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Top 8 Legal Tech Trends of 2019
By Sajel Mistry, Content Marketing at ContractPodAi
As 2020 fast approaches, it's important to look back and reflect on all of the changes and trends this past year. And when it comes to legal technology, there's a significant number of them that need to be addressed and understood. After all, technology is slowly taking over – for the better. This blog will highlight this year's major developments in legal technology and contract management. With changes in privacy laws around the world, the billions of dollars of investments in legal tech companies, and digital transformation, there's so much to be excited about!
1. Investments:
This year, more than $1.2 billion was spent on artificial intelligence (AI) companies and legal technology in the United States. They raised $13.5 billion in the period between January and September 2019, alone. With more companies realizing the benefits of AI and legal tech in our advancing world, more and more startups are expected emerge. In fact, recent late-stage deals for about 75 AI companies totaled $3 billion, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).
This past year was big for ContractPodAi, especially. We received $55 million in series B funding led by Insight Partners and are one of the fastest growing AI-powered contract management software companies. Meanwhile, the world is starting to embrace AI-driven automation in order to simplify everyday working life. With AI start-ups moving beyond the experimental stage, they're an even larger attraction for investors. And this is only the beginning!
"Legal tech has greatly changed in the last 2-3 years because of the increase of start-ups into the marketplace," says Cara Walker, Esq. Senior Account Executive at ContractPodAi. "Historically, legal tech was coming from two major providers and now we're seeing the start-up market quick to adapt and provide tools and solutions for both in-house legal teams and outside attorneys and law firms. I've never seen such an ability to create and provide based on the needs of the legal profession. The start-ups have made a huge difference to what can be provided to the legal profession."
2. GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation
Privacy and security have always been an issue. And with increased technologies, it's scary to think that what we do isn't really all that private. A few countries have tightened their privacy laws, which have to be complied with by the rest of the world. GDPR is a privacy legislation that came into effect May 25, 2018. In order to retain their consumers and clients, many companies are in the process of changing their security settings to be compliant with it. Still, many more have yet to do so.
Essentially, GDPR lays down rules for processing, storing and managing data from people in the European Union. The privacy law strengthens European Unions data protection to meet the new privacy challenges created by digital and emerging technologies.
Although GDPR is meant to protect EU citizens, it'll affect any company or organization that provides services to the EU or possesses personal data and identification for EU citizens.
Becoming GDPR Compliant
If you're a company owner or part of one, make sure that you're GDPR- compliant or in the process of doing so. This will build consumer trust while giving you the competitive advantage over those that aren't compliant. Besides, who wants to pay the consequences – fines could add up to $7,500 per violation. Moving forward, companies and individuals that meet the GDPR requirements will continue to succeed while the ones who don't will fail in the long run.
There's more than one approach to becoming more GDPR-compliant, though. Be sure to speak to your legal counsel so that you're certain to cover all aspects of the law and that everyone is on the same page. To reduce the risk of a fine, every organization must find out exactly what they must change within their company, delegate someone to do the job, and be responsible for updates and issues that arise.
3. CCPA: California Consumer Privacy Act
The California Consumer Privacy Act prevents data from being collected and sold without Californians' consent or knowledge. Starting in January 2020, businesses and companies above a certain revenue have to reveal the type of personal data that they're collecting, what they plan to use the data for, and any third parties that the data will be shared with. Also, they must provide a discrimination-free opt-out to those who don't want their personal data sold or shared with others. Those who aren't CCPA-compliant risk receiving a large fine also.
Why Is CCPA Important?
Customers need to know that their identifiable information is safe. They need to feel protected when asked to provide personal information. If you're a company in the process of becoming CCPA- compliant, ensure that your employees understand the importance of privacy and the consequences that come with ignoring it. After all, privacy is integral to the security and trust of all clients and customers.
Differences And Similarities Between GDPR And CCPA:
Both GDPR and CCPA target separate parts of the world, but the goal of each remains the same: privacy. It's important for businesses to comply with both laws in order to keep your consumer trust positive. Noncompliance with either can result in a heavy fine of $75-$100 per person per violation.
So although CCPA hasn't come into effect yet, make sure that what you're selling – like software – is compliant with these new rules and regulations.
4. Legal Technology:
Law firms and legal teams realize that the manual work involved with their careers takes up copious amounts of time. In September 2019, investments in legal tech exceeded $1.2 billion. Some trends in the Legaltech world include shifts to the cloud, tech education, legal AI, cybersecurity and tech-supported diversity. Legal technology helps those working in the legal department to focus on more important tasks instead of reading and editing piles of paper. Using legal technology for contract management has also been popular because the task of reviewing a contract manually is tedious and prone to human error.
"Legal operations teams and legal departments in corporations are now frustrated from managing large sums of contracts every day," says Cara Walker, Esq. Senior Account Executive at ContractPodAi. "Contract lifecycle management is one of the fastest growing legal tech in the past 20 years. I have never seen a demand for such a product as CLM."
Legal professionals that adopt technology or contract lifecycle management will allow machines to outperform humans. According to Above the Law, future technologies for the corporate legal department include those that will improve efficiency, productivity, data security tools, technology that uses artificial intelligence, and contract management. The later has become a hot topic in the last year, as more and more people are realizing its benefits. In fact, the 2019 ABA Legal Technology Survey shows that nearly half of all lawyers (49 percent) have used legal analytics software.
5. Artificial Intelligence:
As the world becomes more and more technological, artificial intelligence will only become more prominent. It's already helped countless industries to be efficient, helping to increase their overall profits. Using AI for contract management has also been embraced along with all other legal technology. By 2024, the AI in retail market is expected to reach $4.3 billion. In 2021, it's estimated that AI augmentation will create $2.9 trillion of business value and 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity globally.
Artificial Intelligence Or Machine Learning?
There's still confusion between artificial intelligence and machine learning. In short, artificial intelligence machines are pre-trained and personalized to your needs and wants. Machine learning, on the other hand, needs to be trained over time. That means that the machine learns and adapts to your way of working and your needs. ContractPodAi is an artificial intelligence-based contract lifecycle management (CLM) solution that you don't need to worry about training. And it already comes with thousands of contracts. According to the ABA Survey mentioned above, 41 percent of lawyers indicated that AI-based technology would be the most useful for increasing efficiency, and 24 percent of lawyers said that AI would help with document management and document review.
"It's important to ensure that a system around contract lifecycle management has functional AI, and it is specific to the AI part of the tool, itself," says Mark Langsbury, VP Sales EMEA at ContractPodAi. "There's a lot of vendors out there that say AI is incorporated in their software when it's not. It's the best thing people need to have in their CLM."
6. Digital Transformation:
Digital transformation has been a hot topic this past year, with industries understanding the need to become digital in a technology-filled world. By the end of 2019, spending on digital transformation will reach $1.7 trillion worldwide.
What Is Digital Transformation?
Simply put, digital transformation is the process of automating everyday activities by using technology instead of only human labour. An example is using a software such as Salesforce for better organization, rather than an Excel spreadsheet. Digital transformation is a top priority for boards because they realize that their respective companies need to digitize in order to keep up with – and exceed – the competition. So, it's important to keep up with trends in technology and learn how to incorporate them in your everyday work life.
ContractPodAi's CEO Sarvarth Misra says that digital transformation is a starting point. That's because it takes time to determine the correct tech that your company may need. Some things that the general counsel should consider when managing implementation from a financial and resourcing perspective are:
The selection of the best legal tech platform
IT infrastructure, including hosting, whether on-site or in the cloud
Legal engineering
Machine-learning support, in the case of AI-powered solutions
How Will Digital Transformation Help Me?
Digital transformation makes everyday work clearer and easier. But humans in this sector won't be replaced altogether. After all, there's no replacing the human brain: artificial intelligence machines can only do 80 percent of human work. Instead, digital transformation is more about innovations in technology – those that we must adapt to so that we don't fall behind.
7. LIBOR
