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What would Kingdom Hearts be like if it was primarily about Disney?
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KingdomHeartsIsVeryBright
So, this is just a random question I thought up (inspired by a fanfiction wiki thing I saw that seems….not quite good and which I won't name for politeness sake) and thought it made be interesting to see what answers people have; what do you think Kingdom Hearts would be like of Disney was truly front and center in it?
That is to say, if the majority of the original characters were gonezo, and the main cast was made up of characters from all across Disney's vast library of media. The universe, cosmology, and "rules" (Heartless and Nobodies, Keyblade) would remain, but not everything else.
Personally I'm not entirely sure it would actually be as good or at least interesting as the Kingdom Hearts we have. At the very least it'd definitely take out a lot of the charm and make the setting a little "hollower", but that's just my initial thoughts. Very interested to hear what other people may think on the matter.
QuiteMaybeOfYou
This is very difficult to answer. I'm racking my brain trying to figure out how people would react to this. I think people would think it's super weird. All the original lore and story is very much JRPG story telling and not like disney at all. Having the original characters who's designs blend JRPG character designs with disney make them connect together better. KH1's story is less JRPG than the rest, so it still might work fine with just disney characters. All the subsequent games would not work as well, though. I think the story and lore would be completely different past the first game if there weren't any original characters.
KingdomHeartsIsVeryBright said:
It would be a mix of Epic Mickey and the House of Mouse. Mickey is a prankster who becomes a keyblade apprentice. He decides to fight the Heartless before they destroy the universe. Along the way he meets his future friends Donald and Goofy as well as future enemies like Pete.
It would probably be more episodic like Sonic the Hedgehog. It probably would have more anthropomorphic characters than human.
I'd say more along the lines of Super Mario RPG/Paper Mario/Mario & Luigi games in terms of tone. There's a story but it's mostly an excuse plot for a series of set piece moments & nothing of overly emotional weight.
Probably similar to Castle of Illusion. Maybe a different Disney villain would be the main villain of each entry--Maleficent first, then Jafar, maybe Ursula or Hades after.
Personally, I wouldn't have wanted a KH without original anime-esque characters and the FF characters involved. I just don't like that post-KH1, all interaction between Disney and the original story ended.
the red monster
one word: boring
The Xehanort saga tanked alot of my love for Kingdom Hearts. So I'd prefer an Episodic Mickey/Disney series over it.
A middle ground would be a more episodic KH. Which would fit Sora better to me. He's not suited for longterm storytelling.
I think Nomura's tangents and sporadic worldbuilding are easier to forgive in a more episodic series.
Disney....is at a weird fucking place in this series. Because a KH that's primarily about Disney is pretty much full-on KH1. Disney used to be the driving force of the series, but...now the driving force is much...MUCH more on the ocs than the actual Disney worlds & characters. Divorcing either aspect from the game will only result in a completely different game that'll probably end up a bit blander than the former.
At the same time, it almost seems like the Disney & the FF aspect of the series is in purgatory because the spotlight's shining down on the ocs, and I HIGHLY doubt it'll ever be shared with the two aspects that made this series.
Hollow Bastion
If the majority of the original characters were gone, I'd say that like really the only ones that I think will still appear are Sora, Riku, and Kairi, especially since they're so integral to the series. If not them, I'm not sure how the series would've fared if it was really just about Disney and only Disney.


WooCommerce gives you a sometimes bewildering array of choices when it comes to categorizing your products, and it can be difficult to identify exactly which one is right for which products. I know I've certainly gone through the experience of setting up a product in one way, only to realize I should have used a different option from the beginning.
This guide is designed to help you understand the different options available to you, how they work, and which ones work with which kinds of product. I won't give you a detailed tutorial on setting each one up, but I will show you some of the screens you use to configure them and give you some tips.
I'll also look briefly at product categories and tags, to show the difference between them and product attributes. Finally, I'll provide a flowchart to help you decide which option to use with a product.
Product categories work in a very similar way to categories that you use with Posts in WordPress.
I tend to equate product categories with departments in my stores: they're used for navigation around the site, and each has its own archive page. So if you were running a clothing store, for example, you might have categories for men, women and children. Or you might have categories for different clothing types: knitwear, jeans, coats, etc.
Each category can have as many subcategories as you like: so within your menswear department you could have categories for different clothing types. And those subcategories can have their own subcategories: so you could have a formalwear department in your menswear department that could then have subcategories of suits, ties and shirts.
Each product might be in just one category in your store, in the same way it would be in one department in a real-world store. However you don't have to do this: the advantage of online trading over real-world trading is that you can have crosscutting categories. So formal shirts could be in both the formalwear category and the general shirts category.
It's important to remember that product categories are not the same as post categories: they don't apply to your posts, but just to products. If you wanted to apply product categories to another post type (which might be useful if you wanted to have a blog section relating to each department in your store), you would use the register_taxonomy_for_object_type() function to add the product category taxonomy to posts.
Product tags provide additional information for visitors to your store but aren't generally used in navigation: they're similar to tags for posts. Again, remember that product tags and tags aren't the same thing!
Product tags aren't hierarchical, but they do have their own archive pages. You might use them to identify items in a specific promotion, for example. Or you could tag products related to a holiday or event, and showcase them when that holiday or event comes around.
Product attributes are similar to custom taxonomies that you'd normally use with posts, pages or your own custom post types. They work in a similar way to taxonomies, and you can access them using WordPress's functions that interact with taxonomies and taxonomy terms.
You would use product attributes to identify aspects of a product that differentiate it but don't mean that you need another product. Examples would be size or color in a clothing store.
You can choose whether or not to give a product attribute its own archive page: you might want to for color, for example, but not for size.
Variable products take things further than product attributes. Each product is still set up as just one product, but you can define variations of the product with different prices, stock levels and images.
You start off by creating product attributes and adding these to each product, but then you define the product as a variable product (rather than a simple product) and set up variations based on each of your attributes or combinations of them.
So, for example, you could have different pricing for different sizes, or manage the stock levels of different sized objects. You could use different images for the same item in different colors, and again manage stock for each color. You could also create variations combining color and size, so you can manage stock levels in greater detail.
You can also use variable products to create versions of the product which are virtual and/or downloadable. So if you were running a bookstore, you could have three product variations: the hardback, paperback and e-book versions. For each of these you could manage stock, set a price, and upload a different product image.
Variable products save you the trouble of creating multiple products when you're selling different versions of the same thing. They let your customers choose exactly what version of the product they need without navigating away from the product page, and they can be very powerful.
You can also use product variations to put different versions of the product on sale, which can help you clear excess stock, and to set different shipping classes for different variations, for example the hardback and paperback versions of books, which would have different weights.
Grouped products take things another step further. You would use a grouped product when you wanted to sell distinct (but very similar) products that can be viewed together on one main product page.
Setting up grouped products takes a little more work, as instead of setting up one product with multiple variations, you set up a number of individual products as well as an overall grouped product.
Use grouped products when you want each version of a product to be available as a separate product listing. So, for example, if you run a bookstore and you sell different editions of books, you might want to create a separate product for each edition with a description for that edition, and then group all of them to make it easier for customers to find all of the editions of an individual book. It also makes it possible for customers to leave reviews of individual products within the group.
You can then specify whether WooCommerce shows the individual products or just the grouped products in your archive pages. Selecting the second option will make navigation easier, but the first gives people more choice—it's up to you!
I can then select each of the products to see more information about it.
So that's how product categories, tags, attributes, variations and grouping work. But how do you go about choosing the right one for your products? Ask yourself the following questions and you should find the correct options for each of the products on your site.
Product categories, tags, attributes, variations and grouping give you a variety of powerful ways to organise your store and help visitors find exactly what they need. But it can be difficult to identify which option you need, and setting up a product again after realising you've done it wrong will be time-consuming.
If you follow the guide to each option above, and use the flowchart to identify which option is right for you, you should be able to use the right approach every time.


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UAP — Fixed a case where wireless uplink stays isolated.
UAPs — Fixed a regression introduced in 3.2.7(fixing a crash) on rate limiting reported from forum.
UAPs — Fixed wireless uplink monitor randomly resets the interfaces causing disconnects. Note, Please setup a gatway ip address if using wireless uplink. If not using wireless uplink, please disable wireless uplink monitor.
UAPs — Fixed some memory leak in hostapd reported from forum.
UAPs — Default timezone to UTC.
UAPs — Fixed Guest Portal appends www.google.com to promotional URL if VLAN is enabled. This fix is needed along with v3.2.8 CTRL code or higher.
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UAP AC — Corrected power display again from previous fix.
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Q: Not able to connect Nokia 6.1 Plus to Android Studio for running apps I am using Nokia 6.1 Plus. I am trying to connect it to Android Studio for debugging apps. But I am not able to connect. I have enabled Developer Options, in that also enabled USB debugging. Selected default USB debugging to File Transfer. But  unable to find the device in Android Studio.
**I am using Linux. Anybody help me to find the solution.

