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The summer after college, my parents and I went on a week-long vacation to Costa Rica. Instead of flying into the capital San Jose, we went to the little-known Guanacaste region in the Northwest corner of the country.
At the Resort
The resort we stayed at, the Hotel Riu, was beautiful. Its grounds offered multiple restaurants, at least three pools, and a long private beach. The typical resort activities were available, such as water aerobics in the pool and water sports on the ocean. There was more than enough to keep my family occupied for our entire week's stay, especially with our off-site day-trips.
Our resort pool with the hotel in the background
These were the circumstances under which I suggested to my parents that we drive to Nicaragua for an afternoon. It was our first full day of vacation: we had spent the morning lounging by the pool soaking up the sun. When the daily tropical rainstorm hit, we headed under cover for lunch. At that time, we discussed what we might do for the afternoon. I had seen on our map that we were only about an hour from the Nicaraguan border. At the rental car company, there had been advertisements for day-trips to a Nicaraguan town just over the border. Given my desire to visit every country in my world, this seemed like my chance to pick up Nicaragua. To my surprise, my parents said "ok" and after lunch we were on our way!
Driving in Costa Rica
For our vacation, my parents rented a car. The roads were what you would expect in a developing country: unpaved, no street lights, and not offering great directions. For example, our resort was on a road off of "Monkey Way". The rules of the road were no different. Drivers traveled as they pleased and if someone was going too slow in front of you, you drove on the other side of the road to get around them (but not necessarily in designated areas as in the United States). We often found ourselves driving around cattle roaming the streets rather than cars. At one point our GPS sent us down a flooded road in the middle of the rain forest where there was no room to turn around and avoid the deep puddle.
Cattle in the road in front of our car
Giant puddle in the road where our GPS had brought us- luckily we had a 4-wheel-drive that could get through it!
The Drive to Nicaragua
To get to Nicaragua from the Riu, we traveled back through the town of Liberia into which we had flown, then headed North on Route 1, the Inter-American "highway". This two-lane road is the main through way on the West side of Central America. Therefore, it is filled with 18-wheeler trucks transporting goods between countries. The trucks themselves did not cause any issues while traveling along the road. However, from what we could tell, the customs inspection site at the border took time for trucks to get through and closed early in the evening. This meant that about ten miles from the Nicaraguan border trucks that would not make it through customs that day pulled over to spend the night on the side of the road. The drivers even had hammocks they hung under their trucks to sleep in!
When we approached the first few trucks that had pulled over, we were unsure why there was such traffic. Then we saw a car in front of us pull out of the lane and drive down the opposite lane! Assuming this was the proper thing to do – drive the wrong way towards potentially oncoming traffic – we pulled out and did the same thing. It seemed like a great plan until the car in front of us quickly swerved back towards the trucks parked on our side of the road, unveiling another giant 18-wheeler coming in our direction! We quickly moved back into our lane best we could to let the truck go by, narrowly avoiding being smashed. A few minutes later we made the same maneuver to the other side of the road halfway into a ditch. As I said earlier, there were no real rules of the road in that part of Costa Rica. No one else seemed surprised to find cars driving on the wrong side of the road up the highway.
Costa Rican volcanic landscape on the drive to the border
Experience at the Border
My parents and I finally arrived at the border unscathed. The border area between Costa Rica and Nicaragua is unlike that of Western nations. For example, between the U.S. and Canada there are toll booth-like stations on the road with immigration officers manning them. When you leave the U.S. and enter Canada, you stop at the booth, speak with the Canadian immigration officer, show him your passport, and proceed into Canada. The same occurs on the way back into the U.S.
Between Costa Rica and Nicaragua there are two large buildings about 100 meters apart. You stop first at the Costa Rican building. As soon as we parked our car outside the building, it was surrounded by five Nicaraguan teenagers in brightly-colored Abercrombie t-shirts. At the time, I "spoke" some Spanish, and my parents spoke none. I did not completely understand what the teenagers wanted other than to exchange money with us. I tried to make them go away so we could enter the immigration building. They were rather aggressive in their desire to take our Costa Rican colones and give us Nicaraguan pesos in return. This experience was unsettling to my parents, so my dad and I left my mom with the car as we entered the Costa Rican immigration building with our three family passports.
Inside the building there were a dozen of what looked like bank teller counters. One lone immigration officer sat behind one of the counters. We approached him with our passports, and I managed to convey that we were going to Nicaragua for the day. He did not understand why we were two people but had three passports with us. Finally the officer accepted that my mom was outside with our car and gave us the three "exit" stamps. As we left the building the Nicaraguan teenagers we waiting for us, again trying to exchange money. They also tried to say something in broken English about leaving our car behind, but we definitely weren't about to do that.
Photo from inside Costa Rican immigration from the "My Tan Feet" blog: https://mytanfeet.com/travel-tips/crossing-the-border-between-costa-rica-and-nicaragua/
About 30 meters past the Costa Rican immigration building, we decided that maybe this day trip wasn't such a good idea after all. At this point, we were in the 100-meter stretch of land between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. We had exited Costa Rica, but had not yet reached the Nicaraguan immigration building to enter Nicaragua. We made our U-turn in this area and started to head back. Then I realized we had exit stamps in our passports. If we did not rectify the situation before returning to our resort, we would raise red flags at the airport later when we tried to leave the country without valid entry stamps. This meant we had to return to the Costa Rican immigration building.
The lone immigration officer sitting behind the counter was not happy to see us back so soon. He said something like "I just let you out, what do you mean you want to come back already?" We were clearly interrupting his alone-time, since his checkpoint was nowhere near busy. Instead of just giving us entry stamps again, the immigration officer made us make copies of our passports in another building before he voided our exit stamps.
The only voided passport stamp I've ever seen!
Happy to be Back
After about an hour at the Costa Rican border, we were on our way back to our resort. We were happy to get back and sit by the pool with a few drinks when we returned. Later, we learned that it is illegal to bring a rental car from Costa Rica across country borders. The car could have been impounded and my family and I thrown in jail or fined! It's a good thing we never made it to Nicaragua: I will have to add it to my list another time.
View of the Costa Rican Pacific Coast on our ride back to the resort
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Now that Christmas has gone, I can officially say that my perfume collection has doubled in size. 'Meet my millionaires'… get it? I wouldn't say that I was fussy when it comes to perfumes because quite frankly, I like anything that smells good (but of course I have my ultimate favourites but that's for another post). All of these perfumes were bought for me except from Intimately Beckham, and if you are a regular Eltoria reader you will know exactly why (click here if you feel a little in the dark). Out of these four I would say that Paco Rabanne's Lady Million is my ultimate favourite and here's why. I have never had a perfume that is suitable for both day and night; it's not too strong and it settles on the skin like a dream. As most perfumes react differently on different types of skin, do make sure that you try before you buy! In little summaries, here are my thoughts on each one.
Intimately Beckham: Sassy, classy, and full of sophistication just like its designer. This perfume is a great alternative if you cannot afford the Chanel price tag because quite frankly, its sharp edge reminds me of 'Chance' from the Chanel collection. I started buying this perfume when it first came out (I believe that I was 16?) and fell in love with if after developing an expensive taste for my mum's Chanel perfume collection. So bottom line, it was a great alternative. I recently picked this bottle up for £14.99 and have started to love it all over again. This perfume sings the fresh notes of bergamot, orchids, vanilla, and rose petals.
Lady Million: This perfume represents wealth and luxury… can't you tell by the gold diamond? Like I said before, this perfume is perfect for both day and night which isn't too strong in its lasting effect. This perfume was first bought for me last year by my boyfriend for Christmas and it has been a little tradition ever since. What I love about this scent is its bitter orange and fleshy raspberry top notes and its honey and patchouli base notes; a cocktail of mystery and refinement (all for just £36.50 ooh la la).
Lady GaGa Fame: It's spiky lid sure is very 'GaGa' (I think I've stabbed myself on it about a hundred times). This perfume is luxuriously sweet and is perfect for any 'girly girl' out there (believe it or not). I have grown incredibly fond of this perfume and love to wear it in the day (I wouldn't say that it was a night perfume). I was bought this perfume by my best friend, blogger friend, and work colleague Beky Lou (and quite ironically I like to wear this perfume when at work). So with two beauty blogger's seal of approval, you can pick up a bottle for £24.00.
Ted Baker Eau De Toilette: This perfume has set me up quite nicely for the Spring weather, it's light, fresh, and quite floral. I was bought this perfume by my mum for Christmas and I quite like that the perfume nicely represents her (if that makes sense?) You can pick up a bottle for £32.00 but some stores like Superdrug are currently selling it for just £10.00 so check it out!
Which one do you like the sound of? Any recommendations?
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Coimbatore resident secures 33rd rank in civil services exam – The Hindu
Coimbatore resident Narayana Sarma, 25, has secured 33rd rank in the UPSC civil services examination 2020. Mr. Sarma, in his third attempt, had opted for Public Administration as his optional subject.
"For current affairs, I followed newspapers on a daily basis. Continuous practice without giving up despite setbacks is the key to crack this exam," said Mr. Sarma.
He did his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Amrita University, Coimbatore. "The most challenging aspect of the exam was to move on to the next attempt without thinking much about past failures. However, I was able to manage that transition well," said Mr. Sarma.
Tenkasi resident Shanmuga Valli, 26, has secured 108th rank in her third attempt. She did her Electronics and Communication Engineering in College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, in 2017.
"My family supported me and gave me confidence to work hard. I read The Hindu for current affairs. My optional subject was Sociology. I received free coaching at the All India Civil Services coaching centre, which is run by the State government," said Ms. Shanmuga Valli, who also received coaching at Manidhaneyam and Aram IAS Academy.
Guduvanchery resident Priyanga Rangasamy Annadurai has secured 181st rank in the exam. Her optional subject was Tamil literature. Her father retired as driver in Chennai Port Trust. She did her Computer Science and Engineering from Valliammai Engineering College. She joined Tata Consultancy Services and started preparing for her civil services examination at Aram IAS Academy. Later she quit her job to focus on preparation.
"A candidate has to learn from mistakes and get the right guidance for success in this examination. I thank my family and mentors," she said.
According to a press release from Manidhaneyam IAS Academy, 18 students who received free coaching cleared the exam.
Coimbatore resident D.Ranjith, a candidate with hearing disability has secured 750th rank. His mother Amirthavalli, who is a school headmistress, said he worked hard utilising technology to clear the examination. He did his Mechanical Engineering from PSG Tech.
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Preview: Bucheon 1995 vs Seoul E-Land
Michael Redmond August 02, 2018 read ( words)
Seoul E-Land continued their rollercoaster of a season last weekend when they managed to pull off a home victory against Daejeon Citizen. The win lifts them off the bottom of the K League 2 table and will put them in a good position if they can manage to get a result in their next game.
That next game will be against a side that they bulldozed over in their last meeting, Bucheon 1995. Bucheon, however, are still hanging around the play-off positions, whereas E-Land are trying desperately to stay away from the bottom. The two sides both have claimed victory over each other this season, and this clash will be important for either team if they wish to further progress in the league.
(image via K League)
Seoul E-Land welcomed Daejeon Citizen to Jamsil last Saturday evening in the pouring rain, making for a very fast paced encounter. The first half started the same way as it always has for E-Land this year, with most of the chances coming from the opposition. Seoul this year have always been better in the second half of matches when compared to the first.
The Second half was when all the drama started to unfold. In the 66th minute, a reckless, studs-up tackle from E-Land's Ko Cha-won, saw him receive a straight red card.
With E-Land now down to ten men, they surprisingly galvanised after the incident. Choi Oh-back with a cross worthy of multiple replays was met by a header from Choi Chi-won, recording his first goal of the year for The Leopards.
E-Land worked well to defend the lead, and a professional performance, minus the sending off, left them worthy winners in the tie. Seoul looked a lot more disciplined in their formation in the game, every player knew their role and didn't drift too far out of their zone.
Final Score: Seoul E-Land 1-0 Daejeon Citizen
Highlights of the goal can be found here
Bucheon 1995 made the trip down to Asan Mugunghwa on the weekend. The game would be a tough task for the side, given that Asan would look to capitalise on Seongnam's defeat the day prior.
The first half was mainly chances for Asan, yet they would have been scratching their heads as to how they didn't manage to put the ball into the back of the net. Some fantastic defending from Bucheon denied Asan any goals.
Even though the majority of the first half was all Asan, the last five minutes before the break saw a flurry of chances from Bucheon, and they too will be wondering how they didn't manage to score. Corners from both teams looked dangerous, on multiple occasions.
Bucheon went from strength to strength in the second half and denied a number of one-on-one attempts to keep the scores level. Even though Asan had a few more chances, the second half was mainly all Bucheon. As a game of two halves, it is easy to say it was a deserved point for both teams.
Final Score: Asan Mugunghwa 0-0 Bucheon 1995
Highlights of the game can be found here
The two teams have met twice now in the league, the first time was all the way back in March when Seoul E-Land were still looking for their first win of the season in the K League 2. They may have fancied their chances against Bucheon as they went into halftime 2-0 up. Two goals in two minutes from Cho Jae-wan and Choi Oh-back saw them two goals to the good in the 30th minute.
Some say 2-0 is a dangerous scoreline to have to go into the break, and that saying was none truer for this encounter. Bucheon came out on fire in the second half and scored four goals in the second 45. Goals from Willian Popp, Lim Dong-hyeok, and a brace from Jin Chang-soo made the final score 4-2 to the traveling team
Final Score: Seoul E-Land 2-4 Bucheon 1995
Choi Oh-Back celebrates his goal against Bucheon, the last time the two sides met was back in May. Seoul E-Land ran out 3-0 winners (photo credit: www.facebook.com/seouleland)
The last encounter was regarded as a bit an upset when they met in mid-May. Seoul E-Land traveled down to Bucheon having only recorded two wins all season, where Bucheon were still trying to push for the league.
The first half came and went with not much to talk about as the two sides played out a 0-0 draw going into the break. However, a Seoul E-Land side very rarely seen came out for the second half.
Seoul constantly kept possession and pushed forward with the ball, looking for the correct passes and timed their runs well. Their hard work and tactics paid off when Choi Han-sol made it 1-0 in the 64th minute. They went from strength to strength, when defender Ahn Ji-ho made it 2-0 with ten minutes left to play. Seoul smelt blood and only a minute after Ahn Ji-ho's goal, saw Choi Oh-Back getting himself a well-worked goal.
A rampant E-Land shocked the league and really started to show people what they are capable of when it all comes together.
Final Score: Bucheon 1995 0-3 Seoul E-Land
With credit to In Chang-soo, he kept the same 4-3-3 formation now for the last two games in the league. He has also chosen to push defender Ivan up into a central defensive role once again.
The 4-3-3 formation In chang-soo used against Daejeon Citizen in the last round. It has been the favored formation recently for Seoul E-Land's lineups (photo credit: www.facebook.com/seouleland)
E-Land has also placed fan favorite, Choi Oh-back in the middle of the front three. Choi Oh-back normally plays on the wings for the leopards, yet has played up and center ever since Bielkiewicz has been out of action, due to injury.
One player who certainly won't feature on Saturday will be midfielder Ko Cha-won, who's straight red against Daejeon suspends him from the tie. However, a returning Kim Jun-tae will most likely feature, after sitting out his one-game ban for picking up three yellow cards throughout the season.
It has been a frustrating year for Bucheon 1995, they started the season with five straight wins, and I really tipped them to be automatically promoted to the top flight. After their win against E-Land in March, they then went on a four-game losing streak.
Bucheon has not managed to really recreate the magic of the start of the season, and have actually only won one game in their last six. They are out of the playoff positions now, and I struggle to see them returning, especially with other teams still breathing down their necks.
Bucheon heavily relies on Brazilian Willian Popp, for their progression. The forward has featured in all but one game this season and is their top scorer with seven. If Bucheon look to get anything out of the weekend against E-Land, you can bet he will be involved.
Seoul E-Land and Bucheon 1995 both don't have fantastic form in the grand scheme of things this year. As mentioned previously, Bucheon has only won one in six, and Seoul just can't get a streak of more than one win in a row going.
Both teams will be full of confidence, however, due to their good performances in the last round, and any team will be up for taking all three points. A win for Bucheon will see them stay in contention for the playoffs, where an E-Land win, will see them only four points behind the home side, and move away from the bottom.
I think from an E-Land perspective, their main goal of the game will be to continue on from the performance last weekend. E-Land don't travel well, but if they can keep up the hard press as they did against Daejoen, then anything is possible.
For Bucheon, we may see them sit back once again in the first half and let E-Land come forward. Then in the second half, work out E-Land's areas of weakness and capitalize on them.
This fixture has proven to be an interesting one, which has seen many goals in the last two encounters. Let's hope for more of the same this weekend.
Predicted Score: Bucheon 1995 2-2 Seoul E-Land


