Because biceps are relatively small muscles and biceps exercises can be strenuous, improving them requires a very disciplined approach and careful attention to technique. Picking and choosing the right exercises for your client will help. Let's have a closer look at some of the more common ones.
Barbell biceps curls are the original biceps exercise and are still the best. Whether a straight or a bendy bar is used does not really make much difference (unless the hands are very pronated during the curl, which we'll discuss later). It is important to resist the temptation to swing the weight up or lean too far back when curling the weight. Cheating like this is certainly a legitimate training technique for advanced trainers during a tough biceps set, but care should be taken as a 'cheating' set can become ineffective (and possibly dangerous) if the weight is swung too much or if the body leans back too far in order to complete a rep. It is better to stay upright, control the movement and if necessary, get someone to help force an extra rep.
Heavy one-arm standing alternate dumbbell curl A heavy one-arm standing alternate dumbbell curl allows the trainer to lean into each alternate curl and arrange their body and hand position to achieve the best angle for the exercise. If performed correctly, the biceps really feel the weight of the dumbbell through a long contraction. A few sets of these can be a great change from barbell curls and, if done properly, are worth the extra time they take.
Note: Curling heavy dumbbells simultaneously is awkward and doesn't allow the optimal body position to be adopted for each individual curl, so alternately lifting and lowering one dumbbell at a time is preferable.
Seated incline dumbbell curls are a fantastic isolation exercise. With the palms supinated to about 45 degrees through the whole movement, the natural position of the arms in relation to the body isolates the biceps and helps prevent elbow movement, which is important (see below). The biceps also work through a very long range of motion. If these are performed smoothly through a full range, they will target the biceps like few other exercises can. The relatively light weight and the stable arm position mean that the exercise can be performed with both arms at the same time. The incline bench shouldn't be angled too far back, but experiment with the bench angle to find the most comfortable and effective position for your client.
Another popular biceps exercise is the preacher curl. The lifter sits on a bench, leans forward and drapes his arms over an angled elbow rest. The arms are supported, isolated and held still while a barbell or dumbbell curl is performed.
Some people with big arms, such as old-time bodybuilder Larry Scott who made this exercise famous, choose this exercise, but it isn't as effective as many people think. As the elbow flexes, the biceps contract as the weight travels upwards. In a very short time, though, the weight starts to travel horizontally through space and the biceps effectively stop working. For this reason, a preacher curl could be said to be a 'bottom-half' exercise. It can be effective, however, if a steeper preacher bench is used.
A much better alternative is a preacher bench in which the bar that is gripped is directly linked to a cable apparatus. The bench and the continuous resistance provided by the cable apparatus provide stability and biceps isolation, making it a superb biceps exercise. You and your clients may find other biceps exercises effective, but they will just be variations on a theme: all biceps exercises simply flex the elbow with a weight in the hand. It is worth considering a few other general points about effective biceps training.
Elbow movement: The more your elbow moves, especially laterally, during biceps (and triceps) work, the less effective the exercise will tend to be. A constantly shifting elbow means that the angles at which the arms are operating are always changing slightly. This makes it harder to achieve the kind of overload that muscles working through a constant angle encounter and respond to. Also when your elbows move around a lot during an exercise, too much energy is spent stabilising arms when your total effort should be directed to flexing your elbows and performing a curl. Try doing a cable biceps curl or cable triceps extension with your elbows supported or fixed and then try it with your elbows unsupported and this stabilising will be apparent. This tends to be more of an issue with cable and simultaneous dumbbell curls so keep that in mind.
Hand supination: Many people perform dumbbell curls with a built-in supination. That is, they start a curl with their hand slightly pronated (palm facing in) and as they curl, they supinate their hand (twist it outwards). The theory is that, since biceps function not only to flex elbows but to also supinate hands, supination should be a part of a biceps exercise. The difficulty is that the more a hand is pronated, the more the brachoradialus, not the biceps, contributes to elbow flexion. This point is perfectly illustrated by the reverse curl. By starting a curl with a pronated hand, the 'biceps' curl is really a biceps and brachoradialus curl, until such time that the hand is sufficiently pronated to remove any meaningful brachoradialus contribution. By that point, though, a lot of the elbow flexion in the exercise has already been performed and there's not as much work for the biceps to do. If you want to train your biceps, it's better not to pronate your hands. A rare exception might be if you are near the end of a tough session of dumbbell curls and you need a little help getting a curl started. Another exception is if you have a vulnerable or injured elbow which hurts when fully extended at the end of a curl. While a pronated hand will increase the stretch within biceps muscles during full elbow extension (and will therefore result in a better range of motion) it can place your elbows in a vulnerable position. A slight supination at this point can relieve the stress on the elbow joint while it's fully extended.
training straps are great for biceps work. And if you work hard enough, your forearms will still get a good workout just from your curls.
most people don't need to do specific forearm work – a good biceps routine will take care of forearms too.
in spite of a few 'scientific' studies which claim some back exercises are sufficient to build biceps, you won't build serious biceps without doing serious biceps training.
Tony is a Canberra-based fi tness instructor. He began bodybuilding in the early 1980s and has advised clients on weight training and strength and conditioning issues for 20 years. He has been teaching group fitness classes since 1994 and has taught throughout the ACT and internationally.


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Q: Delete logged in user PHP MySql I am trying to solve an issue I am facing. I want to delete a logged in user from a MySql database after they click a button.
The code I have named as changepw.php
<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "root";
$dbname = "loginsystem";

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

$uid =$_REQUEST['user_uid'];
// sql to delete a record
$sql = "DELETE FROM users WHERE user_uid='$uid'";

if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
    echo "Record deleted successfully";
} else {
    echo "Error deleting record: " . $conn->error;
}

$conn->close();
?>

The error I am getting:

It refers to this line:

$uid =$_REQUEST['user_uid'];

My login.php file looks like this:
<?php

session_start();

#first if
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

    include 'dbh.inc.php';

    $uid = mysqli_real_escape_string( $conn , $_POST['uid'] );
    $pwd = mysqli_real_escape_string( $conn , $_POST['pwd'] );

    //Error handerlers
    //Check if this input are empty
    #second if
    if (empty($uid) || empty($pwd)) {
        header("Location: ../index.php?login=empty");
        exit();
    }/*second else*/ else {
        $sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_uid='$uid' OR user_email='$uid'";
        $result = mysqli_query($conn,$sql);
        $resultCheck = mysqli_num_rows($result);
        #third if
        if ($resultCheck < 1) {
            header("Location: ../index.php?login=error");
            exit();
        }/*third else*/ else {
            #forth if
            if ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
                //de-hashing the password
                $hashedPwdCheck = password_verify($pwd , $row['user_pwd']);
                #fifth if
                if ($hashedPwdCheck == false) {
                    header("Location: ../index.php?login=error");
                    exit();
                } /*fifth else*/ elseif ($hashedPwdCheck == true) {
                    //Log in the user here
                    $_SESSION['u_id'] = $row['user_id'];
                    $_SESSION['u_first'] = $row['user_first'];
                    $_SESSION['u_last'] = $row['user_last'];
                    $_SESSION['u_email'] = $row['user_email'];
                    $_SESSION['u_uid'] = $row['user_uid'];
                    #might be not necessary
                    $email = $_SESSION['user_email'];

                    header("Location: ../index.php?login=success");
                    exit();
                }
            }
        }
    }
}/*first else*/ else {
    header("Location: ../index.php?login=error");
    exit();
}

Code where the button is located index.php
<?php
    include 'header.php';
?>

About

        <?php
            if (isset($_SESSION['u_id'])) {
                echo '

                <form action="includes/changepw.php" method="POST">
                            <button type="submit" name="submit">Delete User</button>
                </form>
                    ';

            }
        ?>

<?php
    include 'footer.php';
?>

I would really appreciate some help as I am not sure how to solve this.
Thanks in advance!

A: Here request parameter user_uid is missing. So add hidden input field inside form that will store user_uid as follows:
if (isset($_SESSION['u_id'])) {
    echo '<form action="includes/changepw.php" method="POST">
        <button type="submit" name="submit">Delete User</button>
    <input type="hidden" name="user_uid" value="'. $_SESSION['u_id'].'"
                    </form>';
}

Also don't forgot to sanitize input:
$uid = filter_var($_REQUEST['user_uid'], FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);

Read documentation for filter_var.

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*Hunts start promptly at time noted, it is suggested you arrive 10 min prior to start time as not to miss out. If you've ever been to an egg hunt, you know it doesn't take very long for the children to clear the field.
Food concessions and Kettle Korn will be available.


