Berkeley County police discovered the remains of over 200 dogs and more than 40 living dogs at the home of a Goose Creek man on Monday.
Judging that not all of the dogs died of natural causes, Loney L Garrett has been taken into custody and charged with ill treatment of animals.
ABC News 4 offers a report that you can watch up top, or on their website.
Update February 13: More details are coming in on the conditions of the living hunting dogs recovered and their adoptive owner.
"At the end of the year, people who got dogs and didn't want to keep them would get rid of them. A lot of people do that and he would take some of the dogs cause a lot of people know him," says Hitman. "You have to think to - if he takes these dogs on and nobody comes immediately to buy them he's stuck with them."
Read the station's report here.
The Post and Courier offers a report with more background on past tickets issues the owner, Loney Garrett, had with regard to the proper disposal of dead animals.
Update, Febraury 20: A week after 45 dogs were rescued from a Goose Creek residence, Michelle Reid, director of Animal Rescue and Relief, says that many of the canines are making progress on their roads to recovery.
"At least we are seeing some of them wag their tails now."
"If everyone could go out there and smell what we smelled and see what we saw and listened to what we heard then they would get the full picture."
Donations are now being accepted on behalf of the scarred animals and can be made by clicking here. Also, learn more about the Mount Pleasant Emergency Vet Clinic and Veterinary Specialty Care by visiting its website here.
See ABC 4's full article here.


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Q: Prefect scheduling is not working with docker-compose I get an this error while running the code. It says file not found.
Logs:
prefect-docker-compose-database-1  |
prefect-docker-compose-database-1  | PostgreSQL Database directory appears to contain a database; Skipping initialization
prefect-docker-compose-database-1  |
prefect-docker-compose-database-1  | 2022-11-25 11:54:21.293 UTC [1] LOG:  starting PostgreSQL 14.1 on x86_64-pc-linux-musl, compiled by gcc (Alpine 10.3.1_git20211027) 10.3.1 20211027, 64-bit
prefect-docker-compose-database-1  | 2022-11-25 11:54:21.293 UTC [1] LOG:  listening on IPv4 address "0.0.0.0", port 5432
prefect-docker-compose-database-1  | 2022-11-25 11:54:21.293 UTC [1] LOG:  listening on IPv6 address "::", port 5432
prefect-docker-compose-database-1  | 2022-11-25 11:54:21.296 UTC [1] LOG:  listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"
prefect-docker-compose-database-1  | 2022-11-25 11:54:21.300 UTC [21] LOG:  database system was shut down at 2022-11-25 11:53:37 UTC
prefect-docker-compose-database-1  | 2022-11-25 11:54:21.305 UTC [1] LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     |
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     |  ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ _____    ___  ___ ___ ___  _  _
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | | _ \ _ \ __| __| __/ __|_   _|  / _ \| _ \_ _/ _ \| \| |
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | |  _/   / _|| _|| _| (__  | |   | (_) |   /| | (_) | .` |
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | |_| |_|_\___|_| |___\___| |_|    \___/|_|_\___\___/|_|\_|
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     |
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | Configure Prefect to communicate with the server with:
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     |
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     |     prefect config set PREFECT_API_URL=http://0.0.0.0:4200/api
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     |
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | View the API reference documentation at http://0.0.0.0:4200/docs
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     |
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | Check out the dashboard at http://0.0.0.0:4200
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     |
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     |
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     |
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     | Starting v2.6.8 agent connected to http://orion:4200/api...
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |   ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ _____     _   ___ ___ _  _ _____
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |  | _ \ _ \ __| __| __/ __|_   _|   /_\ / __| __| \| |_   _|
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |  |  _/   / _|| _|| _| (__  | |    / _ \ (_ | _|| .` | | |
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |  |_| |_|_\___|_| |___\___| |_|   /_/ \_\___|___|_|\_| |_|
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     | Agent started! Looking for work from queue(s): demo...
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     Started server process [7]
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     Waiting for application startup.
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     Application startup complete.
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://0.0.0.0:4200 (Press CTRL+C to quit)
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.5:55756 - "GET /deployments/name/greetings/get_weather_docker_example HTTP/1.1" 404 Not Found
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.5:55770 - "POST /flows/ HTTP/1.1" 201 Created
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.5:55780 - "GET /block_types/slug/process HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.5:55780 - "PATCH /block_types/9003f2ea-3325-4191-a0a3-67497f162165 HTTP/1.1" 204 No Content
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.5:55780 - "GET /block_schemas/checksum/sha256%3A47c4ac364708f4a6f27fb10b18086ad92c0a53fbbdd9ba07c030467067979f84?version=2.6.8 HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.5:55780 - "POST /block_documents/ HTTP/1.1" 201 Created
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.5:55770 - "POST /deployments/ HTTP/1.1" 201 Created
prefect-docker-compose-cli-1 exited with code 0
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.1:46148 - "GET /assets/index.85f05129.css HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.1:46132 - "GET /assets/index.f501c99b.js HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.1:46132 - "GET /ui-settings HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.1:46132 - "GET /health HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.1:46132 - "POST /flow_runs/count HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.1:46132 - "POST /flow_runs/count HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.1:46162 - "POST /saved_searches/filter HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.1:46148 - "POST /flow_runs/filter HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.1:46132 - "POST /ui/flow_runs/history HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.1:46172 - "POST /deployments/filter HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.1:46162 - "POST /work_queues/filter HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.1:46164 - "POST /flows/filter HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.1:46148 - "GET /flows/91f4a98a-877d-4c40-93c7-41236a23d2e5 HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.1:46148 - "GET /deployments/c9398a97-4ecc-4b57-8acb-0a50d5a7b328 HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.1:46164 - "GET /work_queues/name/demo HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.4:33890 - "GET /work_queues/name/demo HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.4:33890 - "POST /work_queues/31d37abe-6aee-4674-beaf-4bc8d2cae7c4/get_runs HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     | 11:54:55.107 | INFO    | prefect.agent - Submitting flow run '2f6ba8ff-364c-4ddf-974b-f49712fede9b'
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.4:33890 - "POST /flow_runs/2f6ba8ff-364c-4ddf-974b-f49712fede9b/set_state HTTP/1.1" 201 Created
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.4:33890 - "GET /deployments/c9398a97-4ecc-4b57-8acb-0a50d5a7b328 HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.4:33890 - "GET /flows/91f4a98a-877d-4c40-93c7-41236a23d2e5 HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.4:33890 - "GET /block_documents/7f22b67b-4947-46a1-b0d0-5ae260c71b62?include_secrets=true HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     | 11:54:55.162 | INFO    | prefect.infrastructure.process - Opening process 'heavenly-macaw'...
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     | 11:54:55.164 | INFO    | prefect.agent - Completed submission of flow run '2f6ba8ff-364c-4ddf-974b-f49712fede9b'
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.4:33902 - "GET /flow_runs/2f6ba8ff-364c-4ddf-974b-f49712fede9b HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-orion-1     | INFO:     172.21.0.4:33902 - "GET /deployments/c9398a97-4ecc-4b57-8acb-0a50d5a7b328 HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     | 11:54:56.745 | ERROR   | Flow run 'heavenly-macaw' - Flow could not be retrieved from deployment.
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     | Traceback (most recent call last):
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/prefect/engine.py", line 255, in retrieve_flow_then_begin_flow_run
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |     flow = await load_flow_from_flow_run(flow_run, client=client)
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/contextlib.py", line 222, in __aexit__
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |     await self.gen.athrow(typ, value, traceback)
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/prefect/utilities/asyncutils.py", line 218, in asyncnullcontext
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |     yield
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/prefect/client/utilities.py", line 47, in with_injected_client
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |     return await fn(*args, **kwargs)
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/prefect/deployments.py", line 163, in load_flow_from_flow_run
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |     await storage_block.get_directory(from_path=deployment.path, local_path=".")
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/prefect/filesystems.py", line 144, in get_directory
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |     shutil.copytree(from_path, local_path, dirs_exist_ok=True)
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/shutil.py", line 558, in copytree
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |     with os.scandir(src) as itr:
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     |          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
prefect-docker-compose-agent-1     | FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/root/flows'

