At Northwood Academy Charter School, students are gaining knowledge well beyond their textbooks. Northwood Academy Charter School, which has been part of the Frankford community for 10 years, is offering programs such as Service Learning and Classroom Champions in addition to traditional subjects. These programs give students opportunities to expand their knowledge and sense of community. The focus of this year's Service Learning projects is West Africa. Each classroom plays a specific role in developing a plan to help others. This will be accomplished through public service announcements to raise awareness of the plight of many in West Africa, providing hygiene and school kits as well as care package items that will be sent to those in need in West Africa.
Ramatoulaye Sow (drums), Khayir Golphin and Markeida Genece (basket).
In their classrooms, students are creating water experiments to show the difference between filtered and unfiltered water, along with items such as drums and African games to show cultural pieces. Students had the unique privilege of interviewing and making food with several community members from West Africa. There is even a kente cloth after school club. Inside the school, an African village exhibit is being constructed with a miniature home, clay masks (via a Claymobile visit), interlocking map and more. This hands-on experience provides students the opportunity to actively participate in their learning.
The idea of being an upstanding, empathetic citizen is instilled in all the students through service trips with local organizations such as Cradles to Crayons, and the Cancer Treatment Center of America. Many students still comment on their experiences years after their occurrence.
The Classroom Champions program partners Northwood students with an Olympic athlete. This partnership allows students to communicate directly with their athlete via Skype sessions and other correspondence. The message students get from the athlete is that they need to work towards their goals while learning learn life lessons on overcoming obstacles. These inspirational messages are delivered with groundbreaking projects such as helping to add beacons to a course for a paralympian Lex Gillette to use to improve his training. The students see their traditional lessons come alive in real- life scenarios. As if this wasn't enough Northwood Academy offers Ballroom Dancing with Dancing Classrooms Philly, Character Education, overnight teambuilding activities at Camp Onas, visits from scientists, police officers, community workers, and more. By the time students leave Northwood Academy they have a wealth of knowledge and experiences that textbooks simply can't teach. It is the goal of Northwood Academy to send forth citizens that contribute, care, and are lifelong learners.
Northwood Academy is always open to new ways in which our students can be part of the community. If you have any suggestions please contact Amy Kelly, the school's Community Coordinator at akelly@northwoodcs.org.


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Gym Class Heroes Announce 'Solid' Papercut Chronicles II Release Date
Frontman Travie McCoy tells MTV News delays leading up to October 25 release 'made the record better.'
James Montgomery 09/09/2011
Way back in March, Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie McCoy told MTV News that it was "definitely time" for a new album from the group. Of course, at the time, he probably needed to check his watch: In May, McCoy promised the new GCH album — the sequel to 2005's The Papercut Chronicles — would be in stores "by late summer," and, well, summer's just about over, and there's still not been a release.
But finally, the Heroes' time has come. On October 25, they'll release Papercut Chronicles II, and while it's not exactly summer, McCoy's not about to complain — in fact, he's just relieved that it'll finally be in stores.
"Like I said on the last record, [2008's The Quilt,] ' '08 is gonna be great/ Imagine 2011.' October 25, you will be able to purchase and enjoy The Papercut Chronicles II," McCoy told MTV News. "We finally have a solid release date, so ... right now, we're actually circling third and about to slide into home, and then it's off to be mixed and mastered, and then it's out for public consumption."
A spokesperson for Gym Class Heroes' label could not be reached to confirm the release date, and while McCoy played it, well, coy when asked about just what lead to the PCC II delay, he did say everything the group has been through has only made them — and their album — stronger. Mostly, though, he's just thankful he's not going to have to backtrack on his earlier claims.
"There were a couple setbacks that were kind of out of our hands, but we just took 'em in stride, and, in a sense, I think they just made the record better," he said. "And I'm super excited, finally, because I was going to have to bite my lip ... because I had all these people stoked about 2011 and about this record. ... So I'm excited we finally have a release date and that this album has definitely shaped up to be everything and more."
Though fans have already gotten a preview of PCC II with its first single, "Stereo Hearts," McCoy said they're going to be surprised with the musical direction on the new album. Sure, it's a continuation of the original Chronicles, but it's also a whole lot more. And it's definitely worth the wait.
"It's always hard to listen to a song off a Gym Class Heroes record and kind of get a vibe for what the rest of the record is gonna sound like, but ... to sum it all up, it's definitely a well-rounded album: It's not just a few singles here or there and some filler," he said. "It's got some reoccurring themes from the first Papercut Chronicles, musically and lyrically, and people who were in love with the Papercut Chronicles are gonna pick up on that. But to quote Jay-Z, 'If you want out old sh--, buy our old album.' Every album we put out, we try to push that envelope further, and this case is no different."
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Q: Confuse about feathersjs service vs hooks I'm new to feathersjs. Please help me understand these bits
So, I have this codes (products.services.js)
function mapUserIdToData(context) {
  if (context.data && context.params.route.userId) {
    context.data.user = context.params.route.userId;
  }
}

app.use("/stores", new Stores(options, app));
const service = app.service("stores");
service.hooks(hooks);

// setup our nested routes
app.use("/users/:userId/stores", app.service("stores"));
app.service("users/:userId/stores").hooks({
    before: {
      find(context) {
        if (context.params.route.userId)
          context.params.query.user = context.params.route.userId;
      },
      create: mapUserIdToData,
      update: mapUserIdToData,
      patch: mapUserIdToData,
    },
});

And in my register module (register.service.js), I called these logic to create store for new user
const users = this.app.service("users");
const user = await users.create(userData);
// save store
if (storeTitle) {
  const stores = this.app.service("stores");
  await stores.create({ user: user._id, title: storeTitle });
}

What I don't understand is : Why the line await stores.create({ user: user._id, title: storeTitle }); also trigger hooks logic in app.service("users/:userId/stores") ? I know because it run the mapUserIdToData function, which will be failed because there is no route param for userId.
Thank You

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La Joyeuse Entrée de Charles Quint à Anvers (en ) est un tableau monumental du peintre autrichien Hans Makart de 1878, conservé à la Kunsthalle de Hambourg.

