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I swear if Alli scores a header against us from an Eriksen cross.
I hope Sarri saw Poch in his presser today and sends a couple of our players to be "naughty". I'd start with Alli and Eriksen.
The former because I just despise him. Eriksen because he's damn good.
He didn't play well, he had a good 10 minutes.
Excluding the back 5, no one played well.
2) and 3) I accept totally.
That was back in the time where Conte would have 8 players in our box, watching Alli running inside it, and Erikssen lining the chip up from the outside like a golf pro with 2 or 3 colleagues besides him giving him advice on which club to use.
Solving that conundrum apparently made Conte a genius.
Not sure how the bench will look should the last three be unavailable... Loftus and Giroud definitely out right?
Looks like RLC, Willian, Giroud and Pedro are all injured to some degree, so it would seem that CHO is very likely to feature.
Well he should on merit anyway for me.
Doubt CHO will feature from the start if Pedro or Willian is remotely fit. This is Spurs and a cup is at stake. Get real people.
Its a two legged affair with a Willian and Pedro not fully fit (save them for the PL). Start CHO and then bring on one of the latter if needed.
As they are not fully fit, he may well end up starting one of them and see how it goes after 45 mins or an hour - then swap them out for CHO.
According to Sky RLC is out, however Willian, Pedro and Giroud are back in contention... Will CHO start? My guess is no and with that he will be gone.
Rightly or wrongly CHO will probably be looking at this game as one he should be getting a good go at; League Cup, Lots of games at the moment, 2 assists in previous game, rivals for his position may not be 100%. For CHO this would be a huge game to start in, a real show of confidence in him, a derby at Wembley in a cup semi final, give him a taste of what being in this first team is like.
Might also depend on hs own fitness. didn't he cramp up at the end of the Forest game, after coming off at Watford with a tight hamstring?
To be quite honest, this is a game we could do without.


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Planning reform symposium roundup
Glen McLeod Legal was proud to co-organise with Murdoch University School of Law a symposium on the independent review of the WA planning system. The review, which was commissioned by the Minister for Planning, proposes reforms to make the WA planning system more efficient, open and understandable.
The lead independent reviewer, Evan Jones presented on five key reform areas identified in the Green Paper, being strategic leadership, legibility, transparency, efficiency and delivering smart growth. The following contains a brief summary of each proposed reform.
Strategically led: the key reform will be to put strategy at the centre of the WA planning system. This will involve amending the Planning and Development Act 2005 (WA) (PD Act) to define 'strategic planning' and 'sustainable development', as well as making strategic planning for sustainable development the purpose of planning in WA. The core concept of 'sustainability' is proposed to be defined in a State Planning Policy (SPP), with steps on how to balance economic, social and environmental factors for land use planning.
Legible: the reforms propose to:
(a) consolidate all SPPs together into a single concise State Planning Framework spanning less than 200 pages;
(b) reorganise SPPs into common elements that are used directly for regional plans and local planning schemes (LPS);
(c) create a Comprehensive Local Planning Scheme for each local government, which contains all local planning strategies, legal provisions, maps and local planning policies. This will be published in a single, easy-to-navigate, standardised format; and
(d) create a set of standardised zones, land uses and land use permissibility to apply in Perth and major regional centres.
Transparent: the reforms propose to establish a Community Engagement Charter for more active community participation and to improve the Development Assessment Panel (DAP) system to increase transparency and community trust in the decision-making process. This includes making information about DAP meetings available online, providing reasons for all DAP decisions, appointing a state based pool of expert DAP members for complex matters and appointing a Chief Presiding Member to oversee the quality and consistency of DAP decisions.
Efficiency: the Green Paper recommends extending delegations from the Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC) to the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage (DPLH) and local government. The long term idea is that:
(a) the WAPC will only be responsible for matters of state and regional strategic planning significance;
(b) the DPLH will be responsible for the operation of the state planning system and provide leadership and guidance to local government; and
(c) local government will be responsible for local policies, development and small infill subdivision in accordance with a local structure plan.
Other goals for reform include fast-tracking certain development approvals, reducing the timeframe in which additional information can be sought and providing upfront agreements on the scope and content of Local Structure Plans (LSP).
Connected and Smart Growth: the planning system needs tofocus on planning and delivering key urban infill locations of activity centres, urban corridors and station precincts. This will require the development of a Connected Smart Growth SPP and clearly defining the different roles to be played by the State Government.
The symposium concluded with an engaging panel discussion between Evan Jones, Paul Kotsoglo (Managing Director, Planning Solutions), Len Kosova (CEO, City of Vincent) and Jane Bennett (Director, CLE Town Planning + Design).
There was also a diverse range of input from the audience consisting of architects, environmental consultants, local government representatives and legal professionals. Questions centred around the new dynamic between state and local government in delivering the proposed reforms, the delivery of the reforms as 'Day 1' changes or a gradual roll out, and whether the office of an Independent Planning Reviewer should be established.
We would like to thank the panel members and audience for making the symposium a successful event. Special thanks also to Professor Jürgen Bröhmer, Dean of Murdoch Law School, for generously providing the facilities at Murdoch University.
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Through today's blog, I want to extend my very best wishes to 22 year-old Alex McKinnon, who suffered what has been described as a "devastating spinal injury" in an Australian rugby league game this past weekend.
The injury (which occurred during the NRL fixture between McKinnon's club, Newcastle Knights, and the Melbourne Storm) came from a three-man tackle on McKinnon, which resulted in the young forward landing on his head, breaking his C4 and C5 vertebrae in the impact.
Recent reports have confirmed that McKinnon has undergone emergency surgery to remove a disc and fuse the dislocated vertebrae, and he has been placed in an induced coma before further tests will reveal the full extent of damage to his neck and spinal cord (although it was encouraging to read that he does have movement in his right arm).
Rugby league is, in my opinion, the most consistently exciting spectator sport there is, a mixture of sublime skills, pace, strength, and incredible physicality. Those at the top level of the game are quite simply outstanding athletes, but it takes a fair bit of courage to play the game at any level, and the injury sustained by Alex McKinnon certainly serves as a cautionary reminder of the occasionally terrible, but thankfully rare, consequences of such an intense contact sport.
Those who know the game far better than I, may question the effect of the three-man tackle rule change, where the third man can no longer tackle the player's legs, and whether this affected how McKinnon was driven to the ground. Also, it seems as if McKinnon ducks his head slightly just before hitting the playing surface: did this arguably worsen the impact of the tackle? For me, having watched the incident a couple of times at full speed and in slow motion, it is probably just an awful accident; one of those things that is unintentional and unavoidable simply because it happens so fast.
In fairness though, all that really matters here is for this brave young man to make as full and swift a recovery as possible, and I hope that is exactly what happens. All the best Alex.


