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Thursday 09 October 2014 8:58 am
Carl Icahn tells Tim Cook: Apple share price dramatically undervalued
By: Lynsey Barber
Infamous activist investor Carl Icahn has published in full a letter to Apple urging Chief Tim Cook and board executives to buyback shares.
Icahn tweeted yesterday about the letter to Cook hinting "Believe it will be interesting."
In the letter, Icahn said Apple was "dramatically undervalued in today's market" and that "the more shares repurchased now, the more each remaining shareholder will benefit".
The billionaire who owns 53 million Apple shares, has previously called on Apple to increase its return to shareholders through a buyback programme and increase its dividend.
Yesterday's tweet sent Apple's share price up two per cent and it continued to rise one per cent in early trading after publication of the letter today.
Icahn also wrote that he would commit not to tender any shares if Apple did agree to the repurchasing, "to preemptively diffuse any cynical criticism that you may encounter with respect to our request."
Apple responded in a statment, saying: "We always appreciate hearing from our shareholders. Since 2013, we've been aggressively executing the largest capital return program in corporate history. As we've said before, we will review the program annually and take into account the input from all of our shareholders."
Here's Icahn's letter, reproduced in full:
Dear Tim
As a large Apple shareholder with approximately 53 million shares, we applaud you and the rest of management, especially in light of recent launches and announcements which further validate our view that you are the ideal CEO for Apple.
It is truly a watershed moment, with Apple poised to take market share from Google (Android) in the premium device market as iPhone 6 becomes Apple's flagship device among a growing collection of products and services that work together to form an increasingly dominant mobile ecosystem.
We believe this advantaged position over Google, the company's only real competitor, justifies our forecasts for revenue and EPS (earnings per share) growth of 25% and 44% respectively for FY (fiscal year) 2015.
This strong competitive position and earnings growth compels us to remind you that Apple, adjusting for net cash, currently sells at a P/E (price to earnings per share ratio) of only 8x our FY 2015 forecast, a significantly lower P/E than a broad market index, the S&P 500, which trades today at a P/E of 15x FY 2015 consensus.
In contrast to the S&P 500's slower growth, we expect Apple to grow its EPS by 30% in each of FY 2016 and FY 2017. Assuming these growth characteristics for FY 2016 and FY 2017, we see Apple's P/E of just 8x our FY 2015 forecast as both irrational and transient in nature, especially since many actively managed mutual funds remain underweight Apple in their portfolios.
Our forecasted growth for FY 2016 and FY 2017 more than adequately justifies using a P/E multiple of 19x our FY 2015 forecast, which along with net cash values Apple at $203 per share today.
Described in more detail below, these factors combine to reflect a massive undervaluation of Apple in today's market, which we believe will not last for long.
Therefore, given the persistently excessive liquidity of $133 billion net cash on Apple's balance sheet, we ask you to present to the rest of the Board our request for the company to make a tender offer, which would meaningfully accelerate and increase the magnitude of share repurchases.
We thank you for being receptive to us the last time we requested an increase in share repurchases, and we thank you in advance now for any influence you may choose to have communicating to the rest of the Board the degree to which a tender offer would have a positive impact on an EPS basis for all shareholders.
To preemptively diffuse any cynical criticism that you may encounter with respect to our request, which might claim that we are requesting a tender offer with the intention of tendering our own shares, we hereby commit not to tender any of our shares if the company consummates any form of a tender offer at any price.
We commit to this because we believe Apple remains dramatically undervalued. And we think you and the Board agree. If you did not, you would not continue to repurchase shares under the existing authorization.
You have said before that the company likes to be "opportunistic" when repurchasing shares and we appreciate that. With this letter we simply hope to express to you that now is a very opportunistic time to do so.
We think a tender offer is simply a good method of conducting a large repurchase in an expedited timeframe, but the exact method and the exact size is not the key issue for us. We are simply asking you to help us convince the board to repurchase a lot more, and sooner.
We feel compelled to do so because we forecast such impressive earnings growth over the next few years, and therefore we believe Apple is dramatically undervalued in today's market, and the more shares repurchased now, the more each remaining shareholder will benefit from that earnings growth.
Critical to our forecast for strong earnings growth is the belief that the iPhone will take significant premium market share. Given historically high retention rates, we assume existing iPhone users will continue to act like an annuity, choosing to stay with the iPhone each time they upgrade.
But now, since the iPhone 6 is the most significant improvement to the iPhone since its introduction, we expect users of competitive products to see the iPhone 6/6+ as an exciting opportunity to choose a superior product. Now that iPhone offers a larger screen size, its price competitiveness in the premium phone market is clear, as a premium Android phone such as the Galaxy S5 and Note 4 sells at a similar price point to the iPhone 6 and 6+ respectively.
The choice between them is analogous to the choice between a Volkswagen over a Mercedes at the same price, and unlike a Mercedes, the $649 cost of an iPhone 6 is affordable for the mass market, equating to just $20 per month over a two year period (including a $170 estimated resale value of the phone at the end of two years, excluding financing and taxes).
We see the iPhone remaining unaffected by the "junk", as you called it, sold at lower price points, but we also see it dominating the entire class of premium Android smartphones, such as Samsung's Galaxy phones. Because of this, we expect Apple will take premium market share, while at the same time maintaining its prices and gross margins, proving the concept of commoditization is nothing more than a myth with regards to Apple. Beyond simple price comparison, we see the iPhone as best in class, supported by expert reviews and by the lines of people all over the world waiting to buy it.
Perhaps most importantly, we believe the iPhone will take market share because its merits are no longer viewed in isolation from the overall Apple ecosystem of products and services, which include iOS, iPad, Mac, Apps, App Store, iCloud, iTunes, and (more recently) Apple Watch, Apple Pay, Home, Health, Continuity, Beats.
With the iPhone as the foundation, Apple's ecosystem has come to play an important role in the daily life of Apple users, and while Apple continues to make impressive strides to improve it, the competition falls behind in what is arguably the most important race of this technological era.
Analogizing Apple to a modern day Secretariat, as this race continues, the further the distance grows between Apple and Google (and Google's hardware partners) in the premium device category. Its leading ecosystem of products and services, added to peerless hardware design and quality, differentiates Apple from a simple hardware company.
And, with its users consistently upgrading to the newest version of iOS (92% of iOS devices, iPhones and iPads, on iOS 7 prior to the launch of iOS 8), Apple is able to offer its users the most up to date software and service experience, while Android can't because it's hindered by relatively high fragmentation among its operating system versions.
App developers appreciate the difference, which is why they often choose to make an App for iOS prior to (or instead of) Android. During a recent interview, you referred to Google and only Google as your competition, as no other operating system can gain enough scale in Apps to be relevant. Furthermore, you also described how, in contrast to Apple, Google's business model relies on advertising, which will increasingly expose products that run Android to serious privacy concerns.
Considering all of this, combined with their inability to merge a superior brand, hardware, software, services, fashion and retail stores, Google and its hardware partners will remain disadvantaged in the premium device market. As this is realized, we expect that Apple will gain market share, that those gains will translate into earnings growth in line with our forecasts, and in turn translate into multiple expansion.
In addition to iPhone 6 market share gains, we assume that earnings growth will be driven by successful innovations and launches of other products and platforms. To properly forecast future earnings for the purposes of valuation, we assume further innovation on existing product lines and services (such as the larger screen iPhone 6 and 6+), but also assume that launches of new product platforms and new services will happen, predict what they might be, and estimate and include the potential earnings from such innovation and launches into forecasted future-year earnings.
As our model highlights, much like the success of iPhone and iPad before it, we expect the successful launch of new premium product platforms (the announced Apple Watch in FY 2015 and the rumored TV in FY 2016) along with new services (in particular Apple Pay). These new launches will further distance Apple's ecosystem from its peers and accelerate revenue and earnings growth in excess of the status quo. For the next three fiscal years, we forecast robust earnings growth of 44%, 30%, and 30% respectively, driven by strong revenue growth of 25%, 21%, and 21% respectively. We detail below how we arrive at these forecasts.
Composing 55% of net sales, iPhone is Apple's largest product platform. Consumers have already responded with unparalleled enthusiasm to the new iPhones with millions of people waiting in lines all around the world to buy an iPhone 6 or 6+, and the positivity from expert reviewers and the press has been stronger than we have ever seen. Legendary reviewer Walt Mossberg simply stated, "This is the best smartphone you can buy, and I am unequivocal about that." Now that Apple is offering larger phones with roughly the same size screen as competitors' offerings, and targeting mainland China at the time of its 4G rollout, we expect Apple to take significant market share. As users roll off their existing wireless carrier contracts, they can choose a superior product at a comparable price. There are obviously lower priced competitive offerings, but the marginal premium one pays for an iPhone is not significant for meaningful percentages of the global population. As we explained earlier in this letter, the effective cost of an iPhone 6 is just $20 per month. Considering the increasing amount of time users spend with their mobile devices, and thereby the practical value of a noticeably superior product, it is hard to imagine why a consumer would choose an inferior phone when the marginal cost difference is so small. That is why we expect Apple to take market share not only from those competitors offering a phone at a similar price, but also those competitors offering phones at cheaper prices. As the quality of the Apple ecosystem (iPhone, iPad, Mac, iTunes, App Store) continues with new additions (Apple Watch, Apple Pay, Home, Health, Continuity, iCloud) to pull away from a relatively flawed and fragmented Android ecosystem, market share gains will continue. For next fiscal year, the new iPhone 6 and 6+ should drive iPhone revenue growth of 30%, due to volume growth of 22% (premium market share gains, category growth, upgrade cycle) and pricing growth of 7% (mix shift to the iPhone 6+ that sells for a $100 premium to both the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 5s at this time last year). In the following years, FY 2016 and FY 2017, we expect volume growth of 7% and 10% respectively and flat average selling prices as Apple experiences no pricing pressure and continues to take market share.
iPad and Mac
