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YUI.add('aui-form-validator-tests', function(Y) {

    //--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // AUI Form Validator Unit Tests
    //--------------------------------------------------------------------------

    var suite = new Y.Test.Suite('aui-form-validator'),
        formValidator;

    var isImageURL = function(val) {
        var regex = /(https?:\/\/.*\.(?:png|jpg|jpeg|gif))/i;
        return regex.test(val);
    };

    Y.FormValidator.addCustomRules(
        {
            'imageURL': {
                condition: isImageURL,
                errorMessage: 'Please enter a valid URL that points to an image (jpg, jpeg, png, or gif).'
            }
        }
    );

    formValidator = new Y.FormValidator({
        boundingBox: '#myForm',
        fieldStrings: {
            email: {
                required: 'Type your email in this field.'
            },
            name: {
                required: 'Please provide your name.'
            }
        },
        rules: {
            age: {
                required: true
            },
            email: {
                email: true,
                required: true
            },
            emailConfirmation: {
                email: true,
                equalTo: '#email',
                required: true
            },
            gender: {
                required: true
            },
            'image-url': {
                imageURL: true,
                required: true
            },
            name: {
                rangeLength: [2, 50],
                required: true
            },
            picture: {
                acceptFiles: 'jpg, gif, png',
                required: true
            },
            read: {
                required: true
            },
            url: {
                required: true,
                url: true
            }
        },
        showAllMessages: true
    });

    //--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Test Case for invalid fields
    //--------------------------------------------------------------------------

    suite.add(new Y.Test.Case({

        name: 'AUI Form Submit Form Tests',

        /*
         * Check if on submit all fields are marked as invalid
         * Tests: AUI-965
         */
        'test submit form': function() {
            var elementWithoutError,
                forms;

            forms = Y.all('form');
            forms.each(function (form) {
                form.simulate('submit');
            });

            elementWithoutError = Y.one('.form-group:not(.has-error)');

            Y.Assert.isNull(elementWithoutError, 'There shouldn\'t be any element without class error');
        },

        /*
         * Check if validator nodes render after the input and lable's textNode
         * Tests: AUI-965
         */
        'test error message displayed after label': function() {
            var instance = this;

            instance._assertValidatorNextLabel('input[value=male]');

            instance._assertValidatorNextLabel('input[name=read]');
        },

        /*
         * Check if validator correctly validates <select> html fields
         * Tests: AUI-1204
         */
        'test submit empty select': function() {
            var form = Y.Node.create('<form><select name="gender"></select></form>'),
                select = form.one('select'),
                validOption,
                validator;

            Y.Node.create('<option value=""></option>').appendTo(select);
            validOption = Y.Node.create('<option value=\"male\">Male</option>').appendTo(select);

            validator = new Y.FormValidator({
                boundingBox: form,
                rules: {
                    gender: {
                        required: true
                    }
                }
            });

            form.simulate('submit');

            Y.Assert.isTrue(validator.hasErrors());

            validOption.attr('selected', 'selected');

            form.simulate('submit');

            Y.Assert.isFalse(validator.hasErrors());
        },

        /*
         * Check if validator correctly validates fields with custom rules
         * @tests AUI-1654
         */
        'test custom rules': function() {
            var form = Y.Node.create('<form><input name="gt50" id="gt50" type="text"></form>'),
                input = form.one('input'),
                validator;

            var gt50 = function(val) {
                return (val >= 50);
            };

            Y.FormValidator.addCustomRules(
                {
                    'greaterThan50': {
                        condition: gt50,
                        errorMessage: 'The digit should be >=50'
                    }
                }
            );

            validator = new Y.FormValidator({
                boundingBox: form,
                rules: {
                    gt50: {
                        greaterThan50: true,
                        required: true
                    }
                }
            });

            form.simulate('submit');

            Y.Assert.isTrue(validator.hasErrors());

            input.attr('value', '42');

            form.simulate('submit');

            Y.Assert.isTrue(validator.hasErrors());

            input.attr('value', '100');

            form.simulate('submit');

            Y.Assert.isFalse(validator.hasErrors());
        },

        _assertValidatorNextLabel: function(input) {
            var inputNode,
                textNode;

            inputNode = Y.one(input);

            textNode = inputNode.get('nextSibling');

            Y.Assert.isTrue(textNode.get('nodeType') === 3, 'Next to the input should be a text node');

            if (Y.FormValidator.isCheckable(inputNode)) {
                textNode = inputNode.ancestor('.form-group').get('lastChild').previous();
            }

            Y.Assert.isTrue(
                textNode.next().hasClass('form-validator-stack'),
                'Next to the input should be form validator');
        }
    }));

    Y.Test.Runner.add(suite);

}, '', {
    requires: ['test', 'aui-form-validator', 'node-event-simulate']
});

