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Rigel gets 'Stuck' with 2 deals
Rigel Entertainment glued two deals for Stuart Gordon's "Stuck" as the American Film Market began, striking a German-speaking rights deal with Constantin Films while selling the title to Gulf Films for the Middle East.
Stuart Kemp, AP
Rigel Entertainment glued two deals for Stuart Gordon's "Stuck" as the American Film Market began, striking a German-speaking rights deal with Constantin Films while selling the title to Gulf Films for the Middle East.
Rigel CEO John F.S. Laing, announcing the brace of early AFM deals, said Wednesday that the buzz has been building on the title — which stars Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea — since it screened at September's Toronto International Film Festival.
"We are delighted that Constantin Films will be our partner in Germany — they have a strong track record releasing films of this genre — and we are equally thrilled to have signed with Gulf Film for the Middle East territory," Laing said. He added that a U.S. deal was pending for the title and expects to sign within the next few days.
Rigel Entertainment is repping the title at AFM on the movie inspired by true events. It details the story of a female partygoer who hits a homeless man with her car, drives home with him stuck to the shattered windshield and leaves him to die in her garage after realizing nobody witnessed the crash.
The screenplay was written by John Strysik ("Tales From the Darkside") and Gordon and is the first movie to be produced by the recently reformed Amicus Entertainment, under the direction of president and CEO Robert Katz, together with Jay Firestone and Ken Gord of newly formed Prodigy Pictures.
Laing is executive producing alongside Sam Grana, Tim McGrath, Andrew Arno and Christian Arnold-Beutel.
The inspiration for "Stuck" began with a newspaper article Gordon discovered that detailed a crime committed in 2001 by a retirement-home worker in Ft. Worth, Texas, who struck a man with her car while under the influence and, in a panic, left him stuck in the windshield in her garage for days. He bled to death from his injuries. The woman is now serving 50 years in prison.
Gordon said it was an intense shoot but "there was a lot of black humor" in the script, which made it easier. "The guy spent three days in the windshield in real life, Stephen (Rea) spent three weeks," Gordon said.

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Q: JSON Background Processing and Local Notification I am writing a program to pull some JSON data off of a 3rd party website.  What I would like to happen is run my method to pull the data, and cycle through the data finding seeing if there is a newer date then the last time the system pulled it.  If there is, I want to send out a local notification that something was "Found".  I expect if there is new data to be there every 5 min, but I would like the users to schedule a time interval from 5 min to once a day.  There is more I would like to check on but this is where I want to start.
I don't know where to begin, any help will be appreciated.
I am building this project in SWIFT on Xcode 6.4

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*For url fetching (For you json) - NSURLSession tutorial

*Look at ETAG, Last-Modified headers to check if JSON file is modified at server. Refer this

*NSTimer for for your timing requirements. Refer this

*For notifications: Use NSNotification. Refer this

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Middays with AdamMiddays with Adam
Prince's Paisley Park in Chanhassen Reopening Friday, January 15
Paisley Park in Chanhassen will be open to visitors once again on Friday, January 15th, and there will be some changes.
Prince-Themed Christmas Tree Has Us ROFL [PHOTO]
"This is what happens when you water your tree with water from Lake Minnetonka," reads the caption of the photo.
Eddie Van Halen and Prince Gear Stolen From Storage Locker
Items include Marshall cabinets reportedly used by Van Halen on '80s tours and by Prince on '90s studio recordings.
Prince, 'Sign O' the Times: Super Deluxe Edition': Album Review
Late legend's masterpiece gets a massive overhaul that documents period of creative explosion.
Put Your Face on Bob Dylan, Prince Or Any Other Famous Person
See what I looked like as Bob Dylan, Prince, The Karate Kid, and a few other celebrities.
Listen: Previously Unreleased Prince Track "Cosmic Day"
The previously unreleased track from Prince is making for heated debate online from long-time Prince fans.
Tommy Lee Promises 'Dark and Sexy' Cover of a Classic Prince Song
Upcoming 'Andro' album reworks "When You Were Mine."
Prince's Famous Cloud 2 'Blue Angel' Guitar Is for Sale
Instrument used onstage for nearly a decade had been missing since the mid-'90s.
Prince Tribute Show Director Recalls 'Tricky' Tension
Ken Ehrlich says getting Sheila E. and the Revolution onstage together helped bridge a gap.
20 Years Ago: Prince 'Retires' '1999' at 'Rave Un2 the Year 2000'
Pay-per-view special on New Year's Eve was supposed to be the final performance of the apocalyptic classic.


