Nothing like waking up and being greeted by a gorgeous Indianapolis sunrise! Glad I chose to wake up early this morning rather than hit the snooze button a few (dozen) times. I'm back in Ohio now but so thankful for the time I was able to spend with such lovely people in Indiana and Illinois this weekend. Although my time on the highways can get lonely, I rarely find myself feeling that way once in the cities I'm visiting. Endless thanks to those of you who put me up for a night, played board games with me, or helped me set up a show. I'm talking to you Matt in Fountain Square, Kimmie at Foundry Provisions, Todd in Champaign, Kari & Craig in Bloomington, and Lesli in Indianapolis!
This Friday, I'll be driving south for my last shows of 2013 which will include my 100th show of the year! You can find me in Kentucky (one show), Georgia (two shows), and Florida (vacation). If I don't respond to your emails, texts, or phone calls before November 17, don't take it personally. I will probably just have thrown all of my electronic devices into the Atlantic Ocean.
Have a great week everyone, and remember that those beautiful leaves will eventually fall to the ground. Here's hoping you're able to get outside as much as you can to enjoy the autumn weather and scenery!


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El virus de la influenza A (H1N1) (también llamado inicialmente virus de la gripe porcina o como de la nueva gripe) en Colombia comenzó el 2 de mayo de 2009, debido al contacto aerocomercial con las áreas endémicas, principalmente México y Estados Unidos, según informó el Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social. De esta manera, Colombia se convirtió en el primer país en reportar casos de gripe A en América del Sur y el quinto en el continente americano.

El primer caso confirmado en el país se trató de un hombre de 42 años de edad, que había visitado México; las autoridades sanitarias informaron que el paciente se encontraba en buenas condiciones de salud y que permanecía en su casa, acompañado de su familia.

El ministro de la Protección Social, Diego Palacio, anunció el sábado 25 de abril que había 12 casos probables del virus. El lunes 27, el Gobierno de Colombia declaró el estado de "desastre nacional" en el país, con el fin de tomar las medidas necesarias para enfrentar un posible contagio masivo del virus en el país. Inicialmente estaban en observación 20 personas que habían llegado en días anteriores de México y que presentaban síntomas de gripe. Se descartaron 10 de estos casos, mientras que los restantes aún continuaban en observación; todas ellas en ciudades como Bogotá y Cartagena. Por otro lado, según la Organización Panamericana de la Salud, en Colombia podrían verse afectadas por el virus de la gripe A (H1N1) entre cuatro y siete millones de personas. También se estima que la población desplazada sea la más afectada, debido a sus distorsiones en el sistema inmunológico a causa de la desnutrición a la que se ve abocada.

Cronología
El Ministro de Protección Social, Diego Palacio, anunció el 26 de abril de 2009 que se habían detectado 12 casos sospechosos, 9 en Bogotá y 3 en la costa del Caribe. Se han enviado muestras del virus a los Estados Unidos.  Para realizar comparaciones y análisis. Los resultados de las pruebas se esperaban dentro de unos días. El 27 de abril, el Gobierno declaró un estado de "desastre nacional" para enfrentar la emergencia, lo que permitió que las autoridades sanitarias tuvieran un presupuesto especial para hacerlo. Al 28 de abril, la mayoría de los casos sospechosos fueron excluidos, con solo cuatro restantes: tres maestros mexicanos en Bogotá y una persona en Cartagena. Otros 38 casos sospechosos estaban bajo observación. El 29 de abril, los casos sospechosos aumentaron a 49, con 10 de ellos "altamente" sospechosos. El gobierno compró 400,000 dosis de oseltamivir (Tamiflu), que se distribuirán a través del ministerio de Protección Social a los afectados si hay casos confirmados.

El lunes 27 de abril, el Gobierno de Colombia declaró el estado de "desastre nacional" en el país, con el fin de tomar las medidas necesarias para enfrentar un posible contagio masivo del virus en el país. Inicialmente estaban en observación 20 personas que habían llegado en días anteriores de México y que presentaban síntomas de gripe. Se descartaron 10 de estos casos, mientras que los restantes aún continuaban en observación; todas ellas en ciudades como Bogotá y Cartagena. Por otro lado, según la Organización Panamericana de la Salud, en Colombia podrían verse afectadas por el virus de la gripe A (H1N1) entre cuatro y siete millones de personas. También se estima que la población desplazada sea la más afectada, debido a sus distorsiones en el sistema inmunológico a causa de la desnutrición a la que se ve abocada.

La noche del 2 de mayo de 2009 se confirmó el primer caso de contagio de virus H1N1 en Colombia, correspondiente a un hombre de 42 años oriundo de Zipaquirá, quien había llegado de México. El Ministro de la Protección Social aseguró en la mañana del 3 de mayo que el paciente ya se encuentra en casa con su familia, y que ha sido valorado por los especialistas epidemiológicos.

El 9 de junio de 2009 se confirma el primer caso de muerte en el país: se trataba de una joven de 24 años que murió en la ciudad de Bogotá.

El 3 de mayo de 2009, el Ministro Palacio confirmó el primer caso de A (H1N1) en Colombia en una persona de 42 años de Zipaquirá, que recientemente viajó a México. Según Palacio, solo una de las 18 pruebas enviadas a Atlanta fue positiva. El paciente fue aislado y sometido a tratamiento médico.  El mismo día, Palacio declaró que había 108 casos sospechosos en el país. El 9 de junio, se confirmó la primera muerte de H1N1. Diez días después, un periódico local El Tiempo anunció una nueva muerte en Bogotá, informada el 21 de junio. El 17 de julio, El Tiempo informó la primera muerte de gripe porcina fuera de Cundinamarca, que también es la séptima en toda Colombia.

El 30 de agosto de 2009, El Tiempo informó que el presidente Álvaro Uribe había contraído el virus de la gripe AH1N1, convirtiéndose en el segundo jefe de estado en hacerlo (el primero fue Óscar Arias Sánchez)

Véase también
 Pandemia de gripe A (H1N1) de 2009-2010
 Pandemia de gripe A (H1N1) de 2009-2010 por país
 Pandemia de coronavirus de 2020 en Colombia
 Pandemia de COVID-19

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Colombia
Colombia en 2009
Salud en Colombia

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TitanTanic is Launched January 13, 2019!
Willapa Elementary's partner school, Taneashi Primary School in Hachinohe, Japan launched their boat called "Let's Go! Friends Hope!" on November 14, 2018. Willapa's boat, "Titantic" soon will be launched from our coast to head for Japan!
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Q: How to change the label position when plotting venn diagram from eulerr package in R? I am trying to create a scaled venn diagram using the eulerr package in R.
My Code is below:
plot(euler(c( "LUTS"=98, "Symptoms of UTI"=46, "Positive urine culture"=39,
              "Symptoms of UTI&LUTS"=33, "LUTS&Positive urine culture"=24,
              "Symptoms of UTI&Positive urine culture"=22, "Symptoms of UTI&LUTS&Positive urine culture"=18),
           input = "union", shape = "ellipse"), key = TRUE, counts = TRUE,
     quantities = list(type = c("counts", "percent"), font=3, round=2, cex=0.8),
     fills =list(fill=c(viridis::plasma(n = 3))), alpha = 0.3, c("#1957FF", "#FF750C", "#FF220C"), alpha = 0.3,
     edges=list(lty = 1), factor_names = TRUE, labels=list(font=2, cex=1), legend = FALSE)

The output:

How do I get the percent values to print below the count values? Something like this:

