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Nintendo Labo Makes Cardboard Great Again
Posted by Marissa Dibartolo | Apr 26, 2018 | Interests, Reviews, Toys, Video Game Reviews, Video Games | 0
When parents spend their entire savings on this year's hottest "gotta have it" toy, and kids end up being more interested in the box it came it, it's undeniably infuriating. To so many kids, the cardboard box is the best toy in the world—and thanks to the masterminds at Nintendo, cardboard is finally getting its well-deserved day in the sun. And parents can actually be happy about it.
Nintendo Labo lets kids use the technology provided by the Nintendo Switch (sold separately) and some pre-cut cardboard pieces to build, play, and discover. The inaugural Nintendo Labo Variety Kit takes kids step-by-step through five different Toy-Con creations. Kids will start with a pretty basic R/C car and work their way up to a more sophisticated 13-key piano and a high-energy motorbike.
Labo includes more than 20 pieces of printed, labeled, color-coded perforated cardboard. The Nintendo Switch game will walk kids through each Toy-Con project, letting them build at their own speed, going forward and backward as often as they like. The steps could not be any clearer, and the game even warns kids when they might need assistance from an adult, or if a step requires some extra finesse. IKEA could learn a lot from Nintendo.
Nintendo Labo does not require ANY outside materials (other than your Nintendo Switch, of course). No glue, tape, scissors, screwdrivers, batteries, box cutters, dog whistles, Dixie cups, Ziploc bags, or Borax. As a girl who spends a LOT of time assembling toys and completing DIY kits that require half the items in my baking cabinet, I can tell you that this is an extremely huge selling point. Just open the box, insert the cartridge into the Switch, and you have everything you need to build (also maybe factor in a pinch of patience).
And unlike arduous, thick books full of color-coded building instructions, Nintendo Labo greets kids with whimsical and energizing music, engaging animations, and quippy jokes to keep their attention. Building feels like the first game in this interactive world—and it's a lot of fun. That's right: Following instructions is fun.
But it doesn't stop there. Once kids construct their cardboard creations, they get to play with them, and this playtime is rooted in simple experiments. Build up an RC car and change the vibration frequencies of each Joy Con to see how it affects the speed and direction. Spend an hour crafting the perfect fishing rod and discover how fish differ as you dive deeper down into the ocean. Kids can enhance key STEM skills, like cause-and-effect, problem solving, and so much more. Each Toy-Con is like a mini experiment in itself, and the games that result from each finished product bring in even more challenges.
The Nintendo Switch has so much built in (read our full review here), and Nintendo Labo utilizes its incredible features in unique ways. With motion detection, rumble vibrations, cameras, and even just the sheer ability to separate the Joy Cons to perform different functions, in addition to the versatility of the main Switch unit, kids can go so far beyond the five included creations, just by using their imaginations and all the awesome tech at their fingertips.
The durability of the cardboard is also impressive. We didn't rip or tear a single piece in the Variety Kit. While some pieces required a bit more force than others, overall the tabs fit pretty easily, and the folding is a breeze thanks to the perforations. They might not be able to withstand being stepped on, but if carefully stored, kids' creations can stand the test of time. Best of all: All of the Toy-Con can be created at the same time. No pieces overlap—for example, you won't need to snag a piece of cardboard from the piano to create the house. The Switch unit can obviously only be utilized for one project at a time, but kids don't need to disassemble any of the cardboard pieces in order to move on to a new creation.
This physical and digital gameplay experience provides kids with hours of entertainment. And parents who may be hesitant about buying their child a video game can feel great knowing their kids are learning just as much as they are having a blast. The Variety Kit is designed for ages 6 and up, but rest assured that older Nintendo fans will have a blast exploring everything it has to offer.
Nintendo Labo seamlessly fuses physical and digital gameplay. We have seen so many products fail at this hard-to-perfect feat, and yet Nintendo has cracked the code to create a fun, engaging, one-of-a-kind experience. So often with these types of digitally-enhanced play systems, kids either get bored with the physical element and divert to the on-screen gameplay, or, the marriage between the two worlds is flimsy from the start and kids quickly realize they can easily enjoy one without the other. But with Labo, you need both aspects from beginning to end.
Nintendo's latest invention celebrates kids' natural sense of curiosity and the power of imagination. Through the fusion of high and low technologies, physical and digital gameplay, and fun and learning, Labo paves the way for the next generation of engineers. I can't wait to see what's next.
This post was originally published on April 20 on thetoyinsider.com.
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The breakdown Nintendo Labo lets kids use the technology provided by the Nintendo Switch (sold separately) and some pre-cut cardboard pieces to build, play, and discover. The inaugural Nintendo Labo Variety Kit takes kids step-by-step through five different Toy-Con creations, including an RC car, a house, a piano, and more. Nintendo Labo seamlessly fuses physical and digital gameplay. We have seen so many products fail at this hard-to-perfect feat, and yet Nintendo has cracked the code to create a fun, engaging, one-of-a-kind experience.
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Putin's "Sacred Mission" in Syria
By	Dr. Anna Geifman	March 27, 2016
Russia's intervention in Syria cannot be fully explained by strategic or economic factors. Russian political culture, which has been permeated since the fifteenth century by a messianic vision of apocalyptic redemption, has long been a significant guiding factor in the decision-making of Russia's leaders.
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 335, March 27, 2016
Russia's intervention in Syria cannot be fully explained by strategic or economic factors. Russian political culture, which has been permeated since the fifteenth century by a messianic vision of apocalyptic redemption, has long been a significant guiding factor in the decision-making of Russia's leaders.
On September 30, 2015, Vladimir Putin ordered Russian warplanes into Syria to begin regular aerial bombardments of targets that Moscow defined as sources of "jihadi terror." The intervention followed an official invitation from the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who had asked his Russian ally for help against the "jihadists." The Kremlin's official statements described jihadists as forces that threatened stability within and beyond Syria's borders. Hence, many observers initially assumed that Putin's main ambition was to destroy the Islamic State, Al-Nusra, and other terrorist organizations.
Yet from the outset, Russian warplanes primarily targeted the Free Syrian Army and other armed organizations considered by most to be moderate, but that constituted a threat to the Alawite regime's strategic centers. Not until November 2015, weeks after the Syrian campaign had begun, did the Russians shift their military focus to the Islamic State.
Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev was unequivocal about Russia's intentions. "Russia has no plans to stop its bombing campaign against rebel positions in Syria until Moscow's allies in Damascus can achieve peace on favorable terms," he said in an interview. According to Medvedev, Russia would continue to target any of Assad's opponents, for "they are all bandits and terrorists." Putin wishes to present himself as a loyal friend to Assad, his only Middle Eastern ally, whose regime Moscow hopes to preserve.
Some contend that Putin decided to intervene primarily to distract the West from his aggression in the Ukraine. Still others maintain that Putin's central aim was to offset the humiliation of having lost extensive territory following the breakdown of the USSR, a calamity Putin considers "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century." According to this premise, Russia is striving in Syria to convey the image of a superpower after two decades of "submissive" foreign policy vis-à-vis the US. If we are to trust Medvedev's most recent statements, Russia has revived the Cold War during its president's third term in office.
Traditionally, Western scholars have explained Russia's aggressive Middle Eastern policy initiatives by its wish to access warm water ports. While access to the Syrian port Tartus is certainly important, it is not critical, because the Crimea's Sevastopol does not freeze in winter. Thus, it appears that even key geopolitical factors are insufficient to validate the new Russian adventure.
Russia's urgent need for access to the Mediterranean, which borders on obsession, may not be explicable solely by strategic or economic factors. The tendency to intervene in foreign conflicts might have to do with patterns of Russian historical development, and might reveal more profound and essential, if unappreciated, patterns in Russian political culture. These patterns may in fact have become integral parts of the national identity, guiding its leaders and determining policy. The origins of these patterns are traceable to the fifteenth century.
In 1453, the Byzantine Empire was defeated by the Turks. In Russia, the fall of Constantinople was seen as a divine punishment to the Greeks for straying from true Orthodoxy. In 1492, Metropolitan Zosimus called Moscow "the new city of Constantine," the original capital of Christianity. In the first quarter of the sixteenth century, Philotheus, a monk in the Pskov monastery, wrote a memorandum to Tsar Vasilii III in which he developed this idea further.
The "first Rome" and the "second Rome" (Constantinople), Philotheus claimed, had lapsed into heresy and ceased to be the centers of the Christian world, and should be replaced by Moscow. Because of their great sins, the "two Romes have fallen, a third stands, and a fourth there will not be." Until the day of final redemption, Philotheus wrote, Moscow would be the spiritual center of the whole Christian world. This idea became known as "Moscow—the Third Rome."
Russia's role was to be properly messianic, with Moscow taking upon itself no less than the "special responsibility … [for] the salvation of all humanity." For centuries, this doctrine remained an integral part of the Russian national mythology and the "fundamental principle of the official ideology" of the Russian state. The dogma justified Russian imperial ambitions, insofar as it legitimized the idea that it was Russia's destiny to be a "light unto the nations" and to lead the world, which had lost true faith, to its final salvation.
Ever since this dogma crystallized in the sixteenth century, Russians have been persistently taught that their political history is "suffused with sacred significance," representing "the culminating chapter of a sequence of historical events leading up to and including the apocalypse." Many experts regarded the "reality of the apocalypse as an historical event . . . [that] can be seen with great frequency through the records of Russian history."
The key here is that Russia's messianic role is assumed, regardless of the nature of the political regime—be it tsarist, Soviet, or post-Soviet. Historians have underscored "various parallels between this conception of Russia's special historical responsibilities as the head of the true Christian church and the Soviet Union's special historical responsibilities as the guardian of one true (Marxist-Leninist) doctrine of communism." Putin adapted the idea for the post-Soviet reality.
Following the 2008 economic crisis and the 2011 public protests against election fraud, Putin realized that he could not sustain his regime's legitimacy or maintain mass support without a tradition-based messianic mission. He did not invent a new ideology but simply reformulated and popularized the vital concept of Russia's "greatness." That the Russian state is "great," according to the time-honored meaning of the word, means that it directs the world along a visionary path towards a redemptive goal.
Since 2012, Putin has insisted that Western societies "have moved away from their roots" and forsaken their "Christian values," which has led to "degradation and . . . a profound demographic and moral crisis." Unlike those societies, Russia has returned to the path of true faith, which, according to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, has triggered Western hostility—presumably because Russia's Orthodox Christian goals are at odds with those of the apostates.
Putin's nationalist supporters emphasize the sacred aspirations that supposedly guide Moscow's policies in faraway lands. The ever-popular stage star Zhanna Bichevskaia, for example, sang in a hit performance in May 2014 that "[we] will recapture Russia's Sevastopol. The Crimean peninsula will be Russian again [as well as] our sovereign Bosporus, our Constantinople, and Jerusalem, the shrine of humanity."
Putin is clearly counting on the fact that over the centuries, the Russian people have absorbed the idea that expansion is spiritually justified. To be a good (and popular) leader in their eyes means to be a messianic leader pursuing a messianic foreign policy. This, in turn, means becoming actively involved in unsettling ventures that have the potential to lead to a spectacular, apocalypse-like development.
The Syrian conflict undoubtedly contains this potential. It is an opportunity a traditional Russian leader must seize. He is, after all, the one representing the "light unto the nations." The culture he embodies must, by virtue of its visionary mission, take up its obligation to lead human history toward its apotheosis. Viewed in those terms, the Middle East is a special attraction.
According to a national survey, conducted a few days after the beginning of Russia's intervention in the Syrian civil war, more than two-thirds, or 68% of respondents, were following the developments in Syria. Of that total, 62% thought that Russia should not remain neutral in the conflict. Significantly, 56% of respondents blamed not the Syrian rebels or the Assad regime in the prolonged and bloody conflict, but the US and its allies. Sixty-six percent supported Putin's decision to begin air raids. About a month later, "Putin's approval rating…reached an all-time high of nearly 90 percent largely thanks to his military moves in Syria, according to a new nationwide poll."
Modern-day Russians are oppressed politically and economically, and their government's policies at home and abroad are highly unlikely to alleviate that oppression. Yet Russians support Putin's Middle Eastern adventures. That is because they impart the clear message that Putin's guiding principles in Syria are in line with Russia's traditional messianic aspirations, as outlined by the time-honored doctrine of "Moscow the Third Rome."
Putin's sudden statements of a few days ago about partly disengaging from the Syrian conflict caused much commotion in the press and a great deal of speculation as to what the Russians might be up to now. But a partial military disentanglement does not by any means imply that Putin is about to give up on the Middle East.
As former US Naval Intelligence officer J.E. Dyer notes, Russia has already "punched a military air route to Syria through Iran and northern Iraq"—an option it has tried in vain to secure for itself since the end of WWII, and in which it was consistently thwarted by the US. Furthermore, "by not settling Syria through force of arms," Putin is netting all the numerous advantages of fishing in the muddy waters of the Mediterranean crisis. Like the leaders of Iran, Putin sees the entire region as part of a worldwide "theater of war and influence," and acts with long-term and visionary goals in mind.
Dr. Anna Geifman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and Professor Emerita at Boston University.
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"Nametag scan" images indicate Instagram might want to let you aim your phone's camera at a visual code to open someone's profile. Instagram declined to comment, but the last time we reported portrait mode files that were hidden inside Instagram, it was spotted testing a "Focus" portrait mode option a week later.
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The nametag scanning feature could eventually launch under a different name like Focus did. It would be a boon to businesses and social stars looking to visually promote their accounts both online and in physical print materials. It also could assist users with long or complex usernames by making it easier for friends to follow them.
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"With hashtag and profile links in your bio, you can express yourself and your interests right in your profile. Whether you're a #guitarlover, into #pencilsketching or have a #makeuptutorial account, now you can link to any hashtag or profile you want," Instagram writes. Users can add the links through the Edit Profile bio section. A typeahead will help people find the right things to link to. Accounts you link to will get a notification alerting them.
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Instagram is increasingly becoming a calling card or internet home, especially for younger users who shun Facebook, which previously held that role. By opening new ways to scan or link to accounts, and display what they're all about, Instagram could become the source of people's online identity.


