text:
use_shell=0

prerelease="false"

# Check whether a command exists - returns 0 if it does, 1 if it does not
exists() {
  if command -v $1 >/dev/null 2>&1
  then
    return 0
  else
    return 1
  fi
}

# Set the filename for a deb, based on version and machine
deb_filename() {
  filetype="deb"
  if test "$machine" = "x86_64"; then
    filename="chef_${version}_amd64.deb"
  else
    filename="chef_${version}_i386.deb"
  fi
}

# Set the filename for an rpm, based on version and machine
rpm_filename() {
  filetype="rpm"
  filename="chef-${version}.${machine}.rpm"
}

# Set the filename for a Solaris SVR4 package, based on version and machine
svr4_filename() {
  filetype="solaris"
  filename="chef-${version}.${machine}.solaris"
}

aix_filename() {
  filetype="bff"
  filename="chef-${version}.${machine}.bff"
}

# Set the filename for the sh archive
shell_filename() {
  filetype="sh"
  filename="chef-${version}-${platform}-${platform_version}-${machine}.sh"
}

report_bug() {
  echo "Please file a bug report at http://tickets.opscode.com"
  echo "Project: Chef"
  echo "Component: Packages"
  echo "Label: Omnibus"
  echo "Version: $version"
  echo " "
  echo "Please detail your operating system type, version and any other relevant details"
}

# Get command line arguments
while getopts spv:f: opt
do
  case "$opt" in

    v)  version="$OPTARG";;
    s)  use_shell=1;;
    p)  prerelease="true";;
    f)  cmdline_filename="$OPTARG";;
    \?)   # unknown flag
      echo >&2 \
      "usage: $0 [-s] [-p] [-v version] [-f filename]"
      exit 1;;
  esac
done
shift `expr $OPTIND - 1`

machine=`uname -m`
os=`uname -s`

# Retrieve Platform and Platform Version
if test -f "/etc/lsb-release" && grep -q DISTRIB_ID /etc/lsb-release; then
  platform=`grep DISTRIB_ID /etc/lsb-release | cut -d "=" -f 2 | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
  platform_version=`grep DISTRIB_RELEASE /etc/lsb-release | cut -d "=" -f 2`
elif test -f "/etc/debian_version"; then
  platform="debian"
  platform_version=`cat /etc/debian_version`
elif test -f "/etc/redhat-release"; then
  platform=`sed 's/^\(.\+\) release.*/\1/' /etc/redhat-release | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
  platform_version=`sed 's/^.\+ release \([.0-9]\+\).*/\1/' /etc/redhat-release`

  # If /etc/redhat-release exists, we act like RHEL by default
  if test "$platform" = "fedora"; then
    # Change platform version for use below.
    platform_version="6.0"
  fi
  platform="el"
elif test -f "/etc/system-release"; then
  platform=`sed 's/^\(.\+\) release.\+/\1/' /etc/system-release | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
  platform_version=`sed 's/^.\+ release \([.0-9]\+\).*/\1/' /etc/system-release | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
  # amazon is built off of fedora, so act like RHEL
  if test "$platform" = "amazon linux ami"; then
    platform="el"
    platform_version="6.0"
  fi
# Apple OS X
elif test -f "/usr/bin/sw_vers"; then
  platform="mac_os_x"
  # Matching the tab-space with sed is error-prone
  platform_version=`sw_vers | awk '/^ProductVersion:/ { print $2 }'`

  major_version=`echo $platform_version | cut -d. -f1,2`
  case $major_version in
    "10.6") platform_version="10.6" ;;
    "10.7"|"10.8"|"10.9") platform_version="10.7" ;;
    *) echo "No builds for platform: $major_version"
       report_bug
       exit 1
       ;;
  esac

  # x86_64 Apple hardware often runs 32-bit kernels (see OHAI-63)
  x86_64=`sysctl -n hw.optional.x86_64`
  if test $x86_64 -eq 1; then
    machine="x86_64"
  fi
elif test -f "/etc/release"; then
  platform="solaris2"
  machine=`/usr/bin/uname -p`
  platform_version=`/usr/bin/uname -r`
elif test -f "/etc/SuSE-release"; then
  if grep -q 'Enterprise' /etc/SuSE-release;
  then
      platform="sles"
      platform_version=`awk '/^VERSION/ {V = $3}; /^PATCHLEVEL/ {P = $3}; END {print V "." P}' /etc/SuSE-release`
  else
      platform="suse"
      platform_version=`awk '/^VERSION =/ { print $3 }' /etc/SuSE-release`
  fi
elif test "x$os" = "xFreeBSD"; then
  platform="freebsd"
  platform_version=`uname -r | sed 's/-.*//'`
elif test "x$os" = "xAIX"; then
  platform="aix"
  platform_version=`uname -v`
  machine="ppc"
fi

if test "x$platform" = "x"; then
  echo "Unable to determine platform version!"
  report_bug
  exit 1
fi

# Mangle $platform_version to pull the correct build
# for various platforms
major_version=`echo $platform_version | cut -d. -f1`
case $platform in
  "el")
    platform_version=$major_version
    ;;
  "debian")
    case $major_version in
      "5") platform_version="6";;
      "6") platform_version="6";;
      "7") platform_version="6";;
    esac
    ;;
  "freebsd")
    platform_version=$major_version
    ;;
  "sles")
    platform_version=$major_version
    ;;
  "suse")
    platform_version=$major_version
    ;;
esac

if test "x$platform_version" = "x"; then
  echo "Unable to determine platform version!"
  report_bug
  exit 1
fi

if test $use_shell = 1; then
  shell_filename
else
  case $platform in
    "ubuntu") deb_filename ;;
    "debian") deb_filename ;;
    "el") rpm_filename ;;
    "suse") rpm_filename ;;
    "sles") rpm_filename ;;
    "fedora") rpm_filename ;;
    "solaris2") svr4_filename ;;
    "aix") aix_filename ;;
    *) shell_filename ;;
  esac
fi

if test "x$platform" = "xsolaris2"; then
  # hack up the path on Solaris to find wget
  PATH=/usr/sfw/bin:$PATH
  export PATH
fi

checksum_mismatch() {
  echo "Package checksum mismatch!"
  report_bug
  exit 1
}

unable_to_retrieve_package() {
  echo "Unable to retrieve a valid package!"
  report_bug
  echo "Metadata URL: $metadata_url"
  if test "x$download_url" != "x"; then
    echo "Download URL: $download_url"
  fi
  if test "x$stderr_results" != "x"; then
    echo "\nDEBUG OUTPUT FOLLOWS:\n$stderr_results"
  fi
  exit 1
}

capture_tmp_stderr() {
  # spool up /tmp/stderr from all the commands we called
  if test -f "/tmp/stderr"; then
    output=`cat /tmp/stderr`
    stderr_results="${stderr_results}\nSTDERR from $1:\n\n$output\n"
    rm /tmp/stderr
  fi
}

# do_wget URL FILENAME
do_wget() {
  echo "trying wget..."
  wget -O "$2" "$1" 2>/tmp/stderr
  rc=$?
  # check for 404
  grep "ERROR 404" /tmp/stderr 2>&1 >/dev/null
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    echo "ERROR 404"
    unable_to_retrieve_package
  fi

  # check for bad return status or empty output
  if test $rc -ne 0 || test ! -s "$2"; then
    capture_tmp_stderr "wget"
    return 1
  fi

  return 0
}

# do_curl URL FILENAME
do_curl() {
  echo "trying curl..."
  curl -sL -D /tmp/stderr "$1" > "$2"
  rc=$?
  # check for 404
  grep "404 Not Found" /tmp/stderr 2>&1 >/dev/null
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    echo "ERROR 404"
    unable_to_retrieve_package
  fi

  # check for bad return status or empty output
  if test $rc -ne 0 || test ! -s "$2"; then
    capture_tmp_stderr "curl"
    return 1
  fi

  return 0
}

# do_fetch URL FILENAME
do_fetch() {
  echo "trying fetch..."
  fetch -o "$2" "$1" 2>/tmp/stderr
  # check for bad return status
  test $? -ne 0 && return 1
  return 0
}

# do_curl URL FILENAME
do_perl() {
  echo "trying perl..."
  perl -e 'use LWP::Simple; getprint($ARGV[0]);' "$1" > "$2" 2>/tmp/stderr
  rc=$?
  # check for 404
  grep "404 Not Found" /tmp/stderr 2>&1 >/dev/null
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    echo "ERROR 404"
    unable_to_retrieve_package
  fi

  # check for bad return status or empty output
  if test $rc -ne 0 || test ! -s "$2"; then
    capture_tmp_stderr "perl"
    return 1
  fi

  return 0
}

# do_curl URL FILENAME
do_python() {
  echo "trying python..."
  python -c "import sys,urllib2 ; sys.stdout.write(urllib2.urlopen(sys.argv[1]).read())" "$1" > "$2" 2>/tmp/stderr
  rc=$?
  # check for 404
  grep "HTTP Error 404" /tmp/stderr 2>&1 >/dev/null
  if test $? -eq 0; then
    echo "ERROR 404"
    unable_to_retrieve_package
  fi