Contributing 17% to net sales, iPad has experienced tremendous growth since its introduction in 2010. After a disappointing FY 2014, we believe the iPad will reaccelerate growth next year, especially if Apple, as rumored, offers a larger screen 12.9" iPad in FY 2015 and improves the offering of its 7.9" iPad Mini and its 9.7" iPad Air. We believe there is still a large growth opportunity for iPad, as you highlighted when you stated that "the PC market today is 315 million units" and "despite the iPad's 76% market share of tablets sold to businesses, the penetration of tablets in businesses is low at 20% and, to put that in some kind of context, if you looked at the penetration of notebooks in business it would be over 60%." With the recently announced partnership with IBM, which you suggested will "change how businesses work", we believe iPad will increase its penetration of enterprise. For next fiscal year, the new iPad innovation and IBM partnership should drive iPad revenue growth of 13%, due to volume growth of 8% (innovation, larger iPad, IBM partnership) and pricing growth of 4% (mix shift to the rumored higher priced iPad). In each of the following years, FY 2016 and FY 2017, we expect revenue growth of 13% on relatively flat average selling prices as the ecosystem and IBM partnership continue to drive sales. Contributing 13% to net sales, Mac in contrast to the overall PC market, has grown market share to maintain its volume and sales. We expect Mac to continue this steady performance going forward and hold net sales flat over the next three years. While we are not yet prepared to make near term adjustments to raise our forecasts for the next three years, we do believe Apple may be able to innovate even further across the iPad/Mac platforms. Some see a larger iPad as a necessity if Apple is going to transform iOS into a hybrid desktop/tablet operating system by adding a keyboard/mouse centric user interface to iOS, while at the same time maintaining its touch-friendly user interface. With a near 13" model, Apple would have a screen size lineup that overlaps their Macbook Air line, a promising path into the $63 billion sub $1,000 laptop market in which Apple barely participates today, according to Rod Hall at JP Morgan.
iTunes, Software and Services, Accessories, and iPod
These three segments, contributing 10%, 3% and 1% to net sales respectively, fill out the remaining portion of Apple's current net sales mix. iTunes, Software and Services are not only important to Apple's ecosystem in terms of driving sales of its products, but also in terms of its own long term revenue growth. This represents one of Apple's faster growing segments and one we expect to not only continue its double digit top line growth but also to disproportionately benefit gross margins as higher margin services (such as 100% margin App Store sales revenues) compose a greater portion of the sales. As for Accessories and iPod, we expect the impact of the acquisition of Beats and accessory growth moving forward to more than offset the continued decline of iPod, which is already relatively immaterial to net sales.
Over the next three years, we expect the Apple Watch to have a significant impact on Apple's growth. Apple's first new product category since the iPad in 2010, and the company's first foray into wearables, the Apple Watch will launch early next calendar year. It appears to us that Jony Ive and his team have yet again executed at a level that will bring to market a product that revolutionizes the entire category from both a hardware and software perspective, especially given that Apple has developed an entirely new operating system for this device, and catered to the notion that such a device needs to be far more fashionable and personal than other products currently available in this category. As an accessory to the iPhone (model 5 or thereafter), we believe we have included in our forecast sales for the Apple Watch that imply a reasonable attach rate to the iPhone, with unit sales volume resembling that of the iPad in scale, and ramping at a similar incline, selling 20 million units in FY 2015, 45 million units in FY 2016, 72.5 million units in 2017. Although the sales mix between collections, the attach rate of bands to each watch, and the related prices remain unknown, we expect the average selling price to exceed the entry level price of $350, forecasting an average selling price of $450 per unit, including the extra band.
UltraHD Television
While Apple has not announced plans for a TV set and may never do so, we believe we have good enough reason to expect the introduction of an UltraHD TV set in FY 2016. We think television represents a large opportunity for Apple, one that reaches far beyond "the hobby" that Apple TV currently represents. You recently stated, "TV is an area of great interest for Apple" and we agree that it should be. As we highlighted in our previous letter, we believe UltraHD's (ultra-high-definition television) superior picture quality in comparison to regular HD will drive a major TV replacement cycle as the price gap between them narrows. It should also be noted that Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, has referenced UltraHD as a major catalyst for Netflix going forward, and while this is true for Netflix, we believe it is also true for Apple. Against the backdrop of this replacement cycle, FY 2016 represents an opportune time to introduce an UltraHD TV set. Therefore, included in our forecasts, we expect Apple to sell 12 million 55" and 65" TV sets in FY 2016 and 25 million in FY 2017 at an average selling price of $1,500 at gross margins consistent with the overall company. While we think adding a TV set to the Apple ecosystem would be meaningful from a financial perspective, we understand that you may choose not to do so, as you have wisely stated that "the toughest choices for Apple are what not to work on." But, even if Apple chooses not to offer a TV set, our earnings estimates would only be revised for FY 2016 and FY 2017, and the impact is not significant enough for us to question using a P/E multiple of 19x our FY 2015 EPS for Apple today, especially since, even without a TV set, our forecast shows EPS growth of 19% in FY 2016 and 23% in FY 2017. While the UltraHD replacement cycle alone offers a compelling revenue opportunity, the opportunity is not limited to the sales of an UltraHD TV. Televisions are a centerpiece to the modern living room and thereby a promising gateway into the home for Apple's growing ecosystem. Apple could sell UltraHD movies and shows through iTunes over the internet to the UltraHD TV since cable companies will likely be slow to upgrade their expensive linear infrastructure, as one example of an incremental opportunity. Another is the user interface of television, which you humorously (but accurately, in our opinion) described as being "stuck in the 1970s."
HomeKit and HealthKit
But like so many of Apple's opportunities, an UltraHD TV is just one possible point of entry to a much broader overall opportunity, as the living room is just one room in the home and Apple's growing ecosystem makes the entire home an approachable venue. For example, Apple's recently released HomeKit, a framework in iOS 8 for communicating with and controlling connected accessories in a user's home from the iPhone and Apple Watch. The point here is, when considering the overall ecosystem, the iPhone and the Apple Watch become control devices for both the television in the living room, as well as the lights in the living room and throughout the entire house, and the lock for the front door, the thermostat, the alarm system, etc. You said publicly that you enjoy using your Apple Watch as a remote control for your TV, and we look forward to joining you. But we also assume you will soon enjoy using your Apple Watch to control many more devices in your home. The recently released HealthKit platform represents another similarly large opportunity, and while the details of the business model are still unclear, just as they are for the home category, the degree to which both could impact their respective venues is immense. At a minimum, these new efforts in Health and Home will strengthen the Apple ecosystem and drive product sales of the Apple Watch and iPhone. Though it is likely Apple will monetize HomeKit and HealthKit in some way going forward, we have not included any revenues from these emerging platforms in our forecast for the next three years.
As the home represents one compelling category for Apple, payments represents another. Apple Pay will launch in October 2014, and while we expect limited financial impact in FY 2015 as retailers upgrade their infrastructure to incorporate the requisite near-field communications technology (NFC), we expect a more meaningful contribution in FY 2016 that accelerates into FY 2017 and the following years. We estimate that, based upon Apple Pay's rumored fee of 15 bps of all spend on credit and debit cards (U.S. card spend was $4.2 trillion in 2012) and merchant deployment of NFC reaching 80%+ in 2017, Apple in the U.S. could generate revenues (also equivalent to gross margins, as the variable costs are de minimis) of $2.5 billion in FY 2017 if it reaches 30% market share of all spend on U.S. credit and debit cards. The potential in the U.S. and internationally over a longer term is much larger. Apple, dominant in the premium market, has customers who spend more on average than its peers, and it is therefore unusually well positioned to succeed with Apple Pay where others could not.
To be totally clear, this letter is in no way intended as a criticism of you as CEO, nor is it intended to be critical of anything you or your team are doing from an operational perspective at Apple. Quite to the contrary, we could not be more supportive of you and your team, and of the excellent work being done at Apple, a company that continues to change the world through technological innovation. The intention of this letter is to communicate two things to you: (1) given the earnings growth we forecast for Apple, we continue to think that the market misunderstands and dramatically undervalues Apple and (2) the excess liquidity the company continues to hold on its balance sheet affords the company an amazing opportunity to take further advantage of this valuation disconnect by accelerating share repurchases. As mentioned before, we thank you and the Board for being receptive to us when we last communicated our perspective regarding the company's valuation and requested more share repurchases. It is our understanding that you solicited feedback from various large shareholders concerning our previous request, but we don't think anyone would deny that we were a key influence with respect to your previous decision to increase share repurchases. We thank you for being receptive to us and other large shareholders, all of whom are investment professionals offering advice concerning an investment decision, as the decision to repurchase shares is in effect the company making an investment in itself. And given the size of our investment and our proven track record with respect to public equity investing, we hope you will be receptive once again. Between January 1, 2000 through September 30, 2014, an investment in the stock of Icahn Enterprises L.P. (NASDAQ: IEP) had an annualized gross return of 21.5%. The Sargon Portfolio (a designated portfolio of assets co-managed by Brett Icahn and David Schechter within the private investment funds comprising Icahn Enterprises' Investment segment, subject to the supervision and control of Carl Icahn) has generated annualized gross returns of 36.5% since its formation on April 1, 2010 through September 30, 2014 with $6.6 billion of assets under management as of September 30, 2014. We believe this performance speaks for itself with respect to our expertise. At today's price, Apple is one of the best investments we have ever seen from a risk reward perspective, and the size of our position is a testament to this. This investment represents the largest position in our investment history, reflecting the strength of the convictions we have expressed in this letter. While we recognize and applaud the company's previously increased share repurchase authorization, we ask you to consider our advice once again (to the benefit of all shareholders) and consider accelerating share repurchases again via a tender offer. Our valuation analysis tells us that Apple should trade at $203 per share today, and we believe the disconnect between that price and today's price reflects an undervaluation anomaly that will soon disappear. Mutual funds today face fierce competition with index funds that simply match the S&P500 index (in which Apple has a weight of 3.4%). Surprisingly, many mutual funds are underweight Apple, meaning that Apple represents less than 3.4% of their overall portfolio. This also means they are more likely to underperform the index if Apple outperforms, which is obviously an eventuality that should concern them. With more and more funds flowing from mutual funds to index funds (because mutual funds have consistently failed to outperform) the last thing they will want to see is their underperformance exacerbated by remaining underweight Apple as it continues to outperform. As the strength of the earnings growth we forecast materializes, and these funds scramble to correct this mistake, only to find themselves competing in the market to do so, a de facto short squeeze may occur, and we can only hope that the company has repurchased all the shares it can before that happens.
Carl C. Icahn
Brett Icahn
David Schechter
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A tale of two cities: How drag performers in Los Angeles and Moscow, Idaho, spend their money
by Danielle Chiriguayo and Janet Nguyen
We look at how the cost of being a drag performer can vary depending on which city you're from.
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In a room, lays beauty and gloom, she just came back from the saloon.
He's on leave from his platoon. Lookin' so tired she should join him and go to sleep soon.
Laying by a dimly lit light, lit nightly, slender and fit like Keira Knightley.
Thinking of her next role, thought's doggin' her - maybe she should take it out for a stroll.


