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National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016
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Act to Authorize Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2016 for Military Activities of the Department of Defense, for Military Construction, and for Defense Activities of the Department of Energy, to Prescribe Military Personnel Strengths for Such Fiscal Year, and for Other Purposes
United States, Department of Defense -- Appropriations and expenditures
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65 Roses Story
The "65 Roses" story dates back to 1965 when an observant 4-year-old, hearing the name of his disease for the first time, pronounced cystic fibrosis as "65 Roses." Today, "65 Roses" is a term often used by young children with cystic fibrosis to pronounce the name of their disease.
In 1965, after hearing his mother make phone calls to fundraise for cystic fibrosis research, 4-year-old Ricky Weiss told his mother she was working for "65 roses."
More than 65 years later, we celebrate the legacy of the Weiss family and the 65 Roses story.
The Weiss brothers: Richard, 5; Arthur, 7; and Anthony, 16 months.
Mary G. Weiss became a volunteer for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in 1965 after learning that her three little boys had CF. Her duty was to call every civic club, social, and service organization, seeking financial support for CF research. Mary's 4-year-old son, Richard (Ricky), listened closely to his mother as she made each call.
After several calls, Richard came into the room and told his mom, "I know what you are working for." Mary was dumbstruck because Richard did not know what she was doing, nor did he know that he had cystic fibrosis.
With some trepidation, Mary asked, "What am I working for, Ricky?"
He answered, "You are working for 65 Roses."
Mary was speechless. He could not see the tears running down Mary's cheeks as she stammered, "Yes, Ricky, I'm working for 65 Roses."
Since 1965, the term "65 Roses" has been used by children of all ages to describe their disease. But, making it easier to say does not make CF any easier to live with.
The reality is that cystic fibrosis is a life-threatening genetic disease that affects 30,000 children and adults in the United States.
Sadly, Richard lost his fight against CF in 2014. Richard is survived by his devoted wife, Lisa, his adored dog, Keppie, and his brother, Anthony.
The "65 Roses" story has captured the hearts and emotions of all who have heard it. And the rose, a symbol of love, has come to represent the CF community.
More than 65 years later, we celebrate the legacy of the Weiss family and the 65 Roses story on June 5 with 65 Roses Day.
65 Roses® is a registered trademark of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
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Speechless es una sitcom que se estrenó en ABC el 21 de septiembre de 2016. Creado por Scott Silveri y producido por sus co-ejecutivos, Christine Gernon, Jake Kasdan y Melvin Mar, es una coproducción entre 20th Century Fox Television/ABC Studios que le dieron luz verde para una serie de televisión, el 13 de mayo de 2016. El tráiler fue estrenado ese mismo día. El 29 de septiembre de 2016, fue ordenada una temporada completa de 22 episodios. Un episodio adicional fue ordenado el 13 de septiembre de 2016.

El 12 de mayo de 2017, ABC renovó la serie para una segunda temporada, que se estrenó el 27 de septiembre de 2017.

El 11 de mayo de 2018, ABC renovó la serie para una tercera temporada.

Sinopsis

La serie sigue a la familia DiMeo, cada uno con una personalidad única: Maya, una madre británica que se hace cargo con una actitud sin tapujos; su esposo Jimmy, que no parece importarle lo que piensen los demás; Dylan, su hija sin sentido deportivo; Ray, su hijo del medio que actúa como el "cerebro" de la familia; y su hijo mayor, JJ, un estudiante de secundaria con parálisis cerebral que tiene un ingenio mordaz y sentido del humor. Los DiMeos se mueven con frecuencia en un intento de encontrar un buen ambiente educativo para JJ. Ellos creen que han encontrado una opción óptima cuando descubren una escuela que se precia de ser incluyente y donde JJ tendrá un ayudante para hablar por él. A pesar de que encontrar rápidamente que no todo es tan bueno como podría ser, JJ disfruta de tener a Kenneth, un jardinero bien intencionado en la escuela, el trabaja como su ayudante.

Elenco

Principales
 Minnie Driver como Maya DiMeo.
 John Ross Bowie como Jimmy DiMeo.
 Mason Cook como Ray DiMeo.
 Micah Fowler como JJ DiMeo.
 Kyla Kenedy como Dylan DiMeo.
  Cedric Yarbrough como Kenneth.

Recurrentes
 Marin Hinkle como Dra. Miller
 Lukita Maxwell como Jillian.
 Jonathan Slavin como Mr. Powers
 McKaley Miller como Claire.

Episodios

Recepción

Speechless ha recibido elogios de la crítica. En Rotten Tomatoes, la serie tiene una calificación de 98%, basado en 40 revisiones, con una calificación promedia de 8.2/10. Consenso crítico del sitio dice: " Speechless habla de un tema sensible con un rendimiento de plomo sincera y un buen equilibrio entre la sensibilidad y la irreverencia".

Los editores de TV Guide colocaron a Speechless en el séptimo lugar entre las diez mejores opciones para los nuevos espectáculos más esperados de la temporada 2016–17. En su opinión, el escritor Liam Matthews, "ABC tiene otra valiosa adición a su fuerte alineación de las familias modernas con Speechless", y agregó "Es una exploración de ojos claros y comprensivo de la vida en una familia con necesidades especiales que hace un montón de espacio para la hilaridad".

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Series de televisión producidas por 20th Century Fox Television
Series de televisión canceladas
Series de televisión producidas por ABC Studios

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import hashlib
import os
import sys
import threading
from collections import defaultdict
from operator import attrgetter, itemgetter

from core.middleware import get_request
from xosbase import XOSBase, PlModelMixIn
from core.models.xosbase import StrippedCharField, XOSCollector
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractBaseUser, BaseUserManager
from django.core.exceptions import PermissionDenied
from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives
from django.db import models
from django.utils.timezone import now
from django.db import transaction
from django.db import router
from django.db.models import F, Q
from django.forms.models import model_to_dict
from django.utils import timezone
from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType

# The following manual import is needed because we do not
# currently generate the User models.
import security

# Create your models here.

class UserManager(BaseUserManager):
    def create_user(self, email, firstname, lastname, password=None):
        """
        Creates and saves a User with the given email, date of
        birth and password.
        """
        if not email:
            raise ValueError("Users must have an email address")

        user = self.model(
            email=UserManager.normalize_email(email),
            firstname=firstname,
            lastname=lastname,
            password=password,
        )
        # user.set_password(password)
        user.is_admin = True
        user.save(using=self._db)
        return user

    def create_superuser(self, email, firstname, lastname, password):
        """
        Creates and saves a superuser with the given email, date of
        birth and password.
        """
        user = self.create_user(
            email, password=password, firstname=firstname, lastname=lastname
        )
        user.is_admin = True
        user.save(using=self._db)
        return user

    def get_queryset(self):
        parent = super(UserManager, self)
        if hasattr(parent, "get_queryset"):
            return parent.get_queryset().filter(deleted=False)
        else:
            return parent.get_query_set().filter(deleted=False)

    # deprecated in django 1.7 in favor of get_queryset().
    def get_query_set(self):
        return self.get_queryset()

class DeletedUserManager(UserManager):
    def get_queryset(self):
        parent = super(UserManager, self)
        if hasattr(parent, "get_queryset"):
            return parent.get_queryset().filter(deleted=True)
        else:
            return parent.get_query_set().filter(deleted=True)

    # deprecated in django 1.7 in favor of get_queryset()
    def get_query_set(self):
        return self.get_queryset()

class User(AbstractBaseUser, PlModelMixIn):
    plural_name = "Users"