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The Nakagin Capsule Tower, not long after its construction. © Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates. Photo: Tomio Ohashi.
Completed in 1972 the Nakagin Capsule Tower (中銀カプセルタワー Nakagin Kapuseru Tawā) is a mixed-use residential and office tower designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa and located in Shimbashi, Tokyo, Japan. An exercise in Metabolist architecture, tower has also served as a prototype for uniquely Japanese urban accommodations, such as business and capsule hotels.
"The building is actually composed of two interconnected concrete towers, respectively eleven and thirteen floors, which house 140 prefabricated modules (or "capsules") which are each self-contained units. Each capsule measures 2.3 m (8 ft) × 3.8 m (12 ft) × 2.1 m (7 ft) and functions as a small living or office space. Capsules can be connected and combined to create larger spaces. Each capsule is connected to one of the two main shafts only by four high-tension bolts and is designed to be replaceable. No units have been replaced since the original construction.
The original target demographic were bachelor salarymen. The compact apartments included a wall of appliances and cabinets built in to one side, including a kitchen stove, a refrigerator, a television set, and a reel-to-reel tape deck. A bathroom unit, about the size of an aircraft lavatory, is set into an opposite corner. A large circular window over a bed dominates the far end of the room.
Construction occurred on site and off site. On-site work included the two towers and their energy-supply systems and equipment, while the capsule parts were fabricated and the capsules were assembled at a factory.
The capsules were fitted with utilities and interior fittings before being shipped to the building site, where they were attached to the concrete towers. Each capsule is attached independently and cantilevered from the shaft, so that any capsule may be removed easily without affecting the others. The capsules are all-welded lightweight steel-truss boxes clad in galvanized, rib-reinforced steel panels. After processing, the panels were coated with rust-preventative paint and finished with a coat of Kenitex glossy spray.
The cores are rigid-frame, made of a steel frame and reinforced concrete. From the basement to the second floor, ordinary concrete was used; above those levels, lightweight concrete was used. Shuttering consists of large panels the height of a single storey of the tower. In order to make early use of the staircase, precast concrete was used in the floor plates and the elevator shafts. Because of the pattern in which two days of steel-frame work were followed by two days of precast-concrete work, the staircase was completely operational by the time the framework was finished. On-site construction of the elevators was shortened by incorporating the 3-D frames, the rails, and anchor indicator boxes in the precast concrete elements and by employing prefabricated cages."
Sadly it's been knocked down now.
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We've all put our toys into strange and compromising situations (don't deny it!), but photographer Edy Hardjo took it a whole other level, taking some of impressively detailed Marvel figures (with The Joker and a facehugger sneaking in there too) and putting them in the middle of some hilarious and not so super situations. These are pretty sweet, so take some time out and check them out below.