LIBOR stands for London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (The name has recently changed to ICE (Inter-Continental Exchange). It's the interest rate at which banks can borrow from one another. This rate is updated everyday by ICE, which takes the highest and lowest figures from every bank before calculating the average rate for that day. But with the end of LIBOR coming in 2021, banks will no longer have to submit their daily rates.
What Is Replacing LIBOR?
SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate) will be "the new LIBOR." SOFR's rate will be based on actual transactions from an average daily volume of more than $1 trillion transactions in the United States, whereas LIBOR was based off of daily estimates.
How Will The End Of LIBOR Affect Contracts?
Although LIBOR is based in London, it's used worldwide and referenced in millions of contracts between companies. The loans agreed upon in the contract use the LIBOR to calculate loans and agreement-based exchange rates. Contracts that end before 2021 are safe, but the contracts that extend beyond 2021 will need to be re-negotiated.
Worldwide, more than $370 trillion of existing financial contracts make reference to LIBOR, and about $200 trillion are in U.S dollars. That means these contracts need to be addressed as soon as possible.
Finding references to LIBOR is quite a lengthy process. It's costly, too. But these efforts must begin now, as 2021 is right around the corner.
How Can AI Help During The Termination Of LIBOR?
The end of LIBOR doesn't have to be strenuous or a negative turning point. By using artificial intelligence, you can quickly identify the contracts that reference LIBOR without having to go through each one manually. Still, now is the time to adopt contract lifecycle management. The companies that have already will have an advantage when LIBOR comes to a close, as they'll be able to quickly adapt to new contracts with the companies that they're working with.
Artificial intelligence is the ultimate solution for removing LIBOR from all contracts. AI-powered contract management systems will get you to the stage where you can renegotiate your deal, without the stress.
8. Contract Management Software:
Seeing the advantages of using new legal technology, legal teams and in-house counsels are beginning to adopt contract management software in the workplace.
What Is Contract Management Software?
Contract management software allows you to have a single system for all agreement-related records. It saves you from manually reviewing a contract. With contract management software, you can find exactly what you need by filtering out what you want, be it a date, auto-renewal date, keyword, or name. The search bar is your best friend!
"Contract management is so beneficial to businesses, and it's great to see companies leverage it," says Derek Karpel, Esq, Account Executive at ContractPodAi. "It has such a huge impact on a business and their ROI, and as someone working in this industry, I enjoy being able to witness that satisfaction."
What Industries Are Most In Need Of Contract Management Software?
Contract management software is for mid-large sized businesses and in-house counsels that need to better organize thousands of contracts.
"Contract management is very beneficial and important to legal departments and legal operations in naming them a true business partner with the rest of the company," says Cara Walker, Esq. at ContractPodAi."I'm an attorney myself, and historically, legal departments played a role that didn't make them business consultants. They were only legal consultants. Adopting a contract management system is allowing them to input to the business and it is clearer to see what is helping and what is not for that corporation."
The average fortune 2000 company has 20,000-40,000 active contracts at a time. And to keep track of all of those, a contract management system is just the solution.
What Are The Advantages Of Contract Management Software?
Adopting contract management software simplifies the lives of lawyers and in-house counsel members. It makes the review of contracts more accessible and less time-consuming. By using contract management software, you'll improve your ROI by allowing your lawyers and in-house team to focus on tasks that need attention, rather than looking through hundreds of pages manually. The benefits are instant, as work that used to take up most of your time is now being done by a machine.
"The sheer growth of companies that are getting into contract management is pretty impressive," says Derek Karpel, Esq. Account Executive at ContractPodAi. "I think its a perception that the legal market is slow to adopt technology and it's now great to see legal folks in the community readily adopt technologies that have a true meaningful impact on their business. People are asking more sophisticated questions about CLM, and there's a huge growth in awareness and knowledge in technology that can help the legal industry."
What Should I Look For In Contract Management Software?
Generally speaking, contract management software provides the best results possible. But how do you know which one is the best for you? When a solution has artificial intelligence integrated in it, it means that the machine is pre-trained and ready for use out-of-the-box. A prime example of contract management software is ContractPodAi, which is integrated with IBM Watson E: V artificial intelligence.
"In the early days, businesses out there would choose a supplier, move forward with them and then highly customize the machine and change the solution," says Mark Langsbury, VP Sales EMEA at ContractPodAi. "What ended up happening was this was very time consuming, costly, and added pressure to the IT team. There's been a shift in the market toward functional out-of-the-box platforms. Out-of-the-box platforms means things are implanted quicker and this will move the customer to a better place in the CLM process. There's a large shift in the decision-making process as well, and lawyers are more understanding and understand the need for legal tech more. Now, they truly recognize CLM is part of legal function environment so they are more willing to adopt that whole process."
By purchasing a software that's pre-trained and uses AI, you can skip the extra task of training the machine and learning how to use it, yourself. Ultimately, the machine will teach you, or do the work for you!
The End Of A Successful Decade
In saying "goodbye" to 2019, we can't help but to be amazed by all of the technological advancements that have happened. And with the start of the new decade, we look forward to even more developments, particularly in the legal technology industry. Keep an eye out for our predictions in legal technology for 2020 report. We love this stuff and can't wait to share more with you!
Sajel Mistry
ContractPodAi empowers your team to assemble, send, sign and approve all kinds of contracts – from NDAs to sales contracts – anywhere, anytime and using any device.
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As managing director for the region, Baran Turkel oversees 17 Best Western properties in Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia.
The operator currently has 1,948 keys in the region, and plans to open a further five hotels, comprising 546 rooms altogether.
New properties signed include The Arch Hotel, BW Signature Collection by Best Western in Juffair, Bahrain, and the Best Western Plus Sidi Yahia in Algiers.
While openings have slowed in the last 12 months, the group still added five new hotels to its portfolio over the last two years, including Best Western Plus Pearl Creek, Dubai; Best Western Premier Al Ahsa Grand, Saudi Arabia; Best Western Plus Buraidah, Saudi Arabia; Best Western Plus Fursan, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and Best Western Plus Hotel Setif, Algeria.
A new entry on the list, Ammar Kanaan oversees Central Hotels' properties in the UAE.
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Rattlers get a first-hand look at Wakati
February 25, 2022 3:19 pm by Diamond Postell | Staff writer
Graphic courtesy Wakati
The beauty industry is slowly changing as it begins to embrace diversity and inclusion. Wakati, which means "time" in Swahili, is a hair-care brand that was created in 2013. It embraces the time and energy needed to maintain and nourish curly textured hair.
On Wednesday, a panel discussion hosted by Wakati and Walgreens took place in the Rattler's Den on FAMU's campus, to highlight the company's unique purpose.
Kao USA partnered with FAMU's School of Business and Industry to create a complete hair care system made for all curls, kinks, and coils. The students were able to understand the consumer's needs and create brand elements that reflect the cultural and functional benefits of the hair care products.
"This was an opportunity for our students to showcase their talent," said Shawta Friday-Stroud, dean of SBI.
The result of this collaboration shapes what Wakati looks like today. The hair products feature key ingredients known to strengthen curly hair. The water-activated conditioner and oil-infused cream were designed to give women the power to soften coarse hair, finger-comb detangle and help reduce shedding.
Curly hair, in general, requires constant love and nourishment through detangling, washing, moisturizing, and styling — more than any other textured hair. Designed to save time and embrace the washing process.
"The future of beauty looks like products that make sense to the way we live our lives," journalist and FAMU alumna Mikki Taylor said.
The product is developing a following because of its ability to allow women to spend less time styling their hair and more time appreciating their curls. Wakati places importance on providing opportunities for women of all generations to embrace and appreciate their hair care culture.
Walgreens, the first retail chain to carry the brand, commits to act in a way that uplifts and inspires diversity. The company values courage commitment and connections which influence a change in communities.
"We want to imbed diversity, equity and inclusion into everything we do," Renee Gaston, a representative from Walgreens, said.
Conversations focusing on what is needed as a community are essential for growth and inclusion. Wakati formed when members of the Kao research and development team asked a single question: "Why are there not more effective hair care formulas specifically designed for natural Black hair?"
This shift in the beauty industry gives evidence that the needs of the Black community are being heard. If more companies follow suit with the intent of diversifying the beauty industry, consumer satisfaction will be a direct result.