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Published On : Wed, Oct 24th, 2018
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Quick justice: Accused convicted and jailed within 5 days of crime
Nagpur: In a landmark quick verdict, the Judicial Magistrate First Class in city court pronounced an accused guilty and sent him to jail in just five days of the crime.
According to brief details, the complainant, on October 18 around 12.15 pm, was going towards Manas Square from Railway Station for visiting Deekshabhoomi. The accused accosted him and started abusing and hitting him for no reasons. The accused also snatched mobile phone and cash Rs 200 from the complainant.
However, to the bad luck of the accused, a Police Constable Pankaj who was on patrol duty saw the act of the accused and caught him immediately. The accused was brought to the Sitabuldi Police Station and an offence against him was registered under Sections 394, 294 of the IPC. The probe into the matter was carried out by PSI Danade.
After completion of the probe, a chargesheet was filed in the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class Tare within 24 hours. Charges were framed and summons were issued to the accused on October 19. Since October 21 was Sunday, the trial started on October 22 and hearing was held on the next two days ie on October 23 and 24.
Finding the accused guilty, the Judge Tare awarded 2-year jail and also imposed a fine of Rs 3000 on him. The conviction and sentence was completed within five days of the crime.
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Wednesday's Ice Report for Nov. 9th
Tuesday, November 08, 2011 / by William DePaoli / / carolina hurricanes, minnesota wild, NHL, washington capitals / 0 comments
 Wednesday's Ice Report
Red-hot Stars set for Showdown with Pens: The Dallas Stars (11-3-0, 24 pts) defeated the Washington Capitals (9-4-0, 18pts) 5-2 on Tuesday night, extending their winning streak to four games and now boast the best record in the NHL.
It was a matchup of the No. 2 and No. 3 goal scoring teams and the Stars pulled away in the third period, scoring three unanswered goals en route to a 5-2 win.
Dealing with bankruptcy and losing star center Brad Richard to free agency this past off-season, the Stars have been the story of the NHL season.
Dallas measured up quite well against the Washington Capitals on Tuesday night and Friday night they get another matchup with an elite team in the Eastern Conference in the Pittsburgh Penguins.
"It's a good measuring stick for us," coach Glen Gulutzan said after the game, via Associated Press. "We're trying to gauge ourselves against the league, coming into Washington and then heading to Pittsburgh and Detroit. Tonight we liked our game. It just gives us confidence moving forward."
The Stars have a sensational young core, especially upfront, which gave Dallas the ability to move James Neal last season in exchange for a puck moving defenseman in Alex Goligoski they desperately coveted.
Jamie Benn (5G-13A-18Pts, +8) and Louis Eriksson (8G-8A-16Pts, +11) are budding superstars and goaltender Kari Lehtonen is playing lights out, posting an 11-1 record with a 2.13 goals against average and .936 save percentage.
While the likes of Benn, Eriksson and Lehtonen have fueled the Stars hot start, it's been a two key off-season additions that have also played vital roles in Dallas boasting the leagues best record.
Defenseman Sheldon Souray has finally turned his game around and has 12 points in 14 games and most notably is playing very well defensively with a +10 rating.
Forward Michael Ryder has also been a great fit, with 6 goals, 11 points and a +9 rating.
Green once again struggling to stay healthy: After a 7-0 start, the Washington Capitals have now dropped four of their last six games. To no surprise, Mike Green has been sidelined for the Capitals last six games.
Green when healthy and at the top of his game is what makes the Capitals go, as GM George McPhee has often said but it's going to be interesting to see how Washington handles Green's contract situation as he's entering the final year of his deal and is set to be a restricted free agent at seasons end.
Struggling to stay healthy is becoming an issue after only appearing in 49 games last season.
Some other tidbits on the Capitals: Alexander Ovechkin is 33rd in the NHL with 13 points and Alexander Semin is 141st in the NHL with 8 points.
Wild keeping rolling under Mike Yeo: The Minnesota Wild are rolling under head coach Mike Yeo. Minnesota notched their fifth straight win tonight, shutting out Calgary 3-0, behind a 41 save effort from Niklas Backstrom.
The Wild are 8-3-3 on the season and have the 3rd best record in the West Conference.
Minnesota has been tremendous defensively, ranking 2nd in the NHL in goals against, giving up just 1.79 goals per game.
Former Penguin Nick Johnson is also making his mark with the team. Johnson who was ejected tonight for head-butting Jarome Iginla, has just 3 points on the season in 10 games but Johnson has played a strong two-way game and drawing high praise from Wild beat reporter Michael Russo who wrote tonight during the game via twitter…Â "Just another sensational shift by Nick Johnson draws #mnwild first PP. Nick Johnson was a steal-in-a-frigin-half off waivers."
NHL Tidbits
*The Edmonton Oilers boast the third best record in the NHL with 20 points (9-3-2) and they have a great mix of young players and veterans throughout their lineup and they are a team that is going to continue to get better.
They have key veterans around their young core such as Ryan Smyth who's having a big year with 14 points and the Oilers could be a force in the Western Conference over the course of an entire season. The Oilers have also yet to get much out of Ryan Whitney and Ales Hemsky thus far due injuries, who figure to be big contributors if they can stay healthy this year.
The story though so far for the Oilers isn't the young guys but it's goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin who is 7-0-2 with a 0.98 goals against average, .964 save percentage and has posted two shutouts.
*Ken Hitchcock returned behind the bench and won a Ken Hitchcock type of game in his debut as the St. Louis Blues shutout the Chicago Blackhawks, 3-0.
*The Carolina Hurricanes who dropped to 5-7-3 (13pts) on the season Tuesday night, are among the teams looking to make an early shakeup. While head coach Paul Maurice is safe for now, don't rule out the Hurricanes being the next team that makes a coaching change.
The Canes have dropped three straight and have a tough stretch ahead facing the New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers and Buffalo Sabres in their next five games. If things go south, changes will be coming in Carolina.


