Robert (Rob) Arcidiacono graduated from Queensland University of Technology in 2006 with a Bachelor in Built Environment and a Graduate Diploma in Industrial Design. Following a two year period working as an Industrial Designer and Product Manager in the Toy Industry in Hong Kong and South China, he returned to Australia to undertake a Masters qualification in Development Practice at the University of Queensland.
Part of the Masters program saw Rob undertake an action research project into Food Sovereignty and Domestic Food Security in Uganda, before being employed as a Consultant on South-South Cooperation with UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) in Vienna, Austria.
Rob's newest venture, Madeforward, is the product of his collective experience and skills gained across the globe in a range of different academic and professional contexts. The business model employed seeks to challenge the existing manufacturing system paradigm by designing and developing products using sustainable practices and upcycled materials. Rob also currently shares his experience and knowledge in design thinking and post-industrial design by serving as a sessional lecturer in various courses at Queensland College of Arts, Griffith University.
By viewing an idea as something that can be broken down into its most basic components it becomes easier to identify all of the externalities and critical components. In identifying those core areas one can then systematically work at changing, adapting, creating or eliminating the necessary components to turn that idea into a stand alone reality.
It was the desire to actively promote positive social and environmental change that inspired Madeforward, a business that 'makes-it' to 'pay-it-forward.' My background and experience in the product design industry, along with extensive research and work in the areas of food production and food sovereignty, resulted in the conceptualisation of a business that combines these two passions. Madeforward seeks to improve existing design processes (by utilising waste, instead of virgin material) in order to create products that allows people to grow their own food and reconnect with natural living systems.
Madeforward is a for-profit social enterprise. Our range of products are designed and fabricated locally in Brisbane and sold through an online store. Financial profits could be maximised should Madeforward outsource production overseas and by selecting cheaper, more readily available materials. Despite it being difficult to quantify the social and environmental benefits of diverting waste from landfill and supporting local industry in monetary terms, this model strives to prove that a business can be financially viable while also providing positive benefit to the local community and surrounding environment.
The main focus at present is on expanding the business to incorporate a more collaborative, open source approach within the existing Madeforward philosophy platform. With new innovations emerging that utilise upcycled and waste materials, I am working on making the Madeforward store a space where new and emerging designers working in the upcycling and sustainable design arena can actively contribute, and ultimately showcase their designs and innovations.
As a very logical, practical person I generally look towards a systems thinking approach to bring ideas from concepts to reality. By viewing an idea as something that can be broken down into its most basic components it becomes easier to identify all of the externalities and critical components. In identifying those core areas one can then systematically work at changing, adapting, creating or eliminating the necessary components to turn that idea into a stand alone reality.
I can't recall the last time I had a 'typical' day. The most common aspects of my day would be by starting with some exercise or meditation followed by a brief planning of the day ahead while devouring a big breakfast and quality coffee from one of Brisbane's many brunch cafes. On any day I may be wearing a number of different hats; sometimes it will mean spending time in the workshop prototyping or crafting products, other times is may involve meeting clients and designers at various shared working spaces around Brisbane, or it might entail finding a quiet corner to do some sketching or conceptualising of new ideas.
Given the cost of labour in Australia, by manufacturing locally and utilising upcycled materials (which often require much more processing than virgin materials straight off the shelf), the biggest challenge to a successful business is remaining competitive. This is where the marketing and messaging about the social, economic and environmental benefits of minimising waste to landfill and employing local fabricators is key to Madeforward's future success.
I have sketchbooks full of ideas and concepts I would happily give away; these range from fully developed product ideas through to costed business concepts. I simply don't have the time or resources to bring them to fruition myself, however I do feel they have potential to contribute to positive social and environmental change.
There are quite a few players in the sustainability and social enterprise space creating exciting initiatives and products. With regards to sustainability, Worm Lovers is a growing business based out of Melbourne, working with councils and businesses across the country to promote waste reductions, increase environmental awareness and urban food security.
In the upcycling space, groups like Holloway (based out of West End in Brisbane) are also creating beautiful products out of waste materials. Concerning social enterprise, organisations like Milaana and Resonate are activating positive social change by linking young graduates and students with change makers and social causes.
Similarly, there are many upcycling and re-use companies popping up around the globe. The US based Terracycle would have to be a standout; with a recently opened Australian branch and offices in over 20 countries globally. Their innovative approach to actively minimizing waste is creating exciting ripples in the design and upcycling space.
In an ever-changing, ever-more complex world I believe businesses have a responsibility to the local community and surrounding environment to ensure that their day to day operations not only generate profits for their stakeholders, but also actively try to address some of the challenges we are facing globally.
Madeforward is always looking to collaborate, share ideas or explore partnership opportunities. The 'waste' space is part of a much larger sustainability movement; Madeforward is unable to achieve large-scale change without working with others, sharing ideas and resources and leading by example. Any discussion regarding collaboration, professional assistance, funding or partnership opportunities are welcomed: our door is always open!
What are some of the more effective ways you have seen that help to creating a culture of change amongst a consumer population?
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How do I configure Backups app for this purpose to store the backups on that partition only in the hard drive? Also I want that partition on hard drive to be non visible to other PCs is that possible ?

