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Vaccine mandate being used to gut America's weapons research assets by firing top scientists at Los Alamos
The diabolical nature of the Biden regime puts America and Americans more at risk every day as these lunatics continue to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to weaken our country in the face of our enemies, such is their hatred for our liberties.
Nuclear weapons may be one of those things we, as members of the human race, may wish we could un-invent, but they are here now, have been for decades, and they are now a vital part of our national security. But the current regime is hell-bent on destroying even this advantage we hold over our two primary competitors — Russia and China — which have nuclear weapons inventories of their own.
According to multiple reports, literally dozens of employees at the Los Alamos nuclear weapons research and development lab in New Mexico face termination after refusing to get a COVID vaccine, and among those at risk of being fired include some of our country's top nuclear scientists.
The deadline for all federal workers and federal contractors at the lab to get the vaccine has come and gone and it's not clear at this point if any of the highly skilled researchers have actually been terminated, but clearly that is a consideration and if we lose those personnel, there isn't any way to rapidly replace the skill set and the decades of knowledge they collectively obtain.
To that point, 114 employees filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction against the vaccine mandate, which The Hill reported last week, "Workers at the New Mexico laboratory, which created the atomic bomb, filed a lawsuit claiming that exemptions to the mandate have been denied without proper justification."
However, a state judge has already struck down the suit, KRQE13 reported:
On Friday, Judge Jason Lidyard denied the request of the 114 employees asking for the vaccine mandate at LANL to be blocked. Jonathan Diener is an attorney representing some of the plaintiffs, who argued to the judge that LANL should be considered a government entity.
"To me, it's perfectly clear that employment is a benefit that the government is giving these people at LANL and they're taking it away because they're exercising their constitutional right to decide what goes in their body," said Diener.
According to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, workers had until Oct. 15 to be vaccinated. "Employees granted religious exemptions will go on vacation or unpaid leave until pandemic conditions improve. Judge Lidyard said that was an 'ok' religious accommodation," the local outlet reported.
But the plaintiffs' attorney disagreed.
"That was not a real accommodation and I'm shocked that the judge accepted that as a legitimate accommodation for those people," said Diener.
In a statement, officials from Triad National Security LLC, the federal contractor that runs the lab, said, "Triad values the contributions of all employees, and our decision to mandate the vaccine was made only after considerable thought.
"The safety and health of our employees remains our top priority as we fulfill our national security mission, and as a result, our vaccine mandate remains in effect. We appreciate the thorough review and consideration provided by the court on the important issues presented at the hearing," the statement continued.
The company said that 96 percent of employees at the lab were vaccinated, but clearly, some of the most important and talented employees — nuclear scientists — were not.
"The plaintiffs include scientists, nuclear engineers, project managers, research technicians and others who have some of the highest security clearances in the nation for the work they do," The Associated Press reported.
"Some employees have estimated the lab could lose anywhere from 4% to 10% of the workforce because of the mandate," the newswire service continued.
This pandemic has been so politicized — by Democrats seeking to expand and consolidate unconstitutional powers — it almost has to have been intentional.
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German, 27, still needs to serve the final 63 games of his 81-game suspension, which stems from an alleged domestic violence incident last September involving his then-girlfriend.He had been one of New York's best young pitchers before his violation of league rules, earning a team-high 18 wins to go with a 4.03 ERA last year. But missing a year and a half due to the combination of his suspension and the COVID-19 pandemic could bump him from the Yankees' long-term rotation plans. He can become a free agent after the 2023 season. Suspended Yankees right-hander Domingo German has walked back a cryptic post to his Instagram account Friday night that suggested he would retire.German raised confusion when he wrote: "If I decide not to come back, I will be very proud of my 11-year professional career. God bless everyone who has supported me." Manager Aaron Boone said he was unsure what German meant and confused by the situation. In an Instagram post Saturday afternoon, German clarified he did not intend to step away from baseball and apologized for insinuating otherwise. He is suspended under MLB's domestic violence policy and will not return in the abridged 2020 campaign."To my teammates, the Yankees organization, and our fans, I am very sorry for the unsettling post last night," German wrote. "This past year has been very tough for my family and myself, for which I take full responsibility."Not being with my teammates while they get ready for the season, knowing I have let them down, has taken a toll on me and last night I let my emotions get the best of me."Domingo German's retirement lasted approximately 22 hours, according to his Instagram. pic.twitter.com/1CrAqfQr89— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 18, 2020MORE: Blue Jays must scramble after Canada bans MLB games read more
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HEAVILY FAVORED PARADISE WOODS CRUISES TO 10 ½ LENGTH WIN IN GRADE II, $200,000 SANTA MARGARITA STAKES AS SHIRREFFS & SMITH TEAM FOR 1 1/8 MILE TALLY IN 1:51.95ARCADIA, Calif. (April 27, 2019)–Winless in seven starts dating back to November, 2017, classy Paradise Woods annihilated six other distaffers in taking Saturday's Grade II, $200,000 Santa Margarita Stakes at Santa Anita by 10 ½ lengths under Mike Smith. Owned by Steven Sarkowsky and Pam and Martin Wygod, Paradise Woods, in her third start for trainer John Shirreffs, got a mile and one eighth geared down in 1:51.95.Breaking from the far outside, she laid a close second to Just a Smidge around the Club House turn and with Smith conscious of maintaining a one lane buffer between the two, Paradise Woods was in hand while one length off the pacesetter with three furlongs to go and in the blink of an eye, enjoyed what appeared to be a five length advantage at the three sixteenths pole."I wanted to engage her against Just a Smidge but when you engage horses they are taught to fight," said Smith, who was aboard for the first time today. "They will get after each other, so the pace would have been quicker, I might be losing a little bit of ground, but I got her to do it relaxed. If I can get them to relax, I'd rather do that. Once I came into the far turn and engaged her, you saw what she did, she took off and she might have done that earlier."Most recently a much improved third in the Grade I Beholder Mile, Paradise Woods, whose last win came in the Grade I Zenyatta Stakes here on Sept. 30, 2017, was off at 3-5 and paid $3.20, $2.20 and $2.10.Bred in Kentucky by Steven Sarkowsky, Paradise Woods, a 5-year-old mare by Union Rags out of the Forest Wildcat mare Wild Forest, registered her third graded stakes victory today, as her first came in her second career start, the Grade I Santa Anita Oaks, in April, 2017.With the winner's share of $120,000, she now has earnings of $945,890 from an overall mark of 14-4-2-3."When we first got her, she was very anxious," said Shirreffs. "When she gets mad, she stays mad for a long time, so we spent a long time focused on ways to keep her from getting anxious…She has tremendous ability and we need repeatable performances and we need her to develop a style. As you saw today, she was sitting there relaxed, she was just off that filly (Just a Smidge), but she wasn't pulling."This is very gratifying because Marty Wygod really wanted to campaign her this year and there was a lot of criticism about not breeding her."In a separate race for the minors, German-bred La Force ran on for second money, finishing 5 ¼ lengths in front of longshot Exuberance. Off at 5-2 with Drayden Van Dyke, La Force paid $2.80 and $2.60.The biggest price in the field at 55-1, Exuberance, who bested Just a Smidge by a half length, paid $6.40 to show with Norberto Arroyo, Jr. up.Fractions on the race were 23.37, 47.35, 1:11.59 and 1:38.30. read more
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Jeffrey Allen Selected for 2018 Tennessee Bar Association Leadership Law Program
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Bradley is pleased to announce that Jeffrey L. Allen, an associate in the firm's Nashville office, has been selected for the 2018 Leadership Law program of the Tennessee Bar Association (TBA).
"The firm congratulates Jeff on his selection to next year's Tennessee Bar Association Leadership in Law class," said Bradley's Nashville Office Managing Partner Lela Hollabaugh. "We are proud of Jeff's successes as an attorney and his commitment to growing in a leadership role in our profession."
Now in its 15th year, the TBA Leadership Law program educates participants about leadership in the legal profession, issues in the courts, policymaking in state government and the importance of community service. Mr. Allen is among 30 attorneys from across the state who will participate in the six-month program.
A member of Bradley's Litigation Practice Group, Mr. Allen focuses his practice on entertainment and intellectual property litigation, as well as entertainment transactional matters. He has handled cases involving personal management and songwriting contract disputes, complex royalty disputes, copyright termination, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and right of publicity. Additionally, he has negotiated and drafted personal management agreements, talent agreements, copyright transfer and assignment agreements, domestic and foreign licensing agreements, master recording agreements, production agreements, distribution agreements, and joint venture record label and publishing company agreements for entertainment industry clients. He has also served as legal counsel on all stages of an independent film production and frequently works with clients in the television and sports industries.
Mr. Allen received his J.D. (cum laude) from the University of Florida Levin College of Law and his Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) from Vanderbilt University. He is the Co-Chair of the Nashville Bar Association's Entertainment, Sports & Media Law Committee and the Immediate Past Chair of the Tennessee Bar Association's Entertainment and Sports Law Section.
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The Volkstheater Frankfurt – Liesel Christ was founded in 1971 in Frankfurt by . In addition to dialectal plays in  and classical entertainment plays, it also performed adaptations of classical dramas, contemporary plays and rediscoveries of older stage literature.