    @property
    def remote_password(self):
        return hashlib.md5(self.password).hexdigest()[:12]

    class Meta:
        app_label = "core"

    email = models.EmailField(
        verbose_name="email address", max_length=255, unique=True, db_index=True
    )

    username = StrippedCharField(max_length=255, default="Something")

    firstname = StrippedCharField(help_text="person's given name", max_length=200)
    lastname = StrippedCharField(help_text="person's surname", max_length=200)

    phone = StrippedCharField(
        null=True, blank=True, help_text="phone number contact", max_length=100
    )
    user_url = models.URLField(null=True, blank=True)
    site = models.ForeignKey(
        "Site", related_name="users", help_text="Site this user will be homed too"
    )
    public_key = models.TextField(
        null=True, blank=True, max_length=1024, help_text="Public key string"
    )

    is_active = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    is_admin = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    is_staff = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    is_readonly = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    is_registering = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    is_appuser = models.BooleanField(default=False)

    login_page = StrippedCharField(
        help_text="send this user to a specific page on login",
        max_length=200,
        null=True,
        blank=True,
    )

    created = models.DateTimeField(
        help_text="Time this model was created",
        auto_now_add=True,
        null=False,
        blank=False,
    )
    updated = models.DateTimeField(
        help_text="Time this model was changed by a non-synchronizer",
        default=now,
        null=False,
        blank=False,
    )
    enacted = models.DateTimeField(
        default=None,
        help_text="When synced, set to the timestamp of the data that was synced",
        null=True,
        blank=True,
    )
    policed = models.DateTimeField(
        default=None,
        help_text="When policed, set to the timestamp of the data that was policed",
        null=True,
        blank=True,
    )
    backend_status = StrippedCharField(
        max_length=1024, default="Provisioning in progress"
    )
    backend_code = models.IntegerField(default=0, null=False)
    backend_need_delete = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    backend_need_reap = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    deleted = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    write_protect = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    lazy_blocked = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    no_sync = models.BooleanField(default=False)  # prevent object sync
    no_policy = models.BooleanField(default=False)  # prevent model_policy run

    timezone = models.CharField(
        max_length=100, null=True, blank=True, default=settings.TIME_ZONE
    )

    leaf_model_name = models.CharField(
        help_text="The most specialized model in this chain of inheritance, often defined by a service developer",
        max_length=1024,
        null=False,
    )

    policy_status = models.CharField(
        default="0 - Policy in process", max_length=1024, null=True
    )
    policy_code = models.IntegerField(default=0, null=True)

    backend_need_delete_policy = models.BooleanField(
        help_text="True if delete model_policy must be run before object can be reaped",
        default=False,
        null=False,
        blank=True,
    )
    xos_managed = models.BooleanField(
        help_text="True if xos is responsible for creating/deleting this object",
        default=True,
        null=False,
        blank=True,
    )
    backend_handle = models.CharField(
        help_text="Handle used by the backend to track this object",
        max_length=1024,
        null=True,
        blank=True,
    )
    changed_by_step = models.DateTimeField(
        default=None,
        help_text="Time this model was changed by a sync step",
        null=True,
        blank=True,
    )
    changed_by_policy = models.DateTimeField(
        default=None,
        help_text="Time this model was changed by a model policy",
        null=True,
        blank=True,
    )

    objects = UserManager()
    deleted_objects = DeletedUserManager()

    USERNAME_FIELD = "email"
    REQUIRED_FIELDS = ["firstname", "lastname"]

    PI_FORBIDDEN_FIELDS = ["is_admin", "site", "is_staff"]
    USER_FORBIDDEN_FIELDS = ["is_admin", "is_active", "site", "is_staff", "is_readonly"]

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(User, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self._initial = self._dict  # for PlModelMixIn
        self.silent = False

    def isReadOnlyUser(self):
        return self.is_readonly

    def get_full_name(self):
        # The user is identified by their email address
        return self.email

    def get_short_name(self):
        # The user is identified by their email address
        return self.email

    @property
    def keyname(self):
        return self.email[: self.email.find("@")]

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.email

    def has_perm(self, perm, obj=None):
        "Does the user have a specific permission?"
        # Simplest possible answer: Yes, always
        return True

    def has_module_perms(self, app_label):
        "Does the user have permissions to view the app `app_label`?"
        # Simplest possible answer: Yes, always
        return True

    def is_superuser(self):
        return False

    def delete(self, *args, **kwds):
        # so we have something to give the observer
        purge = kwds.get("purge", False)
        if purge:
            del kwds["purge"]
        silent = kwds.get("silent", False)
        if silent:
            del kwds["silent"]
        try:
            purge = purge or observer_disabled
        except NameError:
            pass

        if purge:
            super(User, self).delete(*args, **kwds)
        else:
            if not self.write_protect:
                self.deleted = True
                self.enacted = None
                self.policed = None
                self.save(
                    update_fields=["enacted", "deleted", "policed"], silent=silent
                )

                collector = XOSCollector(
                    using=router.db_for_write(self.__class__, instance=self)
                )
                collector.collect([self])
                with transaction.atomic():
                    for (k, models) in collector.data.items():
                        for model in models:
                            if model.deleted:
                                # in case it's already been deleted, don't delete again
                                continue
                            model.deleted = True
                            model.enacted = None
                            model.policed = None
                            model.save(
                                update_fields=["enacted", "deleted", "policed"],
                                silent=silent,
                            )

    def has_important_changes(self):
        """ Determine whether the model has changes that should be reflected in one of the changed_by_* timestamps.
            Ignores various feedback and bookkeeping state set by synchronizers.
        """
        for field_name in self.changed_fields:
            if field_name in [
                "policed",
                "updated",
                "enacted",
                "changed_by_step",
                "changed_by_policy",
            ]:
                continue
            if field_name.startswith("backend_"):
                continue
            if field_name.startswith("policy_"):
                continue
            return True
        return False

    def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
        if not self.leaf_model_name:
            self.leaf_model_name = "User"

        if not self.id:
            self.set_password(self.password)
        if self.is_active and self.is_registering:
            self.send_temporary_password()
            self.is_registering = False

        # let the user specify silence as either a kwarg or an instance varible
        silent = self.silent
        if "silent" in kwargs:
            silent = silent or kwargs.pop("silent")

        caller_kind = "unknown"

        if "caller_kind" in kwargs:
            caller_kind = kwargs.pop("caller_kind")

        update_fields = None
        if "update_fields" in kwargs:
            # NOTE(smbaker): modifying update_fields will cause kwargs["update_fields"] to be modified. This is
            # intended, as kwargs will be passed to save() below.
            update_fields = kwargs["update_fields"]

        # NOTE(smbaker): always_update_timestamp still has some relevance for event_steps and pull_steps that
        # want to cause an update. For model_policies or sync_steps it should no longer be required.
        always_update_timestamp = False
        if "always_update_timestamp" in kwargs:
            always_update_timestamp = always_update_timestamp or kwargs.pop(
                "always_update_timestamp"
            )

        is_sync_save = False
        if "is_sync_save" in kwargs:
            is_sync_save = kwargs.pop("is_sync_save")

        is_policy_save = False
        if "is_policy_save" in kwargs:
            is_policy_save = kwargs.pop("is_policy_save")

        if (caller_kind != "synchronizer") or always_update_timestamp:
            self.updated = timezone.now()
        else:
            # We're not auto-setting timestamp, but let's check to make sure that the caller hasn't tried to set our
            # timestamp backward...
            if (self.updated != self._initial["updated"]) and (
                (not update_fields) or ("updated" in update_fields)
            ):
                log.info(
                    "Synchronizer tried to change `updated` timestamp on model %s from %s to %s. Ignored."
                    % (self, self._initial["updated"], self.updated)
                )
                self.updated = self._initial["updated"]

        if is_sync_save and self.has_important_changes():
            self.changed_by_step = timezone.now()
            if update_fields:
                update_fields.append("changed_by_step")

        if is_policy_save and self.has_important_changes():
            self.changed_by_policy = timezone.now()
            if update_fields:
                update_fields.append("changed_by_policy")

        if not self.username:
            self.username = self.email

        if not self.deleted:
            self.full_clean()

        super(User, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

        self.push_messagebus_event()

        self._initial = self._dict

    def send_temporary_password(self):
        password = User.objects.make_random_password()
        self.set_password(password)
        subject, from_email, to = (
            "OpenCloud Account Credentials",
            "support@opencloud.us",
            str(self.email),
        )
        text_content = "This is an important message."
        userUrl = "http://%s/" % get_request().get_host()
        html_content = (
            """
Your account has been created on OpenCloud. Please log in here to activate your account