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Employee errors and misdeeds can account for 52% of data breaches, according to a study published in SC Magazine. Employees are often accessing unknown networks or saving data to Dropbox-type storage, and their devices are doing double duty for personal use. Data has moved beyond the control of the cybersecurity team.
This was recently highlighted by a CompTIA study reported in The Washington Times. Here, 200 unmarked USB sticks were placed in public spaces with a file and email address loaded on each. A staggering 17% of the sticks were picked up and plugged in, the file opened and either the link clicked or an email sent – including by at least one security professional.
Read more in the MAX Risk Intelligence Data Breach Risk Brief 2015.
Most employees mean well, but have not prioritized security. Sound familiar?
Mary in Marketing is too busy putting customer lists into an agency's Dropbox to worry about sharing sensitive data.
Joe in Engineering doesn't want to compromise speed to market and usability to add more security measures.
Raul in Accounting simply forgot to update his software and is missing the latest security patches.
Even the most advanced perimeter protections cannot control unsafe employee behavior that can open the door to malware, sensitive data, or otherwise compromise security. If they could, then companies with those protections would not be in the headlines.
As FBI CISO Arlette Harte put it best, for most employees when it comes to technology "cool trumps safe".
How can you as a security leader possibly make employees accountable?
First, if you are sending security requests by email, the message may be getting lost. The average business user sends and receives 121 email messages a day, according to Radicati. So how can you get security requests to stand out?
How do you cut through the clutter? Take a page from Google, which customizes ads, news and articles to hold your attention. This is called "personalization".
Putting a unique dollar number on data breach risk creates an instant, effective connection with non-technical employees – and one that can be highly visible, measured and compared.
These threats are then weighted by an industry-standard breach cost to provide the device's Security Number. The MAX Risk Intelligence Security Number is the unique, real-time cost if an individual device were to be breached.
Which request would you be more likely to follow?
"Your security number is $150,000. One of your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the quarter is to reduce your risk to $10,000. Here's how."
By scanning and tracking individual devices, managers have the ability to integrate security targets into employee KPIs and provide incentives for reducing risk.
This is not an exaggeration. Our scanning has revealed desktops and laptops with a hundred million dollars worth of unprotected data and sever vulnerabilities. The highest to date is $300 million in data breach risk.
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Posted on October 25, 2021 October 25, 2021 by Karina Brandt@KEiiNO NEWS
The difference in the number of viewers only increases between "Star Wars" and "Shall we dance".
By Jørn Pettersen, vg.no October 25th, 2021
Translated by Karina Brandt
OUT OF BATTLE OF THE STARS: Carina Dahl had to say goodbye in the semifinals. Thus, it is Alexandra Rotan and Bjørn Tomren who meet in the final on Saturday. Photo: NRK
On Saturday and during the weekend, a total of 908,000 people realized that Carina Dahl had to leave "Battle of the Stars" in the semifinals.
In comparison, there were 526,000 who saw that it was Royane Harkati who went out out of "Shall we dance" the week before the quarterfinals.
The audience numbers last weekend were 861,000 for "Battle of the Stars" and 491,000 for "Shall we dance".
NRK's head of analysis, Kristian Tolonen, informs VG that this is the second most watched "Battle of the Stars" program so far this season, only beaten by the program two weeks ago with its 977,000 viewers.
– This year's season of "Battle of the Stars" is already now with an average of 835,000 viewers somewhat better than last season which ended with 788,000 viewers. "Battle of the Stars" is one of the big things on TV that still gathers many viewers at the same time, says Tolonen.
The weekend two weeks ago, "Shall we dance" also had good numbers with 572,000 viewers.
OUT: On Saturday, it was Royane and her dance partner Ole Thomas Hansen who had to leave "Shall we dance". Photo: Espen Solli / TV 2
– "Shall we dance" continues to deliver a strong season on TV 2. Despite many injuries, and unexpected changes during the season, the viewers are with us. Now we are looking forward to the competition, with a very exciting quarterfinal next weekend, says program editor Kathrine Haldorsen in TV 2.
"Battle of the Stars" was by the way the weekend's most watched program on NRK. Even "New on new" with a total of 831,000 viewers had to be beaten by the popular "Battle of the Stars"
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President Muhammadu Buhari's plan to borrow $29.960 billion (about N9.12 trillion) suffered a setback yesterday as the Senate rejected it.
In rejecting Buhari's request for approval to take $29.96 external loan, the upper legislative chamber explained that it was not comfortable with the absence of the breakdown of the borrowing plan.
At the commencement of the plenary session, the Senate Leader, Ali Ndume moved a motion that "the Senate should consider the request of the President on the 2016-2018 External Borrowing Rolling Plan." The motion was swiftly seconded by Emmanuel Bwacha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP-Taraba State).
Ndume, at a press conference shortly after the Senate session, said the rejection of the president's request was also due to the failure to attach a comprehensive borrowing plan to the request as indicated in Buhari's earlier letter.
Adopting a motion sponsored by Ndume, the upper chamber urged the presidency to ensure that the scheme is implemented to reach the poorest in the communities.
Presenting the motion earlier, Ndume said N80 billion had already been taken out of the N500 billion without any explanation on what the money was spent on.
"The Senate is concerned that the implementation of such a huge programme is now being carried out in the same manner as the other failed social interventions funds like the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme SURE-P, without a proper framework which led to their failures," he said.
In another development yesterday, Saraki prevented the Senate from rejecting the list of 46 non-career ambassadorial nominees sent to the chamber last week.


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Richard Madeley had no choice but to quit I'm A Celebrity after he broke the 'COVID bubble'. Picture: ITV
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Why did Richard Madeley quit I'm A Celebrity, why was he taken to hospital and what has he said about leaving camp?
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Richard Madeley, 65, announced today that he has had to quit I'm A Celebrity.
The TV broadcaster's shock exit comes just hours after he was taken to hospital in North Wales.
Both Richard and ITV bosses have released a statement about his exit, explaining that it was due to breaking the 'COVID bubble'.
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Richard Madeley was taken to hospital in the early hours of Thursday, meaning he could not return to the camp. Picture: ITV
Why did Richard Madeley quit I'm A Celebrity?
Richard Madeley was forced to quit I'm A Celebrity after his visit to hospital broke the show's 'COVID bubble'.
The Good Morning Britain host was taken to a local hospital in the early hours of Thursday morning as a precaution.
And while Richard said he is "fine", his trip to the hospital broke the COVID safety rules the show has in place this year.
Richard Madeley said he was 'fine' but 'gutted' he has to leave the show. Picture: ITV
What has Richard Madeley said about quitting I'm A Celebrity?
On Thursday afternoon, Richard announced he was not returning to the castle, writing the following statement: "Hello all! Richard here – firstly just to say that I'm absolutely FINE. I started to feel briefly unwell in the small hours of the morning and was taken to hospital as a precaution. By leaving the camp, I had consequently broken the Covid 'bubble' and as such I've had to leave the castle and all the wonderful celebs that remain in the camp.
"Obviously I'm gutted to be leaving so soon but the safety of all the campmates is the number one priority. I'm incredibly excited to watch their journey continue…even more so at the prospect of being somewhere a little warmer than Gwrych Castle.
"Thank you to everyone who supported me on my brief but completely unforgettable adventure – I've made some great friends and honestly had the time of my life."
A statement from I'm A Celebrity was also released, reading: "Our strict covid protocols means Richard has sadly had to leave the show as he is no longer in the bubble the celebrities form when entering the castle.
"He has been a truly brilliant camp mate and we thank him for being part of this series."
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According to reports from The Sun, Richard was taken to A&E after he came down with a sudden illness.
At the time, an ITV spokesperson told Heart: "Richard was unwell in the early hours and was immediately seen by our on-site medical team.
"He's since been taken to hospital as a precaution, the health and safety of our campmates is our priority."
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Q: Angular 9 - How to download files instead of opening them in the browser? I'm trying to download a file using an ANGULAR based app, but the file which can be read by HTML 5 are shown in the browser instead of being downloaded. Most of the provided solution online are related to HTML/PHP programming, but they are not helpful in the case of ANGULAR. The code which I'm using is as following:
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Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.


Groupon Inc., seeking to raise $750 million in an initial public offering, asked six more banks to help underwrite the sale, including Barclays Plc and JPMorgan Chase & Co., said two people with knowledge of the situation.
Citigroup Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, Bank of America Corp. and Allen & Co. were also offered a role, said the people, who declined to be identified because the decision isn't public. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Credit Suisse Group AG are leading the IPO, a June 2 filing said.
Investment banks are racing to win assignments to handle a surge of technology IPOs and the lucrative fees associated with them. Lead banks have earned an average fee of 5.2 percent on U.S. IPOs this year, compared with 0.6 percent for corporate bond sales, Bloomberg data show.
Groupon, the top provider of daily deals online, is following LinkedIn Corp., Yandex NV and Renren Inc. in raising money from public markets. LinkedIn, the biggest professional- networking site, was the first major U.S. social-media company to sell shares to the public. Its stock more than doubled in the first day of trading, though it has pared its gains since then.
Julie Mossler, a spokeswoman for Groupon, didn't immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment. Spokespeople from Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Bank of America and JPMorgan declined to comment. Allen & Co. couldn't be reached for comment.
While Groupon's sales surged 14-fold to $644.7 million last quarter, the company has racked up operating losses of $540.2 million since its founding in 2008. Groupon also faces competition in the market for daily coupons from hundreds of rivals, including LivingSocial.com, as well as recent entrants Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Yelp Inc.
The Chicago-based company will trade under the ticker GRPN, according to the filing.
Groupon delivers daily discounts on hotels, restaurants and other goods and services to 83.1 million subscribers. The daily- deal market pioneered by Groupon may generate $3.9 billion in U.S. sales in 2015, from $873 million in 2010, according to research firm BIA/Kelsey in Chantilly, Virginia.
To handle the growth, Groupon bolstered its workforce to 7,107 employees as of March 31, from 37 in June 2009. Revenue per sales representative in the first quarter was $172,000 a month, up from $87,000 two years earlier, the company said.