Flow.py: This is flow file which is responsible for deployment scheduling
from prefect import flow, task
from prefect.deployments import Deployment
from prefect.orion.schemas.schedules import IntervalSchedule, RRuleSchedule, CronSchedule
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

@task
def say_hello(name):
    print(f"hello {name}")

@task
def say_goodbye(name):
    print(f"goodbye {name}")

@flow
def greetings(names=["arthur", "trillian", "ford", "marvin"]):
    for name in names:
        say_hello(name)
        say_goodbye(name)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    deployment = Deployment.build_from_flow(
        name="get_weather_docker_example",
        schedule = IntervalSchedule(interval=timedelta(seconds=30)),
        flow=greetings,
        work_queue_name="demo"
    )
    deployment.apply()

docker-compose.yml
version: "3.9"
services:

  ### Prefect Database
  database:
    image: postgres:14.1-alpine
    restart: always
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=postgres
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres
      - POSTGRES_DB=orion
    expose:
      - 5432
    volumes:
      - db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    profiles: ["orion"]

  ### Prefect Orion API
  orion:
    image: prefecthq/prefect:2.6.8-python3.11
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - prefect:/root/.prefect
    entrypoint: ["prefect", "orion", "start"]
    environment:
      - PREFECT_ORION_API_HOST=0.0.0.0
      - PREFECT_ORION_DATABASE_CONNECTION_URL=postgresql+asyncpg://postgres:postgres@database:5432/orion
    ports:
      - 4200:4200
    depends_on:
      - database
    profiles: ["orion"]

  ## Prefect Agent
  agent:
    image: prefecthq/prefect:2.6.8-python3.11
    restart: always
    entrypoint: ["prefect", "agent", "start", "-q", "demo"]
    environment:
      - PREFECT_API_URL=http://orion:4200/api
    depends_on:
      - orion
    profiles: ["agent"]

  ### Prefect CLI
  cli:
    image: prefecthq/prefect:2.6.8-python3.11
    entrypoint: ["python", "flow.py"]
    working_dir: "/root/flows"
    volumes:
      - "./flows:/root/flows"
    environment:
      - PREFECT_API_URL=http://orion:4200/api
    profiles: ["cli"]

volumes:
  prefect:
  db:
  minio:
networks:
  default:
    name: prefect-network

directory strcture: This is how directory structure looks like and flows directory and docker-compose.yml are in same directory.

- flows
  - flow.py
- docker-compose.yml are in same directory

Command to run the docker-compose:
docker compose --profile orion --profile agent --profile cli up

A: Have you tried deploying your flow codes on storage? https://docs.prefect.io/concepts/storage/?h=storage
You need to upload your flow codes on storage and deploy it on your docker container.
block_prod = RemoteFileSystem(
    basepath="your storage choice path",
    settings=dict(
        token=KEY,
    ),
)
block_prod.save(flow_name, overwrite=True)

deployment = Deployment.build_from_flow(
    name=flow_name,
    flow=flow,
    storage=RemoteFileSystem.load(flow_name),
    infrastructure=DockerContainer(
        image=IMAGE,
        image_pull_policy="IF_NOT_PRESENT",
        networks=["prefect"],
    ),
)
deployment.apply()

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I have been researching the global warming issue for months. I am a licensed Mechanical Engineer with an MSc in Mechanical Engineering. The following is a brief verbal description of some of my sources and findings with graphics that show these findings.
The temperature1 has varied substantially while the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere2 exhibits a smooth progressive rise. Note on this graph that prior to about 1910, and again from 1944 to about 1976, temperature showed a decreasing trend while atmospheric carbon dioxide level was increasing. Thus, as shown on this graph, until 1998 the average global temperature trend and atmospheric carbon dioxide level went in the same direction about half the time and in opposite directions the other half. The temperature rise that received so much attention and contributed to the Global Warming mistake lasted for about 22 years from 1976 to 1998. The temperature stopped significant increase in 1998. According to NOAA data, the average global temperature trended down during 2007 to lower than it was in 1998. This down-trend continues with the average for the first two months of 2008 being substantially lower.
In the previous graph it appears that since 1976 the increasing carbon dioxide level has caused the average global temperature to rise. However, a close look at the graph below3,4 reveals the fact that, typically in the past, global average temperature rose or fell before the carbon dioxide level changed.
Advocates of the idea that recent human activity has caused global warming rationalize this lag of carbon dioxide change to temperature change, which existed before human activity was an issue, with the theory that something external started the temperature change, the temperature change caused carbon dioxide change and then a positive feed back effect from the added atmospheric carbon dioxide caused the temperature change to continue. However, as the temperature record shows, temperature change began and ended at many different temperature levels. This would not be possible with significant positive feedback. Thus significant positive feedback did not exist then and does not exist now. Back then the atmospheric carbon dioxide increased as the ocean temperature increased driving out dissolved carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The current atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is all a result of burning fossil fuel. Added carbon dioxide has no significant influence on average global temperature. Global average temperature change must be driven by factors other than carbon dioxide level.
Although the time scale on this graph can make times look close together, the change in atmospheric carbon dioxide level typically lagged average earth temperature change by hundreds of years. Note especially the period around 112,000 years ago when the decline in carbon dioxide level lagged the decline in average global temperature by thousands of years. Also on this graph, observe that temperature went up and down quickly and frequently while carbon dioxide level changed comparatively slowly. Note also that this graph is in years before 1999 so the present time is at the left side of the graph.
This graph also shows that global temperature change is not significantly influenced by atmospheric carbon dioxide level change. Sargasso Sea Surface Temperatures5 were compiled from proxies and reported at Keigwin, L. D. (1996) Science 274, 1504-1508. These temperatures are corroborated by historical records of colonizing and abandoning Greenland, vineyards in England , freezing of the Themes, etc. Anomalies determined from the Sargasso temperature data (obtained by subtracting 22.6 from all temperatures) agree only crudely with anomalies from Vostok3. Although Sargasso temperatures are corroborated by historical records of events, they may have been heavily influenced by ocean currents and thus be less representative of global average temperature. Sargasso anomalies are shown for the period that they are available.
The Vostok ice core data provide carbon dioxide level4 only until about 340 BC. More recent data on atmospheric carbon dioxide level is provided by ice cores from Law Dome6, Antarctica and atmospheric sampling at Mauna Loa . Vostok and Law Dome carbon dioxide data are both plotted on the following graph along with the Vostok3, Sargasso and recent1 temperature data. This shows that, during the current interglacial period, temperature changes occur while carbon dioxide level undergoes little change until about 1750AD. This demonstrates that global temperature change does not depend on atmospheric carbon dioxide level change. As shown on the previous graph, if temperature change was maintained long enough the atmospheric carbon dioxide level followed.
This graph is a higher-resolution time scale of the previous graph showing detail of the last 1000 years with several other sources of carbon dioxide data added. The added data corroborate the Law Dome data and continue measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide level to the present time from Mauna Loa7. This graph shows that the average global temperature 400 years ago was significantly higher than now and the recent rate of temperature change is not unusual. Recent measurements show that average earth temperatures in 2006 and 2007 were slightly lower than in 1998 and the average temperature for the first two months of 2008 is substantially lower.
For most of earth's history carbon dioxide level has been several times higher than the present8,9. The planet plunged in to the Andean-Saharan ice age 440 million years ago10 when the carbon dioxide level was over ten times higher than now.
The conclusion from all this is that carbon dioxide change does NOT cause significant climate change. Actions to control the amount of non-condensing greenhouse gases that are added to the atmosphere are based on the mistaken assumption that global warming was caused by human activity. These actions put freedom and prosperity at risk.
9. Includes easier-to-read graph which uses the appropriate curve from 8 plus a temperature curve. http://mysite.verizon.net/mhieb/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html or http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/climatechange2/07_1.shtml which appears to come from 8. and only shows carbon dioxide level.