History
Under the direction of its founder and , the theatre established itself as an important cultural institution in Hessen. Twenty productions alone were recorded for television, including  and Rendezvous im Palmengarten (by ), The Imaginary Invalid (by Molière, with Heinz Schenk), Die fünf Frankfurter (by Carl Rössler, the last appearance of Liesel Christ) and Der alte  (by Carl Malß, the inventor of the Jumping jack).

 wrote the Hessian "folk musical"  for Liesel Christ in 1971 and thus gave this small dialect stage its first great success.

Since the death of its founder in 1996, it has been under the direction of Gisela Dahlem-Christ (artistic director). Until 2007, Wolfgang Kaus was the artistic director. Since 2010, the "Tatort" director Sylvia Hoffman was the artistic director of the theatre.

Five to six plays were staged annually. About 80,000 visitors came to the approximately 250 performances. In 2011, the Volkstheater celebrated its 40th anniversary. By then, a good 10,000 performances had been staged and over 3.5 million visitors had come to the Volkstheater.

Since the 1970s, the Volkstheater has played in the Cantatesaal next to the Goethe House in . In summer, open-air plays were held in the courtyard of the Dominican Monastery from 1975 to 2007.  Until the , numerous plays were also performed outdoors in the  in front of the Frankfurt Cathedral, for example the Urfaust and Der hessische Jedermann. In addition, there were numerous guest performances in Hesse as well as several guest performance tours to Israel.

For the 2009/2010 season, it was planned to give  the artistic direction of the Volkstheater. However, he cancelled because "after careful examination of the economic situation of the theatre and its organisational structure" it turned out "that both are ailing." As a result, Quast founded the Fliegende Volksbühne Frankfurt.

At a press conference on 20 April 2012, it was announced that the Volkstheater would close at the end of the 2012/13 season, as the theatre building would be demolished and a move with new facilities would not be financially viable. The last curtain with the play La Cage aux Folles fell on 25 May 2013.

On 24 February 2013, 17 employees of the Volkstheater Frankfurt founded the Volkstheater Hessen association in the Cantatesaal in order to continue the aims and purpose of the Frankfurt Volkstheater even without a permanent venue and subsidies. The new association campaigned for the preservation of the Cantate Hall and collected signatures to this end.

In 2013, the city of Frankfurt decided to restore the Cantatesaal as part of the construction of the Deutsches Romantik-Museum. Since the beginning of 2020, it has served as the venue for the Fliegenden Volksbühne.

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A new Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign has been launched to create a teaching space for aspiring plant-based chefs to learn all the tricks of the trade from seasoned professionals and industry leaders. The Plant Academy is being set up by Lauren Lovatt and David Bez.
Lovatt has previous form as head chef at the Asparagasm vegan restaurant in the Cotswolds for a couple of years, then trained as a chef in the U.S. and returned to Europe to become an instructor at the PlantLab school in Barcelona, Spain.
Bez went from salad blogger to international author before opening Covent Garden's Pride Kitchen, serving plant-based lunches to the people of London.
The Academy will be part of a plant-based cafe and deli called the Plant Hub they hope to open in Mare Street in East London soon, which will also serve as a shared space, community incubator and research center.
The Kickstarter has been launched to fund the purchase of equipment for the Academy, such as fridges and freezers, culinary workstations, chopping boards and the sharp implements to do the chopping.
It's expected that the culinary school will be able to accommodate up to 16 would-be chefs at any one time.
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Pledge levels start at just £15 (about US$19) for a tour of the Academy and a first look at the Plant Hub during its soft launch next month. Also on offer is a food-focused masterclass for £135 or more, a special Veganuary series with tips and recipes throughout January 2019 for £240 or more, and various workshops and courses proper.
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This presentation details how to make use of Zephyr networking to utilize multiple interfaces (Ethernet and 802.15.4) and form a mesh network and control leaf nodes in the network. An 802.15.4 interface forms an RPL mesh network and Ethernet interface provides a web interface that shows and controls the mesh network leaf nodes. The web interface also displays the topology of the mesh network. Technologies involved here are Ethernet and 802.15.4, 6lowpan, IPv4/6, RPL, TCP, UDP, HTTP, Websocket and CoAP.
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Jane Davies is a Professor in Paediatric Respirology & Experimental Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute and an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor Davies graduated MB ChB from the University of Dundee Medical School in 1987 and undertook clinical training in Paediatrics in London. A post at the Royal Brompton Hospital led to an interest in cystic fibrosis (CF), particularly host-pathogen interactions and her MD, under the supervision of Andy Bush and Eric Alton, focussed on the pathogenesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the lung. Her clinical training was subsequently completed at Great Ormond Street Hospital in the departments of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases/ Immunology. She returned to the NHLI in 1999, initially as Senior Lecturer, promoted to Reader in 2009 and Professor in 2013. She is based in the Dept of Gene Therapy, led by Professor Eric Alton, with whom she collaborates closely.
Professor Davies remains engaged in translational research in the field of CF. She is the clinical lead and Strategy Group member of the UK CF Gene Therapy Consortium; this Consortium was established in 2002 from 3 groups in the UK with CF gene therapy clinical trials experience (Imperial College/ Royal Brompton Hospital, Oxford University and Edinburgh University). The aim is to develop clinically relevant CFTR gene therapy. On the consortium trials she conducts the bronchoscopic assays and leads on the electrophysiological measurements (potential difference) both in the nose and lower airway.She is also heavily involved in clinical trial design and the validation of outcome measures, leading the Core Lung Clearance Index facility for the European CF Society Clinical Trials Network. She works closely with Prof Diana Bilton, the Adult CF clinical lead, on a number of commercially-sponsored clinical trials in CF, largely involving novel small-molecules directed at CFTR function.
She has other streams of research focussed on CF disease pathogenesis; together with Professor Andrew Bush, she has been engaged for several years in a programme of opportunistic bronchoscopic research, using bronchoalveolar lavage and endobronchial biopsies to define inflammatory and remodelling changes at various stages of childhood airways disease; she is currently supervising her 3rd post-graduate student in this area. As part of an interest in non-invasive measurements of airway disease, she has internal collaborations on projects including cyanogenesis in pseudomonas, bronchial blood flow measurements and pathogen-derived volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath. The Chronic Suppurative Lung Disease (CSLD) Consortium of the Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, of which she is a member, has a strong emphasis on microbiology, in particular novel molecular detection tools.
She has recently become involved with the Medicines for Children Research Network, sits on their Respiratory and CF Clinical Studies Group and is their 'Research Champion' for the Royal Brompton site. She supervises an MCRN-funded research nurse who works on Network-adopted trials.
Together with Professor Alton & Dr Nick Simmonds, she has a strong interest in the use of nasal potential difference in the diagnosis of atypical CF and runs a clinic which accepts referrals from throughout the UK. She has trained colleagues from many other centres in this technique and is part of the European Diagnostic Network and the European Committee for Standardisation of Outcome Measures.
Until its recent closure, Professor Davies was an expert member of the Royal Brompton, Harefield and NHLI Research Ethics Committee. She has co-edited 3 textbooks and contributed chapters to many others. She teaches regularly, both on Imperial College courses and externally. She has delivered Plenary Lectures at European Cystic Fibrosis Conferences and is a regular invited speaker at respiratory and paediatric meetings, both national and international.