When developing and designing Apps for the iPhone or iPad be sure to follow the guidelines cautiously because Apple will reject your app if it's not up to standard. According to Apple not following the technical and design criteria might get your app rejected for submission and here are some of the most common issues that get apps rejected.
Your app must perform as advertised and should not give users the impression the app is something it is not. If your app appears to promise certain features and functionalities, it needs to deliver.
You should submit your app for review only when it is complete and ready to be published. Make sure to thoroughly test your app on devices and fix all bugs before submitting.
Apple places a high value on clean, refined, and user-friendly interfaces. Make sure your UI meets these requirements by planning your design carefully and following their design guides and UI Design Dos and Don'ts.
Finalize all images and text in your app before sending it in for review. Apps that are still in progress and contain placeholder content are not ready to be distributed and cannot be be approved.
When submitting your app for review, you'll be asked whether your app uses the Advertising Identifier (IDFA) to serve advertisements. If you indicate that your app uses the IDFA, but it does not have ad functionality or does not display ads properly, your app may be rejected. Make sure to test your app on an iOS device to verify that ads work correctly. Similarly, if you indicate that your app does not use the IDFA, but it does, your app will be put into the "Invalid Binary" status.
Enter all of the details needed to review your app in the App Review Information section of iTunes Connect. If some features require signing in, provide a valid demo account username and password. If there are special configurations to set, include the specifics. If features require an environment that is hard to replicate or require specific hardware, be prepared to provide a demo video or the hardware. Also, please make sure your contact information is complete and up-to-date.
Your app should be engaging and useful, and make the most of the features unique to iOS. Websites served in an iOS app, web content that is not formatted for iOS, and limited web interactions do not make a quality app.
If your app doesn't offer much functionality or content, or only applies to a small niche market, it may not be approved. Before creating your app, take a look at the apps in your category on the App Store and consider how you can provide an even better user experience.
Your app description and screenshots should clearly and accurately convey your app's functionality. This helps users understand your app and makes for a positive App Store experience.


Swire Properties has again teamed up with social enterprise Honestly Green to organise the highly-anticipated, sustainability-driven Tong Chong Street Market (TCSM) taking place every Sunday from 5 November to 11 February (except 3, 24, 31 December) 2018. Focusing on the concept of "Sunday-Market-on-Wheels" with a brand new, unifying design this time, over 40 innovative food vendors and local farmers will be serving food and selling seasonal produce in a multitude of colourful food truck and movable food stalls while market-goers can enjoy their meal inside of an iconic double-decker bus.
To keep the event fresh and exciting, TCSM will have different food themes this time, for which the 40 vendors specialise in one style of dish or beverage.
To kick off the buzzing event on 5 November, TCSM has collaborated with Twins Kitchen to present the Hong Kong Coffee Festival featuring local and international brewers who will serve some of the most fragrant artisanal roasts. While visitors sip their slow drip, they will have an opportunity to engage in interactive workshops hosted by experts to learn about the philosophy behind coffee brewing and tasting.
Here are the brewers, who are going to keep you well-caffeinated throughout the November Sundays.
At APF. KAFE, it is all about simplicity and focusing on the richness of the beans, all sourced from SEVEN SEEDS, a Melbourne-based roaster. The cute coffee house is located in a charming area next to a park and river in Guangzhou and was started by Peter Fong in 2016. They offer an espresso-based drink menu with only two options, black or white, as a way to create an unpretentious atmosphere for customers. Here is your opportunity to try APF's coffee without taking a train to the mainland.
The Coffee Academics is probably one of the most popular and successful artisanal coffee chains in the city. And as part of the brand's philosophy to expand the culture and knowledge of coffee throughout the city, it set up the Roastery Lab, a research institution that teaches the public how to store beans, roast them and ultimately brew them for the best cup of coffee. Besides coffee, the Coffee Academics kiosk will also be serving their signature chilled Nitro Cascara Tea.
This retail boutique cafe is a one-stop shop for all your coffee needs. Whether you need beans, coffee-making equipment or just an artisanal brew, H&H is the place to go. At TCSM, they will be serving a Nitro Cold Brew. As the name suggests, the coffee is cooled using nitrogen to achieve extra smoothness and extract a fruity sweet flavour from the coffee.
Caleb and Joshua Ng, who curated the coffee vendors showcasing at TCSM through their consultation company Twins Kitchen, are coffee lovers who have turned their cafe Common Ground into quite the cool hangout spot in Sheung Wan. They will be preparing their refreshing coffee soda cocktail infused with roselle and ginger at the market.
For casual coffee enthusiasts who want to make a good cup of coffee without all the complicated machinery, Home Brewers will teach you how. Here, you can learn how to make a great cup of coffee from the comfort of your home by 2017 Hong Kong Aeropress Champion Alfred Kwok (See interview with Alfred here), Honestly Green founder and TCSM collaborator Janice Leung Hayes, architect and designer H. C. Ng and former cafe owner Michael Wong. They will share some recipes and their philosophy behind coffee.
If you want to keep up with the latest trends in coffee, Return Coffee Roastery has you covered with their up-to-date innovations. At the market, they will be serving their signature Return Black, which is a black sesame soy latte, a drink that originated in Melbourne. Another signature is Return Dirty, which is like a reverse espresso with milk. Don't miss out on their unique brews.
The UCR is becoming quite popular and recently opened its third outpost in Sheung Wan, which is a pop-up and will only be in the area for six months. Many of the cafe's drinks utilise roasts exclusive to UCR like the highly regarded Oma Block Gesha 1931 from Ethiopia. Apart from coffee, this place is known for serving delicious dishes like avocado and poached egg toast or curry potato rosti.
This roaster specialises in Alisan Coffee, which is brewed from organically grown, handpicked, high-quality beans from the Alishan mountains in Taiwan. Founded by Japanese barista Atsuomi Ito, the goal at Goodman Roaster is to spread the rich, sweet taste of Alishan Coffee around the world.
If you're a fan of Northern California, specifically the Bay Area, Café Sausalito has the roast for you. Named after a charming bayside city, this coffee shop's signature drink is the Gray Area Espresso, which is a shot of iced coffee mixed with sparkling Earl Grey tea. This drink is a tribute to the chill, relaxing vibe of Sausalito.
As its name implies, Coffee Engineering puts a scientific spin on the art of making coffee. So, for TCSM, they are serving a special concoction called the Siphon Delight, which is coffee brewed with sweet spice and apple in a siphon. This recipe is the ideal comfort beverage for autumn and winter.
This cafe is easily identifiable by its shiba inu dog logo and mascot, which is there manning the shop. Besides being pet-friendly, Black Sugar Coffee is an avid supporter of the arts and serves coffee from beans hailing from Taichung in Taiwan.
Read on to find out about the food vendors this time. For TCSM's event details, click here.


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Meet Land of the Lost's Jorma Taccone
The writer-actor talks about "D--- in a Box" and playing a monkey-like creature opposite Will Ferrell
By Eunice Oh
Updated June 10, 2009 12:35 PM
Credit: Andy Fossum/Startraks
He's one-third of the mastermind behind Saturday Night Live's popular digital shorts "D— in a Box," "J— in My Pants" and "Lazy Sunday." But Jorma Taccone's latest project got him out of the studio and away from his producing partners – and childhood friends – Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer.
In Land of the Lost, the 32-year-old Berkeley, Calif., native suits up as the mischievous but loveable monkey-like creature, Chaka, alongside Will Ferrell and Anna Friel. Here are five things you may not know about the writer-producer-director-actor:
He had never seen the original Land of the Lost:
"I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name's Jorma. I didn't watch much television growing up because they weren't into it at all. But I watched almost every episode after I got this part. It's awesome!"
Playing a half monkey/half human can be painful:
"Chaka's constantly squatting, and with me not having done anything physical for like 17 years, I had to get a cortisone shot in my butt because I could barely move afterward."
He's been best buddies with Andy and Akiva for almost 20 years:
"I met Akiva in Spanish class during junior high school and then Andy the next year. I came to L.A. … and we got an apartment and just started making music and short films. It's not really that different from what we do today. We're not drunk now; that's the only difference."
Those popular digital shorts are products of procrastination:
"How do we come up with them? Out of pure frustration. We came up with "D— in a Box" on Thursday, recorded it that night into Friday morning and wrapped up everything within 48 hours. For "Mother Lover" we thought of the idea on Tuesday and said, 'Oh! We're going to get this done early this time!' But that never happened."
He's done some pretty odd jobs for money:
"Akiva and I ripped like 4,000 tortillas into bits for a movie called Tortilla Heaven. At the end of the film tortillas rain from the sky and fall down. That was all us. We helped with that!"
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Overview

Tasks

Username and Password Validity

Managing Username in Defaults

Managing Whether the Keychain Should be Used in Defaults

Interacting with the Keychain

Synchronizing with Defaults

Utility

Instance Methods

deleteShouldUseKeychainInDefaults:error:

deleteUsernameInDefaultsForKey:error:

hasKeychainPasswordForUsername:serviceName:error:

isValidKey:

isValidPassword:

isValidServiceName:

isValidString:

isValidUsername:

keychainDeletePasswordForUsername:serviceName:error:

keychainPasswordForUsernameInDefaults:serviceName:error:

keychainStoreUsername:serviceName:password:error:

ljsKeychainManagerErrorWithCode:error:

logKeychainError:

setDefaultsShouldUseKeychain:key:error:

setDefaultsUsername:forKey:error:

shouldUseKeychainWithKey:error:

synchronizeKeychainAndDefaultsWithUsername:usernameDefaultsKey:password:shouldUseKeychainDefaultsKey:shouldUseKeyChain:serviceName:error:

usernameStoredInDefaultsForKey:

Index

Hierarchy

LjsKeychainManager Class Reference

	Inherits from
	NSObject

	Declared in
	LjsKeychainManager.h
LjsKeychainManager.m

Overview

It is a common design pattern to have a username stored in defaults and a
password optionally (user controlled) stored in the Keychain.
LjsKeychainManager provides methods to bridge the Keychain Access API (using
the SFHFKeychainUtils) and the User Defaults API.