A: Unless I'm missing something in the docs, I don't see the option to do this. However, since plot.euler produces a grob tree, we can edit the output with a bit of grob-hacking:
library(eulerr)

v <- plot(euler(c( "LUTS"=98, "Symptoms of UTI"=46, "Positive urine culture"=39,
              "Symptoms of UTI&LUTS"=33, "LUTS&Positive urine culture"=24,
              "Symptoms of UTI&Positive urine culture"=22,
              "Symptoms of UTI&LUTS&Positive urine culture"=18),
           input = "union", shape = "ellipse"), key = TRUE, counts = TRUE,
     quantities = list(type = c("counts", "percent"), font=3, round=2, cex=0.8),
     fills =list(fill=c(viridis::plasma(n = 3))), alpha = 0.3,
     c("#1957FF", "#FF750C", "#FF220C"), alpha = 0.3,
     edges=list(lty = 1), factor_names = TRUE, labels=list(font=2, cex=1),
     legend = FALSE)

tags <- v$children[[1]]$children[[1]]$children$tags$children

tags <- do.call(grid::gList, lapply(tags, function(x) {
  x$children[[2]]$label <- sub(" \\(", "\n(", x$children[[2]]$label)
  x$children[[2]]$just <- NULL
  x$children[[2]]$hjust <- 0.5
  x$children[[2]]$vjust <- 1
  x}))

v$children[[1]]$children[[1]]$children$tags$children <- tags

v

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Parkes Way Tunnel(en) Australia / Australian_Capital_Territory / Canberra (Canberra) tunnel Canberra's longest tunnel There is also the ANU Archives building and parking underneath the ground yet above the tunnel!
Pine Beach Underpass(en) Canada / Quebec / Montreal (Dorval) tunnel A concrete tunnel running under the highway and train tracks.
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Cross Country: UCSB Receives National Ranking, Closes Season
October 19, 2006 at 7:59 am by Alex Pavlovic
With both the #13 men's and #7 women's teams now nationally ranked, UCSB cross country Head Coach Pete Dolan can use Friday's Titan Invitational to get a good look at the next generation of Gaucho runners.
The top nine runners for each team will skip Friday's race in order to get extra rest in preparation for next weekend's Big West Championships. This weekend's race will feature a number of freshmen and sophomores who are looking for experience, as well as a few upperclassmen who have been unable to crack the stellar Gaucho lineup.
"It's still exciting because it's the last race for people who will not run at Big West," Dolan said. "They've worked just as hard as everyone else and this validates their hard work."
With the majority of the men's top runners in their final year with the program, the Titan Invitational will give Dolan and the rest of the coaching staff an opportunity to see how well this year's freshman class will perform. Dillon Brook, Julian de Rubira, Jayson Hayes and Colton Tully-Doyle form a class that is expected to one day meet the same success as this year's seniors.
"I love to see the freshmen show what they can do," Dolan said. "They are the future."
Both the men and the women should benefit from an easy course, as the event will be held at Cal State Fullerton's Sports Complex. The course starts and finishes on the schools track, and traverses the various concrete pathways and grass athletic fields that surround the track. Compared to some of the winding hill-laden courses that the team has faced already and will face later this year, it will be a very easy race.
"It's flat as a pancake and it's the easiest course in cross country," Dolan said. "It's a real ego-booster for the runners."
While the course may provide a confidence boost for those who are running on Friday, the rest of the Gauchos need no such boost after seeing this week's national rankings. Following last weekends fourth place finish at Pre-Nationals, the men's team moved up in the regional rankings and cracked the national rankings for the first time all year.
The men started the year ranked 11th in the West Region, but they now sit in third trailing only Pac-10 powers Stanford and Oregon. They also received 266 points in Tuesday's national rankings and now find themselves ranked 13th in the country – a remarkable feat for a team that went unranked the entire season.
The women's team also started the year unranked, but after a win earlier this season at the Griak Invitational, they sprinted to #11. Since then, the Gauchos have continued to run well and have climbed to seventh in the country after a fourth place finish at Pre-Nationals. The women also held their position as the #2 team in the West Region for the third consecutive week, trailing only Stanford – the top team in the country.
Friday's event will start with the women's 5K race at 4:30 p.m. and will conclude with the men's 8K later that evening. Following the Titan Invitational, the Gauchos will be back in action on Oct. 28 at the Big West Championships held at Cal Poly.

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Mother wins $6.5 million settlement over son's death in rock crushing incident
Wesley Sherwood was killed in 2011 when he fell into a rock crushing machine at B.S. Quarries in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. It is believed that Wesley was attempting to clear rocks that had jammed the crusher when he fell into the machine. The 22-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.
Following his death, Wesley's mother, Pauline Bailey, filed a federal lawsuit against the quarry and Lippmann Milwaukee Inc., the company that manufactured the rock crusher. She recently won a $6.5 million settlement over her son's death. The settlement included $2.5 million from Lippmann Milwaukee Inc. and $4 million from B.S. Quarries and its affiliates.
According to The Scranton Times-Tribune, the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration found the quarry at fault for failure to ensure that its employees were trained on how to clear rock jams safely.
During trial preparation, the attorney for Pauline Bailey found that the Susquehanna County rock quarry pressured its employees to bypass safety rules to increase profits. The attorney gathered testimony from a former quarry employee, Mark Baxter, who stated that the quarry encouraged employees to keep equipment running when a rock jam occurred. Turning the machines off slowed production and increased costs for the company. To resolve a jam, employees had to climb over the mouth of the rock crusher. According to Baxter, Wesley Sherwood fell into the rock crusher while climbing over it.
The Times Leader reported that Baxter also stated that the quarry called employees for a secret meeting and instructed them to claim they did not see how Wesley Sherwood fell into the rock crusher.
Lippmann Milwaukee Inc. maintained that there was not a design flaw in the crusher according to The Legal Intelligencer. B.S. Quarries argued that they did not know why Sherwood fell and therefore could not determine if his fall was due to improper training.
Both companies decided to settle the case before it went to trial.
How do I sue an insurance company? How do I report elder abuse?


