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EESL To Procure 250 EVs From Tata Motors, Hyundai For Govt Bodies
Energy Efficiency Services (EESL) has selected Tata Motors and Hyundai Motor India in an international bidding process for procurement of 250 electric vehicles (EVs) for government entities.
Tata Motors will supply 150 Nexon electric compact SUVs and Hyundai will supply 100 Kona electric premium SUVs.
The total tender value is Rs 41.6 crore. For the procurement, EESL would utilise the $5-million (around Rs 37-crore) grant recently provided to it by the Asian Development Bank.
The government's flagship energy efficiency company said it would procure the Nexons at Rs 14.86 lakh each — Rs 13,000 cheaper than its ex-showroom price. The Konas, which offer a higher range, would be procured at an 11 per cent lower price band of Rs 21.36 lakh, with a standard three-year warranty.
These EVs would replace the petrol and diesel vehicles of the Central and state governments. This is Tata Motor's second partnership with EESL in the EV space. In 2017, the firm, along with Mahindra & Mahindra, won the first EESL tender to supply 10,000 EVs, to be used by government officials. However, a number of these vehicles could not be put to use because of the low range. EESL has procured 1,547 EVs so far, of which 692 were from Tata Motors, 832 from Mahindra, and 10 each from Hyundai and MG Motor. Vehicles procured by EESL would be used to service the order of 300 long-range EVs from The Agency for Non-Conventional Energy and Rural Technology, Kerala, to be supplied in the initial phase.
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Assume we do not know how many clusters there may be.