Using an electric smoker with hickory wood chunks, I smoked baby back ribs. There was a gray color to the ribs with an appearance of wet cement. ??
The ribs cooked for 5 hours at 220 degrees. Any explanation for the gray color?
Thanks for reply. I've had the wood for over a year, so it was green. I am also wondering whether I had some bad wood or the smoker (only my second time using it), may have heated too quickly that it burned the wood chucks rather than let them slowly smoke. In any event, I'm going to replace my old wood chunks with hopefully better wood.
The gray color makes me think it's the wood (i.e. creosote) and I am wondering if you used wood that is green. You want to use seasoned wood.
Also, were the ribs cold when you put them into the smoker? Because cold meat/ribs can cause creosote to condense on the meat.
If neither is the case, I really don't know what happened to cause that gray color and appearance, but it sure sounds like creosote build-up.


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Q: Combinatorics: How many ways to wear these socks. Four socks in a drawer: two whites and two blacks. How many sock combinations can I wear?
It is obvious to me that the answer is four:

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*Two white socks

*Two black socks

*White on the left foot, black on the right foot

*Black on the left foot, white on the right foot

However, I am having trouble devising the proof of this. If I start with the left foot, then I have four socks to choose from, but two are identical to others so I don't take them into account:
$$\frac4{1+1} = 2$$
Then I take the right foot, which has three to choose from but one is identical:
$$\frac31 = 3$$
Then $2+3=5$, which is not the right answer! What am I doing wrong here?
My goal is to know how to generalise. Next time I may have 20 different colours, and arbitrary numbers of each colour sock.
Thanks.

A: You have $2$ choices of colour for the first foot then there will still be socks of each colour left no matter what you pick, so there will be $2$ choices of colour for the second foot.
Hence $2\times 2 = 4$ possibilities in all!

A: I will put the important point at the beginning.  You gave a careful, well-written, and detailed proof. Here it is, copied verbatim:
It is obvious to me that the answer is four:

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*Two white socks

*Two black socks

*White on the left foot, black on the right foot

*Black on the left foot, white on the right foot

Perhaps one could omit the personal "to me," it introduces a note of hesitation. The rest is very good, absolutely clear. The "obvious" identifies you as someone with mathematical training.
Then came an attempt, unsuccessful, to manipulate numbers.  Such a thing is not a proof, even if one gets the right numerical answer. The idea is primary.
In the analysis that you are (implicitly) making during your calculations, there is no justification for the division $\frac{3}{1}$. Nor is there a justification for addition.  You should have written that for every choice of what you put on the left foot, there are $2$ choices of what to put on the right.
Now let us look at a generalization, say to four colours.  Suppose that we have $a$ (where $a>0$) identical pairs of red socks (so $2a$ red), $b$ pairs of yellow, $c$ pairs of green, $d$ pairs of blue. There are "obviously" $4$  choices of colour for the left foot. For every such choice, there are $4$ choices of colour for the right foot, for a total of $(4)(4)$ outfits.
The analysis needs to change if your washing machine eats socks, so that the mates of some socks have vanished. Suppose we have positive numbers $s$, $t$, $u$, $v$, $w$ of red, yellow, green, red, black. If each of $s$, $t$, $u$, $v$, and $w$ is $\ge 2$, there are $5$ choices for the left, and for each such choice there are $5$ choices for the right, total $(5)(5)$.
But if (say) $s$, $t$, and $u$ are $\ge 2$, but $v=w=1$, we need to be careful. True, there are $5$ choices for the left. But it is no longer true that for every such choice, there are $5$ choices for the right. If you put a black sock on the left, there are only $4$ choices for the right.
The general idea still works, but we have to break things up into cases: (i) on the left foot we put a colour that has at least one mate of that colour, and (ii) on the left foot we put a lonely sock.
For case (i), there are $3$ choices for the left, and for each such choice, there are $5$ choices for the right, a total of $(3)(5)$. For case (ii), there are $2$ choices for the left, and for each such choice there are $4$ choices for the right, a total of $(2)(4)$.  Finally, add. The total number of choices is $(3)(5)+(2)(4)$.
There are other ways to handle the problem.  For example, suppose that we have $m$ colours which each have at least $2$ socks of that colour, and $n$ colours for which we only have a single sock.  There are $m$ ways to choose a boring monochromatic pair. For the bicoloured outfits, there are $m+n$ choices of what goes on the left, and for each such choice there are $m+m-1$ choices for the right, a total of $(m+n)(m+n-1)$ bicoloured outfits. The total number of outfits is $m+(m+n)(m+n-1)$. Or else one can count the bicoloured outfits by saying there are $\binom{m+n}{2}$ ways to choose a pair of colours, and for each choice of colours, there  $2$ ways to wear them.

A: Your first answer is correct.
Trying to correct your second answer, you might have written $\dfrac{2}{2}+\dfrac{2}{2}=2$ distinct colour choices for the left foot and either $\dfrac{1}{1}+\dfrac{2}{2}=2$ or $\dfrac{2}{2}+\dfrac{1}{1}=2$ for the right foot (depending on which colour you had chosen for the left foot, though it makes little difference here).
Then, instead of adding, you should have multiplied $2 \times 2 =4$ to give the final result.

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Q: Display  according to z-index value I want to display the photoCaption div every time the mouse is over an image with the z-index == 19.
However the code I've developed has 2 problems.

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*It displays the div photoCaption on all the images

*When mouse is out, and mouse is over again, the div is not displayed any more.

What I'm doing wrong? The 2nd line of javascript code is probably wrong since it's always true.
Here is the code

A: First issue, your conditional statmenet should be:
if($(this).css('z-index') == 19) { // you're using $('img') which returns all img elements and then you're setting the z-index to 19 for all of them.

but z-index will read auto unless you add position to the img elements. So add:
img{
    position: relative;
}

You've also set display to display, which is incorrect, it should read:
display: 'block', // could also be inline, inline-block etc

Working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/mgJLp/5/

A: To correct the issue with the caption only showing once, change your mouseover event to:
$('img').bind('mousemove', function (e) {
    if ($('img').css('z-index') == '19') {
        $('#photoCaption').css({
            display: 'block',
            left: e.pageX + 20,
            top: e.pageY,
            'z-index': 100
        });
    }
});

The display property gets set to block to show the caption div.
As for only displaying the caption on images with a z-index of 19, using the z-index as a means of distinguishing elements isn't ideal. Using a class selector if possible would be easier.
As it stands, with your current javascript, you are setting the z-index rather than checking it. Check out the new condition above $('img').css('z-index') == '19'

A: Solves Both your problems..
$('img').css('position','relative');
$('img').on('mousemove', function (e) {
    if ($(this).css('zIndex')=='19') {
        $('#photoCaption').css({
            display: 'block',
            left: e.pageX + 20,
            top: e.pageY,
            'z-index': 100
        });
    }
});

$('img').mouseout(function () {
    $('#photoCaption').css({
        display: 'none'
    });
});

Fiddle

A: $('img').bind('mousemove', function (e) {
    if ($(this).css('zIndex', 19)) {
        $('#photoCaption').css({
            display: 'block',
            left: e.pageX + 20,
            top: e.pageY,
            'z-index': 100
        });
    }
    $(this).mouseout(function () {
    $('#photoCaption').css({
        display: 'none'
    });
})
});