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Category Archives: Issues on Gender
Why are You, So Awful, to Your, Unfaithful, Husband?
A case of, blaming the VICTIM here!!!
Why are you, so awful, to your, unfaithful, husband??? Uh, isn't it, obvious? He CHEATED on me, and what, I'm just supposed to, forgive AND forget, and take him back in my no-longer-in-existence, loving arms, provide him with a soft place to land, a TIT, to suck on? (Wait, isn't that his MAMA's "job"???).
Why are you, so awful, to your, unfaithful, husband??? I mean, there are, worse things than, cheating, like if your husband's a bad drunk, and would BEAT you after he comes home at night, drunk? Or, that he'd, owed, a ton of, gambling debts, and you're, constantly, getting harassed at work or at home, by the collectors, there are, WORSE things, than having a man, cheat on you.
and, here's, how they will, make it up, to us, women!
Why are you, so awful, to your, unfaithful, husband??? That's not, the "air" of what a woman should be! A woman should be, forgiving, after all, he had, admitted to you, that he was, cheating on you. Why are you, so awful, to your, unfaithful, husband??? He had, already, made it up to you, by registering the properties, the cars, under your name already, and he's providing for the school tuitions of your children, what MORE, do you want?
And this, is a classic case, of going after the one who'd been, wronged, the one who has the reason, the proofs, of wrongdoing in her hands, and this is still just, BULLSHIT, of how you, mother FUCKERS, as well as the rest of the fucking god damn society just, expects us women, to TAKE it, now, think on this: if it were us women who'd, cheated on you mother fuckers (not name-calling!), will you, men, be so understanding, so kind, to forgive us all for our, infidelity? Yeah, I think not!
And therefore (⸫), you mother @#$%ERS (maxed out!), don't got, NO right, to ask us to forgive you when you cheat!
on and this too!
And, losers, DO stop, double-standarding, us all already, huh???
Filed under Gender Inequality, Excuses, Abuse, Infidelities/Being Unfaithful, Issues on Gender, Abuser/Enabler Interaction Style
Tagged as a Positive Correlation Between Gifts & Wrongdoings, Making Up for His Bad Behaviors
Lee Has All the Better Qualities, But She's Still Voiceless, & Sacrificed in Her Marriage
We women are still, SCREWED over, by these, traditional, stereotypical, gender roles! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The Experts: Women's Giving to Their Families Seen & Interpreted as Matter-of-Fact
The ex-wife of the singer, Wang rebutted on a post two days ago, described how she was being treated as unequal to him in the family, that if women are housewife who don't make an extra paycheck, women would've worked even harder, for less gains, it'd gained the agreements of all women around. The C.E.O. of Women's New Knowledge Foundation, Chuang told, that the society still believes, that women as the roles of caretakers of the family, the primary person who do the household chores. And once there's a divorce on the way, the men and women would not stand on equal basis to one another; the manager of the counseling center of Soochow University, Yao told, that Lee has a higher education degree, good backgrounds, but she's still the voiceless, the sacrificed party in her marriage.
Chuang told, that no matter if it's a full-time housewife, a working woman, the stereotypical belief of the society is still that women are in charge of household chores, caretaking, that the workhours of women are a lot longer than the males', but, nobody viewed household chores as a pay job, and women's working in the home had been taken for granted, and this underestimated the stress of the party doing all the work at home.
Chuang told, that there are many ways to transfer the assets away from the individual legally in Taiwan, or through the company, and the laws for alimony and child support don't work in favor of women, and so, the foundation is pushing forth for an amendment on the civil front, this was what Lee mentioned as the cost of her opportunities of work away from the home, because the full-time housewives not only put in the physical labor, and they'd lost the competitive edges of the workforces, and, as both men and women entered into marriage for many years, the men keep on advancing in the promotions, the wives, due to taking care of the families, the children, couldn't establish her self in society, as they split up, the starting line is never, equal for men and women.
Some believes, due to the higher education that Lee received, her socioeconomic status being higher up, it'd allowed her to voice out the inequality, Chuang said, that even as the better-educated women couldn't change the structures of patriarchal society, compared to women in the past, women now are better able to, describe the unequal treatments they were receiving, but from her post, it's clear to see, that Lee is still, having, a very hard time deciding on what she is to do.
Yao believed, that Lee put up with the bad behaviors of Wang in the marriage for EIGHT years, with her background, her higher education degrees, she still got tied down by the society's expectations of her role as a wife, a mother, a woman, that she should settle down, and be the great woman who's backing her husband up, giving him support, and, no matter how able-bodied, how strong the backgrounds of women are, we're still, voiceless, and sacrificed, in our, marriages.
And so, this still showed, how the traditional gender roles had, SCREWED us ALL, and, because of these, traditional gender roles that's been, etched into our, socialization, our ways of life, we'd, internalized these messed up values that tried putting us women, into, OUR, "places", and we get trapped, and, can't get out.
Filed under Divorces, Gender Inequality, Gender Roles, Issues on Gender, Life, Observations, Perspectives, Properties of Life, Wake Up Calls, Women's Issues
Tagged as Women's Rights
December 2, 2021 · 3:47 am
The Anti-Stalking Laws Will be Enforced Six Months from Now Tsai: a Lot of Women Live Under the Threats of Domestic Violence Regularly
Yeah, uh, guess how many MORE are gonna DIE, before the law's been, set into motion again? This should've been effective IMMEDIATELY, but, unfortunately, I do NOT control this shit, so…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The news of the legislator, Kao being physically abused by her boyfriend shocked the nation. The president, Tsai yesterday, signed the "Stalking harassment prevention law", and announced that the law will be fully enforced six months from now. She said, with this newly written law, in the future, the police can intervene earlier, when the acts of illegally stalking someone, harassing someone occurred, to prevent the injuries or the deaths.
As Tsai signed, the head of legislature, Su, the head of internal affairs, Hsu, the recruit of the DDP, Ke, the legislators from the party, Kwan, Fan all were there at the press conference, to bear witness; as the president signed, she'd, handed the pen that she'd signed with to Hsu as a gift.
Tsai said, the stalking act is the vital step to prevent the violence against the genders, that in the evaluation of the entire global community, this made us ahead of the rest in gender equality, but now, there are still, a lot of women who are, faced with the violence, and the threats of domestic violence regularly.
Tsai told, that two days ago, was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the "Wan-Ru Peng incident", back then, the female manager of the Women's Department of the DDP, in order to get the women to be more involved with the "Quarter Act", she'd gone to promote the cause in Kaohsiung and was murdered, and it'd called up the awareness of the public to pay more attention to women's safety in society, and there were the laws that set up in relation to this matter, "but on this path, there are always, more to be done, I shall keep working hard, to make the country's people live on with more ease."
Hsu told, that he'd directed the Department of Police Affairs to speed up the police education training programs, and, are putting in more forces on the police units right now.
Wow, sounds o grand, doesn't it? But, it's all just, boasting, I mean, who's to say, that after this god damn law gets passed, that it would work, really, in preventing violence against women, and, note this, men can also be victims of abuse too, so, what about them??? Yeah, this is still, just, idealistic, but nowhere NEAR realistic, just like all of the proposed acts, the currently government has right now.
Filed under "Professional" Opinions, Abuse, Cost of Living, Crime & Punishment, Issues on Gender, Legislature, My Thoughts on Various Issues, On the Wrong Side of the Law, Perspectives, Theories & Applications, Values, White Picket Fence
Tagged as Gender-Specific Wordings of Laws Against Abuse, Laws to Prevent Abuse, Protecting Women Against Abuse, the Delusions of the Government
A Female Servicewoman Was Raped in the Caps by a Superior of the Mazu Defense Unit
The sex scandals in the military, during the holidays to celebrate the servicemen, how ironic!!! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
On His Day Off, Used the Excuse of Duties, and Attacked the Servicewoman, the Suspect Taken into Custody
The Marine's Mazu Command Center had a case of sexual assault reported on the third this month, a servicewoman was attacked by Wu, a male superior, as the Lienjiang D.A.'s Office conducted the investigations and interrogations of the man, yesterday, they'd asked the courts to have Wu in custody, while the Mazu Military Defense Department started a specialist task force to investigate the matter, and will discuss the leniency in operating the units, the servicewoman who had been raped had been sent to the hospital already, and is being counseled, she is stabilized emotionally, and physically for now.
Based off of understanding, Wu during the time when the services was off on holiday two days ago, he'd used the excuse of splitting up the tasks of cleaning up the camps, to get everybody else away, demanded the servicewoman to report to him, and when he was alone with her, he'd, assaulted her, ripped her clothes open, and although the female servicewoman fought hard, she was still, assaulted by him.
Those who were on the inside stated, that afterwards, the servicewoman felt insulted, and immediately reported the matter to the superiors, and the superiors were angered, and took Wu who was involved with a higher rank into custody, and notified the investigative units of the armed services, as Wu was interrogated, he was sent to Lienjiang D.A.'s Office on charges of obstructions of sexual freedom, after the D.A. interrogated, they found him to be a known suspect of the case, asked the courts to keep him into custody, which the courts signed off on, as whether or not the victim was raped, the D.A. is waiting on the rape kit results.
Based off of knowledge, as the units were reported, they'd immediately found a female superior to accompany the servicewoman to the hospital, and to help her emotionally, and the counselors, social workers are offering therapy to the female servicewoman currently, the families already arrived in Mazu to accompany her, the female servicewoman is stabilized, emotionally, and physically, for now.
The Defense Department of Mazu stated, that the military will comply with the investigation measures by the D.A.'s Office, and use the dual principles of "punishment & reprimands", to discuss the removal of Wu's ranking in the military; and they will enforce the measure of military morale, as well as the education of gender in the military, to set up the right knowledge, to protect the honor of the military.
