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FILM: Emily Dickinson "A Quiet Passion"
I've just emerged, blinking, into daylight from spending/wasting 2 hours with Emily Dickinson in "A Quiet Passion" (director: Terence Davies).
If you're intending to watch it:
sit in a fully darkened room so you can see what's onscreen in the gloom
don't try it as a date night
don't watch it (unless you love Ingmar Bergman-esque films)
I don't know who this film was made for – possibly students of philosophy and those keen to have an excuse for a good cry. It offers little for fans of Emily or literary historians although it does offer some spicey amuses bouches for feminists.
The online film critics admired it (Mark Kermode, Roger Ebert) , but there are uncomplimentary online comments onscreen from ordinary filmgoers and an Emily Dickinson scholar (which merits a raised eyebrow and a warning klaxon).
I came to the film interested in Emily as a writer – but this film said little, glossing over long years of non-writing and insisting that the regular schedule worked for her (whereas she wrote in a Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 "when I try to organize – my little Force explodes – and leaves me bare and charred".) There was little evidence that she enjoyed books either – I would have loved a scene where she was in her room at 3 am, reading a Victorian novel with relish, her feet up on the bed, turning the pages and entering into a world more exciting than her own home life. We were told of writers she liked, rather than shown.
To be fair to the director, the shadowy film lighting was historically accurate, and also Emily becomes reclusive towards the end of her life, so naturally most of the second half of the film was indoors. But she was a keen, expert baker and this is not shown, just alluded to. In fact, most of the film you are TOLD through words, rather than shown through pictures. In many ways, it would have made a good radio play.
The dialogue has a great deal of witty exchanges about philosophy, life, morals – but in
"Yo Emily! Stop harshing my mellow!"
Victorian convoluted language – it felt like a plate of spaghetti where you had to dig very hard to find the meatballs. It's so obscure than somebody, somewhere, will subtitle it in street-speak and it will be hilarious:
The film nobly but misguidedly tries to squash 40 years of her life into 2 hours. So we have glossy set pieces, but not enough scenes in depth. To be fair, there is a good key scene where her sister-in-law bustles over, from next door, concerned because she sees the light on – to find a radiant Emily saying that this is her usual time to write. They have a short but intense conversation about the difference in one's life as a writer compared to the other's more traditional wife/mother role.
The acting by the actresses was good throughout – especially Emily Dickinson played by Cynthia Nixon channelling Nicole Kidman, who had to mutate through the years from a moderately handsome and poised young woman into a haggard, overly shiny eyed, brittle and embittered woman in her fifties. Jennifer Ehle is fantastic as the ever present sister – I had to squint at her "Where had I seen her before?" before recognising her as the lead character in the classic BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice": Elizabeth Bennett to Colin Firth's immortal Mr Darcy.
*COSTUME ALERT* everything is period costume except male actor's hair
kudos for attempting to show the life of a non-pretty woman
no intrusive music throughout
good costume/hairstyles except. as usual, for the one guy with modern haircut (worst example of this for me, ever was Hugh Grant in the otherwise excellent "Sense and Sensibility" by Emma Thompson)
excellent acting by main female leads
dreariness
not showing Emily's private literary world
speech far too fast to catch meaning of witty word plays, could have been interspersed with pauses to slow down
trying to show too many years in one life, skimming
concealing the historical fact that she was so secret a poet
not showing any normal, enjoyable activity of the reclusive genius
no indication of her letter correspondence with the outside world
strongly featuring a female version of Oscar Wilde – but then not showing any influence on Emily and whisking character offstage – why was she given so much screentime?
Not worth watching unless you enjoy angst and physical suffering or are indifferent to literary history/poetry
Terence Davies
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In an interview with The Independent, Jean Tirole discusses monopolies, regulation, the role of the state, the "Nobel syndrome," and much more.
This entry was posted in Notes and tagged Government, Information, Jean Tirole, Monopoly, Nobel laureate, Regulation on November 17, 2017 by Dirk Niepelt.
The Economist reports about government initiatives aimed at using blockchain technology in the public sector.
Possible uses include land registries, identity-management systems, health-care records, or elections.
Proponents expect the technology to improve efficiency and transparency and foster trust.
Sweden tests a blockchain-based land registry; Dubai's government wants to completely shift to blockchain technology by 2020; Estonia stores health records and protects its shared government systems using blockchain-like technolog; Georgia's land registry uses blockchain technology and has processed 160,000 transactions; Ukraine wants to become "one of the world's leading blockchain nations," not least to build trust between government and citizens.
This entry was posted in Notes and tagged Blockchain, Dubai, Estonia, Georgia, Government, Health record, Land registry, Sweden, Transparency, Trust, Ukraine on June 7, 2017 by Dirk Niepelt.
In the FT, David Pilling reports about Somalia which has managed without central bank issued money for decades.
… up to 98 per cent of local banknotes are fake … With the help of the International Monetary Fund, Mogadishu plans to print official banknotes for the first time in more than a quarter of a century … No official Somali currency has left the presses since the Horn of Africa nation descended into clan warfare after the collapse of the government in 1991.
This entry was posted in Notes and tagged Central bank, Dollarization, Electronic money, Government, Means of payment, Money, Somalia on March 8, 2017 by Dirk Niepelt.
In the FT, Richard Waters reports about the advent of the automated company.
The DAO — an acronym of decentralised autonomous organisation, the name given to such entities — has been set up to invest in other businesses, making it a form of investor-directed venture capital fund. … The organisation is governed by a set of so-called smart contracts which run on the Ethereum blockchain, a public ledger designed to make its operations transparent and enforceable.
In other words, the code provides a commitment mechanism. Imagine a world where government interventions can be encoded in a similar way. This could open the way for solving a central problem of democratic societies: The time inconsistency of optimal government plans.
This entry was posted in Contributions, Notes and tagged Blockchain, Commitment, Decentralized autonomous organization, Ethereum, Government, Time inconsistency on May 19, 2016 by Dirk Niepelt.
Before the 1940s, Chicago's professors were much closer to the liberalism of British political economists such as Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill than the libertarianism of Hayek and Friedman in the 1980s and early 1990s. Mr Ebenstein looks at the ideas of scholars such as Jacob Viner and Frank Knight, and concludes that while they favoured individual freedom, their policy prescriptions did not exclude government action. Both perceived Smith as justifying the state intervening in the economy at times, such as with the provision of infrastructure, education for the young and the funding of arts, culture and science.
By the 1940s, the use of redistribution to ensure that everyone had a basic standard of living was accepted by most Chicago economists. For instance, Henry Simons, when he worked at Chicago between 1939 and 1946, set out how redistribution, by diffusing economic power in a society, was necessary in a free society. Even Hayek, in his libertarian polemic of 1944, "The Road to Serfdom", supported the use of environmental regulation and state-run social-insurance systems.
After they retired Hayek and Friedman became deeply libertarian. Mr Ebenstein says "the virtual neoanarchism that both preached" later on placed them "outside the classical liberal tradition". Hayek argued that citizens should have the right to have their taxes refunded if they did not consume government services and Friedman railed "against government at almost any time". Both enjoyed being in the limelight, even though their views did not fit with their earlier scholarly work. Mr Ebenstein bemoans the current popular perception of the Chicago school, as well as conservatives' embrace of it, as based on these more extreme later utterances.
This entry was posted in Notes and tagged Chicago school, Frank Knight, Friedrich August von Hayek, Government, Henry Simons, Jacob Viner, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Milton Friedman on October 30, 2015 by Dirk Niepelt.