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WWE Makes A Big Decision
This was the news release from WWE today.
"WWE has named Paul Heyman as Executive Director of Monday Night Raw and Eric Bischoff as Executive Director of SmackDown LIVE, newly created positions reporting directly to WWE Chairman & CEO Vince McMahon.
In their executive roles, Heyman and Bischoff will oversee the creative development of WWE's flagship programming and ensure integration across all platforms and lines of business. The creation of these roles further establishes WWE's ability to continuously reinvent its global brand while providing two distinct creative processes for its flagship shows.
With more than 30 years of experience in the sports-entertainment industry, Heyman served as President of ECW from 1993 to 2001, securing pay-per-view distribution for the company as well as a national cable television deal with TNN. After his time with ECW, Heyman joined WWE's Creative team and is widely credited with helping launch the careers of many current and former WWE Superstars."
Soooooo question, is this a shoot or a work? This is the most important question for a lot of reasons. If they are simply on screen personalities then it's just another dumb story line. If this is a shoot and they are becoming the creative minds behind the shows we are in for some weird stuff.
If it is indeed a shoot, then Vince is legitimately concerned about All Elite Wrestling. His response was to put his former two rivals incharge of his products. The creative minds behind WCW and ECW just became generals in the newest wrestling war.
Which could be awesome, it could jump WWE into the stratosphere where their products are competitive creatively with that of AEW.
Or it would most likely turn into nurtured products of their former brands. Paul Heyman turning RAW into some type of moc MMA product where Brock Lesnar beats up everyone. While forcing the undercard to brutalize themselves through a series of gimmick matches.
Then I would be afraid to see what Eric Bishoff has in store for the likes of SmackDown. Possibly a call up for the Undisputed Era who join AJ Styles, Finn Balor, and the Good Brother in a bizarre remake of the NWO/Bullet Club. Running rough shot over there former indie darling friends like Kevin Owens, Sami Zayne and Daniel Bryan. Who then eventually end up making a faction of their own which is kind of like Bullet Club but they were blue instead of black.
These storylines would be fun for a few months, maybe even a year, but eventually like their products they would fizzle out. My major concern is that this is an actual thing and that Vince rather hand the keys to the kingdom to two old white guys whose glory days are behind them. Instead of handing the keys to the man who created the most exciting wrestling brand of the last ten years.
If this is true I am really sorry for Triple H, maybe if were lucky he will quit and take his NXT toys with him and make a third brand separate from AEW and WWE.
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Trace elements, such as the Y+REE, actinides, LIL, and HFSE, are one means by which fluid movement in the Earth's crust and upper mantle can be surveyed. The partitioning of trace elements between fluids and the various minerals, both accessory and otherwise, that host them can give information concerning the chemistry of the fluids involved as well as the mechanics by which the host mineral chemically reacts with these fluids. The goal of this session is to explore current research on trace element mobility with regard to their role during local and regional metamorphism; their behavior during the dehydration and subsequent metamorphism of subducting oceanic crust; as well as their behavior during igneous processes such as spreading oceanic ridge centers or emplacement of granitoid batholiths.


A vacation to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park need not be expensive. We spent a week there and spent $1000, including food, accomodation and transportation.
We saw some of the most incredible wild-life (including a grizzly bear) along with geysers, hot-springs, canyons and waterfalls. No wonder National Parks are one of the best inventions of America.
Most folks tend to fly to Yellowstone, and end up paying for expensive flights to land in the tiny airport of Jackson Hole. People also fly in to Boise or Salt Lake City, which are relatively bigger airports than Jackson Hole, and drive from there. We decided to drive from California to Wyoming because we had to rent a car for driving within Yellowstone anyway. Instead of flying in and renting a car for a week, we chose to drive our own car and used it for commute within the park. So we saved money on flights and car rental.
It is a long drive from California to Wyoming. With a overnight pit stop in Elko, Nevada, we were able to make it to Yellowstone without feeling tired or hating the drive.
While driving back, we started early at sunrise and decided to skip the pit stop at Elko and drove the whole day back to California. It worked out because we were returning back home and had an extra day of vacation to relax at home. We did this for Yellowstone National Park because there are no buses or other public transit options for commute within the park (like the way Yosemite offers). If there was reasonable public transportation within the park, we would've considered flying. Having a car also allowed us to head to nearby Grand Teton National Park for a day and explore it.
Most folks tend to book hotels and cabins for their stay in the park. While they are not exoribantly priced, they are not certainly not cheap. We booked a campground in Canyon Area for our stay in Yellowstone, and it cost us less than $230 for 7 nights. This may sound cliche, but it's true - Yellowstone offers the best campground facilities compared to all other national parks I've seen so far (including Yosemite).
Along with a campground booking, you get free daily showers and the shower facility is super clean and huge. There are laundromats available in the shower facility for a nominal charge should you want to use them. The campground itself is spacious, the restrooms are clean, they have flush toilets, along with hand soap and hand dryer! YNP has set the campground standards so high - no other national park can reach it.
Even if you've never camped before, you should try it at Yellowstone. Not only is it a great deal for the price, but it's also a great way to experience living up-close with nature in the midst of woods. There's no better way to experience sleeping under the stars than at Yellowstone.
If you are camping, you have the freedom to cook your own meals instead of relying on the food available in the park. We cooked most of our breakfasts and dinners at our campsite. Breakfast was typically milk and eggs. Snacks included fruits, granola bars and nuts. We usually made pasta, noodle-soup or rice and lentils for dinner. Sometimes we made our own lunch too - avocado sandwiches with bread, cheese and some veggies. We ate them with sides of fruit and chips. We used to make these sandwiches at picnic spots throughout the park.
The only touristy activity we spent money on was renting a boat and driving it around on Yellowstone Lake. We did this because neither of us had driven a boat by ourselves before and we wanted to experience it. Every other activity we did in YNP - all the hikes, geyser-viewing, wildlife-watching, swimming in hot spring rivers, checking out canyons and waterfalls, every thing was free.
We avoided doing activities that felt touristy like the Historic Yellow Bus Tour or Stagecoach Adventure Tour. There is no need to book a wildlife tour to see the animals. All you need is a good pair of binoculars. Biking and Kayaking are the other activities we considered, but ended up not doing them because we've experienced them in California. Biking in GTNP is actually a huge thing, so if you're considering biking, GTNP maybe a better bet.
Transportation 170 We drove our own car, so this is only gas price.
between and snacks and meals during the road trip drive.
and Travel Lodge at Elko, NV for one night.
souvenirs for us and gifts for kids in the family.
Looking back, I'm sure it is possible to do this trip for cheaper than $1000. We bought way too much alcohol during the trip instead of carrying it with us, so our food budget shot up. My point is - don't think a vacation needs to be expensive. With some planning, you can enjoy a great vacation with a small budget. Think outside the box, and step outside your comfort zone. That's what I did, and now camping trips are my most favorite vacations!
Have you stepped out of your comfort zone for a vacation? How did the experience go?