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Supernovae and heavy elements
Thread starter sumi-e
Hi, I'm new here. Can someone help me with several sets of questions?
I know the estimated age of the Milky Way. There is information that there are various types of supernovae in the Milky Way that occur on the average of 2.2 to 2.7 per century.
My first set of question: Is this average of supernovae per century constant going back 10 billion years or so? If the average of supernovae in the Milky Way per century changes as you go back in time, what is the change? And why a change? Is there an estimation of the total number of supernovae that has occurred since the formation of the Milky Way? What is that number? How is the number calculated?
Second set of questions, if I may: On the average (or more detailed if the information is there), what amount of heavy elements are produced by a supernova? What is the total estimated amount of heavy elements in the Milky Way? Are the number of supernovae sufficient to account for all the heavy elements in the Milky Way (excluding for the moment any prior collision with another galaxy and the elements that may have come from it)?
Much thanks,
--Greg
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Question 1. Who knows? Human astronomical records at best go back about 3000 years, and the earliest records are somewhat incomplete. It does stand to reason that when the universe was young, there were probably more stars prone to form supernovae than exist currently.
Question 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova_nucleosynthesis
Supernova were more common in the past when massive stars were more common. The metallicity of current generation stars, like the sun, is about 2%.
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Why Progressives Are Increasingly Critical of Israel
Credit: Newsy Studio
Published on April 8, 2019 - Duration: 05:38s
Their criticism is rooted in issues that predate Netanyahu, but his relationship with President Trump, in part, seems to have accelerated the trend.
Young American progressives are increasingly openly critical of Israel — and the stance of some Democrats on the issue clearly reflects that trend.
"These 2020 Democrat contenders did not attend AIPAC.
This after the progressive MoveOn.org demanded a boycott." "Omar criticized Israel, giving voice to long simmering concerns on the left." "A view that this needs to be a broader conversation that isn't just always defending Israel." But what prompted this generational shift?
And what could it mean for the future of U.S. foreign policy? "Their grandparents never even mentioned the word 'Palestinian,' and now they take reality that there is or should be something called Palestine." Political science professor Wendy Pearlman sees three main causes behind the progressive stance on Israel.
First, conservatives — specifically, white evangelicals — are increasingly aligned with Israel.
And that's a political group that progressives don't identify with at all. "A block that is a promoter of all sorts of policies and issues and values, which are against what many progressives are standing for." Then, there's the fact that young progressives increasingly look at Israeli policies through a social justice lens.
That's directly tied to the rising prominence of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against Israel known as BDS.
It aims to stop what it calls " Israel's violation of Palestinian human rights " through boycotts of brands and events associated with Israel.
It also pressures international organizations to economically and culturally isolate Israel.
"BDS has been very successful, I think, in casting the question of Israel as one not of security, which was the primary lens in previous years in which Israel and pro-Israel parties could justify almost every action Israel took, especially versus the Palestinians.
Many people around the world look at the situation and say, Israel is strong, it defends itself.
It has one of the strongest armies in the Middle East.
It has a high-income, first-world economy.
And Palestinians' lives are getting worse and worse." Pearlman says BDS' emphasis on equal rights appeals to minorities in the U.S. In fact, Black Lives Matter endorsed BDS in 2016 , calling Israel an "apartheid state." "BDS is saying we should call Israel apartheid what it is.
... All of those values totally resonate with the movement of African-Americans in the United States, for justice, for equality, for freedom from police brutality and arbitrary violence from the state, for real meaningful citizenship." The Anti-Defamation League, a group that fights anti-Semitism, says the BDS movement's criticism of Israel is illegitimate because it rejects "Israel's very existence as a Jewish state." That's an anti-Semitic concept, according to the ADL.
"Looking around the world, there are so many cases of injustice and human rights violations and oppression that those who criticize BDS say, why are you singling out Israel when there are so many other oppressors in the world?
Is Israel being held to a different standard?
And if it is being held to a different standard, why?
Is that unfair?
Is that symptomatic of some sort of anti-Semitism or anti-Jewish opinion?" Twenty-six states have laws that prevent their local governments from doing business with organizations that boycott Israel.
The ACLU is challenging these anti-boycott laws on the grounds that they violate free political speech .
"We should have an honest conversation about the U.S. role in enabling Israeli policies such as the settlement expansion, such as denial of Palestinian rights.
It's not impossible to have an open conversation that is sensitive, but sensitive not only to the sensitivities of American Jews, but to American Muslims, to American Arabs, to people of all different faiths and backgrounds." Finally, while criticism of Israel is often rooted in international law and human rights issues that long predate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his right-leaning politics and relationship with President Trump seem to have accelerated the trend.
"These are two right-leaning politicians who are both embroiled in political scandals and corruption and legal investigations, who are helping each other out in moments of political need.
That for sure does not sit well with many progressives.
But I think it would be amiss to emphasize that at the expense of the real roots of what's going on: The stagnation on the ground in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and no movement towards a just solution." Now, could the American public's changing perception of Israel lead to concrete change on Capitol Hill?
It might over time, but influential pro-Israel donors could also slow things way down.
"I think there's a question about whether politicians, in determining U.S. policy towards Israel, are answering to the preferences of voters, or are they answering to the pressures and preferences of donors?
One of the best examples of that is on gun control, and that large numbers of Americans ... want greater gun control laws, and that doesn't translate into policy.
We could very well see that gap on public opinion wanting a tougher U.S. stance in Israel, or withdrawal of U.S. military aid to Israel or greater U.S. pressure on Israel settlement expansion.
I fear that we could see a gap between public opinion and policy for a long time.
That's the nature of the political system we have, and how politics changes."
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The Malabar Mission Society was formed in 1988 when Rev. Dr. Roland Miller shared his experiences as a 23-year-veteran missionary to India. Dr. Miller and his wife, Mary Helen, had ministered to the spiritual and physical needs of the people of India from 1953 to 1976. They knew and loved many of the people, and felt the need for a means of assuring assistance -- both financial and through prayer -- so the ministry there could continue and grow.
