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Presentation of Luther Blissett's
Enemies Of The State. Criminals, "Monsters" and Special Laws in the Society of Control
In March, the LBP will also put out a lengthy essay (about 300 pages) titled "Nemici dello Stato. Criminali, "mostri" e leggi speciali nella società di controllo" [Enemies Of The State. Criminals, "Monsters" and Special Laws in the Society of Control].
The publisher is Rome-based "autonomous" collective Derive Approdi, the same as Toni Negri's. After the controversial Lasciate Che I Bimbi (1997), that generated two civil trials, a libel suit and an official ban request, we're ramming another anti-copyright fist into the stomachs of magistrates, cops, priests and "law & order" politicians. We examined the series of liberticide "emergency laws" [in German: "Notstandsgesetze"] that started in the mid-Seventies in order to repress "Terrorism", reached new heights with the 1980's 'anti-mafia' and the "totale mobilmachung" known as the Clean Hands Inquiry (1992-96), then stretched out to some early 1990's law against "football hooligans" and "nazi skinheads", till the recent 'Act on Child Pornography and Pedophilia' and the Church-driven mass hysteria on "Satanic cults" and "crazy sects". Our thesis is that early emergency laws were suitable to the crisis of Taylorism/Fordism and the disciplinary society, while the most recent ones perfectly fit a society of control based on a "molecular" prevention of social conflict.
In the 20th anniversary of the "7 Aprile" inquiry (which took into prison the whole Autonomia Operaia movement and must be considered the very paradigm of everything followed), the LBP looks into the political/juridical/media mechanisms by which the political establishment and the judiciary have started a perpetual, authoritarian screw turn. As Liberal jurist Italo Mereu put it in his book "Storia dell'Intolleranza in Europa" (1979), this perennial state of emergency is based on the 'Catholic [juridical] Model', i.e. that of the Holy Inquisition (e.g. the use of so-called "pentiti" [repentants, i.e. former "terrorists" or criminals who became narks], the use of torture, "preventive detention" as a way to extort confessions etc.).
We admit that the book is somewhat scary, including as it does many sad stories of witch hunt journalism, judicial horror, liberticide law, police abuse, censorship and Catholic revanche. A "state of freedom" report from this sector of Southern Europe, as well as an explanation of Q's dark allegories.
This will be the last book signed by the Italian milieux of the LBP before the Big Seppuku. We'll commit a symbolic suicide in January 2000 and stop adopting the name, so the Project will jettison the last piece of ballast and perhaps flourish elsewhere (the Spanish are doing fucking fine, for example).


Australia's Biggest Morning Tea is held every year in May. It is one of The Cancer Council Australia's major fundraising events and the largest, most successful event of its kind in Australia. Lajna Imaillah (Women's Auxiliary) NSW has been participating in this event for the past three years.
The Cancer Council is Australia's leading cancer charity and is committed to the prevention and control of cancer and to supporting those affected by the disease.
The funds raised during Australia's Biggest Morning Tea are vitally important in sustaining The Cancer Council Australia's cancer research initiatives; education programs; and support services for those diagnosed with cancer, their families and carers.
Lajna Imaillah (Women's Auxiliary) NSW participated enthusiastically in this years Biggest Morning Tea on 11th May 2008. Food stalls were set up, where cakes and light savory food, such as Samosas and Kebabs were sold, and there was no shortage of hungry ladies eager to help with the fundraising.
The efforts of Lajna Imaillah (Women's Auxiliary) NSW in helping such a commendable charity are always appreciated and funds raised by such Communities, or even individuals, are a real testament to the fact that when it comes to Australia's Biggest Morning Tea, every cup really does count in the fight against cancer.


Barbados' top security chiefs anticipate the deployment of troops to Dominica in the wake of Hurricane Maria will be a lengthy one, given the magnitude of the disaster.
Members of the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) and the Regional Security System (RSS) began arriving on the island last Wednesday to contribute to relief efforts following the devastation caused by the category five hurricane on September 18.
Two Coast Guard vessels, the HMBS Leonard C Banfield and HMBS Rudyard Lewis, have journeyed to Roseau to transport relief supplies and return evacuees to Barbados.
BDF Chief of Staff Colonel Glyne Grannum visited the island along with RSS Executive Director Captain Errington Shurland.
Grannum told reporters the recovery process will be "painfully slow, and that is not only regrettable and unfortunate, but it is the reality on the ground".
Hurricane Maria left extensive infrastructural damage in its wake, with the majority of buildings damaged or destroyed, and roads rendered impassable, having been blocked with fallen trees and other debris, hampering initial efforts to transport relief supplies to communities.
Some areas have also been cut off from the rest of the island, without essential services such as water and electricity.
Maria was the latest major storm to hit the Caribbean this year, following Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which also caused significant damage to countries in the northern Caribbean.
Grannum said the extent of damage across the region meant his men and women will be stretched in the coming months.
"We have small forces [and] multidimensional threats such as presented and delivered by Hurricane Maria always bring out a need for multi-skilled, multi-disciplinary personnel. And there has been some strain and there will be some strain going forward in terms of managing the initial deployment and replacing and rotating persons out. So we're going to have to be very careful about how we rotate the personnel, but that strain is going to be inevitable.
"Fortunately, and I can speak with confidence from the Barbados Defence Force perspective and also from the perspective of the Regional Security System, we train very hard, and whilst the dimensions of the problem of the devastation presented by Hurricane Maria have been unimaginable, the training mentally certainly is a tremendous asset in terms of being able to sustain an operation such as this," he stated.
Meanwhile Shurland estimated that the task of rebuilding Dominica would go on for several months.
This, he said, meant regional troops could be in the hurricane battered island for several months.
"I quite frankly don't see this deployment closing off within three to four months because we need to get the citizenry of Dominica back to a state where they can start to rebuild on their own. I think certainly what I've observed about resilience of the people on the street, I would say three to four months," he said.
The RSS chief advised the authorities in the Caribbean to heed lessons from the violent storms, particularly as it pertained to building codes.
Having visited Anguilla after Hurricane Irma devastated the British overseas territory, he said the Anguillans were adopting a different approach to building.
"They use concrete roofs. I think it is high time that we in the region look at a building code to how we construct our buildings, whether our homes or government buildings . . . . Several of the islands have been impacted over the years and I don't think we can continue to build our homes in [the current] fashion … Preparedness leads to resilience, and resilience in my mind, leads to survival," Shurland said. The HMBS Leonard C Banfield on Saturday brought home over a dozen Barbadians who were stranded in Dominica after the storm.
Among them was hiker Stephen Atwell, who described the storm as a "life changing" experience.
"I've never see anything like it. It was life changing. I was walking around for eleven hours. I would never want to go through anything like that again," Atwell said.
Also caught in Dominica during the tropical cyclone was Beverly Smith-HInkson, the wife of Barbados Labour Party parliamentarian Edmund Hinkson.
"The structure that we were in, even though it was wall, we could feel it vibrating with the strength of the wind. All we could do it get into the small bathroom that had solid walls all around but when were heard the roof went, we were concerned that it would blow off. Luckily that ceiling held, but water started coming through it was up to our ankles" she told Barbados TODAY, adding that it was an experience she would never forget.
"Up and On", Colonel Grannum and Captain Shurland.


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Obama's Scandal-Tainted VP Chair
Dick Morris Thursday, 05 June 2008 10:48 AM
On his first day as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama made his first clear, serious mistake: He named Eric Holder as one of three people charged with vice-presidential vetting.
As deputy attorney general, Holder was the key person who made the pardon of Marc Rich possible in the final hours of the Clinton presidency.
Now, Obama will be stuck in the Marc Rich mess.
If ever there was a person who did not deserve a presidential pardon, it's Marc Rich, the fugitive billionaire who renounced his U.S. citizenship and moved to Switzerland to avoid prosecution for racketeering, wire fraud, 51 counts of tax fraud, tax evasion (to the tune of $48 million), and illegal trades with Iran in violation of the US embargo following the 1979-80 hostage crisis.
Seventeen years later, Rich wanted a pardon, and he retained Jack Quinn, former counsel to the president, to lobby his old boss.
It was Holder who had originally recommended Quinn to one of Rich's advisers, although he claims that he did not know the identity of the client.
And he gave substantive advice to Quinn along the way. According to Quinn's notes that were produced to Congress, Holder told Quinn to take the pardon application "straight to the White House" because "the timing is good."
And once the pardon was granted, Holder sent his congratulations to Quinn.
In 2002, a congressional committee reported that Holder was a "willing participant in the plan to keep the Justice Department from knowing about and opposing" the Rich pardon.
It is one thing to reach back to Obama's pastor to raise doubts about his values. But it is quite another to scrutinize the record of his first appointee.
It couldn't be a bigger mistake.
© Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
On his first day as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama made his first clear, serious mistake: He named Eric Holder as one of three people charged with vice-presidential vetting. As deputy attorney general, Holder was the key person who made the...
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Q: Dystopian future, an old novel where everyone only has a three day memory? I'm trying to find the name and/or author of a story I read in the 1990s (I think) about a future where everyone takes 'memory loss' pills. It means you only remember three days of short term stuff, though you remember all the basic skills like talking and tying your shoelaces, and who your family is. If you don't take the pills you have to live in an exile community. This boy takes the pills, and is looking after a small shrub, but he doesn't know for how long he's been looking after it. Something like that.
Anyone read something even remotely like this and could point me in the right direction?
Much appreciated.