This dry processed (natural) coffee comes to us from producer Danilo Salazar Arias, owner of Finca San Cristobal del Llano. This coffee was sourced by Tony, our Head Roaster, on a trip to Costa Rica earlier this year. While visiting, he also purchased a delicious honey processed coffee from the farm (see "Microlot"). Expect a lot of fruit from this outstanding coffee. We taste mango sweetness, creamy papaya and a soft, sangria-like body.
Finca San Cristobal del Llano is owned by Danilo Salazar Arias, a producer with over 50 years of coffee cultivating experience. The farm sits on 42 acres and is located in the microregion of Llano Bonito, Naranjo. In addition to coffee, San Cristobal also produces bananas, plantains, and peaches. Danilo is a member of Cafe de Altura de San Ramon, an organization founded in 2004 to process coffee throughout Costa Rica. The association works hard to provide its more than 500 producers with the knowledge and resources they need to sell their coffee for the premiums it deserves.


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using MessagePack.Resolvers;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using static System.Console;

namespace MinChain
{
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    public static class Logging
    {
        public static ILoggerFactory Factory { get; } = new LoggerFactory();
        public static ILogger Logger<T>() => Factory.CreateLogger<T>();
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    {
        static readonly Dictionary<string, Action<string[]>> commands =
            new Dictionary<string, Action<string[]>>
            {
                { "genkey", KeyGenerator.Exec },
                { "config", Configurator.Exec },
                { "genesis", Genesis.Exec },
                { "run", Runner.Run },
            };

        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Logging.Factory.AddConsole(LogLevel.Debug);

            JsonConvert.DefaultSettings = () => new JsonSerializerSettings
            {
                Converters = new List<JsonConverter>
                {
                    new IPEndPointConverter()
                }
            };

            CompositeResolver.RegisterAndSetAsDefault(
                ByteString.ByteStringResolver.Instance,
                BuiltinResolver.Instance,
                DynamicEnumResolver.Instance,
                DynamicGenericResolver.Instance,
                DynamicObjectResolver.Instance);

            if (args.Length == 0)
            {
                WriteLine("No command provided.");
                goto ListCommands;
            }

            Action<string[]> func;
            var cmd = (args[0] ?? string.Empty).ToLower();
            if (!commands.TryGetValue(cmd, out func))
            {
                WriteLine($"Command '{cmd}' not found.");
                goto ListCommands;
            }

            func(args.Skip(1).ToArray());
            return;

        ListCommands:
            WriteLine("List of commands are:");
            commands.Keys.ToList().ForEach(name => WriteLine($"\t{name}"));
        }
    }
}


All of them thought they were just doing their job, fulfilling their duty, making the Company profitable. And no one took a damned bit of responsibility. It wasn't me, it was the Company, they said.
The world is dominated by two companies. N-Corp has a monopoly over America, South America, Australia and Africa while Europe, Russia, China and India bear the colors of B & S, short for Briggs & Stratton. These two companies are the only ones in the world – and they don't only dominate all economic sectors, but also the capital market, education systems, media, police and military services, religion, the governments. To put it in a nutshell, N-Corp and B&S rule the world and are consequently in the driver's seat for all imaginable areas of life of each and every person in their territories.
With mandatory high-tech implants N-Corp keeps all citizens focused on an endless cycle of work and consumption, unprofitables are banished to cruel work camps. But some people have been able to escape the slavery. They are members of the Protectorate, a secret order dating back to the American Revolution, and they have a huge goal: the restoration of America's democratic freedom.
To achieve this goal, they have to infiltrate the upper management levels of N-Corp. May Fields, the CEO's daughter, belongs to the management. She is head of N-Corp's marketing team and you should think that she has almost everything anyone could want. Nevertheless, there is one crucial thing that will always keep her dissatisfied – she doesn't have the freedom to be herself.
When she is kidnapped by the Protectorate, May suddenly has to face the truth about the Company and what N-Corp's greed and lies have done to the most basic human rights. Will she join the battle and fight for her own and all other people's freedom or will she duck her head, close her eyes and return to her safe and wealthy, but passionless life?
J. Gabriel Gates' nightmarish vision of one company ruling and manipulating entire countries and peoples fascinated and disgusted me at the same time. Unlike other dystopian authors, Gates didn't need a devastating war or natural catastrophe to establish his future society with mankind under the heels of two repressive companies.
Although the author's depiction of the future might be exaggerated in many parts (hey, it's fiction and not a reliable forecast), I had a lot of moments when I wondered if this might really ever happen. Who doesn't know about corporate consolidations, privatized government agencies or multi-billion dollar bailouts for corporate giants as well as bankrupt governments? And who can imagine where all these developments are taking us?
Even though the setting of the novel really intrigued me, it took me some time to get into the story. The main character, May, was very difficult for me to identify with – I didn't buy a lot of her actions and reactions. She seemed to be without a real focus, without a conviction. That might have been the author's intention to portray a typical child of that society, but I wouldn't have trusted her to have her at my side in any kind of revolution, especially not as a leading character. What I also missed was a real emotional connection between the characters that would have made it easier for me to immerse myself in this dystopian story. Blood Zero Sky isn't my favorite dystopian novel in 2012 especially because of my afore-mentioned critical comments, but I absolutely liked the idea of the book and how it made me think about current political and economical developments. It's worth reading – 4/5 stars.
The review is based on a copy provided by the publisher HCI Books via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This, in no way, affected my opinion or review of the book.


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Q: Mongo JSON to Java POJO mapping I have a json object which looks something like this
"price": {
        "sale": {
          "value": 39.99,
          "label": "Now"
        },
        "regular": {
          "value": 69.5,
          "label": "Orig."
        },
        "shippingfee": 0,
        "pricetype": "Markdown",
        "pricetypeid": 7,
        "onsale": true
}

"sale" and "regular" are keywords (unique) are 2 of the many price-types available, and the labels
"Orig" and "Now" are keywords (unique)  are 2 of the many labels available.
I am not sure the best data structure to store this price json into the POJO.
can someone please guide me through this ?

A: I guess your problem is to convert the sale and regular attributes into an uniform representation which probably could use an Enumeration for the unique values. With default mechanism of JSON serilization/deserialization, this could be difficult. I am not sure about the JSON parsing library you are using, in Jackson there is a possibility to register custom serializers and deserializers for fields (using annotations). In this case, whcy tou would do is to register a custom serializer/deserializer and handle the fields of the JSON in the way you want it. You could refer this post
Added the below in response to the comment:
A probable dtructure for the POJO could be as below:
publi class Price{

  protected List<PricePointDetails> pricePointDetails;
  protected float shippingFee;
  protected PriceTypes priceType;
  protected priceTypeId;
  protected boolean onSale;

}//class closing

public class PricePointDetails{

 protected PriceTypes priceType;
 protected float value;
 protected LabelTypes labelType;

}//class closing

public enumeration PriceTypes{

 sale,regular,markdown;

}//enumeration closing

public enumeration LabelTypes{

 Orig,Now;

}//enumeration closing

What I have added, is just one way of structuring the data, it could be done in otherways also.

