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Formats Unpacked: Axios
How a news format used Smart Brevity to build a huge audience
Last month I asked you if there were any news formats that you'd like to see unpacked. In the blink of an eye, Eliz Mizon came back to me with this excellent unpacking. It's a format we've been admiring for a few years and should have done sooner.
Eliz is a media critic, organiser, and a huge documentary nerd. You can find her on Twitter @elizmizon, on TikTok @elizmizon and on Substack, writing about the intersection of power and pop culture in her weekly newsletter, Chompsky. Eliz previously unpacked RuPaul's Drag Race.
Over to Eliz…
Axios (online publication).
Axios is a short, sharp, cleanly formatted news website adhering to the concept of Smart Brevity® (yes, they've registered their format as a trademark). Each article starts with a brief introductory paragraph, like this, followed by a series of sub-headed paragraphs that split the information into bitesize chunks…
Why it matters: Our desire for information needs attending to, but so does our concern with information overload, phone addiction, and opinion, polemic, and downright misinformation presenting itself as fact. Axios' format is ruled by concise, clear "research and writing techniques that make it deeply engaging to busy readers", while "resist[ing] traffic-based assumptions to dumb things down".
The big picture: You'd be hard pressed to find a news topic not catered for by Axios, and also to find one that a newbie wouldn't find approachable. By "obsessing about simplicity" at the same time as covering a plethora of topics from space travel, to trade, to sports betting, to extreme weather and climate truths, Axios has managed to make its niche news itself, growing into a serious - and crucially, trusted - industry player in only 5 years. (You may remember Jonathan Swan's famous Trump interview, which helped put them on the map.)
Details: Axios also has a software and consulting arm, Axios HQ, which promises to bring their format to companies' internal comms. Axios is run by former Washington Post White House correspondent and co-founder of Politico, Jim VandeHei, who is regarded as not only a top journalist, but also a savvy businessman.
By the numbers: Where many other newsrooms are currently facing mergers, or worse - layoffs or closure (not necessarily due to a lack of quality, or financial instability…) Axios appears to be thriving. With more than 400 employees, they've announced $30 million for expansion this year, after a valuation of $430 million. They expect revenue of more than $100 million in 2022, up from $86 million last year according to the New York Times.
What they're saying: "America is screwed if we don't restore fast a common connection, a common truth and a common reality," says VandeHei, "You do this with smart, clinical news and information — devoid of opinion and needless noise — pushed to consumers in an efficient, quick, respectful way."
Go deeper… Any of the 'Sections', as pictured below, will take you to an endless scroll of 'smart, clinical' news, but you can also check out their video content, produced in partnership with HBO, and this Digiday podcast with Axios president Roy Schwartz: 'It's too early to sell': Why Axios is set on investing in internal growth, versus pursuing M&A in 2022
Given I'm a media critic you might be able to guess which section I follow most closely, but in terms of their video content, I suggest this lesser-known companion piece to The Trump Interview: an equally fierce interrogation of Steve Bannon by Jonathan Swan:
Similar formats
Many newsletters - Formats Unpacked, and my media newsletter included! - take the tack of a repeated, segmented format delivering brevity but curating important detail. Others to highlight are Why Is This Interesting?, another Substack newsletter, and an aggregated variation: News In Bullets, part of the Newsreels app, which takes mainstream outlets' news articles and simply lists their main points.
Thanks Eliz.
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[ARCHIVED] Notice of Application - CUN-0003-2021
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Conditional Use Permit for a Mini-Storage in the Rural Activity Center (RAC) Zone according to Section 14.618.240(24) of the Spokane County Zoning Code.
PROJECT LOCATION: The subject site is known as 34911 N. Newport Hwy, and is located on the northwest corner of the Newport Highway and Deer Park-Milan Road, in the NE 1/4 of Section 34, Township 29 North, Range 43 EWM, Spokane County, Washington.
ZONING: Rural Activity Center (RAC)
DATE ISSUED: May 24, 2021
APPLICANT: Storhaug Engineering C/O William Sinclair
ACTION: This project is subject to a future public hearing. You will be receiving a Notice of Hearing, which will be issued a minimum of fifteen (15) days prior to the public hearing. A written report, including a staff analysis of the project and recommendation of decision, will be available for inspection seven (7) calendar days prior to the public hearing. Participation in the public hearing is encouraged. A copy of the Notice of Decision issued by the Spokane County Hearing Examiner, which identifies the findings of fact, conclusion, decision and appeal rights will be provided to those individuals who testify at the public hearing and will be available to all others upon request.

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Commentary: Snow's Priorities Include Vital UFAs
By Christopher Lizza June 12th, 2015
This summer, New York Islanders general manager Garth Snow has some contract work to do. The Isles have three key players who will be unrestricted free agents after next season in Matt Martin, Frans Nielsen and Kyle Okposo. All three players have had a good amount of tenure with the Islanders and have been through some very tough years with this team to get where they are today.
This franchise is in position for lift off. I am sure this trio realizes that and wants to be part of that future. The time for Snow to strike on long-term extensions for these three is this summer. The good news for Snow is these forwards have signed long-term deals in the past that emphasized security. A similar approach taken by Snow this summer should lead to contract extensions for all three and a reasonable cap number for the organization. In the past, the Islanders have probably done the best job in terms of managing their cap and the result is they are most likely the NHL organization in the best salary cap situation in the NHL.
Martin, a former fifth round pick, is only 26. He plays on the Islanders' fourth line, but don't let that fool you in terms of his contributions to the team. The Isles' fourth line is very different from most teams, as they play between 12 and 13 minutes a night. Martin has led the NHL in hits in the regular season for quite some time. No. 2 on the list is his linemate Cal Clutterbuck. Martin brings a lot of energy, physical play, solid two-way game and contributes close to 10 goals a season. Martin is a key link to that team chemistry and togetherness on what is a close-knit team.
This should be, on paper, the easiest of the three contracts to get done by Snow. I am thinking a five-year extension that totals between $14 and $15 million would make everyone happy. The contract would cover Martin's prime years.
Frans Nielsen
Nielsen, a former third round pick, is 31. Nielsen is a two-way player and a perfect third line center. Nielsen is one of the best shootout players in the league, which is just one of the many aspects his game brings to the table. Last year, he finished with 43 points, which is more what you can expect of him going forward. Nielsen's 2013-14 season of 25 goals and 58 points was a career year. I have no doubt the Isles want to extend Nielsen; however, since he will be 32 when his current contract ends, that could be a sticking point in terms of length on his next extension. I am sure the Islanders would ideally not want to go past four years in terms of an extension for Nielsen.
However, Nielsen and his agent have to know that if Nielsen puts up a 50-plus point season, it would result in a five-year contract extension next summer. Is Nielsen willing to agree to a four-year extension now to have that security? I am thinking a four-year extension for $18 million (very similar to Rangers Matt Zuccarello recent extension) would be a fair deal for everyone involved.
Okposo, the former first-round pick (seventh overall) is in his prime at the age of 27. The question with Okposo: is he a first-line forward or a great second-line forward? Okposo, who missed 22 games last season due to an eye injury, had 51 points in 60 games. The year before was Okposo's best year where he had 69 points in 71 games (played at a high level that season when Tavares was hurt). Having gone through a scary situation last season with his eye injury, one would think Okposo would be very open to signing an extension this summer. The Islanders, on the other hand, would be locking up one of their key players during his prime. Okposo, no doubt, will be the most costly of the three. It will likely take at least a six-year deal to get Okposo to sign an extension – possibly somewhere between $33 and $36 million locks up this big, strong forward.
Snow has work to do but by training camp as I expect all three to be signed to extensions.
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(1873–1932). Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont designed and flew balloons, dirigibles, and heavier-than-air machines. He is credited with making the first significant flight of a powered airplane in Europe.
Santos-Dumont was born on July 20, 1873, in Cabangu, near Palmyra [now Santos-Dumont], Minas Gerais, Brazil. When he was about 17 years old he moved to France and began to study engineering, and he quickly became interested in flight. He ascended in his first balloon, Brazil, in 1898, but he soon turned his attention to powered airships. Over the next few years he designed 11 dirigibles, winning many prizes for his flight achievements along the way.
By 1905 Santos-Dumont had begun to design and fly a series of heavier-than-air flying machines, or primitive airplanes. In September 1906 he made the first public flight in Europe with a powered, winged aircraft. By October he had completed a flight of 200 feet (60 meters) at a height of about 6.5–10 feet (2–3 meters) off the ground. In November he won praise for the first recorded flight over 100 meters; he flew about 720 feet (220 meters) in 21.5 seconds.
Santos-Dumont remained active in aeronautical circles, developing the Demoiselle, a high-wing monoplane, in 1909. He returned to Brazil in the 1920s and died in Guarujá, São Paulo, on July 23, 1932.


