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BEN SHAPIRO: The Biden double standard
This week, new evidence emerged in the sexual assault allegation by former Joe Biden staffer Tara Reade against the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee. According to Business Insider, four people have stated that Reade told them contemporaneously about her accusation that Biden forcibly penetrated her with his fingers in 1993.
Meanwhile, the Media Research Center uncovered a clip, purportedly of Reade's mother, calling into "Larry King Live" back in 1993 to obliquely refer to the allegation. While such evidence does not speak to the actual event at issue, it does demonstrate that Reade has been talking about the alleged incident since it occurred.
The media ignored the original allegation for weeks. Now, even while reporting on the new developments, they've found ways to downplay their importance. Thus, The Washington Post — democracy dies in darkness! — wrote an article headlined "Trump allies highlight new claims regarding allegations against Biden."
Normally, headlines are designed to convey information about the underlying story. This headline was apparently written in English, translated to Swahili and then to Punjabi via Google Translate and then back to English before printing.
Other news outlets skipped the revelations altogether. The New York Times, which ran a comprehensive piece two weeks ago attempting to debunk Reade's case, completely ignored the new information. NBC News didn't bother covering the information either.
Meanwhile, NBC News and MSNBC Chairman Andy Lack printed a piece on the network website celebrating its journalistic performance. "Humbled by the responsibility we bear, we try our damnedest to serve our audience," he said. It's a wonder Lack didn't dislocate both arms trying desperately to pat himself on the back.
As of this writing, Biden has not been asked a single direct question about Reade by a television reporter. Meanwhile, members of the media cheer their audacity in asking President Donald Trump questions like, "If an American president loses more Americans over the course of six weeks than died in the entirety of the Vietnam War, does he deserve to be reelected?" So. Much. Journalisming.
Why does any of this matter? Not because Biden should be convicted in the court of public opinion without evidence. He shouldn't. The standards of due process should apply evenly, regardless of partisanship.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh should not have been subjected to thousands of hit pieces, magazine covers and twisted accusations that his anger at rape accusations he disputed was mere evidence of his privilege. Christine Blasey Ford should not have been celebrated nationwide as a symbol of truth telling without any corroborative evidence. #BelieveAllWomen was always an idiotic slogan. Only now are members of the media admitting it.
That's why this matters. Biden's candidacy will survive Tara Reade: Democrats aren't dumping Biden overboard based on a 27-year-old accusation of questionable veracity, and they certainly won't do so when running against Trump, who has his own checkered history.
But the media's pathetically hypocritical standard on due process and sexual assault allegations won't survive. Neither will their credibility. President Trump spends an inordinate amount of time bashing the media for their lack of seriousness. The same media who laureled Democrats for cashiering Kavanaugh and now spend their days studiously avoiding any talk about Tara Reade deserve every ounce of skepticism the American people can muster.
There's a serio-comic tenor to this whole situation. We're living in a time when we must trust the media more than ever — to bring us unbiased, factual information about a global pandemic, to warn us of dangers and to be reasonable about risk assessment. Yet the media have spent so many years burning through their credibility that they have little left. That's their own fault.
If they wish to restore their credibility, they could start by apologizing for their Kavanaugh coverage — and by providing some fact-checking about their own political motivations.
Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show," and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller "The Right Side of History." He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles. This content is provided courtesy of Creators Syndicate.


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address
=========

address is an address parsing library, taking the guesswork out of
using addresses in your applications. We use it as part of our apartment
search and apartment spider applications.

Installation
------------

::

    pip install address

Example
-------

First, we create an AddressParser. AddressParser allows us to feed in
lists of cities, streets, and address suffixes. Then we call
parse\_address on our address string, which returns an Address instance
with all the attributes filled out. From there, we can print parts of
the address, change them, validate them, create a database model to
store them, or anything else.

::

    from address import AddressParser, Address

    ap = AddressParser()
    address = ap.parse_address('123 West Mifflin Street, Madison, WI, 53703')
    print "Address is: {0} {1} {2} {3}".format(address.house_number, address.street_prefix, address.street, address.street_suffix)

    > Address is: 123 W. Mifflin St.

AddressParser
-------------

``AddressParser(self, suffixes=None, cities=None, streets=None)``

suffixes, cities, and streets all accept lists as arguments. If you
leave them as none, they will read default files from the package,
namely suffixes.csv, cities.csv, and streets.csv. Streets is
intentionally blank.

You can provide lists of acceptable suffixes, cities, and streets to
lower your false positives. If you know all the addresses you are
processing are in a small area, you can provide a list of the cities in
the area and should get more accurate results. If you are only doing one
city, you could provide that single city in a list, and a list of all
streets in that city.

Address
-------

Addresses get returned by AddressParser.parser\_address(). They have the
following attributes:

``house_number``

The number on a house. This is required for all valid addresses. E.g.
**123** W. Mifflin St.

``street_prefix``

The direction before the street name. Always represented as one or two
letters followed by a period. Not required. E.g. 123 **W.** Mifflin St.

``street``

The name of the street. Potentially multiple words. This is required for
a valid address. E.g. 123 W. **Mifflin** St.

