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A Group of Senators Want to Bring Back Short-Term Insurance Plans
Fourteen senators are pushing Tom Price to relax an Obama-era rule on short-term insurance plans.
Dwyer Gunn
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price.
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Fourteen senators sent a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price on Thursday asking him to reverse an Obama-era regulation limiting the use of short-term, limited-duration insurance plans. Because these plans provide coverage for less than 12 months, they're not subject to many of the Affordable Care Act's most controversial insurance regulations: They don't have to cover the 10 essential health benefits, they're permitted to deny coverage to those with pre-existing coverages, and they generally carry maximum coverage limits. (They also, however, don't count as "insurance" for the purposes of the ACA's individual mandate.) In large part due to the plan's exemptions from those regulations, they're much cheaper than traditional health insurance.
Historically, people have mostly used the plans to cover temporary gaps in insurance coverage, but in the wake of the ACA, sales of the plans soared thanks to their low price tags. And insurers slowly started to sell longer-duration plans, all the way up to 364-day plans. In response, the Obama administration proposed last year a rule that would limit the duration of those policies to three months, bar consumers from renewing the policies, and require insurance companies to inform consumers that the plans don't meet the requirements of the ACA's individual mandate.
The Obama administration argued that the regulation was necessary not only to protect consumers, but also to protect the stability of the non-group risk pool. By siphoning off primarily young, healthy consumers, short-term plans worsen the quality of the traditional insurance risk pool, driving up premiums for anyone wishing to purchase traditional health insurance. The (slightly revised) rule, which allowed consumers to request renewals of the plans (but didn't require insurers to grant those renewals), was finalized last fall and formally went into effect on April 1st, 2017.
It's anyone guess, however, how long the rule lasts now that Donald Trump is president. Conservatives abhor these types of regulations and argue that individuals, not the federal government, are best-suited to decide what kind of insurance coverage is right for them. Price, meanwhile, has vowed to use regulatory authority to reduce the "burdens" of the ACA and give consumers more freedom to choose plans that work for them, as has Trump, a fact the senators' letter alludes to:
This significant restriction of STLD [short-term, limited-duration] plans is yet another example of the Obama Administration's policies that inhibited consumer choice and harmed the market for health care products. On January 20, 2017, President Trump issued an Executive Order calling on the head of each department to "encourage the development of a free and open market in interstate commerce for the offering of health-care services and health insurance, with the goal of achieving and preserving maximum options for patients and consumers." This regulation is inconsistent with the President's vision of greater choices for consumers and lower costs.
The regulation, in other words, is anathema to the conservative vision for insurance markets in America in which people can buy a wide variety of insurance plans—including plans with coverage limits that don't cover things like prescription drugs, maternity care, or mental-health benefits—across state lines. And it may serve as an easy target for Price's regulatory authority because it reads as a pretty small, reasonable change; many people genuinely do use these plans for just a few months while they're in between jobs, for example, and at least some of those people need more than three months of coverage.
But the regulation also serves as an illustration of how complicated and interconnected the insurance market really is. Regulation of these plans may seem unrelated to the ACA's larger non-group market issues, but continued growth of these plans could further destabilize the ACA's non-group markets.
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Dwyer Gunn is a Pacific Standard contributing writer. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Psychology Today, and elsewhere. She was previously the editor of the Freakonomics blog.

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Miss Petrie graduated in Medicine from the University of Bristol in 1997. She was successful in being appointed onto 1 of only 2 fast track basic surgical training schemes in the country, which included Plastic Surgery. She gained her membership to the Royal College of Surgeons in 2001. She subsequently undertook a two-year Masters degree at Harvard Medical School, researching the role of gene therapy in wound healing at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachussets. She won a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship for her first year of research and a Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation scholarship, awarded by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for her second year. She returned to the UK and was appointed onto a Specialist training scheme, gaining wide experience in units including Chelmsford, Salisbury, Stoke Mandeville and Oxford. A mother of two, Nicola combined full-time training with part-time expedition medicine work.
Towards the end of her training Nicola took up the post of Microvascular Fellow, training under Venkat Ramakrishnan. During this fellowship, Nicola gained further specialist training in Breast Reconstruction, Skin Cancer, Hand Surgery (working with David Elliot) and Lower Limb Reconstruction. Nicola's specialist training includes a further fellowship in Breast Reconstruction and skin Cancer at the John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford, a visiting fellowship studying Liposculpture with Emmanuel Delay in Lyon and Cosmetic and Aesthetic Surgery training under Barry Jones and Rajiv Grover in London, as the recipient of the Mentor Award.
Nicola's career in Oxford continued with her appointment as a Consultant in January 2013 with a Specialist interest in Breast Surgery and Skin Cancer.
During her career, Nicola has won a number of national and international awards, she has published in peer review journals, has set up the Oxford BRA(Breast Reconstruction Awareness) Group (a charitable organisation for women undergoing breast reconstruction) and contributes as an Examiner for the University of Oxford Medical School.
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As many of you know, we were accepting applications for moderator positions. I would first like to thank everyone for applying and putting time into their application, and wanting to help out BoutCheetah.
We would also like to mention that GM Meteor has been promoted to Head GM, so congratulations on your accomplishment, and we appreciate your dedication to the game, with all of your beautiful GFX work. And finally, we would also like to mention that FM Materger has been promoted back to his original position as GM. We will be holding applications in a few months most likely for a new staff member position, so if you wasn't picked this time, you will still have a shot! Again, thank you all so much for applying.
Got to admit nothing i wasn't expecting here, they are all well deserved staff. Grats to you all, good choices!
"Time Heals Almost Everything, Give The Time, Some Time"
EGK HOMIES! Thornz, Materger, Baggie and Meteor congrats you've all deserved it!
I am now an Oreos fan!
Oreos was a failed project.
Thanks guys. I'm honored to take this position. With these new promotions I believe that we have the potential to make BC better than it ever was.
supprised Qolderman didnt get mod tho, he has my vote for next time.
I'm positive Baggie and Thornz will be a good addition and bring a new vibe along.
A massive Congratulations to all the chosen mod especially Baggie and Congrats to meteor and meterger for being promoted!
Congrats new staff everyone chosen had it coming for a long time and I'm sure Meteor will definitely excel as the new Head GM as he's currently the longest standing GM anyway lool.
You know you love me. Congrats the the new mods, fm, and head GM. Everyone is more than deserving of their new position within staff and I personally hope to be even better than I was before. Thanks a ton for the chance to prove myself once more.
Congratulations to everyone except Materger.
You're just mad that the Lackers are bad and that I own you at volleyball. Gratz though bug!
Banned for halo push pro.
Gz. Spider has to be gm again though, for tha orange color to match his avvy.
Congrats for your promotion guys, you deserve it.
Ty for the oportunity. I look forward to helping the BC community and i will do my best.
Congratulations to everyone, welcome (back) to the staff team!
Congrats EVERY1, DO UR BEST.


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Em disciplinas como a filosofia ou a representação de conhecimento, a distinção tipo-espécime (do inglês, type-token, token = espécime/instância) é uma distinção que separa um conceito abstrato dos objectos que são instâncias particulares do conceito. Por exemplo, a bicicleta particular numa garagem é um espécime do tipo de coisa chamada "a bicicleta". Enquanto que a bicicleta na garagem existe num lugar particular, num determinado tempo, é mesmo não é verdade para "a bicicleta" tal como é usada na frase "a bicicleta têm-se tornado mais popular nos nossos tempos". Ela é utilizada em disciplinas como a lógica, a linguística, a metalógica, a tipografia, e a programação de computadores para esclarecer o significado das palavras. Na lógica, a distinção é usada para clarificar o significado de símbolos em linguagem formal.

Os tipos são compreendidos muitas vezes, de maneira ontológica, como sendo objectos abstratos. Não existem em nenhum lugar em particular porque não são objectos físicos. Um tipo pode ter inúmeros espécimes. No entanto, os tipos não são directamente produzíveis. Pode-se, por exemplo, mostrar a alguém uma bicicleta que esteja numa garagem, mas não se pode mostrar a alguém "a bicicleta". Os espécimes existem sempre num lugar e tempo particular e podem ser mostrados como sendo objectos físicos concretos.