The Integrated Urban Development Plan of the Growth Pole Brasov (IUDP GPB) is a development planning document of Brasov Metropolitan Area, within the framework of the Regional Operational Programme 2007-2013, priority axis no. 1 - Support to sustainable development of urban growth poles. Several projects are developed according to the five major objectives of IUDP GPB: increasing the administrative efficiency and the territorial cohesion and competitiveness; competitive and sustainable economic development; increasing the quality of life, human resources development, development of research and innovation activities. Landscaping public squares and increasing the intraurban accessibility are the main priorities of the present ongoing projects. As for the projects in the evaluation stage, they are focused on: flexibility of public administration in the metropolitan area, reduction of rural-urban disparities and improvement of social integration.


Any plans on Axiom producing a three way bookshelf similar to Bryston's Model T mini. That would of course use the one inch tweeter and could have a 5.25 inch dedicated midrange speaker and use the 8 inch woofer that is in use in the EP125 subwoofer to allow it to extend down to 40 hz. I had to put off my planned purchase of a pair of M80's and came across the Model T mini on the internet and was very intrigued.
Dubious. Axiom doesn't make any other speakers with an 8" woofer.
Here a link to the Bryston Model T minis. My understanding is they where developed in conjunction with Axiom and are being produced at the Axiom factory.
I think Ian prefers to things that other companies don't do to differentiate his product from the rest. Though axiom had a hand in the design and building of the Model T Mini , that is James Tanner's vision. I personally like the 3 way design like the Model T Mini's and built my own using axioms drivers. The sound the same as my M2's ,which says to me that the size of the drivers is not relevant when using a sub to handle the low end.
Socketman, what your saying is true. I just think there is a market out there for that type of speaker. What size driver did you use for the woofer in the speakers you built?
I used drivers from the M80, 1x tweet, 1x 5.25 Mid, 1x6.5 woof and used a program called Xover 3 to design the crossover. I stuck close to the size of a M22 and also the crossover points Ian uses. Bear in mind I have never done any frequency response test or anything like that yet but they sound good to me,i use them mostly for 2 channel though they are on my surround sound receiver in my bedroom. I did it mostly because I already had the drivers, but also gave me a project to do in the shop. It was more expensive than if I had bought them already made but it was fun.
If Ian thought there was a market for it, he'd be making it already.
If you like the Brystons, you should buy them.
Just because it costs more and was developed with Axiom does not mean it is better.
Pricing is part of marketing.
Axiom makes terrific products. Axiom is an R&D company. They have spent the last 30+ years designing and marketing loudspeakers. I think it is pretty safe to assert that Ian has considered and tested just about every configuration.
Tomtuttle. The Brystons are a little out of my price range. I like the price to performance of Axiom speakers. I own a pair of the M2's that are set up in my bedroom and really enjoy them. Like I posted I was intrigued by the Bryston minis configuration and three way design in a bookshelf speaker. Axiom does not have a three way bookself. I figure the larger speaker enclosure would help them extend a little deeper than the M22's and the dedicated midrange would also give a little more detail and dynamics.
When I was at the factory last summer, Ian showed me an experimental speaker that sported the outstanding 8" driver from the EP400 sub although I forget what drivers were above it.
After many months of wonderful listening to my M2s plus an EP-400, I often wondered what a small floor stander using the M2 innards up top with the EP400 innards (with amp) on the bottom in one cabinet would sound like. I betcha it would be an absolute killer by being able to reach down ~20Hz (with variable bass gain) combined with the great articulation of the M2s.