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Q: Trouble with Cron and Python I had problem with cron and Python.
I have a code that recognize face live and I need this program to close, so it could write new file with the names that it found, every day.
I'm writing 'crontab -e' in the console and inside contrab I wrote this one:
52 17 * * * /usr/bin/python /home/{usr}/{Folder name}/main.py

I expected, that my program is going to be closed and re-opened, but nothing happened.
What's wrong?

A: The environment of a program running from cron is not the same as the environment in your interactive shell or your desktop login session.
The "standard" solution to this is to write a wrapper script which sets the environment to be what your program needs - e.g. with virtualenv, or just by setting env vars - and run the wrapper script from cron.
That will do for executing the script, anyway.
As for killing it or causing it to take some specific action on certain criteria (e.g. an empty queue or otherwise running out of input data to process; a certain time of day; receiving a specific signal like SIGHUP, SIGSTOP, SIGUSR1, etc; the existence or absence of a semaphore file, etc) that's up to your python program to detect and act upon.
Or you could just have another cron job kill it, or have the cron job that starts it kill any existing instances (or just some of them) before starting a new one - use a PID file or run pkill or something like that.

A: Looks like there is issue with environment and we can set cron environment from the shell env variables
# Make sure to have python file first line is #!/usr/bin/env python
# Setting cron env like below and setted here the SHELL
SHELL=/bin/bash
52 17 * * * /home/{usr}/{Folder name}/main.py

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$20.7M. Max Beckmann portrait breaks German auction records
A tone-portrayal by the German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann may now be the most precious artwork ever to be sold at auction in Germany, according to a report by the Associated Press.
The oil picture for $20.7 million on Thursday at Berlin's Grisebach transaction house. The former record was for a 15th-century citation form of a Buddhist deity from China, which vended last time for about $10 million.
The oil, named Selbstbildnis gelb-rosa (tone-portrayal Yellow-Pink), was made in 1943 during the artist's exile in Amsterdam, where he fled after his work was classified as "degenerate art" by the Nazi governance. Hundreds of his workshops were sequestered from German galleries.
Beckmann gave the painting to his woman, Mathilde Kaulbach, who kept it until her death in 1986. The oil's buyer remains unidentified. With the buyer's decoration, the total price for the work came to about $24.4 million, according to the transaction house.
Artnet News reported that the oil portrait vended to an unidentified Swiss buyer over the phone. The trade marks only the alternate time the oil has changed hands since it was executed.
While Beckmann's most honored workshops are tone-pictures, this one was unique in its oddity. Only five remain in private hands, according to Artnet. His tone-pictures, especially the ones painted while the artist was in exile, infrequently come up for trade.
The former record for a Beckmann tone-portrayal was formed at Sotheby's in New York, where, in 2001, Selbstbildnis mit Horn (1938) vended for $22.5 million with freights, according to the Artnet Price Database. Catcalls Hell (1938 – 39) holds the record for the most precious work by Beckmann, dealing in 2017 for $44 million with freights at Christie's London.
Before dealing at transaction, Selbstbildnis gelb-rosa was on view in New York.
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Wildbird Records Featuring Robin Gregory
Something to Live For & Honeysuckle Rose
Welcome to Wildbird Records, representing the music of classic jazz vocalist, Robin Gregory. Ms. Gregory is available for private functions, corporate events, jazz festivals, voice over projects, commercial and print advertising. For booking info, please contact info@mimallc.com.
"Ms. Gregory is a skillful interpreter of the 'Great American Songbook'. She carefully takes these heirloom jewels from their treasure box, and polishes them to a brilliant sheen, reflecting their intention into the hearts of her listeners, drawing them into the romance of her music. Her tone has caused people to compare her to almost every great, seminal, jazz vocalist"
Ms. Gregory hails from the Eastern Seaboard, having grown up in Washington, DC, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, during a fertile period of musical innovation in the Jazz, Rhythm & Blues and Blues fields. As such, she was surrounded and influenced by these rhythms, from a very early age. She specializes in the "Great American Songbook", and her extensive repertoire of popular jazz standards bespeaks that upbringing. Her smooth and mellow timbre reflects an amalgam of influences that she attributes to the vocalists and instrumentalists who were the seminal innovators of jazzmusic, during its formative period. Some say her voice reminds them of warm honey. She considers some of her greatest influences to be Gloria Lynne, Dakota Staton, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Scott, Nat "King" Cole, Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta Jones, Carmen McRae, Dinah Washington, Johnny Mathis, Nancy Wilson, and Louis Jordan. A former member and soloist with the Oakland Jazz Choir, Ms Gregory has performed in many Bay Area venues over the years, both with that aggregation, and as a solo performer, with her own, very fine, rhythm section. These include the San Francisco Jazz & Wine Festival, the Stanislaus Jazz Festival, the Dunsmuir Jazz & Blues Festival, the Fillmore Street Jazz Festival, The Pleasant Hill Art, Jazz & Wine Festival, New Orleans by the Bay, the Kabuki Theatre, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Great American Music Hall, Kimball's East, Anna's Jazz Island and smaller clubs, restaurants, and outside music venues throughout the Bay Area. Melanie Berzon, of KCMS radio has called her a Bay Area treasure. Both "Honeysuckle Rose", and "Something to Live For", Ms Gregory's CD releases on the Wildbird Records label, are available on CD Baby.com.
Something to Live For
Robin Gregory
Sentimental Journey 3:34
Take The "A" Train 3:09
Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby 2:54
Strange 3:16
You Turned the Tables On Me 3:48
Stormy Weather 6:06
It's Magic 4:52
Why Don't You Do Right? 3:34
Something to Live For 7:02
I'd Do Anything 3:41
Ms Gregory provides an intimate listening experience, not superficial, but deeply emotional. She has a very unique, distinctive style, yet there are reflections of many of the great jazz divas, with a remarkable similarity in tone to that of Chris Connor
"If you think about it, many of the most memorable jazz recordings through the years have had
"If you think about it, many of the most memorable jazz recordings through the years have had a high degree of sensuality. That goes for instrumentals, as well as vocals. Of course, it was true of Lady Day, and Sarah Vaughan, but it's equally true of Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Bill Evans. Robin Gregory continues in that luscious tradition. Her velvet voice and lovely phrasing speaks to your ears and gently caresses your heart." - Bud Spangler, music producer
"Robin Gregory uses dusky contralto tones, subtle phrasing, and crystalline enunciation to draw the listener into the romance of her thoughtfully chosen material, from "Funny (Not Much)" and "Mood Indigo" to "Poor Butterfly", and the title track. Her musical portraits are elegantly framed by pianist-arranger, Bliss Rodriguez; bassist, Michael Jones; and drummer, Jimmy Robinson" - Lee Hildebrand, East Bay Express
Out of This World 5:56
Night and Day 4:35
It's a Blue World 5:33
Dream 7:14
Poor Butterfly 7:08
Perfidia 5:17
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Sokoto: Sultan chairs insecurity committee
Kanmi August 19, 2021 Crime & Security,
The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa'ad Abubakar, has been appointed to chair a stakeholder advisory committee on insecurity.
On Wednesday, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto disclosed this after a maiden meeting of the stakeholders on insecurity.
He explained that his government convened to tackle the worsening insecurity in the state. Mr Tambuwal lamented bandits, kidnappers, and other criminals had subjected residents to a difficult situation.
Although President Muhammadu Buhari's regime has been doing its best to tackle insecurity, the governor said his government had to complement the central government's efforts.
He added that the committee had seven days to present its report, describing it as critical to finding lasting solutions to the challenging situation.
"Impressive turnout of various stakeholders from different areas at this meeting has demonstrated how united Sokoto citizens are on facing the security challenges," Mr Tambuwal said.
The governor called on the people to support the committee and the government to end insecurity.
The meeting was attended by former governors and deputy governors of Sokoto state, serving Senators, Federal house members, state assembly members, and traditional and religious leaders.