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On September 5, 2012 new uniforms and books were brought to the Loc Tho Charity School. The fifth of September marks the first day of school in Vietnam, and Loc Tho had an opening day ceremony to commemorate the occasion. The children sang songs and even performed their own lion dance. Parents and teachers were on hand, and our Lead Coordinator, Hiep, arranged for brand new uniforms and books to be given to each child.
The Loc Tho Charity School is run by the nuns at the Loc Tho pagoda, west of Nha Trang. They provide free primary schooling for underprivileged youngsters in the area. This donation was entirely due to the continued support of Richard and Marjorie, their family and friends. Thank you once again for your kindness!


text:
from __future__ import unicode_literals

import collections
import logging

from mopidy import models

import spotify

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

class memoized(object):
    def __init__(self, func):
        self.func = func
        self.cache = {}

    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        # NOTE Only args, not kwargs, are part of the memoization key.
        if not isinstance(args, collections.Hashable):
            return self.func(*args, **kwargs)
        if args in self.cache:
            return self.cache[args]
        else:
            value = self.func(*args, **kwargs)
            if value is not None:
                self.cache[args] = value
            return value

@memoized
def to_artist(sp_artist):
    if not sp_artist.is_loaded:
        return

    return models.Artist(uri=sp_artist.link.uri, name=sp_artist.name)

@memoized
def to_artist_ref(sp_artist):
    if not sp_artist.is_loaded:
        return

    return models.Ref.artist(uri=sp_artist.link.uri, name=sp_artist.name)

def to_artist_refs(sp_artists):
    for sp_artist in sp_artists:
        sp_artist.load()
        ref = to_artist_ref(sp_artist)
        if ref is not None:
            yield ref

@memoized
def to_album(sp_album):
    if not sp_album.is_loaded:
        return

    if sp_album.artist is not None and sp_album.artist.is_loaded:
        artists = [to_artist(sp_album.artist)]
    else:
        artists = []

    if sp_album.year is not None and sp_album.year != 0:
        date = '%d' % sp_album.year
    else:
        date = None

    return models.Album(
        uri=sp_album.link.uri,
        name=sp_album.name,
        artists=artists,
        date=date)

@memoized
def to_album_ref(sp_album):
    if not sp_album.is_loaded:
        return

    if sp_album.artist is None or not sp_album.artist.is_loaded:
        name = sp_album.name
    else:
        name = '%s - %s' % (sp_album.artist.name, sp_album.name)

    return models.Ref.album(uri=sp_album.link.uri, name=name)

def to_album_refs(sp_albums):
    for sp_album in sp_albums:
        sp_album.load()
        ref = to_album_ref(sp_album)
        if ref is not None:
            yield ref

@memoized
def to_track(sp_track, bitrate=None):
    if not sp_track.is_loaded:
        return

    if sp_track.error != spotify.ErrorType.OK:
        logger.debug(
            'Error loading %s: %r', sp_track.link.uri, sp_track.error)
        return

    if sp_track.availability != spotify.TrackAvailability.AVAILABLE:
        return

    artists = [to_artist(sp_artist) for sp_artist in sp_track.artists]
    artists = filter(None, artists)

    album = to_album(sp_track.album)

    return models.Track(
        uri=sp_track.link.uri,
        name=sp_track.name,
        artists=artists,
        album=album,
        date=album.date,
        length=sp_track.duration,
        disc_no=sp_track.disc,
        track_no=sp_track.index,
        bitrate=bitrate)

@memoized
def to_track_ref(sp_track):
    if not sp_track.is_loaded:
        return

    if sp_track.error != spotify.ErrorType.OK:
        logger.debug(
            'Error loading %s: %r', sp_track.link.uri, sp_track.error)
        return

    if sp_track.availability != spotify.TrackAvailability.AVAILABLE:
        return

    return models.Ref.track(uri=sp_track.link.uri, name=sp_track.name)

def to_track_refs(sp_tracks):
    for sp_track in sp_tracks:
        sp_track.load()
        ref = to_track_ref(sp_track)
        if ref is not None:
            yield ref

def to_playlist(
        sp_playlist, folders=None, username=None, bitrate=None,
        as_ref=False, as_items=False):
    if not isinstance(sp_playlist, spotify.Playlist):
        return

    if not sp_playlist.is_loaded:
        return

    if as_items:
        return list(to_track_refs(sp_playlist.tracks))

    name = sp_playlist.name

    if not as_ref:
        tracks = [
            to_track(sp_track, bitrate=bitrate)
            for sp_track in sp_playlist.tracks]
        tracks = filter(None, tracks)
        if name is None:
            # Use same starred order as the Spotify client
            tracks = list(reversed(tracks))

    if name is None:
        name = 'Starred'
    if folders is not None:
        name = '/'.join(folders + [name])
    if username is not None and sp_playlist.owner.canonical_name != username:
        name = '%s (by %s)' % (name, sp_playlist.owner.canonical_name)

    if as_ref:
        return models.Ref.playlist(uri=sp_playlist.link.uri, name=name)
    else:
        return models.Playlist(
            uri=sp_playlist.link.uri, name=name, tracks=tracks)

def to_playlist_ref(sp_playlist, folders=None, username=None):
    return to_playlist(
        sp_playlist, folders=folders, username=username, as_ref=True)

# Maps from Mopidy search query field to Spotify search query field.
# `None` if there is no matching concept.
SEARCH_FIELD_MAP = {
    'albumartist': 'artist',
    'date': 'year',
    'track_name': 'track',
    'track_number': None,
}

def sp_search_query(query):
    """Translate a Mopidy search query to a Spotify search query"""

    result = []

    for (field, values) in query.items():
        field = SEARCH_FIELD_MAP.get(field, field)
        if field is None:
            continue

        for value in values:
            if field == 'year':
                value = _transform_year(value)
                if value is not None:
                    result.append('%s:%d' % (field, value))
            elif field == 'any':
                result.append('"%s"' % value)
            else:
                result.append('%s:"%s"' % (field, value))

    return ' '.join(result)

def _transform_year(date):
    try:
        return int(date.split('-')[0])
    except ValueError:
        logger.debug(
            'Excluded year from search query: '
            'Cannot parse date "%s"', date)