Histoire
Cette peinture d'histoire montre la Joyeuse Entrée de l'empereur Charles Quint à Anvers en 1520. Hans Makart s'est inspiré de véritables entrées du journal d'Albrecht Dürer, qui avait assisté à cet évènement lors de son voyage aux Pays-Bas. Avant de réaliser son tableau, Makart a visité la Belgique en 1877, accompagné des peintres Franz Lenbach et Friedrich August von Kaulbach, à l'occasion du 300 anniversaire de la naissance de Rubens.

L'œuvre de Makart a reçu une médaille d'or à l'Exposition universelle de Paris en 1878, et son exposition au Künstlerhaus de Vienne a également connu un grand succès.

En 1882, quelques années seulement après sa création, le tableau parvient à Hambourg pour la somme de , où il est maintenant exposé à la Kunsthalle.

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il a été enroulé, stocké dans un entrepôt. Il n'a été récupéré et restauré en profondeur que des décennies plus tard.

Jusqu'en 2016, le tableau n'était pas exposé, car il ne cadrait avec le concept du musée. La peinture monumentale de Makart n'a été exposée à nouveau qu'en 2020 dans le cadre d'une exposition sur l'artiste.

Description

Le jeune empereur, à cheval, se trouve au centre du tableau. De la main droite, il désigne un groupe de femmes dans lequel deux femmes, les filles de l'orfèvre viennois , sont représentées presque nues à la gauche de l'empereur : Johanna (Hanna) Elisabeth Maria von Klinkosch (1848-1925), plus tard comtesse Liechtenstein et modèle préféré de Hans Markat, éparpille des fleurs à côté de l'Empereur, accompagnée de sa sœur Paula (1851-1901).

L'actrice allemande Charlotte Wolter (1834–1897) peut être aperçue représentée dans le coin inférieur gauche dans une robe rouge avec un enfant debout. Un grand nombre de personnages se pressent autour du centre lumineux de l'image, les hommes étant dessinés dans des couleurs plus sombres. Sous la guirlande, à gauche, se trouve un homme avec une barbe et des cheveux longs : il s'agit d'Albrecht Dürer, dont la présence historique est attestée. En arrière-plan de cette scène de rue dense se trouvent des immeubles enguirlandés, des parties d'immeubles et quelques étendards décorés d'armoiries. Au fond à gauche, on aperçoit la ville d'Anvers et le ciel bleu.

En termes de style et de composition, Makart s'est en partie basé sur des peintures de Rubens et Titien. Outre l'empereur Charles Quint, le tableau montre un grand nombre de figurants, vêtus d'habits de styles et d'époques différents.

Les femmes permissives représentent des soi-disant « demoiselles d'honneur » allégoriques, décrites par Dürer dans une lettre à Philippe Mélanchthon. Cependant, contrairement au tableau de Makart, l'empereur ne prêta aucune attention aux femmes.

Bibliographie

  Sisi, Schratt & Sacher: Wiens glamouröse Frauen, ORF-Dokumentation; inkl. Beitrag über Makarts Gemälde (Min. 13 bis 17)

Voir aussi

Notes et références

Articles connexes
 Le Voyage aux Pays-Bas d'Albrecht Dürer
 Joyeuse Entrée

Liens externes

Tableau d'un peintre autrichien
Tableau réalisé en 1878
Peinture d'histoire
Charles Quint dans la peinture
Anvers dans la peinture
Cheval dans la peinture
Œuvre conservée à la Kunsthalle de Hambourg

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Manfred Murck (* 22. April 1949 in Willingen (Upland)) ist ein deutscher Soziologe. Von Mai 2011 bis Juli 2014 war er als Senatsdirektor der Leiter des Landesamtes für Verfassungsschutz der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg und von Januar 2013 bis Juli 2014 Vorsitzender des Arbeitskreises IV "Verfassungsschutz" der Ständigen Konferenz der Innenminister und -senatoren der Länder.

Leben
Murck studierte Soziologie an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. 1980 promovierte er bei Karl Otto Hondrich in Frankfurt über die "Soziologie der öffentlichen Sicherheit – eine staatliche Aufgabe aus der Sicht der Bürger". 1982 wechselte Murck als Hochschulassistent an den von Jürgen Friedrichs geleiteten Schwerpunkt Stadtforschung am Institut für Soziologie der Universität Hamburg; er war Lehrbeauftragter an den Universitäten Frankfurt, Hamburg und Münster.

Laufbahn
1984 wechselte Murck zur Abteilung "Öffentliche Sicherheit" der Behörde für Inneres und Sport der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg. Von 1987 bis 1997 wurde er von dort als Fachbereichsleiter für Gesellschaftswissenschaften an die Polizei-Führungsakademie in Münster-Hiltrup (heute Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei) abgeordnet. Murck ging 1997 zurück nach Hamburg und wurde zunächst stellvertretender Leiter des Landesamtes für Verfassungsschutz.

Amtsleiter Verfassungsschutz
Mehrere Attentäter der Anschläge  am 11. September 2001 in den USA hatten einige Zeit in Hamburg gelebt ("Hamburger Terrorzelle") und waren von den Sicherheitsbehörden nicht rechtzeitig entdeckt worden. Murck machte in den Folgejahren die Beobachtung des "Islamismus" zu einem Schwerpunkt des Landesamtes. Er verteidigte die föderale Struktur des Verfassungsschutzes gegen Zentralisierungsbestrebungen des Bundesinnenministers. Diese Position vertrat er auch in der noch laufenden Diskussion über die Neuausrichtung des Verfassungsschutzes nach Bekanntwerden der rechtsextremistischen Terrorzelle Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund. Als Vorsitzender des Arbeitskreises IV der Innenministerkonferenz  betreute er die weitere Umsetzung der von den Innenministern, dem NSU-Untersuchungsausschuss des Bundestages und der Bund-Länder-Kommission Rechtsterrorismus geforderten Maßnahmen zur Reform des Verfassungsschutzes. Vor dem Hintergrund des Syrienkonflikts konstatierte Murck eine zunehmende Verfestigung der salafistischen Szene auch auf lokaler Ebene und in einzelnen Stadtteilen. Er forderte entsprechende behördenübergreifende Interventionskonzepte unter Einbeziehung der muslimischen Gemeinden.