@warn Class could use more testing.

Tasks

Username and Password Validity

		– isValidUsername:

used to determine the validity of a username

		– isValidPassword:

used to determine the validity of a password

		– isValidServiceName:

true iff service name is non-nil and non empty

		– isValidKey:

true iff key is non-nil and non empty

Managing Username in Defaults

		– usernameStoredInDefaultsForKey:

queries the NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults with the AgChoiceUsernameDefaultsKey

		– deleteUsernameInDefaultsForKey:error:

deletes the value (if any) for the key AgChoiceUsernameDefaultsKey from the
NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults

		– setDefaultsUsername:forKey:error:

sets the value for key AgChoiceUsernameDefaultsKey in the NSUserDefaults
standardUserDefaults

Managing Whether the Keychain Should be Used in Defaults

		– shouldUseKeychainWithKey:error:

the BOOL value of the item stored in defaults under key

		– deleteShouldUseKeychainInDefaults:error:

true iff the delete was successful

		– setDefaultsShouldUseKeychain:key:error:

sets defaults value to shouldUse for key

Interacting with the Keychain

		– hasKeychainPasswordForUsername:serviceName:error:

queries the keychain to see if a password is stored for username

		– keychainPasswordForUsernameInDefaults:serviceName:error:

queries the keychain for the password stored for username

		– keychainDeletePasswordForUsername:serviceName:error:

deletes the password for the keychain entry for the username

		– keychainStoreUsername:serviceName:password:error:

stores a username and password to the keychain

Synchronizing with Defaults

		– synchronizeKeychainAndDefaultsWithUsername:usernameDefaultsKey:password:shouldUseKeychainDefaultsKey:shouldUseKeyChain:serviceName:error:

synchronizes the Keychain and User Defaults

Utility

		– ljsKeychainManagerErrorWithCode:error:

Sets the error using Reporter API

		– logKeychainError:

prints error information to the log stream(s)

		– isValidString:

true iff string is non-nil and non-empty

Instance Methods

deleteShouldUseKeychainInDefaults:error:

true iff the delete was successful

- (BOOL)deleteShouldUseKeychainInDefaults:(NSString *)key error:(NSError **)error

Parameters

key

the key to lookup (and delete) from defaults

error

catches bad key

Return Value

true iff the delete was successful

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

deleteUsernameInDefaultsForKey:error:

deletes the value (if any) for the key AgChoiceUsernameDefaultsKey from the
NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults

- (BOOL)deleteUsernameInDefaultsForKey:(NSString *)key error:(NSError **)error

Parameters

key

the key under which to look for the username

error

catches invalid key errors

Return Value

true iff the delete was successful

Discussion

deletes the value (if any) for the key AgChoiceUsernameDefaultsKey from the
NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

hasKeychainPasswordForUsername:serviceName:error:

queries the keychain to see if a password is stored for username

- (BOOL)hasKeychainPasswordForUsername:(NSString *)username serviceName:(NSString *)serviceName error:(NSError **)error

Parameters

username

the name we want the password for

serviceName

the keychain service name

error

catches bad usernames

Return Value

true iff the keychain has a password for the username

Discussion

queries the keychain to see if a password is stored for username

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

isValidKey:

true iff key is non-nil and non empty

- (BOOL)isValidKey:(NSString *)key

Parameters

key

the key to test

Return Value

true iff key is non-nil and non empty

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

isValidPassword:

used to determine the validity of a password

- (BOOL)isValidPassword:(NSString *)password

Parameters

password

the password to check

Return Value

true iff password is a non-nil, non-empty string

Discussion

used to determine the validity of a password

currently there are no restrictions on passwords other than they not be
nil or empty

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

isValidServiceName:

true iff service name is non-nil and non empty

- (BOOL)isValidServiceName:(NSString *)serviceName

Parameters

serviceName

the service name to test

Return Value

true iff service name is non-nil and non empty

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

isValidString:

true iff string is non-nil and non-empty

- (BOOL)isValidString:(NSString *)string

Parameters

string

the string to test

Return Value

true iff string is non-nil and non-empty

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

isValidUsername:

used to determine the validity of a username

- (BOOL)isValidUsername:(NSString *)username

Parameters

username

the name to check

Return Value

true if username is a non-nil, non-empty string

Discussion

used to determine the validity of a username

currently there are no restrictions on usernames other than they not be
nil or empty

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

keychainDeletePasswordForUsername:serviceName:error:

deletes the password for the keychain entry for the username

- (BOOL)keychainDeletePasswordForUsername:(NSString *)username serviceName:(NSString *)serviceName error:(NSError **)error

Parameters

username

the username for the password we would like to delete

serviceName

the service name for the password

error

catches Keychain Access error

Return Value

true iff password was deleted

Discussion

deletes the password for the keychain entry for the username

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

keychainPasswordForUsernameInDefaults:serviceName:error:

queries the keychain for the password stored for username

- (NSString *)keychainPasswordForUsernameInDefaults:(NSString *)key serviceName:(NSString *)serviceName error:(NSError **)error

Parameters

key

the key under the username is stored

serviceName

the keychain service name

error

catches bad key and Keychain Access error

Return Value

returns the password stored for the username in the defaults or nil if
no password is found

Discussion

queries the keychain for the password stored for username

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

keychainStoreUsername:serviceName:password:error:

stores a username and password to the keychain

- (BOOL)keychainStoreUsername:(NSString *)username serviceName:(NSString *)serviceName password:(NSString *)password error:(NSError **)error

Parameters

username

the username for the password we would like to store

serviceName

the service name for the password

password

the password to store for the username

error

catches Keychain Access error

Return Value

true iff store was successful

Discussion

stores a username and password to the keychain

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

ljsKeychainManagerErrorWithCode:error:

Sets the error using Reporter API

- (BOOL)ljsKeychainManagerErrorWithCode:(NSInteger)code error:(NSError **)error

Parameters

code

the error code use

error

the error to populate

Return Value

always returns YES – return is include to suppress analyzer warnings

Discussion

Sets the error using Reporter API

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

logKeychainError:

prints error information to the log stream(s)

- (void)logKeychainError:(NSError *)error

Parameters

error

the error to log

Discussion

prints error information to the log stream(s)

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

setDefaultsShouldUseKeychain:key:error:

sets defaults value to shouldUse for key

- (BOOL)setDefaultsShouldUseKeychain:(BOOL)shouldUse key:(NSString *)key error:(NSError **)error

Parameters

shouldUse

the new value to store in the User Defaults

key

the key under which to store the shouldUse value

error

catches bad key

Return Value

sets defaults value to shouldUse for key

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

setDefaultsUsername:forKey:error:

sets the value for key AgChoiceUsernameDefaultsKey in the NSUserDefaults
standardUserDefaults

- (BOOL)setDefaultsUsername:(NSString *)username forKey:(NSString *)key error:(NSError **)error

Parameters

username

the new value for AgChoiceUsernamDefaultsKey

key

the key to store the username under

error

catches bad key and bad username

Return Value

true iff the username was succesfully set

Discussion

sets the value for key AgChoiceUsernameDefaultsKey in the NSUserDefaults
standardUserDefaults

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

shouldUseKeychainWithKey:error:

the BOOL value of the item stored in defaults under key

- (BOOL)shouldUseKeychainWithKey:(NSString *)key error:(NSError **)error

Parameters

key

the key under which the should use keychain value is stored

error

catches bad key

Return Value

the BOOL value of the item stored in defaults under key

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

synchronizeKeychainAndDefaultsWithUsername:usernameDefaultsKey:password:shouldUseKeychainDefaultsKey:shouldUseKeyChain:serviceName:error:

synchronizes the Keychain and User Defaults

- (BOOL)synchronizeKeychainAndDefaultsWithUsername:(NSString *)username usernameDefaultsKey:(NSString *)usernameKey password:(NSString *)password shouldUseKeychainDefaultsKey:(NSString *)shouldUseKeychainKey shouldUseKeyChain:(BOOL)shouldUseKeychain serviceName:(NSString *)serviceName error:(NSError **)error