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package redis.clients.jedis;

import redis.clients.jedis.exceptions.JedisAskDataException;
import redis.clients.jedis.exceptions.JedisClusterException;
import redis.clients.jedis.exceptions.JedisClusterMaxRedirectionsException;
import redis.clients.jedis.exceptions.JedisConnectionException;
import redis.clients.jedis.exceptions.JedisMovedDataException;
import redis.clients.jedis.exceptions.JedisNoReachableClusterNodeException;
import redis.clients.jedis.exceptions.JedisRedirectionException;
import redis.clients.util.JedisClusterCRC16;
import redis.clients.util.SafeEncoder;

public abstract class JedisClusterCommand<T> {

  private static final String NO_DISPATCH_MESSAGE = "No way to dispatch this command to Redis Cluster.";

  private JedisClusterConnectionHandler connectionHandler;
  private int maxAttempts;
  private ThreadLocal<Jedis> askConnection = new ThreadLocal<Jedis>();

  public JedisClusterCommand(JedisClusterConnectionHandler connectionHandler, int maxAttempts) {
    this.connectionHandler = connectionHandler;
    this.maxAttempts = maxAttempts;
  }

  public abstract T execute(Jedis connection);

  public T run(String key) {
    if (key == null) {
      throw new JedisClusterException(NO_DISPATCH_MESSAGE);
    }

    return runWithRetries(SafeEncoder.encode(key), this.maxAttempts, false, false);
  }

  public T run(int keyCount, String... keys) {
    if (keys == null || keys.length == 0) {
      throw new JedisClusterException(NO_DISPATCH_MESSAGE);
    }

    // For multiple keys, only execute if they all share the
    // same connection slot.
    if (keys.length > 1) {
      int slot = JedisClusterCRC16.getSlot(keys[0]);
      for (int i = 1; i < keyCount; i++) {
        int nextSlot = JedisClusterCRC16.getSlot(keys[i]);
        if (slot != nextSlot) {
          throw new JedisClusterException("No way to dispatch this command to Redis Cluster "
              + "because keys have different slots.");
        }
      }
    }

    return runWithRetries(SafeEncoder.encode(keys[0]), this.maxAttempts, false, false);
  }

  public T runBinary(byte[] key) {
    if (key == null) {
      throw new JedisClusterException(NO_DISPATCH_MESSAGE);
    }

    return runWithRetries(key, this.maxAttempts, false, false);
  }

  public T runBinary(int keyCount, byte[]... keys) {
    if (keys == null || keys.length == 0) {
      throw new JedisClusterException(NO_DISPATCH_MESSAGE);
    }

    // For multiple keys, only execute if they all share the
    // same connection slot.
    if (keys.length > 1) {
      int slot = JedisClusterCRC16.getSlot(keys[0]);
      for (int i = 1; i < keyCount; i++) {
        int nextSlot = JedisClusterCRC16.getSlot(keys[i]);
        if (slot != nextSlot) {
          throw new JedisClusterException("No way to dispatch this command to Redis Cluster "
              + "because keys have different slots.");
        }
      }
    }

    return runWithRetries(keys[0], this.maxAttempts, false, false);
  }

  public T runWithAnyNode() {
    Jedis connection = null;
    try {
      connection = connectionHandler.getConnection();
      return execute(connection);
    } catch (JedisConnectionException e) {
      throw e;
    } finally {
      releaseConnection(connection);
    }
  }

  private T runWithRetries(byte[] key, int attempts, boolean tryRandomNode, boolean asking) {
    if (attempts <= 0) {
      throw new JedisClusterMaxRedirectionsException("Too many Cluster redirections?");
    }

    Jedis connection = null;
    try {

      if (asking) {
        // TODO: Pipeline asking with the original command to make it
        // faster....
        connection = askConnection.get();
        connection.asking();

        // if asking success, reset asking flag
        asking = false;
      } else {
        if (tryRandomNode) {
          connection = connectionHandler.getConnection();
        } else {
          connection = connectionHandler.getConnectionFromSlot(JedisClusterCRC16.getSlot(key));
        }
      }

      return execute(connection);