A: This description reminds me of "The Vandal" by Ann Schlee, published in 1979.  This book won the Gaurdian's Children's Fiction Prize in 1980.  It also features the forgetting, but it has a shrub as well.
The hero is a boy called "Paul", the Vandal of the title.  He lives in an ordered society, where order is maintained because everyone forgets all specific knowledge (people they know, but not how to speak etc.) after a few days, unless they are reminded.  Each day ends with a ritual where the family drinks a special Drink, and destroys all papers "to avoid contamination".  But Paul has an urge to start fires.
There was also a shrub.  Paul tries at one point to protect a plant - more of a weed than a shrub that is growing beside a bench, where it shouldn't be growing.  The council workers will kill it if they spot it.  There always come by at the same time, so he has a chance to conceal it, by sitting on the bench each time they come round so they don't see it.
Eventually Paul is sent away.  The end is quite strange.

A: It sounds kinda like "Memento Nora" by Angie Smibert;

Nora, the popular girl and happy consumer, witnesses a horrific
  bombing on a shopping trip with her mother. In Nora's near-future
  world, terrorism is so commonplace that she can pop one little white
  pill to forget and go on like nothing ever happened. However, when
  Nora makes her first trip to a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic, she
  learns what her mother, a frequent forgetter, has been frequently
  forgetting. Nora secretly spits out the pill and holds on to her
  memories. The memory of the bombing as well as her mother's secret and
  her budding awareness of the world outside her little clique make it
  increasingly difficult for Nora to cope. She turns to two new friends,
  each with their own reasons to remember, and together they share their
  experiences with their classmates through an underground comic. They
  soon learn, though, they can't get away with remembering.

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The 'Mercy' collection has been inspired by the continuous flow of time, and the inevitable twists and turns of life. The boldness of the solid sterling silver jewellery is a testament to the people we have become over time. The pendant comes in three sizes. This medium size is 20mm in diameter and comes on a 60cm chain.


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/*global QUnit, sinon */
sap.ui.define([
	"sap/ui/core/Core",
	"sap/m/Table",
	"sap/ui/Device",
	"sap/m/Button",
	"sap/m/Column",
	"sap/m/library",
	"sap/m/Page",
	"sap/m/ColumnListItem",
	"sap/m/Text",
	"sap/m/Label",
	"sap/m/table/columnmenu/Menu",
	"sap/m/table/columnmenu/QuickAction",
	"sap/m/table/columnmenu/Item",
	"sap/ui/thirdparty/jquery"
], function(Core, Table, Device, Button, Column, library, Page, ColumnListItem, Text, Label, ColumnMenu, QuickAction, Item, jQuery) {
	"use strict";

	QUnit.module("popin");

	QUnit.test("ShouldSetDemandPopin", function(assert) {
		var fnTestCase = function(initialValue, valueToSet,bShouldInvalidate, expectedValidateToBeCalled){
			//SUT
			var result,
				originalInvalidate,
				invalidateWasCalled = false,
				sut = new Column();

			if (bShouldInvalidate){
				sut.setMinScreenWidth("9001px");
			}

			originalInvalidate = sut.invalidate;
			sut.invalidate = function(){
				originalInvalidate.call(sut);
				invalidateWasCalled = true;
			};

			//Act
			sut.setProperty("demandPopin", initialValue);
			result = sut.setDemandPopin(valueToSet);

			//Assert
			assert.strictEqual(sut.getDemandPopin(), valueToSet,"demandPopin was set");
			assert.strictEqual(sut,result, "should be chainable");
			if (expectedValidateToBeCalled){
				assert.equal(bShouldInvalidate, invalidateWasCalled,"invalidate was called");
			}

			//Cleanup
			sut.destroy();
		};

		//Same Value - no invalidate should not be called
		fnTestCase(true, true, true, false);
		fnTestCase(true, true, false, false);
		fnTestCase(false, false, true, false);
		fnTestCase(false, false, false, false);

		//Different Values invalidate should be called
		fnTestCase(true, false, true, true);
		fnTestCase(false, true, true, true);

		//Different Value but invalidate should not be called
		fnTestCase(true, false, false, false);
		fnTestCase(false, true, false, false);
	});

	QUnit.test("ShouldKnowThatItIsAPopin", function(assert) {
		var fnTestCase = function(demandsPopin, hasMedia, hasMatchingMedia, expectedResult){
			//SUT
			var result,
				sut = new Column();

			if (hasMedia) {
				sut._media = { matches: hasMatchingMedia };
			}

			sut.setProperty("demandPopin", demandsPopin);

			//Act
			result = sut.isPopin();

			//Assert
			assert.equal(result, expectedResult);

			//Cleanup
			sut.destroy();
		};

		//Demands no Popin - should always be false
		fnTestCase(false, true, true, false);
		fnTestCase(false, false, true, false);
		fnTestCase(false, true, false, false);
		fnTestCase(false, false, false, false);

		//has no media - should always be false
		fnTestCase(true, false, true, false);
		fnTestCase(true, false, false, false);

		//has no matching media is a popin but it has media - true
		fnTestCase(true, true, false, true);

		//has everything - false
		fnTestCase(true, true, true, false);
	});

	QUnit.module("size and visibility");

	QUnit.test("ShouldKnowIfItIsHidden", function(assert) {
		var fnTestCase = function( expectedResult, hasMedia, hasMatchingMedia, hasScreen, minWidth){
			//SUT
			var result,
				sut = new Column();

			if (hasMedia) {
				sut._media = { matches: hasMatchingMedia };
			}

			if (hasScreen){
				sut._screen = true;
			}

			sut._minWidth = minWidth;

			//Act
			result = sut.isHidden();

			//Assert
			assert.strictEqual(result, expectedResult);

			//Cleanup
			sut.destroy();
		};

		//if it has media it should return if media matches
		fnTestCase(false, true, true);
		fnTestCase(true, true, false);

		//no media now it depends on screen and width

		//no screen - false
		fnTestCase(false, false, undefined, false, true);

		//noMinWidth - false
		fnTestCase(false, false, undefined, true, 0);

		//minWidth is smaller than windows inner width - false
		fnTestCase(false, false, undefined, true, -1);

		//minWidth is bigger than windows inner width - true
		fnTestCase(true, false, undefined, true, 10000);

	});

	QUnit.test("ShouldValidateMinWidth", function(assert) {
		var fnTestCase = function(width){
			//SUT
			var sut = new Column();

			//Act
			sut._validateMinWidth(width);

			//Assert
			assert.ok(true,"valid minScreenWidth : " + width);

			//Cleanup
			sut.destroy();
		};

		//invalid testcases
		assert.throws(function(){ fnTestCase(1);},/expected string for property "minScreenWidth" of /,"raised error because it expects a string");
		assert.throws(function(){ fnTestCase("random string");},/or sap.m.ScreenSize enumeration for property/,"raised error because it expects a valid screenSize");
		assert.throws(function(){ fnTestCase("eightpx");},/or sap.m.ScreenSize enumeration for property/,"raised error because it expects a valid screenSize");
		assert.throws(function(){ fnTestCase("5pxa");},/or sap.m.ScreenSize enumeration for property/,"raised error because it expects a valid screenSize");
		assert.throws(function(){ fnTestCase("-5px");},/or sap.m.ScreenSize enumeration for property/,"raised error because it expects a valid screenSize");
		assert.throws(function(){ fnTestCase("5%");},/or sap.m.ScreenSize enumeration for property/,"raised error because it expects a valid screenSize");

		//valid ones
		fnTestCase("8px");
		fnTestCase("100000em");
		fnTestCase("0rem");

		for ( var screenSize in library.ScreenSize) {
			fnTestCase(screenSize);
		}
	});

	QUnit.test("ShouldKnowIfWidthIsPredefined", function(assert) {
		//SUT
		var sut = new Column({minScreenWidth : "240px"});

		//Act
		assert.strictEqual(sut._screen,"phone");
		sut._isWidthPredefined("600px");

		//Assert
		assert.strictEqual(sut._screen,"tablet");
		assert.strictEqual(sut._minWidth,"600px");

		//Cleanup
		sut.destroy();
	});

	QUnit.test("Visible property should not make the column visible when hidden by minScreenWidth", function(assert) {
		var clock = sinon.useFakeTimers(),
			oTable = new Table({
				contextualWidth: "Desktop",
				columns: [
					new Column()
				]
			}),
			sut = new Column({
				minScreenWidth: "Tablet"
			});

		oTable.addColumn(sut);
		oTable.placeAt("qunit-fixture");
		Core.applyChanges();
		assert.ok(sut.getVisible(), "Column is visible");

		oTable.setContextualWidth("Phone");
		clock.tick(1);
		assert.strictEqual(sut.getDomRef().style.display, "none", "Column is hidden due to minScreenWidth");

		sut.setVisible(false);
		clock.tick(1);
		assert.strictEqual(sut.getDomRef().style.display, "none", "Column is hidden");

		sut.setVisible(true);
		clock.tick(1);
		assert.ok(sut.isHidden(), "hidden via media query");
		assert.strictEqual(sut.getDomRef().style.display, "none", "Column is hidden due to minScreenWidth");

		oTable.setContextualWidth("Desktop");
		clock.tick(1);
		assert.notOk(sut.isHidden(), "visible via media query");
		assert.strictEqual(sut.getDomRef().style.display, "table-cell", "Column is visible");

		oTable.destroy();
	});

	QUnit.module("media");

	QUnit.test("ShouldAddMedia", function(assert) {

		var fnTestCase = function(width,matches) {
			//SUT
			var sut = new Column({minScreenWidth: width});

			//Act
			sut._addMedia();

			//Assert
			assert.ok(sut._media);
			assert.strictEqual(sut._media.matches, matches);

			//Cleanup
			sut.destroy();
		};

		fnTestCase("300000px",false);
		fnTestCase("100px",true);
	});

	QUnit.test("ShouldClearMedia", function(assert) {
		//SUT
		var sut = new Column({minScreenWidth: "100px"});

