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That's Daniel Murphy at the plate, the Nationals' MVP candidate. Does he get the 97-mph fastball from the boy's hero? Nope. Nice little change outside. Broke Murphy's bat. Easy ground ball. End of the inning. Even an MVP candidate is impotent tonight.
The boy is on his feet, hopping up and down. He's pointing, he's shouting.
Look at Jose Fernandez through his eyes.
And those eyes today are filled with tears.
Baseball is a hard game, played by hard men, they tell us, watched by boys who someday hope they'll grow into one of those hard men.
Last night, those hard men turned back into boys.
Those hard men in the Marlins dugout saw Dee Gordon let the memories of his friend go, through the tears, as he lifted an unlikely home run to right field, the ball carried by the cheers of the Marlins Park crowd.
Did you think as you watched it that maybe there was something else, somebody else, holding up that home run ball, making sure it would land well beyond the wall? Me, too.
These aren't the hard men we watch and root for. These are boys, we're suddenly reminded, not far removed from the times they spent in front of the TV, in the stands, mouths open, squirming and pointing in their seats.
These aren't the hard men celebrating a home run. They're watching as Dee Gordon openly cried his way around the bases. They're hugging each other. They're carrying Dee Gordon, they're showing the genuine love for their lost friend, as if they would have the chance to hug their teammate one last time.
The boy is watching that, too. He wraps his own small arms around himself. He wants to hug, too, but there's no hero to hug.
Sometime in the future, when he grows into a man, and has his own son — or daughter — and will hold hands as the two walk into Marlins Park, or wherever his favorite team is now playing, he'll look down as fresh, wide-open eyes see their heroes, young kids playing a hard game. He'll see the game through their eyes. And he'll remember his own hero. And his eyes may fill with tears again.
Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy. F. Scott Fitzgerald's words.
No. Show us a tragedy, and we'll write you about our hero.
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High court, for third time, takes up a GOP effort to kill popular Obamacare
Timing may be everything in life and the law: The U.S. Supreme Court — while giving the Trump Administration a small political break for now — may give the president's fall reelection campaign plenty of upset still. Whether the court will give the country a health care disaster is another question.
The high court, acting on a request by Democratic state attorneys general, has agreed once more to consider the fate of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, on an expedited basis, even before a federal trial court and appellate judges finish their consideration of the latest legal challenge to the ACA.
This will be the third time the justices have taken up an ACA lawsuit, with this challenge representing not only another Republican attack on government-assisted health insurance for the poor, working poor, and middle class. This also may be a legal extreme for questioning Obamacare, as the New York Times reported:
"The case the justices will hear was brought by Republican state officials, who argued that when Congress in 2017 zeroed out the penalty for failing to obtain health insurance, lawmakers rendered the entire law unconstitutional. The Trump administration sided with the state officials, arguing that the rest of the health care law could not survive without a penalty for flouting the requirement that most Americans have health insurance, sometimes called the individual mandate. A Federal District Court judge in Texas agreed, ruling that the entire law was invalid, but he postponed the effects of his ruling until the case could be appealed. In December, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, agreed that the mandate was unconstitutional but declined to rule on the fate of the remainder of the health law, asking the lower court to reconsider the question in more detail. The Democratic states and the House, which intervened in the case to defend the health law, asked the Supreme Court to put its consideration of whether to hear the appeal on an unusually fast track. The court turned down that request in January. Having lost that fight, the states and the House asked the court to hear their appeal in the ordinary course. They said Supreme Court review was warranted because part of a federal law had been held to be unconstitutional, which is often reason enough for the justices to agree to hear a case. They added that the lower courts' rulings had created doubt about the balance of the law."
The administration and the GOP attorneys general wanted the high court to let the case work its way through the judiciary, with decisions to be made final, and then appealed to the high court — who knows when, and likely far after election season when voters will be watching health care developments with great care.
But the justices have stepped in, saying they will hear arguments in the case, likely this fall, with a decision potentially in the spring of 2021.
That will cause some heartburn for the Trump reelection effort, with the president's administration and GOP officials arguing in the throes of the campaign about Republicans' health care record, even as the partisan challenge could create a huge national mess, if the high court dooms the ACA. As Vox, the information web site, reported, based on experts' research:
"The Urban Institute reviewed the likely consequences in grim detail: The number of uninsured people would increase by approximately 20 million, or 65% nationally, [and] the increases in un-insurance would be most heavily concentrated among people with the lowest incomes (below 200% of the federal poverty level), young adults, families with at least one full-time worker, and residents of the South and West. These subpopulations of the United States have experienced the largest gains in insurance coverage under the ACA and consequently would be hit the hardest if the law were repealed. States that expanded Medicaid would get the worst of it: Urban projected their uninsured rates would nearly double if the law were overturned. The uninsured rate for black Americans would increase from 11% today to 20% without Obamacare; there would also be a dramatic spike in un-insurance among Hispanics. And considering we know health insurance protects people financially and helps them live longer, we would expect that increases in the uninsured rate would mean more people going into debt over medical bills and, yes, people dying because they lack coverage."
Let's frame the issue another way: The president will be hard-pressed to make counterfactual assertions about his administration's health care record while in the highest court in the land, Trump lawyers are trying to kill an increasingly popular landmark law that protects patients with preexisting conditions, lets parents keep their children on their policies until age 26, and bars insurers from imposing "lifetime limits" on needed benefits. These elements of the ACA have extended not only into policies sold on government-supported Obamacare exchanges but also into qualifying coverage employers provided by companies to their workers.
Americans slowly have embraced the ACA because of these benefits, plus the reduction in the uninsured and the rise in their health, especially due to Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid. Voters have indicated they will respond with great unhappiness if they lose protections that they have become accustomed to and if, as has occurred due to administration policies and practices, the numbers of the uninsured spike anew.
The global coronavirus explosion has underscored, too, just how much the nation has come to rely on the ACA, as public health officials race to contain Covid-19, in part, by assuring Americans that they will not be saddled with high costs for their disease testing, at least. The administration has asserted this will be so because it plans to deem the screening an "essential health benefit." That's an ACA-related designation that forces insurers to cover it.
The high court's latest ACA intervention leaves legal scholars, to an extent, scratching their heads — mostly as to how this case has been propelled by extreme views. The administration and congressional Republicans spent the first Trump year — when the GOP held the House, Senate, and White House — and failed to repeal Obamacare, this after congressional partisans tried scores of times to kill the ACA in votes.
The GOP turned to passing a whopping tax break for the wealthiest corporations and the richest plutocrats. In that $1-trillion-plus largess to the elite, lawmakers "reduced the penalty for a person not buying health insurance to zero," as the Washington Post reported. GOP attorneys general have seized on that action to argue that "Congress had removed the essential tax element that the Supreme Court had found made the program constitutional" and a Texas federal judge invalidated the entire ACA, legislation that GOP lawmakers had attacked for running across more than 2,000 pages.
An appellate court also had problems with the individual mandate but ordered the lower court judge to reconsider each and every part of the ACA and whether these must fall.
The legal arguments in this case, as Vox noted, are dubious at best, for example, having the judge rewrite law for Congress, when lawmakers — as part of the tax cut — didn't choose again to kill the ACA:
"Jonathan Adler, a conservative law professor — and a leading evangelist for an earlier lawsuit seeking to undercut the Affordable Care Act by reading a poorly drafted provision of the law to cut off much of the act's funding — labeled many of the red states' arguments 'implausible,' 'hard to justify,' and 'surprisingly weak. The Wall Street Journal's editorial board labeled this lawsuit the 'Texas Obamacare Blunder.' Yuval Levin, a prominent conservative policy wonk, wrote in National Review that the Texas lawsuit 'doesn't even merit being called silly. It's ridiculous.' … Some Republicans in Congress think the lawsuit is ridiculous, too. Sen. Lamar Alexander, the Republican chair of the Senate health committee, has criticized the Trump Justice Department for pursuing the litigation. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, one of the key Republican swing votes on the Senate tax bill, says she did not think she was voting to overturn Obamacare entirely (and she had notably voted earlier the same year against the Republican repeal plans)."
In my practice, I see not only the harms that patients suffer while seeking medical services, but also their struggles to access and afford safe, efficient, and excellent medical care. This has become an ordeal due to the skyrocketing cost, complexity, and uncertainty of therapies and prescription medications, too many of which turn out to be dangerous drugs.
Republicans, of course, may feel free to keep up their almost religious campaign against any government role in U.S. health care, epitomized by their decade of assaults on the ACA. But partisans also should know this may cost them with voters, who have made health care a top 2020 political concern. Ordinary folks don't give a whit about "severability," "mandates," "taxing powers," or other focuses on policy wonks.
They want to know who will ensure they can pay their medical bills and avoid all-too-common medical bankruptcy. Health insurance isn't the alpha and omega of medical security or certainty. But Americans, when sick or injured, don't want to be made violently ill by surprise costs, dunning medical creditors, and outrages on and with their medical bills.
The justices may eventually find ways to dispose of yet another dubious GOP attack on the ACA. Republicans, however, may not so easily or quickly dispose of voters' ire that the GOP not only wants to strip Americans of valued protections in the health care system but that partisans have, after a decade, no planned substitute or options. Voters, this go around, also may be unlikely to listen to false statements to the contrary.
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Updated: March 9, 2020 9:24 am

