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Suffering exists because we have a perpetual craving for things to be different than they are.
This perpetual craving is fueled by a thought that we are some "thing" separate and distinct from all other "things" - some "thing" with a stable, unchanging essence that needs to resist and seek.
This "thing" is commonly called a separate self, and referred to as "I" or "me." It is also an illusion, and can be seen as such - both on an intellectual level and on an experiential level.
When we see through this illusory self, we also see through the perpetual craving it fuels. This helps bring an end to suffering.
Path to realization
The moment of awakening is marked by an outburst of laughter. But this is not the laughter of someone who suddenly acquires a great fortune; neither is it the laughter of one who has won a victory. It is, rather, the laughter of one who, after having painfully searched for something for a long time, finds it one morning in the pocket of his coat. - Thich Nhat Hanh
We wrote "An owner's guide to the mind" to help you address the root cause of your struggles, and end the continuous cycle of trying to cope and get by. Originally released in 2003, it combines concepts from Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (the precursor to cognitive behavior therapy) and Buddhist and Stoic philosophy.
We wrote "Path to realization" for people who want to go a step further, and explore the essential nature of reality. It's based on the one-on-one instruction we've been doing over the past decade. Since this instruction is limited by our availability, it's been cost prohibitive for most. We wanted to bring it to a wider audience, so we hired an editor to go over recordings of previous sessions and help compile them into the written equivalent of an 80-minute dialogue representative of the core teaching.
While "An owner's guide to the mind" is an exploration of your compulsive mind, "Path to realization" is an exploration of who you really are - and, equally important, who you are not. It's designed to help you change the assumptions that underlie your daily life. And, it does this through a detailed investigation of direct experience, not philosophical ideas or faith-based concepts.
The written dialogue takes place with "Alex," and proceeds from the following:
"I've been on a 'spiritual journey' most of my life. I want to find out who I really am, and (hopefully) live a happier life with that knowledge. I have been striving to become enlightened or awakened, and don't know if it's truly possible. I don't even know what that entails or really describes – I just know I've been pursuing it for many years."
Alex's questions:
Who am I? Or, what am I?
Am I the ever-present, unchanging consciousness that everything springs from?
Am I one with everyone and everything else?
Do I need to "kill" my ego or transcend it? If so, how?
Wondering if it's right for you? The best way to decide is to read some comments from people who have completed it.
Tom Bergenson, San Mateo, California:
If you've ever studied non-duality, or questioned the nature of existence, 'Path to realization' will provide the answers you are looking for. It's direct and to the point - no 'Zen-like' riddles, doublespeak, or mystical claims. It leads you down a path that ends with a clear understanding of who 'you' are, and what everything else is in relation to 'you.'
Lori Salado, Dallas, Texas:
Who am I? Is there really a 'me' to be anything? Do I exist, and does everything outside of me exist? Am I a finite body and mind, or the ever-present observer? 'Path to realization' answers these questions and more. If I were the author, I'd call it 'Non-duality for Dummies' or 'The Idiot's Guide to Enlightenment'. I truly believe it's one of the most important things you'll ever read.
Monika Bozsan, Manchester, England:
Like many, I've been on a spiritual journey for years. Other resources I've studied left me with more questions than answers. It seems no one can discuss these things without a large amount of 'woo,' and assertions that can't be proven (or, in many cases, understood). Instead of making things more cloudy, 'Path to realization' cuts through all the confusion. And, most impressively, it does so by having you investigate your own direct experience.
Bradley Hughes, Galway, Ireland:
It's a surgical dissection of the illusory separate self. It's not presented to you on a platter, though. You are the surgeon, and you do the dissecting yourself. It's clear, concise, and it will change how you live.
Faye Cleary, Colorado Springs, Colorado:
'Path to realization' presents a dialogue between Jon and Alex. As the dialogue unfolds, you gain a thorough understanding of sense experience, awareness, what is real and what is illusory, and - most important - your place in all of it. If you've been searching for enlightenment, this will get you closer than you've ever been. I can't say you'll be enlightened after reading it, because enlightenment is just a concept in a world of concepts. But, I believe you'll be more awake!
James Trechhold, Madison, Wisconsin:
While I greatly benefitted from the core dialogue, the 'statements and questions pointing out awareness' in the 'Continuing conversations' supplement were the most clear, easiest to understand, easiest to perform pointing out instructions I've received in two decades of study. Thank you so much.
"Path to realization" includes access to "An owner's guide to the mind," our flagship course which was first released in 2003.
It also includes "Continuing conversations" and email support. "Continuing conversations" includes further dialogue and reader-submitted Q&A, as well as "statements and questions pointing out awareness."
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Shannon Witt, Elizabeth, New Jersey:
'Path to realization' teaches that duality is the origin of all suffering, and it helps you investigate and understand the nature of your being. In doing so, it points the way from bondage to freedom.
We've been teaching mindfulness and meditation for almost 20 years.
tens of thousands of people have read our books and taken our courses,
our free guide to mindfulness and meditation has been shared on the Internet almost a million times, and
we've published more than 100 articles on mindfulness, meditation, and related topics.
We released "The T.A.D. Principle" over 15 years ago, and it has since evolved into meditationSHIFT and "An owner's guide to the mind."
We released "ARC: mindfulness for children" in 2015.
We released "Path to realization" at the end of 2018.
We released our newest work - "Your inner narrative" - in 2020.


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Bought these lovely plates near the market in Amsterdam.
My suitcases were full of these little things and I added another piece of suitcase when I returned.
A fearless beast with an amazing gestures ready to drift and blow away the currency of wind blow.
Spring Break: Amsterdam: Although it looks like a perfect spring day, it was freezing and felt more like winter, especially traveling from sunny So Cal. Nevertheless, it was fun walking the streets of the city after 30 years. So much more crowded now! .
I got the opportunity to do my first portrait photoshoot with my best friend, who is also stunning and brilliant.
I just finished my course work as a #vikingrivercruise specialist. Even without being on a ship personally, yet, I can say this is a great company and they have some amazing trips with outstanding land excursions. I can't wait to book some friends and I am looking at 2020 for myself! Who wants in? .
La Holanda del 74, la Naranja Mecánica, el equipo de Cruyff, fútbol total y todo el show. Y solo ganaron una Eurocopa. ¿Se debe reconocer a un equipo por la cantidad de campeonatos o por el cambio que generaron en el juego? Esa es la cuestión y de eso, y mucho más, hablamos en el bloque futbolístico del Episodio 2 de #DeFutbolYLibros. ¡Escuchalo ahora! LINK EN LA BIO.
🇨🇱 Los "Klompen" (literalmente "Zuecos"). Son los zapatos de madera mas típicos de la cultura Holandésa. Utilizados en tiempos medievales (y en algunos casos, aun en la actualidad) por granjeros, obreros y artesanos principalmente por la seguridad y protección que le brinda a los pies. Además son parte esencial de la vestimenta tipica de la misma cultura, utilizándolo en bailes y ceremonias.
The "Klompen" (literally "Clogs"). They are the most typical wooden shoes of the Dutch culture. Used in medieval times (and in some cases, even today) by farmers, workers and craftsmen mainly for the safety and protection it gives to the feet. In addition they are an essential part of the typical clothing of the same culture, using it in dances and ceremonies.
Hoje rolou o último treino das férias, ainda em Amsterdam.
Após quase 3.500km rodados de carro, passagem por seis países, aproximadamente 20 cidades conhecidas, uma maratona e outros 90km corridos, está chegando a hora de voltar para casa.
Nesses 20 dias tivemos sol, chuva, montanhas, neve e até praia nessa road trip, o que me faz pensar em como planejar as próximas férias buscando fazer melhor do que fizemos esse ano.
Obrigado @karinataques, você foi, mais uma vez, incrível.
Messing about on boats. #tb to Amsterdam.
Haia / The Hague, Netherlands.
Amsterdam seeing from its canals.