A: You need adb driver for that.do below steps(Windows)

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*Download and install this(Universal
adb driver ):https://adb.clockworkmod.com/

*Goto My Computer Device Manager ,find your android device=>update driver=>select adb interface and press ok.

by doing this it will be resolved.
For Linux:follow this Link for adb setup:
Linux Adb

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Op-Ed: Airlines don't deserve another taxpayer-financed bailout
American Airlines, the biggest carrier, and other airlines are seeking another bailout from the federal government because of declining revenues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Matt York / Associated Press )
By Roger Lowenstein
Oct. 19, 2020 4 AM PT
Congress and President Trump, having doled out $25 billion in payroll grants plus a similar sum in low-interest loans to the airline industry in April, are seeking a second bailout, possibly as part of a general stimulus bill.
The urge to rescue the airlines flows from good intentions, but it is not a smart way to help the economy and it will reward CEOs for serial mismanagement and self-enrichment.
If you want to help airline employees — and we should — help them directly. Renew the $600-a-week benefit for all unemployed people.
There is no reason to single out employees of a particular industry for favored treatment. And the airline industry is among the least deserving. In fact, the bailout will reward the carriers for egregious overcompensation and share buybacks.
In the years before the pandemic, partly thanks to weak antitrust enforcement, airlines reaped flush profits. 2015 and beyond were the best years for the industry ever.
But the industry's use of its profits was unconscionable. Despite the history of airlines bleeding cash in recessions — and therefore needing to preserve capital for a rainy day — from 2014 through 2019 the big four carriers (American, Delta, United and Southwest) plowed $42 billion into stock repurchases in the hope of improving their share prices. That was more than the total of their free cash flow — the cash they generated after paying interest, taxes and maintenance.
American Airlines, the biggest carrier, poured nearly $13 billion into stock repurchases despite having negative free cash flow. The companies also resorted to massive borrowing, increasing their debt on average by 56% from 2014 to 2019. American's debt soared from $18 billion to $33 billion.
The borrowing binge fit the Wall Street strategy of leveraging up to increase risk. Temporarily it worked; airline stock prices moved higher. And stock price was key to executive pay. Over the six years, the chief executives of the four carriers pocketed almost $340 million in stock sales. American's CEO, Doug Parker, was the biggest winner, with stock sales totaling $150 million. And those figures don't include stock received but not yet sold.
You would think such fabulous rewards were the mark of extraordinary success. But over the six-year period of all those stock buybacks and mostly flush profits, American's stock rose only 13%, compared with 75% for the Standard & Poor's 500. And since the pandemic, airline stocks have plunged.
Executives got rich while delivering mediocre or worse returns because their pay was calibrated over short-term periods, not unlike a slugger who gets a bonus for hitting a home run in April before slumping for the rest of the year.
Normally, excessive compensation is a problem for the shareholders. If they get fleeced, it's their investment and their problem. Similarly, with share buybacks: Capital levels are properly determined by management.
But when the government steps in with a bailout, capital and compensation become a public concern. If the government is going to prop up the industry, it should require that the airlines maintain adequate capital — just as it does with banks. So far, Uncle Sam's bailouts amount to a one-way option: Take a big gamble and clean up in good years; the U.S. Treasury will write the check in bad years. That's not capitalism. It's socialism for the corner office.
The April bailout came with conditions, but they were woefully inadequate. For instance, the government got warrants to purchase airline stock, but it would have been cheaper to buy the stock on the open market. (In, other words, the carriers got a generous deal.) And restrictions were put on dividends and share buybacks for only two years — after which, the carriers can be expected to return to their gambling ways.
It is true that the pandemic was unforeseeable. But it was predictable that, eventually, the economy would experience some kind of calamity — and when it did, the airlines would suffer. That's the nature of the industry. Southwest, for one, was sufficiently prepared that it didn't need government loans.
The argument for a bailout rests on the premise that airlines are important to national security. But bailouts save the shareholders. The assets — the planes, the gates and so on — endure, even if the ownership changes. The history of the industry is riddled with bankruptcies and yet planes keep flying.
The other argument is that bailouts maintain a higher level of workforce than would otherwise be possible, given that revenue has plunged. But it's dubious economics to employ people where they aren't needed. When and if airline traffic recovers, so will employee levels. In the meantime, it would be better to send checks directly to the people, until they find work in sectors that are growing.
If the government insists on a bailout, require every CEO who received stock-related profits from the last five years to give back any money above a minimum level for salary. If the airlines are solvent a decade later, a portion of their pay can be returned. The airlines should also be compelled to sell stock at current depressed levels to subsidize their revenue needs.
If executives are unwilling to forgo their gains, Congress can seize any carrier that fails, dismiss the chief executive and run it as a public trust. Let's end the farce in which airlines are risk-taking enterprises in good times and the public's burden in bad.
Roger Lowenstein is the author, most recently, of "America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve."

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– will be elucidated by combining and augmenting the thoughts of various thinkers. Thereafter certain reasons for the rejection of panpsychism will be considered – reasons histrionic, philosophic, cultural, and historic. Ultimately my intention is not merely to inform the reader as to what panpsychism is and why it is held, but to instill in the reader the cognizance that this mind-matter theory is not only an option that is serious, but moreover, the option most plausible.
Re: Panpsychism: 3 Reasons Why Our World is Brimming with Sentience?
Dude, stop - you put this out there, you are by far and away the most Panpsychic in the group. So now I ask you, where is my mind?
Heh if I'm anything I'm a Dual Aspect Neutral Monist...which would suggest there's stuff and we can look at it qualitatively and quantitatively, from within the experiential event or from position of observing other events...but beyond my confidence that materialism is false I don't have much more to offer on where Mind is or even what it is.
Why I figured it was more fruitful to think about how to incorporate metaphysical positions into RPG magic systems.