  # check for bad return status or empty output
  if test $rc -ne 0 || test ! -s "$2"; then
    capture_tmp_stderr "python"
    return 1
  fi
  return 0
}

do_checksum() {
  if exists sha256sum; then
    checksum=`sha256sum $1 | awk '{ print $1 }'`
    if test "x$checksum" != "x$2"; then
      checksum_mismatch
    else
      echo "Checksum compare with sha256sum succeeded."
    fi
  elif exists shasum; then
    checksum=`shasum -a 256 $1 | awk '{ print $1 }'`
    if test "x$checksum" != "x$2"; then
      checksum_mismatch
    else
      echo "Checksum compare with shasum succeeded."
    fi
  elif exists md5sum; then
    checksum=`md5sum $1 | awk '{ print $1 }'`
    if test "x$checksum" != "x$3"; then
      checksum_mismatch
    else
      echo "Checksum compare with md5sum succeeded."
    fi
  elif exists md5; then
    checksum=`md5 $1 | awk '{ print $4 }'`
    if test "x$checksum" != "x$3"; then
      checksum_mismatch
    else
      echo "Checksum compare with md5 succeeded."
    fi
  else
    echo "WARNING: could not find a valid checksum program, pre-install shasum, md5sum or md5 in your O/S image to get valdation..."
  fi
}

# do_download URL FILENAME
do_download() {
  echo "downloading $1"
  echo "  to file $2"

  # we try all of these until we get success.
  # perl, in particular may be present but LWP::Simple may not be installed

  if exists wget; then
    do_wget $1 $2 && return 0
  fi

  if exists curl; then
    do_curl $1 $2 && return 0
  fi

  if exists fetch; then
    do_fetch $1 $2 && return 0
  fi

  if exists perl; then
    do_perl $1 $2 && return 0
  fi

  if exists python; then
    do_python $1 $2 && return 0
  fi

  unable_to_retrieve_package
}

# install_file TYPE FILENAME
# TYPE is "rpm", "deb", "solaris", or "sh"
install_file() {
  echo "Installing Chef $version"
  case "$1" in
    "rpm")
      echo "installing with rpm..."
      rpm -Uvh --oldpackage --replacepkgs "$2"
      ;;
    "deb")
      echo "installing with dpkg..."
      dpkg -i "$2"
      ;;
    "solaris")
      echo "installing with pkgadd..."
      echo "conflict=nocheck" > /tmp/nocheck
      echo "action=nocheck" >> /tmp/nocheck
      echo "mail=" >> /tmp/nocheck
      pkgrm -a /tmp/nocheck -n chef >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
      pkgadd -n -d "$2" -a /tmp/nocheck chef
      ;;
    "sh" )
      echo "installing with sh..."
      sh "$2"
      ;;
  esac
  if test $? -ne 0; then
    echo "Installation failed"
    report_bug
    exit 1
  fi
}

echo "Downloading Chef $version for ${platform}..."

if test "x$TMPDIR" = "x"; then
  tmp="/tmp"
else
  tmp=$TMPDIR
fi
# secure-ish temp dir creation without having mktemp available (DDoS-able but not expliotable)
tmp_dir="$tmp/install.sh.$$"
(umask 077 && mkdir $tmp_dir) || exit 1

metadata_filename="$tmp_dir/metadata.txt"

if test "x$cmdline_filename" = "x"; then
  download_filename="$tmp_dir/$filename"
else
  download_filename="$cmdline_filename"
fi

metadata_url="https://www.opscode.com/chef/metadata?v=${version}&prerelease=${prerelease}&p=${platform}&pv=${platform_version}&m=${machine}"

if test "x$platform" = "xsolaris2"; then
  if test "x$platform_version" = "x5.9" -o "x$platform_version" = "x5.10"; then
    # solaris 9 lacks openssl, solaris 10 lacks recent enough credentials - your base O/S is completely insecure, please upgrade
    metadata_url=`echo $metadata_url | sed -e 's/https/http/'`
  fi
fi

do_download "$metadata_url"  "$metadata_filename"

cat "$metadata_filename"

# check that all the mandatory fields in the downloaded metadata are there
if grep '^url' $metadata_filename > /dev/null && grep '^sha256' $metadata_filename > /dev/null && grep '^md5' $metadata_filename > /dev/null; then
  echo "downloaded metadata file looks valid..."
else
  echo "downloaded metadata file is corrupted or an uncaught error was encountered in downloading the file..."
  # this generally means one of the download methods downloaded a 404 or something like that and then reported a successful exit code,
  # and this should be fixed in the function that was doing the download.
  report_bug
  exit 1
fi

download_url=`awk '$1 == "url" { print $2 }' "$metadata_filename"`

if test "x$platform" = "xsolaris2"; then
  if test "x$platform_version" = "x5.9" -o "x$platform_version" = "x5.10"; then
    # solaris 9 lacks openssl, solaris 10 lacks recent enough credentials - your base O/S is completely insecure, please upgrade
    download_url=`echo $download_url | sed -e 's/https/http/'`
  fi
fi

do_download "$download_url"  "$download_filename"

sha256=`awk '$1 == "sha256" { print $2 }' "$metadata_filename"`
md5=`awk '$1 == "md5" { print $2 }' "$metadata_filename"`

do_checksum "$download_filename" "$sha256" "$md5"

if grep yolo "$metadata_filename" >/dev/null; then
  echo
  echo "WARNING: Chef-Client has not been regression tested on this O/S Distribution"
  echo "WARNING: Do not use this configuration for Production Applications.  Use at your own risk."
  echo
fi

install_file $filetype "$download_filename"

if test "x$tmp_dir" != "x"; then
  rm -r "$tmp_dir"
fi

echo "alias chefrun='chef-solo -c /root/chef-repo/solo.rb -j /root/chef-repo/web.json -l debug'" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
chef-solo -c /root/chef-repo/solo.rb -j /root/chef-repo/web.json -l debug

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text:
Angela Bowen to make appearance at screening
GlennFest A 2016, News	0
The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen, which is directed by Jennifer Abod, follows Bowen's three passions–dance, activism, and teaching. Bowen's appearance will be the first time a documentary star has attended a GlennFest Film Festival screening. The screening will take place on Sunday, October 9, at 6 p.m. at the Downey Civic Theatre.
The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen is a feature length documentary that begins with Bowen's discovery of her first love – classical dance – in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts. In the film, her stories unfold within the cultural, economic and political climate of the times. Bowen's desire to perform on Broadway in the 1950s was thwarted by racism. Like so many other black performers, she had to travel to the stages of Europe to find work. When Bowen returned to the United States, she married a young drummer and established the only black dance school in Connecticut, The Bowen Peters School of Dance, which influenced many. During these years, she discovered the writings of black lesbian feminists, which gave her the courage to claim her own sexual identity and transform her life.
"la Cage aux Folles" after party entertainment announced!	2018 Selections are here!
A 2017, News, Uncategorized
Photos from GlennFest 2017
2018 Selections are here!
"la Cage aux Folles" after party entertainment announced!

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Start your search by selecting from flights, hotels, car rentals, cruises or complete vacation packages.
Enter your departure, destination, number of passengers, and preferred travel dates before beginning your search for the best deal!
After inputting destination and travel dates, choose which sites you are interested in searching. Most recent choices are highlighted in white.
All your choices are now displayed on one easy-to-view screen. Click individual results to view in full screen and close those you no longer need.
Dual Screen view lets you compare two providers side-by-side for ease of comparison.
Now that you've found the best deal, click on "select" to make the reservation directly with the provider you've selected. No need to create another account. Should you choose to book with a provider with whom you have travel rewards, you can continue to accumulate points or use points to book.


text:
title: blog 2
layout: post
author: alex.coyne
permalink: /blog-2/
source-id: 1WJCN-MtJQ085HQOctkUShqb9ZZ_MSjJqEwoLSYSy9Mw
published: true
---

    Title
    Coding
    Date
    26/08/16

    Starting point:
    Finished the first exercise.

    Target for this lesson?
    To complete half of the 2nd exercise.

    Did I reach my target?
(add details to "Lesson Review")
     I completed the full exercise which meant I did more than I thought I would have done.

    Lesson Review

    How did I learn? What strategies were effective?

    This lesson we were either finishing off what we did last lesson or starting a new topic. In this topic you had to program the computer so that it would some subtraction. In this case we had to see how many boys there were in the class by telling the computer how many people where  in the class and the amount of girls. Also there was another exercise about apples and when you ate an apple one would go from the total. It would keep going down until there were none left, where it stopped doing this pattern.

    What limited my learning? Which habits do I need to work on?

    In this lesson there were lots of minor mistakes which were hard to spot. This includes not putting a space where there should be one and putting a space where there shouldn't be one. This meant it kept coming up with error when ever you tried to run the program. On the apple part of the exercise there was a problem where it kept going down and would never stop which firstly didn't make sense where you were eating either no apples or minus amount of apples. This means we had to fix the problem so it would stop on zero.

    What will I change for next time? How will I improve my learning?

    Next time I won't rush into the work and try to so much that I miss some silly spaces or letters or even capitals. My lesson is not to rush into things.


WEE BELIEVE MESSENGERS (ROOM 220) is our 2nd-5th grade Sunday School class.
Bible reading skills using computers, games, drama, and computers.
Messengers Fellowship is a fun & mission fellowship group for 2nd-5th graders. They meet the 2nd Sunday of each month following the fellowship luncheon.