		//Act
		sut._addMedia();
		assert.ok(sut._media);
		sut._clearMedia();

		//Assert
		assert.ok(!sut._media);

		//Cleanup
		sut.destroy();
	});

	QUnit.module("events");

	QUnit.test("Media handler should not be attached if the table is not rendered yet", function (assert) {
		var mediaAttachSpy = this.spy(Device.media, "attachHandler"),
				sut = new Column({
					minScreenWidth : "phone"
				}),
				parent = new Table({
					columns : sut
				});

		assert.ok(!mediaAttachSpy.called, "Media handler not attached initially");

		parent.placeAt("qunit-fixture");
		Core.applyChanges();

		assert.ok(mediaAttachSpy.called, "Media handler attached when table is rendered");

		parent.destroy();
	});

	QUnit.test("Media handler should be attached when adding a column to a rendered table", function (assert) {
		var mediaAttachSpy = this.spy(Device.media, "attachHandler"),
				sut = new Column({
					minScreenWidth : "phone"
				}),
				parent = new Table({});

		parent.placeAt("qunit-fixture");
		parent.addColumn(sut);
		Core.applyChanges();

		assert.ok(mediaAttachSpy.called, "Media handler called immediately");

		assert.equal(sut.getInitialOrder(), 0, "initial order is correct after rendering");
		parent.removeColumn(sut);
		assert.equal(sut.getInitialOrder(), -1, "initial order is not cashed and correct after removal");

		parent.destroy();
	});

	QUnit.test("ShouldNotifyOnResize", function(assert) {

		//System under Test + Arrange
		var tableResizeSpy = this.spy(Table.prototype, "onColumnResize"),
			sut = new Column({
				minScreenWidth : "phone"
			}),
			parent = new Table({
				columns : sut
			});

		// The table needs to be rendered for the column media object to be initialized
		parent.placeAt("qunit-fixture");
		Core.applyChanges();

		sut._notifyResize({from: 240}); // this is the default value for minScreenWidth="phone"
		this.clock.tick(1);

		assert.ok(!tableResizeSpy.called, "Table resize not called, if media is the same");

		sut._notifyResize({from: 0});
		this.clock.tick(1);

		assert.equal(tableResizeSpy.callCount, 1, "Table resize called, if media is different");

		sut.setVisible(false);
		sut._notifyResize({from: 100});
		this.clock.tick(1);
		assert.equal(tableResizeSpy.callCount, 1, "Table resize not called, since column is invisible");

		sut.setVisible(true);
		sut.rerender();
		assert.ok(sut.getDomRef(), "Visible column is rendered");

		parent.destroy();
	});

	QUnit.test("Should not notify when contextual width is set to a parent container, but this width is in the same range as the device width (when initially rendered without contextual width)", function (assert) {

		//Setup is a sap.m.Page holding a Table. Setting contextual width on the page affects the table
		var tableResizeSpy = this.spy(Table.prototype, "onColumnResize"),
				sut = new Column({
					minScreenWidth : "tablet"
				}),
				parent = new Table({
					columns : sut
				}),
				page = new Page({
					content: [parent]
				});

		// The table is rendered without contextual width, the Device.media API is used
		page.placeAt("qunit-fixture");
		Core.applyChanges();
		this.clock.tick(1);
		assert.ok(!tableResizeSpy.called, "Initially no resize is needed, table normally rendered as for desktop");

		// Set contextual width to a parent (as for tablet or above) and wait 1 tick for onColumnResize
		page._applyContextualSettings({contextualWidth: 600});
		this.clock.tick(1);
		assert.equal(tableResizeSpy.callCount, 0, "After applying contextual width to a parent container, but this width is in the same range, onColumnResize is not called");

		page.destroy();
	});

	QUnit.test("Should notify when contextual width is set to a parent container, and this width is in a different range compared to device width (when initially rendered without contextual width)", function (assert) {

		//Setup is a sap.m.Page holding a Table. Setting contextual width on the page affects the table
		var tableResizeSpy = this.spy(Table.prototype, "onColumnResize"),
				sut = new Column({
					minScreenWidth : "tablet"
				}),
				parent = new Table({
					columns : sut
				}),
				page = new Page({
					content: [parent]
				});

		// The table is rendered without contextual width, the Device.media API is used
		page.placeAt("qunit-fixture");
		Core.applyChanges();
		this.clock.tick(1);

		assert.ok(!tableResizeSpy.called, "Initially no resize is needed, table normally rendered as for desktop");

		// Set contextual width to a parent (as for phone) and wait 1 tick for onColumnResize
		page._applyContextualSettings({contextualWidth: 100});
		this.clock.tick(1);
		assert.equal(tableResizeSpy.callCount, 1, "After applying contextual width to a parent container, and this width is in a different range, onColumnResize is called");

		// Now set contextual width that doesn't go beyond a breakpoint
		page._applyContextualSettings({contextualWidth: 101});
		this.clock.tick(1);
		// callCount is still 1
		assert.equal(tableResizeSpy.callCount, 1, "After applying contextual width to a parent container, but this width isn't in a different range, onColumnResize is not called");

		// Now set contextual width that goes beyond a breakpoint (tablet starts at 600)
		page._applyContextualSettings({contextualWidth: 600});
		this.clock.tick(1);
		assert.equal(tableResizeSpy.callCount, 2, "After applying contextual width to a parent container, and this width is in a different range, onColumnResize is called");

		page.destroy();
	});

	QUnit.test("Should notify when contextual width changes beyond a breakpoint (when already rendered with contextual width)", function (assert) {

		//Setup is a sap.m.Page holding a Table. Setting contextual width on the page affects the table
		var tableResizeSpy = this.spy(Table.prototype, "onColumnResize"),
				sut = new Column({
					minScreenWidth : "tablet"
				}),
				parent = new Table({
					columns : [sut, new Column()]
				}),
				page = new Page({}); // we want the page to be empty so we can insert the table later

		page.placeAt("qunit-fixture");
		Core.applyChanges();
		page._applyContextualSettings({contextualWidth: 100});

		// Place the table in a container that already has contextual settings
		page.addContent(parent);
		this.clock.tick(1);

		assert.ok(!tableResizeSpy.called, "Initially no resize is needed - the table is rendered as for phone");

		// Now change the contextual width significantly (tablet starts at 600) and wait 1 tick for onColumnResize
		page._applyContextualSettings({contextualWidth: 600});
		this.clock.tick(1);

		assert.equal(tableResizeSpy.callCount, 1, "After applying contextual width to a parent container, and this width is in a different range, onColumnResize is called");

		page.destroy();
	});

	QUnit.test("Should notify when contextual width is removed from a parent, and this width was in a different range compared to device width", function (assert) {

		//Setup is a sap.m.Page holding a Table. Setting contextual width on the page affects the table
		var tableResizeSpy = this.spy(Table.prototype, "onColumnResize"),
				sut = new Column({
					minScreenWidth : "tablet"
				}),
				parent = new Table({
					columns : [sut, new Column()]
				}),
				page = new Page({}); // we want the page to be empty so we can insert the table later

		page.placeAt("qunit-fixture");
		Core.applyChanges();
		page._applyContextualSettings({contextualWidth: 100});

		// Place the table in a container that already has contextual settings
		page.addContent(parent);
		this.clock.tick(1);
		assert.ok(!tableResizeSpy.called, "Initially no resize is needed - the table is rendered as for phone");

		// Now remove contextual settings - the table will be rerendered as for desktop
		page._applyContextualSettings({});
		this.clock.tick(1);
		assert.equal(tableResizeSpy.callCount, 1, "After removing contextual with from a parent container, and this width was in another range compared to the device size range, onColumnResize is called");

		page.destroy();
	});

	QUnit.test("Should not notify when contextual width is removed from a parent, but this width wasn't in a different range compared to device width", function (assert) {

		//Setup is a sap.m.Page holding a Table. Setting contextual width on the page affects the table
		var tableResizeSpy = this.spy(Table.prototype, "onColumnResize"),
				sut = new Column({
					minScreenWidth : "tablet"
				}),
				parent = new Table({
					columns : sut
				}),
				page = new Page({}); // we want the page to be empty so we can insert the table later

		page.placeAt("qunit-fixture");
		Core.applyChanges();
		page._applyContextualSettings({contextualWidth: 1000});

		// Place the table in a container that already has contextual settings
		page.addContent(parent);
		this.clock.tick(1);
		assert.ok(!tableResizeSpy.called, "Initially no resize is needed - the table is rendered as for tablet since contextual width is 1000 already");

		// Now remove contextual settings - the table will not be rerendered as it is already showing the column
		page._applyContextualSettings({});
		this.clock.tick(1);
		assert.equal(tableResizeSpy.callCount, 0, "After removing contextual width from a parent container, but this width was in the same range compared to the device width, onColumnResize is not called");

		page.destroy();
	});

	QUnit.module("display and style");

	QUnit.test("ShouldSetDisplay", function(assert) {
		//System under Test + Arrange
		var sut = new Column({
				demandPopin : true,
				minScreenWidth : "1px"
			}),
			parent = new Table({
				columns : sut,
				items: new ColumnListItem({
					cells: new Text({
						text: "cell"
					})
				})
			});

		//Act
		parent.placeAt("qunit-fixture");
		Core.applyChanges();

		//Act
		sut.setDisplay(jQuery("table")[0], false);

		//Assert
		assert.strictEqual(parent.$().find("td").eq(1).css("display"), "none");
		assert.strictEqual(parent.$().find("th").eq(1).css("display"), "none");

		//Cleanup
		parent.destroy();
	});

	QUnit.test("ShouldGetTheStyleClass", function(assert) {
		//Arrange
		var result,
			className = "awesomeStyle",
			media = "phone",
			//System under Test
			sut = new Column({
				styleClass : className,
				minScreenWidth : media
			});