Username: """
            + self.email
            + """
Temporary Password: """
            + password
            + """
Please change your password once you successully login into the site.
"""
        )
        msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject, text_content, from_email, [to])
        msg.attach_alternative(html_content, "text/html")
        msg.send()

    def apply_profile(self, profile):
        if profile == "regular":
            self.is_appuser = False
            self.is_admin = False

        elif profile == "cp":
            self.is_appuser = True
            self.is_admin = False

    def get_content_type_key(self):
        ct = ContentType.objects.get_for_model(self.__class__)
        return "%s.%s" % (ct.app_label, ct.model)

    @staticmethod
    def get_content_type_from_key(key):
        (app_name, model_name) = key.split(".")
        return ContentType.objects.get_by_natural_key(app_name, model_name)

    @staticmethod
    def get_content_object(content_type, object_id):
        ct = User.get_content_type_from_key(content_type)
        cls = ct.model_class()
        return cls.objects.get(id=object_id)

    """ This function is hardcoded here because we do not yet
    generate the User class"""

    def can_access(self, ctx):
        return security.user_policy_security_check(self, ctx), "user_policy"

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EURGBPUS Dollar
Madrid System
Domain Name Disputes
What do Burger King and Target have in common?
By Tirso on 16 August 2017
One of our American clients wrote to us recently to tell us an interesting anecdote from his recent trip to Australia. During his trip, he decided to visit one of the traditional fast food joints to eat something, but when he entered into the restaurant – which he assumed was Australian – he realised that everything reminded him of a traditional chain in his home country, Burger King: the menus, design and even the colour scheme.
How was this possible, our client asked himself. The answer, as we have already mentioned on our Twitter, is due to a curious case with the trademark in this country. Burger King was created in the USA and international expansion of the business and in parallel its trademark protection was launched from that base. However, when they reached Australia, they found that a company in Adelaide had already registered their trademark and that they couldn't use it. They therefore decided to carry out a rebrand and expand in the country under the name of "Hungry Jacks."
This isn't an isolated case. Here are some examples of other cases whereby companies are unable to use the trademarks* they want to in certain countries.
Australia: Hungry Jacks - Burger King
The dispute, illustrated in this article, has been through several stages and even reached the courts. To this day, the company is still unable to use their trademark in Australia.
Spain: Corona - Coronita
The famous Mexican beer Corona wanted to expand its market to Spain, however when carrying out the registration process they realised there was already a trademark registered in this name for alcoholic beverages. This trademark, under the name of 'Bodegas Torre', prevented Corona from registering under the same name.
Comment: A rumour prevails that the registration of this trademark in Spain failed because the word "Corona" (crown) belonged to the royal households. This is not true; as other trademarks exist that include the word "Corona".
Ireland: Diesel (Italy) – Diesel (Ireland)
The tribunal recently rejected Diesel Italy's Request through which they tried to convince the Irish trademark office that they had the right to exclusively use this brand in Ireland. The tribunal sentenced in favour of Diesel Ireland, which – although it is much less well known – could demonstrate that they did not register the trademark with dishonest intentions or with the aim of attracting the other company's prestige.
Spain: Dunkin Coffee – Dunkin' Donuts
The Spanish trademarks office allowed the registration of the generic name "Donuts" under "Panrico", a bakery and pastry company. At that point in time, Donuts was not a commonly used word in Spain.
When Dunkin' Donuts came to Spain, the fact that "Donuts" had already been registered under a different company meant they were forced to change part of their name to avoid entering into a conflict.
Australia: Target – Target
Target, a multinational distribution company from the USA, has a competitor in Australia which uses both its name and its logo despite the fact there is no connection between the two. The similarity is such that it is led to some interesting incidents. When a well-known videogame was released, there was an error with its distribution by Target Australia which led to furious emails from gamers, who wrote hundreds of complaint emails. However, they wrote them to the "wrong target".
Bonus: When Burger King wanted to open branches in northern Cyprus, the branches in the south claimed they had exclusive rights for the whole island (with whom they are in an active conflict). The solution that Burger King found was to change their name in the north to "Burger City", keeping the original name in the south.
Bonus 2: The term Ugg has been used for decades in Australia, and became a commonly used generic word. However, some large companies decided to register it in other countries under the name "UGG Shoes". When they tried to prevent other Australian companies selling this type of shoe, the request was rejected in Australia. The trademark is still active in many countries under the name of its companies.
* We are referring to trademarks in the same class. There are other examples of identical trademarks but which are registered in different classes, without this implying an infringement of the trademark.
Author: Tirso García, Product Manager @ iGERENT
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Posted by Oliver Stormshak on March 04, 2019
Welcome to our 7th year buying coffees with the Long Miles Coffee Project in Burundi. I wanted to take a moment to rewind the clock and shed some light on our history with these producers and to share where we plan to grow in the future.
So back in 2011, while I was doing a volunteer stint with USAID in Rwanda, I happened into a cupping event in Burundi where I met Long Miles founder, Ben Carlson.
Kristy, Carlson kids, Oliver and Ben
Ben had been working in Burundi for almost a year as a consultant for a company called Shluter. Shluter, a Belgian Commodities company, was the first to go to Burundi after the civil war ended and the coffee sector was privatized.
Just to be clear, Burundi started producing fully washed coffees in the 1960's from government owned washing stations called Sogestals. The government set up Sogestals in villages throughout Burundi that met the primary conditions for growing coffee, which was grown, processed, and exported primarily for the Belgian Coffee Market.
Burundi used to be a colony of Germany, then Belgium, and there is a long, ugly history with Europeans that you should read up on when you have a chance. The country gained independence in the 1960's, originally forming a Monarchy, then a democracy. The Monarchy was comprised by people who only made up roughly 15% of the population, known as the Tutsi, and this led to slow resentment and ethnic genocide of the Hutu. By 1994, Burundi spilled into an all out Civil War which lasted till 2005.
It took another 5 years for the country to slowly emerge from the chaos of war. In 2010, the coffee sector was officially privatized and production and export slowly grew.
Back to Olympia Coffee's first trip to Burundi in 2011: Seeing the potential in Burundi, Ben Carlson and I dreamed up the slogan Coffee People Potential. We invested a lot into this project and we even made a short film about it in 2013, titled Coffee, People, Potential.
Ben left his job with Shluter and bought a parcel on Gaharo Hill just outside of the village called Bukeye. The land was purchased, if I remember correctly, in early 2012, but construction of the Bukeye Washing Station didn't start till May, right in the middle of the harvest season. Bukeye opened so late into the harvest that they were only able to buy and process about 4,000 lbs of coffee.
That first harvest from Long Miles Coffee was rough in so many ways. The water pump was not finished and the Long Miles team had to carry water from the creek to process the coffee. The fact that the creek water was dirty didn't do much to help quality. But that first year, Olympia Coffee became the first roaster to purchase from the Long Miles Coffee Project. We purchased 10 bags from Gaharo Hill in total and it was honestly our worst coffee in 2012.
By July of 2012 I was back in Burundi on the jury for the first ever Burundi Cup of Excellence. Burundi's future in coffee looked bright and we believed in it, so we kept going and committed to buying more coffee with Long Miles.
There have been a lot of troubles over the years and we've cried over the struggles that our friends the Carlson family have had in Burundi, but we have been there to celebrate the successes as well. One memory that lives with me is the 2014 Atlanta SCAA conference where our Burundi Mikuba lot placed second in the USA. It moved me to think that in just 3 years this coffee from Mikuba Hill that had previously been harvested, processed, and sold to some random commercial roaster – most likely at the lowest prices possible – was now being bought and sold at a premium and celebrated at such a high level.
In the last 7 years working with the Long Miles Coffee Project, we have seen the lives of hundreds of farmers improve. Farmers now see coffee as a benefit economically to their lives: they send their children to school with coffee money, buy livestock, expand their farms, and build their own small businesses. I'm proud to say we have been there from day one with the dream to improve the lives of coffee farmers in Burundi.