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Q: Faster search than find Is there a way to find things faster than find . I am/was doing :-
$sudo find / -perm +4000

But it takes ages to find the required info. and I know that most of the files which would that specific permission bit set would be static/not dynamic.
I tried
[$] sudo locate --all / -perm +4000
locate: invalid option -- 'p'

but as can be seen failed. Any ideas how could I use locate to do the same thing.
Just to share /usr/bin/locate is sym-linked to /etc/alternatives/locate which in-turn is sym-linked to /usr/bin/mlocate

A: Unfortunately, mlocate does not index file permissions, so you'll have to resort to scanning your filesystems with find, unless you find a locate implementation that features this functionality (or extend mlocate yourself).

A: As mentioned by @shirish, mlocate does not index file permissions.
But stil I have some suggestions for you:
Firstly, from find manual, -perm +mode is deprecated, so you should use -perm /mode instead.

-perm +mode
Deprecated, old way of searching for files with any of the permission bits in mode set.  You should use -perm /mode instead.
Trying to use the '+' syntax with symbolic modes will  yield  surprising  results.   For  example,  '+u+x'  is a valid symbolic mode (equivalent to +u,+x, i.e. 0111) and will therefore not be evaluated as -perm +mode but instead as the exact mode specifier -perm mode and so it matches files with exact permissions 0111 instead of files with any execute bit set.  If you found this paragraph confusing, you're not alone  -  just  use  -perm
/mode. This  form  of  the  -perm  test  is  deprecated because the POSIX specification requires the interpretation of a leading '+' as being part of a symbolic mode, and so we switched to using '/' instead.
-perm /mode
Any  of  the  permission bits mode are set for the file.  Symbolic modes are accepted in this form.  You must specify 'u', 'g'
or 'o' if you use a symbolic mode.  See the EXAMPLES section for
some illustrative examples.  If no permission bits in mode are set, this test matches any file (the idea here is to be
consistent with the behaviour of -perm -000).

Secondly, you can try to speed up find: to do so, you need to be as specific, as it possible. For example:
find /some/path ...

will reduce search time, because you specified path where to search (/some/path), instead of searching whole root directory (/)
And lastly, you can exclude system folders, which you don't want to scan during search. For example:
 find /some/path -not \( -path /excluded/path -prune \) -name *.js

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One simple step you can take toward a healthier you is eating with the seasons and since last week kicked off the beginning of spring, the time is now!
Here are a few spring veggies that we look forward to every year that will satisfy your taste buds and feed your body.
T'is the season for dandelion greens! What better way to celebrate Earth Month than by fully utilizing crops that have flowed over the seasons (like the optional apples in this recipe) and taking a bite out of one woman's weed and making it a culinary treasure in your kitchen?
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The ASRL Committeee has released Newsletter #49 for June, 2014.
All Members are encouraged to download and read the Newsletter to keep up with what's going on in the world of Surf Rowing.
The Newsletter was emailed directly on 3 June to all current ASRL Members who have provided a current email address. If you didn't receive a copy of the email and would like to in the future, please provide your current email address to registrar@asrl.com.au Your email address will be used for all Committee correspondence, including electronic voting for Committee positions.
In accordance with clause 28.1(a), the ASRL Committee hereby calls for nominations for Treasurer and 3 x Vice Presidents. Nominations must be made in writing, signed by 2 ASRL Members and accompanied by the nominee's written consent. Nominations must be delivered to the ASRL Committee by no later than 5.00pm Friday 20 June 2014, 28 days prior to the ASRL Annual General Meeting (which shall be held on Saturday 19th July 2014) at Elouera SLSC NSW.
• Is the ASRL's financial officer.
• Receipts all funds paid to the ASRL.
• Administers the ASRL's financial accounts.
• Prepares periodic financial statements.
• Liaises with the Secretary, Registrar and President.
• Attends all ASRL Committee meetings.
• Must be computer literate, able to attend several meetings (in person and by teleconference) per year and have a couple of hours per week to review and respond to emails.
In August 2013 the SLSA Board made a decision to mandate the wearing of surf helmets in surf boat competition and in surf boat training effective 1 January 2014 (see SLSA Bulletin 02/13-14 issued 26/08/2013).
Since the release of this decision, a number of operational impacts and considerations have been evaluated in consultation with the Australian Surf Rowers League (ASRL) and State/Territory centres to ensure an effective implementation of the SLSA Board decisions. SLSA reinforces that surf helmets will become mandatory in both training and competition. The following decisions relate to the implementation of these decisions.
Throughout implementation of this decision, SLSA shall continue to consult closely with the SLSA Surf Boat Committee / ASRL to ensure all impacts on surf boat participants are well considered, safe and appropriate.