		//Act
		result = sut.getStyleClass(true);

		//Assert
		assert.ok(result.indexOf(className) !== -1, "style class was present in: " + result);
		assert.ok(result.indexOf(media) !== -1, "media class was present in: " + result);
	});

	QUnit.test("Should convert units correctly", function(assert) {

		var fnTestCase = function(width, px, screen) {
			//SUT
			var sut = new Column({minScreenWidth: width});

			//Assert
			assert.strictEqual(sut._minWidth, px);
			assert.strictEqual(sut._screen, screen);

			//Cleanup
			sut.destroy();
		};

		fnTestCase("64rem", "1024px", "desktop");
		fnTestCase("64em", "1024px", "desktop");
		fnTestCase("desktop", "1024px", "desktop");
		fnTestCase("Desktop", "1024px", "desktop");

		fnTestCase("63rem", 63 * 16 + "px", "");
		fnTestCase("63em", 63 * 16 + "px", "");

		fnTestCase("63px", "63px", "");

	});

	QUnit.test("Sorted property and sort icon", function(assert) {
		var sut = new Column({
			hAlign: "Center",
			header: new Label({
				text: "Column"
			})
		}),
		parent = new Table({
			columns : sut,
			items: new ColumnListItem({
				cells: new Text({
					text: "cell"
				})
			})
		});

		parent.placeAt("qunit-fixture");
		Core.applyChanges();

		assert.equal(sut.getSortIndicator(), "None", "Default value for sorted is None");

		// sort ascending
		sut.setSortIndicator("Ascending");
		assert.equal(sut.getSortIndicator(), "Ascending", "Column is sorted");
		var oSutDomRef = sut.getDomRef();
		assert.equal(oSutDomRef.getAttribute("aria-sort"), "ascending", "Column is sorted in ascending order");

		// sort descending
		sut.setSortIndicator("Descending");
		assert.equal(sut.getSortIndicator(), "Descending", "Column is sorted");
		assert.equal(oSutDomRef.getAttribute("aria-sort"), "descending", "Column is sorted in descending order");

		// sorting removed
		sut.setSortIndicator("None");
		assert.equal(sut.getSortIndicator(), "None", "Sorting removed");
		assert.equal(oSutDomRef.getAttribute("aria-sort"), "none", "Sorting removed");

		parent.destroy();
	});

	QUnit.module("Column Menu Header", {
		beforeEach: function () {
			this.oMenu = new ColumnMenu({
				quickActions: [new QuickAction({label: "Quick Action A", content: new Button({text: "Execute"})})],
				items: [new Item({label: "Item A", icon: "sap-icon://sort", content: new Button({text: "Execute"})})]
			});
			this.sut = new Column({
				hAlign: "Center",
				header: new Label({text: "Column"})
			});
			this.parent = new Table({
				columns : this.sut,
				items: new ColumnListItem({
					cells: new Text({text: "cell"})
				})
			});
			this.sut.setAssociation("headerMenu", this.oMenu);

			this.parent.placeAt("qunit-fixture");
			Core.applyChanges();
		},
		afterEach: function () {
			this.oMenu.destroy();
			this.sut.destroy();
			this.parent.destroy();
		}
	});

	QUnit.test("ARIA haspopup attribute set correctly column with menu", function (assert) {
		assert.equal(this.sut.getFocusDomRef().getAttribute("aria-haspopup"), "dialog", "aria-haspopup value is dialog");
	});

	QUnit.test("Open menu", function (assert) {
		var oOpenSpy = this.spy(this.oMenu, "openBy");
		var oColumnPressSpy = this.spy(this.sut.getTable(), "fireEvent");

		this.sut.$().trigger("tap");
		Core.applyChanges();

		assert.equal(oOpenSpy.callCount, 1, "openBy called exactly once");
		assert.ok(oOpenSpy.calledWith(this.sut), "openBy called with correct column");
		assert.notOk(oColumnPressSpy.calledWithExactly("columnPress"), "The columnPress event is not fired");
	});
});

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Who is Seth Robert Dusky?
Seth Robert Dusky is an 18-year-old American actor and voice artist. He is best known for portraying the role of Milo in the animated movie Mars Needs Moms (2011). He is also known for his voice roles in Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011).
Seth Robert Dusky: Birth Facts, Family, Education, and Childhood
Seth Robert was born on 15 September 1998, in Newport Beach, California, USA. Seth is an American by nationality and he is of North American ethnicity.
He is the second of three sons of Native American parents Ginger Dusky(mother) and Robert Dusky(father). He has two brothers named Jaden Wayne Dusky and Kalyn James Dusky. He has not revealed his educational background to the media. He was interested in acting since his childhood age and he wanted to become an actor since he was a child.
Seth Robert Dusky's Career
Seth began his acting career at the age of 10. He appeared in his first commercial for Hot Wheels when he was ten years old. After that, he appeared in several small and big commercials. He rose to fame at a very young age and he continued doing Commercials, Print, Television, Films, and Voice-Overs.
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He became more popular after playing the character of Milo in the animated movie Mars Needs Moms in 2011. The same year, he worked as a voice artist in the American musical comedy film Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011). The following year, he voiced in the film Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012). Some of his young acting roles include the shows Big Time Rush and Wendell and Vinnie.
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Currently, there are no desperate rumors regarding his personal and professional life. It seems he is doing best job without harming others and has been a straight person in his life, for which he has not been in any controversy yet.
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Seth Robert has the height of 5 feet 7 inches. His body weight is not known. Besides these, he has Light Brown hair and blue eyes.
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Mary-Linda Greene has been acting for over 20 years. Her very first production Gods At War where she played Basheera, a prostitute desperate to leave the life and become a Muslim, garnered her lead roles in a plethora of stage plays. Credits include: Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep where she played Cassie, a schizophrenic woman bent on revenge. What's The Matter With Mama, Scrambled Eggs, The Good and Bad Girls of the Bible (Jezebel), Bruised But Not Broken, and an all female cast of Julius Ceasar (Trebonius). Linda was nominated for a New York Innovative Theater Award in 2018 (Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role) Enough Vo5 for the Universe, Melanie Maria Goodreaux in association with Theater for the New City (Ann Tenna McCloud).
Linda, as family and friends call her, has delved into casting, which she states, "is really just paying it forward, helping her fellow African American brothers and sisters flood this thing we call theatre with visions of us." Linda loves music and spends her time with family when she's not on the stage. Linda would like to thank St. Luke A.M.E. Church for their support. She would also like to thank her family and friends for their love and continued support: Mommy, Gloria, Tika, Stretch, Malayza and Milan (the little munchkins), Kim, Kia, Marlena, Nancy, and the love of her life, Ronald Benn.
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"It is San Francisco which shines as the superstar of California's central coast – while its neighbour suffers from a perception gap"
The enemy is hogging the sunset. There it is, six miles to the west, shoving its high-rise, overly familiar towers into the early-evening orange – the Millennium Tower muscling in with its 58 storeys of blue-grey glass; the Transamerica Pyramid like some Seventies idea of a 22nd-century spaceship, waiting for take-off into the glow. Away on the other edge of the water, Oakland sighs and sinks back into the gloaming. It has become used to being overshadowed.
Perhaps the word "enemy" is too strong. But there is a marked rivalry between the twin cities that bestride the opposing flanks of San Francisco Bay – the sort of one-upmanship that, as with all sibling relationships, is defined by a narcissism of small difference.
For there is little between San Francisco and Oakland: in distance – catch a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) subway train east on the Richmond-Millbrae line from Embarcadero in the Financial District of San Francisco and the next stop is West Oakland; in history – San Francisco was incorporated as a city in 1850, its neighbour in 1852; in sporting glory – baseball titans the Oakland A's have nine World Series titles to the San Francisco Giants' eight, while the San Francisco 49ers have won five Super Bowls to the Oakland Raiders' three).
And yet, it is San Francisco which shines as the superstar of California's central coast – while its neighbour suffers from a perception gap.
Perhaps this goes back to the Sixties, when both cities were part of the counterculture movement but were also flipsides of the coin. For while San Francisco had the Summer of Love and the rainbow optimism of Haight-Ashbury, Oakland had something darker. It was one of the epicentres of biker machismo, to the extent that Sonny Barger, leader of the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels – a charismatic but violent figure – featured heavily in left-field journalist Hunter S. Thompson's 1966 tome Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of The Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.
And where San Francisco had girls with flowers in their hair, Oakland was the gateway to Altamont, the now-defunct speedway track, 45 miles east, where the Rolling Stones held their notorious free concert on December 6 1969, and the hippy dream is said to have died via the fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old fan by (Hells Angels) security.
"Oakland is a magnet for people who want hour-wage jobs and cheap housing, who can't afford to live in Berkeley, San Francisco or any of the middle-class Bay Area suburbs," Thompson wrote in his book. "It is a noisy, ugly, mean-spirited place." Some of this mud stuck in the last half-century but the slur has lost plenty of accuracy in the interim. The "cheap housing" element is fading, erased by new residents from across the Bay seeking more competitive rents and pushing up prices.
And Oakland has shed some of its image as an inward-looking entity, partly because it is now easy for outsiders to reach it. Next week sees the start of a new direct British Airways service (four times a week) from Gatwick. This will complement the five-times-weekly connection from the same airport by the low-cost carrier Norwegian last May.
The advantages of touching down on the east bank of the Bay are a quicker immigration process at a smaller airport and less traffic-choked access to the wine regions of Sonoma and Napa, if your plan is to head north for viticulture. But there are also reasons to linger in a place that, contrary to Thompson's assassination, shows itself as warm and intriguing.
It is a hot Sunday afternoon when I approach Lake Merritt. The sky is flicking through shades of blue above this Y-shaped lagoon and the city is basking in the heat, picnickers on the grass, families and pushchairs inching around the waterside path. There is no sense of Thompson's "mean-spirited place", nor of leather and motor oil. Indeed, the only hint of rebellion comes from teenagers using the steps of the adjacent Alameda County Courthouse as a jump-ramp, in wilful defiance of the sign which declares "Skateboarding Prohibited".
Further up the lake all is calm in the culinary context of Lake Chalet, which serves a seafood-focused menu from a building overlooking the water. Further on still, the Cathedral of Christ the Light seems to compete with the lagoon for beauty, its walls a curved crescendo of green glass, its modernity the fruit of its recent completion, in 2008.
Here is a reminder that Oakland is susceptible to the destructive forces which often rattle California. It was built as a substitute for the Cathedral of St Francis de Sales, which was so badly hit by the Loma Prieta earthquake of October 1989 that it could not be salvaged. This threat from the wider environment is underscored nearby at the Oakland Museum of California, where Richard Misrach's photo Oakland Fire #107-91 – a child's tricycle half-melted amid debris – shows the impact of the East Bay Hills Fire of October 19-20 1991.
On another wall, Marius Dahlgren's Alameda County Courthouse East Oakland shows the same institution I saw being misappropriated for teen fun – but in 1882, a horse and cart trundling past. The painting is no more representative of the metropolis of 2017 than Thompson's bleak summary but some of its softness has been reborn of late.
On the Bay, Jack London Square salutes the author (of The Call of The Wild and White Fang) who grew up in the city in the 1880s, toiling as an oyster fisherman from its docks. He would not recognise it now, even if the bar where he drank, Heinold's First And Last Chance Saloon, is preserved as a wooden relic. True, there is yet an earthiness to the area, Second Street awash with warehouses, rail tracks set in the tarmac on Embarcadero West and Amtrak trains rolling by.
But gentrification is fixing the windows and fluffing the cushions: in Bocanova, a Latin American fusion grill serving rock-cod ceviche; in Rosenblum Cellars, one of the 10 independent wine producers which comprise the Oakland Urban Wine Trail.
The same brushstrokes are being applied to Downtown. When I stroll Telegraph Avenue, I can see the ghosts of a grim mid-20th century being banished. The Fox, a concert venue of kitsch Spanish-Moorish architecture and 1928 origins is alive once more, reopened in 2009 after being shut down in 1965.
There are cocktails to be sipped at US$9 (£7) a glass at style-bar, Make Westing (the "French Muse" splices vodka, lemon, mint, absinthe and prosecco), and diners galore at Michelin-suggested Duende, across the way on 19th Street.
For all this, it is simple to slip away, uphill to Berkeley – once decried by Thompson as "middle class".
His opinion holds – but, amid boutiques and eateries, this is no bad thing. And the view west from Tunnel Road is a joy. From this height, both Oakland and San Francisco are visible – this time not as rivals and incompatibles, but as intriguing equals.
British Airways (0344 493 0787; ba.com) flies to Oakland from £422 return; Norwegian (0330 828 0854; norwegian.com) from £334 return.
The Waterfront Hotel (001 510 836 3800; waterfronthoteloakland.com) has doubles from US$263 (£212), room only. The Claremont Hotel & Spa in Berkeley (001 510 843 3000; fairmont.com/claremont-berkeley) offers doubles from US$276 (£223), room only.