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Robert Schwalb Introduces Family-Friendly Shadow Of The Weird Wizard RPG
Veteran RPG game designer and developer Robert J. Schwalb recently introduced his newest RPG, Shadow of the Weird Wizard, in a devblog post on his Schwalb Entertainment website. The new RPG is characterized as "a family-friendly version of Shadow of the Demon Lord" RPG, and Schwalb says that although it's close to being finished, there are still some important items to work on before it'll be ready for release.
In the Weird Tales: An Introduction devblog post, Schwalb heralds his work on the Shadow of the Weird Wizard RPG, and covers a few details about what the world of the Weird Wizard is, how it came about getting started, and what's in store for the future. And in a more recent following blog post (a series he's titled "Weird Tales"), Schwalb walks us through the process of creating a Weird Wizard character, giving us a few more details on the game mechanics and the setting.
According to Schwalb, after he finished work on Demon Lord, he soon began dabbling with ideas for a toned-down, more mellow RPG setting, but knew it wasn't going to be as simple as cleaning up the language and rules of Demon Lord and calling it a game. Though it would involve no small amount of work on the part of the GM, the Demon Lord basic structure can already be adapted for that purpose. Schwalb states he knew it "was going to take a fundamental redesign of the underlying math and a rebuild of everything to match."
And, sure enough, since he started work on it, Weird Wizard has indeed gone through an untold number of process changes, including a variety of names such as Shadow of the Witch King, Free Companies of Four Towers, and Shadow of the Mad Wizard. Schwalb also states that he needs "to deal with expert and master paths, and run them through testing," and that he'll probably be soliciting help for this work. He adds he'll be giving us more game details soon, and we can follow his socials for updates.
Finally, Schwalb lays out a few alluring facts about the Weird Wizards RPG, touching on land, civilization, and some basic of the characters we'll be playing. Two civilization have come and gone, and the current one now mostly resides in "the Lands of the Weird Wizard, a mysterious, eccentric, bearded fellow whose reckless use of magic has made these New Lands rather strange and mysterious." Our characters are ones who have escaped the Old Country, for whatever reasons, and are now occupied with blazing trails through the Borderlands for travelers and settlers.
For more details on the characters we'll be playing in Shadow of the Weird Wizard, read Schwalb's Weird Tales: Let's Make A Character post. And tune into the Schwalb Entertainment Twitter and Facebook channels for live updates.
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How do we think about disasters? On 9/11, disaster struck in the form of plane hijackings, loss of lives, the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers, and the damage to the Pentagon. A few years later, a tsunami struck in southern Asia. Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. Some Christians thought that one or more of these disasters were judgments from God. Let me call them the doom-sayers. Other Christians quickly rose and criticized the thought. Let me call them the comforters. This disagreement among Christians raises the question as to how we will interpret the next disaster that strikes.
I am writing as one who believes the Bible. The Bible does indicate that God comprehensively controls the events in the world, including disasters (Lam. 3:37-38; Eph. 1:11; Amos 3:6; Isa. 45:7). That is not the question I wish to discuss. Rather, I want to ask how we are supposed to interpret these disasters.
Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
In the context of modern disasters, the comforters have appealed to these passages in order to make the point that God's ways are inscrutible. In the Bible God provides certain cases where he directly tells us what his purposes were. For instance, 2 Chronicles 36:15-17 and 2 Kings 23:26-27 make it clear that the exile of Judah to Babylon took place because of the people's sins. But unless we have such a statement from God, we cannot see his purposes infallibly. We must not pretend that we can. If we presume to draw quick conclusions, we may find ourselves doing the same thing that Job's friends did.
I agree completely with the main theological point here, namely that God is God and that we are not. His actions in his providential rule are mysterious, and we need to realize that he may have many purposes of which we are unaware.
But there is something peculiar about the way in which the comforters have appealed to Luke 13:1-5. They have appealed to it in order to turn aside the idea that God's judgment was being manifested in the particular disaster at hand. Whether they intended it or not, the practical effect of their argument was largely to assure their audience that the disaster was not after all a judgment, and that we can all be comforted and spiritually put ourselves to rest, knowing that the whole thing is just unaccountable, but in any case has nothing to do with fears concerning God and his judgments and his wrath.
The peculiarity here is that Jesus' words in Luke 13:1-5 actually point in the diametrically opposite direction. Jesus unsettles rather than comforts his audience. According to customary thinking of the time, the Galileans must have been terrible offenders to experience the judgment that fell on them. So the audience think that they can comfort themselves that at least they are not going to experience such a disaster. Jesus overthrows customary thinking by saying that the Galileans were not worse. That is already unsettling. But then he adds an ominous warning, "Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish." And, to underline the point, he repeats it with a second illustration concerning the eighteen people killed by the tower of Siloam. Jesus uses both instances to heighten the threat of judgment for his hearers. He accuses them of being guilty and needing repentance, and counsels them that unless they turn to God they will perish.
By contrast, in our modern situation the comforters appeal to Luke 13:1-5 to dismiss judgment. Such use of Luke 13:1-5 is completely one-sided. If someone were to emphasize only the mystery of God's providence, to the point where nothing could be said about the present, then truly nothing could be said. But in fact these comforters are not silent. They are loquacious enough in quoting Job and John 9 and Luke 13:1-5, and they are confident enough that these passages do have a lesson for the present. What lesson? A lesson only of comfort, and never of judgment. But there is plenty of evidence in Scripture that, if we are going to speak to the present at all—which we must do in order to spread the gospel—we need to be ready to speak of judgment and wrath as well as mercy and comfort. We are to do both types of speaking in a biblically-grounded manner. In particular, everydisaster is a forerunner of the Last Judgment. It should be used as an occasion to reflect on the transitory character of this life (1 Cor. 7:31), on the fact that God gives us blessings that we do not deserve (Matt. 5:45), and that if we are rebels against him we ourselves deserve the worst of what the victims experienced.
So to speak only a message of comfort and to avoid thoughts of judgment is not only one-sided, but hypocritical. It commits the same error that it imputes to its opponents, namely that it presents an over-simple and unbalanced view of how the Bible's principles apply to the present.
Why then do the comforters use Luke 13:1-5 only for comfort? If we reflect with honesty, some of the reasons are clear enough, but they are not comforting. Christians speak as they do partly to counteract the effects of the doom-sayers whom they criticize. In the context of modern American culture, the dooming-saying brothers give Christianity a bad name. Non-Christians and potential Christians can see their bad motives. They think they can see that the doom-sayers are angry and impatient at the people who do not agree with them, and so in their bitterness the doom-sayers claim that God is on their side. They want God to condemn their opponents or at least teach the opponents a lesson. Or the doom-sayers are trying to scare people with talk of judgment, wrath, and hell-fire, in the Elmer Gantry tradition, in order to manipulate them, get them under their control, and get their money.
Yes, such bad motives do occur, but they are not always there among those who speak about judgment. And God's wrath does not become unreal merely because some people's motives are bad (Rom. 1:18-32).
We must also turn our eyes critically on the broader American culture. The general culture has developed a strong tradition of dismissing all language of judgment, and imputing bad motives to anyone who dares to use such language. In other words, it has developed excuses and spiritual barriers to avoid thinking about the wrath of God. One of the primary barriers is in pop psychology, which says that everyone needs to have high self esteem, and that guilt feelings are to be avoided in order to increase self esteem. People want to avoid thinking about the wrath of God, because if they do they will feel guilty, and that is not only unpleasant in itself, but bad for self esteem and mental health. Accordingly, Christians are seen as a plague on society because they keep bringing up guilt and making people feel bad.
In addition, the politics of tolerance condemns as uncivil anyone who proclaims a message of guilt (because it depreciates the guilty), and who proclaims an absolutist message, such as the message of coming judgment must be (Acts 17:31).
In fact the gospel is two-sided, containing attractions, promises, and benefits on the one hand and offenses, warnings, and serious obligations on the other. We cannot choose just the part that we like.
I think we can draw several lessons from these reflections. First, we repeatedly confront the danger of compromising the Christian faith in an effort to match the cultural norms of tolerance and civility. Second, we are in danger of muting the note of judgment and wrath in the Christian message, because that note is not only unpopular but not tolerated. Third, biblical Christianity is deeply offensive to mainstream modern culture, and we might as well get over as quickly as possible the idea that we can make it palatable. "You will be hated by all for my name's sake" (Luke 21:17).
Copyright (c) 2007 by Vern Sheridan Poythress.