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The Jihad against the Jews
Martin Kramer, "The Jihad Against the Jews," Commentary, October 1994, pp. 38-42.
ON JULY 18, 1994 a ferocious bomb explosion ripped through the seven-story building at 633 Pasteur Street, in the traditionally Jewish quarter of Buenos Aires. The building completely collapsed, and the final death count reached 85 persons. It was Argentina's worst terrorist attack.
In many ways this strike resembled the bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires in March 1992, which left 29 people dead. That earlier bombing immediately followed Israel's assassination in south Lebanon of the secretary-general of Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite "Party of God." Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah's clandestine branch, made a convincing claim of responsibility for the embassy bombing, although the Argentine authorities never picked up its trail.
The attack in July, as the chief U.S. counter-terrorism official later put it, also had "the hallmarks of a Hezbollah operation." It likewise seemed to be an act of revenge, perhaps for an accumulation of grievances: the massacre of Muslim worshippers in Hebron's mosque by an Israeli settler; or Israel's June raid on a Hezbollah base deep in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, which killed nearly 30 trainees.
The technique of the massive car bomb, so reminiscent of Beirut, was also identical in both instances, and pointed in the direction of Muslim extremists generally, and Hezbollah in particular. While Argentina has over 30 neo-Nazi and far-Right movements, which presumably would wish Israel and the Jews harm, the quantity of explosives and the method of delivery guaranteed that the dying would be indiscriminate. Indeed, nearly a third of those killed were non-Jewish passersby. Resort to such a technique required not only a determination to destroy the target, but a total lack of regard for the inevitable "collateral damage." It seemed probable that only complete outsiders would be willing to kill Argentines so randomly in order to get at their target.
Yet for all their similarities, this latest bombing differed in a crucial respect from its predecessor: it was directed not at Israelis but at Jews as such. No Israeli agencies operated from the building on Pasteur Street. The devastated structure housed the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA), the main organizational body of the Buenos Aires Jewish Community, which had just marked its centennial; and the Delegacion de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA), the organizational umbrella of Argentine Jewry, established over 60 years ago. The building included everything from social-aid offices, where the elderly collected pensions, to the archives of AMIA and the records of the city's hevra kedisha, its burial society.
The choice of a Jewish target was no mistake. It came as the culmination of a shift in the thinking of many Muslim fundamentalists. Today they are in thrall to the idea that Jews everywhere, in league with Israel, are behind a sinister plot to destroy Islam. The battleground is anywhere Jews are organized to assist and aid in this plot.
This is a new concept even for Islamic fundamentalism, and it represents an especially virulent form of anti-Semitism, one so widespread and potentially violent that it could eclipse all other forms of anti-Semitism over the next decade.
RELIGIOUS prejudice always colored the traditional Islamic view of the Jews, but it also affected Muslim attitudes to Christians and all other nonbelievers. Most importantly, Muslims did not consider Jews a race apart. They regarded Jews as forming a community of belief—an errant belief, to be sure, but one entitled to a large measure of toleration.
Modern anti-Semitism in Muslim lands dates only from about the beginning of this century, following the spread of European racial theories. The idea of the Jews as a band of conspirators came to Muslim lands largely through the translation of anti-Semitic texts into Arabic, and above all The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Europe's anti-Semitism, like its nationalism, had an immense impact on Muslim thinking, persuading many Muslims that the Jews did constitute a distinct race, whose members had always been treacherous in all places and at all times, because it was in their fundamental nature to be so.
Not surprisingly, European-inspired racial anti-Semitism reached the height of its influence with the genocidal Nazi war against the Jews. In the 1930's and 1940's, Arab-nationalist leaders found support and then refuge in Berlin, and Arabic translations of Mein Kampf and the Protocols enjoyed their widest circulation.
These ideas persisted into the postwar period, when Jews were forced from Arab lands. Despite their deep roots in these lands, Arab nationalist dogma drew on the anti-Semitic doctrines of Europe to portray the Jews as aliens in every place, at every time. The Arab nationalists claimed that the hearts and minds of all Jews belonged ultimately to the new state of Israel, and so any Jew could be held accountable for the supposed sins of the Jewish state. This provided the legitimation for the mass expulsion of Jews from Arab lands in the 1950's. There were once 800,000 Jews in the Arab world; today there are only about 20,000, most of them in Morocco.
Arab anti-Semitism took on a new guise in the 1960's and 1970's, under the impact of the fashionable anti-Zionism of the Left. While denying any anti-Semitic prejudice, the new "anti-Zionists" also denied Jews the right to self-definition as a nation. The Jews had wronged all mankind by deciding that they constituted a nation, and then by creating Israel in the heartland of another nation.
It followed that the only solution to the Jewish problem was denationalization, to be achieved by the defeat and dismantlement of the state of Israel and the return of the Jews whence they came. It was an idea that dovetailed nicely with the growing influence of Soviet and New Left anti-Zionism, and reached its apex with the "Zionism is racism" resolution of the UN General Assembly.
Throughout these many changing fads of Arab anti-Semitism, however, an earlier generation of Muslim fundamentalists still adhered to a strict reading of the Islamic tradition. Their attitude to the Jews rested not upon the imported European doctrines of race and nation, which they rejected, but upon religion. As careful readers of their own texts, they knew that the Qur'an faulted the Jews of Muhammad's time for failing to recognize his prophethood. But they did not understand this as a lesson on the character of Jews in all times and places.
Nor did these more traditional fundamentalists hold the Jews to be a conspiratorial race, or subscribe to any of the various solutions, from expulsion to extermination, held out by European example. In their view, Islam provided the perfect solution to the Jewish problem: the creation of an Islamic state, which would accord Jews the status of an autonomous, protected religious community. Their model was the dhimma, the covenant of submission and protection offered to Jews and Christians during the first Islamic conquests.
This view still allowed for a distinction between Judaism and Zionism and, by extension, between Jews and Israelis. An example of fundamentalist rigor on this point could be found in the thought of the late Ismail Faruqi of Temple University in Philadelphia, a Palestinian fundamentalist of the old school. Faruqi regarded anti-Semitism as one more European disease which Muslims had caught by sleeping with the West, and which a return to true Islam would eradicate. "There cannot be any doubt that the Jew is a sufferer of injustice at the hands of the Christian West," admitted Faruqi, rejecting the idea that the Jews were everywhere evil and deserving of retribution. As Faruqi saw it, "Islam offers a perfect solution to the Jewish problem which has beset the Jews and the West for two millennia," since it would allow Jews complete communal and religious autonomy, and the right to reside anywhere in the ideal Islamic state.
Of course, Faruqi went on to add a crucial punch line: "The Islamic position leaves no chance for the Zionist state but to be dismantled and destroyed, and its wealth confiscated to pay off its liabilities." But Faruqi never would have conceived of the conflict with Israel as entailing a global struggle between Islam and Judaism.
FARUQI'S idea that "the relation of Islam to Judaism is one of sympathy, even identity" would appall the new generation of Muslim fundamentalists who have emerged since the 1980's. Many of them have been thoroughly imbued with imported doctrines of anti-Semitism. Some are born-again Muslims, ill-acquainted with Islamic tradition, who often see Islam only as an ideology of power.
These new fundamentalists deemphasize the long history of Islamic tolerance of the Jews across centuries and continents, fixating instead upon the early conflict between Muhammad and the Jewish tribes of 7th-century Arabia. The Jews who clashed with Muhammad are presented as archetypes of a universal Jew, treacherous by nature, whose perfidy threatens not only Islam but all humanity.
In this discourse, which purports to be the authentic voice of Islam, all manner of themes and sources intermingle. Verses from the Qur'an abut quotations from the Protocols. The role of the Jews in Arabia of the 7th century is compared with the alleged international power of the Jews in the late 20th. And in this collapsing of sources and history, another distinction—between anti-Zionism and anti-Judaism—is lost. The fundamentalist arguments mobilized against the state of Israel are invariably arguments against the Jews in general.
In short, the Islamic fundamentalist position has now been thoroughly penetrated by classic European anti-Semitism. This has been facilitated by the fact that so many fundamentalist thinkers of the present generation have spent time in the West, collecting advanced degrees at the universities of London and Paris. There they internalized the anti-Semitism of the extreme Left and Right, and they now retail a comprehensive indictment of the Jews which goes far beyond anti-Zionism. Their tales of unbridled Jewish power enjoy even more credibility among their listeners at home, since they can claim to have seen and experienced it firsthand. They wax persuasive when they declare that an international Jewish conspiracy stands behind Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, or the fall of the Muslim-owned Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).
Consider the spiritual mentor of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, whose teeming flock overflows into Beirut's streets to hear his mosque sermon each Friday. According to Fadlallah, "The struggle against the Jewish state, in which the Muslims are engaged, is a continuation of the old struggle of the Muslims against the Jews' conspiracy against Islam." Muslims now face
a world Jewish movement working to deprive Islam of its positions of actual power—spiritually, on the question of Jerusalem; geographically, on the question of Palestine; politically, by bringing pressures to block Islam's movement at more than one place; and economically, in an effort to control Islam's economic potential and resources, in production and consumption.
Fadlallah thus rejects the argument, which is still made by some nationalists and fundamentalists, that Israel is but an instrument of American imperialism. "The Jews want to be a world superpower….No one should imagine that the Jews act on behalf of any super or minor power. It is their personality to make for themselves a future world presence." The very purpose of Israel is to bring "all the Jews in the world to this region, to make it the nucleus for spreading their economic and cultural domination."
For Fadlallah, then, Israel is "not merely a group that established a state at the expense of a people. It is a group which wants to establish Jewish culture at the expense of Islamic culture." Here is a view of Muslims and Jews locked in a timeless and total confrontation, until one completely subjugates the other.
Along with this notion has come the idea that Jews everywhere are Israel's co-conspirators in a plot against Islam. A leading protagonist of this idea is Rashid al-Ghannushi, the exiled leader of al-Nahda, the banned Tunisian fundamentalist movement.
Last year, Ghannushi was granted political asylum in Britain, and he is now the foremost fundamentalist ideologue in the West. From the belly of the beast, he has contended that the Jews everywhere are behind a worldwide campaign against Islam. Islam and the West could reach an accommodation, he says, were it not for the worldwide machinations of the Jews, who fan the fires of mistrust. Beware the Jews, he admonishes the West: "We Islamists hope that the West is not carried away by the Jewish strategy of linking the future of its relationship with the Islamic world with a war against Islam."
THE recent agreement between Israel and the PLO, and Israel's continuing negotiations with Arab states, have, if anything, exacerbated fundamentalist anti-Semitism. Opposed to any negotiated agreement, the fundamentalists now seek to frighten Islamic opinion by warning that peace will subject the Muslim world to complete Jewish domination.