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WASHINGTON– U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) said today that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has "zero credibility" when it comes to his cryptocurrency venture.
Facebook plans to establish its own cryptocurrency, known as Libra. Under the plan, Facebook will lead its development before ceding control to a Switzerland-based governing body. Facebook would keep Libra's digital wallet, known as Calibra.
Zuckerberg spoke during a Congressional hearing today in an attempt to win back the trust of lawmakers as Facebook continues to deal with privacy breaches and scrutiny over whether it restricts free speech. Many in Congress question the company's ability to undertake launching its own currency amidst the chronic privacy problems.
"Mark Zuckerberg has zero credibility," said Dr. Cassidy during an interview with Fox Business. "Is (Libra) one more area that Facebook is going into that may be to the detriment of society at large? I'm not doing anything but pointing out that which is obvious to everyone."
Cassidy is concerned that Libra will be used by transnational criminal organizations to conduct illegal business transactions beyond the reach of law enforcement. Cassidy is a leader in Congress in stopping such transactions, a practice known broadly as trade based money laundering.
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The National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) investigation into Boeing's decision to shift 787 production from the Puget Sound to South Carolina was featured this week on the editorial pages of two of the nation's largest daily newspapers.
In Overreach on Oversight, the Washington Post was sharply critical of House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for issuing subpoenas demanding the release of all documents and communications relating to the NLRB's Office of General Counsel's investigation of Boeing.
Among the documents unsuccessfully sought by Boeing – and now being demanded by Rep. Issa – are confidential witness statements and communications traditionally protected by attorney-client privilege.
In How Democrats Hurt Jobs, New York Times columnist Joe Nocera delivers an error-filled rehash of Boeing's PR talking points without giving due weight to statements by Boeing executives that triggered the NLRB complaint.
According to Nocera, Boeing is an exemplary corporate citizen committed to creating jobs in the U.S., while the NLRB is an overzealous federal agency interested primarily in regulating where a company may and may not produce its products.
In addition to accepting Boeing's claim that the NLRB complaint is primarily about aggressive and unreasonable oversight, Nocera repeats the urban myth that Boeing offered to remain in the Puget Sound, only to be rebuffed by the IAM.
In reality, Boeing walked away from talks with the IAM despite an offer of a 10-year contract that included a no-strike guarantee for the length of the accord.
It is here that Nocera inadvertently touches on the heart of the matter: If Boeing is allowed to use its enormous financial and political resources to derail a legitimate investigation and thereby opens a pathway for other corporations to do the same, then the rules will indeed have changed, and not for the better.