4.	Review and Approve the Regular Meeting Minutes of June 11, 2008: One typing error found in the section 2008 Grant Summary. The error was supposed to read no mold found in place of no mold fold. Mr. Boyd moved to accept and approve the June 11, 2008 meeting minutes, Mr. Todd seconded; all voted aye, motion carried.
b.	Accounts Payable: A question was asked by Mr. Nelson about the purchase through Midwest Management. Mr. Schneider replied how we rent a frequency for 5 years. It's a used channel.
Mr. Nelson moved to accept and approve the accounts payable, Mr. Todd seconded; all voted aye, motion carried.
c. Accounts Receivable: The sheet was off a little. Andy goes on to make mention of reasoning behind this. We get all the airports financial information by the click of a button on quick books. If you pull up most of these accounts, it shows a zero balance, but when you click the accounts receivable report it shows a balance. It was mentioned for the airport office employees to try and find a QuickBooks class to make sure they know how everything is actually done.
6.	Project Reports - Steve Aldinger was not present at the meeting.
a.	End of the Month Passenger Boarding: Boardings are significantly up compared to last month and previous month.
a.	Review and Approve the Board Organizational Policy Manual: This is Kelani's, so it's tabled until next month. Mr. Todd motions to move as amended, Mr. Neyes moved to second. All voted aye, motion carried.
b.	Manager Report: Mr. Schneider has been working with the sprinklers. The system wasn't flushed last year, so there are a few pipes that are broke. Dakota Rain has been working on the sprinklers. The line painter to do the parking lot doesn't work. There's a guy from town, who has paint and machine and our guys will help him, since the city is too busy. But it'd be approximately a $500.00 fee. There are some kits you can get and put the spray can in it. Mr. Neyes said the post office has one that they use and just push, and recommends it, but will ask the post office to see how they feel it works. Still have a billboard up and some advertising on the radio. Picked up a push mower at Lowes in Bismarck, the old push mower was really old and not working well. There was an example letter included in the packets which Mr. Schneider had sent out to get responses to see if there was any demand in getting new T-Hangers. Mr. Nelson discussed flying over to Mandan to converse with their airport manager because they built three new T- Hanger rows that are really nice and they put together a formula where they don't build it until they get commitment for filling the facility up, they build it, and it's all full right away. Play off what's working for them, and eliminate some mistakes might otherwise make. In response to the letters so far, Olson's have spoken for one already, a gentleman that fly's in, he was a captain and has some property north of town expressed interest.
a.	Grasshopper Maintenance: It overheated, so was brought to Central Sales. Central Sales aren't authorized to fix it, so Mr. Schneider brought it to Fargo. They didn't want to service it under warranty because they feel we overheated it. The reason it got hot is because something was wrong with it.
10.	Other Business: Mr. Schneider asks about Ms. Parisien. He needs to go through the budget. Mr. Klingenberg appoints Dennis Nelson as an alternate financing to operate only in the absent of Kelani.
Mr. Dodd wanted to address an audit of accounts, so there's a clean slate for the new manager. The cost is $3,800.00, so the board feels you could get a whole lot of education for that price. Look if CSI carries any classes. Mr. Dodd moves to resend the supplemental audit and that instead personnel will get training in QuickBooks, Mr. Nelson moved to second; all voted aye, motion carried.
a. Jamestown Fly-In: July 25-August 4, 2008: Jon Cave talks how this is the third fly-in to Oshkosh, 70 planes the last two years; they stop in have a burger and rest stop. With the gas prices they figure it will be way down this year. Doesn't interfere.
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Where can I find out more about the Worldslayer Expansion?
We look forward to sharing more information about Worldslayer in Spring 2022.
Can I see some Gameplay anywhere?
You can view a number of gameplay videos on this Playlist.
Additionally, we worked with press and content creators to enable them to get their own hands on first impressions. You can view many of these on Youtube here.
What part of the game does the gameplay revealed so far show?
The gameplay revealed so far features content only from the first few hours of the campaign. Throughout your travels across Enoch you will encounter a great diversity in environments and colorful surroundings. You can see some of these here.
Will OUTRIDERS have a story?
Yes! OUTRIDERS is a story driven RPG-Shooter that will put the player in the shoes of an Outrider, the last hope of the human race trapped on Enoch, a dangerous and untamed planet. The campaign can be played entirely in single player, or in co-op with up to three players.
I would prefer to not see certain HUD/UI elements when playing. Is this possible?
OUTRIDERS features a variety of customization options, including turning various parts of the HUD and UI on and off. You will also be able to turn off enemy/ally health bars as well as damage numbers.
Can I adjust the difficulty of the game?
OUTRIDERS features up to 15 different "World Tiers", which will strongly change the way the game is played and experienced. While World Tiers will adjust to your playstyle as you progress in order to keep the game challenging, you can also change your World Tier manually according to your preferences.
Will Outriders feature PVP?
The question of PvP is asked a lot, but right from the earliest concept, Outriders has been designed as a PvE game. We're committed to making the best single-player and Co-op RPG shooter out there
How long is the game?
This is entirely dependant on how you play the game. Focusing on just the main campaign by itself on a single class will take around 25-30 hours, but it will take 2-3 times that long if you play all the side quests, post-campaign and additional content in Outriders. We've made sure that there's no right or wrong way to play the game and that you'll always have a great experience. If you just want to complete the main campaign, you'll experience the full story and have a great time with this game. But if you want to spend more time in the world of Outriders, getting the best items and taking on the hardest challenges in the game, it can keep you busy for exponentially longer.
In what way will exploration be rewarded in Outriders?
Straying from the beaten track and exploring the world of Enoch is a big part of Outriders. Not only will you be rewarded with gear, opportunities to hunt down special enemies and challenging combat encounters, but you will also uncover the mysteries of Enoch.
Can we have multiple characters or classes for the same account?
Everyone will have access to up to 6 character slots, which you can fill with whichever classes you desire. You'll also have a stash which can be used to share items between characters.
Why are there 4 classes but only groups of 3 players?
We tested different amounts of players in co-op, but 3 players was the perfect max-player sweet-spot for balancing, optimization and visibility. Especially with all the movement skills and visual effects from powers, when playing with four people the battlefield got way too chaotic and hard to read.
Why are certain animations so short or subtle?
Outriders is a game that's focused around frenetic skill plus speed and our skills are designed and animated directly to play to that design. Big wind-up animations make sense for skills that are extremely powerful, but if you're looking to interrupt a boss to prevent your team being wiped, you will no doubt appreciate an immediate effect skill more than something with a big song and dance to it.
Will Outriders support Smart Delivery on Xbox? Will we get a free upgrade to PlayStation 5?
Yes. Anyone who purchases the game for Xbox One or PlayStation 4, will get a free upgrade to Xbox One X, Xbox Series S and PlayStation 5 respectively.
Will Outriders support Cross-Play?
Yes. Outriders will Fully support cross-play, meaning you will be able to explore Enoch with any of your friends on any other platform. You can play Outriders from start to finish with your friends regardless of what system they own.
Is OUTRIDERS a Games-As-A-Service?
No - OUTRIDERS will be a complete experience out of the box.
Will OUTRIDERS feature Micro-transactions?
Is Outriders a Free-to-Play game?
No. Outriders will only require a one-off purchase of the game. You can pre-order Outriders here.
Will OUTRIDERS feature Denuvo?
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Jeff Van Gundy says Mike Miller deserves chance to finish season, win Knicks coaching job
By Kurt HelinFeb 12, 2020, 7:00 PM EST
With Steve Mills out and Leon Rose (eventually) coming in, good luck finding anyone around the league who thinks Mike Miller is going to lose the "interim" tag and win the Knicks coaching job. His 13-19 record in the big chair isn't going to help (although, considering the roster, that's a pretty good job.
Already speculation of the return of Jeff Van Gundy has started.
Van Gundy wants no part of this talk, as he said on SiriusXM NBA Radio to hosts Frank Isola and Mitch Lawrence.
"I find it unfortunate at times when people start circling…to get a job that's not even open"
Jeff Van Gundy addresses the #Knicks Head Coach rumors with @TheFrankIsola & @Mitch_Lawrence#NewYorkForever pic.twitter.com/DetscP3KZS
— SiriusXM NBA Radio (@SiriusXMNBA) February 12, 2020
"Mike Miller, to me, deserves every opportunity to finish this season out and win the job, and I think anybody plotting as a coach to try to undermine that opportunity is doing it wrong. In a coaching situation, we should all root for each other to be successful because only the people that have manned the head coaching position understand how hard it is to win any single NBA game. And particularly those teams that are stuck in the middle, it is brutal to win games. I find it unfortunate at times when people start circling, trying to get a job that isn't even open. Mike Miller deserves all of our support. He's done a fantastic job."
Rose needs to find a coach who fits his vision for the direction of the Knicks. That means if Rose wants to build an athletic, up-tempo roster, then he needs a coach who has a track record with that style of play. Or he can get a defensive-minded coach. Or a coach that runs a more motion style offense. The only real requirements are a coach who can set up a good player development system, and one who shares his vision of the Knicks culture.
Maybe that's Jeff Van Gundy, who would be easy to sell to Knicks fans, but is a step back to the past the best way to the future?
Whatever it is, the Knicks search should be on hold until after the season.