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Murck veröffentlichte mehrere Bücher und eine Vielzahl von Buchbeiträgen und Artikeln zu allgemeinen sozialwissenschaftlichen Themen sowie insbesondere zu Fragen aus dem gesamten Spektrum der öffentlichen Sicherheit.

 Die Rolle der Landesbehörden für Verfassungsschutz bei der Zusammenarbeit der Nachrichtendienste in Europa, in: Jäger/Daun (Hrsg.), Geheimdienste in Europa, Transformation, Kooperation und Kontrolle, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009
 Handbuch für Führungskräfte der Polizei. Wissenschaft und Praxis, hrsg. mit M. Kniesel und E. Kube, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1996
 Immer dazwischen. Fremdenfeindliche Gewalt und die Rolle der Polizei, hrsg. mit H. P. Schmalzl und H.-M. Zimmermann, VDP, Hilden 1993
 Auf dem Weg zu einer europäischen Polizei. Rahmenbedingungen, Aufgaben und berufliches Selbstverständnis, hrsg. mit R. Morié und R. Schulte, Boorberg, Stuttgart 1992
 Soziologie der öffentlichen Sicherheit – eine staatliche Aufgabe aus der Sicht der Bürger, Campus, Frankfurt 1980
 Die Bürger. Bedürfnisse – Einstellungen – Verhalten, mit K. Arzberger und J. Schumacher, Königstein 1979

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Soziologe (21. Jahrhundert)
Soziologe (20. Jahrhundert)
Ministerialdirektor
Person (Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Hamburg)
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Geboren 1949
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In December 2016, biology major Farrah Sitto was one of 31 students in Oakland University's Global Medical Brigades chapter who provided medical assistance to underserved communities in Nicaragua. The experience was transformative, not just for the people who received much-needed medical care, but for the students, who gleaned life-changing lessons in diversity and cultural understanding.
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Kessia Graves remembers feeling lost and alone at times during her first year as an Oakland student. It wasn't until she stepped out of her comfort zone and made connections with those around her that she found her place in the campus community. Since that time, she has been on a mission to help other first-year students find their footing at Oakland.
As a CORE ambassador in the Center for Multicultural Initiatives, Graves mentors first-year students through one-on-one sessions designed to assess academic and social progress and provide information about campus resources. The communication major has also served as an Orientation Group Leader, Pre-College Programs student mentor and a success coach for first-year students enrolled in the Emerging Scholar program.
Melanie Chamberlain, an academic adviser who worked with Graves during her time as a success coach, says that Graves' focus on promoting student success aligns with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s message of equality.
Graves' campus involvement includes membership in the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Feminists of OU, the Circle of Sisterhood and Association of Black Students. She's volunteered at OU's Clinton River Water Festival and also devoted time to charitable initiatives, including Fleece and Thank You, Humble Designs and Grace Centers of Hope. She is also president of Lifting Our Very Existence, Naturally, a student organization promoting self-acceptance, with particular focus on celebrating the beauty of natural hair.
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Riverside man arrested in fatal Long Beach…
Riverside man arrested in fatal Long Beach shooting
PUBLISHED: December 6, 2022 at 6:51 p.m. | UPDATED: December 7, 2022 at 8:16 a.m.
Long Beach police Tuesday announced the arrest of a second suspect in connection with a fatal shooting in April.
Brandon Tyler Shackelford, 30, of Riverside, was arrested Monday in Riverside, according to the Long Beach Police Department. The arrest came as detectives served warrants in Riverside and Beaumont, police said, noting that a firearm and other unspecified evidence were recovered.
He was booked on suspicion of murder stemming from the April 22 killing of Jimmy Ray Hawkins Jr., 47. Police said Hawkins and an unidentified woman were sitting in a parked vehicle in the 3300 block of Andy Street when two suspects approached them in a light-colored sedan and opened fire, police said.
Officers were dispatched to the scene of the shooting and arriving paramedics pronounced Hawkins, a Bellflower resident, dead at the scene.
Paramedics also rushed the woman inside the vehicle to a hospital in critical condition. She was treated and survived.
The light-colored sedan and the suspects inside that vehicle fled the location prior to police arrival.
In July, police arrested Santiago Rivera, 19, of Signal Hill, in connection with an unrelated murder and "discovered incriminating evidence" that linked him to the April 22 shooting.
Long Beach police homicide detectives were investigating the shooting as being possibly gang-related.
Shackelford was being held in lieu of $2 million bail.
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Following June's quarter which saw over $4.1 billion in sales from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s retail locations, it's imperative that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) capitalize on its surprising sales of iPhones for two reasons. The first is that those sales beat analysts' expectations and have continued to push Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s stock price higher. The second, and perhaps more important reason is that these sales figures represent slowed sales from the company's stores.
Apple hired John Browett
The freshness that was the Apple Stores when they opened up throughout the country and worldwide has faded. Tim Cook believes that the Apple Stores and retail are a cornerstone for the Cupertino company as it moves into the future. This belief is evident based on the fact that Cook himself personally oversees that area following the sacking of John Browett, an executive it hired from U.K. electronics retail chain Dixons Retail PLC (LON:DXNS) just six months before he was sent packing.
The position has now sat vacant for nearly a year with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) intent on bringing an outsider into the mix, as it apparently doesn't feel as though the position can be filled internally. Browett is largely viewed as one of the biggest PR gaffes in the company's history.
Shortly after Mr. Browett's arrival last year, managers in some stores got orders to reduce costs, said people familiar with the stores. Employee events, training, off-site meetings and even budgets for paper and pens dwindled while Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) became the most valuable company in the world by market capitalization.
Representatives at Mr. Browett's current employer, U.K. fashion retailer Monsoon Accessorize, didn't make him available for an interview.
"You had different products and services emerging almost every quarter under Ron," said Dane Taylor, a 36-year-old who worked at one of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s stores in Virginia for five-and-a-half years, until December 2010. "Since he left, the stores have been basically the same from a customer-service point of view."
Apple Hires Enrique Atienza
But it appears that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is taking steps to remedy the situation with the hiring of Enrique Atienza, a Levi Strauss senior vice president, who has supposedly been working at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in an unspecified retail role since July.
Atienza had been at Levis for nearly four years, and also spent just shy of a decade working for The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) and The Disney Store, according to his LinkedIn profile.
With Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) expected to release new products in the near future, it can no longer afford to be without a strong hand at the helm of its retail operations.
Updated on Sep 19, 2021, 10:38 am
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It's hard to tell if Thursday night's performance by Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers was a comedy show hijacked by bluegrass music or the other way around. Either way, it was a success.
The 100-minute show in front of a sold-out Midland theater was a convergence of two of Martin's passions. The banter between songs was full of the one-liners and comic sensibilities that have made Martin a movie star and inspiration to comedians since the 1970s. It also showcased the Martin's banjo prowess, an instrument he picked up at 17.
Martin was quick to mock his celebrity status. Then he checked e-mail, sent tweets and playfully berated the five-piece Rangers between songs. While many of Martin's songs had humorous themes, it was clear music was serious business.
It didn't take long for the Rangers to prove themselves worthy musical and comedic foils. Showcasing Martin's original material, the night opened with three instrumentals. For the bittersweet "Daddy Played Banjo," Martin turned the mic over to Rangers' guitarist Woody Platt's pleasant tenor.
Later, "Go Away, Stop, Turn Around, Come Back" had a nice moment when the performance dropped to just Martin and Graham Sharp on banjos before rebuilding.
Knowing the evening was either an introduction to bluegrass or the first bluegrass show some had attended in a while, Martin took a few moments to explain the genre. Before the nostalgic "The Great Remember," Martin demonstrated the difference between the Earl Scruggs style of playing — fast-paced with three fingers wearing picks — and the claw hammer style, which is slower and played sans picks.
Martin gave the Rangers two solo numbers. The first song, an instrumental, featured dramatic flourishes on Mike Guggino's mandolin. The second was a gorgeous a capella version of the gospel song "I Can't Sit Down" that had all the Rangers singing into one mic.
Not to be outdone, Martin returned and led the Rangers through his own a capella hymn, "Atheists Don't Have no Songs." Martin gleefully punctuated lines about atheists always having Sunday free and keeping "he" lowercase. His enthusiastically off-pitch stanzas punctured the song's carefully constructed harmonies.