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Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project
Congo Research Group
Humanitarian Crises
Multilateral Reform
Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies
Prevention and Peacebuilding
Data for Peacebuilding and Prevention
UN Senior Leadership Appointments Dashboard
Ecosystem Map: Data for Peacebuilding and Prevention
Peace Operations Data
The Center on International Cooperation closely examines the United Nations' operations and politics in order to maximize its impact throughout the world. CIC has conducted research, convened high-level meetings, and provided recommendations in the following key areas of the UN's work.
Peace Operations:
Annual Review of Global Peace Operations 2012
Political Missions 2012
U.N. Peacekeeping: The Next Five Years
Post-2015 Development:
Beyond the Millennium Development Goals: Agreeing to a Post-2015 Development Framework
Making Agreements Work: Lessons for the Post-2015 Agenda Debate
Crisis Diplomacy:
The Libyan War: A Diplomatic History
The Use of Force, Crisis Diplomacy and the Responsibilities of States
Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding
Region/Country: Europe, Brazil, Middle East
Barnett Rubin
Humanitarian Assistance in Afghanistan: What's Next?
Submitted by CIC on Dec 21, 2021
Research Snapshot: Is there renewed public interest in this year's United Nations General Assembly?
Submitted by CIC on Sep 30, 2021
Taking a Reality Check on President Biden's August 31 Afghanistan Speech
Afghanistan Pakistan
UN Crisis Diplomacy and Peacekeeping: An Emergency Health Check
The UN is currently in poor health but the severity of its condition is not yet clear, Richard Gowan argues in this paper commissioned by the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue for the 2014 Oslo Forum for senior mediators. Gowan assesses the impact of events in South Sudan, Syria and Ukraine for the UN, and warns that the organization's operational and political credibility is weakening.
Publication Date: Jul 15, 2014
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Richard Gowan
Region/Country: Europe, Horn of Africa, Middle East
Topic(s): Peace Operations, United Nations
Australia in the UN Security Council
In this Lowy Institute Analysis, Richard Gowan reviews Australia's time as a non-permanent member of the Security Council. Gowan argues that while it has not changed the world, Australia has acquitted itself well, bringing extra rigour and professionalism to the Council's debates. It has carved out a niche on the issue of humanitarian access in the Syrian conflict, and solidified its reputation as a good international citizen and a serious country.
Publication Date: Jun 12, 2014
Region/Country: Europe, South Asia
Topic(s): South Asia, United Nations
UN Development System Risk Management in Fragile States
More than 50% of the world's poor are projected to live in conflict-affected and fragile states by 2015. Country donors and the UN development system have and will continue to increasingly place an imperative on delivering transformative development results in complex post-conflict and fragile contexts. These are risky development situations, where the cost of implementation is high and the potential for project failure and financial losses is significant.
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Program(s): Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies
Pathways to Security Council Reform
The United Nations "Peacebuilding Architecture": Past, Present and Future
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Northampton fires intentionally set
Published 2:16 pm Wednesday, November 18, 2020
By Cal Bryant
Shown here is a residence in the 1900 block of Big Johns Store Road that was destroyed Wednesday morning in a fire that is believed to be intentionally set. Photo courtesy of Gaston Fire-Rescue-EMS
There appears to be an arsonist at work in Northampton County.
The Northampton County Sheriff's Office, the North Carolina SBI and the Office of the State Fire Marshal are currently investigating three arson cases involving structure fires that occurred in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday, Nov. 18.
Northampton Sheriff's deputies responded to the suspicious structure fires at three different locations during the period of 3:44 am to 4 am.
Smoke was still present Thursday morning from a Wednesday morning fire at an abandoned dwelling on Bynum Road near Seaboard. This is one of three cases of what is believed to be the work of an arsonist in Northampton County. Staff Photo by Holly Taylor
All three locations were in the Seaboard and Margarettsville areas of the county, of which one was confirmed as an abandoned home along Bynum Road.
"We're still working on this; my investigators and the SBI and State Fire Marshal are still here today gathering clues that we hope leads to an arrest for the person or persons responsible," Northampton Sheriff Jack Smith said on Thursday afternoon. "We will leave no stone unturned until we find out who did this and we encourage our citizens to call us if they can help us solve these cases."
A press release sent Wednesday afternoon by Gaston Fire-Rescue-EMS identified another location in the 1900 block of Big Johns Store Road.
Gaston, Garysburg and Severn fire departments were dispatched just after 4 am to a residential fire at that location. No occupants were home at the time of the fire.
Upon arrival, the firefighters found the residence fully engulfed in flames with most of the roof collapsed.
Over 20 firefighters were at the scene and remained there for over three and a half hours conducting fire suppression and overhaul operations.
Meanwhile, multiple fire departments were on the scene of the other two fires.
"There are no reported injuries to any citizens at this time," the Northampton County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
The NCSO is asking all citizens to remain vigilant of their homes, to immediately report any suspicious activities or individuals, and anyone with information pertaining to these structure fires to contact the Northampton County Sheriff's Office at 252-534-2611, the NC State Bureau of Investigation, Northampton County Crime Stoppers at 252-534-1110, or call the 911 Center.
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How Much Are Films Worth?
Stephen Kerr, has been an appraiser of film and television properties for more than 25 years. He recently finished the valuation of a major film library for the owners/distributors of those titles. What Kerr gleaned, about the state of the film industry and current market value of independently produced movies, by interviewing almost a dozen highly respected domestic and international film distributors might surprise people. It is not easy for most filmmakers to be objective about the documentaries and movies that they just spent two years of their lives and millions of dollars to make. Distributors have to be objective, they know that films are a product that gets consumed and then put on the shelf like every other entertainment or intellectual property, including books, music and videogames. Sarah Nean Bruce interviewed Mr. Kerr to get his take on the current state of the film industry and respective value of film assets – past their release dates.
Sarah Nean Bruce (SB): Our company just finished appraising more than 250 films properties in a film library? Can you explain if these films were older properties or more recently released films?
SK: The vast majority of the film library was purchased less than 10 years ago with a large percentage having been acquired within the past five years.
SB: Can you tell us whether the distributor own limited rights or worldwide rights?
SK: Yes, the company owned most of the films in perpetuity and all world, all media rights. Some of the films had been released theatrically, but most were of the "straight-to-video" variety with one minor, known actor, or no "name" stars in them at all. I should point out that almost all of these films had already been sold to multiple international territories before, and had been released on DVD, on broadcast or cable television, and online.
SB: What were your unbiased conclusions about the film library?
SK: When we valued each title against similar films that had been purchased by other companies, we determined that, on average, the 250+ films owned by our client had a value of a little bit less than $7,000 each. Some of the newer movies had values of up to $45,000 and some of the older, Standard Definition films and 4x5 format films had almost no value what-so-ever. When we factored in the present value of the future income potential of the entire film library, based on the past four years' sales trend line, we lowered the average value of each property to about $4,800. Both the $7,000 valuation and the $4,800 valuation numbers are correct: the first is the market value of the titles against all other movie titles of a similar age and quality; and the second value is what we call "operating in place" value, or the present economic value that these titles represent to the owners, if nothing in the marketplace changes.[i]
SB: Is it unusual for you to give your clients two different values of the same intellectual properties?
SK: Not really. If you take a diamond ring in to be appraised, you may get more than one value from the Gemological Appraiser. The first value is the "market value" of the diamond as determined by the world market for all diamonds of a certain cut and quality, and a second value if you want to sell your diamond ring to the jeweler right then and there. The Jeweler has to factor in how long that ring might sit on the shelf before being resold to someone, and the risk they are taking with the money they are paying for it. Both values are correct in their own way.
SB: I understand that movies and documentaries are only worth as much as people are willing to pay for them. But why are values so disparate?
SK: All movies and television shows have both an intrinsic value and an extrinsic value. The intrinsic (or subjective) value represents what was spent to make the program/film, the "entertainment" value of the property, and the lasting social or cultural impact that film has left. The extrinsic (or objective) value represents the pure international, commodity value of the film – against all other films. Movies and television shows are bartered around the world to foreign distributors, DVD retailers (think Redbox), cable networks, OTT, and television broadcasters every day.[ii]
SB: Can you elaborate on why one film is more or less valuable than another?
SK: What we continually find in our research is that the number one value driver in a film is its cast; more than the director; more than the price paid to make it. In most cases, movie stars sell films, and that is true for movies sold to Argentina, Australia, Austria, or Alabama. Cast has remained the single largest value driver for films. Having said that, poor storytelling in a movie with big stars is going to perform poorly. Audiences are savvy. Just ask the Walt Disney Company about Johnny Depp and "The Lone Ranger". The film's intrinsic "entertainment value" was so low as to render the extrinsic value of the property close to zero. Quality, "high value" films are more than the sum of their parts, or their actors.
SB: What kind of movies and documentaries seem to have a more enduring value?
SK: According to the distributors that we interviewed for this valuation: films that have remained perennial sellers in their catalogs have been family films (especially animation), international-set spy thrillers and intrigues, historical dramas, biographies, science fiction, films about/with music, some "creature" features, and war/combat films. The genres that seem to be presently out of favor with international film distributors are horror/thrillers, romantic comedies (rom-coms), urban/ethnic films, westerns, low-end religious themed movies, and 'animal-centric' family movies.
SB: What information and advice can you give filmmakers, and film distributors, based on the information that was compiled while doing this valuation study?
SK: What has become apparent to everyone in the industry is that there are simply too many poor quality films made each year. The sheer number of movies hitting the market drags down the value of all films. Overseas filmmakers are doing a better and better job fulfilling the needs of their own domestic, film going customers; so-much-so that North American films are not getting the reception they once enjoyed, which lowers the international market value for Canadian and American productions. Just a few years ago a decent American-made movie could count on getting up to 80% of its revenue from foreign sales. Today, that figure is probably less than 20%. Movies made for less than $5 million, with low or no recognizable cast, are the most vulnerable in the global film marketplace. There is a reason the studios have all but stopped making comedies, dramas and thrillers, and have concentrated their efforts on making "tent-pole" animated, science fiction (Star Wars), comic book heroes, and disaster movies. They sell. My advice to would-be filmmakers and film distributors is "less is more". Better to make or sell fewer films with lasting, social and entertainment value, than more "forgettable" films without recognizable actors or universal themes that will stand the test of time – in there lies the value.
SB: Most filmmakers cannot afford to make movies with big-name movie stars, historical dramas or lavish sets. What advice do you have for them?
SK: Sarah, as you know: great film making has always been about telling great stories. You don't need Leonardo DiCaprio or Denzel Washington to tell a great story. Nor do you need twenty million dollars and exotic locations. Movies that have long lasting value are movies that touch people's lives and hearts. The original Rocky was not a big budget movie; Little Miss Sunshine was not an expensive movie; and Beasts of the Southern Wild was not a big budget movie. But they all had themes and performances that resonated with countless millions of movie goers around the world.
The proliferation of low quality films that was brought on by the rise of the DVD market in the 1990's did not do filmmakers any service. It simply encouraged them to make more low quality films. The DVD as a medium is all but dead, and over-the-top delivery services like Netflix and Amazon are not replacing that lost revenue. Movie makers are better off making one great film every three years than three poor quality movies every year. We hope what the client learned from our evaluation of their film library was that maybe they should focus on having 25 really good movies in their catalog instead of 250 so-so ones.
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[i] Diamonds & Rust, Stephen Kerr, March 2013
[ii] Valuing A Single Film or Film Library, Stephen Kerr, April 2014
Robert Baruc
I think you hit the nail on the head, too much quantity and not enough quality. The market can no longer absorb the sheer number of low budget films being made each year, lowering the value on all low budget films.
Thanks so much for sending my way.
Big Air Studios
Thanks much Stephen, very interesting and validates many of the themes that I've been noting in the marketplace.
Eric B. Stein
Impact Global Media
Annmarie Aronoff
Great article, Stephen! I appreciate your informed perspective and the fact that you've posted it for others to see. As a former distributor, it was always a challenge for producers to 'accept' the real value of their film or catalogue. You've detailed all of the pertinent reasons why, which producers should consider when they make their next film. And, it's all the reasons why we're producing our next film with the elements to ensure a long shelf life with cyclical revenue potential. :-)
Robert Blair link
Good perspective, Stephen, as always! It is sad but true; the old formulas of the business no longer work. Good content is king, and should always rise to the top, no matter what the budget. Your advice to produce better product, not more product, is worth repeating.
Lise Romanoff link
Hi Stephen and Saraah,
If you are creating a BLOG about this subject - here is my two cents
First of all, Bravo! And very well said! Except there are 2 concepts within this one article which I think it might confuse the Producer.
1) The concept of selling a library that has had already had its first run sales by a good sales agent. The remaining value as you say may be on average under 10K, but the return to the producer may have been anywhere from 100K to 500K already. So the under 10K number is very misleading. On that same library, can you please tell your readers what was the Gross Sales already made?
2) The concept of the "value to the production budget" is totally right on! Cast is Key and good story-telling a second Key, because now with information via the internet so plentiful a film MUST get good reviews to be successful on VOD.
The "take away" from this part of your story from a producer's point of view, is please consult with a Sales Agent BEFORE you cast! And then provide your Sales Agent with good images for marketing, so at least you can capture what is left of the DVD market, which is still based on good key art.
Thanks again for a great article.
With warm regards,
Lise Romanoff
Managing Director/CEO Worldwide Distribution
Both good points, Lise!
Joseph Sinda
Dear Stephen:
Good Show excellent article. Important for proof of value for Sales, Insurance value and Intellectual Property for Tax value. I did this Worldwide for 30 years.
Doc Joseph P.Sinda
Dragon Thunder Entertainment
Philip Knowles
Excellent article well researched and bang on point!
Topaz Distribution, LLC
Steve, Good job. But Prior Sales Revenue from all windows important as basis for NPV $4800 per avg. film. Also, Dates of Production 250 films. And, Copyright or PD?? Key to new Films is fundamental change in distribution windows last 10 years. Collapse DVD Retail and Creation Online VOD Rev Share market bad for all Independents with limited volume Film Library. Quantity more important than Quality. Only beneficiaries Major Studio Oligopoly and oligopoly Amazon/Hulu/Google, etc. All new independent Films require Theatrical Release for access to Traditional Media cash license revenue. Requires additional expense Advertising/Digital Masters. Asset value 250 Film Library avg. NPV $4800 declines next year if no license this year. Business value proposition top 10% (25 films) package. Content is King only for Major Studios. Quantity and price is King for independents. Word from the frontlines. Mike
Dawn Jacobs link
Stephen and Sarah,
Great article, I appreciate the insight into this end of a films life cycle.
Stephen Kerr is president of BMC (Business Marketing Consultants), a subsidiary of Bel Age Medias.
He has 30 years experience in the media and entertainment industry.
See more on his LinkedIn profile.
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Testing for housing bias begins soon
Times-Journal Writer
Testing for patterns of discrimination in the rental and sale of housing could begin in Selma and other areas of the Black Belt as early as February, according to Faith Cooper, executive director of the Montgomery-based Central Alabama Fair Housing Center (CAFHC).
Cooper was recently interviewed following announcement of the Bush Administration's awards of $17.6 million in fair housing grants to continue the fight against housing bias nationwide.
Alabama nonprofit agencies in Birmingham, Mobile and Montgomery were awarded a total of $685,405. CAFHC will receive $205,739 over the next 18 months to conduct educational and enforcement activities to ensure that housing discrimination is not taking place in the 29-county region served by the agency. It was founded in 1995 and has been funded through Housing and Urban Development department grants since then. CAFHC's focus is on three metropolitan areas – Montogomery, Dothan and Selma – and the rural areas surrounding. All of the counties adjoining Dallas are included in the agency's service area.
Cooper said that the agency has conducted activities in Selma and Dallas County almost since the beginning.
She said that on average that CAFHC handles approximately 100 complaints annually of housing bias in rental or purchase situations, and that 60 percent of these are in Montgomery. She did not have immediately available precise figures for Selma and Dallas County.
However, she said that as part of the agency's educational work, a number of visits have been made to the area and presentations made, especially in area churches and in
gatherings of other service organizations. About three years ago, she said, a program was presented to local realtors.
The central tool used by CAFHC and similar agencies around the country is what's called "testing," that is, sending trained volunteers into an area in pairs, each member of which resembles the partner as closely as possible, except for the protected category being tested, such as race, national origin, religion. Such testing provides extremely reliable results, she said.
Typically, particular rental and sale properties are approached by prospective renters or buyers, independently. Then a record is made of how each is treated and whether they were treated the same or differently.
For example, a major HUD study done in the year 2000, with results released last year, found that there continues to be substantial housing discrimination against African-Americans and others in both rental and sales housing markets. The only metropolitan study conducted in Alabama – Birmingham – followed the national trends, except the findings were considerably worse.
Nationally, African-Americans faced discrimination in 21.6 percent of
the test cases involving rentals, and 17.0 percent of the test cases involving sale.
In Birmingham, the corresponding figures were 28.6 percent for rental tests and 27.3 percent of sales tests.
Cooper believes on the basis of past experience that the situation is bleaker in smaller cities such as Dothan and Selma and the rural areas.
The HUD summary describing the grant to CAFHC states: "The CAFHC will continue housing enforcement activities under this 18-month initiative. Underserved communities in Montgomery and its neighboring communities will be the beneficiaries of the services, which will reach African-Americans and other of protected classes. Targeted areas encompass rural, impoverished west Alabama Black Belt (Selma) and the southeast Alabama Wiregrass Region. By expanding its strong links with civil rights agencies, local community organizations and HUD, CAFHC anticipates completing testing in sales, rental and predatory lending. Accessibility and accommodations testing, plus other non-testing investigations are planned."
CAFHC is a nonprofit agency with an annual budget ranging from $120,000-150,000 and has three employees. It works with dozens of volunteers in its various programs over time.
When cases of alleged discrimination are reported or discovered through testing and other means, the agency works with HUD to develop appropriate remedies, including complaints filed in federal or state courts. Alabama also has laws against housing bias, she noted.
Discrimination is not nearly as blatant as it once was, Cooper noted. But it continues to be widespread. Today's version comes in the nonverbal form of "a handshake and a smile," she said.
For further information, contact Central Alabama Fair Housing Center, 207 Montgomery St., Montgomery, AL 36104 or call (334) 263-4663.