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Growth falters, and inequality grows as capital flows
The opinions reflected in the following post 'Growth falters, and inequality grows as capital flows' are those of the author. Any errors and omissions are the author's alone.
The stagnation of the labor market in particular is a grave concern not only because of the enormous suffering and waste of human talent it entails, but also because persistently high levels of unemployment will wreak structural damage on our economy that could last for many years. (Ben Bernanke's Jackson Hole speech)
It is election time in America. For the lawmakers in Washington D.C., the capital of imperium, the emptiness of rousing rhetoric drowning the discomforting discord of American decline is in high season.
But the American situation is not isolated; in a slowing world it is but merely a metaphor for what ails many nations: labour market stagnation begetting increasingly greater inequality as financial capital is judge and jury over putatively sovereign domestic fiscal policy. Growth of the sustainable variety built upon a foundation of a rising standard of living and wage growth can be a cure during normal times but it is merely a palliative for these times where growth requires the catalyst of endless easy credit: these times are anything but normal; there are greater forces at work then a mere slowdown of the business cycle.
Former Labor Secretary during the Clinton Administration, Robert Reich, framed it cleverly in an opinion piece for FT.com in dissecting the gaping policy holes of both incumbent and challenger after the Republican and Democratic conventions:
But another explanation for why neither candidate has come up with a concrete plan is profound disagreement even among experts about what's gone wrong, and a paucity of credible ideas for righting it. Keynesians want more government spending but can't come up with a convincing scenario for what happens after the pump is primed. The big stimulus in 2009 and 2010 had a positive impact but hardly enough to rescue the economy. Some Keynesians call for more spending, but how much more before credit markets begin to scream? Some want the Fed to keep interest rates near zero, but it's kept them near zero for almost three years – along with two rounds of "quantitative easing" – with little to show for it.
So-called supply-siders want lower taxes and fewer regulations but can't come up with a convincing argument for why American businesses would hire more workers under those circumstances. After all, much of their current profitability has come from cutting payrolls — either by substituting computers and software or outsourcing the jobs abroad. Why would they hire additional workers, especially when American consumers – whose spending is 70 per cent of the nation's economic activity – are holding back? Deficit hawks, meanwhile, want to raise taxes and reduce public spending but have no idea how to do this without bringing on another recession as long as private spending remains in the doldrums. And if the economy contracts, the government debt only worsens in proportion. Markets are already spooked by next January's "fiscal cliff".
There is no conventional way out of the current morass: the anodyne prescriptions of the past --from both sides of the political spectrum-- do not provide a convincing prelude to realizing making the "trend" growth of the past generation the same for the future.
Monetary stimulus --the great hope that underpins our debates from "is QE3 coming" to "will the ECB set a negative deposit rate" has proven ineffective at the zero bound as analysts have been attempting to explain, since 2008, that better times are around the corner thanks to increasing "confidence" and rising "expectations".
Fiscal stimulus along the lines of similia similibus curanter ("that which can cause can cure") has less potency due to the open nature of advanced economies and the globalization and technological changes (and by extension inequality of opportunity) that underpins it. Freer markets can indeed create efficiency for many (but certainly not all) goods but it is the openness in factors of production abetted by trade agreements that drives down the size of the fiscal multiplier and drives up the amount of fiscal stimulus required to make a substantive difference; under the current arrangement the power of capital easily trumps labour and diminishing labour power since the 1970s has foreshadowed the inequality of today.
On the one hand, traditional stimulus --both fiscal and monetary-- is tellingly ineffective but on the other hand, fast tracking austerity guarantees depression and is tantamount to fiscal Seppuku. Traditional economic analyses are beholden to 'equilibrium' and, as such, we are -- referencing a (wonkish) paper by Matheus Graselli -- in a "bad equilibrium" with a situation of high debt, low employment and low labour share of wages, as described in the original Goodwin model (modified by Australian economic iconoclast, Steve Keen and) extended by Graselli and Costa Lima. (Graselli and Costa Lima, 2012)
How did it come to this? The system that we have know since the decline of the gold standard backing the U.S. dollar gave way to "dollar hegemony" as the greenback remained the reserve currency -- something that the Greek economist, Yanis Varoufakis, has colourfully framed as "The Global Minotaur":
As Varoufakis writes in his recent book, "The Global Minotaur," the world in which we have been living until recently functioned thanks to the voracious consumption of a different kind of beast. After World War II, the U.S. built up the infrastructure of its European allies as well as its former enemies, all of whom became trading partners. The U.S., with its great industrial and financial might, became the world's surplus nation: its profits flowed out to its allies in the form of aid and investments. By the early 1970s, however, other countries had robust economies, and the U.S. was a debtor nation. "At that moment, certain very bright men within the American financial hierarchy made a stunning realization," Varoufakis told me. The realization was that it didn't matter if the U.S. was the biggest surplus or biggest debtor nation. What mattered was controlling the world's primary currency, which would allow the United States to continue to recycle the global economic surplus. The idea was not unlike the thinking behind a casino — whichever gamblers are winning or losing, the house, which sets the terms and takes its cut, always wins.
So a new system came into being, in which a huge part of the world's capital flows went to service debt originating in the United States. American debt, and the need to feed it, would be the modern Minotaur. The Wall Street financial houses became the handmaidens of the Minotaur. "The massive flow of capital into Wall Street gave it the impetus for financialization," Varoufakis said, referring to the creation of derivatives and other risky financial vehicles. "And so Wall Street created a great deal of private money, with which it flooded the world and created huge bubbles, in the U.S. housing market and elsewhere." (Shorto, 2012)
"The Global Minotaur" system is sick and suffered a mortal wound in 2008: it is now acting as a cornered animal wounded to the point of rabidity where financialization now consumes in a parasitic rather than facilitates in a symbiotic fashion, and where speculation trumps productivity in the macroeconomy. Anyone who works in the world of high finance will openly admit that there is no lack of capital --those at the top of the pyramid have fantastic amounts of "surplus capital": portfolio flows globally looking for the highest return and it does so at the push of a keystroke depending on whether the markets are risk averse or risk neutral and across a range of asset classes. The unintended outcome is that laissez faire has led to the accumulation of wealth into fewer and fewer hands and, as outlined in a previous post, Wealth does not trickle down.
But why should we care about the results of a wounded Global Minotaur? Unlike Theseus leading the Athenians out of the labyrinth, the majority of people have nothing but blind folded politicians to guide them from the maze that is the global economy. We need to re-frame the argument into a long term solution that is sustainable but doing so requires looking at some uncomfortable truths: be it rising inequality, growth of non-productive sectors, or the anemic labour market.
Inequality matters
It always has; it is just that we have been too predisposed to notice its importance when it occurs and believe we are immune until it hits us.
This is not advocacy for equality of outcomes: people have different levels of drive, different talents, different motivations. (We are never going to embrace a utopia where we may be idle and spend our leisure time reading poetry and philosophizing).
Everywhere, there are those who are indolent, but equally those who are industrious.
What nations require is a greater chance of upward mobility for all of their citizens not an increasing likelihood of indigence due to greater structural unemployment thanks to a policy framework that disregards politics and relies on abstractions based on political motivations.
This is advocacy for greater equality of access: to education, public services, healthcare, and opportunity. Without such building blocks the foundation of society withers and no amount of a Burkean "Big Society", as advocated by its adherents, will take its place.