The Society now has members throughout Canada and in many of the American states -- ordinary people who believe in Jesus as the One who saved us FROM something (sin, condemnation, eternal death), and also FOR something (to serve Him by finding ways of sharing His love by what we say and by what we do.) The FROM and FOR are not options. The MMS is one opportunity to spread the Good News about a Redeemer who takes away the sin of the world.
Of special interest to members of the MMS is that part of India called the Malabar Coast. "Malabar Coast" refers to the southern part of the western coast of India from Panjim, Goa to Cape Comorin, and includes most of Kerala state. This state is one of the most heavily populated areas in the world: about 1, 200 people/square mile. The state, a little over 800 Km (500 mi.) from north to south, is never much more than 100 Km (60 mi.) wide. The people speak Malayalam.
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The "Open Door" reading room across the road from the College in Kannur; a ministry for the men.
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Verdae vision unveiled with focus on Laurens Road
This story first appeared in the June 13 print edition of GSA Business Report.
Verdae Development Inc. and Hollingsworth Funds have a plan to transform a utilitarian stretch of Laurens Road into what they call a "next generation destination."
The organizations recently unveiled a new outlook for approximately 90 acres of Laurens Road property with a vision that aims to create a vibrant and inclusive mixed-use district "that reflects Greenville's cultural and social diversity while acting as a platform for economic innovation with commercial office, residential, recreation and retail in a new urban setting," according to a news release.
While many details of the plan will emerge as plans proceed, some of the vision's core elements promote accessibility, sustainability, connectivity and affordability, including:
A new central street running parallel between the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail and Laurens Road.
A new green ribbon of parks and open space.
Improved connectivity for public transit as well as pedestrian and bike friendly trails and pathways.
The conversion from a one-use retail corridor to a mixed-use district that incorporates economic development through office, small business and entrepreneurship; provides opportunities for a retail landscape to meet current trends; introduces new areas for public recreation; and integrates a variety of housing options to maintain affordability.
"What we've presented is a long-term vision for an area of focus within Verdae that intentionally provides flexibility to adjust to Greenville's growth, the market, and most importantly, to great ideas from community partners to help bring it to life," Gage Weekes, president and CEO of Hollingsworth Funds, said in the news release.
Verdae is the 1,100-acre master planned community that started in 2005 on one of the largest tracts of land in the Greenville area that was owned by the late textile machinery magnate John D. Hollingsworth Jr. He left the bulk of his estate to Hollingsworth Funds, a charitable foundation established to use his holdings to support Furman University, the YMCA, and nonprofits benefitting the greater Greenville community. The creation of Verdae and its continued development helps fund a wide range of community initiatives annually supported by Hollingsworth Funds.
A cost for building out the vision has not been determined.
"Given Greenville's tremendous growth and changes to the market over the past 15 years and with almost half of Verdae remaining to be developed, the timing was right to revisit the original master plan to ensure that Verdae is positioned to deliver value to the Greenville community for the next 10 to 15 years," the release said. "Hollingsworth Funds and Verdae Development initiated an Urban Land Institute Advisory Panel in late 2019 which helped lead to the decision to engage a world-class team of planning professionals to refresh the master plan."
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, HR&A Advisors, and other professionals have been working with Verdae Development and Hollingsworth Funds in a planning process that is grounded in real estate analysis and market data. This strategic review began with an in-depth study of the entire 1,100-acre master plan property, but led to a concentration on a portion of the footprint that has been performing as big box retail centers since the 1980s, the release said.
"We've learned a great deal," Debbie Wallace, president and COO of Verdae Development, said in the release. "First and foremost, we have more land than can be absorbed by the market within a 10 to 15-year planning horizon. We can be more successful by reducing the development target area and cultivating greater community impact."
Market realities that surfaced and influenced the creation of the new vision included:
Verdae is physically and economically between the downtown core and suburban market for products like office, residential, and retail/amenities.
Greenville's growing customer base has genuine purchasing power and seeks alternatives to typical suburban office and residential products.
Demand for residential (at a mix of price points), office, retail (sized and located strategically), and open space will drive value.
Public-private partnerships are a key ingredient to funding required infrastructure and amenities.
"Greenville has a rich history of public-private partnerships, and Hollingsworth has certainly been a valued private partner with the city," Grenville Mayor Knox White said in the release. "The preliminary vision for Verdae is something we have wanted to see for some time along the main corridors in Greenville. This helps create new nodes of excitement and activity."
Weekes said the next several months will be important as Hollingsworth and Verdae continue to gather input from community stakeholders, work with the city on its current development code process, establish a plan of finance for public infrastructure, and find development partners to execute the vision.
"This is a vision for a livable community for the future that builds on a legacy of exceptional planning and re-imagines a place where accessibility, sustainability, connectivity, affordability and innovation intersect," Weekes said in the release. "We are excited about the opportunity to create a vibrant and inclusive mixed-use district that delivers value for the Greenville community and helps support Hollingsworth Funds' philanthropic initiatives."
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Kinesins and myosins hydrolyze ATP, producing force that drives spindle assembly, vesicle transport and muscle contraction. How do motors do this? Here we discuss mechanisms of motor force transduction, based on their mechanochemical cycles and conformational changes observed in crystal structures. Distortion or twisting of the central β-sheet - proposed to trigger actin-induced Pi and ADP release by myosin, and microtubule-induced ADP release by kinesins - is shown in a movie depicting the transition between myosin ATP-like and nucleotide-free states. Structural changes in the switch I region form a tube that governs ATP hydrolysis and Pi release by the motors, explaining the essential role of switch I in hydrolysis. Comparison of the motor power strokes reveals that each stroke begins with the force-amplifying structure oriented opposite to the direction of rotation or swing. Motors undergo changes in their mechanochemical cycles in response to small-molecule inhibitors, several of which bind to kinesins by induced fit, trapping the motors in a state that resembles a force-producing conformation. An unusual motor activator specifically increases mechanical output by cardiac myosin, potentially providing valuable information about its mechanism of function. Further study is essential to understand motor mechanochemical coupling and energy transduction, and could lead to new therapies to treat human disease.