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Legion of Super-Heroes #14 Review
What Happened That You Have to Know About: Element Lad and Chemical Kid track down the pirates. Element Lad gets knocked out and Chemical Kid has to rise to the occasion; he revives Element Lad and they beat the Braalians, and then more Legionnaires show up to handle the annoying details.
Meanwhile, Cosmic Boy arrives at Medicus One to recover from his wounds, and Night Girl is there, concerned. Plus it's possible that Cosmic Boy doesn't have powers anymore. Also, Brainiac 5 discovers that Comet Queen's attack on him was a result of when Saturn Queen mindwiped her; big surprise. One new thing: Comet Queen's was brainwashed to specifically kill Brainy. That's kinda odd.
If that wasn't enough, Phantom Girl and Sun Boy discover that the Persuader's Atomic Axe has secretly been stolen.
The coming-of-age of Chemical Kid was well done, but... well. Here are the five Legionnaires who joined in the most recent wave:
1. Chemical Kid. Male. Formerly arrogant and lazy, until he had a moment of truth that taught him to take superheroism more seriously.
2. Comet Queen. Female. Flaky and incompetent, but with a lot of heart. Currently incapacitated.
3. Dragonwing. Female. Brash and undisciplined.
4. Glorith. Female. Shy and tentative.
5. Harmonia. Female. Mysterious and secretive, with a long history that has nothing to do with superheroism or the Legion.
So which of those do you pick for a story in which he or she has to finally stand tall as an independent Legionnaire? I could see arguments for any one of them (although you probably couldn't do it with Comet Queen just now), but I'd say Chemical Kid needs this story a bit less than the other four. But he gets it anyway. And, also, he's the only male character of the bunch.
To come at this from a different direction: Levitz seems quite taken by the interaction of Element Lad's and Chemical Kid's superpowers, and their mentor/protege relationship is something we've never quite had in the Legion before. (Plus I have the idea that Levitz wants to succeed with Chemical Kid where so many other Legion writers failed with Chemical King.) As such he wants to do a story with them, and here it is, and it's pretty good. And next issue has Chemical Kid and Dragonwing and Glorith in some kind of Spanish time-travel adventure in which Glorith seems to be the focal character, so it's not like those other Legionnaires aren't being used at all. So I guess everything's okay?
Kinda looks like Levitz is thinking about removing Cosmic Boy's powers. Not the first time this has happened, of course. The man will continue to try to evolve the Legion roster. I support this, of course; ironic that Levitz is just about the only Legion writer who'd be allowed to get away with it. (Maybe Shooter.)
Perfectly good issue again. Stay tuned for Legion election results next month!
Art: 78 panels/20 pages = 3.9 panels/page; 2 splash pages.
Scott Kolins' style continues not to do it for me. Check out Lightning Lass in the last panel of page 20; I don't like it like that. And even worse: check out page 9 panel 3 and page 10 panel 1. Looks like a direct copy to me, and that's not cool. I paid three bucks for this comic; would you mind drawing all the panels? If you were trying to get me on your side, this is not how to do it.
Oh well; at least we get Portela back next issue. Yay!


Criminal justice is about more than just law enforcement and working alongside police officers and detectives. There are many careers available to criminal justice graduates that do not require working as a peace officer. In fact, there are many corporate roles for a criminal justice major that can allow them to put these skills to work in a more conventional office setting. Today's businesses exist in an economic climate that's headed for recovery, but still requires careful attention to details in order to prevent fraud and criminal activity, ensure that no trademarks or copyrights are breached, and take legal action against those who seek to defraud the company or participate in some kind of theft. Criminal justice graduates can help thwart this activity in a few key positions.
Almost all major corporations have a fraud prevention department that is dedicated to preventing employee theft and tracking various sources of external fraud. Their goal is to act as a constant monitor, an informed advisor, and a corporate educator, to help discourage fraudulant activities and bring them to light when they are occurring. Criminal justice graduates complete a large number of classes that teach them how to identify fraudulent activity in business, retail, and personal relations. They are also the best people to consult when developing an anti-fraud policy or confronting suspected cases of employee abuse in the workplace. Fraud prevention is growing in importance and sophistication within today's largest corporations, especially due to the nature of electronic fraud and theft.
Though the criminal justice department is not involved in making, interpreting, or defending the law, it is certainly involved in understanding the law and offering clarification on how certain activities break the law and require corrective action. In many corporate settings, criminal justice experts work alongside company lawyers when investigating cases of hacking, fraud, abuse, waste, or other criminal activity that has taken place in the office, within the company's stores and marketplace settings, or online. Their work will vary depending on the nature, severity, and scale of the crime, but they will almost always work in advisory and analytical roles that help lawyers build a case and seek corrective legal action.
All employers have an employee handbook full of policies and procedures. Criminal justice experts often work alongside managers and executives to help develop and revise policies and procedures. Their understanding of law enforcement and criminal activity gives them insight into the most likely employee abuses and poor judgment calls. They also know how to write comprehensive conduct policies that reduce waste, discourage fraud, and spotlight abuse before it becomes a significant drain on company resources.
It might seem as though criminal justice is only useful in the traditional law enforcement setting, but the nature of this degree makes it versatile enough to translate directly into a number of corporate positions with today's largest employers. Whether it's creating workplace policies or finding those who have deliberately broken them in pursuit of a personal benefit, professional criminal justice workers provide useful services that will keep companies profitable and ethically sound over the long-term. For this reason, the corporate roles for a criminal justice major only continue to expand in scope, importance, and availability.