    } catch (JedisNoReachableClusterNodeException jnrcne) {
      throw jnrcne;
    } catch (JedisConnectionException jce) {
      // release current connection before recursion
      releaseConnection(connection);
      connection = null;

      if (attempts <= 1) {
        //We need this because if node is not reachable anymore - we need to finally initiate slots renewing,
        //or we can stuck with cluster state without one node in opposite case.
        //But now if maxAttempts = 1 or 2 we will do it too often. For each time-outed request.
        //TODO make tracking of successful/unsuccessful operations for node - do renewing only
        //if there were no successful responses from this node last few seconds
        this.connectionHandler.renewSlotCache();

        //no more redirections left, throw original exception, not JedisClusterMaxRedirectionsException, because it's not MOVED situation
        throw jce;
      }

      return runWithRetries(key, attempts - 1, tryRandomNode, asking);
    } catch (JedisRedirectionException jre) {
      // if MOVED redirection occurred,
      if (jre instanceof JedisMovedDataException) {
        // it rebuilds cluster's slot cache
        // recommended by Redis cluster specification
        this.connectionHandler.renewSlotCache(connection);
      }

      // release current connection before recursion or renewing
      releaseConnection(connection);
      connection = null;

      if (jre instanceof JedisAskDataException) {
        asking = true;
        askConnection.set(this.connectionHandler.getConnectionFromNode(jre.getTargetNode()));
      } else if (jre instanceof JedisMovedDataException) {
      } else {
        throw new JedisClusterException(jre);
      }

      return runWithRetries(key, attempts - 1, false, asking);
    } finally {
      releaseConnection(connection);
    }
  }

  private void releaseConnection(Jedis connection) {
    if (connection != null) {
      connection.close();
    }
  }

}

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Q: Quais as funções das tags de formulário no HTML5? A pergunta se refere as tags não tão comumente usadas, como por exemplo, <fieldset>, <legend>,  e <optgroup>.
Recentemente precisei fazer um trabalho extenso envolvendo formulários de cadastro e notei que essas tags são pouco usadas, ou em grande maioria, substituídas por div que acabam tendo a mesma 'Função', como de agrupar um bloco de dados do formulário que seria feito pelo <fieldset>.
Então minha dúvida seria:

*

*Por que essas tags são pouco usadas (pelo menos no que pesquisei não encontrei muito uso)?

*Existe alguma restrição/suporte (ou falta dele) por parte dos browsers? O que acho difícil, já que são implementações html5.

*Além do aspecto estrutural, elas carregam consigo alguma função que dificilmente vamos perceber? Como comportamento diferenciado de acordo com o browser, ou em casos de acessibilidade/funções extras (se é que consegui me expressar bem nessa questão)?

Pois até agora não encontrei algo que mostrasse a real vantagem de usar essas tags (seja bruta, ou com algum reset de CSS) ou de criar uma div equivalente com um CSS próprio para atingir o mesmo objetivo.

O único que encontrei mais a respeito foi o , normalmente utilizado para criação de checkbox e radio com css customizados.
Obs.:
Minha dúvida foi referente as tags de form devido ao meu trabalho recente com base nisso. Mas se houver uma resposta mais abrangente nesse área, tags de html5, seriam bem vindas também, pois sei que existem muitas tags pouco exploradas, como as tags de imagens, blocos, etc..

A: De fato é possível usar div no lugar destas tags, mas elas dão melhor semântica ao que está fazendo.
Isto é bom para documentar melhor o seu projeto do ponto de vista de desenvolvimento e também para melhorar a interpretação de outros softwares, como os buscadores, melhoradores de acessibilidade e outros especializados que podem saber como tratar estas tags de forma mais específica.
Além disto se um dia mudar alguma coisa na forma como os navegadores trabalham, tendo informação mais certeira pode trazer benefícios novos ao site sem mexer nele.
Cada uma delas possui uma vantagem específica mas acho que uma resposta individual deixaria a pergunta muito ampla.
O baixo uso se deve principalmente pelo fato de serem relativamente novos. E também por desconhecimento por parte dos desenvolvedores. Muitos acham que elas não acrescentam nada.
O suporte está presente em todos os navegadores mais novos:

*

*fieldset

*legend

*label

*optgroup
Outras formas:

*

*header

*footer

*section

*article

*aside

*nav

*figure

*figcaption

*time

*mark

*main

É possível usar o html5shiv para suprir a falta no Internet Explorer mais antigo.

A: Trabalhar com padrões ou não?
Não so em html como em outras linguagens da para resolver certos tipos de problemas de "n" formas diferentes, mas afinal, é aconselhavel ?
Da pra perceber em vários códigos "HTML5" a utilização de div's para tudo como era no html4 em vez de usar um padrão como este:

O Desenvolvedor segue a risca a semantica passada? não, mas funciona ? sim.
Em algums livros de html5 todas estas tags citadas tem a sua importancia e seu "por que" de existir.
Por exemplo:
1 - <fieldset>  Ele é indicado para agrupar um conjunto de campos do formulario, uma das facilidades dele é dividir o formulario em várias
seções.
Exemplo:

<form method="post">
  <fieldset>
    <legend>1 - Passo

    </legend>Name:
    <input type="text" size="20">

Email:
    <input type="text" size="20">
  </fieldset>

  <fieldset>
    <legend>2 - Passo

    </legend>Favorite Color: Red:
    <input type="radio">Blue:
    <input type="radio">Green:
    <input type="radio">

Favorite Toothpaste: Crest:
      <input type="checkbox">Close-Up:
      <input type="checkbox">Gleem:
      <input type="checkbox">

  </fieldset>

  <fieldset>
    <legend>3 - Passo

    </legend>

      <input type="button" value="Enviar" onclick="alert('Stop clicking the buttons')">

  </fieldset>
</form>

2 - <legend>  Ele anda lado a lado com fieldset para fazer a separação das seções.
3 -    Ele atua como uma extensão do elemento ampliando a área clicavel, como você citou o click no texto do label deixa marcado um checkbox.
4 - <optgroup>  É usada para opções de grupo dentro de um elemento select.
Quando há muitas opções, uma simples camada de hierarquia pode  ajudar o usuário na sua escolha.
eles atuariam  como um título para o grupo.
Exemplo:

<select name="enemy">
  <optgroup label="Milky Way">
    <option value="Apophis">Apophis</option>
    <option value="Anubis">Anubis</option>
    <option value="Replicators">Replicators</option>
  </optgroup>
  <optgroup label="Pegasus galaxy">
    <option value="Wraith">Wraith</option>
    <option value="Genii">Genii</option>
  </optgroup>
</select>

Por fim, o uso adequado destas tags que são raramente usadas vão de cada desenvolvedor, se você preza por semantica e por acessibilidade
identificar e usar certas tags pode melhorar bastante a qualidade da aplicação web.
Leitura recomendada: Dive Into HTML5 por Mark Pilgrim

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package com.smallchill.web.model;

import org.beetl.sql.core.annotatoin.AutoID;
import org.beetl.sql.core.annotatoin.SeqID;
import org.beetl.sql.core.annotatoin.Table;
import com.smallchill.core.annotation.BindID;
import com.smallchill.core.base.model.BaseModel;

import javax.persistence.Column;

/**
 * 订单
 * Created by shilong
 * on 2016/11/28.
 */
@Table(name = "tb_order")
@BindID(name = "id")
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class Order extends BaseModel {

    @Column(name = "id")
    private Integer id;
    @Column(name = "group_id")
    private Integer groupId;
    @Column(name = "user_id")
    private Integer userId;
    //订单编号
    @Column(name = "order_no")
    private String orderNo;
    @Column(name = "ga_id")
    private Integer gaId;
    //订单金额
    @Column(name = "order_amount")
    private Double orderAmount;
    //订单类型 1:入会费 2:年续费
    @Column(name = "order_type")
    private Integer orderType;
    @Column(name = "counts")
    private Integer counts;
    //订单状态: 1:未审核 2:失败 3:交易成功 4:退款成功 5:退款失败
    @Column(name = "status")
    private Integer status;
    @Column(name = "create_time")
    private Long createTime;
    @Column(name = "flow")
    private Integer flow;
    @Column(name = "platform")
    private Integer platform;

    public Integer getFlow() {
        return flow;
    }

    public void setFlow(Integer flow) {
        this.flow = flow;
    }

    public Integer getPlatform() {
        return platform;
    }

    public void setPlatform(Integer platform) {
        this.platform = platform;
    }

    public Integer getCounts() {
        return counts;
    }

    public void setCounts(Integer counts) {
        this.counts = counts;
    }

    public Integer getGaId() {
        return gaId;
    }

    public void setGaId(Integer gaId) {
        this.gaId = gaId;
    }

    public Integer getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Integer id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public Integer getGroupId() {
        return groupId;
    }

    public void setGroupId(Integer groupId) {
        this.groupId = groupId;
    }

    public Integer getUserId() {
        return userId;
    }

    public void setUserId(Integer userId) {
        this.userId = userId;
    }

    public String getOrderNo() {
        return orderNo;
    }

    public void setOrderNo(String orderNo) {
        this.orderNo = orderNo;
    }

    public Double getOrderAmount() {
        return orderAmount;
    }

    public void setOrderAmount(Double orderAmount) {
        this.orderAmount = orderAmount;
    }

    public Integer getOrderType() {
        return orderType;
    }

    public void setOrderType(Integer orderType) {
        this.orderType = orderType;
    }

    public Integer getStatus() {
        return status;
    }

    public void setStatus(Integer status) {
        this.status = status;
    }

    public Long getCreateTime() {
        return createTime;
    }

    public void setCreateTime(Long createTime) {
        this.createTime = createTime;
    }
}