← Erich Fromm: Why have we subordinate the economic machine?
It is fascinating to observe how the knights of the Neoliberal Globalism: economists (mainstream, sort of critical towards mainstream and those who sought repentance such as Jeffrey Sachs), the business elite, the nowadays' robber barons, and their couriers in the media, the academia and politics (wow, Bill Clinton's remarks were touching as always) — bawl in unison, in a orchestrated manner against the independence of Scotland and illustrate with a semi-sadistic pleasure blows and plagues the Scots expected to suffer if they would separate from Perfidious Albion.
Indeed, Scottish independence is threatening a "new world" order – "end of history" world, "global citizenship" world – they thought they had built here from the 1980s for their own sake; it is menacing Thomas Friedman's "flat world" (whose prophecies in The Lexus and Olive Tree about globalization as the fountain of world peace, steady economic growth and decreasing inequality are grotesquely ridiculous now as much as then). Even more amazing is the insolence of Euro-politruks – those non-elected Brussels bureaucrats which rule on the lives of millions – to call the referendum in Scotland, a land with about 800 years parliamentary tradition, as 'anti-democratic'.
I have no view about the preferable direction for Scotland. It is the right of the people of Scotland to decide, based on their life experiences and civic, political and national aspirations.
But I have no doubt that the Scots must not be tempted to believe that the fate of their country is really important to anyone except them, especially to financiers from the City, Wall-Street or La Défense whose historic perspective is reflected, at best, in the current annual balance sheet and in most cases ends next quarter. One must not load on Mr. Brown and Ms. Wilson shoulders the future of the European Union or NATO.
Not Scotland's national destiny and its residents' future well-being disturb the sleep of the just. The capitalist prophets of rage are particularly afraid of the prospect that enormous resources (economic capital, political and institutional power) under their direct and indirect control may be questioned after the referendum.
They fear that the project of Neo-liberal Globalism, that survived quite easily the 2008 financial crisis from which many of them even benefited due to compassionate corporate welfare, might get hit now while galloping ahead to impose the next austerity plan.
They fear even more the possibility that Scottish winds will strike the lumberjacks in the forests of Flanders and rock the fisherman boats near Catalonian beaches.
They fear the rising masses of the precariat, the united national proletariat.
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from common_fixtures import *  # NOQA

@pytest.fixture(scope='module', autouse=True)
def disable_go_machine_service(request, super_client):
    # Ensuring the goMachineService handler is disabled lets us ensure these
    # tests are ran without actually calling docker machine and keeps them
    # lightweight. Reenables any disabled handlers at the end.
    name = "goMachineService"
    svc_handlers = super_client.list_external_handler(
        state='active', name_like=name)
    for h in svc_handlers:
        super_client.wait_success(h.deactivate())

    def enable(handlers, super_client):
        for handler in handlers:
            handler = super_client.reload(handler)
            try:
                super_client.wait_success(handler.activate())
            except AttributeError:
                pass

    request.addfinalizer(lambda: enable(svc_handlers, super_client))

def test_register_physical_host(super_client):
    uri = 'sim://{}'.format(random_str())
    scope = 'io.cattle.platform.process.agent.AgentActivate'
    agent = super_client.create_agent(uri=uri, data={
        scope: {'waitForPing': True}
    })

    agent = super_client.wait_success(agent)
    assert agent.state == 'active'

    wait_for(lambda: len(agent.hosts()) == 1)
    hosts = agent.hosts()

    assert len(hosts) == 1
    host = hosts[0]

    assert host.physicalHostId is not None
    phys_host = hosts[0].physicalHost()
    assert phys_host is not None
    phys_host = super_client.wait_success(phys_host)
    assert phys_host.state == 'active'

    phys_host = super_client.wait_success(phys_host.remove())
    assert phys_host.state == 'removed'

    agent = super_client.wait_success(phys_host.agent())
    assert agent.state == 'removed'

    host = super_client.wait_success(super_client.reload(host))
    assert host.state in ['removed', 'purged']