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The FLR Advanced Login Mode is case-sensitve for the user name.
Use the same case sensitivity for the user-defined name in vSphere. This is a known issue and should not be case-sensitive. This will be addressed in a future release.
VDP FLR fails to mount supported disks if any of the disks selected are unsupported.
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The Select Restore Options page has a field called 'Location path' with an optional field to restore to an alternate location. If the user specifies an alternate location path, the db files path of the target db on the target SQL client system remains the same as the source db in the source SQL client system; the user is not able to specify an alternate path for the db files.
The user is not notified when a backup job of a client becomes disabled for any reason. No tasks are generated and no error message is displayed.
When a user cancels and deletes backup jobs, the expected behavior is the backup job should end and not resume. For Microsoft Exchange clients, the deleted backup jobs resume and continually run.
The VDP appliance does not properly validate authentication, even if the user provides an invalid or incomplete IP address or an invalid fully-qualified domain name (FQDN). Although the client plug-in installation process completes without an error message, the client does not activate.
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Scheduled image backup jobs do not trigger at the beginning of the backup start window after a time zone change. After changing the time zone, the scheduled backup is delayed by one hour.
The SQL Server does not allow differential or incremental backups on the master database. If a user backs up the master database and selects incremental or differential as the backup type, VDP Advanced automatically converts this to a full backup.
On SQL servers, perform a full backup type when backing up the master database.
The vSphere Data Protection Advanced appliance name does not appear consistently in the user interface. For example, the VDP configure pages still refer to the product as vSphere Data Protection.
On backup jobs performed on Microsoft Exchange 2010 clients, the backup job detail sources display the dismounted databases, but when the user is editing the client, the dismounted databases do not return information.
Details of selected application options do not display on the 'Ready to Complete' page of the backup wizard. Details would provide the user the option to confirm that the selected options are configured correctly.
When a backup job is deleted and the user attempts to verify the deletion from the Edit Backup Jobs wizard, there is no indication that the database for the selected SQL client no longer exists.
If a VDP Advanced Appliance is deployed on an ESX host with vSphere version 4.1 (update 1, 2, or 3), the capacity expansion user interface generates an error message and the vSphere Web Client hangs.
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When a user clicks the log bundler in the VDR-Configure user interface, the Client activity log reports no activity, even when backup and restore operations fail.
This issue is not consistently reproducible; however, if it occurs restart the Apache Tomcat server using the emwebapp.sh --restart command.
VDP uses HTTP access to access vmx and nvram content. If datastore access over HTTP is disabled in the vpxd.cfg file or the vCenter Server, the VDP backup fails and displays a "Miscellaneous Errors" message.
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Medicine - Brian Witcombe, of Gloucestershire Royal NHS Foundation Trust, UK, and Dan Meyer for their probing work on the health consequences of swallowing a sword.
Physics - A US-Chile team who ironed out the problem of how sheets become wrinkled.
Biology - Dr Johanna van Bronswijk of the Netherlands for carrying out a creepy crawly census of all of the mites, insects, spiders, ferns and fungi that share our beds.
Chemistry - Mayu Yamamoto, from Japan, for developing a method to extract vanilla fragrance and flavouring from cow dung.
Linguistics - A University of Barcelona team for showing that rats are unable to tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and somebody speaking Dutch backwards.
Literature - Glenda Browne of Blue Mountains, Australia, for her study of the word "the", and how it can flummox those trying to put things into alphabetical order.
Peace - The US Air Force Wright Laboratory for instigating research and development on a chemical weapon that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among enemy troops.
Nutrition - Brian Wansink of Cornell University for investigating the limits of human appetite by feeding volunteers a self-refilling, "bottomless" bowl of soup.
Economics - Kuo Cheng Hsieh of Taiwan for patenting a device that can catch bank robbers by dropping a net over them.
Aviation - A National University of Quilmes, Argentina, team for discovering that impotency drugs can help hamsters to recover from jet lag.