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West Virginia's Elk River Chemical Spill and How We Measure Progress
By Sandra Postel, originally published by National Geographic Newswatch
It's a cruel irony for the 300,000 West Virginians forced to turn off their taps for five to ten days earlier this month after a chemical spill contaminated their drinking water supply that their inconvenience and, for some, illness and suffering, will count as a plus according to our leading economic indicator – the gross domestic product, or GDP.
Over time societies have come to equate the GDP – which measures the monetary exchange of goods and services in the marketplace – with progress. Virtually all nations measure it, and it is the principal metric used to gauge how wealthy a country is and whether the welfare of its citizens is going up or down.
The problem is lots of things detrimental to our well-being – including pollution and sickness – count as net positives as calculated by the GDP.
The Elk River in West Virginia. Credit: Tim Kiser/CC
After the January 9 spill of coal-processing chemicals into West Virginia's Elk River, the expenditures made to clean up the contamination and flush the water system will add to the GDP, as will the payments to doctors and hospitals from the more than 200 residents treated for nausea and other ills associated with exposure to the tainted tap water.
Payments to beverage companies for all the bottled water bought during the tap water ban will bump up the GDP, as well, and so would the two dozen or so lawsuits filed by residents and businesses against Freedom Industries, the owner of the storage container that leaked the two chemicals into the river. (With the company's filing for bankruptcy, most litigation has now halted.)
So, on balance, the spill will appear to have been a good thing – progress – according to our leading indicator.
Of course, that's absurd.
Yet, GDP misconstrues or fails to account for important societal values all the time. As Robert F. Kennedy said in an address at the University of Kansas in 1968, the GDP measures "everything except that which makes life worthwhile."
Momentum is building, however, to replace the GDP – which was developed during the 1930s and 1940s – with a better and more honest indicator of human progress and well-being.
In the January 16 issue of the journal Nature, Robert Costanza of the Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University in Canberra and ten colleagues call in a commentary piece for a united and collaborative effort to identify a successor to the GDP, possibly as early as 2015.
Much work has already been done. At least thirteen alternative indicators of human welfare already exist, and some have been applied to a large number of countries. The Index of Sustainable Economic Progress (ISEP) and the General Progress Indicator (GPI), for example, modify the GDP to account for such things as household and volunteer work on the plus side, while subtracting environmental and social costs such as crime and pollution.
According to the GPI, genuine progress peaked in 1978, and has gradually fallen since. The GDP, on the other hand, has continued to soar.
Bhutan measures the well-being of its citizens with a gross national happiness index, one of four survey-based indices, which captures psychological well-being, community vitality, health, education, cultural and biological diversity among other societal attributes.
The Better Life Index, one of seven composite indices, has been applied to some 36 OECD countries and includes measures of housing, health, civic engagement, safety, environment and life satisfaction.
To help organize the process of searching for a successor to the GDP, Costanza and his colleagues have recently formed the Alliance for Sustainability and Prosperity (www.asap4all.org), described as a web-based "network of networks" to communicate about research on elements that contribute to a sustainable quality of life.
The challenge of dethroning the GDP will not be easy. The "green" GDP promoted by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, which accounted for some of the environmental downsides of growth, was effectively killed by the coal industry, the Nature piece points out.
But the search for a successor is a crucial undertaking, because it will reveal important information about ourselves and the society in which we want to live.
It's been said that we are what we measure. If we want to be a society that values money above all else, then maybe the GDP is the best measure after all.
But if we want to strive for a society that values clean water, good health, vital communities, and a livable planet for future generations, then we need a different indicator to measure our progress.
Tags: drinking water, GDP, Pollution, water
GDP is a useless measurement. But what should replace it?
Resources for a better future: GDP
Capitalism – a Self Organizing Structure That Leads to Self Extinction
How our miraculous transportation system turns water into brine
Degrowth: A Response to Branko Milanovich
Your Money or your Life? Putting Wellbeing before GDP
Reflections on Water: Film, Water and Storytelling
Is the Green Deal a card shuffle trick?
Fighting Water Privatization with 'Blue Communities'
Sandra Postel
Sandra Postel directs the independent Global Water Policy Project, and lectures, writes and consults on global water issues. In 2010 she was appointed Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society, where she serves as lead water expert for the Society's freshwater efforts. Sandra is co-creator of Change the Course, the national freshwater conservation and restoration campaign being pioneered...