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December 17, 2021 CWBChicago Bucktown, Citywide, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Uptown, West Town, Wicker Park
Here's a new vocabulary phrase, Chicago: "Flash mob robbery crews."
No, these aren't the caravans that pull up to high-end retailers downtown and raid stores for merchandise.
These, according to multiple sources within law enforcement and city government, are cars loaded with sometimes-armed people who are driving to Wicker Park, Bucktown, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, and other neighborhoods to carry out street robbery sprees.
That's right. Police now believe the huge surge in robberies and occasional carjackings are the work of groups of people who travel in two or three cars to a part of the city with the sole purpose of robbing people on the street— sometimes eight people at a time.
It's a crime wave that appears to be motivated more by a desire to scare and hurt people than to make money. However, the cash is undoubtedly a nice bonus.
More on this new phenomenon after we tell you about the crews' latest hit. It was in Lakeview just after 11 p.m. last night.
A 24-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman were walking on the 1000 block of West Oakdale when four men stepped out of a small crossover SUV, according to witnesses and a CPD spokesperson.
Two of the carjackers displayed handguns and demanded the victims' property. They beat the man in the head with a firearm repeatedly, the police spokesperson said. One witness reported seeing the offenders chasing the victims.
The crew collected the couple's phones, a wallet, and a purse, then drove away.
Police searched the area for the offenders, described as four Black males in their teens or early 20s who wore dark clothing. One of them wore a yellow mask. No arrests were made.
A source said the robbery crew used a car that's linked to robberies earlier this week in Lakeview and West Town. During a wave of armed robberies that claimed 14 victims across the area on Wednesday, one of the offenders was repeatedly described as wearing an orange mask. During one of those robberies, witnesses reported seeing the offenders chasing victims down the street. Victims were pistol-whipped during robberies that involved the orange-masked offender Wednesday.
"We gonna get them federal boys in here"
Investigators now understand that two or three carloads of people are traveling to the city's North Side and West Town where they separate and commit a quick burst of robberies, usually during the later evening hours, according to officials with knowledge of the crimes.
They operate on sidestreets, possibly to avoid the CPD's sprawling camera and license plate detection systems. Over the past few weeks, several victims told CWBChicago that they believed the robbers came from a vehicle that was sitting near the mouth of an alley when they passed on a nearby sidewalk.
Similar robbery sprees and actions like firing gunshots and pistol-whipping victims first sprang up in the West Town area, including Wicker Park and Bucktown, in the fall. Now, they've made their way to the North Side. Over time, police realized that victims during a single spree often described two or three different getaway cars — a minivan and a sedan, for example. Perhaps a small Mazda SUV, a blue sedan, and a red Charger. The reason became clear: There was more than one team at work in the same area at the same time. And that has continued to happen over and over again.
Police don't know if the same people have been involved for the past few months or if the crews are more transient.
"It's like the Wild West," one official hypothesized, harkening back to outlaws who operated together and then spun off to create their own groups.
Several sources suggested that the teams appear to be motivated by the thrill of scaring and hurting people. Some expressed concern that the teams' more violent members will become bored with pistol-whipping and firing guns into the air.
"It's a pretty quick trip from firing into the air and beating someone with a pistol to shooting someone in the leg, or worse," said one.
As the robbery teams swept from Lincoln Park to Lakeview to Uptown on Wednesday night, a police supervisor radioed information about the unfolding crime spree to their officers. She seemed amazed by the volume and audacity of what was happening.
"We gonna get them federal boys in here, they keep doin' this stuff," she said.
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A 'thank you' morning tea has recently taken place for 3 long-standing Brierfield Hall Management Committee members, Kath McPhail, Tom O'Connor and Beverley Gambling. Between them they have clocked up more than 100 years of volunteer service to the Hall.
The Mayor, Dominic King presented these volunteers with a certificate acknowledging their service to the Council and the community. Current Management committee members Jane Noack and Agi Peterdi listened as their predecessors shared stories about the hall, including the many dances, school activities and children's groups held in the hall since it was built, with the official opening taking place on New Years' Eve 1924.
Tom, whose father was one of the people who built the hall, shared stories of the days when people would come from all over the Shire for the regular dances and he would take on the job of 'billy boiler' for the gathered crowds.
Sharing the stories of the past has inspired discussion about the possibility of documenting the history of the hall and the Brierfield stories.
"Both Kath and Tom were born in Brierfield and have stories to share which we need to capture before they are forgotten. It would be great to get some of the local primary school students involved in a project which records these stories and the history of the hall for future generations," said the Mayor, Dominic King.
The newer committee members left feeling inspired and are calling out to residents of Brierfield or the larger Bellingen community who might be interested in assisting in the ongoing management of the hall to contact Fiona Hannaford on 6655 2786.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alison Pattinson on 6655 7300.