Since the expulsion of the Jews from the Arab world over a generation ago, domestic Jewish influence has not been a major issue, either for nationalists or fundamentalists. But now the fundamentalists are declaring that the "normalization" provisions of any peace treaty will mean a massive influx of Jews into Arab countries—as diplomats, journalists, businessmen, and tourists. Their objective, say the fundamentalists, will be to dominate and corrupt the Islamic world.
This is the line now being taken by the leading spokesman of the Palestinian Hamas, Ibrahim Ghawsha, who resides in Jordan. Ghawsha subscribes to the concept that the conflict with the Jews is not over territory but truth, and is therefore eternal: "We think the conflict between the Arabs and Jews, between the Muslims and the Jews, is a cultural conflict that will continue to rage throughout all time." With peace, he warns, the Jews will gain the upper hand in that conflict; the return of Arab territory is a clever Jewish ruse, which will allow Israel to extend its hegemony over the entire region. Israel's economic resources, he reminds Muslims,
are extremely advanced technologically and scientifically. God forbid, if by means of signing the peace accords the Arabs and Israelis reach a compromise and they implement their plan for autonomy. Arab economies will collapse because they will not be able to compete with the Israelis' modern industries. Thus, Israel will dominate the region as Japan dominates Southeast Asia, and the Arabs will all become employees of the Jews.
The image of the Jew is thus transformed, from a ruthless enemy on the battlefield to a ruthless boss on the factory floor. In the same spirit, Ghannushi has called the Israel-PLO accord "a Jewish-American plan encompassing the entire region, which would cleanse it of all resistance and open it to Jewish economic and cultural activity, culminating in complete Jewish hegemony from Marrakesh to Kazakhstan."
This Jewish hegemony would extend even into Arabia, to the sacred precincts of Islam, from which Muhammad expelled the Jews. "The Jews are planning to return to Khaybar," warns Ghawsha, referring to the town near Medina which was the largest Jewish settlement in Arabia at the time of Muhammad, and against which Muhammad waged war. "Actually, by this accord, they will go there. They will go back peacefully. They will ask for the houses of their grandfathers."
From the fundamentalist vantage point, this scenario of Jews penetrating their world, demanding a return even to Arabia, is the nightmarish prelude to the ultimate eradication of Islam by its most intractable enemy.
And so fundamentalists must now proceed to the task of portraying the Jews in their true light. Hezbollah's Fadlallah takes for granted that agreements will be reached between Israel and weak Arab governments. Their implementation therefore must be combated at the popular level. And Fadlallah points to the source from which Muslims can draw inspiration:
In the vocabulary of the Qur'an, Islamists have much of what they need to awaken the consciousness of Muslims, relying on the literal text of the Qur'an, because the Qur'an speaks about the Jews in a negative way, concerning both their historical conduct and future schemes.
THIS species of anti-Semitism is intended by its creators to amplify a genuine apprehension. As more accords are reached, Jews are appearing in Arab countries either where they were never present, or where they disappeared over a millennium ago, or whence they fled a generation ago. Fear of subjugation runs deep in Arab societies, and it will not be surprising if this shrill anti-Semitism gains a widespread hearing.
But the invigorated anti-Semitism of Muslim fundamentalists is a threat not only in the Middle East. Muslim immigrants and visitors have arrived in ever greater numbers to the West, in countries where Jews are long established: Britain, France, the U.S., Argentina, and Australia. Today virtually every trend in Islamic thought and activism is represented in the Americas and Europe, including the most militant forms of extremism. Britain, for example, is home to organizations of Iran's supporters, especially around the so-called "Muslim Parliament"; to the Palestinian Hamas, which publishes its flagship magazine in London; and to the Hizb al-Tahrir, or "Liberation Party," clandestine in the Middle East but highly visible on British campuses. This is the kind of volatile mix one would be hard-pressed to find in any single Middle Eastern country.
In recent years, the Jews have not been at the top of the agenda of Muslim fundamentalists in the West, who have been much more preoccupied with two other objectives. First, they have tried to purge Muslim ranks of "deviants," to create an atmosphere of intellectual intimidation so that only their ideas can be safely aired. This was the portent of the Rushdie affair in Britain. Second, they have tried, often through violence, to compel Western governments to abandon support for secular, pro-Western regimes in the Islamic world. This was the apparent motive behind the World Trade Center bombing. Until now, the Jews have been marginal to the quest for purity and power; and until Buenos Aires, Jews as such had not been singled out for death threats or bomb attacks.
But the progress of the Arab-Israeli peace process has altered fundamentalist priorities. If the peace process cannot be stopped on Middle Eastern ground, then perhaps its momentum can be checked by a counteroffensive on foreign ground. And for those fundamentalists who have thoroughly refined their theory of a world Jewish conspiracy against Islam, a Jewish target will do as well as an Israeli one. Indeed, the message of Buenos Aires is that Jewish targets, because they are so numerous and indefensible, might even be preferred under certain circumstances.
The upshot is that all of Jewry is held hostage against the conduct of Israel. The choice probably fell first on Argentina because it has no effective investigative apparatus of its own—a weakness demonstrated by its failure to solve the Israeli embassy bombing of 1992. But a similar strike could be delivered just as readily in any other country. The infrastructure is already in place.
FORTUNATELY, against this temptation to strike soft Jewish targets, there are also ideological and practical constraints. On one plane, the distinction between Israel and the Jewish Diaspora is vital to fundamentalists. Here is the secretary-general of Hezbollah, Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah, in an interview last year:
I wish to send a message to all the Jews who came to Palestine I want to tell them that their ambitions, dreams, and aggression can never provide them with the security, stability, and regional power they want. If they truly want security, peace, and stability, they must return from where they came. I believe the climate in Paris is better than in Palestine. Let them return to Paris, London, Australia, from wherever they were before.
Yet now, by threatening all of world Jewry, Islam's fundamentalists have contradicted this logic, strengthening the perception that it is the Jews of Israel who are the most secure of all. Moreover, when Israel's Jews do "return," it is from a position of strength—in the tragic case of Buenos Aires, not only to help dig bodies out of the rubble, but also to assist the Argentine government in its investigation. An international carte blanche for the Mossad is a risk not all fundamentalists are prepared to run.
Such attacks also corrode the moral underpinnings of the fundamentalists themselves. Jihad is a moral code of warfare, regulated by provisions of Islamic law. As adherents of that law, many fundamentalists know that such attacks stretch it too far. Hence the silence among Hezbollah's clerics over the bombing, and the statement by one of them that, because the bombing killed women and children, "this act cannot be the work of those who are committed to Islam."
True, Hezbollah has abducted and bombed innocents of various nationalities many times before. But those acts have always created a measure of internal discord between hard-nosed operatives and the guardians of the law. This is something Hezbollah usually seeks to avoid, and may serve as a brake on any rapid descent into all-out terror against Jewish targets worldwide.
More practically, Muslim fundamentalists are discovering again that attacks against Jews as such yield no benefits and provide no relief from Israel's military strikes. This is a repeat lesson, since a decade ago, Hezbollah gained nothing from holding another Jewish community hostage against Israel's conduct.
Thus, in 1984 and 1985, a group operating under the wing of Hezbollah and calling itself the "Organization of the Oppressed of the Earth" abducted one in every ten of the remaining 100 Jews in Lebanon, hoping to force the release of Shiites detained by an Israel-backed militia in south Lebanon. Hezbollah accused its Jewish hostages of espionage: "We did not take these people because they are Jewish." The charge was dismissed even by Lebanese Shiites, most notably in the case of Elie Hallak, the "doctor of the poor," who had ministered largely to Shiites in the Ein-el-Mreisse quarter of West Beirut.
In 1985, Hezbollah began to murder its Jewish hostages, ultimately killing all of them, including Dr. Hallak, in retaliation for Israeli strikes in south Lebanon. But Israel did not negotiate for their release. Nor did it retaliate for their murder.
Israel's policy, then and now, remains one of no negotiation over Jewish hostages. It will not drop its own defense if enemies threaten Jews elsewhere. Nor is it obliged to retaliate when Jews elsewhere are struck. And so, although Israel extended a hand to the dazed Jewish community of Buenos Aires, it did not take any retaliatory action in Lebanon for the bombing. On the other hand, Israel still retaliates against every rocket fired in its own direction by Hezbollah, and can be expected to do so in the future.
Israel's policy has been to signal that when Hezbollah attacks Israelis, Israel will invariably respond. But when it attacks Jews elsewhere, it must reckon not with Israel, but with the world. Today, many fundamentalist movements seek political legitimacy in the eyes of the world as they pursue power at home. If attacks on Jews fail to move Israel, but do move the world against them, their calculation becomes complicated.
BUT these constraints alone will not suffice to put an end to terrorism. There is now a great backwash of extreme fundamentalists into the West, the result of crackdowns in the Middle East and North Africa. They are gaining shelter, visas, and even political asylum. While some respect the laws of their host countries, some do not. There are fundamentalists who look upon the West as one more arena for the conduct of their jihad—against Western governments, their own governments, Israel, and the Jews.
If they are to be stopped, Western governments will have to show an absolute determination to keep their ground free of the violence that characterizes conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa. This can best be done by preventing the entry of more fundamentalist standard bearers; by regarding those already in the West as potentially violent; and by employing every legal means of surveillance against them.
Jewish communities also must grow alert to the danger. The prescient introduction to the Anti-Semitism World Report for 1992, published by the Institute of Jewish Affairs in London, determined that "Jewish security throughout the world is perhaps affected most seriously of all by Islamic fundamentalist groups." Yet at the same time, the report admitted that "this is an area about which there is more speculation than hard evidence," and that there is "an insufficient knowledge of the extent of [Muslim] anti-Jewish activity and propaganda" even in Britain and France.
The explanation for this failing is the obvious tendency to focus upon the heirs to the most destructive anti-Semitism of the past: neo-Nazis and the racist Right. Hence in the aftermath of the Buenos Aires bombings, there were many Argentine Jews who assumed that only the extreme Right could have been responsible for so heinous an assault.
This is a view of anti-Semitism that looks backward, not forward. For the greatest threat today comes not from neo-Nazis but from those fundamentalists of Islam who see in every Jew a political target in their war against Israel. Much more must be done by Jews to thwart them, including in-depth research, defensive measures, close cooperation with law-enforcement agencies, and dialogue with responsible Arab and Muslim organizations. If such activity is not made a priority, Buenos Aires may turn out to be only the first strike in a global jihad against the Jews.
Embed from Getty Images People hold portraits of victims of the terrorist bombing attack against the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) institute that killed 85 people and injured 300, during the commemoration of its 18th anniversary, in Buenos Aires on July 18, 2012.