And so, women are still, victimized, because we're, easy targets, especially in the military, there are these rapes, sexual molestation, assault cases, because we women are minorities, and, men see us as easy targets, and we get, victimized more often, and this is still a crime of opportunity that's occurred here!
Filed under Abuse, Abuse of Power, Crime & Punishment, Gender Inequality, Improper Misconducts, In the Army, Issues on Gender, Knowing the Law and Breaking It, On the Wrong Side of the Law, Properties of Life, Punishment Doesn't Fit the Crime, Rapes, Reforms Needed in the Armed Services, sexual misconducts, White Picket Fence
Tagged as Assault in the Military, Power Rape, Victimized Because She is a Woman
Who Will Guarantee the Work for Women During the Nighttime?
The laws, seemingly set, to protect women, but it's actually, SEXIST, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Awhile ago, the grand justice interpreted the 807th amendment, announced that the labor laws that restricted women from working during the nighttime goes against the seventh amendment, guaranteeing the gender equality of work, immediately, out-of-effect.
The labor laws mandated, that by principle, the employers should not force women to work nights, but, after the union or the wages committees' meeting and agreeing, and the conditions of work must match: first, the provisions of safe necessary sanitary needs, second, when no public transportation is available, the company must provide the female workers with a safe way home, or a dormitory for the female workers, and if these two requirements were met, then, the restrictions of women working nights doesn't need to be followed.
Originally, the labor laws allowed the rights to a certain degree, to the unions, the wages discussion meets, so the unions can deal with the employers, and demanded the employees enforce the protective measures, as a prerequisite for women working nights, it seemed, that this was, giving women, the upper hand, a good, deal.
But most of the justices, in the reasoning, pointe out, that the makeup of the unions, and the number of male and female members in the unions are diverse, that it's, uncertain, if it can replace the individual's desires for working nighttime. Besides, whether or not the female workers are willing to work nights, has more to do with personal wills, or the related means of wages, that it's not fitted, for the union, or the board to define and decide for all.
And so, this still showed, how there are, the multiple sides of concerns, in whether or not women should be granted the workhours of late in the nights, on the level of safety concerns, the laws should prevent us women from working nights, but from a gender equality angle, it would be, sexist, because, we would then be, banned from working the nights. Yet, from the angle men and women being treated equals, we should be allowed to work the nights, just like men, and so, this is, not just a gender issue that's being, debated on, it's, more, multifaceted.
Filed under "Professional" Opinions, Discriminations, Gender Inequality, Issues on Gender, Legislature, Perspectives, Properties of Life, White Picket Fence
Tagged as Discrimination Against the Genders, Gender Discrimination in the Name of Equal Protection for Women, Right to Work for Women
The Female Client Said "NO", the Male Public Relations Still Went Ahead, Found Guilty of Rape
How this MANWHORE, raped, his, "Jane", because a "John" is the male form for a client who buys sexual services??? Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The male public relations after his female client was passed out from drinking, took her to a hotel, then raped her, Chen claimed that the victim had, "coaxed" him out, and, in his business, that's, the signal for sex trade; she'd told him no, but, "When a woman says no, she meant, yes". The Taipei District Court believed, that when a woman says no, it's no, and, sentenced Chen to opportunistic rape for three years ten months. This can be appealed.
In the reading of the verdict, the court quoted U.N.'s "Pact to Rid of ALL Forms of Prejudices, Stereotypes Against Women", that the crimes of obstructions against sexual freedoms, the individual can choose "yes or no", "when", "how", and "with whom", to have sex with.
The verdict stated, that ANY sexual behaviors warrants the respects from both parties, a consensus must be, reached, "NO means NO!", "Yes means, YES!", without the clear verbal consents, it's, equivalent to a "no"!
The verdict also stated, the party who'd demanded the act be performed, need to make sure, that the other party is completely aware of what was about to happen, and has to agree to it, and so, as the person falls silent, it's interpreted as "I don't want to", and the hesitations of the other party, is also, "I don't want it!"; and, when someone goes home with you, it's not consensus to have sex, and, as the person agrees to kiss or hug, that also isn't, giving consent to have sex either.
The district attorneys accused, that Chen works as a public relations personnel at "Male Model" in Zhongshan District in Taipei, on October 31st of 2019, the victim went to get drunk there, Chen told his agent, Hong, to get him out with her, and so, Hong asked Chen to take the victim to a nearby hotel to rest up. Chen was suspected of stripping the victim's clothes off, and then, raping her, the victim told Chen "NO!", but Chen wouldn't stop, and the victim ran into the bathrooms, texted Hong for help.
And so, what's wrong, is not only the man's behaviors, but the whole system, I mean, what the FUCK (don't pardon me here!), just because a woman is getting drunk at a night club, where male hookers are being taken out, that does NOT mean that she is looking for that FUCK (don't pardon me!) for the night, and what this LOSER did, was, rape, and he deserve to get charged with it, and, sentenced, severely, besides, the woman told him "NO!", and, when a woman says: NO, and a loser still, goes, "all the way", that's, RAPE for ya!
And this case still happened because??? Oh yeah, LOSERS still have difficulties, keeping their, DICKS inside their pants, so, maybe all of us women, should start carrying that MACHETE, inside our bags, so we can, chop-chop??? And no, none of us is going to feed that SHIT to our dogs, 'cuz??? Oh yeah, they all deserved, BETTER quality, MEATS.
Filed under Abuse, Abuser/Enabler Interaction Style, Awareness, Gender Inequality, Issues on Gender, Knowing the Law and Breaking It, On the Wrong Side of the Law, Perspectives, Rapes, Right to Life, sexual misconducts, Wake Up Calls, White Picket Fence
Tagged as Raped by a Gigolo, the Rights to Our Bodies, When a Woman Says "NO!"
A Social Design for Miscarriages
This forum, is tailoring to the needs of both men AND women, not just the women, because, having children, is still NOT just, OUR, "business", you men are also, involved in this process too! A really, innovative thought, especially in the, eastern cultures here…translated…
During these past two years, I'd, focused my researches on the matter of the natural miscarriage process in Taiwan (based off of statistical measures, there are, about fifteen-to-twenty-percent natural miscarriages calculated by the process of natural selection), not only on the medical data that's been, collected, also the cultural, the societal too, I'd also included the interviews with the families who had suffered the miscarriages, but, how do we, open up the covered up discussion topics of miscarriage by natural causes that's been, tabooed? Are there ways, to come up with the new ideas, for the families who'd suffered such a loss, it's what I want to, focus more on, to help give to the policies of births set up by the law.
Luckily, the sociology professor from N.T.U. Sociology Department who's excellent on the subject of "Social Designs", gave us an exchange forum on "Reimagining, the Process of Miscarriages by Natural Causes: the Social Designs Exchange", the exchange was, on the makeup of the participants in the discussion forums, with the sponsor's inviting the Revolutionary Birthing Movement's asking for the students, the OBGYNs, the nurses, and others who had miscarriage by natural causes, a total of, forty individuals, to share their experiences.
The subject of discussion is also important, in the structuring of the questions, we need to consider, that those who'd had miscarriages, how it'd, affected those other members of their, families, how the families coped with the process of the women, miscarrying? Lastly, to up the sensitivity of the medical, to prevent yet another, impact onto these women.
All of these subjects, were from my past experiences with the interviewing, and although, we can, only hold the conference online, due to the outbreaks, the participants weren't able to hold the face-to-face interaction discussion forums, but, Yu-Hwa designed the group interactions online, and everybody entered into a game of sorts, in the leading of the story of miscarriage, we'd all, quickly, gotten into the situations, and, the process is, brain-wrecking, and very fast-paced, everybody started, brainstorming all the ideas, and we'd, come up, with a ton of amazing ideas.
For instance, someone suggested that we should have this "P.O. Box" like the T.V. personnel started up, encouraging those who had gone through the miscarriages personally, or are with those around them who'd had the miscarriages, to share their thoughts and feelings. And, all of these letters can be collected, to host an exhibition with, as a memorial for a stage of life in one's life.
And, there's, also, another brand new concept that's, quite, innovative, the "miscarriage vacations"! There are the honeymoon vacations, family trips, trips of friends, and we can also, call on the hotel chains, the tourist agencies, to give the discounts to couples who'd had miscarriages, so they don't need to spend too much money, and can, get away, from their current states of minds and beings temporarily, to go out. This isn't to celebrate anything, but to give the mind, the heart, time to breathe, through the travels, to saturate oneself, to offer one another the needed supports.
Someone came up with the "diary exchange of families", for the couple to write, to improve their communication, to express what they don't feel able to express to one another, verbally in written form.
Some mentioned how we can, restructure the "fetus", designing a way, for the elders to understand, and to, accept to reinstate the beliefs, the knowledge of natural miscarriages, so others around the families can have more understanding, more knowledge on the matter of miscarriages by natural causes.
In the past, the male voice is often, overlook in this matter, but, on this exchange forum, we hoped, to have the alternative perspectives from the men. Some suggested using the technologies of A.I., to develop a sort of a Siri software, to help the men, accompany their partners in the process of their, miscarriages, to provide the males with more resources, more support, in a, more friendly manner.
I'm really hoping, that the outbreaks can end, so this sort of a forum can take place physically, so more people will be enlightened by this, social design, to find new and innovative responses, come up with more possibilities, for those who'd, gone through, the miscarriages.
And so, this is, a seemingly only women-related subject, but, this forum also, considered the men, which is, probably, something that's new, because in the past, we all believe, that carrying children is a woman's business, that the males only needed to donate a sperm, and he's, done, but this forum considered that men are also, going through loss, when their wives miscarriages, it's just, that we don't, experience these losses, in the exact, same way!