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Here come the (thought) police
on April 19, 2013 April 20, 2013 by David Banks3 Comments
A COUPLE of jurors have been in the news this week, one for speaking his mind in court, one for speaking his mind on Facebook.
One is now facing a contempt charge after he allegedly committed his thoughts on being chosen to try a man charged with sexual offences against a child to his Facebook page. He may be regretting being quite so frank in allegedly saying he "wanted to fuck up a paedophile."
The other was a juror on a sexual offence trial in Tyneside, but his problem was not the nature of the offence, it was the origins of the offender – a Mackem (native of Sunderland) whose home team had just given the Geordie juror's team, Newcastle United a 3-0 drubbing in the local derby. The juror was, he confessed, incapable of trying the man fairly and was discharged.
Cue outrage on Twitter at his confession, especially as the delay to the trial meant the victim had to go through evidence again.
Would we rather both had remained silent? Of course it would be preferable that all jurors arrived at trial capable of setting aside prejudice and trying the case solely on the evidence.
But if they are not capable of doing so, isn't it better to know that?
The Toon fan made his feelings known in court, so avoided anything more than the disapproval of the court, and a vocal few on Twitter and elsewhere. The Facebooking juror is facing somewhat more serious consequences.
This raises a wider point about the way in which offensive behaviour on social media is being policed and reported by the media and it follows on from the post I wrote below, about Paris Brown.
At the moment publication on social media is being treated by the police, the Crown Prosecution Service and the courts as just that, a form of publication, which it undoubtedly is. I would argue that it is more than that, it is fundamentally different to that.
Publication has for centuries now, involved many tiers of eyes examining an article, book or broadcast before it reached the general public. The exception being, perhaps, live TV, but even there a time delay and a watchful eye meant the public were usually spared anything too offensive.
In my own experience, any piece of writing I perpetrated had to get past a newsdesk, sub editor, chief sub editor, night editor and stone sub before it reached the paper and I, like many reporters before me, am grateful for their eternal vigilance.
Now, however the means of publication, or in the case of the retweet, re-publication, has been out in the hands of everyone. Anyone can distribute their thoughts to the multitude, in subbed, as fresh as the moment they had them. Much of it is wonderful, some of it mundane and plenty of it actionable in law.
And the instantaneous nature of social media publication, I would argue, differentiates it for any form of publishing we have seen before. If you watch a young person going at their iPhone, you realise just how slow your own thumbs are and how quickly they can commit their thoughts to the ether. And this is my fundamental point, this is less like publication and more like thought. Many users of social media, especially Twitter, are simply thinking out loud, very loud.
Of course, one might argue, it is their own fault, they know the power of the retweet, they ought know their digital thoughts become permanent and searchable for all to discover. But the vilification of the likes of Paris Brown and the juror who didn't like paedos simply tells people to keep their thoughts to themselves. It does not address the fact that they have those thoughts in the first place.
This is what social media is showing us, that there is an ugly side to people's nature and before they would only express it to family, close friends and those who shared their views, now they are committing it to the Internet.
And is this what we want? I think yes, I would rather know what a juror thought about me, so he could be discharged, than him keep it a secret and find me guilty.
When Orwell wrote 1984 he envisaged cameras in every home spying on our every action. This is so much more than that, we don't need the cameras, we have Twitter, Facebook, Blogs and more where people voluntarily sign up not only to record their actions but also their very thoughts.
The thought police are here, but they weren't sent in by Big Brother, they are us.
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And who has most interest in policing and suppressing social media?…..
Guess who wrote:
'Super-injunction crackdown on Google and Twitter could be good news for journalists
Posted by ……………………………………. on 16 May 2011 at 11:01
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt pledged last week to look at new regulations to cover new media publishers – particularly Twitter – who are making a mockery of UK privacy laws.
He had better act fast because unregulated blogs and Twitterers are having a field day with the issue of super-injunctions.
The latest miscreant I've seen is Google, via a hugely popular blog which has published a shared Google Doc listing all 80 of the privacy injunctions that we know about and listing many of those who are believed to be behind them. The spreadsheet includes a column amusingly headed "proof" about the provenance of each alleged injunction – which often lists this as "speculation".
I would argue that by publishing this spreadsheet Google is just as much a publisher as any blog or newspaper website. Incidentally, the blog itself is hosted by Google on its Blogger platform.
Some newspapers say that the widespread flouting of injunctions online is an argument for doing away with them.
But surely there will always be a case for prior-restraint on journalism in some cases? Such as in criminal prosecutions for blackmail and to protect vulnerable children.
Shouldn't the super-injunction furore be viewed as an opportunity to reign in the many blogs, social media websites and others who seek to publish without responsibility?
This could turn out to be an opportunity for the professional journalism industry – an industry which invests a great deal of time and money in ensuring that what it publishes is legal and ethical.
New Government regulation on publishers such as Twitter and Google could enable the real publishing industry to regain ground lost to new media – particularly the many millions of lost advertising income.
Perhaps Twitter and Google need to learn that you can't do news for free and you can't let people stick anything they like on your website without accepting the consequences.'
That came from the editor's blog of a well known British based press and media trade rag…. 🙂
(BTW, a Google search will find a reference to the original article OK, but the link won't take you back to the original page, nor, seemingly, will a search on the relevant site…if you have the patience to wait long enough. Neither Google cache or the Way Back machine seem to have copies either)
So are you really surprised that leading the charge on poor Paris Brown are none other than the leaders of the wonderful UK tabloid army, the warriors who will sacrifice the last drop of someone, anyone, else's blood to defend that last bastion of the ethical press in the free world?
As was written elsewhere on a very similar topic, the freeedom of the blogosphere etc, not too long ago….'The Press and 'freedom of speech'? The first real opportunity they have, when someone slips up badly, just watch, they will be coming to reign you (bloggers and social media posters) in….or maybe they think that, as the quid pro quo, they now have…. '
Your last sentence should have read…The thought police are here, but they weren't sent in by Big Brother, they were sent in by us.
Once upon a time newspapers consisted of words written by professionals, people (even those on the Sun, nay, even those on the Daily Hate Mail) more literate than the average, and printed on machinery operated by other highly skilled professionals.
The Rupert Murdoch with the support of the late Margaret Thatcher broke the print unions – and a good thing too – and newspapers are now produced differently; the work has in part been deskilled.
And now, what do you know? the other lot of professionals concerned are feeling the cold wind of competition too. Journalistic comment is no longer in the hands of a literate elite.
And there is a price to pay: the dissemination of a great deal of ignorant and sometimes damaging junk. Holocaust denial; crackpot conspiracy theories; contempt of court. That's life. I don't suppose the National Union of Monks and Ecclesiastical Operatives were too keen on the coming of the printing press!
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Q: How to do 2 animations at once with jQuery I'm working on a web project. I want to draw a div element (looks like a table) with an animation: I click on the button, then the div element appears with a small size upon the button, then it floats to "its" posion meanwhile gaining its original size.
I managed to do this, but only sequentely. First the scaling, than the floating. I want these animations to do at the same time.
I use jQuery ui show() function to make the div appear and scale to its origin size, then I use the jQuery animate fuction for the floating.
I tried to use the queue : false property. And I also called the .dequeue() function, but it woulnd't work as I wanted so.
I'll appreciate any pieces of advice. Thanks in advance. Cheers.
 $('#matrix').animate({
        top: positionTop,
        left: positionLeft,
    });
    $('#matrix').show("scale", { percent: 100, direction: 'both', origin: ['top', 'left'] }, 2000);
    $('#matrix').animate({
        top: positionTopAim,
        left: positionLeftAim
    });