"I'm sure to read Through Mountains and Valleys more than one time. it's like being with a good friend"
"I have found amazing comfort and words of wisdom and insight through Sherolyn's writings…"
"This is a good read. It's more of a devotional book, but it tells how the author who has fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, enjoys her life. Although it is a "religious book" in the sense that she references her faith and God a lot, there are a lot of other things in the book that everyone would relate to."


In the original Osun Osogbo Festival tradition, the Arugba (votary maid) has to be a virgin to be able to serve the god and the community. But while it was not a strict criterion for whoever had to play the role of Arugba in Tunde Kelani's latest film that goes by the same title, the lunar-faced, dark-complexioned lady on whom the mantle fell was prepared to tread where even soldiers are scared to march. Drama apart, she conceded to pay a strategic sacrifice along the way.
Although the film derives from the cultural sacrifice that the Arugba phenomenon represents. Kelani gave it an expansive treat, covering politics, health and romance. In the plot, it gets to a point where the film has to make a statement about HIV/AIDS control and prevention. Here, Arugba has to lead other characters to enjoin members of the community to go for AIDS test. Now, while on set, Awoyele felt the challenge of having to practise what she preaches.
Incidentally, the setting for that particular scene is an office of the National Action on AIDS Control. In the spirit of the Arugba sacrifice, what Awoyele, a graduate of Theatre Arts from the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, did was to voluntarily submit herself to HIV test before she entered the film world in which she beckons others to do so.
"I felt I had to do it," Awoyele says. But was she not scared that something unfavourable could result?
Perhaps, the mother was banking on the largely Christian route that the family took the daughter through. For instance, she attended ECWA Nursery and Primary School and ECWA Secondary School in Ilorin, before she did an A Levels at Kwara State Polytechnic, Offa. Awoyele, indeed, notes that she was not a 'happening' girl even while in UNILORIN.
"My social life was nil," she says, adding that her commitment to her academic pursuits outweighed every other thing.
Well, her singular feat at the AIDS experts' lab fired her morale to give the film her best. Initially, when Kelani first gave her hint of the role, she was a bit puzzled about how to reconcile the film's traditional background with her Christian background. Also, having to speak Yoruba throughout first gave her some fear. But when she went through a documentary that Kelani had earlier made on the Osun Osogbo maid, she got a better idea of the script.
While at UNILORIN, Awoyemi had been involved in acting. Besides, she had a flash of professional acting when she played the role of a wife in Away from Father, a film that was made in, and circulated only in Kwara area. Also, she acted in Mama Mi and Church on Fire. However, Arugba is the first major work in which she would star.
And she has steadily been reaping limelight from her participation. Apart from the inroads the movie, vis-a-vis her name, have made nationally, the movie has been selected to compete at the Pan African Film and Television Festival, FESPACO 2009, holding in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from February 28 to March 7, while The Women of Colour Arts and Film (WOCAF) Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, USA has already programmed the film to feature at this year's festival from 19th March to 22nd March, 2009. Awoyemi is expected to be part of the train in and out.
Of course, going by the precedents of actors and actresses that Kelani discovered, Awoyemi seems to have a brighter future ahead of her. Her 'predecessors', such as Kabirat Kafidipe and Kunle Afolayan, both of who first broke into light when they acted Araparegangan and Aresejabata respectively in Saworoide, have since continued to make their marks in the film industry. Also, Bukky Wright, who played Olori in the same film, has never wavered since then. Awoyemi too is hoping for the best.
Already, Arugba has started its long journey through all the 57 Local Government Areas of Lagos State. As Kelani did with his earlier films such as Yellow Card and Agogo Eewo, he is showing Arugba in cinema. What makes the present treat different is the involvement of the Lagos State government which has partnered Mainframe to show the film free to Lagosians. Kelani is full of praise for the State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, and local government authorities who, he says, are also committed to mobilising for the shows.
"Physical contact with the audience is a filmmaker's delight and this opportunity to observe and interact with the audience of Arugba is most appreciated," Kelani says. "I must therefore acknowledge the visionary leadership of His Excellency, Governor Babatunde Fasola, for providing this opportunity to screen the film, Arugba, in each of the 57 Local Government councils and development areas of Lagos State.
While he is happy that the film is featuring prominently at FESPACO and WOCAF, he is happier that its cinema experience is beginning from 'home'.


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Snowy Peaks Junior High and High School cuts ribbon on building expansion
Deepan Dutta
ddutta@summitdaily.com
Snowy Peaks High School student Angelita Buller raises the bow used for the ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday, Nov. 14, in Frisco. The school celebrated the grand opening of its new, larger building.
Hugh Carey / hcarey@summitdaily.com
Snowy Peaks High School students participate in the ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday, Nov. 14, in Frisco.
Snowy Peaks High School students celebrate with the winner of the rock-paper-scissors competition before the ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday, Nov. 14, in Frisco.
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The Yetis of Snowy Peaks Junior High and High School have a bigger, better den in the mountains. Summit County's only nontraditional public school unveiled its expanded educational space at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday. The expansion, which was funded by a 2016 bond measure passed by Summit voters, will accommodate the school's new junior high program for seventh- and eighth-graders.
The expansion has tripled the size of the school, which has also tripled in pupil enrollment from 27 in 2014 to almost 90 students today. Celebrating the completion of Summit School District construction projects, Snowy Peaks' ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the last of nine over the past two years. The 2016 bond measure raised approximately $70 million for construction projects in the district, with $20 million devoted to projects at Summit Middle School and Snowy Peaks.
Accompanied by a large crowd, cookies, confetti and cake, Snowy Peaks principal Jim Smith said that he was humbled and proud of the community's support.
"It's incredible, the amount of support we get from the community to support a nontraditional school," Smith said before the ribbon was cut. "The original vision for the school was as a dropout prevention program, but it has morphed into something just beautiful and amazing."
Smith said that Snowy Peaks provides "an opportunity to support any kid that just wants and needs something different" from a traditional school environment. He said Snowy Peaks students benefit from a "relationship-based" approach that gives them personalized assistance according to their needs.
"We believe that some students learn better with more one-on-one support and more individualized attention," Smith said. "We have smaller classes and less social distractions. Our staff also pride ourselves on always leading with love and end with hope. We treat students like they're our own children."
School superintendent Kerry Buhler said the students are also a big part of what makes Snowy Peaks special.
"Many of them have not had success in traditional schools, or had struggles in school, family or social life that kept them from thriving," she said.
Buhler added that the key to Snowy Peaks is making sure students are welcomed and valued, regardless of their circumstance.
"What they find here is complete acceptance," she said. "It doesn't matter where you're from, what your background or attitude was before you walked through the door, once you walk through the door you're a Yeti. Being a Yeti means you're part of the family, and accept everyone for who they are, to know that every single day is an opportunity to do something different than what they experienced before."
Several students shared their stories about what Snowy Peaks meant for them. Jory, a senior, said that he "wakes up every day and looks forward to coming to school," which he said was a first for him. Eighth-grader Geraldine said Snowy Peaks is "less of a school and more of a family."
Wiping away tears, Annie, a senior, said she was graduating in December despite being convinced she'd drop out and never make it.
"This school has definitely changed my life," Annie said. "It's not just a building, it's a community, and it's changed my life."
Graduating senior Brian Ortiz said he also had a tough road to graduation, but that Snowy Peaks was "the best school ever" as he looks forward to college in Mexico.
After everyone had their say, a few dozen students stood in a line with beaming faces in front of a very long, red ribbon. Accompanied by Smith, Buhler and several members of the Summit School District board, the students cut the ribbon and gave a big cheer as the new and improved Snowy Peaks officially opened.
Smith said that the Yetis were a special bunch, and they exemplified how love and kindness can bring out the best in kids.
"When you provide students with an extraordinary experience, they'll give you extraordinary results."