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Abortion and religion: How the Supreme Court recalibrated the legal debate in just 3 words
Annie Tengan July 24, 2022 9 min read
Religions and religious people vary widely
'They also believe God forgives sins'
It may seem like a semantic argument. Experts say it's anything but.
"That is an enormous shift," Peters said. "It erases whole groups of people who have different religious beliefs."
Peters, who is ordained in the Presbyterian Church, isn't merely speaking about Christians. When a zygote, embryo or fetus becomes a human being is far from an objective determination within or across any religions. There is no scientific gauge: Doctors tend to focus on viability, which experts believe to be around 23 weeks, though health outcomes improve the longer the gestational period. Various religions have relied on a range of wayposts, including fertilization, quickening (when the mother feels the fetus moving), when the embryo develops a heartbeat, ensoulment and birth.
Confounding matters is that, just like in Christian sects, there are chasms of disagreement among other religions — not only regarding personhood but also a woman's bodily autonomy — making holy texts a troublesome barometer for whether abortion should be outlawed. Worse, said Peters, is that by co-opting the term, "unborn human being," it signals "which religious voices get authority and power in our country."
Though opponents of legalized abortion often paint women who undergo abortions as heathens, a strong majority — more than 6 in 10 — identified as women of faith in a 2014 poll, said Peters, who is on sabbatical for a research project titled, "Abortion and Religion: Listening to Women."
"There are a whole lot more who support bodily autonomy for mothers to make decisions about life and how many children they have and who they have them with and how to shape their future with or without partners," Peters said. "We've allowed a minority religious belief to curtail the rights of the majority of women in the country. I feel like I'm in the middle of a dystopian novel."
More than 50 religious groups sought to make this clear to the high court last year, filing a friend-of-the-court brief explaining religious traditions have various views of when life begins, affirm a woman's "moral right" to decide when to terminate pregnancy and stand by "the importance of ensuring reproductive choice for women in marginalized communities who are disproportionately harmed by the ban."
"By prohibiting abortions beyond 15 weeks gestation, the Ban precludes women from making that choice in accordance with their own moral, spiritual, and religious beliefs, which this Court has recognized as a constitutional right," the brief said.
The attitude that a woman would have to justify her decision to others is "rooted in religion," Peters said. It robs women of their autonomy and espouses a narrow, archaic view of Christianity that has long been malappropriated to dictate "women are to be subservient and meant to be child bearers," she said.
A Gallup poll in May — before Roe's reversal — found 55% of Americans identified as "pro-choice," while 39% said they're "pro-life." Only 13% of Americans said abortions should be prohibited across the board, and 53% said abortions should be legal in most or all circumstances, Gallup reported.
Breaking the percentages down by dogma demonstrates only a handful of groups — Jehovah's Witnesses (68%), Mormons (66%) White evangelical Protestants (65%), Hispanic Protestants (58%) and Hispanic Catholics (52%) — count a majority of members as opposing abortion, the nonprofit Public Religion Research Institute found in 2018.
Catholics have long driven the debate on abortion — and five Catholics and a justice who was raised Catholic upheld Mississippi's 15-week ban — even as the institute's data suggests 52% of White Catholics are OK with legal abortion. (It is worth noting Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor broke with her fellow Catholics in Dobbs.)
Here is a look at support for legal abortion in most or all cases among other religions, per the institute:
• Muslims — 51%
• Orthodox Christian — 54%
• Black Protestants — 56%
• White mainline Protestants — 59%
• Hindus — 62%
• Buddhists — 69%
• Jewish people — 70%
And 87% of agnostics and 97% of atheists expressed support for abortion in all or most cases, the Pew Research Center reported this year.
Those numbers are black and white, of course, but religions and their adherents are not, so to cast attitudes as "for" or "against" disappears nuance from the equation. There are other factors to consider, experts say.
Islamic scholars, for instance, took a more liberal stance in premodern times, said UCLA law professor Khaled Abou El Fadl, an Islamic jurist who holds a doctorate in Islamic law from Princeton University.
There was a time when women so often miscarried in the first trimester that some jurists didn't regard the fetus as a full human being, while others debated when the soul enters the fetus — somewhere between 40 and 120 days, the professor said. Still, there were some conservative-minded jurists who felt the "potentiality of life" should always be protected, he said.
The conversation began to shift during colonialism, with the influence of French law and the creation of state governments, Abou El Fadl said.
"It's interesting because the medieval debate in Islamic law was about when the soul enters the body. We don't have an Islamic text on that — nothing in the Quran, nothing in the inherited traditions of the Prophet Muhammad that answers the question," he said, explaining that once "the state became much larger in everyone's life and the whole idea (arises) that the state has the right to regulate and enforce morality," most if not all Muslim nations banned abortion except to save the mother's life.
Judaism takes a similar position on allowing abortion to save the mother. "Judaism is a religion that is based on law," and there are no religious figures — no popes or imams — who can allow something Jewish law prohibits, said Dr. Daniel Eisenberg, an expert in Jewish medical ethics and a radiologist at Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia.
The issue of when life begins is not a Jewish concept, he said. The question is: When does Jewish law protect life? The general consensus is when it's necessary to protect a mother's life. Outside that, "the range of opinions is from a Biblically forbidden form of murder without being a capital offense to being a rabbinic prohibition that is very serious but not murder." Abortion is never a capital offense in Jewish law, he said.
"A fetus is going to become a full-fledged human being, but it is not considered to be a full-fledged human being until it is born. But not being a human being does not mean it's nothing," said Eisenberg, who has spent years studying and lecturing on the Talmud and Jewish law. "The concept is that the fetus is a person with slightly less protection than a full-fledged human being, than the mother. … When it is a threat to the mother, it is subordinate."
There is no official position in Buddhism, and Buddhist scholars vary, with some saying the fetus is a human at fertilization and various others saying personhood begins weeks or even five months later, author and lay dharma teacher Sallie Jiko Tisdale wrote last year in the quarterly, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.
"Nevertheless, the conclusion of orthodox Buddhist scholars has long been that a human being appears at the moment of conception. Because human birth is a rare and precious gift, to deprive a being of the opportunity is a grave mistake," she wrote.
Hindu teachings elevate the life of the mother and support a ban on abortion except to save her life, experts say.
"Abortion deliberately disrupts the process of reincarnation and kills an innocent human being … and imposes serious karmic burdens on its agent," wrote Dr. Kiarash Aramesh, director of the James F. Drane Bioethics Institute at Edinboro University, in 2019. "The perspective of Hinduism is a very pro-life one, emphasizing Ahimsa (not causing harm to living creatures) and its intrinsic reverence for life."
Across all religions, scholars can further diverge when the issues of birth defects, rape, incest and the mother's mental health are at play. Older texts provide little guidance on the latter because sensitivity to mental health is a relatively new concentration in medicine, experts say.
Many Jewish scholars see the law as condoning abortion if the mother exhibits suicidal ideation, Eisenberg said. Some Islamic scholars feel suicide is a choice, Abou El Fadl said, but as a jurist, he understands many who contemplate suicide feel they have no choice and he'd consider each case on its own merits.
As for rape and incest, Islamic scholars are split, he said, but he points out even in Egypt, where abortion is forbidden in cases of rape and incest, it's rarely if ever prosecuted.
In Judaism, the law's interpretations are so varied on rape and incest, Eisenberg suggested it warranted a news article to itself. Abortion following the detection of birth defects, lethal or otherwise, also divides rabbis, he said, but he points out that despite the American debate's focus on rape, incest and birth defects, those reasons prompt only a small fraction of abortion procedures.
Most commonly, women seek abortion because a child would disrupt their lives or because they cannot afford a baby — reasons, Eisenberg said, traditional Jewish law would never condone. As the polling suggests, certain groups and branches of the faith hold different views. Elsewhere on the spectrum is the politically progressive Reform Judaism — the country's largest denomination, accounting for a third of American Jews — which holds a mother maintains total autonomy when deciding whether to terminate a pregnancy.
For Peters, the debate should revolve around a woman's right to control her fate, she said. As she cowrote in a January column, "It often seems religion is not even a relevant statistical data point in understanding who gets abortions. In fact, 62 percent of women who have abortions identify as women of faith. Religiously identified women, with the notable exception of evangelical women, have abortions at virtually the same rate as their representation in the population."
Yet proponents of outlawing abortion continue to perpetuate a false binary, "this sort of popular perception that religion is against abortion and all the people for abortion are secular — and that is just not true at all," she said. "It's a dangerous narrative that has shaped our culture's understanding of abortion."
Peters has interviewed dozens of women for "Abortion and Religion: Listening to Women," including those who opposed abortion rights before terminating their own pregnancies. She's found women often have abortions out of a love they feel coincides with their religions, she said.
The debate is so "stigmatized and mean-spirited" and women are stereotyped and caricatured, but Peters has found women have "very complex, complicated, unique experiences" and pursue abortions because they can't give a child what she or he deserves materially and spiritually. They experience a host of feelings, sometimes contradictory: sadness and happiness, relief and guilt.
"Nobody's confused. There's no sense of, 'Did I do the right thing?'" she said. "There are women who feel guilty, who feel like having an abortion may be a sin, but they also believe God forgives sins."
Abou El Fadl doesn't consider himself pro-abortion. He wouldn't want his daughter to terminate a pregnancy, but as a jurist, he cannot be bound to a single issue, he said. He must consider the totality of circumstances, and he worries about a Supreme Court hewing to an originalist perspective endorsed by Founding Fathers who accepted slavery and all sorts of discrimination. This is largely the same high court that upheld President Donald Trump's "Muslim ban," he noted.
"Muslims, who are already targets of Islamophobia and incredible amounts of racism, do we really want to live in a country with less rights?" he asked. "It's very hard for me to forget about the role of the state and say it's a simple matter of: Do we kill babies or do we not kill babies?"
Whether she's escorting women to a clinic, teaching at Elon or simply having dinner with friends and family, Peters said, she's guided by Scripture — verses that command she care for the poor and marginalized, love her neighbors and seek social justice.
To those who'd call her abortion views heretical, she'd point out the Bible says nothing explicitly about abortion. She's also never found a pregnant woman who was not invested in what might happen to her potential child. Suggesting otherwise — or pitting a mother against her fetus for political points — is more than problematic, she said.
"Pitting women against their prenate is a fiction we are now building our legal system around, and I think that's very dangerous," she said. "The problem is the belief that life begins at conception is a theological belief. … I think it's a bit of a false argument in the sense that it's not a theological belief that people are fully autonomous individuals with legal and human rights. The idea a fertilized egg should be afforded the exact same rights — it's fine to have that belief if you don't impose it on others."
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Home Real Estate Government shutdown impacting Baton Rouge mortgage market
Government shutdown impacting Baton Rouge mortgage market
Prospective homebuyers wanting to use a U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development loan will have to wait until the government shutdown ends to file an application, leaving Capital Region mortgage lenders with looming backlogs.
The RD loan program—typically comprised of lower-income buyers in rural areas who want to purchase with 100% financing—is idle during the shutdown. Meanwhile, lenders can't submit loans without access to tax returns.
What does this mean for the nine-parish Capital Region?
"(The backlog is) going to continue to mount (if the shutdown continues) and borrowers won't be able to close on houses," says GMFS President Tee Brown. "And it's out of our control."
As the largest USDA lender in the state, Brown says Baton Rouge-based GMFS handles about $20 million worth of RD loans from roughly 120 applications each month in Louisiana.
On a smaller scale, Aaron Taravella, a GMFS mortgage loan officer, estimates 20% of his clients—most of whom live in Ascension and Livingston parishes—use RD loans, adding he currently has "some in the pipeline."
The issues isn't as significant for Assurance Financial, where last year about 8% of its clients nationwide used a RD loan, though owner Kenny Hodges wasn't able to immediately provide figures specific to Baton Rouge. Fortunately for lenders and borrowers thus far, he says, the holiday season typically isn't a busy time for home buying.
"If we were into our buying season in April, there would be more pressure from lobbying groups to get this resolved," Hodges says.
When the shutdown will end is anyone's guess, but Red River Bank Executive Vice President Tammi Salazar says it's causing disappointment amongst the 15% of the bank's borrowers statewide who take out RD loans. And after the shutdown ends, she says the work is far from over.
"There's going to be such a backlog," Salazar says. "It'll take a month to get all these files through because they're stacking up and nobody is looking at them."