Plumbers Supreme Gaslink is seeking a Plumber, Gasfitter and Drain Layer to join their Wellington team.
We are a well-established and dedicated team and pride ourselves on providing an honest and professional work culture.
•	Undertaking jobs in consultation with the operations manager to ensure smooth work flow.
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Isle of Wight is a magical island just off the south coast of England.
Known as one of the sunniest spots in England the island is roughly 23 miles by 13 miles which means nothing is far away once you're there making it the perfect getaway this Autumn. (You don't even need your passport!
From the air the island looks diamond shaped and boasts superb, unspoilt beaches, fantastic land and seascapes and a diverse historical culture.
There is a lot to do here with great attractions like Mottistone Manor Garden, Ryde Pier and Yarmouth Castle just a few of them. The villages are quaint and packed full of eateries and shopping adventures for all ages and the variety of wildlife, flowers and insects will keep every budding vet and ornithologist on their toes.
Most of the island is a conservation area having been awarded an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over 500 miles of public footpaths and bridleways to enjoy as well as the 30 miles of coast line.
For those with adventure seeking families there area also many playgrounds, parks and esplanades with a lot of fun activities for all ages!
Have a look and let us know if you have information you can add to our site about this area.
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○	One of the common issues a retailer or commercial applicator can experience is loss of inventory. A couple percentage points of error can add up to a significant inventory loss over the course of a season. As an example, a local retailer was weighing chemicals using a very accurate inductor (hopper). Work orders were generated in the office and blends were being mixed according to the work order. However, since the actual amounts used in the blend were not being recorded, only the amounts listed on the work order were being billed. A solution to this problem would be to add a Mixmate scale module to the inductor (hopper). This solution would give automated data logging to their manual mixing system.
The Mixmate app would be used to calculate the batches and also log the target and actual amounts included in the blend. This information helps the operator improve their accuracy. The Mixmate pays for itself quickly with its improved mixing accuracy. The modularity of the Mixmate system allows it to work with your current system to add automation at the level that works best for you. One of the positive comments about our system was, "Sometimes you don't need a cadillac system, you just need to get the job done." And that is what Mixmate does . . . gets the job done.
○	Fungicide applications have become very popular here in the Midwest on our corn and soybeans. The treatments are expensive and a large number of acres are typically treated daily. A local aerial applicator will usually service several ag retail locations. When it gets really busy, other applicators will come from other areas to help. The expectations for accuracy are very high and the inventory is watched closely. If an aerial applicator overapplies chemicals, the overapplication expense will typically come out of their pocket so they strive to be very accurate.
Mixmate can help with the accuracy of mixing as well as adjusting the blends to compensate for overlaps. Aircraft have issues with overlaps the same as ground equipment. Square flat fields have very little overlap, but irregular shaped fields with terraces and waterways tend to have more overlaps. Mixmate can adjust the batch strength to help compensate for overlaps. The mix for an irregular shaped field could be adjusted to 95% strength to compensate for a 5% expected overlap.
Field efficiency is key to the overall cost of operation. Perhaps a larger sprayer will not add much field efficiency compared to faster loading times. What if you saved 10 to 20 minutes on every fill? Some would calculate that an extra 400 to 900 acres would be covered in a day with a large ground sprayer.
Helicopters have become more popular for spraying but are very expensive to operate. The only way a helicopter can be productive is to load in the field instead of at an airport, because they haul small loads and need to be refilled often. The ground crew has to move between fields and load the helicopter. These guys get a real workout! I have seen them come in at the end of the day and they look beat. Every second counts when you are doing more than 30 or 40 loads a day. With Mixmate, mixing can happen in less than a minute for small loads and streamlines the blending process. At the end of the day, the bottom line bonus is you got more done with less stress.
Sooner or later everyone makes a mistake with their calculations or measurements and it is better to have a helpful tool. Sometimes the seasonal help available to drive the tender truck does not have experience with mixing and is more prone to mixing mistakes. This is a common problem for many commercial applicators.
Mixmate makes the actual blending process very easy and will do the calculations and measurements for the operator. Mixmate will measure the products by weight as they are poured from a jug so no premeasuring is required. Actual and target amounts are recorded so operator accuracy can be monitored. To simplify use, operators can be given access to only the mixing areas of the app. Administrators have full control of the system and can filter the options a specific operator will see.
I am a farmer and one of the best parts of farming is getting out to the field and running the equipment. The actual time spent in the field is the fun part. The window to accomplish a specific operation is usually narrow and we run long hours to get the job done. Recordkeeping takes away from the field time and lowers my field efficiency. I am diligent with my records, but it seems sooner or later I forget a detail that will take time for me to figure out later. This is one of the reasons a hot mix from a large central chemical mixing plant became popular.
Mixmate solves this problem. Mixmate creates the records automatically as I work. Not only does Mixmate improve or completely automate the mixing process, it does my recordkeeping as well. This saves time during and after field work. Mixing and recordkeeping are two of the jobs that are not my favorite. The right tools make any job easier. Good tools are worth it!
○	Several years ago I was speaking with the manager at our local cooperative about in the field mixing. They were mixing in the field for the postemergence applications of chemicals. Mixing in the field gave them the flexibility to change with the varying conditions of a postemergence application. Many variables come into play from field to field, such as weed spectrums and size. Soil fertility and past chemical programs will alter the dominant weed spectrum. Weather conditions leading up to application time can alter the dominance of a certain weed.
One of the patented features of Mixmate is the ability to adjust the mix according to field conditions. A condition such as "Weed Size" can be used to adjust the amount of a specific chemical in the mix. Minimum, maximum, and default rates can be set as part of the prescription. The default rate can easily be adjusted as the season progresses. As the weeds grow, the default size can be increased to match the current general conditions.
○	Most farmers and ag retailers will have a base set of prescriptions covering most of their application needs. A prescription can be shared among many users. So an agronomist is able to effectively manage many users of a single prescription with a single adjustment of the default rate in the Intersect cloud service. Many users could be defined as several Mixmates operating within a single organization or it could include customers of a retail outlet or an agronomist. The Mixmate app can be used to do the mix calculations and recordkeeping even without the Mixmate hardware.
○	Conditional rates give the flexibility of on-the-fly changes to the mix. If there is an ingredient you would like to manually control as part of the mix, you can simply set the condition to equal the rate and then manually enter the rate during the blending process. The Mixmate app will calculate the blend according to the user inputs.
We visited with a vegetation management company where they do weed and tree control in right-of-way areas like power lines and railroads. This type of business may have operators scattered across the country. Management needs a way of sending work orders out to the field and getting completed work records back from the field. A work order makes it very easy to use Mixmate in the field. The work order shows up in the job list and can simply be selected to start the mix. The work order populates the app with all of the mixing information and the operator only has to verify the size of the batch and the conditions before mixing starts. Inventory and usage information is also synchronized as part of the work record. This information can be used to maintain supplies to operators in the field.
Our Intersect cloud service connects to the Mixmate app to backup and synchronize data from the field. This cloud service connects the operations in the field to the office. Intersect can be viewed directly from your web browser or it can connect to other software systems. Think of it as the intersection, or the connection point, of your Mixmate data.
Have you tried one the Coca-Cola Freestyle machines that will mix the flavor of your soft drink? The machine will mix 126 different flavors from a combination of water, sweetener, and flavor concentrates. Mixmate can be used like a Freestyle machine. A company contacted us that has an array of products that are mixed on-site from concentrates and water. The concentrates are mixed in different proportions to make their different products. Transportation and handling costs are lower since water is not being shipped to the end user.
Mixmate is able to dispense the products as they are needed in the correct amounts for the job. Product usage is recorded and the distributor can remotely monitor the inventory of the concentrates and resupply the end user as a value-added service.
A data connection is the number one feature that growers and commercial operators are seeking. Mixmate was designed from the start to connect to the office and third-party farm management information systems. Our Intersect cloud service provides this connection. Intersect saves time by transferring work orders and work records electronically and reduces the potential for errors.
We have been working with AgGateway for several years to help develop a standard data connection. This API connection is called ADAPT and will ease data transfer between systems. A major manufacturer is ready to take our mix records and send it to their sprayers to produce more accurate as-applied maps and to reduce data entry in the field. Our first data connection beyond Intersect will be with Ag Connections.
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John Bisdorf, a familiar figure on the streets of Waterloo for the last dozen years, died of apoplexy at 3:45 o'clock Saturday afternoon while at his home, 127 Gable Street. Mr. Bisdorf was apparently in his usual health a few minutes before the end came. The stroke seized him while he was in the house with his wife, but owing to the impaired eyesight of Mrs. Bisdorf, his condition was not noticed until he was found by one of the other members of the family.
John Bisdorf was born in Luxemburg, Germany, August 14, 1842, and came to America when 20 years of age, locating near Gilbertville. He was a wagon maker by trade and followed that occupation until the partial loss of his sight rendered him unfit for manual labor. He then took up the vocation of a traveling organ grinder, which business he followed until his death.
He was a resident of Waterloo for 14 years and was an ardent member of the Catholic faith.
His widow and eight children survive, as follows—Nicholas, Rock Island, Illinois; Albert, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; John, Waterloo; Jacob, Dayton, Ohio; Frank and Philip, Waterloo Mrs. G. DeBuhr, and Mrs. G. Hawver, of Waterloo.
Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday morning at 9:00 o'clock, from St. Mary's Catholic Church, Rev. Father H. H. Forkenbrock officiating. Interment will be in the Catholic Cemetery.