Despite being kids movies, Disney films have a reputation for including dark elements like the death of a parent or villains hiding behind a pretty face. But the original stories many Disney movies are based on are even darker and more gruesome than what makes it into the final animated feature. We've already gone over the twisted tales behind Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, and other popular animated films, but we've got even more dark stories that inspired Disney movies.
Here is Screen Rant's look at Dark Disney: The REAL Stories Behind Popular Disney Movies.
In addition to the 1953 Disney movie, the studio released a sequel in 2002 and spun the story off into an entire franchise surrounding Peter Pan's pixie friend Tinkerbell. However, the one question Disney's Peter Pan skips over is what happens to the Lost Boys when they decide they want to grow up. Maybe Peter sends them home? According to the original novel by J.M. Barrie, that isn't the case; instead, "when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out."
It may not explicitly say Peter kills the Lost Boys when they get too old, but the phrasing is too menacing for it to mean anything else. So Neverland isn't just fun adventures and avoiding responsibilities, after all.
Borrowing the basic story structure of star-crossed lovers from Romeo & Juliet, Disney's Pocahontas tells the story of colonist John Smith and Native American Pocahontas who fall in love despite their different beliefs and a language barrier. When Pocahontas' father captures and plans to execute John Smith, Pocahontas saves him and manages to unite the Native Americans and colonists. Of course, according to history, that's not how it actually went.
When John Smith arrived in America he was in his mid 30s while Pocahontas was around 10 or 12 and they never had a romantic relationship. Instead, Pocahontas was kidnapped and forced to marry the Englishman John Rolfe as well as convert to Christianity and change her name to Rebecca. This story doesn't have a happy ending: Pocahontas died in her 20s from unknown causes. We may like the version of this story that includes learning to paint with all the colors of the wind, but history wasn't as kind to Pocahontas.
The third film from the Disney Renaissance, Beauty and the Beast, stays close to the original text of the fairy tale about a beautiful and kind young woman who falls in love with a prince that has been transformed into a beast. However, some changes were made from the original story, like the inclusion of Gaston, and Belle's father being portrayed as an inventor rather than a merchant. Another big change is the exclusion of Belle's two wicked sisters.
In the original story, Beast allows Belle to return home to visit her family for a specific amount of time, but when her sisters see that she's well-dressed and well-fed they ask her to stay longer hoping the Beast will be so angry with Belle that he'll eat her alive. And you thought Cinderella's stepsisters were wicked. Although the sisters are successful in keeping Belle away from Beast, she finds out that staying with her family has caused the Beast to nearly die of heartbreak. She returns and they live happily ever after.
Disney's film about a fox named Tod and a hound dog named Copper is a tale of friends who grow up to be enemies because of their own natural animal instincts and the pressure of their owners. This Disney movie doesn't necessarily have a happy ending, but it is much less sad than in the original novel by Daniel P. Mannix. In Disney's version Tod saves Copper from a bear, then when Copper's owner tries to kill an exhausted Tod, the hound dog protects his old friend and the two live happily, if separately, ever after.
However, in Mannix's book, the Hunter trains Copper to track Tod after the fox cased the death of another of the Hunter's dogs. Copper ends up chasing Tod until the fox collapses from exhaustion and dies. Then, when the Hunter moves into a nursing home a few years later, he kills Copper with a shotgun. If you thought Disney's version of The Fox and The Hound was sad, at least they changed the original ending of the story, which is so much worse.
Disney's The Jungle Book is the tale of an orphaned boy raised by a friendly bear named Baloo and the panther Bagheera. After a series of trials in the jungle and being pursued by a man-eating tiger, Mowgli returns to civilization in a nearby human village. However, in Rudyard Kipling's original books, that's not where the story ends. Mowgli is introduced in Kipling's collection of stories titled The Jungle Book, but one short story in The Second Jungle Book sees Mowgli banished from the village after he's accused of sorcery, with the villagers planning to torture his animal family.
To get revenge, Mowgli enlists the animals of the jungle to destroy the village's fields and food supply before eventually setting loose a herd of elephants that destroy all the village huts, sending the villagers fleeing. He didn't even leave the bare necessities.
The story of the Chinese heroine Mulan dates back centuries and each version follows roughly the same storyline: when the army calls on a member of each family to serve, Mulan takes her father's place because he is too old and her younger brother is too young. Mulan fights as a warrior for 12 years and only reveals herself as a woman to her comrades after being welcomed home by her family. However, one tale features a different ending in which Mulan returns home to find her father has died and her mother remarried.
Although that's bad enough, it gets even worse: Mulan is summoned by a foreign ruler to be his concubine and instead of going, she commits suicide. Not the happiest ending for such a renowned warrior, but fans will be happy to know this ending only appears in one version of the Mulan legend.
Disney's story about a young girl kept in a tower who just wants to see the source of the mysterious lanterns in the sky is based on the folktale of Rapunzel. The most famous version of this tale was written by the Brothers Grimm, which was violent enough since it featured the Prince in the story going blind after falling into some thorn bushes. However, the villain in this tale, Dame Gothel, gets a fairly tame comeuppance compared to the 17th century Italian telling of the story. In this version, the girl is taken as retribution for her mother stealing parsley out of an ogress's garden.
The rest of the story is similar to the one we all know: the girl falls in love with a prince who rescues her from the tower. But in this telling the girl - named Parsley for the plant her mother stole - escapes using three enchanted gallnuts. As Parsley and the Prince are running away, she throws each gallnut in an attempt to distract the ogress and they transform into three animals. Though the ogress outsmarts the first two beasts, the last one, a wolf, swallows her whole. So, by comparison, Mother Gothel had a much more Disney-fied death scene - with no animal violence involved.
Disney's version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame isn't exactly known for being one of the studio's lighter films since Quasimodo's mother is murdered by Frollo on the steps of a cathedral and the minister of justice later sings about being damned to hellfire. However, Victor Hugo's original story is notably darker, which shouldn't surprise anyone since he also wrote Les Misérables. In the original novel, Esmeralda is charged with the attempted murder of Captain Phoebus and sentenced to death. Although Quasimodo is able to offer her sanctuary in the cathedral for a time, Frollo eventually hands her over to the authorities.
When Frollo laughs while Esmeralda is hanged, Quasimodo pushes him off of Notre Dame, then finds Esmeralda's body and stays with her until he dies of starvation. Again, this is a Victor Hugo story, so the fact that everyone is dead or miserable by the end shouldn't be too surprising.
Disney's take on the Greek mythological figure of Hercules focuses on the demi-god's transformation from zero to hero (in no time flat). For his love interest, Disney adapted Hercules' first wife Megara into a spunky but conflicted heroine who won't say she's in love. But, by the end of the film, Hercules and Meg ride off into the sunset to live happily ever after.
But in the original myth Megara's love isn't won over by the hero, she's given to him as a gift for saving Thebes. Plus, in an even darker turn to their story, Hercules kills their children during a temporary god-induced madness, and in some versions kills Megara as well. In general, it's not the kind of material suitable for a Disney movie.
The Disney version of the classic tale of a princess and a frog is changed significantly from the original to be set in 1920s New Orleans and instead of changing the prince back, a kiss turns Tiana into a frog herself. Though true love's kiss does the trick in the end, the original folktale of The Frog Prince sees a number of other methods used to turn the frog back into a prince.
In the Brothers Grimm version, the princess throws the frog against a wall, while other tales see the princess chopping off the frog's head or burning its skin, all of which trigger the prince's transformation. We don't want to tell the storytellers how to do their job, but a kiss is definitely a much more kid-friendly way to break a spell.
So what do you think of our list? Did we miss any other gruesome stories that inspired your favorite Disney movies? Let us know in our comment section and don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos like this one.