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The Laboratory of Hyperbaric Physiology of the Medical Clinic of the University of Zurich came into existence in 1960 thanks to private initiative and a readiness to undertake risks; the success ful start was made possible with help from the French Navy and the United States Navy. A prerequisite for the development of the laboratory was also the benevolence of the authorities of the University of Zurich toward a research project from which scarcely any practical use could be expected for the land-locked country of Switzerland. The development of the laboratory and the systematic research were supported generously from 1964 by Shell Intemationale Petroleum Maatschappij of The Hague. The basic theme of the research was always the well-being and functional ability of the human being in an atmosphere of abnor mal pressure and or abnormal composition. Many connections became obvious with respiratory physiolo gy, circulatory physiology, and physiology at great heigts, and close contact with other special laboratories of the Medical Clin ic proved very valuable. With a relatively small number of steady collaborators it was possible to master an extensive experimental program. Special thanks are due to Mr. Benno Schenk, who as technical head was responsible for the exact performance of all the hyperbaric experiments.
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Decompression Sickness
Appendix: Calculation of Low-Risk, Decompression and Decompression Tables
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LAURIE DUNN, et al., Defendants.
Plaintiff William David Gross is hereby required to show good cause, in writing, to the Honorable Sam A. Crow, United States District Judge, why this action should not be dismissed or stayed for the reasons set forth below. This matter is before the Court on a civil rights complaint filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by a prisoner. Plaintiff proceeds pro se and in forma pauperis.
Plaintiff seeks compensation for, or the return of, his property that is being held by the Defendants-the Osage County Sheriff and the Osage County Sheriff's Office. Plaintiff alleges that property was seized pursuant to his underlying criminal proceeding, and that Defendants have failed to return the property at the conclusion of those proceedings and despite a release by the United States Attorney's Office.
It appears from defendant's most recent filing that defendant has been in contact with the Osage County Sheriff's Department, which suggests to this court that his request may be moot at this point. If defendant still has not received his property and believes the federal government has actual or constructive possession of the property as required by Rule 41(g), he may file a new motion, and the court expects the government to respond to any such motion with an update on the status of any efforts to assist with the return of defendant's property from state authorities.
Doc. 111, at 2. Plaintiff responded to the Court's Memorandum and Order on April 3, 2018 (Doc. 112), stating that although the U.S. Attorney's Office provided Plaintiff with a copy of its release of the subject property, "it appears the U.S. attorney at the Sheriff's request failed to provide any certification to supplement or provide release and return of the property which the Court makes note of and so states." (Doc. 112, at 1-2.) Plaintiff suggests that Doc. 112 is intended to serve as his new motion for return of property under R. 41(g). See id. at 2 ("this new motion is filed in conjunction with previous filings as a supplemental addendum").
Plaintiff is seeking the same relief in his criminal case, which will involve participants who are already familiar with the underlying criminal action and the issues surrounding the property. In the interest of judicial economy, this matter should be dismissed or stayed pending a ruling on Plaintiff's motion in his criminal case. See Garcia v. Trubey, No. 12-3095-SAC, 2012 WL 2019187, at *5 (D. Kan. 2012) (finding that the order of the federal district court in plaintiff's criminal case denying his 41(g) motion for return of seized property precludes him from relitigating his claims before this federal district court).
Plaintiff has also filed a Motion for Appointment of Counsel (Doc. 8), arguing that the case is complex and he is not skilled in the practice of law. The Court has considered Plaintiff's request for appointment of counsel. There is no constitutional right to appointment of counsel in a civil case. Durre v. Dempsey, 869 F.2d 543, 547 (10th Cir. 1989); Carper v. DeLand, 54 F.3d 613, 616 (10th Cir. 1995). The decision whether to appoint counsel in a civil matter lies in the discretion of the district court. Williams v. Meese, 926 F.2d 994, 996 (10th Cir. 1991). "The burden is on the applicant to convince the court that there is sufficient merit to his claim to warrant the appointment of counsel." Steffey v. Orman, 461 F.3d 1218, 1223 (10th Cir. 2006) (quoting Hill v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 393 F.3d 1111, 1115 (10th Cir. 2004)). It is not enough "that having counsel appointed would have assisted [the prisoner] in presenting his strongest possible case, [as] the same could be said in any case." Steffey, 461 F.3d at 1223 (quoting Rucks v. Boergermann, 57 F.3d 978, 979 (10th Cir. 1995)).
In deciding whether to appoint counsel, courts must evaluate "the merits of a prisoner's claims, the nature and complexity of the factual and legal issues, and the prisoner's ability to investigate the facts and present his claims." Hill, 393 F.3d at 1115 (citing Rucks, 57 F.3d at 979). The Court concludes in this case that (1) it is not clear at this juncture that Plaintiff has asserted a colorable claim against a named defendant; (2) the issues are not complex; and (3) Plaintiff appears capable of adequately presenting facts and arguments. The Court denies the request without prejudice to refiling a motion if Plaintiff's case proceeds.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED BY THE COURT that Plaintiff is granted until April 30, 2018, in which to show good cause, in writing, to the Honorable Sam A. Crow, United States District Judge, why Plaintiff's Complaint (Docs. 1, 4) should not be dismissed or stayed for the reasons stated herein.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiff's Motion to Appoint Counsel (Doc. 8) is denied without prejudice.


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Are the Knicks rebuilding? Somebody please tell Jeff Hornacek.
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The New York Knicks traveled north of the border Thursday night to take on the Toronto Raptors, and the results were pretty much what you'd expect. The Raptor's All-Stars, Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan, messed around to a startling degree against an opponent they knew couldn't make them pay. It wasn't until Toronto's bench unit really got rolling in the second half did the game turn into a true laugher. The Raptors' reserves were splashing threes left and right over the Knicks, and the lead quickly ballooned to 30.
It is what it is, folks. The Knicks never had a chance against the team with the NBA's best home record, especially without Kristaps Porzingis and Enes Kanter. Perhaps once Enes comes back from his mouth surgery we shall see a slightly more intimidating Knickerbocker squad. Until then, we'll always have Luke Kornet.
— The legend begins. Cool Hand Luke checked in late in the first quarter for his NBA debut, and immediately showed he belonged. The lanky 7-footer from Vanderbilt scored 11 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and blocked 4 shots. Kornet did what Kornet do, namely hitting the three-ball. He shot 3-7 from downtown, making him the first player in NBA history to sink 3 triples and block 4 shots in his NBA debut. He was also the first Knick to record a double-double in his debut since John Wallace.
Did Kornet earn himself so legit playing time once Kanter comes back? On a normal NBA team, I'd say yes. But Jeff Hornacek is still doing his thing, as we shall see. No matter what, P&T'er JetsFan718 knows the truth: It's Luke's team now.
— Minutes distribution for these new, rebuilding Knicks.
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This is Jeff Hornacek's Mona Lisa, his ninth symphony. Plenty of minutes for THE STARTERS, even though two of them traditionally aren't starters, and a third—Tim Hardaway Jr.—was struggling mightily. You can't break up the starters, duh! Their VETERAN PRESENCE is the only thing between us an anarchy...ANARCHY, I SAY. Jarrett Jack was given more minutes than Frank Ntilikina, of course, because this team is still trying to WIN, dammit! And poor Damyean Dotson, who sparked the Knicks late in the Milwaukee game a few days ago, was relegated to garbage time because...um, I'm not 100% sure why. P&T'er The Ghost of Kristaps Past put it best when he sarcastically exclaimed "So much youth!"
— Tim Hardaway's shooting slump continued, as he shot a woeful 4-14. He pulled down 5 rebounds, so that's something. I dunno, y'all. Dude's streaky. He's gonna go ice cold from time to time. He's starting to let it affect his overall performance, which sucks. He could probably use some downtime, since the season's basically over anyway. But Hornacek is going in the opposite direction, giving him more time to shoot his way out of the slump. It's dumb. The whole damn system is dumb.
— Congrats as well to Isaiah Hicks, who also made his NBA debut Thursday. I don't think he's a legit NBA player, but he'll probably get more playing time than Kornet, if only because of the Knicks' glaring lack of power forward's behind Beasley.
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On March 4th, Clarke & Walker will release a new EP, 'Through The Clouds,' worldwide via Rough Trade, featuring a handful of the best tracks from their small catalog, rearranged anew. 'Through The Clouds' is meant as an introduction to the duo; in addition to "Silverline," it features a new, stripped-down version of "Done" (ballads on opposite sides of love & loneliness), an alternate mix of the spooky Shirley Collins cover "Hares On The Mountain," and the original album version of "The Tangled Tree," a brilliant showcase of Clarke's vocal range and expression.
Today, Stereogum premiered the EP version of "Silverline," along with an arresting live Rough Trade Session version of the track, calling them "a magnificent sound to behold." Listen to "Silverline" here: https://youtu.be/3zmrEVa8NU and check out the session here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8oWk6OMfdM
While the Guardian anointed them "chamber folk" in this four-star live review, and they certainly cut their teeth in that thriving part of the UK music scene, Clarke is an unusually compelling singer, with more in common with Sandy Denny, Gillian Welch, or even Nina Nastasia and Laura Marling, than a staid "folk qua folk" artist.
Walker is a prodigiously talented guitarist and arranger, and the two of them are engaging and often funny in a live setting, where in addition to their own songs, they choose covers brilliantly, from Denny, to Jackson C. Frank, to Nina Simone, to death-obsessed traditional ballads. While Clarke is a classical music degree dropout, they're both careful to note they're public school kids who didn't benefit from a conservatory education; the elegance and sophistication of the music they're able to create together comes instead from their own innate talent and disciplined dedication to craft.
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Ipsy is a monthly subscription service which provides subscribers with a makeup bag of five cosmetics samples. The products include skincare items, perfumes, nail and skin products, and makeup products based upon users' preferences.