Traditional methods of managing Disability, such as those used by insurers and large employers, have failed to stem the rising cost of Disability in the workplace.
North American employers currently spend between 5-10% of total payroll on direct Disability Expense or more than $1.5 million per 1,000 employees.
These expenditures have increased at an average rate of 10% per annum over the past 5 years and the trend is expected to continue. Over this same time period, the cost of medical services incurred by insurers has doubled.
That the cost of Disability is an unavoidable, uncontrollable cost of doing business.
That all is being done that can be done to reduce the cost of Disability.
WCTL and its clients continue to dispel these fallacies.


A brand new world is in the Test Realm. Avalon! Avalon is the silver city, a medieval fantasy world of knights, goblins, giants, and dragons. Merle Ambrose was born here, and gained a reputation as a fierce Wizard. Merle helped the young warrior-bear Artorius become king of Avalon. However, once King Artorius fell in the final battle slaying his archrival, Malory, Merle decided it was time to leave Avalon – Merle left to found Ravenwood School of Magical Arts and teach magic to any Wizard who wanted to learn it in the Spiral.
Avalon is a large world with 15 expansive areas to explore. Young Wizards who are a minimum of level 70 and have completed the quest "Through Glass, Darkly" need to speak to Merle Ambrose who will send you off on your adventures with a quest named "This Little Light of Mine".
The rest of the information on Avalon can be found on the Official Wizard Update notes Here.


text:
Q: animate list items left and right I have a little image slideshow with 8 picture, but only show 5 picture, the others are hidden.
This is the html

And the css:
#itemsListBox {
    position: absolute;
    top: 90px;
    width: 100%;
    padding: 0 10%;
    overflow: hidden;
}
#itemsListBox ul {
    white-space: nowrap;
    overflow: hidden;
}
#itemsListBox ul li{
    list-style-type: none;
    display: inline-block;
    width: 18%;
    margin: 1%;
}
#itemsListBox ul li img {
    width: 100%;
}

I can move the image with this code:
$("#rightArrow").click(function(e) {
        var curr =  $("#itemsListBox ul li:last");
        curr.parent().prepend(curr);
    });
$("#leftArrow").click(function(e) {
        var curr =  $("#itemsListBox ul li:first");
        curr.parent().append(curr);
    });

But i want to do this with something animation. Any idea?
Here is a live demo:
http://jsfiddle.net/Bergkamp/shnyH/

A: You Can Try something like :
Set your Image Position as relative in your css :
 img {position:relative;}

and Instead of append and prepend use animate function of Jquery to change the left position.
   $("img").animate({
    left: "-=150px",
  }, "slow" );

see Edited Example :
http://jsfiddle.net/z3PzC/

A: Here's an example of a slide down/slide up animation using your images : http://jsfiddle.net/Jag96/5VDTL/
The main hurdle here is that you are hiding a few images, only showing 5 at a time, so you need to animate on the first and 5th li element:
$("#itemsListBox ul li:nth-child(5)").slideUp("slow", function () {
    curr.hide().prependTo(curr.parent()).slideDown();
});

You can also use the jQuery .animate() method if you want more customization of your animations.

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text:
Jean-Jacques Rebière, né le  à Bègles, est un cycliste sur route ainsi qu'un cycliste sur piste français. Il a notamment participé aux Jeux olympiques en 1976 en poursuite par équipes et obtenu une médaille de bronze aux championnats du monde en 1978. Il a été six fois champion de France sur piste.

Il a en particulier été licencié au club du C.A Béglais. Son frère jumeau Jean-Marc Rebière a également été cycliste de haut-niveau, participant notamment aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1980.

Carrière
Aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1976, il termine  de la poursuite par équipes. Il était accompagné de Paul Bonno, Jean-Marcel Brouzes et de Pierre Trentin.

Palmarès
Il est médaille de bronze aux championnat du monde de course aux points masculin en 1978.
Il est également champion du monde de poursuite universitaire en 1978.

Piste
 1977
  Champion de France de poursuite amateurs
 1977
  Champion de France de la course aux points
  Champion de France de poursuite amateurs
 1978
  Champion de France de la course aux points`
  Champion de France de poursuite amateurs
  Champion de France de poursuite par équipes
   du championnat du monde de course aux points masculin

Route
 1979
  de Paris-Chalette-Vierzon
 1980
 Tour de Gironde

Références

Liens externes

Coureur cycliste aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1976
Coureur cycliste sur piste
Coureur cycliste français
Naissance en novembre 1952
Naissance à Bègles

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Joseph and Izia. Joseph is a Maasai but from a tribe called the Sambura, the last tribe to leave the forest. As you can see from what Joseph is wearing and carrying he was there to protect us from being eaten.


What Were You Doing WhenThey Killed the Oceans?
We baby-boomers ought to be ashamed. It is incomprehensible to me that any member of my generation (U.S. baby-boomers, b. 1945-1964) could look at these pictures and not feel that they have failed in one of their most fundamental human responsibilities. The picture above shows the catch off Key West, FL, in 1958, 1983, and 2007 The picture below shows the habitat of the tiger in 1850, 1950, and 2006. These pictures make it real to me, more than the statistics, charts, and graphs. It's really happening. Some of the damage was done while the boomers were kids, just because there were so many of them, but most of it was done after they matured and came to power, when those numbers could have been used to prevent further destruction.
How did this happen? We cannot plead ignorance. Plenty of people knew, and plenty were screaming about it by 1970. Rachel Carson's book The Silent Spring was published in 1962 and after that the reality was there to see for anyone who cared to see it. By 1970 what was going on was well-known; in that year the EPA was founded and the first Earth Day was celebrated. 1970 was big in popular culture too: Joni Mitchel's song "Big Yellow Taxi," with the lyric "Pave paradise and put up a parking lot" was published, and Neil Young's After the Goldrush was released, with its lyric, "Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970's." So people were aware and it looked like things might get better. By 1978 the horror caused by the toxic waste dump at Love Canal in NY was understood, along with other toxic waste sites that were literally poisoning American children, and in 1980 President Jimmy Carter signed legislation creating the Superfund program to clean up the worst of these sites. But also in 1980 the empire struck back and darkness fell on the land. Greed, selfishness, exploitation, materialism and irresponsibility came back into fashion. Consumption was glorified and "tree-huggers" were ridiculed. We went on a 30-year binge of gluttony and denial. During this time corporations increased their power until today their money runs America. Multinational corporations evolved to avoid supervision by any one national government. If the U.S. is no longer the world's largest polluter, it is because we have exported our dirty manufacturing to China, but U.S. corporations still profit and the Earth still suffers.
Where are we now, after the binge? Here are some of those statistics. As a result of deforestation 75-80% of the world's natural forests are already gone and the area of tropical rain forests has decreased by more than 50%, from 6 million square miles worldwide to only 2.4 million square miles. These forests are the lungs of the planet, inhaling and holding carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen. As a result of the warming of the oceans and their acidification from CO2 emissions, 25% of coral reefs are already destroyed and 70 percent are at risk by 2030. And get this, that 70% assumes "an ambitious mitigation scenario for greenhouse gases." Do you think that is likely? If we continue as we are, all of the coral reefs will die. The coral reefs serve as nurseries for marine life (in addition to being beautiful). There is a problem with fresh water also: the Ogallala aquifer is sinking a foot per year, and has for the last 50 years—already some areas that pumped that water can do so no longer. That is the aquifer under the fertile farmlands of the Great Plains. Additionally, the Colorado River, which carved the Grand Canyon, no longer even makes it all the way to the sea. Finally, it is pretty much a done deal that all of the large animals will be extinct in the wild within a few decades. Elephants, all of the big cats, all of our cousins the great apes. Enough. Are we really going to leave our grandchildren a desert planet, with no forests or coral reefs, and no free animals?
It seems hopeless. On the other hand, the baby boomers still have their numbers, and now they have 40 years of knowledge, experience, and skills. Plus, they don't have to go to work for 8-10 hours per day. Many of us will have 10, 20, or even 30 years of activity left. What are we going to do with that time that would have more value than working to redeem the damage that has been done during our lifetimes? Will we show the courage, wisdom, vision, and leadership that is expected of the elders of a tribe? The politicians will not do it. The corporations will not do it. It will not be done unless we do it. One person in that situation, bright, educated, committed, retired, can do a significant amount to pursue justice and alleviate suffering. I know that because I have an old friend who does, and she gives me hope. What could 3 or 4, or 500,000 do? Seventy-six million children were born in the U.S. between 1945 and 1964.