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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Orens magnificent Six Days of War, an internationally acclaimed bestseller, is the first comprehensive account of this epoch-making event.
Writing with a novelists command of narrative and a historians grasp of fact and motive, Oren reconstructs both the lightning-fast action on the battlefields and the political shocks that electrified the world.
And the balance of power changedin the Middle East and in the world.
A towering work of history and an enthralling human narrative, Six Days of War is the most important book on the Middle East conflict to appear in a generation.
Read Online Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
(Thanks a lot, cheap white wine and Amazons one-click shopping!) The downside to my book hoarding is that it is used against me, every time my wife shows up in a new pair of shoes or boots or moccasins. After all, the Middle East is a lot of history bloody, tragic, comic-tragic to swallow. Oren starts with a series of contextual chapters: one chapter devoted to a sweeping overview of Israel and the Arabs; another chapter more tightly focused on the catalysts of the war; and a third given over to the unfortunate mechanics (a delayed telegram, a gamblers gambit, and fear, fear, fear) that triggered open conflict. Im a bit of a newbie to Middle Eastern history, while Oren writes with an authoritative assurance that his readers have a bit of background knowledge. Eventually, based on false reports that Israel was going to attack Syria, Egypts leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser moved troops into the Sinai and ejected the UN observers stationed there. Importantly, all these regional tensions played out against the backdrop of the Cold War. The USSR backed Syria and Egypt, while the US stood behind Israel. Eventually, hemmed in on three sides (Syria to the north, Jordan to the west, Egypt to the south), and with no assurance of American help, Israel attacked. Towards the end of the six days, with the west and south secure, Israel captured the Golan Heights defended by Syria for good measure. The tactical aspects of the war is conveyed academically, as though this were a staff ride rather than a general history. The subtitle to Orens work is June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Oren goes only cursorily into the nuts-and-bolts of the postwar echoes: new territorial boundaries; land for peace; settlements; Arab embarrassment; Israeli hubris; and the seeds of the Yom Kippur War. As an avowed history nut, there is a very real reason I mostly avoid reading about certain topics, such as Vietnam and the Middle East. The Middle East is still an evolving, bloody, perhaps-intractable mess.
New review: Aug 09 Since I have been spending the last year reading about Israel and Palestine, I may now class this book as shameless and apologetic when it comes to Israeli militarism. Old review: Though the author says that he sets out to provide an objective history of the Six Day War, there are two glowing descretions: He's Jewish and Israeli. Yes, it is a good book, and it is probably as objective as possible, eliciting some sympathy for King Hussein and Nasser, while loathing/loving Moshe Dayan--that is, you get to see how it ran from the inside.
V. I have read biographies of many of the key people in this book so I am very familiar with the events. Oren became Israels Ambassador to the United States. If you are interested in the history of Israel or the Middle East this book will provide information about an important event.
Ambassador Oren's narrative confirms those vague impressions, but he also provides the detail to flesh out the story.
Oren is noticeably weaker when discussing the actual tactics of the war, choosing to view the military units as pieces in a diplomatic chess game rather than giving the reader a sense of what the soldier on the ground was feeling, although he does do a fantastic job in describing the climactic battle for Jerusalem.
This is a wonderfully concise, well-written history of the war between Israel and Egypt, Syria, and Jordan that lasted only six days in June 1967. In this case, the Soviet Union sided with Egypt and Syria, but only to an extent, never daring to get involved in the actual fighting. It's true the Arab armies were routed, but they did fight hard, especially Jordan's troops in the West Bank and Syrian soldiers on the Golan.
Oren explains in considerable detail how Arab ignorance and mistrust was the real key to the vastly outnumbered Israelis defeating three Arab armies in just six days. And yet the Israeli attack on June 5, 1967, came as a complete surprise to the commander of the Egyptian Army. On June 5, nearly the entire Israeli Air Force attacked air bases all across Egypt. With so much of the IDF fighting on the ground and in the air in Sinai driving toward Egypt, if the Jordanian and Syrian armies had attacked, Israel would have to stop the attack and defend itself, at minimum pulling all air support away from Egypt. the IDF attacked to take out the guns and by the night of June 9-10, retook Jerusalem and had the Jordanian army, including the vaunted Arab Legion in full retrat all across the West Bank of the Jordan River. If the Syrians had attacked, the Israelis would have been obliged to stop their offensives in Jordan and Egypt. Oren explains battles in great detail, especially retaking Jerusalem and the air attack that won the war on the first day.
This was a very well researched and well written book.
My review published in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2002: A necessary light 'Six Days' goes far to help sort out Mideast conflict's tangled web Reviewed by Steve Kettmann Sunday, July 28, 2002 Six Days of War June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East By Michael B. But a little context can go a long way in offering some insight -- especially for a general reader. There's much of that to be had in "Six Days of War," Israeli scholar Michael Oren's workmanlike, richly detailed study of the 1967 war that established Israel's reputation as a formidable military power. If anything emerges with any clarity in reconsidering the details of what Israelis call "The Six Day War" and Arabs try not to call anything at all, it's the minute distance that can separate one course of events from another. "Capriciousness characterized the process leading to the outbreak of the war," Oren writes. Describing the buildup of tensions that preceded the war, and the at times bizarre events, he tells of the Egyptian press going big with a story about an Arab Legion defector named Capt. "He was later seen frequenting cafes in Cairo." Soviet Ambassador Sergei Chuvakhin privately informs Abba Eban that his government has decided to sever relations with Israel, "then, to the foreign minister's astonishment, the Soviet ambassador burst into tears." Oren accomplishes much, much more here than bringing alive his important tale with the kind of texture so essential to avoid falling into a gray recitation of troop strengths, battle readiness or political backdrops. Most of all, by painting his portrait with such care and thoroughness, Oren reminds us of a basic fact: The question when it comes to Israel-Arab dynamics does not always have to be about being biased against one or the other, but rather about seeing how both sides have suffered and sacrificed, and both urgently deserve something other than endless iterations of warfare and conflict.
Oren (Hebrew: ; born Michael Scott Bornstein on May 20, 1955) is an American-born Israeli historian, author, politician, former ambassador to the United States (20092013), and current member of the Knesset for the Kulanu party and the Deputy Minister for Diplomacy in the Prime Minister's Office. His newest book Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide was published by Random House on June 23, 2015. The IDF is a strong military force, but does not have the capacity and magnitude the US Army has to deter aggression." Also during June 2015, an op-ed piece by Oren published in the Wall Street Journal claimed that Barack Obama had deliberately sabotaged US-Israeli relations, resulting in Kulanu leader Moshe Kahlon distancing himself and the party from Oren's stated views.59 Shortly afterwards another article by Oren was published by Foreign Policy, which argued that Obama's outreach to the Muslim world as highlighted by his Cairo speech was partly rooted in "abandonment" by his father and stepfather. In 2015, Oren published Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide (June 2015), which aimed to describe the recent state of IsraelUS relations.
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The concept developed for ISTO. sought to follow the line of thought of the Portuguese clothing brand, which has adopted an independent and disruptive stance with the fast fashion industry. A new line of articles was developed that could be included in all shops, thereby materializing the strategy featured in the slogan 'Luxury Essentials made affordable. 100% organic. Transparently made in Portugal': the very essence of the products is underscored by the use of base colours – grey, yellow, green, pink and blue; the incorporation of natural stone reinforces the 'organic' nature; and the sense of transparency is provided through the use of translucent materials such as glass and acrylic. According to this mindset, the furniture prototypes were designed as key elements to be deployed in the brand's physical spaces: a storefront, a counter, a table and a mirror.
The project for converting the store on the ground floor of a corner building in Campo de Ourique covers an area of 43m2. The intervention focused on the customer area and tried to be precise and effective by employing the previously outlined strategy. The walls opposite the shop's main façade were painted pink, and a new curtain was designed to cover the entire height, from floor to ceiling, and enclose the fitting room area. This new colour line provides a seamless backdrop to the shop which is both scenic and light. On the walls of the façade, the glass panes of the shop windows received new green frames.
The new service counter displays a front panel in 'Himalayan Green' marble, lit by a linear lamp, designed in translucent green acrylic. A massive block of the same stone supports the tall mirror, placed in the centre of the shop as a monolithic feature, while the table with glass top displays the smaller scale accessories. The base of the existing clothes racks, designed by the designer Manuel Amaral Netto, have details in shades of blue, creating an enveloping atmosphere in which the elements meticulously communicate with each other through colour and texture.