Filed under "Professional" Opinions, Cost of Living, Gender Roles, Issues on Gender, Life, Philosophies of Life, Properties of Life, Values
Tagged as Involving Men on the Discussions of Miscarriages, No Longer Women's "Business"
Being a "Mom" is Work Too
A-M-E-N, to that, on how the "job" of a mom is, taken for granted, too often in the world today, translated…
What full-time mothers hated hearing is, "You don't work, do you?", everybody knows it too, that the job description of "mom" is, multifaceted, numerous tasks, long work hours; and on Mother's Day, everybody wanted to say, "Mom, you'd, worked, too hard!", but mostly, people believed, that "mom" is, nothing, more than a role, not a job.
My neighbor's seven-year-old daughter came over to play, asked me, "Aunty, what's your job?", I'd replied, "my job is mom". She'd stated, "That's not a job!", then I'd, asked her, "Why isn't it? I'd done some many things during a day!", she'd, insisted, "but you don't make any money, my mom works, and made so much money! She's working overtime today!"
Yeah, if I worked as a nanny, in the schools, or the afternoon programs to teach the students, cooked the foods at restaurants, driving a cab to take clients to and from, to the employers' homes to clean their houses, I would, totally, earn a wage, even, the bonuses, the raises around the holidays, the breaks the days off, and the worker's insurances too. But, in my own home, I'd done, just that, no money to be earned, no days off, and I'd often needed, the overtime hours too. As my child fell ill, I'd needed to stay by his side watch over him day and night; if I caught what my child had, or maybe, I fell ill, or felt tired, I can't have a day off, nobody's there, to look after me. Once I'd stayed with my child at the hospitals, and in a few days, my child recovered, but I'd, started having a fever. As the doctors came to make the rounds, I'd begged, "I feel achy all over, I can't take one step, can't leave my child here and got get treated, can you give me a tab that'll, help reduce my fever please!"
the job of a housewife…
and these women aren't, getting paid, for EACH and EVERY task that they're, performing around the house either…illustration from online
If I don't get paid, then, I'm not, working? What is the definition of, "work"? I'd looked it up in the dictionary, "Work": occupation, synonym: labor. And the definition of "occupation" is: the post or work that an individual has. Here, it'd not mentioned anything about wages. In Wikipedia, the definition of "Work" is: occupation; while the definition of "Occupation" is: a day-to-day routine of labor, with the goals of getting paid for your labor. "Getting paid for labor" meant, a wage, so, Wikipedia believed, that the purpose of work, is, getting that pay, this is also, the majority's explanation of what "work" entailed. Then, in the ancient times, before the individuals became masters, what would the work of the apprenticeships be? And, there's, the same character in the world, volunteer, and volunteers normally, don't get, paid either, but it clearly, constitutes as a form of work too, based off of the meanings of the characters taken apart, so, why is it, that staying at home, taking care the children, NOT considered, "work"? Based off of what I'd already, described, everything I do at home, are all the work deemed as work by societal definition, and, every single task combined, makes into, a whole "job"! "Homemaking is NOT a job", "Full-time mothers aren't working!", this sort of deeply rooted belief, when will it get, amend3ed? It's a wonder, that a lot of moms want to, find alternative work posts, so they don't get misinterpreted as, "leeches"!
Before my neighbor's young daughter left my home, I'd told her, "Aunty's job is being a mom, I'm also, a temporary nanny. Next time if your mom can't watch over it, send you over to my house, do tell her, aunty will be charge a hundred dollars an hour.", that young girl, she'd made a sound with her tongue, then, walked out the door, she's still fazed at how aunty doesn't go out to work to make a pay, to play with children at home, and her too. The next time, if I ask for pay from her "mom with work", hopefully, she can gain a little more understanding of how, "aunty also works!"
And that is, precisely, how and why these homemakers get taken for granted, because we're NOT working out of our homes, dressed up in those suits, making a pay check with the dollar amounts, but homemakers ARE working, they're working 24/7, 365 or 366 days PER year, and, we're NOT allowed to have any sick days, vacation times, and we're not making enough for the families in these, dollars and cents? You've got to be, shitting me here, and this is the LACK of respect, that we women get, for staying at home, and working as a HOUSEWIFE, raising up our young, cleaning up the houses, keeping the living environment, clean and tidy, not to mention, getting the groceries, sometimes, we also act as, the makeshift plumber, electrician too! So show some RESPECT already, huh???
Filed under Gender Inequality, Gender Roles, Issues of the Society, Issues on Gender, Life, Perspectives, Properties of Life, Socialization, Values, Women's Issues
Tagged as Homemakers=Unemployed, the "Job" of a Housewife
The Judge Who'd Requested that the Female Assistant Give Him a Massage Demoted to a Court Clerk
And this loser only got??? Oh yeah, DEMOTED, and if you ask me (who asked you! Exactly…), this MOTHER @#$%ER needs more than that SLAP on the wrist, to LEARN his lessons! A case of, abuse of, power, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The district judge of Hsinchu, Wu, while working as a justice for the civil courts, used his power status over the three assistants at the office, to have them find his daughters tutors, to go to his daughters' school functions, field trips, and had the female assistant massage him, and as this became known, he'd coached his assistant to say that "it wasn't a massage" that she was the one who'd, kindly offered to help him alleviate the stresses in his body. The Examination department found Wu had abused his power, and impeached him, the justice punishment courts yesterday took Wu's judgeship away, and transferred him to work as a secretary of the courts of Taoyuan.
The secretary of the chief justices are responsible for anything else away from ruling over the cases, to help share the workload of the judges, Wu's current wages are a little over $184,000N.T.s per month, and as he got demoted, he only makes a little more than $105,000N.T.s.
the fifty-year-old Wu had once worked in the district court judges in Banciao (before the reforms) and Miaoli, later he'd worked as the head justices in the courts of Hsinchu, until August of two years ago, he got pulled off the bench, and started last January, he'd been on suspension.
The duties courts investigated, that started in the end of May of 2018, to mid-June of 2019, Wu made requests to his female assistants to sort through matters not related to their work, what they weren't hired to work for, his private matters, including writing his vita for his professorship at Chingwha University, the questions of the mid-terms, answered the questions of his students, to even booking the afternoon tea sessions, the trip to Hong Kong, he'd asked him assistants to manage for him.
Wu had asked another female assistant to rub his temples, his shoulders, neck, and get the heat out of his systems, the female assistant felt disrespected and ashamed.
Wu also used threats to his pupils, as he'd started, teaching law, "don't let me catch you, or I will, get rid of you", and as his female students got pregnant, he'd told them, "don't sign up for the Hsinchu District Court Systems".
The duties courts criticized Wu for belittling women, that he'd broken the laws of gender equality, that because of his actions, it'd lowered the trust, and expectations that members of the public had of the justice systems.
And so, clearly, this LOSER had, ABUSED his power of being a judge, he'd made those, unreasonable requests to his female secretaries, and they'd not dared, defy him, because they feared getting fired, which made him go more overboard, with his requests, and this LOSER deserved more than just being pulled out of his status as a judge, this loser deserves to get JAILED, and see how he liked being someone else's BITCH!
Filed under Abuse of Power, Gender Inequality, Improper Misconducts, In the Workplace, Issues on Gender, Knowing the Law and Breaking It, Life, Messed Up Values, Properties of Life, sexual misconducts, Slaps on the Wrist
Tagged as Power Rape
The Long-Term Caretaker Population Makeup Showing a Gender Uneven, More Females than Males, the Imbalance in the Ratios
This is only, natural, isn't it, as the GENDER stereotypes worked! Off of the Newspapers, translated…
As the society ages, we are in need of more manpower , the population of caretakers are unequal gender wise, there are more women and not enough men, and, the job descriptions are quite stereotypical too with the men working the late night shifts, or the more manual labors. The governments of Tainan City and Yunlin stated, that there are, increases in males who got certified as caretakers, that the requirements are easier to meet, that there are a lot of women who took their husbands along, their children too, to put themselves into the long-term care work, that it's something positive that we want to see, in the economy and the caretaking realm.
The local department of sanitation told, that there are a total of certified 1,754 long-term care caretakers, with women making up 1,505, and men only 249, that there are six times more women than men. Last year from January to September there were a total of 4,434 caretakers certified, only 788 men and 3,646 women, the male to female ratio was 1:4.6.
The social services department in Tainan told, that based off of the cases, they would assign the caretakers, when the cared are stronger built, and needed to move around and get bathed, they would send the male caretakers; while the women caretakers may be taking care of someone who's slightly unable to care for oneself, with less labor, like household help, meal prep, shopping, and the like.
Mr. Jiang who'd once worked on the frontlines of this, because the employers held the stereotypes of how female caretakers are more tentative and careful, he was switched off, later, the unit he worked in transferred him to the graveyard shift, then, had him work as a driver. He said, that in the caretaking industry, the men would be discriminated based off of their sex.
The long-term care sect of the Department of Health & Sanitations of Yunlin Huang analyzed, that the imbalance of male and female ratio in long-term care has to do with society and culture, it's even more so compared to past now, but in recent years, there are, more and more men who are, entering the field of long-term care.
The head of the Kang-Tai Long-Term School, Dai believed, that in order to solve the problems of long-term care, there needs to be more locations set up, with the forefront of having an ideal work environment, and better pay, to attract more manpower.
And so, men are, discriminated again, because of their sex, and it's, still from our beliefs of how women are more careful, that men are, made of muscles, and it's still, SEXIST, and besides, people aren't that comfortable, with a male caretaker who will be required to bathe those who are in need of this sort of help, which is WHY the long-term care sect is still more, female-oriented right now.
Filed under Gender Inequality, Gender Roles, In the Workplace, Issues on Gender, Life, Properties of Life
Tagged as Discrimination Based off of Sex, Sexist Beliefs about Job as Caretakers