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Oil Futures Down on Expected Rise in COVID Cases, Fatalities
12/28/2020 | 3:43 PM CST
By Liubov Georges , DTN Energy Reporter
WASHINGTON, D.C. (DTN) -- Oil futures nearest delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange and the Brent contract on the Intercontinental Exchange gave up earlier gains to settle Monday's session lower. The U.S. crude benchmark slid below $48 barel (bbl) amid bearish expectations over a post-holiday spike in coronavirus infections across the United States, while additional government stimulus signed into law by President Donald Trump over the weekend that is seen to boost demand for refined fuels capped the downside.
At settlement, NYMEX February West Texas Intermediate futures were down $0.61 at $47.62 bbl, with ICE February Brent falling below $51 bbl to $50.86 bbl. February Brent expires Wednesday, with the March contract trading near parity with February delivery. NYMEX January ULSD futures ended down 1.10 cents at $1.4790 gallon ahead of expiration Thursday, with the February contract settling the session at an 8-point premium. NYMEX January RBOB futures fell 1.12 cents to $1.3677 gallon ahead of expiration later this week, with February delivery at a 70-point contango.
Stocks on Wall Street charged higher Monday, now poised to end the year on a high note after Trump signed a long awaited $892 billion COVID-19 relief bill into law Sunday night. Trump's move to approve the rescue package for millions of individuals and small businesses has arguably reduced the likelihood of a double-dip recession early next year, while is also seen boosting consumer spending on the back of $600 checks for eligible Americans.
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta estimates the seasonally adjusted U.S. gross domestic product grew at a 10.4% rate in the fourth quarter, down from 11.1% seen on Dec. 17. After recent data releases by the National Association of Realtors, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the U.S. Census Bureau, the nowcast estimates private domestic investments decreased from 53.8% to 46.9% during the quarter, while real personal consumption expenditures increased from 4.8% to 5.1%.
Despite bullish sentiment in financial markets, oil futures failed to hold onto earlier gains Monday as traders turned their focus to a post-holiday surge in new COVID-19 infections in the United States, European Union and parts of Asia. Top U.S. health officials warned on Sunday the country is likely to see a fresh wave in virus-related fatalities following Christmas and New Year's celebrations that will further weigh on already lackluster demand for refined fuels in the world's largest oil consumer. The U.S. has posted at least 184,000 new infections per day ahead of Christmas weekend, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. While the pandemic is likely to worsen in coming days, nearly 10 million doses have already been distributed in the United States with about 2 million individuals receiving the first dose in the 2-dose vaccination program. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows as of Saturday (12/26) morning, 9,547,925 doses of the vaccines have been distributed with 1,944,585 people receiving the initial dose of the vaccine.
Oil complex will likely struggle to find direction during the holiday-shortened trade week amid bullish economic and vaccine news and bearish expectations regarding rising COVID-19 cases and deaths.
Liubov Georges can be reached at Liubov.georges@dtn.com
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Eddie McGuire's greyhound, the aptly named Hot Seat [$10.50], ran second on debut at Sandown Park last Sunday.
Despite being slow to begin and finding interference throughout the 515m journey, the Dave Curtain-trained greyhound managed an encouraging placing, being beaten by four and half lengths by Sonic Legend [$18.50], with Wonaeamirri [$2.00Fav] third.
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Tyra Banks Says She Is Taking Dancing With The Stars To The 'Next Level' After Being Named New Host & Executive Producer
After ABC and BBC Studios revealed that they would be making some major changes for Season 29 of Dancing With the Stars and announced Tyra Banks as the show's new host and executive producer, the supermodel says that she is excited to take the dancing competition to the next level.
On Wednesday, Banks told Good Morning America she is looking forward to being on live TV because you never know what is going to happen. Banks will be taking over the hosting duties from Tom Bergeron and co-host Erin Andrews, and that will mark the first time a black female will be the solo host of the show.
"It's nice to be first so you can open that door and let so many people in after you."@tyrabanks says she's excited to be the new host of @dancingABC!
Banks will be the show's first solo host and the show's first African-American female host. https://t.co/ZGK6MpSV6Z pic.twitter.com/O7fz8BeAAs
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"I like breaking these doors down so that we don't have any more firsts, but it's nice to be first so that you can open that door and let so many people in after you," Banks explained.
During her career, Banks was the first black female to grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and the Victoria's Secret catalog. The 46-year-old says that she is used to being first in the modeling world, but she admitted she never thought about being the first black woman on Dancing With the Stars.
When asked about what she has planned for Season 29, Banks said: "Let's just keep this real, it's gonna be so next level. We're doing all this crazy stuff, taking it to the next level, but still keeping the stuff America loves."
The America's Next Top Model creator also warned that DWTS fans should get ready because the series is going to be "different," and she joked that she expects to see plenty of ���smizing" on the dance floor. Banks added that there is something "like a whip and smize," and we need to see who is going to be able to do that.
From the catwalk to the dance floor. @tyrabanks is so excited to join #DWTS and we're thrilled to have her!
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Banks is taking over from Bergeron, who has been the host of the show since it premiered in 2005. Andrews took over co-hosting duties in 2014. In a joint statement, ABC and BBC Studios said that Bergeron would "forever be part" of the DWTS family, and he departs with their sincerest thanks and gratitude for his "trademark wit and charm" that made the show a success.
They also thanked Andrews, who brought her "signature sense of humor" to the co-hosting gig after competing as a contestant, and it became a "hallmark of the show."
Season 29 of Dancing With the Stars is scheduled to premiere this fall on ABC and air in its traditional Monday night time slot.
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Bam: Increase social pension of senior citizens
Senator Paolo Benigno "Bam" Aquino is pushing for an increase in the social pension of senior citizens and expand its coverage to include more than 3 million senior citizens who are not receiving any pension at all.
Aquino, in his Senate Bill 2142, seeks to amend provisions in the Republic Act 7432, as amended by RA 9257 and further amended by RA 9994 or the "Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010."
"Our senior citizens have broadly contributed to the development of our nation. It is time for us to return their sacrifices by ensuring that they are cared for in their old age," Aquino said in his explanatory note.
Quoting a study conducted by the Coalition of Services of the Elderly (COSE), Aquino noted that social pension constituted on average almost one-third of household income used for food, medical expenses and other household bills.
"Unfortunately, based also on the same study, of eight million senior citizens in the country, only 32 percent (or 2.5 million) received social pension of only P500 a month, while 38 percent (or more than 3 million) do not receive any pension at all," the senator said.
Among the 1.5 million Social Security System pensioners, less than half receives not more than P3,400 a month, he added.
With no or inadequate pension, Aquino said many senior citizens are forced to rely on the modest incomes of their families who are also struggling to make a living.
In his proposed measure, Aquino seeks to mandate the government to provide monthly social pension of P1,000 to all senior citizens who do not have social pension or receive less than P3,000 monthly pension.
"When older people receive a pension, they have a say in how they spend their income. This allows much greater agency, autonomy and dignity than when they have to depend on others for their need," Aquino said.


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Q: self.request.user not returning in queryset In my views, queryset is returning all the users when I want it to be only returning the user that is currently logged. I have a get self method which has the serializer set to the user but it is not being used. When I tried get_queryset, self.request.user still doesn't return the user.
views.py:
from rest_framework import viewsets
from rest_framework.response import Response
from rest_framework.permissions import IsAuthenticated
from rest_framework import status

from rsm_app.api.v1 import serializer as serializers
from rsm_app.users.models import User

class CurrentUserView(viewsets.ModelViewSet):

    permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated,)
    serializer_class = serializers.UserSerializer
    #queryset = User.objects.filter(name=request.user.name)

    def get_queryset(self):
        return self.request.user

    def put(self, request):
        serializer = serializers.UserSerializer(
            request.user, data=request.data)
        if request.data and serializer.is_valid():
            serializer.save()
            return Response(serializer.data)
        return Response({}, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)

Url.py:
from rest_framework import routers
from django.urls import path, re_path, include

from graphene_django.views import GraphQLView
from rsm_app.api.v1 import views

app_name = "api.v1"
# Routers provide an easy way of automatically determining the URL conf.
router = routers.DefaultRouter()
router.register(r"user", views.CurrentUserView, basename="user")

# Wire up our API using automatic URL routing.
# Additionally, we include login URLs for the browsable API.
urlpatterns = [
    path("graphql", GraphQLView.as_view(graphiql=True)),
    re_path(r"^", include(router.urls)),
    re_path(r"user/", views.CurrentUserView, name='user'),
    re_path(r"^api-auth/", include("rest_framework.urls",
            namespace="rest_framework")),
]

Edit FIXED: It was a session token not being saved issue.

A: They mentioned in the docs that you could access the current user by user = self.get_object()
You could see the full example from the official docs.