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5. The Quarrel Foreshadowed, I. 6-7
'Sing of it from the moment when Agamemnon, Atreus' son,
We still have two more lines of the prologue to consider, though they properly belong with the quarrel to come. Homer, unlike Milton more than 2,000 years later, will not take us back to the
earliest times, when angels revoltt in heaven, but he will take us back to the beginning of the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon. We are still in the prologue in line 6, though
now the covering is removed slightly from the enigmatic anger of Achilles, mentioned in line 1. Homer will ask the Muse to help him sing of Achilles' wrath "from what [time] when first. . . " line 6.
So, even though we will be plunked down in medias res of the battle, in the ninth year of the Trojan War, we will join the quarrel from the beginning. We will learn that it is a spat that leads to
Achilles' anger, a spat between two great men.
In placing us at the beginning of the quarrel but not the war, Homer helps us in at least two ways. First, he teaches that though we may be able to understand the genesis and nature of specific
things in which we find ourselves, we really can't, as it were, "trace everything back" to its beginnings. Why? Because every time you find a beginning, you realize that this was the result of
something earlier. I used to think when I was a young person and was seeking wisdom in the world that I would certainly attain that wisdom if I only could interview people in their 70's and 80's,
people who, it seemed to me, had been around since the beginning of time. If only I could understand where things came from in our day by talking to them, I would have full knowledge of the world. That was how I thought.
But it was a chimerical quest since theycould only take me, at best, back to the late days of the nineteenth century, and still they seemed young from the perspective of the history of the country or the Western tradition in general. Homer could, I suppose, have told stories about the carrying off of Helen by Menelaus and the decade-long preparation for the Trojan War; but that story would have taken us to stories further behind that, and on and on. He plunks us down in the ninth year of a ten-year war because he wants to foreclose the question of the ultimate causes of the war. Yet.
he still is interested in beginnings, and he can narrate the beginning of a quarrel. Thus, he brings us to this issue to satisfy our longing for a causal explanation, even though he remains mum on what you might call "deep causes."
Then, second, by focusing the drama of war on a quarrel between two men, he refocuses our attention. We begin to see war as the long shadow of petty human jealousies and offenses.
And, who is to say that Homer isn't right? As mentioned previously, historians in our day (2020) are increasingly focusing on the people, personalities and decisions of those responsible for war rather than simply the grand strategies or throngs of troops facing each other.
As Homer tells his story, then, he will narrate when things "first" began--that is, when the quarrel first began. The last two words of line 6 are arresting. Though two words in Greek, they
are translated in about five or six words in English, such as "there stood in division of conflict" (Lattimore) or "fell out with one another" (Samuel Butler) or, more briefly, "there parted in strife"
(Wyatt's revision of Murray's translation in the Loeb Classical Library series). I say the words are arresting because one must slow down in pronouncing them. "Diasteten (two e's are long,
pronounced "ay") erisante." Diasteten comprises two of the six (metrical) feet of this line in Greek. Each of its four vowels is long; each vowel requires the reader to pause over it, to stretch
it out, to say it slowly. The word is translated "to part/separate" or "to stand in opposition," and the length of time it takes to pronounce it gives us time to imagine in our mind the actual separation of two great men. They stood apart, just as the word requires us to pronounce it syllable by syllable.
They stood apart in quarrel. The word translated "quarrel" here is not a noun but rather a participle, in the past (aorist) tense. The aorist tense in Greek emphasizes an action complete, over and done. They had their quarrel, and they stood apart (also an aorist). That is what we have. Our wandering mind (what might have caused Achilles' wrath?) is now focused on a quarrel in the past. We want to know all about it. We want to see it unfold, point to the exact point where the relationship ruptured, imagine a painless way to end the quarrel. Homer guides our mind in the channel of quarrel.
But before we get to the narrative of that quarrel, beginning in line 8, we face line 7. It is one of those "Iowa"-types of lines in the Iliad; that is, you just fly over it because you think that it
has nothing interesting in it. And, in fact, all it says is "the son of Atreus, lord of men, and divine (noble) Achilles." The two men, standing apart in line 6, are now named and divided from
each other through the conjunction kai ("and") in line 7. "In this corner, the lord of men, weighing in at. . ." You get the picture. But line 7 also acts as a perfect closure device to the prologue.
We have been rushing along so quickly in the first six lines, from anger, to destruction, to bodies and souls being separated, to feasts for dogs and birds, to the divine will being fulfilled, to the
standing apart in quarrel. Lots of topics there. So many, in fact, that we are almost exhausted as we read the first six lines. But then Homer gives us line 7, where he just names the two men. It
is as if we are given a breather as we climb a mountain; we can pause, name the chief combatants, and then let the echo of the rushing ideas gradually die away in our mind. Line 7 creates a
pause for us, a chance to recapture our forces for the hugely long narrative that now follows.
On to the Narrative
Well, are we ready for it? I am, because I know that Homer will talk about a quarrel and not something more complex. He won't try to talk about the condition of the peasants in rural
Greece; the disappointed expectation of helots in Mycenaean civilization; the struggle for power within royal houses and intrigue here and there. He won't tell us of poor harvests that might lead to discontent that might lead to something else. He doesn't review the history of scholarship on the Trojan War, setting up two camps of warring scholars as they try to determine if it was the gods or humans who ultimately were responsible for the war. All he will do is tell us about a quarrel. I can handle that. I know what a quarrel is. I have seen them. I have even instigated them. I know how quarrels can get out of hand, how others try to calm you down, how you sometimes want to kill the other person, etc. I can go on and read the Iliad because Homer has taken the complexity of a ten-year battle and reduced it to a human quarrel between outsized people.
So that now we have gotten ourselves nice and comfy, we are ready for his story. Here it is.