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(124-11-16) A Gentleman's Agreement
A Gentleman's Agreement
Summary: Lord Carolis Stark and Lord Sygnar Magnar, son of the late Stanmar of Skagos discuss the future of the North in Weirwood Manse.
Date: Date of play 11/16/17
Related: None.
Lord Sygnar Magnar, son of the late Stanmar, is rather dramatically transformed from the filthy, lice and flea ridden wretch last seen eating long pig after the Battle of the Bay. The man ushered in to see the heir of his Overlord's Overlord still has that distinctive scar on his cheek, now gone to stark white against the deep tan of his skin. He still moves with that dangerous, sinuous roll to his gate, but this man is upright and clean. The random shells and cheap beads once threaded on a thong through the small braids shattered amoung loose lengths of hair have been replaced by fresh shells and much nicer beads in forest green and pale blue. There is something upright and commanding in his posture instead of that wary slink that so characterized him once. He and his clothes are clean. He wears a good brown leather jerkin over a forest green shirt of serviceable linen, and very good leather trousers, dyed green and well broken in. There is still that hint of arrogance in the tilt of his chin, but it is tempered now, and he gives at least a bob that is not a bob, but an acknowledgement of respect for the man he faces.
Carolis rises to greet Lord Sygnar Magnar, son of the late Stanmar. He is dressed in black with silver accents in the style of the city rather than Northron armor, muddied from the fight. The veil that usually covers his pale skin has been drawn back, revealing the crop of thick, black hair he has. His eyes remain piercing, blue as a winter rose. He seems rather soft for a Stark, civilized, pallid and smooth in his movements as he steps forward to incline his head, almost a bow. People who stealth-feed other people human flesh don't get full bows.
"To what do I owe the honor?" he asks. Even his voice is somehow more melodious when surrounded by the trappings of civilization.
Those turquoise blue eyes, chips of bright colour contrasting with his sun darkened skin flick over Lord Carolis taking in the more subtle changes time has wrought in the Stark, and weighing the appearance of softness for what it very likely is. The words are simple and firm, though still slow as he tries to minimize the slurring and sibilance the old damage to his jaw add to his words if he does not concentrate, "You kept your word to us. That is important." He looks away for a long moment, then back, "I have given thought to… the need for change on Skagos, and a way we might achieve that together, though it be slow."
"A man's word is his bond," Carolis says. He watches Tybalt, but not there's a polite vagueness to it, allowing the man his privacy as he looks away. He gestures to one of the chairs, waiting for the man to sit before he reclaims his own. "I agree. There is a need for change, and it starts with moments like this. Tell me what you've got in mind."
Tybalt says, "It hasn't always been when Mainlanders deal with my people. It is worth a great deal, I think, and speaks well of you and your House." He stalks to the chair and takes it. "There are limits to what I can do. The Boltons have earned the hatred that has poisoned a Millennia of our dealings. I can't change that in a generation, and we are only a third of the Island, but my hope is, that if things go well, the others will follow. I can not… I know that your people are as distressed by our funeral customs as we are by yours." The hedging turns to a strong conviction, "That I can not change, nor do I want to, but I think that the raiding of the mainland for captives to sacrifice and eat isn't right. I do not think that unwilling sacrifices are fit food for the gods and I think the raiding is harming us both in the long term. I think it is in our power to stop that this Winter, and to forge warmer ties between your house and my people.""
Carolis nods slowly. He has nothing to say of Tybalt's dining practices. There are some shames and secrets that keep him holding his tongue. Finally, what he does say is, "I know I would prefer if mainland captives weren't taken. Of the Boltons, I will say that in many ways, they have made their bed and now must sleep in it, but they are part of the North and under my brother's authority and protection. I can't speak to your hatred for them, but I encourage caution when exercising that hatred." Not 'don't do it,' merely 'don't get caught.' He rubs his smooth chin, and he smiles as a page brings in honeyed wine and pours for both of them before fading into the background. "May Winter give us time to reconcile," he says. "It will give us plenty of time to think and, my hope is, with the supplies we've give you, you'll be thriving come Spring."
For all the slow and deliberate speech, his expression suggests he's quick enough to understand the implications regarding the Boltons, "I have…arranged some supplies myself. Privately. I plan to return shortly, and I was hoping… to use supplies, yours and mine, to… build alliances for the change I am planning. To end captive taking; to end unwilling sacrifice of Outlanders; to end Mainland raids and turn our eyes east when we must raid. It would help if I could claim your backing when I do it, as it is known you are sending the grain shipments from the South." He holds a hand up and gives a rather wry smile. "I intend to use persuasion, not force, and build political alliance with the Grandmothers and the shield maidens, talk to my kin, making a case that it will increase their power and prosperity, not lessen it. It would help if…I could parcel grain distribution rights to those most likely to back religious reform and to distribute fairly, but if you do not trust me so far, I will do what I can with the things I've gathered for shipping. Either way, I will try to get the Elders to back me in council to change the policy on raiding and sacrifices. If we are Thriving come Spring, as you say, surely the rest of the Island will want to follow. We are a stubborn people… We must be stubborn to live where we do, but we are also a practical people.
Carolis listens with patience. He nods, seeming agreeable to the points made as they come. "I've fought with you," he says, "and we've… broken bread. I believe your intentions are good, and that you know the ways of your people more than I do. Tell me what you need from me, and I'm willing to give this a chance. We've had good fortune with gaining grain from the South." He glances toward a window with a shake of his head. "They don't believe Winter is coming, so they're not hoarding it. So grain isn't a problem. Our larders are filling up nicely. There's bound to be some leftover."
Tybalt looks the heir of his Lord Paramount straight in the eye, "I give you my word that I will do everything in my power to end Mainland raiding and the taking of captives for food. I give you my word that I'll do everything in my power to build loyalty to your House where I can see a chance to do it. I give my word that I do not want this reform for the sake of personal power, but for the spiritual and physical welfare of my people." Another brief, wry smile twists his lips, and is gone, "I will not even benefit personally particularly, as I must spend most of my time here raising coin and ensuring my personal grain shipments go North with the Flower Fleet. My Brother Styne will lead in my stead back home most of the time, assuming he will back my reforms." Another quick smile, rather wicked this time, "It's made securing my first cargo much easier, dealing with these summer People. What I need from you is the right to say that I have your promise to keep sending grain if we don't raid the Mainland, and if you will trust it to my hands, the right to choose who will distribute your grain amoung my people." He closes his eyes, expression sad, "We are raised knowing that people sacrificed themselves to keep us fed and that we owe the same debt to our children. We take that deb to the future seriously, and those who do not do not last." He opens his eyes and leans forward, suddenly intense, "I give my word that if you allow me to choose those who distribute your grain, that I will pick the ones I think will do it in the most fair way, and that the first priority will be to keep children and young Mother's fed, just as we do with the Meat in Winter." He takes a deep breath and says with a shudder, and a real fanaticism, "If I ever break my word to you, may crows eat me instead of those I love most."
Carolis lifts his wineglass to his lips, taking in the bouquet before he ha a sip, barely wetting his lips with the stuff. "You have my word," he says. "Mind you, it's my word you have, not my brother's. I'll speak to him, but even if we are in disagreement, I will still support your initiatives with my resources and my name. I believe the cause to be noble. Choose the distributors of the grain. It'll be yours by the time it reaches the island. As I said, with these disbelieving Southerners, it isn't difficult to fetch a fair price." He strokes his chin again, then says, "You know, if I give you the money instead, you can buy grain or whatever you need and distribute it as you please."
Tybalt nods, reaching for his own wine for the first time and sipping. His eyes widen in suprise that something of this quality would be served to the likes of him by te fancy folk. He gives Lord carolis and amused smile and a nod that says, 'well played.' He says in that slow, measured way he has, "I understand this limit as you respect mine. I'll need writing for the ship captains from you…." His eyes widen again at the generosity, "That is… more than I had any right to expect. I have a friend who… arranges the shipping without cost to me, so the coin would go far indeed. You are…." He is genuinely moved, "Kinder than any of us had any right to expect after…. after those raids on the coast, or really at any time since your House conquered us. This will go a long way towards…." He takes another steadying sip, "My people do better with persuasion than with commands. We are… not of a temperament to follow where we do not love, but I think this will go a long way towards winning that Love, and we are fierce and loyal where that love and loyalty are earned. I…." He bows his head like a proper under banner. "I…. My life has not inclined me to which to serve any Master again. Still, if you wish an underbanner's oath of me, I will… give it you in the Godswood, in proxy for your brother." He adds the last hastily, lest Lord Carolis think he was apt to revive the Puppy and Rose feuding again.
Carolis half-smiles at Tybalt's glance, and he raises his glass to him before he takes another small sip. He's good at playing at drinking without imbibing too much. "It's better if the coin come from me anyway," Carolis says. "There are those who will be resentful, and if the coin came from the seat of Winterfell itself, there would be uprisings. This way, it's just Lord Carolis being his usual, soft self." He smiles wryly at that. Then he lapses into thoughtful silence, his gaze going to the wolf skull decorating one of the shelves. "For now, let us feed your people. If all goes well, we'll consider an oath of some sort. In the meantime, we have a gentleman's agreement, and the money is a gift, a token of goodwill from Winterfell's soft Rose."
Tybalt snorts, "You aren't soft. I've seen you." He lifts the corner of his lip on the undamaged side of his face in amusement, "If they are fool enough to take you for such, they deserve what they get, I think." He traces a seated vow, "A Gentleman's agreement, though i think it would amuse anyone but you to hear me called so.' He lifts his glass to the agreement and sips again. He is less careful than Carolis, but he too is drinking less than he seems to. "It's best if I remain Tybalt, here in Oldtown. Titles… complicate things. I keep it in my pouch in case of trouble over deer and these strange Southron Laws, but I hope never to take it out if I can help it. If you need to get word to me when I am North, leave it sealed with Esme grocer under that name, and she will have my leman send it on to me." He gets a wistful look there and gone in seconds at mention of his leman. "I am… sorry I distressed you and Tellur after the Battle of the Bay. It was not ill meant."
"What they get is a diplomat," Carolis says. "A job that needs done that none of them want to do. Me, I thrive in those situations. The old gods smile on us in that regard." He nods to Tybalt's remarks about his name. "To me, you'll be Tybalt while we're here. No one in the South needs to know of our business in the North." Of that, he's emphatic. He's a diplomat, but not the pushover people think. "Esme the grocer," he murmurs. He waves a hand and says, "Bygones. Nothing to dwell on. I know your intentions were not ill."