def test_register_multiple_physical_host(super_client):
    scope = 'io.cattle.platform.agent.connection.simulator' \
            '.AgentConnectionSimulator'
    scope2 = 'io.cattle.platform.process.agent.AgentActivate'
    uri = 'sim://{}'.format(random_str())
    agent = super_client.create_agent(uri=uri, data={
        scope: {
            'hosts': 2
        },
        scope2: {'waitForPing': True}
    })

    agent = super_client.wait_success(agent)
    assert agent.state == 'active'

    wait_for(lambda: len(agent.hosts()) == 2)
    hosts = agent.hosts()

    assert len(hosts) == 2
    host1 = hosts[0]
    host2 = hosts[1]

    assert host1.physicalHostId is not None
    assert host2.physicalHostId is not None

    assert host1.physicalHostId == host2.physicalHostId

    phys_host = hosts[0].physicalHost()
    assert phys_host is not None
    phys_host = super_client.wait_success(phys_host)
    assert phys_host.state == 'active'

    phys_host = super_client.wait_success(phys_host.remove())
    assert phys_host.state == 'removed'

    agent = super_client.wait_success(phys_host.agent())
    assert agent.state == 'removed'

    for host in hosts:
        host = super_client.wait_success(super_client.reload(host))
        assert host.state in ['removed', 'purged']

def test_add_physical_host(super_client):
    scope = 'io.cattle.platform.agent.connection.simulator' \
            '.AgentConnectionSimulator'
    scope2 = 'io.cattle.platform.process.agent.AgentActivate'
    uri = 'sim://{}'.format(random_str())
    agent = super_client.create_agent(uri=uri, data={
        scope: {
            'addPhysicalHost': False
        },
        scope2: {'waitForPing': True}
    })

    agent = super_client.wait_success(agent)
    assert agent.state == 'active'

    wait_for(lambda: len(agent.hosts()) == 1)
    hosts = agent.hosts()

    assert len(hosts) == 1
    host1 = hosts[0]

    assert host1.physicalHostId is None

    agent.data[scope]['addPhysicalHost'] = True
    agent = super_client.update(agent, {
        'data': agent.data
    })

    assert agent.data[scope]['addPhysicalHost']

    agent = super_client.wait_success(agent.reconnect())
    assert agent.state == 'active'

    hosts = agent.hosts()
    assert len(hosts) == 1
    wait_for(lambda: agent.hosts()[0].physicalHostId is not None, timeout=5)

    phys_host = agent.hosts()[0].physicalHost()
    assert phys_host is not None
    phys_host = super_client.wait_success(phys_host)
    assert phys_host.state == 'active'

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Digital highlights from 2015
From the world's first never-ending YouTube clip to the interactive experience translating selfies into sound - here are our digital highlights from 2015.
Honda laid claim to the world's first 'never-ending' YouTube clip.
A clever little spot for the CR-V. Set to the hypnotic whistles of Bernard Herrmann's soundtrack for Twisted Nerve, "Endless Road" uses real-time weather data to match where you are on the YouTube platform.
Throughout the film the Honda CR-V is seen chasing a spiralling road that never seems to end, the CR-V moving in Droste effect fashion, through a world within a world. "Endless Road" has a counterpart on YouTube, as the first 'never-ending' film on the video platform. Check it out here.
Luxury fashion house Gucci made an inventive and genius move on social media under the direction of Allessandro Michele.
Less than a year into his tenure as the new Creative Director at Gucci, Allessandro Michele, who has a taste for blending eccentric visuals, included Instagram in his Gucci revolution with an approach of unconventional glamour and an offbeat aesthetic. Read more.
Hudson Rouge's interactive site celebrates your individuality by turning your selfie into sound – as 'personal and unique' as your thumbprint.
Using face recognition technology, The Music Selfie Experiment allows users to scan their face to create their own unique song. Software developed by Toronto-based digital shop, Jam3, applies an algorithm based on the facial feature measurements in the selfie. The software scans the user's face, associates values based on various facial features, and pulls from a large database of audio files to create the music selfie. More here.
Academy Award-winner Morgan Neville crafted an interactive documentary for Bose, which chronicles Bose's 50-year history of acoustic innovation.
Dream + Reach" fuses film, audio and intricate blueprints, allowing you to go beyond the film and explore ten chapters of additional content, including videos and archive photos – such as the beginnings of Bose and education. We discover the curious genius of Amar G. Bose, a young boy fascinated by electronics – taking things apart, figuring out how they worked and dreaming of one day inventing his own. Check it out here.
The New York Times distributed more than a million cardboard virtual reality headsets to subscribers as part of their NYT VR project – putting readers at the centre of their cover story about displaced children, uprooted from their homes by conflict.
The Google Cardboard kits, which turn a smartphone into a basic virtual reality headset, allowed NYT readers to watch the first film to come out of the project, "The Displaced," an extension of the NYT Magazine's cover story, photographed by Lynsey Addario.
It follows three children who have been uprooted by and forced out their homes: Oleg, who lives in eastern Ukraine;Hana, a Syrian refugee in Lebanon; and Chuol, aged nine, the youngest of the three, who tells of how he was forced to flee to the swamps of South Sudan. The compelling film was co-directed by NYT's Ben C Solomon and Vrse.works' Imraan Ismail. Read more.
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Луис Перес Сала  (, 15 мая 1959 года, Барселона) — испанский автогонщик, участник чемпионата мира по автогонкам в классе Формула-1.

Биография
В 1985 году соревновался в итальянской Формуле-3, выиграл одну гонку. В 1986-87 годах участвовал в международном чемпионате Формулы-3000, одержал четыре победы за два года. В 1988-89 годах выступал в чемпионате мира Формулы-1 в команде «Минарди», шесть раз не прошёл квалификацию, лучший результат - шестое место на Гран-при Великобритании 1989 года. После ухода из Формулы-1 соревновался в испанском чемпионате кузовных автомобилей.

В июле 2011 года стал спортивным советником команды Формулы-1 «HRT F1 Team», а с декабря 2011 года руководит этой испанской командой.