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Eibergen è una località e un'ex-municipalità dei Paesi Bassi situata nella provincia della Gheldria. Soppressa il 1º gennaio 2005, il suo territorio, assieme ai territori dei comuni di Borculo, Neede e Ruurlo, è andato a formare la nuova municipalità di Berkelland.

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Q: How to nest multiple if functions to result in different vlookups in Excel? I am trying to auto populate start dates for a specified time frame based on 2 sets of criteria. Criteria 1 is the name of the time frame, in my example "Period 1, Period 2". Each Period can have different starting days which would be criteria 2 "Monday, Tuesday". I have tables set up with specified dates that correlate to the starting day of the week. this table is named "_effectivedates".
Essentially what I am wanting to achieve would be:
If B11 = Monday then look up starting date that matches "Period 1" in B17 from _effectivedates column 2. IF B11 = Tuesday then then look up starting date that matches "Period 1" in B17 from _effectivedates column 4.
Below is the formula I have tried, it seems to work fine with one if B11 = Monday, but if i change B11 to read Tuesday it returns "false"
=IF(B11="Monday",VLOOKUP(B17,_effectivedates,2,IF(B11="Tuesday",VLOOKUP(B17,_effectivedates,4,))))

A: What you could do is a translation table of Monday = 2 and Tuesday = 4 and so on and use vlookups to know what value to use.
Somewhere in the workbook:
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Monday   2
Tuesday  4

And so on...
Then your vlookup will be:
=Vlookup(B17,_effectivedates,Vlookup(B11,[range above],2, false), false)

So you vlookup the weekday and use that in the vlookup.

A: It's returning "False" when Tuesday because you didn't close your parenthesis after you first vlookup. The formula should be:
=IF(B11="Monday",VLOOKUP(B17,_effectivedates,2),IF(B11="Tuesday",VLOOKUP(B17,_effectivedates,4)))


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The UK's national airline, British Airways, announced in recent hours the cancellation of an additional 10,300 flights scheduled from July to October 2022. This is a decision, similar to one taken just a few weeks ago, related to the operational crisis that has forced the British airline to scale back its offerings to customers so as not to incur ongoing delays and trips cancelled at the last minute due to staff shortages.
"These further actions are the right thing to do" to limit disruptions in the Summer peak tourism season. A "flexibility" card is needed: "It means that we can further reduce our schedule and consolidate some of our services so as to guarantee as many flights as possible", the company explained in a note.
With this announcement, the airline is estimated to have eliminated nearly 30,000 flights, particularly short-haul flights scheduled from June to October. Among other things, the decision is linked to staffing problems: suffice it to say that at the height of the pandemic it had laid off 10,000 workers. Meanwhile, British Airways' top management stressed that economic aid from the London government will be used to limit the cuts by ensuring that passengers will receive re-routings or refunds.
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Adeosun's certificate forgery: ICPC stops probe
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission said on Monday that it had stopped investigations into the use of a forged exemption certificate of the National Youth Service Corps by a former Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun. The ICPC stated this just as the NYSC said it …
Zainab Ahmed: These are very challenging times for our country
The newly appointed Acting Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed on Monday assumed office after her appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday to replace Kemi Adeosun, who resigned. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Dr Mahmoud Isa-Dutse, and other directors of the Ministry, on Monday, received the Supervising Minister of …
Adeosun: How I got Fake NYSC certificate
Kemi Adeosun, the finance minister until last Friday, in her letter of resignation to President Muhammadu Buhari responded for the first time officially to the allegation of forging the NYSC exemption certificate, by expressing profound shock. In the letter, the British-born Nigerian said she did not relocate to Nigeria until …
FORGERY: UPN KNOCKS FG FOR FAILING TO PROSECUTE ADEOSUN
The leadership and members of United Patriots of Nigeria strongly condemn the deliberate refusal of the federal government to arrest and prosecute Mrs Kemi Adeosun, the disgraced former minister of finance, for forgery of exemption certificate of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) after it was established that the act of …
President Buhari accepts Adeosun's resignation
The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, finally bowed to pressure by tendering her resignation letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday. Her resignation followed a prolonged silence over an allegation in a Premium Times report that she forged her National Youth Service Corps exemption certificate. The Special Adviser to …
Kemi Adeosun: Why I decided to resign
Embattled former Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has given reasons for her decision to resign from her position in President Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet. In her resignation letter made available to journalists, the former minister noted that she was shocked by the outcome of the investigation done on the allegation that …
BREAKING: Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun Resigns
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Adeosun's NYSC certificate: Until allegation is proved, don't expect Buhari to act, Minister says
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says President Muhammadu Buhari's integrity remains intact despite the allegation of certificate forgery preferred against his Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun. He said the allegation against the minister was still being investigated, and that Buhari was only waiting for the conclusion before …
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The World Bank has indicated its willingness to provide technical support for Nigeria in critical areas to facilitate her economic growth and development. The World Bank's Vice-President for Africa, Mr Hafez Ghanem, who gave the indication in Abuja during a discussion with the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udo …