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On this episode, a three-year-old girl and the highest court in the land. From the Radiolab archives, Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is the story that inspired More Perfect's creation.
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Chief David Smith of San Marcos Hays County EMS speaks at a June 2017 ribbon cutting for Seton Hays' Level 3 advanced trauma center. Seton is one of many medical centers in Hays County that have expanded in the last few years. (photo by Samantha Smith)
$500K for better patient care at Seton Hays
By Samantha Smith on	 June 21, 2017 Community
As a result of a half-million dollar investment, Seton Medical Center Hays is now a full-fledged Level 3 advanced trauma center.
The local area hospital, located in Kyle, was designated as a Level 3 center earlier this spring, which means instead of it being a stabilize-and-transfer facility, Seton Hays can treat advanced trauma patients without sending them to Austin for more advanced care.
Seton Hays had a ceremony to mark the momentous designation June 16 and to specifically identify the level of medical trauma cases that could be seen at the hospital based on the new designation.
Neal Kelley, Chief Operating Officer Seton Medical Center Hay, speaks at the ribbon cutting for the Level 3 advanced trauma center earlier this week. (photo by Samantha Smith)
Medical centers can be designated from levels 1 to 4. Level 4 is the most basic where patients are stabilized then transferred, level 3 advanced trauma centers can treat any patient as long as they are stable.
The only Level 1 trauma center in the area is the Dell Seton Medical Center in downtown Austin.
"Next year, we expect to respond to almost 14,000 incidents on the I-35 corridor alone … That's a 50 percent increase from only two years ago."
David Smith, San Marcos Hays County EMS chief
Neal Kelley, Seton Hays chief operating officer, projected population in 2026 to be 29% more than it is now.
"If you're stable, regardless of mechanism, we can take care of you here," Dr. Oscar Rios, MD, Seton Hays trauma director, said. "If you have a fractured pelvis or broken ribs, we can treat you here."
Rios said in most trauma cases, the patient is stable and presents a high blood pressure and a stable heart rate. Instead of transferring such cases as a small laceration or small head injury, they can now be treated at Seton Hays.
"Things you won't see treated here are the unstable, critically ill patients that require a more advanced trauma center," Rios said.
Rios said the new designation helps to relieve the burden on families of patients from having to travel great distances to be with family while taking off work and school to do so.
"Our operating room (OR) is open 24 hours a day, if you're stable this is where you want to be," Rios said. "We have partnered with orthopedic surgeons that are the same doctors you would see at hospitals in Austin with the same skills and expertise."
Seton Hays is also home to the da Vinci robotic surgical system, pictured here. (photo by Samantha Smith)
Kelley said in a later interview that the $500,000 from Ascension went toward new advanced equipment in the OR for more advanced surgical procedures. Rios stressed that great patient care comes from more than the right equipment.
"Seton of Hays invested half a million dollars into operating rooms to help our community but it's not just about having the right equipment, it's having the right doctors," Rios said.
Kelley said Seton Hays is a 3+ facility due to the level of doctors available from a Level 1 facility, such as Dell Seton.
"Now that we have this capability, many, many patients, in fact the majority of patients, can be treated here in Kyle," Kelley said.
David Smith, San Marcos Hays County EMS chief, praised the partnership with Seton Hays and the new designation. He said it would be very beneficial to EMS personnel as the number of incidents along the I-35 corridor continue to increase.
"Next year, we expect to respond to almost 14,000 incidents on the I-35 corridor alone," Smith said, "That's a 50 percent increase from only two years ago."
Rios said the advanced trauma distinction meant more advanced trauma certifications such as advanced heart and pediatric support for nurses and staff.
"We want to send a message to the community that we are here for you, we are able, we are capable, and we are safe and look forward to taking care of you and your family," Rios said.
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How can I do the same with associated types?
You can refer to the implementing type via Self and since B: A, Self::MyAssoc already exists.
Is it possible to create a type alias that has trait bounds on a generic type for a function?
How do I constrain associated types on a non-owned trait?
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Q: JavaScript API to create Svelte elements instead of a template Svelte's templating language is great, in that it looks like HTML. However, for highly dynamic content I need to be able to use the full power of JavaScript, not just #if and #each. For example, given a tree data structure, I want to generate hierarchical table headings. (Demo) In React most apps use JSX templates, but you can drop down to createElement if you need to. Is there a similar path for Svelte? Am I missing something obvious?