Fiddle here: LINK

A:     var $matrix = $('#matrix');
    // store original size
    var size = {
        width: $matrix.width(),
        height: $matrix.height()
    };
    $matrix.animate({
        top: positionTop,
        left: positionLeft,
    });
    // Sets the width and height to 0
    $matrix.width(0).height(0).show();

    // animates into original size
    $matrix.animate({
        width: size.width,
        height: size.height
    }, {queue: false});

    $matrix.animate({
        top: positionTopAim,
        left: positionLeftAim
    }, {queue: false});

queue: false does the stuff
Here's the workaround
For further working with jQuery, prevent yourself from using the same selector twice/more-than once. It's not efficient. There's a formal directive to store the jQuery object into variable called "$something".
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Kotkamills, a manufacturer of laminating paper and its further-processed products, sawn timber and consumer packaging boards, has worked closely with Koskisen Oy for many years. The foundation of the successful partnership is, according to Ville Seppälä, Director of Kotkamills' Industrial Products Business Unit, the companies' similar backgrounds and clear synergies. Seppälä says the companies complement one another with no overlaps.
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"In that kind of partnership, both parties are committed to long-term business development. Since a broader connection has been part of the discussions, it has also led to an increased understanding of each party's business, as well as opportunities to find new solutions," says Anna-Maaret Roppola, Koskisen Oy's Procurement and Quality Manager. Roppola has been in charge of the co-operation with Kotkamills, and according to her, an essential benefit of the partnership is the mutual commitment and efforts to develop operations and products alike. "We have good, concrete examples of that – it shows as business growth," she adds.
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Isaac Chotiner/ June 6, 2011
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VISITING NEW DELHI and Calcutta not long after the smashing international success of Slumdog Millionaire, I was surprised by the number of Indians who wanted to hear my opinion of Danny Boyle's film. This was a nice inversion of the clichéd traveler's narrative, wherein the visitor solemnly asks the locals about the most recent artistic depiction of their homeland. ("American tourists," a British friend recently informed me, "inquire about The King's Speech and nothing else.") But when I turned the question back on my interlocutors, I was surprised less by the vehemence of the criticisms than by the opposing viewpoints on offer. For every person who described the movie as only the latest Western attempt to sugarcoat the realities of Indian life, there was someone else who admitted to feeling shame that the world had embraced a movie which presented the country as nothing more than a poverty-stricken wasteland. While these two points of view might have contradicted one another, each stemmed from the understanding that India was being intensely examined on the world's stage.
Patrick French's India: A Portrait, which the author calls an "intimate biography of 1.2 billion people," has received a number of hostile notices in the Indian press. As in the case of Slumdog Millionaire, many of the reviews seem concerned with the ways in which India is being interpreted. And a number of the criticisms lend credence to the notion that outsiders describing a foreign country are bound to be reprimanded. Pankaj Mishra, the first-rate novelist and essayist, has slammed French in two separate reviews, accusing him of ignoring India's agricultural sector, minimizing the country's widespread poverty, and making excuses for a new collection of oligarchs who seem completely uninterested in the welfare of the populace. French's best chapter, on the nepotistic character of Indian politics, is dismissed by Mishra as being "blindingly plain" to any "sentient" observer. By this standard, French should not have written about impoverished Indians: Indian poverty is also blindingly plain to anyone who spends a day in the country.
But French's book does exhibit some of the tendencies that have greeted the arrival of a "new" India with rose-tinted glasses. French, whose last effort was an astounding biography of V.S. Naipaul, is certainly aware of the dangers of writing about India, but he has trouble avoiding them. "Nearly everyone has a reaction to India, even if they have never been there," he writes in his introduction.
They hate it or love it, think it mystical or profane; find it extravagant or ascetic; consider the food the best or the worst in the world. For East Asians, it is a competitor and a source of some of their own spiritual traditions. For Americans, it is a challenge, a potential hub of cooperation or economic rivalry—both countries are diverse and hulking, their national identities strong and to an extent constructed, their populations loquacious and outgoing and admiring of entrepreneurial success.
This cliché-ridden, Manichean passage begs several questions. For example, how many countries have unconstructed national identities? And how many travelers actually think the food in India is really the best or the worst in the world? French admits that these are "old" ways of looking at India, but it is clear from his writing that he finds such categories helpful. He ends the chapter by claiming that "With its overlap of extreme wealth and lavish poverty, its mix of the educated and ignorant, its competing ideologies, its lack of uniformity, its kindness and profound cruelty, its complex relationships with religion, its parallel realities and the rapid speed of social change—India is a macrocosm, and may be the world's default setting for the future." Almost all of the observations above could be made about nearly every country on earth. Even when French is not consciously romanticizing India, he cannot help but view it as larger-than-life, which is another form of mythmaking. This is a pity, because French is a fine stylist and an excellent reporter, with an eye for the telling detail.
French subscribes to the relatively common view that the country's founding fathers, while heroically dedicated to the idea of secularism, ended up papering over religious differences, therefore ensuring the rise of sectarian Hindu politics. And he tends to support the now mainstream opinion that the centralized state apparatus, whose implementation helped guarantee the country's unity after the arbitrary gashes of partition, was eventually subject to diminishing returns thanks to the creakiness of socialist planning. The problem is that French seems so enraptured by India that his analysis is never quite convincing.
He is certainly not blind, for example, to the awful disparities of wealth that continue to shame the economically expanding nation, but he puts too much faith in the wisdom of India's new class of wealthy businessmen. His account of time spent with Sunil Mittal, the mobile phone service mogul, is embarrassingly gushing. It is certainly true, as Mittal argues, that philanthropy will be an important aspect of India's development going forward. Recent statistics suggest, moreover, that growing inequality in the country may be partially offset by slowly declining poverty rates, and employment opportunities that allow people to transition out of the agricultural sector, and bring in their wake rising levels of self-worth. But when set beside the country's hideous corruption, and increasingly close ties between government and industry, the picture is significantly less sanguine than French's narrative implies. In his interview with Mittal, he raises issues of poverty, but then appears enraptured by the idea of creating an Indian Carnegie Endowment, or something similar. This is one of the sections of his book that, given the scope of the challenges facing the country, feels untethered from reality.
But French's romanticization of the country is conveyed primarily by the grandiosity with which so many of his judgments are rendered. Everything in this account is big or new. It is refreshing that French seems unencumbered by political correctness, and appears willing to engage in observations about what makes something "specifically Indian," but the result is too often observations such as this: "To use a phrase now forbidden to historians, some traits seem like an expression of national character, and are specifically Indian. Reading the country's often vivid press, it feels as if some things only happen in India."
No doubt some things do happen only in India, but then French goes on to tell the story of a quirky taxicab driver, which is a rather universal platitude. Of the southern state of Tamil Nadu, he writes: "Tamils usually have a wide sprawl of a face, in keeping with the southern lushness. The land is rich with vegetation, paddy fields and mango trees, and the view from the coast is filled with fishing boats, long painted skiffs with curved prows, catching kingfish. Young men dive low for stone fruit—giant blue green mussels, which they pluck off the rocks." This is nicely written, but it is a parody of an island paradise. French no doubt experienced Tamil Nadu, much of which is lovely, in this manner, but the reader wonders how true and complete a picture he is being given as these ravishing scenes pile up.
French shifts skillfully between the micro and the macro, between descriptions of the individual and accounts of historical or political events; and on some of the larger issues he is more reliable than the subject of his previous book. With French one never feels, as one does in Naipaul's excursions to India or Argentina, that the author's biases and prejudices have kept him from setting out on his journey in good faith. If anything, the reverse is true—and it leads to a somewhat duller and less incisive trip. French's biography of Naipaul achieved a fine balance between the critical and the admiring, but it never slighted Naipaul's astonishing powers of observation. Here the balance is somewhat less measured, and the powers of observation significantly less acute.
Isaac Chotiner is the executive editor of The Book.