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Internet Certificate authorities: the web's security blind spot
Certificate authorities: the web's security blind spot
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Security experts are calling for a revamp of the web's underlying security infrastructure after exposing critical flaws in the current certification system.
The public-key infrastructure (PKI) system that validates websites via certificates is a major blind spot that could undermine trust in the internet if changes aren't made – and soon. "We have a potentially big problem – we designed this protocol and infrastructure, SSL and PKI, back in 1994 and 1995, and essentially the evolution of the trust ecosystem stopped in 1995," said Ivan Ristic, a co-founder of the non-profit Trustworthy Internet Movement.
The concern follows a series of attacks against certificate authorities (CAs) last year. Such authorities generate the cryptographic certificates that tell web browsers that content is originating from the website that it claims. If a CA is hacked, the perpetrator could impersonate any site in the world – as happened when Dutch CA DigiNotar was hacked and its certificates were used to spoof Gmail and other major websites. Comodo, another CA, was also hacked last year.
"The mistake that we made was not keeping the technology up to date, and last year we realised this through Comodo and DigiNotar," said Ristic. DigiNotar was shut down as a result of the attacks, while Comodo said "only" seven fraudulent certificates had been issued, all for communications systems, such as Skype, Gmail, Yahoo and Windows Live.
According to research from Symantec, at least ten other CAs have also been targeted in recent months, while the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) claims 248 compromised keys have been revoked due to CA compromise. "Hundreds of organisations are CAs, and each one of them has the power to authenticate any website on the internet to an end user," said Dan Auerbach, a technologist with the EFF.
There's no clear picture of the true number of CAs – the EFF estimates put the figure at anything up to 650 – and compromising any CA lets hackers target any site. "Any CA that's hacked will allow people to present a fake Gmail to end users," said Auerbach. "This really isn't a theoretical problem – for several months Iranian users were having Gmail traffic read [after DigiNotar was attacked].
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No Credit Check Auto Insurance: Getting a Quote Without Having Your Credit History Checked?
The credit history is an important factor for your insurance score. Sometimes it would be advantageous to not have it checked. However, this is not likely to happen. Image: Flickr.
Does having a bad credit history make you a reckless driver or an extremely high risk homeowner?
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The formulas and algorithms uses by the insurance companies are proprietary and specific to each individual insurance company. I recently talked to my own car insurance company about receiving a discount specifically for my great credit score, but I was told that it was already factored into my home and car insurance premiums. But, the question still remains, why does your credit score matter when determining your premiums?
Insurance companies have a large database of information about their customers, their habits, and the amount of insurance claims they file. Insurance companies and their legions of statisticians have been able to tease out data that correlates, or very closely relates to another attribute.
Through a mountain of data, insurance companies have been able to determine that customers with a low credit score have a much greater likelihood of living a riskier life than normal and are more likely to file more insurance claims which ultimately cost the insurance companies more money.
Credit scores correlate with insurance risk. This for insurers take this factor into their calculations by default. Image: Flickr.
The use of a customer's credit score to determine their home insurance and car insurance premiums have many up in arms. There have even been conversations in Congress about barring the practice. But, the use of credit score as category for insurance rating is a variable just like any other variable.
Should insurance companies be barred from using gender or age to determine the likelihood of claims and subsequently car insurance premiums and other insurance premiums? In fact, many countries around the world have adopted the policy barring insurance companies from discriminating between males and females. So, maybe denying the use of a person's credit score is not too far behind.
If you could predict with fairly reasonable accuracy when the stock market would most likely go up in value, you would pile on your investments. It is just good business sense. The same is true for any business as well.
If the business can determine through statistics that they have a better chance of making a profit if they do one thing over another, then a business owner or manager would be remiss if they didn't do that thing. Investors would be outraged.
Insurance companies have found that statistical correlation between the amount of risk they take and how good a person they insure and his credit report. It is a sound business decision to include credit history into an insurance company's pricing model.
Although credit is now a standard factor just like the type of your car is when you're getting insurance quotes, it's important to remember that how an insurance company evaluates your credit score and the information in your credit report will vary from company to company.
Each insurance company has their own formula that they use to calculate your insurance premiums, and your credit score factors into each one in a varying amount. A low credit score could mean that you end up paying an additional 20% or more on car and home insurance premiums.
One drawback to charging a customer a higher insurance premium based solely on credit score is that it may compound a person's problem. People have a poor credit score because of problems paying their bills. Raising someone's insurance rates because of a higher credit score may exacerbate their problems. If a person is having trouble paying his or her bills, how will they be able to successfully pay an increase in their insurance premiums?
There are a ton of variables that go into the calculations of car insurance premiums and homeowner's insurance premiums. The insurance companies in America look at tons of attributes in the hopes of determining who exactly are good risks to provide insurance for in order to maximize their profits and limit their claims losses. The insurance companies are not evil, but they are companies who have to answer to shareholders and other stakeholders.
While there is often debate about whether credit scores really reflect the riskiness of a person's future debt performance, insurance companies continue to use the data to set their rates. The reality is that they have to make a profit too in order to provide coverage to policyholders, and using credit scores can help determine who may be extraordinarily high risks to insure.