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Q: Removing Duplicate Entries in MySQL Database without a primary Key I've received a reasonably big MySQL database with a lot of duplicates. Around a third of the database are duplicates. It is also missing a primary key.
The structure of the database is so:
unique_id | field01 | field02 | field03 | field04 | ...... | field26 | field27 |

Now while the unique_id is supposed to be, well, unique; there are a lot of duplicates.
Also, for a set of rows belonging to copies of a particular unique_id, the remaining columns may or may not be the same. For example, looking at unique_id 'id_1' below, field01 is same in both the instances, but field02 & field03 are not.
I would like to remove the repetitions and have only one copy of each unique_id survive. It does not matter which one survives.
Example:
id_1 | abc  | dfd  | NULL | ... | def |
id_2 | abc  | daf  | ghi  | ... | 12a |
id_1 | abc  | xyz  | jkl  | ... | def |
id_4 | aaa  | bbb  | NULL | ... | def |
id_3 | NULL | bbb  | NULL | ... | 123 |
id_5 | 1e3  | NULL | NULL | ... | def |
id_3 | aaa  | bbb  | fds  | ... | def |
id_9 | awa  | bbb  | NULL | ... | 910 |

Should become:
id_1 | abc  | dfd  | NULL | ... | def |
id_2 | abc  | daf  | ghi  | ... | 12a |
id_4 | aaa  | bbb  | NULL | ... | def |
id_3 | NULL | bbb  | NULL | ... | 123 |
id_5 | 1e3  | NULL | NULL | ... | def |
id_9 | awa  | bbb  | NULL | ... | 910 |

Or this is also fine:
id_2 | abc  | daf  | ghi  | ... | 12a |
id_1 | abc  | xyz  | jkl  | ... | def |
id_4 | aaa  | bbb  | NULL | ... | def |
id_5 | 1e3  | NULL | NULL | ... | def |
id_3 | aaa  | bbb  | fds  | ... | def |
id_9 | awa  | bbb  | NULL | ... | 910 |

Once this is done, I would need to set unique_is as the primary key.
Please advice the best and accurate way to do this. Thanks in advance.

A: You could add a unique index in your table, ignoring all errors, and let MySql delete all duplicated rows (except one) for you:
ALTER IGNORE TABLE your_table ADD UNIQUE INDEX dupidx (unique_id)

but if you still get an error, even if you use IGNORE clause, try this:
ALTER TABLE your_table ENGINE MyISAM;
ALTER TABLE IGNORE your_table ADD UNIQUE INDEX dupidx (unique_id);
ALTER TABLE your_table ENGINE InnoDB;

If you are just interested in showing your data, keeping just one row for each duplicated id, you could use this:
SELECT *
FROM your_table
GROUP BY unique_id

A: I had that problem, and this worked great for me:
CREATE TABLE newtable SELECT * FROM oldtable GROUP BY unique_id;

Then drop the oldtable, and rename the new table to the old table name

A: try this :
select unique_id, field01 , field02 , field03 from (table_name) group by unique_id having sum(unique_id)<1

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Last weekend I finished developing the film from my recent Chicago trip. I posted on this trip a few days ago, at which time I had developed 4 of the eight rolls of film shot during this two day exercise in urban street photography.
As luck would have it, those first four rolls were clearly the strongest of the shoot. The four remaining rolls were more or less just shots of details from the hotel room, a bunch of way mis-exposed images (not sure what I was doing with those) and a handful of images from the actual street.
Is it a sad state of affairs when a photo of a doorknob is the best you have to offer? If you define the value of a photo based on the content of the subject matter, what good is a picture of a doorknob (no offence to the folks who put together home improvement catalogs.) But judging a photo by the content of its subject is the most superficial of all assessments (and the most widely applied, sadly.) So – here's a doorknob. Nice hotel room. I was sitting on the commode when I took the shot. It's the only shot in this lot that I took the time to tone.
Most intriguing was the light. When I opened the door it was on. And every time I opened the door again it was on. At first I thought that the light was continuously on, and figured that at night the ghostly outline of the doorframe would haunt the room.
Well, I got more Jethro Bodine than Albert Einstein in me – as it turned out the light was hooked up to a button in the doorframe, and like your home refrigerator turned off when the door was closed. But still, that top shelf made a nice place to line up exposed canisters of film, and so at the end of the first full day there I snapped a shot of the four rolls of film exposed thus far.
I had to hold the camera over my head, and obviously could not see what I was shooting except in the mind's eye.
I think some of those shots could have been the strongest of the series – but an unhappy accident during development ruined things.
I always develop one roll per tank, and I use the 'double' sized tanks (that can hand two rolls of 35mm film.), I also always use 600 ml of developer solution. Since a 36 exposure roll of 35mm film has the same surface area as a roll of 120 film (more or less) I reckon this leads to more consistent of results.
Unfortunately, I lost one of the little clips that holds the film spool in place. I used to just put an empty spool in the tank to make sure the spool with film on it didn't slide out of the developer solution, but I got lazy and stopped doing that, and developed dozens of rolls with the spool unrestrained with no problems.
Until now... This particular roll of film slid on the center tube that runs down the middle of the plastic developer tank, and wound up at the top of tank – right where the developer and air space interface. The result was hard agitation marks in the center part of the roll.
I try to imagine how the developer could make those sprocket marks on the film – and I can 't figure it out. After all, the sprockets of the film roll are up in the plastic spool – so how does a perfect image of them get projected onto a few frames, just from the sloshing of Microdol-X in the tank?
This entry was posted by mcc and is filed under Street Photography, Film Processing.
Could it be that some part of the film (with sprockets) was higher than the one ruined and due to partial exposure to the developer, those marks were born?
When I developed the roll I put it in a double tank, but did not put the restraining clamp on the center tube. I think the spool slipped up in the tank and the top of the roll was partially out of the developer. Your theory is probably right that the developer splashed through the sprockets - but I can't envision how it happened. Now I'm sure to use that clamp when developing just one roll!
I came across your post in my efforts to find out why this was happening to my film. I had similar problems but mine was more 'global' as it spanned across the entire roll sometimes.
I finally figured out what went wrong. You can read about it in one of the post on flickr..
Maybe something similar happened to this frame.
p/s your bw pics are great.
I took a look at the thread on flickr and it looks like you have solved the mystery. I've only seen this problem once, so I mmust have gotten careless with the changing bag. Good reminder to be more careful!