Jules Evans is a freelance journalist and writer, who covers two main areas: philosophy and psychology (for publications including The Times, Psychologies, New Statesman and his website, Philosophy for Life), and emerging markets (for publications including The Spectator, Economist, Times, Euromoney and Financial News).
This is a piece I wrote 11 years ago for this crappy financial magazine I used to work for. The piece is good though. It's about Bruce Jackson, an American spy-banker-arms-dealer-policy-wonk, who helped lobby for the eastern expansion of NATO in the 90s and Noughties. I thought I'd post it here considering this week's NATO conference on further eastern expansion and Russia's response. The piece was written in 2003, in the middle of the second war in Iraq.
IT WAS THE deal of the year in central and eastern Europe – not a sovereign Eurobond, a corporate high-yield issue or an IPO, but a transaction that emerged from the heart of the military-industry complex. It was the biggest debt financing of the year – a $5.5 billion off-balance-sheet deal arranged by JPMorgan and guaranteed by the US government. You haven't read about it, because it was to finance Poland's acquisition of 48 F-16 military aircraft from Lockheed Martin.
Every other eastern European country that has either recently joined or is waiting to join the Nato military alliance also supports the US campaign in Iraq, leading US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld to praise the birth of "new Europe" and French president Jacques Chirac to tell these countries to shut up.
The figure at the centre of all these events is someone you probably haven't heard of, but who wields extraordinary political influence in the region – Bruce Jackson. He is a Washington neo-conservative, a member of the Project for the New American Century, and friend and colleague of other prominent neo-conservatives such as deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Gary Schmitt, executive director of the Project for the New American Century.
A former investment banker, he's also president of a private NGO called the US Committee on Nato, one of the most influential in eastern Europe. He has also headed a neo-conservative think-tank called the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. And he's a former vice-president at Lockheed. Is he the military-industrial complex conspiracy figure par excellence?
Jackson, through his work for the NGO, has done more that anyone else to get eastern European countries into Nato. First, he lobbied hard in Washington to get the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland invited in 1999. He advised the heads of these states on how to reform their military forces and civil societies so as to get the invitation, and testified in their support to the US Senate committee on foreign affairs.
In the past two years, he has been equally active in getting most of the other eastern European countries invited to Nato. He has travelled relentlessly, meeting heads of state and foreign ministers in every eastern European country, advising them on how to reform, and helping, this year, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to get invitations to join Nato.
I feel for 'the sweaty man in the third row'. We'll all been there.
Has neo-liberalism fatally undermined the idea of global governance?
"They decided without us. Let us advance without them," reads the slogan on the website of Syriza, the leftwing Greek party that shot to prominence after elections this month. But what emerges as one reads on is less a clear strategy for the country's future than a worldview suffused with the images and memories of its turbulent past. Here, the fight against today's perceived enemy – neoliberalism – evokes the struggle against the military junta 40 years ago, and the resistance to Nazi occupation during the second world war…Alexis Tsipras, Syriza's leader, is too young to remember this: he was born just as the junta fell, in the summer of 1974. However, his party's language reminds us that the eurozone crisis is raising some deep historical questions about what has happened to politics, to democracy and to the very idea of international co-operation.
It was in Europe, two centuries ago, where the idea emerged that the world was a governable place. This idea was radically new: the term "international" itself was coined by British philosopher Jeremy Bentham and only entered general circulation in the decades after Napoleon's defeat. Although nationalism was emerging as a potent force at this time, the supporters of international co-operation were not alarmed. On the contrary, they believed that nationalism and internationalism were soul mates, that a continent of vibrant national democracies necessitated co-operation among its diverse people. Novelist Victor Hugo conjured up the vision of a federal Europe to a wildly cheering audience of peace activists in Paris in 1849; the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini inspired US president Woodrow Wilson with his idea of a society of democratic nations.
If Wilson's ill-fated League of Nations was one outcome of such views, other internationalists fought equally hard for free trade, or for communism. But the second world war saw anti-fascists in Europe return to the idea of federation for the continent as an antidote both to the bellicose nationalism of Hitler and Mussolini, and to the hopeless high-mindedness of the League. They believed that without integration, Europeans would continue to fight indefinitely; with it, the nation could be tamed and the needs of the weakest members of society guaranteed.
The origins of the EU thus reflect the persistence of the old idea that international co-operation is the best guarantee of national well-being. US support for European integration was premised on the belief not only that it would boost growth and keep communism at bay but that it would revive democracy itself. The early decades of the common market coincided not only with unprecedented productivity gains and growth across western Europe, but simultaneously with significant falls in inequality and enhanced spending on social services and welfare.
That achievement seems to belong to an almost neolithic past. The past 25 years have seen many of those gains reversed and have thrown into question the notion that national sovereignty and international co-operation are complementary. The architects of this reversal were not philosophers such as Bentham or revolutionaries such as Mazzini but sober technocrats such as Paul Volcker and the IMF's Michel Camdessus. Managers of the global monetary system after the oil shocks of the 1970s, they believed that international prosperity and stability depended upon the liberalisation of capital movements. Europe's enthusiastic participation in this financialisation of the global economy has had striking if largely unintended consequences.
All international organisations require their members to give up some sovereignty in exchange for the benefits of joining the group. But in earlier times, this choice did not entail anything close to the kinds of sacrifices that are required today. Legislatures within the EU, and especially within the eurozone, are now obliged to cede discretionary power to unelected central bankers, judges, bureaucrats and industry regulators. One does not have to be a supporter of Syriza to see how this allows established political parties in difficult times to be turned into stooges of shadowy special interests.
So what is at stake in the eurozone crisis goes beyond the consequences of a Greek exit and beyond even the future of the EU itself. The crisis has thrown into question the very idea that the world can be governed.
The Vickys: can you be paternalist without being patronising?
Two news stories caught my eye this weekend. Firstly, the British government wants to launch a voucher scheme so every parent can take parenting classes from a range of providers. One of them is called the Parenting Gym, and is owned by Octavius Black, the millionaire school-chum of David Cameron's, who made his fortune through Mind Gym, a corporate well-being consultancy.
How does the power of good character transform and shape the future of society? What would be the wider social, cultural and moral impact of a more grateful Britain? What personal virtues should ground public service? How can fostering character traits like hope and optimism be help working towards a better British society? The Centre will initiate a national consultation on a proposed curriculum policy for character building in schools, and will run a 10-year project at Birmingham called 'Gratitude Britain'.
These are the two latest trumpet-blasts from a movement which has been dubbed the New Paternalism. The phrase originally appeared from Nudge psychologists like Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, who call their nudge policy interventions 'libertarian paternalism'. They want to nudge people in pro-social directions without them realising it (hence it's 'libertarian' – because the citizens are so dumb they don't realise they're being guided).
But there are other New Paternalists who are much bolder. They want to instil good values in the citizenry, create good habits, foster good character. They are similar to Victorian paternalists like Matthew Arnold, but they take his lofty Hellenic philosophy and try to put it on a firm evidence base, to create a science of resilience, optimism and other 'character strengths'.
I call this movement the Vickys, after the tribe in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. It's a steam-punk novel about a future society that has fragmented into a collection of tribes or 'phyles', each with their own culture and moral code – including a Nation of Islam tribe, a neo-Confucian tribe, and the Vickys, who are cyber-engineers and who follow Victorian customs. Basically, success in this society is all about what phyle has accepted you. Your character depends on your moral culture. The book tells the story of how the leader of the Vickys hires a nano-engineer to code an interactive 'gentleman's primer' to cultivate the character of his niece – except it gets stolen and discovered by a street orphan, who subsequently rises to the top of her society.
The Vickys include Martin Seligman and the Positive Psychologists, who have got enormous backing from Templeton for their research into character strengths and resilience training, and who launched a $125 million course in resilience-training for the US Army. Like Stephenson's Vickys, they want to create a computer-automated course in moral education – an app for character. The Vickys also include include self-control psychologists like Roy Baumeister, and champions of 'social and moral capital' like Jonathan Haidt and Robert Puttnam.
In the UK, the Vickys include Wellington headmaster Anthony Seldon and his new colleague, the young former policy advisor James O'Shaughnessy, who has gone back to Wellington to set up a chain of Wellington academies; Matthew Taylor of the RSA; Matthew Grist and Jen Lexmond of Demos; the Young Foundation; David Goodhart of Prospect Magazine; Danny Kruger, another former Tory advisor who now runs a charity for former prison inmates; Lord Richard Layard of the LSE; and, more speculatively, Alain de Botton, whose more recent writings have called for a shift beyond liberalism and back to a more interventionist paternalism.
Character, and specifically its neglect, is the number one issue of our age. A society that is not grounded in deep values, that doesn't know who its heroes are and that lacks a commitment to the common good, is one that is failing. Such we have become… The riots in British cities in August 2011 were the catalyst for the creation [of the new Jubilee Centre for Character and Values]. As the fires subsided, a call was heard across the nation for a renewed emphasis on communal values and ethical teaching, which would discourage such events happening again. It is an indictment of us all that such a centre should ever need to have been established…The development of a sense of gratitude among people in Britain will be at the heart of the work. The character strengths it will advocate are self-restraint, hard work, resilience, optimism, courage, generosity, modesty, empathy, kindness and good manners. Old-fashioned values, maybe. Some will sneer, and ridicule them as middle class or "public school". But these are eternal values, as advocated by Aristotle and countless thinkers since.
I am interested in this movement, and attracted to some aspects of it. My new book is about the contemporary fusion of virtue ethics with empirical psychology, and how this new fusion is being spread by public policy in schools, the army and beyond to foster character, resilience, eudaimonia and other such ideals. I got into the scene when Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helped me overcome depression in my early 20s, and I then found out how much CBT owed to ancient Greek philosophy. I'm a huge fan of Greek philosophy and its practical therapeutic use today, so a part of me loves the renaissance of virtue ethics in modern policy.
The UN Happiness Conference last week looks to have been a fascinating event. The Prime Minister of Bhutan sent me a giant Willy Wonka-esque invitation, for which I'm grateful, but wouldn't pay my air-fare, for which I'm lingeringly resentful (not really). Anyway, I didn't go, but have spent this morning reading through some of the material that came out of it.
The main event was the publication of The World Happiness Report, edited by Jeffrey Sachs, Richard Layard and John Helliwell. Interesting that Sachs, once a champion of 'shock therapy' and the neo-liberal Washington Consensus, should have climbed on-board the happy train.
In fact, Sachs seems to be making a bid to be the train-driver – he wrote the intro to the report, which seems odd, seeing as he's quite a recent convert to well-being economics, while Layard's been banging on about it for over a decade. Anyway, Sachs (who says he's an Aristotelian) has clearly reigned in Layard's ultra-utilitarianism. There are five or so references to Aristotle and the Stoics in the report, many more to the Buddha, and not one to Layard's beloved Jeremy Bentham. Sachs opines loftily in the introduction that western economists' pursuit of GDP is "completely at variance with the wisdom of the sages". Oh really Jeff? Do we need shock cognitive therapy?
Despite Sachs' attempt to put himself forward as the global guru of love, the conference really marks another huge success for Richard Layard, who to my mind is by far the most influential British intellectual today – partly because of his success in British mental health policy and the spread of CBT, but also because of the global influence of the happiness agenda he has pushed.
A mafia traitor was beaten to death with a hammer and then eaten by Serbian gangsters, police believe. Officers said Milan Jurisic, 37, was killed in Madrid by criminals from the Zemun Clan, a mafia group from Belgrade.His remains were then ground up with a meat grinder, cooked, and eaten, according to a confession by another Zemun Clan member, Sretko Kalinic, nicknamed "The Butcher". Later the gang reportedly threw the bones into the River Manzanares in the Spanish capital.This week, police found bones in the river and the apartment where the killing apparently took place in 2009. Jurisic is thought to have betrayed his fellow gang members by stealing money from them. He was on the run after being convicted in his absence of assassinating Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic in 2003. Kalinic confessed to the murder after he was arrested in the Croatian capital of Zagreb in 2010. Police believe the murder and subsequent cannibalism was led by Luka Bojovic, a Serbian gangster arrested in Valencia last month.
Messed UP. Still, you hang around with a gangster nick-named 'the Butcher', what do you expect? All I can say is I'm really glad I'm not a Serbian gangster. I don't have the stomach for it.