A frase "eles dirigirem o mesmo carro" é ambígua. Eles dirigem o mesmo tipo de carro (mesmo modelo) ou a mesma instância de um tipo de automóvel (um único veículo)? A clareza nos obriga a distinguir palavras que representam tipos abstratos de palavras que representam objetos que incorporam ou exemplificam tipos. A distinção tipo-espécime separa tipos (representando um resumo descritivo de conceitos) a partir de espécimes (que representam objetos que instanciam conceitos).

Por exemplo: "bicicleta" é um tipo que representa o conceito de uma bicicleta; considerando que "a minha bicicleta" é o espécime que representa um objeto que é instancia desse tipo. Na frase "a bicicleta está se tornando mais popular", a palavra "bicicleta" é um tipo que representa um conceito; considerando que na frase "a bicicleta está na garagem", a palavra "bicicleta" é um espécime que representa um objeto em particular.

(A distinção em programação de computadores, entre classes e objetos está relacionado, embora, nesse contexto, "classe", por vezes, refere-se a um conjunto de objetos (com nível de classe ou atributo de operações), ao invés de incluir uma descrição de um objeto em conjunto.)

O tipo das palavras, conceito, propriedade, qualidade, funcionalidade e atributo (todos usados para descrever as coisas) tendem a ser utilizado com verbos diferentes. i.e.: Suponha que uma roseira é definida como uma planta que é "espinhosa", "florida" e "espessa". Você pode dizer que uma roseira instancia esses três tipos, ou incorpora estes três conceitos, ou apresenta essas três propriedades, ou possui essas três qualidades, características ou atributos.

Tipos de propriedade (i.e. "altura em metros" ou "espinhosa") são muitas vezes entendido ontologicamente como conceitos. Instâncias de propriedade (i.e. altura = 1.74) às vezes são entendidos como valores medidos, e, por vezes, entendida como sensações ou observações da realidade.

Alguns dizem que tipos existem em descrições de objetos, mas não tangíveis, objetos palpáveis. Eles dizem que pode-se mostrar a alguém uma determinada bicicleta, mas não se pode mostrar a alguém o tipo "bicicleta", como em "a bicicleta é popular.". No entanto tipos existem no sentido de que eles aparecem em modelos imaginários.

Alguns dizem que os espécimes representam objetos que são tangíveis, que existem no tempo e no espaço físico de matéria e/ou energia. No entanto, os espécimes podem representar objetos intangíveis de tipos como "pensamento", "jogo de tênis", "governo" e "ato de bondade".

Ocorrências
Há uma distinção intimamente ligada com a distinção tipo-espécime. Esta distinção é a distinção entre um objeto, ou um tipo de objeto, e uma ocorrência do mesmo. Neste sentido, uma ocorrência não é necessariamente um espécime. Considerando a frase: "Uma rosa é uma rosa é uma rosa". Podemos corretamente afirmar que há oito ou três palavras na frase. Há, na verdade, três tipos de palavras na frase: "rosa", "é" e "uma". Há oito palavras espécime em uma linha. A linha em si é um tipo. Não existem oito tipos de palavras na linha. Ele contém (como indicado) apenas os três tipos de palavras, 'uma', 'é' e 'rosa', cada um dos quais é o único. Então, o que podemos chamar o que são oito? Eles são ocorrências de palavras. Há três ocorrências da palavra tipo "uma", duas de " é " e três de 'rosa'.

A necessidade de distinguir os espécime de tipos de ocorrências surge, não apenas linguística, mas sempre que tipos de coisas que possuem ambiguidade ocorrem. A reflexão sobre o caso simples de ocorrências de numerais é muitas vezes útil.

Tipografia
Na  tipografia, a distinção tipo-espécime é usado para determinar a presença de um texto impresso por tipos móveis:

Charles Sanders Peirce

 Há apenas 26 letras no alfabeto inglês e ainda há mais de 26 letras nesta frase. Além disso, cada vez que uma criança escreve o alfabeto 26 novas letras são criadas.

A palavra 'letras' foi usado três vezes no parágrafo acima, de cada vez, em um significado diferente. A palavra "letras" é uma das muitas palavras que possuem "ambiguidade". Esta seção remove a ambiguidade de "letras" separando os três sentidos usando terminologia padrão na lógica de hoje. A chave da distinção foi feita pela primeira vez pelo norte-americano lógico-filósofo Charles Sanders Peirce, em 1906, usando uma terminologia que ele mesmo estabeleceu..

As letras que são criados pela escrita são objetos físicos que podem ser destruídos por vários meios: estes são letra de TOKENS ou carta de INSCRIÇÕES. As 26 letras do alfabeto são TIPOS de letras ou FORMAS de letras.

A distinção tipo-espécime de Peirce's, também se aplica a palavras, frases, parágrafos, e assim por diante: a qualquer coisa num universo de discurso da teoria da corda de caracteres ou teoria da concatenação.

Alguns lógicos consideram um tipo de palavra como a classe de seus espécimes. Outros lógicos contestam que o tipo de palavra tem uma permanência e constância não encontrada na classe de seus espécimes. O tipo permanece o mesmo enquanto a classe de seus espécimes está continuamente ganhando novos membros e perdendo membros antigos.

A palavra tipo 'letter' usa apenas quatro tipos de letras: l, e, t, r. No entanto, usa e duas vezes e t duas vezes. Na terminologia padrão, a palavra tipo 'letter' tem seis OCORRÊNCIAS de letra e o tipo de letra e OCORRE duas vezes na palavra tipo 'letter'. Sempre que um tipo de palavra é inscrito, o número de espécimes de letras criado é igual ao número de ocorrências de letra no tipo de palavra.

As palavras originais de Peirce são as seguintes. "Um modo comum de estimar a quantidade de matéria em um ... livro impresso é contar o número de palavras. Haverá geralmente cerca de vinte 'um/umas' em uma página, e, claro, eles contam como vinte palavras. Em outro sentido da palavra "word", no entanto, há apenas uma letra "o" na língua inglesa; E é impossível que esta palavra se encontre visivelmente em uma página, ou seja ouvida em qualquer voz ... Tais ... Forma, eu proponho a um termo.. Um Único ... Objeto ... como esta ou aquela palavra em uma única linha de uma única página de uma única cópia de um livro, eu arrisco a chamar de Token. .... Para que um Tipo possa ser usado, ele tem de ser incorporado em um Token que será um sinal do Tipo e, portanto, do objeto que o Tipo significa." – Peirce 1906, Ogden-Richards, 1923, 280-1.

Estas distinções são sutis, mas sólidas e fáceis de dominar. A reflexão sobre o caso simples de ocorrências de numerais é muitas vezes útil. Esta seção termina usando a nova terminologia para desambiguar o primeiro parágrafo.

Ver também

Árvore de Porfírio
Metalógica
 Formalismo
 Teoria dos tipos
Teoria das Ideias
 Fisicalismo de tipo
 Modelo mental
 Problema dos universais#Peirce
Universal e particulares (Problema dos Universais)

Bibliografia

 Baggin J., e Fosl, P. (2003) O Filósofo Toolkit. Blackwell: 171-73. ISBN 978-0-631-22874-5.
 Peper F., Lee J., Adachi S.,Isokawa T. (2004) com o Token de Computação em Escalas Nanométricas, provenientes da ToBaCo, 2004 Workshop sobre Token Baseado em Computação, Vol.1 pp. 1-18.

Ligações externas

 A Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Tipos e Tokens" que Linda Wetzel.