The case against "excessive" equality
An excessively equal income distribution can be bad for economic efficiency. Take, for example, the experience of socialist countries, where deliberately low inequality (with no private profits and minimal differences in wages and salaries) deprived people of the incentives needed for their active participation in economic activities—for diligent work and vigorous entrepreneurship. Among the consequences of socialist equalization of incomes were poor discipline and low initiative among workers, poor quality and limited selection of goods and services, slow technical progress, and eventually, slower economic growth leading to more poverty. (Source: World Bank: Beyond Economic Growth An Introduction to Sustainable Development (Chapter V: Income Inequality))
The case against inequality
It may seem counterintuitive that inequality is strongly associated with less sustained growth. But too much inequality might be destructive to growth. Beyond the risk that inequality may amplify the potential for financial crisis, it may also bring political instability, which can discourage investment. Inequality may make it harder for governments to make difficult but necessary choices in the face of shocks, such as raising taxes or cutting public spending to avoid a debt crisis. Or inequality may reflect poor people's lack of access to financial services, which gives them fewer opportunities to invest in education and entrepreneurial activity. (Berg and Ostry, 2011)
(Berg and Ostry, 2011: p. 14)
How is equality measured?
Source: http://visualeconomics.creditloan.com/income-distribution-by-country/
Trends of income shares to the top 1% (1970 - 2009/2010)
The charts below show the income shares (in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and United States) accruing to the top 1% from the 1970s on and the data was made available by Atkinson, Piketty and Saez of the Paris School of Economics. Go to their website to see these and many more data sets highlighting how inequality is at the highest rate since the 1920s.
Source: The World Top Incomes Database
Canadian Wage Distribution Dynamics
The following charts are from a presentation by Paul Jacobson, "Recent Wage Dynamics - Working Paper" that shows inequality in the Canadian context.
Gini Coefficient
Lorenz Curve
Source: Jacobson Consulting
Social and Economic Mobility
The following charts are from a presentation by Miles Corak, "Social and Economic Mobility in Canada"
Key Takeaways (please visit Miles Corak's website for more content related to this issue).
Source: Miles Corak
A Broken Economy: What it isn't
A stylized representation of flows in an economy is often represented by something akin to the diagram below, however, reality checks have been inserted to remind us that money matters, as does class (more on that below). Since money matters, by implication so does the debt, and advanced economy households are in a debt overhang.
It should be noted that Gennarro Zezza, a student of the late Wynne Godley --whose stock-flow consistent modeling provided an red flag to global imbalances in the early 2000s-- stated that:
in the economy – and therefore in models representing the economy - everything comes from somewhere and goes somewhere else: 'there are no black holes.' This obvious principle has relevant implications: one is that the debt of somebody is a credit for somebody else.
But simply because the debt of somebody is a credit for somebody else does not mean that it is not a problem. The financialization of modern economies requires incorporation of rentier sectors into a financial model since much credit has been granted for speculative rather than productive activities in the so-called FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) sector:
Debt-leveraged buyouts and commercial real estate purchases turn business cash flow (ebitda: earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) into interest payments. Likewise, bank or bondholder financing of public debt (especially in the Eurozone, which lacks a central bank to monetize such debt) has turned a rising share of tax revenue into interest payments. As creditors recycle their receipts of interest and amortization (and capital gains) into new lending to buyers of real estate, stocks and bonds, a rising share of employee income, real estate rent, business revenue and even government tax revenue is diverted to pay debt service. By leaving less to spend on goods and services, the effect is to reduce new investment and employment. (Hudson and Bezemer, 2012)
This view is in stark counterpoint to conventional analysis by establishment shills (link courtesy of Charles Ferguson's "Inside Job"):
For instance, Mishkin (2012: pp. 1 and 24) explains that "in our economy, nonbank finance also plays an important role in channeling funds from lender-savers to borrower-spenders…
Finance companies raise funds by issuing commercial paper and stocks and bonds and use the proceeds to make loans that are particularly suited to consumer and business needs". (Hudson and Bezemer, 2012)
A Broken Economy: What it is
Overall model of the FIRE (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate) sector: producers, consumers, government, world (Hudson and Bezemer, 2012: Fig. 4, p.9) based on the U.S. economy primarily but just as relevant to other nations such as the United Kingdom, Spain and Ireland who have suffered real estate asset crashes.
Only a portion of FIRE sector cash flow is spent on goods and services. The great bulk is recycled into the purchase of financial securities and other assets, or lent out as yet more interest-bearing debt – on easier and easier credit terms as the repertory of bankable direct investments is exhausted. So the pressing task today is to trace how directing most credit into the asset markets affects asset prices much more than commodity prices. Loan standards deteriorate as debt/equity ratios increase and creditors 'race to the bottom' to find borrowers in markets further distanced from the 'real' economy. This increasingly unproductive character of
credit explains why wealth is being concentrated in the hands of the population's wealthiest 10 percent. It is the dysfunctional result of economic parasitism. (Hudson and Bezemer, 2012: pp. 10-11)
Class Matters
While Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore continue to use their pulpit at the Wall Street Journal to conclude that the issue of class should be a non issue as "wealth trickles down" in their worldview, the facts on the ground are quite different. The current situation of inequality was built after the embers of the defunct "Golden Age of Capitalism" burnt out conclusively in the 1970s.
(Source: Glyn, Capitalism Unleashed, Ch. 1-2)
At the end of the 1970s, capital rose to prominence and put an end of the power of labour. The concept of wage growth being tied to productivity has been tenuous since then and has been severed for those down the value chain as there are structural mismatches to the skills people have to the jobs available due since many of the jobs are unlikely to return. As I have outlined previously in 2011 the conventional view, articulated by Raghuram Rajan, is that increased inequality has been the by product of technology and globalization. If we add to the mix the tripling of the global labour pool (or "reserve army of labour" in the Marxian sense) and the fact that a greater share of corporate profits go to those at the top -- despite no substantive proof that the CEOs have become more productive than their counterparts a generation back when compared to the people below -- we have the ingredients for more inequality in society and by extension greater instability in economic growth. This was successfully papered over for a generation by virtue of the credit spigot opening and access to credit increasing but exponential growth in credit reached a tipping point in 2008. But now, we see the reality of people living within their means, paying down debt, and unable to plan for the future due to a lack of job security. The traditional life-cycle hypothesis becomes less realistic in this case:
(Source: Marglin, Lessons of the Golden Age of Capitalism: p. 25)
What happens when that salaried professional referenced above "whose life prospects are reasonably certain and whose life experience reinforces the notion that he or she is "in control" gives way to a growing cohort of people whose jobs have been outsourced, who work on a contract basis, who lack security and whose career prospects are uncertain at best? We have, in the words of Professor Guy Standing, a group of people living precariously: we have the precariat.
The global precariat is not yet a class in the Marxian sense, being internally divided and only united in fears and insecurities. But it is a class in the making, approaching a consciousness of common vulnerability. It consists not just of everybody in insecure jobs – though many are temps, part-timers, in call centres or in outsourced arrangements. The precariat consists of those who feel their lives and identities are made up of disjointed bits, in which they cannot construct a desirable narrative or build a career, combining forms of work and labour, play and leisure in a sustainable way.