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11 May 2018, 11:57 am CET
Manuel Mathieu Kavi Gupta / Chicago
Installation view of Nobody is Watching by Manuel Mathieu. Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta.
In what is the artist's stateside debut, staged at Kavi Gupta, painter Manuel Mathieu presents a new body of work that expands upon his ongoing multilayered research into trauma and memory, and by extension solitude and vulnerability. These poignant and emotionally confrontational paintings leave a piercing impression.
The exhibition, titled "Nobody is Watching," comprises seven large-scale paintings and a triptych of three smaller drawings that subtly balance the line between figure and abstraction. They recall the work of the late Francis Bacon, from whom Mathieu draws influence. Forms resembling the human figure seemingly suffer in isolation (Selfish Thinking, 2017) or in dark, ominous compositions (Study on Vulnerability, 2018). These paintings are the product of a labor-intensive process known as frottage, in which paint is first applied to the canvas before the artist methodically alternates between scraping off existing layers and adding fresh coats.
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1986, Mathieu is naturally influenced by his home country's complicated political and social history. Thus, while the show at Kavi Gupta does not explicitly focus on Haiti itself, one can sense how the intense environment in which Mathieu grew up manifests itself in his work: the acutely human experiences of memory and trauma, and the raw vulnerability inherent within them.
The delicate subtext is intensified by the artist's brush with death when struck by a speeding motorbike while studying in London at the Goldsmiths MFA program (from which he graduated in 2016). The accident severely impacted Mathieu's memory, leading to a four-month hiatus from painting while in recovery, providing ample time for contemplation preceding his comeback.
"Nobody is Watching" refers to this period of introspection and recuperation in which Mathieu felt isolated amid his own thoughts. As such, the exhibition is a highly personal meditation upon the concepts of trauma and memory, which ultimately translates into a cathartic exercise in self-reflection. Because the questions raised in his practice are so intimate, ingesting the works is a highly affective undertaking in which images linger in one's memory long after exiting the gallery space.
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As I am currently evaluating the three bigger cloud providers (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform) I came up with the idea to test how easy it would be to get Docker running on those providers. In this tutorial I deal with Amazon "AWS", as I like them most out of the three mentioned.
On 23th of April 2014, Amazon added Docker support for their AWS Elastic Beanstalk, but this time, we will just focus on the EC2, not only due to cost issues.
The idea is to stay with the servers that are available at no charge (The so called "free tier", which can run 24/7 for free within the first year). Of course, you can go for any other server instance as you like and need.
First we will set-up a small server instance on the EC2 service, followed by the docker set-up and the deployment of one example docker container.
Choose EC2 – the virtual servers in the Cloud on the Web Services Overview.
On the next screen, we are going to create a new instance via "Launch instance".
You may choose any of the images presented there, but I will go for the Ubuntu Server 14.04 with LTS. Press "Select" here.
On the next screen, you can get an overview of the available instances. They are categorized in instance families, like "computing optimized" or "memory optimized". Just choose which one you need for your Docker host. In my case I went for the free tier eligible micro instance "t1.micro" that is powerful enough to test web servers or even a non-powerful Tomcat instance. To configure in detail, just take the "Next: Configure Instance Details" button here.
In the next screen, we just select the "Protect against accidental termination". You may also create a new subnet here, or choose one already existing, so your machines may communicate with each other through an internal network and not through the Internet.
At the storage page, you can add up to30GB taken from your general purpose SSD to the machine. – Just remove the "delete on termination", to persist the machine, even after termination. In this case, I added 10GB of space here. Be aware, that these 10 GB actually means that you have 30 IOPS. Those are the maximum input-output operations per second and they scale with the size of your disc. So this will be enough for a small webserver, but of course not for an production system.
I left the tagging of the instance out. You can add some tags with values here, but they are not needed in this case of setting up a Docker server.
Step 6 – "Configure Security Group" will need our attention. What I do here is to configure the ports 80 and 443 (for HTTP and HTTPS) to the outer world, and all other traffic only to my specific IP. This can of course be changed later on. Depending on the desired purpose you can add other specific ports here or setting a tougher security policy. I will for instance log in to the AWS console and change the security rule to my current IP address as often I need it. So, feel free to set it up as you need it and keep this settings in mind when launching Docker containers later on.
After that you will see a summary, where you are able to launch your new configured instance. Just check, that everything was configured the right way and press "Launch" in the lower right corner.
You will be asked about the way you would like to connect to your machine. If this is the first time, setting a machine up, you have to choose "Create a new Key Pair" here. Give it a speaking name and download the key pair to your computer to a save place and make a backup of them. You will need it every time to connect to your server instance. In my case, the key file is named MyDockerInstance.pem. I have those files stored in a encrypted container file created by Truecrypt. You might secure this file.
After pressing "Launch instances", open your Current running instances. You will see your currently set-up instance initializing.
In the table above, you will also find the currently assigned public IP through which we can connect to the machine, when the instance state is switching to "running".
To connect to the just created virtual machine we will utilize Putty. Depending on your operating system you might have to choose another method. As I am currently working under Windows, I went for this way. Just search for "ssh connection pem <your operating system>" to find a proper way to connect via SSH to the machine.
When installing Putty, also install Putty Key Generator, as this software is needed to import the OpenSSH SSH-2 private key and save it as a private key, so Putty can use this newly created connection file for the connection.
In the next step, we will save the connection to Putty. First, open Putty and open Data under the Connection settings. Add "ubuntu" as a user name here (only valid, when you have choosen Ubuntu as your template for the machine creation).
Now switch to the session settings and enter add your public IP address and save the session for later use.
In the following screen, enter your passphrase and press Enter. You are now connected to your virtual Ubuntu server running on Amazons EC2 service.
After the installation and first login to our newly created server it is the time to get Docker running. First, we update the sources, followed by installing the docker.io package.
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 63 not upgraded.
Need to get 7,096 kB of archives.
After this operation, 44.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
The next and last step will run /bin/bash terminal inside of a standard Ubuntu image. As the image wasn´t downloaded so far, it will be pulled from the repository. When this process is finished, we will directly connect to the newly created docker instance as root. To leave the instance later on, just type "exit" on the command line and you will be back to your host system.
To set up a nginx web server on docker, you might create a Dockerfile by your own or (in first stage) rely on other people who already did this process for you. In this tutorial, I simple run a docker container from the user "orchardup". You can find additional information on the docker-nginx github page.
remote: Reusing existing pack: 19, done.
Unpacking objects: 100% (19/19), done.
Second, we will build the container from the newly created Dockerfile in the sub-folder "docker-nginx".
ubuntu@ip-172-31-18-33:/data/docker-nginx$ sudo docker build -t nginx-test .
Step 1 : MAINTAINER Ben Firshman "ben@orchardup.com"
To change this, we will slightly change the Dockerfile and run the build process again.
The following command will add a additional "RUN" command to the Dockerfile. This command will add a file in the web server root directory and fill this file with content.
So we are stopping the currently running container, rebuild it and than run it again in the next steps. The following command unhides the container ID, so we can stop the container after that.
Now we are going to rebuild the container, just as before. You will recognize, that the container is created from cache with very low latency. It will be available almost instantly.
With curl, we test that the web server is serving our new page.
Im conclusion to this tutorial, we set-up a micro server instance on Amazon EC2 service and installed Docker.io there. In addition we launched an simple nginx web server, serving a static html file.