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Differences Between Parole and Probation Officers
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A parole officer and a probation officer both perform different roles. While both deal with convicted criminals, parole officers deal with criminals who have served a prison sentence. Probation officers help convicted criminals who have been granted probation—they don't have to go to prison, but they need help to keep from returning to a life of crime.
Sometimes criminals go to jail or prison, and other times they are sentenced to probation. When convicted criminals are granted parole or sentenced to probation, they submit to the supervision of a government employee with specific job duties.
There are many similarities between parole officers and probation officers. They both help convicted criminals become law-abiding members of society through a mixture of supervision, counseling, social work, and case management. They plan and coordinate services tailored to each offender's needs. For example, parole or probation officer arranges anger management classes for an offender who committed a crime in a reactionary rage. The necessary skills are identical in the two positions.
While the jobs are very similar, there are a few critical differences between parole and probation officers.
The Individuals Supervised
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Parole officers supervise individuals who have been convicted and served time in prison. Parole is typically granted to offenders before their sentences run out. Offenders serve a significant portion of their sentences before becoming eligible for parole. When a parole board grants parole to an offender, that board believes that with some supervision, the offender can reintegrate himself into society and lead a life free from criminal activity.
Probation officers supervise individuals who have been convicted of a crime but have been sentenced to probation rather than jail time. Sometimes a judge orders both prison time and subsequent probation, but the sentence is usually one or the other. When a judge sentences someone to probation, the judge believes the convicted individual can turn from criminal activity with some guidance from a probation officer.
People who are sentenced to probation have mixed feelings about the situation. On one hand, they are upset they've been convicted. On the other hand, they're happy not to be in jail or prison. Their situations could be much worse. A few counseling sessions and regular meetings with a probation officer are more than preferable to months or years of incarceration. Meeting with a probation officer is better than living under the authority of correctional officers.
The fact that a parolee has been in prison poses an additional challenge that a parole officer must face that a probation officer does not. The parolee has spent years in the company of other convicted criminals. Some fellow inmates have likely reinforced and glorified criminal behavior if for no other reason than to maintain status within the prison's social system. Breaking a pattern of thought that has been ingrained in the parolee can be difficult. This isn't to say that probation officers do not have to influence the way people think; however, those on probation have not lived in an institutional setting for criminals.
Oversight Organization
Parole is overseen by a state or federal parole board. and parole officers exercise their authority under the authority of a parole board. These boards determine whether an offender is ready to be released. Parole gives offenders a transition between institutionalization and independent living.
Probation is a sentencing option for a criminal court. Probation officers perform their duties as authorized by the sentencing court. Officers keep the court informed of each individual's progress toward meeting the requirements outlined by the judge when the offender was sentenced to probation.
Caseload Size
Parole officers tend to carry lower caseloads than probation officers. On average, parole officers meet with offenders more often than probation officers. The caseload of any parole or probation officer usually depends on how frequently contacts are required between the officer and individuals supervised. The contacts required often vary from offender to offender. For example, an offender with a greater propensity to commit a future crime requires more frequent contact than someone whose crime was an aberration from normal behavior.
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Q: what is difference between iostream and bits/stdc++.h?? when do we need to use them? I am confused with the differences between  iostream and bits/stdc++.h ? in competitive programming is it okay to use bits/stdc++.h or are there any consequences

A: You can't really compare the two. iostream is a header file that allows you to use input (cin) and output (cout). A header file is basically just a file with a collection of functions you can use to make coding easier. This is similar to the built in library in Python (Ex: import random). bits/stdc++.h is basically a way to import every single C++ header file. Many competitive programmers use this because they don't have to import every popular header file. However, a disadvantage is that it increases compilation time because it has to search through every possible functions. Most people do not find this to be too much of an issue, however, so you can probably go ahead and use it. However, it is considered bad practice to do this in actual software engineering. Hope this helps and have a good day :)