Because of flexible labour markets, the precariat cannot draw on a social memory, a feeling of belonging to a community of pride, status, ethics and solidarity. Everything is fleeting. They realise that in their dealings with others there is no shadow of the future hanging over them, since they are unlikely to be dealing with those people tomorrow. The precariatised mind is one without anchors, flitting from subject to subject, in the extreme suffering from attention deficit disorder. But it is also nomadic in its dealings with other people.
Although the precariat does not consist simply of victims, since many in it challenge their parents' labouring ethic, its growth has been accelerated by the neoliberalism of globalisation, which put faith in labour market flexibility, the commodification of everything and the restructuring of social protection.(Guy Standing, "Who will be a voice for the emerging precariat?", guardian.co.uk)
The elite are those few whom the masses cannot relate to but to whom the establishment fawn. Wealth has little reason to trickle down when the super rich do not know what to do with their surplus capital:
There was even a famous "yacht war" that got started in 1997 among the super-wealthy, competing with each other for the biggest. First, Leslie Wexner of Limited Brands bought a 316-foot vessel, some 110 feet longer than anything in its category. That cost about $300 million. But Russia's Roman Abramovich outdid him, buying three super-yachts of the same kind. Then Paul Allen, cofounder of Microsoft, outdid them both, with a 413-foot yacht that boasts a basketball court, a heliport, a movie theater, and a submarine in the hold. (Jerry Mander, Rule by the Rich, New Left Project)
The salariat, proficians and old working class are described by Standing below.
In terms of income, the group below the elite and other representatives of capital is the 'salariat', those with above average incomes, with an array of enterprise benefits and employment security. This group is shrinking, hit by the financial crisis, austerity packages and the extension of labour market flexibility, nowhere more so than in Greece.
Some of the salariat have joined the third group, 'proficians', those with bundles of technical and emotional skills that allow them to be self-selling entrepreneurs, living opportunistically on their wits and contacts. This group is growing but is relatively small; it tends to be socially liberal but economically conservative, since it wants low taxes and few obstacles to money making.
Below the salariat and proficians in terms of income is the old manual working class, the proletariat, which has been dissolving for decades. The democracy built in the twentieth century was designed to suit this class, as was the welfare state. Trades unions forged a labourist agenda and social democratic parties implemented it. That agenda has little legitimacy in the twenty-first century. (Guy Standing, The Precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy, 27 January 2012, opendemocracy.net)
And for those who believe that higher education is a way out of precarious living, think again for it is the academic precariat that makes up the bulk of higher learning within the North American system of tertiary education: (See video: "Now That I'm Relevant, I Can't Get a Job")
(Source: USCRossier - Pullias Center for Higher Education, The Changing Faculty and Student Success)
To be certain, some of those who share the political spectrum with Guy Standing have a big problem with his class analysis and quip over the need to meddle with the old fashioned Marxian (bourgeois vs. proletariat) dichotomy but this does not change the data: more people live precarious lives, societies are experiencing greater inequality, household sectors in major economies are recovering from a debt overhang while governments struggle with fiscal initiatives as they worry about what will be acceptable to credit markets and central banks prove the impotence of monetary policy (at the zero lower bound) with each passing meeting as we struggle to resuscitate a dying economic system.
I have gone on record about my views about the future in previous posts; will policy makers continue to use the tools of the past to fight the problems of today or will revolutionary thinking come to the fore? They have failed to rise to the occasion except for saving the banks. But saving the banks has not saved the world; some of the banks have become zombies whilst the remainder are looking for opportunities to deploy risk capital in a world of spread compression.
Demographic headwinds (in the Canadian context summarized here but a challenge everywhere) will only add to the puzzle. The U.S. Federal Reserve's zero interest rate and quantitative easing policies will effectively kill many defined benefit plans in the America and thus create a larger precariat over there with their diminished pension benefits.
What we need is less inequality and greater equality in access to opportunity. Looking for global trade access to the emerging world is not a panacea but a small part of the solution as the BRICS nations (amongst others) have problems of their own to deal with.
The problems remain but are the solutions forthcoming?
To begin, citizens need to be re-connected with the democratic process; if people spent a fraction of their time that they devote to distractions (such as what is on reality television or how will the NHLPA and NHL owners divide the billions in revenue) on political engagement then politicians will take note rather than assume that we are a disengaged citizenry willing to eat rhetorical pablum.
The opinions reflected in the post 'Growth falters, and inequality grows as capital flows' are those of the author. Any errors and omissions are the author's alone.
Labour vs. labor: I have attempted to stick to the Canadian/British spelling of labour in the neutral context but when referring specifically to the United States, the American spelling has been used.
Bernanke, B. (08, 2012 31). Monetary policy since the onset of the crisis. Retrieved from http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke20120831a.htm
Hudson, M., and Bezemer, D. (2012). Incorporating the rentier sectors into a financial model. World Economic Review, 1(1), 1-12. Retrieved from http://wer.worldeconomicsassociation.org/article/view/36
Reich, R. (2012, September 07). After the politics, the reality of the us labour market. Financial Times. Retrieved from http://blogs.ft.com/the-a-list/2012/09/07/after-the-politics-the-reality-of-the-us-labour-market/
Berg, A. G., & Ostry, J. D. (2011). Equality and efficiency.FINANCE and DEVELOPMENT, 48(3), 12-15. Retrieved from http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2011/09/Berg.htm
Graselli, M. R., & Costa Lima, B. (2012). An analysis of the Keen model for credit expansion, asset price bubbles and financial fragility. Mathematics and Financial Economics, doi: 10.1007/s11579-012-0071-8
Shorto, R. (2012, February 13). The way greeks live now.New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/the-way-greeks-live-now.html?_r=2&exprod=myyahoo&pagewanted=all
Alvaredo, Facundo, Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, The World Top Incomes Database, http://g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/topincomes, 10/09/2012.
Andrew Glyn, Capitalism Unleashed, esp. Chs 1-2. Retrieved from http://courses.umass.edu/econ797a-rpollin/Glyn_Chapters%201%20and%202.pdf
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This is a very rare Boris Becker BB 1 tennis racket for sale. You wont see many of these about at all.... Its the oversized version of the extremely popular BB5 racket. With a whopping 110 in2 Head and only 255g unstrung, it not only swings through the air with amazing maneuverability but it also has an enlarged sweet spot for off center hits. The Boris Becker 1 is a perfectly balanced blend of an oversize head combined with a very maneuverable swing-weight, making this racquet a true favorite among ambitious club players.
The lightweight and high maneuverability of the BB 1 allows for easier access to spin and pace from the baseline. At the net, the Boris Becker 1 offers a solid response and feel on volleys as well as control on angled shots. The Boris Becker 1 features the latest technologies to improve stability, comfort, and feel. The Energy Box and Energy Shaft construction enhances racquet-head stability while increasing power through the stiffer shaft construction.
In addition, the patented Comfort Handle System absorbs and dampens harmful vibrations that results from ball contact with the racquet, leaving players with a solid and comfortable feel. The racket itself is in amazing condition, with barely no marks at all. All grommets and strings are in great condition too.
Ive replaced the grip, and added a new babolat vs over grip to the racket, with the addition of a new finishing grip ring, and a new Volkl dampener. Any questions please do not hesitate to ask. I use all 12 photos as a rule to ensure buyers have a complete view of the items for sale.
I always go above and beyond to ensure that all items are clean, well presented and come with above average items that arent present in the shops... So please be guaranteed I try my utmost to provide the best service possible... All rackets will be sent via Hermes tracked, signed and insured.
The item "Boris Becker BB 1 Tennis Racket And Volkl Bag Very Rare Superb Condition" is in sale since Thursday, December 6, 2018. This item is in the category "Sporting Goods\Tennis\Rackets". The seller is "buttie8" and is located in Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire.