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CHALLENGES FACED BY START-UPS DURING COVID-10 PENDAMIC
In the OECD economies, start-ups play an important role, but the crisis of COVID-19 reduces creation, challenging survival, and restricting growth. Business registrations have declined dramatically in recent months and a lack of new companies has major consequences, especially for jobs, for economic performance. This column argues that these can be minimized by taking initiatives to promote existing start-ups and the development of new companies. Policymakers must resolve short-term problems and promote short-term liquidity and financing access, as well as to encourage start-ups' ability to leverage new market opportunities. Policies aimed at reducing barriers to entrepreneurship, facilitate start-ups, and foster entrepreneurship will contribute to accelerating recovery and sustaining aggregate jobs over time. Established as major drivers of economic growth and job development, start-ups are also a catalyst for radical innovation. Young companies constitute approximately 20% of the workers but generate on average nearly half the workers of young companies in countries in the OECD, and creative businesses make an important contribution to combined productivity growth.
During the COVID 19 crisis, start-ups played an important role in economies. Some creative young companies responded rapidly and flexibly to the pandemic and were crucial in helping several different countries to move towards completely digital work, education, and medical services. Recently for the OECD COVID-19 hub, we examine the obstacles faced by start-ups and the potential for outbreaks in and after COVID-19. The crisis reduces start-up creation, challenges its survival, and restricts its growth. A missing new company generation has significant consequences for economic outcomes, particularly jobs, given the unreasonable contribution of start-ups to job growth – which is mitigable through support for existing start-ups and new business formation. Policymakers need to overcome short-term challenges and also, and particularly, promote start-ups to leverage new business opportunities, reduce entrepreneurial obstacles, provide sufficient incentives, and improve their potential entrepreneurial.
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, most of the current start-ups are more fragile than the previous ones because of the shock triggered by the pandemic. Compared to other small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), they prefer to participate in high-risk operations, face limits on the access of conventional finance, and have formative links with suppliers and consumers. They quite often rely crucially on a small founding team, which may make them more vulnerable to pandemic labor shocks. At a period marked by serious economic instability and containment measures and a drastic decline in demand impacting their sales, start-ups become much more financially vulnerable and require short-term liquidity help that is the critic for their survival.
Political responses to protect the economy against the crisis in many countries already target the financial fragilities of businesses, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. This includes short-term liquidity support mechanisms such as credit guarantees, consumer lending, discounts, and discounts. The basic characteristics of start-ups with regard to other SMEs should nevertheless be taken into account in policy responses. In some countries, policies based more especially on start-ups were implemented. US, for instance, has set up a $4 billion fund to help start-up fluids, including the bridge between start-up funding rounds, has announced a targeted program for start-up help, and expands and promote venture capital finance.
Tackle short-term challenges to speed up the recovery
Meet the short-term funding needs of existing start-ups with minimal bureaucracy (i.e. loan guarantees, direct loans, subventions, or subsidies) and help protect their employees' employment and incomes.
Sensitizing existing measures and support initiatives that help start-ups respond to COVID crisis (for example through official channels centralizing support programs; advice on cash flow management; best practices on remote communications between investors, etc.).
Foster research and development and radical breakthrough awards to help deal with health problems and encourage the adaptation of their goods by start-ups.
Promote development in skills and training materials, mainly during the recession, to prevent depreciation of skills and to promote the growth of start-up staff.
Reduce the administrative burden of start-ups through the introduction of streamlined processes and facilitate e-government transitions. Reduce regulatory uncertainty during the crisis as start-ups suffer the most from such uncertainties, (for example bureaucracy), but even after (for example health and safety regulations in the early recovery phase).
Reduce potential barriers to entrepreneurship, especially those particularly important during and after a pandemic (for example, access to health insurance and paid sick leave), and make social security more portable. This means that the rights of people rather than employees are related.
Ensure that funding is available in collaboration with private actors for creative start-ups in all stages of their growth. For instance, the public venture capital fund may be provided with additional public financing for private investors in co-investment with start-up rounds, the defaulting fund investors may take shares with additional public funds, or venture capital funding.
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STATEMENT BY THE HON. MINISTER OF FINANCE ON COVID-19
STATEMENT BY THE HON. MINISTER OF FINANCE ON THE IMPACT OF THE CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) ON THE ZAMBIAN ECONOMY
Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for honoring our invitation to this press briefing.
As we are all aware, the world has experienced an unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19, more commonly known as the Coronavirus. The latest update from the World Health Organization indicates that over 470,000 confirmed cases have been recorded around the world and more than 20,000 deaths have been reported.
In Zambia, sixteen confirmed cases have been recorded as at 26th March 2020. Our sympathies go out to all those who have lost their loved ones all over the world due to this pandemic. The impact of the outbreak has been both extensive and severe, including but not limited to, a health crisis and an economic crisis characterized by financial market stress and a collapse in commodity prices. The outbreak has led to disruptions in supply chains, created uncertainties and significantly dampened near-term growth prospects.
Following these developments, various Sector Ministries have provided updates and a range of measures to contain the spread of the pandemic within the Zambian economy. In addition, His Excellency the President on Wednesday 25th March, 2020 gave the following directives:
i. The Zambian Missions abroad and the Department of Immigration must be alert to review the issuance of visas for people wanting to travel to Zambia, as well as at all ports of entry into the country for all travelers from countries affected by COVID-19;
ii. Travellers will be allowed entry into Zambia, however, upon screening those who exhibit symptoms will be quarantined in a medical facility for treatment, while all other travellers without symptoms will be quarantined for at least 14 days;
iii. Government has suspended non-essential foreign travel, particularly, to countries which have confirmed COVID-19 cases;
iv. Public gatherings such as conferences, weddings, funerals, festivals are to be restricted to at least 50 people subject to them complying with public health authority guidelines;
v. Restaurants must operate only on a take-away and delivery basis;
vi. All bars, night clubs, cinemas, gyms and casinos must close; and
vii. All international flights to and from Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula, Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe and Mfuwe International Airports are suspended, instead, all international flights should land at and depart from Kenneth Kaunda International Airport only. This is to ensure efficient and effective screening of travellers, as well as following them up by our health authorities.
Following from these directives, I would now like to discuss the impact of the pandemic on both the global and domestic economies with a view to providing citizens, business houses and investors a preliminary assessment of the changed economic landscape and mitigatory measures that are being undertaken.
Impact on the Global Economy
Slow Down in Global Growth: Preliminary assessments by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) indicate a substantial slowdown in global economic growth in 2020 compared to 2019. The full assessment is expected to be provided at the upcoming virtual Spring Meetings.
Drag in Global trade: Global trade has slowed down following closure of borders and the lock down in major economies. The reduction in merchandise trade has impacted negatively on revenues particularly for commodity exporting economies. The cancellation of flights by major carriers has also impacted negatively on trade in services such as tourism.
Plummeting of commodity prices: commodity prices have drastically reduced. In the case of copper, prices opened the year at US$6,165 per metric tonne closed at US$4,754 per metric tonne on Wednesday 25th March 2020 while stocks on
the London Stock Market have surged to about 225 thousand metric tonnes from about 145 thousand metric tonnes in January 2020.
Capital flight in the financial markets: the financial markets have not been spared by the pandemic. The international economy has seen investors divesting their funds from traditional assets such as stocks to safe havens that include the US Dollar. This has resulted in the US Dollar strengthening against other currencies, including the kwacha.
Impact of COVID-19 on the Zambian Economy
I will now give a preliminary assessment of COVID-19 on the Zambian economy. I should mention that the full extent of its impact will depend on the severity and duration of the pandemic.
GDP Growth
You may recall that during my 2020 budget address, I projected that the Zambian economy would grow at 3.2 percent. In view of the recent developments, growth is now projected to be lower at around 2 percent despite the anticipated significant recovery in the agricultural sector. The tourism, mining, manufacturing, construction as well as wholesale and retail trade sectors are projected to slow down on account of the pandemic.
In the specific case of tourism, disruptions in international air transport from the United States of America, Europe, Asia and within Africa have had an adverse effect on tourist arrivals. Although the reduction in international air traffic arrivals was only 5 percent in the first two months of the year compared to last year, it is anticipated that there will be a sharper decline in March and the months to come. This follows an increase in the number of cancellations on prebooked tour packages coupled with travel restrictions and lock downs in other jurisdictions. Emirates Airlines, RwandAir and South African Airways have suspended flights into Zambia while other carriers have scaled down the number of flights into the country.
Consequently, some hotels and lodges have already reported significant reductions in bed occupancy rates, to less than 20 percent from an average of 50 percent for the same period last year. Based on current information, occupancy rates are expected to decline further. In addition, closure and restricted operating hours are also affecting the operations of various businesses. This has drastically reduced both tax and non-tax revenue and is posing a challenge to employment in the sector.
As alluded to earlier, copper prices have declined by 23 percent to US$4,754 per metric tonne as at 25th March, 2020 from US$6,165 per metric tonne in January 2020. This represents a reduction of about US$1,400 per tonne. Consequently, copper export earnings are expected to decline substantially by more than US$1 billion in 2020 if the situation persists. It follows, therefore, that mineral royalty tax collection will decline.
Revenues under the 2020 budget are projected to be lower on account of the slowdown in economic activity. Collections under VAT, Customs Duties, Income Tax and Mineral Royalty are expected to decline. For instance, in February 2020, revenue and grants collections were recorded at K4.6 billion, which was 4 percent below the target. More particularly, collection from mining company tax and overall VAT were below target by 32 and 13 percent, respectively. Revenue collected in March 2020, thus far, stands at K2.7 billion against the target of K4.5 billion. This trend could continue if the pandemic persists.
On the expenditure side, the depreciation of the Kwacha against major currencies is resulting in higher debt service than programmed. Further, expenditures are also increasing to respond to the pandemic.
In order to accommodate the decrease in revenues, increase in debt service payments and expenditures in response to the pandemic, it is expected that other expenditures in the budget will have to be scaled down.
COVID-19 has disrupted international trade in terms of both volumes and commodity prices. Collections of trade taxes are expected to be lower than projected in the first quarter of the year and most likely, beyond. There is also disruption to cross border supply chains given Zambia's close trading relations in the region. This will have a significant negative impact on small and medium scale businesses.
Preliminary information indicates that there was a significant reduction in imports from China, which has emerged as a major trading partner, both in dollar terms and volumes in February 2020 compared to February 2019. In addition, in March 2020 the volumes of imports from India, Japan, Kenya, Namibia and Tanzania have declined relative to March 2019. Given the lock down announced by South Africa, imports from that country will decline further with direct adverse impact on wholesale and retail trade, manufacturing and mining. To this end, revenue collections in the form of VAT and Customs Duty for March 2020 are expected to be below target by 25 percent.
Exchange Rate Depreciation 20.Following the deterioration in the terms of trade from the fourth quarter of 2019 as a result of the decline in copper prices, the Kwacha has been on a depreciation trend. More recently, the Kwacha has depreciated by more than 20 percent to around K17.50 per US dollar. The Kwacha has come under more intense pressure as a result of the Coronavirus which has impacted most emerging market currencies due to flight to safety that has resulted in strengthening of the US dollar.
Annual inflation is projected to remain above the target range of 6-8 percent. Inflation as announced by the Zambia Statistical Agency yesterday for the month of March stood at 14 percent. Food inflation, exchange rate depreciation, the effects of electricity and petroleum price adjustments have led to the increase in overall inflation. More recently, panic buying particularly of essential commodities such as mealie meal has a potential of further increasing inflation. We encourage businesses and retail outlets to avoid taking advantage of the pandemic to distort prices and therefore worsen the inflation spiral.
The broader impact on the financial sector is likely to be observed with lags as the economy faces the challenges I have earlier outlined which translate into rising non-performing loans. This is adding to the liquidity constraints that the financial sector is already facing.
MEASURES TAKEN TO MITIGATE THE IMPACT OF COVID-19
In response to the challenges that have been presented, we have implemented a number of first line measures which include:
Funding towards COVID-19 Response
In order to finance the response towards COVID-19, Government has taken the following measures:
i. Set up an Epidemic Preparedness Fund under the Ministry of Health amounting to K57 million;
ii. Cabinet approved a COVID-19 Contingency and Response Plan with a budget of K659 million under the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit; and
iii.The Government has started mobilizing funds through the budget and engagement with various local and international stakeholders.
Resources available from Multilateral Organisations
We are in the process of making applications to our multilateral partner organisations for COVID-19 support. As announced, the International Monetary Fund is making available a total of US$50 billion to affected countries via rapid disbursing emergency facilities while the World Bank Group has approved support of up to US$14 billion under a fast track COVID-19 Facility.
Easing Liquidity
To support the easing of liquidity in the face of the adverse effects of COVID-19, Government will release K2.5 billion to:
i. Reduce domestic arrears owed to domestic suppliers of goods and services; ii. Reduce outstanding arrears to pensioners under Public Service Pension Fund and retirees under Ministry of Justice; and iii. Reduce outstanding third-party arrears and other employee related commitments.
In addition, K140 million will be released to pay local contractors in the road sector.
In order to provide relief to businesses, the Government will:
i. Suspend excise duty on imported ethanol for use in alcohol-based sanitizers and other medicine-related activities subject to guidelines to be issued by ZRA; ii. Remove provisions of SI 90 relating to claim of VAT on imported spare parts, lubricants, and stationery to ease pressure on companies; iii. Suspend import duties on the importation of concentrates in the mining sector to ease pressure on the sector; and iv. Suspend export duty on precious metals and crocodile skin.
Financial Sector Measures
The government as announced by the Bank of Zambia has taken a number of measures to encourage the use of digital financial services. These measures are aimed at preventing the spread of the disease by minimizing person to person contact in conducting financial transactions, decongesting banks and reducing the use of cash. The measures are as follows:
a)Waived charges for a person to person electronic money transfers of up to K150. These transactions are now free of charge;
b)Revised upwards transactions and balance limits for individuals, small scale farmer and enterprises. The limits by agents have been revised upwards to give agents more float to deal with transactions. This is made to decongest banks; c) Removed the transaction and balance limits on agents and corporate wallets; and d)Reduced the processing fees for Real Time Gross Settlement System;
I wish to urge businesses and organisations to take advantage of these revisions or measures by adopting mobile money and other electronic forms to pay for goods and services to safeguard against or reduce the possibility of spreading the disease.
In addition, Government will issue a Statutory Instrument for Classification and Provisioning of Loans Directives to encourage financial service providers to provide relief to the private sector and facilitate long term lending to productive sectors of the economy. We except the Banking Sector to pass on these benefits to their clients.
With regard to the Single Treasury Account, the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) and Payroll Management and Establishment Control (PMEC), the Government has put in place measures to enable continuity of its operations by making it possible for officers to work remotely.
in view of the anticipated difficulties in importing various consumer goods, we now have an opportunity to work with major retail outlets in building domestic value chains that will encourage the sale of domestically produced goods in our major supermarkets. The Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry working with my Ministry will engage the major retail outlets to ensure that this process begins in earnest.
I wish to emphasize that the measures I have announced are the initial response to the impact of COVID-19. Governement may take additional measures to support the economy and respond specifically to the challenges the business community may face as well as safeguard the financial sector, should the situation worsen.
In closing, Government will continue to review developments as they unfold and take appropriate measures where necessary. Most importantly, prevention is key and my appeal to all is that we must exercise utmost personal hygiene and conduct as guided by His Excellency the President, the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation. Failure to do so will result in devastating health, economic and financial consequences for the country.
May God bless our great nation.