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Today we celebrate more than the beginning of a new chapter. I am blown away by your kindness and generosity. Everyone has been so lovely.
It's been three years in a new country and new city, but I already carry so many friends ( close and virtual) with me to my new location. It only makes me grow as a person an artist even more.
Thank you so much to those who donated and in a few hours made my goal possible.
To those who donated $20 or more, I will mail a personalized copy of NFB volume II ( first copies and edition).
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Civil rights group buries long-standing expression of racism
Hundreds of onlookers witnessed how a leading civil rights group in the United States put to rest a long-standing expression of racism by symbolically burying a racist slur generally referred to as the "N-word."
Delegates from across the country gathered during the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Detroit and marched about a quarter-mile for the ceremony and rally. Along the way, two Percheron horses pulled a pine box adorned with a bouquet of fake black roses and a black ribbon printed with a derivation of the word.
The coffin is to be placed at historically black Detroit Memorial Park Cemetery and will have a headstone.
The group has been campaigning against the casual use of the word "nigger," sometimes referred to as the "N-word" because of its painful history as a racist epithet intertwined with slavery in America. Mainstream African-Americans are particularly offended that many rap musicians use it in lyrics, which has revived it in American slang.
"Today we're not just burying the N-word, we're taking it out of our spirit," said Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. "We gather burying all the things that go with the N-word."
"This was the greatest child that racism ever birthed," the Rev. Otis Moss III, assistant pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, said in his eulogy.
Public discussion on the word's use increased last year following a tirade by "Seinfeld" actor Michael Richards, who used it repeatedly during a Los Angeles comedy routine and later issued a public apology.
The issue about racially insensitive remarks heated up earlier this year after radio talk show host Don Imus described black members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" on April 4. Nappy is a derogatory reference to the hair of some black people and "ho" is slang for "whore."
Black leaders, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, have challenged the entertainment industry and the American public to stop using the N-word and other racial slurs.
Minister and rap icon Kurtis Blow called for people, especially young people, to stop buying music by artists who use offensive language.
"They wouldn't make rap songs if you didn't buy them. Stop supporting the stuff you don't want to hear," said Blow, who is credited with helping create the genre's popularity in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
"I've never used the N-word and I've recorded over 150 rap songs. I've never used profanity. It's possible you can use hip-hop and not offend anyone."
The NAACP held a symbolic funeral in Detroit in 1944 for Jim Crow, the systematic, mostly Southern practice of discrimination against and segregation of blacks from the end of post-Civil War Reconstruction into the mid-20th century.
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Built on Speed
Profile of Kingston Technology, the #1 Inc. 500 company.
By Edward O. Welles
Kingston Technology shot up to $230 million in sales and the top spot on the 500 with no debt and no outside equity. How? By getting ideas into production and getting product out the door faster than anyone else.
David Sun is a hard man to track down. One moment he is at his desk in the midst of a room of salespeople. The next he is striding through the shipping department, before heading upstairs for a brief but intent conversation with an engineer. The best place to stake him out is in the cafeteria, where sooner or later he is sure to show up for a smoke and some banter with whoever happens to be around. Equal parts ebullience and energy, Sun creates the impression of speed in his daily hands-on whirl around Kingston Technology Corp., located in Fountain Valley, Calif.
That is apt. Kingston is built on speed, and it is that characteristic that has helped the company break well out of the pack and taken it to the top of this year's Inc. 500. Kingston designs and manufactures memory, processor, and storage upgrades for personal computers, laptops, laser printers, and workstations. In that cutthroat world, manufacturers crank out stripped-down, underpowered, low-cost machines that produce profits as marginal as the machines' performance. The real money is made on product upgrades, much the way car manufacturers cash in on the plethora of options that inevitably add the shock to the sticker price.
Enter Kingston. As brand-name machines roll out the door at the likes of IBM, Compaq, and AST, little-known Kingston sprints to design the upgrades that will turbocharge those stock machines with added memory and processing power so they can handle the latest hot and powerful piece of software hitting the market. Kingston moves with such speed that it can often design and produce the upgrade for a product before that product is even in the hands of the end-user. (Kingston's customers are distributors and resellers of computer equipment. For the most part, it does not sell direct to end-users.)
Kingston was founded in 1987, the result of creative engineering's meeting the fast-changing needs of an explosive market. That year there occurred a shortage of a certain type of chip used in memory-upgrade modules. Sun and his cofounder, John Tu, realized they could alter another chip in ample supply to produce a similar product. Suddenly, memory-starved distributors were beating a path to Kingston's door. "This was like gold at the time," recalls Tu. "People were offering to pay us in cash." But Tu figured it wouldn't be long before competitors caught on to what he and Sun had done and simply copied their feat. He bet Sun a Jaguar that Kingston would be out of business within the year.
Sun won a new set of wheels, and in 1988 Kingston's sales leapt to more than $12 million. By then the PC market was bursting with manufacturers starting to produce computers that ran on their own proprietary systems. Thus, each required its own unique memory upgrade, and Kingston's market expanded exponentially. Then in 1990 Microsoft introduced its wildly popular Windows 3.0, a program requiring more memory than was then available with off-the-shelf PCs. Kingston stepped in to provide the necessary additional memory. In recent years the same thing has happened in the memory-intensive workstation market. A year ago the company created a division to address that market. It already accounts for 10% of sales.
Last year sales rocketed to $141 million, and this year Kingston, with just 130 employees, is on track to reach $230 million in revenues. That works out to almost $1.8 million per employee. The company has no debt, no venture capital, and no plans to go public. And still it keeps piling up cash in quantities that verge on the embarrassing. It distributes 5% of pretax profits quarterly as a bonus to full-time employees, which came to $400,000 in the latest quarter. It also matches employee contributions to the 401(k) plan dollar for dollar up to a combined total of $6,000 a year. Today Kingston, which competes with about 15 other companies, commands a 45% share of the memory-upgrade market, and it shows no signs of slowing down.
So how exactly does Kingston do it?
Kingston has institutionalized speed at every level. David Sun, 41, and John Tu, 51, are quick, intuitive thinkers who've been known to decide to build a product on the 30-second walk between the parking lot and Kingston's front door. Their hit rate -- the ratio of successful products to product introductions -- is 90%, a phenomenally high number given the fast-changing world of personal computing.
Sun, a 10-year veteran of the PC industry, thrives on vibes. His desk sits out in a bull pen in the center of the sales department. Kingston's distributors call in daily from all over the world, placing orders, asking when the latest product will be out. (International sales account for 39% of revenues.) When the salespeople start hearing often enough that distributors are looking for a certain upgrade on a certain machine, and Kingston doesn't have it, that is often signal enough for Sun to decide to build that product. From there, it can take as little as one week before the product is ready to ship.
Kingston fills all purchase orders the day it receives them. That is unheard of in the high-volume, thin-margin, commodity-oriented world of PC manufacturing, where typically PC producers stockpile orders, shop around for dirt-cheap inventory, and then ship a ton of products every four to six weeks.
That kind of pace conflicts with the needs of end-users, who always want their upgrades yesterday. As a result, many original equipment manufacturers, unable to meet the needs of their customers in a timely way, simply refer people to Kingston, which can.
Although speed is a strong, definable attribute at Kingston, it is not to be confused with the company's core values. A suggestion of those can be found on a small plaque inside the front door in the lobby, which reads, "Courtesy . . . Compassion . . . Modesty . . . Honesty."
The embodiment of those values is John Tu, Sun's partner. The two have worked together since 1983, when they started a company, later sold to AST, to provide memory upgrades for Digital products. Tu, amiable and soft-spoken, focuses on sales and marketing, while Sun worries about engineering. But ask Tu what preys on his mind most, and he'll tell you it's a sense of obligation to his employees. "Suppose the company stops growing tomorrow," he muses. "We want to make sure our employees will not be hurt." Sun adds that Kingston is managed so conservatively that should it go out of business tomorrow, it wants to have enough money to distribute a year's salary to every employee to give each time to find another job.
The atmosphere at Kingston implies fluidity. No doors, no ties, no titles, no secretaries. No memos, no supervisors. No quality standards, points out David Sun, because quality comes built in. The company tests 100% of its parts before they ship, whereas the industry standard is 5%. "There are times when I've been over there, and I've seen David sweeping the floor," notes Al Soni, who represents Samsung, a major Kingston vendor. "He relates to his employees at their level -- always."
Janet Ruprecht, who works in marketing, describes Kingston employees as "people you would not expect taking responsibility for things you'd think they wouldn't notice." They range from engineers breaking from their mind work and wandering down to shipping to pack boxes for a while to shippers walking into the sales department, after talking to people in accounting, to report that certain distributors have fallen behind in their payments.
Ruprecht's sister Carol, who works in sales, recently got a call from a customer in Belgium who wanted to know if Kingston could produce a special modification of one of its products. Ruprecht hung up and called engineering. Engineering said OK, provided production could handle the alteration. Production assented, and 10 minutes later Ruprecht called back the customer to say Kingston could produce the part. She also recalls a rare slow day when production employees with nothing better to do decided to dismantle one of Kingston's fax machines to see if maybe they should be thinking about building add-on memory for it.
Kingston pays its employees salaries that are 20% to 30% above industry norms. It pays no commissions to its salespeople, believing that their success would not be possible without the group's efforts. Its bonuses are paid out in equal shares, not pegged to salary level, because Sun reasons that the bonus is a reflection of "how the company is doing," whereas salary "is what you know."
Kingston invests in engineering talent. Orange County brims with a surplus of free-lance engineers, yet the company assiduously has built an engineering staff, largely through Sun's and Tu's contacts in the industry. Both have a decided bias against credentials, and as a result, Kingston's two best "engineers" lack degrees but have a wealth of experience as technicians.
Paul Popadak is one of them. Recently, he spent six months designing a complex upgrade that allowed Kingston to become the only aftermarket company to reverse-engineer a board with an application-specific integrated circuit (an ASIC is a custom chip designed to take the place of many smaller and less complex chips).
Kingston's inventory takes up four rows of shelves, each running about 20 feet deep, creating the impression that David Sun and John Tu run a midsize auto-parts store, not a $141-million company that ships computer add-on components around the world. That inventory amounts to four days' worth of parts.
Such a lean inventory in the volatile computer aftermarket leaves little room for error. Memory chips, the heart and soul of Kingston products, are notoriously commodity-like in nature. Prices soar and collapse with little notice. If there is a hallmark to the industry, it is that the prime loyalty is to price and today's deal. Manufacturers persistently shop around among vendors. They cancel purchase orders when the market suddenly shifts. They drag their heels on paying bills.
Kingston's lean inventory thus appears against the backdrop of a chaotic market as a high-tech, high-wire act. But Sun and Tu have a safety net beneath them, woven taut and true by their vendors. In their hierarchy of important people, Sun and Tu place employees first, followed closely by vendors. They believe that if you treat those two groups well, then they in turn will see to the care and feeding of the third vital group -- customers.
"Integrity. That's how I'd sum up Kingston in a word," says Ken Hurley of Hitachi America, one of Kingston's key vendors. "We have a strong partnership with Kingston. We don't share that with a lot of its competitors."
"If David gives me his word, I can take it to the bank," echoes Mike Burns at Motorola, who labels Kingston "my top account" -- in terms not only of volume but also of psychic ease. Burns makes no commission on the commodity chips he sells to Kingston but says, "I spend 40% of my time supporting this account, because it's so pleasurable to do business with them. I've been doing this for 15 years, and I have yet to meet a company that's more fun to work with."
From the start, Sun and Tu set out to establish long-term relationships with vendors, believing that is the best way to impart ballast to a business in a tempestuous industry. "We will deal with a vendor only as a long-term partner," says Sun. Kingston has never canceled a purchase order. It always works with vendors to schedule the manufacture and delivery of chips and has never backed off that schedule. It does not grind suppliers down on price, preferring to get a consistent supply and quality. In the case of smaller, undercapitalized suppliers, Kingston often prepays.
Sun says, "People in this industry tend to be greedy because the money turns so fast." He adds that not paying bills on time in order to earn a little extra interest at the expense of a creditor makes no sense whatsoever. "For a fraction of a percent you suddenly become an unethical person."
"Other customers play games and delay payments," says Al Soni of Samsung. "Because of Kingston's relationships, it's able to get hard-to-get parts before everyone else does." In turn, strong relationships with vendors allow Kingston to focus on things that really matter. "A lot of their competitors shop around all over the world. They spend all their energy on price," continues Soni. "Sun and Tu get a good price from us, good support, and consistent supply. As a result, they're able to spend more time on things that make a difference, like developing their sales and marketing channels."
Soni says Kingston has "established a new trend" for its industry by booking an order, building the product, and shipping it the same day. It is a process competitors will be forced to follow, and it is one that pays customers a considerable dividend: they don't have to carry any inventory.
One Kingston customer, Ingram Micro, based in nearby Santa Ana, sells more than $1.5 billion worth of computer equipment annually. It receives two shipments a day from Kingston. Another customer, Gates F/A, based in Greenville, S.C., places orders with Kingston nightly -- and has the product in its Ohio warehouse the next day. Jerry Lumpkin at Gates F/A says Kingston's name is synonymous with both product quality and being first to market. If Kingston can't produce it, then likely no one else can. "Sometimes we hear from other vendors, 'Even Kingston doesn't have it.' Kingston provides a benchmark for other companies to measure themselves against."
Kingston supports its distributors by drop-shipping direct to end-users when necessary. It immediately replaces defective products, no questions asked, without waiting for returns. Similarly, Kingston pours a lot of resources into technical support, knowing it will be called on to answer questions about other manufacturers' equipment that has been integrated with its own.
John Tu sums up Kingston's strategy simply: "We want to make it so the customer can't afford not to do business with us." David Sun echoes the sentiment, arguing that Kingston's just-in-time bend-over-backwards way of doing business does more than create goodwill. It makes good sense. "If we ship the same day, then there are no back orders. They create extra work. We say instead, 'We'll support you. We'll ship to you every day.' The distributor is not forced to take a lot of product all at one time." As a result, Sun emphasizes, should the market suddenly fall apart, the distributor is not put in the position of having to take delivery on thousands of units previously committed to and no longer wanted. That reduces the risk of weakening the relationship between Kingston and its customers.
Kingston and its vendors in effect hold the customers' inventory. "We are sitting here as a broker of services from our employees and vendors to our customers," says Sun. Kingston not only eliminates the cost and hassle of inventory for its customers but offers a wide array of products. Moreover, because of its favored status with strong vendors, it is virtually assured of having new products first. To Kingston customers, that translates into relative scarcity of those products -- and, accordingly, higher margins before the market becomes flooded.
In the meantime, Kingston's founders act as though the company could end tomorrow -- and even take great pains to talk down its success. Tu has been a persistent worrier since day one, figuring the company would be out of business within six months of start-up, as soon as competitors caught on to it. Sitting in his office one recent day, Tu held the simple memory chip upon which Kingston built its early success. "This is like making chocolate-chip cookies. This is really stupid," he said, shaking his head and noting there was nothing revolutionary at all about the device. "I never imagined we would get this far."
Mike Burns of Motorola predicts Kingston will hardly be a flash in the pan. Not only has the company redefined the way its industry does business, it's also pushing into new niches with entrepreneurial flair. Not only has Kingston gotten into building upgrade products for workstations, it has also delved into processor, graphics, and network cards, and recently invested in a nearby company that manufactures laser printers. It has also embarked on a joint venture to market its products through a chain of superstores, believing that type of outlet to be the wave of the future.
Kingston has always been quick to spot a trend in the computer marketplace and jump on it. With PC manufacturers at war with one another, introducing better and cheaper products at a faster and faster rate, it appears that -- despite Tu's worries -- Kingston's market is not about to dry up anytime soon.