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"That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains."
2 Samuel 7:2 Context
1And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies; 2That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains. 3And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the LORD is with thee. 4And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying, 5Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
Bible Verses like 2 Samuel 7:2
That the king said vnto Nathan the Prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of Cedar, but the Arke of God dwelleth within curtaines.
that the king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within tent curtains."
that the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.
that the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedars, and the ark of God dwells under curtains.
That the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
that the king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains."
that the king saith unto Nathan the prophet, `See, I pray thee, I am dwelling in a house of cedars, and the ark of God is dwelling in the midst of the curtain.'
that the king said unto Nathan the prophet: 'See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.'
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for 2 Samuel 7:2
7:2 Curtains - That is, in a tent or tabernacle, ver.#6|, composed of several curtains.
Discussion for 2 Samuel 7:2


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Q: Change left margin in a console app C# I have a console app and I already changed the  Console.Out.NewLine = "\r\n\r\n"; but now I would like to change the left margin, the cursor position in all my app just one time, ´cause I repeat Console.SetCursorPosition many times. Is it possible? Thanks.

A: you can use use \t for left margin, you can check here more escape character in c#.
Console.WriteLine("\t\t\t text with left margin");


This is one of the oldest gardens in city of Mumbai. Construction of the garden started in 1869 and was completed in 1872. Then, it was a unique design to plan an open space with buildings all around it. Trees were planted at the periphery with wide walkways for public use. This place was originally known as Elphinstone Circle, named after the Governor Lord John Elphinstone. A huge ornamental fountain was placed in the center of the garden, which later was changed to an Art Deco iron pipes design as of today. After the independence, it came to be known as Horniman Circle to honor Benjamin Horniman, editor of Bombay Chronicle newspaper, who supported the freedom movement. During the pre-independence times, this place became the favorite meeting place of the elites and cultural events were held here. Information courtesy: Wikipedia and a plaque at the garden.
This board at the park narrates its story. Surrounding this park stands heritage office buildings like The Asiatic Library, Reserve Bank of India and The Times of India.
This fountain is the signature symbol of this garden.
The archaic entrance gates from the Raj era.
Today this is just like any other garden in the city. Lost, battered and beaten! Though the garden is quite green. The credit for which don't go to the BMC because it is not something that they had planted, but they did the least to not screw it up.
I don't understand what it is about see-saws particularly. They are never seatable.
If they can't repair it, they can remove it atleast, so that it won't hurt anyone.
This garden often is the venue of the annual Sufi concert called Ruhaniyaat. There are several other cultural programs held here throughout the year. Most of the times its open for public, but sometimes we have seen the gates closed, like the one below.
I wonder if its legally correct to use a public property on a public holiday for private purposes and not allow the aam aadmi inside? This calls for a PIL, what say?


I always tell you that being Latina in the U.S. is the best of both worlds. We have the ability to make double the money.
I have made more than 700 television shows in English and Spanish (double the shows), for the Latino market and for the mainstream. You should each think about how you can make double the money because, as bicultural women, you are experts in two worlds. You are also a double asset to the companies you work for.
As entrepreneurs, we should buy from other Latinas - we should sell our products within our community, family and friends, and then to the rest of the world. We should never marginalize ourselves only in the Latino community.
I am so happy to hear that NBCUniversal has announced three shows for the fall in English, starring three Latinas.
Jennifer Lopez is starring in a police drama, Shades of Blue, America Ferrera, from Ugly Betty, is starring in Superstore, and Eva Longoria is starring in Hot & Bothered.
Let's not forget Gina Rodriguez as Jane The Virgin, my favorite show this year, is also coming back this fall. That makes four Latinas starring in network television shows.
As someone who has developed so many television shows for the mainstream, and for years had so many shows rejected with Latinas in them, I am happy to see our time has come. We and our daughters can finally see images of ourselves in the mainstream, not ghettoized in our own media like we only exist in a bubble. Latinas are the most important voice in America as the #1 emerging market in the world and I am so happy our stories are finally being told as part of the narrative of the entire country. It is our time! Adelante!!!
Next, I am connecting all of you and your brands with reality shows that are looking for Latinas to play themselves as chefs, real estate agents, moms etc.
Our updated website and our new platform Crossover Casting is coming soon!


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While producing your application prominent as well as extra apparent to customers, the ASO or App Store Optimization should be highly considered because it is actually very crucial in the whole process. The idea of the SEO in internet sites coincides along with the ASO or App Store Optimization in which you must seek the aid from advertising and marketing companies to place your internet site in addition to all the accessible online search engine on the planet. So in regards to the app store optimization or ASO, you in like manner need to ask for the master help to have the ability to get an affirmation that your application will be downloaded not just by a colossal number of people but instead by the general masses who require your made application. And the only solution to do this is to look for the best app promotion services such as the Labinator ASO service since they are one of the best companies who can provide you a great and efficient app store optimization.
So what is the reason why every business owners should consider the app store optimization or ASO in propelling an application? The response is actually quite straightforward, this is actually because people try to find their needed to have applications thru looking on various application outlets like the Google Play App Store. For an instance, if you are an Android user and you want to download a cardio exercise tutorial, the very basic thing that you will do is go to the Google Play Store, type the keywords such as "cardio exercise", then hit the search button. Your search will certainly provide you lots of outcomes and that is pretty sure. You will certainly still pick the leading result considering that you will certainly presume that this is actually the very most preferred and also competent application to be actually utilized irrespective from exactly how a lot of applications showed up to your hunt. Moreover, this is the thing that the app store optimization or also known as ASO will accommodate your business. That is why you need to take into consideration the Labinator ASO solution for it will definitely assist you in creating your application in addition to every application store hunt to ensure that numerous customers will certainly find your application as well as install this or perhaps buy that!
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Q: How are 64-bit Unicode characters encoded? I'm trying to find a way to learn the encoding for 64-bit characters (mostly Chinese) that I encounter.  For example, the encoding for '好' ("hǎo", good) is
597d.  But entering:
echo 好|od -t x1
in Linux Mint gives a result of:
0000000 e5 a5 bd 0a
0000004
What is the rule for translating  "e5 a5 bd 0a" to "597d" ?