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I started my #BringBackPaper campaign at the start of April this year and I've absolutely loved it. It's all about enjoying and celebrating paper, whether that be snail mail, books or gorgeous stationery, I'll cover it!
If you fancy writing letters again, find out more about PostCircle.
Want to know more about Smashbooking? Smashbooking Inspiration.
When writing and journalling becomes a kind of therapy, in What My Pregnancy Journal Means to Me.
Do you take a moment to stop and reflect on the book you've just read, before moving on to the next? I didn't, but I do now I keep a Book Journal.
And on the subject of reading, How Do You Read Yours?
If you're looking to 2015, here's some pretty stationery to help you get organised.
Next up, there will be a Papery Peep on New Year's Eve. I plan to share any new papery goodies Boo and I receive for Christmas, so am hoping to peek at lots of other pressie piles, too! Or if #BringBackPaper has inspired you in some way this year, please do go ahead and share that with us and link up. I do love to Peep!
Looking forward to next year, I'd like to continue to share papery guest posts, feature a great range of stationers, run Instagram challenges, book swaps and Papery Peep monthly.
New ideas for the campaign include featuring a regular showcase of favourite products, starting up a new challenge (keep your eyes peeled for details on that one soon!), more papery swaps and quick and simple activities to get involved with. Oh, and if I get enough interest, I'd be happy to have another Twitter party, too, as I did enjoy hosting one of those.
And then it's over to you. What would you like to see? Any features that you enjoy, anything you'd like to read about or have you got a burning idea you'd like to share? Please do!
Hope you've been enjoying this series, too, and here's to making it bigger and better in 2015.
How inspirational! Just seeing pictures of beautiful stationary simply makes me want to sit down write now and write a letter, but like many I don't have anyone to send a letter to. I love the postcircle idea and will think about joining. I would love to have some interesting post once in a while!
New years resolution is to contribute more and join a snail mail collective like #postcircle.
Thanks so much Jocelyn for starting and sharing #bringbackpaper!
Oooh I'm all ready with my linkup… I'm very organised this time :).
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Get ready for the X Factor bombshell of your lives.
Caroline Flack has reportedly been cut from the show, and Nick Grimshaw has quit. WE KNOW.
A spokesperson for Grimmy has said: 'After careful consideration, Nick has decided to rule himself out as a judge on this year's X Factor.
And as for Caroline? Well, the blonde beauty is also reported to be leaving after facing criticism about her presenting style alongside Olly Murs.
'Caroline's a really experienced broadcaster but the combination of two presenters just didn't work out this year,' an ITV source told The Sun.
There's been no official word from Caroline or her rep so far, but it's rumoured that the Love Island host is in talks to star in the West End version of Chicago.
Well, that's a pretty exciting swap in our eyes. Because girl can MOVE!
And you'll never guess who is being lined up to replace Grimmy… Only One Direction's Louis Tomlinson.


I'm currently working on a program bank / state saving system for my external synths to exceed their memory capacity, and to create an easy approach to performance using the limited gear I possess.
The gist is that I use an APC 40, and have pure data switch LED lights referencing either a patch or state.
This solution works, even though it looks slightly silly in the route object extending out for however many CCs.
I was more concerned with efficiency than something conveniently dynamic. There is a slight "catching up" effect, whether it's from the external synth or the current rate of transfer I'm not completely sure. Without a method to test this(?), it's all in the ears. However I'm interested in eliminating all potential bottlenecks outside of the actual transfer rate from my usb midi - to external synth.
If anyone has a recommended potential alternative, which may be more efficient I'd be grateful. Or some foresight to say "it can't get more efficient, it's midi. Have a cookie" Thanks.
@geraldbiggs tbh i have no experience with control messages and don't know what matrix is exactly doing. But i know that [array] is the most efficient in vanilla, followed by [list], slower is [text].
Ah, awesome. I played with matrix a while back as my unit to transfer data from file to pure data.
Upon loading of a song, it pulls up all the potential states / programs into a txt. Firing a state or program load event selects the correct matrix. Then arrives at the example above.
Matrix was my method to store the cc-value pairs, and unload them via the [row( command. I was thinking of matrix in terms of storing a multidimensional array.
After loading a state or program, the initial information is rounded up into a array to act as a buffer for storing all changes I make. That array is pulled to save the next state. So either in live performance or composition, I load a program and or state, goof around, save a state - and pull up that reference at any time.
I'll make a bench mark for the method you've shown above and see the results. Thank you.
I found very little difference between the two. However, I realized that tuples from a list format would be more efficient across the board for handling values.
However, I discovered the biggest difference was in improving midi latency via jack settings. My computer wasn't pleased, but it did confirm the issue resides in midi latency. Probably should be glaringly obvious.
At this point I'll say midi latency is the biggest bottleneck in this instance - which leaves the freedom for whatever makes the most readable and bug free patch.