This month's Trivia consists of two parts; First, identify the photographs, Second answer the questions.
Can you name the subject of the two photographs?
How many of the answers do you know?
Where is the Ramaquabane River?
Where/were are the Waremba Tribe located?
What was the subject of The Packard Report & what year was it?
What was the Tati Concession?
How did Providential Pass get its name?
What is the significance of the Tuli Circle?
What was the best beer in the land?
The winners of this months Trivia will get a copy of our DVD Land of Legend.
The Photos are of the Masked Weaver Bird and Bulawayo.
Concession granted by Lobengula in 1880 for the Tati Goldfields.
Selous considered the discovery of the Pass to be Providential as it allowed the Pioneer Column to leave the Lowveld.
A number of explanations; an area demarcated to prevent cattle infection. Rhodes's Hunting Preserve and more. The general agreement being to present cattle infection.
Without a doubt - Lion Lager !!
Next month we will try to make it easier.
Get more information about Rhodesia fromThe Encyclopaedia Rhodesia or From Avondale to Zimbabwe, both available from us.
Watch out for next month's Trivia.
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Q: REACT: Stale state in functions but not markup I have a useEffect like this in my React Component:
useEffect(() => {
    async function init() {
      const result = await getCountries();
      const segmentRes = await getSegments();
      setCountries(result);
      setSegments(segmentRes);
      setShowSegments(segmentRes.length > 0);
      setDisableTeacherSignup(!(await doesTeacherCodeExist(teacherCode)));
    }
    init();
  }, [teacherCode]);

teacherCode is set like this when the page first renders: const teacherCode = paramQuery.get('code');
setSegments updates the state variable segments. The function is being executed correctly and the updated segments variable is reflected in the markup here (this is how I know the state is being updated when I would like it to):
<select id="teachingSpace" ref={segmentSelect} name="segmentId" onChange={toggleSchoolBoardVisibility} required>
    <option value="" disabled selected hidden>Choose...</option>
       { segments.map((x) => (
          <option value={x.segmentId}>{x.name}</option>
      )) }
</select>

However in the functions that use this segments variable and are called after the useEffect, segments is still the default value (unpopulated). The following is an example of a function that should use the updated segments variable, but uses the default instead.
const toggleSchoolBoardVisibility = () => {
    console.log(segments)
    if (segmentSelect.current.value === 'DEV') { // To Do: Remove hardcoded val
      setShowSchoolBoardInput(false);
    } else {
      setShowSchoolBoardInput(true);
    }
  };

EDIT:
This is how the variables being used are defined:
export default function SignupTeacher() {
  const teacherCode = paramQuery.get('code');
  const [segments, setSegments] = useState([]);
....

EDIT:
The file contains around 30 state variables. Could that be a reason that stale vars are being used?


Citicoline is a basic nootropic that experts refer to as the brain booster. It works both as a medicine and a dietary supplement!
The drug was previously seen as a substance that reduces the risk of stroke and helps these patients recover in the aftermath. How can this be possible?
Medical science is all about clinical tests and research. It is very common for researchers to find new elements and benefits of a known substance after years of its use. This is exactly what happened with citicoline.
Initially, the Japanese originators saw the supplement as a way to inhibit the brain-numbing effects of a stroke. Moreover, medicinal practitioners saw that the drug also works as prevention for future strokes.
It was upon further research that the medical world found the amazing mind-enhancing benefits of the substance. Over the years it gained its popularity as a smart pill that you can take orally via supplements or through injections.
Furthermore, citicoline has also been a steady feature in the medicinal practice of stacking drugs. It works as a base supplement that neutralizes the negative effects of the other potent substances.
As a whole, the supplement works as an efficient caretaker of the brain. This is because it works as a protector, enhancer, and regulator of the brain and all its cognitive functions.
Citicoline occasionally called CDP-Choline is a derivative of choline. The citicoline supplements are primarily taken to prevent choline deficiency in the body.
Choline is one of the newly discovered essential nutrients in the body. It is interesting to note that the liver secretes the water-soluble nutrient but it mainly works for the superior organ-the brain.
The problem is that it is low in secretion and high in demand. Due to this, medicinal practitioners advise people to eat a choline-rich diet or take synthetic dietary supplements. This helps maintain the choline levels in the body.
While choline-rich foods like eggs, green vegetables, fish and dairy products do spike up the choline levels they are not sufficient enough to unleash the brain-boosting potential of this substance.
Therefore, if you are looking for choline sources in order to enhance your cognition functions and learning skill. Then you should take citicoline supplements in your diet.
The additional benefit of taking citicoline is that it is highly soluble, more so than other choline sources like choline bitartrate. This means that it will cross the blood-brain barrier faster than its rival. This helps the brain to absorb the substance easily. It also makes the drug more effective than the others.
It helps in promoting focus, memory, and mental clarity.
Acetylcholine neurotransmitter levels increase due to citicoline.
It works efficiently to improve the health of the brain cells and the communication between them.
The Mechanism: How Does Citicoline Work?
Citicoline is one of the basic nootropics found in nature. The majority uses it as a dietary supplement to increase the amount of choline that is present in the body.
The activation of acetylcholine helps in motor speed. This is because acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter that transports the signals in the automatic nervous system. It makes sure that our brain receives all the signals our body is sending. As a result, our body functions properly.
Without acetylcholine, your hand will not move when it touches something hot like candle wax. This failure to respond properly can cause a lot of problems through external factors to the body.
The rest of the choline triggers the production of the protective phosphatidylcholine. This substance helps to develop a stronger cerebral cell membrane. It works as a security checker that prevents the harmful substances to cross the blood-brain barrier.
Additionally, citicoline is a known source of boosting dopamine levels in the brain. As a result, the brain feels less stressed out. It is able to calmly perform all its cognitive functions without interfering anxious nerves.
How does citicoline help on your body?
The reactions stirred up by citicoline have a brain-boosting effect on your body.
Why Do People Take Citicoline? How Does It Help?
We have been going on and on about the way the 'what' and 'which' and 'whys'. Now let us talk about the most important question- How does this drug help you?
Medical practitioners classify the supplement as a neuroprotector. This means that the substance helps to protect and repair any form of brain damage.
Furthermore, it is the precursor of phosphatidylcholine which is an important component in the cerebral cell membrane. It guards the blood-brain barrier and prevents toxins or other harmful chemicals from entering the brain.
Citicoline is a naturally occurring nootropic present inside the body. Apart from protecting the brain it also keeps it running. Experts say that citicoline is has a good effect on the cognitive functions of the brain.
Our brain needs a constant supply of glucose and oxygen. Without the required amount brain activity tends to slow down and result in a brain fog. Fortunately, citicoline is just the product you need to clear the fog in your hazy brain. It does this by improving the cerebral blood circulation.
The blood delivers the oxygen and glucose needed by the drained out brain. Hence, it boosts up the brain energy levels. This results in higher brain activity and a very alert mind.
All these benefits show that citicoline is worth giving a shot!
It doesn't just help our learning skills it also maintains our brain function in the long run. Not only that, it guarantees us that it will keep our memory intact for the future and decrease the risk of memory loss or strokes.
The Dose: How Much citicoline Is Enough?
Citicoline is a safe product. The substance is tolerable and low in toxicity that has minor side effects. However, you may think it isn't working out for you if you do not take the proper dose.
The reason we have a "recommended dosage level of citicoline" is because people tend to overdose or under-dose themselves. Then they complain that the supplement is not working on them or how we have been lying about the product's effectiveness.
Do not be this person. Follow the prescribed dosage according to doctor's orders.
Six Nominal Side Effects of Citicoline: Is It Safe?
It is only natural to ask about the product's safety and precautions when you try something new. In citicoline's case, we assure you that it is safe and legal to consume. However, as every person has a different tolerance level to substances, you might face a few side effects after taking the drug.
Like many off-the- counter supplements, citicoline may have a few mild side effects. However, this is nothing to worry about; these side effects can be easily controlled. To ensure that you do not face an adverse reaction try starting the supplement cycle by taking small dosage first to test the waters.
Is Citicoline Legal in US?
Citicoline is legal in the U.S. It is widely sold as a dietary supplement. These supplements are mainly in use by medicinal practitioners handling the cases of patients suffering from chronic cerebrovascular diseases or those caused by brain degeneration in old age (Alzheimer's, dementia and Parkinson's).
Additionally, the supplement is perfectly safe for consumption by young adults and those over 30.
That's it. This is all you needed to know about citicoline and its wonderful nootropic that protects the brain and keeps it healthy.
Are you ready to give it a chance?
Citicoline User Review: What Do User's Say?
We have rambled on and on about the benefits of Citicoline. However, you may not believe us for the facts and information that we have imparted above.
This is why we gathered a bunch of users that have actually seen an improvement in their memory and other cognitive activities. Their reviews will assure you that this supplement actually works.
Final Thoughts on Citicoline: What Is the Take-Away Home Message?
In the end, you have heard all the benefits and we have shared some user reviews with you. It is safe to say that this nootropic does everything it should enhance your cognitive skills and shield you from the side effects of aging.
Who should use this Citicoline drug?
The short answer would be anyone who wants to have efficient cognitive skills.
However, we have narrowed the list down to categorize some common issues that the nootropics help to alleviate.
Then you must give Citicoline supplement a try!
We guarantee that taking these the citicoline supplements will support your cognitive functions and remove all the hurdles that have restrained your brain activity.
Apart from this, healthy people can also use this drug as it is not just necessary for people who suffer from some kind of brain disorders. We say this because this brain booster actively stimulates your natural choline levels that help keep your brain healthy.
Additionally, as we mentioned earlier the pills are highly effective in protecting your brain for any future loss. We believe that precaution is better and most of the time safer than the cure.
That's it. This is all you needed to know about citicoline and the wonderful nootropic benefits that protect the brain and keeps it healthy.
If yes, then we advise you to stick to a healthy dosage and do not go overboard due to marked improvement.
Investigation of the dose-dependency of citicoline effects on nerve regeneration and functional recovery in a rat model of sciatic nerve injury.
CDP-choline and its endogenous metabolites, cytidine and choline, promote the nerve regeneration and improve the functional recovery of injured rat sciatic nerves.
Role of central arginine vasopressin receptors in the analgesic effect of CDP-choline on acute and neuropathic pain.
Long-term treatment with citicoline may improve poststroke vascular cognitive impairment.
Intraperitoneal administration of CDP-choline or a combination of cytidine plus choline improves nerve regeneration and functional recovery in a rat model of sciatic nerve injury.
The effects of citicoline on acute ischemic stroke: a review.
The antihyperalgesic effect of cytidine-5′-diphosphate-choline in neuropathic and inflammatory pain models.
Neuroprotective effects of citicoline in in vitro models of retinal neurodegeneration.
Citicoline in addictive disorders: a review of the literature.
Citicoline (CDP-choline) protects myocardium from ischemia/reperfusion injury via inhibiting mitochondrial permeability transition.
Citicoline (CDP-choline) increases Sirtuin1 expression concomitant to neuroprotection in experimental stroke.
Cytidine diphosphate choline improves the outcome of cardiac arrest vs epinephrine in rat model.
Neuroprotective properties of citicoline: facts, doubts and unresolved issues.