Tybalt says, "The old Gods certainly do. I… think my people needed someone who… can see further because he has traveled further." He looks relieved at Carolis' agreement, "That is best I think, that the business of the north remain between northerners." He nods, "You are kind and wise and honorable. This is not a think said lightly of a Mainland Lord, but I have spoken well of you whenever your name was mentioned and will keep doing so. You deal fairly, and that in itself is a change from most of our dealings with the Mainland since the conquest. I hope we can build something strong and lasting on this foundation.""
Carolis inclines his head and says, "I do what I can to bring honor to the names of Stark and Winterfell." Because it would be immodest to claim these things for himself. "Stronger bonds create a stronger North," he says simply. "I would see us unified. Someday, all of us. Bolton will be a challenge, but I'm young. I have time." He smiles a little at that. He raises his glass to Tybalt. "I have faith," he says. "In the brotherhood of the First Men."
Tybalt smiles back with an expression in his eyes that suggests the size of the task. "I do too, and in our Gods."
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News Review: ICANN, China, IANA: ex-CEO Fadi Chehadé's Sad Legacy
Domain Mondo's review of the past week and look ahead [pdf of this post is here]:
What's happening in the IANA Transition?
• This past week, U.S. Senators Cruz, Lankford and Lee, exchanged letters with ICANN Board Chairman Steve Crocker, fundamentally about conflicts of interest within ICANN, and principally the influence of foreign governments, specifically, the ICANN CEO (now ex-CEO) Fadi Chehade agreeing in December, 2015, to co-chair the High-level Advisory Committee to China's World Internet Conference (WIC) held the last 2 years in Wuzhen, China. Crocker, in his letter of response, wrote a rambling defense and justification of Chehade's conduct without answering any of the Senators' specific questions, essentially admitting that neither he, nor any other member of the ICANN Board of Directors, saw any potential conflict of interest nor anything inappropriate in Chehade attending (while still President and CEO of ICANN), the WIC on ICANN's 'dime' and announcing, via his ICANN President Twitter account, his acceptance of the offer to Co-Chair the High-level Advisory Committee, thereby, in the eyes of many, lending his support and endorsement, as ICANN CEO, to the objectives of WIC and China's internet governance agenda:
"To whom is the Advisory Committee which Chehade and the others are joining giving advice? It is the World Internet Conference Organizing Committee Secretariat, a CCP [Communist Party of China] organ .... Our opinion is that the advisory committee members are making a mistake. Like so many deluded businessmen and politicians before them, they think that being friendly and cooperative with the [Chinese] regime will either gain themselves privileged access to the market, or will somehow change the basic principles and policy direction of the Chinese state. It may do the first (though it is unlikely) but it certainly will not do the latter. The WIC is intended to justify and advocate a more repressive Internet ... Rather than contesting ideas on a terrain in which internet freedom, bottom up initiative and openness have an advantage, they have foolishly chosen to play the conference diplomacy game on a terrain chosen by the Chinese Communist Party..." --Georgia Tech Professor, Dr. Milton Mueller, December 29, 2015, The Wuzhen Compradors (note: Dr. Mueller has been active in ICANN since its formation in 1998, and is co-founder of its Noncommercial Users constituency).
Read more, including the latest letter from the U.S. Senators and Crocker's reply letter, at ICANN Sends Letter To US Senators But Does NOT Answer Questions | DomainMondo.com, which also references a transcript of the NCPH Intersessional Meeting at ICANN, February 5, 2016, wherein "ICANN community" stakeholders recognized the real or potential conflict of interest issue in ICANN CEO Chehade's activities in China, and assumed that one or more ICANN Board members had already referred the matter to ICANN's Office of General Counsel as required by ICANN Policy on conflicts of interest.
Those intersessional transcripts [Feb. 4-5, 2016] provide even more insight into the sad legacy that ex-CEO Fadi Chehadé left behind at ICANN--excerpts below--emphasis and links added:
Stakeholder to Fadi Chehade: "... You were talking about what we need to do better. And obviously we need to get more people engaged. It's certainly been my observation in the three years I've been at ICANN that there's a massive power imbalance. And while I agree we need to get more people engaged, it doesn't necessarily empower them, particularly in civil society ..."
Stakeholder: "... The concerns raised by many in the [ICANN] community indicate that the existing GNSO [ICANN's main policy-making body, the Generic Names Supporting Organization] structure and operating plans do not yet meet stakeholder expectations. Recent statements made by various stakeholders suggest that current ICANN structure [GNSO] needs to be reviewed, and if need be, improved, amended, replaced or supplemented with new mechanisms ... our house [NCPH] suffers more from the structural issues within the GNSO than the other house [the contracted party house, i.e., the domain name registrars and gTLD registry operators] ... We've heard claims before that the GNSO is broken and various issues around structure have been raised by various groups ..."
Stakeholder to Chehade: "... for the multi-stakeholder model to succeed, ICANN has to demonstrate some of the best attributes that you would normally find in public service in a governmental setting --transparency, full accountability and conflict of interest [policy] ..."
Fadi Chehade: "There is no question that ICANN can improve its accountability, its transparency and its policy. There is no question."
Fadi Chehade: "I'm going to spend time with him [ICANN's new CEO] mostly on sharing with him the mistakes I did, the difficulties I caused myself because I had not understood well. I did not have the privilege of having time with my predecessor right? I had a coffee with him. And it was not a happy coffee. So I - nobody told me anything." [Note: this is an odd statement since Chehade was reportedly brought into ICANN by his lifelong friend and former co-worker, then ICANN COO Akram Atallah, who, in turn, was promoted by Chehade to the second-highest paying position within ICANN (it's called cronyism).]
Fadi Chehade: "I've learned in these four years that unless he [new ICANN CEO] is listening and deriving his priorities from you, he's going to have a miserable time. It's that simple ... See the biggest difficulty for an incoming presidency to ICANN is two parts. The first is his title. The title is a problem because [when] you come in, you think you're a CEO. You're not a CEO. This is not a typical CEO job. And so you get into your head all kinds of things about being a CEO that just don't apply here. And so the title is problematic. And I'll tell him [new ICANN CEO] this after he signs his offer." [Note: insightful comment by Chehade, he recognizes the originating source of his problems at ICANN is somewhere inside his "head."]
Fadi Chehade: "I think everyone of you could list my mistakes. I can do it for you to save you some time, you know. I made mistakes. It's okay." [Note: it would have been helpful and cathartic for the "ICANN community" to have seen Chehade's list of his own mistakes--frankly, I would not be surprised if many of his well-known mistakes were absent from his list--denial is a well-known attribute of dysfunctional leadership (pdf). Also note that remedies to denial in management include having a "powerful board" (Ravi Mistry), but unfortunately for ICANN, its Board is mostly passive, and therefore, mostly useless:
"The second thing [first is the 'CEO' title--see above] is the Board, the name of the Board [ICANN Board of Directors]. This is not a Board in the classic sense of a Board of Directors right? If he [new ICANN CEO] doesn't understand the nature of this group you elect called the Board which is not a typical Board of Directors and the nature of this community and what it is and the nature then of his much diminished role as CEO President ... if he can't figure this formula out he's going to have a rough four years ahead or five years ahead."--Fadi Chehade, NCPH Intersessional. Feb. 5, 2016.]
Is this what happens when an organization is led by a dysfunctional or unprepared CEO, enabled by an equally dysfunctional or unprepared Board of Directors: passing secret Board resolutions, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and countless hours of ICANN officers and staff time, organizing events and establishing organizations outside the mission and scope of ICANN, instead of focusing on the core issues of improving ICANN functionality, transparency, and accountability?
Is ICANN really ready for prime time?
• Speaking of the IANA transition, and China, Domain Mondo recommends reading, carefully, the recent post from Dr. Mueller's Internet Governance Project: Alternate DNS roots and the abominable snowman of sovereignty, as well as the articles it references: Internet Fragmentation: An Overview (pdf) by William J. Drake, Vint Cerf, and Wolfgang Kleinwächter; and Dr. Paul Vixie's response:
"... I have personally reached out to operators inside the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) to ensure that they know about the Yeti-DNS project, and can participate if they so choose. This reflects my view that if some country decides some day that ICANN cannot be trusted, and they want to create their own Internet DNS system, I want them to have the necessary expertise and competence and awareness of tradeoffs, in-country, to pursue their own sovereign course. If asked, I would advise such countries that any such independence would be nasty, brutish, and short. But I will not pretend that they have to listen to me ... Anybody who wants, for whatever reason of their own, to craft their own root zone as a derivative of IANA's root zone, ought to get all the help they need. Our industry's holy scriptures ought to be written in English not Latin, and ought to be read by the laity, ought to be understood and argued about by the world wide Internet community. Open and transparent network science is no threat to Internet governance ..." --Dr. Paul Vixie, Let Me Make Yeti-DNS Perfectly Clear (emphasis added).
Indeed, is ICANN even trustworthy today? Many, with good reason, say nay.
See also on Domain Mondo: How ICANN and ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé Evade Accountability and Blocking New gTLDs, ICANN's 'Shadiest' Top-level Domains, 'Wholesale'.
•Meanwhile, work continues on the implentation phase of the ICANN accountability & IANA transition proposal submitted by ICANN's Board of Directors to the NTIA in March:
• NTIA is currently assessing ICANN's IANA Transition proposal, a process which it will not finish until sometime in June according to one tentative IANA Transition timeline.
• Finally, note: ICANN and Verisign Announce Start of 90-day Root Zone Management System "Parallel Testing" Period | ICANN.org. See also Parallel Operations Root Zone Management System Comparison | Verisign.com.
• In the world of tech, Yahoo (stock: $YHOO | domain: yahoo.com) extended the deadline for receiving bids for its assets to April 18, 2016. Interestingly, Yahoo's Q1 2016 earnings release is scheduled for the following day. Meanwhile, Jack Dorsey continues to transform Twitter, replacing 2 directors. Twitter's Q1 2016 earnings release is scheduled for April 26.
This past week's five most popular posts on Domain Mondo (# of pageviews Sun-Sat):
News Review [April 3, 2016]: IANA Implementation, GNSO Open House, .COM Q1 2016
ICANN Sends Letter To US Senators But Does NOT Answer Questions
GoDaddy $GDDY Secondary Offering, Reaction, Risk Factors
Panama Papers: Victims of Offshore; What We Know So Far (videos)
Will the UK Leave the EU? Brexit Is More Likely Than You Think (video)
Finally, if you have not seen the video of Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully landing its Falcon 9 rocket on the droneship whimsically named "Of Course I Still Love You" in the Atlantic Ocean, by all means, watch it: SpaceX Successfully Lands Falcon 9 Rocket on DroneShip at Sea (video) | DomainMondo.com.
Labels: Accountability, China, conflicts of interest, DNS, Fadi Chehadé, GNSO, IANA, ICANN, Internet Governance, Milton Mueller, News Review, Paul Vixie, Root Zone, Senators, Steve Crocker, Ted Cruz, WIC, Wuzhen