We once received a call from a teacher applicant asking about our in-home piano lessons program. She said she was concerned about driving to students' homes and putting in all those miles. She had a deep conviction about limiting her miles in her car to help the environment. We at Starlight LOVE in-home music lessons, and we know that many of our teachers and customers prefer to limit their time in their car as much as possible. So, we at Starlight decided to take her concern to heart and put it to the test. We did a case study of an average teacher's schedule and distance traveled and this is what we discovered.
How does a student taking in-home lessons result in less miles on the road overall? Let's take a look at an actual teacher's in-home lesson schedule and compare it to if those same students drove to a studio.
Let's assume the teacher lives 10 miles away from student A and 10 miles away from Students E & F. In addition, the teacher will drive an average of 5 miles between each house. Therefore, 40 miles will be driven for the six students above.
Now, let's discuss what were to happen if all six of the above students went to a studio for lessons. The average person will drive between 6-10 miles or more each way to get to a studio. Let's assume they travel an average of 7.5 miles each way to get to a studio. These six students (five families), would therefore be on the road for a total of 75 miles!
You can see by the above numbers that taking lessons in your home not only makes your life easier and decreases the amount of time you have to spend on the road, it cuts the total miles traveled by 53%! What an easy way to Go Green!
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Changes to the breasts are highly common in pregnant women because of the sudden hormonal changes they experience. This symptom can occur as early as two weeks following conception.
Some women notice a heightened sense of smell during their first trimester of pregnancy, which is caused by the increased levels of estrogen in the pregnant woman's body.
The hormonal changes a pregnant woman experiences can actually cause the need to urinate more often than usual.
Nausea, often coined as "morning sickness," can occur at any time of the day during pregnancy. For most women who experience this symptom, nausea tapers off at the end of the first trimester.
Fatigue is another common early sign of pregnancy that can be credited to hormonal changes.
Yes, it's those hormonal changes again that can affect the size of your blood vessels, causing lightheadedness or dizziness during pregnancy.
Spotting or cramping can occur when the egg implants itself into the uterus, which happens 3 to 4 days after conception.
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BDS Movement Escalates 'Boycott HP' Campaign as the Company Continues to Serve Israeli Govt
Newsclick Report | 15 Jan 2022
The BDS movement called for intensifying the campaign against HP-branded companies saying, 'HP remains deeply complicit in Israel's grave human rights violations.'
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has issued a fresh call to action to escalate its successful campaign against HP Enterprise (HPE), which it labels as "complicit" in Israel's "apartheid" against Palestine.
Based on recent revelation of HPE's involvement in Israel's prison and surveillance systems, the movement has called for the reinvigorated campaign. "Let us teach HP, and through it all corporate criminals, that profiting from war crimes and human rights violations comes at a steep price," the Palestinian BDS National Committee said in an announcement on January 10.
The Committee cited that Who Profits, an independent research organisation, has revealed that HP Enterprise, which was founded in 2015 after the split of Hewlett-Packard Company into HP Inc and HPE, continues to provide services to Israeli prisons and police.
According to Who Profits, "HPE, which specialises in the manufacturing and marketing of storage and server hardware, retained several occupation-related involvements through its Israeli subsidiary Hewlett Packard (Israel) Ltd."
Amid its notable involvement with Israel is HPE's service to the country from 2017 to 2020 as the sole provider of Itanium servers for the 'Aviv' System. The Israeli Administration of Border Crossings, Population and Immigration uses the Aviv computerisation system, which contains the Population Registry with information on Palestinian citizens and non-citizen residents of occupied East Jerusalem. The System also includes the 'Yesha database', which contains information on Israeli citizens residing in the West Bank and Gaza settlements, Who Profits reported. HPE's business partner DXC Technology developed, operated and maintained this system while HPE itself supplied the required servers for it.
The BDS Committee said this database in Aviv, which includes Palestinian citizens and East Jerusalem residents, has "facilitated Israel's efforts to ethnically cleanse and colonize Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan and other Palestinian neighbourhoods in occupied Jerusalem."
The BDS Committee noted that HPE's contract providing servers for the Aviv System has ended, according to a recent Who Profits report. "This achievement comes on the heels of over a decade of effective campaigning against HP by solidarity groups, churches, unions and progressive city councils across the world," the BDS Committee said.
While celebrating this development after their 'Boycott HP' campaign, and claiming a shift in favour of Palestinian liberation and against Israeli apartheid, the movement called for intensifying the BDS campaigns against HP-branded companies due to the recent revelations of the company's continued involvement with the Israeli government. Referring to the Who Profits report, the BDS Committee said, "HP remains deeply complicit in Israel's grave human rights violations."
Who Profits reports, "In 2020, [HPE] was contracted to provide computer and communication maintenance for Israel Prison Service for 2021-2022 for the amount of over NIS 1 Million (>300,000 USD)". In 2021, the company was also given the contract to maintain servers for the Israel Police until 2023, in the amount of NIS 4 million.
Noting that over 500 Palestinian administrative detainees have called for a boycott of Israeli military courts and are mobilising against the policy, the BDS Committee said, "We are escalating our campaign against HP as part of our commitment to the just demands of the Palestinian administrative detainees and other political prisoners in apartheid Israel's dungeons."
Launched in 2005 by 170 Palestinian unions, refugee networks, women's organisations, resistance committees, and Palestinian civil society groups, the BDS movement has gained support in its quest to win justice for Palestine.
The 'Boycott HP' campaign has grown over the years, spreading across the globe and drawing support from major trade unions, including the United Kingdom's second-largest Unite the Union and the Netherlands' largest trade union federation Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging (FNV), and the Students Federation of India (SFI), which has 4 million members.
Moreover, along with prominent churches, the city councils of Dublin in Ireland and Portland and Oregon in the United States have also divested from HP companies over their involvement in alleged human rights violations.
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package iip.nodes;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.*;
import static de.iip_ecosphere.platform.support.function.IOVoidFunction.optional;
import de.iip_ecosphere.platform.support.function.*;
import de.iip_ecosphere.platform.transport.serialization.*;
import de.iip_ecosphere.platform.connectors.parser.InputParser.InputConverter;
import de.iip_ecosphere.platform.connectors.parser.InputParser.ParseResult;
import de.iip_ecosphere.platform.connectors.parser.*;
import de.iip_ecosphere.platform.connectors.formatter.OutputFormatter.OutputConverter;
import de.iip_ecosphere.platform.connectors.formatter.*;
import iip.datatypes.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;

/**
 * Parser/formatter connector serializer for String.
 * Generated by: EASy-Producer.
 */
public class MyMqttConnExampleFormatterSerializer implements Serializer<String> {

    private TextLineFormatter formatter;
    private Map<String, Integer> mapping;

    public MyMqttConnExampleFormatterSerializer(String encoding, Map<String, Integer> mapping) {
        this.mapping = mapping;
        formatter = new TextLineFormatter(encoding, ",");
    }

    @Override
    public String from(byte[] data) throws IOException {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public byte[] to(String source) throws IOException {
        TextLineFormatter.TextLineFormatterConverter outConverter = formatter.getConverter();
        formatter.add("", outConverter.fromString(source));
        return formatter.chunkCompleted();
    }

    @Override
    public String clone(String origin) throws IOException {
        return new String(origin);
    }

    @Override
    public Class<String> getType() {
        return String.class;
    }

}

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It was a full house last night at The Marker Hotel as 250 people gathered to join IMAGE editor-in-chief Melanie Morris to welcome back special guest, Jo Malone at our sold out event.
Guests were greeted with a beautiful champagne reception from Moët Impérial. All attendees were treated to a surprise gift bag from Jo Loves, which included popular White Rose & Lemon Leaves Body Crème. Jo and Melanie were then introduced alongside Moët's brand ambassador Julie and Chef Gareth and Sandra from the Marker hotel who explained the carefully curated (and delicious) menu, which included a gorgeous four-course meal and wine selection.
Each guest enjoyed an Amuse Bouché to start followed by the starter; Spiced Gamba, cashew, pomelo, radish & lime. The main meal was John Stone Beef Fillet, truffle pomme mousseline, celeriac, red wine jus, and to accompany the dessert (Valrhone White chocolate & lemon parfait, brushed with rose water), Moët handed out a glass of their Rosé Impérial. To finish, each guest was treated to a glass of Tanqueray No. 10 with a white rose gin and tonic, a personal favourite of Jo's.
After the wining and dining was complete, Jo once again took to the stage to share her remarkable story, explaining her passion and creativity for fragrances started from a very young age; from the kitchen to what became an iconic and hugely successful beauty empire. She then exclusively set up the very first, and only pop-up shop from her new brand Jo Loves and signed copies of her new book Jo Malone: My Story.
See highlights from the night in our gallery above.
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Q: JavaScript - IE 9 XML textContent The next code works well under Firefox, but IE 9 gives udnefiend as result:
var url = "http://www.w3schools.com/xml/note.xml";

var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.open("GET", url, true);
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function(event){ processRequest(event,xmlhttp); };
xmlhttp.send();

function processRequest(event,xmlhttp) {
    if(xmlhttp.readyState != 4) return;
    if(xmlhttp.status != 200) return;
    var responseXML = xmlhttp.responseXML;
    alert(responseXML.getElementsByTagName("note")[0].getElementsByTagName("to")[0].textContent);
}

How can I get the textContent of an XML element in IE9?

A: To access the value of any node from an XML DOM object, use the property
dom_node.nodeValue;

textContent is not a W3C standard recommendation. Request you to use the standard properties which are cross-browser compatible.

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To mention good luck is to jinx it, I suppose. It's been a long last week; one of the longest of my life. I'm fine now, or at least stable, so no worries on my behalf, please.
Now would be a good time to call a friend and look to those in need. It's a fragile world we live in, one filled with the most amazing people and with wonders and horrors almost beyond belief.