Abstração
Comparações
Conceitos metafísicos
Representação do conhecimento
Linguística
Filosofia da linguagem

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Holly Humberstone at Brixton Academy review: alt-pop star is having the time of her life
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It's been a whirlwind two years for singer-songwriter Holly Humberstone. Since releasing her debut EP Falling Asleep at the Wheel in 2020, and following it up a year later with The Walls Are Way Too Thin, the Grantham-born musician has gained millions of global listeners for her intimate alt-pop.
In June, she bagged the 2022 BRIT Rising Star award. She's also been busy touring including playing North American support slots with US pop star Olivia Rodrigo and Norwegian indie rocker Girl in Red. No surprises, then, that her debut album remains unfinished.
Last night's sold-out show at Brixton Academy marked the soloist's biggest headline gig to date. The scale of occasion was more than acknowledged by the 22-year-old, if not fully digested. It was an experience that she invariably told giddy fans was the "the most fun" she's had in ages. "This has made my entire life," Humberstone said, appearing shell-shocked by the oft-deafening levels of audience whooping. She admitted that she may "chunder" off stage afterwards from all the unfolding fan mania.
Humberstone has made a name for herself by forensically opening up her world to listeners and pairing her stories with killer pop hooks. Although she cherishes lyric-writing the most – excavated best on bare bone compositions including piano ballad Haunted House – it was the zippier, full-band numbers last night that delivered the hairs-on-end moments.
The Walls Are Way Too Thin, which hears Humberstone dwell on her difficult first year of flat-sharing in London, and The 1975-indebted emo-pop of Overkill were dazzling, backed by strips of coloured lighting that pulsed with the rhythms. Humberstone's fragile and forceful vocals resounded well across the venue.
"I've been working on an album really slowly; it's been hard to find the mental capacity to try and sit down and write," the singer said at one point. Partly, it explains why she released Can You Afford to Lose Me? in October (a collection of her favourite tracks so far including a new song, the EP's title track). It's something to sate her fans while they await her debut.
Scarlett – a breezy, widescreen indie pop tune about living vicariously through a friend's romantic relationship – was the stand out. Fans jumped in their seat stows in the circle; their screams threatened Beatlemania-level decibels. Humberstone and co. moved to play more closely together, swinging locks of hair over instruments like a well-worn troupe of musicians.
While Humberstone has declared often that she's "awkward" and writes songs to process her emotions, very little about her stage presence at Brixton suggested such embarrassment. Her talent hasn't been in doubt since her breakthrough – now, her confidence has ballooned. She really is having the time of her life.


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The Nursery "Alice" (: Kinderzimmer) ist ein Kinderbuch von Lewis Carroll, das 1890 bei Macmillan Publishers erschien. Es handelt sich dabei um eine Nacherzählung von Alice im Wunderland für Kinder im Alter bis zu fünf Jahren.

Entstehung
Bereits 1881, über 15 Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung von Alice im Wunderland, kam Carroll die Idee zu einer Alice-Fassung für kleine Kinder. Er bat John Tenniel, den Illustrator der ursprünglichen Ausgabe, zwanzig der Bilder zu kolorieren. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Drucker Edmund Evans stellte Tenniel die Bilder schließlich 1885 fertig. Von Ende 1888 bis Februar 1889 verfasste Carroll den Text zu der neuen Fassung. Mit der Qualität der ursprünglichen Drucke war Carroll nicht zufrieden, sodass er zunächst eine kleine Auflage unkoloriert drucken ließ, die er an Freunde verschenkte, darunter unter anderem Prinzessin Alice, Countess of Athlone. 1890 erschien das Buch schließlich als großformatiges Buch mit einem Cover von Gertrude Thomson bei Macmillan. Es war die erste farbige Ausgabe der Erzählung von Alice.

Inhalt

Inhaltlich folgt das Buch Alice im Wunderland und erzählt in 14 Kapiteln die Handlung für Kleinkinder nach. Einige Episoden werden dabei stark gekürzt, andere dagegen erweitert. Carroll spricht den Leser oder Zuhörer häufig direkt an. Ein besonderes Augenmerk widmet er den Bildern, Carroll geht häufig auf kleine Details in der Gestaltung ein.

Vorangestellt ist dem Buch – wie vielen anderen Werken Carrolls auch – ein Gedicht in Form eines Mesostichons, in dem die zweiten Buchstaben jeder Zeile den Namen einer seiner jungen Freundinnen ergeben, Marie Van der Gucht. Es folgt ein Vorwort, in dem sich Carroll vor allem an die Mütter wendet. Im Anhang finden sich An Easter Greating und das Gedicht Christmas Greetings, die auch in vielen anderen Alice-Ausgaben zu finden sind.

Rezeption
Das Buch wurde nur von wenigen Rezensenten beachtet, wohl auch, weil viele es nur als Neufassung von Alice im Wunderland sahen. Die vorhandenen Rezensionen aber loben das Werk durchgehend.

Wirtschaftlich war das Buch kein großer Erfolg. Ursprünglich waren 4 Schilling als Preis vorgesehen, doch schließlich musste sich Carroll mit nur einem Schilling begnügen, um das Buch verkaufen zu können. Dennoch wurden in den ersten sechs Jahren 14.000 Exemplare verkauft.

In seinen kommentierten Alice-Ausgaben greift Martin Gardner für einige Erläuterungen mehrfach auf The Nursery "Alice" zurück.

Das Werk wurde in einige Sprachen übersetzt, unter anderem auch ins Deutsche und Französische.

Ausgaben
 Lewis Carroll: The Nursery "Alice". Macmillan 1890. (Digitalisat, Volltext).
 Lewis Carroll, Walter E. Richartz (Nachwort): Die kleine Alice. Mit den Bildern von John Tenniel. Diogenes, Zürich 1997, ISBN 3-257-25003-7; 2008, ISBN 978-3-257-01132-6.

 Lewis Carroll: »Alice« für die Kleinsten. In: Günther Flemming (Hrsg.): Alice. Band 3: Die Jagd nach dem Schnark, Aliceana & Essays zu Leben und Werk. epubli, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8442-6493-7. ().

Quellen
 Morton N. Cohen: Another Wonderland: Lewis Carroll's The Nursery "Alice". In: The Lion and the Unicorn. Band 7/8, 1983/1984, S. 120–126, doi:10.1353/uni.0.0181.

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 The Nursery Alice in der Sammlung der British Library