In the world of interior design, geometric patterns increasingly popular, especially simple geometric patterns such as rectangles, triangles, and circles. No wonder, if modern minimalist house design dominated by these geometric shapes. Finally, came the small houses with the box model (cube) or a minimalist house with a gable roof models or models that looked triangular shield when viewed from the front.
Basically, geometric patterns already exist in your home. For example is a television in the family room, refrigerator in the kitchen, or a frame window in the room. If they are used properly, the patterns of geometry would produce an atmosphere that is 'live' in a small house, for a house with a bigger size like modern minimalist house design.


When a program performs operations on input and writes the result to the standard output, it is called a filter. One of the most common uses of filters is to restructure output. We'll discuss a couple of the most important filters below.
As we saw in Section 3.3.3.4, grep scans the output line per line, searching for matching patterns. All lines containing the pattern will be printed to standard output. This behavior can be reversed using the -v option.
The grep command, like most commands, is case sensitive. Use the -i option to make no difference between upper and lower case. A lot of GNU extensions are available as well, such as --colour, which is helpful to highlight searchterms in long lines, and --after-context, which prints the number of lines after the last matching line. You can issue a recursive grep that searches all subdirectories of encountered directories using the -r option. As usual, options can be combined.
Regular expressions can be used to further detail the exact character matches you want to select out of all the input lines. The best way to start with regular expressions is indeed to read the grep documentation. An excellent chapter is included in the grep Info page. Since it would lead us too far discussing the ins and outs of regular expressions, it is strongly advised to start here if you want to know more about them.
Play around a bit with grep, it will be worth the trouble putting some time in this most basic but very powerful filtering command. The exercises at the end of this chapter will help you to get started, see Section 5.5.
You might obtain the same result with ls -la | sort +4n, but this is an old form which does not comply with the current standards.


I'm back to cutting and sewing today... during the spare moment when I'm not taking kids swimming and making a lot of meals... everyone is so much hungrier in the summer! In between storm clouds this afternoon, I've been trying to photograph and put together a little tutorial for you on the child's travel pillow. Hope to have it up tonight with a summer give-away! See you then!
Oooh, I was hoping you would do this! I can't wait (no pressure, lol).
This one is absolutely adorable. Did you make the doll too?
It looks so wonderful in that fabric!! Can't beat the little tucked in baby either. Thank you.
I love the little doll peeping out of the pocket.
Maya this is perfect! Emma leaves for camp in a little over a week and this will absolutely perfect for her. (She wanted me to make a quilt, but honestly!) Look forward to the tutorial!
P.S.- I made 5 buckets today! I'm writing a post about them now.
that is so lovely in that fabric with the buttercups and small suitcase. I wish my not so little one was going away to camp this year so I could send her off with a travel pillow. Hope your finger is doing well .


When I begin a consulting project for a law firm or work one-on-one with attorneys, many are shocked to find out that they are using an initial consultation approach that is out of date, out of sync and clashes with how human beings are wired to be influenced. Attorneys need to have a solid understanding of how the legal consumer hires attorneys these days. It is nothing like it was five short years ago.
By the time the legal consumer meets face-to-face with an attorney, a whopping 65 to 70 percent of their decision-making process is complete. They are doing their homework on their terms, their turf, and their time. The consumer will hop from website to website to research you, Google you, read about your credentials and expertise, and check out your ratings and reviews.
The remaining 25 to 30 percent of their journey comes down to YOU. Will you engage, connect, and communicate with prospective clients in such a way that they do not need to visit the competition or continue shopping for an attorney? Will your one-on-one communication skills and approach be current or look like you got stuck in the 1980s?
The initial consultation is that make-or-break meeting whether someone will hire your firm on the spot or head over to your competition.
Prior to writing both of my books for attorneys, I conducted extensive research into the mind of today's legal consumer. I ran focus groups with individuals who went through the process of buying legal services and retaining an attorney. They revealed their wants and needs. They openly shared with me what makes them tick and what ticks them off.
Below are the three insights into the mind of the new legal consumer and what they wish you would stop doing.
Skip the superficial small talk. When meeting a potential client, attorneys are taught to begin a consultation with small talk, to chat about the weather, traffic, parking, or commenting on what someone is wearing or a current event. "Did you have any trouble finding the building? Did you have any issues with parking? How was the traffic getting here? Is it hot enough out there?" STOP! Every other attorney is using this thirty-year-old, antiquated approach. Contrived chit-chat does nothing to build rapport, create a strong connection, or make a dynamic first impression. Connect authentically, not artificially.
Don't treat me like I am clueless about my legal options. In the past, the traditional consultation approach relied on meeting with a potential client willing to sit quietly and be educated, a time where people had little knowledge and fewer legal choices. Attorneys were taught not to sell but rather to educate. Then educate some more, and the consumer will write you a retainer check. Not anymore! Education is still important, but you need to educate people from where they are, not where they used to be. Find out where a prospective client is regarding their knowledge and insight and navigate the consultation from there.
Help me see why you are different than your competitors. The challenge that attorneys have when attempting to communicate how they are different is that to potential clients; they sound similar to their competition. When the legal consumer asks you how you are different or why they should retain your services, they don't want you to launch into a canned answer. "I have been an attorney for more than 22 years and have a stellar reputation in family law. I am very proud of my practice and the outstanding service that I provide to all of my clients." Blah, blah, blah. Consumers are thinking, "Tell me something that I can't get from your website. Give me something that I can't read in your bio." You must articulate and connect the dots about why you are different and how that difference relates to them and their situation.


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Nature Planet
After fourteen years of consistent growth, the founders of Nature Planet were ready to expand to new markets. But they needed a strong and strategic partner that could help them take the next step without changing the company's core value of making a difference.
Nature Planet is one of the world's leading designers and distributors of quality products, toys and gifts for zoos, aquariums, museums and family parks. The company was founded in 2005 by Anne Dorthe Hjort and Michael Severin. In 2019, they partnered with Procuritas.
"We choose Procuritas as a partner because they believed in and shared our values and the company's focus. They understood the business and the story of who we are," says founder Anne Dorthe Hjort. "For me personally, that meant that I could dedicate my time to the area I am most passionate about, and what I do best – developing our products with a focus on responsibility."
"A product that will last as long as the memory of your visit."
"We started Nature Planet because we saw a gap in the attraction market. As a parent, when you go to the zoo with your child, buying that stuffed animal is a part of the whole experience: a memory. We want our customers to be able to help end consumers choose a great quality product – a product that will last as long as the memory of their visit."
Nature Planet's ambition is to make a difference for children in developing countries and for endangered species. The company donates a percentage of the revenue of selected products to PLAN International, Save the Orangutan and Red Panda Network in Nepal. The company is also constantly developing the quality of its products from a responsibility perspective, with everything from Oeko-tex certified materials to products made from recycled bottles.
"Responsible business ethics is about so many different things," says Anne Dorthe Hjort. "It's everything around the business: the social side of it, the workers' conditions, and supporting locally, among other things. Responsibility is in Nature Planet's DNA, and we need to do everything we can as a company, all the time,"
Anne Dorthe Hjort, founder of Nature Planet
Other stories.
Making environmental thinking profitable
There's no use like re-use


