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Italy fears that a neighboring country may be stoking Europe's next secessionist crisis
Foreign affairs reporter focusing on Europe and international security
Dec. 22, 2017 at 12:46 p.m. UTC
BERLIN — This was the year Europe's secessionist movements stalled, defying many predictions: Scotland's pro-independence party suffered electoral losses, and Catalonia's secessionists have so far mainly divided their own region instead of Spain.
But as Catalonia headed into regional elections this week — ultimately empowering pro-independence parties with a slim majority on Thursday, even though secession remains unlikely — another country in the south of Europe raised concerns that the next European secessionist crisis may already be looming.
Austria's new center-right and far-right coalition government this week proposed giving citizenship to the predominantly German-speaking Italians in the region known as South Tyrol. Italian representatives saw the move as unacceptable interference in the country's sovereignty, and critics even compared the idea with Russia's policy of handing out passports to residents of Crimea, which it annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
Much to the dismay of politicians in Rome, Austria has long indicated that it views itself as the protecting power of South Tyrol's Italian citizens. With its most recent proposal only days after the new Austrian government's inauguration, Vienna may have crossed a red line, however.
Benedetto Della Vedova, a secretary of state in Italy's Foreign Ministry, called the new plans an example of "ethno-nationalism," writing that the proposal could have ramifications across the continent. "To grant citizenship based on ethnicity would have extremely serious consequences elsewhere, for instance in the Balkans," he wrote. "It could lead to the resurgence of territorial demands which would impact the peaceful coexistence of countries in the E.U., too."
Austrian center-right Chancellor Sebastian Kurz later said Italy would have to agree to the measures for Austria to proceed. Italy remains unwilling to grant such approval, but it is concerned that even without its agreement, the proposal may stir tensions.
Before World War I, South Tyrol belonged to neighboring Austria, but it became part of Italy after the conflict's end. The fascist regime of Benito Mussolini originally tried to suppress its regional identity, and even though it gained more autonomy after World War II, complaints over discrimination as a minority within Italy persisted. Seventy percent of South Tyrol residents still speak German and feel closer to the culture of German-speaking Austria than to that of Italy.
The region is mostly autonomous, and its economy is booming, thanks to its large agricultural sector and the swarms of tourists who flock to a region surrounded by the Alps. Voices calling for secession from Italy have always existed throughout South Tyrol's contemporary history, but regional parties have failed to transform this demand into a more powerful political movement, even though there are some striking parallels to bigger independence movements such as the one in Catalonia. In both regions, a strong identity goes hand in hand with a disproportionately strong economy compared to the rest of the country, even though South Tyrol pays far fewer taxes due to its autonomous status.
Whereas there is some support for independence and secession in South Tyrol, Austria's far right stands accused of stoking those sentiments further. Throughout his successful election campaign to become vice chancellor, Austrian far-right leader Heinz-Christian Strache demanded the "return [of the] former Austrians to their native country," according to the Aargauer Zeitung newspaper.
Strache's far-right Freedom Party campaigned on a number of populist claims, including the proposition that Islam is not compatible with Austrian values. Even though Kurz, the chancellor who leads the center-right People's Party, has refrained from co-opting all of the Freedom Party's policy stances, he mimicked much of the controversial rhetoric.
In South Tyrol, the proposal of his government was mostly welcomed, including by the mainstream conservative party. There, the move perceived as pro-secessionist and nationalistic elsewhere in Italy is being seen as pro-European instead. In a bloc without border controls that is aiming to integrate further, double-citizenship could only help to deepen cross-country ties, people in South Tyrol say.
But others consider the move as a veiled attempt to bind South Tyrol closer to Austria in case the European Union ever breaks apart. Italy is among the bloc's weaker economies and shares some of its problems with other troubled member-states such as Greece and Spain. In the currently unlikely scenario of a breakup, the three countries would probably not be part of a smaller group of core countries that may try to continue to operate as a northern European bloc.
Such concerns were not only expressed in the south of Italy but also by Renzo Caramaschi, the mayor of South Tyrol's capital, Bozen. He called the proposal a "political provocation" and a sign of Austria's "nationalistic turn," according to Italian news agency ADNKronos.
Even though a split-up remains a theoretical proposal for now, Italy's Olympics association reminded its athletes in South Tyrol this week that the flag they would compete under in the future was the Italian one — and not Austria's.
For Austria's Muslims, country's hard-right turn is an ominous sign
Europe has plenty of secessionist movements like Catalonia. Most don't want full independence, though.

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When can I have surgery in Kentucky? Here's Beshear's plan for reopening health care
Darcy Costello
Louisville Courier Journal
Health care facilities began to resume some activities on April 27, the first industry affected by the governor's coronavirus shutdowns to roll back those restrictions.
Gov. Andy Beshear has said the phased-in reopenings will continue in coming weeks in gradual steps, serving as "proof of concept" that slow steps can mean safely resuming economic activities.
Any time one of the steps causes a spike, "you can bet we will make adjustments," Beshear said.
"We can see the light at the end of the tunnel," he said. "We can do this. We are Team Kentucky. We've come so far together."
Guidelines released in Beshear's order for health care facilities require:
Screenings for COVID-19 symptoms and body temperature for health care workers, patients and others before reporting for work or an appointment
Workplace sanitizing and disinfecting
"Hand hygiene compliance," such as a handwashing schedule, mandated sanitizer use before and after patient contact and hand sanitizer stations
Surgical and procedural masks for health care providers when in contact with patients or staff
Surgical or cloth masks for patients or others in the health care facility
No visitors, except "when necessary for end of life, assisting vulnerable populations and caring for minor children." In those instances, visitors are allowed only for a limited time, with social distancing.
Here's what to know about the upcoming phases:
Phase 1: Non-urgent, non-emergency health care services
Beginning April 27, non-emergency, non-urgent outpatient health care services could resume at medical facilities like health care clinics, physical therapy and chiropractic offices, optometrists and dental offices.
Those include "high-touch" settings like with physical therapists and chiropractors, so long as there is "enhanced PPE including gloves and eye protection for direct patient manipulation," according to slides from Dr. Steven Stack, Kentucky's public health commissioner.
That rollback of restrictions does not extend to such services in prisons or nursing homes, Beshear previously said.
"In many ways this is our proof of concept," Beshear has said. "If we create the right guidelines, if we enforce those guidelines and if we do it gradually — that we can do this safely."
Explicitly excluded from Beshear's order:
Non-urgent and non-emergent surgeries
Invasive procedures
Any provider that reopens must use nontraditional waiting areas, such as call-ahead registration or instructing patients to wait in their vehicles until called, Beshear's order says. Additionally, social distancing must be maintained in all settings where people wait.
Health care workers, patients and others must undergo COVID-19 symptom and temperature screenings upon arrival. Staff must stay home if sick.
Phase 2: Outpatient/ambulatory surgery and invasive procedures
Tentatively scheduled to begin May 6, this phase would allow some invasive procedures to resume — mostly, those that allow you to get the procedure done and return home in the same day.
Examples might include an endoscopy or a heart catheterization that is not expected to involve significant hospital recovery time, Stack said Monday.
Guidelines for this phase would also require all patients have COVID-19 pre-procedure testing, and each facility would need to maintain a 14-day supply of PPE. Acute care hospitals would have to maintain 30% capacity of ICU and total beds.
Phase 3: Non-emergent/non-urgent inpatient surgery and procedures at 50% volume
This phase, slated for Wednesday, May 13, would allow inpatient surgeries to resume at half of the pre-shutdown volume.
These types of procedures and surgeries would include ones that involve a significant recovery time in the hospital.
Like the previous phase, facilities would need to maintain a 14-day supply of PPE, and acute care hospitals would need to maintain 30% ICU and total bed capacity.
Health care facilities will also again be allowed to accept visitors starting May 13, though they'll be limited to one person per patient.
However, restrictions could remain in place at the discretion of individual facilities, Stack said.
Phase 4: Surgery and procedures resume at facility-determined volume
Set for May 27, this would let each facility determine the volume of surgeries and procedures that resume.
It would include the same types of medical operations as Phase 3, but would remove the 50% cap on those activities.
Darcy Costello: 502-582-4834; dcostello@courier-journal.com; Twitter: @dctello. Support strong local journalism by subscribing today: courier-journal.com/darcyc.