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a wisconsin record store maintains the vinyl allure for many in the madison area:
B-Sides navigates tricky waters of music industry for 30 years
By Samuel Schmitt
In the era of digital downloads, instant file sharing and a slew of portable music players, it is a rare occurrence to stumble upon a store that is dedicated to selling tangible discs, especially of the vinyl variety.
B-Side Records, a locally-owned record store on State Street, has been around long enough to witness the evolution of several musical formats, with the store nearing its 30-year anniversary this coming October.
The name, B-Side, fits the nature of the store. For those born in the era of Walkmans and cassettes, or perhaps even after that, the B-side of a record refers to the opposite side of a vinyl, where songs that were less likely to be aired on the radio were placed.
In an email interview with The Badger Herald, owner Steve Manley explained how he got started in the business and how it has changed over the past decades.
Read the rest at badgerherald.com
this segment from CBS news:
Best Vinyl Shops In San Francisco
Vinyl records may seem like something your grandparents used to have stacked in a corner. They are sure to conjure up memories of records that you weren't allowed to touch due to the delicate nature of the record and outer artwork, however records aren't just for old folks anymore—they're making a comeback. There is no better city to visit when looking for the best selection of old and new vinyl records than San Francisco. The Bay City has always housed some of the best vinyls for decades, and with one of the widest selections when it comes to genres, you are bound to be amazed at what you can find
See the list of stores at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
Best Vinyl Shops In DC
In the age of illegal downloading and iTunes, locally owned and independent music stores are becoming increasingly hard to come by. Somehow, though, D.C. has been able to sustain some great family and locally owned businesses, and it is definitely not lacking in vinyl shops. When you're itching to blast your favorite tunes at home and plugging in headphones just won't do, stop by one of these vinyl shops in D.C. to pick up music how it was originally intended to be heard
See the list of stores at washington.cbslocal.com
Top Place To Find Vinyl Records In Philadelphia
For music fans with vintage souls who enjoy collecting music the "old school" way, Philadelphia is home to a number of record shops that have a large number of vinyl records. Dust off your parent's record player and head to any of the following record stores spread out through the city. These top record stores have a wide selection of records featuring classic rock artists, doo wop, and R&B and even present musical artists.
See the list of stores at philadelphia.cbslocal.com
Alive! Peter Frampton Talks Classic Album and His Lost Les Paul
By any standards, Peter Frampton had a remarkable 2011. The veteran English guitar star and songwriter played a Frampton Comes Alive! 35 tour to acclaim, revisiting the album that made his name globally for a record that remains one of the best-selling live albums ever. The iconic 3-pickup Gibson Les Paul Custom played on the album became famous in its own right. And, after it was presumed missing for 32 years, Frampton got his Comes Alive! Gibson Les Paul back in late 2011. In a bizarre tale, Peter explains all below.
2012 will see more Comes Alive! shows from Frampton, plus much playing and writing (already started) on THAT famous Gibson Les Paul…
Read the interview at Gibson
Vinyl Record Buyers Guide Magazine Goes to Quarterly Distribution
Once a semi-annual release, the "Vinyl Record Buyers Guide Magazine" Magazine goes to quarterly distribution, after accessing 1-Million subscribers.
New York, NY, February 21, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The "Vinyl Record Buyers Guide Magazine," a valuable tool for consumers seeking to find local and regional and online vinyl record and CD related music retailers and associated audio equipment and software, has reached a historic level of 1-Million subscribers who have requested to receive information on music and entertainment oriented sources.
As a consequence, the magazine, once a semi-annual distribution, will begin to send out its pages quarterly, beginning March/April of this year.
Readers can use the publication's vinyl record retail and record label and related vinyl record equipment supplier directory to locate hard-to-find modern and collectible vinyl records and their associated devices, including turntable, stylus, pre-amp, microphone and other related item manufacturers.
In addition, the publication has increased its news article reporting on the vinyl record industry. The first quarterly edition to carry articles on Jack White's "Third Man Records" and its efforts to diminish lost revenues for its music artists who lose income to the hands of eBay LP "flippers," and a review of the "northern soul records" phenomena, where huge prices are being paid for obscure vinyl 45 rpm records, due to their association to UK dance clubs in the North of England during the 1960s.
The publication helps guide readers to find modern and collectible vinyl lp, vinyl 45, hip hop records, indy rock vinyl albums, classical music, record stores, beatles albums, country music, jazz music, folk music, r&b artists, blues music, rock n roll music, heavy metal, funk, pop music, and more.
The "Vinyl Record Buyers Guide Magazine" is distributed across the U.S.A. to readers free-of-charge. To sign up to receive the magazine, please visit the website associated with this press release, where a subscription form allows consumers to subscribe safely, and know that their information will not be shared with 3rd party businesses.
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THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH Announce 'The End Is Where We Begin' Details; Release Planned For April 17th
TFK's 6th Studio Album!
FOUR TOP 25 ACTIVE ROCK HITS
NEW SONGS ALREADY PLACED ON ESPN, NASCAR, NCAA SPORTS AND MORE
"LET THE SPARKS FLY" NOW AT RADIO!
Sometimes the best way to move forward is to go back to the basics, taking all of the raw energy and emotion of the past and channeling it into the present. This is exactly what THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH is doing on the aptly titled 'The End Is Where We Begin', which also finds Canada's favorite modern rockers voluntarily walking away from record label life all together (even after a slew of profitable offers came along) to reignite the passionate DIY work ethos that first emerged over a decade ago.
While waiting for inspiration to arrive and fuel the writing process, TFK's songwriter and front man Travis McNevan popped in the band's seminal debut 'That's What People Do,' which echoed respected rappers like Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys, cross-pollinated with the rhythmic grooves of Red Hot Chili Peppers. Those inspirations return throughout 'The End Is Where We Begin,' alongside the group's continuously marinating blend of towering choruses, razor-sharp rhythms, epic arrangements and stadium shaking rumbles.
"Without trying, this record has a very militant theme to it, with songs like 'War Of Change' and 'Courtesy Call' painting more of a visual for that," states McNevan. "There's an urgency to it and I think the timing feels right. This record's heart can be summed up by 'Be The Change,' the album's lyric and phrase seen throughout the album artwork."
For those who've been following the Ontario-bred players since their formation in 1998, it's been a continuously escalating highlight reel that includes best-selling albums, four top 25 Active Rock hits (including the top 20 smashs "Move" and "Fire It Up"), plus a slew of soundtrack slots. In fact, the group has literally infiltrated every facet of pop culture, from ongoing ESPN placements, to various NASCAR, MLB, NHL and NFL airings (including the 2010 Super Bowl), along with the "GI Joe" movie trailer, WGN-TV's "Smallville" and EA Sports' "NHL 2010" video game.
That trend is continuing at breakneck speed with the new project, which even prior to hitting streets, found the lead single "Let The Sparks Fly" and fellow adrenaline-infused rocker "Light Up the Sky" picked up by ESPN. Both tracks also serve as the ultimate tone setters for the sonic explosions contained within 'The End Is Where We Begin,' which could be considered the ultimate THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH mix-tape showcasing a myriad of full-throttled personalities.
THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH is also already on tour in support of the new album as part of the REDvolution Tour alongside Red, Manafest, Nine Lashes and Kiros.
this from our friends at vinylcollective.com
Top 10 Albums – February 20, 2012
Here are the Top 10 Albums sold at Shop Radio Cast for the week of February 14 – February 20, 2012:
1. Blink 182 – Enema Of The State LP (Only 40 copies left!)
2. Blink 182 – Blink 182 2XLP
3. Blink 182 – Dude Ranch LP
4. Saves The Day – Daybreak LP (White)
5. Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends LP
6. Fun. – Some Nights LP
7. AFI – Black Sails In The Sunset LP
8. Joyce Manor – Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired LP
9. Lucero – Women & Work LP
10. Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror LP
Buy these releases and more at Shop Radio Cast
Unleashed Reveals Album Cover Art For New Release
Swedish death metallers Unleashed have recently revealed the album cover art and track list for the band's new LP called 'Odalheim,' which is schedlued for release on April 20, 2012 (Europe) and April 24, 2012 (North America) via Nuclear Blast.
1. Fimbulwinter
2. Odalheim
3. White Christ
4. The Hour Of Defeat
5. Gathering The Battalions
6. Vinland
7. Rise Of The Maya Warriors
8. By Celtic And British Shores
9. The Soil Of Our Fathers
10. Germania
11. The Great Battle Of Odalheim
ROB ZOMBIE And MEGADETH Announce Co-Headlining Tour
Metal heavyweights ROB ZOMBIE and MEGADETH have just announced a co-headlining tour guaranteed to raise the temperature on the planet. The trek, which marks the first time the two bands have toured together, kicks off Friday, May 11 in Holmdel, New JerseyJ and encompasses high-profile appearances at several rock festivals, including M3 Rock Festival, Rock On The Range and wraps Saturday, May 26 at Rocklahoma. ROB ZOMBIE will headline Rocklahoma, co-headline Rock On The Range (with INCUBUS), and will close all shows on the MEGADETH dates. A complete list of dates is below.
Read more and get the tour dates at Blabbermouth
CHICKENFOOT Announces 'Different Devil Tour'
CHICKENFOOT have set some dates for their "Different Devil Tour" in the spring. Supporting the band is BLACK STONE CHERRY.
May 04 - Lake Tahoe, NV @ Harrah's Hotel & Casino
May 09 - Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Aud.
May 11 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Brick
May 12 - Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theater
May 14 - Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
May 16 - Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theater
May 18 - Atlantic City, NJ @ House Of Blues
May 19 - Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun
May 21 - New York, NY @ Beacon Theater
May 23 - St. Louis, MO @ Fox Theater
May 25 - Thackerville, OK @ Winstar Casino
May 27 - Pryor, OK @ Catch the Fever Festival Grounds (Rocklahoma)
May 29 - Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center
May 31 - Tucson, AZ @ Anselmo Valencia Amphetheater
Jun. 01 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint
Jun. 03 - Portland, OR @ Schnitzer Hall
Jun. 05 - Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth Theater
Jun. 06 - Seattle, WA @ WaMu Theater
Jun. 10 - Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theater
Iron Maiden Announces "Maiden England" North American Tour
UK metal icons Iron Maiden have announced the "Maiden England Tour" in North America this summer. Up to July 21, 2012, the special guest act will be Alice Cooper and after July 21, 2012, the band will be Coheed & Cambria.
Vocalist Bruce Dickinson had the following comments on the tour:
"We have great fun playing the History of Maiden Tours because it gives us an opportunity between new albums to go out and play songs from our earlier catalogue. It's always fantastic seeing the crowd reaction from a new generation of fans who have never experienced some of these tracks performed live before, and of course we know our longstanding fans will enjoy seeing the original Seventh Son Tour re-visited - with many other surprises! Our intention is to play about two thirds of the original track list of Maiden England (shown below*), including some songs we have not played live in a very,very long time, plus other favourites we just know the fans are going to want to hear! We always try to give our fans a great show musically, but we have always tried to make it as entertaining and memorable an experience as we can visually. And we all feel this show is going to do that splendidly! We can't wait to get started in Charlotte."
Tour dates so far:
MAIDEN ENGLAND 2012 TOUR DATES:
w/Alice Cooper:
21st June - Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
23rd June - Atlanta, GA - Aarons Amphitheatre
26th June - Boston, MA - Comcast Center
27th June - Wantagh, NY - Jones Beach
29th June - Philadelphia, PI - Susquehanna Bank Center
30th June - Washington, DC - Jiffy Lube Live
2nd July - Newark, NJ - Prudential Center
5th July - Chicago, IL - First Midwest Bank
8th July - Quebec, QC - Colisee Pepsi Arena
11th July - Montreal, QC - Bell Center
13th July - Toronto, ON - Molson Amphitheatre
14th July - Sarnia, ON - Bayfest
16th July - Buffalo, NY - Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
18th July - Detroit, MI - DTE Music Theatre
19th July - Indianapolis, IN - Klipsch Music Centre
w/Coheed & Cambria:
24th July - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Center
26th July - Calgary, AB - Scotiabank Saddledome
27th July - Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
29th July - Vancouver, BC - Pacific Coliseum
30th July - Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre
1st August - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
3rd August - San Francisco, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
6th August - Phoenix, AZ - Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion
9th August - Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
12th August - Albuquerque. NM - Hard Rock Pavilion
13th August - Denver, CO - Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
15th August - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
17th August - Dallas, TX - Gexa Energy Pavilion
18th August - Houston, TX - The Woodlands
and in music history for february 21st:
In 1958, the first Flying V, by Gibson, was shipped from a factory in Kalamazoo, MI.
In 1964, a New York band called the Echoes recruited a young piano player named Billy Joel. The quartet would play cover songs under the names the Lost Souls, the Commandos and the Emerald Lords before Billy split two years later to join The Hassles. He would make his breakthrough in 1973 with "Piano Man".
In 1964, the Rolling Stones released the single "Not Fade Away" in the UK, two weeks before it was issued in North America.
The Rolling Stones version of "Not Fade Away" was one of their first classic hits. Recorded in late January 1964 and released by Decca on February 21, 1964, with "Little by Little" as the B-side, it was their first Top 5 hit in Great Britain, reaching #3. In March 1964 it was also the Rolling Stones' first single release in the United States, on the London Records label, with "I Wanna Be Your Man" as the B-side (briefly preceded by "Stoned", which had immediately been withdrawn). The single reached #48 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. "Not Fade Away" was not on the UK version of their debut album, The Rolling Stones, but was the opening track of the US version released a month later as England's Newest Hitmakers. It was a mainstay at Rolling Stones concerts in their early years, usually opening the shows. It was revived in that capacity for their 1994-95 Voodoo Lounge Tour. Ironically the Stones' version, unlike the original, chooses to fade-out on the "not fade away" lyric.
In 1966, Elvis Presley began filming "Spinout," co-starring Shelley Fabares, his 22nd movie.
In 1967, Elvis Presley recorded "Clambake," the title song of his 25th movie, which also co-starred Shelley Fabares.
Also in 1967, at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London, the Beatles finished recording "Fixing A Hole." Initial tracks for the song had been recorded at Regent Sound Studio on February 9.
In 1970, Simon And Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" entered the UK album chart at number 1, where it would stay for 12 consecutive weeks. It would return to the top seven times, spending a total of 41 weeks there over the next two years. In the US, the LP spent 10 weeks at number 1 on the strength of three Top Ten singles and was the number 7 album of the decade in America.
Also in 1970, The Jackson 5 make their TV debut on American Bandstand where they sing "I Want You Back".
In 1975, John Lennon released the Phil Spector-produced album "Rock 'n' Roll" after a much shabbier version of the material called "Roots" began to be marketed on late-night television. "Roots" was music executive Morris Levy's version of the "oldies" sessions, which Lennon had been court-ordered to undertake as payment for appropriating a Chuck Berry lyric for the Beatles' "Come Together." Levy's copyright was judged to have been infringed by the line "Here come old flat-top, he come groovin' up slowly." "Rock 'n' Roll" was Lennon's last record before taking a five-year hiatus from the music business. In 2004, Yoko Ono supervised the remixing of "Rock 'n' Roll" for reissue, including four bonus tracks from the Spector sessions.
In 1980, Janet Vogel, who sang soprano for The Skyliners on their 1959, US number one hit, "Since I Don't Have You", committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. She was 37.
In 1981, Dolly Parton topped the Billboard Pop Chart with her own composition, "9 to 5". The record reached #47 in the UK.
In 1981, REO Speedwagon started a 15 week run at the top of the Billboard album chart with "Hi Infidelity".
In 1982, disc jockey, Murray "The K" Kaufman, died of cancer at the age of 60. Kaufman's influence on Rock and Roll and its audience led the Beatles to seek him out when they first came to America in 1964. Kaufman's friendship with the group gave him cause to start calling himself "The Fifth Beatle".
In 1987, "Stand By Me" by Ben E. King topped the UK singles chart after it was featured in a movie by the same name. The song first became a hit in 1961.
In 1990, Milli Vanilli are awarded the Best New Artist Grammy. It would take until the following November for producer Frank Farian to confess that the duo of Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus never actually sang a single note on their recordings, causing the award to be withdrawn.
In 2001, Johnny Cash is released from a Nashville hospital after recovering from pneumonia in time to accept his Grammy Award that night for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for his cover of Neil Diamond's "Solitary Man".
In 2007, after a Motown spokesman had said the film Dreamgirls had upset several of their artists who felt the label was falsely depicted in a negative light, Dreamworks, the makers of Oscar-nominated musical took out a full page ad in the movie trade papers The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety where they apologized to Motown Records, saying "Dreamgirls is a work of fiction. It is also an homage to Motown." Berry Gordy accepted the apology.
In 2008, a US music aficionado sold his collection of more than three million vinyl albums, singles and compact discs to an eBay buyer from Ireland for just over $3 million. An eBay spokeswoman said the sale is one of the highest ever for the online auction site.
In 2009, an exhibit of James Brown's personal belongings opened at South Carolina State University. The collection included photos, crystal-studded suits, and even the hair curlers Brown used to form his signature pompadour.
In 2011, the Cars announced that May 10th would be the release date for their first new album in 24 years.
In 2011, Boy George revealed a Culture Club 30th anniversary album and tour plans for 2012.
Aso in 2011, the Monkees announced their 45th anniversary tour featuring Mickey Dolenz, Davey Jones and Peter Tork.
birthdays today include (among others): David Geffin (69), Paul Newton (Uriah Heep) (64), Mary Chapin Carpenter (54), Randy Blythe (Lamb of God) (46) and Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) (63)