A principle-oriented person believes in their morals, ideals, and beliefs above all else. They believe in acting in accordance with morality and are often preoccupied with whether actions are right or wrong. Principle-oriented people have self-control enough to follow rules and adhere to their high moral standard, remaining loyal and keeping their promises.
In the workplace, these individuals are highly motivated when the environment and company are aligned with their principles. People trust and respect this, knowing they will never compromise their principles, take credit for other people's work, or undermine team members to achieve a goal. This is aligned with working to a code of conduct.
Having set views and being unswayable from principles, means great value is placed on the way goals are achieved, not just whether a goal is achieved. Consequently, by never letting people down, and always acting in a way according to their principles, they are highly sensitive to the topics of decency and character.
You are principle-oriented and strive to do all you say you will do, you cannot be asked to deceive others or to cheat to attain goals. You will not take shortcuts or skip steps to achieve your goals, instead believing that the journey is just as important as the goal.
You are not principle-oriented and believe that the end goal must be achieved at all costs, even if that means being flexible, or breaking promises, in how you achieve those goals.
Follow through on promises and commitments to fellow teams and individuals, i.e. if something is promised to a project stakeholder hold yourself accountable to meet that promise. Communicate your expectations and your commitments to others, so they can also hold you accountable. Exhibit loyalty to stakeholders as well as to the end goal.
Do you break promises in pursuit of your goals?
Are you capable of deceit?
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Are you considerate of all stakeholders in your projects?
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Sidharth Malhotra shares his fond memories with cast of 'Mission Majnu'
Sidharth Malhotra said, "I have always been in awe of their work and watched almost every movie they have been a part of. Kumud sir is extremely chatty on set and the way he slipped in and out of his character the minute we were in action was very intriguing. I personally feel like he had the best character arc in the film and I'm really excited to see what the viewers feel about it."
"Sharib is extremely entertaining on and off camera and not only is he an excellent actor, but also a great singer. I am extremely glad I got to work with both of them!"
On set, Sidharth built a great rapport with the cast and crew of Mission Majnu and had one of the best and most memorable shooting experience.
On working with Rashmika Mandanna and Shantanu Bagchi, Sidharth said, "Shantanu has made his debut with Mission Majnu and I've been in awe of him seeing his sincerity towards his work. We used to constantly keep pulling his leg for having a little diary where he would sketch every single shot of the film. He is an extremely visual director and I love that about him."
"Rashmika and I had such an effortless friendship on set and I would love to work with her again. She is a fitness freak and we made our own makeshift gym on set to workout together in between shots. I am really happy she played the role of Amrin and cannot wait to see the viewers' reaction to our pairing."
The espionage-thriller 'Mission Majnu' is set to drop on Netflix on January 20.
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Why cap-and-trade should (and does) have appeal to politicians
Robert Stavins, Robert Hahn 13 April 2010
Are cap-and-trade schemes working? This column presents a summary of eight existing schemes arguing that half meet the independence property whereby the initial allocation of property rights does not affect the environmental or social outcome and the scheme is cost-effective. This success is a contrast with other policy proposals where political bargaining reduces the effectiveness and drives up cost.
Economists have long recognised that both price and quantity mechanisms, such as emissions taxes and cap-and-trades systems, can be cost-effective ways of improving environmental quality (Pigou 1920 and Dales 1968). The politics of the two approaches is a different matter.
The political appeal of cap-and-trade can be explained, in part, by the fact that politicians can fiddle with the initial distribution of property rights (the permits or allowances) without affecting the final equilibrium (in the sense of not affecting the environmental performance or aggregate cost). Furthermore, under certain conditions, the final equilibrium will represent a least cost solution to the problem of achieving a given environmental target (Montgomery 1972) – something that may surely be desirable from the standpoint of allocating resources more efficiently. The Montgomery result is closely related to an idea presented in Coase (1960), where he shows that under certain conditions, the initial distribution of property rights between the generator or recipient of an externality does not matter for achieving an efficient result.
Because of its potential political importance, we have decided to examine a version of what we call the "independence property" for cap-and-trade (Hahn and Stavins 2010). A cap-and-trade system is said to satisfy the independence property if the final equilibrium is both cost-effective and does not vary with the initial distribution of allowances (i.e., property rights).
Theory: What can go wrong, in principle
Markets don't always work perfectly and environmental markets are no exception. We investigated a number of ways in which these markets might violate the independence property. One obvious way is if a firm or group of firms had market power in the allowance market. A related way is if a firm had market power in both a product market and the allowance market. In such cases, the initial distribution of allowances will frequently affect the final distribution of allowances in the allowance market, and the cost-effective allocation of allowances may not be achieved. A dominant firm or group of firms may find it in their interest to offer too few or too many allowances for sale in the allowance market (relative to the cost minimising solution), depending on their initial allocation (Hahn 1984).
The independence property also may be violated when there are transaction costs associated with trading. Such costs can arise from bargaining, monitoring and enforcement, and search. Stavins (1995) shows that when marginal transaction costs are not constant, this can lead to a violation of the independence property.
Another factor that can affect the final distribution of allowances is uncertainty. In particular, uncertainty regarding future allowance prices can lead to violation of the independence property under two conditions: risk aversion on the part of regulated firms, and limits to transferability of allowances (transaction costs). The consequences are that firms with small initial allocations would be expected to tend to over-invest in abatement technology in order to hedge against possible high future allowance prices, and firms with large initial allocations would tend to under-invest in abatement technology in order to hedge against possible low future allowance prices (Badlursson and von dehr Fehr 2004).
If firms are not cost minimisers, then the final allocation of allowances can be tied to the initial allocation of allowances. There are a variety of potential sources of such non-cost-minimising behaviour. An interesting case is that of government-to-government trading. The international emissions quota regime established under Article 17 of the Kyoto Protocol allows trades in national targets ("assigned amounts") among nations. There is no reason to assume that nations are simple cost-minimisers, or even if they sought to be, that they would have the necessary information regarding their national abatement costs to carry out cost-effective international exchanges.
ehavioural economics provides several potential explanations for other sorts of non-cost-minimising behaviour. For example, the endowment effect describes situations in which firms or individuals "overvalue" items already in their possession (Thaler 1980 and Kahneman et al. 1990). If the firms granted emissions allowances tend to value them more highly than other firms simply because they happen to hold them, then fewer transactions will occur than would otherwise be predicted by market forces. If firms initially endowed with permits tend not to sell them, independence will not hold.
The way regulators treat different allowance trades will also affect the market. If firms receive different regulatory treatment, then initial allocations of allowances can affect equilibrium allocations, performance, and cost. State-level regulation of electricity producers, such as rate-of-return regulation, can discourage or even prevent firms from cost-minimising with respect to emissions (Hahn and Noll 1983 and Oates and Strassman 1984). In addition, regulators may discourage trading, due to concerns about local pollution (Fullerton et al. 1997). Finally, if a cap-and-trade system is interstate, then jurisdictions may be regulated differently. In all of these cases, the equilibrium allocation will not be independent of the initial allocation, and the outcome will not be cost-effective.
The real world: Things actually look pretty good
Market imperfections are present in most real-world markets. For example, in most markets, there are transactions costs in bringing buyers and sellers together. The question is whether these market imperfections turn out to be important in terms of leading to significant violations of the independence property. We have examined eight past and present cap-and-trade systems.
We have reviewed both indirect (circumstantial) evidence regarding the presence and importance of various factors in past and present cap-and-trade systems, as well as direct (statistical) evidence of the violation of the independence property in these systems. Looking at eight past and present cap-and-trade systems (Table 1), we find that support for the independence property is strong in half of the systems, and moderate in two others.
Table 1. Summary of empirical findings regarding independence property
Cap-and-Trade System
Indirect Evidence
of Possible
Permit Market Distortions
for Independence Property
Lead Trading
CFC Trading under Montreal Protocol
SO2 Allowance Trading
Transaction Costs,
Differential Regulatory Treatment, Uncertainty
Low at the outset
Subsequently high
High*
Eastern Ozone Transport NOX Markets
Market Power, Uncertainty,
Non-Cost-Minimising Behaviour
Uncertainty?
Kyoto Protocol Article 17
Market Power, Non-Cost-Minimising Behaviour
*Partly based on statistical tests. Only those applications of cap-and-trade considered in the text are included.
The independence property is of great relevance to the practical development of policy, because it allows equity and efficiency concerns to be separated. In particular, a government can set an overall cap of pollutant emissions (that is, a pollution-reduction goal), and leave it up to a legislature to construct a constituency in support of the program by allocating shares of the allowances to various interests, such as sectors and geographic regions, without affecting either the environmental performance of the system or its aggregate social costs.
Because of the importance of this property, we considered the conditions under which it is more or less likely to hold – both in theory and in practice. We find that in theory, a number of factors can lead to the independence property being violated. These are: particular types of transaction costs in cap-and-trade markets; significant market power in the allowance market; uncertainty regarding the future price of allowances; non-cost-minimising behaviour by firms; and specific kinds of regulatory treatment of participants in a cap-and-trade market.
Of course, the fact that these factors can lead to violation of the independence property does not mean that in practice they do so in quantitatively significant ways. We find that, in practice, there is support for the independence property in some, but not all cap-and-trade applications.
The fact that the independence property is broadly validated provides support for the efficacy of past political judgments regarding constituency-building through legislatures' allowance allocations in cap-and-trade systems. Repeatedly, governments have set the overall emissions cap and then left it up to the political process to allocate the available number of allowances among sources to build support for an initiative without reducing the system's environmental performance or driving up its cost. This success with environmental cap-and-trade systems should be contrasted with many other public policy proposals for which the normal course of events is that the political bargaining that is necessary to develop support reduces the effectiveness of the policy or drives up its overall costs.
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Topics: Environment Politics and economics
Tags: climate change, Cap-and-trade, independence property
Robert Stavins
Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Director of the Environmental Economics Program, Harvard University
Robert Hahn
Tesco Professor of Economics and Director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester