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Alice (Lewis Carroll)
Literarisches Werk
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Faulconer's First Year: Mostly Doing Nothing, But Looking Good While Doing It
by Doug Porter on March 4, 2015 · 3 comments
in Culture, Economy, Environment, History, Media, Politics, San Diego
By Doug Porter
Unlike the women performing on the field at Chargers' games, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer is getting paid for his cheer-leading efforts.
The local daily paper ran a puff piece on Sunday, celebrating Faulconer's first year in office, reporting on the "nearly unanimous praise" for making San Diego a "vastly different place than it was under the tumultuous tenure" of he-who-cannot-be-named-without-contempt.
Largely airbrushed out of history was former interim mayor Todd Gloria, whose reward for leadership following the fall of Filner was to get booted out of the position of City Council President, lest he actually accomplish any items proposed during his tenure.
The UT-San Diego also ran with a most excellent exercise in confirmation bias, following up on a year of editorial support, with a survey of 501 voters who mostly thought the mayor was doing swell. Why shouldn't they, when the coterie of friends and advertisers in the local media can't be bothered by and large to actually hear those critical of the incumbent administration?
The realpolitik of San Diego is that, while it's okay to talk about doing things, actual changes to the status quo are considered partisan and, therefore distasteful.
Therefore, we end up with the politics of mostly doing nothing. But the mayor manages to look good while he's doing it.
From the UT article:
"It's only been one year and it's amazing how much we've gotten done," said City Councilwoman Lorie Zapf, a fellow Republican. "It's really striking how the vibe is so much more upbeat, which is allowing people to be focused and productive."
The politics of doing nothing are all about symbolism. And, with his background in corporate public relations and the support of the Chamber of Commerce, Mayor Faulconer really does deserve praise for his efforts in this area.
San Diego is blessed with an economy that's improving, making restorations in city services possible. Each one gets a press release or media event.
The blizzard of press releases and photo ops coming out of city hall is doing its job; making something out of nothing. This morning the mayor was handing out doughnuts (for real!) at a fire station to celebrate his anniversary in office…
…film at eleven.
Recently the mayor enlisted Councilwomen Myrtle Cole and bus load of supporters and media to tour District 4, highlighting what he touted as the opportunities for investment there.
Yet when it comes to actual budget proposals for parks, only one neighborhood South of Interstate 8 (near Chamber CEO Jerry Sanders neighborhood) is included for any love in the mayor's five-year financial outlook.
The few tangible things Faulconer actually can point to are either explicitly bad (blocking minimum wage increase, earned sick days, opposing the Barrio Logan Community Plan, etc ) or Democratic ideas he botched while on the city council (all but repealing Prop A, Pure Water, etc.)
Nearly a two hundred thousand low-wage workers lost out on an average pay raise of $1400 annually and the right to earn paid sick leave. The incremental increases in the minimum wage called for in the City Council's plan will be looking pretty damned reasonable by the time they come up for a vote in June, 2016. Other cities on the West Coast are looking at $13 and up. And then there's the back wages the "small business coalition" employers will have to pay when voters approve the law.
UT:
"He's really established that San Diego is open for business and he's shown the local business community he's willing to work with them," said [Chamber of Commerce CEO] Sanders, who also praised the mayor for fostering stronger economic ties with Tijuana.
Then there's the Big Deal pay raise for San Diego Police…
Faulconer said perhaps his biggest accomplishment so far has been a new police labor contract that is expected to help reverse recent struggles with recruiting new officers and retaining existing staff.
The deal increases compensation, particularly for veteran officers, without violating Proposition B, a 2012 ballot measure that froze pensionable pay until 2018.
[City Councilwoman] Zapf called the deal a "huge accomplishment" that displayed "outside-the-box" thinking.
Great. Except that the framework for doing this was largely proposed by Carol Kim, the Democrat who came out on the losing end of the most recent electoral contest for the District 6 City Council seat.
The Climate Action Plan Shell Game
The mayor also tackled an issue that threatened to alienate the business community, a bold climate action plan inherited from Gloria when he served as interim mayor.
Except the Climate Action Plan isn't in place. He's agreed to talk about it. That's why members of 350.org, along with Councilman Todd Gloria, Nicole Capretz with the Climate Action Campaign and the Environmental Health Coalition's Kayla Race, staged a rally in Balboa Park on Monday.
They called for concrete steps as the plan moves through the formal review process saying it must be legally binding and provide the details of measurable methods the City will utilize to achieve the greenhouse gas emissions reductions required by the State of California.
Speakers also urged ensuring urban communities most adversely impacted be prioritized for infrastructure investment and career opportunities along with an open, transparent process prioritizing public participation to be used, and for a separate adaptation plan to be developed to prepare residents and businesses for climate impacts.
Why are people holding rallies if this is a done deal?
And then there's the matter of securing a "Sustainability Program Manager" to coordinate the climate plan. It hasn't happened.
NBC7 News ran a story full of speculation that the position was primarily for PR purposes, something the Mayor's office denies.
The Biggest Joke of All: The Infrastructure Plan
Here's the Faulconer plan: Borrow $100 million against future general fund revenue – meaning less money available for other needs.
Here's the price tag for fixing all our streets, sidewalks, underground pipes, parks, libraries, fire stations, etc: $3-5 billion, according to an estimate by Independent Budget Analyst
Here's how he's going to plug that gap, via the UT article:
"It's not about throwing money at the problem," he said. "I don't believe the city's been spending the money efficiently and wisely."
Faulconer's reluctance to address the need for revenue –he won't go to voters and admit we need to raise taxes– and his cosmetic commitment to "One San Diego", while doing nothing to actually address inequity and at the same time seemingly championing all big business priorities (stadium, convention center, poverty wages) ought to be enough to convince most people of his mediocrity…
While the city under Faulconer seems willing to pay for some infrastructure North of the 8, the Mayor's been busy assuring folks South of the 8 that he totally supports non-profits who will do his job in their neighborhoods.
But Wait! There's More!
Another thing Mayor Faulconer is reluctant to talk about is the failure of the city's managed competition. The grand plan to save the taxpayers money forgot to include the "managed" part of the deal.
It has not saved money (only in the sense of transferring balances) while leading to significant service cuts, including to the City's fleet of vehicles (garbage trucks, fire trucks, police cars…). Rather than go to the public and talk about these issues, he continues to assert managed competition and "pension reform" are the reason the City now has money to spend. (Pension reform has only cost the City money so far.)
And then there are the tens of millions of dollars in parking fees and other pots of money just sitting around. The city's not even sure how much there is. These pots of gold that could be used for paving streets exist because the various entities collecting them wait until they have enough to do a project before they spend anything. This can take years.
The crisis of the moment is, of course, building a shiny new stadium for our beloved football team.
The City of Carson held a stadium press conference that included the community and organized labor. Faulconer appointed a commission that's so poorly structured that it functions as an insult to every possible stakeholder, with probably 2/3 of the city's council districts unrepresented among other things.
Faulconer's miscue on what a viable stadium coalition would even look like (not including labor is insane) just smacks of incompetence. Political advisor Jason Roe sits in on "closed" meetings, while Tom Shepard, the consultant who played a large role in putting together PETCO Park and selling the public on the idea, is left on the sidelines.
Or… he knows that no deal is possible and is simply avoiding the public while building up brownie points in the local business community.
Standing with the Right Wing on Immigration
For a politician who claims to be concerned about social issues, Faulconer's refusal to sign on to an amicus brief in support of the President's Executive Action on Immigration speaks volumes about his real attitude. Thirty three Mayors have signed on, including Eric Garcetti in LA.
The mayor claims the executive action is the wrong approach, and the answer is a comprehensive immigration bill passed by Congress, something unlikely to happen anytime soon.
So in other words he's okay about leaving and estimated 100,000 San Diegans in limbo. Perhaps he doesn't want to get the national Republican Party mad at him, leaving open an opportunity in a Jeb Bush administration
At the end of his first year in office, two things are sure: Kevin Faulconer is really good at public relations and very poor at coming up with realistic solutions. And really the latest in a long line of mediocre Republican mayors who is letting the city just drift along and doing his best to not do anything that would anger anyone in order to get re-elected.
To paraphrase Joseph Heller: Some men are born mediocre. Some men achieve mediocrity. Some have mediocrity thrust upon him. In Major Major Major's case (insert Kevin Faulconer's name), it was a combination of all three. In men lacking of distinction, he stood out as singularly lacking more distinction than all the rest.
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Geoff Page March 4, 2015 at 12:23 pm
I am so glad that someone stuck a pin in that ridiculous U-T puff piece on Faulconer, thanks for the great article.
Tom G. March 4, 2015 at 6:15 pm
RB March 5, 2015 at 8:00 am
I am very happy with our new mayor and that our experiment with the progressive Filner is over…….
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Do good to feel good during the COVID-19 pandemic
Brayden Pape, Contributor|October 19, 2020
Photo Courtesy of Lauren Chen
Almost a year since it first emerged, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc in our lives. In the midst of it all, many people have stepped up to help those in our communities who have been affected the worst. They have organized food drives, donated to food banks, stitched face masks, made phone calls to check up on senior citizens, created artwork, and written letters to strangers in nursing homes who are not able to receive visitors. Interestingly, many of those who have helped others have also reported experiencing positive results themselves.
According to The New York Times article, "The Science of Helping Out" by Tara Parker-Pope, there is scientific evidence to show that helping others improves your own happiness. Research shows that just the thought of donating money or volunteering stimulates the pleasure-seeking part of the brain, making us feel good. Although altruistic people do not help others expecting anything in return, here are 5 ways that doing good could make you feel good.
1. Helping Others Decreases Stress and Anxiety.
"The Science of Helping Out" points to research showing that helping others causes the level of stress hormone, cortisol, to drop. We feel less stressful and anxious when we help someone else because we feel in control. This is because helping others helps us develop a protective barrier from feeling stressed out and anxious.
2. Regulating Our Emotions Becomes Easier.
The article, "10 benefits of helping others," published by the University College of London states that helping someone less fortunate (such as someone who is suffering because of the pandemic) can make us forget our own problems even for a short time. "The Science of Helping Out" points to a study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago that shows that talking others through their problems makes us come up with better solutions for our own problems. Kohta Zaiser, Deputy Field Director at Todd Gloria for Mayor, shares that his career in politics allows him to help others and make real, significant change in people's lives. He states that the help he has been able to offer others during the pandemic has made him a better person, "with less anger and more appreciation" for his own life. Mr. Zaiser's work has helped him become more aware of his privilege and given him a better perspective on the struggles faced by members of our society.
3. Builds Connections with Others.