A: If you need access to the DOM node, you can:

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*Add bind:this={node} to get access to the DOM node:

<script>
    import {onMount} from 'svelte'

    let node

    onMount(() => {
        const dynamic = document.createElement('a')
        dynamic.innerHTML = "Click me!"

        node.appendChild(dynamic)
    })
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*Add a use directive, this will also get you access to the raw DOM node

<script>
    function ninja(node) {
        node.innerHTML = "Kawabunga!"
    }
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A: I would look at the <svelte:self> element, which allows you to create elements that call themselves recursively.
https://svelte.dev/tutorial/svelte-self


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Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
Omnipotent and Symbolic Views of Managers
Two Major Views of Managers
Updated at October 5th, 2022
What are the Two Major Views of Managers?What is the Omnipotent View of Management?What is the Symbolic View of Management?
What are the Two Major Views of Managers?
Members of an organization and third parties (outside of the organization) generally view managers in two ways: Omnipotent View and Symbolic View.
Each of these is discussed below.
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What is the Omnipotent View of Management?
The omnipotent view of managers is that the manager is all-knowing. She has total control over the organizations mission and operations. That is, the manager is the visionary who steers all aspects of the organization. Thus, she is individually responsible for the performance of the organization.
If an organization is successful or unsuccessful, the result is largely due to the efforts taken or decisions made by the high-level managers.
Pursuant to this logic, the quality of an organization is synonymous with the quality of its managers.
A common concept associated with the omnipotent view is the Halo Effect.
What is the Symbolic View of Management?
This view is in direct contrast to the omnipotent view. It says that the role of high-level management is largely symbolic. Managers have a limited effect on the organization achieving its goals or objectives.
While the adequate performance of management responsibilities has an effect on organizational performance, the manager's activities are not the driving force behind strong organizational performance.
It recognizes that there are many environmental factors (economic, political, legal, competitive, consumer-based, technological, etc.) that affect the performance of the organization that is outside of the control of managers.
Thus managers are not individually responsible for the success or failure of the organization. Lots of factors contribute to the quality of an organization.
To a certain extent, both views have validity depending upon the organization, the manager, and the internal and external environments in which the organization exists.
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Bureaucracy Theory of Management - Explained
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2 a.m. - A purse and its contents were stolen from a Pontiac while it was parked at a Hancock Drive address.
2 a.m. - A $700 car stereo was stolen from a Pontiac while it was parked at a Sam Street address.
2:49 a.m. - The door of a Carolina Street home sustained $100 damage.
10:56 a.m. - An Edenville Township man, 22, was cited for careless driving, failing to report an accident and leaving the scene of an accident at Baker and Meridian roads.
6:33 p.m. - A deputy was called to Center Street near the Sanford Dam for a report of a tipped portable potty. The unit was uprighted and no waste escaped. The caller advised he'd already contacted the DEQ.
6:46 p.m. - A Midland man, 18, was arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting and obstructing police after officers were called by the man's mother, who reported he was out of control. The arrest occurred at Jay and Hancock streets.
6:48 p.m. - Deputies were called to a Homer Township residence for a report of an assault involving a 16-year-old girl and her 26-year-old aunt. No evidence of assault was found.
8:09 p.m. - Deputies arrested a Coleman man, 37, for marijuana possession after a woman called to report that her son came home from the man's house with the drug.
8:41 p.m. - A 23-year-old woman was arrested for domestic assault at a Lincoln Township home.
8:49 p.m. - Prescription medications were stolen from a Lee Township home.
8:50 p.m. - Gasoline, valued at $83, was stolen from a Homer Township gas station.
1:37 a.m. - A Hope man, 20, was arrested in Hope Township for drunken driving.
1:37 a.m. - A Midland man, 26, was arrested at Jefferson Avenue and Sixth Street for drunken driving.
5:53 a.m. - Gasoline, valued at $46, was stolen from a Coleman gas station.
8:20 a.m. - Apples were thrown at an Edenville Township home during the night. There was no damage.
9:17 a.m. - A Warren Township home was broken into and items, total value of $1,900, were stolen.
6:06 p.m. - A Midland boy, 16, was caught stealing alcohol and cologne, total value of $27, from an Eastman Avenue business. He was ticketed for being a minor in possession of alcohol and released to his mother.
7:55 p.m. - A Midland man, 46, was arrested in Homer Township for driving on a suspended license.
9 p.m. - A Jerome Township home was broken into and items, valued at $1,915, were stolen.
10:30 p.m. - A Clare woman, 39, was arrested for drunken driving after a one-vehicle accident on U.S. 10 near Sturgeon road.
10:37 p.m. - A Midland man, 21, was arrested at Main and Hubbard streets for driving on a suspended license.
12:06 a.m. - Two Midland men, both 22 years old, were ticketed for violating the loud noise ordinance at a Harper Lane home.
1:27 a.m. - A Saginaw man, 24, was arrested at Saginaw and James Savage roads for driving on a suspended license.
5:29 a.m. - A Midland man, 19, and woman, 21, were arrested after a traffic stop at State and Indian streets for marijuana possession. Police received a call that the pair were smoking the drug in the vehicle.
7:20 a.m. - A Midland woman, 62, reported that a business partner, a 48-year-old Midland man, promised to pay his bills with an injury settlement in May. The promise and documentation of the settlement were false, leaving a debt of $19,902.
8:38 a.m. - A $42 scooter was stolen from a Lee Street home.
9:42 a.m. - Police were called to a North Saginaw Road address for an assault involving two Midland boys, ages 15 and 16.
10:10 a.m. - Deputies assisted Midland Police with looking for a disorderly person at the county building.
1 p.m. - A Midland man, 49, test drove a vehicle from a Porter Township business and failed to return it. The vehicle is valued at $2,695.
1:28 p.m. - Deputies responded to a home in the City of Midland for a domestic assault involving a 25-year-old woman and a 29-year-old man. Reports are being sent to the prosecutor.
4:09 p.m. - A 17-year-old Bay City male was ticketed for being a minor in possession of tobacco after an officer saw him standing at the side of State Street while holding a cigar.
4:15 p.m. - A $500 Honda three wheeler was reported stolen from a Homer Township residence.
4:15 p.m. - A deputy assisted the Isabella County Sheriff's Office with the forensic analysis of a computer.
5 p.m. - A wallet and its contents were stolen from a GMC while it was parked at a State Street address.
6:30 p.m. - A Midland girl, 14, was ticketed for being a minor in possession of alcohol in the 300 block of Walter Court.
8:41 p.m. - A Bay City man, 34, was arrested for drunken driving and driving without a valid license in Jerome Township.
8:45 p.m. - A Midland girl, 17, was cited for being a minor in possession of alcohol at an Eastlawn Drive home.
10:30 p.m. - A $40 bicycle was stolen from outside a Cleveland Avenue apartment complex.
7:30 a.m. - An unknown substance was sprayed or poured on a Subaru while it was parked at a Harrison Street home.
3:32 p.m. - A Midland man, 47, was arrested at East Grove and George streets for drunken driving and driving on a suspended license.
6 p.m. - Items valued at $172 were stolen from a Chevy while it was parked in a lot on Eastlawn Drive.
8:36 p.m. - A Midland woman, 18, was arrested for retail fraud at Meijer, 7300 Eastman Ave. She also was arrested for driving on a suspended license and cited for being a minor in possession of alcohol. The stolen item, a $15 bottle of vodka, was recovered.
8:54 p.m. - A Midland man, 26, was arrested at his Paine Street home for violating a conditional bond.
10:45 p.m. - A Freeland man, 20, was arrested at Eastman Avenue and Saginaw Road for driving on a suspended license.
10:47 p.m. - Police were called to a Universal Drive apartment complex for a report of loud music coming from a vehicle, The owner was ticketed for unnecessary noise.