Brendan A. Bertoli is an Associate in the Albertson office. Mr. Bertoli assists partners Henri A. Demers and Lisa M. Pigeon with litigation, as well as in the preparation of matters for trial. His practice is focused on premises liability, automobile liability, construction site accidents and New York Labor Law liability.


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Marie-Jo Zarb is a French lyricist, director and producer.

Career

After literature studies, Marie-Jo Zarb meets Bruno Pelletier, the francophone Quebecer singer, in 1993, and writes many songs for him. Thanks to this first experience, she works with Native, a French band, and with Francis Lai for the musical Les Sales Gosses. She gets into Sony, the record company, and writes for Herbert Léonard, Larusso and the Sol En Si artists; among others.

In 2000, she meets Pascal Obispo, Lionel Florence, gets into Atletico songwriters pole, where she writes, in particular for Patrick Fiori, Lââm, Julie Zenatti, Tina Arena, Patricia Kaas, Florent Pagny.

In 2009, she is involved in the French adaptation of Zorro (musical), with Laurent Bàn in the title role, then founds Aeternalis Music, her own production company, with Sylvain Bonnet.

She sits at the variety committee at the French Sacem and runs writing workshops at The Music Academy International in Nancy.

In 2013, she writes and produces Pinocchio, the musical, for the stage, from Carlo Collodi's novel, in Paris. Moria Nemo writes the music and Pablo Villafranca, Nuno Resende, Sophie Delmas and Vanessa Cailhol play the leading parts. Marie-Jo Zarb is nominated for the French Prix de la Création Musicale, with the song Couper les liens.

Exhaustive list of collaborations
 1995 : Je n'attends plus demain, Lié par le sang, Pris au piège, En manque de toi, Ailleurs c'est comme ici - Bruno Pelletier
 1995 : Sans différences, sans contre-jour - Album Sol En Si
 1998 : Regarde-moi, Une autre histoire - Herbert Léonard
 1999 : Vivre sa vie, S'en aller, Personne n'est à personne - Bruno Pelletier
 1999 : Rien ne peut séparer, Si le ciel, Come back to me - Larusso
 2000 : Matin de blues, Saoul de mes dessous - Gunvor
 2000 : Juste une raison encore - Patrick Fiori
 2000 : Tout s'en va, Pour y croire encore - Julie Zenatti
 2001 : On n'oublie pas d'où l'on vient - Florent Pagny et Pascal Obispo
 2001 : Laissez nous croire, Que l'amour nous garde, Une vie ne suffit pas - Lââm
 2001 : Juste pour quelqu'un, Après, Tout le monde pleure - Pablo Villafranca
 2001 : Si je ne t'aimais pas - Tina Arena
 2002 : On s'en va - Christiana Marocco
 2002 : Tant qu'il nous reste - Cylia
 2002 : Là où tu rêves - Jenifer
 2002 : Les diamants sont solitaires - Natasha St-Pier
 2003 : J'avais quelqu'un, Quand aimer ne suffit pas - Natasha St-Pier
 2003 : Je regarde là-haut - Thierry Amiel
 2003 : Jure-moi, Être une femme - Nolwenn Leroy
 2003 : Tant que tu vis - Solidarité inondations
 2003 : Tu pourras dire - Patricia Kaas
 2004 : Grandir c'est te dire que je t'aime - Natasha St-Pier
 2004 : Tu m'as donné - Laetizia
 2005 : Tant que tu es - Daniel Lévi
 2006 : Je peux tout quitter - Natasha St-Pier
 2006 : J'irai chanter - Nouvelle Star
 2008 : Tu pourras dire - Tina Arena
 2008 : Des funambules - Murray Head
 2010 : La vie n'attend pas - Myriam Abel
 2012 : Peut-être - Bruno Pelletier
 2012 : Te revoir - George Perris
 2013 : Ça me suffira, L'amour à mort, Après la passion - Lisa Angell

Musicals
 1996 : Les sales gossesby Francis Lai
 2009 : Zorro by Stephen Clark, adaptation by Éric Taraud and Marie-Jo Zarb, dir Christopher Renshaw, music Gipsy Kings - Folies Bergère
 2011 : 80 jours : Un pari est un pari by Marie-Jo Zarb and Moria Némo - Zénith d'Orléans
 2013-2014 : Pinocchio, le spectacle musical by Marie-Jo Zarb and Moria Némo - Théâtre de Paris, tournée
 2014 : Aladin, le spectacle musical by David Rozen and Marie-Jo Zarb - Zénith d'Orléans

Filmography
 2002 : The Biggest Fan de Michael Criscione

Awards and nominations

Nominations
 2014 : Prix de la création musicale originale pour un spectacle : Couper les liens, written with Stéphanie Mounier, from Pinocchio, le spectacle musical

References

External links

 Aeternalis, official site

Living people
French songwriters
Place of birth missing (living people)
French record producers
Year of birth missing (living people)


Andrew J. Olsack, age 47, of Williamstown, NJ, formerly of Pine Hill, NJ, passed away on June 26, 2018.
Andrew was a graduate of Overbrook High School in Pine Hill, Class of 1988. He enjoyed golfing, fishing and being an umpire.
Beloved son of Anthony G. Olsack and Amelia E. Olsack (nee Webber). Loving father of Andrew, Jr. and Alyssa. Dear brother of Anthony F. Olsack (Rita) and Andrea Tenenberg (George). He is also survived by many loving aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews.
Relatives are friends are invited to his visitation on Thursday, July 5th from 10:00-11:00 AM at the Farnelli Funeral Home, 504 N. Main St., Williamstown, where a memorial service will be held at 11:00 AM. Inurnment will follow in Woodbury Memorial Park.


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Клаудія Кардінале (, ім'я при народженні — Клод-Жозефі́н-Роз Карде́н, ; *, Туніс) — італійська акторка.

Біографія

Клаудія Кардінале народилася в Тунісі. Її мати була француженкою, батько італійцем. У 1957 вона перемогла на конкурсі краси, який проводило посольство Італії в Тунісі, і була названа «найвродливішою італійкою Тунісу». Вона одержала запрошення на Венеційський кінофестиваль, пізніше виїхала в Рим навчатися в «Експериментальному центрі кінематографії», і через два місяці з нею підписала контракт на 7 років студія Vides.

На початку своєї кар'єри виконувала, в основному, ролі молодих сицилійок. У Кардинале був низький хриплуватий голос, і вона розмовляла з французьким акцентом — її рідною мовою була французька, і до 17 років вона взагалі не розмовляла італійською. Із цих причин у її ранніх фільмах її голос звичайно переозвучували.

Своєю ефектною, яскравою зовнішністю й грою Клавдія привернула увагу видатних італійських режисерів. Знімалася в Федеріко Фелліні, Лукіно Вісконті, Серджо Леоне. Серед найвідоміших фільмів за її участю: «Рокко та його брати», «Картуш», «Рожева пантера», «Леопард», «Вісім з половиною», «Одного разу на Дикому Заході». Практично ніколи не знімалася за межами Європи — майже всі її фільми італійські або французькі.

З 1980 проживає в Парижі.

З 1999 посол доброї волі ЮНЕСКО із захисту прав жінок.

У 2002 відзначена почесною нагородою Венеційського кінофестивалю.

У 2008 нагороджена Орденом почесного легіону Франції.

Кардінале вважається одною із найвродливіших актрис усіх часів. За час її кар'єри її зображення з'являлися на 900 обкладинках журналів у 25 країнах.

Фільмографія

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Уродженці Туніса
Випускники Експериментального кіноцентру
Кіноактори Італії XX століття
Актори, відомі під псевдонімами
Лауреати премії «Давид ді Донателло» за кар'єру
Лауреати премії «Люм'єр»
Актори вестернів


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Q: How to read remove some lines from json file using node.js I want to extract some comment lines of data from json file and after making those into certain format i need to remove those. I am explaining my json file below.

test.json:

#PATH:/test/
#DEVICES:div1
#TYPE:p1
{
  name:'Raj',
  address: {
     city:'bbsr'
  }
}

The above file is one test json file. Here I need to read the lines which includes # at beginning and then make them separate object like const obj ={PATH:'/test/',DEVICES:'div1',TYPE:p1} and finally remove those 3 line from original test.json file using node.js

A: Following snippet can be used to solve this problem. It can handle any number of similar comments.
const fs = require('fs')
const readline = require('readline');
const filepath = '/Users/.../nodeText.json';    // file to read from
const writePath = '/Users/.../nodeFileResult.json'  // file to write to
const inputStream = fs.createReadStream(filepath)
const startLine = 'const obj = {\n';
let content = '';

const readPromise = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
    const lineReader = readline.createInterface({
        input: inputStream
    });

    inputStream.on('end', () => {
        resolve('end');
    });

    lineReader.on('line', (line) => {
        let resultText = '';
        const replaceDict = {
            '#': '"',
            ':': '": "',
            '\n': '",\n'
        };
        const regexString = /#|:|\n/;
        const re = new RegExp(regexString, 'gim');
        if(line.startsWith('#')) {
            resultText = (line+`\n`).replace(re, (match) => {  // \n to make sure its line end and for regex to work
                return replaceDict[match];
            });
        } else if(line.startsWith('{')) {
            resultText = line.replace('{', `}, \n {`);
        } else {
            resultText = line
        }
        content = content + resultText;
    });
});

readPromise
    .then((resolve) => {
        if(resolve === 'end') {
            content = startLine + content
            fs.writeFile(writePath,
                content,
                error => {
                if (error) {
                    console.error(error)
                    return
                }
            })
        }
})