A: Can you try with:
queryset = User.objects.filter(name=request.user.name).first()

or
queryset = User.objects.get(name=request.user.name)

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On a surface level, survivors of human trafficking need what everyone needs: safety, freedom, and basic human rights. But when you look at the lingering effects of a multi-faceted and complex trauma — physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual — their needs for healing become more complex.
As a small boy, Maikaru dreamed of becoming a magician.
Born to a mother who had been kidnapped and trafficked for sex as a teenager, he and his younger siblings were forced to work making crack cocaine. Traffickers used violence, abuse, and threats to keep them hostage. Maikaru dreamed that the powers of magic tricks might give him the ability to escape.
He was freed at the age of 10. Now Maikaru, who prefers to go by one name, is a young professional who just completed his master of arts in management with an emphasis in social and sustainable management at Seattle Pacific University. His journey was not as simple as a magician's sleight of hand.
"For some reason, I knew to seek professional help," he says. "Me and my siblings were essentially feral children. We kind of knew what this 'ABC' meant, but we didn't know there were 26 of them."
On a surface level, survivors of human trafficking need what everyone needs: safety, freedom, and basic human rights. But when you look at the lingering effects of a multi-faceted and complex trauma — physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual — their needs for healing become more complex. Healing from such harm can take years.
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Professionals who offer treatment to trafficking survivors must not only work with individuals' deep and complex trauma, but they also face a lack of high-quality research to guide them.
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Stacy Cecchet PhD '12, whose Seattle Pacific dissertation focused on child sex trafficking survivors, points to a study from Georgetown University that found 46 percent of research on human trafficking was empirically based, and only 12 percent is peer-reviewed.
"We have no scientific confidence in the accuracy of our data, and we're basing policy off of that," she says. "That's terrifying to me."
Cecchet used her clinical psychology dissertation to interview and analyze the narratives of survivors who were trafficked as children into prostitution — research she published in the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Trauma. She argues that, while there are parallels between child sex trafficking and child sexual abuse, we can't assume that trafficking survivors need the same treatment.
"In addition to rape and sexual assault, these women survive torture; they survive the threat of being killed on a daily basis," she says, "and on top of that, they are treated like social pariahs."
She finds value in existing practices, such as trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, that she uses in her clinical practice as a pediatric psychologist. But she is also working to develop an evidence-based, residential treatment program that will include counseling, group therapy, and education. The program will also connect survivors with medical help, addiction treatment resources, job assistance, and creative therapies — with the goal of meeting the unique needs of sex trafficking survivors.
Nancy Murphy '90 takes a trauma-informed, safety-first approach to helping women and children at Northwest Family Life Learning and Counseling Center, where she is executive director. Their shelter, Penny's Place, provides housing and help to survivors of domestic abuse and human trafficking.
"We've been able to listen to the survivors' voices and ask them what they need," she says. "The first goal is safety. Sometimes safety means a place to lay their head, sometimes it means protection from harm."
For one trafficking survivor, safety meant buying a cake every day. "Her emotional trauma was so deep — she was from another country, and she didn't know anybody and didn't want to know anybody — but she identified so much with having a treat, so she bought a cake, and she didn't really eat them," Murphy says. "When she left the shelter, there were dozens of cakes."
Because Penny's Place is a very small shelter, Murphy and her team can address individual needs that might not fit within a larger shelter program.
"We stay with them until they are ready for a change," she says. They work on a safety plan, including physical and emotional safety. And only then do they begin therapy.
"After people are safe, then they tell their story. The storytelling has to be really natural and not a requirement for help," she says.
Yet the need for therapy is vital. Psychologist Gladys Mwiti, a Kenya-based trauma expert who visited SPU's campus this spring, has seen how damaging untreated trauma can be, working with survivors of trafficking in war and violent conflict.
"For a person who has experienced more and more traumatic events without any help to deal with the impact, their resilience can wear out," she says. "Some people can begin to identify with the abuser. For this reason, some women who become traffickers were themselves abused multiple times in their development."
In extremist groups like Boko Haram and the Lord's Resistance Army that engage in trafficking, Mwiti sees the tragic and dangerous results of untreated trauma: "Some of the generals leading perpetration were themselves, once upon a time, abducted as children."
Even in the midst of suffering, she encourages survivors to find hope and strength, asking them questions like, "What made you survive? What are the values instilled in your community that helped you to survive?"
Gina Scarsella, a doctoral student in clinical psychology in SPU's School of Psychology, Family, and Community, asks similar questions in her current research. In interviews with sex trafficking survivors, she hopes to find out what role, if any, positive emotions such as gratitude play in survivors' resiliency.
"Does that buffer the effects of trauma?" she asks. It's too early to tell, although she says she's noticing in her interviews with survivors, "People get good at telling their stories." But she hopes to discover whether listening for the good, not just the bad, can make a difference.
A Hopeful Future
In Maikaru's case, deciding where and when to tell his story has been something he's been very deliberate about.
"I didn't want to tell my story for sympathy," he says. "I wanted to wait."
He attended a Seattle school for homeless kids, First Place, and he had treatment with a psychologist and psychiatrist. A mentor he met there stayed in contact over the years, and encouraged him to pursue his interests and apply to college. He was put into the foster care system, but was able to stay with his siblings, and stays in contact with family members and former foster parents. Many of those relationships were,and are, a source of strength. So was discovering and pursuing his own interests.
"The arts have been part of my therapy," he says, "I'm very theatrical."
His creativity comes through in a short film, "Maikaru," shot and directed by a former coworker, which tells about his journey through suffering to a hopeful future. Dance and expression form a part of the film's storytelling, which won "Best Short Documentary" at the 2014 Seattle International Film Festival.
"I'm telling my story to help change others," he says.
With his new master's from SPU he hopes to find a role where he can bridge business and the arts and use his project management skills. That's not so far, he says, from his childhood dream of being a magician — a project manager is someone who "disappears" and orchestrates things behind the scenes.
His advice to other survivors of trafficking: "Ask for help," he says. "Be proud that you are a human being. You deserve to be happy and be who you are."
Learn more: Watch the short film about Maikaru.
Editor's note: This article was first published in the Summer 2015 Response magazine.
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The city itself is a form of augmented reality
Apoorva Tadepalli September 13, 2018 share
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In 1914, Bruno Taut, one of the leading Expressionist architects during the Weimar period, took on the association of German glass industries as a client and designed for them a pineapple-shaped dome structure with 14 sides and a prismatic glass roof like a disco ball. It had floor-to-ceiling colored glass and an interior waterfall between the staircases. This Glass Pavilion, what Taut called his "little temple of beauty," is widely known as the first significant building that used glass bricks.
Expressionist artists viewed glass as a symbol of purity and renewal after World War I — Taut described glass in the built form as having a kind of mysticism, a somewhat cosmic significance. "People of Europe!" he wrote in Alpine Architecture, a tome of utopian designs for a city in the Alps. "Create for yourself sacred possessions — build! Be a thought of your star, the Earth, that wants to adorn itself through you!" The modern city in this vision is an augmentation of the earth, building on top of the natural landscape, with and against it at the same time — a form of "augmented" reality that predates the way we understand the term "augmented reality" today.
Taut called on modern society to create a new physical reality, to "adorn" the earth, and enhance it. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who was heavily influenced by Taut and is often credited with designing the first glass and steel buildings, imbibed this vision when he stressed on the image of "cut crystal" that would create a kind of jewel-like brilliance on building facades. The glass skyscrapers that dominated the 20th-century city were inspired by expressionist architecture. In cities like New York, the skyscraper would form a large-scale augmentation, an omnipresence, a totalizing landscape — and a precursor to the relatively novel devices that we now use to understand and navigate the city.
The modern city in this vision is a form of "augmented" reality that predates the way we understand the term today
Kevin Lynch, whose 1960 book The Image of the City has influenced urban planning for decades, identified the importance of the city's "legibility" — "If it is legible," he wrote, "it can be visually grasped as a related pattern of recognizable symbols." Lynch argued that an inability to create a familiar image of a city would produce a sense of lostness, and therefore of terror. The urban environment — from streets and buildings to public infrastructure like stations and parks — built amongst, with, and against nature, makes a city make sense the way a book makes sense; a city needs to be "read," and used. The practice of "sense-making" creates a reality in itself, and therefore a worldview. In this way, legibility is the ultimate form of augmentation, imposed on a city for the sake of enabling, and naturalizing, a set of practices, routines, and values; a grand narrative by which to contain the countless customs and subcultures that make up a city's life. Inherent to this legibility is curation, and exclusion. Skyscrapers look very different to those who see them largely from the inside, and those who see them entirely from the outside.
"We live for the most part in closed rooms," Expressionist poet Paul Scheerbart wrote. "These form the environment from which our culture grows. If we want our culture to rise to a higher level, we are obliged to change our architecture." Scheerbart believed that the imagery created by glass buildings, through their openness to natural light and the environment, would lift society into a higher state of sensory awareness. Ironically, though, now, these same structures typify a distinct closedness. Modern skyscrapers exist, in part, to shield us from the elements while simultaneously controlling them: Buildings made almost entirely of windows that cannot open, and glass that is manufactured for its "sun control" features, its ability to adjust the settings of the natural environment within the built one.
Central air conditioning, which coincided with skyscrapers in early 20th-century America, made it possible to exist primarily within a layer of manmade reality. It radically changed our relationship to the natural environment, which could now be controlled, or obscured, as required. Before central air conditioning was invented, houses were designed in concert with natural airflow: more windows, higher ceilings, porches or water bodies or similar sections of the house that could be spent in the shade during the hottest months. Central AC defined the kinds of structures that could now be built (shopping malls, museums, office blocks) and how people spent the summer (largely at the movies — Hollywood's golden age began around the same time). Air conditioning, and the general guzzling of electricity, became a status symbol.