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Excess Mortality
Healthy Life Expectancy
Male life expectancy at birth in selected Scottish cities, 2016-2018
Despite rises in life expectancy in the last 20 years across Scotland, male life expectancy in Glasgow remains considerably lower than in other Scottish cities. In 2016-18, a boy born in Glasgow was estimated to be likely to live for 73.4 years, which is 4.7 years less than in Edinburgh and 3.7 years less than in Scotland as a whole.
Female life expectancy at birth in selected Scottish cities, 2016-2018
Female life expectancy has increased across Scotland over the last 20 years, but female life expectancy in Glasgow remains lower than in other Scottish cities. In 2016-18, a girl born in Glasgow was estimated to be likely to live for 78.7 years, 3.5 years less than in Edinburgh and 2.4 years less than in Scotland as a whole.
The data underlying these graphs come from National Records of Scotland.
Life expectancy estimates for CHP Sectors and neighbourhoods in Glasgow are available within our profile section.
In March 2016 the GCPH published Glasgow: health in a changing city, a report that examined life expectancy trends and inequalities in the city over the last two decades. The study also described changes in population, housing, environmental, and socio-economic circumstances at a city and neighbourhood level.
Investigating a 'Glasgow Effect'
Why do equally deprived UK cities experience different health outcomes?
Population with a Disability in Glasgow
2008 Estimates for Glasgow City, Community Planning Partnership areas and Social Work Services Planning areas.
Miniature Glasgow - Video
An extension of the GCPH's work profiling Glasgow's health, produced in collaboration with the International Future Forum.
Views of Health in Glasgow - Video
Originally, produced for an international audience at a conference in Pittsburgh, USA, this film provides insights on health concerns and beliefs drawn from interviews with Glaswegians themselves and with a group of health experts.


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Nangade é um distrito da província de Cabo Delgado, em Moçambique, com sede na vila de Nangade. Tem limite, a norte com a Tanzânia através do rio Rovuma, a oeste e sul com o distrito de Mueda, a sul e leste com o distrito de Mocímboa da Praia e a leste com o distrito de Palma.

Demografia
Em 2007, o Censo indicou uma população de . Com uma área de 3031  km², a densidade populacional chegava aos 20,70 habitantes por km².

De acordo com o Censo de 1997, o distrito tinha  habitantes, daqui resultando uma densidade populacional de 16,7 habitantes por km².

Divisão administrativa
O distrito está dividido em dois postos administrativos (Nangade e Ntamba), compostos pelas seguintes localidades:

Posto Administrativo de Nangade:
Litingina, e
Nangade
Posto Administrativo de Ntamba:
Itanda,
Mualela, e
Nambedo

Distritos de Moçambique

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Managed Services, Networking
Open Mesh acquisition gives Datto networking services purpose-built for MSPs, SMBs
by Mark Cox • January 31, 2017
Datto makes a play for the cloud networking managed services market, which it says is full of enterprise-focused offerings that have ill-served MSPs and aren't well suited to the SMB market.
Matt Richards, Product Marketing Manager at Datto
Cloud data protection vendor Datto has greatly expanded its networking services component with the acquisition of cloud networking solutions vendor Open Mesh. Portland-based Open Mesh will be operated as a subsidiary company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Datto has had a networking component to its business for several years with its Datto Networking Appliance [DNA] an integrated network appliance with a network edge router, firewall, Wi-Fi, intrusion detection and prevention, and fully integrated 4G LTE failover. Datto has positioned it as a business continuity solution. The Open Mesh acquisition significantly ups Datto's ante in networking however, and is aimed at making a play for the SMB part of the cloud managed networking services market.
"It is our goal to provide the first cloud networking solution that is both custom-built for MSPs, and for SMBs," said Matt Richards, Product Marketing Manager at Datto. "It is designed for MSPs to efficiently manage networks for their SMB customers."
Richards said that there are strong parallels between today's cloud networking market and the BDR [backup and disaster recovery] market of several years ago, as well as how Datto is responding to both.
"In the early days of the BDR market, it was very disparate with a lot of solutions, and a lot of manual and custom work," Richards said. "We created a single integrated product line for business continuity, fully integrated with backup. We made it simple to manage and easy to deploy. There's a parallel to what we are doing here with networking. Network continuity is a natural extension of business continuity. This was not always the case, but it is today. You lose your network, and you lose your business."
Richards said while there is lots of choice in the cloud networking market, for both SMBs and MSPs, the choices tend to be unsatisfactory.
"Many of the offerings are enterprise products being applied to SMBs, with a good chunk of the features going unused," he said. "There's a lot of complexity, a lot of command line interfaces. MSPs who want to manage a customer network have to cobble things together. What they want is simple, fully featured networking for MSPs."
The Datto Networking line of products created through the acquisition will be available to Datto partners using the same business model Datto has used.
"The networking suite is based on small upfront hardware costs and a small MRR [monthly recurring revenue] component," Richards said. "We are encouraging Datto MSPs to bundle the networking into an offering they can take out to SMBs."
Open Mesh will be run as a subsidiary, so as not to interfere with the totality of its business model.
"It's a successful networking business, and we want to allow that to continue to thrive – not disrupt it," Richards said. "They did not have a managed service component. Their products were sold at a competitive up-front cost and the cloud management software was free of cost. That model will continue. We will leave it exactly as it is. Open Mesh has about 90,000 networks deployed and 300,000 access points in operation. They just announced new Open Mesh access points yesterday. All that continues to exist. Their partners can choose to offer Datto Networking Appliances alongside it. They can choose the MRR model, or they can stick with access points and switches from Open Mesh. The replacement cycle on network hardware is 3 years, and with customers moving to 802.11ac, partners are finding that it's a great time to refresh."
The same philosophy will guide the handling of the Open Mesh channel.
"In the short term, we will leave the Open Mesh channel exactly as it is. We will be absorbing Open Mesh's technology into the Datto offerings, but their structure and their channel won't be changed."
Richards expects that most legacy Datto MSPs will add the Open Mesh solutions to their roster.
"The network is vital, and the vast majority of our partners are already offering a networking solution today," he said. "However, our feedback from our partners is that while they have existing investments in other technologies around networking, there is no reason not to add this because there is room in the market for a solution like this at this price point."
Richards said that keeping Open Mesh as a separate subsidiary allows Datto to keep its focus squarely on its core business.
"Running Open Mesh as a standalone business enables us to not lose sight of what we do," he stated. "We are doubling down on BDR. This acquisition doesn't make it less important."
The long-term potential of cloud networking is massive, however.
"In terms of revenue potential, the addressable market for this is in the billions," Richards said. "It's a massive market. The BDR market is also large, but this is at least equal. This market looks a lot like BDR did way back when. There are a lot of solutions, and it appears busy, but it's relatively new in terms of products specifically built for MSPs. That also means that from the MSPs perspective, it's not commoditized."
Richards also noted that while the Data Networking Appliance has not been available in Canada, that will change.
"DNA is a Verizon contract, so it's US only today, but we plan to make it available in Canada later this year," he said.
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German Club will host Oktoberfest from 6-8 p.m. on Oct. 18 in the Commons.
Oktoberfest is the first of three foreign holiday related activities held by the foreign language clubs, preceding French Club's Mardi Gras and Spanish Club's Cinco de Mayo.
Oktoberfest will feature popular activities including dancing, a limbo competition, door prizes, and a large, intense game of musical chairs.
This year German exchange students will attend Oktoberfest. They tend to bring with them more students than usual, who want the chance to talk to the exchange students in a more informal situation than school presents. McPartland is optimistic about the attendance.
The event will feature DJ Frau-Mix-Alot, McPartland's alter ego, and music in both German and English. Her description of a fun event matches that of Dave Fritz's, the French teacher and Club sponsor.
"I just think it's an opportunity for people to come hang out with friends in other language clubs and just be goofy and have a good time," Fritz said.
It costs $2 for Foreign Language Club members to get in, and $4 for non-club members to enter. German Club met Sept. 19 to discuss the organization of the event.
Club members are usually given things to bring such as soda and napkins.
Sophomore Vice President Edward Fieseler went to Oktoberfest last year and thought it was "awesome". This year he is again looking forward to the cultural awareness event.