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Armenian priest murdered by ISIS laid to rest in Qamishlo
The priest of the Armenian Catholic Church in Qamishlo, Hovsep Bedoyan, who was murdered two days ago together with his father by the ISIS, was laid to rest.
QAMISHLO
Wednesday, 13 Nov 2019, 23:15
Priest Hovsep Bedoyan of the Armenian Catholic Church in Qamishlo city of northern Syria has been laid to rest. The priest was murdered on October 11 together with his father by the ISIS.Thousands of people attended the funeral in the Armenian Catholic Church.
The priest's father Abraham Bedoyan was buried in Qamishlo on Tuesday.
The priest's vehicle had been shot at by assailants on motorbikes on the road to Deir ez-Zor near the village of Zar in the Busayra district on Monday. A deacon from Hesekê, who was also travelling in the car, survived the attack with injuries. The men were on their way to Deir ez-Zor to oversee the restoration of a church.
More in ROJAVA-SYRIA
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Thousands from Afrin rally in Shehba against invasion
Turkey's mercenaries kidnap returnees in northern Syria
HBDH calls for solidarity with Afrin
Hamdan al-Abid: Turkey exports terror
Students from Afrin protest the Turkish invasion


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function SetTarget( _configuration, _platform )
	local platformname = _platform
	local archname = _platform
	if _platform == "x32" then
		platformname = "win32"
		archname = "x86"
	end
	local strtarget = string.format( "./bin/%s_%s/", _configuration, platformname )
	local strobj = string.format( "./intermediate/%s_%s", _configuration, platformname )
	configuration {_configuration, _platform}
		targetdir( strtarget )
		objdir( strobj )
end

function SetLibs( _configuration, _platform )
	local platformname = _platform
	local archname = _platform
	if _platform == "x32" then
		platformname = "win32"
		archname = "x86"
	end
	local strSDL = string.format( "../3rdparty/SDL2-2.0.1/lib/%s/%s", archname, _configuration )
	local strGlew = string.format( "../3rdparty/glew-1.10.0/lib/%s/%s", _configuration, platformname )
	local strTinyxml = string.format( "../3rdparty/tinyxml2/tinyxml2/bin/%s-%s-Dll", platformname, _configuration )

	configuration {_configuration, _platform}
		libdirs { strSDL, strGlew, strTinyxml }

end

solution "bigball_auto"
	configurations { "Debug", "Release" }
	platforms { "x32", "x64" }
	location "src"

	project "bigball_auto"
		location "src"
		kind "StaticLib"
		language "C++"
		files { "**.h", "**.cpp" }
		targetname "bigball"

		defines { "_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS", "TINYXML2_IMPORT", "_WINDOWS", "_USRDLL", "_BIGBALL_EXPORTS_" }
		flags { "NoPCH", "NoNativeWChar", "NoEditAndContinue" }

		--libdirs { "../3rdparty/SDL2-2.0.1/lib/x86/$(Configuration)", "../3rdparty/glew-1.10.0/lib/release\Win32", "../3rdparty/tinyxml2/tinyxml2/bin/$(Platform)-$(Configuration)-Dll" }
		includedirs { "../3rdparty/SDL2-2.0.1/include", "../3rdparty/glew-1.10.0/include", "../3rdparty/tinyxml2" }
		--links { "user32", "gdi32" }

		SetTarget( "Debug", "x32" )
		SetTarget( "Debug", "x64" )
		SetTarget( "Release", "x32" )
		SetTarget( "Release", "x64" )
		SetLibs( "Debug", "x32" )
		SetLibs( "Debug", "x64" )
		SetLibs( "Release", "x32" )
		SetLibs( "Release", "x64" )

		configuration "Debug"
			defines { "_DEBUG" }
			flags { "Symbols" }

		configuration "Release"
			defines { "NDEBUG" }
			flags { "Optimize" }

--Enable debugging information	flags
--Optimize for size or speed	flags
--Turn compiler or linker features on or off	flags, buildoptions, linkoptions
--Set the name or location of the compiled target file	targetname, targetextension,
--											targetprefix, targetdir


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Intergeo 2019 Announcement: GeoSLAM's new addition to the ZEB family
By Eric Van Rees - 24th September 2019 - 06:58
GeoSLAM announced its latest innovation for rapid urban mapping on Tuesday 17 September – the ZEB Discovery.
Officially unveiled at this year's INTERGEO conference in Stuttgart, the ZEB Discovery signifies a new era in data capture and integration of a point cloud with high resolution imagery.
The ZEB Discovery is capable of rapidly capturing intricate data with the use of the company's industry-leading SLAM (simultaneous localisation and mapping) technology and NCTech's iSTAR Pulsar panoramic camera for ultra-high definition image capture.
The end to end solution automatically synchronises the point cloud with imagery for a unique walk through of the area of data captured. Combining the two data sources into one view brings a new way to visualise reality for a wide variety of occupations – from surveyors to environmentalists.
Harnessing a sleek 'clip-and-go' backpack design, the ZEB Discovery works alongside the ZEB Horizon, which was unveiled at last year's INTERGEO. This makes it the most versatile SLAM solution available on the market, offering the capability of using a ZEB Horizon in even more ways, whether that's on foot, on an automotive vehicle or an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Using Orbit software as part of the workflow, the ZEB Discovery integrates laser and image data together to help a number of industries and sectors, from planners when modeling 'smart cities' to utilities operators looking to survey existing or planned assets.
With automatic localisation of imagery in the pointcloud, the scanner can detect the operator's exact location using in-built GPS, and each second the solution emits 300,000 points per second.
Commenting on its launch, Shelley Copsey, GeoSLAM's CEO, said:
"The INTERGEO conference is one of the most important events in our annual calendar so we are delighted to officially reveal the ZEB Discovery today. The ZEB Discoveries are already rolling off the production line and we're excited to see how this solution, with its unique data synchronisation makes a real difference to people's businesses.
"Our unique CT SLAM has been commercially available for over six years, and as with all algorithms, the more it is used, the smarter it becomes. This really sets us apart from newer entrants to the SLAM market where a younger, less complex SLAM algorithm is used, or where there is zero flexibility in the way the hardware can be used."
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Hilda and April Crawford are now friends.
OMC! I am captain of the week! woohoo! Thank you Auntie Dale & Uncle Neil!!!
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Yay Atari way to go!
April Crawford Sorry I haven't been around.I have Bronchial Pneumonia and haven't spent much time on the Catputer.
Well April, you just rest and get your strength back.
Purring for you from here!
Thank You Dale.I am sure doing a lot of sleeping!
Oh I hope you feel better soon.
Sleeping=healing...purring for you to feel better!
All of us hope you feel better. Purrrrrrrrrrrrs!
April Crawford and Missy are now friends.
April Crawford sent Ruby a gift: Happy Birthday !
How are the Babies today?
I'm glad they're feeling better too. I send my vigorous purrrrrrrrrrrs to them!
so glad they are getting food of any kind.
i am beyond upset...still wont eat and they want their mom. i feel like the cruelest purrson on the planet but last night i let them nurse and Jasper threw up again so somethings not right.
Just force fed them some A/D.
Just put Roxy back in with them. They nursed...hoping they will keep it down.
April Crawford I don't know what to do.Ever since Rushy has been on Steroids for his Lung tumor he keeps beating the stuffing out of poor Montoya and a couple of other Cats.I have a call into the Vet.
Maggie: Oh my poor sweet Montoya. Rushy, please dont hurt Montoya.
I could come over and keep the boys in line Auntie, I'm a Tortie.
If he's on prednisone, that might be why. It can cause mood changes, aggression, things like that. He might feel nauseated. I hate prednisone.
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