Now, buildings are not designed for ventilation — skyscrapers and most office buildings are airtight — but for central cooling. Windows that open ruin the lines of the building as it is meant to look from the outside; they also let in noise and dust, while a controlled environment is cleaner, more stable and predictable — more legible. Willis Carrier, inventor of the modern air-conditioner, marketed it as "manufactured weather." Architect Rem Koolhaas wrote that "if architecture separates buildings, air conditioning unites them," and this seems to get at the crux of how the urban environment augments reality: it makes a totalizing whole out of what never was before. The whole city becomes our indoor, customizable, augmented world.
The image reflected on the sides of modern skyscrapers creates a continuity with the sky: look up on a bright, sunny day in New York's Financial District and you can see the Freedom Tower almost blending in, the blue and white sky running all the way down its side, only brighter. Reflective glass on skyscrapers is not so much mirroring the sky as it is creating a new one that is richer, fuller, responding in real time to the sun and the clouds around it, and which does not dim. This brilliance of light and color gives one the sense of perpetually being awake, or if not awake then on a kind of sleep mode — a state of rest that is only half-restful, ready to spring to a default state of productivity in an instant. It also allows its viewers to enjoy the natural elements — the sun, the clouds, the saturated blue sky — in a unified way, just as Snapchat filters can homogenize our faces. At the same time, the lawlessness, the expressionism, of modifying the given world is what makes these structures so captivating. Modern skyscrapers turn the idea of "natural" architecture on its head: nature is adapting to technology — the sky blends into the building — rather than the other way around.
Taut's Alpine architecture was meant to challenge and incorporate nature all at once. Taut was not trying to reject nature outright, but his frenetic attempts to conquer it came from a sublime sense of awe. Elements of the modern urban form also inspire this awe: not just at the brilliance of glass, but also its height. Instagram's #neckxercise hashtag, which has around 5,000 photos on it, is a collection of upward-facing photographs where the jagged edges of buildings jut into the frame like puzzle pieces, all designed to make "looking up" a legitimate aesthetic, lifestyle, and philosophical choice. It is worth remembering that this habit — in very subtle, unconscious ways — validates the many forms in which exclusion is practiced by these structures: reflective glass mystifies the grand activity happening inside the buildings.
Skyscrapers change our relationship to sunlight, to wind and shadow — light inside but no wind; excessive wind outside from all the wind tunnels created by Manhattan's buildings, and shadows everywhere on the street. We look up and we see these buildings stand in for the stars, the moonlight, the clouds. They make up the urban dweller's natural environment, their reality: larger and larger spaces whose insides are totally private. The more the urban environment develops and grows, the less our physical, textual, and emotional reality is shared. Hermetic interiors augment the elite experience of belonging inside, while sublime exteriors conduct an atmosphere of submission.
The sky is colonized in physical space by the reach of these buildings, which recognize the sky as real estate. In her book Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago, Carol Willis, director of the Skyscraper Museum in New York, talks about the "vernaculars of capitalism" that subtly define the language of the urban form. The location and image of a skyscraper's presence in a particular place is a product in itself. The architect-designer who developed the reflective glass that came to dominate vernacular office culture in the second half of the century was inspired by a Life ad for mirrored aviator sunglasses.
We are the unconsenting audience of this art form that is our skyline, taking in these images regardless of whether we are looking up to see buildings or clouds
The sky, which one would think is a kind of commons, is also the screen onto which much of the advertising (or potential for advertising) that affect our lives is displayed. American Surety, Singer, the MetLife building, and Banker's Trust are just some of the skyscrapers that were created solely for the purpose of branding large-scale enterprises. There is a connection between the glamor of corporate spaces and the value that our society places on work; the visual language of skyscrapers represents the dynamics and objectives of capitalism itself. As Marx described capital's function as squeezing value out of labor until it can no longer produce, skyscrapers, towering into the sky, squeeze space literally out of thin air.
The utopian ideals for Expressionist architecture involved a kind of classless harmony with nature, but in our contemporary society, the structure and placement of skyscrapers reinforces an economic order — these looming constructs impose on and remake the surrounding environment according to a certain logic, augmenting the life of the city. Whether in the form of homogenizing experience through weather control or shielding their occupants from the street and vice versa, or exercising "soft" power by building corporate branding into the physical landscape of a city, they enact and represent the forces of exclusion and economic segregation, literalizing modern capitalism.
In 1936, Harold Ross, while serving as editor of the New Yorker, received an angry letter from New York architect Aymar Embury II, reacting to Lewis Mumford's curmudgeonly "Skyline" column of architecture criticism. "It does seem very highly desirable to say a kind word once in a while if only for the heightening effect of contrast," Embury wrote bitterly. "Whenever I read Mumford's criticisms, I just boil. They are very offensive."
In defense of Mumford, Ross replied rather acridly the following week: "I sometimes realize that architecture is one of the few subjects I cannot detach myself from emotionally. I don't have to go to a theatrical production if I don't want to, or a moving picture, or look at a painting, or, at worst, I can walk away from these things. But a building is there, and I've got to look at it, and realization of this sad fact frequently makes me indignant and downright bitter." Ross's feelings seem entirely justified in the context of an urban visual landscape that is an open canvas for the increasingly few to express themselves to the increasingly many. We are the unconsenting audience of this art form that is our skyline; we are constantly gazing up at these dominating phallic marvels, taking in these images regardless of whether we are looking up to see buildings or clouds.
The image of the city has a deep, psychological impact on our sense of civic selfhood. In the 1970s, New York's tourism bureau began to capitalize on the nickname "the Big Apple" and used a campaign to turn it into a brand; Milton Glaser's "I Love NY" became a design icon. After September 11, one passenger on the Staten Island ferry looked at the skyline and commented that it was like the city had lost its two front teeth. There is an undeniable cultural capital associated with this stylized production of civic pride. TV has always been quick to exploit the image of the skyline for subliminal messaging: quick shots in between scenes establish setting, and some of these are shots so fast we don't consciously register them. Media creates legibility and familiarity, too, through a kind of narrative augmentation that arguably renders, or attempts to render, physical familiarity almost irrelevant. This is how the city markets itself not just for its residents but for the world.
Today this civic self-branding is inextricably linked to the capitalistic impulses that drive the modern city. While the original Expressionists imagined the city as an "adornment" or augmentation that would manifest utopia, the city now reshapes itself in the image of its wealth. Advertising, especially in public places, appeals to a continuously created sense of civic identity: Casper, Fiverr, and StreetEasy are just some of the omnipresent brands on the subway that, subtly or not, call on the viewer to be a "New Yorker," promoting the sensibilities that supposedly characterize residents of this city. A recent Seamless ad campaign, showing the "unusual" add-ons demanded of restaurant workers by customers ("Go to 2B. Tell them to stop stealing my wifi. Deliver to 2A for a well-earned high-five"), effectively paints New Yorkers as self-indulgent, unthinking consumers with no interest in treating workers of the service industry with humanity or respect. These ads can seem perversely accurate, mirroring the dynamics of class hierarchy and cruel hypercapitalism that in many ways define the city now.
It's not just our physical reality that is augmented by the modern urban environment, then, but also our emotional reality, our sense of identity. And city branding translates directly to our own personalized branding. Just as the experiences of the characters in Friends seem that much richer and more vivid when preceded by shots of the New York skyline, so too do our own experiences in documentation. Cities enable aspiration, which in turn enables strong brands. Self-expression that supports the dominant city narrative, one augmenting the other, has massive power.
The signifiers that cities provide make our lives more legible for an audience. They also inspire and imply a cultivated attitude, a level of experience, and a vast and intimate, secret knowledge — a kind of exclusivity and secrecy that the buildings themselves exercise on us. What Adorno and Horkheimer called the "culture industry" is evident here in the way capitalism uses social media culture to redevelop cities into truly contemporary, post-industrial ones. From branded skyscrapers to portable Instagram moods, the city is being commodified in increasingly intangible ways. The images that this culture produces are an augmentation of an augmentation, which have very little to do with the way most people living in New York actually move through the world, but which make strong statements about how we should move through the world, or perform our movement through the world.
The "adornment" that Expressionist thinkers advocated for nature was a response to oppressive aesthetic norms, and it had a distinct artistic and progressive political purpose. These radical goals may be irrelevant in the contemporary urban project, but the importance of individual expression remains in this image-making culture — we, as the recipients of these various modes of expression within the built form, understand the social and cultural value of producing our own versions of these mass images. We, in our investment in not only living in a legible city but also becoming legible to the agenda of the city, are a necessary part of this totalizing vision.
Still, however, the city is the ideal place for creating movement through the world in a way that can defy or escape the contemporary world's wealth-oriented agenda. The city is the manifestation of capitalism and at the same time, in many ways, the only place where capitalism, and the legibility of corporate functionality, can be escaped. Jane Jacobs' famous "sidewalk ballet," where people loiter on stoops for hours without producing anything of value, where they leave their mail and their keys with total strangers at the corner deli, where the exchange of meaningless conversation between a newspaperman and a deli owner and a commuter waiting at the bus stop and a local resident hanging around her window can determine the course of a day, is an omnipresent urban dynamic that is constantly escaping, actively, the project of capitalism. As critics of the Seamless ads have pointed out, we do not, in fact, live in a city where it is possible or even actually cool to totally avoid human contact — we live in a large, dense city that is full of unpredictability. Just as the city is prone to having legibility imposed on it, it is also the space where illegibility is most possible, and has the most potential.
Apoorva Tadepalli is a freelance writer. She is from Bombay and lives in Brooklyn.