``street_suffix``

The ending of a street. This will always be the USPS abbreviation
followed by a period. Not required, but highly recommended. E.g. 123 W.
Mifflin **St.**

``apartment``

Apartment number or unit style or any number of things signifying a
specific part of an address. Not required. E.g. 123 W. Mifflin St. **Apt
10**

``buiding``

Sometimes addresses are grouped into buildings, or are more commonly
known as by building names. Not required, and often in parathenses. E.g.
123 W. Mifflin St. Apt 10 **(The Estates)**

``city``

The city part of the address, preferably following a comma. E.g. 123 W.
Mifflin St., **Madison**, WI 53703

``state``

The state of the address, preferably following the city and a comma.
Always two capitalized letters. E.g. 123 W. Mifflin St., Madison, **WI**
53703

``zip``

The 5 digit zip code of the address, preferably following the state. 9
digit zips not yet supported. E.g. 123 W. Mifflin St., Madison, WI
**53703**

``full_address()``

Returns a human readable version of the address for display. Follows the
same style rules as the above attributes. Example return: (The Estates)
123 W. Mifflin St. Apt 10, Madison, WI 53703

Todo
----

-  Add verification of an address through Google Maps API, given an API
   key.

-  Allow custom validation conditions in AddressParser for what counts
   as a correct address or not.

-  Add exceptions for incorrect addresses instead of silent failing and
   letting user validate.

GitHub
------

File support requests and obtain the source from
https://github.com/SwoopSearch/pyaddress

Authors
-------

-  Josh Gachnang

-  Rob Jauquet

License and Copyright
---------------------

Copyright (c) 2013 Swoop Search LLC.

This library is released under the New BSD License.

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Why TGI Fridays' Endless Appetizer Deal Isn't As Great As It Seems
Ashley Lutz
Jul. 7, 2014, 10:54 AM
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TGI Fridays just announced a deal for "endless appetizers."
The unlimited appetizer deal for just $10 is a first for a major restaurant chain, according to USA Today.
But the bargain comes with a big caveat: you can only get refills of the same appetizer, such as potato skins, mozzarella sticks, or Tuscan Spinach Dip.
The deal is ideal for sharing with a big group.
But Fridays' Chief Marketing Officer Brian Gies told USA Today that the chain discourages sharing appetizers, although he conceded that the guideline wouldn't be enforced.
"At the end of the day, our servers aren't policemen," Gies said. "We're not going to slap someone's hand if they reach over and share someone else's mozzarella sticks."
The Fridays' promo runs through August 24.
Casual-dining chains like Fridays and competitor Applebee's have been struggling with competition from brands like Chipotle and Panera Bread.
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EIT RawMaterials: Closing material loops with Petrit-T – turning industrial side streams into acoustic panels and cement
Sixty tons of industrial side streams can be used as raw material.
To move society toward a circular economy and reduce society's use of virgin raw materials, industry by-products (side streams) have to be treated as products as well. This has been the objective in the Min-Pet project (2016–2019) where the use of a mineral side stream, Petrit-T, has been upscaled as a raw material for acoustic panels and cement.
We have been successful in defining a method for scaling up the use of geopolymer Petrit-T as a raw material in acoustic panels. Currently, we are collaborating with a company developing a process for using Petrit-T in producing acoustic panels.
Björn Haase, Manager Non-metal Products at Höganäs AB
Björn Haase is responsible for Höganäs' work with side streams and has been occupied with developing and producing environmentally friendly geopolymer materials for nearly ten years. However, finding potential applications for side streams has not always been simple. Björn is a pioneer in the field, and his insistent efforts and cooperation with other companies are one of the main reasons why Höganäs manages to use so much of its side streams.
When I visited the University of Oulu in Finland a handful years ago and heard what they were doing there I got the idea of using Petrit-T as a raw material for inorganic polymers.
Björn Haase
In the Min-Pet project, the main focus has been to scale-up the use of the inorganic binder raw material to yield geopolymer-based materials as well as cement. Both the ceramic-like geopolymeric material and the cement has multiple uses in many applications including concrete elements, foamed concrete, thermal insulation material, and as a low-temperature ceramic.
EIT RawMaterials and the partners involved have played a major role in supporting this development. It was difficult to gain support for the use of side streams ten years ago, but nowadays circular economy and industrial symbiosis are a frequent topic of conversation. We have been able to evaluate, compare and develop the geopolymer as a new raw material thanks to EIT RawMaterials.
Höganäs uses 80 per cent of all side streams
At the world's biggest metal powder manufacturer Höganäs AB's production plants all over the world vast quantities of byproducts (side streams) are produced. The company tries to ensure that as much as possible of this material is used as a new raw material in its own production processes or by other industries.
In 2019, approximately 80 per cent of Höganäs' side streams were used. The company aims at increasing usage of side streams to 85 per cent by 2020 and 95 per cent by 2026. By successful commercialization of the Petrit-T foam geopolymer, up to 20 000 tonnes of side stream can be used in Höganäs alone.
Side streams from Höganäs can replace materials that are otherwise blasted out of rock for use in roadbuilding, for example. Höganäs is part of the circular economy in that we provide industries with raw materials from our side streams and largely use scrap as a raw material in our own production processes. The more side streams we can use in society, the less virgin material is needed.
Cooperation the key to success
The Min-Pet project has brought together key players in the European raw materials sector; four research units (University of Oulu, KU-Leuven, VTT and ZAG), two companies specialized in the circular economy and waste valorization (Dansk jordstabilisering and Destamatic) and large industry (Höganäs). The consortium covers the whole value chain from the producer to the end-users, complemented with research institutions.
We are successful in pursuing technical development and projects that the entire steel industry can benefit from thanks to cooperation with companies in the steel industry and other industries. We also link together industries that do not normally come into contact with one another. Slag asphalt for the asphalt industry and water treatment with slag for the water treatment industry are just a couple of examples of successful projects of this kind.
Despite the simple manufacturing process of geopolymer materials, careful science and engineering is required in designing the reactions.
60 million tons of industrial side streams
Alkali-activation for several waste streams has been commercialized in several countries worldwide highlighting the technical feasibility of the concept and the core technology. Being a platform technology, alkali-activation can be applied to a wide range of different markets starting from sustainable concrete, to railroad sleepers, and high-end fiber composites
One challenge involves assessing which side stream materials are suitable for which customers. Extensive analysis work is required in this regard.
We have a number of products from our side streams, but we have to come up with new options the whole time. This is why we carry out extensive sampling procedures in order to analyse and control the qualities of our material and work out the industries for which the material might be useful. We have to be innovative and constantly think along new lines.
The technology upscaled in the Min-Pet project can be used to valorise other similar industrial side streams as well, such as fly ashes and slags.
There are roughly 60 million tons of inorganic industrial side streams that are landfilled in EU per annum, highlighting the need for these kind of upscaling projects.
As the concept of utilizing industrial side streams using alkali-activation will be applied to an ever-widening number of applications, for example, molding, extrusion and fiber reinforcing, it will enable ever-higher returns to the European raw material sector.
Closing material loops with Petrit-T – turning industrial side streams into acoustic panels and cement
Fast-track your business with the EIT RawMaterials Accelerator!EIT RawMaterials partner VTT is developing a rapid test for coronavirusEIT RawMaterials-supported project is scaling up with commercialisation prospects