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HomeFight racismBlack workers matter
Black workers matter
February 18, 2021 Stephen Millies
Amazon warehouse workers organize in Bessemer, Ala.
For over 50 years, the wealthy and powerful have tried to claw back what was won by the Black liberation movement in the 1960s. Richard Nixon and the presidents that followed dramatically escalated the war against Black people in the United States.
Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton and fellow Panther Mark Clark were assassinated in their sleep in Chicago on Dec. 4, 1969. Billionaire New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller massacred the prisoners at Attica, killing 29 of them on Sept. 13, 1971.
An important part of this capitalist offensive has been the war on Black workers. The ruling class wanted to break free of its increasing dependence on Black labor in basic industry.
Fifty years ago, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft didn't exist. The U.S. was the biggest producer of steel, although the socialist Soviet Union was right behind.
More cars and trucks rolled off U.S. assembly lines than anywhere else. Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler, General Motors and U.S. Steel were "blue chip" stocks and members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. None of them are now.
By 1968, a quarter of the 3 million workers in U.S. steel mills and auto plants were African American. ("Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981" by Philip Foner)
Racist discrimination means that Black unemployment rates are double those of white workers. Yet in auto and steel, Black workers were twice as likely to be employed as compared to their percentage of the population.
This extraordinary development was the result of the Great Migration of Black people from the then-rural South to Northern cities. The growing number of Black workers concentrated in large workplaces became the basis for increasing struggle.
A thousand Black steelworkers had more power than a million sharecroppers. During World War II, Black workers shut down Pittsburgh-area steel mills over unequal pay. ("Out of the Crucible: Black Steel Workers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1980" by Dennis C. Dickerson)
Detroit became a fortress for Black workers. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a preliminary version of his "I Have a Dream" speech to 125,000 people attending Motown's "Walk to Freedom" on June 23, 1963.
On July 24, 1973, two Black workers — Larry Carter and Isaac Shorter — turned off the power at Chrysler's Jefferson Avenue plant in Detroit. This struggle against racist management began the first big sit-down strike in 35 years.
Deliberate deindustrialization
Capitalists didn't like the growing power and influence of Black workers. The sit-down strike at the Jefferson Avenue plant sparked a revolt of Black and white, largely Polish-American, workers against unsafe working conditions at Chrysler's Lynch Road Forge plant. ("Detroit: I Do Mind Dying" by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin)
The United Auto Workers contracts that Black workers helped win by strikes became a model wage package for all workers. It forced many employers in nonunion workplaces to offer dental insurance and other benefits.
Black workers were the rock of the labor movement. Organizing drives among hospital and textile workers often depended on how many African Americans were employed in the workplace. Black women were leaders in these struggles. ("Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: 1199/SEIU and the Politics of Healthcare Unionism" by Leon Fink and "Hiring the Black Worker" by Timothy J. Minchin)
Capitalists counterattacked. The destruction of millions of factory jobs wasn't just the result of automation and super-exploiting workers in other countries. Nor was it simply the declining rate of profit in heavy industry as discovered by Karl Marx.
Deliberate deindustrialization was a political decision targeting Black workers. Wall Street never forgot how African Americans shook auto plants in the 1960s and 1970s.
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers led wildcat strikes in Detroit. There was a Black Panther Party caucus in GM's Fremont, Calif., plant, which is now a non-union Tesla plant.
Forty years ago the communist leader Sam Marcy described the hatred by billionaires for Black workers:
"The ruling class now looks at the Black population differently than it did in the days of the Underground Railroad. … It now dares look upon the Black workers in particular as a surplus population along with the unemployed white workers.
"It looks upon them with disdain as a drain on their government budget, as a drag on their system and as a dangerous source of social convulsions. The ruling class dreams of replacing all blue-collar workers with a minimum of white-collar technicians in white coats."
The wholesale destruction of heavy industry in the Midwest caused the median income of African Americans to drop by 36 percent between 1978 and 1982. (Census Bureau, Historical Tables)
The capitalist class economically destroyed Detroit, just as it let Black people drown and starve in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Black workers are essential
Instead of concentrating African Americans in large plants, the capitalist state sent Black youth to big prisons. The 2.2 million poor people who are incarcerated in the U.S. are also members of the multinational working class.
Yet the super-rich can't get away from their dependence on Black labor. This is shown by millions of African American essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
It was Black workers in chains that paid the bills for the United States. Wall Street became the banksters for the slave masters.
It was enslaved Africans who paid the bills for the United States. Until the Civil War, two-thirds of U.S. exports were produced by slave labor.
Cotton alone accounted for half of U.S. exports in 1860. Thousands of miles of railroads were built by unpaid Black labor, like the prisoner John Henry.
Reparations are overdue. As the December 12th Movement says, "They stole us, they sold us, they owe us."
Black workers today are joined by millions of Asian, Indigenous and Latinx workers. Like a helper locomotive pushing a freight train over a mountain grade, the other oppressed workers will help overcome white racism. Millions of poor white people need a socialist revolution, too.
All eyes are on the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., where an 85-percent Black workforce is conducting a union drive. Whatever happens there, the freedom drive of Black workers is unstoppable.


I actually forgot to put my overnight oats together last night.
So I put them together early this morning and let them sit for about 3 hours and managed to still have them work with a good consistency, which is good to know for those times when my brain doesn't fire on all cylinders the night before.
This combination of almond and raspberry is surprising and delicious! I highly recommend you try them!
Place the oats, yogurt, milk, honey, and almond extract in your mason jar (this is a doubled recipe and fits in a quart jar). Put on the lid and shake vigorously until all the ingredients are mixed. Allow the oats to sit overnight in the refrigerator. In the morning, top with raspberries and sliced almonds.


Char-grilled rump steak served on ciabatta garnished Down Under style with sizzling bacon, beetroot, pineapple, crispy salad and capped off with a fried egg.
Preheat a char-grill until very hot.
Season the steaks with salt, pepper and drizzle with the oil.
Cook the steak for 2 minutes on both sides. Allow to rest for a few minutes and then slice just before serving.
Put the egg yolks in a mixing bowl with the mustard, vinegar and salt. Whisk together and then start adding the sunflower oil gradually. Whisk continually whilst adding the remaining oil to make sure the mayonnaise does not split. Check the seasoning and add a squeeze of lemon juice.
Place the pancetta onto a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper. Place another baking tray on top and cook in the oven for 10 minutes until crispy.
Slice the beef tomatoes and beetroot. Shred the lettuce.
Fry the eggs in the sunflower oil over a medium heat. Season with salt and pepper.
Cut the ciabatta in half and either char-grill or toast under a grill.
Spread some mayonnaise on the both halves of the ciabatta.
Spread on some shredded iceberg and a few slices of tomato.
Place the sliced steak on top of the tomato. Next add the beetroot and sliced pineapple and top with the fried egg and the pancetta. Finish with the other half of the ciabatta and cut into 4 triangles.
Hold the sandwich together with a skewer in each triangle.