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Q: C# - Password Hash in webservices So I need to, via webservice authenticate an user with a given username and password. I have a SQL Server Database generated using CodeFirst Entity Framework. My problem is that the password isn't directly stored into the database as it is hashed with salt which I am not aware of. So, how should I deal with this issue? It's pretty pointless to try to obtain the correct hash since I don't know the salt they used.
Any suggestions on how I should tackle this?

A: Without knowing the Salt you cannot validate the password.
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As Director of Governmental Issues, James Bayot is responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and analyzing federal policy initiatives in Congress and the Executive Branch that affect the firm's clients. James provides clients with a comprehensive view of major actions and issues emerging on Capitol Hill through the coverage of Congressional hearings and briefings in the healthcare, energy, natural resources, and environment sectors. Additionally, James represents the world's largest healthcare services company on federal policy issues, providing Legislative and Executive Branch monitoring, reporting, analysis, and advocacy. Prior to joining Van Ness Feldman, James worked for Congressional Quarterly where he was responsible for editing online publications, writing summaries of House legislation, and conducting research for staff writers.
Represents the world's largest healthcare services company on a wide range of healthcare policy issues before Congress and federal agencies.
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Daemons bliver også kaldt baggrundsprocesser. Begrebet kommer fra Unix/Linux verdenen.

Etymologisk stammer "Daemon" fra det græske begreb "δαίμων" (daimôn), der beskriver en overnaturlig ånd, som er god og hjælpsom.

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There are hotels, which tend to be popular right along the beach and on more of the busy streets. Hostels are very popular for travelers and younger people looking to share rooms and meet other tourists. Hostels are also the cheapest option since they are usually shared rooms. There are hostels everywhere, whether you're looking to stay on a main street or further back in the neighborhoods where the narrow, quiet streets are.
Bed and Breakfast accommodations are great for people looking for cozy, relaxing places to stay. The best way to find where to stay in Valencia is to decide which area of the city you would prefer to stay in, and search in that area.
The best areas to stay in are the city center, because you can walk almost everywhere or near the beach, where some of the best activities are.
The summer months are a very busy time in Valencia. This is when the majority of tourists come to visit, because the weather is gorgeous and there are plenty of activities to do. However, because of this, the prices of hotels can be almost twice as much in the summer as they are in the winter.
In order to get the lowest price you can, it's recommended to book far in advance. Besides places being more expensive, they also tend to get full quickly, so start searching with plenty of time to spare. It's also recommended that when choosing dates to visit, check if there are any festivals going on during that time, since hotel reservations may be more expensive. For example, at the end of August there is the Tomatina festival, a festival of tomatoes, and people come from all over the world. Of course during this time hotels will be more expensive, so if you don't plan to attend these festivals, try to book around them.
Agua de Valencia or Valencian water is a cocktail made from champagne, vodka, gin, and orange juice. Also, you can add sugar if you would like it sweeter.


On september the 20th and 21st 2017 AF Systems participated in the trade fair Safety Expo Bergamo to present its range of firestopping products for service installations passages and overpressure units for smoke filter areas.
Great interest and interaction with the visitors to our stand.
Hundreds of visitors coming from all over Italy and very interrested in the original solutions that we offer.


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El Reino Unido estuvo representado en los Juegos Olímpicos de Pekín 2008 por un total de 304 deportistas que compitieron en 26 deportes.

El portador de la bandera en la ceremonia de apertura fue el nadador Mark Foster.

Medallistas
El equipo olímpico británico obtuvo las siguientes medallas:

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Página del COI .
olympedia.org .