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Tunisia rejects UNHRC recommendation to decriminalise gay sex
Richard Ammon | June 6, 2012 | Tunisia | GlobalGayz
Tunisian minister of human rights, transitional justice and spokesman of the Tunisian government, Samir Dilou has rejected a recommendation by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to decriminalize same-sex acts, stating that sexual orientation was a western concept which is incompatible with Islam, Tunisian culture and traditions.
In a press conference held in Tunis, Dilou stated that while all Tunisians are entitled to basic protection, the concept of 'sexual orientation is specific to the West. Tunisia has its own identity as an Arab Muslim state,' he was quoted by Tunisia Live magazine.
According to Dilou Tunisian law overrides such a "stipulation" as it 'clearly describes Tunisia as an Arab Muslim country.'
He also does not see the law against homosexuality as in conflict with the premise of freedom: 'there is no absolute freedom. All freedoms are restricted by the law', he stressed.
The anti-gay French colonial law (Article 230), adopted and maintained by the Ben Ali regime, is still in effect, despite the Tunisian revolution, penalizing same-sex acts with up to three years imprisonment.
The response came after a Tunisian delegation, headed by Dilou, attended UNHRC's May 22-25 session where such recommendations were made.
Dilou stated that Tunisia approved most of the 110 recommendations of the Human Rights Council for Tunisia, including judicial reform, equality for women, children and disabled rights.
Some recommendations were said to need further discussion and national debate. The only two rejected outright concerned the decriminalization of same-sex acts and religious defamation.
This is the second time this year that Tunisian Minister of Human Rights has publicly announced his opposition to gay rights. Earlier this year Dilou referred to homosexuality as a disease as opposed to a human right, which was sharply criticized by Amnesty International, Reporters without Borders and Act up Paris. He also objected to Tunisia's first openly gay magazine – gaydaymag, saying 'freedom has its limits.'
The UN council recommendations also coincide with previous calls made this year by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and Human Rights High Commissioner Navi Pillay during a panel on violence and discrimination against Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) individuals.
Amanullah De Sondy, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, at the University of Miami and esteemed Islamic scholar commented on Dilou's objection: 'It appears that the minister is stating that Article 230 is about upholding Islam yet it is a French Colonial law that was imposed on Tunisia in 1913 and has nothing to do with Islam or Tunisian Arab traditions.'
As for Dilou's assertion regarding LGBT rights as incompatible with Islamic justice and faith he stated: 'The issue of homosexuality or any form of varying sexuality are challenges to authority, patriarchy and heteronormativity. Islam is open to interpretation and depending on how one reads the scripture homosexuality need not be objected to nor classified as "haram" according to Shari'a. If Islam and its law is about upholding peace in faith to God, Dilou is surely forgetting the core essence of this religion's commitment to social justice.'
He further stated that 'same sex intimacy and love has always existed in Arab societies, those who deny this are clearly deluded. More and more young Arab Muslims want to be out and proud of their sexuality and no longer want to be categorised as diseased or marginalised but are seeking their place in society. Dilou is clearly incapable of bridging beautiful Arab/Muslim traditions to contemporary realities.'
Fadi, the editor of gaydaymag stated: 'This rejection doesn't mark the end of the fight, yet it shows that advocacy towards equality and ensuring LGBT rights are not in vain. We need to keep the pressure going.
'Dilou and his delegation totally contradict themselves if they claim equality between men and women is compatible with Islam and use the same arguments to oppose LGBT rights, these are human rights not ones set apart.
'The challenge is to convince the government and the general public and in this respect we have taken an important first step.'
by Dan Littauer
Source – PinkNews
Tags: gay tunisia