Parameters

username

the username to persist to defaults

usernameKey

the key under which to persist the username

password

the password to store

shouldUseKeychainKey

the key under which shouldUseKeychain value is stored

shouldUseKeychain

the value to store under shouldUseKeychainKey

serviceName

the service name for the password

error

catches Keychain Access error

Return Value

true iff synchronization is successful

Discussion

synchronizes the Keychain and User Defaults

if shouldUseKeychain is YES and username and password are valid, then the
pair is stored to the keychain and the username is stored in the User Defaults

if shouldUseKeychain is NO, then any existing password for username in the Keychain
is deleted.  the username is still persisted to User Defaults.

the value of shouldUseKeychain is persisted the User Defaults

This method will fail fast, but it is possible that the defaults might be set
and the keychain elements will not be updated

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

usernameStoredInDefaultsForKey:

queries the NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults with the AgChoiceUsernameDefaultsKey

- (NSString *)usernameStoredInDefaultsForKey:(NSString *)key

Parameters

key

the defaults key

Return Value

if there is no entry, will return nil

Discussion

queries the NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults with the AgChoiceUsernameDefaultsKey

Declared In

		LjsKeychainManager.m

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I recently encountered a brain teaser that asked to take an amount of change and return the equivalent in dollars and coins.
Here's the five-minute solution I first came up with.
makeChange(0.37); // "1 quarter, 1 dime, 2 pennies"
I feel like I'm missing something, though. How would you improve this code to make it shorter, faster, or otherwise better?
That's the typical way I've seen these problems solved, like the '6 days 3 hours and 10 minutes ago' style for dates.
I've been thinking a bit about it and I can't think of any other way which doesn't involve unrolling the loop.
which seems to be a little faster. For positive numbers, both operations are equal.
I'm not sure but I'm seeing an option of having the coins array being passed to the function and the function calling itself recursively.
That way you can pass different coin collections.
I don't know how I did it, but I convinced myself that a recursive approach was a good idea. It was fun at least.
Nice tweaks, people. I guess I wasn't too far off mark. You could also save a few characters by changing the order of the coins child arrays to e.g. ['penny','pennies',1], because then you could change the plurality selector from coins[i][num > 1 ? 2 : 1] to coins[i][num > 1].
Oh yeah, duh, it will try to access the "true" or "false" properties of the array unless you convert the boolean to a number. Thanks for correcting that.
I ended up with a min-max with alpha-beta pruning-like algorithm (except that you only have to care about the alpha and forget the beta).
alert(makeChange(0.37)); // "1 quarter, 1 dime, 2 pennies"
Here is an example of a general solution to what i call the atm machine problem. Formatted for readability, not speed. It basically separates the solution from any particular problem. Its not shorter or faster, but i believe its 'better' in the sense that it allows you to solve the problem in a real world situation. What happens if you dont have enought quarters? What would be the next solution?
This tells us that to solve our problem we should give the user 1×25,1×10, and 2×1.
The result has a length of 24 (so theres 24 possible solutions) which you can enumerate incase you dont have some of the required change – i.e. if you 'machine' is out of quarters just loop the results until you have a solution that doesn't use them.
Results are in order of least amount of change to greatest amount.
For speed i would try to replace recursion with looping.
@g You used cents 🙂 thats way easier, but just smart, I guess.
hi, im jannah from philippines. please help me guys. all i need is a java code for change… please help me.. thanks a lot..
This is coming in a bit late, but this is a well-known CS problem. The easiest solution involves using a greedy algorithm, but it may not yield the optimum solution (the least # of coins). The best solution involves dynamic programming which will always yield the optimum solution.
Should be noted that for American coins greedy yields the optimum solution, but in general it doesn't.
Good lord, if I had a programmer give me code like that I'd beat them senseless.
Ha, Ben, I completely agree — code should be formatted for human-readability and maintenance, not brevity/number of characters… Gave me a headache just looking at that solution.
Didn't think about that but just saw the ATM problem – that can be solved by running a checkInventory(array) on the array which nulls out or flags any change not available (in the above recursive) so the algorithm is easily adaptable.
Last One… with inventory of bills and coins and shows remainder if can't make exact change.
When testing just now I found if you enter makeChange(279.96 * 100) – it rounds to 27995.9999 when multiplied by 100 – very bizarre. …using Firefox 3.5b4 – reminds me of the Pentium 59.999… days.
Does shorter and no "var" statements == better? Probably not, but it was fun to slap together and I enjoy taking advantage of array methods whenever possible.
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Featured Startup Pitch: Agent Ace simplifies the home buying and selling experience by connecting consumers to high performing real estate agents
By Editor - May 15, 2012
Company: Agent Ace
Website: www.agentace.com
Founder: Mazen Fawaz
Headquarters: Los Angeles
Twitter: @agentace_com
Brief Company Description: Agent Ace is a free service for connecting homebuyers and sellers to the highest performing real estate agent in their area.
By Mazen Fawaz, Founder
Our free, web-based service for referring agents was built in response to an inconsistency we saw in the real estate industry. When compared to other industries (retail, travel, automobile), we noticed that real estate was lagging in terms of the tools people have for decision making. When looking for a flight or a new car consumers use online services to find the best deal, but when looking for an agent, the web offered no system for comparing and making an informed decision. When we started looking at historical home sales data we noticed a disparity between average and top performing agents (top agents simply sell more homes in less time), and we knew that a service that connected homebuyers and sellers to these top agents would be valuable. With this in mind, we set out to build a smarter, performance based service for connecting people with the top agent in their area. For free!
The current system for finding an agent seemed completely outdated. Why would you trust a friend-of-a-friend or a bus bench to recommend the person in charge of one of the largest transactions of your life? We decided to do better. AgentAce.com is a free and independent service that pours through historical real estate sales data to find the agent with a track record of selling more homes in less time in a given neighborhood and price range. Then we put the homebuyer or seller in touch with the top agent. Simple right?
Agent Ace is an idea born of necessity. In 2009, I decided to do some research on commercial real estate agents I had hired to purchase retail properties in the Midwest. By collecting and studying 3rd party historical sales data I was able to get an unbiased view into the agents' transactional history. This allowed me to choose the agent who was most likely going to succeed at those purchases. Following the success I experienced at finding agents in the commercial world, I realized the massive implications a similar system would have for residential transactions, and Agent Ace was born.
I designed a process, filed for patent, gathered a team, and launched the company in 2011. Today we are available to millions of home buyers and sellers—as a free service—leading them to the highest performing agent for their home sale or purchase.
Our Algorithm
Our strength is in numbers—not in terms of company size since we only have five employees—but in terms of what makes what we do unique. At the core of our service is a patented algorithm for comparing agents and finding the best. Unlike other real estate recommendation options that rely on reviews or on advertising from agents, Agent Ace pairs an agent's transaction history with geographical data to make unbiased, data-driven recommendations.
By incorporating important factors like days on market and original price versus selling price in our algorithm that other agent recommendation options do not consider, we can confidently state that we are the smartest way to find an agent. Relying on actual performance data means that Agent Ace can deliver our users a result that is based on integrity. Our process allows us to guarantee each customer that we are referring them to the single highest-performing real estate agent for their needs.
Another differentiating aspect of Agent Ace is our relationship (or lack thereof) with the agents we refer. We act as a broker for the agents we put people in contact with, and if a deal closes based on our connection; we take a percentage from the agent. Therefore, our motivation is to match people with the agent that is most likely to find or sell a property for that individual in the shortest amount of time. The agents we refer are generated by our patented algorithm. We never play favorites.
Our mission—to fundamentally change the way people go about finding a real estate agent.
Agent Ace – www.agentace.com
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Boy Scouts use donated guns, suppressors in unique training program
Scouts in Maine are getting a chance to participate in the shooting sports with an increased level of safety on behalf of new suppressors, rifles and ammunition contributed free of charge.
This spring, the Boy Scouts of America's Pine Tree Council, which serves ten counties in central Maine, took possession of a windfall of gear with the help of gun rights groups and the shooting industry. That equipment is allowing the scouts at Camp William Hinds, a 280 acre facility in the state's Sebago Lakes Region, to use suppressor-equipped rifles, pistols and shotguns during its week-long summer camps this year.
The equipment came from a variety of vendors to include Sturm, Ruger & Company, which chipped in eight American Rimfire .22 rifles with threaded barrels; a local federal firearms license holder, Furlong Custom Creations, who handled the transfer paperwork; and two suppressor companies, Gemtech and SilencerCo, who contributed both devices and ammunition.
Gun rights groups to include the National Rifle Association helped make it all happen. NRA Education and Training Committee Chairman Joe Debergalis explained to Guns.com that it was a team effort all geared with one thing in mind: helping the scouts train as safely as possible.
The Council is using the suppressors for scouts seeking rifle and shotgun merit badges while teenage Venture Scouts are utilizing the same .22 suppressors for pistol programs.
The program is an important milestone for the scouts.
"Camp William Hinds is moving into the future by becoming the first camp in the Boys Scouts of America to use suppressors to quiet the sounds of their guns," Knox Williams, president of the American Suppressor Association, told Guns.com. "We are proud to support their efforts to make the shooting experience safer and more enjoyable for their scouts and neighbors. We hope that this initiative can serve as a model for councils nationwide."
Williams contends the devices are gaining more acceptance as increased awareness of their functionality as safety devices replaces Hollywood misconceptions.
"Over the past five years, suppressors have made stride after stride towards becoming a mainstream shooting accessory," he said. "By adopting suppressors, Camp Hinds and the Pine Tree Council have helped us take another major step forward, showing that suppressors are not the silent and clandestine devices that they are made out to be, but are instead safety devices that will make the Rifle Shooting Merit Badge a safer and more fun experience for the Scouts.
"As an Eagle Scout, I wish that this had been an option when I earned my rifle shooting merit badge," Williams said.
The suppressors donated included two Salvo shotgun suppressors from SilencerCo and eight screw on GM-22 rimfire suppressors from Gemtech — which also ponied up 25,000 rounds of the company's subsonic .22LR rounds for the scouts.
"Gemtech was honored for the opportunity to help make an already great scouting program even better," Gemtech Project Manager Brande Ehrman told Gun.com. "This is the least we can do considering that the children participating in this program are not only future firearm and suppressor owners but future leaders of our country; Leaders that will hopefully be passing pro Second Amendment laws for years to come."
Ehrman explained it was their hope that other Boy Scout leaders will see how dramatically suppressors improve the shooting experience and incorporate them into their shooting programs across America.
She pointed out, rather than stir up controversy, putting National Firearms Act regulated firearms in the hands of youth is a teaching moment.
"I don't think anything gets anti-gunners more fired up than kids and guns. We at Gemtech feel like that emphasizes the need for education even more and the Boy Scout program is the perfect opportunity to teach people the many benefits of shooting suppressed," Ehrman said.
She feels the range program will demonstrate that, by using suppressors, kids are able to clearly hear and understand their instructor on the range without risking hearing damage. Another benefit to shooting suppressed is that people living in homes neighboring the range will not be disturbed by gunfire. This applies to wildlife as well.
"The fact that more and more states are making suppressed hunting legal is a sign that folks are realizing that suppressors make shooting safer and more enjoyable and are willing to incorporate them into mainstream shooting sports," she said. "This scouting program is another step in the right direction and Gemtech is excited to be an integral part of that."
Reports from Camp Hinds so far this summer are encouraging. According to Ehrman, one parent allowed his scout to shoot for the first time specifically because they were suppressing the gunfire and two scouts decided to try shooting for the first time because they were using suppressors, admitting they were intimidated by the noise of regular gunfire.
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Gregor Traber (* 2. Dezember 1992 in Tettnang) ist ein deutscher Leichtathlet, der sich auf den 110-Meter-Hürdenlauf spezialisiert hat.