The Capture Of Mosta Mosta Island.
Heartbreak Soup. A Love and Rockets Book.
Witchfinder (Sir Edward Grey). Volume 2. Lost and Gone Forever.
Christmas card 1976 signed by the author.
Christmas card signed by the author.
Ted Hughes, Large original portrait photograph Limited edition signed by photographer.
[M.I.T., Cross-Dressing:] Tech Show 1927 "West is East."
The Wanderers in the Year of the Elder Metal Dog - 1970.
Joseph Conrad Autograph postcard initialled, Monday, [8 October 1917], to Arthur Symons.
Address by E. C. Benedict at the Players Club on Founders Night.


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using System;

namespace Azure.ResourceManager.DataBox.Models
{
    internal static partial class JobDeliveryTypeExtensions
    {
        public static string ToSerialString(this JobDeliveryType value) => value switch
        {
            JobDeliveryType.NonScheduled => "NonScheduled",
            JobDeliveryType.Scheduled => "Scheduled",
            _ => throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(value), value, "Unknown JobDeliveryType value.")
        };

        public static JobDeliveryType ToJobDeliveryType(this string value)
        {
            if (string.Equals(value, "NonScheduled", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)) return JobDeliveryType.NonScheduled;
            if (string.Equals(value, "Scheduled", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)) return JobDeliveryType.Scheduled;
            throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(value), value, "Unknown JobDeliveryType value.");
        }
    }
}

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Q: Laravel webpack vue code splitting lazy routes are not versioned I'm working on a Laravel + Vue SPA project and I tried to optimize the project with code splitting and defining lazy routes, but now every lazy route file are not being versioned.
Let's see if I can describe the problem.