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November 19, 2019 StenBlog
Noise pollution is a serious matter that can affect not only how well you sleep at night, but also your health and even psychological state. None of this should surprise you, but as our planet becomes more urbanized, the expanding cloud of man-made noise from jets, traffic and even leaf-blowers can penetrate even remote forests and habitats.
Just out of curiosity, I have created a citizen science project that you can download to your phone from your app store and help me map, not the noisiest places on this planet, but the quietest places. The project can be found by downloading from your store the app called 'Anecdata'. It will ask you to register by entering an email address, a username and your own private password. Once registered, scroll down the project page and join the one called 'Silent Earth'. You should also join the Facebook group called 'The Silent Earth Project' because I post updates there and tips for taking data, as well as interesting results along the way. https://www.facebook.com/SilentEarthProject
This is what the project banner looks like on your phone
In time, I will be using this blog space to include article of interest on noise pollution and some of our results as we get more areas covered. Here is what you need to do to get going.
Check out the national map by the National Park Service to see how your area ranks https://earthsky.org/earth/map-shows-loudest-quietest-places-in-u-s
Step 1: Tap the bar that says '+Observe' on the project window
Step 2: Tap the bar that says 'Measure' and click 'OK'. Remain quiet for a few seconds.
Step 3: Tap the check boxes that apply to you and your location
Step 4: Tap the 'save' tab at the upper right of the screen to record your data.
Don't be shy!! Make as many measurements as you like but certainly more than one!!! Also, if it seems noisy where you are, say above 50 decibels (dB) walk around your neighborhood or town (or use a bike or car) to find a place that is quieter than what you just measured. Numbers in the 40s are very typical of suburban locations but numbers in the 30s are exceptionally quiet and what you would find in rural locations where there is little traffic, jet, plane or other man-made noises. One of the quietest places I have encountered is deep inside Skyline Caverns in Virginia where readings in the high-20s were encountered!
citizen sciencenoise pollution
A Family Resurrection
March 3, 2017 StenBlog
When someone tells you that they are a family geneaologist, your first reaction is to gird yourself for a boring conversation about begats that will sound something like a chapter out of the Old Testament Genesis. What you probably don't understand is the compulsion that drives us in this task.
A pretty little scene from one of my ancestral places near Uddevalla!
5,176 – That's the number of people I have helped bring back from oblivion through my labors. There is an ineffable feeling of deep satisfaction in having tracked them down through the countless Swedish church records spanning over 600 years of history. Every one recovered and named was a personal victory for me against the forgetfulness of time and history. Ancient Egyptians believed that if you removed a person's name from monuments, or ceased to speak it, that the person's spirit would actually cease to exist. That is why so many pharaoh's defaced their predecessor's monuments by removing their names. To counter this eternal death, all you have to do is again speak their name!
I, personally, have resurrected over 15 families who I never knew existed. I can now name their parents, their children, when and where they were born and died, how often they pulled up roots in one town and moved to another. I know where and when they lived among the countless towns and farms in rural Sweden. I can also anticipate what major stories and geopolitical issues must have been the small talk around dinner tables and among their fellow farm laborers in the fields.
Everyone loves the thrill of the hunt, the stalking of prey, and the final moment of satisfaction at the completion of the pursuit. For a genealogist, we hunt through historical records in pursuit of a single individual. Pouring through a record containing a thousand names, we spot the birth of an ancestor. The accompanying census record tips us off about his family unit captured in hand-written names, birth dates and places. A bit more work among the records of that moment clinches the number of children and where the family had last been in its travels. Looking forward, we recover the names of the grandparents, the birth and death dates and places of the parents, marriages, when the children left home, and where they later wound up as their own lives played out in the course of time.
Countess 'Aha' moments reward you as you meticulously slog through these records, and step-by-step recover a parent, a child, a place, a history. In doing so, you enter the acute fogginess of an alternate state of mind. The reward for this compulsion carries you on for many days until at last your labors are completed and you sit back and admire what you have just accomplished. There on your pages of notes, an entire family has been brought back from the depths of time. Like a diadem recovered from the soil, you can now admire the texture of this family and see it as an organic and living thing in space and time. As little as two weeks ago, you never even knew they existed. For years and even centuries before that, these ancestors lay buried in time and utterly forgotten by the living. They slumbered in the many fragmented pages of a hundred church books spread across countless square miles of Sweden until you, one day, decided to resurrect them and tell their story.
The curious, but typical story of Eric Juhlin!
Eric Ulric Juhlin, my second great great uncle, was born on July 4, 1823 to my third great grandfather Magnus Juhlin and his wife Britta Ulrica Gadd, in the town of Tutaryd, Sweden.
In 2010 I only knew Eric existed from the town's census record that revealed the 11 children of my distant grandfather Magnus Juhlin, which were listed neatly in their own little rows of data. Eric was the twin to Petrus Juhlin who, sadly, died three months later as was a common risk for young children and infants in 18th century rural Sweden.
Well, Eric eventually met Eva Cajsa Svensdotter from Ljungby, Sweden; The exact details of how they met are obscure. But they settled for a time in the town of Halmstad, where on March 6, 1855 they had their first child Clara. Returning to Tutaryd in 1856, for the next 22 years they gave birth to six more children: Ida Regina, Ferdinand, Hedvig, Davida, Ulrica, and Gustaf Adolph. By the time their seventh-and- last child Carl Leonard was born in 1878, Eric was by that time 55 years old and Eva Caisa had turned 48 only 5 months later.
This family was singularly unlucky in raising their children to adulthood. Ferdinand died at the age of only five years. Carl Leonard made it to age 3, and Gustav Adolph, with an impressive King's name, died at age 8. But there were also some hopeful stories too among their more fortunate siblings who they barely got to know.
Ida Regina did survive childhood and went on to marry Magnus Adolph Persson. Settling in the southern town of Hjämarp, they raised three sons and three daughters who all grew up and lived to old age. Magnus eventually died in 1930 at the age of 69 followed by Ida ten years later at the age of 83. Ida's 16-year-old sister Ulrica, decided for whatever reason to emmigrate to the United States, where she eventually met and married her husband Fredrick William Picknell in 1893. Settling in Champaign, Illinois, they raised three sons: Percy Gordon, Frederick and Charles. Sadly, Ulrica died in 1915 at the age of 45. Her husband survived her another 30 years. Their three sons went on to form their own families until they, themselves, passed into history; the last of them, Frederick exiting this world in Toledo, Ohio on Halloween Day, 1986. But each of them managed to cast yet another generation into futurity, and through their children, colonized the years between 1920 and 2012. One of them, Harry Gene Picknell lived in Bethesda, Maryland only a stone's throw from my own front door…but I never got to meet him.
What became of Clara, Hedvig and Davida? Well, between the ages of 20-22, they moved from their family homes in Tutaryd to the far-flung towns of Hesslunda and Mörarp. Their younger sister Davida followed suit on August 10, 1883 and moved to the Big City of Halmstad. The census for this town spans thousands of pages and is a daunting challenge to study. Perhaps Davida will turn up somewhere among them, but it will be a long while before I muster up the courage to dive into THAT archive.
Or perhaps like so many other ancestors, Davida Juhlin's story will remain the silent gold of history!
Check back here on Wednesday, March 8 for a new blog!


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Q: Dynamic SQL Query using INNER JOIN Here is the updated query as per the suggestions in the thread:
DECLARE
    @table      sysname,
    @sql        nvarchar(max),
    @dbname     sysname;

SELECT @dbname = MAX(dbname)
FROM ACVSCore.dbo.ACVSUJournalVolumeManagement.dbname
WHERE ACVSCore.dbo.ACVSUJournalVolumeManagement LIKE '%ACVSUJournal%';

SELECT @table = N'.dbo.ACVSUJournalLog';

SET @sql = N'SELECT
    ap.LastName as [Last Name],
    ap.FirstName as [First Name],
    ap.Text1 as [Company],
    ap.Text2 as [Employee ID],
    tn.ObjectName2 as [Door Name],
    MIN(tn.ServerUTC) AS [ServerUTC]
FROM ' + @dbname + @table + N' tn
INNER JOIN
    ACVSCore.Access.Personnel ap on tn.objectidentity1 =
    ap.GUID
WHERE
    ap.PersonnelTypeID = ''2'' and tn.MessageType
    = ''CardAdmitted'' and tn.ServerUTC >= DATEADD(day, -1, GETDATE())
GROUP BY
    ap.Text1, ap.LastName, ap.FirstName, ap.Text2, tn.ObjectName2
ORDER BY
    ap.Text1'
EXECUTE
    sp_executesql @sql;

I edited the query to reflect the changes suggested and it works without issue now. Thank you again!