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Q: `java.io.StreamCorruptedException: unexpected end of block data` when reading certain objects from file I have some very basic serialization code:
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This code works fine for most objects. But for some objects I get the following exception:
java.io.StreamCorruptedException: unexpected end of block data
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1946) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1870) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1752) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1328) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1946) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1870) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1752) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1328) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:350) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.util.ArrayList.readObject(ArrayList.java:593) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
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at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:974) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1848) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1752) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1328) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1946) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1870) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1752) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1328) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:350) ~[na:1.6.0_29]
at my.CustomClass.deserializeObjectFromFile(CustomClass.java:79) ~[classes/:na]

I do not try to serialize more than one object per file (as suggested by other questions on the topic). The code works for most objects, but not for some. Since ArrayList.readObject() appears in the stack trace: has that got something to do with the problem? If so, what? To my surprise and dismay I found nothing on the net concerning that problem...
I appreciate any pointers on where to go from here...!

A: I found the problem: One of the objects deep down in the object graph implemented the following method:
private void writeObject(java.io.ObjectOutputStream out) throws IOException

without actually writing its internals to the ObjectOutputStream and without throwing an exception (the method was implemented for validation purposes). So the solution: when implementing this method, either throw an Exception of some sort or write the internals of the object to the ObjectOutputStream. Easiest is to call
out.defaultWriteObject();


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Onkyo X6 review
In the world of portable wireless speakers, it's hard not to be impressed by the Onkyo's all-round ability... Tested at £150
By What Hi-Fi? 03 December 2015
Overall, the X6's sound is decent. Of its size, you'll struggle to find better at this price
Decent detail, dynamics and organisation
Solid build and fine portability
Doesn't have the scale or subtlety of top rivals at the same price
Not long ago people were carrying around mobile phones larger than the Onkyo X6.
There is something to be said for the obscure when it comes to wireless speaker design – the market is filling so fast, of course you need to stand out – but, if you can make a bar like this sound good and remain affordable, you can dispense with the science-fiction movie props.
That isn't to say the X6 is unbecoming; we like its slick curvature and contrast of black on silver. It is not the smallest, or lightest, speaker on the market, but before having listened it appears to have that trade off between portability and reassuring bulk just about right.
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But we think the button on the far right is rather canny. Including MULTIPAIR, allowing you to swap instantly between yours and your friends' mobile devices, deserves a pat on the back. Onkyo certainly knows its market.
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Balance is important for a speaker of this size, but while this arrangement isn't overly adventurous in terms of range, there is a nice amount of body to the vocal without muddying up the low end of the guitar with too much bass.
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    enum PrivateKeyFormat { Pkcs8, OpenSsl, Mixed };
    enum EncryptionMode { DoOfferEncryption, DoNotOfferEncryption }; // Only relevant for Pkcs8 format.