History

Ipsy was co-founded in 2011 by YouTube beauty vlogger Michelle Phan, Marcelo Camberos, who joined the company as CEO from Funny or Die and Jennifer Jaconetti Goldfarb, who joined from Bare Escentuals.
The company's initial business model was tested in a beta site called myglam.com in December 2011. The subscription service retailed at $12 per month, including a bag of cosmetic samples and was later launched to the public in September 2012 as ipsy.com.

The company's growth model is to drive subscriptions through the social influence of Phan and other associated vloggers. When it launched in 2012, Phan was the face of the brand along with beauty vloggers Bethany Mota, Promise Phan, Jessica Harlow, and Andrea Brooks.  By February 2016 the company had 10,000 vloggers who contributed one or two videos a month dedicated to the subscription service. At the time, Goldfarb stated "There are hundreds if not millions of beauty content creators online. We want all of them."
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It is understandable that the vast majority of the heavily propagandised English populace remain unaware of the continental shift in immigrant demographics and birth rates that will relegate the indigenous population of England under the age of 40 to ethnic minority status in their homeland within twenty years.
Understandable, admittedly, but if these recipients of a progressive education and 24/7 cradle-to-grave state-sponsored brainwashing could remove their liberal blinkers and gaze in horror at their surroundings through the eyes of their grandparents, then they could only have themselves to blame, because their dispossession was carried out in full view of those that would not see, and in retrospect how could there be any other outcome than gradual extinction when one considers exactly what out socialist rulers have carried out over the last few decades?
Then consider this post noted at Maggie's Farm last week, as well as the Ground Zero mosque now being planned in Manhattan.
Of course, what has already happened in what Tam calls "the place where Great Britain used to be" could never happen here, right?
Raspail was prophetic and so far ahead of the times as to deserve the title 'visionary' - often reviled as a racist, a bigot and so on ( and this was long before our US media began using those terms to attack anyone who spoke the truth ) , yet Raspail did not attempt to tell anyone what to do, nor make a moral pronouncement... simply pointed out the elephant in the room, a fact that everyone else ignored, truth be damned.
For years I recommended this book ( still available from Amazon ) to people who assumed it was racist propaganda a la Turner diaries, thus most of them politley ignored my suggestion and considered me a well meaning but confused alarmist.
But I still suggest that people read it and consider the current inroads of muslims and other terrorist groups in this nation, and the PC tendency for all government agencies to bend over and grab their ankles for any group that has declared its determination to eliminate Christians, Jews, and Western Civilization.
The "Camp of the Saints" link above goes to this .pdf version of that book.
Add to your reading list, "The Death of the West" by Patrick Buchanan (of all people). The "civilized Christian west" (which is basically what's being described here) has been slowly killing itself off by birth control and abortion. Look at the birth rates in all of the western countries and they range from just barely adequate to "the country will be gone in 50 years". Meanwhile, the Hindu and especially Muslim nations are breeding like rabbits.
It's a politically incorrect truth and there's nothing we can do about it. Demographics is destiny, and it would take an incredible baby boom to change it.
Ahhhh - tonight the link worked for me; yesterday, my computer merely hung up and did not process the link.
I MUST get rid of my Tandy 286 and move up to something more au curant, maybe even one of those 'Windows' computers... I hear the 486 is out now.
Apropos on this topic is an item from the American Thinker Blog titled "Diversity and Its Discontents in Kyrgyzstan". Definitely worth a look. If things in this country go SPLAT, it's gonna be REAL nasty for a LONG, LONG time.
And the worst part is that it's all so unnecessary.


As I did last month, this month I took a pair of three-day "staycations" to burn more of that overabundance of time-off hours before they expire. Great idea, right? I'll get things done, right?
Last week: The heat arrived. Setup the air conditioner and mostly stayed in front of it for three solid days, accomplishing little else. Of course, once Saturday arrived, the hot weather went away.
This week: I think something I ate on Tuesday disagreed with me. Violently. Quite violently. I have spent most of three days either in bed or in the bathroom, never far from either.
Oh well. If I hadn't taken these days off for vacation, I'd have ended up using them for sick days. Convenient that I scheduled my illness in advance, isn't it…?


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There are growing discussions about the viability of Universal Basic Income as a way to combat poverty and to stimulate new types of economic growth (i.e. startups and small business). But in any of these conversations, we quickly get to the question of how to pay for UBI. The default answer (and a non-starter for most fiscal conservatives) is that it requires some sort of wealth redistribution mechanism such as increased taxes. Which is why this treatment of the topic by Dylan Matthews, writing for Vox, is so interesting.
If you're not willing to entertain big tax increases, then you should be thinking about a negative income tax. That's the term used for a universal basic income that tapers off with income. So a negative income tax of $10,000 for adults and $5,000 for children, and a 50 percent phaseout rate, for example, would offer a family of four with $0 in earnings benefits worth $20,000; if they started earning $10,000 in wages, the benefits would fall to $15,000, for a total income of $25,000; by the time they earned $40,000 in wages, they'd be getting no basic income payment at all. A negative income tax is just a UBI financed in part by a somewhat regressive tax on the first chunk of earnings people make, and because of that tax, its net price tag is much lower.
A negative income tax sidesteps the issue with UBI of paying people a basic income who don't need it - like paying Warren Buffet a basic income on top of his massive wealth.
Wiederspan, Rhodes, Shaefer, 2015 In an absolute must-read paper for anyone interested in the basic income debate, the University of Michigan's Jessica Wiederspan, Elizabeth Rhodes, and Luke Shaefer estimated the cost of the US adopting a negative income tax large enough to wipe out poverty. To be conservative and get a high-end cost estimate, they assume that such a program would discourage work substantially.
Okay, so the cost of people not working is factored into the program. Check.
Despite that, they find that a household-based negative income tax, set at the US poverty line and with a 50 percent phaseout rate, would cost $219 billion a year. That's almost exactly the same as the combined cost of the earned income tax credit (which supports the working poor), Supplemental Security Income (itself basically a negative income tax but only for the elderly and disabled), food stamps, cash welfare, school meal programs, and housing subsidies. You could swap those programs out, put a guaranteed income in their place, and wipe out poverty entirely.
And there we have it. This analysis shows that if we use the money we're already paying on programs for the poor, we could eradicate poverty in our country. Seems like a good thing to do.


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Q: Test Driven Development - Unit Testing (in CakePHP) I am having some issues getting my head round Unit Testing in CakePHP, in particular when testing database insert/updates. Let's say I have a model that something like this:
class User {
  var $name = 'User';

  function updatePassword($data) {
    return $this->updateAll($data);
  }
}

class UserTestCase {
  function testUpdatePassword() {
    $tmpData = array(
      'User' => array(
         'password' => sha1(uniqid('', true)) //dummy pass
    );

    $result = $this->User->updatePassword($tmpData);

    $this->assertTrue($result);
  }
}

The problem I have is that in my test case:

*

*I have to provide dummy data that would normally be retrieved from forms

*The format of the dummy data does not take into account the fact that the actual form data might be incorrect

*I am only testing whether or not the update succeeds: it seems like a lot of effort to create all the dummy data to test this

This example might seem a bit contrived (I could do an update in the controller without having created an extra model method for example) but the main point is that, when testing update/inserts, the data is dummy data and data retrieved from forms might differ and the benefits don't seem to outweigh the costs.
Your approaches to TDD and unit testing are appreciated and an idea of what kind of coverage you generally try to give to cases would be nice.
Cheers

A: Someone once said that unit tests should tell a story. This approach can help you to write tests that make sense in terms of the application you're coding. Write descriptive names for each test method like:
function testUpdatingInsecurePasswordShouldFail() {
    $data = array('User' => array(
        'password' => 'password'
    ));
    $result = $this->User->updatePassword($data);
    $this->assertFalse($result);