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Q: TIBCO BW 5 create custom java function for all projects I can create a custom java function by adding a custom java function activity and loading my class into it.
I would like to create a custom java function for all my projects so I don't need to repeat the same thing with every project.
Is it possible to do such thing ?
Thanks in advance !

A: I think the best approach to do this is to include your custom function in a DTL and use the DTL across your projects.


I desire to save your nation from destruction and I will do so, if you children help Me in this. So pray to your Mother Help of Christians, to your Mother of Divine Mercy, and to your Queen for the Salvation and help for your nation and for the imminent enthronement of My Son in your Homeland. (…) Time is running out and I also can not wait any longer, and I do not have gifts to give satisfaction to My Son who is aching from your sins. (…) Do not lose hope and faith in this mission, and you will see how great sings I will make for the Salvation of Poles.
Mother of God: I do not have time to be angry. I have children to save. I want a pilgrimage to be organized to My holy Wykrot, where I have appeared and left streams of graces for you, which no one uses.
But you, My children, pray and beg Me for this in this nightly pilgrimage, which I hereby establish and bless this work. Children, come to Me and I will give streams of graces of your Savior, whom, I, His mother, He mandated to advocate for you.
The Lord has for you, for you Poland, graces and Salvation. (…) Let not anyone dare to stand in the way of My resolutions and graces.
This is the last resort for you, because I chose this land as the place of My Glory and the Glory of My Son. (…) tell them, let them know why I came here. I came to win, and who wants to help Me with this victory, let him follow you in this pilgrimage, because through prayer you will obtain great graces for the world.
Lord Jesus: (…) pray much because you are not many, but if I find My righteous ones, I will spare you all for those few faithful. (…) Since I have a few of you, you must make satisfaction to Me for your people. You must be more sacrificial and suffer for Poland.
Lord Jesus: (…) pray, but I am telling you that there are places on earth so deeply wounded that they do not want to hear to My plea. If in Poland your resistance is so strong, what can I say about Germany, where money and luxuries rule since a long time. You children have My Mother for defense; they have nothing.
(…) I have given them many prophets, I have cultivated as I could this tribe, but what have they done with this grace? How many criminals have they raised upon My sacrifice?
(…) I spilled My Blood on this land through the wounds of My devoted servants in order to sanctify it. They did not convert. I gave them so many signs… they did not convert.
(…) do you see daughter how much effort I put into this, to convert these children? Do you see how much grace I give them? Who will better speak to them, if not their own Peter, arisen from their own flesh and blood? They do not listen to him, they do not respect him. He is loved much more in Poland than in his homeland.
Listen and write. I did not tell you that there is no hope for this nation, because I would not be giving My grace for perdition, but know that the fate of this nation is in the hands of the little ones. So pray children for Poland, but also for the whole world.


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Q: How can I do update method based on condition? I'm working on a Django project and I want to proceed to update method based on condition - if value of requeststatusid = 0 only. I've tried adding errorhandling in my serializers, but no matter the value is, it throws the error. Appreciate any help!
Here is my serializer with create and update method. See my if/else condition in update.
class RequestCreateSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
        parts=PartSerializer(many=True)
        class Meta:
            model = requestTable
            fields = ['rid','requestid', 'requeststatusid', 'requesterid', 'requestname', 'parts']
            parts = serializers.SerializerMethodField()

        def create(self, validated_data):
            parts_data = validated_data.pop('parts')
            request = requestTable.objects.create(**validated_data)
            for part_data in parts_data:
                partsTable.objects.create(request=request, **part_data)
            return request

        def update(self, instance, validated_data):

            if instance.requeststatusid == '0':
                parts_data = validated_data.pop('parts')
                part = (instance.parts).all()
                part = list(part)
                instance.requeststatusid = validated_data.get('requeststatusid', instance.requeststatusid)
                instance.requestname = validated_data.get('requestname', instance.requestname)
                instance.save()

                for part_data in parts_data:
                    partreq = part.pop()
                    partreq.validatorid = part_data.get('validatorid', partreq.validatorid)
                    partreq.partsstatusid = part_data.get('partsstatusid', partreq.partsstatusid)
                    partreq.englishmaterialdescription = part_data.get('englishmaterialdescription', partreq.englishmaterialdescription)
                    partreq.save()
                return instance

            else:
                raise ValidationError({"Error": 'Non-drafts are non-editable.'})

    //views.py
    class RequestListCreateView(ListCreateAPIView):
        queryset = requestTable.objects.all()
        serializer_class = RequestCreateSerializer
        filterset_class = RequestFilter
        filter_backends = [DjangoFilterBackend, SearchFilter]

        filterset_fields=['rid', 'requeststatusid']
        search_fields= ['requestname', 'requestid', 'businessunitid__businessunitname', 'plantid__plantname', 'parts__partsid']

        def create(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
            write_serializer = RequestCreateSerializer(data=request.data)
            write_serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)
            instance = self.perform_create(write_serializer)
            headers = self.get_success_headers(write_serializer.data)
            return Response({"Request ID": write_serializer.instance.requestid, "Parts ID": [p.partsid for p in write_serializer.instance.parts.all()]},headers=headers)

        def get_queryset(self):
             return requestTable.objects.exclude(requeststatusid='0').exclude(requeststatusid='4')

Here is a sample data:
{
        "rid": 4,
        "requestid": "ABC0000004",
        "requeststatusid": 0,
        "requestname": "Draft",
        "projectmanager": "Manager"
        "parts": [
            {
                "pid": 7,
                "partsid": "ABC0000007",
                "validatorid": "bcdd5f90-8e4a-4306-b2fe-1ea3218ee430",
                "partsstatusid": 0,
                "englishmaterialdescription": "Prefilter element FRP-95-115",
            }
        ]
    }

Traceback
Internal Server Error: /api/putRequest/request/4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\exception.py", line 55, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 197, in _get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\django\views\decorators\csrf.py", line 54, in wrapped_view
    return view_func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\base.py", line 103, in view
    return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\views.py", line 509, in dispatch
    response = self.handle_exception(exc)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\views.py", line 469, in handle_exception
    self.raise_uncaught_exception(exc)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\views.py", line 480, in raise_uncaught_exception
    raise exc
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\views.py", line 506, in dispatch
    response = handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\generics.py", line 285, in put
    return self.update(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\user\project\api\views.py", line 55, in update
    response = super().update(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\mixins.py", line 68, in update
    self.perform_update(serializer)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\mixins.py", line 78, in perform_update
    serializer.save()
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\serializers.py", line 207, in save
    self.instance = self.update(self.instance, validated_data)
  File "C:\Users\user\project\api\serializers.py", line 60, in update
    raise ValidationError({"Error": 'Non-drafts are non-editable.'})
django.core.exceptions.ValidationError: {'Error': ['Non-drafts are non-editable.']}