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Johanna has been attracted to Reeve for sometime now. She daydreams about their first touch, their first kiss, and eventually becoming a couple. The only problem? They've never even spoken and it's unlikely that Reeve knows she exists. The next problem? There is only a couple days left until High School graduation. With a lot of determination and a little bit of luck, Johanna manages to push her way into Reeve's life. But she's soon discovering that love is not all paradise; in fact, there's a much darker side filled with trouble and abuse. And the tighter Johanna holds on, the further into darkness she is pulled. In a story of first love, Johanna must decide if holding onto a fantasy is worth losing everything else.
This has got to be one of the hardest reviews for me to write. I've been looking forward to Rage: A Love Story for months, only to find it didn't live up to my expectations. I went into it longing for a good lesbian love story, but that was certainly not what I got. Now, don't get me wrong, I still ADORE Julie Anne Peters. She is a brilliant writer and Rage does not fail in that department. She does a beautiful job at bringing a story to life. The characters were quite realistic and I have no doubt that this situation could/does happen.
Yet, for some reason the plot didn't sit well with me. There were moments that I cringed and wanted to shake some sense into Johanna, especially when she talked about wearing her bruises as badges of her love. I couldn't understand how this girl she barely knew meant so much to her. How after only a week or so, she was allowing Reeve to abuse her. Why did she continue to cling to this girl instead of walking away? I can understand how hard it would be if they had been dating months or years, but weeks? The love aspect just seemed to happen much, much too fast for my liking. I do understand that all of Johanna's fantasies may have given her the illusion of a deeper attachment, but I don't know.
Now, before I end this review, I have to say that Julie Anne Peters ends the story well. There is a sense of healing that has and will continue to happen on both sides. I was left with the hope that both girls would see happier times ahead. I'm still a little sad that I didn't get the good, romantic love story I had hoped for, but that's okay. It will be a hard one to recommend to my teens, though, if only because I don't know how to sell it. It's not really one I can add onto a love or LGBT list, however, I can see it being received well by those who thrive on the "issue" novels.
Have you read Rage: A Love Story? If so, let me know what you think!


Heading into a hospital can be a scary enough experience for anyone, even if you do not have anything wrong with you. In fact, heading in to hospital to visit someone that you care about can indeed be a harrowing experience for many and it is important that you get properly prepared before you make the journey.
The first time I did this was 2 years ago when I went to visit my Mum in the hospital, I had prepared properly beforehand and it was not a pleasurable experience by any stretch of the imagination. At that time my Mum was chatting to her colleague from Slater and Gordon solicitors who helped to put my mind at ease. If you want to avoid the mistake that I made, here is how you can mentally prepare yourself for visiting someone you love in hospital.
The first thing that you need to remember is that when you see your loved one sitting in a hospital bed, for whatever has happened to them, they will look a great deal different from what you are used to. This could be as a result of tiredness, perhaps they won't have their hair done and make up on, or it could also be as the result of tubes and machines that they are connected to. Don't expect to see the person that you are used to seeing.
The next thing to bear in mind is that a hospital is for people who are sick, for this reason there will be things that you see, hear or smell that are not exactly enjoyable. When you enter the hospital, try not to look around too much, this is for two reasons, the first is that you should respect the privacy of the other patients and the second is that you may not wish to see what is going on when you do look around.
Not everyone visits a hospital for bad news and it may well be that you are heading in to the hospital to celebrate the birth of a new baby. If you are going in to the hospital for good news, be sure to respect the other patients, there is nothing wrong with being happy but don't overdo it as there are many people inside the hospital who are not feeling as happy as you, many in fact or feeling the complete opposite.
It can be easy to freak out a little bit once you first see all of the machines and tubes which may be attached to your loved one but it is important that you understand that the nurses and doctors know what they are doing. Make sure that you have confidence in the medical professionals that are working with your family member, partner or friend and don't question them as you will only make matters worse.
It is important that you know exactly what to expect before heading in to hospital so that you can minimize how traumatic the experience could be.