    $data = array('User' => array(
        'password' => ''
    ));
    $result = $this->User->updatePassword($data);
    $this->assertFalse($result);
}

Having told the "story" of the insecure passwords, you can then write the model code so the new test passes. Another example:
function testUpdatingStrongPasswordShouldSucceed() {
    $data = array('User' => array(
        // forget about hashing for the moment
        'password' => 'battery hoarse collect maple'
    ));
    $this->User->updatePassword($data);
    $result = $this->User->find('count', array(
        'conditions' => array(
            // making some assumptions about the test data here
            'User.username' => 'test_user1',
            'User.password' => 'battery hoarse collect maple',
        ),
    );
    $this->assertEqual($result, 1);
}

Notice we're doing a bit more work to verify the update worked correctly. When the testing framework starts picking up bugs and regressions you will be glad you made the extra effort.
One side advantage of good descriptive test names is that now we can use the cake test --testdox option to output the results in understandable English:
[x] Updating insecure password should fail
[x] Updating strong password should succeed

A: Benefits of TDD for me (once you fully get your head wrapped around it):

*

*I can debug my code without a browser

*If my code is dependent on various parts of my code and I (or someone else) make a change that accidentally breaks something that I had tested earlier successfully, my automated unit tests will immediately catch that

*(Personal) It changes my thinking about input - rather than inputting data manually into a text field, I find myself starting to think about input that might be coming from a script rather than a browser - really makes me focus on sanitizing input more

*Automated testing - once the system is complete, I can run all of my tests and have them execute in a matter of seconds to ensure everything is working, rather than trying to run through an entire system manually, which could take a number of hours, depending on the complexity.

A: ddawber,
you are mentioning three points:
1.

I have to provide dummy data that
      would normally be retrieved from
      forms

You should take a look into CakePHP's fixtures
2.

The format of the dummy data
      does not take into account the fact
      that the actual form data might be
      incorrect

Form data is validated against the model's validation rules, see here.
3.

I am only testing whether or not the
  update succeeds: it seems like a lot
  of effort to create all the dummy data
  to test this

This should then simply be solved by writing a test method (and you pick only relevant cases), taking 1. and 2. into account.
Maybe you are interested in the fact, that the CakePHP devs switch from simpletest to phpunit in the 2.0 release, which could help you planning your efforts.
Good journey into CakePHP's testing facility anyway.
Edit0:
The forth point on code coverage seems controversial. If you would go for 100% coverage, you would have to write lots of mock objects, just to make sure that a controller's action is actually called when you call it. Writing something like this is imho a task for the developers of the framework, and omitting to write superfluous code of this kind directly hits the code coverage.


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Q: Using same nuget package for more than one project in solution I am trying to fix warning

The type 'X' in 'A' conflicts with the imported type 'X' in 'B'

I have solution with 2 projects: A.exe and B.dll, both are referencing same nuget Newtonsoft.Json, therefore a warning.
This question (which seems to be exacly what I need) doesn't really have an answer, only a tip to use "Manage Nuget Packages for Solution", but there is no instructions what to do to have that what question is asking for.
In "Manage Nuget Packages for Solution" I can see what X is installed for both A and B, has same version, I can uninstall it, etc. But, how do I organize nuget to avoid having conflict warning (because as soon as I reference same nuget in 2 projects I will have it) - there is no info regarding this.
Question: how to use same nuget package for multiple projects in solution properly?


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Q: When uploading file in Visual Studio Development works but not when the website has been published I have a page where the user the can upload a csv file, this will then be saved in the database and displayed in in a gridview.   This all works fine when developing the site, but when I publish the site to IIS and access it externally it gives and error of "500 internal server error" When trying to uplaod the file
This is the code I am using to upload the files:
private string GetConnectionString()
{
    return ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["OfficeConnection"].ConnectionString;
}

private void CreateDatabaseTable(DataTable dt, string tableName)
{
    string sqlQuery = string.Empty;
    string sqlDBType = string.Empty;
    string dataType = string.Empty;

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    sb.AppendFormat(string.Format("CREATE TABLE {0} (", tableName));

    for (int i = 0; i < dt.Columns.Count; i++)
    {
        int maxLength = 0;
        dataType = dt.Columns[i].DataType.ToString();
        if (dataType == "System.Int32")
        {
            sqlDBType = "INT";
        }
        else if (dataType == "System.String")
        {
            sqlDBType = "NVARCHAR";
            maxLength = dt.Columns[i].MaxLength;
        }
        else
        {
            //do something else
        }

        if (maxLength > 0)
            sb.AppendFormat(string.Format("{0} {1} ({2}), ", dt.Columns[i].ColumnName, sqlDBType, maxLength));
        else
            sb.AppendFormat(string.Format("{0} {1},", dt.Columns[i].ColumnName, sqlDBType));
    }

    sqlQuery = sb.ToString();
    sqlQuery = sqlQuery.Trim().TrimEnd(',');
    sqlQuery = sqlQuery + " )";

    using (SqlConnection sqlConn = new SqlConnection(GetConnectionString()))
    {
        sqlConn.Open();
        using (SqlCommand sqlCmd = new SqlCommand(sqlQuery, sqlConn))
        {
            sqlCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
            sqlConn.Close();
        }
    }
}

private void LoadDataToDatabase(string tableName, string fileFullPath, string delimeter)
{
    string sqlQuery = string.Empty;
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    sb.AppendFormat(string.Format("BULK INSERT {0} ", tableName));
    sb.AppendFormat(string.Format(" FROM '{0}'", fileFullPath));
    sb.AppendFormat(string.Format(" WITH ( FIELDTERMINATOR = '{0}' , ROWTERMINATOR = '\n' )", delimeter));
    sqlQuery = sb.ToString();

    using (SqlConnection sqlConn = new SqlConnection(GetConnectionString()))
    {
        sqlConn.Open();
        using (SqlCommand sqlCmd = new SqlCommand(sqlQuery, sqlConn))
        {
            sqlCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
            sqlConn.Close();
        }
    }
}

private void UploadAndProcessFile()
{
    if (FileUpload1.HasFile)
    {
        FileInfo fileInfo = new FileInfo(FileUpload1.PostedFile.FileName);
        if (fileInfo.Name.Contains(".csv"))
        {
            string fileName = fileInfo.Name.Replace(".csv", "").ToString();
            string csvFilePath = Server.MapPath("UploadedCSVFiles") + "\\" + fileInfo.Name;

            //Save the CSV file in the Server inside 'UploadedCSVFiles'
            FileUpload1.SaveAs(csvFilePath);

            //Fetch the location of CSV file
            string filePath = Server.MapPath("UploadedCSVFiles") + "\\";

            string strSql = string.Format("SELECT * FROM [{0}]", fileInfo.Name);
            string strCSVConnString = string.Format("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source={0};Extended Properties='text;HDR=YES;'", filePath);

            // load the data from CSV to DataTable
            DataTable dtCSV = new DataTable();
            DataTable dtSchema = new DataTable();
            using (OleDbDataAdapter adapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(strSql, strCSVConnString))
            {
                adapter.FillSchema(dtCSV, SchemaType.Mapped);
                adapter.Fill(dtCSV);
            }

            if (dtCSV.Rows.Count > 0)
            {

                CreateDatabaseTable(dtCSV, fileName);
                Label2.Text = string.Format("The table ({0}) has been successfully created to the database.", fileName);
                string fileFullPath = filePath + fileInfo.Name;
                LoadDataToDatabase(fileName, fileFullPath, ",");
                Label1.Text = string.Format("({0}) records has been loaded to the table {1}.", dtCSV.Rows.Count, fileName);
            }
            else
            {
                lblError.Text = "File is empty.";
            }
        }
        else
        {
            lblError.Text = "Unable to recognize file.";
        }
    }
}

protected void btnImport_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    UploadAndProcessFile();
}

Is this a setting in IIS I need to change?  I have checked the permission on the site and all is fine.
Thanks


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Banie est une gmina rurale du powiat de Gryfino, Poméranie-Occidentale, dans le nord-ouest de la Pologne. Son siège est le village de Banie, qui se situe environ  au sud-est de Gryfino et  au sud de la capitale régionale Szczecin.

La gmina couvre une superficie de  pour une population de  en 2016.

Géographie
La gmina inclut les villages de Babinek, Banie, Baniewice, Dłusko Gryfińskie, Dłużyna, Górnowo, Górny Młyn, Kunowo, Lubanowo, Otoki, Parnica, Piaseczno, Piaskowo, Rożnowo, Skotniki, Sosnowo, Swobnica, Trzaski et Tywica.