You can see here the main files are versioned: app.css, app.js, vendors.js.
But what happens with users.js? It's a lazy route.
app.blade.php
<!doctype html>

    <link rel="manifest" href="/fullscreen-manifest.json">
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    <meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">

    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="{{ asset('favicon.png') }}">
    <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//fonts.gstatic.com">
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:100,300,500,700,900|Material+Icons' rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="{{ mix('css/app.css') }}" rel="stylesheet">

routes.js
const home = () => import(/* webpackChunkName: "home" */ '@/pages/home');
const login = () => import(/* webpackChunkName: "home" */ '@/pages/auth/login');
const pageNotFound = () => import(/* webpackChunkName: "home" */ '@/pages/errors/404');
const pageForbidden = () => import(/* webpackChunkName: "home" */ '@/pages/errors/403');

import users from "./users";
import profile from "./profile";
(...)

export default [
    ...users,
    ...profile,
    (...)
    {
        path: '/',
        name: 'home',
        component: home,
        meta: {
            auth: true,
        }
    },
    {
        path: '/forbidden',
        name: '403',
        component: pageForbidden,
        meta: {
            auth: true,
        }
    },
    {
        path: '/login',
        name: 'login',
        component: login,
        meta: {
            guest: true,
        }
    },
    {
        path: '*',
        name: '404',
        component: pageNotFound,
    }
];

users.js
const users = () => import(/* webpackChunkName: "users" */ '@/pages/users/index');
const show = () => import(/* webpackChunkName: "users" */ '@/pages/users/show');

export default [
    {
        path: '/users',
        name: 'users',
        component: users,
        meta: {
            auth: true,
            admin: true,
        }
    },
    {
        path: '/show/:id',
        name: 'users.show',
        component: show,
        meta: {
            auth: true,
            admin: true,
        }
    },
];

webpack.config.js
const path = require('path');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const BundleAnalyzerPlugin = require('webpack-bundle-analyzer').BundleAnalyzerPlugin;
const CompressionPlugin = require('compression-webpack-plugin');
const moment = require('moment');

module.exports = {
    output: {
        chunkFilename: '[name].js',
    },
    resolve: {
        extensions: ['.js', '.json', '.vue'],
        alias: {
            '@': path.join(__dirname, './resources/js'),
        }
    },
    plugins: [
        new webpack.IgnorePlugin(/^\.\/locale$/, /moment$/),
        new BundleAnalyzerPlugin({
            analyzerMode: 'static',
            openAnalyzer: false,
            reportFilename: 'bundle-analyzer-plugin/reports/' + moment().format('YYYYMMDD') + '.html'
        }),
        new CompressionPlugin({
            filename: '[path].gz[query]',
            algorithm: 'gzip',
            test: /\.js$|\.css$|\.html$/,
            threshold: 10240,
            minRatio: 0.7
        }),
    ],
    optimization: {
        splitChunks: {
            cacheGroups: {
                commons: {
                    test: /[\\/]node_modules[\\/]/,
                    name: 'vendors',
                    chunks: 'all'
                }
            }
        }
    }
};

webpack.mix.js
const config = require('./webpack.config');
const mix = require('laravel-mix');

mix.js('resources/js/app.js', 'public/js')
    .sass('resources/sass/app.scss', 'public/css')
    .sass('resources/sass/pdf.scss', 'public/css');

if (mix.inProduction()) {
    mix.version();
}

mix.webpackConfig(config);

So what am I doing wrong? I can import all lazy routes files on the app.blade.php and it would be importing with versioning, but I will be missing the point... The idea is this files are being include when the websites need them. But when they do that automatically it does without versioning.

A: as you are using Vue Router so you should use Dynamic Imports like this

export default [
    {
        path: '/users',
        name: 'users',
        component: () => import('@/pages/users/index'),
        meta: {
            auth: true,
            admin: true,
        }
    },
    {
        path: '/show/:id',
        name: 'users.show',
        component: import('@/pages/users/show'),
        meta: {
            auth: true,
            admin: true,
        }
    },
];

ref link https://laravel-news.com/using-dynamic-imports-with-laravel-mix


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Hate To Say We Told You So But the Numbers Speak for Themselves, Disney
Caroline Wharton - 25 Nov 2022
Earlier this year, Students for Life of America (SFLA) President Kristan Hawkins wrote an op-ed on Disney's implicit support of the abortion lobby, finding that the new content wasn't always kid-friendly and predicting that a continuation of such material could really hurt the brand with parents — and it looks like she was right. Reports show that the company isn't doing too hot, and it's hard not to link their woes to their wokeness.
An article on the Disney downfall was summed up succinctly by online news organization Spiked, reading:
"Life at the Walt Disney Company is not the fairytale it used to be. In recent years, the entertainment mega-corporation had enjoyed something of a renaissance – with its Disney+ streaming service the new jewel in the empire's crown. But Disney shares are down 40 per cent this year, and last week's quarterly report makes for grim reading. Disney's expenses and operating losses are skyrocketing. Even the hugely popular Disney+, which continues to gain in subscribers, made an operating loss of $1.47 billion – more than double its loss last year. An internal memo last week announced job cuts and a hiring freeze."
Its' latest September approval rating also showed Disney's only polling favorably with about 51% of Americans — a serious ouch for a company that was once beloved by Americans of all ages.
Hawkins warned Americans (and corporate Disney) earlier this year in a Fox News article that we might see such a thing after being disgusted at finding the phrase "My body, My choice" in a Disney movie — among other unsavory and inappropriate themes for children. Her op-ed entitled "I'm a Mom and I'm Saying Goodbye to Disney" went viral on the Internet for sounding the alarm on Disney's new material which parents can no longer trust unconditionally.
She wrote, "Disney clearly is no longer interested in being a guardian of the innocence of childhood. Instead, by their own admission, Disney leadership is actively pushing children out of Neverland and directly into an adult's sexualized world, where they can be groomed for others enjoyment.
"Whatever Disney's future might be, it's a sad reality that the company is losing its credibility through movies like "Turning Red." For parents who proactively monitor what their child is viewing, it's likely time to say goodbye to today's Disney if you want to protect your children from the grooming tactics of the left. We're not dealing with Mickey Mouse anymore."
To finish reading Hawkins' op-ed at Fox News, click HERE.
To listen to an episode of Explicitly Pro-Life on this story, click HERE.
READ NEXT: New York Times Finally Finds Puberty Blockers "Concerning"
Caroline Wharton
Caroline Wharton is a graduate of the University of North Carolina who serves the Pro-Life Generation as a staff writer and communications assistant.
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crime conspiracy theories cecilia fulbright social media wayfair conspiracy satanic panic qanon
Drunk QAnon Lady Tried To Run Over Imaginary Pedophiles In Texas
Last Wednesday, at about 9 in the morning, a woman in Waco, Texas, got into her car and attempted to chase down at least two other drivers in a quest to "save a child" from pedophiles. At first, she chased down a woman driving with her minor daughter, and then subsequently went after a 19-year-old college student in a Dodge Durango, whom she chased to a parking lot where she cornered him and then repeatedly rammed his car with her own. When police found her, she was "crying hysterically" and told them that she knew for a fact that the woman she went after "was a pedophile and had kidnapped a girl for human trafficking." She told them that she attacked the other car "because she believed she was saving a child," this time from a "pedophile" she had tracked from Speegleville.
According to the affidavit, this assertion "did not match the timeline or any facts or evidence."
The woman, Cecilia Celeste Fulbright of Waco, was drunk and reportedly "delusional," though she claimed she was neither.
She appeared to be "delusional" and under the influence of drugs, and a breath test showed her blood alcohol content was between 0.21% and 0.217%, more than double the legal limit of 0.08%, according to the affidavit. Officers reported they found "multiple cans of spray paint" in Fulbright's car. She said she had at least one beer but denied using other drugs, according to the affidavit.
It also seems that in addition to whatever else she took — booze, spray paint, what have you — Cecilia Celeste Fulbright had taken "the red pill."
It used to be that when we referred to the red pill, we were referring to a misogynist theory that actually, men are the ones who are oppressed by women. Now that term has also been coopted by believers in QAnon to describe those who have accepted their bullshit about Donald Trump's secret quest to throw all of the satanic child molesters/eaters in Gitmo.
An investigation into Fulbright by Julian Feeld at Right Wing Watch tells the story of a woman obsessed. Texas-based lawyer Mark Mueller, an acquaintance of Fulbright's, told Right Wing Watch that Fulbright had recently texted him about supporting Donald Trump, and after he attempted to argue with her about Trump's political incompetency, she informed him that Trump was "literally taking down the cabal and the pedophile ring," noting "What President has EVEN TALKED ABOUT IT? It's been going on for centuries."
It has not, for the record, been going on for centuries. Yes, there have always been pedophiles, but there is not a secret pedophile cabal that is being taken down by Donald Trump. Also, just for the record, Donald Trump has not talked about a secret satanic baby-eating pedophile cabal either. He has not actually mentioned it once. This is a thing — much like the pedophilic tendencies of random people Cecilia Fulbright saw driving that day — that exists only in the minds of those who have become obsessed with it.
A former roommate, Sydney Molina, told Right Wing Watch that Fulbright "has a history of mental health issues" and a family that is very into Donald Trump.
"I was the one who originally sent her stuff, and her boyfriend sent her stuff, kind of like laughing at how ridiculous it is," Molina said.
But according to Molina, Fulbright began to sincerely follow the conspiracy theory.
"I found out later that she was staying up for days reading this stuff," Molina told RWW. "She was getting more and more caught up in it and delusional."
By the time of Fulbright's arrest, Molina said Fulbright "had been on a three-day bender on this QAnon stuff, and the last thing she said to me was that the aliens gave her free power." Fulbright claimed to Molina that her red 1984 Pontiac Fiero "was powered with free power from the aliens."
The thing is, although her family was very into Donald Trump, Fulbright's friends both describe her as having been politically progressive prior to "following the white rabbit" down the Q hole. Yes, she had untreated mental health problems prior to this "redpilling," but she had not tried to kill anyone. She had friends and relationships with people. Until she went QAnon and they refused to go with her.
According to Molina, Fulbright turned on her when she refused to embrace QAnon.
"She started sending me these crazy messages attacking me, 'I don't know what you believe anymore. You're the one that showed me this, and you're turning your back on it, so you're a part of it. You're involved,'" Molina recounted. "I couldn't say or do anything without her accusing me of being a satanist."
Clearly, this shit makes people a lot worse than they would be otherwise. It makes them dangerous. And violent. And, unfortunately, even getting arrested for obvious crimes did not snap Fulbright back to reality.
Fulbright's arrest did little to dissuade her from following QAnon, Molina and Mueller told RWW.
Fulbright contacted Molina after getting out of jail, seemingly unaware that she had done anything wrong. Molina said that Fulbright told her that one of the cops who arrested her had winked at her and told her she was in "good girl jail" because "they knew I was doing good." Molina said she confronted her ex-roommate about the seriousness of her actions but that her concerns were "not registering at all."
Fulbright's story follows a trajectory that may well become increasingly common following the resurgence of Pizzagate among younger, more progressive types on TikTok, the #SaveOurChildren bullshit (it's Save Our Children now, because Save The Children is a charity funded by Bill Gates, who they think is trying to murder them with 5G vaccines or whatever their story is now), and the Wayfair conspiracy.
Within the last few months of the pandemic, the conspiracy has spread to many people who were previously progressive and anti-Trump, who now say they support him because they now understand that he is out there trying to save all of the children from satanic sex trafficking. At one point, there was a girl going viral on TikTok for talking about how she had been anti-Trump all of these years but had just recently been redpilled about his supposed quest to #SaveOurChildren and now plans to vote for him come November. I can no longer find her or her videos because QAnon accounts have been limited across social media, but she wasn't the only one. I regularly get emails and DMs from people asking for help with their formerly liberal friends who got redpilled on Q and have since gone off the deep end.
This isn't just a "them" problem anymore.
[RightWingWatch]