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Mandy Hankel takes a selfie by the water with her son, Elliot. The mother-son pair are Excelsior residents.
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More than a year has passed since Prior Lake resident Kelsey Ferguson lost her husband and welcomed a baby boy into the world. It all happened within four days.
Her son Maxley had been born premature without a piece on his 12th chromosome, and braved heart surgery several months later. Her husband lost a battle with vasculitis, a rare autoimmune disease which causes inflammation of the blood vessels.
Ferguson marks the happy moments since then: Maxley has reached a higher count of days spent home versus the hospital. He is gladder, she said, and is showing less signs of discomfort.
Back at the outset of the year ahead, Ferguson's grief swirled with concern for the medical expenses. How much would insurance cover? Was losing their house a possibility? Her husband, Scott, had been the breadwinner. How would she fare covering the expenses on her own?
"Nobody has that much money sitting in their bank account," she said. "At 29, it's just not something you ever plan for."
Ferguson's sister set up an account on the public fundraising website GoFundMe, sharing the family's story. Ferguson would later learn the family's insurance approved the medical expenses. But hospital bills aren't the only cost with being unwell.
"Medical reasons take you away from work, they take you away from being at home, and not being able to eat and grocery shop," Ferguson said.
Crowdfunding has swelled as a resource for southwest metro residents who are facing exorbitant medical expenses. The fundraising campaigns serve a dual purpose. For families in the trenches on medical care, donations and notes from donors are a comforting gesture. For many more, crowdfunding is a bandage for the gap left by insurance, or the lack thereof.
In 2017, more than one-third of the money raised on crowdfunding website GoFundMe went to self-categorized medical campaigns. The site says it now has more than 250,000 medical campaigns a year, raising more than $650 million. It shows how fast the trend has grown from 2011, when the site had only 8,000 medical campaigns raising $1.6 million.
Some medical campaigns on GoFundMe use the funds for innovative treatment and others for transportation, or covering the cost of missing work.
"It's important to understand that it's not just for emergencies and medical bills," said GoFundMe spokesperson Heidi Hagberg. "We see many different use-cases within the medical category."
The popularity of digital fundraising campaigns to give access to medical care is causing concern among social scientists and health care experts.
The 2018 Federal Reserve report on the economic well-being of United States households found one out of five adults had dealt with "major, unexpected" medical bills that year. The median of these expenses were between $1,000 and $4,999. Among the people who had medical expenses, 40% reported they still had unpaid debt from the bills.
The survey results said 90% of adults had health insurance. However, one-fourth of adults said they skipped necessary medical care because they had been unable to foot the bill. Twelve percent of respondents said they would not be able to afford an unexpected $400 expense.
Professors in health science and health geography published an article on crowdfunding and medical care for the journal of Social Science & Medicine in 2016.
The peer-reviewed short paper called for further research into how the growing trend impacts peoples' relationships with health care. The authors were concerned about the possibility of fraudulent campaigns; a loss of privacy for the person at the center of the campaign; and how campaigns fared differently based on the strength of the fundraising host's network.
Coaching resources dictating how to best market the fundraiser's story are available on the crowdfunding sites. According to the study, for all campaigns, the sites say, the more a potential donor sympathizes with a story, the more they are likely to donate.
The 2016 Journal of Social Science & Medicine article asks: What happens to health care accessibility when fundraising campaigns aren't successful?
"No one should have to choose between life-saving treatment and their child's life," said Mandy Hankel, an Excelsior resident who faced complications when her son was born several months premature. "And I fear that that happens more often than we would realize in today's society."
In July 2017, a pregnant Hankel was diagnosed with severe pre-eclampsia. As she fought for her life, doctors made the decision to perform a cesarean section. Her son, Elliot, was born at 26.5 weeks old, weighing 1 pound and 15 ounces.
Hankel focused on getting better so she could look after her son. She is a manager of the Starbucks in Excelsior's Kowalski's, and while insurance through her job covered much of her hospital stay and Elliot's care, she went three months without being able to work. Her cousin set up a GoFundMe fundraiser in support.
"When people are willing to fill the gaps that insurance doesn't fill, or refuses to fill," she said, "it puts the parent's mind at ease that they don't have to stress or worry about anything else, apart from helping the child get through whatever they need to."
The money raised helped cover time off for Hankel, a single mother. During her time in recovery, Hankel read the messages left by donors.
"I did not even have the energy to say anything back," she said. "The fact that they said something, and even if they chose to go the extra mile to donate, that meant the world."
Several miles away in Eden Prairie, Beverly Berkbigler recently set up a GoFundMe campaign for her nephew's family, whose daughter is battling a rare birth defect called VACTERL. Her nephew had been cautious at first to say yes to the creation of the fundraiser.
"It was always a constant, 'Will they (insurance) pay for it or will they not?'" Berkbigler said. "'Do I have to make a call here? Should I have gotten pre-approval?'"
The family never complained about their situation, but "you could catch glimpses of it on a down day," she said. They agreed to the creation of the fundraiser a month ago.
Berkbigler selected GoFundMe for its ease of use and intuitive process, she said. The outpouring of kindness from donors has been touching for her to witness. She hosted a garage sale to add to the fundraiser.
"Everybody just wants to help somebody in need," Berkbigler said.
When she heard a third of GoFundMe's campaigns are categorized as medical, she was surprised.
She paused before saying, "It's just, the system has to be better. There has to be a better way."
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The GoFundMe for Kelsey Ferguson's family: www.gofundme.com/kelsey-and-baby-fergie?ssid=1277525138&pos=1
To learn more about her story, her blog is http://honeyedheart.com/
The GoFundMe for Mandy Hankel's family: www.gofundme.com/mandy-and-elliot-jamestodd-hankel
The GoFundMe for Bev Berkbigler's family: www.gofundme.com/f/fundraiser-for-kylee039s-fight-with-vacterl
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Boyd Martin and Tsetserleg sailed clear through the cross-country course to take top honors and conclude CCI 4*-S competition at The Fork at TIEC presented by Lucky Clays Farm at Tryon International Equestrian Center (TIEC). Martin stopped the timers in 6:47 to finish on a total score of 35.00, improving from a third place rank throughout the week. Felix Vogg and Colero earned second place after their clear cross-country effort to garner a score of 39.80, while Elisabeth Halliday-Sharp and Fernhill By Night completed the podium on a score of 40.00. Halliday-Sharp also collected fourth place awards aboard Deniro Z, with a final score of 41.70.
Twenty-six pairs tested the track set by Captain Mark Phillips, hosted on the White Oak Course at TIEC and mimicking the same course used for the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018 (WEG). Martin was happy for some redemption over a particular sailboat obstacle that he admitted was less distracting than in September: "At WEG I got the wrong ride in, plus there was a lot of other stuff around it to distract the horse and that wasn't there today, so it was a little bit easier to get him over it today," he explained. "But still, it was a good feeling getting over it and I got a big, big cheer from the crowd. I could distinctively hear the owner shrieking, Christine Turner, who has been a great supporter and I could hear her cheering on her horse," said Martin. "It was good to get that behind [me] and come here, and to be honest the horse, Thomas, is a little bit more seasoned now and a little further on. He's probably learned a little bit more in the last 12 months, so he feels a lot more seasoned now, so he's a lot easier to ride.