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I love tags. It's a great way for me to use up scraps and other materials. I also love re-purposing things because there's SO much packaging and waste. So here's a project where the two come together. Faux Debossed Gift Tags from Suzer Space.
How pretty is this rustic horseshoe and succulent Wall Art from Fresh Vintage by Lisa S? You could put one up for St. Patrick's Day or just because.
I'm really going to have to get one of the Dremel engravers like the one Chas from Chas's Crazy Creations used to make this votive holder. Possibilities are endless and love how this one turned out.
Finally, here's a creative twist on Rice Krispies Treats: Rice Krispies Mountains from Mamas Brush.
Friday eve greetings friends! Happy to say the snow from last week is all gone , the sun is back up in the sky and it's supposed to be in the high 70s in the desert once again like it should be. Whew! Hope you all have had a great week. I got to see my favorite Auntie whom I haven't seen in far too long.
It's the end of February already! Yikes. Let's take a look at some of the great ideas from last week's party.
As much as I love making cards, I also love getting them and when friends and family send me special ones, I tuck them away. Shoppe No. 5 has a great way to create art from them. Love this idea!
Want a really cool piece of St. Patrick's decor without spending a lot? Check out this great Target find makeover Shamrock sign from Chas' Crazy Creations.
Would you believe this heart is WOOD? I wasn't going to give it away but I'm so amazed at how it looks like a vintage rusty metal heart. Check out the how to at Fresh Vintage by Lisa S.
Finally, with Spring and Easter right around the corner, these Rustic DIY Carrots from The Organized Dream are just the thing. Love them!
Now let's see what everyone's been up to this week!
Happy Love Day all ! We pass on all the hoopla and just enjoy that there's a day to tell those we love that we love them but whatever you're doing, I hope your day is filled with LOVE.
Here are some ideas from last week's party that are perfect for V-Day, Spring, or any time of year!
There can never be too much love nor can it be said too many times. So if you want to keep that reminder up all the time, this Wire Art from Lisa at Fresh Vintage by Lisa S is perfect!!
Never one to pass up a good upcycle, this re-purposed etched bottle from Chas' Crazy Creations is right up my alley. There's something about etched / frosted glass that attracts me every time!
St. Patrick's Day is next month and while I don't do a lot of decorating, it's always nice to have a little touch here and there. What better way than with a printable? The Organized Dream has you covered.
Finally, it wouldn't be Valentine's Day without chocolate right? These slow cooker fudge brownies from Looney For Food will do the trick! There's a very secret ingredient too!
BFF Open House Link Party Back Up And Running!
YAY! Happy Friday Eve all. I'm back up and running on my laptop with a new SSD hard drive and all my fonts and data files in tact. Whew! Thanks for hanging in there.
Can I scare you? We're already almost done w/ January and Friday 1/25 marks exactly eleven months until Christmas. Can you believe it? I have vowed that I'm starting much earlier on handmade gifts this year because time flies.
OK here are some features from last week's party. Thanks for hanging in and hanging with me!
I love wood slices and have mostly seen them used as trays or plaques, but totally love this idea from Stephanis at Abbotts At Home to use one as a hanging rack!
I have always had a thing for birch trees. There is just something about them that is so appealing to me so I couldn't stop staring at these Hand Painted Birch Tree Wine Glasses from Chas's Crazy Creations. You could easily do on a plate, platter, vase. So Pretty!
Also in love with this chair makeover from Virginia at Artsy VaVa.
Wouldn't that be a special treat for your special Valentine?
OK let's see what everyone's been up to this week!
It's the most wonderful time.....of the week! Time to see what you've all been up to this week. Can you believe Thanksgiving is a week from today? Me either. So let's take a look at some project ideas it's not too late to whip up for next week.
What's the best thing after finding a bargain find? Making it even better bu adding lights like Chas from Chas' Crazy Creations did with this canvas she found on sale for $5. Add battery operated lights and take it to a whole different level!
If you're hosting, you could put this fab Gratitude Box from The CSI Project out for your guests ( or bring to your host/hostess as a great gift).
If you haven't decided on your Thanksgiving table decor yet, check out The Red Painted Cottage for some gorgeous ideas. I love the combination of naturals!
Finally, I'm on a lifelong campaign to bring more chocolate to Thanksgiving. These Ultimate Pumpkin Cheesecake Balls from Munchkin Time do just that!
Now let's see what you've all been up to this week!
Happy Friday Eve all! Settling into desert life and still trying to process the reality that it hit 100 degrees in APRIL while other places in the country are still getting snow.
Here are some features from last week's party!
Let's start with these DIY Moss Pots from Sew Historically. I love how these add pops of nature and color to any decor.
With outdoor entertaining season coming ( sooner for some of us) using the power of the Sun to light your outdoor decor is easy with this idea from Chas's Crazy Creations. She has a step by step tutorial and you just need a few items.
As much as I love tech, and I do, there is still something about a written note. This free and downloadable stationery from The Handmade Home makes it fast and easy to do! You can print out a set for yourself or add to a girlfriend gift etc.
Finally, you know this caught my eye! Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake from Marilyn's Treats. Oh my!
Now, let's see what you've all been up to this week!
Not going to lie. Will be glad to say goodbye to October. Between being sick, having to start physical therapy and my mom having taken a fall, October can be gone! But on the upside,October has been filled with great Halloweeen and Fall projects shared by the awesome attendees who come to my little party and this has been THE bright spot in an otherwise icky month!
Let's see some great ideas from last week!
Pumpkins in decor carry us through November. I adore these Glitter Glass pumpkins shared by Mary Jo from Masterpieces of My Life. She got a PB look w/ out a PB price!
Another fun and inexpensive pumpkin idea is from Chas's Crazy Creations . She used a Dollar Tree pumpkin and lights and I can see all kinds of possibilities that would be perfect for November projects!
I have a love-hate relationship with pies. I love making them. I hate cutting them. I can rarely get a piece of pie out of the dish without destroying it. So these Mini Pumpkin Pies from From Play Dates to Parties are a perfect solution. Plus they make for easy transportation of leftovers!
Before we leave Halloween though, here are a couple of chocolatey treats you still have time to make!
Love these adorable Witches Brew Bites from Manic Mama of 3 !
from Sugar Spice and Family Life. I'm always looking for ways to bring chocolate to Thanksgiving. The colors of these are perfect!
Now, let's see what you've been up to this week!
Happy Friday and official start of Fall Eve all! I think we can all agree "Mother Nature, the world has had enough of you for a while".
Thinking of the people in Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean who all got hit this week, along w/ FL , Houston and everyone recovering from recent weeks.
Let's take our minds off things with some pretties OK?
I love tiered things. Height always seems to bring depth. This DIY Modern Farmhouse Tiered Tray from Diane at An Extraordinary Day is so perfect!
Would you guess that these birch candles are faux? Check out Chas' Crazy Creations to see how!
Happy Friday Eve once again. Sadly once again it's a week where we're watching awful devastation from nature. To those in the path of Irma, Jose, still recovering from Harvey, dealing with fires in the West, be safe and smart! No material things ( not even craft supplies) are worth it!
Let's take a break and see what everyone's been up to as we gear up for Fall.
What better way to prepare for Fall than with a new wreath? Leslie from Playdates to Parties has got you covered with a roundup of ideas.
If you're still enjoying some outdoor weather but transitioning to Fall, check out this idea from My Thrift Store Addiction. Coffee and cupcakes? Yes please!
Fall is the start of candle season to me. Sure they are year round but those cooler and darker earlier months are perfect for a cozy glow from candlelight. Chas' Crazy Creations has a wonderful way to display a Fall Candle. The secret's in the corn!
And for this week's chocolate feature, what's better than a frosted chocolate cupcake? A frosted chocolate cupcake with a BROWNIE inside! From Sugar, Spice, and Family Life.
Now on to this week's party! Thanks for being here.


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John Grosvenor Rowland (* 24. Mai 1957 in Waterbury, Connecticut) ist ein US-amerikanischer Politiker (Republikanische Partei). Er war drei Amtszeiten lang Gouverneur des Bundesstaates Connecticut. Aufgrund von Korruptionsvorwürfen trat er 2004 von seinem Amt zurück. 2005 wurde Rowland zu einer einjährigen Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt.

Frühe Jahre und politischer Aufstieg
Rowland besuchte bis 1975 die Holy Cross High School in Waterbury. 1979 schloss er ein Studium an der Villanova University in Pennsylvania als Bachelor of Arts ab. Rowland war zunächst als Versicherungsvertreter tätig.

1981 begann Rowlands politische Laufbahn. Er war zunächst Abgeordneter im Repräsentantenhaus von Connecticut während zwei Amtszeiten von 1981 bis 1985 und danach für drei Amtszeiten im US-Repräsentantenhaus, von 1985 bis 1991.

Gouverneur von Connecticut
Rowland gewann im November 1994 die Wahl zum Gouverneur von Connecticut und war damit der bislang jüngste Gouverneur von Connecticut. 1998 wurde er für eine zweite und 2002 für eine dritte Amtszeit wiedergewählt. Kennzeichnend für seine Politik waren Steuersenkungen und Sozialabbau.

Strafverfahren
2003 nahmen das Repräsentantenhaus von Connecticut und Strafverfolgungsbehörden Ermittlungen aufgrund von Korruptionsvorwürfen gegen Rowland auf. Im Juni 2004 trat Rowland von seinem Amt zurück und wurde im März 2005 wegen Betrug und Steuerhinterziehung zu einer Freiheitsstrafe von einem Jahr und einer Bewährungsstrafe von drei Jahren verurteilt. Im Februar 2006 wurde er vorzeitig aus der Haft entlassen.

Sonstiges
Seit Anfang 2008 arbeitet Rowland als Beauftragter für wirtschaftliche Entwicklung der Stadtverwaltung seiner Heimatstadt Waterbury.

Rowland und seine Ehefrau Patricia haben fünf gemeinsame Kinder.

Weblinks
 John Rowland in der National Governors Association (englisch)

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Gouverneur (Connecticut)
Mitglied des Repräsentantenhauses der Vereinigten Staaten für Connecticut
Mitglied des Repräsentantenhauses von Connecticut
Mitglied der Republikanischen Partei
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Mr Shay takes you on a musical journey using his 'mouth drums' and digital instruments to open your imagination to the world of sound. Shay is a Leicester based beat-boxer and loop extraordinaire, who has marked the city with his unique blend of comical beat-production. You will watch him create music from start to finish using anything and everything as his instruments. Every performance has the audience at the heart of it, using interactivity to make the viewers feel very much a part of the show! Mr Shay uses his art form as a way to uplift and connect with people, focusing his content around positive messages and social issues.