I am doing a project on implementing load balancing in Opendaylight controller. Can someone please tell me where to implement my load balancing algorithms i.e.., how to implement my code and run it.
Thanks. But as hjdeore said can you please share an available link. The link you shared is not working.
I don't know why it isnt working, try now: http://www.cse.scu.edu/~twang1/studentProjects/SDN_loadBalance_13f.pdf Try to copy&paste the link, don't click on it.
in second link there are 3 sdn projects and the third one is about load balancing.
Is it possible to get loads of the hosts running on mininet ?
What are the services need to run on OS controller and compute node to talk to ODL?
Which open source controller OpendayLight controller is based on?
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China's second forum on its Belt and Road Initiative will take place in Beijing, US economic growth is expected to have slowed marginally in Q1 and Spain will hold its third general election in four years.
The European Commission will publish its indicator for consumer confidence across the bloc. In March, the index touched -7.2, up from -7.4 in the previous month. Although sentiment remains well below the cyclical high of -3.4 that it reached in December 2017, it is still running above its long-term average of -10.5. Elsewhere, Mexico's unemployment rate is expected to hold steady at 3.4% in March, but some leading indicators point to a slight deterioration in H2. In recent years, the country's labour market has been solid, with the unemployment rate nearing historic lows (it averaged 3.3% in 2018 and 3.4% in 2017). However, in December, the jobless rate touched 3.6%, owing to layoffs in the construction sector (a project to build a new airport for Mexico City was cancelled that month).
In Australia, consensus expectations suggest that headline inflation – as measured by the consumer price index – will decline to 1.5% in Q1 from 1.8% in the previous quarter. The two core measures – the trimmed mean and the weighted median – should also edge lower to 1.6-1.7%, thereby reinforcing the dovish bias that the Reserve Bank of Australia adopted recently. Elsewhere, the Ifo Business Climate Index for Germany is expected to inch higher to 100 in April. Last month, the index showed tentative signs of stabilisation: it rose to 99.6 from 98.7, while the expectations component rose to 95.6 from 94 in February. Meanwhile, the Bank of Canada is likely to stand pat on rates. Last month, the central bank adopted a more dovish tone. A reference to rates moving higher over time disappeared from its statement and it was replaced by a more cautious stance: "the outlook continues to warrant a policy interest rate that is below its neutral range". We expect that it will maintain this new rhetoric in April. In addition, the central bank will also publish its quarterly Monetary Policy Report. We expect little change to growth forecasts as the impact from higher oil prices should offset slightly weaker external demand. However, the report will probably suggest that risks to the country's economic outlook are skewed to the downside amid trade policy uncertainty – a message that would be in line with recent comments from the Governor Stephen Poloz.
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) should maintain its current interest rate setting and confirm its quantitative and qualitative monetary easing with yield-curve control, pinning the policy rate at -0.1% and the 10-year yield close to zero. The BoJ is unlikely to consider changes to monetary policy this year. It will need to monitor a potentially negative impact on the economy from the country's planned increase in consumption tax, which takes effect in October. In addition, the BoJ will release its updated economic forecasts. In recent months the momentum towards the central bank's 2% inflation target has faded somewhat, which may be reflected in the updated forecasts. Importantly, the new forecasts will extend to 2021 for the first time. In Beijing, China's second forum on its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will get underway. The first summit took place two years ago and this forum has been heralded as the country's most important diplomatic event of 2019. President Xi Jinping will probably launch BRI 2.0 to alleviate some concerns expressed by participating countries. We expect that the government will place greater emphasis on development aid, free-trade zones and industrial parks, while downplaying concerns over infrastructure. It may also pay greater attention to debt sustainability. That said, worries about debt, transparency and Chinese influence are likely to persist in most Western countries. In Brussels, European Union (EU) and Japanese leaders will gather for a summit to discuss trade (following the introduction of the EU-Japan free trade agreement in February), strategic cooperation (in areas such as connectivity and climate change) and preparations for the G20 summit (which takes place in Tokyo). Elsewhere, the Swedish central bank will probably keep its interest rates unchanged at -0.25% following a 25bps rate hike in December. Although many major developed central banks have taken a dovish turn in recent months, the Riksbank has bucked the trend. In February, it continued to signal that a rate hike is likely "during the second half of 2019". The Turkish central bank will also hold its monetary policy meeting. It is likely to keep interest rates unchanged at 24%. That said, it may ease its policy later this year, once there are more convincing signs of a sustained downward trend in inflation. Across the Atlantic, investors will dissect the US durable goods data for March. Recently, non-defence capital orders – excluding aircrafts – have been sluggish. In February, they declined by 3.4% on a three-month-on-three-month annualised basis, signalling subdued business investment in the coming months.
Japan's unemployment rate is likely to be little changed at 2.3% in March – its lowest level since 1994. This suggests the labour market is tight. Meanwhile, figures for the country's industrial production and retail sales should continue to improve in March, having rose 0.7% and 0.4% respectively in the previous month. In Russia, we expect no changes to the country's monetary policy. Last month, the central bank adopted a dovish tone. Indeed, Central Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina expressed more confidence in a benign outlook for inflation, suggesting that there may be some room for easing policy later this year. Elsewhere, credit-rating agency Fitch will review the UK's sovereign debt rating. In February, Fitch placed the UK's AA credit rating on negative watch amid growing uncertainty about Brexit. However, it is unlikely to adjust its rating at this stage after the UK was granted a six-month extension to Brexit negotiations. The new deadline – 31 October 2019 – means that the near-term risk of a no-deal outcome remains low. In the US, consensus forecasts (at the time of writing) suggest that Q1 GDP will come in at a seasonally adjusted annualised rate of 1.8%. That compares to growth of 2.2% in the last three months of 2018. Consumption probably slowed to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of about 1%, down from 2.5% in Q4. Although the government shutdown earlier this year probably had a modest impact on consumption, available monthly hard data for Q1 suggests that other areas probably picked up the slack. In particular, net trade and inventories should make a decent contribution to growth in Q1. Meanwhile, investors will eye Spain's general election. The country will hold its third election in four years on Sunday, 28 April. Recent polls point to a rise in support for the Socialist Party, but they also suggest that the election will deliver another hung Parliament. As such, it will probably take some time to form a coalition – and the odds that it will be left-leaning are rising.
Source: Reuters Datastream, based on China's National Bureau of Statistics and the People's Bank of China, as at April 2019.
China's economy expanded by 6.4% year-on-year in Q1, matching growth in the fourth quarter of last year. It follows a sharp slowdown in H2 2018 and the reading topped analysts' expectations, which pointed to a modest decline to 6.3% year-on-year. The Q1 data suggests that fiscal and monetary stimulus, which was employed by Chinese authorities in recent months, has already started to stabilise growth. Money growth – leading GDP growth by two-to-three quarters – suggests that we can expect growth of 6%-6.5% for the rest of the year (in line with the government's new target). Indeed, that would support global growth, favouring broad-based stabilisation. However, China's stimulus has been more limited and targeted than before. For example, the last round of tax cuts largely benefit domestic consumers. As such, external spill-overs are likely to be more contained.
China's ambitions in Europe, a test of survival for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the feasibility of a low-cost shift to clean energy are among the interesting reads that you may have missed.
A Brookings blog examines whether the EU should create or divert trade with China.
A policy brief by the Peterson Institute explains how the US could put the IMF on life support.
Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia University, describes how the world's energy and food systems can – and must – be transformed by mid-century.