A: I notice you are comparing '0' with 0 (str with int) for that it go to else statment raise ValidationError({"Error": 'Non-drafts are non-editable.'})
make it if instance.requeststatusid == 0: because in your request it is 0 as int


SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby authorized to instruct the commanders of the public armed vessels which are, or which shall be employed in the service of the United States, to subdue, seize and take any armed French vessel, which shall be found within the jurisdictional limits of the United States, or elsewhere, on the high seas, and such captured vessel, with her apparel, guns and appurtenances, and the goods or effects which shall be found on board the same, being French property, shall be brought within some port of the United States, and shall be duly proceeded against and condemned as forfeited; and shall accrue and be distributed, as by law is or shall be provided respecting the captures which shall be made by the public armed vessels of the United States.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby authorized to grant to the owners of private armed ships and vessels of the United States, who shall make application therefor, special commissions in the form which he shall direct and under the seal of the United States; and such private armed vessels, when duly commissioned, as aforesaid, shad have the same license and authority for the subduing, seizing and capturing any armed French vessel, and for the recapture of the vessels, goods and effects of the people of the United States, as the public armed vessels of the United States may by law have; and shall be, in like manner, subject to such instructions as shall be ordered by the President of the United States, for the regulation of their conduct. And the commissions which shall be granted, as aforesaid, shall be revocable at the pleasure of the President of the United States.
SEC. 3. Provided, and be it further enacted, That every person intending to set forth and employ an armed vessel, and applying for a commission, as aforesaid, shall produce in writing the name, and a suitable description of the tonnage and force of the vessel, and the name and place of residence of each owner concerned therein, the number of the crew and the name of the commander, and the two officers next in rank, appointed for such vessel; which writing shall be signed by the person or persons making such application, and filed with the Secretary of State, or shall be delivered to any other officer or person who shall be employed to deliver out such commissions, to be by him transmitted to the Secretary of State.
SEC. 4. And provided, and be it further enacted, That before any commission, as aforesaid, shall be issued, the owner or owners of the ship or vessel for which the same shall be requested, and the commander thereof, for the time being, shall give bond to the United States, with at least two responsible sureties, not interested in such vessel in the penal sum of seven thousand dollars; or if such vessel be provided with more than one hundred and fifty men, then in the penal sum of fourteen thousand dollars; with condition that the owners, and officers, and crews who shall be employed on board of such commissioned vessel, shall and will observe the treaties and laws of the United States, and the instructions which shall be given them for the regulation of their conduct: And will satisfy all damages and injuries which shall be done or committed contrary to the tenor thereof, by such vessel, during her commission, and to deliver up the same when revoked by the President of the United States.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all armed French vessels, together with their apparel, guns and appurtenances, and any goods or effects which shall be found on board the same, being French property, and which shall be captured by any private armed vessel or vessels of the United States, duly commissioned, as aforesaid, shall be forfeited, and shall accrue to the owners thereof, and the officers and crews by whom such captures shall be made; and on due condemnation had, shall be distributed according to any agreement which shall be between them; or in failure of such agreement, then by the discretion of the court before whom such condemnation shall be.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all vessels, goods and effects, the property of any citizen of the United States or person resident therein, which shall be recaptured, as aforesaid, shall be restored to the lawful owners, upon payment by them, respectively, of a just and reasonable salvage, to be determined by the mutual agreement of the parties concerned, or by the decree of any court of the United States having maritime jurisdiction according to the nature of each case: Provided, that such allowance shall not be less than one eighth, or exceeding one half of the full value of such recapture, without any deduction. And such salvage shall be distributed to and among the owners, officers and crews of the private armed vessel or vessels entitled thereto, according to any agreement which shall be between them; or in case of no agreement, then by the decree of the court who shall determine upon such salvage.
SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That before breaking bulk of any vessel which shall be captured, as aforesaid, or other disposal or conversion thereof, or of any articles which shall be found on board the same, such capture shall be brought into some port of the United States, and shall be libelled and proceeded against before the district court of the same district; and if after a due course of proceedings, such capture shall be decreed as forfeited in the district court, or in the circuit court of the same district, in the case of any appeal duly allowed, the same shall be delivered to the owners and captors concerned therein, or shall be publicly sold by the marshal of the same court, as shall be finally decreed and ordered by the court. And the same court, who shall have final jurisdiction of any libel or complaint of any capture, as aforesaid shall and may decree restitution, in whole or in part, when the capture and restraint shall have been made without just cause, as aforesaid and if made without probable cause, or otherwise unreasonably, may order and decree damages and costs to the party injured, and for which the owners, officers, and crews of the private armed vessel or vessels by which such unjust capture shall have been made, and also such vessel or vessels shall be answerable and liable.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That all French persons and others, who shall be found acting on board any French armed vessel, which shall be captured, or on board of any vessel of the United States, which shall be recaptured, as aforesaid, shall be reported to the collector of the port in which they shall first arrive, and shall be delivered to the custody of the marshal, or of some civil or military officer of the United States, or of any state in or near such port; who shall take charge for their safe keeping and support, at the expense of the United States.
The House passed the authorization on July 3, 1798, the Senate on July 6, and President Adams signed it into law on July 9. Two observations: 1. It is striking the amount of micromanagement of the conflict that Congress placed in this authorization and 2. that Congress assumed that American privateers would be a [part of the conflict. In regard to privateers Congress was certainly correct. Of course American privateers would play a central role in all American naval conflicts, up to and including the Civil War in which Confederate privateers wreaked such long lasting damage on the merchant fleet of the United States.
A Declaration of War in International law must be between to sovereign nations. If we were to say declare war on ISIL we would be saying it is a legitimate member od international society like the USA France Mexico etc.
It can only be ended by a peace treaty. Every member ot the two nation at war are enemies od every citizen of the other country.
A declaration of war is virtually an unusable in an age of nuclear weapons.
Since we are a member of the UN article 43 governing the use of force makes such a declaration legally problematic.
But sates of armed conflict short of war have been happening for centuries.
Hank, it is all a matter of convenience, the legal technicalities aside. Declarations of War have normally been reserved for major wars or wars with a European state, Spain being the prime example. Force authorizations have been used for all lesser conflicts. Article 43 of the UN concerns me not at all, but the US Constitution does and force authorizations clearly are Constitutional from a historical stand point and from a textual stand point.
Declarations of war assume importance in the law of the sea and the rights and obligations of neutrals, including a belligerent's right of stoppage and search on the high seas, contraband of war, unneutral service, blockade-running and the prize jurisdiction to condemn vessels and cargoes.


If I could help you decrease your distress and worry by 30% what would that be worth?
If you could increase intimacy in your most important relations 25% what value would you place on that?
If you could begin to gain substantially greater balance in 8 areas of life how much would you pay?
If your productivity increased 20% much would that be worth?
I coach individuals for $1000 per session ($12,000 for the normal 12 session program).
Larger group training/coaching can be negotiated at a set price per session per group.


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We Buy Baltimore Houses Need To Sell Your House Fast? We Buy Houses!
When a homeowner sells their home the traditional way (through an agent), the buyers are typically regular buyers who are trying to get a mortgage to buy a house that they will live in. In some markets, there are a lot of these kind of buyers but in other markets there aren't as many. And real estate agents typically work with these kind of "pre-qualified" buyers who can get a mortgage through a bank.
However, this method of selling is not without its problems. For example, sometimes you have to wait to see if a buyer can even get financing (and sometimes the financing falls through so you're forced to keep showing your house to find another buyer).
If you want to increase the likelihood that you'll sell your house, and expand the range of possible buyers who can buy, here's a little-known strategy you might not be aware of: sell your house with owner financing.
Owner financing is when a buyer skips the bank and buys directly from you. In essence, you're the bank! Just like a bank, you get an up-front deposit and then you get regular payments that pay off the amount owing. In most cases, you hold the title until the house is fully paid off, and then the title transfers to the buyer.
It opens up the number of buyers because now you'll be able to find buyers who might not normally be able to get bank financing.
It gives you cash flow, since they buyer will need to pay regular payments to you (just as they would need to pay regular mortgage payments to the bank).
It protects you because even if the buyer stops paying, you still own the house!
And unlike owning a rental, there isn't a lot of property management since that will be the responsibility of the buyer.
Wondering, "how do I sell my house owner financing in Baltimore Maryland"? Start by deciding how much you'd like to get each month for your house.
There are many different ways to sell your house and in this blog post we shared with you how to sell with owner financing. Selling with owner financing isn't for everyone but if you want more exposure to buyers, plus some cash flow, plus plenty of protection, then selling with owner financing might be right for you.
And here's an even faster way to sell your house owner financing in Baltimore Maryland – you can sell your house to us. We sometimes work out owner financing deals with sellers like you. Just click this link now and fill out the form or call us today at (443) 686-9803.
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Leaflets are expected to drop through the doors of residents in North Harris within the next few weeks to reassure them on the Out of Hours service as we approach the winter.
While the leaflets have been widely available in public places such as GP surgeries and local shops since August, NHS Western Isles are also issuing them to individual households to ensure everyone receives the relevant information about how the GP Out of Hours service operates.
Administrative arrangements on the delivery of this mailshot are in hand.
Dr Angus McKellar, medical director, said he hoped the content of the leaflet would help reassure patients in North Harris.


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