    SshKeyGenerator();
    bool generateKeys(KeyType type, PrivateKeyFormat format, int keySize,
        EncryptionMode encryptionMode = DoOfferEncryption);

    QString error() const { return m_error; }
    QByteArray privateKey() const { return m_privateKey; }
    QByteArray publicKey() const { return m_publicKey; }
    KeyType type() const { return m_type; }

private:
    typedef QSharedPointer<Botan::Private_Key> KeyPtr;

    void generatePkcs8KeyStrings(const KeyPtr &key, Botan::RandomNumberGenerator &rng);
    void generatePkcs8KeyString(const KeyPtr &key, bool privateKey,
        Botan::RandomNumberGenerator &rng);
    void generateOpenSslKeyStrings(const KeyPtr &key);
    void generateOpenSslPrivateKeyString(const KeyPtr &key);
    void generateOpenSslPublicKeyString(const KeyPtr &key);
    QString getPassword() const;

    QString m_error;
    QByteArray m_publicKey;
    QByteArray m_privateKey;
    KeyType m_type;
    EncryptionMode m_encryptionMode;
};

} // namespace QSsh

#endif // SSHKEYGENERATOR_H


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Heidi Hahn
The Future is Elsewhere (If it Breaks Your Heart)
Installation view of The Future is Elsewhere (If it Breaks Your Heart)
The Future is Elsewhere (If it Breaks Your Heart) #1, 2017
Press Release News
Jack Hanley is excited to present The Future is Elsewhere (If it Breaks Your Heart), Heidi Hahn's second solo exhibition with the gallery. For this presentation, Hahn continues to investigate the traditional concerns of figurative painting while creating environments of psychological landscapes of the female mind and body. Her compositions and the materiality of paint, with its rich and translucent multiple layers, enhance the depth of the females' interior lives presented in these finely crafted narratives.
The women displayed in this new series are in transit, active or passive, walking or waiting, reading or looking at their phone, on the verge of new destinations or chapters. The characters are always portrayed in profile, conjuring up some hieroglyphic stance and causing the narrative to lapse in time. It is unclear where they are coming from, where they are going, what they are waiting for, what caused them to be where they are. These women are almost without history, their future uncertain and unconcerned. The portraiture of often hidden faces, and if visible, simplified into obfuscating masks, elucidates these women's anonymity. Their bodies, sinuous and fluid, assimilate to the flatness of their backgrounds and the conventions of their environments. Through distinctive and delimitative lines shaping them, they are entirely aware of the part they have had to play in society yet unconcerned with judgements and expectations.
Introspective and with an unadorned social awareness, Heidi Hahn portrays the complexities of femininity. The use and continuation of the traditional medium of painting and the interplay of formally traditional and contemporary elements contextualize topical concerns and engage these in an art historical context. They paint a new portrait of women who don't have to pose for the picture.
Heidi Hahn, (b.1982, Los Angeles) lives and works in Brooklyn. Hahn had solo exhibitions including Bent Idle at Jack Hanley Gallery and Shadows from Other Places at Premier Regard in Paris. The artist has participated in various group exhibitions including Engender at Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, The Edge of Doom at H I L D E, Los Angeles, Human Condition at John Wolf, Los Angeles, On Painting at Kent Fine Art, New York, Friend of the Devil at Jack Hanley Gallery, Immediate Female at Judith Charles Gallery.
Heidi Hahn in New York Times, November 1, 2017
Heidi Hahn in Blouin ArtInfo, October 23, 2017
Heidi Hahn in Artsy, September 28, 2017