Bad news for those working in European car manufacturing plants: the dropping demand has prompted a few automakers to consider closing some of their production facilities in order to avoid overproduction. Such is the case of GM's Bochum plant in Germany, which will close by 2017. However, Bloomberg analysts consider that 5 more plants should be closed by other large car makers if the situation is to improve.
Philippe Houchois, UBS analyst in Paris for Bloomberg, says that General Motors, Renault, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Fiat and Ford should shut down a factory each if they wish to avoid the worst of the burnt.
These production units should have been restructured or closed long ago, but political pressure to maintain workplaces, have prevented that from happening. In the last 4 years only 2 such facilities have been closed: one in Sicily by Fiat and a GM plant in Belgium.
IHS Automotive estimates that in absence of those measures, overproduction will top demand by 2 million units in 2012. The European Automobile Manufacturers Association (EAMA) has estimated last week that the auto market in Europe will witness a 7 percent drop this year. And there is no good news in sight, thus prompting automakers to turn to drastic measures.
Returning to the aforementioned case, David Arnold, analyst at Credit Suisse in London, thinks that GM needs 5 years to close one of its marginal plants because of political reasons. Plus, it also illustrates that such measures are difficult to pull off and that an easy solution to the overproduction issue does not exist.
Regarding the other manufacturers confronting this same crisis, we see Peugeot's stock drop to the lowest point in the past 23 years due to fears concerning the company's capacity to stop sales decline; loses in the past 3 months amount to 40 percent, while market share stands at 2.7 billion Euros.
Renault's shares have taken a 27 percent dip, while Fiat witnessed a drop of 26 percent in the same period. Also, Volkswagen, a group that is not affected by overproduction, joins the club, after its shares dropped 11 percent.
Automakers leaders have met this Thursday in Madrid to analyze their options and see how they can end the negative period car sales are going through. This is a serious problem to be tackled, as during the first 4 months of 2012 car sales in Europe have gone down by 7.1 percent, while French, Italian and Greek markets have shrunk by 18 percent, acceding to EAMA estimates.
Renault's subsidiary, Dacia, may also be affected. After the French group opened a new factory in Tanger, Morocco, which operates at 18 percent lower costs compared to the Pitesti plant and is more strategically placed. This gave rise to fears that the Romanian facility will be closed, or see personal reductions. What's more, the French are planning to open another factory in Africa, in Algeria, thus putting more pressure on the successful Romanian plant.
These are dark times indeed for the European auto industry.