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OnSunday, New York announced that the state now accounts for roughly 5% of coronavirus cases worldwide, and nearly 2,000 of those who tested positive for the virus in the state have been hospitalized.
In response, a growing number of governors, from New York to California, have ordered various restrictions on public gatherings and businesses. Such measures, necessary though they are, have crippled the economy at every level, from corporate to small business to individual.
Recognizing the moral imperative of the moment, Congress has proposed a $1.8 trillion economic stabilization package to aid families and businesses affected by the pandemic. (That's nearly double the size of the expected federal budget deficit this year, but market stabilization and Americans' well-being takes precedence in a moment like this.)
A bailout of this size and scope is unprecedented. Every industry is being devastated by the coronavirus. The American public and industries need immediate relief, and for the first time, voting in favor of a bailout will not cost an elected official their position. There are no conversations around deficit spending when the Las Vegas Strip is closed for business.
Unlike businesses selling goods like clothing or food, barbers can't transition their business to online commerce or takeout service; there are no unemployment benefits to apply for. A vanity service doesn't immediately come to mind for a bailout — and it won't without a representative convincing legislators of its worth.
For far too long, when it comes to our nation's well-being, the role of government intervention in citizens' lives has come down to a single rhetorical question: Is it a moral obligation or a constitutional right? In both finance and health, the answer has mostly been a "no." America's economic engine is based on capitalism and the strength of the free market, with the occasional assist from tax cuts and interest rate adjustments; public health has likewise been treated as an individual responsibility, with the limited support of a social safety net in the event you fall.
Both systems have existed relatively independent of each other — at least until coronavirus struck, bringing America to an unprecedented standstill. It is here that the question is no longer rhetorical, and it is here that the answer is starkly clear: It is, without question, a moral obligation.
Yet, all money and business sectors are not created equal in the proposed stabilization legislation. The amounts that trade groups and lobbyists are asking Congress to allocate to their respective industries are numbers unseen during a presidential election year: $1.4 trillion for the manufacturing sector; $4 billion for museums; $100 billion for doctors, nurses, and hospitals; $325 billion for restaurants; $60 billion for Boeing; $250 billion for the travel industry.
The resulting allocation of funds will be a civics lesson in the power of political currency. Which industry has the best access to the politicians drafting legislation? Who has the juice? In the lobbying world, it's a matter of who is best positioned with the party in control of the government. Their advocacy on behalf of their clients will determine not only what is included in the stabilization package but at what amount.
The major industries will, of course, be well taken care of in the bailout — but what about the industries that aren't major? The small neighborhood businesses that are too small for representation by powerful lobbyists, but too big to fail in the community? The business that sits on the front line of services for Black men, but is the most affected by six-foot social distancing mandates? The business that not only is an economic driver of a neighborhood but a gathering spot for social commentary that challenges opinions and nourishes the soul?
The barbershop has been part of the bedrock of Black community — and there's no Black barbershop lobby on K Street fighting for these business owners.
Unlike businesses selling goods like clothing or food, barbers can't transition their business to online commerce or takeout service; there are no unemployment benefits to apply for. During this pandemic, the barber is one of the most vulnerable — not merely because of the nature of the business, but the value it is assigned. A vanity service doesn't immediately come to mind for a bailout, and it won't without a representative convincing legislators of its worth.
To understand the economic role that Black barbershops play in the community, you first have to understand the history and origin of the institution. In the book Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America, Quincy T. Mills writes that the Black barbershop can be traced back to the early 18th century when enslaved men and women acting as plantation barbers and hairstylists would groom fellow slaves on Sunday mornings — "the only leisure time they had for proper grooming." Early barbershops were essentially the original Black-owned businesses; free and enslaved African Americans hired out by their masters "seized the opportunity to become entrepreneurs in an industry void of white competition, with minimal startup costs and significant profit potential."
For many Black men in the U.S., barbers are ambassadors of entrepreneurship, the first Black-owned small business that we support. But due to the close relationship a black barber has with his clients, it never feels transactional. Instead, it's a frequent ritual that over time becomes a bond of friendship rather than a service. That's wonderful, but it also minimizes in clients' minds the financial responsibility being shouldered by barbers, whether rent, taxes, utilities, or any other operating expenses — costs that don't disappear when incoming revenue does. Like say, now.
The case of the Black barber is representative of the economic trickle-down effect the coronavirus is having on all industries. In particular, similar professions that provide a service, that in good times, are viewed as optional (although I'd challenge you to find any Black man that views a weekly haircut as optional). But due to low numbers of the profession as a whole — in 2018 there were just short of 80,000 barbers in the United States, of all races — these are the professions that can go unnoticed during a global pandemic. Without the storytellers, the advocates, the lobbyist on Capitol Hill, finding financial relief will be challenging.
The current debate in Congress regarding the proposed stabilization package centers on two competing ideologies on the allocation of funding: either an emphasis on people or on big corporations. At stake is the $500 billion program within the package that would award loans to states and cities as well as businesses. The program would be administered through the Department of Treasury, at the discretion of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
I'm not sure the last time Mnuchin has been inside a Black barbershop, but it's important for him to know that these noncorporations are still giants in the community. They may not have boards of directors, but they're large holding companies of community interest, held together by collective bargaining agreements, with work environments that allow for Black men to show up as their authentic selves — and Six Sigma certified to deliver a consistent, guaranteed, product weekly.
Even if K street hasn't come in for a fade.
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package tree.declarations;