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Ernst Geitlinger (1895–1972) was an innovative painter throughout his life and is regarded as a pioneer of geometric abstract painting in Germany. The selection of works in the permanent Geitlinger Collection reveals how the artist increasingly moved away from representation to finally concentrating on pure relationships between form and colour.
Geitlinger, who was born in Frankfurt, lived in New York for many years before returning to Germany to study fine art. His art was deemed to be 'degenerate' in the Nazi period. Ernst Geitlinger was a co-founder of the "Neue Gruppe" of artists in Munich and represented Germany at the 1948 Venice Biennale. Between 1952 and 1965 he was Professor of Painting and Graphic Arts at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste [Academy of Visual Arts] in Munich where he became a role model for the emergence of experimental abstract art after 1945. He died in 1972 in Seeshaupt on Lake Starnberg (Bavaria).
Unlike Edwin Scharff, who was born in Neu-Ulm, there are no biographical connections between Ernst Geitlinger and Neu-Ulm. Since the 1990s, the now dissolved Ernst Geitlinger Society, an association of his former students, has made a large part of the bequest available to the town of Neu-Ulm. The collection has been supplemented in recent years by a number of purchases. Since 2009 - on the occasion of the museum's reopening in 2018 - the descendants have also bequeathed to the museum a significant collection of graphic works on paper.


I have studied the law of attraction for some time now. I feel that this is a process that can improve or destroy a persons life. The law states: We attract the kind of life ,and the people in our lives by what we think about. The brain is like a radio receiver that send out waves to other like minded brains. I am now sending out a message to the world. Due to the signing of the sequestration order signed by Obama. My job hours have been cut by 50% this has but my goal of starting my business called: Roberts Foreclosure Solutions. I am attempting to save a dream that I have of helping others. the link is: http://www.gofundme.com/2rbsjw. Please go there and read my story. Thanks.


You've been invited to work for Deutsche Bahn as a driver on one of Germany's distinctive S-Bahn railways. Navigating the busy S-Bahn will require you to master the layout of the route and the functions and systems of your train as well as Deutsche Bahn's unique signalling system. With thousands of passengers to transport on-time, your skill, focus and endurance will be tested to the limit!
Catering for players of all ability levels with accessible tutorials for beginners and advanced procedures for experts. Feel the detail as you step into the cab, take control then live out your dreams exploring the highly detailed and immersive environment in Rapid Transit!
Looks nice is about the best that can be said.
We already know from CSX and GWE that "Simu-graph" gives what can politely be described as arcade physics, no better than DCC in Trainz.
The Germans will rip this to pieces if the signaling etc. implementation is even slightly off.
Discussion on the English language forums has already flat-lined so I can't see this being that popular outside of Germany. If N3V wanted a big hitter for their European effort, they should have taken an iconic route from Germany (Rhine Valley) or Switzerland (Gotthard) and set it in the early 80's with classic traction and everything from TEE trains to humdrum local services with 4 - 5 coaches of older stock.
I have seen on Steam, there are mostly negative comments about the game.
But let's see what in in DTG's mind.


Babi Yar Park, and other parks you may not know.
Did you know Denver has 250 parks, equaling almost 8% of the city's total size? This article from the Denver Post highlights 10 of the best Denver Parks you've never been to. Mundus Bishop has done master planning and park improvements for both Babi Yar Park and Mestizo-Curtis Park.