Результаты выступлений в Формуле-1

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Jane Miller — August 8, 2012: "Polly Toynbee is one of the most admired social and political commentators in the United Kingdom, constantly on television and on radio, relied on and taken seriously, but also—in the way of such things—sometimes reviled by the media and by the public figures she writes about so fearlessly. Her style is direct and uncompromising.
She is outspoken in her opposition to the monarchy and to the Murdoch empire, in her arguments for legalizing assisted dying and for proportional representation. She has given her support to Occupy and to the British activist groups UK Uncut and 38 Degrees.
Since 1998, she has been a political columnist at the Guardian, one of Britain's most respected and influential papers……………………………."
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Gift Registries are lists of items chosen by the couple for guests to purchase for their wedding. It's what you generally see in movies, like Bride Wars, where the couple is carrying around a massive scanner gun and scans every item in sight! Usually this is done in a department store like David Jones or Myer (for us in Australia). Guests can then walk into the department store the gift registry is at and pick any item off the list to buy for the wedding couple. They then bring said gift to the wedding!
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Q: Single @Repository vs multiple @Repository - S3 and elasticsearch I am writing a document repository application that receives word documents via a folder on the filesystem and stores them in Amazon S3. At the moment I have a @Service and a @Repository as follows:
@Service
public class DocumentService {

    @Autowired
    DocumentRepository documentRepository;

    public void storeDocument(Document document) {

        documentRepository.store(document);
    }

    public Document retrieveDocument(String id) {

        return documentRepository.retrieve(id);
    }
}

@Repository
public class DocumentRepository {

    @Autowired
    AmazonS3Client amazonS3Client;

    public void store(Document document) {

        amazonS3Client.putObject("word-bucket", document.getId(), document.getFile());
    }

    public Document retrieve(String id) {

        S3Object s3Object = amazonS3Client.getObject(new GetObjectRequest("word-bucket", id));

        Document document = new Document(id, s3Object.getObjectContent());

        return document;
    }
}

I have to extend the application such that when a new document is encountered, the text body is indexed by elasticsearch. It seems like I have two options to achieve this:

*

*Extend the existing DocumentRepository so that it communicates with both S3 and elastic search

*Create a new repository called DocumentIndex and make the DocumentService call both documentRepository.store and documentIndex.index

Is the idea of a repository to associate it with a single "store" e.g. database, filesystem? If so then the second option would appear to be the most suitable.
Thanks in advance for any pointers.


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Marketing Forecasting
Memo To: Edwin Finn, Jr. [Editor, Barron's]
Re: Market forecasting
I know you have to put something on your cover every week, but pumping up Morgan Stanley's Byron Wien this week on the grounds that he has been "Right on the Money" could not have been a decision made soberly. You must know that Byron, for all his charm, is not a serious market forecaster. You can always be right half the time in calling a coin toss. To do better than 50% you have to have an analytical framework. Even your article makes it clear that Byron's forecasts are based on nothing more than the elementary formula that when interest rates go up, the stock market goes down, and vice versa. Like the coin toss, over time the formula is 50% correct.
As you know, for 18 years I have been forecasting without a black box. We interpret the impact that political events will have on the financial markets, using our homegrown supply-side analytical framework. This year, we said the Dow would top 6000 because of Steve Forbes' exposition of a flat tax, and that it would top 8000 if he won. We attributed the market selloff early last month to the "increased risks associated with presidential politics." Yet we were not panicky. On July 11: "It would appear that all three entrants in the presidential sweepstakes will be competing for the honor of representing economic security over economic growth. If that were to hold true, we would see a much more serious sell-off on Wall Street, but there remains ample time for the growth forces to make some moves. Going into the August conventions, it will be roller-coaster time on Wall Street, so strap on your seat belts."
On July 17, our client letter noted the "Wall Street Roller Coaster" that immediately followed. We noted a report in that day's Wall Street Journal that Republicans were so worried about Bob Dole's campaign that they were urging a big tax cut as the antidote. A meeting would take place the following Tuesday organized by Jack Kemp: "Perhaps Dole can get his act together with the help of Steve Forbes, Don Rumsfeld and Jack Kemp. As long as the possibility exists, we can't be jumping to conclusions about the early demise of Bob Dole." On July 25, noting the success of the Kemp economic summit in pulling together the GOP congressional factions, we asked: "What do these developments mean to the roller coaster on Wall Street? It could mean that the darkest days on the NASDAQ may now be behind us." NASDAQ in fact hit bottom on July 24 at 1042 and closed yesterday at 1137.
Ed, I'm not saying our analytical model is flawless, but unlike Byron, whose forecasts are free, we have to be right more often than not or we would have been driven out of business long ago. I'm prompted to write this after getting a memo from my colleague at Polyconomics, who I asked to do some elementary reporting on Byron's forecasts, after seeing all the publicity he has been getting in recent weeks for being a wizard. The memo follows:
MEMORANDUM TO: Jude Wanniski
FROM: David Gitlitz
RE: Byron Wien
DATE: 8-7-96
The current issue of Barron's gives Morgan Stanley strategist Byron Wien a big wet kiss in its cover story, "Right on the Money," for his supposedly prescient call of a 1,000 point correction on the Dow.
Despite the fact that the Industrials are now back within 100 points of their high, the Barron's valentine thrown Byron's way by Andrew Bary quotes the strategist as sticking to his guns. Last week's rally, Byron said, was not "a mind-changing reversal. The response to the economic data shows the market's yearning for good news. I think stocks are going to run out of upside soon." From what I can gather based on a press search of the past several months, Byron's model holds that as interest rates go up, stocks go down (and vice versa), but with a highly adjustable lag. Byron holds that the economy will grow faster than anyone expects in the last two quarters of this year, bringing higher inflation and sharply rising interest rates.
To be fair, Byron's initial April call saw some further upside potential (to 5800) before the bear market that would hit "in the second half of this year, making his target for a Dow low of 4800 (after which a new bull run would commence). And, in fact, the average did come close to hitting Wien's mark (5778) at its high in late May.
The interesting thing is the way Byron has been spinning himself silly in order to maintain the relevance of his original call since the market started to drop sooner (he thought it would happen in the fall), apparently has bottomed out with less than half as much of a loss as he forecast, and is already within a hundred points of surpassing its previous high. He variously has declared the market overbought, oversold or just about right all at roughly the same time, dispensing with any pretense of consistency. The other interesting thing is the way the press lets such an influential and powerful figure in the markets get away with these feints and dodges without challenging his underlying assumptions and preconceived notions.
For example, following the Dow's 83-point slide to 5520 on July 11, the Journal of July 12 quotes Wien as declaring the market having entered the corrective phase. "The most significant thing is the bond market was up and usually we've seen a close correlation between bond-market and stock-market direction. So that divergence says that perhaps something bigger is happening here." Presumably, then, Wien was expecting the sell-off to continue and, in fact, on the following trading day (Monday, July 15) the Dow took its worst hit of the slide, dropping 161 points to 5349. But over the rest of the week, the market posted some decent gains, closing on Friday, July 19 at 5427.
The following Monday, July 22, Wien tells the Journal: "My feeling is we got pretty deeply oversold and then had a pretty strong snap back last week, but that's all it was." [Emphasis added.] Within the space of a few days, then, Wien went from seeing the market beginning a major correction to snapping back from an "oversold" position. Subsequently, the market touched bottom at 5346 on Tuesday, July 23, and has rallied from there. On Wednesday, July 31, with the market closing the previous day at 5482, the Journal finds Wien agreeing that stock valuations are "fine, at these interest rate levels," but cautioning that he expects rates to rise further, leaving the market looking overvalued again. What's particularly noteworthy is that the 30-year yield that Byron saw as being "fine" for valuations on July 30, at 7.04, was only 2 basis points below the yield that was confirming the onset of a correction on July 11.
As I understand it, with the bond yield at 6.75%, stocks should again be looking pretty attractive in Byron's model. But judging from his comments to Barron's, he seems to be fighting his own methodology in order to sustain his correction call, which is based on a bond yield of 7.5% before year end and 8% early next year. Unfortunately for Byron, this is looking less and less likely all the time.