Manisha purchased my "anytime mini" when I was trying to raise money for my More Than 4 Project click here to see what the MT4 project was all about!
It was hot and at the end of the day and the kiddos were tired, but they did really well for our little 15 minute session. This little cutie picked out this dress from all of our wardrobe and it looked adorable on her!
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Trump gains traction on healthcare bill, vote set for Thursday
Published On: May 4, 2017 08:28 AM NPT By: Reuters
President Donald Trump's effort to roll back Obamacare gained momentum on Wednesday as Republican leaders scheduled a vote in the House of Representatives on Thursday on a fresh version of legislation.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy expressed confidence the bill would pass and several moderate Republican lawmakers who previously had objections to the bill said they could now support it.
Keen to score his first major legislative win since taking office in January, Trump threw his own political capital behind the bill, meeting with lawmakers and calling them in an effort to cajole their support.
Trump, whose Republican party controls both the House and Senate, is seeking to make good on his campaign promise to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Aides said he worked the phones furiously.
Wavering moderate Republicans had worried that the legislation to overhaul President Barack Obama's 2010 signature healthcare law would leave too many people with pre-existing medical conditions at risk of not having health coverage.
But the skeptical Republican lawmakers got behind the bill after meeting with Trump to float a compromise proposal that is still expected to face unanimous Democratic opposition.
The legislation's prospects brightened further after members of the Freedom Caucus, a faction of conservative lawmakers in the House who played a key role in derailing the original version of the bill last month, said they could go along with the compromise.
But even if the House advances the legislation, it faces a difficult road in the Senate.
Millions more Americans got healthcare coverage under Obamacare, but Republicans have long attacked it, seeing it as government overreach and complaining it drives up costs.
Called the American Health Care Act, the Republican bill would repeal most Obamacare taxes, including a penalty for not buying health insurance. It would slash funding for Medicaid, the program that provides insurance for the poor, and roll back much of Medicaid's expansion.
The latest effort comes after earlier pushes by Trump for healthcare reform collapsed twice, underscoring the difficulty of rallying together divided factions of the Republican party.
Earlier this week, prospects for the legislation appeared grim as several influential moderate Republicans said they could not support the bill because it did not do enough to make sure people with pre-existing conditions could obtain affordable health coverage.
Putting a spotlight on the concerns about pre-existing conditions, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel made a tearful plea for retaining that provision in Obamacare as he recounted a medical emergency that arose with his newborn son.
Kimmel's monologue about his son's congenital heart condition was viewed nearly 19 million times on his show's Facebook page and on Wednesday morning was the No. 1 trending story on YouTube.
Republican Representatives Fred Upton and Billy Long, who were part of a group of moderate lawmakers who met at the White House with Trump, said the president endorsed their plan to add $8 billion over five years to help cover the cost for people with pre-existing illnesses who could otherwise be priced out of insurance markets.
Describing Trump's efforts to secure his support, Long said Trump told him: "'Billy we really need you, man.'"
Representative Mark Meadows, chairman of the conservative Freedom Caucus, said the new language on pre-existing conditions was a "net plus" for garnering the votes needed to pass the healthcare bill.
Critics of the changes to the law, including several health policy experts, said the $8 billion could not be enough to cover the cost of coverage for the sickest patients.
Republicans did not await a new score from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to see how many people would be insured under their revised plan and how much it would cost.
UNCERTAINTY FOR STOCKS
Health insurers, such as Anthem Inc (ANTM.N), UnitedHealth Group Inc (UNH.N), Aetna Inc (AET.N) and Cigna Corp (CI.N), have faced months of uncertainty over healthcare's future. So have hospital companies, such as HCA Holdings Inc (HCA.N) and Tenet Healthcare Corp (THC.N).
On Wednesday, Aetna said it will exit the Obamacare individual insurance market in Virginia next year, citing "growing uncertainty" and expected losses this year.
House Democrats rejected the latest change to the Republican legislation on Wednesday, saying it appears to protect patients with pre-existing conditions but some could still be pushed off their insurance in certain states and face higher costs.
"This is deadly," House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi told a news conference. "No Band-Aid will fix it."
Democrats have long thought their best chance of stopping the repeal would be in the Senate, where only a few Republicans would need to defect to stop the law from moving forward.
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In this paper, it was an attempt to be present a practical perishability inventory model. The proposed model adds using spoilage of products and variable prices within a time period to a recently published location-inventory-routing model in order to make it more realistic. Aforementioned model by integration of strategic, tactical and operational level decisions produces better results for supply chains. Due to the NP-hard nature of this model, a genetic algorithm with unique chromosome representation is used to achieve the optimal solution and reasonable time. Finally, the analysis is carried out to verify the effectiveness of the algorithm with and without considering the cost of spoiled products.
Ahmadi-Javid, A., and A.H. Seddighi, (2012). "A location-routing-inventory model for designing multisource distribution networks", Engineering Optimization, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 637-656.
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Back in 2011, I had open heart surgery, which was kind of an emergency, so I ended up in the hospital a little over a week before the Northwest Permaculture Convergence being held near Portland, Oregon. I was so determined to go to the convergence, that just a few days after I was released we headed down there to the fair grounds near St. Helens, and managed to take part in various workshops and lead a little singing here and there.
The one I remember best was the workshop on "Placemaking" led by an eloquent young man named Michael Cook from Portland's City Repair project. Begun by Mark Lakeman, this project, as I understand it, is an attempt to reclaim neighborhoods as places where connection and sharing of ideas and skills and helpful service and garden produce and play and celebration and grief can happen because of the willingness and longing in people to live in a deeply nourishing way together. The folks in a neighborhood begin by creating spaces for sharing tea, books, conversation, making cob benches and book sharing kiosks, and even painting a whole intersection with a colorful mandala, where dances and celebrations are held.
The phrase that moved me most in that workshop was, "A place is a space invested with meaning." It was spoken right at a moment when I needed to head for the restroom, so I slipped away with that phrase in my head, and when I reached that resonant concrete fairgrounds facility, this song started up. Upon my return to the workshop, I invited everyone to invest some meaning into our space by singing this song together. It seemed to work.
Since then, I have considered the difference between a meaningful and meaningless gesture, event, place, experience, etc. I've decided that what makes something meaningless is that nothing nourishing, inspiring, enlivening, or life enhancing actually happens. I feel empty, unmoved, uninspired, disconnected. Conversely a meaningful experience gives me a sense of greater connection and aliveness. I'm moved, inspired, truly nourished in body and soul. So often, that's what happens when we sing together. We invest our space, wherever it is, with meaning.
A place is a space invested with meaning.
We can make any space into a place of meaning.
It's a place of connection. It's a place that's alive.
It's a place where each soul is seen and all our relations are encouraged to thrive.
It's a place of celebration that holds both our joy and our grief.
It's a place that knows how conflict may be carefully guided to peace.
It's a place were conflict, with truth and understanding, may be carefully guided to peace.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
// repositories need a reference to the app domain model classes
//using sep13v1.Models;
using AutoMapper;