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Home Daily news World's largest bacterium found in Caribbean swamp
World's largest bacterium found in Caribbean swamp
Scientists have discovered the world's largest bacterium in a Caribbean mangrove swamp. Most bacteria are microscopic — but this one is so big it can be seen with the naked eye.
The thin white filament, approximately the size of a human eyelash, is "by far the largest bacterium known to date," said Jean-Marie Volland, a marine biologist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and co-author of a paper announcing the discovery Thursday in the journal Science.
Olivier Gros, a co-author and biologist at the University of the French West Indies and Guiana, found the first example of this bacterium — named Thiomargarita magnifica, or "magnificent sulfur pearl" — clinging to sunken mangrove leaves in the archipelago of Guadeloupe in 2009.
But he didn't immediately know it was a bacterium because of its surprisingly large size — these bacteria, on average, reach a length of a third of an inch. Only later genetic analysis revealed the organism to be a single bacterial cell.
"It's an amazing discovery," said Petra Levin, a microbiologist at Washington University in St Louis, who was not involved in the study. "It opens up the question of how many of these giant bacteria are out there — and reminds us we should never, ever underestimate bacteria.
Gros also found the bacterium attached to oyster shells, rocks and glass bottles in the swamp.
Scientists have not yet been able to grow it in lab culture, but the researchers' say the cell has a structure that's unusual for bacteria. One key difference: It has a large central compartment, or vacuole, that allows some cell functions to happen in that controlled environment instead of throughout the cell.
"The acquisition of this large central vacuole definitely helps a cell to bypass physical limitations … on how big a cell can be," said Manuel Campos, a biologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research, who was not involved in the study.
The researchers said they aren't certain why the bacterium is so large, but co-author Volland hypothesized it may be an adaptation to help it avoid being eaten by smaller organisms.
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Policing girls' school uniform does not prevent sexual harassment, it perpetuates it
Helena DG argues that the way in which uniform is policed foregrounds inequalities rather than acting as an equaliser.
"...the rule which continuously caused the greatest stir was the insistence on knee-length skirts."Wikimedia Commons
by Helena DG
Friday April 16 2021, 1:00am
Content note: this article contains discussion of sexual misconduct and assault.
Having attended both single-sex and co-ed schools, I have encountered numerous uniform policies, ranging from compulsory blazers to a ban on bright hairbands. However, the rule which continuously caused the greatest stir was the insistence on knee-length skirts. Luckily, however, punishments were rare as most girls were accustomed to rolling their skirts down as quickly as they had been rolled up. Nevertheless, the constant focus on girls' legs always irked me.
During the induction of how to walk to the school's playing fields, there was less of a focus on being cautious of traffic than there was on the absolute necessity of wearing tracksuit bottoms on top of one's skort — a necessity which I deemed to be unnecessary.
Building on this, I do not remember what sport we were meant to be playing the first time we walked to these fields. What I do remember is the trouble I (and a few others) got into for not wearing tracksuits upon arrival that first day as we were paraded as the example of 'what not to do' whilst an angry teacher wilfully shouted at us. At the time, I asked the teacher, 'What's the problem. They're just legs', — something which did little to resolve the problem, but resulted in gaining me a reputation as being subversive. Yet, I wasn't trying to be subversive. I was just confused, trying to look for a rational explanation for the teacher's irrational outburst.
"Whilst unable to articulate the misogyny when I was 11, the message of blame was unmissable at that point."
After this incident I ended up succumbing; wearing tracksuits — pointless as it may be — was preferable to confrontation. Soon the issue was out of sight, out of mind. It was only then at my later school where the issue reemerged. Again, during an induction we were told not to wear "provocative" skorts around school for "our own protection". Only upon hearing this years later, did I realise that my 11-year-old self had been right to confront that PE teacher. Whilst unable to articulate the misogyny when I was 11, the message of blame was unmissable at that point.
Hearing that a PE kit could be 'provocative' made me question why teachers were so provoked by it. It is in this way that uniform reveals gendered inequalities, as critiquing a girl's skirt differs to telling students to tuck in their shirts — something which is not deemed provocative, and is not intrinsically linked with blame. Associating young girls' clothes with sexuality and their safety is highly dangerous: not only does this place blame on victims, and fail to address the problem of gendered violence at its root, but it also roots violence by perpetuating a warped status quo.
In some UK schools, skirts are being outlawed in a purported move towards equality. Yet, what this is emblematic of, is women having to adjust their behaviour or dress in order to avoid wrongs for which they are not culpable. Whilst female safety continues to be a concern, it cannot be altered by forcing girls to change. Such alterations merely paper over the cracks and end up validating violence. The associated notions of blame form the foundation for why it was possible to dismiss a high-profile rape case in Peru due to the colour of a woman's underwear. Thus, on top of failing to address rape culture, asking women to alter their behaviour exacerbates — not minimises — the risks they face.