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package org.apache.jmeter.protocol.ldap.sampler;

import java.util.Hashtable;

import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.NamingEnumeration;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
import javax.naming.directory.Attributes;
import javax.naming.directory.DirContext;
import javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext;
import javax.naming.directory.ModificationItem;
import javax.naming.directory.SearchControls;
import javax.naming.directory.SearchResult;

import org.apache.jmeter.util.TrustAllSSLSocketFactory;
import org.apache.jorphan.util.JOrphanUtils;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/**
 * Ldap Client class is main class to create ,modify, search and delete all the
 * LDAP functionality available
 * Based on the work of: author T.Elanjchezhiyan(chezhiyan@siptech.co.in)
 *
 */
public class LdapExtClient {
    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LdapExtClient.class);

    private static final String CONTEXT_IS_NULL = "Context is null";

    /**
     * Constructor for the LdapClient object
     */
    private LdapExtClient() {
        super();
    }

    /**
     * connect to server
     *
     * @param host
     *            name of the server to connect
     * @param port
     *            port of the server to connect
     * @param rootdn
     *            base of the tree to operate on
     * @param username
     *            name of the user to use for binding
     * @param password
     *            password to use for binding
     * @param connTimeOut
     *            connection timeout for connecting the server see
     *            "com.sun.jndi.ldap.connect.timeout"
     * @param secure
     *            flag whether ssl should be used
     * @param trustAll flag whether we should trust all certificates
     * @return newly created {@link DirContext}
     * @exception NamingException
     *                when creating the {@link DirContext} fails
     */
    public static DirContext connect(String host,
            String port,
            String rootdn,
            String username,
            String password,
            String connTimeOut,
            boolean secure,
            boolean trustAll)
            throws NamingException {
        DirContext dirContext;
        Hashtable<String, String> env = new Hashtable<>(); // NOSONAR : Env needs to be HashTable
        env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory"); // $NON-NLS-1$
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(80);
        if (secure) {
            sb.append("ldaps://"); // $NON-NLS-1$
            if (trustAll){
                log.debug("Using secure connection with trustAll");
                env.put("java.naming.ldap.factory.socket", TrustAllSSLSocketFactory.class.getName());
            }
        } else {
            sb.append("ldap://"); // $NON-NLS-1$
        }
        sb.append(host);
        if (port.length()>0){
            sb.append(":"); // $NON-NLS-1$
            sb.append(port);
        }
        sb.append("/"); // $NON-NLS-1$
        sb.append(rootdn);
        env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL,sb.toString());
        if(log.isInfoEnabled()) {
            log.info("prov_url= {}", env.get(Context.PROVIDER_URL)); // $NON-NLS-1$
        }
        if (connTimeOut.length()> 0) {
            env.put("com.sun.jndi.ldap.connect.timeout", connTimeOut); // $NON-NLS-1$
        }
        env.put(Context.REFERRAL, "throw"); // $NON-NLS-1$
        env.put("java.naming.batchsize", "0"); // $NON-NLS-1$  // $NON-NLS-2$
        env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, password);
        env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, username);
        dirContext = new InitialDirContext(env);
        return dirContext;
    }

    /**
     * disconnect from the server
     *
     * @param dirContext
     *            context do disconnect (may be null)
     */
    public static void disconnect(DirContext dirContext) {
        if (dirContext == null) {
            log.info("Cannot disconnect null context");
            return;
        }

        try {
            dirContext.close();
        } catch (NamingException e) {
            log.warn("Ldap client disconnect - ", e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Filter the data in the ldap directory for the given search base
     *
     * @param dirContext
     *            context to perform the search on
     *
     * @param searchBase
     *            base where the search should start
     * @param searchFilter
     *            filter this value from the base
     * @param scope
     *            scope for search. May be one of
     *            {@link SearchControls#OBJECT_SCOPE},
     *            {@link SearchControls#ONELEVEL_SCOPE} or
     *            {@link SearchControls#SUBTREE_SCOPE}
     * @param countlim
     *            max number of results to get, 0 for all entries
     * @param timelim
     *            max time to wait for entries (in milliseconds), 0
     *            for unlimited time
     * @param attrs
     *            list of attributes to return. If null all
     *            attributes will be returned. If empty, none will be returned
     * @param retobj
     *            flag whether the objects should be returned
     * @param deref
     *            flag whether objects should be dereferenced
     * @return result of the search
     * @throws NamingException
     *             when searching fails
     **/
    public static NamingEnumeration<SearchResult> searchTest(
            DirContext dirContext,
            String searchBase,
            String searchFilter,
            int scope,
            long countlim,
            int timelim,
            String[] attrs,
            boolean retobj,
            boolean deref) throws NamingException {
        if (dirContext == null) {
            throw new NamingException(CONTEXT_IS_NULL);
        }
        if (log.isDebugEnabled()){
            log.debug(
                    "searchBase={}, scope={}, countlim={}, timelim={}, attrs={}, retobj={}, deref={}, filter={}",
                    searchBase,scope, countlim,timelim, attrs != null ? JOrphanUtils.unsplit(attrs,","): null,retobj,deref,searchFilter);
        }
        SearchControls searchcontrols = new SearchControls(scope, countlim,
                timelim, attrs, retobj, deref);
        return dirContext.search(searchBase, searchFilter, searchcontrols);
    }

    /***************************************************************************
     * Filter the data in the ldap directory
     *
     * @param dirContext
     *            the context to operate on
     * @param filter
     *            filter this value from the base
     * @param entrydn
     *            distinguished name of entry to compare
     * @return result of the search
     * @throws NamingException
     *             when searching fails
     **************************************************************************/
    public static NamingEnumeration<SearchResult> compare(DirContext dirContext, String filter, String entrydn) throws NamingException {
        if (dirContext == null) {
            throw new NamingException(CONTEXT_IS_NULL);
        }
        SearchControls searchcontrols = new SearchControls(0, 1, 0, new String[0], false, false);
        return dirContext.search(entrydn, filter, searchcontrols);
    }

    /***************************************************************************
     * ModDN the data in the ldap directory for the given search base
     *
     * @param dirContext
     *            context to operate on
     * @param ddn
     *            distinguished name of object to rename
     * @param newdn
     *            new distinguished name of object
     * @throws NamingException
     *             when renaming fails
     *
     **************************************************************************/
    public static void moddnOp(DirContext dirContext, String ddn, String newdn) throws NamingException {
        log.debug("ddn and newDn= {}@@@@{}", ddn , newdn);
        if (dirContext == null) {
            throw new NamingException(CONTEXT_IS_NULL);
        }
        dirContext.rename(ddn, newdn);
    }

    /***************************************************************************
     * Modify the attribute in the ldap directory for the given string
     *
     * @param dirContext
     *            context to operate on
     * @param mods
     *            list of all the {@link ModificationItem}s to apply on
     *            string
     * @param string
     *            distinguished name of the object to modify
     * @throws NamingException
     *             when modification fails
     **************************************************************************/
    public static void modifyTest(DirContext dirContext, ModificationItem[] mods, String string) throws NamingException {
        if (dirContext == null) {
            throw new NamingException(CONTEXT_IS_NULL);
        }
        dirContext.modifyAttributes(string, mods);