This Busse Back Pack is a trendy sports bag made from sturdy polyester. Just draw the string for quick and safe storage. Also includes an adjustable shoulder girth for pleasant wearing comfort.
Competitions, weekends away, out and about.
Dimensions: 22" x 12" x 12". One size only.


The W. Cary Edwards School of Nursing offers undergraduate and graduate programs for RNs interested in professional advancement and continuing education and an accelerated, second degree program for those who possess a non-nursing bachelor's degree who want to enter the profession as a registered nurse.
For those who possess a non-nursing bachelor's degree who want to become RNs.
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The Asus M2N-MX SE PLUS is a motherboard with an AM2 socket for the AMD Sempron/Athlon64/Athlon64 X2/Athlon64 FX processors. It is based on the NVIDIA GeForce ™6100/nForce ™430 chipset.
This manual is to help with drivers on Gentoo (or any other Linux) for this motherboard M/B. It should work both for x86, since I was unable to run amd64 Gentoo minimal CD 2007.1.
This page is based on Asus M2N-E.


Can I embed a sign in page for the account users of my Bookeo account in my website?
It is not possible to embed the Sign in page for the users of your account into your website. The Bookeo back-end was never designed to be embedded in an iframe.
You can simply include a link to https://signin.bookeo.com in your website, so your account users can be redirected to Bookeo's Sign in page.


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// Copyright 2000-2018 JetBrains s.r.o. Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0 license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
package org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.impl.types;

import com.intellij.lang.ASTNode;
import com.intellij.lang.java.beans.PropertyKind;
import com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.Logger;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.text.StringUtil;
import com.intellij.psi.*;
import com.intellij.util.IncorrectOperationException;
import com.intellij.util.containers.ContainerUtil;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.lexer.TokenSets;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.parser.GroovyElementTypes;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.GroovyElementVisitor;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.GroovyPsiElementFactory;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.api.GroovyResolveResult;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.api.statements.expressions.GrNewExpression;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.api.types.CodeReferenceKind;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.api.types.GrCodeReferenceElement;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.api.types.GrTypeArgumentList;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.dataFlow.types.TypeInferenceHelper;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.impl.GrReferenceElementImpl;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.impl.PsiImplUtil;
import org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.resolve.GrCodeReferenceResolver;

import java.util.Collection;

import static org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.impl.PsiImplUtilKt.doGetKind;
import static org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.util.PropertyUtilKt.getAccessorName;

/**
 * @author: Dmitry.Krasilschikov
 * @date: 26.03.2007
 */
public class GrCodeReferenceElementImpl extends GrReferenceElementImpl<GrCodeReferenceElement> implements GrCodeReferenceElement {
  private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getInstance("#org.jetbrains.plugins.groovy.lang.psi.impl.types.GrCodeReferenceElementImpl");

  public GrCodeReferenceElementImpl(@NotNull ASTNode node) {
    super(node);
  }

  @Override
  public PsiReference getReference() {
    return this;
  }

  @Override
  public PsiElement handleElementRename(@NotNull String newElementName) throws IncorrectOperationException {
    if (StringUtil.isJavaIdentifier(newElementName)) {
      return super.handleElementRename(newElementName);
    }
    else {
      throw new IncorrectOperationException("Cannot rename reference to '" + newElementName + "'");
    }
  }

  @Override
  protected GrCodeReferenceElement bindWithQualifiedRef(@NotNull String qName) {
    final GrCodeReferenceElement qualifiedRef = GroovyPsiElementFactory.getInstance(getProject()).createTypeOrPackageReference(qName);
    final PsiElement list = getTypeArgumentList();
    if (list != null) {
      qualifiedRef.getNode().addChild(list.copy().getNode());
    }
    getNode().getTreeParent().replaceChild(getNode(), qualifiedRef.getNode());
    return qualifiedRef;
  }

  @Override
  public void accept(@NotNull GroovyElementVisitor visitor) {
    visitor.visitCodeReferenceElement(this);
  }

  public String toString() {
    return "Reference element";
  }

  @Override
  public GrCodeReferenceElement getQualifier() {
    return (GrCodeReferenceElement)findChildByType(GroovyElementTypes.REFERENCE_ELEMENT);
  }

  @Override
  public PsiElement getReferenceNameElement() {
    return findChildByType(TokenSets.CODE_REFERENCE_ELEMENT_NAME_TOKENS);
  }

  @Override
  @NotNull
  public String getCanonicalText() {
    switch (getKind()) {
      case PACKAGE_REFERENCE:
      case IMPORT_REFERENCE:
        return getTextSkipWhiteSpaceAndComments();
      case REFERENCE:
        final PsiElement target = resolve();
        if (target instanceof PsiTypeParameter) {
          return StringUtil.notNullize(((PsiTypeParameter)target).getName());
        }
        else if (target instanceof PsiClass) {
          final PsiClass aClass = (PsiClass)target;
          String name = aClass.getQualifiedName();
          if (name == null) return "";

          final PsiType[] types = getTypeArguments();
          if (types.length == 0) return name;

          final StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
          buf.append(name);
          buf.append('<');
          for (int i = 0; i < types.length; i++) {
            if (i > 0) buf.append(',');
            buf.append(types[i].getCanonicalText());
          }
          buf.append('>');

          return buf.toString();
        }
        else if (target instanceof PsiPackage) {
          return ((PsiPackage)target).getQualifiedName();
        }
        else {
          LOG.assertTrue(target == null);
          return getTextSkipWhiteSpaceAndComments();
        }
      default:
        throw new IllegalStateException();
    }
  }

  @Override
  protected boolean bindsCorrectly(PsiElement element) {
    if (super.bindsCorrectly(element)) return true;
    if (element instanceof PsiClass) {
      final PsiElement resolved = resolve();
      if (resolved instanceof PsiMethod) {
        final PsiMethod method = (PsiMethod)resolved;
        if (method.isConstructor() && getManager().areElementsEquivalent(element, method.getContainingClass())) {
          return true;
        }
      }
    }

    return false;
  }

  @Override
  public boolean isFullyQualified() {
    PsiElement resolved = resolve();
    if (resolved instanceof PsiPackage) {
      return true;
    }
    else if (resolved instanceof PsiClass) {
      final String qualifiedReferenceName = getQualifiedReferenceName();
      if (qualifiedReferenceName == null) return false;
      final String classFqn = ((PsiClass)resolved).getQualifiedName();
      if (classFqn == null) return false;
      return qualifiedReferenceName.equals(classFqn);
    }
    else {
      return false;
    }
  }

  @Override
  public boolean isReferenceTo(@NotNull PsiElement element) {
    switch (getKind()) {
      case PACKAGE_REFERENCE:
        return referencesPackage(element);
      case REFERENCE:
        return referencesPackage(element) || element instanceof PsiClass && resolvesTo(element);
      case IMPORT_REFERENCE:
        return (element instanceof PsiClass || element instanceof PsiField) && checkName((PsiNamedElement)element) && resolvesTo(element)
               || element instanceof PsiMethod && checkPropertyName((PsiNamedElement)element) && multiResolvesTo(element);
      default:
        throw new IllegalStateException();
    }
  }

  private boolean referencesPackage(@NotNull PsiElement element) {
    return element instanceof PsiPackage && checkName((PsiNamedElement)element) && resolvesTo(element);
  }

  private boolean checkName(@NotNull PsiNamedElement namedElement) {
    final String referenceName = getReferenceName();
    if (referenceName == null) return false;
    final String name = namedElement.getName();
    return referenceName.equals(name);
  }

  private boolean checkPropertyName(@NotNull PsiNamedElement namedElement) {
    final String referenceName = getReferenceName();
    if (referenceName == null) return false;
    final String name = namedElement.getName();
    if (name == null) return false;
    return referenceName.equals(name) || ContainerUtil.or(PropertyKind.values(), kind -> getAccessorName(kind, referenceName).equals(name));
  }

  private boolean resolvesTo(@NotNull PsiElement element) {
    return getManager().areElementsEquivalent(element, resolve());
  }

  private boolean multiResolvesTo(@NotNull PsiElement element) {
    final PsiManager manager = getManager();
    return resolve(false).stream()
      .map(it -> it.getElement())
      .anyMatch(it -> manager.areElementsEquivalent(it, element));
  }