"Whilst female safety continues to be a concern, it cannot be altered by forcing girls to change."
A recent survey by UN Women UK revealed that 97% of women aged 18-24 had been sexually harassed. Though harassment should by no means be considered to be normal, it becomes normalised through authority figures, such as teachers. At school, I remember how a male teacher took it upon himself to wander the halls as the "uniform police", peering through the glass panels by the door to see if there were any girls displaying too much leg. Once he identified his target, he would take great pride in pinpointing the problems of the girl's uniform.
In hindsight, the thirteen-year-old girls were not the problem, he was. Yet, through his routine practice he normalised and institutionalised harassment by legitimising the idea that girls not only ought to be critiqued based on their appearance, but also shamed and blamed on account of the way in which their bodies are sexualised against their will.
The million-dollar question is why most skirts end up being shortened in the first place. Having asked various girls, the most common answer was, "it was the done thing" — something I cannot disagree with, as I fail to remember anyone who actually had a knee-length skirt. Yet, the reason it was the "done thing" is derived from social pressures; the very nature of the objectification of women means that women's value is (mistakenly) derived from outward appearance.
Consequently, there is a greater focus on how women look, and pressure to conform to expectation. Thus, the semi-subconscious act of altering one's uniform is rooted in sexist double standards; more often than not girls are not trying to break rules, but rather conform to what is expected of them. Ultimately, if everyone has a short skirt, you only stand out if yours is long. The criticism of short skirts thus highlights the binary of womanhood: damned if you do, and damned if you don't. If you don't shorten your skirt, you purportedly choose to single yourself out by defying gender norms. Equally, if you do shorten your skirt, you supposedly seek being sexualised. In both cases, the way in which girls dress is infiltrated by the male gaze, and becomes rife for criticism.
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Instead of backing girls into a cycle of victimhood and shame, it is about time to break the rules and evaluate the conditions which allow this cycle to exist in the first place.
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Hasbro to release The Lion King edition of Monopoly
Over the years, Hasbro has unveiled numerous pop culture editions of its classic board game Monopoly, including Game of Thrones, Pokémon, Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and Disney.
Now, in celebration of the movie's 25th anniversary, Hasbro is releasing a brand new edition of Monopoly specifically based on Disney's The Lion King. Armed with so many intricate details, including six detailed playing pieces of Mufasa, Scar, Simba, Nala, Timon, and Pumbaa, The Lion King Monopoly is set to be a must have for any fan of the iconic film.
Instead of the usual properties which are available to purchase, the ones on The Lion King edition are a mixture of classic locations and moments from the film. Beetles and grubs replace the standard hotels and houses, whilst the railroads are based on four animal herds: Rhino, Elephant, Antelope, and Wildebeest.
The two utility spaces have been replaced by Advisor properties featuring Rafiki or Zazu on them, whilst the Chance and Community Chest cards have been swapped out by 32 Destiny cards based on scenes from the film. Our favourite Destiny card is one with Scar's iconic "Life's Not Fair, Is It?" line on it, which leads to the player paying 50 Monopoly dollars to the banker.
If all of that wasn't amazing enough, the game also includes a musical compact rendition of Pride Rock which, when pressed, plays 'The Circle of Life'. It requires 2x AAA batteries, but the good news is that they're already included so you can get playing straight away.
Speaking to INSIDER, senior director of global brand strategy and marketing at Hasbro, Jen Boswinkel said: "We know fans love pop culture integrations with their favorite games and with the 25th anniversary of the original motion picture and the release of the live-action film in July, fans will be clamoring for ways to celebrate the classic movie."
Monopoly's The Lion King Edition will be available Monday, April 22 at Walmart for $39.99 for ages eight and up and can be pre-ordered now. The game will be available at other retailers in June.
The new live-action remake of The Lion King will make its way to cinemas on July 19. A new full-length trailer was recently released, which you can check out below.
Will you be buying The Lion King edition of Monopoly? Excited for the movie? Let us know in the comments below.
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Q: Java SimpleDateFormat Date Actual Result Changed I use the code below to change the date format of the date. But the result changes to different date, it becomes 12/27/2021. When I checked it, it says it uses Gregorian Calendar. Anyone know how to fix this.
        String date = "23-03-2021";
        Date d = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-YYYY").parse(date);
        SimpleDateFormat outputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/YYYY");
        String paymentdate = outputFormat.format(d);
        System.out.println(paymentdate);