I think it would be good if there was an option to delete goodybags so you could buy a new one (before the month is up), especially when your minutes are low. This was a problem on my old network too, I had to wait a few days before topping up again because the 'bundle' hadn't expired yet.
Also, I can't see why networks don't have this option. My friend and I were talking about giffgaff the other day and he said he needs to top up again as he's used his minutes already, but this was only after 15 days. Sometimes people have months where they overtalk and need to top up again.
i thnk that you should allow people to be able to delete goodybags as thye may not have enough credit to keep them going throughout the month.


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by Aerotech News • December 7, 2022 9:55 am - Updated December 7, 2022 10:11 am
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., McLean, Va., has been awarded a $405,708,901 cost-plus-fixed-fee task order for engineering services. This task order provides for full spectrum lifecycle engineering, technical, and operational support for intelligence activities at Department of Defense and intelligence community customer centers and satellite locations. Work will be performed in Rome, N.Y., and is expected to be completed by October 2027. This award was the result of a competitive acquisition, and two offers were received. Fiscal 2023 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $510,000; fiscal 2023 Air Force procurement funds in the amount of $75,000; and fiscal 2023 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $410,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, N.Y., is the contracting activity (FA8750-23-F-0501).
AT2 LLC, Severn, Md., has been awarded an $8,192,222 firm-fixed-price modification (P00031) to contract FA4890-18-C-0008 for operations, maintenance and support services of Air Combat Command and Air Force Global Strike Command Primary Training Ranges. This modification provides for the exercise of an option for continued services of range threat, scoring, and feedback systems at the Dare County Range, N.C.; Poinsett Range, S.C.; Grand Bay Range, Ga.; Avon Park Range, Ga.; Snyder Range, Texas; Belle Fourche Range, South S.D.; Holloman Ranges, N.M.; and Mountain Home Ranges, Idaho. Work is expected to be completed June 30, 2023. Fiscal 2023 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $7,129,042 are being obligated at the time of award. Total cumulative face value of the contract is $75,861,578. Headquarters Air Combat Command, Joint Base Langley Eustis, Va., is the contracting activity.
Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded a $75,015,996 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, fixed-price incentive (firm target) modification (P00006) to an order (N0001921F0030) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001917G0002). This modification exercises options to procure 12 Nacelle improvements kits, rotable pool components and interim spares. Additionally, this modification provides for the installation of 29 kits in conjunction with conversion area harness, electrical wiring interconnect system assessments, sustaining engineering, and over and above requirements for the CV-22 fleet aircraft. Work will be performed in Amarillo, Texas (53 percent); Fort Worth, Texas (46 percent); and Ridley Park, Penn., (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in June 2025. Fiscal 2023 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $65,202,910; and fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $9,813,086 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
APTIM Federal Services LLC, Baton Rouge, La., was awarded a $12,921,740 modification (P00002) to contract W912DY-21-F-0015 for recurring maintenance and minor repair of petroleum systems. Work will be performed in Tamuning, Guam, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2023. Fiscal 2023 revolving funds in the amount of $12,921,740 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntsville, Ala., is the contracting activity.
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Hail fellow not well met.
Parts of next door roofing wind donated to us.
Phone call from Younger Daughter at her work today telling me to dash off and fetch J from school before the gale and deluge hit me. I looked out bemusedly at the fine sunny day but took her word for the fact that all hell was already breaking out where she was. Raining by the time I collected her and by the time we reached home visibility was near zero. Then the hail started. Ironic as I had been exchanging comments with Ark that it is something we hardly ever get.
After we had been battered for a while it occurred to me that I had a remote for YD's garage so we drove in and took shelter there.
We have got off lightly. Bits of neighbour roof in our garden and a part of our carport UV b roof next door other side. A demolished letter box. Sundry leaks and seepages. Whereas some have lost homes or lives.
Internet and emails down; this is sent courtesy of my phone which does not lend itself well to visits and comments. Thus a scarcity in Colonialists may be experienced.
25 Responses to Hail fellow not well met.
Thank you. Vice versa. Of course, my interest was captured as a result of having used a quote from e.e. cummings in the front matter of my latest fantasy. It fits perfectly.
What an incredible year it has been worldwide for weather.
Down to Hail and back?
Hail to thee, helicopter (gran)Dad.
Hail low and goodbye, also!
We were having a drought too and could do with lots of rain, but not all at once and at fire-hose velocity!
Commiserations, can only sympathise. Good you've survived though!
Indeed; and I managed to fix some of the damage today.
Very lightly indeed compared with many.
Wow! Weird weather everywhere! The West Rand had fierce winds and I saw pictures of hailstones the size of TENNIS balls! Luckily here on the East Rand, we had a severe storm, not bad enough to do any real damage!
Glad to know that you and your loved ones came through the storm relatively unscathed, though I am sure it was a frightful experience, especially for the younger members of your family.
It was scary indeed, but nothing like what one over-seventy lady we know who had to break a car window to escape drowning contended with. Front page news.
Rooves can be fixed, indeed. Entire homes are another matter.
Can't like this but look forward to further updates indicating status.
Status is not at all bad but we don't like the idea of a second helping. Hope the forecasts are wrong.
Glad you're ok. We're fine up here in Jo'burg after our storm.
Likewise glad you came off OK.