CAIRO, Egypt - Islamist Mohammed Morsi, son of a peasant farmer, was formally sworn as the first democratically elected president of Egypt on Saturday. The country had 60 years of de facto military rule.
Egypt may attain the longtime goal of becoming an Islamic state if Morsi succeeds. If not, the military will continue for years or decades its stranglehold on the country that is now reluctant in giving up assumed power after the ousting of Hosni Mubarak.
Nobel Peace Laureate Mohammed ElBaradei tweeted, "Now, the time for building has come, to achieve the revolution's goals." He is also top pro-democracy advocate of the country.
Turkey will take mandatory steps against Syria: Turkish Prez.
The continuing battle between Egypt's largest political group Brotherhood and military after the ousting of Mubarak last year the country has been suffering from rising crime, declining economy and seemingly endless wave of protests.
During the oath taking ceremony Mr Morsi said, "Egypt will not go backward... In the new Egypt, the president will be an employee, a servant to the people."


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Tag Archives: Ian Duncan Smith
Shauny 09:27 on December 18, 2014
Tags: BedRoom Tax Debate, Conservatives ( 2 ), Duncan Smith, Iain Duncan Smith ( 3 ), Ian Duncan Smith, John Robertson, Labour ( 30 ), Labour's John Robertson, Laugh ( 2 ), Laughter at poor, Scottish Politics ( 7 ), SNP ( 45 ), Tory Ian Duncan Smith, Tory Party ( 12 ), Watch, Westminster Debate
Watch Ian Duncan Smith Laugh at BedRoom Tax Debate
Scotland THIS is why we need a new referendum
By @ShaunyGibson – Used to be @ ShaunyNews Via http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/watch-iain-duncan-smith-laugh-4829195
I watched this in anger at Ian Duncan Smith, the man doesn't know reality of the people of the UK. For him to laugh during a VERY IMPORTANT debate tells us all a story we should already know. The man is out of touch with himself and his job. I think his days should be numbered, the good thing is very soon he will have NO SAY AT ALL over Scottish benefits. Now that has to be a good thing. Make no mistake, the SNP have a date they were told in the event of a No vote thanks to the "Edinburgh Agreement" and the "Vow" that on this date certain measures come into play. Nicola has already withheld £2Million that was to support the Queen, watch this play out as the SNP take what is promised. Fun viewing it will be. Also for anyone having issues with the Bedroom tax here is a small trick. Turn your spare bedroom into a Dining Room. Legally it's not a bedroom 🙂 Try it. Also I am not saying Labour's John Robertson is any better, he voted for many things he now argues about… Anyway
Tory minster Ian Duncan Smith has sparked outrage by laughing during a heartbreaking debate on the affects of the Bedroom Tax. He was spotted throwing his head back and chortling while being accused by Labour's John Robertson of simply not listening to anyone else and was "bored". The comment came after the minister appeared to be talking to Tory MP Mark Harper as another MP spoke about the reality of the stress the Bedroom Tax would have on a Scottish estate.
Mr Robertson said: "The one thing that we can tell from the honourable gentlemen who are having a wee chat amongst themselves… This perhaps is exactly the problem with this government. They sit and have their little chats because they're bored with the talk of people on this side trying to help them. "And they can say whatever they like, that is how it looks to me."
Labour MP Jack Dromey described the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions as "grinning like a Cheshire cat", while viewers took to Twitter to agree and voice their disgust. While Ed, branded the minster a scumbag, posting: "Dim-witted sociopath Iain Duncan Smith laughs as he hears stories of vulnerable people he has driven to suicide. He is absolute scum. #IDS"Russell Corbett tweeted that while the result of the vote was not surprising, Mr Duncan Smith's behaviour showed how "evil" he was. While Ed, branded the minster a scumbag, posting: "Dim-witted sociopath Iain Duncan Smith laughs as he hears stories of vulnerable people he has driven to suicide. He is absolute scum. #IDS"
No doubt Mr Duncan Smith would have had even more to be happy about when the Government defeated the Labour motion by a reduced majority of 32, winning the vote 298 to 266. A Government amendment was then carried 300 to 262, majority 38. The Lib Dems were criticised for voting with the Tories, as with their votes Labour would have been successful in getting the tax abolished.
In September Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves pledged to call a parliamentary vote to scrap the Bedroom Tax – calling Lib Dems to join her party. Labour has pledged to repeal the Bedroom Tax if it wins in May. New figures show victims have lost an average of £1,260 since the 2013 launch of the hated policy, which docks housing benefit of tenants deemed to have a spare room.
Labour's John Robertson sparked IDS' laughter
The Bedroom Tax debate was not the first time Mr Duncan Smith has appeared to laugh off misfortune of others. Almost exactly a year ago, he sneered at the plight of hungry families forced to rely on food banks. During the debate last December Tory MPs laughed and jeered as they were told how some hard-up shoppers were so desperate they fought to snap up discounted items in supermarkets. Astonishingly, all the Government ministers from the responsible departments – including Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith – sneaked out after just an hour of the crucial Commons debate.
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Tags: benefits, Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Elite, Elitist Britain, Eton Elite, hammer country's growth, high taxes, Ian Duncan Smith, income inequality, inequality, It's official, laissez-faire capitalism, make us all richer, OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, UK ( 36 ), UK Elite
It's official — benefits and high taxes make us all richer, while inequality takes a hammer to a country's growth
Would steal the milk from your tea and come back for the sugar!
Via http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/its-official–benefits-and-high-taxes-make-us-all-richer-while-inequality-takes-a-hammer-to-a-countrys-growth-9914941.html
By @ShaunyGibson – Used to be @ ShaunyNews
One of the most destructive Tory myths has finally been debunked
The sickening theory of laissez-faire capitalism finally died with the recent report from one of the West's leading think tanks. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has found that income inequality actually hampers economic growth in some of the world's wealthiest countries, while the redistribution of wealth via taxes and benefits doesn't.
In a nutshell: the reality of what creates and reverses growth is the exact opposite of what the current right-wing, neo-liberal agenda has been espousing ever since its rise to power under Thatcher and Reagan in the eighties. Perhaps worst of all, the report showed evidence that the UK would have been 20 per cent better off if the gap between the rich and poor hadn't widened since the eighties.
To those of us who have only just survived the credit crunch and recession, this evidence will be welcome, but hardly surprising. The surprising thing is how it took this long. To extend a metaphor, why didn't we realise the patient had already died more than half a decade ago?
Didn't anyone who is sane and have any common sense realise this was the case after the crash in 2008? Haven't there been hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating on the streets about the abuses of bankers and the wealthiest 1 per cent? Haven't we seen almost seven years of unprecedented economic woes because of this very reason – that the current system is bankrupt, in every sense of the word?
Why then have we spent such a long time ignoring the obvious? The answer is of course because the current economic philosophy benefits the all-powerful financial and business elite. But also, in this country at least, because David Cameron's Conservative party got into power off the back of the 2008 crisis with the clever trick of rewriting the causes of that very crisis. And what did they blame? Prepare your (now factually justified) facepalm: they blamed it on too much state spending.
Elitist Britain: Run by the privately educated
I did this on ATS 12th May 2010, boy were we all correct: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread570729/pg1
Before the 2008 crash the Tory strategy to get back into power had been to match the then-Labour government's state spending and perhaps even further it. However, when the crash happened a sudden opportunity presented itself to demonise the over-bloated public sector and blame Labour's public spending for the economic downturn. Did it matter that evidence of the crash being caused by recklessly unrestricted banking practices was writ large over the whole world economy? Of course not, this was cheap trick politics, and it worked. The Tories got into power and we all bought into the narrative of austerity.
Now after five years of being forced to tighten our belts, we are finally waking up to what that narrative actually was. Thanks to the OECD report, we find that the very thing that the sacrifices of austerity were made to preserve – the growth of the economy – is the very thing they are destroying. Neo-liberal, laissez-faire capitalism extends inequality, we already knew that. But now we have the evidence that inequality harms, rather than encourages growth.
Like a sick patient being given the wrong drugs, it is the very thing we thought was curing us that is actually killing us. And all the while we are told to Keep Calm and Carry On taking our medicine by the government, to keep on swallowing the same old propaganda.
What new narrative will the Government spin now?
http://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/2oyevw/its_official_benefits_and_high_taxes_make_us_all/
https://twitter.com/gerrymooney60
Shauny 15:16 on December 8, 2014
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UK Government decision to close fund helping disabled people live independently ruled lawful
Iain Duncan Smith decided on 6 March this year to close the Independent Living Fund
A government decision to close a fund which would allow disabled people to live and work independently has been ruled lawful by a High Court. The decision to shut down the Independent Living Fund (ILF) by 30 June 2015 was made by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith in March this year. The High Court was asked whether Duncan Smith had unlawfully failed to discharge his public sector equality duty (PSED) under the 2010 Equality Act by closing the fund.
The £320m ILF fund currently provides support to allow 18,000 disabled people to live and work in their community rather than residential care. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) previously warned that closure of the fund "will result in loss of dignity and independence for many ILF recipients".
Judge Justice Andrews, sitting in the High Court, has ruled that the closure was lawful following an appeal, but added she knew the decision would be of "great disappointment" to some. Richard Hawkes, chief executive of the disability charity Scope, said following the decision the care system in the UK is now "on its knees." He said: "Scope is very concerned about the closure of the Independent Living Fund, because it's likely to lead to fewer disabled people being able to live independently. "Funding will be transferred to councils, but there will be no guarantee that the money will be used to support disabled people to live independently, or that former ILF users will receive the same levels of support, given the pressures on local authority finances. "The care system is on its knees. Chronic under-funding and year-on-year rationing mean that too many people that need help to get up, get dressed, get washed and live independently face a daily struggle for support." "With its recent care reforms, the government has set out an ambitious vision for the future of social care. But if this vision is to become a reality, social care needs sustainable funding".
The Department for Work and Pensions said: "This government is absolutely committed to supporting disabled people and we continue to spend around £50bn a year on disabled people and their services."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30374254
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-2865114/Decision-fund-disabled.html
Celtic FC: http://thecelticnetwork.co.uk/


