stars of an emotional Late Late Toy Show
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