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Magnitude-5.3 quake hits Macedonia; at least 30 injured (Update)
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 struck on the outskirts of Macedonia's capital on Sunday, injuring at least 30 people and causing minor damage to buildings, authorities said.
West Virginia University students win robotics competition
A team of West Virginia University engineering students has won the $750,000 top prize in a NASA robotics competition.
Emirates bans Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on its planes
Civil aviation authorities in the Emirates have banned the use of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 on all its national carriers because of the risk of batteries exploding in the "phablet" smartphone.
Live long and endure: how China's Mao was preserved
Days after Communist China's founding father Mao Zedong died 40 years ago the problem of what to do with his corpse was becoming increasingly heated—literally.
World governments urge end to domestic ivory markets
In a bid to stop the killing of elephants for their tusks, world governments voted at a major conservation conference to urge the closure of all domestic ivory markets.


"What is the meaning of the handmade in our world today?", he asked.
The Garland journey involves uncovering new sources of interest in craft. China may seem an unlikely location, given its focus on being a factory to the world. But this is changing with rising incomes, greater confidence and a renewed interest in its traditional cultures. Much change is China is being led by the second and third-tier cities, each of which has a population equivalent to a small nation. Ambitious mayors are seeking to put their city on the world stage.
Qingdao seems an unlikely leader in world craft. This city of 10 million sits on the Yellow Sea opposite South Korea. It has been a centre for sea trade and was during the early 20th century under German administration. This has left a legacy of the famous Tsingtao beer and China's first cinema, which helped it gain status as the UNESCO City for Cinema.
Under the guidance of the China Arts and Crafts Association, Qingdao has been developing a proposal to host a World Crafts Council International Cultural Centre. CACA has worked closely with many similar cities to assist in their nomination as a World Craft City. The city has put considerable resources into this proposal, even offering what was once Asia's largest stock exchange as a potential venue for offices, galleries, studios and a library.
As a member of the World Crafts Council – Asia Pacific board, I have been involved in discussions at a government level. While there were clear political interests at play, I wasn't sure to what extent this might represent the aspirations of the broader population. I offered to give a lecture to students of the Qingdao University of Technology, in the hope it might lead to an open discussion. They were reticent at first, but we had a good translator, which strengthened the dialogue. I was reassured to hear the searching nature of their questions. Of course, my intention was not to bat this question back with a definitive answer, but to open it up to other questions, such as the value of links to the past, the unique language of expression through materials and the development of stories that connect people together.
I have hopes that this kind of dialogue will continue as China seeks to unlock its own creative energy. With luck, and some political will, many craft practitioners from around the world will be visiting Qingdao to celebrate its cosmopolitanism and share their unique techniques.
One of the challenges is the different value of craft in China, where it is often associated with extreme levels of technical skill, associated with the label "exquisite". This is not often the case in the craft cultures of other countries, such as Australia. My talk was an attempt to reflect a value of craft that drew on the artistic intentions of the maker. Here is the talk I gave in Qingdao: Telling stories through craft.
I asked the meaning of the banner that festooned the lecture hall. I was told it says, "Don't forget your destiny." It seems craft is very much part of China's future.
Kevin Murray is Managing Editor of Garland and Senior Vice-President of the World Crafts Council – Asia Pacific.


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Q: POST unchecked checkboxes with hidden elements I know there are other posts with the same question but it doesn't work for me.
Well, I have a database table (image) with 'img_name' and 'img_status'. Status can be 'active' or 'inactive'. In php I do following, to set the image in DB to active or inactive:
while($row = mysqli_fetch_object($images)) {
    if ($row->img_status == 'active') {
        echo '<input type="hidden" name="image[]" value="' . $row->img_name . '">';
        echo '<input type="checkbox" name="image[]" value="' . $row->img_name . '" checked> ' . $row->img_name . '';
    } else {
        echo '<input type="hidden" name="image[]" value="' . $row->img_name . '">';
        echo '<input type="checkbox" name="image[]" value="' . $row->img_name . '"> ' . $row->img_name . '';
    }
}

For rows with active status the checkbox is checked and for inactive its unchecked.
On submitting form I do:
    if(isset($_POST['image']) && is_array($_POST['image'])) {
        foreach($_POST['image'] as $imageName) {
            // here i want update table
            // unchecked: set image to inactive
            // checked: set image to active
        }
    }

Now my problem is, when I uncheck one which was checked (because in database its active and hence on pageload its checked) and submit the form, it doesn't post.

A: I would recommend that you create a column called status and make it a tinyint with a value of 1 and if the image status is 0 it means it's not active and if it is 1 then it is active then you can use radio buttons instead of checkbox like this:
<input type="radio" name="status" value="0"<?php if ($row["status"] == 0) { echo "checked"; } ?> />

<input type="radio" name="status" value="1"<?php if ($row["status"] == 1) { echo "checked"; } ?> />

and in your while loop you can also do this to display text instead of the numbers and echo it where ever you want or need:
$stat = $row['status'];
    if($stat == 0) {
       $status = "Disabled";
    } else {
        $status = "Active";
    }

A: It's not clear why you need to the hidden fields, but if you are going to use then, give them a different name:
while($row = mysqli_fetch_object($images)) {
    echo '<input type="hidden" name="allimage[]" value="' . $row->img_name . '">';
    echo '<input type="checkbox" name="image[]" value="' . $row->img_name . '" ' . ($row->img_status == 'active' ? 'checked' : '') . '> ' . $row->img_name . '';
}

Then, when you get the return values, $_POST['allimage'] has all of the images and $_POST['image'] has the ones that are checked. Then:
array_intersect($_POST{'allimage'], $_POST['image']);

has all of the images that were checked, and
array_diff($_POST{'allimage'], $_POST['image']);

returns an array of all of the names that were not checked. You can then go through and set their status to "Active" or "Disabled" as required.