The government agency responsible for distribution of anti-snake venom serum (ASVS) in the country is reeling under an acute shortage of the life-saving antidote during a season when the number of snakebite victims increases drastically.
The Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD) of the Department of Health Services in Kathmandu currently has only around 300 vials of the ASVS while the country needs at least 30,000 to 40,000 vials of the serum each year. With such a small amount of anti-snake venom serum at its disposal, there are fears of sharp increase from snakebites and related fatalities, which tends to rise significantly during rainy season in mostly the Tarai region of the country.
Dr Baburam Marrasini, Director of EDCD, said that due to lack of adequate supply of the antidote, they have been delivering the ASVS in quantities that is far less than demanded by various districts in the country. He said that only last week they supplied some 800 vials of ASVS to various districts and regional drug stores so as to fend off the increasing demand for some days. According to EDCD, 300 vials of ASVS were dispatched to Biratnagar and Butwal respectively, while 200 vials were supplied to Nepalgunj.
Meanwhile, the EDCD has been providing anti-snake venom services in 26 districts through 50 outlets. EDCD further said that around 400 deaths have occurred in the country though snakebites between the year 2006 and 2012, while 10 million people in the country are said to be at serious risk of snakebite. Keeping this in view, the government has been providing Anti Snake Venom Serum (ASVS) for free since the year 2000.
Experts say, if the present crisis of the anti-venom serum continues, the number of deaths through snakebites might increase significantly this year. Every year around 150 people die of snakebites in the country while the demand for anti-venom vaccines is higher between mid-June and September-end. Doctors say that depending on the amount of poison in the patient's body, up to 27 vials of anti-venom could be used in a single case of snakebite.


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Questions in Healing II: The Explanation of Matter
The religion of the pagans and heathen was founded on the superstition of their leaders, and their philosophy was to prove their religion. Their religion affected the people, for the wiser men saw that there was no truth nor sound logic in all their reasoning; but the tendency of their religion was to make man ignorant and superstitious. So to offset this, a more enlightened class of philosophers arose, whose aim was to destroy the mythology. To do this, it was necessary to show the absurdity of their doctrines. As their doctrines purposed to commence at the beginning of time, it was necessary that they should attack the very foundation of their theory. As, of course, those philosophers commenced in matter, it was necessary for the philosophers who wrote in opposition to their religion to show the absurdity of their theory.
So Lucretius - who stands among the first of the pagan philosophers - struck at the pillar of their very foundations by showing that there was no foundation for their beliefs. All philosophers mention the existence of matter, which being dissolved, passes into space. And man, being made of matter - as his body decomposes, he also passes into space. And he, like all other matter, comes to an end. But as this theory would not cover the whole ground, it leaves man in space, like all other matter; a sort of spirit or soul or some living principle that comes out of this matter and exists somewhere.
The locality of this soul (or life) was never defined by the religious world. Philosophers have given different accounts of the soul, but at the time that Lucretius wrote, the religious world had no idea of a world after death, like the Christians of our day; but all their religion was confined to this life. It is true that there were exceptions, but the large majority of the people at the time of Lucretius, one hundred years before Christ, believed in a soul. So that by reading Lucretius, you get a very good idea of the opinion of that philosopher concerning the effect of religion on the masses. He looked upon it as the worst enemy of man; and to destroy it, it was necessary to show that the philosophy on which it was based was false.
So he commenced with matter and proved that matter is nothing but an idea; that there was no such thing as matter with the First Cause. He reasons man and matter into space and shows that all the philosophy of man is based upon a false basis; and religion does more harm than good. So he, like all the rest, dissolves man and leaves him in space - and all beyond is man's opinion, without any foundation.
His philosophy was to destroy the religion of his day; and mine is to destroy the religion of my day - and show that our religion is based on our philosophy and claims the story of the Old Testament to prove it. So I have to commence at the beginning and show that the philosophy of the Old Testament had nothing to do with the creation of the earth, nor anything in it, nor on it. But those ideas were the beliefs of the Ancients before Moses was born.
Moses is supposed to give a description of the commencement of the world, when nothing can be more absurd. He only gave a theory of the creation of man and showed that there was a power superior to man. But the ignorant and superstitious supposed that Moses was writing about the creation of the world. This led to superstition and priestcraft, and as these beliefs were accompanied with a philosophy to establish their doctrines, they turned and twisted the Old Testament into a religious book, teaching ideas that Moses never dreamed of.
Moses' religion was his wisdom, and his wisdom was far superior to the religion of his day. His religion was his philosophy; so is everyone's - and that philosophy which contains the most truth is the best religion. Science had nothing to do with their religion and was opposed to it. Religion - or man's science (or philosophy) - bound burdens on the people, and there was no philosophy that could explain or lighten man of these burdens. For the wisdom of man had not arrived at the point where there could be a philosophy that would teach man that his happiness was the result of his wisdom; and his misery was the natural result of his belief.
Now the mistaken idea of what mind is has led man into trouble and causes so much sickness and sorrow - and this is the origin of disease. Convince man that mind is matter and wisdom is not, and he will no longer be deceived by false guides crying, "Peace, peace," when there is no peace. This is the origin of disease, and this is what the philosophers of Greece and Rome, Lucretius and others wrote against. For they saw that the priests, by their false doctrines, made men believe all sorts of stories. They knew that their beliefs were matter (or mind), and they saw what their effect on the people was.
But as the priests in those days held the people in a slavery sanctioned by their gods, reformers found no favor with the people. Now as the priests kept binding burdens of disease on the people, philosophers would rise up and try to rid the people of their burdens. But the priests held such sway over the people's minds by phenomena that the masses could not explain, that the wise could not put their wisdom into practice. So the priests exercised full sway over the minds of the people.
The philosophers, who knew that mind was matter, could see through the hypocrisy of the priests. Also, they could see through the fact that any idea (or belief) could be condensed, so as to come within the senses of the masses - and this would be proof that the priests were right. So at the time these philosophers wrote, their doctrines (or wisdom) could not be understood. Nor is it understood now by the masses; nor will it ever be, although it be true and can be reduced to a science. Thus the masses have always been under the control of the priests. So that this wisdom, which would destroy all standards in matter, was not tried to be put into practice scientifically for some hundred and fifty years, when Jesus called attention to the same theory.
There were persons who could change matter, move bodies and cure many diseases, and some had reduced it to a sort of belief, which would counteract the priests' belief - but none but deceivers tried to sell the art. Even in these days you see certain persons undertaking to teach people to psychologize - as though they knew something that others did not; while they, themselves, are so ignorant of the way they produce phenomena, as the people were in the days of Jesus. The priests took advantage of every phenomena, but they kept the knowledge for their own benefit and made the people believe in superstition. Finally they formed a religious belief; attaching penalties to the disobeying of any laws that the priests set up.
Now the science (or wisdom) that shows that mind can be acted upon would leak out - and it kept the priests all the time inventing some new phenomena to keep the people under. At the time of Jesus, their craft had leaked out, so that it had gotten into the hands of the people and took the names of the inventions of men. They were like the mediums of our days, talking about a gift and communications from the spirits of the dead. Many such pretended to do as Jesus did, thinking it was a gift or art from God. They knew that theirs was not genuine - but the people believed in them.
In these days, I am set down with the same class of people who have a power or gift, by fools (or the ignorant), because the superstition and religious creeds have closed up all avenues to wisdom. They are in the fog and cannot see out, and they think that everyone else is in the same place. In Jesus' day, if he undertook to expose the priests, they would accuse him of making himself equal with God and would cry, "Crucify him!"So like the leaders of any party, when they want to bear down on their game - they set on the dogs.
When Jesus began to teach this new truth (for although it was old, it had a place in the minds of the masses), he called the people together - not to instruct them in religion, but to show them that religion was just what the wise philosophers had called it. So he denounced the leaders, showed the people how their beliefs made them sick; and being wiser and having more courage than any who believed as he did, he tried to reduce this wisdom to a science.
To do this, it was necessary to prove it by his works; as the priests would cure by their deception. For the mind, like potter's clay, is under control of whoever gives direction; the works showing whether they be of God or man. If of man, then man is under the law. If of God (or science), man is free from the law; so that the law has no power over him; for he that is dead to the law - or alive in wisdom - is free from sin and death (or error).
Jesus wanted everything in common. That is, if a person knows anything that is for the happiness of man to know - let it be known. He said that every truth should be given (or taught) to man. No one should say, "Know you this truth or science," but all should acknowledge it, from the wisest - and it shall become the wisdom of the world.
Perhaps it will be necessary to say what there is to be known. It is this. Jesus wanted the people to understand that religion, as they were taught it, was the blackest sort of hypocrisy; only got up to keep a class of lazy thieves and robbers in power, who devour houses of wood and houses of mind, carrying off and selling men and women into slavery, for their own good!
When Jesus applied these sayings to the people, it melted down their heathen belief, and by his words of wisdom, they were cured. Jesus never had any religious opinions. His works were his life - and his life was his Christ (or theory). The people could not understand this, so they crucified him - and that ended the life of one of the best men that ever lived; for his natural man became subject to his scientific man (or wisdom).
This wisdom cannot help making mankind better; any more than a good man can help becoming narrow-minded and bigoted by belonging to a church. Our beliefs are all there is of us; and just as we measure out to our neighbor, we measure out to ourselves - so action and reaction are equal. If we make a person believe anything that we have no proof of, except as an opinion, we bind burdens on our friends that our wisdom cannot remove. Wisdom says that every idle word must be accounted for at the day of judgment.
So here I stand as a mediator for this young lady, and if I have shown that her accusers are guilty of perjury against the laws of wisdom, then the court will give the verdict to the defendant and cast a wicked and ungodly belief into the fire of science, where it shall be burned with unquenchable truth. I will stop here, for I believe that I have satisfied the court that the priests bound on this young lady their hypocritical creeds, which made her nervous; and then the other part of the priesthood - the doctors - decoyed her into the worst of all company, where she was betrayed into all kinds of misery. Then they turned their backs upon her, after robbing her of her money and character - for her belief is her character; and making her believe she is one of the worst of characters. For to be sick is a disgrace, and if the superstition of the world had the power, they would kill the sick for the safety of the well!
These two classes - priests and doctors - have so degraded men that sickness is the greatest evil in life. Jesus knew this, and he laid down his life (or ran the risk that neither dared to do), took their diseases upon himself; risking the danger of becoming sick and dying as they would do.
In closing my argument, I will say to the court and multitude that I knew that this girl had been deceived by these two blind guides. In the first place, I never ask my patients anything - but tell them all. This the doctors do not pretend to do. I have no religious belief to teach, as the priests have. Something cannot come from nothing, and as I have nothing, of myself, they get nothing from me that will affect them.
The priests' belief is a lie and is of matter. The believing of it changes the mind (or matter). The ignorance of the creeds is their light, and that being a false light, makes a shadow - and in the shadow the patient puts his trust. As it is founded in ignorance and superstition, it contains all sorts of evil spirits and ghosts, etc. My wisdom can see through this veil of the priests. I see where the deception lies, and as I explain, the vacuum of their mind is lit up, and the shadow disappears, like the rays of the moonlight when the sun rises. As ignorance (or religion) receives the truth (or science), it gives way to a higher priesthood; not made by man, but eternal, in wisdom; that teaches man to do to another as he would like that other should do to him. This is all. So I stop for the verdict to be made up.
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Oven baked. 80% wholegrain. High in fibre. No artificial colours or flavours. Suitable for Vegetarians. Jacob's.
Nowadays you can buy Twiglets pretty much year round, but once the festive season approaches the caddies appear and some usually find their way into my shopping. I have always enjoyed Twiglets as they are one of life's little luxuries that I look forward to.
Taste is subjective, I wasn't born in the UK so maybe my taste-sense is different but yeah to me this tastes kind of like dried dog food.