The flagship of the Council's programming on Europe, the Forum brings more than 400 top US and European policy and business leaders to western Poland each June for discussions on advancing democracy, prosperity, and security, both regionally and around the globe. With the aim of building a forward thinking Europe and a strengthened transatlantic partnership, participants debate topics ranging from the role of NATO in the current security environment to the potential for a true transatlantic marketplace, and from a roadmap for European energy union to the changing role of Central Europe.
Past speakers include Admiral James Stavridis, US Senator John McCain, US Senator Jeanne Shaheen, General James L. Jones, Jr., USMC (Ret.), Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, US Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides, former Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt, EU Commissioner Stefan Fuele, and former US National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley.
Also held in Wroclaw during the Forum, recognizes extraordinary individuals and organizations that defend and advance the cause of freedom around the world. Past awardees include Belarusian activist Ales Byalyatski, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Czech politician Václav Havel, Polish politician Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, and Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai.
The annual Bronisław Geremek Lecture series was launched in 2009 in partnership with the Government of Poland to honor one of the great heroes of the Solidarity movement in Poland—and as a reminder of the transatlantic community's continued commitment to democratic change and completing Professor Geremek's dream of "Europe Whole and Free." In bringing together the most influential leaders in US and Polish foreign policy over the past three decades, the lecture series reinforces a vital message of our mutual commitment to freedom and a prosperous future for all.
Launched in 2005, this annual lecture series honors the memory of the Atlantic Council's former president, Christopher Makins, by bringing together top European and American policymakers to discuss major challenges facing the Atlantic community. By providing a platform for discussion and by stimulating provocative discourse on the importance of the Atlantic alliance, we carry on the heritage and vision of this extraordinary Atlanticist. Previous transatlantic leaders who have delivered the Makins Lecture are Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, and Dr. Henry Kissinger.
In order to enhance the debate and further raise the profile of the EU's Eastern Partnership and a strategy for Europe's East in Washington and beyond, the Atlantic Council hosted a one-day conference in Washington, DC on a transatlantic strategy for Europe's East. This effort built upon the success and impact of the Council's "Toward a Europe Whole and Free" conference, a special tribute to NATO and the European Union on the anniversaries of their historic enlargements.