Sportliche Karriere
Traber wurde 2008 Deutscher B-Jugendvizemeister im Hürdenlauf. Bei den Leichtathletik-Jugendweltmeisterschaften 2009 in Brixen belegte er den fünften Platz im Hürdenlauf und den siebten Platz im Dreisprung. Im folgenden Jahr siegte er bei den Deutschen Jugendmeisterschaften im Hürdenlauf, konnte sich jedoch bei den Juniorenweltmeisterschaften in Moncton nicht für das Finale qualifizieren. 2011 gewann er die deutschen Jugendmeistertitel in der Halle und im Freien. Mit 13,31 s stellte er einen deutschen U20-Rekord auf. In diesem Jahr trat er auch erstmals im Erwachsenenbereich in Erscheinung, als er bei den Deutschen Hallenmeisterschaften in Leipzig überraschend im 60-Meter-Hürdenlauf siegte.

2012 verteidigte Traber seinen Hallenmeistertitel erfolgreich. So qualifizierte er sich für die Hallenweltmeisterschaften in Istanbul, kam dort aber nicht über die Vorläufe hinaus. Anfang Juni steigerte er in Genf seine Bestleistung über 110 Meter Hürden um 8 Hundertstelsekunden auf 13,47 s. Damit erfüllte er die Qualifikationsnormen für die Europameisterschaften in Helsinki und die Olympischen Spiele in London. 2013 gewann Traber bei den U-23-Europameisterschaften in Tampere, Finnland die Bronzemedaille.

2014 erreichte er bei den Hallenweltmeisterschaften in Sopot den 5. Platz (7,56 s) und im Freien steigerte er seine Bestleistung auf 13,43 s. 2015 erreichte Traber das Halbfinale bei den Weltmeisterschaften in Peking. Zudem gewann er erstmals bei den Deutschen Meisterschaften im Freien in Nürnberg mit neuer Bestzeit im Finale (13,32 s).

Im Olympiajahr 2016 erfüllte Traber zu Beginn der Saison die Norm für die Spiele von 13,47 s. Bei den Deutschen Meisterschaften in Kassel wurde er Vizemeister hinter Matthias Bühler. Bei den Europameisterschaften 2016 in Amsterdam blieb er an der sechsten Hürde hängen und verpasste den Einzug ins Finale. Am 29. Juli verbesserte er in Mannheim seine persönliche Bestleistung auf 13,21 s – die fünftschnellste Zeit eines deutschen Hürdenläufers. Bei den Olympischen Spielen in Rio de Janeiro zog er als Dritter seines Vorlaufes ins Halbfinale ein. Den Finaleinzug verpasste Traber um 2 Hundertstelsekunden und erreichte somit den 9. Platz.

2017 wurde Traber, wiederum hinter Bühler, erneut Deutscher Vizemeister. Er wurde vom DLV für die Weltmeisterschaften in London nominiert, musste aber verletzungsbedingt die Saison abbrechen.

Gregor Traber ist 1,90 m groß und wiegt 80 kg.

Vereinszugehörigkeiten
Von 2010 bis 2014 startete Traber für die LAV Stadtwerke Tübingen, bevor er am 24. November 2014 zum VfB Stuttgart wechselte. Zur Saison 2016/17 kehrte er nach Tübingen zurück. Er wurde von Marlon Odom am Olympiastützpunkt Stuttgart trainiert. Ende 2017 schloss er sich der Gruppe von Bundestrainer Jan May in Leipzig an, blieb seinem Verein aber treu.

Weblinks

 Website von Gregor Traber
 Athletenporträt von Gregor Traber auf leichtathletik.de
 Stuttgarter Zeitung: Gregor Traber und die Reifeprüfungen, Artikel vom 9. Mai 2012

Einzelnachweise

60-Meter-Hürdenläufer (Deutschland)
110-Meter-Hürdenläufer (Deutschland)
Deutscher Meister (Leichtathletik)
Olympiateilnehmer (Deutschland)
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2016
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2020
Leichtathlet (VfB Stuttgart)
Person (Tübingen)
Deutscher
Geboren 1992
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output returns to potential; at this point inflation stops changing.
Suppose aggregate demand shifted right as a result of an increase in government purchases.
At first, current output rises but inflation does not change.
then begins to fall back toward its long-run equilibrium level.
need to do something to get the economy back to the point where it began--point "1"
An increase in government purchases raises the long term real interest rate.
When the monetary policy reaction curve shifts, the aggregate demand curve shifts with it.
An increase in aggregate demand causes a temporary increase in both output and inflation.
central banker must be allowing it to happen.
short run equilibrium from point 1 to point 2. Inflation rises and output falls.
equals potential output and inflation equals the central bank's target.
Potential output or a change in the central bank's inflation target can accomplish that.


Marketing guru Seth Godin published his book "The Dip" last year. The New York Times best-seller turns the "winners don't quit" maxim on its head by pointing out that when your company hits "The Dip" then it *is* time to quit.
Ever innovative, Seth asks his blog readers today to help double the readership of his book - not by buying more copies, but by loaning it to friends.
"Loaning"? How can one make money out of that? Well, personal recommendation is the ultimate form of advertising, and Seth will sell copies of his other books by the barrowload as a result. It's not rocket science.
Here's the problem. I bought The Dip as a download for my Amazon Kindle. Because of the DRM I am unable to share the file with anyone. In fact, by putting DRM on the Kindle files Amazon are saying that *loaning* is at best a no-no, and at worse illegal.
Shocking news is just coming in from The Daily Bugle and CNN: Captain America aka Steve Rogers has been assassinated by a sniper outside the Federal Courthouse in Manhattan.
World War 2 veteran Rogers had last week surrendered himself to S.H.I.E.L.D. custody after violently opposing the US Government's Superhero Registration Act. He was on his way to his arraignment when he was shot by a lone rooftop gunman.
Rogers was not married and had no known living relatives.
Read the story in-depth in this special feature, and a heartfelt opinion article by FanboyGeek friend, Wired Magazine's Adam Rogers.