Helping others during the pandemic connects us with others in our community, which promotes companionship. According to "10 Benefits of Helping Others," the act of helping someone eliminates loneliness for us as well as those with whom we connect. Lauren Chen is a Customer Happiness Agent at GoFundMe who has always enjoyed helping others. When the pandemic broke out, she started sending artwork through the mail to healthcare workers and nursing home residents. Ms. Chen stated, "With visitation at hospitals and nursing homes so restricted this year, I decided that sending surprise art and notes by mail to people who can no longer enjoy in-person visits would be an excellent use of scrap paper and craft supplies." At a time when she can no longer go into the office to work, mailing artwork to people affected by the pandemic helps Ms. Chen connect with the greater community.
(Courtesy of Lauren Chen)
4. Increases Our Happiness and Life Satisfaction.
According to "7 Scientific Benefits of Helping Others" research has shown that helping those in need increases your happiness and life satisfaction. Food Bowl Market in South Park, San Diego, is one of the grocery stores that donated groceries, money, and gift cards to the many food drives at Albert Einstein Academies Charter School. Food Bowl Market continued to generously donate even when grocery stores all over the country were experiencing losses due to the pandemic. Asked about her experience, co-owner Mrs. Karen Halebo stated, "It made everyone at Food Bowl so happy to be giving back to our community." The store saw the food shortage during the pandemic as an opportunity to give back to the community that has supported it through the years.
5. Provides Meaning to Our Lives.
The article, "7 Scientific Benefits of Helping Others," also states that helping others during the pandemic could also provide meaning to our lives. Being quarantined during the pandemic could make you feel lost and helpless. But, when you help someone who really needs help, you promote positive feelings by being productive, replacing negative feelings with a sense of self-worth. For example, Mr. Kohta Zaiser states that he is reminded daily of the positive impact one person can have simply by prioritizing kindness and empathy over self-interest .
However, for some, doing good during the pandemic does not always make you feel good. Mr. Jose Diaz, Dean of Students and ASB Director of Albert Einstein Academies in San Diego, is someone who has been taking groceries and school supplies to students who do not have transportation to pick them up from school. Mr. Diaz shared that this experience made him "feel terrible for people that have a great need in a country that has a lot of resources." He was struck by the gross inequalities in the community. Yet, Mr. Diaz continues to put his own discomfort aside to serve his students.
There are many like Mr. Diaz, Ms. Chen, Mrs. Halabo, and Mr. Zaiser in our society who show us what it is like to be truly altruistic. If you are interested in helping others during this pandemic, there are many ways to do it. For example, Lauren Chen refers to organizations like https://www.allforgood.org that will mail your artwork for you. "You can send a photo of your notes and they will mail them off into the universe (and straight into someone's heart)," says Chen.
What a great way to step up without stepping out!
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Planning commission votes to ease restrictions on selling backyard produce
Ye Tian on June 16, 2011
Oakland home gardeners may be able to legally sell their produce in a few months. On Wednesday the city's Planning Commission unanimously approved a proposal from city planners that includes modifying zoning regulations to allow "crop growing" as a home occupation.
Under the current regulations, people who grow crops at home can only consume the products themselves. If they want to sell the produce, they need to apply for a Conditional Use Permit which costs more than $2,800, said Neil Gray, one of the planners who drafted the proposal. But if the modification approved by the Planning Commission is ultimately adopted by the city, Gray said, gardeners would only need a zoning clearance that costs about $40 in order to sell their crops.
"By being able to provide produce for sale from their homes, Oakland residents can generate much-needed supplemental income while also improving neighborhood access to healthy, fresh food that are locally grown," said Aaron Lehmer, a member of the Oakland Food Policy Council, an advisory group for the city. Lehmer was one of the supporters of the proposed amendment who came to the commission meeting to speak in favor of it.
"This amendment will provide home gardeners a pathway to become entrepreneurs," said supporter Esperanza Pallana, who has a garden at her home near Lake Merritt. Pallana believes that the change will help boost the local economy as it generates a new type of micro-business.
The proposal, however, prohibits any use of mechanized farm equipment due to the noise such machines would cause. In addition, the change will only apply to growing plants, not raising animals. Lehmer said the animal issue will be discussed in further forums and community meetings as part of a more comprehensive effort to update the city's regulations on urban agriculture.
"We're very concerned that animals will be part of urban agriculture," said Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, a speaker at Wednesday's meeting, who is also the founder of a vegan advocacy group called Compassionate Cooks. Patrick-Goudreau said including animals as a part of urban farming will not only cause public health and animal welfare issues, but also add a burden to city services, since raising animals requires more supervision from officials than growing plants does.
The issue of whether Oakland residents can grow crops or raise animals for sale in their own backyards has recently become a high-profile issue. Most notably, in March, Novella Carpenter, who runs Ghost Town Farm in West Oakland, was warned that she could be fined for selling agricultural products without a permit. Carpenter is the author of Farm City, a memoir about establishing her own urban farm where she has grown produce as well as raised goats, chickens and ducks and given demonstrations on raising and butchering them. (Carpenter is a graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, which runs Oakland North.) The incident attracted a considerable amount of public attention at the time. Carpenter said the warning was the result of a complaint against her for selling rabbit meat, although she said she didn't realize that a rabbit pie she had donated to a fundraiser was considered a "sale."
Although people at Wednesday's meeting held different opinions about whether animals should be included in Oakland's urban agriculture regulations, both Lehmer and Patrick-Goudreau said they were delighted to see positive changes happening to the city's urban farming laws. "This is just a real small portion of the changes that are coming," Lehmer said, adding that new definitions and clearer process will make urban agriculture "legitimate and sustainable."
The commissioners barely had any questions for the planners who presented the proposal except for a few positive comments before the vote. "I am very happy to support this measure," said Commissioner Sandra Galvez. "Whenever I go to Annie's Annuals in Richmond I am constantly struck by the wonderful reuse of a concrete yard. I was always wondering when can we start something like this in Oakland."
The proposed modifications will be submitted to the Community and Economic Development Committee and then the City Council for further consideration before a final adoption is made and the process may take months. But Lehmer remains optimistic that the city will approve the changes. The city code "is so archaic and the city knows it," he said.
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Yolanda on June 16, 2011 at 3:28 pm
I'm all in favor of a zoning clearance that would enable urban gardeners to sell their crops, provided of course, they are produced
with the welfare of consumers in mind. However, I vehemently disagree with any clearance that would permit the raising and slaughter of animals. This is an entirely different ball game, one rife with pitfalls. In addition to animal welfare concerns, it would create conflict between neighbors, burden an already over-extended police department, and compound the City's already-stressed Animal Services department.
Hooray for locally grown, organic fruits and veggies! A big thumbs down to the prospect of urban livestock farming.
Birgit on June 16, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Locally grown and produced veggies sound terrific. Raising animals in your back yard does not. It raises so many questions and concern, do I really want an animal slaughtered in my neighbors back yard ? Hygiene,food safety for the end consumer and animal welfare would be a huge concern, to name a few. Who would be monitoring this ?
locotarian on June 16, 2011 at 5:06 pm
Great article. One thing that should have been included was the fact that Council Member Colbruno was adamantly opposed to animal agriculture in Oakland, and that the other Council Members also expressed concern.
Max Allstadt on June 17, 2011 at 7:52 am
Raising animals should be permitted, as long as the permits can be revoked in cases of poor hygiene or animal cruelty.
The vegan advocacy groups, at their core, want to impose their personal preference against all meat and animal products upon other people. That's unacceptable. It's particularly unacceptable because vegans make up less than 1% of the population.
It is already legal to raise certain livestock in Oakland. Chickens are totally legal, though not roosters due to noise. Goats are allowed too, I think. The current situation, however does not allow goat meat, goat milk, eggs, or chicken to be sold, only consumed at home.
This can all be changed in a way that allows for livestock in a situation that is safe and sane. It cannot be changed to allow for livestock in a way that pleases vegan activists. They should therefore be ignored when they call for an outright ban.
If the vegan activists have good faith input on safety and preventing animal cruelty, that should be considered, so long as it isn't a transparent attempt to create a de-facto ban by using impossible regulatory requirements.
Ultimately, livestock smaller than cattle and swine should be allowed, with reasonable regulations.
Tim Anderson on June 17, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Hooray! What a victory for urban agriculture. The code change to allow this to happen is minor but the impact will be powerful and positive.
Restructuring the code to accommodate backyard livestock and animal slaughter would be much more involved and may cause more problems than it solves. In addition to offending people, like myself, who are opposed to the unnecessary killing of animals in our neighborhoods, there are issues of public health, nuisance, and animal welfare. If it were even possible for regulations to prevent any of these issues, who is going to enforce them? Our animal services staff, volunteers, and animal control officers are already overburdened dealing with the existing population of abandoned, abused, and neglected pets. How could they be expected to enforce new regulations on a entirely new set of animals?
Let's take this opportunity to declare victory for urban agriculture and celebrate our freedom to grow and sell crops on our property. Why waste valuable City resources on a controversial extension of urban agriculture that would invite a whole host of related issues we have scant resources to deal with?
Please join me, and hundreds of our neighbors, who have signed a petition to prevent the proliferation of backyard livestock and animal slaughter in Oakland. The petition can be found at http://www.change.org/petitions/prevent-the-proliferation-of-backyard-livestock-and-animal-slaughter-in-oakland
emily wood on June 17, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Thank you thank you thank you to the planning commision for commiting to healthful foods for Oakland. And thank you thank you thank you for divesting this action from being bundled with the cruel, environmentally devestating, and economically unfeasible concept of treating animals as livestock in our urban core. Thanks to Council Member Colbruno for speaking out against such action!
Ricky Silver on June 23, 2011 at 11:40 pm
I applaud the city for this stride forward. Oakland has much to gain by allowing its citizens to grow and sell their own produce. Given our wealth of vacant lots and abandoned houses, I imagine much creative (and productive) use of derelict land.
My one concern is, however, that there is a rather vocal minority concerned with livestock raising in the city. Although I understand and respect their concerns for the welfare of these animals, I feel that many are opposed on the grounds that eating meat is wrong (which is not the issue at hand).
I think the major flaw in their objection to backyard livestock is that these animals would somehow live fuller lives if they were raised and slaughtered in factory farms hundreds of miles away.
I happen to know quite a few people who raise backyard livestock for food (chickens, quail, ducks) who treat their animals with respect and the utmost care.
I support people forging deeper connections with their food which is why I support backyard produce and livestock.
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I completely agree with Yolanda and the others who say Thumbs up to plants, Thumbs down to animals.
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Google's Terms of Service for Google Maps don't allow 3rd parties to provide a simple way to transfer driving directions to GPS units. Therefore, I can't use TakItWithMe to easily transfer my Google Maps directions to my Garmin Zumo 550.
So, that begs the question... Why not? What is the big issue?
Also, the Garmin tools (Bobcat and Mapsource) for creating routes totally blows compared with Google Maps. So if those tools were better, this would be less of a concern.