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Bye-Bye Barneys
A remembrance of sales past
Alexander Aciman
On the morning of my 20th birthday I strolled down Central Park South in the bright September breeze and set out on what would eventually become one of my longest running birthday traditions, one which finally ended this year: visiting the Barneys flagship store on 60th and Madison. After almost 100 years in business and almost 30 years sitting at the top of Madison Avenue in a stately pumice-colored cube looking over all the boutiques of the Upper East Side, almost like a gatekeeper or master of ceremony, Barneys will be closing its doors this year. The most illustrious department store in America can't pay its rent.
For nearly a century it was the premier haberdashery and, later, all-around department store of the city. Barneys stocked suits and ties from obscure Italian brands, Kanye's latest lines, scarves of madder silk woven in the antique fashion, jewels that would make Adam Sandler's black opal look like sea glass, clothes by Japanese designers having their first stateside shows, and most importantly, some other quality of poshness that managed to tone down even the loudest Louis Vuitton patterns when seen from within Barneys. Imagining Madison Avenue without Barneys is almost like trying to think of the Champs-Élysées without the Arc de Triomphe. And to shop there said something about you—not just that you had money, but that you also had good taste.
Because I didn't grow up on the Upper East Side, the first time I ever heard of Barneys was when my grandfather told me the legend of how just days after moving penniless to America he and my father managed to haggle with a shopkeeper in order to get a good deal on a shearling coat. The next time I encountered Barneys was when my need for a bar mitzvah suit fortuitously coincided with the biannual Barneys Warehouse Sale—a total free-for-all,end-of-season event held in the dimly lit basement of a warehouse in Chelsea, promising fiscally irresponsible price cuts on items that once sat on the shelves at Barneys.
Lines would snake around the corner, and just moments after relinquishing their bags to the coatcheck, men would frantically strip down to their underwear without hesitation, without need for changing rooms or sometimes even mirrors, hoping against hope that somehow the last-season Zegna suit they managed to find on a rack, and which Barneys had discounted to the tune of 80%, might fit them. Rows of Italian suits and English brogues lined the walls, greatcoats of thick tweeds piled atop fine wool trousers and stacked somewhere between denim so fat you could barely cut it with a knife. Barneys would send flyers out in the mail weeks ahead of time. It was an event that in retrospect predicted the chaos and crowd-drawing abilities of sample sale culture today. It was a place where an ordinary person could spend a few hours, and for relatively little money, walk out knowing that they'd spend the next year decked out in the finest Barneys threads. This was Barneys' greatest appeal. The complete pandemonium that was the warehouse sale can be explained by this fact alone, that it wasn't simply the prospect of navy suits that drew thousands of people to a basement and forced them to strip down in front of countless strangers. There was always something else at play. In reality, the warehouse sale was everyone's way of owning a part of Barneys.
It was in this gray-walled vortex that I first began to figure out my own style, a place where my uncle used to ask me to hold onto his bag of loot while he went off in search of yet another blazer, where one year my father managed to find real wool fleece jackets, which every male in my family wore for the next several seasons. One September I visited the warehouse sale on my own and stumbled across a Barena suit. Can I really try it on? Here? In front of all these people? I asked myself, nervously, before realizing that I had been practicing for this moment my entire life and succumbing to the chaos of the Barneys sale and stripping down to try it on. It didn't fit.
Year after year I searched those long, dark corridors of fabric and leather and flimsy metal racks, yes, for clothing, but in reality, more for the parts of myself yearning to be discovered. Having just graduated from Merrell loafers and ill-fitting jeans, these warehouse sales were the first time I ever really asked myself what I wanted to look like—who I wanted to be.
When I finally made it to the flagship on Madison I marveled at the serenity of the place, jackets resting on thick wooden hangers, not a thread out of place, hardly a breeze, so unlike the warehouse, almost solemn in comparison. Was this the place that all those clothes in those bins and on those wire racks had once belonged? Did all life begin here?
A few years ago they stopped having the warehouse sales and moved the warehouse to an entirely digital platform, available all year round, which in retrospect could have been seen as an early sign of Barneys financial problems. They were trying to monetize their old wares, not simply offload them at ridiculously low prices in order to make room for next season's stock.
At Barneys I never felt out of place. There were no sneers from salespeople who after years of experience know right away who is or isn't a sale. For a short while I felt like I belonged, much as Disneyland makes its guests feel at home, as if they belong there always, despite the fact that they'll have to return to their real lives in just a few hours. Even their online site offered free shipping on everything—the store's way of making shoppers feel, even from afar, the embrace of Barneys.
Barneys had the ability to ask me the difficult and complex question of who, with all the money in the world, I might be.
In all my birthday visits I never bought anything from Barneys. Often I toyed with the idea ahead of time, that I might permit myself one comically small thing that I might be able to afford—a tube of some lotion I didn't need, or a pair of English socks so fine that my shoes would wear a hole in them after a week, but ultimately I never went through with it. It wasn't the actual merchandise that drew me again and again, year after year, to 60th and Madison, but the possibility of reliving the journey of self-discovery that started at age 14 in the grotto that was the warehouse. Often I watched other people buy things, but what I wanted from Barneys was to better understand who I would have been, what my tastes were, my real inclinations, if those parts of me did not know the constraints of money or time, but were instead told to run free. Once, in high school, a guidance counselor put before me the infamous platitude and asked what I would do with my time if I had all the money in the world, hoping my answer might gesture at a possible career path. But Barneys had the ability to ask me the far more difficult and infinitely more complex question of who, with all the money in the world, I might be. The act of scanning the aisles without so much as trying stuff on was the first time I ever really considered what it was that I liked. This impulse spilled over into all other parts of my life: food, cities, movies, books.
This, too, was perhaps the root of Barneys' money troubles. There is maybe no other store in the world where the vast majority of the people who go there aren't even potential clients. How many people over the years have walked through the revolving doors at Barneys with absolutely zero intention of buying anything, without even so much as pretending to entertain the notion of buying something. The number is incalculable. Barneys was supposed to be a business but its greatest asset wasn't in the displays with literally a million dollars' worth of necklaces, or the furs that cost more than the down payments on most apartments. Their greatest asset was an abstraction. By offering its visitors some alternate notion of self it bought a little more time than other department stores, but was also fated to an eventual grave because such a thing is fundamentally intangible, something I could get only by buying nothing, or, at most, by having lunch there—why else would anyone ever eat at Barneys? You certainly didn't ever go for the food. In a world of Donald Trump ties and three-packs of Calvin Klein undershirts sold in the skeletons of the city's once-great department stores, Barneys retained its glamour, and even reinvested the dividends of it, growing ritzier and more fashionable by the year. And on slow winter nights Barneys felt like an old Parisian department store. It belonged to another world.
Visiting Barneys was always my way of recalibrating, of grounding myself. A totem that happened to be eight stories tall. I was its Holly Golightly. Barneys soothed my mean reds. When the world was at its worst—or when I was at my worst—Barneys was always there for me, watching the sun set across Central Park, patiently waiting for me to arrive and to remind me of who I really was or wanted to be. When I was a reporter at the newsdesk at Time magazine—a job which had been emotionally crushing by design—I would sometimes take an inappropriately long lunch hour and walk from my office at 50th and 6th Avenue all the way to Barneys on 60th and Madison. To anyone else it would seem such a flagrant misuse of company time, such a demonstrably fireable offense, but in reality, I couldn't have kept going without those little occasional trips to Barneys.
My father and I, at a loss for what to do with ourselves, took the bus down to Barneys on the night that my grandmother died. What else was there for us to do but to start again from zero? And what place but Barneys could offer us that?
After I found out it was closing I resisted going back, trying to convince myself that there wouldn't be anything left for me to buy, even though that was never the point in the first place, or that it would be too busy, when in reality it was because that wasn't how I wanted to remember Barneys. But still, my curiosity wore me down, as did the prospect of finding shoes or maybe my grandfather's old shearling coat at a good price.