namespace sep13v1.ViewModels
{
    // Notice the superclass
    public class Repo_Program : RepositoryBase
    {
        public IEnumerable<ProgramList> GetList()
        {
            var programs = ds.Programs;

            // Without AutoMapper...
            var newprograms = new List<ProgramList>();
            foreach (var program in programs)
            {
                newprograms.Add(new ProgramList() { Id = program.Id, Code = program.Code, Name = program.Name });
            }
            return newprograms;

            // Alternative, with AutoMapper...
            // (comment out the six lines of code above)

            // AutoMapper needs two things (minimum) to work:
            // 1) A map 'definition' statement, which defines the source-and-target class mapping
            // 2) A map 'execute' statement, which performs the mapping

            // In this example, we will write the 'definition' statement
            // However, in all of your work (and in future examples from me),
            // the 'definition' statements will go in Global.asax.cs

            // Definition...
            Mapper.CreateMap<Models.Program, ViewModels.ProgramList>();

            // Execute...
            return Mapper.Map<IEnumerable<ViewModels.ProgramList>>(programs);
        }

        public IEnumerable<ProgramFull> GetAll()
        {
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            // Map 'definition'...
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            return Mapper.Map<IEnumerable<ViewModels.ProgramFull>>(programs);
        }

        public ProgramFull GetById(int id)
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Bucs will start Ryan Fitzpatrick, bench Jameis Winston
Cassandra Negley
The Fitzmagic is officially back in Tampa Bay.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Dirk Koetter made his quarterback decision public Monday morning, telling the media Ryan Fitzpatrick will return to the starting role in week 9. The Bucs (3-4) will travel to play the Carolina Panthers (5-2) in a tight NFC South matchup.
#Bucs coach Dirk Koetter announces his QB decision: Ryan Fitzpatrick will start on Sunday. So Jameis Winston to the bench.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) October 29, 2018
"That's what we feel like we need to do this week to give ourselves the best chance," said Koetter, adding the decision is just for right now.
He said he doesn't like switching quarterbacks, but feels they "need to make the switch at this time."
Fitzpatrick, who started the first four games of the season, led the Tampa Bay rally against the Bengals after Winston was benched following four interceptions. The Bucs lost, 37-34, after a last-second field goal.
Winston benched after more turnovers
Jameis Winston threw four interceptions in less than three quarters against the Bengals on Sunday, putting his team into a 34-16 deficit after a pick-six.
In the first quarter he threw an interception in the end zone and later on added one that was seemingly to none of his receivers.
In the third quarter he threw another inaccurate pass the Bengals snatched.
The first round pick in the 2015 NFL draft has 10 interceptions in four games this season with six touchdowns. Over his four-year career, the first two of which he played every game, he has 54 interceptions to 75 touchdowns.
Winston is in the final year of his guaranteed contract. The Bucs picked up the fifth-year option in April, but 2019 is not guaranteed.
Ryan Fitzpatrick came off the bench in Sunday's game against the Cincinnati Bengals. (Getty Images)
Fitzpatrick magic makes midseason comeback
Ryan Fitzpatrick had a stellar and surprising start to the season for the Bucs while Winston served a three-game suspension for inappropriately touching an Uber driver.
Fitzpatrick opened the season with two victories, including a record-setting win against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 3. He became the first quarterback to throw for at least 400 yards in three consecutive games and therefore has his jersey in the Hall of Fame.
Though he got the start in week 4 against the Chicago Bears, Koetter pulled Fitzpatrick in favor of Winston when the Bucs fell behind, 38-3, at halftime. Winston has held the starting role since while the Bucs struggle with a quarterback conundrum.
Fitzpatrick has 1,550 passing yards over five games, averaging a career-high 310 yards per game. He has 13 touchdowns and five interceptions.