The son of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali was detained by immigration officials at an airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., according to a lawyer and family friend.
Chris Mancini told CBC news that the 44-year-old and his mother, Khalilah Camacho-Ali — the second wife of Muhammad Ali — were both questioned at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after arriving from Jamaica Feb. 7.
"Both of them were asked if they were Muslims," said Mancini.
Officials questioned Ali Jr. for nearly two hours, repeatedly asking him, "Where did you get your name from?" and "Are you Muslim?"
Mancini said officials continued questioning Ali Jr. after he acknowledged he was Muslim. Ali Jr. was born in Philadelphia and holds a U.S. passport.
His mother was detained about 30 minutes, said Mancini.
"She had on her person a photograph of her and her late husband, the champ," he said. "She had to talk her way into being admitted into the country, even though she's born, raised and carries a U.S. passport."
"Needless to say, the Alis are upset about this, shook up. It's never happened to them before," Mancini told CBC News. "They completely are convinced this was only because of their religious faith."
Mancini, a United States prosecutor during the 1980s, said the justice department "would not have even thought of doing something like this" during his time.
"It's absolutely, based on my many years of doing this, an offence to me that the United States government has sunk this low. That just flies in the face of the bedrock principles upon which this country was founded."
But Mancini said he believed the incident was "part of a profiling program that the customs and border patrol have been ordered to implement."
"My personal opinion is it is connected to President Trump's attempt to ban Muslims from the United States."


WHAT UP!!! We're three cool guys looking for other cool guys who want to hang out in our party mansion. Nothing sexual. Dudes in good shape encouraged. If you are fat you should be able to find humor in the little things. Again, nothing sexual.
All players and skill levels welcome! Come shoot stuff with us! We are primarily a PvE focused clan looking for new active members. We focus on tackling and teaching strats for all end game content. Doesn't matter if you have 0 clears or 50.


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Oh Cutpuuurrssseee!!!! Where are you??!!?? Hello to you Sir if you are lurking around in the Shadows as MaTtks said!
Cutpurse was so sneaky. He was cool though and would ban in game and on forum quick.
He was a robot. He always was. We're upgrading him and reprogramming him.
Sorry for creating this thread iif0xyii, just was wondering. Rebuilding him and making Faster & Better!
Cutpurse real reason unmaned war machines are taken over in the future, not hackers. I see whats going on.
Aren't they making a game about this stuff that's coming out soon?
I recall seeing something along those lines here lately.


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Q: No connection string provided (Azure Application Insights) I new to Azure App Insights. I am trying to configure it in my Spring Boot + Kotlin application. So far, after reading the guides. I have added the dependency:
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.microsoft.azure/applicationinsights-runtime-attach -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
    <artifactId>applicationinsights-runtime-attach</artifactId>
    <version>3.4.9</version>
</dependency>

and in my application.yaml file, I added:
applicationinsights:
  runtime-attach:
    configuration:
      classpath:
        file: my_app_insights.json

My my_app_insights.json (resides in src/main/resources) contains:
{
  "connectionString":"A_VERY_LONG_CONNECTION_STRING",
  "sampling":{
    "requestsPerSecond":100
  },
  "instrumentation":{
    "logging":{
      "level":"INFO"
    },
    "jdbc":{
      "masking":{
        "enabled":true
      }
    }
  }
}

And in my Spring Boot main class I have done this:
fun main(args: Array<String>) {

    // Attach Azure Application Insights here.
    ApplicationInsights.attach()

    runApplication<MyDownloadApplication>(*args)
}

But when I start my spring boot application the usual way using mvn spring-boot:run...
I get the following error:
2023-02-21 18:41:11.152+05:30 ERROR c.m.applicationinsights.agent -
*************************
Application Insights Java Agent 3.4.9 startup failed (PID 18436)
*************************

Description:
No connection string provided

Action:
Please provide connection string.

18:41:11.582 [Thread-0] DEBUG org.springframework.boot.devtools.restart.classloader.RestartClassLoader - Created RestartClassLoader org.springframework.boot.devtools.restart.classloader.RestartClassLoader@306e2a0a
Feb 21, 2023 6:41:11 PM com.microsoft.applicationinsights.attach.ApplicationInsights attach
WARNING: Application Insights is already attached. It is not attached a second time.

Can you please tell me what am I doing wrong here? Do I need to add any other dependencies? Or is it the file name?
Any pointers would be helpful.

A: applicationinsights.runtime-attach.configuration.classpath.file property can't be defined in application.properties or application.yaml. Instead, it has to be defined with -D, for example -Dapplicationinsights.runtime-attach.configuration.classpath.file=applicationinsights-dev.json.
Another option is to no use -Dapplicationinsights.runtime-attach.configuration.classpath.file. In this case, Application Insights will search an applicationinsights.json file in the classpath (src/main/resources, src/test/resources).
Other configuration options exist for the Application Insights json file and are given here.

A: You have to add -Dspring-boot.run.jvmArguments with spring-boot:run. For example, if you have an applicationinsights-dev.json file in your classpath (src/main/resources, src/test/resources), you have to execute
mvn spring-boot:run -Dspring-boot.run.jvmArguments="-Dapplicationinsights.runtime-attach.configuration.classpath.file=applicationinsights-dev.json"


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Home > Accessories > Artist & Brands > San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo Centennial Address Labels
Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the San Diego Zoo with a set of bright and colorful personalized San Diego Zoo Centennial address labels. Each of the eight labels features the San Diego Zoo logo and a white silhouette of a special zoo animal. Animals include panda bears, polar bears, turtle, gorillas, eagle, lion, elephant, and koala bears.
© 2016 Zoological Society of San Diego
Bringing species back from the brink of extinction is the mission of San Diego Zoo Global. As a leader in conservation, the work of San Diego Zoo Global includes onsite wildlife conservation efforts (representing both plants and animals) at the San Diego Zoo, San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, as well as international field programs on six continents. The important conservation and science work of these entities is made possible by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Conservancy and is supported in part by the Foundation of the Zoological Society of San Diego. For more information about the San Diego Zoo, please visit the website at www.sandiegozoo.org
Labels are sold in sets of 144 with 4 sheets -- 36 labels per sheet. Individual label size is 2.5" x 0.75".
144 Labels
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package io.fabric8.certmanager.api.model.acme.v1alpha2;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAnyGetter;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAnySetter;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonPropertyOrder;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonDeserialize;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.Container;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ContainerPort;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.EnvVar;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.IntOrString;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.KubernetesResource;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.LabelSelector;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.LocalObjectReference;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectMeta;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectReference;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.PersistentVolumeClaim;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.PodTemplateSpec;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ResourceRequirements;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.Volume;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.VolumeMount;
import io.sundr.builder.annotations.Buildable;
import io.sundr.builder.annotations.BuildableReference;
import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
import lombok.Setter;
import lombok.ToString;
import lombok.experimental.Accessors;

@JsonDeserialize(using = com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer.None.class)
@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
@JsonPropertyOrder({
    "apiVersion",
    "kind",
    "metadata",
    "acmedns",
    "akamai",
    "azuredns",
    "clouddns",
    "cloudflare",
    "cnameStrategy",
    "digitalocean",
    "rfc2136",
    "route53",
    "webhook"
})
@ToString
@EqualsAndHashCode
@Setter
@Accessors(prefix = {
    "_",
    ""
})
@Buildable(editableEnabled = false, validationEnabled = false, generateBuilderPackage = false, lazyCollectionInitEnabled = false, builderPackage = "io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.builder", refs = {
    @BuildableReference(ObjectMeta.class),
    @BuildableReference(LabelSelector.class),
    @BuildableReference(Container.class),
    @BuildableReference(PodTemplateSpec.class),
    @BuildableReference(ResourceRequirements.class),
    @BuildableReference(IntOrString.class),
    @BuildableReference(ObjectReference.class),
    @BuildableReference(LocalObjectReference.class),
    @BuildableReference(PersistentVolumeClaim.class),
    @BuildableReference(EnvVar.class),
    @BuildableReference(ContainerPort.class),
    @BuildableReference(Volume.class),
    @BuildableReference(VolumeMount.class)
})
public class ACMEChallengeSolverDNS01 implements KubernetesResource
{