Press TV has conducted an interview with Michel Chossudovsky, Center for Research on Globalization, Montreal, on Barack Obama's hypocritical statement claim that Syria uses chemical weapons on its people when US Special Forces train Syrian militants in CW use.
Press TV: How do you react to this announcement by Obama's administration that they are now ready to arm these militants?
Chossudovsky: The US president is accusing Syria, namely the government of Bashar al-Assad, of having crossed the red line. But we have to ask ourselves, who has crossed the red line?
Barak Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry are supporting a terrorist organization, which is on the US State Department list of terrorist organizations.
Following this announcement, the White House spokesman stated that it was the intelligence community, which assessed that the Assad regime was using chemical weapons.
This is a nonsensical statement because all the evidence that we have to date points to the fact that the rebels, namely al-Nusra, which is a terrorist organization, has chemical weapons in its possession.
And I'm referring to several reports: First of all, several months back there was a report, it was on CNN, to the effect that Western military or Special Forces were actually training opposition rebels in the use of chemical weapons in Jordan and Turkey. This was a report on CNN.
Subsequently, and that's very recent, we had a United Nations Independent Commission, which actually accused the rebels of using chemical weapons.
They said that there was no evidence to the effect that the Syrian government was using chemical weapons against the civilian population, but there was evidence to be confirmed that the rebels had chemical weapons and that they were using them against civilians.
Then you had another statement by the Turkish general directorate of security, namely the Turkish police, and this is nearly a month ago, to the effect that police seized Sarin gas in the possession of al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists who were believed to be heading for Syria.
So we have a lot of evidence which incriminates the US-NATO-Israeli backed al-Qaeda affiliated rebel forces, namely al-Nusra, which is also on the US State Department list of terrorist organizations.
Press TV: Do you find it interesting that all of this is happening when the Syrian army is actually making significant gains in the country?
Chossudovsky: Precisely. In fact, the rebels, which are largely integrated by al-Qaeda affiliated forces, literally have been decimated and the last stronghold of the rebels in the border city with Lebanon, al-Qusayr, have been defeated and these so-called rebel strongholds have been taken back by Syrian forces.
I think that it would be highly unproductive at this stage to channel weapons to a defeated rebel army.
I should mention that much of this channeling of weapons and money to al-Qaeda in Syria goes through a rather notorious individual, the FSA (Free Syrian Army) Supreme Military Commander General Salim Idris.


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Shameik Moore Bio (Wiki)
(Actor, Rapper, Dancer)
Shameik Moore is an American actor, rapper, and dancer. He is in a relationship. He is best known for the role he portrayed as Malcolm Adekanbi in the movie 'Dope' and Shaolin Fantastic in the television series 'The Get Down'.
Quick Facts of Shameik Moore
5 feet 11 inches (1.80m)
Actor, Rapper, Dancer
Errol Moore
Mother's Name:
Sharon Moore
Virgo, Cancer, Capricorn
I'm living on this positive mind frame where I'm only attracting positive things. I'm controlling my energy, I'm eating right, I'm meditating, I'm in the gym, I'm doing all this stuff I'm supposed to be doing. I'm past that young, immature way of thinking. I just want to be great
Every morning, I wake up and think about 10 different things I'm thankful for, and I continue to spread that love throughout the day, always visualizing, meditating, and growing
Music was always heavily involved with my spirit. My entire family is Jamaican. It's nothing but reggae music and those kinds of vibes.
Relationship Facts of Shameik Moore
Shameik Moore is having an affair.
Who is Shameik Moore in a relationship with?
Talking about the relationship status of Shameik Moore, he is in a relationship.
He is dating a girl whose Twitter name is @smackthtass_hoe. He confirmed his affair on his social media handle.
Both look great together and the couple keeps posting about their relationship on their social media account.
Who is Shameik Moore?
1 Who is Shameik Moore?
2 Shameik Moore: Age, Parents, Siblings, Family, Ethnicity
3 Education, School/College University
4 Shameik Moore: Professional Life and Career
5 Net Worth, Income, Salary
6 Shameik Moore: Rumors and Controversy
Shameik Moore is an American actor, rapper, and dancer.
He is best known for the role he portrayed as Malcolm Adekanbi in the movie 'Dope' and Shaolin Fantastic in the television series 'The Get Down'.
Shameik Moore: Age, Parents, Siblings, Family, Ethnicity
Shameik Moore was born in Pensacola, Florida.
She was born on 17 December 1993 with the birth name of Kiersey Nicole Clemons. He is of Jamaican ethnicity and has American nationality.
He is the son of an African American father Errol and a European mother Sharon.
Education, School/College University
He built up a strong interest in dancing and music at a young age and joined classes.
There is no information on his academic education.
Shameik Moore: Professional Life and Career
Talking about the career journey of Shameik Moore, he has been active in the industry since 2009 and is still currently engaged in it.
He came to fame after uploading videos of himself singing and dancing on YouTube which gained massive success.
Moore has also appeared in the music video of Soulja Boy and Keri Hilson's music video.
He was also featured as the main cast in the 2013 television series Incredible Crew portraying various characters.
His career took on a successful path when he got to portray the character of lead role Malcolm Adekanbi in the 2015 movie 'Dope'.
Caption: Shameik Moore and Isabela Moner (Source: Zimbio)
For the role, he was also nominated for Critics Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer.
He was also featured as the main cast of Shaolin Fantastic in the television series 'The Get Down' which is still currently running.
Besides his acting career, he is also a singer and rapper who has released his first hip-hop mixtape 'I AM Da Beat' in 2013.
His success in his career has paid her well financially. He has been cast as Phil in the 2018 film 'Pretenders'.
Net Worth, Income, Salary
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Q: How to store outputs as coordinates and use ListPlot to plot them? so I have a program that outputs a desired value for incrementing values of alpha. Right now, my program prints a list of these for 40 values of alpha in the form {alpha, newValue}.
d = 1000;
For[k = 1, k <= 40, k++,
  alpha = 0.1*k;
  fd = 3*d^2/(Pi^2);
   fs = fd*FareySequence[d];
  count = 0;
  For[i = 1, i < fd, i++,
   For[j = (i - 1), j > 0, j--,
     If[(fs[[i]] - fs[[j]]) < alpha, count++, Break[]]];];
    newValue = count/d^2;
  Print["{", alpha, ",", newValue, "}"];
  ];

Here are the first few outputs:
{0.1,0}
{0.2,0}
{0.3,0}
{0.4,1911/100000}
{0.5,13593/250000}
{0.6,90521/1000000}
..
..
..
{3.9,1155653/1000000}
{4.,74163/62500}

I want to make a plot all of these outputs as coordinates. I want to plot these point on a graph with alpha on the x axis and newValue on the y axis. Any help would be appreciated.

A: Change the outer for loop to a table:
d = 1000;
sol = Table[alpha = 0.1*k;
fd = 3*d^2/(Pi^2);
fs = fd*FareySequence[d];
count = 0;
For[i = 1, i < fd, i++,
For[j = (i - 1), j > 0, j--,
If[(fs[[i]] - fs[[j]]) < alpha, count++, Break[]]];];
{k, count/d^2}, {k, 1, 40}];

ListPlot[sol]

gives the plot you're looking for!


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A challenge within a challenge... A mini goal with Halloween with a full forward burst for Christmas and, dare I say it, NEW YEARS!!!!
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