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Widener Memorial Library
Widener Library History
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library is Harvard University's flagship library. Built with a gift from Eleanor Elkins Widener, it is a memorial to her son, Harry, Class of 1907, an enthusiastic young bibliophile who perished aboard the Titanic. It had been Harry's plan to donate his personal collection to the University once it provided a suitable alternative to the outdated and inadequate library then located in Gore Hall. Mrs. Widener fulfilled her son's dream by building a facility of monumental proportions, with over 50 miles of shelves and the capacity to hold over three million volumes.
The library opened in 1915, but Harvard's collections continued to grow at an astounding rate and by the late 1930s, Widener's shelves were filled to capacity. Space was at a premium for staff and patrons as well as books, which lead the library administration to begin a lengthy decentralization process. Over time Harvard built several new libraries to house the increasingly specialized collections. By redistributing books to new libraries, space opened up in Widener, but it was gradually given over to the growing staff hired to attend to the collections.
In addition to the physical challenges associated with housing and maintaining an ever growing collection, the 20th-century also saw technological advancements that affected Widener from electrical wiring to a computerized card catalog to sophisticated research workstations.
Widener Library ushered in the new millennium in the midst of its greatest change since opening in 1915. From 1999 to 2004, the building underwent an extensive renovation to ensure the long-term preservation and security of collections and to increase user space. Renovations included an upgrade of the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, humidity control, electrical, lighting, fire suppression, and security systems. In addition, two new reading rooms and staff workspace were created in the building's two interior light courts, and space previously designated for staff was reallocated for patron use.
Widener Library holds one of the world's most comprehensive research collections in the humanities and social sciences. These remarkably diverse collections of books, journals, microforms, films, pamphlets, posters, audio recordings, electronic resources, and ephemera numbering in the millions are the result of deliberate, systematic, forward-looking acquisitions amassed over hundreds of years, a process that today remains a vital part of the library's mission.
The humanities and social sciences collections of the Widener Library are represented by distinguished holdings in the history, literature, public affairs, and cultures of five continents. Of particular note are the collections of Africana, Americana, European local history, Judaica, Latin American studies, Middle Eastern studies, Slavic studies, and rich collections of materials for the study of Asia, the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, and Greek and Latin antiquity. These collections include significant holdings in linguistics, ancient and modern languages, folklore, economics, history of science and technology, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.
The holdings include major research materials in more than 100 languages collected from virtually every country in the world. As a result of the library's extensive efforts to accumulate these materials, the Widener Library serves as an efficient instrument of scholarship for researchers from Harvard and elsewhere.
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The history of Jewish storytelling from 'Bereshit' to today. This 3,000 year lesson traces the origins of the story and the art from the very beginnings of the 'word' through the travels of its people and the interesting twists and turns that we as a people have taken.
Stops along the way of these astonishingly literate people include the use of language in early drama, music and its corollary art forms. How literacy and language skills have protected and moved Jews along through exile and pogroms and how the rise of the Yiddish drama from its earliest uses in the 5th century until its subsequent immigration to America and then a twist and a journey westward to movies and television. It is difficult to remove, even from the saddest times, the ways in which language and story have been intricately entangled in the ways we protect ourselves physically and psychologically. It is also impossible to ignore the use of the comedic influence and its fascinating journeys from Torah to the stage, from shtetl to the Catskills and Broadway. A travel well documented.
Setting the stage for language - In the Beginning.
The development of the language and how it moved 'easily' from scriptural story to the theatre with particular emphasis on the Yiddish components as an art form and a secret language and the ways in which its own subsequent journey and growth took new dimensions in the 'new country' giving comfort and career. Seeing the rise of its stars in commercial areas of entertainment in the Catskills, Burlesque, Vaudeville and then travelling west in areas open to Jewish occupational skills - the movies and television. Wonderful stories of success and wit and wisdom.


- An interview with Dr. Warren Willey, a physician, nutrition/health expert, and author, will discuss his recent book "Obtainable: Enjoy the Body and Energy You're Always Wanted - Beyond Diet and Exercise", as well as his exhaustive research and how YOU can achieve and maintain excellent health. Seriously, you NEED to hear this doctor speak today!
- LIVE "10 Songs Contest" - All about FUN!
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According to sources, they want Rob to chill out on the lavish gifts, but he won't listen.
Is Rob Kardashian in over his head with Blac Chyna? According to reports, that's what his family thinks.
Sources close to the famous family told Page Six that Rob feels pressured to, well, keep up with the Kardashians. Chyna's ex Tyga had a habit of showering her with gifts, and Rob wants to keep up appearances and impress his girl with lavish gifts of his own.
The problem with Rob wanting to spoil Chyna is that he doesn't have the Keeping Up With The Kardashians money you might expect him to - he hasn't been on the same financial footing as the rest of his uber rich family since he quit the reality show over a year ago. And his sock line, Arthur George, just isn't banking in a whole lot.
Still, despite his comparatively modest income, and the fact that he just bought his fiancée a new purple Lamborghini in April, Page Six's source claims that Rob has big plans. "Rob wants to buy her a new car... She wants a brand-new house before their baby is born," their sources claim. "His family wants him to slow down. They're [thinking], 'Is this really how you want to spend money when youre about to have a family?'"
It's all for love, though.


GHAZIABAD: The ongoing tussle between the RWA of Niho Scottish Garden and the builder over control of common areas has reached the Allahabad high court.
The RWA filed a case against the builder with the Allahabad high court on Tuesday, following which a two-judge bench directed the Ghaziabad Development Authority to ensure that power and water supply is resumed in the society, and a compliance affidavit is filed by September 22, the lawyer for the RWA said.
"The court termed the act of suspending power and water supply in the society a violation of right to life and violation of Article 21 of the Constitution," said Prashant Yadav, counsel for the Niho Scottish Garden RWA. "The court also expressed its displeasure on GDA's inaction and has directed the vice-chairman to ensure that power and water supply is resumed," added Yadav.
GDA vice-chairman Vijay Kumar Yadav said the court's order will be followed in letter and spirit. "The civic agency had sent written orders to the RWA to take control of power and water supply in the society from the builder. In case of a hindrance, the GDA will provide all assistance to residents, and keep the police force at its disposal if the need arises," said Yadav.
The housing society has been mostly running on backup power since September 8 when prepaid electricity meters stopped being recharged as a result of the dispute. The builder could not be contacted for a response.


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Thomas Sankara Death: 14 Men Go for Trial For the Murder of 'Africa's Che Guevara'
He was killed on 15 October 1987 by Burkina Faso's soldiers.
Thomas Sankara
By Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza.
34 years after the death of Thomas Sankara, the Burkina Faso leader affectionately known as "Africa's Che Guevara", 14 men are going on trial for complicity in orchestrating his assassination. Sankara (with the help of close ally Blaise Compaore), who came to power via a coup backed by the popular masses, was president of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987.
He was killed on 15 October 1987 by Burkina Faso's soldiers and his close friend Blaise Compaore assumed power after his death.
The fiery Pan-African iconoclast was killed with 12 others in the 1987 coup and Burkina Faso's military prosecution in Ouagadougou has commenced proceedings for the trial of his murder. Sankara's assassination in 1987 should be gleaned in the context of the Cold War where Western imperial forces were hell-bent on thwarting his revolutionary ideas that entailed a clear-eyed rejection of capitalism in favour of people-centred economic moves.
His ideas were a thorn in the flesh for the West, embodied in his firm rejection of Western financial aid which he asserted was a well-calculated ploy to entrench neocolonialism on the continent.
Sankara has set his eyes on the total economic emancipation of Burkina Faso and because of that, he had to be assassinated. Sankara considered Blaise Compaore his brother – but the latter could not resist the allure of Western capital for his private aggrandizement and never hesitated to lead the coup in which the former was ruthlessly slain, and his memory was made a taboo subject in the "land of the upright men". But after 34 years, it is right to answer the question – who killed Thomas Sankara?
Blaise Compaore has repeatedly denied any involvement in the murder of Sankara, and he is currently in exile in Ivory Coast. He fled to Ivory Coast in the wake of the 2014 mass protests that ousted him from power. And expectedly, Compaore is boycotting the trial through his status as a political refugee in Ivory Coast.
The former head of security Gen Gilbert Diendéré, alongside Compaore, are facing charges of "complicity in murder, harming state security and complicity in the concealment of corpses". Compaore's legal defence postulate that the trial is a sham and that Compaore, who was president of Burkina Faso for 27 years, enjoys immunity as a former head of state. Given how the masses in Burkina Faso are demanding answers for the murder of the popular Marxist revolutionary, this defence (as compared with most jurisdictions) holds no water because after a head of state has served their tenure their immunity falls away and they are subject to prosecution.
Now that the trial has started, people in Burkina Faso seek closure given the "murky" circumstances in which Sankara lost his life. He was only 37 when he was murdered. Mariam Sankara (Thomas Sankara's widow) has led the fight for justice these past 34 years and here is the chance to bring closure not only for Burkina Faso but for the rest of the international community.
Prosper Farama, who is one of the legal counsel for those killed during the coup remarked, "What the victims and I are expecting to gain in this trial are truth and justice. So far there are contradictory versions about what really happened." Such contradictions are what the trial is expected to resolve. Some "form of truth" and an "end to the lying" is what Burkinabes are yearning for – and the trial is expected to be the vehicle for this.
The military court will thus put Compaore on trial in absentia. The enforcement of whatever judgment that will come from this is of interest – his lawyers insist such a "political trial" is flawed by "irregularities".
Sankara's Marxist background gave him rock-solid Pan-African credentials as evidenced by his policies – he pushed a socialist program of nationalizations, advocated for self-sufficiency, pushed back against foreign debt sponsored by the IMF and World Bank, made education and health widely accessible for all, and he banned female genital mutilations, polygamy and forced marriages.
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Q: Index Manipulation and Angular Momentum Commutator Relations I have been trying for hours and cannot figure it out. I am not asking anyone to do it for me, but to understand how to proceed.
We have the relations
$$[L_i,p_j] ~=~ i\hbar\;  \epsilon_{ijk}p_k,$$
$$[L_i,r_j] ~=~ i\hbar\;  \epsilon_{ijk}r_k,$$
$$[L_i,L_j] ~=~ i\hbar\;  \epsilon_{ijk}L_k.$$
Now I am trying to calculate
$$[L_i,(p\times L)_j].$$
I do not know how to reduce it. When I try I am left with too many dummy indices that I don't know what to do. For example, using
$$[AB,C] = A[B,C]+[A,C]B,$$
and expanding the cross product in terms of Levi-Civita symbols
$$[L_i,\epsilon_{jmn}p_m L_n],$$
but I don't know how to proceed correctly from here. For example, I tried,
$$ =~ \epsilon_{jmn}(\;p_m[L_i,L_n]+[L_i,p_m]L_n ).$$
Is this correct? If so, in the next step I used the known commutation relations
$$ =~i\hbar\; \epsilon_{jmn}(\; \epsilon_{ink}p_mL_k+\epsilon_{imk}p_kL_n).$$
Once again, I am stuck and do not know how to evaluate this further. Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong, or if not, how to proceed?