  @Override
  public boolean isSoft() {
    return false;
  }

  @NotNull
  @Override
  public Collection<? extends GroovyResolveResult> resolve(boolean incomplete) {
    return TypeInferenceHelper.getCurrentContext().resolve(this, incomplete, GrCodeReferenceResolver.INSTANCE);
  }

  @NotNull
  @Override
  public PsiType[] getTypeArguments() {
    GrTypeArgumentList typeArgumentList = getTypeArgumentList();
    if (typeArgumentList != null && typeArgumentList.isDiamond()) {
      return inferDiamondTypeArguments();
    }
    else {
      return super.getTypeArguments();
    }
  }

  private PsiType[] inferDiamondTypeArguments() {
    PsiElement parent = getParent();
    if (!(parent instanceof GrNewExpression)) return PsiType.EMPTY_ARRAY;

    PsiType lType = PsiImplUtil.inferExpectedTypeForDiamond((GrNewExpression)parent);

    if (lType instanceof PsiClassType) {
      return ((PsiClassType)lType).getParameters();
    }

    return PsiType.EMPTY_ARRAY;
  }

  @NotNull
  @Override
  public CodeReferenceKind getKind() {
    return doGetKind(this);
  }
}


China's tech giant Xiaomi is all set to release its much awaited Redmi Note 3 at 2:00 p.m. India time on March 03, 2016 at New Delhi. This exciting news about the launch was confirmed by the company on its Facebook page.
Talking about the build and design, Redmi Note 3 boasts of a 5.5 inch display with a pixel resolution of 1920 x 1080. Featuring a metal body, the phone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 chipset and comes in two storage variants, 16 GB and 32 GB, the former coupled with 2 GB RAM and latter with a 3GB one.
It runs on Android-based OS MIUI 7 and also sports a fingerprint sensor, which is definitely an added advantage.
Talking on the camera front, the phone includes a 16 MP camera at the back with LED Flash and a 5MP front shooter for video calls and selfies. The device offers OTG support and also comes with an anti-virus for keeping the data secure and safe.
Redmi Note3 is fuelled by a 4000mAh non removable battery and supports quick charging. It is supportive of a dual-SIM and includes connectivity options like 4G, 3G, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and FM. Sensors include Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Ambient light sensor and Proximity sensor.
All in all you can increase various improved features liked good battery life, fast response time, security enhancement features and much more.
Coming with it is the Child mode that ensures protection against accidental or unauthorized access by your child. You can avail the device in silver, Rose gold and white color variants.


Sure we've all done it, looked at someone elses hair and thought "I wish that was my hair"
I'm always looking at other peoples hair and wishing it was my own, it started with Ariel in the Little Mermaid and has continued with Drew Barrymore, Lauren Conrad and a whole host of others. From cuts to colour I had a scrap book full of styles and images I loved, and now it's started on the laptop. Short, medium or long if I see a style I like I store it away. Do you gather inspiration for your hair?
I'd love to know what you'd love to have on top of your head, maybe curls rule, or you rate straight?


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Home / News / 2010 Toyota 4Runner
Toyota To Put 2010 4Runner Through The Baja 1000 Wringer
Nelson Ireson November 6, 2009 Comment Now!
Toyota's involvement in motorsports has been a hot topic this week with their withdrawal from F1, and today's news is sure to draw some attention as well: the company plans to enter a near-stock 2010 4Runner in the "Stock mini" class of the SCORE Baja 1000 off-road race.
That's a major statement of Toyota's faith in the fifth-generation version of the 4Runner. With 672 miles of abuse at speeds most people would consider somewhere between suicidal and homicidal over broken terrain, day and night, the Baja 1000 is no amateur's playground.
Accordingly, one of the drivers of the 2010 4Runner will be Ivan "Ironman" Stewart, 22-time winner of the Baja 1000 and off-road legend. He has no doubt the truck is up to the challenge. "I'm sure the Fifth Generation 4Runner will be tough enough to survive even my Iron foot," says Stewart. Hopefully he won't discover any as-yet unnoticed floor mat design problems mid-race.
In 2008, Honda's Ridgeline took the win in the Stock mini class, beating out a Hummer H3 and a Toyota FJ Cruiser. The FJ crashed out of the race just miles short of the finish while fighting for the win.
The 2010 Toyota 4Runner features a new V-6 engine rated at 34 more horesepower than the old model's, plus an all-new chassis design that's built for the task of true off-roading. There's no word yet if the Baja 1000 attempt will spawn a factory upgrade package a la Ford's SVT Raptor or FR Raptor XT.
For full details on the 2010 4Runner, check out TheCarConnection's preview here.
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Yitzhak Levy
Composer and cantor Yitzhak (Isaac) Levy was born at Manisa near Izmir in Turkey on 15 May 1919. His family moved to Palestine when he was three years old and, after the creation of Israel, he was appointed head of the Ladino department at Israel's national radio station. He devoted his life to the collection and preservation of Sephardic Jewish songs, which had been passed orally from generation to generation for more than five hundred years. He published four books of Sephardic romances and ten volumes of liturgical songs, recording many of them for the national radio. Levy died in Jerusalem on 21 July 1977. His daughter Yasmin Levy is a well-known Ladino singer.
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There were a number of things left in the garden from the two previous owners when we bought our house that would become Rosehaven Cottage. But they were hidden like buried treasure.
One such treasure was the pomegranate bush that had been cut to the ground. Not one limb remained. I didn't know it was there until it started sending up shoots from the ground. I wondered what it was for a while, but it didn't take long for me to recognize its shiny thick leaves on straight light branches with a thorn here and there. It was indeed a pomegranate. Over the past 10 years, I've let it grow under the supervision of my gardener's shears, and it has rewarded us magnificently with a beautiful bush that now towers at least 12 feet over our heads. In late spring, its tropical looking deep coral-hued blossoms delight us and the hummingbirds alike. By mid summer, those blossoms have turned into green orbs hanging like ornaments on the boughs of the bush. By the first day of autumn, the orbs have taken on a lovely blush, and by October, the rosy skins of the fruits are bursting open to reveal the glistening ruby jewels within.
Another treasure we found throughout the garden were empty abalone shells from the former owners' abalone expeditions in the San Francisco Bay in years past. Some shells were embedded in the concrete half-walls of a dilapidated covered lanai at the back of the garden. Other shells I found in piles under a few layers of fresh earth formed from leaves and debris left to compost. Each shell I've found (intact or otherwise) I've added to a collection that dots the edges of the pond I dug the first winter we were here. It seems fitting to have the abalone at waters edge, catching rainwater for lizards and other small critters to drink from.
The pomegranate bush grows at the pond's edge as well with its autumn fruit often falling on the stones and abalones in its shade, thus making pomegranates on abalone a common sight here in Rosehaven Cottage's autumnal gardens.
I love this sweet post. I love the language and words as much as I love the subject! I just seeded two poms today and turned them into cranberry pomegranate sauce to go with tomorrow's pork roast.
Wonderful treasures! And such a great photo.
Cindy, that is so beautiful, I hope that you sell many prints of it.
Beautiful Share Cindy.... artful yet delightful to the taste buds!
What a great shot! So creative and I love how the abalone shell picks up the reflected red colour of the pomegranate. Yum. I love pomegranates and they're so nutritious too.
As if your roses weren't enough, you have to taunt me with a pomegranate bush! Beautiful beautiful photos.


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Home » Movie News » Russell Crowe Confirms Plans For Multiple Superman Movies Were Scrapped
Russell Crowe Confirms Plans For Multiple Superman Movies Were Scrapped
By Matt McGloin / Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 3:43AM Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 3:43AM
At one time, Zack Snyder and David Goyer planned on having a Man of Steel sequel prior to Batman Vs. Superman.
That all went down the tubes when Man of Steel didn't hit a billion dollars (sound familiar?).
Now Russell Crowe is asked about why he didn't appear in Batman Vs. Superman while chatting with Digital Spy in which he offers multiple Superman movies were at least being thought about at one time.
"No," Crowe responded when asked if there was any talk about him returning for Batman v Superman. "I think once they made the decision that… Because originally, I could be completely wrong, I think there was a number of Superman movies, but I think they made the decision to go to… jump past those and go to the idea of having Batman and Superman in the same film. So no, I didn't have any discussions about that at all."
Crowe also says he hasn't seen Batman Vs. Superman.
At one point Russell Crowe stated he was interested in doing a Superman prequel Krypton movie as well. Now it seems Goyer has taken that idea to SyFy with the Krypton series.
To date, WB has yet to announce a new Superman movie, though they did just kill the character and butcher just about everything related to his mythology.
It's also been said that in addition to new solo Superman movies, new solo Batman movies would have been released prior to Justice League. Guess we now know which was the right way to go.
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