A: This is my [EDIT: latest] attempt to fix the typos
DECLARE
  @table      sysname,
  @sql        nvarchar(max),
  @dbname     sysname;

select @dbname = MAX(dbname)
from ACVSCore.dbo.ACVSUJournalVolumeManagement
where ACVSCore.dbo.ACVSUJournalVolumeManagement LIKE '%ACVSUJournalLog%';

select @table = N'.dbo.ACVSUJournalLog';

SET @sql = N'SELECT
    ap.LastName as [Last Name],
    ap.FirstName as [First Name],
    ap.Text1 as [Company],
    ap.Text2 as [Employee ID],
    tn.ObjectName2 as [Door Name],
    MIN(tn.ServerUTC) AS [ServerUTC]
FROM ' + @dbname + @table + N' tn
INNER JOIN
    ACVSCore.Access.Personnel ap on tn.objectidentity1 =
    ap.GUID
WHERE
    ap.PersonnelTypeID = ''2'' and tn.MessageType
     = ''CardAdmitted'' and tn.ServerUTC >= DATEADD(day, -1, GETDATE())
GROUP BY
    ap.Text1, ap.LastName, ap.FirstName, ap.Text2, tn.ObjectName2
ORDER BY
    ap.Text1'
EXECUTE
    sp_executesql @sql;

A: Do not use ' in aliases
SET @sql = N'SELECT
    ACVSCore.Access.Personnel.LastName as [Last Name],
    ACVSCore.Access.Personnel.FirstName as [First Name],
    ACVSCore.Access.Personnel.Text1 as [Company],
    ACVSCore.Access.Personnel.Text2 as [Employee ID],
    dbo.ACVSUJournalLog.ObjectName2 as [Door Name],
    MIN(dbo.ACVSUJournalLog.ServerUTC) AS [ServerUTC]
FROM ' + @dbname + @table


Eksjö BK was one of 82 clubs from Sweden that had teams playing during Partille Cup 2018. They participated with two teams in Boys 15 and Girls 15 respectively. The team in Girls 15 made it to the the 1/8 Final in B-Play-off, but lost it against Hasle Løren IL 1 by 10-13.
Eksjö comes from Eksjö which lies approximately 170 km from Göteborg, where Partille Cup takes place. Other than Eksjö BK, the club Nässjö HF does also originate from the area around Eksjö.


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Q: NumberFormat.parse() fails for some currency strings I have a simple EditText, which allows the user to enter a number such as 45.60 (example for American Dollar). I then format this number using the following method:
public String format() {
    NumberFormat formatter = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(Locale.getDefault());
    return formatter.format(amount.doubleValue());
}

And on my Android phone, the language is set to English (United States) - hence the Locale.getDefault() should return the US locale (and it does).
Now the edit text is correctly updated to: $45.60 (hence formatting the entered number works).
However if I attempt to parse the above String "$45.60" using the following method:
NumberFormat numberFormat = NumberFormat.getInstance(Locale.getDefault());
Number result = numberFormat.parse("$45.60");

It fails with:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Failed to parse amount $45.60 using locale en_US.

If I set my phone to English/ UK, formatting this "45.60" to "£45.60" works correctly (as for US), however parsing "£45.60" fails, just as it does for the above US sample.
However, if I set my phone to German (Germany), formatting "45,60" to "45,60€" works correctly, AND parsing "45,60€" works correctly as well!
The only difference I see between those three currencies: The Euro is appended to the amount, while the Dollar and the Pound are prepended to the amount.
Does anyone have an idea, why the same code works for Euro, but not for Pound and Dollar? Am I missing something?
I also created a unit test, to reproduce the issue:
public void testCreateStringBased() throws Exception {

    // For German locale
    CurrencyAmount amount = new CurrencyAmount("25,46€", Locale.GERMANY);
    assertEquals(25.46, amount.getAsDouble());

    // For French locale
    amount = new CurrencyAmount("25,46€", Locale.FRANCE);
    assertEquals(25.46, amount.getAsDouble());

    // For US locale
    amount = new CurrencyAmount("$25.46", Locale.US);
    assertEquals(25.46, amount.getAsDouble());

    // For UK locale
    amount = new CurrencyAmount("£25.46", Locale.UK);
    assertEquals(25.46, amount.getAsDouble());
}

CurrencyAmount basically wraps the code I posted for parsing currency strings, except that it takes the given locale instead of the default locale. In the above example, the test succeeds for the GERMANY and FRANCE locale but fails for US and UK locale.

A: Since the answers that have been suggested thus far, did not completely solve the problem, I took a painfully amateurish approach:
String value = "$24,76"
value = value.replace(getCurrencySymbol(locale), StringUtils.EMPTY);

NumberFormat numberFormat = NumberFormat.getInstance(locale);
Number result = numberFormat.parse(value);

So now I simply strip the String value off it's currency symbol... This way I can process everything I want, such as: 45.78 or 45,78 or $45.78 or 45,78€ ....
Whatever the input, the currency symbol is simply stripped and I end up with the plain number. My unittests (see OP) now complete successfully.
If anyone comes up with something better, please let me know.

A: Try following:
NumberFormat numberFormat = new DecimalFormat("¤#.00", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.UK));
numberFormat.parse("£123.5678");

¤ - currency sign, expects matches with currency symbol by Locale.
other pattern symbols you can see by following link http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/DecimalFormat.html

A: Try NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance().parse() instead of NumberFormat.getInstance().parse().

A: You must know the locale of the string you wish to parse in order to have a locale-aware parser.  The GBP string parse to a numeric ONLY when the NumberFormat's locale is en_GB; there is no such thing as a "universal" parser.
For example, how does the string "12.000" parse?  For en-us, the answer is twelve; for de-de, the answer is twelve-thousand.
Always use NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance( java.util.Locale ) to parse currency amounts.

A: I'm using below adapted from https://dzone.com/articles/currency-format-validation-and
import java.math.BigDecimal;
import org.apache.commons.validator.routines.*;

BigDecimalValidator currencyValidator = CurrencyValidator.getInstance();
BigDecimal parsedCurrency = currencyValidator.validate(currencyString);
if ( parsedCurrency == null ) {
        throw new Exception("Invalid currency format (please also ensure it is UTF-8)");
}

If you need to insure the correct Locale is being used per user look at
Change locale on login

A: Sorry, but any answer provided are misleading. This is what I would call a BUG in Java.
An example like this explains it better. If I want to print a value in EUR using Locale.US and then I parse it again, it fails unless I specify on the DecimalFormat the currency (EUR). Using dollars, it works:
        DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("¤#,##0.00", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.US));
        df.setCurrency(Currency.getInstance("EUR"));
        BigDecimal value = new BigDecimal("1.23");
        String text = df.format(value);
        System.out.println(text);

        DecimalFormat df2 = new DecimalFormat("¤#,##0.00", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.US));
        df2.setParseBigDecimal(true);
        BigDecimal parsed = (BigDecimal) df2.parse(text);

        BigDecimalAsserts.assertBigDecimalEquals("parsed value is the same of the original", value, parsed);


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Q: Hide ComboBox Toggle Button? I am trying to make a generic Style in <Window.Resources> to allow me to set the visibility of the ToggleButton at the side. I can't find a specific question addressing this.
I made this Style below, but it seems to hide every ComboBox in the project even though I have set the trigger for only when IsVisible is true.
The code: This is my attempt at the style,
<Window.Resources>
    <Style x:Key="ComboBoxToggleStyle" TargetType="{x:Type ToggleButton}">
        <Setter Property="Visibility" Value="{Binding Path=IsVisible,
                    RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType={x:Type ComboBox}}}" />
            <Setter Property="Template">
                <Setter.Value>
                    <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ToggleButton}">
                        <ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                            <Trigger Property="IsVisible" Value="True">
                                <Setter Property="Visibility" Value="Hidden" />
                            </Trigger>
                        </ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                </ControlTemplate>
            </Setter.Value>
        </Setter>
    </Style>

And this is the main style for all the CombBox in the project,
<Style TargetType="{x:Type ComboBox}">
    <Setter Property="IsEditable" Value="False" />
    <Setter Property="Template">
       <Setter.Value>
          <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ComboBox}">
              <Grid>
                <ToggleButton Grid.Column="1"
                     Style="{StaticResource ComboBoxToggleStyle}">
                <....More styles below...>

Any help to point me in the right direction would be great.

A: You can't set the IsVisible property because it has no public setter. And you can't bind the Value property of a Setter so this won't work.
What you could is set the Style property of the particular ComboBox for which you want to hide the ToggleButton to a Style that has a template that lacks a ToggleButton:
<ComboBox Style="{StaticResource styleWithoutToggleButton}" />


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Q: Text is not responsive on poster image I have issues with my text over my images. The text I have is working when it's in desktop, at least on my computer resolution. But the issue is when I scale it back it doesn't keep up with the images so to say. Any idea how to do so or what is wrong?
HTML:

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CSS:
.image-capsule {
  width: 33%;
  position: relative;
}

.posters-section {
  position: relative;
}

.poster {
  position: relative;
}

.poster-date {
  margin: -5% 26%;
  font-weight: bold;
  z-index: 100;
  background-color: #9c0000;
  position: absolute;
  width: 51%;
  text-align: center;
}

A: I had an issue similar to this. I fixed this issue by using bootstraps text-center class on the text. This kept them centered in the div holding the picture which kept them together with a picture. Here is an example of what I did.