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Dear Tim Ferriss, part one
Michael Neill	November 27, 2017
I have a kind of a love/hate relationship with Tim Ferriss. On the one hand, he impresses the hell out of me, and he's my son's favorite writer/podcaster. On the other hand, he's one of the few people who my thinking goes into overload reading, questioning whether or not I'm doing everything in my business wrong and which of the thousands of life strategies he shares would be better than what I've developed in what even I can see has been a fairly productive and largely wonderful life.
So when I came across his new book, Tribe of Mentors, I went through my now traditional and pointless debate as to whether or not I was going to put myself through the ordeal of reading it. I made it almost 48 hours before buying it, and as with all his books, am both enjoying it and hating myself while I read.
The basis of the book is a set of eleven questions he sent out to over 100 of his mentors and heroes, asking them to share their wisdom with the world. A remarkable number responded, ranging from showbiz folk like Ben Stiller, Jimmy Fallon, and Tim McGraw to global influencers like Sharon Salzberg and Arianna Huffington. The result is fascinating, and once again raises my eternal question:
How can I best learn from the wisdom and experience of others without discounting what I've learned from my own experience and the wisdom of my soul?
So in my mind I began composing a letter to Tim Ferriss, which I've since decided to write down, expand, and share with you over the next couple of weeks:
Dear Tim Ferriss,
Thank you so much for everything you do. While I'm not much of a life strategies guy (I tend to prefer answering the question "what is life and how does it work?" to "how shall I live?"), I always enjoy your take on things. Your approach to life seems systematic in a way I've never been able to replicate but have always thought would be the better way to do things if I could make myself into a better person.
While pondering some of the fascinating responses in Tribe of Mentors, my mind wandered to an old story about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was apparently followed around throughout the latter stages of his life by scribes who wrote down literally every word he spoke in hopes of capturing as much of his wisdom as possible while he was alive. One of the theories about his genius (he's ranked in the top five all time on most rankings I've seen of such things) is that the fact that his thoughts were given weight made them weightier. Because his ideas were sought after as though they had merit, they became more meritorious, not only in the eyes of the world but through some marvelous alchemical reaction inside his own mind. In some ways, you could say that he became smarter by answering questions about why he was so smart.
That's why if I were to write a "Tim Ferriss" book, it might be along the lines of "Unleash the Mentor Within", and instead of asking my questions of hundreds of genii, I would ask them of one person – the reader themselves.
Would we still benefit from reading the answers of others? Absolutely, but all the more so once we'd first taken the time to listen to our own wisdom and experience as context.
So I know you didn't ask, but here are my answers. I promise to dive back into your wonderful new book when I'm done…
1. What is the book (or books) you've given most as a gift, and why? Or what are the one to three books that have greatly influenced your life?
The Relationship Handbook by George Pransky
This is the book that introduced me to the field I'm now in, but it did it in a "follow the breadcrumbs" vs. "do these ten things" kind of a way. It revitalized an already happy marriage, and I've watched it help dozens of couples turn things around when they'd taken a turn for the worse.
The Tao te Ching by Lao Tzu
I've yet to tire of this ancient classic. Written for leaders but equally useful for "ordinary folk", it introduces the art of living in the flow of deeper wisdom without preaching or demanding obeisance to any particular religious ideology.
Yes, I do feel icky listing one of my own books here, but it's also the honest answer to the question of which book I've gifted the most (that has mostly been graciously received, read, and appreciated).
2. What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months (or in recent memory)? My readers love specifics like brand and model, where you found it, etc.
The first two things that came to mind are my Keurig coffee maker and my little "Magic Bullet" blender. I'm a big 'Bulletproof Coffee' guy, and with the Keurig and Magic Bullet I can whip up a cup and have the whole thing cleaned and put away in less than five minutes from start to finish.
We came across the Keurig while staying at a friend's house on the beach in Florida, and fell in love with being able to make a morning cup of coffee at any time of the day with no fuss, wait, or cleanup. Can't remember where I first saw the Magic Bullet, but am pretty sure it was on a late-night infomercial and then bought it at our local Macy's. (My wife hates the way the Magic Bullet looks, which is why it's ease of use and cleaning allows me to pretend it doesn't exist with ease…😊)
3. How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a "favorite failure" of yours?
I worked for many years as an actor, at one point starring in a BAFTA award winning sitcom called Satellite City. Despite the awards and its popularity (voted most popular English language comedy in the 20th century in Wales), the show never made it outside of the Welsh borders and my success as an actor never really advanced from there. (At one point I was told by a well-meaning producer that I was on track to become 'the next Ed Bishop', which as I had no idea who he was seemed like a potential death knell for my career).
Until I failed to gain any real traction as an actor post-sitcom, my love of writing and spiritual philosophy was firmly in the category of 'hobby'. I moved back to America and carried on trying for five more years. In 2005, after a particularly bad night at a comedy festival in Chicago (no one laughed, which is problematic at a comedy festival) and a particularly interesting three hour conversation with a cab driver named Adolf that same night, I knew my career as an actor was over.
A little over a year later my first book, You Can Have What You Want, hit number one on the Amazon bestseller list in the UK, beating out The Lincoln Lawyer, and my favorite hobby had become my new career.
4. If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it – metaphorically speaking getting a message out to millions or billions – what would it say and why? It could be a few words or a paragraph. (If helpful, it can be someone else's quote: Are there any quotes you think of often or live your life by?)
This was the sign off for my very first blog post over 17 years ago, and while it's since been replaced by the words 'With all my love', it's still as close to a singular life philosophy as I have.
5. What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you've ever made? (Could be an investment of money, time, energy, etc.)
I have invested well over ten thousand hours and more than half a million dollars on coaching, training, and research into the nature of the human experience. I've written the equivalent of 50 PhD theses on the subject, albeit in a far more prosaic format than most degree programs would allow for.
The end result is that a formerly depressed, suicidal and decidedly introverted teenager is now a genuinely happy, curious, and slightly introverted adult who loves to share the best of what he's learned about happiness, success, and a life well-lived with others.
I'll answer the rest of Tim's questions next week, but your homework (if you want some) is to answer the first five questions for yourself.
Have fun, learn heaps, and happy exploring!
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Dear Tim Ferriss, part two
In part one of this blog (click here if you missed it), I posed a question:
How can I best learn from the wisdom and experience of others without discounting what I've learned from my own experience and the wisdom of my soul?….
Michael Neill	December 4, 2017
Before Thought and Beyond Belief
One of the words I hear myself use most often in my work is "grounding". It's a way of talking about where we are coming from in our life and work. What we're grounded in is the thinking that seems real to us…
What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do
Insecurity is a beast. Not really, of course – it just feels like it can wrap you around its finger like a professional wrestler and twist your insides into a pretzel…
The Inside-Out Path to a Better Life
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Southeast Asia, a focus of past U.S. presidents, has been overlooked thus far for the Trump administration, but Vice President Mike Pence's visit to Indonesia Thursday marked a sign of change and he announced the president would follow him to the region later this year.
Anxious Southeast Asian governments are looking for America's commitment to counter China's rising economic and military clout. Vietnam's foreign minister is in Washington his week, and the top diplomats of the region's 10-nation bloc are expected to arrive en masse in early May, amid concerns their interests were being crowded out as President Donald Trump prioritizes Mideast counterterrorism, traditional alliances in Europe and North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.
Pence's stop in Jakarta on a 10-day swing through the Asia-Pacific, meeting with Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, sends a message that Trump's interests in Asia extend beyond North Korea and the massive U.S. trade imbalance with China. It is the first to Southeast Asia by a top administration official, and Pence announced Trump will attend the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, in November.
This year marks ASEAN's 50th anniversary. November's gathering is being held in the Philippines, setting the stage for an encounter between two unconventional leaders: Trump and the host, Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine president who is sometimes likened to the American leader because of his outspokenness and unashamed populism.