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Dongra Pin Code: Pin Code of Dongra, Kishanganj District, Bihar
Dongra Pin Code, Kishanganj District, Bihar: The PIN code for Dongra, a neighbourhood in the Chanamana B.O of the Kishanganj district in Bihar, India is provided.
Pin Code of Dongra is 855117.
Dongra Pincode and Post Office Overview
Area / Locality Name Dongra
Post Office Name & Type ( BO/SO/HO) Chanamana B.O
Sub District Name Pothia
District Name Kishanganj
Post office Address The Postmaster, Dongra, Chanamana B.O, Pothia, Kishanganj District, Bihar, India.
Information about Dongra Pin Code
The Dongra Pin Code is 855117. It is a 6-digit postal code that is used to identify the location of a specific address in the city of Dongra, located in the Indian state of Bihar. This pin code is used by the Indian postal department to ensure that mail and packages are delivered to the correct location.
855117 Pin Code is for which area? The Pin Code 855117 is for Dongra, a city located in the Indian state of Bihar. This Pin Code is used to identify specific locations in the city and ensure that mail and packages are delivered to the correct address. The Pin Code is assigned by the Indian postal department and is used in conjunction with the street address to ensure that mail and packages reach their intended destination.
Postal Code of Dongra
Dongra Postal Code: The Postal Code for Dongra, Bihar, India is 855117. It is a 6-digit code used by the Indian postal department to identify the location of a specific address in Dongra and ensure that mail and packages are delivered to the correct location.
Zip Code of Dongra
Dongra Zip Code: The Zip Code for Dongra, Bihar, India is 855117. It is a 6-digit code used by the Indian postal department to identify the location of a specific address in Dongra and ensure that mail and packages are delivered to the correct location.
FAQs Related to Pincode of Dongra, Kishanganj, Bihar
What is the Pin Code of Dongra?
The Pin Code of Dongra is 855117.
How many digits does the Dongra Pin Code have?
The Dongra Pin Code has 6 digits.
What is the use of the Pin Code in Dongra?
The Pin Code in Dongra is used by the Indian postal department to ensure that mail and packages are delivered to the correct location.
What do the digits of the Dongra Pin Code represent?
The first digit of the Dongra Pin Code represents the region, the second digit represents the sub-region, the third digit represents the sorting district, and the last three digits represent the post office code.
Is the Pin Code for Dongra unique to the city?
Yes, the Pin Code for Dongra is unique to the city and is used only for addresses within Dongra.
What is the Postal Code of Dongra?
The Postal Code of Dongra is 855117.
Can I use the Pin Code of Dongra to send mail to other cities?
No, the Pin Code of Dongra is specific to the city and can only be used for addresses within Dongra. You will need to use the correct Pin Code for the city you are sending mail to.
What is the Zip Code of Dongra?
The Zip Code of Dongra is 855117.
Block Bakhtiyarpur Pin Code: Pin Code of Block Bakhtiyarpur, PATNA District, BIHAR


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Ruth Larrea Author
Writing about relationships, life's complexities and special places
Hydra Island and Athens
Creative Writing M.A.
Hints of Heaven
AllAuthor interview
On December 7, 2022 By ruthlarreaIn General
Where were you born? What childhood memories do you cherish the most?
I was born in Canterbury, England, and have many happy memories of the times I spent with friends and family in that beautiful, historic cathedral city. We children could wander around narrow streets edged with half-timbered medieval houses, or visit the Westgate Towers with its battlements and instruments of torture, or row a boat down the river that ran through the Westgate Gardens into a dark tunnel under the High Street. But perhaps the memory I cherish most is when I played in our garden at home with my big brother, Paul. He would pretend to be Daddy Bear and walk around on all fours, with me as Baby Bear hanging from his tummy.
What was your dream job when you were a child?
I don't think I ever had a dream job, although I always loved reading, writing and drawing, and longed to travel to other countries. After university I drifted into secondary school teaching, which definitely wasn't a good choice for me. It took quite a while, and many wrong turns, before I discovered other work that suited me better.
What developed your interest in studying English?
English was one of my best subjects at school, along with French and German. My school reports mentioned that my creative writing often had a spark of originality, and encouragement like this increased my confidence. So when I was offered a place to study English Language and Literature at Newcastle University, I jumped at the chance.
What inspired you to start writing walks leaflets and interpretative materials?
The opportunity to write walks leaflets came at a difficult time when I'd given up teaching and was unemployed. I attended a jobseekers course, where it was suggested I should contact The North Devon Heritage Coast Service, a local conservation organisation, who were looking for someone to write and illustrate interpretational materials. When they saw some of my work, they asked me to produce a series of leaflets on circular walks in this area. That led to a further contract with the National Trust, who own much of the land along the North Devon coast. I'd always loved country walking, so to combine it with writing was an ideal opportunity for me, particularly since I was also able to use my artistic skills for maps and illustrations.
How would you describe your experience of teaching ESOL to fascinating adults from all over the world?
I absolutely loved teaching ESOL, partly because I had some wonderful colleagues, but also because of the students themselves, who came from all over the world and a variety of backgrounds. These included a woman who had escaped from Iran on a false passport, an Argentinian jazz singer, a Spanish industrial diver, staff from Chinese and Indian restaurants, Thai brides, journalists, kebab shop workers and university students. Classes were interactive, with visual aids, dramatic interpretation and collaborative exercises, and since English was the lingua franca in mixed nationality groups, that was in itself a learning experience for students of all levels. You can read more about this on:
https://ruthlarreaauthor.com/2020/01/19/language-lessons/
How did your life experiences inspire the story of Fragments of a Dream'?
The story of my novel 'Fragments of a Dream' was partly inspired by my own visit to the beautiful island of Hydra as a naive 19-year old. But as with all my writing, I draw on a mixture of experience, imagination, inspiration and research, so the finished result is far from being autobiographical. I have visited the island twice since then, and because it has no roads or motor traffic, it has remained almost unchanged. It is a magical place, with a fascinating history and culture, full of wonderful people, all of which I've tried to convey in my novel.
Who is the most supportive person in your life when it comes to writing?
All sorts of people support and encourage me in my writing, and I'm grateful to all of them. First and foremost, friends and family, but also fellow students and tutors on courses like the Arvon Foundation First Chapter residential week, and the Bath Spa MA in Creative Writing, as well as members of the Writers' Ink Group here on the Costa Blanca. Writing can be a lonely business, especially for the self-published novelist, so the best encouragement of all is when my readers are enthusiastic about what they've read.
Have you ever edited a character or a scene from one of your books? How do you know what stories should stay and what should remain out?
Yes, I often edit out characters, or scenes, as I revise and rework my novels. At first it's hard to eliminate something or someone you've created and grown fond of, but I find that it helps to put the draft aside for a while and come back to what I've written with a fresh mind., and try to see the novel as a whole.
How did you come up with the character of headstrong young Australian Ellie?
I wanted to tell the story of 'Between Two Shores' from the point of view of a younger member of the family who was removed from the original intrigue, but she had to be determined enough to uncover the truth. I've been a frequent visitor to Australia, where our son lives with his Australian wife and four children, so I've come to know the country and its people fairly well. I think that watching my gorgeous little granddaughters when they were little and determined to have their own way, gave me ideas for the character of headstrong young Ellie, although I'm pleased to say that they, like Ellie, are growing into delightful young women.
Do you ever get messages or letters from your fans? What is one of the most encouraging things a fan has ever said to you?
I'm not very well known yet, so almost all the messages of support that come my way are from people who already know me. It's always encouraging to hear how much they've enjoyed reading what I've written, so I'm grateful for all their support. Perhaps one of my favourite comments about 'Fragments of a Dream' on Amazon is 'A joy to read, full of honesty, realism and gentle humour, and of characters with true depth.' Also, only the other day, someone who'd never read my work before rushed up to me and said, 'I loved 'Between Two Shores' – it's just brilliant!'
Has anyone ever spotted you correcting grammar on shop signs?
I might comment on incorrect grammar on shop signs, but I don't make a big fuss about other people's mistakes — although I see lots of them, especially on Facebook posts. As a teacher, I'm always happy to explain if people want to know what's correct and why, but I'm also aware that all living languages go through changes over time, often propelled by usage, and that even professional linguists debate whether language change is a question of development or decay.
What do you often do to hang out with family and friends?
My favourite leisure activity is hiking, which I used to do a lot of when I lived in North Devon. I've walked hundreds if not thousands of miles in beautiful country on Exmoor and along trails like the South West Coast Path, as well as here in Spain on the Camino de Santiago. One of the joys of long-distance walking is meeting all sorts of fascinating people along the way, as well as passing through beautiful scenery and villages, and of course stopping to rest and sample delicious food. With family and other friends who aren't so active we might meet up for a drink, or drive out to a particularly beautiful old village for a drink or a meal.
If someone was going to make your life into a movie, who would play you?
I have absolutely no idea! I can't imagine that ever happening. They'd probably have to find two or three people to cover different stages of my life!
What are some of the best experiences you've had as an author?
One of the best experiences I've had as an author was attending a week-long Arvon residential course at Moniack Mhor in Scotland, led by the wonderful Alice Jolly and Colette Paul. Taking part were about twenty would-be writers, so with a full programme of seminars, private writing time and open discussions on one another's work, it was a wonderful experience which set me on the path of approaching the possibility of writing for publication more seriously.
What are some tools you use for book promotions? How did you come to know about AllAuthor and what are your thoughts on this website?
Book promotion isn't my strong point, which is why I'm so grateful for AllAuthor and the many services that it offers the writer. My memory's a bit vague, but I think I first heard about AllAuthor from a friend who writes, or possibly a post on Facebook. I've been very impressed by the help you offer in promoting my work, and would certainly recommend other writers to become a member.
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This is a great interview, Ruth. I also taught ESL and absolutely loved it. The students were amazing and I think I learnt as much from them as they did from me. I agree, AllAuthor is a wonderful resource for writers.
ruthlarrea
Thank you, Darlene. Yes, I agree, we learn so much from the students, too, not only about their own languages and experiences, but also, in our attempt to explain English usage, we become more aware of its complexity and variety.
joylennick
How nice to see worthy author Ruth Larrea being interviewed and her books and life discussed. I have the pleasure of knowing her through Writers' Ink, and so enjoyed reading her first book 'Fragments of a Dream.' It was so atmospheric – brought alive by Ruth's vivid imagery and talent with words. Her current book ' Between two Shores,' which I am at present reading, has me fully engaged and doesn't disappoint on quality of writing. Her characters are well- rounded and her prose top drawer. I too readily recommend both books for an enjoyable reading journey Thank you!
Thank you, Joy, you are a wonderful encouragement. I'm so grateful for all that you do in your own writing – you are a fine example to us all.
Thank you for your kind words, Ruth. Hugs xx
Fragments of a Dream https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1791539084 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1791539084
The Mystery of the Memorial on the Cliff
Hydra Island and Greece
The 'Indian houses' of Asturias
A touch of heaven
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The 2016 CFDA Fashion Awards Will Not Be Televised After All
4:06 PM PDT 5/17/2016 by Sam Reed
Curious minds will simply have to rely on Snapchat for a glimpse inside this year's show.
The CFDA Fashion Awards, whose nominees this year include Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen as well as Gucci's Alessandro Michele, will no longer be televised when they take place on June 6.
Back in March, the CFDA announced that the 2016 awards would be broadcast on the small screen for the first time ever — a decision backed by the organization's board of directors, including chairman Diane Von Furstenberg and members Vera Wang, Michael Kors and Tommy Hilfiger.
The deal was inked with The Weinstein Co., which had planned to distribute the rights to a national outlet. However, CFDA president and CEO Steven Kolb on Tuesday stated that this would no longer be the case.
"As previously announced, the 2016 CFDA Fashion Awards will be held at The Hammerstein Ballroom for the first time after seven years at Alice Tully Hall," Kolb said in a release. "The new venue comes with a dynamic new format featuring performances, live fashion and the return to a seated dinner. With all these changes, we have decided to not move forward with a television broadcast opportunity this year."
Guess we'll just have to rely on insider Snapchat videos for a look inside the swanky affair.
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After the U.S. Senate recently passed a massive tax reform bill, Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi said, "This is Armageddon." President Donald Trump called it "an incredible victory for the American people." There's been plenty of hyperbole going around about this historic legislation. Like it or loathe it, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 could be sent to Trump for his signature later this month. Here are some thoughts on both sides of the issue from politicians, economists and analysts.
— Former President Bill Clinton. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated the plan would add $1.4 trillion to the deficit over 10 years, although supporters claim that would be offset by economic growth spurred by tax cuts.
— CNBC.com, noting that the loss of those deductions could lead taxpayers in those states to oppose higher taxes, while some would choose to move to a state with a lower tax rate.
— Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the only GOP senator to vote against it.
— The Wall Street Journal, summarizing a report by the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation. The report also found that more than 10 percent of households earning between $75,000 and $500,000 would see tax increases for 2019, while 19 percent earning more than $1 million would pay higher taxes that year.
— Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), complaining via Twitter that many senators had not had the chance to read the final version of the bill. Republicans pointed out this is akin to the scenario before the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, when Nancy Pelosi famously said Congress would have to pass the bill to find out what's in it.
— New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, citing data from a University of Chicago poll of economists around the country. Krugman goes on to note that most middle-class families would see modest tax cuts the first few years, but they're scheduled to expire at the end of 2025.
— Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at the conservative Cato Institute, in commentary in National Review.
— Democratic congressional leader Nancy Pelosi, alluding to the part of the tax reform bill that repeals Obamacare's individual mandate.
— President Donald Trump, at a rally in Missouri. It would be impossible to verify whether the president would lose a "fortune" due to the tax cut, because he has not released any of his tax returns. But the Washington Post examined the partial 2005 tax return that was leaked to the media last year, and found that President Trump would have saved up to $42 million on those taxes under the House bill and $35.1 million under the Senate bill. Perhaps his tax situation has changed in the past decade. Yet contrary to what some people believe, just because high earners would benefit from tax reform doesn't automatically mean it's a win-lose situation that would harm the middle class and others.