    @JsonProperty("acmedns")
    private ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderAcmeDNS acmedns;
    @JsonProperty("akamai")
    private ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderAkamai akamai;
    @JsonProperty("azuredns")
    private ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderAzureDNS azuredns;
    @JsonProperty("clouddns")
    private ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderCloudDNS clouddns;
    @JsonProperty("cloudflare")
    private ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderCloudflare cloudflare;
    @JsonProperty("cnameStrategy")
    private String cnameStrategy;
    @JsonProperty("digitalocean")
    private ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderDigitalOcean digitalocean;
    @JsonProperty("rfc2136")
    private ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderRFC2136 rfc2136;
    @JsonProperty("route53")
    private ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderRoute53 route53;
    @JsonProperty("webhook")
    private ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderWebhook webhook;
    @JsonIgnore
    private Map<String, Object> additionalProperties = new HashMap<String, Object>();

    /**
     * No args constructor for use in serialization
     *
     */
    public ACMEChallengeSolverDNS01() {
    }

    /**
     *
     * @param route53
     * @param webhook
     * @param acmedns
     * @param cnameStrategy
     * @param akamai
     * @param clouddns
     * @param cloudflare
     * @param digitalocean
     * @param azuredns
     * @param rfc2136
     */
    public ACMEChallengeSolverDNS01(ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderAcmeDNS acmedns, ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderAkamai akamai, ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderAzureDNS azuredns, ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderCloudDNS clouddns, ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderCloudflare cloudflare, String cnameStrategy, ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderDigitalOcean digitalocean, ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderRFC2136 rfc2136, ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderRoute53 route53, ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderWebhook webhook) {
        super();
        this.acmedns = acmedns;
        this.akamai = akamai;
        this.azuredns = azuredns;
        this.clouddns = clouddns;
        this.cloudflare = cloudflare;
        this.cnameStrategy = cnameStrategy;
        this.digitalocean = digitalocean;
        this.rfc2136 = rfc2136;
        this.route53 = route53;
        this.webhook = webhook;
    }

    @JsonProperty("acmedns")
    public ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderAcmeDNS getAcmedns() {
        return acmedns;
    }

    @JsonProperty("acmedns")
    public void setAcmedns(ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderAcmeDNS acmedns) {
        this.acmedns = acmedns;
    }

    @JsonProperty("akamai")
    public ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderAkamai getAkamai() {
        return akamai;
    }

    @JsonProperty("akamai")
    public void setAkamai(ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderAkamai akamai) {
        this.akamai = akamai;
    }

    @JsonProperty("azuredns")
    public ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderAzureDNS getAzuredns() {
        return azuredns;
    }

    @JsonProperty("azuredns")
    public void setAzuredns(ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderAzureDNS azuredns) {
        this.azuredns = azuredns;
    }

    @JsonProperty("clouddns")
    public ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderCloudDNS getClouddns() {
        return clouddns;
    }

    @JsonProperty("clouddns")
    public void setClouddns(ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderCloudDNS clouddns) {
        this.clouddns = clouddns;
    }

    @JsonProperty("cloudflare")
    public ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderCloudflare getCloudflare() {
        return cloudflare;
    }

    @JsonProperty("cloudflare")
    public void setCloudflare(ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderCloudflare cloudflare) {
        this.cloudflare = cloudflare;
    }

    @JsonProperty("cnameStrategy")
    public String getCnameStrategy() {
        return cnameStrategy;
    }

    @JsonProperty("cnameStrategy")
    public void setCnameStrategy(String cnameStrategy) {
        this.cnameStrategy = cnameStrategy;
    }

    @JsonProperty("digitalocean")
    public ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderDigitalOcean getDigitalocean() {
        return digitalocean;
    }

    @JsonProperty("digitalocean")
    public void setDigitalocean(ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderDigitalOcean digitalocean) {
        this.digitalocean = digitalocean;
    }

    @JsonProperty("rfc2136")
    public ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderRFC2136 getRfc2136() {
        return rfc2136;
    }

    @JsonProperty("rfc2136")
    public void setRfc2136(ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderRFC2136 rfc2136) {
        this.rfc2136 = rfc2136;
    }

    @JsonProperty("route53")
    public ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderRoute53 getRoute53() {
        return route53;
    }

    @JsonProperty("route53")
    public void setRoute53(ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderRoute53 route53) {
        this.route53 = route53;
    }

    @JsonProperty("webhook")
    public ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderWebhook getWebhook() {
        return webhook;
    }

    @JsonProperty("webhook")
    public void setWebhook(ACMEIssuerDNS01ProviderWebhook webhook) {
        this.webhook = webhook;
    }

    @JsonAnyGetter
    public Map<String, Object> getAdditionalProperties() {
        return this.additionalProperties;
    }

    @JsonAnySetter
    public void setAdditionalProperty(String name, Object value) {
        this.additionalProperties.put(name, value);
    }

}

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We are convinced that a skilled and committed staff is the foundation of our successful business. This is why we are constantly looking for motivated and goal-oriented personnel who appreciate the value of teamwork, responsibility and mutual respect.
Act as PKC's Technical & Project specialist for the customer and internal departments and enable the successful project start and continuation of our Business.
Drive a cross customer culture to work as one team on issues e.g. discuss issues and ideas in regular team meetings.


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Q: How do I install Matplotlib as a Macintosh Yosemite User I am a Macintosh Yosemite user. When I try to import matplotlib I get the following error.
    import matplotlib
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in <module>
    import matplotlib
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 180, in <module>
    from matplotlib.cbook import is_string_like
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib/cbook.py", line 33, in <module>
    import numpy as np
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/numpy/__init__.py", line 170, in <module>
    from . import add_newdocs
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/numpy/add_newdocs.py", line 13, in <module>
    from numpy.lib import add_newdoc
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/numpy/lib/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from .type_check import *
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/numpy/lib/type_check.py", line 11, in <module>
    import numpy.core.numeric as _nx
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/numpy/core/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from . import multiarray
ImportError: cannot import name 'multiarray'

When I use from pylab import axis that would work just fine. I do not know what is going on and I am just so lost. I have tried using homebrew, macports installs, dmg installs. I also have very little experience installing things through terminal so I just followed what other people said. Though, that is still not working.

A: Mac OS X ships with python by default. And there is one provided by homebrew. I would recommend using homebrew python over the default python.
Here, I suspect your numpy installation has landed up in the site-packages directory managed by the non-homebrew pip package manager whereas matplotlib package is installed in a different site-packages directory. (But I am not sure). Nevertheless it has something to do with multiple python's / package managers being used. This may not be the best answer, but so far the only solution I can think of to fix your problems is to uninstall pip and also remove everything in any python site-packages directory you can find on your filesystem,. And install python via homebrew again, and then install all packages required using the pip (which gets installed automatically when you install python using homebrew)
Warning: Make sure you list out the package names and store the names somewhere before deleting them because you will have to install them again.
brew uninstall python
#(ATTN) Uninstall macports and don't use it with brew
#(ATTN) Delete the contents of all python site-packages directories
rm /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/*
brew install python
# Homebrew comes with its own pip installed
pip install <package1>, <package2> ...

Here is a related question from someone who faced a similar problem:
Numpy build fails with cannot import multiarray
My advice: Don't use Homebrew and Macports or any other package manager together. They mess up with each other and I have faced the consequences in the past.I just use homebrew python now. For installing scientific python packages either Anaconda or Canopy (choose one) are really helpful, which can be installed on top of the homebrew python.

A: After having a lot of problems similar to the ones you describe, using sudo pip install -U matplotlib worked fine for me.


A determined and courageous Shiva embarks on a journey beyond the hills, where he grew up. During one of his conquests he comes across the Kingdom of Mahishmati & Kattappa, the royal confidant. It is here that he comes to know the dark truth of his lineage.