La gmina borde les gminy de Bielice, Chojna, Gryfino, Kozielice, Myślibórz, Pyrzyce, Trzcińsko-Zdrój et Widuchowa.

Notes et références

Liens internes
 Liste des gminy de Poméranie occidentale

Gmina dans la voïvodie de Poméranie-Occidentale
Powiat de Gryfino


This is the third card I made inspired by the My Favorite Things Color Throwdown Challenge #432.
I have had the Close to My Heart Hooray Bouquet stamp set for a couple of years and never used it, so I decided it would work great for the challenge. The flowers were stamped with the Altenew Inks listed below on Gina K. Designs 80# White Cardstock. As a background for the flower focal image I die cut a rectangle using Simon Says Stamp Bundles of Stitched Shapes from Gina K. Designs 80# White Cardstock. I fussy cut the flowers with scissors and then die cut some leaves from a scrap of green and white polka dot paper using the Clearly Besotted Leafy Accents dies.
I then arranged the flowers and leaves into a bouquet that I liked and then used Press 'n Seal to hold them together. I tentatively placed the bouquet on the rectangle to determine placement for the sentiment from Close to My Heart Hooray Bouquet, which was stamped using the MISTI and Hero Hues India Ink Black.
Tombo Mono Multi Glue to the back bouquet and then carefully turned over to place it on the panel. I held it in place for about 30 second to allow the glue to set and then gently removed the Press 'n Seal. The top layer of flowers where then adhered using 3M 1/2″ Foam Tape for added dimension. I have a large stash of rhinestones and pearls embellishments and different size white pearls were used for the flower centers.
To complete the card an A2 Side Folding Cardbase was made from 120# Gina K. Designs White Cardstock and the focal image rectangle was adhered using Tombo Mono Multi Glue.


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The story of Rebel Pi
You will remember Jackie Fast from the 2018 series of 'The Apprentice' on BBC television. Jackie was the pugnacious, occasionally over-assertive, but highly effective candidate who made it through to week nine of the series before being fired by Lord Sugar for already being "a semi-oak tree," when he was looking for acorns to nurture.
Prior to her appearance on the show, Canadian-born Fast had sold her sponsorship business, Slingshot Sponsorship, for an undisclosed sum rumoured to run into millions of pounds. In a Forbes magazine interview in 2015, Slingshot was described as "an international, award winning agency with 10 staff headquartered in trendy Islington in North London and with offices in Brazil, Singapore and Oslo."
Though candidates on The Apprentice are clearly coached to 'big-up' their business acheivements and acumen, it seems Fast was the real deal, and indeed I suspected she would not be a woman to sit around waiting for fate to intervene when she contacted me, even before the series aired, about her new wine business. It was clearly going ahead with or without Apprentice success.
In 2018 she launched her own wine brand, called 'Rebel Pi', a Canadian icewine. Canada is #1 country in the world for the production of icewine, and though living in London for over a decade, Fast says that while she was aware of icewine growing up in Canada, it didn't really resonate with her because of the very thing that makes it so popular: its extreme sweetness. Her idea was to make a slightly less sweet icewine, so she began researching potential winemaking partners in British Columbia.
The resulting wine for this single-product brand, Rebel Pi, is made at family-run boutique winery, Pentâge, in the Okanagan Valley (which is also Jackie Fast's birthplace). The wine is unusual for an icewine, because it is made from the Rhône variety, Roussanne. Indeed, as Rebel Pi's publicity material points out, it is the world's first Roussanne icewine. Following the usual icewine practice of being harvested during the night at -8°C, it is fermented to 11% alcohol and has 233g/l of residual sugar. On the Rebel Pi website it sells for £139 per half bottle, though there are slightly cheaper stockists. The website also features cocktail recipes should you decide to invest in one of the 1600 bottles produced from the 2016 vintage.
Asking £100+ for a half bottle of dessert wine newly launched on the market is, in typical Jackie Fast style, a bold move. Will it work? Is the wine worth it? Two different questions, possibly with two different answers.
In absolute terms, a half bottle of Château Rieussec 2017 can be had for £26, Fortnum & Mason will sell you their lovely Riesling Eiswein made by Helmut Lang in Austria for £28.50 and indeed, the highly-regarded icewine from Peller Estate on the Niagra Peninsula will cost less than half of Rebel Pi's price. And yet the product is unique, is niche, and the brand is being managed by one hard-working, fearless go-getter.
If Jackie Fast can get it on the right wine lists, in front of the right people, there's no doubt a market exists for such a little slice of the unexpected.
Rebel Pi, Roussane Reserve Icewine 2016
British Columbia, Canada, Sweet, Cork, 11.0% abv
(2019) Rebel Pi is the brand of Canadian entrepreneur and ex-The Apprentice candidate, Jackie Fast, the wine made for her in the Okanagan Valley by Pentâge winery. It is 100% Roussanne, harvested whilst frozen, with reputedly 1/10th of the yield of super-concentrated juice that such a vineyard would normally give. It has a tinge of gold to the colour, and a warm, yellow plum and apricot aroma, a hint of honey and marmalade, some floral highlights too. In the mouth it is super-sweet for me, probably as sweet as most Vidal or Riesling counterparts, but the Roussanne does give a little more weight and texture perhaps, the fruit luscious and exotic, the intense sweetness just about balanced by the lime-clean acidity, so that this does freshen up in the finish, despite the 233g/l of sugar, glycerine and honey richness. Will stand up to the sweetest desserts, maybe tarte tatin being the most obvious foil. Price is for a half bottle.
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John Mc says:
27th May 2019 at 09:03
Looks like she is making a Fast buck….
Well, I think that it is the idea behind starting a business! 🙂 I wouldn't assume Jackie is coining it in from trying to sell half bottles of icewine at £100 a time though…
I live on the Mosel in Germany and Icewine has been produced here for many years and is top quality, however the cost is just a fraction of Rebel Pi Icewine.
Icewine in the region was a favourite of no other than Queen Victoria.
Indeed Tony – I have tasted some amazing Riesling eiswiens from Germany over the years.


Finding the right customs broker is like hiring anyone else to work for your company: you need to ask the right questions to make sure you're teaming up with the right person.
There are many customs brokerages willing to work for you. It's up to you to identify the one that will be the best fit – who will work as your partner to understand your business and meet your needs.
Incoterms (full name: international commercial terms) are standard sets of terms and conditions designed to assist traders when goods are sold and transported. Published by the International Chamber of Commerce, they are intended to clearly communicate the costs and risks associated with the transportation and delivery of goods. The Incoterms rules are used by buyers and sellers worldwide for the interpretation of the most commonly used terms in international trade.
Importer Self-Assessment is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) program that offers qualified U.S. importers exemptions from certain security inspections and comprehensive audits, as well as expedited cargo release services.
Started in 2002, the ISA program is based on the premise that importers with strong internal controls achieve the highest level of compliance with Customs laws and regulations. The ISA program provides a means to recognize and support such importers, while allowing U.S. Customs to direct their efforts to high-risk and unknown importers.
The Canadian government regulates the import of all wooden products and wood-containing products into Canada. And, because these items can carry and introduce harmful pests, their import is tightly controlled.
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) works closely with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to prevent the introduction of invasive pests to Canada.


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Robert Redford, kicking off Sundance, wears T-shirt from long-time Boulder restaurant
Redford attended the University of Colorado in the mid-1950s and worked at The Sink while a college student
By Kieran Nicholson Jan 18, 2018, 7:05 pm
Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford speaks during the opening day press conference at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
Robert Redford, on stage Thursday in Park City, Utah, to open the Sundance Film Festival, sported a long-sleeve T-shirt with a logo for The Sink, a long-time Boulder restaurant.
Redford, 81, founder of the festival, attended the University of Colorado in the mid-1950s and worked at The Sink while a college student.
Joined onstage by Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam and film director John Cooper, Redford and the panel addressed a range of topics including fake news and the current state of journalism.
Redford, who portrayed reporter Bob Woodward of The Washington Post in the 1976 film "All the President's Men," told the audience he's always been "a huge fan of journalism."
"Journalism represents the truth and getting the truth to the people," Redford said.
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He also tackled a question about disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein, who had attended multiple Sundance festivals in years past. Redford described Weinstein's longtime, powerful and allegedly abusive involvement in the film industry as "a moment in time we are going to move past."
Redford told the audience the #MeToo movement should give women expanded, better opportunities in the film industry.
This year's Sundance festival runs through Jan. 28.
Founder of the Sundance Institute, Robert Redford, attends the opening day press conference to kick-off the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on January 18, 2018. (Angela Weiss, AFP/Getty Images)
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