ROSENTHAL MARK ADDED OVER LAMM? Cup is 2 3/4" wide at mouth and stands 2". Saucer is 4 3/4 in diameter.
Lamm, located at 28 Zinzendorstrasse, Dresden was one of the citys leading workshops from its founding in 1887 and produced decorated wares beautifully reflecting these romantic themes. The Lamm studio was known for the highest quality painting in the Viennese, Meissen and Copenhagen styles. Its specialties were Old Dresden Flowers, Watteau style French romantic scenes and mythological depictions. A wide range of luxury wares were produced, including cabinet plates, cabinet cups and saucers, center pieces, etc.
Complete dinner sets were also produced (many with the owners monogram) as well as more utilitarian wares. Among the most exquisite Lamm pieces are ones featuring heavy gold paste work and well executed portraits. Jeweling and beading were also favored techniques on the very best wares. Lamm produced numerous plaques rivaling in quality the famous KPM plaques produced in Berlin.
Another famous Lamm accomplishment was a series of twelve cabinet plates reproducing portions of famous oil paintings from the Semper Gallery in Dresdens Zwinger Palace. The Lamm workshop used several marks on its wares during its 62 years of operation. The first mark was a blue lamb over a script Dresden used from 1887 to about 1890.
Shortly before World War I the firm was marking its wares with a shield/cartouche form enclosing a script L and/or an angel or cupid (a favorite Lamm decoration) over a script Dresden/Saxony. Lamm pieces can also be found signed by individual artists. Please note they we are not experts on every item listed and may lack the vocabulary to fully describe an item. Inspect photographs carefully and do not hesitate to ask additional questions and/or request additional photographs prior to ordering. The item "AMBROSIUS LAMM STUDIOS DRESDEN TEACUP AND SAUCER SET ROSENTHAL MARK" is in sale since Saturday, March 9, 2019.
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After an insanely intense year, FRINGE will air its season finale this Friday. And if you thought the wait couldn't get any longer after last week's "WTF?" ending, you were wrong.
Fox has released a movie-style trailer for Friday's hour, "The Day We Died," and…well, I have no words. Our world has changed a lot in the future.
There are no words that can accurately express what I am feeling!!! So, all I am going to say is Friday needs to hurry up and get here already!!! That's it, as you were!


West Bengal Board of Madrasah Education has released the WBBME Results 2019. Students who have appeared for the Examination can check their Results from the official website www.wbresults.nic.in.
West Bengal Madrasah Board has conducted High Madrasah, Alim, Fazil(New &Old) Examinations. Students are eagerly waiting for Results. Now the wait is over, here on our website esarkariresults.in we have provided some simple steps to download your WBBME High Madrasah Results 2019. Click on the direct link at the bottom of our page.
The Board will release the WBBME Alim Examination Results 2019 through online Mode Only. Students are advised to check their results from www.wbresults.nic.in. Check your Score by entering your West Bengal Madrasah Board Hall Ticket Number and Password. Save your Result card for future reference.
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After the training we ask our trained mentors to meet the young person for just an hour a week and have an informal chat over a coffee. And we're at the end of the phone at all times.
Following the training and DBS check they will be matched to young people in the community. As a mentor, they will have new skills to support that young person with the life skills they need into move to adult life.
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Disposable Contact Lenses Market Analysis, Segmentation, Size, Share, Trend, Future Demand and Leading Players Updates by Forecast to 2026
Disposable Contact Lenses Market 2019 Industry Size and Share Evolution to 2026 by Growth Insight, Key Development, Trends and Forecast
Dale Martinez September 12, 2019 6:32 AM EDT
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The global Disposable Contact Lenses Market is likely to grow in the coming years due to several product innovations. According to a report by Fortune Business Insights, titled "Disposable Contact Lenses Market Size, Share and Global Trend by Type (Cylindrical Lenses, Toric Lenses, Spherical Lenses), By Distribution Channel (Optical Stores, Online Stores), By Material (Silicon, Hydrogel, Polymers, Hydrogel), By Usage (Corrective Lenses, Therapeutic Lenses, Cosmetic) and Geography Forecast till 2026," the market is likely to expand in the coming years with impetus from growing regulatory approvals for newer products.
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First-Ever Disposable Silicone Hydrogel Contact Lens by Tangible Science Receives FDA Clearance
In December 2018, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first-ever silicone hydrogel based disposable contact lens. Tangible Science, LLC announced that it has received clearance from the FDA after successful clinical trials. Tangible's 'Hydra-PEG' is an innovative coating applied to the lenses, to improve wettability and increase deposit resistance. The use of hydrogel helps maintain clarity and hygiene within the lenses, and this is a first-of-its-kind technology. Fortune Business Insights expects this approval to have a major say on the growth of the global disposable contact lenses market. The report provides a brief analysis of product launches and approvals, similar to Tangible Hydra-PEG.
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Acuvue Introduces Disposable Lenses Integrated with Light Adaptive Technology
In April 2018, Acuvue announced that it has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for the Acuvue Oasys contact lenses. The Oasys lenses were loaded operated with the concept of light adaptive technology. The Oasys was aimed for patients with non-infected eyes. The Oasys lense for suitable for people with nearsighted or farsighted problems. According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 45 million people in the US wear contact lenses, out of which 90% of the people use soft contact lenses.
Acuvue serves a huge percentage of the population in the US, and its primary products are soft contact lenses. Acuvue's Oasys has been a success the global disposable contact lenses market and the increase in production and sales of Acuvue will have a positive impact on the global market. Fortune Business Insights predicts that recent product launches will have a positive impact on the global market in the forthcoming years.
In recent years, there have been several advancements in contact lenses with regard to safety, quality, and durability of these lenses. Although disposable lenses are meant to be used for a shorter span of time, there a few challenges associated with the production of these lenses that may decrease their durability, even within the short life. Furthermore, hesitancy in people towards adopting contact lenses still exists and this factor is restraining the growth of the global disposable contact lenses market. Having said that, growing innovations and advancements of contact lenses have led to an increase in reliability, which in turn is leading to increased adoption. In this report, Fortune Business Insights focuses on such product innovations that are contributing to the growing reliance on contact lenses.
In addition to product launches and innovations, Fortune Business Insights sheds light on the leading companies that are operating in the global disposable contact lenses market. Some of the companies that have aided the growth of the global market are Bausch Health, Novartis, CooperVision, Johnson & Johnson, and ZEISS Vision Care France
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All urban environmental research, policy and practices occur on and in Aboriginal Country. A key challenge for urban practitioners and researchers is to respond meaningfully to the expectations, rights and aspirations of Indigenous people and communities in cities.
Presented by Indigenous researchers and advisory members of the National Environmental Science Program, this panel discussion will explore a range of questions about the significance of nature in cities—including threatened species—for maintaining a connection to Country. Considering ways to better incorporate Indigenous values and knowledge of biodiversity into urban design and management, this dynamic conversation will draw on traditional methods as a pathway to improving the liveability and conservation value of urban landscapes.
This event, facilitated by Maddison Miller, will start with a special performance by the Djirri Djirri Dance Group.
Speakers include: Bradley Moggridge—Kamilaroi man, hydrogeologist and Indigenous liaison officer with the Threatened Species Hub; Maddison Miller—Darug woman, archaeologist and co-chair of the Indigenous Advisory Group to the Clean Air and Urban Landscape Hub; Rueben Berg—Gunditjmara man, managing director of RJHB Consulting and founder of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria (IADV); and Mandy Nicholson – Wurundjeri, Dja Dja wurrung and Ngurai-illum wurrung woman, PhD candidate and manager of Djirri Djirri Dance Group.