RMT: and Mosheh, and Aharon, came to Paroh and they said to him, in this way YHWH the Elohiym of the ones of Ever said, for how long will you refuse to afflict yourself at my face, send my people and they will serve me.
RMT: and he said to them, YHWH will exist so with you, just as I will send you and your babies, see that dysfunction is before your faces.
RMT: and Mosheh extended his hand upon the skies, and a darkness of thick gloominess existed in all the land of Mits'rayim for three days.


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Carpelimus is a genus of spiny-legged rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least 100 described species in Carpelimus.

See also
 List of Carpelimus species

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Q: Huge delay on first browser-request to mono-fastcgi-server4 with Nginx hosted web-application We are using mono version 3.10.0 (from $mono --version) and Nginx (1.6.2) and mono-fastcgi-server4 to host a ASP.Net MVC3 web-application running on an Debian jessie linux (ARM - Raspberry Pi).
Basically we seem to have the same problems as described in this question:
Huge delay on first browser-request to Mono XSP hosted web-application
When the first request from a browser / website-visitor is made mono-fastcgi-server uses all CPU it can get for up to 120s seconds until the webpage is shown in the webbrowser. This happens after each start/restart of the webserver.
As I understood so far this is quite normal and even the same if your are hosting your website with IIS on a windows server. The main difference is that the Windows server is much faster...
To minimize the startup time this is what I already tried:

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*Precompile my razor views into dlls by using the "publish website" feature in Visual Studio. This works so far but seems not to reduce the startup-time significantly.

*Next thing I came upon was AOTing (Ahead of time compiling) my dlls in the bin folder (see http://www.mono-project.com/docs/advanced/runtime/docs/aot/) I used 'mono --aot file.dll` to precompile my assemblies. Again no performance boost.

*Then I found out you can of course also AOT all of the libraries on your system (found here: http://www.mono-project.com/docs/advanced/aot/) by using these commands:
mono --aot /usr/lib/mono/1.0/mscorlib.dll
for i in /usr/lib/mono/gac/*/*/*.dll; do mono --aot $i; done

This took quite a long time on may raspberry but - again - the same result.
Am I doing something wrong or missing something obvious?
The author of the before mentioned question said in his last comment about the delay:

Its caused by generating and compiling the razor views which can not
  yet be pre-compiled. Those files get compiled into /tmp/... which is
  mapped to memory on the embedded devices and therefore gets lost after
  reboot. Even worst is that after each restart of the XSP webserver the
  files will be compiled into a new subdirectory of /tmp. This way
  re-compiling the razor views happen each time XSP is started.

I think it's
It seems that it is the same with me regardless of using XSP4, mono-fastcgi-server and probably also mod-mono when using Apache. (What is not surprising as I think they are all based on XSP - but maybe I'm wrong...)
Now the question mentioned is from 2011...does anybody know if there is a solution to get the webserver to use these precompiled files?
I am thankful for any hint!


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Ericsson has unveiled a Wi-Fi access point and controller for offloading cellular traffic in densely populated areas such as stadiums. Its goal is to allow users to switch seamlessly from the cellular network to a local Wi-Fi network to solve network congestion problems.
The company sees it as a way to give thousands of spectators the bandwidth needed to update their Twitter and Facebook statuses on their phones while they all watch the same game or concert. It could also allow sports fans to see instant action replays on their phones from their stadium seats, or for music fans to upload photos and videos of a concert as it happens.
Stadiums are so densely packed that networks easily get congested, said Sheila Burpee Duncan, Ericsonn's head of Wi-Fi marketing, at the Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam on Tuesday. That's a problem for customers, who are frustrated by the poor service, and for operators, who miss out on potential revenue.
To mitigate those network problems Ericsson has launched the WIC 8000 Wi-Fi controller and the AP 5114 Wi-Fi access point. Combined, they create a local Wi-Fi network that integrates with the mobile network and is optimized for use in stadiums, shopping malls and other densely populated areas, Ericsson said.
The access points can be positioned very close to one another to increase available bandwidth for each user. That poses a problem, though: There are only four non-overlapping 2.4GHz Wi-Fi channels, so access points that are close to each other tend to interfere.
"The interference is a challenge and that is why we use interference mitigation techniques in the software," she said.
As spectators come into the stadium, their data traffic can automatically be switched from their cellular provider to the Wi-Fi network, said Burpee Duncan. "There are a number of different ways you can do it," she said. At the Broadband World Forum Ericsson demonstrated the use of ANDSF (Access Network Discovery and Selection Function), a feature of 3G networks, to invoke an automatic connection to a network, but it could also have used MAC Authentication or Hotspot 2.0, according to Burpee Duncan.
Ericsson's handover technique works with Wi-Fi enabled phones and tablets including the latest iPhones and Samsung smartphones.
Each of the Wi-Fi access points can generate up to 16 different SSIDs, allowing the creation of up to 16 virtual access point networks. "That enables multiple mobile operators on the same Wi-Fi network, but with a connection to their own back office," she said.
Operators in turn can use those connections for roaming and wholesale agreements as well as hosted models, she said.
When a phone hands over to a Wi-Fi access point, Ericsson's controller connects it to the appropriate carrier's core network. There, the operator can choose to deduct data usage on the Wi-Fi network from the subscriber's data plan, or to offer the Wi-Fi service for free, said Burpee Duncan. "That really depends on the subscription."
The controller can handle up to 2,000 access points. "A couple of hundred access points is generally a minimum for a 20,000 seat stadium," she said. Ericsson's network management system can handle up to 100,000 access points in a single instance.
While each access point can in theory handle up to 600Mbps, the stadium "has to have the backhaul network to support it, so the actual bandwidth capability may vary," she said.
The stadium Wi-Fi technology represents Ericsson's first Wi-Fi product launch since it acquired Wi-Fi specialist BelAir Networks in April this year.