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Q: Counting with Decimals Jquery I have this code which is counting perfectly but the client wants it to count from 16.5 to 9.99. I'm sure it's possible to make the ending digit contain two decimal numbers. As an option in the bottom of the code, you will notice there's a decimal option. Maybe halfway through the count I can change it from 1 decimal to 2 decimal points? How can I do this? Thanks!
(function($) {
$.fn.countTo = function(options) {
    // merge the default plugin settings with the custom options
    options = $.extend({}, $.fn.countTo.defaults, options || {});

    // how many times to update the value, and how much to increment the value on each update
    var loops = Math.ceil(options.speed / options.refreshInterval),
        increment = (options.to - options.from) / loops;

    return $(this).each(function() {
        var _this = this,
            loopCount = 0,
            value = options.from,
            interval = setInterval(updateTimer, options.refreshInterval);

        function updateTimer() {
            value += increment;
            loopCount++;
            $(_this).html(value.toFixed(options.decimals));

            if (typeof(options.onUpdate) == 'function') {
                options.onUpdate.call(_this, value);
            }

            if (loopCount >= loops) {
                clearInterval(interval);
                value = options.to;

                if (typeof(options.onComplete) == 'function') {
                    options.onComplete.call(_this, value);
                }
            }
        }
    });
};

$.fn.countTo.defaults = {
    from: 0,  // the number the element should start at
    to: 100,  // the number the element should end at
    speed: 1000,  // how long it should take to count between the target numbers
    refreshInterval: 100,  // how often the element should be updated
    decimals: 1,  // the number of decimal places to show
    onUpdate: null,  // callback method for every time the element is updated,
    onComplete: null,  // callback method for when the element finishes updating
};
})(jQuery);

jQuery(function($) {
    $('#heroCounter').countTo({
        from: 16.5,
        to: 9.9,
        speed: 1500,
        refreshInterval: 50,
        onComplete: function(value) {
            console.debug(this);
        }
    });
});

A: If I understand you should add decimals option:
    $('#heroCounter').countTo({
        from: 16.5,
        to: 9.9,
        speed: 1500,
        decimals: 2,
        refreshInterval: 50,
        onComplete: function(value) {
            console.debug(this);
        }
    });

or change $(_this).html(value.toFixed(options.decimals)); to $(_this).html(value.toFixed(2));
JSFIDDLE
UPDATE: @Guillermo Gutiérrez - $(_this).html(value.toFixed(options.decimals, 2).toString().replace(/(\.[0-9]*?)0+$/, "$1"));
JSFIDDLE

A: Do you want to change options dynamically? If yes http://jsfiddle.net/tarabyte/82qBL/3/
Add support for option get/set
$.fn.countTo = function(options) {
    if(typeof options === 'string') {
        var name = arguments[0],
            value = arguments[1];

        if(typeof value === 'undefined') { //getter
            var data = this.eq(0).data('countTo');
            return data && data[name];
        }
        return this.each(function(){ //setter
            var data = $(this).data('countTo');
            data && (data[name] = value);
        });
    }

    // merge the default plugin settings with the custom options
    options = $.extend({}, $.fn.countTo.defaults, options || {});
    ...
    $(this).data('countTo', options); //store current options in element's data

Change option onUpdate
$('#heroCounter').countTo({
    from: 16.5,
    to: 7.11,
    speed: 2900,
    decimals: 1,
    refreshInterval: 50,
    onUpdate: function(value){
        console.log($(this).countTo('from')); //get prop
        if(value < 10) {
            $(this).countTo('decimals', 2); //set prop
        }
    },
    onComplete: function(value) {
        console.debug(this);
    }
});


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title: Why so sad? Can we point to improvements without making people feel bad?
date: 2014-09-22T07:31:00.004Z
author: Marcus Hammarberg
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  - Lean
  - Life of a consultant
  - Kanban
  - Agile
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"Fry complaining"
by Umberto Salvagnin,

under Creatives Common

\- As agile and lean practitioners, why do we always focus on the
negative? "It's managements fault", "This needs to go faster", "The
quality is substandard", "You don't use TDD" ... tell me when to
stop...

- Because that where we have "unrealised improvement opportunities",
dummy!

- But it's not very attractive and makes our "sell" much harder.
- Yeah, but it sucks! So it needs to be improved

- Is there maybe another way to say that so that the receivers doesn't
feel that they suck?
- Maybe... but it's very much up to them. They still suck, are they
ready to hear it or not? Also, I'm not actually telling them that they
suck, of course. I just tell them that "we're looking for better".

- But that means that we're never satisfied.
- No exactly! I'm never satisfied.
- Sucks to be there... No highs... never content with where you are...
- Yeah! That's what makes me great.