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Q: Edit Customer Account Information without setting address? I'm using Magento CE 1.9.2 with all latest security patches applied.
I'm trying to edit a customer's account information to give them access to the 'Trade/Invoice' payment method I have set up. However, when I click 'Save Customer' it says that the 'Address' information is required, and I am therefore unable to edit the customer without entering dummy information into the customer's address - which I'd rather not do.
There must be a way to change a customer's account information without having to enter an address.

A: You don't need to provide customer address to save customer info such as updating user group. If you click the Addresses tab from left nav and see an expanded Address area for customer then you have to provide address (fill in required fields) to pass the address validation
In order to bypass that just click x (underneath Add New Address button) which will delete this address instance and that's it, now you can save/update customer info without providing an address.

A: Just click on red cross button under the add new address tab and then try to save the address. It happen as if we have clicked to add a new address, then validation do work else if we delete them i.e a user with no address, no validation will work


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Half of Americans approve and about half disapprove of how Joe Biden is handling his job as president. Just 34% say the country is heading in the right direction.
Half of Americans approve and about half disapprove of how Joe Biden is handling his job as president, a significant drop from the president's approval rating earlier this year. Just 34% of Americans say the country is headed in the right direction, down from about half who felt that way during the first months of Biden's presidency.
As Biden contends with challenges both at home and abroad, his approval ratings for handling domestic and foreign issues have deteriorated since his honeymoon period in the spring.
Since July, Biden's approval rating has dipped slightly among Democrats, down from 92% to 85%. There has been a bigger drop among independents who don't lean toward either party, from 62% in July to 38%. It's also decreased among both white Americans (49% to 42%) and Black Americans (86% to 64%). There has also been a drop since July among suburbanites (from 57% to 49%) and people living in rural areas (53% to 36%).
Forty-seven percent of Americans approve of how Biden is handling the economy, down from a high of 60% in March but similar to where it stood in August. Overall, 45% say the economy is good, while 54% say it's poor. About 8 in 10 Democrats and about 1 in 10 Republicans say they approve of Biden's handling of the economy. Sixty-three percent of Democrats say the economy is in good shape, while 70% of Republicans call it poor.
Approval of Biden's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has stabilized since August at 57% but remains significantly below where it stood as recently as July, when 66% approved. Still, it remains Biden's strongest issue in the poll.
Eighty-six percent of Democrats approve of Biden's handling of the pandemic, compared with 23% of Republicans. In July, 32% of Republicans said they approved.
Half of Americans approve of the Biden administration's plan to mandate that most U.S. workers either get vaccinated against COVID-19 or get tested regularly, while a third disapprove and 14% have no opinion.
Only 34% of the public approves of his handling of the situation in Afghanistan and 65% disapprove. Support for the the decision to remove the last remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan is a little high (45%), but nearly as many disapprove (39%). Sixty-five percent of Democrats approve of the decision to withdraw troops; only 24% of Republicans agree. But only 54% of Democrats approve of how Biden has been handling Afghanistan. Jult 10% of Republicans alos approve.
The poll was conducted just after the dispute with France over a submarine deal with Australia, and 50% approve of how Biden is handling relationships with allies. In June 2018, 43% approved of Donald Trump's dealings with the country's allies.
Pessimistic views about the about the direction of the country continue to rise. Thirty-four percent say things in the country are heading in the right direction and 64% saying they are headed in the wrong direction. In April, 54% thought the country was on the right course, and only 44% said it was going in the wrong direction.
Although Democrats still say the country is heading in the right direction, their optimistic assessments of the country have dropped to 54%, down from 64% last month and 77% in April.
Suggested Citation: AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (September, 2021)."The Public is Divided about Biden's Job Performance" apnorc.org/the-public-is-divided-about-bidens-job-performance
Biden's approval slumps after a slew of crises: AP-NORC poll
Josh Boak and Emily Swanson | The Associated Press October 1, 2021 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's popularity has slumped after a slew of challenges in recent weeks at…
Half support vaccine mandates amidst Delta surge
Fewer approve of Biden's handling of the pandemic