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The central theme this week is the sin of the spies, the meraglim. The Parsha opens with Moshe alluding to the sins of the previous generation who died in the desert. He describes what would have happened if they hadnt sinned by sending spies into Eretz Yisrael. Hashem would have given them without a fight all the land from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates, including the lands of Ammon, Moav and Edom. He details the subtle sins that culminate in the sin of the spies, and reviews at length this incident and its results: The entire generation would die in the desert; Moshe would not enter Eretz Yisrael. He reminds them that their immediate reaction to Hashems decree was to want to "go up and fight" to redress the sin; he recounts how they wouldnt listen when he told them not to go, that they no longer merited vanquishing their enemies miraculously. They ignored him and suffered a massive defeat. They were not allowed to fight with the kingdoms of Esav, Moav or Ammon these lands were not to be part of the map of Eretz Yisrael in the meantime. When the conquest of Canaan will begin with Sichon and Og, it will be via natural warfare.
Sometimes I sit down to write things that I know that people will enjoy: a heart-warming tale, a wry take on our brief walk in this world. And sometimes I sit down to write something that I know people will find hard to take but nevertheless needs to be said. This is one of the latter.
Thursday, this week, is the blackest day of the Jewish calendar the Ninth of Av. The Ninth of Av has been a day of tragedy for the Jewish People since the Exodus from Egypt. In more recent times, as we mentioned last week, it was in the early hours of July 23rd 1942 Tisha BAv that the first train transport of deportees left Malkinia in Poland. The train was made up of sixty closed cars, crowded with people Jews from the Warsaw ghetto. The car doors were locked from the outside and the air apertures were barred with barbed wire. That was the day the killings started at Treblinka.
In Auschwitz, there was of all things, a small chapel. The chapel had a priest whose job it was to attend to needs of the camp staff. Day after day, he watched as train after train after train disgorged its human cargo. Day after day after day, his eyes lifted to the smoke wafting from the ovens, all that was left of a million lives, a million mummys and daddys goodnight kisses, a million broken birthday toys, a million pairs of bewildered frightened eyes staring lifeless into eternity.
One day, the priest walked into his chapel and went up to the cross. He picked up the cross and slowly, with his bare hands, tore it piece by piece into splinters. He smashed the cross until nothing remained of it, saying over and over again, "This is the people of G-d! This is the people of G-d!"
The priest realized that he was witnessing something that defied belief, something that went far beyond the bounds of natural hatred and cruelty. He was witnessing something that could only be called supernatural.
Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai lived at the time of the destruction of the Second Temple. There was unimaginable hunger in the Land of Israel. One day, he came upon a young girl picking out undigested barley from amongst the dung of an animal owned by Arabs the only food she could find. This girl was the daughter of Nakdimon ben Gurion, one of the richest men in the world. Rabbi Yochanan started to cry, "How happy are you, Yisrael! When you do the will of G-d, no nation nor tongue can rule over you, and when you forsake G-ds will, you are delivered into the hands of the lowliest nation and not even into their hands, but into the hands of their animals."
Why the Jewish People should be happy that no nation rules over them is self-evident, but why they should be happy sifting dung to survive demands explanation.
The Rashba tells us that there are two kinds of miracles, a miracle for the good and a miracle for the bad. A miracle isnt just where someone is saved at the eleventh hour. It isnt just someone throwing away his calipers after a lifetime of being a cripple. A miracle is clear evidence of G-d overiding the natural order, of His direct intervention in nature. That intervention can be for the good or for the bad.
When natural disaster strikes, when there is an earthquake or a flood, or a building collapses without reason, it means that G-d is punishing us without revealing Himself. He has used the natural world as His agents. In other words, He doesnt want a direct involvement with us and has distanced Himself from us. However, when something happens that is so clearly un-natural even though the punishment is terrible nevertheless we recognize that our punishment is coming directly from our Father in Heaven. We have not been abandoned to the hands of an agent.
When the daughter of the most affluent is reduced to foraging in excrement, when the worlds most civilized nation suddenly turns into a wild monster without any rational reason, we have clear evidence of the supernatural at work.
"This is the people of G-d."
based on Rabbi Yonatan Eibeshitz and Rabbi Elya Lopian in Lev Eliahu.