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Carrie Pagonis, 92, of Pilesgrove passed away on February 24, 2021. Carrie was born on October 15, 1928. Originally from Penns Grove, she was the daughter of Marcos & Fotini Burpulis. She attended and graduated from Penns Grove High School in 1946. A devoted wife and mother, she anchored the family while her husband Costas was away at sea as a merchant marine captain. When Costas returned, they enjoyed spending time at the Jersey Shore with their sons Christopher and Marcus. In addition, Carrie's true pride and joy was being a "Yia Yia", to her two grandchildren Christina and Constantine. Her grandchildren were her world and she did everything to guide them to success. Throughout Carrie's life she was involved in the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, volunteer organizations, and various other community groups. Survived by her children, Christopher; Marcus and his wife Cheryl; grandchildren, Christina and husband Josh, and Constantine. In addition to many other close relatives. She was predeceased by her parents Marcos and Fotini Burpulis, brother George Burpulis, and her god-daughter Maria Apessos. Services will be held on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 808 N. Broom Street, Wilmington, DE 19806. There will be a public visitation from 10 to 11 AM. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, there will be a private family service following the visitation which can be live-streamed by going to www.holytrinitywilmington.org. Private interment will take place at Lawnside Cemetery in Woodstown. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations be made in Carrie's memory to the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church at 808 N. Broom Street, Wilmington, DE 19806.
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Donald Trump's double hat trick damages U.S. at home and abroad by Harlan K. Ullman
"Beware the Ides of March." So Julius Caesar was cautioned. Caesar ignored the warning and was assassinated.
Over this past Ides of March, President Donald Trump performed a double "hat trick." The phrase was invented in 1858 at an English cricket match. The bowler, H.H. Stevenson, took three wickets with three successive bowls. To mark this achievement, the attending crowd chipped in to buy a hat for Stevenson. Today, the term means collecting three major scores or goals in sports.
Unlike Caesar's demise, Trump's double hat trick will not prove fatal. But it could be politically wounding. And it was entirely self-inflicted.
At home, Trump's second attempt at deferring immigration from six Muslim states again was halted by the federal courts. His support of the healthcare bill proposed by Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan must reconcile possibly irreconcilable tensions in his own party over the controversial legislation that, ironically, does greatest harm to the many Americans who voted for the president. And the administration's trillion-dollar "skinny" budget was dead before arriving in Congress.
The last two of these domestic hat tricks could very well become politically septic with huge consequences for the 2018 by-elections. Republicans are wedded to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Health Care Act and so far are unable to agree on what if anything will be the replacement. The cuts in the proposed federal budget will not stand in Congress that is solely responsible for approving funding.
The other hat trick will prove even more challenging for American security. In three fell swoops, the president managed to alienate and infuriate Britain, Germany and the G-20 — a remarkable achievement. Underlying this is a more serious problem.
Without any evidence and despite the unanimous conclusion of America's intelligence agencies and key members of Congress that President Barack Obama did not order the tapping of phones in Trump Tower, Trump persisted in this falsehood. Raising the stakes based on an assertion by a Fox commentator, Trump told a disbelieving public that Britain's GCHQ (electronic spy agency) had been asked or ordered by Obama to tap Trump's phones.
Fox repudiated the report. GCHQ issued the extraordinary public statement that Trump's assertions were "ridiculous" and privately called them "rubbish." The inference was that Trump's tweet was ridiculous. And Her Majesty's government was furious knowing not only that such an activity was impossible. It was highly illegal as well. But in Trump world facts do not count and apologies are for the weak.
Then, the president seemed to refuse to shake German Chancellor Angela Merkel's hand in a summit that was described as frosty. Compounding the slight, the president made an offhand comparison between NSA's tapping of Merkel's phones to the untruthful charge of Obama's tapping Trump Tower.
Completing this hat trick, the Trump administration did not win friends at the G-20 meetings in Germany. The new secretary of the treasury, Stephen Mnuchin, refused to support a resolution on free trade as all prior meetings had universally approved. The message was obvious. "America First" was serious and the specter of American protectionism loomed.
About the domestic hat trick, the broken political process will be hard pressed to provide good solutions. Higher courts could likely reverse the stay on the immigration ban. Much more important are the healthcare and budget debacles. One bet is that what follows will be a bad healthcare bill if it is indeed passed and a continuing budget resolution that allows the government to stay open and do little more to follow the president's priorities. This will be the crucial first test for a Republican president and Congress to show how well or badly both can govern.
Internationally, the consequences are likely to be more severe. The fundamental question for friends, partners and competitors is can the American president's word and judgment be trusted. A lesser but serious effect is that the United States will be seen as generally uncooperative and probably incompetent to understand and respect the established rules of diplomacy. While Trump can claim support of NATO, his continued charges of alliance members freeloading off America cannot go down well in allied capitals. Alliance coherence will be weakened. And exchange of intelligence among partners will not be as free flowing as it once was and needs to be.
The consequences of these hat tricks however affect America the most. The most important is presidential credibility and reliability. Politicians invariably shade the truth and often are not fully candid, in plain terms meaning that they lie. When a president cannot be trusted to know or to tell the truth and when his assertions and tweets are outright lies and falsehoods, the fiber of the nation is damaged.
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"" Turkish Traces "in Medieval Europe" by Giuseppe Cossuto
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"" Turkish Traces "in Medieval Europe" by Giuseppe Cossuto is an essay of fundamental importance to fully understand the origins of the Turks and modern Europe, 2 elements extremely connected to each other but whose union is all too often forgotten
"" Turkish Traces "in Medieval Europe
In this monograph, which makes use of the presentation of prof. Mihai Maxim, the salient events of the peoples of the steppes in Europe are illustrated in a popular but scientific way, starting from the arrival of the Huns up to the conquest of Anatolia by the Seljuk, trying to harmonize the different historiographic traditions on the basis of classical written sources and medieval, archaeological evidence and folklore traditions, in a non-euro-centric perspective but which takes into account the different social and cultural nature of the warrior nomads of the steppes compared to the Roman, Germanic and Slavic civilizations. Describing the origin, history and institutions of the Huns, Bulgarians, Magyars, Khazars and other peoples, the perennial presence during the Middle Ages is outlined, of the nomads of the steppes who, by right, constitute an important part, much neglected from historiography, of the cultural roots of Europe.
The Turks at the origin of modern Europe
"" Turkish Traces "in medieval Europe is an extremely precious essay that will allow us to better discover what happened beyond the Rhine in the early centuries of the Middle Ages, giving us the tools to truly understand the migrations that transformed that part of the continent and how, in the vast majority situations, History is much more complex and rich than what we imagine. In detail, the book starts by making us understand the real differences that have characterized nomadic civilizations from permanent ones, helping us to understand their reasons and their uses, facilitating thus a reinterpretation of the interior of peoples such as the Huns, the Avars, the Bulgars and the Magyars, reaching the moment when the Seljuks conquered Anatolia, laying the very first foundations of today's Turkey.
All these people, among other things, are also extremely linked to the Italic Peninsula, a place where they all passed and where many of them settled, so much so that they leave many toponyms that still persist, reminding us more and more that the Italian past is made from a thousand and one origins. In addition to fully immersing ourselves in their epics, thus also discovering the Slavic migrations, the central role of Byzantine and Germanic peoples and the passage from ancient tribes to today's populations (especially Bulgarians and Hungarians), this work allows us to really enter into the internal dynamics of these nomadic confederations which, whether we like it or not, have really changed the world. Unlike what we are used to thinking, in fact, these populations, despite being of Turkish origin, were not tied too much to a specific ethnicity, but mainly represented men and women who, for one reason or another, had decided to break away from settled civilizations by taking the path of nomadism and freedom, giving life to a fluid identity ready to innovate with the passing of the centuries. A truly rich and fascinating essay that allows the reader a truly full immersion in the evolution of men, times and places. Two small clarifications, the first for those interested in the Turkish epic above all in an Islamic key: even if there are some hints, this text focuses above all on their evolution in Europe, a place where the real doubt was not so much between Islam and Christianity , but between Christianity and Paganism, which is why it is a much more suitable book for understanding Turkish origins in absolute terms than Turkish ones in the "Islamic world". The second clarification is that, at the moment, this essay is only available in Italian.
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Tale Of Us (pictured) have announced the full billing for this year's Afterlife parties in Ibiza.
This year the event will run from June 29 to September 28. After a move to club Privilege for a 14-week residency, Italian duo Tale Of Us will play in the Terrace Vista room along with additional headliners like Dixon, Âme (live), Stephan Bodzin and Monoloc.
Mind Against, Adriatique, Jamie Jones, KiNK and Daniel Avery have also been confirmed. Familiar faces like Nina Kraviz, Recondite and Mathew Jonson also appear on the line-up.
Also locked in is a special Giegling label showcase in the Chamber, a space dedicated to hosting the night's more techno-oriented acts.
Afterlife's closing night will see Tale Of Us open the Hall, a spacious room opened especially for the series finale.
You can view the full line-up and buy tickets to Afterlife here.
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Brace yourselves: single-occupied vehicles won't be allowed on EDSA anymore.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has shed more light in its upcoming High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Traffic Scheme. In case you haven't caught the news, this is the newest policy that MMDA will implement on EDSA, or at least most of it, with the goal to lessen the volume of cars that traverse the one of the major roads in the National Capital Region (NCR).
With that, a photo of its implementing rules and regulations (IRR) has circulated the web, signed by Atty. Crisanto C. Saruca Jr., Director IV of Traffic Discipline Office and OIC - Metro Manila Council Secretariat.
HOV lanes include all lanes of EDSA from Balintawak, Quezon City to Magallanes, Makati City – both northbound and southbound.
It supersedes current ordinances, resolutions, and regulations of cities included in the route mentioned, provided that they're not in contrary to the said scheme.
Both private and public vehicles are affected, except motorcycles. HOVs are defined as vehicles with at least two people on board, including the driver.
Implementation of the HOV Traffic Scheme is from 7:00 to 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 to 9:00 p.m, Mondays through Fridays. However, crossing through intersections involving EDSA shall be allowed.
A P1,000 fine will be imposed to those who will be caught violating the HOV Traffic Scheme.
Dry run of the said scheme will happen from August 15 to 22, 2018.
Full implementation will be on August 23, 2018.
However, it isn't clear as of this moment as to how the scheme will be enforced. If we are to follow the previous report about this new regulation, MMDA will use its Non-Contact Apprehension Policy (NCAP), which uses high-powered cameras, to catch violators, just like what they have been doing with the Anti-Distracted Driving Act (ADDA). This means if ever you're caught without passengers on EDSA, expect to receive your notice via mail instead.
To recall, the previous press release of MMDA saw General Manager Jojo Garcia appeals to the public for their cooperation to the HOV Traffic Scheme. He is in high hopes of seeing a 40% decrease in vehicle volume on EDSA because of the HOV Traffic Scheme. The agency is also aware that the new regulation might infuse traffic to alternate routes, but he appealed that MMDA has been astringent in clearing the side streets to alleviate the effect of the new traffic scheme.