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Clarence A. Watson/Alexis E. Frye Home
1300 Prospect Drive
Also known as "Ridgecrest," this large sprawling home was begun in the fall of 1905. Built by D.M. Donald, it is located on a ridge above the end of Ramona Drive. The building permit issued by the City of Redlands states that the home was to be located on "Mrs. Hill's Private Drive," which was not unusual since Mrs. Watson was Cornelia Hill's daughter. When constructed, the estimated cost was $11,000.
Constructed of stone, wood, and brick, the residence was described in a 1905 Citrograph as one of the "homiest homes in the city. Hardwoods in profusion will be both unique in design and harmonious in furnishings." Other features are the front and rear circular porches, balustrades, oval windows with keystone trim, and the wing structures.
The home was purchased, in 1911, by Alexis E. Frye, a noted geographer, educator, and attorney, whose published geography was used in schools worldwide. Mr. Frye served as superintendent of the San Bernardino County Schools from 1886 to 1899. At that time he joined the McKinley Administration in Washington to organize the schools in Cuba. The Fryes continued to live in the home until the 1940's and then in 1947, a subsequent owner moved the east-wing servant quarters to 1216 West Olive Avenue. Dr. and Mrs. D. J. Rothenberger purchased the home in 1962 and present owners, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Cotton, purchased it in 1969.
The Redlands Area Historical Society is proud to honor this unique example of Redlands' Heritage and to commend the stewardship of the present owners.


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Lil Uzi ADMITS Making SATANIC Music . . . Tells Fans . . . You're All GOING TO HELL WITH ME!!!
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Rapper Lil Uzi Vert admitted to making Satanic music - and he warned fans that they are "coming to hell with him." Uzi made the shocking statement at a concert two nights ago. And the fans in attendance were STUNNED by Uzi's admission.
Uzi told his fans that they have "Entered the Rapture." He continued, "Since none of y'all are flying up to heaven right now . . . you're ALL coming to hell with me."
According to a report from HotNewHipHop, "Remember the rumors flying around that Lil Uzi Vert is actually Satan? While the assumption was never actually proven, Uzi seems interested in reviving the speculation through his recent claims during his set at London's Wireless Festival."
Perhaps Uzi knows something that we don't. Maybe we are actually in the midst of a rapture and Uzi is the one to save us all. Hinting at his satanic allegiances in the past, the "Money Longer" singer told crowd members, "Like I told y'all earlier, you motherfuckers have entered the rapture. And if nobody flying up to Heaven right now, obviously all y'all motherfuckers going to Hell right with me." As the hit song begins to play, Uzi continues to speak over the instrumental, going further. "Oh, you already here," says Uzi, "I'm so sorry. You can't get out! You're stuck, it's over. You heard the song a million times and you didn't even know. That's fucked up but I still love you anyway."
After Uzi made the shocking statement, one of his band members attempted to leave the stage. But Uzi stopped him - and told the man, "I'm so sorry, ya can't git out! Ya stuck! It's ova!"
And here's the video - that is believed to have all the Satanic references in it:
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Riot Sets Fire To League Of Legends' Awful Public Chat Rooms
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League of Legends' public chat rooms have long been crawling with scammers and all other manner of assholes. So developers Riot have decided to shut them down.
It's a decision that's all down to moderation. Or lack of it. The way the rooms are currently built means that there's only an "ignore" button available, when really, the size of the game (and the crowd it attracts) means they need some tools that are a little more useful in weeding out (and keeping out) the unwanted.
Here's the important part of a statement issued by Riot:
The official public chat rooms have grown rife with RP sellers, scammers and Elo-boost spam. The default four rooms we established can be used by a tiny fraction of our players at a time. Given the number of League players, most conversation spills into private, community-created rooms.
Unfortunately, private chat rooms and even the awesome community hubs like Dominate Dominion and Summoner School lack moderation tools beyond the ignore button. While the experience in private chat rooms is better than the public versions, we still want to provide tools to address unwelcome drop-ins and toxic behavior.
Long term we're exploring and working on major and minor improvements to chat and chat rooms aimed at enhancing usability and adding new functionality.
As an immediate action we're going to disable the public chat rooms until they're useful and accessible. In their current shape they just don't work and can actively create negative experiences for many players (especially new players).
We'll keep all private chat rooms and messaging available to everyone, and bring the official public chat rooms back as soon as we can.
Going forwards, Riot wants to make chat a more useful part of the League of Legends experience, seeking to emulate the kind of party experience available on platforms like Xbox Live.
We'd like to create a persistent hangout for the friends you play with. Those friends should bring in their like-minded friends as well, and the badass players you meet playing great games. While you're at it, why not invite some players from the community as well?
At the end of the day, when you log in you should feel like you're surrounded by active players that like to play League the way you do. You should be to able jump easily into games with those friends - - without having to send game invites one by one.
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Tides of Madness is a sequel to Tides of Time and features gameplay similar to that design. Tides of Time is a drafting game for two players. Each game consists of three rounds in
Tides of Madness is a sequel to Tides of Time and features gameplay similar to that design. Tides of Time is a drafting game for two players. Each game consists of three rounds in which players draft cards from their hands to build their kingdom. Each card is one of five suits and also has a scoring objective.
Tides of Madness adds a new twist: madness. Some cards, while powerful, harm your psyche, so you must keep an eye on your madness level or else risk losing the game early as your mind is lost to the power of the ancients. Whoever has the most madness in a round either scores 4 points or discards 1 madness token ? and the latter option is valuable because if you ever have nine or more madness, you lose the game immediately.