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Counterfeit Christ: Socialism
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The Huffington Post seems to think so – On Christmas 2016, HuffPost published the online article Jesus Was A Socialist
In the Stern Dining Hall of Stanford University there is a painting by Antonio Burciaga called The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes.
It's an homage to Da Vinci's Last Supper but with Hispanic heroes in place of Jesus and the apostles.
The mural has generated controversy because of its depiction of socialist revolutionary Che Guevara in the place of Jesus Christ. One outraged student wrote in a Stanford newspaper, "Che Guevara was a butcher and a tyrant. It is utterly disgusting, offensive, and ignorant for Casa Zapata to deify him on its walls."
But many people think it's entirely appropriate to compare Che to Jesus because both men were "socialists" who liberated the poor.
In her popular book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich says Jesus was a "wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist" whose inconvenient message about helping the poor the Church tries to suppress.
In 2015, Bolivian president and head of the Movement for Socialist party Evo Morales gifted Pope Francis with a "Communist crucifix." It depicted Christ crucified on a hammer and sickle (the symbol of the communist party in the Soviet Union) in an effort to show that socialism and Christianity are compatible with one another.
Pope Pius XI said "no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist," but this counterfeit Christ says the exact opposite: the only good Catholics are true socialists. If you really cared about the poor, if you really accepted the call of Christ to care for the "least among us" (Matt. 25:40) then you would support socialist policies to eliminate poverty.
But how can that be true if . . .
…Jesus Did Not Preach Socialist Policies
If you define a socialist as "a person who wants to help the poor," then Jesus was a socialist—but then so is almost everyone else. What makes someone a socialist is not his desire to help the poor but his belief about what kind of economy provides the most benefit to the poor.
Capitalism, for example, is defined in terms of private ownership of the means to produce goods and services. Usually, this kind of capitalism takes place within a "market economy" that allows for the free exchange of goods and services as a means to create profit. Capitalists believe that this voluntary series of exchanges makes everyone in the economy wealthier and that this is the most effective way to lift people out of poverty.
Socialism, on the other hand, refers to the collective or "social" ownership of the means to produce goods and services. There are several different kinds of economic models that have been called socialism, but according to The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought, "By its very nature [socialism] involves the abolition of private ownership of capital; bringing the means of production, distribution, and exchange into public ownership and control is central to its philosophy."
Socialists claim the best way to alleviate poverty is through a central authority like the government (as opposed to decentralized forces like the market) distributing a society's wealth among its individual members.
If this is what is meant by "socialism," then Jesus was not a socialist because Jesus did not seek to abolish the private ownership of capital (like money or natural resources) or the means of production like organized farms and manufacturing technologies.
According to economist Lawrence Reed, "The fact is, one can scour the scriptures with a fine-tooth comb and find nary a word from Jesus that endorses the forcible redistribution of wealth by political authorities. None, period."
But even if Jesus didn't preach socialist political policies, couldn't we say he preached socialist values when it came to individuals? After all, he told the rich man that if he wanted to inherit eternal life he should sell what he had and give it to the poor (Mark 10:21). Doesn't this mean that Jesus wanted the rich to give away all their money to the poor?
It should first be noted that giving away your money to the poor is a charitable value rather than a socialist one. Jesus' commands for individuals to give alms to the poor (Luke 12:33) did not include whether those individuals should give that money directly to the poor, donate it to charities who serve the poor, or allow the money to be taxed and redistributed though government subsidy programs.
Helping the poor is a non-negotiable issue for Christians, but there can be reasonable disagreement among believers over which methods are the best way to reduce poverty."
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Amazon Financial Technology Team is looking for a results-oriented software development engineer, who can help us create the next generation of distributed, scalable financial systems. Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts that are typically being defined in real-time. We need someone to design and develop services that facilitate global financial transactions worth billions (USD) annually.
As a software development engineer, you will help solve a variety of technical challenges and build highly scalable solutions to solve unique problems for worldwide accounting/finance teams. You will work on big data problems making use of AWS services, design enterprise scaled systems, develop and deploy highly scalable and reliable distributed services. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that's higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that, frankly, haven't been solved at scale before. Along the way, we guarantee that you will learn a ton, have fun and make a huge impact.
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Dominance released new lyric video "This Is War"
METALLICA commemorated what would have Cliff Burton's 56th birthday by performing the song "Orion" during the band's February 10 concert in at the Pala Alpitour in Turin, Italy. Professionally filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below.
The track, which appears on METALLICA's classic 1986 album "Master Of Puppers", was co-written by the band's late bassist, whose life was tragically cut short in a tour bus crash on September 27, 1986 12 miles north of Ljungby, Sweden. He was just 24.
Last week, Alameda County, California officially proclaimed February 10 to be "Cliff Burton Day" in the musician's honor.
Burton played on METALLICA's first three studio albums — "Kill 'Em All", "Ride The Lightning" and "Master Of Puppets" — and co-wrote classic songs like "Ride The Lightning", "For Whom The Bell Tolls", "Fade To Black", "Creeping Death" and "Master Of Puppets".
Burton's initial replacement in the group was Jason Newsted, who stayed in the lineup until 2001. Robert Trujillo joined in 2003 and remains in the band to this day.


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Q: Django, Angular, & DRF: Authentication to Django backend vs. API I'm building an app with a Django backend, Angular frontend, and a REST API using Django REST Framework for Angular to consume. When I was still working out backend stuff with a vanilla frontend, I used the provided Django authentication to handle user auth- but now that I'm creating a REST based app, I'm not sure how to approach authentication.
Since all user data will be either retrieved or submitted via the API, should API authentication be enough? If so, do I need to remove the existing Django authentication middleware?
Right now, when I try to hit API endpoints on an early version of the app, I'm directed to what looks like the normal Django login form. If I enter a valid username and password, it doesn't work- just prompts to login again. Would removing the basic Django authentication prevent this? I want to be prompted to login, however I'm not sure how to handle that with these technologies.
The package django-rest-auth seems useful, and the same group makes an Angular module- but the docs don't go much past installation and the provided endpoints. Ultimately, I think the core of this question is: how do I entirely switch authentication away from what's provided by Django to something like django-rest-auth or one of the other 3rd party packages recommended by DRF?
edit: I made this comment below, but I realized that I need to figure out how combined auth will work. I'm not building a single page app, so individual basic pages will be served from Django, but each page will hit various API endpoints to retrieve the data it needs. Is there a way to have something like django-rest-auth handle all authentication?

A: To anyone that stumbles onto this question, I couldn't figure out how to make the hybrid approach work. Having Django serve pages that each contained API calls seemed OK, but I never saw any requests made to the API- I believe due to some other security issues. I'm sure it's possible, but I decided to go for the single page app implementation after all to make things simpler.

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