import java.util.LinkedList;

import errors.CXInternalError;

import tree.TreeNode;
import tree.other.CommonDeclaration;
import tree.other.CommonSpecifiers;
import tree.other.CommonDeclarator;
import tree.symbols.TSSemicolon;

public class TStructDeclarationSQLSDL extends TStructDeclaration implements CommonDeclaration {

	public TStructDeclarationSQLSDL(TStructDeclarationSQLSDL node) {
		super(node);
	}

	public TStructDeclarationSQLSDL(TSpecifierQualifierList specqualis, TStructDeclaratorList decllist, TSSemicolon semicolon) {
		addChild(specqualis);
		addChild(decllist);
		addChild(semicolon);
	}

	public TStructDeclaratorList getStructDeclaratorList() {
		return (TStructDeclaratorList) getChild(1);
	}

	public TSSemicolon getSemicolon() {
		return (TSSemicolon) getChild(2);
	}

	@Override
	public boolean hasCommonSpecifiers() {
		return true;
	}
	@Override
	public boolean hasDeclarationSpecifiers() {
		return false;
	}
	@Override
	public boolean hasSpecifierQualifierList() {
		return false;
	}

	@Override
	public CommonSpecifiers getCommonSpecifiers() {
		return getSpecifierQualifierList();
	}
	@Override
	public TDeclarationSpecifiers getDeclarationSpecifiers() {
		return null;
	}
	@Override
	public TSpecifierQualifierList getSpecifierQualifierList() {
		return (TSpecifierQualifierList) getChild(0);
	}

	@Override
	public void setSpecifiers(CommonSpecifiers node) {
		if (!(node instanceof TSpecifierQualifierList))
			throw new CXInternalError("tried to assign wrong type of specifiers");
		setChild(0, (TSpecifierQualifierList) node);
	}
	@Override
	public void setSpecifiers(LinkedList<TreeNode> specs) {
		setChild(0, TSpecifierQualifierList.from(specs));
	}

	@Override
	public boolean hasCommonDeclarator() {
		return hasDeclarator();
	}
	@Override
	public boolean hasDeclarator() {
		return getStructDeclaratorList().hasDeclarator();
	}
	@Override
	public boolean hasAbstractDeclarator() {
		return false;
	}

	@Override
	public CommonDeclarator getCommonDeclarator() {
		return getDeclarator();
	}
	@Override
	public TDeclarator getDeclarator() {
		return getStructDeclaratorList().getDeclarator();
	}
	@Override
	public TAbstractDeclarator getAbstractDeclarator() {
		return null;
	}

	@Override
	public void setCommonDeclarator(CommonDeclarator node) {
		if (node == null) {
			getStructDeclaratorList().setDeclarator(null);
		} else {
			if (!(node instanceof TDeclarator))
				throw new CXInternalError("tried to assign wrong type of declarator");
			getStructDeclaratorList().setDeclarator((TDeclarator) node);
		}
	}