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Microsoft Inspire 2019
Bekker's Blog
UPDATED: Microsoft Offering $20 Billion for Yahoo Search?
By Becky Nagel
Just days after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's declaration that Redmond was "done with all of these [acquisition] discussions with Yahoo," one newspaper is reporting that a deal is in the works.
According to a report published Saturday by the Times of London, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to "the broad terms" of a deal that would give Microsoft Yahoo's search business for $20 billion. Reporter John Waples described the deal as "complex": Microsoft would have a "10-year operating agreement" for Yahoo search, would participate in the company's management structure and acquire 30 percent of Yahoo overall.
Neither company has commented publicly on the report as of press time. However, All Things D's Kara Swisher reported on Sunday that her sources from both companies "scoffed" at the article, saying that the companies haven't even been talking.
If the Times report is true, the timing may make sense: Yahoo's CEO, Jerry Yang, recently announced he would leave the company. Shareholders who sued Yahoo after the negotiations earlier this year failed blamed Yang in court documents for not accepting Microsoft's original offer of $31 a share made in February. Yang stated at the time that he wanted an amount in the high $30s. Microsoft's follow-up attempt to acquire just the search portion of Yahoo failed over the summer -- and was the first of many times Ballmer said he would no longer seek to acquire any part of the company.
Yahoo's value has dropped precipitously during the last year: It was in the mid-$20s per share right before the original Microsoft offer; it closed Friday at $11.51 a share.
Becky Nagel is the vice president of Web & Digital Strategy for 1105's Converge360 Group, where she oversees the front-end Web team and deals with all aspects of digital strategy. She also serves as executive editor of the group's media Web sites, and you'll even find her byline on PureAI.com, the group's newest site for enterprise developers working with AI. She recently gave a talk at a leading technical publishers conference about how changes in Web technology may impact publishers' bottom lines. Follow her on twitter @beckynagel.
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Beyond Passing
The Further Writings of Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen & C.S.R. Calloway
Nella Larsen's 1929 novel Passing is hailed today as a significant literary work of Harlem Renaissance, though for several decades it, like all of her works, was out of print. As history rights a wrong and recommits Larsen's name to memory, it is beneficial to look at the other writings she published over her short career, collected here in Beyond Passing: The Further Writings of Nella Larsen. Contained within are her autobiographical novel Quicksand, and three short stories "Freedom," "The Wrong Man," and "Sanctuary."
With a growing number of titles under its Magna Releases banner, CSRC Storytelling promotes and provides positivity, power and presence in print, restoring literary classics across genres and making them newly accessible to modern readers. This collection of Nella Larsen stories is a CSRC Storytelling Magna Release.
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Prisoners' Legal Services of New York (PLS) is seeking applicants for the position of Legal Secretary in our Albany office. Prior office experience and Spanish language skills are preferable.
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Discretionary Management
Shift to DFM use continues but cost concerns persist
The Guide: Outsourcing
By Nyree Stewart
Outsourcing by advisers to discretionary managers is a trend that has accelerated since the RDR in 2012, and it looks set to continue.
The latest DFM Service Review 2017 by Defaqto shows that all types of discretionary services, whether they are model portfolio services (MPS) through discretionary fund managers (DFMs) or platforms, or bespoke services, are on the rise.
While more advisers appear to be embracing an outsourcing approach, the Defaqto report notes: "[The] figures further support the idea that advisers are providing a wide range of choice, which strengthens the argument that robust suitability tests are being followed with a wide range of different propositions available.
Adviser use of DFMS
2.4 - Average number of DFMs used by advisers in 2016
50% - Percentage of surveyed advisers in 2016 that support discretionary management and who use a model portfolio service through a discretionary manager
63% - Percentage of the surveyed advisers who use a Bespoke DFM service
Source: Defaqto DFM Service Review 2017
"Among those advisers using DFMs, there does appear to be a trend developing. Advisory business in particular is shrinking in favour of a rise in MPS use on platforms. This is perhaps a trend we would expect as advisers strive for efficiencies by outsourcing investment.
"Coupled with the fact that the majority of client assets are now on a platform, this points to a trend we would expect to see continuing."
Ben Willis, investment manager and head of research at Whitechurch Securities, suggests time and expertise appear to be the main drivers for the demand in DFMs and outsourcing.
"By outsourcing they can save time and utilise the expertise of those who are totally devoted to constructing and managing client investment portfolios," he explains.
"This also distances some of the risk as the adviser will not be wholly responsible for the investment advice but will be responsible for the selection of the wealth manager."
While the wealth management industry is continuing to evolve, performance and costs are likely to remain key areas for the market.
Mr Willis adds: "Pressure to lower costs will no doubt continue, while more and more firms are entering the wealth manager market.
"Some level of standardised performance is an area that a lot of wealth managers would like to see. However, even though we can compare costs between firms, it can prove difficult to compare performances."
That said, Quilter Cheviot investment director David Miller suggests the outlook for the sector is positive, although cost control remains important.
"DFM's that invest directly in securities rather than simply aggregating a selection of funds have an advantage, which allows them to build sensible portfolios that are designed to meet client's needs," Mr Miller says.
"Those that select funds run the risk of investing in expensive closet trackers or pursuing performance by selecting [funds] that have achieved top-decile performance in the past, but will not necessarily [do so] in the future. Successful investment is all about control, transparency and cost-effective implementation."
Mr Willis says advisers need to ensure they conduct due diligence on each firm they are considering, including past performance, costs, company structure and how they manage money.
"The industry has become very cost-conscious and transparent since the RDR, which is a good thing," he adds.
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Foreigners play a sizable role in the U.S. economy, whether they come for a visit or whether they come to stay.
Economists worry that both impacts could diminish if the Trump administration succeeds with its plans to limit travel from certain countries while capping immigration. And that could have a significant impact on restaurants, which hire large numbers of immigrants, have an outsized number of immigrant owners, and cater to millions of travelers every year.
Native-born Americans aren't reproducing like they once did, a phenomenon seen in many Western nations around the world.
The difference in the U.S. has been immigration. The influx of workers, both lower-skilled employees who fill jobs on farms and inside restaurants, have provided a sizable boost to the economy.
In February, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said that reducing immigration would hurt the U.S. economy.
According to U.S. Census data, the foreign-born population grew by nearly 20 percent between 2003 and 2013, more than twice the rate of growth in the native-born population.
Foreign-born residents now make up 13.3 percent of the U.S. population, up from 11.9 percent a decade ago.
This group has some economic muscle. According to the Economic Policy Institute, an economic think tank, the immigrant population takes up a 14.7 percent share of total U.S. economic output — or about $743 billion.
The foreign-born population is only expected to increase in the coming years. Census projections expect the foreign-born population to grow to 18.8 percent of the total U.S. population by 2060 — when it expects the country to house nearly 417 million people.
The foreign-born population comes in all sizes. But, according to a study published by the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute, immigrants tend to be over-represented among highly skilled workers, such as physicians or engineers. And they are also over-represented among lower-skilled workers — meaning they increase the size of the labor pool in the restaurant industry.
The Trump administration has promised a broad crackdown on illegal immigration and has proposed building a wall along the border with Mexico. It has, however, left alone the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, or Dreamers, which protects children brought to the country illegally from deportation, as long as they haven't committed a crime.
During the campaign, Donald Trump argued that trade deals and immigration policies harm the middle class. He also argued that housing more foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high and makes it harder for more people to earn a middle class wage.
A 2013 study by the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors more restrictionist policies, found that immigration can depress wages for native-born Americans without a high school degree.
Another area of concern is tourism. According to the U.S. Travel Association, the U.S. is, by far, the largest destination for global travel, with 77.5 million people visiting the country every year.
Without travel to the U.S., the trade deficit would have been 18 percent higher in 2015, according to the association. The industry generated $1.6 trillion in economic output in 2015 and created 7.6 million jobs, according to the International Trade Administration.
There is mounting concern about the impact that efforts by the Trump Administration to limit travel from six countries, due to concerns about terrorism, could have on domestic travel.
The concerns about tourism have caught the attention of the National Restaurant Association. "We are supportive of securing the border," said Shannon Meade, director of labor and workforce policy with the association.


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29 Pa.B. 617
PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 99-168
[29 Pa.B. 617]
Pursuant to the provisions of 71 P. S. Section 2002(b), The Secretary of Transportation makes the following written finding:
The Department of Transportation plans to replace the existing single span, concrete encased steel I-beam bridge which carries Westbourne Road (S.R. 2006) over Goose Creek in Westtown Township, Chester County. The bridge is to be replaced on the existing alignment with an adjacent box beam bridge. Roadway approaches will be improved approximately 70 meters (200 ft.) east and west of the bridge. The approach work is primarily to provide transition to the new structure.
The proposed project will require acquisition of 125.4 square meters (1,350 square feet) of right-of-way from the Twin Brook Farm property adjacent to the existing roadway. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) has determined that this project will have ''No Effect'' on the Twin Brook Farm property, a property eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. This resource is protected by Section 2002 of Pennsylvania Act 120.
Mitigation measures will be taken to minimize harm as stipulated in the Categorical Exclusion/Section 2002 Evaluation Report.
The environmental, economic, social, and other effects of the proposed project as enumerated in Section 2002 of the Administrative Code, have been considered. It has been concluded that there is no prudent and feasible alternative to the project as designed and all reasonable steps have been taken to minimize such effects.
No adverse environmental effect is likely to result from the replacement of the bridge.
BRADLEY L. MALLORY,
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 99-168. Filed for public inspection January 29, 1999, 9:00 a.m.]


Irritable Bowel Syndrome is characterized by diarrhea, abdominal cramps, fever. Due to inflammation of the colon, creates abscesses. Tea for Irritable Bowel Syndrome includes marshmallow root, oak bark, blackberry leaves, mint, lemon balm, sage, thyme and yarrow. This tea mix should drink for 6-12 months, and longer if necessary (or less because it all depends on the results and the reaction of the intestinal lining). With therapy can be conducted and diet, and added a special cream in case of complications and needs. With the tea use drops of shepherd's purse and lemon balm. Occasionally combine mistletoe and Petasites as immune plants.


On a cold, blustery Wednesday in February, Rachel and I popped over to a local salon to get Rachel's ears pierced for the first time. While I took photos, she endured the pain of the piercing. But in the end, we both succeeded in our duties - Rachel had her ears pierced and I had a few lovely photos!
Do you have a favorite photo from this selection of photographs?