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You may need a 10% minimum down payment — or you many not need to put down any money at all.
Some loans aren't an option if you lack a strong credit score.
Loans with more flexible borrowing requirements may have income limits, while others won't.
Here's a guide to help you understand the various types of mortgage loans.
Did you know? Not every type of mortgage loan requires a down payment.
The most common type of mortgage is a "conventional" loan, which is any mortgage not insured by or sponsored by the U.S. government.1 These loans go through conventional channels — that is, financial institutions — for approval.
Because conventional loans are not guaranteed by the government, they can be more challenging to qualify for. Financial institutions will consider your income level, credit score, debt, and how much cash you have for a down payment.
Fixed-rate mortgages offer an interest rate that is unchanged for the life of the loan, so your monthly payment remains the same for the life of the loan. In other words, no surprises.
Adjustable-rate mortgages (also known as ARMs) offer a fixed interest rate only for a designated period of time (usually 3, 5, or 7 years). Once the fixed-rate period ends, the rate will be adjusted (typically yearly) to reflect prevailing mortgage interest rates. ARMs typically offer lower initial interest rates than conventional loans.2 However, rates — and therefore your monthly payment — may go up or down over time, depending on future interest rates.
FHA loans were created to make it easier for lower- to middle-income buyers to purchase homes.5 The standards for qualifying for an FHA loan are typically less stringent than conventional loans, because the loan is insured by the government. With FHA loans, borrowers can put as little as 3.5% of the purchase price as the down payment. Borrowers are required to pay for the FHA mortgage insurance, but it can be rolled into the loan.
The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA)6 also has its own home loan program. Available to veterans, active military, and eligible spouses, VA loans are government-sponsored, fixed-rate mortgages that allow qualified borrowers to purchase a home with no down payment.
To qualify, you have to meet the military service requirement plus debt-to-income requirements set forth by the individual bank.7 The loans are provided by private lenders, but because the government guarantees them, the lender is able to provide borrowers with more favorable interest rates and financing of up to 100% of the value of the home. VA loans don't require mortgage insurance, but they may require an additional fee to process the loan.
The USDA has a rural housing service8 that provides fixed-rate mortgage loans to borrowers who live in rural areas, as defined by the USDA.9 These loans offer favorable interest rates and a zero down payment option to buyers with low to moderate incomes. Income thresholds vary by region and household size.10 This type of loan is designed to help the rural economy and assist buyers who might not otherwise qualify for a mortgage. USDA loans are not limited to first-time homebuyers.
While there are a variety of mortgage loan options, you don't have to make this decision on your own. For help figuring out which mortgage loan is best for you, get in touch with a Synovus mortgage specialist today. We're here to help you get the financing you need to purchase your next home.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, "What is a Conventional Loan?" accessed June 24, 2018.