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Q: Axis2: Avoid "Unexpected subelement" error when non-required property added to WSDL I have a .NET WCF service and a Java app that uses Axis2 to generate service stubs. When I add an optional property to a data contract in WCF and sort it at the end of the property list (which should be a backwards-compatible change) it causes Unexpected subelement errors in the Java app. The only way to fix it is to regenerate the stubs in Axis2 and redeploy the Java app -- not an acceptable approach in my case.
To be clear, I have not changed the order of the properties and the WSDL is valid. Here's an example of a type from the WSDL from before (when the Java app worked) and after (which causes the "Unexpected subelement" error):
<!-- BEFORE -->
<xs:complexType name="MyObject">
   <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="Name" nillable="true" type="xs:string"/>
   </xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>

<!-- AFTER -->
<xs:complexType name="MyObject">
   <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="Name" nillable="true" type="xs:string"/>
      <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="MyNewProperty" nillable="true" type="xs:string"/>
   </xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>

The AFTER version causes this error: org.apache.axis2.AxisFault: org.apache.axis2.databinding.ADBException: Unexpected subelement {http://mycompany.com/services/}MyNewProperty
Is there something we can do with Axis2 to prevent this from happening? If not, is there something different we should do in the WSDL or on the WCF side?

A: It appears that this is not a backwards-compatible change from the point of view of the XML Schema. If I ask XSV to validate a message
<MyObject>
    <Name>Primus Secundus</Name>
    <MyNewProperty>Addita notitia</MyNewProperty>
</MyObject>

against your <!-- BEFORE --> schema, I get an error indicating that the MyNewProperty is invalid:

Invalid per cvc-complex-type.1.2.4: element {None}:MyNewProperty not
  allowed here (2) in element {None}:MyObject, expecting [$]:

I can't find anything in the XML Schema documentation (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/) or in either SOAP version (http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/) which indicates that extending a sequence with new elements for new properties should be allowed.

I used XSV at http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv, and uploaded the data in the following wrapper:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<wrapper xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="#mySchema">
    <xs:schema id="mySchema" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
        <xs:element name="wrapper">
            <xs:complexType>
                <xs:sequence>
                    <xs:any/>
                    <xs:element name="MyObject" type="MyObject"/>
                </xs:sequence>
            </xs:complexType>
        </xs:element>
        <!-- BEFORE -->
        <xs:complexType name="MyObject">
            <xs:sequence>
                <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="Name" nillable="true" type="xs:string"/>
            </xs:sequence>
        </xs:complexType>
    </xs:schema>
    <MyObject>
        <Name>Primus Secundus</Name>
        <MyNewProperty>Addita notitia</MyNewProperty>
    </MyObject>
</wrapper>

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This is going to be the repository for those products of my mind that have no other place.
If you love something do you have to let it go?
What happens when you find the perfect someone for you? Do you find out that you need to let that person go because it's the right thing or do you chase after them and make the best of your lives together even though there are so many obstacles in your way?
Around and around, we go.
After graduating, Jonathan felt like a swan, glided casually atop the water. Then someone pulled the plug and he found himself spiralling down the holes. That's until he meets Thomas, a kindred spirit which may be able to help him. But will Jonathan accept?
England 1963. Eighteen year old Keith has moved, with his parents, from a house in the suburbs of London to one in a village. It is located on the outskirts of the city, but in many ways it could be in the heart of the country. Keith is not looking forward to the prospect.
After a close friend of Mark's clues him in on the secret of underground vampire clubs in the city of Chicago, he finds himself invited into a world of late night parties and reckless abandon. But, despite being surrounded by creatures that feast on human blood to survive...it is the insatiable desire for the love of Mark's number one 'party boy' that frightens him most.
A short story, a try-out if you must.
The lens of the camera is shallow. It sees colour and shape. It gives the illusion of motion in two dimensions. It draws the light from the dark. In that space between lens and subject, between picture and reality, lies solitude.
Jonah lived in that solitude, content within its embrace.
Two fourteen year old wrestlers find themselves wrestling with more than one problem.
Perhaps you can help solve one for them?
I do not think it is essential to read that story before reading this tale as I believe there is sufficient 'back story' here to enable this one to stand alone, but feel free to do so.
The story of a lonely young man. He has no family left but hopefully can find love.
Absence makes the body grow fonder.