A: You should use the Levi-Civita reduction formula
$$\epsilon_{ijk}\epsilon_{ilm}=\delta_{jl}\delta_{km}-\delta_{jm}\delta_{kl}$$
and using the fact that $(a\times b)_i=\epsilon_{ijk}a_jb_k$ you should be done.

A: It is possible to continue OP's calculation as follows
$$ =~i\hbar\; \epsilon_{jmn}(\epsilon_{ink}p_m L_k+\epsilon_{imk}p_k L_n)
~=~-i\hbar( \epsilon_{jkm} \epsilon_{min}+\epsilon_{kim} \epsilon_{mjn})p_k L_n $$
$$ \stackrel{\rm Jac.Id.}{=}~i\hbar\; \epsilon_{ijm} \epsilon_{mkn}p_k L_n
~=~i\hbar\; \epsilon_{ijm}(p\times L)_m ,$$
where one uses the Jacobi identity
$$\sum_{{\rm cycl.}~i,j,k} \epsilon_{ijm} \epsilon_{mkn}~=~0 $$
for the Levi-Civita symbols.

A: Let's see:
$\textbf{L}=\textbf{r}\times \textbf{p}$
$\textbf{p}\times\textbf{L}=\textbf{p}\times (\textbf{r}\times \textbf{p})=\textbf{p}^2 \textbf{r}-(\textbf{p}\cdot \textbf{r})\textbf{p}$
The second  term is not zero ($\textbf{p}\cdot \textbf{r}\neq 0$) as in classical mechanics because of $[x_j,p_j]=i\hbar$. Therefore
$[L_i,(\textbf{p}\times\textbf{L})_j]=[L_i,\textbf{p}^2r_j]-[L_i,(\textbf{p}\cdot \textbf{r}) p_j]$
However
$[L_i,\textbf{p}^2r_j]=\textbf{p}^2[L_i,r_j]=i\hbar \textbf{p}^2\epsilon_{ijk}r_k$
because $[L_i,\textbf{p}^2]=[L_i,p_m p_m]=[L_i,p_m]p_m+p_m[L_i,p_m]=i\hbar\epsilon_{ijk}(p_k p_m+p_m p_k)=0$
and
$[L_i,(\textbf{p}\cdot \textbf{r}) p_j]=[L_i,p_m r_m p_j]=[L_i,p_m]r_m p_j+p_m[L_i,r_m]p_j+p_m r_m[L_i,p_j]$
but $[L_i,p_m]r_m p_j+p_m[L_i,r_m]p_j=i\hbar\epsilon_{iml}p_l r_m p_j+i\hbar\epsilon_{iml} p_m r_l p_j=0$
and $p_m r_m[L_i,p_j]=i\hbar(\textbf{p}\cdot \textbf{r})\epsilon_{ijk}p_k$
Therefore
$[L_i,(\textbf{p}\times\textbf{L})_j]=i\hbar \textbf{p}^2\epsilon_{ijk}r_k-i\hbar(\textbf{p}\cdot \textbf{r})\epsilon_{ijk}p_k=i\hbar\epsilon_{ijk}[\textbf{p}^2r_k-(\textbf{p}\cdot \textbf{r})p_k]=i\hbar\epsilon_{ijk}(p\times L)_k$
This is true for any $A_j$: $[L_i,A_j]=i\hbar\epsilon_{ijk}A_k$


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Tigers fall to Sweet Water on the road
Published 11:45 pm Friday, November 4, 2016
By jonathanbryant
The McKenzie Tigers lost the battle at the line of scrimmage to the Sweet Water Bulldogs, and thus the war, as the Bulldogs eliminated the Tigers from playoff contention with a 47-6 win.
Though the Tigers' offense was able to mount a few attacks early on, setback after setback kept McKenzie moving backwards as often as forwards.
McKenzie head football coach Tony Norris said that the shift in momentum proved tough to reverse in the quarters that followed.
"The biggest thing was that we had a tough time up front offensively in the beginning.
"We had a couple of drives going, and then we'd shoot ourselves in the foot with a penalty or something like that," Norris said.
"It's just one of those things that snowballed, and we were never really able to get started."
The Tigers found themselves in a similar position last season on the road in the first round of the playoffs against a tough opponent. That experience stayed with a number of returning Tigers this year, but this year's opponent—a Bulldogs team that outscored opponents 439-159 this season—proved tougher than most.
Despite the outcome, Norris said he was thankful for his players' dedication this season, including the hard work of his five seniors, Jackson Vickery, Chris Shufford, William Brown, Seth Keeney and Tyler Wright.
"It's been a good bunch," Norris said.
"It will be interesting to see underclassmen step up in the offseason. We're losing some key people—those have been key guys for the last few years. But I'm excited to see what this group of underclassmen is going to do next year. We're going to go back to work and start over. We'll get stronger in the weight room and be more physical for next year."
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Nearly 100 LGBT activists rallied outside a MARTA station in downtown Atlanta on Tuesday, part of a national day of action to call attention to an epidemic of anti-trans violence.
The setting for the #BlackTransLivesMatter rally – on Peachtree Street outside entrances to Underground Atlanta and the Five Points MARTA station – was intentional. Organizers said transgender people face continued harassment on MARTA trains despite the transit agency pledging to protect trans riders in the wake of a brutal assault on two trans women in 2014.
The Atlanta rally was one of several across the country on what organizers called #TransLiberationTuesday. Events also took place in Nashville, Ohio, Chicago and Washington, D.C. A similar #BlackTransLivesMatter event is scheduled for Wednesday in Houston.
In Atlanta, rally attendees carried signs criticizing MARTA, listing the names of trans people who have been killed and offering slogans including "Protect the Living," "Black Trans Lives Matter," "35 average life expectancy of a black trans person" and "Putting the T back in ATL."
A shirt worn by one attendee also called attention to the plight of Ashley Diamond, a trans woman who has been beaten and sexually assaulted while in Georgia prisons. Diamond filed a federal lawsuit in February alleging that prison officials have denied her medical treatment and ignored the assaults and other mistreatment.
Other rally participants called attention to Juan Evans, a 42-year-old trans man who died last month. In October, Evans was stopped by an East Point police officer for speeding. Evans alleged that the officer harassed him, called him "it," questioned his gender and jailed him as he was threatened by other officers during the ordeal. Evans reacted to the traffic stop in a video that prompted media coverage, outrage among LGBT activists and a march in East Point. Days later, Mayor Jannquell Peters apologized to Evans, according to Georgia Voice.
Speakers at the Atlanta event included Holiday Simmons, community education and advocacy director for Lambda Legal's Southern Regional Office, Toni-Michelle Williams of the Racial Justice Action Center, Transgender Individuals Living Their Truth founder Cheryl Courtney-Evans, and LGBT activists Raquel Willis and Mickyel Bradford.
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Soup's on! What? It's August! With the mercury flirting in the 90s, a chilled soup is total perfection. This one features seasonal fresh corn and gets a super velvety texture from avocado. The addition of fresh jalapeno pepper gives the soup a hint of heat while a splash of lime juice enhances its Mexican flair. The soup is super easy and gets you out of the kitchen fast. We served it on the day it was made but if you want to make it ahead, prepare it as directed but hold off on adding the avocado until you are ready to enjoy the soup. You can get creative with toppings: thin slices of avocado, fresh corn kernels, lime zest, chopped chives all go well. I finished the soups with either a drizzle of olive oil or a drizzle of lime crèma( sour cream thinned out with lime juice). Both were invitingly delicious!
In a medium pot, slowly cook the onion in the oil until the onion is soft. Add the corn and sauté for a minute. Add the broth, bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook 20 minutes. Bring to room temperature. Transfer to the bowl of the blender. Add the avocado, jalapeno, and lime juice. Purée until smooth. Salt to taste. Give it some chill time and it's ready to go. Top as desired with avocado slices, chives, lime zest, corn kernels and a drizzle of olive oil or lime crèma. Refreshingly delicious!
This entry was posted in Recipes and tagged Chilled avocado corn soup, chilled mexican corn and avocado soup, mexican corn and avocado soup by Johanne Lamarche. Bookmark the permalink.
I will try that recipe. I just have the right ingredients !Thank you for posting it.
Hope you enjoy it as much as we did Joanne!
This soup looks so fresh and delicious!
LOL NEVER!!!! But I've made more meatballs this summer than in my whole life! Nthank goodness these guys are going back to college!
So fresh, lovely and robust with flavor Johanne. There's nothing like chilled soup in the summer time is there? The flavors are so enticing, love anything Mexican. Love Garrison Keilor, we saw him live in Philly once. His voice is hauntingly beautiful! 🙂 Thanks for the shout out. You did a brilliant job! Bravo!
Thank you Loretta! Love Garrison Keillor too but missed in in Philly a few years ago. You were a wonderful teacher and soooo patient with me. I appreciate your guidance in helping me offer this print feature!
Just made this out. YUM! Wanted to thank you for this recipe and several others that I've made. Always love your photos. Thanks.
So glad you liked it Bobbi! Good to hear from you. Hope you are enjoying the summer, especially this great weather we've been having!
Just made this soup. YUM! Wanted to thank you for this recipe and several others that I've made. Always love your photos. Thanks.