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LeBron James praises Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma, Brandon Ingram and the rest of the young Lakers for their 'hunger' to learn
A ton of people have talked about how LeBron James can help Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma, Brandon Ingram, Svi Mykhailiuk, Moe Wagner and the rest of the Lakers, but he thinks that it's "more important" that the team has shown their ready to learn.
By Harrison Faigen@hmfaigen Sep 18, 2018, 8:24am PDT
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One of the most oft-made observations about LeBron James signing with the Los Angeles Lakers was how his mere presence on the roster would help young players like Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Kyle Kuzma, Josh Hart, Moe Wagner and Svi Mykhailiuk.
Not only will James take pressure off of those players on the court by drawing the rapt attention of opposing defenses, but he'll also be able to lead both by words and by example, something we've already seen several instances of this summer.
Kuzma revealed that James is beating the rest of the young core to the practice facility regularly, something Lakers owner Jeanie Buss said that she's seen already motivating the team to work harder.
Mykhailiuk has also said that he's excited to learn from James, and James said on the Chinese television station CCTV that he thinks that type of mindset is even more critical to the team than anything he has the ability to teach them:
"I think more importantly than what I need to share with the younger guys, I think what a lot of people are missing is how hungry for knowledge that the young guys are.
"Kuz and Zo and Josh Hart, and Brandon Ingram, and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Slavi (Editor's Note: I think he meant Svi Mykhailiuk) and Moe Wagner, we have young guys that are extremely excited not only about playing the game, but also learning the game. That's going to help out even more because those guys are just hungry for knowledge, so I'm looking forward to that."
This isn't the first time James has said he's excited to play with all of his new teammates, but it is notable that he already thinks that the team is excited to learn.
We covered this yesterday, but one of the early things to watch this season is going to be whether or not James feels the need to come in and overhaul the Lakers' culture like he did in his return to Cleveland, or if he feels more like he did with the Miami Heat, where he was able to lead by example on a team of similarly motivated and professional players.
The above quote would seem to indicate he feels like the Lakers are closer to the latter situation, and that the team has already shown him that they are players who want to learn, who don't have to be housebroken like new puppies and are instead eager to show him they can contribute, and seeking for knowledge on how to do so.
That's a lot different from a Cavaliers situation in which there were literally multiple accounts of James essentially having to parent his teammates by picking up their dirty laundry. I am somehow not kidding (via the great Lee Jenkins of Sports Illustrated):
On Nov. 17, James missed a shootaround before a game against the Nuggets because he was sick, and the Cavaliers acted as if their teacher ditched school. They tossed dirty gear onto the locker room floor, ignoring the hamper in the middle of the room. Equipment manager Mark Cashman took a picture of the slop and after practice the next day showed it to the group. "I've worked here 15 years," Cashman says, "and that was the maddest I've ever been."
After Cashman tore into the team, James provided a graphic exclamation point. Cashman was transported to 2003, when James was a rookie and Cleveland played the second night of a preseason back-to-back in St. John's, Newfoundland. The Cavs landed in St. John's at 5 a.m. and were scheduled to face the Raptors in front of a sellout crowd that night. But shortly before tip-off at an arena that housed a minor league hockey team, officials noticed condensation from the ice on the court. The game was canceled, the Cavs were sent to their bus, and irritated players flung jerseys and shorts in Cashman's direction. James handed him a neatly folded uniform. "I didn't have a lot growing up," he explained to Cashman then. "I have to take care of it."
Picking up laundry obviously has very little to do with basketball — if anything at all — but in this context of James valuing professionalism, it shouldn't go unnoticed that he already feels as though the Lakers don't need him to lecture them, and that they're coming to him to learn.
There were a lot of times last year when it was asked why James would want to go to a young, unproven Lakers team, and just as James' Hollywood connections and family reasons to want to live in L.A. can't be ignored, neither can the fact that he already sees willing and eager pupils in the young Lakers.
You can follow Harrison on Twitter at @hmfaigen.


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Q: Calculating the total price of items in a shopping cart I am making a shopping cart. A shopping cart will have a total amount of money you've got to pay for the products you've selected.
I'd like to approach the problem using both OOP (encapsulating it) and more anaemically or functionally (without encapsulation).
I'm using the simplest Product model:
public class Product
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public decimal Price { get; set; }
}

1. Using encapsulation (aka rich-domain modeling)
TotalPrice can only be calculated inside the shopping cart class.
a) On the fly calculation
public class ShoppingCart
{
    private List<Product> _products = new List<Product>();

    public decimal TotalPrice { get; private set; }
    public IReadOnlyCollection<Product> Products => _products;

    public void AddProduct(Product product)
    {
        _products.Add(product);
        TotalPrice += product.Price;
    }

    public void RemoveProduct(Product product)
    {
        _products.Remove(product);
        TotalPrice -= product.Price;
    }
}

b) On the fly calculation with RecalculateTotalPrice method
Seems less performant than approach above or using computed property. We're executing a loop on each Add and Remove.
public class ShoppingCart
{
    private List<Product> _products = new List<Product>();
    public decimal TotalPrice { get; private set; }

    public void AddProduct(Product product)
    {
        _products.Add(product);
        RecalculateTotalPrice();
    }

    public void RemoveProduct(Product product)
    {
        _products.Remove(product);
        RecalculateTotalPrice();
    }

    private void RecalculateTotalPrice()
    {
        var totalPrice = 0m;
        foreach (var product in _products)
        {
            totalPrice += product.Price;
        }
        TotalPrice = totalPrice;
    }
}

c) Computed property
Calculated only when accessed TotalPrice. AddProduct and RemoveProduct don't calculate. The disadvantage is we can't easily persist this with some ORM.
public class ShoppingCart
{
    private List<Product> _products = new List<Product>();
    public decimal TotalPrice => CalculateTotalPrice();

    public void AddProduct(Product product)
    {
        _products.Add(product);
    }

    public void RemoveProduct(Product product)
    {
        _products.Remove(product);
    }

    private decimal CalculateTotalPrice()
    {
        var totalPrice = 0m;
        foreach (var product in _products)
        {
            totalPrice += product.Price;
        }
        return totalPrice;
    }
}

2. No encapsulation
Our TotalPrice will be calculated outside the class.
public class ShoppingCart
{
    public ICollection<Product> Products { get; set; } = new List<Product>();
    public decimal TotalPrice { get; set; }
}

Calculation of TotalPrice can happen from anywhere. The advantage of this is we can decouple calculation from the shopping cart and even have special calculator class for it that can be extended with custom calculation rules and so on. Some interface like IShoppingCartCalculator.
Currently, I'm using the 1a approach but I was wondering if making it a POCO would result in more extendable and maintainable code managed from the outside.
No encapsulation results in simpler code that is easier to follow. There's 1 less business layer to maintain. We're losing benefits of encapsulation but we're gaining more possibilities and we're more resistant to changes
So our pipeline works like (request → handler → invoking some calculator service method) instead of (request → handler → invoking some ShoppingCart method)
Should I give up on encapsulation to gain more possibilities and more re-usable classes or even functions in case of functional programming?
Is encapsulation a thing of the past that didn't meet expectations of reality?
I'm open to any suggestions.