Today the store I loved and where I discovered parts of myself is decked out with floor-to-ceiling posters with bright yellow and red letters. STORE CLOSING. EVERYTHING MUST GO. 60% OFF. GOOD BUY THEN GOODBYE! The old fragrance section in the basement, which once seemed to glow in amber light and call you down in the evenings to gaze at the thousands of stunning glass bottles that made the whole room feel like a giant chandelier, is pockmarked and empty, its counters smeared. It has been pillaged. No longer do people rush over and try to help you, but rather, beleaguered sales associates, some who have worked there for decades, hide from closeout shoppers crawling through the building like ants. Whatever serenity existed in Barneys that made it a place ripe for quiet introspection is gone. Instead it has finally become the place it should always have been—a store intended for people to buy things in, not a roadmap for self-actualization. It might be the only time this decade the store actually turns a profit, even though at 60% off you still face the prospect of spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on an item. This Barneys is no longer immaculate or loved after. It is more akin to its warehouse sales of yore, bustling and mismanaged, rooms full of feverish eyes, beastly eyes, scanning rows upon rows of poorly displayed luxury goods hoping that this time, somehow, a size 8 shoe will fit a size 9 foot. And who knows, with the magic of Barneys, it may just happen.
Alexander Aciman is a writer living in New York. His work has appeared in, among other publications, The New York Times, Vox, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic.
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Justia Regulation Tracker Department Of The Interior Land Management Bureau Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey; South Dakota, 64969 [2011-27008]
Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey; South Dakota, 64969 [2011-27008]
Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 202 / Wednesday, October 19, 2011 / Notices subdivision of sections accepted September 7, 2011. T. 21 N., R. 6 W., dependent resurvey, subdivision and metes-and bounds survey accepted September 14, 2011. T. 25 N., R. 9 W., dependent resurvey and subdivision of section accepted September 15, 2011. T. 6 S., R. 2 W., metes-and-bounds survey accepted September 30, 2011. San Bernardino Meridian, California T. 4 S., R. 4 E., supplemental plat of the West 1⁄2 of section 14, accepted August 18, 2011. T. 5 S., R. 12 W., metes-and-bounds survey accepted September 28, 2011. T. 5 S., R. 23 E., dependent resurvey and subdivision of sections 1 and 12 accepted September 30, 2011. Dated: October 7, 2011, Authority: 43 U.S.C., chapter 3. Lance J. Bishop, Chief Cadastral Surveyor, California. [FR Doc. 2011–27024 Filed 10–18–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310–40–P DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management [LLMT926000–L19100000–BJ0000– LRCME0G04815] Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey; South Dakota Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION: Notice of filing of plats of survey. AGENCY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will file the plat of survey of the lands described below in the BLM Montana State Office, Billings, Montana, on November 18, 2011. DATES: Protests of the survey must be filed before November 18, 2011 to be considered. ADDRESSES: Protests of the survey should be sent to the Branch of Cadastral Survey, Bureau of Land Management, 5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, Montana 59101–4669. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marvin Montoya, Cadastral Surveyor, Branch of Cadastral Survey, Bureau of Land Management, 5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, Montana 59101–4669, telephone (406) 896–5124 or (406) 896– 5009, Marvin_Montoya@blm.gov. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to contact the above individual during normal business hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or question with the above emcdonald on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Mar<15>2010 16:34 Oct 18, 2011 Jkt 226001 individual. You will receive a reply during normal business hours. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This survey was executed at the request of the Regional Director, Great Plains Region, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Aberdeen, South Dakota, and was necessary to determine trust and tribal lands. The lands we surveyed are: Fifth Principal Meridian, South Dakota T. 125 N., R. 53 W. The plat, in one sheet, representing the dependent resurvey of a portion of the subdivisional lines, a portion of the subdivision of section 15, and a portion of the adjusted original meanders of Buffalo Lake, through section 15, and the subdivision of section 15, Township 125 North, Range 53 West, Fifth Principal Meridian, South Dakota, was accepted September 28, 2011. We will place a copy of the plat, in one sheet, we described in the open files. It will be available to the public as a matter of information. If the BLM receives a protest against this survey, as shown on this plat, in one sheet, prior to the date of the official filing, we will stay the filing pending our consideration of the protest. We will not officially file this plat, in one sheet, until the day after we have accepted or dismissed all protests and they have become final, including decisions or appeals. Authority: 43 U.S.C. chap. 3. Steve L. Toth, Acting Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Division of Resources. [FR Doc. 2011–27008 Filed 10–18–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310–DN–P DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management [LLCO910000 L71220000.PN0000 LVTFC09C0020] Notice of Final Supplementary Rules Concerning Fireworks on Public Land in Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION: Notice of final supplementary rules. AGENCY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is issuing final supplementary rules to restrict the possession and use of fireworks on public land within the State of Colorado. The rules are necessary to protect natural resources and provide for public health and safety. DATES: Effective Date: These rules are effective December 19, 2011. SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00078 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 64969 You may send inquiries by mail to the Office of Law Enforcement, BLM Colorado State Office, 2850 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215; or by e-mail to john_bierk@blm.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Bierk, Chief Ranger, BLM Colorado State Office (see address listed above); or by phone (303) 239–3893. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 800–877–8339 to contact the above individual during normal business hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or question with the above individual. You will receive a reply during normal business hours. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ADDRESSES: I. Background II. Discussion III. Procedural Matters I. Background The BLM proposed these Supplementary Rules in the Federal Register on May 10, 2010 (75 FR 25879). Under current regulations found in 43 CFR 8365.2–5 (a), no person shall discharge or use fireworks at a developed recreation site. Seasonal fire prevention orders issued under the authority of 43 CFR 9212.2 (a) are commonly used at the local level to reduce the chance of human-caused fires during peak fire season. This action will supplement the existing regulations to prohibit the possession and use of fireworks on all public land in Colorado. Drought and subsequent insect kill of large stands of pine trees in Colorado have made the threat of wildfires greater each year. The challenges of fire protection and suppression increase as more people move into the wildland urban interface. Ensuring public and firefighter safety, while protecting property and natural resources, remain the BLM's priorities. Under the National Fire Plan, the BLM works with other agencies and communities to ensure adequate preparedness for future fire seasons, restore landscapes, rebuild communities damaged by wildfire, and invest in projects to reduce fire risk. These rules complement the National Fire Plan. Land management agencies have taken precautions to enhance public awareness, provide proactive presuppression efforts, and implement fire restrictions that are reasonable and consistent among Federal, state, and local agencies. Federal, state, and local land management agencies should strive to implement fire restrictions and E:\FR\FM\19OCN1.SGM 19OCN1
Land Management Bureau
[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 202 (Wednesday, October 19, 2011)]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[LLMT926000-L19100000-BJ0000-LRCME0G04815]
Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey; South Dakota
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of filing of plats of survey.
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will file the plat of
survey of the lands described below in the BLM Montana State Office,
Billings, Montana, on November 18, 2011.
DATES: Protests of the survey must be filed before November 18, 2011 to
be considered.
ADDRESSES: Protests of the survey should be sent to the Branch of
Cadastral Survey, Bureau of Land Management, 5001 Southgate Drive,
Billings, Montana 59101-4669.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marvin Montoya, Cadastral Surveyor,
Branch of Cadastral Survey, Bureau of Land Management, 5001 Southgate
Drive, Billings, Montana 59101-4669, telephone (406) 896-5124 or (406)
896-5009, Marvin_Montoya@blm.gov. Persons who use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay
Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to contact the above individual during
normal business hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week, to leave a message or question with the above individual. You
will receive a reply during normal business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This survey was executed at the request of
the Regional Director, Great Plains Region, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Aberdeen, South Dakota, and was necessary to determine trust and tribal
lands.
The lands we surveyed are:
Fifth Principal Meridian, South Dakota
T. 125 N., R. 53 W.
The plat, in one sheet, representing the dependent resurvey of a
portion of the subdivisional lines, a portion of the subdivision of
section 15, and a portion of the adjusted original meanders of
Buffalo Lake, through section 15, and the subdivision of section 15,
Township 125 North, Range 53 West, Fifth Principal Meridian, South
Dakota, was accepted September 28, 2011.
We will place a copy of the plat, in one sheet, we described in the
open files. It will be available to the public as a matter of
information. If the BLM receives a protest against this survey, as
shown on this plat, in one sheet, prior to the date of the official
filing, we will stay the filing pending our consideration of the
protest. We will not officially file this plat, in one sheet, until the
day after we have accepted or dismissed all protests and they have
become final, including decisions or appeals.
Authority: 43 U.S.C. chap. 3.
Steve L. Toth,
Acting Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Division of Resources.
[FR Doc. 2011-27008 Filed 10-18-11; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310-DN-P