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Small town, Drammen, Viken (Norway), elevation 5 m
Detailed weather forecast for the next 9 days
Detailed hour-by-hour forecast.
Precip. prob.
Wind(gust) m/s
Pressure hPa
Cloud cover %
Fog %
Low %
Middle %
High %
< 2% 0 m/s from north east with gusts at 1 m/s0 (1)
1023 86 -6° 67 0 0 0 67
< 2% 1 m/s from east with gusts at 1 m/s1 (1)
< 2% 1 m/s from north west with gusts at 1 m/s1 (1)
< 2% 1 m/s from north with gusts at 2 m/s1 (2)
1023 85 -1° 9 0 0 0 9
1024 83 -3° 67 0 0 14 65
1025 80 0° 67 0 0 0 67
Monday 24 January
< 2% 2 m/s from west with gusts at 3 m/s2 (3)
1019 82 -4° 100 0 0 0 100
5% 1 m/s from north east with gusts at 2 m/s1 (2)
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5% 2 m/s from west2
10% 1 m/s from south west1
10% 1 m/s from west1
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1013 91 0° 100 0 3 12 99
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SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
/* =============================================
Author:		Jerome Pion
Create date: 02/27/2019
Description:	Replaces tokens in pattern with values

SELECT LoggerBase.Layout_ReplaceTokens ('Hello, World', '%d %dbname [%message]', 'MyLogger', 'INFO', 'ABC-123', 'MyServer', 'MyDatabase', 1234, %date)
=============================================*/
CREATE FUNCTION LoggerBase.Layout_ReplaceTokens
(
	 @Message VARCHAR(MAX)
	,@ConversionPattern VARCHAR(MAX)
	,@LoggerName   VARCHAR(500)
	,@LogLevelName VARCHAR(500)
	,@CorrelationId VARCHAR(20) = NULL
	,@ServerName SYSNAME
	,@DatabaseName SYSNAME
	,@SessionID INT
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(MAX)
AS
BEGIN
	--DECLARE @FormattedMessage VARCHAR(MAX)

	-- Add the T-SQL statements to compute the return value here
	SELECT @ConversionPattern = REPLACE(@ConversionPattern, Token, COALESCE(TokenCurrentValue,''))
	FROM LoggerBase.Layout_GetTokens(@LoggerName, @LogLevelName, @Message, @CorrelationId, @DatabaseName, @ServerName, @SessionId)

	-- Return the result of the function
	RETURN @ConversionPattern

END
GO

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Q: Rails Collection_Select with formatted output I have a select box that I want to populate with all 'Users' in the system. However I wish the 'name' for the current user to display as 'Myself'.
I have this so far.
f.collection_select(:author, User.all, :id, :name)

Which gives me:
<select id="product_author" name="product[author]">
    <option value="1">Adam</option>
    <option value="2">David</option>
    <option value="3">Gary</option>
    <option value="4">Tom</option>
</select>

What I hope to achieve where, in this example, the current user is Gary (3):
<select id="product_author" name="product[author]">
    <option value="1">Adam</option>
    <option value="2">David</option>
    <option value="3">Myself</option>
    <option value="4">Tom</option>
</select>

I've attempted trying to apply a map to the User.all statement like so:
User.all.map {|a| [((a.name==current_user.name)? 'Myself' : a.name),a.id]}

But end up getting the following error:
undefined method `name' for ["Adam", 1]:Array

A: I Think you need to change like this
 User.all.map {|a| [(a.name == current_user.name ? 'Myself' : a.name),a.id]}

A: You can use a select tag:
f.select("author", User.all.map {|a| [((a.name==current_user.name)? 'Myself' : a.name),a.id]} , { include_blank: true })
Or use options_for_select:
f.collection_select(:author, options_for_select(User.all.map {|a| [((a.name==current_user.name)? 'Myself' : a.name),a.id]}))
Further reading here.