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A curious item for consent
Posted on Mon, 06/06/2016 — 18:38 by Anonymous (not verified)
We were curious about this item on the Merced City Council's June 6 Consent Agenda. We are referring to Item H.10, File # 16-219 on the Merced City Council Agenda for June 6, 2016. You can see it here, among its brethren consent-agenda items:
https://cityofmerced.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=401572&GUID=C362...
What is the "First Amendment to Scope of Services?"
How many $20,000 amendments for fees can we expect to follow on future consent agendas?
What is a "Review of the Internal Services Funds for the Cost Allocation Plan?"
Does this description meet the Brown Act criteria for clarity?
We got a little farther with the identity of the consultant, Chad Wolford, but nonetheless wondered why a consultant from Chattanooga TN was required or desired to look into whatever internal services funds for the cost allocation plan might be aways out here in Californ'.
So, following Mark Twain's high respect for Tennessee journalism, we consulted the press around Chattanooga concerning who Chad Wolford might be, and his father, the hapless developer Bucky Wolford, and Chad's felonious brother Clint, who seems to be into vehicular manslaughter, mayhem, burglary and golf.
Our results are below.
-- blj
Daily Inter Lake
Developer's Tennessee project sued for defaulting
John Stang
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/members/developer-s-tennessee-project-sued...
The point man for Glacier Town Center has been sued in Tennessee for allegedly defaulting on a $2 million loan.
The Cornerstone Community Bank of Chattanooga, Tenn., filed a Feb. 13 lawsuit against Chad and Lindsay Wolford for defaulting on $1.982 million of a $2 million loan for them to set up a jewelry store and art gallery, according to the filed complaint.
Chad Wolford is vice president of Wolford Development, which is putting together the massive Glacier Town Center mall, commercial and residential project in northern Kalispell.
Chad Wolford - son of corporation president Bucky Wolford - has been the public face for Glacier Town Center in meetings in Kalispell in recent years.
There has been no indication that the problems of the upscale store - called The W Gallery - are legally or financially linked to Wolford Development or to Glacier Town Center.
The W Gallery and Wolford Development are located in the same building in Chattanooga.
Several attempts to reach Wolford or an appropriate Wolford Development official Monday were unsuccessful. Glacier Town Center's local attorney Ken Kalvig was unaware Monday of the Tennessee litigation, and declined to comment.
Cornerstone Community Bank's complaint alleges that it lent $2 million to Chad and his wife, Lindsay Wolford, on Dec. 14, 2007, to open The W Gallery as a retail store for jewelry, porcelain, china, silver and other collectible gifts.
The 5,100-square-foot store opened in May 2008 and Lindsay Wolford described it as having good Christmas season business, according to stories from the Chattanooga Times-Free Press.
The Wolfords had until Feb. 6 to repay the entire loan, the bank's complaint said.
Chad Wolford told the bank's representatives that the gallery intends to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, the complaint said.
A Hamilton County, Tenn., judge granted the bank's request to seize the jewelry that was the collateral for the loan, and sheriff's deputies did so on Feb. 13, the Times-Free Press reported.
The bank also obtained a court order to keep The W Gallery closed until the litigation is resolved, the paper reported.
Wolford told the Times-Free Press last month that the gallery had made all payments on the loan and had been negotiating to renew it, but the bank wanted more collateral.
"To force the closing of a new and growing business merely because the bank wished to increase its collateral is certainly discouraging to any new business enterprise that desires to open in Chattanooga," Wolford told the Times-Free Press two weeks ago.
Wolford also said he and his wife would decide whether to reopen the gallery in coming weeks.
Kalispell annexed the 485-acre Glacier Town Center site in January 2008.
At the same time, the City Council approved a preliminary plat for 191 of those acres to create 37 lots that are supposed to hold commercial buildings, including a 550,000-square-foot outdoor shopping complex, anchored by three stores of roughly 100,000 square feet each. One lot is to be set aside for a community center
Last year, Wolford Development had hoped to break ground on construction in the summer of 2008. So far, no city building permits have been issued for the project.
Reporter John Stang may be reached at 758-4429 or by e-mail at jstang@dailyinterlake.com
Fredo's Cat House
http://fredoland.proboards.com/thread/6823/law-chattanooga
Kordax posted this on CMF and I thought it was worth a re-post.
Kordax: How many special criminal justice deal deals does one local person get around here?
A resident of the upscale Enclave in Hixson will be performing 10 days of public work with Habitat for Humanity after pleading guilty Tuesday to three counts of assault.
An aggravated burglary charge against James Clinton "Clint" Wolford, 39, of 3138 Enclave Bay Dr., was dismissed.
The charges grew out of an incident on May 2 when Wolford was involved in a confrontation with another Enclave resident, Dr. John Gwin of 3502 Enclave Bay Dr...
Some folks may recall when Clint Wolford (son of prominent Chattanooga businessman, Bucky Wolford) was drunk and killed a guy up on Corridor-J and got off with a slap on the wrist which consisted of being put on a work release program (house arrest) for 6 months. He was supposed to only leave his home to go to work and back, but that all changed when the judge who handled his case saw his name in the paper one morning pariticpating in a golf tournament. Turns out young Clint had played in numerous tourneys during his house arrest. So they locked him back up...Now he's in trouble again and gets another tap on the wrist.
The Chattanoogan
Neighbors' Dispute At The Enclave Leads To Assault Charge
http://www.chattanoogan.com/2009/5/28/152164/Neighbors--Dispute-At-The-E...
A resident of the upscale Enclave in Hixson is due in General Sessions Court on Thursday after being charged with three counts of assault involving a dispute with a neighbor.
James C. "Clint" Wolford, 39, of 3138 Enclave Bay Dr., is also charged with aggravated burglary in the May 2 incident.
Police said they were called to 3502 Enclave Bay Dr., at 7:30 p.m. to check out a disorder.
John Gwin, the homeowner, told police that Wolford, who is an official of Wolford Development, had come to his house to confront him.
He said he had been driving by the
Wolford residence and Wolford had shouted at him and waved his arms for him to slow down. He said he kept driving and made an obscene gesture toward Wolford.
He said after he got home, Wolford knocked on the door and forced his way in the house, while pushing on his chest and shouting and cursing.
He said he ordered Wolford out of the house.
Brenda Gwin said she heard the disorder and came and got herself between the two men, "thinking that the intruder would not lay hands on a woman." But she said he grabbed her by her upper arms and pushed her out of the way.
John Gwin III, who is 17, then came downstairs and ordered Wolford to "get out."
Police said the younger Gwin lunged at Wolford as he was coming further into the house.
Police said Wolford shoved the elder Gwin into the den, and he and the younger Gwin got in a wrestling match in which John III was thrown to the floor.
Officers said Wolford hit the younger Gwin's head on the floor, causing a knot.
The elder Gwin got 911 on the line and, by that time, the younger Gwin had subdued Wolford, it was stated. He agreed to leave.
Mrs. Gwin said she could smell alcohol on Wolford's breath.
She said it "took both of the men in the family to subdue the suspect."
Wolford was released after posting a $16,000 bond.
He is due to appear before Judge David Bales.
Flatheadnewsgroup.com
Glacier Mall saga one of bad timing
http://www.flatheadnewsgroup.com/bigforkeagle/glacier-mall-saga-one-of-b...
Eleven years after Wolford Development, of Chattanooga, Tenn., first proposed building a giant shopping mall in the Flathead Valley, the 485-acre site for the proposed mall north of Kalispell has reverted back to the previous owner.
The project has a long and complicated history as it relocated from Evergreen to U.S. 93 north of Reserve Drive. In its most recent incarnation, developers Chad and James "Bucky" Wolford planned to build 600 new residential units and about 2 million square feet of new retail and commercial space under the name Glacier Town Center.
Now that the land is back in his hands, Roger Claridge said he'll put the wheat field back into production and wait to see what happens with the economy.
With 25 years of retail experience, Bucky Wolford started looking for potential mall sites in the Flathead in May 1999. He submitted a request to the county in July 2001 for a growth policy amendment and zone change for a 147-acre site in Evergreen. The county commissioners approved his requests several months later.
As the Glacier Mall project grew to 247 acres with a 750,000-square-foot mall, the city of Kalispell sued in October 2001 claiming any project within the joint city-county planning jurisdiction must be approved by both parties. After Wolford revised his planning requests and applied for annexation into Kalispell, the Kalispell City Council approved the growth policy amendment 5-4 in July 2002.
The proposed site, however, sat on a shallow moving aquifer, and in January 2003, Wolford announced plans to relocate the project to a 485-acre site at U.S. 93 and Reserve Drive. He submitted a new growth policy amendment and zone change request for 274 acres of general business zoning, 143 acres of 5-acre suburban-agricultural zoning and 64 acres of mixed office and residential development.
After receiving 2,507 comments opposed to the $150 million project and 1,861 in favor, the county commissioners unanimously approved Wolford's request in November 2003. Within a month, opponents had organized a voter-petition drive, and two grassroots groups, North 93 Neighbors and Let The People Vote, sued in court.
On Feb. 16, 2005, saying the county had followed state law and the plaintiffs failed to show evidence of spot zoning, District Court Judge Stewart Stadler ruled in favor of Wolford. North 93 Neighbors said they might appeal the case to the Montana Supreme Court.
Over the next few years, however, as more than a million square feet of new retail sprouted up along U.S. 93 just south of his proposed project, Wolford gave up the idea of a giant enclosed mall and replaced it with a "lifestyle center" to be built in phases.
The additional retail development on U.S. 93 also created traffic issues with expensive solutions. While the city of Kalispell expressed concerns about too many traffic lights on U.S. 93, Wolford was looking at a $5 million interchange and costly traffic impact fees.
Wolford's patience paid off when the Kalispell City Council approved the Glacier Town Center in January 2008 and agreed to annex the site. By the end of the year, however, Wall Street collapsed, the global economy went into a deep recession, and the mall project moved into a holding pattern with no end in site.
The impact of the recession was driven home when Wolford's son, Chad, was sued by a Chattanooga bank on Feb. 13, 2009, for defaulting on a $2 million loan for a planned jewelry store and art gallery there. Chad Wolford was the vice president and spokesman for the Flathead Valley mall project. A Tennessee judge granted the bank's request to seize jewelry put up as collateral for Wolford's loan.