    }

    /***************************************************************************
     * Create the entry in the ldap directory for the given string
     *
     * @param dirContext
     *            context to operate on
     * @param attributes
     *            add all the attributes and values from the attributes object
     * @param string
     *            distinguished name of the subcontext to create
     * @return newly created subcontext
     * @throws NamingException
     *             when creating subcontext fails
     **************************************************************************/
    public static DirContext createTest(DirContext dirContext, Attributes attributes, String string)
            throws NamingException {
        if (dirContext == null) {
            throw new NamingException(CONTEXT_IS_NULL);
        }
        return dirContext.createSubcontext(string, attributes);
    }

    /**
     * Delete the attribute from the ldap directory
     *
     * @param dirContext
     *            context to operate on
     * @param string
     *            distinguished name of the subcontext to destroy
     * @throws NamingException
     *             when destroying the subcontext fails
     */
    public static void deleteTest(DirContext dirContext, String string) throws NamingException {
        if (dirContext == null) {
            throw new NamingException(CONTEXT_IS_NULL);
        }
        dirContext.destroySubcontext(string);
    }
}

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José Montilla Aguilera (Iznájar, Córdoba, 15 de enero de 1955) es un político español, presidente de la Generalidad de Cataluña de 2006 a 2010. Con anterioridad, ejerció como ministro de Industria, Turismo y Comercio del Gobierno de José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero entre 2004 y 2006, como presidente de la Diputación de Barcelona entre 2003 y 2004 y como alcalde de Cornellá de Llobregat durante 19 años. Tras abandonar la presidencia de la Generalidad, ejerció como senador hasta 2019.

Ha sido también primer secretario del Partido de los Socialistas de Cataluña desde el 18 de junio de 2000 hasta el 17 de diciembre de 2011 y miembro de la Comisión Ejecutiva Federal y del Comité Federal del Partido Socialista Obrero Español desde el 23 de julio de 2000.

Biografía

Política local
Tras afiliarse al PSC-PSOE en 1978, dos años después entra en el Consejo Nacional del partido.

Alcanzó con tan sólo 26 años el puesto de teniente de alcalde de Hacienda en San Juan Despí, donde también fue portavoz del Grupo Municipal Socialista. Posteriormente ocuparía, desde 1985 hasta abril de 2004, el cargo de alcalde de Cornellá de Llobregat. Tanto en las elecciones de 1999 como en las de 2003 fue reelegido con mayoría absoluta.

Fue miembro de la Comisión ejecutiva del V Congreso celebrado en 1987.

Tras la creación de los consejos comarcales, en el año 1988 fue elegido presidente del Consejo Comarcal del Bajo Llobregat, cargo que ocuparía hasta finales de 1997. Se incorporó a la Diputación de Barcelona en 1983 como diputado provincial de Obras públicas. En 1987 fue nombrado vicepresidente segundo de esta Diputación y en 1991 nombrado presidente delegado del área de Agricultura y Medio Ambiente, cargo que repetiría en 1995. En 1999 fue nombrado vicepresidente primero y ocupó la Presidencia de la Diputación desde el 1 de julio de 2003.

En 1994 fue elegido secretario de organización del partido, del que fue primer secretario desde el 18 de junio de 2000 hasta el 18 de diciembre de 2011, en que lo sustituyó Pere Navarro, alcalde de Tarrasa.

Ministro
Tras las elecciones al Parlamento de Cataluña y la constitución del Tripartito catalán entre el PSC-PSOE, ERC e ICV-EUiA y su nombramiento como ministro en 2004, se convirtió en el hombre fuerte del PSC en el Gobierno de España.

Desde abril de 2004 dirigió la cartera ministerial de Industria, Comercio y Turismo del mismo, lo que le hizo cesar de todos los cargos que ocupaba hasta el momento en la Administración local. Compaginó su labor en el Ministerio con el cargo de primer secretario del PSC y miembro de la Ejecutiva Federal del PSOE. Al frente del departamento inauguró el 28 de marzo de 2005 el parador nacional de turismo de Santo Domingo de la Calzada (La Rioja) «Bernardo de Fresneda».

Montilla se mostró a favor de un canon sobre reproductores de CD y DVD, cediendo a las presiones de la Sociedad General de Autores (SGAE), logró imponer el canon digital. Según sus palabras el gobierno buscó la "conciliación entre los intereses de los creadores y de la industria", y el desarrollo de la sociedad de la información. El canon fue impuesto mediante la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual aprobada el 22 de junio de 2006 en la que se aumentaban los soportes sujetos a canon a los que fueran idóneos para grabar y reproducir archivos, como CD, DVD, reproductores MP3, tarjetas de memoria, móviles, impresoras y cámaras digitales.

A finales de 2005, se vio envuelto en una polémica derivada de la OPA hostil lanzada por la empresa Gas Natural contra Endesa. El periódico El Mundo desveló que la caja de ahorros La Caixa, máxima accionista de Gas Natural, había condonado al PSC (partido del que Montilla era secretario general) 6,3 millones de euros correspondientes a los intereses de demora de un préstamo vencido en 1994 y que suponían el 45% de la deuda total, y acordado que devolviese el importe principal, 7,81 millones, a un tipo de interés del 3% en 15 años. Según desveló también El Mundo, las condiciones del acuerdo entre el PSC y La Caixa no fueron comunicadas al Tribunal de Cuentas.

El ministro negó relación alguna de esta operación con la autorización de la OPA por parte de la Comisión Nacional de Energía. Y lo hizo por última vez por el propio Montilla en una entrevista a Telecinco el 4 de julio de 2006. Desde el Partido Popular se pidió su dimisión por considerar que se encontraba en una situación de conflicto de intereses que no le permiten ser objetivo en operaciones como las relativas a la OPA, de las que es el máximo responsable. Desde el PSOE se argumentó que los principales argumentos sobre la viabilidad de la OPA son los que tienen que ver con el Tribunal de la Competencia, y no con la Comisión de la Energía. Recordaron también, en defensa de Montilla y del PSC, que la renegociación de créditos se hizo con otros partidos políticos, como el caso del PP de Galicia en relación con un crédito de Caixa Galicia.

Por otra parte el Partido Popular se mostró favorable a la OPA de la alemana E.ON sobre Endesa y fue uno de los motivos por los que solicitó el cese de Montilla

La Asociación Profesional Española de Informadores de Prensa, Radio y Televisión (APEI) y la Federación de Asociaciones de la Prensa de España (FAPE) criticaron unas declaraciones de Montilla contra la cadena radiofónica COPE por ser el ministro el encargado de la regulación del sector audiovisual quien critica los contenidos de un medio de comunicación. Este hecho, y los reajustes en la asignación de frecuencias radiofónicas en Cataluña, llevaron al periodista y eurodiputado del Partido Popular, Luis Herrero, y a otros periodistas españoles a presentar ante el Parlamento Europeo un manifiesto firmado por más de setecientas mil personas para que la institución comunitaria tomara cartas en lo que consideraban una operación política «destinada a desposeer a la segunda cadena de radio más importante de España de todas sus emisoras en Cataluña». En medio de esta polémica, Federico Jiménez Losantos afirmó que no había terminado el Bachillerato, dato que fue desmentido.