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WWE '12 revealed
WWE Smackdown vs. Raw is dead. Finally. Not because I'm fundamentally opposed to the series or anything, I'm just tired of typing the absurdly long titles like "WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2010 Featuring ECW It's Your World Now While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood." If your game needs a semicolon on the box art, it's too long.
Along with long overdue rebranding, it looks like the game mechanics are getting some significant tweaks, but will they be enough to freshen up the stale gameplay? Perhaps more concerning, will they overreach and change way too much? IGN (unfortunately) has the full preview, I figured I'd offer my thoughts on the little we know so far:
There's a new animation system, new blending methods, something called "Predator Technology"
Translation: "Blast Processing." Marketing word salad at its finest.
When John Cena's suplexing an opponent, a third Superstar can punch Cena and break up the move. You can do that for any move -- even Finishers
If you thought winning a triple threat match was impossible before! This is going to get old really quick, especially if you're one of the misguided souls that plays WWE games online.
When you're slammed to the mat at the beginning of a bout, you're going to sell the move and get up at the same time so that the match keeps a fast-paced feel.
I hope this was just worded poorly and it doesn't mean you instantly get up from any move that's done to you. That's how Smackdown 1 played 12 years ago... and it was terrible.
Cena immediately started his 5-Knuckle Shuffle routine on the downed man, and as Cena was coming down, Randy Orton launched himself from the apron to land a splash.
You know how Randy Orton loves his slingshot splashes!
it looked like a spot from ECW of old.
This quote doesn't have anything to do with the game, I just wanted to make fun of IGN's laughably bad writing.
People don't warp to the center of the ring for a 5-Knuckle Shuffle and similar moves anymore; the move happens where it happens.
Good, as long as the animations are as improved as they say. The canned animations are ancient game design, but they did allow the player to see the move performed as intended. As they've stripped these out of recent games, it's given us awkward animations in return. The canned Lionsault always looked better than the springboard moonsault you could do yourself.
The game, according to THQ, has been taken apart and put back together
We're still dealing with a foundation that's almost 12 years old. Maybe instead of taking it apart and putting it back together, they should just build something new?
The days of analog stick grapples are over. Now, everything's going back to the face buttons of your favorite controller.
Doesn't bother me either way, I didn't mind analog grapples though.
There are no strong and weak grapples -- the moves you're pulling off are dependent on how worn down the opponent is.
This is either going to be really good or so bad it ruins the entire game. On one hand, it sounds kinda like Fire Pro, where your success of landing a strong grapple depended primarily on your opponent's damage and that's probably the best grapple system in any wrestling game to date. However, Fire Pro allows you to at least attempt strong grapple moves at any point, you can even try your finisher as the first move of the match. It also allows you to do weak moves when your opponent is fairly worn down, which doesn't sound like an option the way it's described here. I have a bad feeling your typical match could be: "bodyslam, bodyslam, bodyslam, suplex, suplex, suplex, powerbomb, powerbomb, powerbomb, finisher, pin, done."
there's limb targeting in WWE '12... If you're up against a lightning quick high flier, you can work the legs so the opponent can't get around as quickly and can't zip up the turnbuckles. Work the head, and the opponent is going to be a groggy mess.
Sounds good. Not exactly a new idea, but it's never really been properly implemented before. Hopefully they pull it off here.
All this plays into how easy it'll be to get an opponent to tap in the new "Breaking Point" submission system where players tap buttons in a tug of war mini-game.
Just because you slap a fancy name on it, it doesn't make it new. Again, perhaps IGN's poor writing is coming into play here, but this sounds like button mashing, which has been standard for submission holds in wrestling games for over a decade. Smackdown has moved away from it in recent games, but I'm pretty sure I was button mashing on submission holds on NES wrestling games.
As of now, WWE '12 features a big meter with a name on it at the bottom of the screen showing how close you are to building a Signature or Finisher
Ugh, hopefully this is just for an early build of the game. Health meters, stamina bars, even "halos" need to go. We're in the HD era and this isn't a fighting game, we don't need giant bars on the top of the screen. Damage should be conveyed by a slow-moving limp or a dangling, weakened arm. Even someone clutching their head, we had this stuff in WCW/nWo World Tour and that was what, fourteen years ago? With N64's ugly graphics? C'mon.
WWE '12 also adds Dynamic Comebacks... If you reach a certain amount of damage, you'll be able to have a shot to use this one-time combo. Pull it off, and you get two Finishers.
Not ecstatic about stored finishers coming back, I like the idea of making a big comeback and getting to pull off your finisher out of nowhere though. You shouldn't only be able to do your big move when you're firmly in control, so perhaps this is the happy medium.
The AI learns this time around. If you spam run attacks like I do (I'm infamous on the Internet for my floatover DDT), the computer opponent is supposed to recognize that and be ready to counter it.
IGN's Greg Miller: admitted fun-hating asshole. As for the AI, I'll believe it when I see some gameplay videos. Smackdown's AI has been embarrassing for two console generations now, I really hope they've made significant improvements. Though honestly, they need more than just "significant."
Unless your opponent is really hurting, expect to get just one ground grapple in.
Eases some concerns from earlier, but what about top rope moves? Those have always been tricky to pull off in previous games.
Animations change based on weight classes
Good... although hopefully that doesn't lead to ridiculousness like Rey Mysterio not being able to punch Matt Hardy in SvR 2006.
There are new "attach points" for moves so that hands and legs lock to certain points in certain moves and don't clip through bodies.
Good... although sad it's 2011 and that's considered a new feature.
King and Cole are confirmed
Hopefully with completely reworked commentary.
Some promising things in there and it's certainly early, but it sounds like there's a lot of work to do. The franchise has needed some serious changes for years now, I've never been particularly fond of it (with SD2, HCTP, SvR2006 and SvR2010 standing out as exceptions), but I'm not sure if they're actually addressing the problems. There's quite a difference between fixing something that's not working and just dumbing it down, and I'm seeing a lot of dumbing down here. Button mashing, the game automatically deciding what kind of grapple you do, and stamina bars, don't exactly sound like groundbreaking ideas. This is stuff Smackdown 1 did... in 2000.
Again, this is just one preview from one (bad) gaming website, so a lot of stuff could've been lost in translation. I'm sure a lot of clarifications and new information will pour out in the coming months that will get me more excited for the game. As always, I'm interested, but it remains to be seen if the game is going to be the revolution that this license desperately needs.
Tags: video games, WWE
I much prefer the skill-based Fire Pro (and, to some extent, No Mercy) gameplay as opposed to the button-mashing SvR series. SvR is a broken mess, and while I hope THQ has realized this and is trying to fix the problems that have plagued the decade-old engine, I am not trusting to hope. I really think this is just THQ slapping a new coat of paint over a horrible pile of crap -- and you can paint crap to make it look like gold, but in the end, it's still crap.
I'm with you in thinking that THQ needs to just build an entirely new engine. Well, that, or hire the company formerly known as AKI Games, Syn Sophia, to make a WWE game. Or, better yet, give the WWE license to Spike and let them make a WWE Fire Pro.
Any one of those options would be better than another SvR/SmackDown rehash.
dskalba May 31, 2011 at 6:51 PM
Grrrr... IGN always makes me angry.
The IWC's love of Fire Pro baffles me.
I found the game frustrating and boring, even when playing with six people locally. "Deep"? I guess. Boring? Absolutely.
No Mercy was far superior. No clue why THQ hasn't been able to replicate the grappling system (outside, arguably, HCTP).
Razor June 1, 2011 at 10:40 PM
Different strokes and all, but Fire Pro has always been very exciting for me and I don't go as "deep" as many do with it. I've never had more fun with a wrestling game than 8-man elimination matches and seeing how many people I can "CRITICAL!" with Vader.
It's one of the few wrestling games that's legitimately challenging without being cheap. There's a steep learning curve, but once you get there, it's a blast.
Personally, I've always felt the wrestling game community (I don't think its the same community as the IWC) has overrated No Mercy. It was great at the time, but far from perfect and has aged poorly. I'd love to see it get an HD polish, roster update and released as an XBL Arcade game though.
The gameplay was solid and it irritates me how other titles have ignored its vast customization options, but it's only as loved as it is because most wrestling games since have sucked.
Cloudy June 5, 2011 at 4:38 AM
WCW/nWo Revenge > No Mercy.
WWE Raw thoughts - May 30, 2011
Macho Madness
WWE Over the Limit 2011 review
Fair to Flair Show 4 - OOOOH YEEAAAH!!
WWE Over the Limit 2011 Predictions
"Macho Man" Randy Savage dead at 58
WWE Raw thoughts - May 9, 2011
Smackdown Blackout
WWE Extreme Rules 2011 Review
WWE Extreme Rules 2011 Predictions
WWE Smackdown thoughts - April 29, 2011
President Obama enters WHC Dinner to "Real American"


Ends this quarter and as usual, the big technology companies have a date with Wall Street. Apple today announced financial results for its third fiscal quarter 2016, ended June 25, 2016. The figures are here and are nothing good, especially because of the drop in iPhone sales, it has even been said that the worst quarter in the history of Apple device.
The company recorded quarterly sales of 42,400 million dollars and a quarterly net profit of 7,800 million, equivalent to $ 1.42 per share. When comparing these figures, we can see a 15% drop over the same period last year, where sales were 49,600 million and a net profit of 10.700 billion or $ 1.85 per share. Overall, the figures for this quarter are related to low sales in virtually all its products.
The iPhone had a challenging quarter for the second time since 15 % fewer units were sold compared to the same period last year, remaining at 40.4 million units in the quarter. With mobile, Apple earned 23 % less income compared to last year.
Of course, again factors such as the high dollar and cooling of the Chinese economy influenced phone sales in this market, which is one of the largest in the world for mobile telephony. Therefore, during the call of financial results, Tim Cook said that China will continue betting strong and will continue to invest in the Asian country, which represents a tremendous growth opportunity for the company.
But this was not the only device that reported a drop in sales. This quarter Apple sold 10 million iPads ( 9% less than the same quarter last year ), but the 9.7-inch iPad Pro gave a small boost to the category of tablets of the company, helping revenue this product will increase by 7%.
Similarly, in this quarter Apple sold 4.2 million Macs, up 11 % in units when compared to figures from Q3 2015, and 13% less in revenue. This decline is related to the lack of new products in the category of computers because this year the company has not made any release.
As for the category of " Other Products" where are the Apple Watch, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Beats, iPod and accessories, the company reported a 16% drop compared to the same quarter last year.
Pleasantly surprised Services pushing the company to exceed the expectations of Wall Street. According to the Cupertino firm, services revenue grew 19%, driven by the App Store, which reached a record high, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud, which are helping the company to receive significant revenue.
"Our services business grew 19 percent year over the same period last year, and sales of the App Store have achieved their record high, while our customer base continued to rise and reached a record high threshold," said Luca Maestri, Apple's CFO. Therefore, it is noteworthy that only this quarter Apple reported 6 billion in services revenue.
Although you can say that this was not a good quarter for sales of Apple products, the company beat Wall Street expectations. I expected to see a worse scenario, where the profit per share will stand at $ 1.39, and not at $ 1.42, as happened . Therefore, Apple benefited in the bag, which presents an increase of 5 % in after-hours trading.
IPad sales also propelled the Cupertino firm in the bag, a different picture as expected when in fact the 9.7-inch iPad Pro helped revenue rose 7 %.
Pokémon Go and augmented reality. One of the journalists asked Tim Cook on the phenomenon of Pokémon Go and the future of augmented reality, to which Cook responded: " Augmented reality can be huge. We have been and will continue to invest heavily in this (…) We believe there are great things for customers and a great business opportunity. The first is sure to make products that work well with products from other developers like Pokémon, is why you see so many iPhones chasing Pokémons ".
Upon closing of the books and movies services in China. Faced with this question, Tim Cook said the financial impact of this was small, less than $ 1 million in the months that were available, and stated that Apple is working with Chinese government agencies on the issue.
Rates on iPhone update. Tim Cook said the update cycle for 6s closely resembled the 5s but reached many significant improvements that sped up the process of renewal.