I don't know. I just don't know.
This post is not finished. It's just a reflection
I've made from the last couple of weeks. If I watch, read tweets or
blogs and listen to myself and others I find that as Lean and Agile
advocates we often come out as complaining, whining or generally
negative.

I exchanged a couple of good thoughts with
Jon and
Anders about
this being, to part at least, how the receiver have it's
mindset set to the message being delivered. And also
whose agenda is being pushed onto who. Who is the receiver really?  If I
come and deliver a message that just comes out as whining and hitting
people in the head... have I listen to their part and adjusted.

The number of times I have felt, myself, that I'm just complaining and
never bring good news... are too many now.
And this is even more true when I see keynotes and other presentations
that *challenges* the listener. Who on earth want to go from a
presentation feeling pushed down, diminished or like a failure? I want
to be lifted up and see that I'm great. Through this greatness I can
continue to evolve.

Just because there's a better tomorrow doesn't have to mean that today
sucks.

### Two things; listen and context

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|                              By bulldog1 used under Creatives Common                                        |

I'm the first to confess that I do this badly now but I've found two
areas where I will focus to become ever better; listening and using
context.

The first one is pretty obvious and a so called truism; everyone need to
be better at listening, always. But maybe if I stop for awhile and think
what they are actually saying to me. One of my heroes,
Dan North, has a nice
saying that I quote from time to time:

> What is true in their world to make them do this/think this/say this?

If I reflected more about things like that when see objections or notice
that I'm just "whining"... maybe that could be better.

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|                          "Empty" by Anthony, used under Creatives Common                                         |

Also, stating thing without context is something that I will shy away
from. There's a Swedish word that I haven't found a good translation
for; "floskel". It means roughly "smart words that really doesn't mean
anything", "big but empty words" or "things you'd say over peoples
heads".

Profoundly smart things said without context is just a floskel I think.
It's doesn't help me where I am. I, for one, want to try to talk more
from the context of the people I talk to. I much rather say something
that is a lot simplified but useful than something that is profound (I
don't do that anyway) but the receiver cannot apply in their context.

When we just had written the table of contents for
Kanban In
Action, it was send out for a review. A kind of "if this was a
complete book, would you read it?"-survey. I never forget one of the
answers that came back:

> Yes, it sounds pretty interesting... but that's what we call the easy
> parts of kanban.

You know what; fine with me. I'm happy just talking about the easy parts
of kanban. Maybe people can use that. And smarter people than me can
talk about the complex part of kanban.


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Board index ‹ Community Forums ‹ Non-Philosophical Chat
Mundane Babble posting protocol
This is the place to shave off that long white beard and stop being philosophical; a forum for members to just talk like normal human beings.
Re: Mundane Babble posting protocol
by MagsJ » Wed Sep 05, 2012 1:32 pm
3rd September 2012 TATLER NEWS
Unless you're in church or, perhaps, a kindergarten, these days nobody ought to be offended by swearing.
Look - FUCK. And the world still turns. There is swearing, though, and swearing. As every writer knows, a profanity written has a kick many times that of one merely said. The same is true of one said in an accent that ought to know better. If, say, Bob Geldof told you he'd got a fucking puncture, you'd only be thinking about his tyres. If the Duke of Edinburgh did, he'd sound so cross that you'd wonder if he'd had the driver shot. Frankly, it's a bugger in this day and age, but such is the burden of breeding. If you talk proper, you've got to swear proper too.
First, and most importantly, swear only in description. Never in exclamation or in insult. The house is shagged, the dog has shit for brains, this phone contract is a shitting wreath of fucking arse-bunting - all fine. Even some phrases that sound pretty damn insulting - Clive is a wanker; Daisy is a whore; that dickhead Meredith walks like she's sat in a shite, etc - are actually just insulting descriptions, and they are perfectly acceptable in almost any company, provided they are uttered calmly. The big danger with swearing is not causing offence but being boorish. Never shout. For the most part, except in some particular circumstances, you should never swear at somebody. If you feel you must, then it should be done with all the brutal efficiency of conversational thermonuclear war. Imagine Dame Maggie Smith calling a footman a c ***, or Brian Sewell telling a traffic warden that he's a shabby little fucktard. This is the effect you are going for.
It's all about deliberation. The words are important, so you need to know precisely what they mean. When David Cameron said the word 'twat' on the radio, he sounded foolish not because he had sworn, but because he clearly didn't realise it meant vagina. You need to be on top of this stuff. 'Arse' isn't swearing any more. Your arse is just your arse. 'Shit' remains a bit sweary, but has mainly become a perfectly routine term for either 'not good' or actual faeces. If you want to keep it properly rude, add the Celtic e and make it 'shite'. 'Shite' remains a great word. 'Fucked' means broken, or otherwise damaged. That is all. Even if something is broken as a result of actual sex (a bed, say), this is mere coincidence; there are no such connotations.
Beware, though, of losing that essential sense of lofty detachment. Your car may be fucked, your head may be fucked, even your job. But your marriage should never be fucked. If anything, it should be shagged. Be inventive, mainly by adding ing or ly where it isn't expected. Shitting, arseing, twatting - these are the marks of a thoughtful maestro. Where posh swearing really struggles is with affection. With a regional accent, you can swear at your friends, and fondly. In cut-glass tones that's hard to do. Even if you pull it off, it sounds a bit rugby club. Avoid.
Swearing with your friends, however, is vital. Done deftly, it can be the first sign of friendship, the first intimate crack in a chilly facade. A boss who swears at you is a tyrant, but if he swears with you, then it should feel like he's bought you a drink. It's all about whether you feel comfortable enough to swear back. Unexpected swearing from a beautiful woman is like a tiny glimpse of her underwear. If you weren't supposed to see it, it can seem uncouth. But if you think you were...
Swear with your mother-in-law, but only if she does first. When that happens, you've bonded for life. The same sort of rule applies in job interviews, or with bishops. There's nothing better than a sweary bishop. And if you must test the water, do it robustly. Always sound like you mean to swear. Never sound like you can't help it. Don't swear with a headmaster, but always swear with a head boy. Don't swear in shops, unless they're very posh shops, in which case - go for your fucking life. I hope you're getting this down.
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