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In Bid for Dominance, Mayor's Allies Flood S.F. Politics With Corporate Cash
Angela Woodall and Michael Stoll
— Aug 17 2016 - 8:00am
Tech, real estate donations made 2015 election the most expensive on record, posing challenge for campaign finance reforms this fall.
Last year spending on local elections was the highest on record, reaching nearly $28 million. The infusion of cash demonstrates how politicians and their powerful associates wield an influence on the political process that our campaign finance laws cannot effectively or appropriately manage.
Large corporations may spend without limits on issue advocacy and influence the fate of proposed reforms, as illustrated by Airbnb's successful 2015 attack on expanding regulation of its core business, short-term housing rentals. The outsized and increasing power of the tech and real estate sectors threatens to overwhelm any constituencies that might seek to challenge them.
Extra: Public Press project editor Angela Woodall spoke with KALW's Ben Trefny about this investigation. Listen to the interview from Aug 15, 2016.
And politicians are able to act in careful concert with allied forces to exert influence over races and issues, thereby circumventing the campaign contribution limits that are designed to minimize the influence of donations to political candidates, as illustrated by a private meeting convened by Mayor Ed Lee to organize donors in a failed effort to defeat a supervisorial candidate challenging his hand-picked incumbent.
Reformers in San Francisco say a November ballot measure to limit political donations by lobbyists would curtail some of the most blatant influence peddling in City Hall. But even if passed by voters this fall, it would do little to curb the kind of lavish corporate spending and coordinated fundraising that allowed the mayor and his allies to dominate most of the hotly contested items on the 2015 ballot.
If the recent past is any indication, the fall 2016 races will see another lopsided contest in which San Francisco's business leaders attempt to beat back an underfunded if spirited opposition.
Last year's election was the most expensive, even adjusted for inflation, since the city implemented a digital tracking system in 1998. More than a quarter of the spending in 2015 came from Airbnb, which pumped $9 million into defeating Proposition F.
In all but one major campaign last fall, the winner was the side that spent the most.
The exception was Lee's effort to block the self-identified progressive caucus from retaking control of the Board of Supervisors. Though outspent, former board president Aaron Peskin and his supporters defeated Julie Christensen, whom the mayor had appointed in District 3.
This coming fall will see a rematch on housing-related ballot initiatives, and six supervisor seats are up for grabs, which will again determine which faction controls the board.
The massive sums flowing into local elections can drive sitting or aspiring politicians and their surrogates to push up against the limits of what is allowable under campaign finance laws.
One private meeting in April 2015, attended by the mayor, lobbyists representing several campaign committees and union representatives and other donors, raised eyebrows among journalists and ethics experts, and apparently led the San Francisco City Attorney's office to make inquiries to find out whether any laws were broken.
The meeting included a who's who of more than two-dozen well-connected insiders, including corporate representatives who "bundled" — or collected personal contributions on behalf of other people — tens of thousands of dollars for Lee and other candidates. Proposed ethics reforms might restrict such bundling.
San Francisco has a mixed record of limiting the role of money in politics. Though a single campaign contributor can give no more than $500 to a candidate or ballot measure committee, lobbyists can legally bundle those contributions ad infinitum, transforming the personal donation into just another type of fundraising. And ballot initiatives and candidate-controlled "issue committees" — local versions of what are known nationally as super PACs — may accept unlimited contributions.
Most campaign money comes from donors who want something — labor unions negotiating contracts, developers wanting permits or businesses seeking tax breaks, said Bob Stern, a political finance and ethics expert who helped write California's Political Reform Act of 1974. Officials often decide in favor of the people donating, he said.
"That's worth a lot of money," said Stern, who was the state Fair Political Practices Commission's first general counsel. "It's human nature. It's not corrupt."
Some of these rules would change under a measure on the fall 2016 ballot — Proposition T — that would strictly limit lobbyists' direct and indirect involvement in political fundraising. But the amount of money this would affect is minuscule: Last year this activity added up to less than 1 percent of the total amount spent on elections, according to campaign finance records compiled by advocates for the initiative. And plenty of other loopholes remain.
Millions for TV Ads
Last year, a small number of businesses paid for gigantic campaigns that deluged TV airwaves, mailboxes and inboxes with slick — and often very misleading — advertising.
On Nov. 3, 2015, voters soundly defeated Proposition F, which supporters said would have prevented landlords from displacing renters and driving up housing prices amid a shortage of affordable units. But advocates for the proposition never had a chance.
The $9 million from Airbnb represented the second-largest political expenditure by a single company on record in the city. Its campaign to defeat the initiative included $4.7 million for television advertising, 45 times what ShareBetter SF, the primary committee supporting the measure, spent on TV ads, city records show. The effort enabled the company to run 30 hours of ads on TV channels broadcast in the Bay Area, claiming that the measure would encourage neighbors to spy on neighbors — for profit — and report to the city who slept where and when, among other sensational claims.
The San Francisco Public Press, in collaboration with the Internet Archive, reviewed ads and news from the two months preceding the election. The ads, produced by expensive campaign consultants who usually work on high-profile national and statewide campaigns, overshadowed election news. On five local English-language stations with original news programs, ads exceeded coverage by a factor of 7-to-1.
In some news programs, TV journalists repeated several questionable statements, including language directly from ads and indirect citations that traced back to the campaigns' own paid sloganeers.
The campaign against Proposition F also relied on endorsements from Mayor Lee and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Lee's predecessor. (Separately, Brian Chesky, Airbnb's CEO, donated $36,400 to a committee controlled by Newsom, who is considering a 2018 run to succeed termed-out Gov. Jerry Brown.)
These and other pricey tactics worked. More than three-quarters of voters rejected the measure.
In a way, the attack on Proposition F was a trial balloon: This kind of political spending could help Airbnb fend off future challenges to its business model in scores of cities across the country and abroad. It was also a closely watched test of the power of money in politics for other technology-based businesses facing regulatory scrutiny.
Despite Airbnb's electoral victory, the Board of Supervisors dealt the company a blow in June by enacting one of the major provisions of Proposition F. The revised ordinance requires hosting platforms to list only addresses that are registered with the city, and fines companies up to $1,000 per violation per day.
Airbnb responded quickly by suing the city, arguing the new regulations violate federal statutes and the U.S. Constitution.
Valued at more than $25 billion, the company appears willing to spend millions to influence San Francisco politics. It is building and funding a major political operation centered on a state-level entity it calls the "Committee to Expand the Middle Class." From January to June, the committee donated nearly half a million dollars to business-friendly candidates for the local Democratic Party. Out of 10 candidacies, only two won. In June it also backed three winning non-housing-related ballot propositions favored by elected officials who had opposed the tighter rental regulations.
Wendell Potter, a senior analyst at the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog organization, said Airbnb learned directly from a previous local corporate blitz. In 2014, the American Beverage Association spent $9.2 million to defeat a proposed tax in San Francisco on sugary beverages. "The tactics are tried and true, and often very effective," Potter said.
The beverage industry is gearing up for a ballot fight over another version of the sugar tax this November, a levy of a penny per fluid ounce. Opposing the industry are other well-heeled donors, including the Houston-based nonprofit Action Now Initiative. The tax-exempt lobbying group was launched in 2011 by billionaire John Arnold, a former Enron executive, and his wife, Laura.
This kind of "social welfare" advocacy group — registered as a 501(c)4 charity with the IRS — allows donors to pour unlimited amounts of cash into a campaign without ever being identified. The anonymity they offer contributors has earned them a reputation for secrecy and the name "dark money."
Reining in Lobbyists
The Board of Supervisors' Budget and Legislative Analyst has recommended explicitly prohibiting any political contributions from registered lobbyists. As a step toward that goal, the Ethics Commission sponsored last fall's Proposition C, which the voters approved. It requires a broader group of people and organizations than in the past to register as "expenditure lobbyist" — those who employ someone else to lobby officials for them.
For the November 2016 ballot, the Ethics Commission in early July was considering a measure to restrict lobbyist contributions, fundraising and gifts to officials. Voters could be asked to reduce total lobbyist contributions in an election cycle to between $50 and $250; the amount had not been decided. Similar restrictions would apply to amounts candidates and campaign committees could accept or solicit from lobbyists. Another proposed reform would make it illegal for lobbyists to bundle donations to candidates and their committees.
In addition, another potential fall initiative — introduced to the Board of Supervisors by Peskin and endorsed by the Ethics Commission — would prohibit elected city officials from establishing candidate-controlled general-purpose campaign committees.