A: Unless we're talking about tens of thousands of products, recalculating the total price every time is not worth considering in terms of performance.  My guess is in a typical shopping list, you're rarely going to see more than 10 items.  However, if that's not your case, feel free to write me in the comments and I'll reevaluate this.
Once performance is out of the picture, something which does need to be taken into consideration is writing code in such a way that it doesn't potentially leave holes.  By this I mean your 1a solution.  If you were to add a product, then change the price afterwards, the total price would be inconsistent.  Of course, you may very well not ever do this in your program, but you're asking which method is best.  Writing code which allows these sorts of problems is not best.
Your 1b solution is at least consistent, but recalculating each and everytime is unnecessary.  Ideally for 100 products added to the list, you only really need to calculate it once.  Again, performance is not an issue, but lets not make unnecessary calculations if we can avoid it.
Your 2 solution without encapsulation means you would necessarily have to port this logic elsewhere, and it seems a very natural thing that this logic should be present in the container itself, at least if you insist on having a TotalPrice property.
I would lean towards your 1c solution.  The fact that it may cause problems with ORM is a technical oversight to an otherwise excellent solution.  Most ORMs provide a means to disregard certain properties, so I would be surprised if there weren't something similar in your case.  Also considering that the need for an AddProduct and RemoveProduct are unnecessary, I would eliminate these from the class.  If you later needed to know if products were added or removed, you could use an observable list to hold the products.
If performance were an issue, you could always lazily calculate the total price with an internal boolean to indicate whether or not the current total is possibly dirty.  When products are added or removed, the dirty flag is set and you know next call to TotalPrice should require recalculation.

A: You are re-implementing ICollection too much here.
d) Get-only Properties
public class ShoppingCart
{
    public ICollection<Product> Products { get; } = new List<Product>();
    public decimal TotalPrice => Products.Sum(p => p.Price);
}

Your ORM should be able to populate the Products collection fine. You don't need to be able to reassign it.

A: Your example with encapsulation/oop needs more encapsulation/oop.
I obviously don't know your use-case in detail, but an OOP approach would rarely actually return a TotalPrice from a ShoppingCart. Returning data is not really oop-like.
Also, rich-domain doesn't mean that you have some additional methods on the objects, it means that you have business methods on the objects. Business methods means actions that are directly derived from the requirements, from the "Ubiquitous language".
So instead of TotalPrice, the ShoppingCart should have a Checkout(). That is what we need the price for anyway, and we shouldn't ask the object for data, we should tell it what to do.
About whether encapsulation is a thing of the past (opinionated): I think it hasn't been dominant at all yet. Having data-only "objects" (aka. records or structs) only seems more flexible. It seems flexible now, because you don't yet have to think about how it will be used. The consequence of which is that it will be used somehow all over the place. The consequence of which in turn is that it will be extremely hard to change it later, since everything will be strongly coupled to it.

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Senior Partnerships Manager
As a Senior Partnerships Manager for Skillshare, you will build relationships and develop key strategic initiatives with Skillshare content partners to drive growth and build the Skillshare brand. This role is a crucial part of our NYC original content team, working with top thought leaders, institutions, and brand partners.
You'll be on the front lines: identifying, pitching, and closing VIP partner talent. You'll be their first impression, account manager, marketing partner, and coach as they work with content producers to create inspiring, original videos for the Skillshare community.
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Here's the 3rd-post-in-a-row that I promised you! I was going to let this post slide, but my guilty conscience made sure I posted something; therefore, I'm taking this opportunity to flaunt some of my buys from yesterday. Being from where I'm from, there isn't much to do but eat, sleep, shop, and walk around Target, so I did just that yesterday with some friends. We went to so many places that we lost count, but I was able to score a little something-something at Ross and Goodwill.
If you haven't noticed yet, I am in love with polka dots. I so dig the retro feel. I kind of wish I lived in the past eras because the fashion then was way too cool. Thank goodness, old trends are coming back. Hey, isn't fashion timeless anyways? I am also in love with pleated skirts; in fact, I just bought another one that I'm picking up on Monday. They are so flattering and comfortable. With this one being mint, it was practically yelling out my name because I love pastel colors.
My ten cents #11: Experimenting new trends is good, but don't lose sight of who you are. Corny, I know, but I believe this is important. People go through phases and try different trends; some people change just to fit in with the crowd. What I love about fashion is that it is a different outlet to express yourself artistically. Through this blog, I started to develop a clearer perception of my style. Even though the current trends revolve around edgy fabric like leather and crazy platform shoes, I'm not falling into the trap…unless the leather fabric has a floral print or the platform shoes are ridiculously girly. Learning more about my taste in style is like learning more about myself as a person, and I love that feeling.


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Differential effects of Delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol and methanandamide in CB1 knockout and wild-type mice
Baskfield, CY., Martin, BR., & Wiley, J. (2004). Differential effects of Delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol and methanandamide in CB1 knockout and wild-type mice. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 309(1), 86-91.
Mice devoid of CB1 cannabinoid receptors (CB1 -/- mice) provide a unique opportunity to further investigate the role of CB1 receptors in exocannabinoid and endocannabinoid effects. CB1 -/- mice (N=18) and their wild-type littermates (CB1 +/+ mice; N=12) were placed in standard mouse operant chambers and trained to lever press under a fixed ratio 10 schedule of reinforcement. When stable lever press responding under the fixed ratio 10 schedule had been established, cannabinoids and noncannabinoids were administered to both groups. CB1 +/+ mice acquired the lever press response more readily than CB1 -/- mice. Delta(9)-Tetrahydrocannabinol (Delta(9)-THC) decreased lever press responding in CB1 +/+ mice only, whereas methanandamide, a metabolically stable endocannabinoid analog, produced similar response rate decreases in both genotypic groups. Similar to Delta(9)-THC, another endocannabinoid analog, (R)-(20-cyano-16,16-dimethyl docosa-cis-5,8,11,14-tetraeno)-1'-hydroxy-2'-propylamine (O-1812), decreased responding in CB1 +/+ mice, but not in CB1 -/- mice. The CB1 receptor antagonist N-(piperidin-1-yl)-5-(4-chlorophenyl)-1-(2,4-dichlorophenyl-4-methyl-1H- pyrazole-3-carboxamide hydrochloride (SR141716A) blocked the effects of Delta(9)-THC, but not those of methanandamide. Because methanandamide binds poorly to CB2 receptors, these results suggest possible non-CB1, non-CB2 mechanisms of action for methanandamide-induced behavioral disruption of lever press responding. Ethanol and morphine elicited greater response decreases in CB1 -/- mice than in CB1 +/+ mice, suggesting a possible role of CB1 receptors in the rate disruptive effects of these drugs. In contrast, diazepam did not produce between group differences, suggesting that CB1 receptors are not involved in diazepam-induced disruption of lever press responding
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