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Using your old jewellery, the precious heirlooms from your auntie on your mother's side the one you have never worn, or broken chains, to small rings, anything preferably hallmarked. I can smelt it down and make something amazing solid, something pretty, beautiful out of it.
Something special, that is just for you. With the added bonus it is totally safe gold, fair trade, you have decluttered the house and can look forward to a new sparkling piece of jewellery. I can work in the gemstones from the old jewellery or find a new one that matches your ideas, in my vast collection of natures treasures.
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Bookmakers considered Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester clubs, Chelsea and Tottenham as title outsiders when the Premier League season began.
Sportsbooks who spend the offseason preparing for this gambling rush are more likely to handle the gambling frenzy than those who kept idle.
Fred Done sees some value in Manchester United because most of the money coming in on his sportsbook are on Chelsea and Manchester City.
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I was asked how to setup SSL(Embedded Apache Web Server) via SPS GUI so I thought I'd share with you here.
How to enable SSL via command-line is in the documentation(link below).
The instruction I am attaching to this post is how it is done via SPS GUI.
Thanks for sharing this tip with the community Kim!
Just about to increase hands-on experience with the new version, thank you Kim for the tech note.


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We were setting up a new Minecraft server at HTG headquarters to play the awesome Captive Minecraft survival mode game (which uses vanilla Minecraft, no mods required), when we realized we didn't have an article about how to find your saved games folder.
There are tons of Minecraft worlds on the Internet that you can download, unzip, and then play on your local computer without having to join a server or set one up, but to do that, you'll need to know how to get to your saved games, and Minecraft doesn't put those worlds into a place you'd expect, like your Documents folder.
We do have an article about how to backup, sync, and store your Minecraft saves in Dropbox, so if you want to do that, make sure to read the article.
Your saved games are stored inside of the AppData folder, which isn't that easily to find or get to because the whole AppData folder is hidden. Which makes it more confusing why they decided to put all the saved games there.
And hit the Enter key, of course.
Once you are there, you can browse down into the saves folder and copy, move, or do whatever you need to do.
On OS X, your saved games folder is located inside of the Library/Application Support directory inside of your user folder, but of course these folders aren't easy to find the normal way.
The easy way to get there is to just paste this into the Spotlight search window and hit the enter key.
From there you can browse into the saves folder, and you'll see all of them there.
We don't have screenshots for Linux, but it's all stored inside of the .minecraft directory inside of your user folder. The problem is that any directory that starts with a period is hidden in Linux.
You can also get there by using the ~ shortcut which represents your user folder directory.
Once you click to Single Player mode, you'll see the list of saved games. If you exit this screen and then click back in, you'll immediately see the new saved game that you unzipped or otherwise copied into this folder.


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Q: How to ensure that multiple clicks on a single button don't duplicate the result? I have developed a like button on post, and when it clicks, it adds 1 everytime. I only want once the user clicked the button, it counts only to one, but when it is clicked multiple times the count increases by the same user and which not supposed to happen?
I just want one click, one counter update by the same user, not anymore
how shall I proceed?
I am using the transactions in firestore to complete the operation
private void transactionlPostUserl1() {

        Log.d(TAG,"hello4");

        final DocumentReference PostUserRef = db.collection("users").document(PostAuthorID);

        db.runTransaction(new Transaction.Function<Void>() {
            @Override
            public Void apply(Transaction transaction) throws FirebaseFirestoreException {

                DocumentSnapshot documentSnapshot2 = transaction.get(PostUserRef);
                long l11 = documentSnapshot2.getLong("l2");
                { transaction.update(PostUserRef, "l2", l11+1);

                    return null;
                }

            }
        }).addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<Void>() {
            @Override
            public void onSuccess(Void result) {

                Log.d(TAG, "Transaction success: " + result);
            }
        })
                .addOnFailureListener(new OnFailureListener() {
                    @Override
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A: Save the ID of every user who liked for every post and then check if that person already like it? Then you can just count the amount of people who liked.

A: You can do something like this:
 boolean canClick = true;

        // inside the click event
        if (canClick)
        canClick = false;

        // when the click event ends:
        canClick = true;

A: You can use  btn.setEnabled(false); & btn.setEnabled(true); to control multiple click


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The Swiss National Bank and the European Central Bank have announced that an arrangement that provides euro zone banks with Swiss franc liquidity will continue.
The swap measure with the European Central Bank (ECB) providing Swiss francs for euros, which has been in force since last October, is to last until at least the end of April.
In a statement, they said the swap aimed to "support further improvements in the short-term Swiss franc money markets".
The foreign exchange swap provides Swiss francs against euros with a term of seven days at a fixed price to improve liquidity in these markets.
The Swiss central bank also announced that it would continue its franc swap arrangement with the Polish central bank for the same period.
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Mile High Morning: Justin Simmons, Broncos thrilled for Will Parks' return
With Will Parks returning to Denver, the person most eager for the reunion may be Justin Simmons.
The two safeties were members of the same draft class in 2016, and over the previous four seasons, they grew closer as friends and teammates. In 2020, Parks' contract came to an end and he joined the Eagles as a free agent, but when Parks was waived by Philadelphia, the Broncos were eager to bring him back.
"It's great," Simmons said Thursday. "The last thing I remember is we played the Raiders at home last year in the final game of the season. We exchanged jerseys because it was a 'you never know what's going to happen' moment. You could be here next year, you could not, on both of our ends. That was special. This is a guy I came in with and spent a lot of time with. Unfortunate what happened in Philly, but selfishly, I'm really happy he's back here and having the opportunity to close out the season with us. He's a great player, and more importantly and selfishly for me, he's and even better friend. Having him around the past four years has been awesome. I'm excited for him to be back."
With cornerback Bryce Callahan now on injured reserve and safety Trey Marshall recuperating from a shin injury, Parks can help the defense in a variety of ways, Head Coach Vic Fangio said Thursday.
"Will's a guy that we liked," Fangio said. "He's versatile. We like him as a player. We like him as a person. I think he's excited to come back here and we'll see exactly how he fits in. Will played the nickel position for us last year, played the dime, he can play safety. One thing with losing Bryce, we've lost some versatility in our secondary because although Bryce had been playing corner the last few weeks exclusively, he can also play nickel, obviously. So, our nickel depth has gone down some, so we needed some versatility to bring back to replace Bryce. Coincidentally, Will got cut and he's a guy we like as a player and a person and like I said, I think he's excited to be back here."
That Parks was such a beloved figure in the locker room is just icing on the cake, Fangio added.
"It's a bonus," Fangio said. "Any time you pick up a guy this time of year, usually it's a guy with not much … if any history with the organization he's coming into. Obviously, that's not the case with Will. … I think he's very happy to be coming back here. What role he'll play when he's eligible to play, which will start next week providing he passes all the protocols, I'm not sure yet."
The Chiefs' offense does not lack terrifying weapons, that's for sure. The scariest of them all may be Tyreek Hill, whose blazing speed can take the top off of any defense, as we saw in his 269-yard performance a week ago. And recent events may put the Broncos in a tight spot covering him, The Denver Post's Ryan O'Halloran writes. "Covering Hill with a full cupboard of defensive personnel would have been tough enough for the Broncos," O'Halloran writes. "But Bryce Callahan, their top cornerback all season, was placed on injured reserve (foot) Wednesday. Bouye will be joined by rookies Michael Ojemudia and Essang Bassey and veteran DeVante Bausby."
In addition to the Broncos' game, fans who bleed orange and blue will want to carve out some time on Sunday for a new episode of Peyton's Places. The episode, which will be available to stream on ESPN+ beginning on Sunday, features John Elway. He and host Peyton Manning will discuss Elway's development as a young quarterback, break down film of "The Drive" and discuss memories from Super Bowl 50. But the moment you really don't want to miss is when Elway demonstrates the "Elway Cross."
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Mile High Morning: How George Paton's competitiveness and work ethic paved the way for his GM future
"When I knew that George was different than I was, he was sleeping on somebody's couch and working 20 hours a day for the Bears," one of Paton's longtime friends said.
Mile High Morning: The league reacts to the Broncos' hiring of George Paton
"George Paton is an absolute stud," former NFL QB Sage Rosenfels wrote.
Mile High Morning: Three Broncos continue to push for clemency for medically vulnerable incarcerated Coloradans
"There's so many people in prison, that are in our prisons right now, that are nonviolent, at high risk of exposure for COVID, have safe homes to return to, have stable jobs to return to, aren't threats to society that deserve a second chance at an opportunity to live their life," Simmons said.
Mile High Morning: Remembering three of new College Football Hall of Fame inductee Al Wilson's best Broncos games
"He could fill and play with the big boys inside, but he also had the athleticism where he could cover," John Lynch once told Mike Klis.
Mile High Morning: Celebrating the 34th anniversary of 'The Drive'
"They cut him loose, and it was away we go," Karl Mecklenburg said.
Mile High Morning: Remembering Tim Tebow and Demaryius Thomas' Mile High magic, nine years later
"It was the first time we had ever run it exactly like that," Tebow said.
Mile High Morning: Three Broncos earn All-Pro selections from Pro Football Focus
"Callahan hasn't played since Week 12, but what we saw from him was so impressive that he makes it as the flex defender despite that missed time," Sam Monson wrote.
Mile High Morning: Which of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's 15 Modern-Era finalists will be elected to the Class of 2021?
"There is no need to even discuss his candidacy further," Rank wrote of Manning. But what are the chances for Lynch?
Mile High Morning: Getting to know the former Broncos who could be candidates in Denver's GM search
Champ Kelly, Adam Peters and John Spytek appear to all be on track to become GMs at some point in their careers.