Actual:
12/27/2021

Expected:
03/23/2021

A: The problem is that you're using YYYY instead of yyyy. I tried your code snippet and that should solve your problem.

A: Use yyyy instead of YYYY because Y represents the week of year or week year whereas y represents only year.
According to Java Docs on Week Of Year and Week Year :

A week year is in sync with a WEEK_OF_YEAR cycle. All weeks between
the first and last weeks (inclusive) have the same week year value.
Therefore, the first and last days of a week year may have different
calendar year values.

Modified code :
String date = "23-03-2021";
Date d = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy").parse(date);
SimpleDateFormat outputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
String paymentdate = outputFormat.format(d);
System.out.println(paymentdate);

Output :
03/23/2021

Don't use java.util.Date as it is deprecated and it will be removed in the future. Better use classes from java.time package.
Equivalent code using java.time classes :
String date = "23-03-2021";
TemporalAccessor d = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd-MM-yyyy").parse(date);
String paymentdate = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM/dd/yyyy").format(d);
System.out.println(paymentdate);

Output :
03/23/2021

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Signs Of The Times? Earthquake Swarms Hit Texas, Oklahoma, San Francisco And The New Madrid Fault Zone
There is a whole lotta shaking going on in America right now, and many people are concerned about what that could potentially mean. Could it be possible that the U.S. is entering a more seismically active time? This week alone, we have seen earthquake swarms in Texas, Oklahoma, San Francisco and the New Madrid fault zone. Of course earthquakes happen every day, but to see so many earthquake swarms happen in such diverse places within such a compressed period of time is definitely unusual. And what makes this even more unusual is the fact that Rosh Hashanah just ended. In fact, the earthquake swarm that we just witnessed in Texas started on Rosh Hashanah with a magnitude 4.0 quake near the town of "Snyder"…
In just over 12 hours, Texas experienced not one earthquake, but four, experts say.
Three quakes were centered near the town of Snyder — just south of the Texas panhandle — with a fourth centered near the Fort Worth area, according to the United States Geological Survey. The first and strongest of the cluster hit just after 4:45 p.m. Monday about 12 miles north of Snyder and measured magnitude 4.0.
That was the strongest earthquake in Texas so far this year, and it was followed by a magnitude 3.8 earthquake near Snyder, a magnitude 3.2 earthquake just south of Fort Worth, and a magnitude 2.5 earthquake near Snyder.
Meanwhile, we have been witnessing unusual earthquake activity in Oklahoma as well.
Over the past 24 hours, the state has experienced 9 earthquakes of at least magnitude 1.5, and over the past 7 days there have been 40 such earthquakes.
Decades ago, Oklahoma was very quiet geologically, but things sure have changed over the past few years. If you can believe it, there have already been more than 1,000 earthquakes of at least magnitude 1.5 in Oklahoma so far in 2019.
Meanwhile, we continue to see unusual seismic activity along the California coast. This week, a swarm of five moderate earthquakes in the San Francisco area made headlines all over the nation…
A swarm of tiny temblors shook up California's East Bay over the past 24 hours, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.
The agency reported at least five quakes registering from 2.0 to 2.9 magnitude, along with a slew of even smaller temblors registering below 2.0 magnitude.
The swarm centered on Dublin and San Ramon on the east side of San Francisco Bay.
Those earthquakes didn't really cause any significant damage, but the concern is that all of this shaking could be leading up to something. I wrote about this potential danger a few days ago, and scientists assure us that "the Big One" is way overdue and that at some point our time will run out.
Last but certainly not least, an earthquake swarm just hit the New Madrid fault zone as well.
In less than an hour on Monday morning, southeastern Missouri was hit by five significant earthquakes…
It started with a 2.6 magnitude temblor around 11:18 a.m. near Lilbourn, a small city just north of Missouri's boot heel, according to the United States Geological Survey. A mere three minutes later, a 1.1 magnitude quake rumbled nearby.
Just before 11:30 a.m., a 2.7 magnitude quake rattled southwest of Lilbourn followed by a 1.8 magnitude quake only five minutes later, the USGS says.
It would be 23 minutes before the next quake, another magnitude 2.7, shook an area just west of Lilbourn, the USGS says.
For those that don't know, southeastern Missouri sits right along the New Madrid fault zone, and in the early portion of the 19th century this part of the country was shaken by four of the largest earthquakes in U.S. history…
The New Madrid Seismic Zone is the most active earthquake zone east of the Rocky Mountains and spans southeastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, western Kentucky, and southern Illinois.
Between 1811 and 1812, the New Madrid Fault experienced some of the largest quakes in history. And although they originated in the Mississippi Valley, they rang church bells in Boston and shook New York City — over 1,000 miles away.
Even then-President James Madison and his wife Dolley reportedly felt shaking at the White House.
Scientists tell us that it is just a matter of time before earthquakes of that magnitude happen again, and this is something that I have been persistently warning about.
A number of years ago, the U.S. government conducted a major five day operation known as "National Level Exercise 11" in which they attempted to simulate what a major earthquake along the New Madrid fault zone would look like…
In May, the federal government simulated an earthquake so massive, it killed 100,000 Midwesterners instantly, and forced more than 7 million people out of their homes. At the time, National Level Exercise 11 went largely unnoticed; the scenario seemed too far-fetched — states like Illinois and Missouri are in the middle of a tectonic plate, not at the edge of one. A major quake happens there once every several generations.
Could you imagine what such a disaster would mean for our country?
Plus, it is important to note that there are 15 nuclear reactors operating within the New Madrid fault zone, and so in such a scenario we could potentially be facing the equivalent of 15 Fukushima nuclear disasters.
As long as the earthquakes rattling our nation remain small, they won't be a problem.
But really big earthquakes are often preceded by smaller "foreshocks", and scientists tell us that it is just a matter of time until the next great quake hits America.
So let us hope that all of this shaking settles down, because we want that day to be put off for as long as possible.
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Q: Vue js: add data when checked box In my Vue JS code below i wanted to sum input data if box is checked. I set a v-model for each input to post it to API, but i couldn't figure out the way to sum input data if boxed is checked.
Is there a way to do this in Vue Js?
thanks in advance

export default {
  data() {
    return {
      checkPayment: true,
      checkPayment2: true,
    }
  }