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Rolf C. Hagen Inc. Announces Joint Venture Partnership with OmniPET Nutrition
MONTREAL, QC, April 21, 2016 – Rolf C. Hagen Inc. is pleased to announce a new joint venture partnership with OmniPET Nutrition, a pet food manufacturing facility, located in the scenic Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada. The facility is ideally situated to access fresh regional ingredients, such as, farm raised chicken and turkey direct from the Fraser Valley, fresh wild caught fish from the coast of Vancouver, as well as farm raised beef, bison and wild boar from the Canadian Prairies. With a focus on fresh never frozen regional meats and access to high quality Canadian farmed products this facility is directly aligned with Hagen family values and principles to produce high quality pet food with purpose.
OmniPET provides an exciting opportunity for Hagen's brand of Nutrience SubzeroTM to be at the forefront of a new category of pet food that includes freeze dried meats directly into the bag, providing the benefits of raw and the convenience of kibble with a superior taste that pets will crave.
All of Hagen's pet food will be carefully transitioned from the previously owned plant in Waverly, NY, over the next 12 months and there will be a focus on maintaining the successful production and an exceptional record of quality and safety due to the dedicated service of a professional and caring staff.
About OmniPET Nutrition (http://www.omnipetnutrition.com/)
OmniPET Nutrition is Western Canada's largest contract manufacturer of private label dry pet foods that offers "make-to-order," product for its customers. It offers extrusion manufacturing and production control processes, using a micro ingredient system to allow for complete formulation customization of over 300 discrete ingredients. Using their state-of-the-art OmniPET facility, OmniPET is capable of producing a full range of extruded food products, such as cat and dog food, as well as diets for ferrets, horses, and acquarium/zoo animal feeding.
About Rolf C Hagen, Inc. (http://www.hagen.com/)
Since 1955, the Hagen family has created products of uncompromising excellence that pet parents have come to trust. The Hagen family remains actively involved in all aspects of the company, including the production of Nutrience in a state-of-the art human-grade facility in British Columbia.
About Nutrience
Nutrience, a Canadian brand of pet food and registered trademark of Rolf C. Hagen, Inc., was created in 1988. Nutrience food is available as dry or wet formulas in four product lines: Nutrience Original, Nutrience Natural, Nutrience Grain Free, and Nutrience Subzero. Nutrience also includes treats for dogs and cats. The products contain no corn, wheat, soy, by-products, artificial colors, flavors or preservatives, and are made with North American ingredients.
About IJW & Co. Ltd. (http://www.ijw.ca/)
IJW & Co. Ltd. is a leading Canadian-based corporate finance boutique, providing strategic advice on mergers, acquisitions, corporate finance, and business valuation services to mid-market companies. Founded in 2004, IJW has since become one of the fastest growing corporate finance boutiques focused on tech in Montreal.
SOURCE: MODERN DOG MAGAZINE, OMNIPET WEBSITE
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ASHBURN, Va., Jan. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Author, Real Estate Investor, Coach, and Podcast Host Michael Blank identifies three stock market alternatives for 2019 with real estate investments and their pros and cons. 2018 was the worst year for stocks since the 2008 collapse with a plunge of almost 20% in the past two months (TIME, 1/11/19). As an employee turned entrepreneur, Blank has invested in stock options, software, flipping houses, rentals, short sale negotiation, and restaurant franchise – and finds apartment buildings to be the best investment for producing passive income.
Blank emphasizes, "People should consider taking part of their current portfolio and invest in cash flow producing properties that result in monthly revenue as a hedge against a market downturn." As the Author of Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing: The Blueprint to Quitting Your Job with Real Estate – Even Without Experience or Cash (2018), Blank believes people should invest in assets that produce passive income versus working for a paycheck.
1. Single-Family House Investment as a Landlord with Rental Income – Low Risk and Low Return – Blank explains that investors can purchase a single-family home or condominium, and then rent it out. As a stock market investor seeking other options, becoming a landlord can be a great first step towards building a portfolio of properties. Blank recommends that investors hire a property management company, even though it will reduce the monthly revenue from rents. Single-family properties have the most volatility in real estate investing because the value is dependent on comparable sales in the same neighborhood.
2. Turnkey Rental Real Estate Investment with Property Management Company – Low Risk and Medium Return – Blank explains a turnkey rental is good option for investors who do not want to be part of the daily property management. Investing in a single-family home (homes, condos or co-ops) where someone else manages the property can free up time to look for more investments. This type of investment usually provides moderate returns with passive income from rental checks with little to no involvement. All the services needed are handled by a third party such as identifying, evaluating, renovating, marketing, renting and managing an investment property for a long-term buy and hold strategies. The main challenges include the money is locked in for a period of time and market sensitivity, especially with tenant turnover. The risk is that the entire year's income can be wiped out with a 2-3-month vacancy.
3. Real Estate Syndication Investment with a Sponsor – Lowest Risk and Highest Return – A third option is to invest in real estate syndications that include properties or projects with a sponsor and a group of investors. In this scenario, investors pool resources to invest in properties much bigger than they could afford or manage on their own such multifamily, apartment buildings, office buildings, or a strip mall. The real estate investment professional with the experience who finds and manages the deal is the "sponsor." Both get a return based on time and money invested in the project. Michael Blank explains, "It is not uncommon for investors to receive 10% of their investment back as 'cash distributions' per year and double their money in 5-7 years." The biggest challenge for investors is the money is not as liquid as stocks. Syndications are best for people who are looking for long-term investments.
In addition, the tax advantages of investing in real estate are extraordinary, as the majority of any income can be offset by something the IRS calls 'depreciation'.
Blank genuinely wants to positively change lives, and now coaches others how to raise money for their first real estate investment deal. With the confidence of the first deal, Blank believes financial freedom is much easier to achieve with subsequent deals.
As a disclaimer, Michael Blank is not a Financial Advisor, and encourages everyone to consult a professional regarding their investment objectives and assets. These suggestions are for educational purposes only. Market circumstances are always subject to change, and professional advice is encouraged.


Agilith Capital's Patrick Horan says Avigilon is going through a period of "fear selling" that has detached the stock from the company's fundamentals.
The "fear selling" that has "cratered" Avigilon (TSX:AVO) in the days following the departure of CFO Brad Bardua is a buying opportunity, says one fund manager.
Agilith Capital's Patrick Horan was on BNN's "Market Sense" Thursday to share his top stock picks. The portfolio manager says investors should be looking to buy "stuff that is in panic mode right now".
One company he likes that fits that description is the recently beaten down Avigilon, which has spent most of its short history as a public company as a poster boy for Canada's tech revival.
Horan says Avigilon is going through a period of "fear selling" that has detached the stock from the company's fundamentals. He says there is a "lot of controversy" around Avigilon right now that is obscuring the fact that the company's first quarter results were, in fact, strong.
On May 8th, reported a Q1 in which it earned Avigilon earned $8.0-million on revenue of $55.8-million, the the topline number was a 74% bump over the same period last year and earnings nearly tripled.
But investors have focused on the uncertainty around the departure of Bardua and two other executives in the past six months. The stock has fallen from a recent high of $30.15 on April 2nd to under $20. Horan says investors should use the downtick to take advantage of a fast growing tech that is now "trading at a more reasonable valuation".
At press time, shares of Avigilon were up .9% to $19.45.


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