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This made the text stay centered under the image no matter how the screen shrunk.


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COLONIALISM REPARATION
So that colonialisms of yesterday and today are not repeated tomorrow
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The theme of reparations at the 2021 World Social Forum was treated in the workshop Reparations to Colonialism, in the workshop Interculturalism, Decolonization and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in the workshop Coalitions, Convergences and Reparation against Racism and in the Agora of the Futures. In these activities participated about one hundred people, many of whom representatives of other organizations. It was made a point of the situation on the reparations in recent years trying to identify actions most promising for the future.
United Nations: on May 22, 2019, following the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by 116 votes in favour, 6 against and 56 abstentions the resolution 73/295 confirming that the process of decolonization of Mauritius was not lawfully completed and giving the United Kingdom six months to withdraw its colonial administration from the Chagos Archipelago unconditionally. On October 29, 2019 the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and racial intolerance Tendayi Achiume presented the report A/74/321 clarifying the human rights obligations of Member States in relation to reparations for racial discrimination rooted in slavery and colonialism.
International day for reparations: launched by the Assembly of convergence To end with racism, xenophobia and the discriminations that are the bases of colonialism of the World Social Forum 2013, it is annually celebrated on October 12. It is possible to join the call and/or organize decentralized action necessary to advance the cause of reparations all over the world (press releases, conferences, exhibitions, media campaigns, street actions, cultural festivals, radio broadcasts or television, political decisions, etc.). Its recognition at the United Nations level will give the right legitimacy to the various requests for reparations continuing the path traced by the Durban World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) and allowing to speed up the process.
Repatriation of the remains and return of the colonial treasures: on November 23, 2018 university professors Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy delivered the "Report on the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethic" commissioned by the President of France recommending the definitive restitution of the treasures looted during the colonial period. In recent years demands for the repatriation of the remains and the definitive restitution of the treasures have continued, as well as the attempts by some former colonizers to hinder this inevitable step of human evolution (Restitutions of the colonial treasures, Reparations, not only repatriation of remains, Definitive restitutions on the horizon, Return and don't procrastinate, The slow path of restitutions, Return All Colonial Treasures).
Fall of colonial symbols: there had already been precedents in previous years, from the Rhodes Must Fall movement in 2015 to the removal of the monument to Antonio López y López in Barcelona and the decolonisation of some streets in Berlin in 2018, from the toppling of the monuments to Pedro de Valdivia in Temuco, to Pedro de Valdivia and García Hurtado de Mendoza in Cañete and to Cristoforo Colombo and Francisco de Aguirre in Arica in 2019 to the toppling of the monuments to Victor Schoelcher in Schoelcher and Fort-de-France on 22 May 2020. But it is only with the explosion of anti-racism protests following the death of George Floyd that the fall of colonial symbols became viral and continued without interruption for months, pushing reparations in the United States.
Request for reparations by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM): the members of the CARICOM started in 2013 the request for reparations for the genocide of the native people and the slavery, approving the Ten Point Reparation Plan. In recent years pressure has increased on the Member States of the CARICOM to drop the request for reparations for the genocide of the native people and the slavery with refusals and boycotts by the colonizers (France, United Kingdom, United States, etc.), but despite this there have been many initiatives (Caricom Reparations Commission News, Reparations at the United Nations Security Council, Reparations at the General Debate of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, More momentum in the CARICOM request for reparations).
Compensations
"Between colonizer and colonized there is room only for forced labor, intimidation, pressure, the police, taxation, theft, rape, compulsory crops, contempt, mistrust, arrogance, self-complacency, swinishness, brainless elites, degraded masses."
Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 1955
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The definition which follows is designed specifically to let the reader make judgments about the extent to which The Ox-Bow Incident is a work of western regional literature. The elements presented here will be useful in judging whether other works are southern, or Midwestern, or eastern; however, they might need to be reordered, and their relative emphasis reassessed.
For Mark Twain, "real," "natural," and "authentic" were controlling words insofar as his literary creations were concerned. In evaluating someone's painting, he said that the mountains were real and natural, the trees were real and natural, the foreground foothills seemed genuine and natural, but the atmosphere was clearly an import. A definition of western regional literature must likewise depend to a great extent on the authenticity of elements of the work of literature. It must not be absolutely controlling, but it must not be ignored.
Of primary concern to anyone seeking to discover whether a work of literature is a western regional work is its treatment of the land. This is particularly important in a new region like the American West. Until the geography of the place has been controlled (land or mountains or water), other concerns remain secondary. As an example, consider the little town in O Pioneers! as it tries not to be blown away, that will continue as a primary worry.
This fidelity to the facts of geography need not be slavish, but it must not be careless. A recent show on television depicted an outlaw "hiding out" in mountains just west of Fargo, North Dakota. The mountains west of Fargo are the Rockies, two states and a thousand miles away and thus cannot apply.
In a very clear-cut example from one of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome and Mattie cannot live within fifty or sixty miles of Fargo because there is no hill for them to use for their disastrous sleigh ride. And, too, they cannot live there for other, more profound, reasons — more profound, perhaps, because their region, New England, is much older.
Conversely, a certain latitude of fidelity to geography would seems to be allowable. Walter Van Tilburg Clark has said, "I did the same thing in Track of the Cat with another valley north of here, the Sierra Valley, which was more or less the scene but I had to move some mountains for that . . . Yes, I juggled the scenery in both of them [The Ox-Bow Incident, as well], but in each case I reclaimed a bit of land that should have been Nevada's." The "moving of some mountains" by itself would not seem to eliminate a book from the regional canon (unless they are moved to a mountainless region).
For the western regional work, the land must not only be treated authentically; it must also be important to the action of the book. Frederick Jackson Turner, in The Significance of Sections in American History, asserts a geographical determinism. He says, "I have prepared . . . maps of the United States for the year 1850. For example, the map of counties showing the distribution of white illiteracy so closely resembles the map of the physiographic regions that the one might almost be taken for the other. Much the same is true for the map of farm values by counties." This idea, then, is of great importance to any consideration of literature as regional. Additional, Clark has said, "It seems to me that this is something that must be settled with a western writer, especially if you are dealing with something in the western past. It is still so in the mountain states in the West. In California it is not. There were few people in the other states, then, and landscape and weather did play an important — sometimes a determining — part. My feeling is that landscape is character, not background. It is not a stage. It's an active agent. It must be." Clark suggests that as a region grows older in terms of settlement, landscape may become less crucial in the literature of the region, but this has not happened yet in very many parts of the West, or even in very many parts of the country.
Clark's mention of weather should not be passed over without some comment. The importance of weather in informing a work of regional literature would seem not to diminish as time passes. If enough time passes and enough progress is made so that people are never concerned with the weather or the weather is completely controlled, then climate would cease to be an effective factor in defining a regional work set in the present time.
John Milton, editor of the South Dakota Review, in a speech to a gathering of psychologists and psychiatrists from North Dakota and South Dakota, stated that the constant blowing of the wind from the northwest in those two states is a powerful factor influencing psychological health in those states. At the meeting, Milton said that his listeners seemed astonished, yet now he has received many letters corroborating what to him seemed obvious.
As a region is settled and begins to age, other factors must be included in a definition of regional literature. Mary Austin, in an article in the English Journal, in 1932, said: "Art, considered as the expression of any people as a whole, is the response they make in various mediums to the impact that the totality of their experience makes upon them, and there is no sort of experience that works so constantly and subtly upon man as his regional environment. It orders and determines all the direct, practical ways of his getting up and lying down, of staying in and going out, of housing and clothing and food-getting; it arranges by its progressions of seed times and harvest, its rain and wind and burning suns, the rhythms of his work and amusements. It is the thing always before his eye, always at his ear, always underfoot. Slowly or sharply, it forces upon him behavior patterns such as earliest become the habit of his blood, the unconscious factor of adjustment in all his mechanisms. Of all the responses of his psyche, none pass so soon and surely as these into that field of consciousness from which all invention and creation of every sort proceed." Miss Austin's quotation suggests some of the further investigations which must be made. Having mentioned the artist's eye, she next mentions his ear.
Of great concern to the writer seeking to create an "authentic" work of regional literature is the language of the region at the time the work is set. As an obvious example, a writer will carefully avoid anachronisms in language: A mountain man, for instance, will not show approbation by saying, "right on." Characters will not use localisms from another region (unless the transfer is explicable and clear). Concerns of this sort have been demonstrated by many notable writers; Mark Twain has commented on the various dialects used in Huck Finn and John Steinbeck took pains to reproduce the speech of the Joads and the other migrants in The Grapes of Wrath. More subtle and more; crucial (as Mary Austin supposes) is the necessity that the regional work invoke the language of the place in other ways besides dialogue. Ethan Frome, must not violate New England diction and syntax as they existed in the late 1800s. Proving that Mrs. Wharton does not violate them is, of course, a difficult job, but is not impossible. Other works of literature, other kinds of endeavors in language; the language of people who still live there — these and other kinds of evidence may be adduced to establish the authenticity of language.
The history of the region with which the writer is dealing is important in at least two ways. First, he needs to know what the place has been in the past, insofar as such information can be ascertained. Has the land changed from what it was? Have the flora and fauna undergone significant alterations? Who has lived there before, and why do they not live there now? Second, he needs to know the history of the people who live there now. As the region ages, the two kinds of history treated separately begin to mesh until (assuming continuity — no floods, no atomic wars) they become one history.
Two closely related matters of interest to the writer (or critic) of regional literature are religion and myth. For the native of a region, these are as accessible and familiar as air. He may invoke them consciously, use them concretely in the book, or he may not. Even if he does not, there is often an unconscious force informing the work in such a way that other regional "initiates" will respond positively.
An element of some importance for this definition is the matter of a book's structure. Defined by one critic as "the arrangement of the large scale elements of the work," structure in a regional work is likely to depend on qualities indigenous to the region. Huck Finn takes its structure, for most of its length, from the river on which Huck travels. The New England weather is a principal determinant of the arrangement of scene and action in Ethan Frome. If a work's structure is extrinsically determined, as it seems to be in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, it is to some extent less closely allied with its region. Naturally, this does not mean that it is less valuable.
All of the topics treated thus far are relatively real, and classifiable, and available for study by the ethnographer and literary critic. Other cultural determinants no doubt exist as well and would interest the ethnographer. To the extent that they could be proven to be causative to the development of culture in a region, they would be useful to this definition.
There is one more important factor necessary to a definitive classification of regional literature which seems to stand a bit apart from the earlier elements of the definition. This factor might be called "trauma." If some cataclysmic event, or extended process profoundly affects the psychology of all, or most, of the members of a region, a regional work of literature will take cognizance of it, will use it — in fact, will not be able to avoid using it. Some of the traumas which have that kind of scope are: slavery, for the South; Puritanism, for New England; and rapacious exploitation in the West.
To recapitulate: A determination as to whether a book is a work of western regional literature may be made by examining its use of some identifiable criteria, recognizing that the criteria do not bear equal emphasis, that their relative importance will vary should the definition be applied to another region, and that the possible answers to the question, "Is it a work of regional literature?" are not "yes" or "no," but are most likely to be "not very," "somewhat," and "very much." Further, the criteria must retain considerable flexibility in order to judge books which concern a given region, written at widely variant times. When a region has been entirely paved, the book will not likely concern itself much with soil types or trees or flowers. If the people in a novel live underwater, blue sky may appear in their memories, but not beyond their windows. The "regionality" of the book depends upon (that is, may only be measured by) an audience which understands the "regionality" of the region.
Finally western literature is perhaps most clearly defined by its use of two concepts: the frontier and new beginnings. The central fact of the western experience is the steady advancement of a frontier line. This line separating civilization from wilderness, was a place from which a man could always begin anew, a place where he could shed the entanglements of the past and begin an existence which was free from those snares, but he was still able to use the learning gained while suffering them.
This definition administers the final coup de grâce to the formula western novel as a kind of western literature. In them, good triumphs, bad fails; the end has come. Art and Gil, on the other hand, have lived through another trauma (another snare) and now they are equipped to face a new day in a new range. Presumably, because they will still be in the West and will still be novitiates, they may very well choose badly again.