Your teeth are just as important as any other part of the body and require regular maintenance to function properly. The majority of people are uneducated about how to keep teeth healthy, while others are just too lazy or claim to not have time to go to the dentist. If you fit in either of these categories of the "dentally challenged", then here are some tips to ensure the longevity of your teeth.
In addition to your teeth, brush your gums. Ideally, you want to brush the teeth, the area where the gums and teeth meet, and the gums themselves. Making sure the gums are cleaned daily will help prevent the onset of oral disease. If you are finding that this makes your gums bleed then you might consider doing it more often or switching to a softer bristle toothbrush.
Stay away from soft drinks or coffee. Both are high in acid that will wear down the enamel of the teeth, deteriorating the surface. Regular consumption of both types of beverages will also create a yellow stain on the teeth over the time.
Make sure you are using a fluoride toothpaste. Anyone who has stepped foot in the oral hygiene department of a convenience store knows there are a million different kinds of toothpaste, each with a different purpose. Look on the back of the box under "active ingredient" and make that there is a percentage amount of a fluoride ion present.
Brush your teeth correctly. Many people make the mistake of just brushing the front of the teeth. Your teeth have two sides, so you want to brush the back also. Position the tooth brush so that the bristles are pointing towards the gums, caress the tip of your teeth, and then push towards the gums. Then, move in a lateral motion to ensure you're brushing every tooth.
Eating a healthy, balanced diet is conducive to good oral hygiene. Eating nutritious foods will not only prevent gum disease, it will help strengthen teeth and prevent cavities. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables daily; raisins are also very good for the teeth. In contrast, high concentrations of green tea and vitamins can lead to gingivitis. Gingivitis is an oral disease in which the gums become inflamed, eventually leading to tooth loss and decay if not treated.
The absolute best way to make sure your teeth are around for a while is to continually visit your local Parkland Mall Dental Centre dentist. Ideally, you want to visit the dentist once every six months for a cleaning and checkup. The dentist and technicians can inform you about the status of your teeth and whether or not there are problem areas.
Following these simple tips will help you have a beautiful smile and strong, healthy teeth that will last a lifetime!


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Food Safety Mistakes to Avoid!
It's that time of year. Your to-do list is a mile long. Finding time to cook is tough. Sometimes you don't even have time to sit down to eat! It's easy to slip up and make food safety mistakes.
What you really don't have time for? Getting sick. That would totally ruin your plan to cross items on your list, as well as perhaps cost you a trip to the doctor. Steer clear of these top food safety mistakes to keep your family healthy and happy this holiday season!
Keeping things neat but not clean. It's pretty easy to pick up the house so it looks clean. But you may not have the chance to sterilize sponges, wash dishtowels or the sink (which is apparently is the dirtiest spot in the home!) Stock up on sponges and change them out frequently. Make a mental note to sterilize your sponge every time you do your daily _____. Maybe it's when you're making your coffee, or take out the trash. Stick a wet cellulose sponge in the microwave for 1 minute. If it's a scrubber sponge, make it 2. According to the Good Housekeeping Institute, that's the second best way to sanitize a sponge. The best way? Soak it in a bleach solution for 5 minutes. The recommended bleach solution is 3/4 cup bleach to 1 gallon of water. To make a smaller amount? Add 1 tablespoon of bleach to 10 oz of water–that's 1 1/4 cup. If laundry is the last thing on your list, buy a stock of hand and dish towels so you have enough without doing a wash for a while. During the holiday meal when lots of people are drying their hands, change the towels often. Or, ask your guests to use paper towels for their hands.
Losing track of leftovers. You're busy and juggling too many things. How can you possibly remember when hubby bought that rotisserie chicken? Was it over the weekend? Or before that? Ditto with deli meat. It spoils pretty quickly and it's easy to lose track of, especially hidden in the deli drawer. Here's a simple way to label leftovers–grab a sharpie! Quickly date prepared foods when you buy or open them. For leftover containers, simply put a piece of scotch tape on top and then date it! Easy-peasy. Check out this chart to see how long it's safe to keep food, from FoodSafety.gov.
Not cooking long enough. This is probably the most common of food safety mistakes. When is it done? When the food thermometer says so. Don't scratch your head any longer, trying to figure out when the roast is ready to serve. Get a quick-read thermometer. Check out this link for Safe Minimum Cooking Temperatures.
Having Too many cooks. You know that spoils the broth…but it could add up to more food safety mistakes! When you have too many people in the kitchen, you don't know if they practice the same clean cooking techniques that you do. Do they wash their hands after touching their nose, or even before handling food for the first time? If you're not sure about your company, think of ways they can help without actually touching the food. For example, pouring nuts into serving dishes or uncorking and serving the wine. And if someone shows up with the the sniffles and wants to help? Tell them their job is to get well and sit them well away from the food prep!
Disrespecting the two-hour time limit. Time flies when you're having fun. So it's easy to keep that cheese and sausage tray out for 4, maybe 5 hours without noticing! Ditto for that Chocolate Soufflé or Crème Brûlé. Same goes even for fruit and veggie trays. (Did you know that many food borne illness outbreaks are from fresh produce?) The reality is, food can begin growing enough bacteria to get you sick after being at room temperature for more than 2 hours (1 hour when it's 90 degrees or more, such as at your Fourth of July cookout.) Make appetizer trays small so they can be exchanged for another one you keep in the fridge. For a buffet, keep the cold desserts cold until people are ready for them. You can keep food hot by using a warming dish like this or a crock pot, and cold food cold by keeping on ice or using special dishes like this one .
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Great reminders, Bridget! Time to go swap out my sponges . . .


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Q: Opening a File and putting the data into a double vector, C++ I'm a beginner to C++, in the beginning of my program, I am trying to have data from a csv file be input into a double vector.
However, when I tried running the program, I keep getting the 'row' and 'col' are not declared in this scope.
I tried to solve this by putting ' int row; int col; ' above 'string input [row][col];'  to try and solve the problem.
But then I get the error "array bound is not an integer constant before ']' token".
I'm wondering how to solve this problem? Or if there is maybe something I am missing that I didn't realize.
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;

string input[row][col];
const int ROW = 10;
const int COL = 4;
string input[ROW][COL];
const string datatable = "table2.csv";
string line;
int col = 0;
int row = 0;

void readCSV()   ////this is the function to read the file
{
    ifstream file(datatable);   ///opens file
    while (getline(file, line))
    {
        istringstream iss(line); //takes out white
        string result;
        while (getline(iss, result, ','))
        {
            input[row][col] = result; // creates string for element
            col = col + 1;
        }
        row = row + 1;
        col = 0;

    }

A: At a bare minimum, you need to delete the first
string input[row][col];

After all ,input is declared (correctly) a few lines down.

A: I hope you do not take this as being offensive, but there are multiple errors here.
I'll start off by commenting your code to show where the errors are, and then I will get into explaining the problems:
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;

string input[row][col]; /* <- "row" and "col" are not yet defined */
const int ROW = 10;
const int COL = 4;
string input[ROW][COL]; /* <- you already have a variable named "input" */
const string datatable = "table2.csv";
string line;
int col = 0;
int row = 0;

void readCSV()
{
    ifstream file(datatable);   ///opens file
    while (getline(file, line)) /* <- no check to make sure max rows are not exceeded */
    {
        istringstream iss(line); //takes out white
        string result;
        while (getline(iss, result, ',')) /* No check to make sure max columns are not exceeded */
        {
            input[row][col] = result; // creates string for element
            col = col + 1;
        }
        row = row + 1;
        col = 0;

    }

To revise these, I would do the following:

*

*I would delete string input[row][col] as that is defined later on properly.

*I would change while (getline(file, line)) to while (getline(file, line) && row < ROW)

*I would change while (getline(iss, result, ',')) to while (getline(iss, result, ',') && col < COL)
I am not guaranteeing that these are the only problems and that the code will run perfectly after correcting these issues. (I rarely program in C++ anymore, so I cannot make that guarantee with 100% confidence.) However, these are just some initial errors/problems that I am noticing right off the bat.