LeeAnn Pelham, executive director of the Ethics Commission, said this spring that even with the proposed new legal powers, she would not have the capacity to effectively enforce campaign finance rules, because four key positions, including an investigator, remained unfilled.
At the time, she was pressing for a 27 percent budget increase to strengthen the commission's investigative work. The mayor originally countered with a proposed 1.5 percent cut to the commission's budget, which has flatlined in recent years. Ethics commissioner Peter Keane told the San Francisco Chronicle that the apparent purpose of the cutback was "to keep this committee as a completely castrated body without any kind of ability to do its job."
Ultimately, Lee relented. In his city spending plan released May 31, the mayor fully funded the commission's $3.3 million request for the next fiscal year — allowing for more staff, beefed-up enforcement and new technology — and committed to $3.5 million for 2018. The Board of Supervisors approved the spending plan in late June.
Lee did not respond to multiple interview requests over three months from the Public Press about his fundraising activities or his efforts to reduce the budget of the city's ethics watchdogs.
The focus on exposing the sources of campaign funds is not an academic exercise. San Francisco politicians recently have faced serious legal trouble for receiving improper donations, including contributions from business people seeking favors.
The 2015 election occurred amid an ongoing local-state-federal investigation into political corruption that has targeted several of Lee's associates. In January, two women were indicted on state charges of bribery and money laundering after undercover FBI agents said they recorded the women agreeing to illegally bundle $20,000 to pay off Lee's 2011 campaign debt, in exchange for business with the city, and to disguise the payments in the form of individual $500 contributions to give the appearance of abiding by contribution limits.
In the wake of these indictments, District Attorney George Gascón established something he called the San Francisco Public Corruption Task Force. The investigative group is not specifically focused on any one incident and could include any public official, spokesman Max Szabo said.
In describing the task force, Gascón said in a prepared statement: "It's time for terms like 'good old boy' and 'pay-to-play' to be artifacts of our history, and this task force will work to ensure they are absent from our future."
But even Gascón violated city election laws in seeking campaign cash. In May, the Ethics Commission fined him and two staff members for illegally soliciting donations through a 2014 fundraising event. The violation cost Gascón $4,000, and Assistant District Attorney Michael Swart and Chief of Staff Christine Soto DeBerry each paid $1,500.
These challenges are national in scope. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders made reforming what he calls the "corrupt campaign finance system" the top plank in his primary bid. Activists are advocating new laws to respond to the 2010 Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that invalidated limits on corporate expenditures.
For San Franciscans, the stakes are high. Voters in November will weigh in on four housing-related proposals. The San Francisco Association of Realtors has drafted a change to the definition of middle-income housing that would extend opportunities to win competitive below-market-rate housing slots to people making 110 percent of the area median income — twice the current earnings cutoff. While encompassing a wider demographic swath, the measure would shift the focus away from helping lower-paid workers.
By early July, campaign finance records showed that a total of $4.5 million had been spent during 2016 on primary races and ballot initiatives, and spending is escalating as November approaches.
Control of City Hall
Though the mayor's side lost one battle last fall — his effort to retain the District 3 board seat — it was not for lack of trying. During the campaign season, he led a small group of donors and political insiders, including city staff, to engage in aggressive fundraising.
Peskin's victory over Christensen tipped the balance on the Board of Supervisors toward a progressive coalition and empowered a new majority to scrutinize big business' access to City Hall.
Although Peskin's own campaign committee outspent Christensen's, roughly $595,000 to $481,000, that does not tell the whole story. The addition of third-party money targeted specifically to support Christensen, notably the Committee for a Progressive and Affordable San Francisco Opposing Peskin for Supervisor 2015, outweighed the money backing Peskin. That brought the totals to $1,167,600 for Christensen and $945,239 for Peskin, adding up to a record amount for a supervisorial race.
The mayor was so intent on defeating Peskin that he and tech investor Ron Conway appeared at a private meeting in April 2015 at the law firm of Hanson Bridgett, where Lee's campaign treasurer, Kevin Heneghan, was a partner. In 2012, Lee had hired Heneghan, an attorney who specializes in election-law compliance, to clean up messy donation records from his first run for mayor in 2011.
Besides working for the mayor, Heneghan became treasurer for five other key fall 2015 campaigns connected to Lee.
The meeting, convened by the mayor, Board of Supervisors President London Breed and Supervisor Mark Farrell in an invitation marked "confidential," was called to discuss "campaign priorities."
Four days later, a marquee collection of Lee supporters, including lobbyists, developers and union representatives, assembled around a rectangle of tables pushed together in a 26th-floor conference room at the firm's Market Street offices.
The San Francisco Chronicle in August 2015 reported that the group included Police Officers Association president Martin Halloran; plumbers union leader Larry Mazzola Jr.; city retirement board commissioner Victor Makras; lobbyist Chris Gruwell; and Chris Wright, head of the Committee on Jobs, a business group. Breed and Farrell also were present.
The Public Press has learned from sources that the group also included commercial real estate developer Dan Kingsley of the SKS firm; lobbyist Alex Tourk, a campaign manager and top aide when Newsom was mayor; Rich Peterson, a lobbyist for Goodyear Peterson Hayward & Associates; FX Crowley, head of the stagehands union and a registered lobbyist; and Maggie Rothschild, a fundraiser for SGR Consulting, the firm Lee hired to handle campaign outreach.
At the meeting, Lee stood beside his chief of staff, Steve Kawa, senior adviser and former campaign spokesman Tony Winnicker, and deputy chief of staff Jason Elliott. The Chronicle in 2014 nicknamed Kawa "the enforcer," because of his willingness to "act as Lee's heavy" by forcing out department heads and performing other unpleasant tasks.
The assembly was no random grouping of donors and volunteers. It included three of the city's four top lobbyists who bundled the most donations from individual donors in 2015: Tourk of Ground Floor Public Affairs and tech-industry group sf.citi; Peterson, whose firm merged with Barbary Coast Consulting inJune 2016 to form Lighthouse Public Affairs; and Gruwell, of Platinum Advisors. Together they raised $140,224 of the $235,124 in bundled funds declared last year, according to data from the Ethics Commission. Tourk collected $88,024, Gruwell $28,200 and Peterson $24,000. Their cash went to six candidates, and all three men bundled for Lee.
At the same time, they were actively asking for favors from City Hall. Tourk had met with Elliot, Lee's deputy chief of staff, on April 1, 2015, just six days before the fundraiser, on behalf of ride-share startup Lyft, which wanted the mayor's support on a California Assembly bill.
Ethics Commission records show that Tourk had also been plying City Hall on behalf of Realtex, which was preparing to secure a permit for its fourth South of Market apartment building. Realtex needed the Planning Department and supervisors to sign off on a rezoning plan to increase height limits to 85 feet from 55 feet. The project is under review.
Tourk visited officials, planning commissioners and supervisors a total of 26 times over 10 months, between Feb. 19 and Nov. 20, two weeks after the election.
Tourk visited City Hall personnel six times. He called on city Planning Director John Rahaim, Supervisor Farrell and Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development Director Olson Lee to "discuss plans for development and create a relationship with department" as well as "potential housing policy," according to city records. He also met with Robert Beck, director of the Treasure Island Development Authority Board, to "find underutilized properties for potential development."
Of the contributions he bundled, Tourk had already delivered to Christensen's campaign $21,500 worth of checks written by Conway, his wife and two other family members, and from sf.citi, a trade group that is headed by Conway but whose everyday affairs are, according to Tourk, handled by Ground Floor. His lobbying firm and Conway's trade group have the same telephone number and address.
Participants at the April meeting said the mayor warned the guests not to donate to Peskin's campaign. Peskin had served twice on the board and was termed out of his seat in 2009. He had clashed with mayors Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom and exasperated their friends in the business community. Among other actions, he blocked hotels from converting to condominiums and made it harder for landlords to evict tenants for similar purposes. Lee said he hoped to avoid a repeat of that dynamic.
"I'm paying attention," Lee told the group, according to the August 2015 Chronicle article that relied on the recollection of one of the participants at the meeting.
Interpretations of the mayor's words varied, according to sources who were present but did not want to be named for fear of retaliation from Lee's office and of a possible investigation by the City Attorney's office. Some viewed his approach as intimidation — a threat to use his office to affect the fortunes of people doing business with the city and corporate representatives seeking to influence legislation. One participant said Lee implied he would cut off access to city contracts, which would be illegal. The attendee said the point of the warning was to dampen money-raising for Peskin: "It was to make clear to people that if they supported Peskin, they'd pay."
Another participant also interpreted Lee's words to mean that anyone supporting Peskin would not get much support from City Hall. But the attendee would not be affected, so "I didn't take anything from it."