Presidente de la Generalidad de Cataluña

Tras anunciar el presidente Pasqual Maragall que no sería candidato de nuevo a la presidencia en la Generalidad de Cataluña, el Comité Nacional del PSC le eligió como candidato a presidente de Cataluña en las elecciones autonómicas de 2006, celebradas el 1 de noviembre. A pesar de obtener once escaños menos que Convergència i Unió y cinco menos que Maragall en las anteriores elecciones, fue investido presidente el 24 de noviembre de 2006 con los votos a favor del Partido de los Socialistas de Cataluña, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya e Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds y los votos en contra de Convergència i Unió, Partido Popular y Ciudadanos-Partido de la Ciudadanía. De esta manera, se convierte en el primer presidente de la Generalidad de Cataluña que no ha nacido en Cataluña.

En las elecciones al Parlamento de Cataluña de 2010 el PSC obtuvo uno de los peores resultados electorales de su historia. Debido a ello, José Montilla manifestó su voluntad de renunciar a su acta de diputado en el Parlamento de Cataluña. Renunció, así mismo, a seguir liderando el PSC, relevo que se formalizó el 17 de diciembre de 2011, en el marco del XII congreso del partido, en el que Pere Navarro fue elegido primer secretario. Antes de las elecciones, manifestó que estas serían las últimas.

Senador
Tras un año alejado de la política activa, el PSC le propuso como senador por designación autonómica junto a Iolanda Pineda, para reemplazar a los socialistas Joan Sabate y Assumpta Bach en la Cámara Alta. Aunque el resto de fuerzas del hemiciclo catalán y sectores del propio PSC consideraron «inapropiado» el paso de un expresidente de Cataluña al Senado, Montilla y Pineda fueron elegidos el 1 de diciembre de 2011 senadores por el Parlamento de Cataluña con 106 votos a favor, 8 en contra y 10 abstenciones.

En el Senado, Montilla fue designado portavoz el Grupo Parlamentario de Entesa pel Progrés de Catalunya —formado por el PSC e ICV— en las comisiones parlamentarias de Economía y Competitividad, Hacienda y Administraciones Públicas, Industria, Energía y Turismo, y la General de Comunidades Autónomas para la X Legislatura.

El 27 de octubre de 2017, durante la votación en el Senado para la aplicación en Cataluña del artículo 155 de la Constitución, Montilla se ausentó del hemiciclo y no votó, por mostrarse en contra de la aplicación del artículo 155.

Figura política y pensamiento
José Montilla se ha definido a sí mismo como «catalán, catalanista, español y europeísta». No obstante, desde diversos sectores políticos y sociales tradicionalmente se le ha criticado por sus planteamientos nacionalistas catalanes, si bien Montilla siempre ha rechazado tener un perfil nacionalista.

Creencias

Montilla se declara como un católico no practicante, y entre sus opiniones, dice que independientemente de si se es creyente o no, la Biblia se tiene que leer por un tema de cultura general. Además, cree que los enfrentamientos del PSOE con la Iglesia, transmiten a la opinión pública una imagen que perjudica al partido.

Véase también
 Consejo de Ministros de España (VIII Legislatura).

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Página web como presidente de la Generalitat
 Ficha legislática  en el Congreso de los Diputados
 José Montilla. Entrevista y biografía - ConfeBask
 Biografía de José Montilla

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Q: How to find full energy of field of an arbitrary half-integer spin? Let's have arbitrary half-integer spin $n + \frac{1}{2}$ representation:
$$
\Psi_{\mu_{1}...\mu_{n}} = \begin{pmatrix} \psi_{a, \mu_{1}...\mu_{n}} \\ \kappa^{\dot {a}}_{\quad \mu_{1}...\mu_{n}}\end{pmatrix},
$$
$$
(i\gamma^{\mu}\partial_{\mu} - m)\Psi = 0, \quad \gamma^{\mu}\Psi_{\mu \mu_{1}...\mu_{n - 1}} = 0,
$$
$$
\Psi_{\mu_{1}\mu_{i}...\mu_{j}\mu_{n}} = \Psi_{\mu_{1}\mu_{j}...\mu_{i}\mu_{n}}, \quad \partial^{\mu}\Psi_{\mu ...\mu_{n - 1}} = 0.
$$
I need to find the general expression for the full energy of corresponding particles, but I don't know how to do that. I tried to do the following.

*

*The solution of equations above may be given as
$$
\hat {\Psi}_{\mu_{1}...\mu_{n}} = \sum_{s}\int \left(\hat {a}^{\dagger}_{s}(\mathbf p)u^{s}_{\mu_{1}...\mu_{n}}(\mathbf p)e^{-ipx} + \hat {b}_{s}(\mathbf p)v^{s}_{\mu_{1}...\mu_{n}}(\mathbf p)e^{ipx}\right)\frac{d^{3}\mathbf p}{\sqrt{(2 \pi )^{3}2E_{\mathbf p}}},
$$
where $s$ refers to the possible polarizations, $u, v$ are "spinor-tensor" waves which have some normalization law (as example) $u^{+}u = 2E_{\mathbf p}$.

*The Dirac equation for each $\mu_{1}...\mu_{n}$ may be rewritten in a form
$$
i\partial_{0}\Psi_{\mu_{1}...\mu_{n}} = \hat {H}\Psi_{\mu_{1}...\mu_{n}} = E\Psi_{\mu_{1}...\mu_{n}}.
$$
So for finding the full energy I must construct integral like
$$
E = \langle \hat {H} \rangle = \int \Psi^{\dagger} \hat {H}\Psi d^{3}\mathbf r = i \int \Psi^{\dagger} \partial_{0}\Psi d^{3}\mathbf r.
$$
The expression
$$
\int \Psi^{\dagger}\Psi d^{3}\mathbf r
$$
must be lorentz invariant. But how to make it invariant? My first idea is convolute $\Psi^{\dagger}\Psi$ as $\Psi^{\dagger}_{\mu_{1}...\mu_{n}}\Psi^{\mu_{1}...\mu_{n}}$, and I think that it is the only possible way to construct the "correct" lorentz invariant object (in vector indices space), but it is not strictly. After that I only use conservation law $\partial_{\alpha}(\bar {\Psi}\gamma^{\alpha}\Psi ) = 0$. But I'm not sure at this.
Can you help?
I know that in general the expression looks like
$$
E = \sum_{s}\int (\hat {a}^{\dagger}_{s}(\mathbf p)\hat {a}_{s}(\mathbf p) - \hat {b}_{s}(\mathbf p) \hat {b}^{\dagger}_{s}(\mathbf p ))E_{\mathbf p} d^{3}\mathbf p .
$$