But instead of getting sponsored by Nike, New Zealand's Logan Campbell is raising money for his bid to make the taekwondo competition in the 2012 Olympics by opening up a brothel in Auckland.
Campbell hopes that his brothel will earn him about $300,000 before the games. His parents spent $150,000 to help him participate in tournaments and qualify for the 2008 Olympics, where he placed in the top 16.
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'It's not rational': Putin's bizarre speech wrecks his once pragmatic image
Analysis: President makes appeal to Ukraine's military to abandon its 'drug-addicted, neo-Nazi' leaders.
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Looking dead-eyed into the camera on Friday, Vladimir Putin gave one of the most bizarre speeches of his 22 years as Russia's leader, a directive that managed to sound alarming even in a week when he has ordered tanks into Ukraine and missile strikes on Kyiv.
"Once again I speak to the Ukrainian soldiers," he said, addressing his enemy. "Do not allow neo-Nazis and Banderites to use your children, your wives and the elderly as a human shield. Take power into your own hands. It seems that it will be easier for us to come to an agreement than with this gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis."
The speech seemed to be ripped from an alternate reality – or from the second world war, where Putin appears to be spending more of his time as he launches the kind of broad military offensive not seen in Europe for nearly 70 years.
All this week, Putin's megalomaniacal tendencies have been on display like never before. He has summoned his aides for a surreal national security council that resembled a television reality show and launched tirades about Lenin and decisions made nearly 100 years ago.
He has also, for the first time, spoken about his maximalist goals in this war: regime change in Kyiv, toppling the government of Volodymyr Zelenskiy and replacing it with a more pliant leadership. Putin's call for a coup in Kyiv indicates that if Russia wins this war, Zelenskiy will almost certainly not remain in power. How he achieves that is anyone's guess.
A number of analysts predicted this as Russia deployed more than 60% of its ground forces to Ukraine's borders and demanded concessions that could never be granted.
But Putin's unhinged appearances and apparent drive to war have raised questions of whether he remains a rational leader.
"Despite Crimea and everything else, Putin had always seemed an extremely pragmatic leader to me," said Tatyana Stanovaya, the founder of R.Politik. "But now when he's gone in this war against Ukraine, the logic in the decision is all about emotions, it's not rational."
What's going on inside Putin's mind? His own words give us a disturbing clue
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Those emotions are deeply rooted in history and the historical injustices suffered by Russia. Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta, said he saw Putin as a man with "a historical map in his mind and a plan to use his military to achieve it".
Central to that map is Ukraine, which he has described as an artificial state. "Modern Ukraine was wholly and fully created by Russia," Putin said in a historical sleight-of-hand, "namely Bolshevik, communist Russia."
To help picture it, state TV ran a map earlier this week showing Ukraine cut up to represent which parts were "presents" from various leaders, including Stalin, Lenin and Khrushchev. Some commentators said it represents the partition that Putin himself might be imagining if he gets his way.
While once the map may have been viewed as fantasies or media trolling, a western diplomat based in Ukraine on Friday pointed to his speeches and to that map as a serious sign that Putin was weighing up a dismantling of the country.
"He is not pretending anymore. For the first time I think he's revealing who he really is," the diplomat wrote.
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It goes without saying that the people you spend eight or more hours a day with can make or break your work experience. Having a colleague who's there to celebrate your wins and lend an ear for your grievances? That makes a huge impact on the happiness meter, especially for millennials.
LinkedIn recently discovered how important those work BFFs are in its latest Relationships @Work study. In partnership with CensusWide, the survey polled more than 11,500 full-time professionals between the ages of 18-65 in 14 countries including the United States, Sweden, India, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Italy, Indonesia, Brazil and the U.K.
The study found that millennials (ages 18-24) rely on work buddies to boost their spirits and output.
They don't call it a generation gap for nothing. Almost half the workers surveyed between the ages of 55-65 reported that friends at work had nothing to do with their performance on the job.
Part of this may come from the easy intimacy most millennials have with their colleagues.
The majority (53%) of millennials are more open to sharing relationship advice with coworkers in the office, compared to less than one fourth (23%) of boomers.
One in three (28%) millennials have texted a manager out of work hours for a non-work related issue, compared to only 10% of boomers.
"Young generations generally tend to share more personal details due to the fact that they simply don't have as much personal information or life experience to share in that stage of life," LinkedIn's career expert Nicole Williams tells Fast Company.
If you're wondering how gen X falls into all this, it's somewhere in between. "We looked at various age groups and found the most significant differences were among in the young millennial and later-in-life baby boomers," says Williams.
Williams believes this merging between work and personal life is also product of a heavy cocktail mixed with equal parts technology, reality TV, and social media. Organizational psychologist Billie Blair, of organizational change company Change Strategists, Inc. agrees. "From our experience with millennials in the corporations of our clients, it's a function of the 'Facebook generation' where everything gets shared, whether it's wise to or not," says Blair.
Williams does think that the number of hours they work–more than generations past–helps them build more meaningful relationships.
"Boomers, who traditionally look at their work day as the "9 to 5 job," are more inclined to separate their professional lives from their personal lives," she says. Many of them go home to their spouses and children after the work day, Williams observes. "They already have established relationships at home, they're not as interested in building friendships at work," she adds.
Nearly half of all millennials (49%) are more likely to discuss salary with coworkers at work, compared to less than one third of baby boomers (31%).
"There is less of a divide than previous generations in discussing salary–it doesn't have the same level of stigma as it did 10 years ago," says Williams who is a gen Xer. "Historically speaking, the ranges of starting salary used to be much higher than they are nowadays," she explains.
Williams notes that tools such as LinkedIn provide more visibility for sharing information and encourage people to talk about issues such as salary. "Millennials today are being paid significantly less upon entering the work force. They ask the salary question among their peers as a frame of reference," Williams says.
Of course, sharing sensitive information can come back to bite you, says Williams, so it's better to err on the side of caution. "I recommend picking up on social cues from your co-workers to determine what's appropriate to discuss in the workplace," she says. To be safe, Williams advises offering broad-stroke answers while staying within boundaries of what's acceptable.
Divulging personal details isn't necessarily making millennials more competitive. Only 18% of all workers polled reported that work friends made them more eager to get ahead, with millennials weighing in at just over a quarter (27%).
Sixty-eight percent of millennials would sacrifice a friendship with a colleague for a promotion; 62% of baby boomers would never consider it.
Millennials fair-weather friendship is probably just fine, though. "Time will be the great instructor," Blair contends.


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Auf diesem Bild ist alles vereint, was ich LIEBE!
And on this illustration you will find everything I deeply LOVE!
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