Remember that old classic by ABBA? It's a song Malaysians can relate to these days more than ever.
Two months after that fateful day in May, the euphoria (or horror, depending on your political leanings) is fading.
Reality is now sinking back in — especially the fact that many Malaysians still have to make a living, pay bills, feed their families and pay taxes (if they even make enough to qualify).
But at least there is hope for the many Malaysians still hoping for their big break in life (like yours truly).
We have now seen how we can reach billionaire status without doing illegal things or building a humongous multi-national business.
Turns out all these people getting rich by riding on political connections to get plum contracts have been doing it wrong all these while.
Here's an easier way: Just get really good, really rich friends who will shower you with really expensive gifts regularly.
Over time, the value of these gifts will accumulate and you can even liquidate some for cash if you need rojak money.
Like intricate Persian rugs? Charm a few carpet dealers. Love Rolexes? Golf with a few billionaire horology enthusiasts.
Or if you prefer rare handbags, chat up some rich people who do high-end retailing (or financiers with retailer friends).
But a word to the wise: you may want to have a diversification strategy in place. Having too many generous friends in the same circles can be awkward.
Like, can you imagine having 423 pieces of luxury watches? That's like remembering to wear a different watch a day for 14 months or so.
Because not using a gift risks offending your generous friends. That's a big no-no if your grand plan is to keep the gifts coming.
You could even end up with 567 handbags, thousands of different jewellery pieces or 234 pairs of cool, macho shades.
So consider engaging an asset-tracking solutions provider to manage mundane things like asset utilisation rate and maintenance schedules. Some may accept luxury goods as payment in kind.
Better yet, just ask your friends to confirm what gifts you prefer before they actually buy it for you to avoid this situation.
There are many luxurious essentials in life that are commonly overlooked when gift-hunting.
For example, a considerate friend may give you a humongous warehouse downtown to store all your gifts.
That way, you won't need multiple homes to keep them in. It's also easier to keep track of how much jewellery your wife has.
Here's a question though. Are non-cash gifts taxable? I don't know, but better be safe by asking for declaration letters from your friends whenever they shower you with gifts.
Maybe tax consultants know the answer. Make friends with them. They won't give you custom-made handbags but they'll come in handy if the taxman wants to be your bestie too.
Of course, all this is easier said than done. Most of us would not even know where to start looking for generous BFFs with gift-giving hobbies.
Wouldn't it be nice if we had a real-life example to emulate?


My daughter is turning five next month! I cannot believe it! We are planning a pool party with her friends. She is currently in LOVE with mermaids ( so am I ). I want to have a Mermaid Under the Sea Pool Party! We are going to have some fun games, a pretty dessert table and of course a cannon ball competition! :) Check out some of my inspiration from Pinterest. I love Pinterest! It is the best! Happy Saturday!
Check out my Mermaid Inspiration board on Pinterest.


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Nici told me that if it didn't rain tomorrow he'd go cycling with Jess.
Bernard has rejected our offer.
I think we'll find Polly.
Norbert still seems to be in love with Marcel.
Nils has fallen out of favor.
Thomas is holding his hat in his hand.
Cristi should be there by 2:30.
I know about Tyler and Presley.
Jeffery and Lorraine were both wearing rubber gloves.
Matt wasn't expecting to see you.
I see Merril almost every day.
Tracy sat on the stairs.
Jem dreamed that he had won the contest, but that his prize had been stolen.
Adrian eats only white meat.
Graeme is very charming when he smiles.
Kikki loves going to the spa.
Ping's job creates extreme stress.
Marcia doesn't want to give anything away.
Shannon is in the living room.
I couldn't help Niall do that.
Ramneek knows how old Nicolo is.
If Vice wanted to kill me, I'd already be dead.
Sandeep agreed to do so.
Cary will want to know more about what happened.
Manolis wasn't able to do it.
Grant has shoulder-length brown hair.


This page shows a table of rates of sea level rise for all the locations in the world for which www.psmsl.org (Permanent Service For Mean Sea Level) holds monthly data.
Clicking on a column header sorts the table by that column. Clicking again sorts the table in opposite direction.
Enables table to be sorted as PSMSL default order.
PSMSL's station number. Clicking on an ID links to data held by PSMSL for this station.
And a separate graph showing 3mm/year sea level rise starting from 1993. 3mm/year is roughly the rate IPCC claim sea level rise jumped to from 1993, when satellites were launched.
Rate of sea level rise (or fall) as calculated by least squares fit.
Error in determing slope by fit. This does not include measurement error.
Most stations have some months with missing observations. In the case of Sheerness there are gaps of 50 years!. Completeness indicates the percentage of months which have observations between Start Year and End Year.
Each monthly observation is actually the average value of daily observations for that month. Sometimes daily observations are missing. This is NOT indicated by Completeness.
Papeete-B, Fare Ute Point, Soc.Is.
There are cases with several decades of observations with a large rate of sea level rise.
Tide gauges are often moved and end up in a different vertical position. The raw tide gauge is adjusted to remove the effect of any moves. At times it looks as if the adjustment has not been made correctly, or something else has happened.
The adjustments must be made to at least millimetre accuracy, given how small sea level rise/fall is.
and here are the unadjusted or metric observations. It seems the adjustment has just shifted all the points upwards about 4000mm.
Data fro 1996-2001 received from University of Hawaii.
tsunami with waves up to 40.5m and travelling up to 10km inland.
Clearly the linear trend of sea levels does not represent world wide sea level rise.
On the other hand some times the adjustments, adjust the raw data a lot, here are the adjusted observations for Felixstowe in UK.
here are the unadjusted observations, wonder why they didn't adjust the data before 1980?
Histogramming rates of sea level rise makes clear tide gauges in operation for more than 30 or 60 years show a lower trend of sea level rise.
Against the number of years tide gauges have been operating.
Which again shows the tide gauges which have been operating longer show a (much) lower rate of sea level rise. Although some of the tide gauges which have been operating for only a few years show a large rise (or fall) the error in determining the trend is also larger.
So after all that do you believe globally sea levels are rising at 3mm/year or that the rate of sea level rise is accelerating?


The Government announced that a national day of commemoration for murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence will take place on 22 April every year. The act is nice but it is nothing more than a PR stunt by the government to take the pressure off them for the Windrush scandal. It is also a clear attempt to steer people away from the conversation the public are finally beginning to have about the inherent racist nature of British Culture.
Stephen Lawrence was 18-years-old when he was stabbed to death in a racially motivated attack in Eltham, south London, in 1993. Three of his attackers walked free and have never paid for their abhorrent crime.
What we do know is that modern British culture is built on the oppression and murder of people around the world, the British Empire peaked in the early 20th century and its naval power was always kept at 10% greater than its nearest two rivals. This allowed Britain to dominate the global markets by using force, the epitome of the British Empire. This allowed the idea of 'Great' Britain to thrive throughout the population whilst careful media manipulation help sow the seeds of superiority within the minds of the public.
But the violence and oppression of peoples across the globe show that Britain has an inherent racial problem that still persists today.
Whilst the day is good to remember why Stephen Lawrence was killed and it will help keep the idea of inherent racism fresh in the public's psyche, the timing makes it seem more like a PR stunt because the government have been reeling from the mass realisation over how their policies since 2010 have been racially targeting minority groups. In 2013, the Home Office authorised AdVans to drive around 6 London boroughs, which read "Go Home or Face Arrest" on the side.
The vans stirred up a lot of resentment within minority communities, creating a hostile environment.
Former advisor, Nick Timothy wrote in the Telegraph that Theresa May, who was Home Secretary at the time, had blocked the scheme initially and she was on holiday when it was revived. However, n 2016, the immigration minister, Robert Goodwill, said the pilot scheme, which ran between July and August 2013, had been approved by the prime minister when she was at the Home Office. Just a few months after the pilot scheme had finished, Theresa May said in speech about immigration policy, "we can deport first and hear appeals later," this was if the individual would not be in serious harm but that judgement would come from the Home Office.
Windrush has been one of the highlights in the last week or so but it has emerged that the Home Office did know about the problems legal immigrants were facing due to a "hostile environment" created by the government's immigration policies. In a report published in 2014 by Legal Action Group, warning that thousands of migrants had been falling victim to these policies even after living in Britain legally for decades.