  <input v-model="instFour" class="paid-input" placeholder=" amount-1 " required />

   checked

  <input v-model="instFive" class="paid-input" placeholder=" amount-2" required />

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A: You can make computed property to return sum :

new Vue({
  el: "#demo",
  data() {
    return {
      groups: [{id: 1, input: 0, check: false}, {id: 2, input: 0, check: false},
               {id: 3, input: 0, check: false}, {id: 4, input: 0, check: false},
               {id: 5, input: 0, check: false}],
    }
  },
  computed: {
    getSum() {
      return this.calcSum()
    }
  },
  methods: {
    calcSum() {
      const checked = this.groups.filter(g => g.check === true)
      if (checked.length) {
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          .map(inp => Number(inp.input))
          .reduce((acc, cur) => {
            return acc + cur
          })
      } else {
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      }
    }
  }
})

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Aya Gruber Talks Feminist War on Crime at Novel Justice Event
By Annie Han
On April 6th, Aya Gruber, professor at the University of Colorado Law School, joined the Wilson Center for the last Novel Justice event of the spring. She delved into her book The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration, which documents the American feminists' role in contributing to mass incarceration while trying to combat sexual and domestic violence.
Gruber first recounted her personal experiences grappling with the "feminist defense attorney" dilemma early in her law career. Her desire to help indigent people in the criminal justice system conflicted with her "feminist truths", that viewed gender violence as "the root of patriarchal oppression which needed to be taken down by incarcerating one bad man at a time."
However, as a public defender in a domestic violence court in Washington, D.C., she saw a similar pattern there as she would in other misdemeanor courts: poor people of color being disproportionately impacted. Prosecutors would proceed with cases even if it was against their client's wishes; judges would issue sentences with conditions that place heavy financial burdens on families; and, cases involving immigrant women would make their spouses deportable and sometimes even themselves. Despite these being misdemeanors, "make no mistake, these were tragic cases," Gruber warns.
"These feminist truths have reigned so supreme that despite progressives' unease with mass incarceration, powerful feminist subgroups have repeatedly championed criminal law," according to Gruber. "Those on the left most vocally opposed to racist and authoritarian policing, prison, and punishment are often the most punitive about gender defenses, even minor ones like low-level sexual contact."
She heavily questioned her early feminist notions and sought to investigate how the feminist anti-violence agenda came to take priority over criminal justice reform. To do this, she unpacked the "canonical feminist historical account" by critiquing the various waves of American feminism. Her research opposes the popular feminist narrative about early anti-violence regulation. Rather than being under-enforced, domestic violence legislation was selectively enforced and even over-enforced depending on the race, class, and status of those involved.
The issues of gender, race, and law enforcement have been closely tied since the first wave. In trying to address gender violence in the late-19th century, feminists chose to do so through criminal law, and legislators took advantage of this, creating disenfranchisement laws around domestic violence for only African Americans and establishing legislation to restrict the immigration of "debauched" Chinese women.
Later on, in the early 1980s, weak law enforcement became the center of battered women's activism. "Legal feminists" beginning during the Civil Rights Movement argued that weak law enforcement enabled domestic violence by men and formulated the narrative that non-arrests were purely sexist, regardless of the other consequences involved.
"Mandatory arrests make as much sense as fighting fire with gasoline," argues Gruber, especially when considering the growing body of research at the time that showed arrest can exacerbate domestic violence issues. She specifically cites Lawrence Sherman's Milwaukee Domestic Violence Experiment of 1989 that found arresting unemployed Black men for domestic abuse made them more likely to recidivate.
Nevertheless, feminists and police supported the expansion of these pro-arrest programs, and these tactics of aggressive law enforcement and over-policing continue with modern-day feminism as with the #MeToo movement and initiatives to end campus sexual assault.
Ultimately, feminism and criminal justice have both shaped one another throughout history, causing the advocacy of women's rights to align with tough-on-crime movements and to encourage mass incarceration. As it stands, current anti-violence feminist policies only further disadvantage poor women of color by expanding the powers and resources of a corrupt system.
In her book, she urges feminists and lawmakers to focus more on intersectionality, melding feminism and anti-incarceration, and to re-imagine gender justice outside of the guise of criminal law. More efforts should be put towards reforming the underlying social, economic, and cultural causes of crimes against women.
Gruber does recognize the difficulties of this goal. The tendency to turn to criminal law is true even when looking at racial movements such as BLM and currently Stop Asian Hate. In moments of fear and anger, it is natural for people to go to their "most carceral instincts," pushing for harsher punishments against perpetrators and celebrating with the incarceration of each one. However, she implores us to push past that thought process towards the structural issues in order to create more reliable, long-term changes.
You can watch the full video of the event below.
Annie Han is an undergraduate student at Duke University working this semester with the Wilson Center for Science and Justice.


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