Jio Gigafiber's expansion is being halted by Indian monsoon!
Jio will now take help from cable operators for last-mile connectivity.
Reliance wants to expand Jio GigaFiber services at a rapid pace, and offer the services to as many users as possible.
Registrations will start from August 15th, and anticipation and excitement are clearly all around.
However, weather Gods seems to play the spoilsport here, because rain is forcing Jio's team to halt and interrupt their plans.
Meanwhile, in a related news, it has been discovered that JioPhone users consuming data at a massive scale – an average user is right now consuming 7 GB of data per month, and for a feature phone, this is an amazing record.
Checkout what all is happening with JioPhone, right here!
Right now, Jio Gigafiber's entire team is focussing on deploying the required optical fibers for connecting the end-user with their network hubs.
This last mile connectivity operations is facing an obstacle in the form of rains. Monsoon has covered entire India, and rains have started everywhere.
This has forced Jio to stop their activities in some regions, as this is against Govt. rules pertaining to the digging of grounds.
How Is Jio Handling This Problem?
It seems that Jio will now use cable operators' help and assistance in this regard. Cables are already existing in most of the country, and Jio is seeking their assistance to provide the last mile connectivity.
Besides, to tackle issues related to the municipality, Jio has allocated one liaisoning officer every state to check the updates and to remove any obstacle.
There is an expenditure of $100-150 per subscriber for performing the last-mile connectivity. Jio had promised to enroll 50 million users across 1150 cities in the first phase. It would be interesting to observe how Jio is able to accomplish that.
But going by Reliance's track record, it doesn't seem impossible!
Meanwhile a report has stated that JioPhone's userbase is consuming data at a massive scale.
There are around 25 million JioPhone in India right now, which will surely expand after August 15th, when their 2nd Monsoon Hungama plans kickoff.
As of now, an average JioPhone user is consuming 7 GB of data per month. Compared to the overall telecom industry, an average smartphone user consuming 2GB of data per month, while Jio users consume 10 GB of data per month.
The report stated that 90% of JioPhone users have now turned over to Rs 153 plan, which gives 1.5 GB of data per day.
There are 500 million feature phone users in India, and Jio wants 100 million of them on their platform.
"Jio GigaFiber's Expansion Halted by Rains; JioPhone Users Consuming 7GB Data/Month!", 5 out of 5 based on 1 ratings.
RBI Stops Paytm Payments Bank From Adding New Customers – Find Out Why?
God Bless Jio. It's a shame that they have to go through so much hardship. I wish all consumers TAKE their connection once it launches.
Again Wrong news. in our area, Vizag Jio fiber work (last mile connectivity) is going on every day. I think Jio will not entertain local cable operators due to fiber connectivity to till consumer Home or TV.


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