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Q: Repeat a name for every date in df I have a list of 63 names name and a date variable df$Datewith 3000 dates, I need to repeat every name in the list for every date in the df?
I've looked around a bit about how to do this but was wondering if anyone had any solutions??
Thanks
EDIT:
I've found a way of doing this with
ts <- seq(ymd("2010-01-01"), ymd(Sys.Date()), by="day")
df <- data.frame(Date=ts, Name=Name)
df$Date <- as.character(df$Date)
df2 <- rep.int(df$Date, 63)
df2 <- data.frame(Date=df2, Name=Name)
df$date <- rep.row(df$Date, Name)

But this may be a long winded way of doing it?

A: Minimal example given below:
ts <- seq(ymd("2010-01-01"), ymd("2010-01-03"), by = "day")
names = letters[1:3]

df <- expand.grid(date = ts, name = names)


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Хортачкото клане () е убийството на 146 жители на солунското село Хортач (Хортиатис) от части на Вермахта и гръцки колаборационисти на 2 септември 1944 година, по време на окупацията на Гърция от части на Оста през Втората световна война.

Предистория
В събота сутринта на 2 септември 1944 година взвод на комунистическата съпротива ЕЛАС, воден от Вайос Рикудис, част от ротата на Андонис Казакос (капитан Флориас), слиза от планината Хортач и извън селото прави засада на кола на организацията Солунско водоснабдяване, отишла до византийския акведукт за дезинфекция на резервоар, от който се снабдява Солун. Когато колата се приближава в местността Камара, партизаните откриват огън и раняват шофьора и пътника – и двамата гърци, като вторият умира, след като е преместен в селото от партизаните.

След около половин час втори автомобил с трима германци и двама гърци от Водната агенция в Солун е нападнат от партизаните в същата местност и двама от германците са ранени. Двама гърци и един от ранените германци са заловени от бунтовниците, докато другите двама германци успяват да избягат и да се върнат в Пейзаново (Асвестохори).

След тези две партизански нападения жителите на Хортач питат за съвет Казакос дали да напуснат селото поради страх от отмъщение от страна на германците, но той ги уверява, че няма от какво да се страхуват. Така че по-голямата част от жителите – най-вече жени, остава в домовете си. Партизаните се оттеглят през Ливади и Петрокераса (Равна), взимайки със себе си пленниците си.

Клането
Малко по-късно в Хортач пристигат около двадесет камиона с германски войници и бойци от ловната рота на Фриц Шуберт и обграждат селото. Събират жителите на централния площад в селото и в селското кафене, започват да плячкосват и да подпалват домовете им. След това завеждат събраните на площада жители в дома на Евангелос Дамбудис и ги изгарят живи. Събраните в кафенето са поведени под звуците на цигулка от един човек на Шуберт и са затворени във фурната на Стефанос Гураманис. Там са разстреляни с картечница през прозореца, а после къщата е запалена, за да може да изгорят тези, които не са убити с картечницата. Тези, които се опитват да избягат, са намушквани от войниците отвън. От фурната успяват да избягат само двама души. Отделно други жители в селото са избити край къщите си, а 11 са преследвани и екзекутирани извън селото, докато се опитват да избягат. Жените, преди да бъдат убити, са изнасилвани. Жертвите са 146 души убити, сред които 109 жени и момичета. Изгорени са около 300 жилища.

Труповете са оставени непогребани няколко дни. На 4 септември хората на Шуберт се връщат, за да довършат разграбването на селото.

Представители на Червения кръст научават за клането на 5 септември и успяват да получат разрешение да влязат в селото на 7 септември.

Фриц Шуберт след войната е съден и екзекутиран в Солун. През 1960 година в Хортач е издигнат паметник на жертвите, които в 1998 година са обявени за "мъченици" с Президентски указ № 399. Бойците на ЕЛАС Рикудис и Казакос се опитват да свалят вината от себе си.

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Кланета по време на Втората световна война
Дем Пилеа-Хортач
Средиземноморски театър

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