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Q: How to prevent form submit if user delete the field using inspect element I want to prevent form submission if the user purposely deletes the field using inspect element. Currently I'm using custom validation using jquery.

A: You can get every field of the form by ID or any method and match with the form before send. Here is the documentation: https://api.jquery.com/event.preventdefault/
But the correct way will be checking form data on the Back End. Validate form in FrontEnd must be only for check data type or trivial things.
The reality is that if the user is so smart to change web document, checking form HTML is useless.

A: The only safe way to handle validation is to do it in the backend too not just in the frontend, as mentioned in the comments users still can trick your frontend code to submit the form, anyway here is a way to prevent the form submittion if an element was removed, I'm using MutationObserver to observe any changes on the child element of
 tag and using a flag to prevent form from submitting, note that there is a timer run after 4 second to remove element, you can submit the form before the 4 second window:

var submitFlag = 1;

function callback(mutationList, observer) {
  mutationList.forEach((mutation) => {
    switch(mutation.type) {
      case 'childList':
        if(mutation.removedNodes.length) { // ADD YOUR CONDITION HERE FOR FORM ELEMENTS
          submitFlag = 0;
        }

        break;
    }
  });
}

var targetNode = document.querySelector("#someElement");
var observerOptions = {
  childList: true,
  attributes: true,
  subtree: true //Omit or set to false to observe only changes to the parent node.
}

var observer = new MutationObserver(callback);
observer.observe(targetNode, observerOptions);

setTimeout(function(){
  document.getElementById('el2').remove();
}, 4000);

function submitHandler(event) {
  if(submitFlag === 1) {
    console.log('submitted');
  }
  else {
    event.preventDefault();
    console.log("can't submit");
  }
}

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<form onsubmit="submitHandler(event)">
  Enter name: <input type="text" name="fname">
  <input type="submit" value="Submit">
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Home » The Canadian Press » Talks Needed on Decriminalizing Hard Drugs to Address Opioid Crisis, Tam Says
Talks Needed on Decriminalizing Hard Drugs to Address Opioid Crisis, Tam Says
August 23, 2020 8:21 AM | The Canadian Press
By Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press
Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam responds to a question during a news conference on Parliament Hill Thursday, May 28, 2020 in Ottawa. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
OTTAWA — The delicate politics of drug policy were on full display this week, as Canada's chief health officer suggested decriminalizing hard drugs should be discussed to address a spike in opioid overdose deaths, while Health Minister Patty Hajdu insisted decriminalization was not a "silver bullet" solution.
Several provinces — including British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta — have been seeing concerning increases in overdose fatalities since the COVID-19 pandemic began, which Dr. Theresa Tam says is a crisis that is "escalating as we speak."
"Canadians should be seized with this particular crisis, which can actually happen to anyone and could also have increased risks right now for people who may be isolating at home," Tam said during a news conference when asked about the issue on Friday.
Increasing access to a safer supply of drugs and building more supervised consumption sites are among the critical steps needed to reduce opioid deaths, she said.
But she added that all approaches must be considered, including "moving toward a societal discussion on decriminalization."
A number of officials and groups have called on the federal government to decriminalize hard drugs to address this opioid crisis, including the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, B.C. Premier John Horgan, as well as medical health officers in British Columbia, Toronto and Montreal.
And with recent data showing a major spike in the number of people dying from toxic illicit drugs due to the pandemic — including a 130 per cent increase in June overdose deaths in B.C. compared to June of last year — the calls for urgent action are getting louder.
B.C.'s Coroner Service has also reported an increase this year in the number of overdose victims with "extreme fentanyl concentrations" present in their bodies.
Donald MacPherson, director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, said when the border closed, the drug supply in Canada became more dangerous as more drugs were made or altered in Canada.
Pandemic restrictions also saw safe injection sites and methadone clinics offering more limited services or closing altogether to prevent the spread of COVID-19, leaving drug users isolated with more toxic drugs, which is a deadly combination, MacPherson said.
Earlier this week, the federal Liberal government announced steps toward promised changes to federal drug policy, including a 60-day national consultation on supervised-consumption sites with a view to making them better and $582,000 in funding for a new Toronto project to offer a safe supply of opioids to reduce overdose deaths.
Separately, federal prosecutors are now also being instructed to criminally prosecute only the most serious drug possession offences that raise public safety concerns and to find alternatives outside the criminal justice system for the rest, including simple possession cases.
That directive is contained in a new guideline issued by the director of public prosecutions, Kathleen Roussel, who is independent from the federal Justice Department.
"You cannot arrest your way out of an opioid crisis," Tam said Friday, applauding the directive as a "step in the right direction."
But MacPherson says these measures are "too little, too late."
"COVID has just made everything so much worse and we still seem to be stuck in a position of pilot projects, interim funding, incremental steps towards something that should have happened long ago," he said.
The Canadian Drug Policy Coalition has long been pushing for decriminalization as a public health response that would to stop stigmatizing people with addictions.
"Drug prohibition doesn't work. Alcohol prohibition didn't work. You cannot keep pretending that prohibition will work if we try it just a little bit harder, it's fundamentally flawed," he said.
"We need to change it, and that's why you're hearing calls from medical health officers for decriminalization, for safe supply programs, for legal regulated drugs on the market. We just have to get there sooner, rather than later, otherwise many more people are going to die."
The Liberal government's approach to illegal drugs has been shifting toward viewing it more as a public health issue than a criminal one.
In their first mandate, the Liberals legalized the recreational use of cannabis. However, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rejected calls to decriminalize possession of other harder drugs, despite a resolution passed at the last Liberal convention calling for such an approach.
When he appointed Hajdu as health minister last November, many advocates of progressive drug policies were encouraged, given Hajdu's past advocacy and work experience in harm-reduction strategies.
She worked for nine years on the substance abuse and injury prevention program for the Thunder Bay District Public Health Unit, including spearheading the northern Ontario city's drug strategy.
Asked about decriminalization Friday, Health Minister Patty Hajdu said she doesn't believe that there is any "silver bullet" to ending problematic substance use or addressing the opioid overdose crisis.
"It is really a suite of tools that's needed," she said, pointing to a number of actions taken by the federal government to address substance use, including supporting supervised consumption sites and access to pharmaceutical-grade medications, also known as safer supply.
"Ensuring diversity of treatment is part of the strategy," she said.
Government has heard the calls from across the country for decriminalization and it's something officials are "deliberating," she said, but added that she believe's it's not the only answer.
"It is really making sure that communities have the tools they need and they feel are appropriate to support people who use substances to have healthier lives."
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