Edit: Just as an additional note, I agree with another answer that was posted (it seems to be deleted now) which recommended changing ROW and COL to preprocessor definitions/macros. For example, const int ROW = 10 would become #define ROW 10 and const int COL = 4 would become #define COL 4. In your example here, it would not cause a huge change, but the benefit here is that ROW and COL will not occupy memory space as variables then, because the compiler will replace all references to COL and ROW with the literal defined values of 4 and 10 respectively.
That is somewhat of a preference based suggestion, though, so feel free to do whatever you feel more comfortable with. Just based on the snippet of code you provided, you probably will not see any performance change anyway. However, I wanted to give my personal opinion on this since another answer suggested it.


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#ifndef LOGGERDEST_H
#define LOGGERDEST_H

#include <stdint.h>

#define LOGGER_USE_USE_UDP
#ifdef LOGGER_USE_USE_UDP
#include <netinet/in.h>
#endif

#ifndef LOGGER_DEBUG_PREFIX
#define LOGGER_DEBUG_PREFIX         "[debug] "
#endif
#ifndef LOGGER_ERROR_PREFIX
#define LOGGER_ERROR_PREFIX         "[error] "
#endif

namespace jacl
{

class LogDispatcher
{
public:
    enum LogType {LOG_INFO = 0x1, LOG_DEBUG = 0x2, LOG_ERROR = 0x4};

    LogDispatcher(uint32_t mask = (LOG_INFO|LOG_DEBUG|LOG_ERROR));
    virtual ~LogDispatcher() = 0;

    uint32_t mask() {return mMask;}
    void setMask(uint32_t mask) {mMask = mask;}
    void block(LogType type) {mMask |= type;}
    void unblock(LogType type) {mMask = mMask & ~type;}

protected:
    virtual void infoMessage(const char * message, int len) = 0;
    virtual void debugMessage(const char * message, int len) = 0;
    virtual void errorMessage(const char * message, int len) = 0;

    /// Logger interface
    friend class Logger;
    virtual void sink(uint32_t type, const char * message, int len = -1);

private:
    LogDispatcher(const LogDispatcher &);
    void operator=(const LogDispatcher &);

    uint32_t    mMask;
};

}

#endif // LOGGERDEST_H


NIX N' EASY X08A is a 8 Inch Hi Resolution SVGA Digital Photo Frame features Hi Resolution 8 Inch SVGA 4:3 Screen 800 x 600 pixels, Video, Photo, MP3 Music, Remote Control, Auto Rotate Sensor and Split Screen Image Option, SD, xD, Sony MS Memory Cards, USB Flash Drive, Smart Slim Design with intuitive toggle controls on the back and a fold away stand.
The NIX N' EASY X08A is a new frame from NIX for those who want a straightforward and easy to use frame that does not compromise on the integrity of a high quality, hi resolution SVGA LCD Screen with LED back lighting. Importantly the frame will also play your MPEG-4 / .AVI video, JPEG photos and MP3 music. Additional features include an auto rotate sensor that flips your photos 90 degrees when you physically rotate the frame. This optimizes the use of the screen for your portrait (vertical) photos. Also featuring is the new split screen display function that will display up to four of your photos on the screen at the same time.
Last but not least, the slim profile design, intuitive finger toggle control on the back and the fold away stand makes for an elegant and simple frame. The X08A now also sports the new 'Combo' feature that allows you to place specifically chosen images and music together in a single folder, thus allowing you to essentially create a specific soundtrack for a specific slide show. Ideal for showing off that holiday you just got back from! Remember that connecting the frame to external speakers via the audio jack allows for an even richer sound experience.
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Auto News Leaked 2018 Jeep Wrangler JL Owner's Manual Tells All
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Leaked 2018 Jeep Wrangler JL Owner's Manual Tells All
By Sam McEachern Oct 16, 2017
The owner's manual for the 2018 Jeep Wrangler JL has leaked online, revealing just about everything you could ever want to know about the new SUV.
The owner's manual includes exterior and interior images of the latest generation of the Wrangler along with information on the powertrain, interior features, roof configurations and much more. It confirms that both a 2.0-liter turbo four and 3.6-liter V6 engine will be offered in the Wrangler (power figures still aren't available) along with both a six-speed manual and eight-speed automatic transmissions. Also of note is the removable roof, which is also available as a power-folding soft top, the removable doors and the folding windshield.
SEE ALSO: Looks Like a 368-HP Turbo Jeep Wrangler Isn't Happening
Details on the interior display were revealed through the manual as well. The Wrangler JL will get Fiat Chrysler's fourth-generation UConnect C display system, available with 7-inch or 8.4-inch displays. Entry-level models will feature UConnect 3 with a 5-inch display. Certain models will feature 'off-road pages' within the UConnect system, which shows the pitch and roll of the vehicle, suspension articulation, and steering angle through a digital animation. The instrument cluster will feature a 3.5-inch display as standard, but a 7-inch digital instrument display will be available on certain models. The cabin will also feature a start-stop button, steering wheel-mounted audio and display controls and an available 4G wi-fi hotspot.
There's literally hundreds of pages of information to pore over with this leak. If you're wanting more info, feel free to download the manual at this link and get yourself very acclimated with the 2018 Jeep Wrangler JL. The highly anticipated off-roader will make its debut at the 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show in late November, so stay tuned for our full report on the SUVs long-awaited arrival.
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Q: Example of Kendo Grid MVC Wrapper with Web API 2 Controller I'm trying to find an example of a Kendo Grid MVC server wrapper using a Web API 2 controller and not having much luck.  Is there a way to use those server wrappers with the controller generated by VS using "Add" -> "Controller" -> "Web API 2 Controller with actions, using Entity Framework?"  Does using async controller actions affect this?
I've looked at the tutorials at Telerik (http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/tutorials/asp.net/asp-net-hello-services) and at the sample project (http://www.telerik.com/support/code-library/binding-to-a-web-apicontroller-6cdc432b8326), but neither of those are using the new Web API 2 controllers that VS can automatically generate.
I'd prefer to be able to use the VS generated controllers, but my skills are apparently not up to adapting the existing examples to them (this is my first project with MVC/Web API).  Has anyone else done this or should I just write controllers like in those two-year-old examples?
ETA: Just to include the starting point I've currently got:
I created models using EF Code First from database.  The simple one I'm using to test this with is this one:
namespace TestProject.Models
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
    using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;

    [Table("TP.Industry")]
    public partial class Industry
    {
        public Industry()
        {
            Companies = new HashSet<Company>();
        }

        public int IndustryId { get; set; }

        public int IndustryCode { get; set; }

        [Required]
        [StringLength(150)]
        public string IndustryName { get; set; }

        public virtual ICollection<Company> Companies { get; set; }
    }
}

I then created controllers using the "Web API 2 Controller with actions, using Entity Framework" option and checked "Use async controller actions" to get the following controller for that model:
using System;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Web.Http;
using System.Web.Http.Description;
using TestProject.Models;

namespace TestProject.Controllers
{
    public class IndustryController : ApiController
    {
        private TestProjectContext db = new TestProjectContext();

        // GET api/Industry
        public IQueryable<Industry> GetIndustries()
        {
            return db.Industries;
        }

        // GET api/Industry/5
        [ResponseType(typeof(Industry))]
        public async Task<IHttpActionResult> GetIndustry(int id)
        {
            Industry industry = await db.Industries.FindAsync(id);
            if (industry == null)
            {
                return NotFound();
            }

            return Ok(industry);
        }

        // PUT api/Industry/5
        public async Task<IHttpActionResult> PutIndustry(int id, Industry industry)
        {
            if (!ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                return BadRequest(ModelState);
            }

            if (id != industry.IndustryId)
            {
                return BadRequest();
            }

            db.Entry(industry).State = EntityState.Modified;

            try
            {
                await db.SaveChangesAsync();
            }
            catch (DbUpdateConcurrencyException)
            {
                if (!IndustryExists(id))
                {
                    return NotFound();
                }
                else
                {
                    throw;
                }
            }

            return StatusCode(HttpStatusCode.NoContent);
        }

        // POST api/Industry
        [ResponseType(typeof(Industry))]
        public async Task<IHttpActionResult> PostIndustry(Industry industry)
        {
            if (!ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                return BadRequest(ModelState);
            }

            db.Industries.Add(industry);
            await db.SaveChangesAsync();

            return CreatedAtRoute("DefaultApi", new { id = industry.IndustryId }, industry);
        }