Conway addressed the group after the mayor, Kawa, Winnicker and Elliott left the room. According to the Chronicle and a September 2015 report in San Francisco Magazine, Conway drove home Lee's message of loyalty — that donating to Peskin would result in a backlash from City Hall.
Conway, whose records show he had already given the maximum $500 allowed to Christensen's campaign, exhorted his audience to round up more money to keep Peskin from reclaiming his old seat, according to three people at the meeting who confirmed the San Francisco Magazine version of events.
Conway declined to comment on the meeting or what was said.
Sources who spoke with the Public Press said they were later contacted by the office of City Attorney Dennis Herrera with questions about whether any laws were broken.
Herrera told the Public Press that he would "neither confirm nor deny" that there was an investigation. "We learn things all the time," he said. "If we think it merits inquiry we will look at it."
The Ethics Commission's Pelham said her agency also has a policy not to discuss investigations of complaints.
A Lee ally defended the mayor for demanding loyalty.
"As a leader, sometimes you need to make it clear that your allies can't play both sides," said Nathan Ballard, a veteran Democratic campaign strategist who has worked with national and local candidates and has done crisis communication for Lee. "Leaders expect monogamy."
But to Dan Newman, co-founder and president of MapLight, a Berkeley-based nonprofit that tracks political spending in California and nationally, the secret April 2015 meeting sounded like a prime example of ethically questionable fundraising practices. He said that a proposed November 2016 ballot measure to tighten rules on lobbyists and other donors, while perhaps not preventing back-room deals, could expose the appearance of quid-pro-quo influence peddling.
Newman described the effect of such coordination between candidates and financial supporters as a form of "bribery, even if it's legal."
He added: "It's an indication of a broken campaign system that gives favors for money."
Campaign Coordination
An independent-expenditure committee may raise and spend unlimited amounts of money, but is required to operate separately from candidates' election teams. Holding the April 2015 meeting at Heneghan's law firm risked creating the appearance of coordination between two committees that campaign finance laws require stay separate: a candidate committee and an independent-expenditure committee.
Halloran's police union was contributing to two independent-expenditure committees focused on Peskin's defeat: Friends of Julie Christensen and the Committee for a Progressive and Affordable San Francisco.
Halloran's presence at the meeting put him in the same room as a person who worked for a representative of Christensen's campaign committee: Three attendees said Heneghan's paralegal was present while the mayor and Conway — a donor to the Christensen independent-expenditure committee — discussed fundraising for their candidate.
Law firms go out of their way to keep the two kinds of committees separate to shield their clients from even the appearance of wrongdoing, several attorneys who handle campaign finance said.
Pelham, the city ethics director, said last year's election highlighted the difficulty of overseeing such large, complex and interconnected campaigns.
The commission does not call out any campaign committee for criticism absent a formal inquiry. But she said that having a single treasurer for six committees in one election, while not uncommon in California, created the possibility of coordination between candidate campaigns and third-party spending committees. Legally these must be funded and directed independently.
"When individuals working with or around a candidate's campaign wear multiple hats — and also play a role with a committee that is doing or planning non-candidate spending that could affect that candidate — identifying what makes something under the law to be independent or not is important," Pelham said.
By last fall, Heneghan became treasurer of six of the best-funded committees aligned with Lee.
These included the mayor's own re-election campaign; his separate ballot-measure committee, for which he was allowed to raise unlimited sums; a $310 million affordable-housing bond proposal (Proposition A); the clean-energy-source labeling proposal (Proposition H); opposition to a moratorium on luxury housing in the Mission District (Proposition I); and Christensen's race.
As such, Heneghan was the treasurer of committees whose coffers held one-quarter of all the money flowing in and out of the city's most expensive races — $7.2 million of the total $27.8 million spent last year, according to campaign finance records.
Heneghan's political work on behalf of this loose pro-business coalition made him so sought after that in early 2016 he was hired away by Airbnb as a full-time corporate lawyer. He was also made treasurer of the new "Committee to Expand the Middle Class."
A 2000 graduate of UC Hastings law school, Heneghan was deeply versed in the city's campaign finance regulations. One of his duties starting out at Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor LLP, a political and government law and lobbying firm in San Rafael, involved creating systems to ensure Fortune 500 companies complied with campaign and lobbying regulations. He did similar ethics and compliance work when he joined the Sutton Law Firm in San Francisco in 2003.
Heneghan had just been hired by Hanson Bridgett, a firm co-founded by former San Francisco District Attorney Raymond Hanson, when Lee tapped him to clean up a financial mess.
Lee's 2011 campaign committee had accepted checks that later had to be returned, including $3,500 from Archway Property Services LLC and its director, Andrew Hawkins Cohen. The California Fair Political Practices Commission ruled in 2014 that the donors tried to evade the San Francisco Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code's $500 limit on donations by making contributions in the name of other people. The agency said the arrangement violated the California Political Reform Act.
The 2014 decision condemned what it called "campaign money laundering," which it said was "one of the most serious violations of the act because such conduct circumvents campaign contribution limits, violates disclosure requirements, and deceives the voting public as to the true source of funds."
Archway Property Services and Cohen were fined the maximum allowed, $40,000, for making the donation to Lee and a separate $500 contribution to the committee of one of his many competitors, Assessor Phil Ting.
Lee's campaign manager for 2011 and 2015, Bill Barnes, said Lee never knowingly accepted an illicit donation in any election.
Barnes said donors expect the campaign to spend money on compliance efforts so they do not run into such problems. "If you don't pay for compliance you can get into trouble," he said.
Perennial Reform Efforts
Recent events, including the ongoing probe that has involved more than a dozen politically connected public officials, political staffers and organized crime suspects, often get grouped in news reports under the general category of a "culture of corruption."
The mayor has issued statements denouncing corruption, and said he had nothing to do with the events that led to the joint investigation by the San Francisco District Attorney's office and FBI.
But the city's Civil Grand Jury, a committee of volunteer watchdogs with subpoena powers, sharply criticized city leaders, saying in a 2014 report that "San Francisco officials at all levels have impeded actions intended to establish a culture of ethical behavior." The panel said the focus on accountability needs greater leadership from the mayor, supervisors, city attorney, district attorney, department heads and commissioners.
Lee shot back at the criticism, saying he disagreed with the panel's conclusions. "No actual misdeeds or examples are provided as evidence in the report," he wrote in August of that year.
The Civil Grand Jury member who wrote the report, Robert van Ravenswaay, said the criticism illustrated the unwillingness of department heads and city leaders such as the mayor to crack down on appointees and staffers despite wrongdoing, and he responded by saying that Lee should not have attempted to cut the Ethics Commission budget.
The commission, the first line of defense for campaign finance complaints, is emerging from a long period of disorganization. In August 2015, just as the electoral season kicked into high gear, John St. Croix, the commission's executive director, resigned.
Pelham was appointed in January. She now oversees planned audits of many, but not all, of the campaigns. The Peskin-Christensen race must be audited because both candidates took public funding. Lee did not, so his committee will not face an audit. The commission also randomly chose issue committees with expenses over $10,000 for audits. As the election's largest spenders, Proposition F and all of the other races championed by Lee landed on the list. So did the lobbying firms that sent representatives to the April 2015 meeting.
The audits are one way the commission can check the work of campaign compliance staff and potentially find patterns that might reveal improper donations or spending. But tracking improper influence by monied interests is difficult even with the extensive documentation lobbyists must provide to the city.
As an administrative enforcement agency, Pelham said, the Ethics Commission has an important role in checking those who might cut corners.
"Having an effective traffic cop is critical," she said, "if you're going to enforce the laws long before a busy intersection becomes so dangerous that the public has no choice but to completely avoid it."
Sara Bloomberg, Noah Arroyo, Meka Boyle and Cody Wright contributed to this report.
Mayor Ed Lee appears frequently on and offstage with tech investor Ton Conway, who last year fundraised for Lee's causes, including a housing bond and key supervisor race. (Creative Commons image from TechCrunch via Flickr)
Graphic by Sara Bloomberg
Illustration by Anna Vignet
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At a May meeting between San Francisco Ethics Commission staff and the authors of a proposed ballot measure for the November 2016 local election, Charles Marsteller and other members of the group Friends of Ethics discuss how to improve the potential law's language. If passed, it would create new lobbyist restrictions. (Photo by Noah Arroyo // Public Press)
KGO, owned and operated by ABC, aired the most paid political advertising but was second to last in producing election news coverage, among English-language San Francisco Bay Area TV stations. (Photo by Hyunha Kim // Public Press)
KRON aired the least political advertising among local stations that aired their own news. (Photo by Hyunha Kim // Public Press)
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