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What a Lack of Federal Oversight Means for Local Police Reform
In his last act as attorney general, Jeff Sessions severely limited the Department of Justice's oversight of police departments in places like Elkhart, Indiana.
Christian Sheckler & Ken Armstrong
Jeff Sessions.
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Last month, a video was released of two police officers in Elkhart, Indiana, repeatedly punching a handcuffed man in the face. The episode was just the latest in a long-troubled police department where nearly all of its supervisors have disciplinary records.
This is the sort of problem that Congress sought to address in 1994 when it authorized the Department of Justice to overhaul troubled local police agencies under court-monitored consent decrees. These agreements lay out a reform plan negotiated by federal law enforcement officials and the local government.
After seeing the videotaped beating, Elkhart's mayor, Tim Neese, asked the Indiana State Police for a "very thorough and far-reaching" investigation of his police department. But the state police turned him down, so he asked the Department of Justice for help. His timing could hardly have been worse. Less than three weeks earlier, Jeff Sessions, who was then the attorney general, had sharply limited the Department of Justice's ability to use court-ordered agreements to address abuses by local police departments. It was one of his last actions before he stepped down.
Sessions was a longtime opponent of these agreements, complaining that they damaged police morale and smacked of federal overreach. But his critics say his last-minute move is likely to further the Trump administration's efforts to impede police reforms nationally. For instance, the Obama Department of Justice had wanted to revamp the police department in Ville Platte, Louisiana, where officers have a long history of jailing people without probable cause. But once Sessions took over, the Department of Justice settled on a watered-down version of the ambitious reform plan Obama administration officials had envisioned. As ProPublica has reported, illegal arrests remain a reality of daily life in Ville Platte.
Consent agreements were an important part of the Obama administration's efforts to address misconduct allegations. Cleveland entered into a consent decree in May of 2015, six months after an officer shot and killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old playing with a gun that fired plastic pellets. A report this summer on Cleveland's continuing reforms cited a nearly 40 percent drop in officers' use of force from the previous year. Ferguson, Missouri, approved a consent decree in 2016, two years after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown set off widespread protests. At a status hearing this year, a federal judge said she was seeing "a great deal of progress."
Fourteen cities are currently under consent decrees, from big cities like New Orleans to smaller communities like Warren, Ohio. One frequently cited success story is Seattle, where a 2012 consent decree has been credited with reducing unnecessary uses of force and improving citizens' trust in officers.
But Neese may be left on his own trying to fix a department with a tumultuous history.
Elkhart, sometimes called the "RV Capital of the World," is a city of about 50,000 people near Indiana's northern border with Michigan. Police problems are nothing new there. In the mid-1990s, a study by two policing experts commissioned by the city called out the department's "reputation for brutality" and its failure to rein in officers who had "abused citizens, violated civil rights, [and] alienated segments of the community." Many of the problems cited in that long-ago report can still be found today.
In early November, ProPublica and the South Bend Tribune obtained the video of the two Elkhart officers repeatedly punching a handcuffed man in the police station's detention area. "If you spit again, we're going to party," one of the officers said just before the beating began. The police chief, Ed Windbigler, never mentioned the punches when he told the city's civilian oversight commission that the two officers had gone "a little overboard" when taking the man to the ground.
The chief said he had opted to reprimand the officers, rather than impose more serious discipline, because of their clean records. But one of them had an extensive disciplinary history, with six suspensions and two reprimands in his first five years. Once, according to his personnel file, he arrested a woman for public nudity, then, after she was released from jail on bond, he sent her a friend request on Facebook and seven text messages, asking to "hang out."
He isn't alone. Of the department's 34 supervisors, 28 have disciplinary records in their personnel files. One is the mayor's son, a sergeant once reprimanded for firing 13 times at a dog, with at least two bullets striking a house. Fifteen of the supervisors have been suspended, including the chief, assistant chief, and patrol captain. Three were convicted of criminal charges during their careers.
There's also another set of numbers that is striking. From 2013 to 2017, Elkhart police officers fatally shot six people. In those same years, the police in New York City—population 8.6 million—fatally shot 43 people. The New York Police Department had about seven times the shootings in a city with more than 160 times the people. In Elkhart, one of the shootings led to a lawsuit and settlement. Another generated protests when it was discovered that neither of the officers who opened fire had a working body camera.
As Neese awaits word from the Department of Justice, Windbigler has been placed on unpaid leave for 30 days, putting the department in the hands of Todd Thayer, the assistant chief. His disciplinary record includes a five-day suspension, seven reprimands, and a two-step demotion for making flippant comments about a fatal shooting. He said an officer who opened fire could now check that off his "bucket list," according to his personnel file.
The assistant chief has been unwelcoming of outside scrutiny. At a town hall meeting in November, he defended the police department while criticizing the news media. He said that, when his department began receiving public records requests from one of us, the department's reaction was: "Who is this guy? ... What's all this digging?"
The police, he said, went to the city's legal department and asked: "Does anybody know what's going on? Everything's going good in Elkhart. Why are they coming over here, into our backyard, and trying to disrupt everything we built?"
This post originally appeared on ProPublica as "With Trump's Justice Department Retreating, Who Will Now Police the Police?" and is republished here under a Creative Commons license. It was produced in partnership with the South Bend Tribune, a member of ProPublica's Local Reporting Network. It was co-published with the New York Times.
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Christian Sheckler is a reporter for the South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong is a senior reporter for ProPublica.
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S&P 500 surges to 69th record close of 2021 as Santa rally powers US stocks
Investors have become more cautious about US stocks in recent weeks.
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US stocks jumped Monday, powering the S&P 500 to its 69th record close of the year, even as the Omicron coronavirus variant weighed on travel-related sectors.
Led by the Nasdaq, the so-called Santa Claus rally picked up from last week's momentum. The top indexes added to gains over the course of the trading session after opening modestly higher.
The S&P 500 is now up 27% for the year. The Nasdaq and the Dow Jones Industrial Average remain off their November highs and are up 23% and 18%, respectively, for 2021.
Here's where US indexes stood at the 4 p.m. ET close on Monday:
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Despite a resurgence in coronavirus cases, investors have become less concerned about the Omicron variant's effect on the economy overall as its symptoms appear less severe than Delta's.
But airline stocks sold off Monday after carriers canceled thousands of additional flights amid staffing shortages caused by the virus and winter weather. Cruise line stocks also fell with COVID-19 outbreaks reported on ships recently. Casino stocks, hotels and travel-booking sites sold off too.
Elsewhere in the market, Meta stock climbed more than 3% as the company's Oculus VR app was the most popular download on Apple's App Store on Christmas.
Analysts at JPMorgan said the time is right for investors to take on more risk, explaining that investors have been overly cautious as evidenced by the narrow group of stocks driving the S&P 500's record run.
Decentraland will host its first fashion week in March as virtual fashion emerges as a hot corner of the metaverse market.
GoDaddy stock leapt 8% after the Wall Street Journal reported activist investor Starboard Value has taken a 6.5% stake worth about $800 million in the web-hosting company.
Moderna slipped 1% after the Financial Times reported the biotech is facing a shareholder proposal to share its coronavirus vaccine technology with lower-income countries and explain its high prices.
Didi Global dropped 5% as China banned insiders at the ride-hailing company from selling stock, according to the FT.
West Texas Intermediate crude oil reversed earlier losses to rally 2.34% to $75.52 per barrel. Brent crude, oil's international benchmark, rose 3.17% to $78.53 per barrel.
Gold dipped 0.14% to $1,809.320 per ounce, while bitcoin climbed 2.34% to $51,527. The yield on the 10-year Treasury slipped 1 basis point to 1.482%.
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