        // DELETE api/Industry/5
        [ResponseType(typeof(Industry))]
        public async Task<IHttpActionResult> DeleteIndustry(int id)
        {
            Industry industry = await db.Industries.FindAsync(id);
            if (industry == null)
            {
                return NotFound();
            }

            db.Industries.Remove(industry);
            await db.SaveChangesAsync();

            return Ok(industry);
        }

        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            if (disposing)
            {
                db.Dispose();
            }
            base.Dispose(disposing);
        }

        private bool IndustryExists(int id)
        {
            return db.Industries.Count(e => e.IndustryId == id) > 0;
        }
    }
}

Finally, I put the following Kendo UI MVC wrapper code in my view for the grid:
@(Html.Kendo().Grid<TestProject.Models.Industry>()
    .Name("Grid")
    .Columns(columns =>
    {
        columns.Bound(c => c.IndustryId);
        columns.Bound(c => c.IndustryCode);
        columns.Bound(c => c.IndustryName);
        columns.Command(c =>
        {
            c.Edit();
            c.Destroy();
        });
    })
    .ToolBar(tools =>
    {
        tools.Create();
    })
    .Sortable()
    .Pageable(pageable => pageable
        .Refresh(true)
        .PageSizes(true)
        .ButtonCount(5))
    .Filterable()
    .DataSource(dataSource => dataSource
        .Ajax()
        .Model(model =>
        {
            model.Id(c => c.IndustryId);
        })
        .Read(read => read.Url("../api/Industry").Type(HttpVerbs.Get))
        .Create(create => create.Url("../api/Industry").Type(HttpVerbs.Post))
        .Update(update => update.Url("../api/Industry").Type(HttpVerbs.Put))
        .Destroy(destroy => destroy.Url("../api/Industry").Type(HttpVerbs.Delete))
    )
)

The grid returns no data and request for the api returns this 500 Internal Server Error:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<Error>
    <Message>An error has occurred.</Message>
    <ExceptionMessage>
        The 'ObjectContent`1' type failed to serialize the response body for content type 'application/xml; charset=utf-8'.
    </ExceptionMessage>
    <ExceptionType>System.InvalidOperationException</ExceptionType>
    <StackTrace/>
    <InnerException>
    <Message>An error has occurred.</Message>
    <ExceptionMessage>
        Type 'System.Data.Entity.DynamicProxies.Industry_5BBD811C8CEC2A7DB96D23BD05DB137D072FDCC62C2E0039D219F269651E59AF' with data contract name 'Industry_5BBD811C8CEC2A7DB96D23BD05DB137D072FDCC62C2E0039D219F269651E59AF:http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Data.Entity.DynamicProxies' is not expected. Consider using a DataContractResolver or add any types not known statically to the list of known types - for example, by using the KnownTypeAttribute attribute or by adding them to the list of known types passed to DataContractSerializer.
    </ExceptionMessage>
    <ExceptionType>
        System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException
    </ExceptionType>
    <StackTrace>
        at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializerWriteContext.SerializeAndVerifyType(DataContract dataContract, XmlWriterDelegator xmlWriter, Object obj, Boolean verifyKnownType, RuntimeTypeHandle declaredTypeHandle, Type declaredType) at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializerWriteContext.SerializeWithXsiTypeAtTopLevel(DataContract dataContract, XmlWriterDelegator xmlWriter, Object obj, RuntimeTypeHandle originalDeclaredTypeHandle, Type graphType) at System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractSerializer.InternalWriteObjectContent(XmlWriterDelegator writer, Object graph, DataContractResolver dataContractResolver) at System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractSerializer.InternalWriteObject(XmlWriterDelegator writer, Object graph, DataContractResolver dataContractResolver) at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializer.WriteObjectHandleExceptions(XmlWriterDelegator writer, Object graph, DataContractResolver dataContractResolver) at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializer.WriteObjectHandleExceptions(XmlWriterDelegator writer, Object graph) at System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractSerializer.WriteObject(XmlWriter writer, Object graph) at System.Net.Http.Formatting.XmlMediaTypeFormatter.WriteToStream(Type type, Object value, Stream writeStream, HttpContent content) at System.Net.Http.Formatting.XmlMediaTypeFormatter.WriteToStreamAsync(Type type, Object value, Stream writeStream, HttpContent content, TransportContext transportContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken) --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ValidateEnd(Task task) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.GetResult() at System.Web.Http.WebHost.HttpControllerHandler.<WriteBufferedResponseContentAsync>d__1b.MoveNext()
    </StackTrace>
    </InnerException>
</Error>

In fact, if I just scaffold a view on that model, like this:
@model IEnumerable<TestProject.Models.Industry>

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Industries";
}

Industries

    @Html.ActionLink("Create New", "Create")

            @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.IndustryCode)

            @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.IndustryName)

@foreach (var item in Model) {

            @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.IndustryCode)

            @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.IndustryName)

            @Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { id=item.IndustryId }) |
            @Html.ActionLink("Details", "Details", new { id=item.IndustryId }) |
            @Html.ActionLink("Delete", "Delete", new { id=item.IndustryId })

}

The "@foreach (var item in Model) {" line generates a "NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object." error.
It seems like even if the Kendo part wasn't right, at the very least all of the VS generated code should work correctly and it doesn't seem to be.

A: So, based on my research so far, there just don't seem to be any examples of using the Kendo MVC wrappers with Web API 2 controllers with async actions.
However, there now seems to be a Web API Editing section in the Kendo UI Getting Started docs (that I swear wasn't there before) that has a more up to date example that doesn't rely on adding the DataSourceRequestModelBinder.cs file to the project.
The controller setup is basically like the previous examples, but the .DataSource on the grid wrapper now looks like this:
.DataSource(dataSource => dataSource
    .WebApi()
    .Model(model =>
    {
        model.Id(i => i.IndustryId);
        model.Field(i => i.IndustryId).Editable(false);
    })
    .Create(create => create.Url(Url.HttpRouteUrl("DefaultApi", new { controller = "Industries" })))
    .Read(read => read.Url(Url.HttpRouteUrl("DefaultApi", new { controller = "Industries" })))
    .Update(update => update.Url(Url.HttpRouteUrl("DefaultApi", new { controller = "Industries", id = "{0}" })))
    .Destroy(destroy => destroy.Url(Url.HttpRouteUrl("DefaultApi", new { controller = "Industries", id = "{0}" })))
)

That .WebApi() method just wasn't showing up in any of my searches.  This seems to work though, so I'm going to run with it.  Thanks, all!

A: Here you can find a repository with more examples regarding the MVC technology. There should be an example that you are searching for.


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Mohammed bin Rashid issues Decree on advertising regulations in Dubai
Photo: Dubai Media Office
Published Tuesday, February 25, 2020
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, has issued Decree No. 06 of 2020 regarding the regulation of advertisements in the Emirate of Dubai.
The new Decree seeks to regulate the advertisement sector and promote closer interaction between governing bodies and the advertisement industry.
Broadly, the new Decree seeks to preserve the visual appearance and beauty of the city and ensure advertisements harmonise with the design of buildings. The Decree also seeks to uphold public and traffic safety and monitor advertisements to prevent misinformation and violations of public order, morals and customs.
The new Decree is applicable to all advertisements in the Emirates of Dubai, including private development zones and free zones.
According to the Decree, it is strictly forbidden for any entity to display advertisements in Dubai without obtaining prior permission from competent authorities. Authorities responsible for providing permission in their respective jurisdictions include Dubai Municipality, Roads and Transport Authority , Department of Economic Development, the authority managing a private development zone, the authority managing a free zone, Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and Dubai Maritime City Authority.
According to the Decree, Dubai Municipality, in collaboration with other concerned entities, will develop a sets of guidelines detailing all the procedures, requirements and technical specifications for obtaining advertisement permits.
All applications for advertisement permits must satisfy the requirements outlined in the guidelines. After obtaining the permit, the applicant must fully comply with the specifications in the permit, including the dimensions, timeframe, advertisement method and all other procedures and technical specifications outlined in the guideline.
Pursuant to the Decree, advertisements cannot be placed on historic buildings, places of worship, graveyards, traffic lights and signs, government buildings, trees, restricted areas, military areas, residential buildings and any other location restricted by authorised entities.
Once the authorised period for displaying the advertisement is over or the contract has expired, the advertising company must remove the ad and restore the location to its original state.
The Decree also specifies the fines and penalties for violations. The violator can appeal in writing to the Director General of the concerned government entity within 30 days of the date of the fine notification.
The Chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai will issue the bylaws required to implement this Decree, which annuls Local Order No. 30 of 1986 Regarding Supervision of Advertisements in the Emirate of Dubai and any other legislation that contradicts or challenges its articles. The new Decree will be published in the Official Gazette and will be effective three months after the date of its publication.