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KETCHUM, IDAHO - Long-time environmental activist, Carole King, and members of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, were hosts to Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT) for a four-day tour of the Idaho back country.
The trip gave the Congressman a first hand look of the five distinct ecosystems which would be protected under the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA). The bill has bipartisan support in the House.
BURBANK, CALIFORNIA - In case you haven't heard, Carole King and daughter Louise Goffin perform a new version of the King/Stern classic "Where You Lead," for The Gilmore girls, WB TV's hit television series.
The lyrics fit perfectly as the theme song for the audacious Gilmore girls, a single mother raising her precocious teenage daughter.
More of Carole's music can be heard in the series during the fall television season.
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STATS to Honor Four Outstanding FCS Players and One Head Coach at Annual Gala
CHICAGO – November 27, 2017 – STATS, the worldwide leader in sports data and intelligence, announced today that it will once again hand out five awards at its annual FCS awards banquet in Frisco, Texas, on Jan. 5 – the night before the subdivision's national championship game at nearby Toyota Stadium.
The 24-team playoff field will be down to two finalists deep in the heart of Texas, but before the FCS' best team is crowned, its standout players will be honored at a gala event at the Embassy Suites Dallas-Frisco Convention Center. Last January, 150 attendees representing a cross-section of FCS roles came together at STATS' second awards ceremony.
The five awards to be presented are:
The STATS FCS Walter Payton Award, given to the FCS' offensive player of the year;
The STATS FCS Buck Buchanan Award, given to its defensive player of the year;
The STATS FCS Eddie Robinson Award, given to its coach of the year;
The STATS FCS Jerry Rice Award, given to its freshman of the year; and
The STATS FCS Doris Robinson Scholar-Athlete Award, given to the student-athlete who excels not only on the field and in the classroom, but in the community and beyond
"STATS is once again thrilled to honor the best and brightest of the FCS, past and present," said Brian Orefice, the company's director of news and data production. "It's an annual highlight to meet these student-athletes and continue to uphold the legacy of these incredible award namesakes."
A year ago, the banquet was highlighted by the attendance of luminaries like Jerry Rice, Jarrett Payton, Doug Williams, Gary Reasons and Dexter Coakley, and had footage shot by ESPN for use on its title-game telecast.
Founded by Mickey Charles of The Sports Network, the annual honors date back to 1987, when the Payton Award was presented to running back Kenny Gamble of Colgate and the Eddie Robinson Award went to Mark Duffner of Holy Cross. Since then, names of future NFL stars like Steve McNair, Brian Westbrook and Tony Romo have been called up to accept the Payton Award, which is often referred to as the "Heisman of the FCS." Last season, Sam Houston State's Jeremiah Briscoe won the award after setting an FCS record with 57 touchdown passes.
The Buchanan Award goes back to 1995 and includes such notable alums as Coakley and Jared Allen, while the Rice Award was created in 2011. The Doris Robinson Award was introduced two years ago to honor the service to community and academics of the legendary Grambling State coach's wife.
The same national panel of sports information and media relations directors, broadcasters, writers, and other dignitaries who select the STATS FCS Top 25 poll – numbering over 150 voters – will choose the winners.
Defending national champion James Madison has gone wire to wire as the nation's No. 1 team this season in the STATS FCS Top 25, which has featured representatives from 10 of the subdivision's 13 conferences. Aside from the Dukes holding steady at the top, parity has ruled. Nineteen teams have made an appearance in the poll's top 10 at some point during 2017.
In 2015, STATS expanded an initiative to serve the FCS community with staples such as a pre- and postseason All-America team, weekly Top 25 poll, national players of the week, award watch lists and season-ending awards. The company's dedicated FCS website – www.fcs.football – features breaking news, real-time scores and other content that combines the strengths of STATS' data, editorial and product expertise. The site has attracted 225,000 unique users and more than two million page views thus far in 2017.
The FCS competes at the NCAA's Division I level, and is home to 124 schools in 13 conferences across the country. Approximately 160 FCS players were on NFL rosters at the start of the 2017 season, including current stars like NFL MVP candidate Carson Wentz (North Dakota State), David Johnson (Northern Iowa), Joe Flacco (Delaware), Cooper Kupp (Eastern Washington), Adam Vinatieri (South Dakota State) and Cameron Brate (Harvard).


At a meeting with Romanian Minister of Economy and Commerce, Varujan Vosganian, private power suppliers refused the Minister's proposal to declassify their contracts. During the discussions, most of the suppliers declared that they could not agree with the publication of these contracts, regarding it as an unusual practice within a functional market economy, the Ministry of Economy said in a press release. The companies represented at the meeting were Alro Slatina, Energy Holding, EGL Romania, Elcomex Bucharest, Pet Prod, EON, Enol, Grivco, Buzzman, Euro Pec, Lexten, EGL, CEZ and Enel.