}

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Almost 3 years ago I have published an article how to set up layer 2 VPN between on-prem vSphere environment and vCloud Director Org VDC.
As both vCloud Director and NSX evolved quite a bit since to simplify the whole set up, here comes the part II.
The tenant has an application that resides on 3 different VLAN based networks running in its own (vSphere) datacenter. The networks are routed with existing physical router. The tenant wants to extend 2 of these networks to cloud for cloud bursting or DR purposes, but not the 3rd one (for example because there runs a physical database server).
vCloud Director natively supports NSX L2 VPN (VCD 8.20 or newer needed).
In the cloud Org VDC tenant deploys two routed Org VDC networks with identical subnets and gateways as networks A and B. These networks must be connected to the Org VDC Edge GW via subinterface (there can be up to 200 such networks on single Edge). The Org VDC Edge must have advanced networking enabled.
Tenant enables and configures L2VPN server on its Org VDC Edge GW. Note that this is a premium feature that the service provider must enable in Organization first (see this blog post).
The Org VDC Edge GW IP addresses are identical with the on-prem existing physical router. Therefore Egress Optimization Gateway addresses must be entered in the Peer Site configuration. That will prevent the Org VDC Edge GW from sending ARP replies over the tunnel.
The same must be performed on the Standalone NSX Edge via CLI (see egress-optimize command here).
The non-stretched network (subnet C) must be configured on the Org VDC Edge GW so it knows that the subnet is reachable through the tunnel and not via its upstream interface(s). This option however is not in vCloud UI, instead vCloud networking API must be used.
Edit 3/26/2018: This does not works for standalone NSX Edges. See the end of the article for more details.
Finally, the tunnel can be established by configuring L2VPN server details on the on-prem Standalone NSX Edge L2VPN client (endpoint IP, port, credentials, encryption) and providing VLAN to tunnel mappings.
After multiple questions regarding unstretched networks and some testing I need to make some clarifications.
The routing of unstretched networks through the tunnel is achieved via static routes configured on the Edge GW. So in principle it still works the same way as described in the original article, the difference doing it via UI/API is that the setting of the IPs and routes is automatic.
Create Org VDC transit network with arbitrary small subnet (e.g. 169.254.200.0/29) in the cloud. Assign IP .1 as the gateway on the Org VDC Edge. This network will not be used for workloads, it is used just for routing to unstretched network.
Create corresponding VLAN transit network on-prem. Assign IP .2 as its gateway interface on the existing router (note the IP addresses of the routing intefaces in #1 and #2 are different).
Create L2 VPN tunnel as before, however also stretch the transit network but do not optimize its GW (no need as on-prem and cloud are using different IPs).
Create static routes on the Org VDC Edge GW to route to on-prem unstretched networks via the 169.254.200.2 transit network router IP.
Note that this is approach very similar to the original blog post. The only difference is that we must create separate transit network as vCloud Director does not support multiple subnets on the same Edge GW interface.
I had recently multiple discussions about NSX and its Layer 2 bridging capabilities with various service providers. Let me summarize some important points and considerations when you would use which.
The end-user wants to burst their application to the cloud but wants to keep certain components on-site and because its legacy application it cannot be re-IP'd or requires single subnet communication.
NSX offers three ways how to bridge layer two networks.
This is proprietary VPN solution which enables to create encrypted tunnel across IP networks between Edge Service Gateways that stitches one or more L2 networks. These Edge Gateways can be deployed in different management domains and there is also option of deploying standalone Edge which does not require NSX license. This is great for the cloud bursting use case. I have blogged about L2VPN already in the past here.
While this option is very flexible it is also quite CPU intensive for both the L2 VPN Client and Server Edge VMs. This option provides up to 2Gb throughput.
L2 bridge is created in the ESXi VMkernel hypervisor by deploying a Logical router control VM. The control VM is used only for the bridge configuration and its pinning to a particular ESXi host. As the bridging happens in the VMkernel it is possible to achieve impressive line rate (10 Gb) throughput.
It is possible to bridge only VXLAN based logical switch with VLAN based port group. The same physical uplink must be utilized so this means that the VLAN port group must be on the same vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) that is prepared with the VXLAN VTEP and where the VXLAN logical switch portgroups are created.
The above fact prohibits a scenario where you would have Edge Cluster with multiple pairs of uplinks connected to separate vDS switches. One for VLAN based traffic and the other for VXLAN traffic. You cannot create NSX native L2 bridge instance between two vDS switches.
This important especially for the collocation use case mentioned at the beginning. In order to use the L2 bridge the customer VLAN must be connected to the Edge Cluster Top of the Rack pair of switches.
If this is not possible, as a workaround the service provider can use the L2 VPN option – it is even possible to run both L2 VPN Server and Client Edges on the same host connected through a transit VXLAN network where one Edge is connected to trunk with VLAN networks from one vDS and the other to trunk with VXLAN networks on another vDS. Unfortunately this has performance impact (even if NULL-MD5 encryption is used) and should be used only for temporary migration use cases.
The last bridging option discussed is a new feature of NSX 6.2. It is possible to extend the VXLAN logical switch all the way to a compatible hardware device (switch from a VMware partner) that acts as Layer 2 gateway and bridges the logical switch with a VLAN network. The device performing the function of hardware VTEP is managed from NSX via OVSDB protocol while the control plane is still managed by NSX Controllers. More details are in the following white paper.
As this option requires new dedicated and NSX compatible switching hardware it is more useful for the permanent use cases.
When VMware NSX 6.0 came out about more than one year ago, one of the new great features it had on top of the its predecessor VMware vCloud Network and Security (vCNS) was L2VPN service on Edge Service Gateway which allows stretching layer 2 network segments between distant sites in different management domains. NSX 6.1 further enhanced the functionality by introducing Standalone Edge which can be deployed on top of vSphere without an NSX license and acts as L2VPN client.
Many vCloud Service Providers are now deploying their public cloud with vCloud Director and NSX instead of vCNS so I am often asked how could they leverage NSX in order to provide L2VPN service to their tenants.
As of today neither vCloud Director 5.6 nor 8.0 (in beta at the moment) can deploy NSX Edges and manage the L2VPN service. However it is still possible for the SP to provide L2VPN as a managed service for his tenants.
Let me demonstrate how would it work on the following artificial example.
The customer has an application that resides on 3 different VLAN based networks (subnet A, B and C) routed with existing physical router. He would like to extend subnets A and B into the cloud and deploy VMs there. The VMs in the cloud should access the internet in order to connect to external SaaS services through the provider connection (egress optimization) but should still be able to reach database running on subnet C which is hosted on premises.
On the left is the customer on premises datacenter with physical router and three VLAN based networks. On the right is the public cloud with NSX design I proposed in one of my previous blog articles. While the unimportant parts are grayed out what is important is how the customer Org VDC and the NSX Edge Gateways is deployed.
The provider deploys tenant dedicated NSX Edge Service Gateway outside of vCloud Director manually and configures it based on customer requirements. The provider creates two logical switches (VXLAN 5005 and 5006) which will be used for extending customer subnets A and B. The switches are trunked to the NSX Edge and the Edge interface IP addresses are assigned identical to the IP addresses of the physical router on-premises (a.a.a.1 and b.b.b.1).
The two logical switches are configured in vCloud Director as External Networks with the proper subnets A and B and pool of unused IPs.
Two Org VDC networks are created inside tenant's Org VDC as directly connected to the two External Networks.
L2VPN server is configured on the NSX Edge (with encryption algorithm, secret, certificate and stretched interfaces). Also Egress Optimization Gateway Address is configured (both physical gateway IPs are entered – a.a.a.1 and b.b.b.1). This will filter ARP replies of the two gateways sharing the same IPs in the tunnel and allow NSX Edge to act as the gateway to the internet.
The tenant will install Standalone Edge which is distributed as OVF inside his datacenter and set it up: he must map VLANs to tunnel IDs supplied by the provider, configure Edge Server public IP and port and encryption details.
Another subnet z.z.z.0/30 is used for P2P connection between the NSX Edge in the cloud and the physical router.
IP address z.z.z.1/30 is configured on the physical router on one of the stretched subnets (e.g. A).
The second IP z.z.z.2/30 is configured on the NSX Edge on the same subnet.
Finally static route is created on the NSX Edge pointing subnet C to the next hop address z.z.z.1.
In case the tenant has licensed NSX on-premises he can obviously use 'full' NSX Edge Service Gateway. The advantages are that it is much easier to deploy and configure. It can also stretch VXLAN based networks as opposed to only VLANs which are supported by Standalone Edge.
Standalone Edge can be connected either to Standard Switch or Distributed Switch. When Standard Switch is used promiscuous mode and forged transmits must be enabled on the trunk port group. VLANs ID 4095 (all) must be configured to pass multiple VLANs.
When Distributed Switch is used it is recommended to use Sink Port instead of promiscuous mode. Sink Port receives traffic with MAC addresses unknown to vDS.
Sink Port creation is described here. It requires vDS edit via vCenter Managed Object UI. While Sink Port can be also created with net-dvs –EnableSink command directly on the ESXi host with Standalone Edge VM running it is not recommended as the host configuration can be overridden by vCenter Server.
RC4-MD4 encryption cipher should not be used as it is insecure and has been deprecated in NSX 6.2.


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Are you looking for a great way to lighten up a classic favorite like fried chicken? My "Fried" Baked Chicken recipe does just that! The flavored Panko bread crumbs give this dish that crunch you are looking for without all the added fat.
We have been making this dish in my family for ages in one form or another. Growing up, my mom would use Frying Magic (loved that stuff!) to coat the chicken before baking, but the method has stayed the same. Mom would often make some version of this before every family vacation. She would bake up a big batch and put into a Tupperware container and keep in the cooler for the drive.
We would always have cold "fried" baked chicken, pork and beans from the can and barbecue chips that first day on our trips. Oh and we would also have a big batch of Zucchini Bars too- yum!
We have made "Fried" Baked Chicken with skinless chicken legs, boneless, skinless chicken breasts and thighs- both bone in and boneless. The most difficult part of this recipe might be choosing your choice of cut of chicken!
The rest is super simple. You just take your egg whites and place in a shallow bowl. Place bread crumbs and seasonings in a gallon size baggie and shake to mix. Coat chicken pieces in egg whites before placing into the baggie a couple pieces at a time to toss and coat. Place coated chicken in two greased 9×13 pans and bake at 350 (turning half way through) for 30-40 minutes or until chicken reaches an internal temperature of at least 165. (I usually cook it to 170).
I prefer to cook my chicken whether on the grill, in the oven or on the stove to the right internal temperature rather than a set time so that it always comes out juicy and not dry.
My meat thermometer is one of my favorite kitchen tools. It has a magnet on it so it can hang on the side of the oven or grill while the probe does its job inside the oven/grill and an alarm notifies me of when the meat reaches the temperature I set. LOVE that feature! I can't tell you how many times I have forgotten the meat on the grill/in the oven and that alarm has saved us from eating charcoal for dinner.
Oh! I can't believe I almost forgot!
I am super stoked that my recipe for "Fried" Baked Chicken is in Gooseberry Patch's new Good-for-You Everyday Meals Cookbook! AND– I am giving away a copy thanks to my GOODe friends over at GP. You can enter to win over here and check out some other great recipes from this yummy book!
Take your egg whites and place in a shallow bowl.
Place bread crumbs and seasonings in a gallon size baggie and shake to mix.
Coat chicken pieces in egg whites before placing into the baggie a couple pieces at a time to toss and coat.
Place coated chicken in two greased 9 x13 pans and bake at 350 (turning half way through) for 30-40 minutes or until chicken reaches an internal temperature of at least 165. (I usually cook it to 170).


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I was served by Neeta today in north Watford store.she was very friendly and very kind.
I was served today by Ria she was very cheerful and polite.
Very helpful staff at checkouts on Ist floor of Stockport Store. On approach, as I'm disabled, I was immediately acknowledged by a female member of staff on tills, who proceeded to send a young male colleague 2 open the end till, & serve me & my mother asap.
I have just tryed to get onto your short survey to be in the chance to win a daily prize. My Survey entry code is 0520005023349, so if this could be entered by yourselves as everytime I tryed to access your main page it came up with privacy protected.
Fantastic Business model, products and service @ fantastic prices!
Mohammed @ hounslow very helpful. On the ball!!
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The staff were extremely helpful as I had a number of queries over different items. Will defiantly shop at primary more often if this is how customers are regularly treated.
Happy shopping in Primark Manchester today. Lots of choice could have spent a fortune. more than happy with the items I purchased. Staff more than happy to help, even swapped a sweatshirt on a manikin as the only medium was on display To end our shopping spree in Primark Amy was very pleasant and friendly.
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