The Islington Comic Forum is a monthly meeting for anyone interesting in graphic novels and comic books.
Tuesday the 28st of February / 6:00pm to 7:30pm.
Meet and talk with other members. Hear recommendations. Tell us what you think. And a selection of over 100 hand-picked titles for you to borrow and take home.
If you get a chance please read it. You can reserve yourself a copy here. (For those of you that don't get the chance - don't worry - you can still come and join in with the discussions).
For more information (or if you have any questions) you can email us here .
Come and join us. All welcome.
Your group sounds excellent - please move to Edinburgh!
If we ever open up a Edinburgh branch - we'll be sure to let you know!


Hanoi (VNA) – Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for External Relations Nguyen Van Giau has affirmed that the Vietnamese legislature always supports the strengthening of traditional friendship and cooperation with Cambodia and its lawmaking body.
During a working session in Hanoi on March 22 with Chairman of the Cambodian National Assembly's Commission on Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, Information and Media Chheang Vun, Giau congratulated the Cambodian parliament on successfully holding the 27th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF-27) in Siem Reap.
Over the past years, the two legislatures have well implemented the cooperation agreement that they signed in April 2012, facilitated regular exchange of high-ranking delegations and worked closely together at regional and global forums to which the two legislatures are members, contributing to fostering cooperation, mutual trust and understanding.
Giau suggested that the two sides should improve the efficiency of collaboration at regional and global inter-parliamentary forums for the benefit of the two countries' people and for peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world, as well as share experience in the building of institutions and laws and the supervision of law enforcement.
Chheang Vun, for his part, said the successful hosting of the APPF-27 is an achievement of not only Cambodia but also member legislatures.
He added that the Cambodian parliament wants to learn from Vietnam's experience in hosting big events and always supports Vietnam's stances at parliamentary forums such as the APPF.


Fall is here, and with the cooler temperatures and crisper air come Bastyr events as refreshing as a cup of cider. Here are a few of the happenings at our campuses and clinics this month.
Fall is here, and with the cooler temperatures and crisper air come Bastyr events as refreshing as a cup of cider. Here are a few of the happenings at our campuses clinics this month.
In a major step toward increasing the visibility of natural medicine, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution designating October 7-13 as Naturopathic Medicine Week. The resolution recognizes the value of naturopathic medicine in providing "safe, effective, and affordable health care," and encourages Americans to learn about the role of naturopathic physicians in preventing chronic and debilitating conditions. On October 10, our teaching clinic, Bastyr Center for Natural Health, will celebrate the week with a free public event featuring blood pressure screenings, refreshments, informational tables and a talk: How Naturopathic Medicine Can Help You.
For two weekends this month, our Kenmore campus forest will be home to a frightfully good time as Haunted Trails returns. Now in its 15th year, the annual event – one of the longest-running and most popular Halloween activities on the Eastside of the Puget Sound area – promises to have something for everyone in the family, including scares for thrill-seekers and trick-or-treating for the young ones. Proceeds from the events will go toward our students' study-abroad trips.
Bastyr-formulated Choice Organic Teas are now available at retail stores across the United States. The eight different blends of herbal wellness teas, formulated by Bastyr herbalists, taste great while also improving the health of those who drink them. Additionally, a portion of the sales goes to the University's student scholarship fund. The teas were recently featured in a Seattle TV story.
Bastyr Center for Natural Health features a pair of free talks this month, as its popular "Living Naturally" lecture series continues. On October 10, Emily Lesnak, ND, will present on "How Naturopathic Medicine Can Help You," part of Naturopathic Medicine Week events, and on October 19 Calvin Kwan, ND, provides tips on "Preventing Sports Injuries with Natural Medicine." Arrive early, as these talks often fill up.
One of our biggest events of the year, the Founders' Day Dinner, is just around the corner. Mark your calendars now for November 2, when we will spend the evening honoring University founders and the next generation of healers at our annual scholarship fundraising dinner. It is always an uplifting event that leaves me excited about the past, present and future of natural medicine.
On November 9, Bastyr University Clinic will open its doors for a community gathering to celebrate the newly renovated facility and share information about natural medicine. Activities will include clinic and campus tours, healthy cooking demonstrations, free health screenings, faculty presentations, light refreshments, giveaways and special offers.
The leaves may be falling, but we at Bastyr are continually striving to rise. I hope you continue to follow all the news that is happening here and consider attending some of our events this fall.


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Queen Letizia of Spain dazzles in earrings worth over £13,000 and stunning jumpsuit
Queen Letizia arrived at the Royal Theatre in Madrid, Spain tonight.
She attended the Teatro Real with her husband Kind Felipe, 50.
The brunette wore a navy asymmetric jumpsuit, which many mistook for a gown at first glance.
Letizia wore navy blue suede shoes and carried a blue clutch to match.
Letizia wore a pair of earrings which fans on Twitter identified as being Bvlgari, an Italian luxury brand.
While the Queen's pair were not available on the brand's site, it appeared that they were from the "MVSA" collection.
These are worth £13,400, but a bespoke pair for a royal could be worth much, much more.
The label behind Letizia's jumpsuit caused some confusion.
While some believed it to be a custom version of a£256.70 number from Pedro del Hierro, others identified it as a £660.64 Donna Karan piece.
Her Nina Ricci shoes were a pair of £477 pointed toe pumps.
Her make-up was subtle with a brown smokey eye and nude lips.
Her hair was swept back into a messy bun style, which afforded Letitia a chic nonchalance.
However, one of the main stars of Letizia's look was her stunning tan.
Queen Letizia"s haircut in recent days saw fans go wild for it.
Most recently Queen Letizia of Spain stunned in a designer outfit worth over £1,230.
Queen Letizia, the stunning Spanish royal, looked lovely in a feminine look.
The royal, known for her style, opted for a blue and lilac ensemble.
The brunette smiled as she met audiences at her home Zarzuela Palace in Madrid, Spain.
The Zarzuela Palace is the residence of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain and their family.
Categories:	Life & Style	/ No Responses / by martin September 19, 2018
36 Really Fun Outdoor Games and Gear for Summer
Article was originally published on InstaGifts. It's warm, the grass is green, it's time for some lawn games with friends...


Anteaters, armadillos, sloths, and several extinct species make up an order of mammals called Edentata ("without teeth"), now found only in the Western Hemisphere and chiefly in South America. Only one species of the order, the long-nosed armadillo, is found in the United States, chiefly in Texas. Although the name of the order means "toothless", armadillos and sloths do have a single set of teeth, which look like wooden pegs, lack enamel, and are constantly growing. Only the anteater do not have teeth. Edentates live in a number of habitats, including subtropical and tropical environments. Giant anteater live in grasslands but also can be found in western South American forests. They feed on termites and ants, either at night or during the day. Lesser anteater live mostly in tropical rain forests and are nocturnal in their habits, preferring to hunt at night. Tree sloths live in trees in humid tropical forests, where they feed exclusively on leaves and plants. Armadillos are found in grasslands and forests and live in burrows. They feed mainly on insects and worms.