"The stakes are lower. I'm now 56, it doesn't really matter anymore, because I'll be dead soon," Jeremy Clarkson says. The former Top Gear host is telling Newsweek about whether he feels pressure for his new car show, The Grand Tour —launching on Amazon Prime Video November 18—to be a hit. After all, the spiritual successor to his old series Top Gear is said to have cost the online retailer £160 million for three seasons. "People could say, 'This is a terrible program and Amazon's wasted its money,' and I'll go, 'Yeah, I'll be dead before they even notice,'" Clarkson says.
Even if Clarkson is blasé about how the new show is received by critics and the millions of viewers who once watched him, Richard Hammond and James May on Top Gear , Amazon won't be. For them, betting on Clarkson and his two co-hosts is a high-stakes gamble. A factual program like The Grand Tour doesn't naturally fall into its wheelhouse—the web giant is better known for the award-winning dramedy Transparent . But Amazon is feeling confident the gamble will pay off because of the familiarity of the show's stars and format. At one point, Clarkson, Hammond and May's iteration of Top Gear made the Guinness World Records as the most watched factual program in the world, airing in 212 territories to an estimated global audience of 350 million.
"We have a saying: 'Good shows aren't good enough,'" says Amazon's vice president of Prime Video EU, Jay Marine, the man who bought the show in a bidding war that also attracted interest from ITV, Sky and Netflix. "It's very unique that you have a new show that comes with a built-in fanbase worldwide and the level of anticipation that this show has." Although Amazon, like its streaming counterparts, says it will not release viewing figures for the series, Marine tells Newsweek the trailer for The Grand Tour , released in early October, has been viewed nearly 12 million times online across Amazon's various social platforms, including 6.2 million times on its YouTube channel. "I love this deal. I can say, this was one of the most sought-after deals we've ever been involved in," says Marine. "We've looked at this [deal] every which way and we feel fantastic about it. Everything since we did the deal makes us feel better—everything from the fan reaction to the footage we've seen has exceeded expectations."
Amazon announced in July 2015 that it had triumphed in securing the services of Clarkson, Hammond and May—as well as their longtime Top Gear producer Andy Wilman—four months after Clarkson was dropped by the BBC after he hit producer Oisin Tymon in an argument over on-set catering. North Yorkshire police said it had conducted "routine enquiries" into the assault, but Tymon opted against pressing charges. Tymon received a £100,000 settlement in a discrimination case against Clarkson and the BBC in February.
The Grand Tour 's £160 million price tag spawned as many headlines as the stars did. Netflix, having missed out on the show, later said it wasn't "worth the money." Clarkson says that "[Netflix] were bidding about the same as Amazon…we just preferred Amazon." Clarkson says the budget isn't as astronomical as "newspaper talk" will have you believe and the cost per episode is "largely unchanged" from their Top Gear days. "And we have spent most of it on a tent," May adds, referring to the new show's large, traveling set.
When I finally catch up with Hammond, now suitably hydrated, in October—at a gastropub in Hammersmith, north London—he concurs. "As a machine for feeding ideas into one end and then getting television out of the other, we're better when we four are together," he says, alluding to Wilman, the former Top Gear producer who followed them to the new show.
Hammond and May are at ease talking about their BBC departures, but for Clarkson, the topic is more complex. When the fracas with Tymon that led to his dismissal is raised, the otherwise boisterous presenter suddenly becomes sheepish. "I don't really go into what happened. That was then, this is now—it's business as usual," Clarkson says, speaking over the phone from California in September.
In the wake of the trio's exit from Top Gear , the BBC attempted to reinvent the show with a new cast led by BBC Radio 2 presenter Chris Evans and Friends actor Matt LeBlanc. The new look Top Gear got a head start on The Grand Tour , launching in May, but its ratings dipped below two million viewers by July. Clarkson admits to watching at least the first two episodes. I ask if there was a secret glee at the show's declining ratings. "I honestly don't know what they were…he lied," the star says with a smirk.
The Grand Tour premieres on Amazon Prime Video on November 18. New episodes will stream every Friday.


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2020 iF3 Worlds in Canada Postponed
March 27, 2020: The International Functional Fitness Federation (iF3) has announced that the 2020 iF3 World Championships will be postponed until November. The event was originally scheduled for August 21-23rd in Abbottsford, Canada. The exact dates and venue are still being finalized, but the competition will stay in the same general area in British Columbia, Canada.
The iF3 Masters' World Championships will remain as scheduled in October in Lisbon, Portugal, where they will be part of TAFISA's World Sport For All Games.
iF3 President Gretchen Kittelberger commented on the iF3's reasoning and process when deciding on the postponement, "The iF3 met with the planning team in Canada earlier this week to discuss our options regarding Worlds. Everyone's biggest concerns with keeping the date of Worlds in August were that the athletes would not have enough time to train and prepare for the event properly given current lockdown measures and many closed gyms around the world and that our National Federations would not have adequate time to complete safe and fair qualifying procedures and National Championships for athletes prior to Worlds. Given these concerns, we felt it was in the best interest of the health and safety of the athletes, our National Federations, and everyone involved to postpone the event."
After reaching the decision with the iF3 Board and the host country of Canada earlier this week, the iF3 then met with the National Federation Presidents on Thursday to relay the decision to all National Federations first before making a public announcement of the decision.
The iF3 will release exact competition dates and the precise venue as soon as the schedule has been finalized.


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REVIEW: THE LOVE WITCH (2016)
February 6, 2017 by MonsterZero NJ	in Reviews and tagged Anna Biller, Gian Keys, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, M. David Mullen, Robert Seeley, Samantha Robinson, The Love Witch	| 3 Comments
THE LOVE WITCH (2016)
The Love Witch is a delightful and colorful throwback to the erotic pulp witchcraft and romance flicks of the 60s, perfectly imitating the technicolor look and style. It tells the story of lovelorn witch Elaine Parks (Samantha Robinson) who turned to witchcraft after her devastating divorce. She now uses love spells to lure her men, though these spells usually result in a tragic death for the current object of her affections. A rookie police detective (Gian Keys) is hot on her trail, but will the handsome policeman be the next to fall victim to Elaine's supernatural charms?
Filmmaker Anna Biller proves quite the workaholic by producing, writing and directing this charming and sexy homage, while designing the nostalgic 60s costumes and sets as well. The result is not only an incredible recreation of a long gone era of filmmaking, but deftly mixes in some feminist messages about the power of a woman's sexuality and the depth of a man's fear of it. The film is loaded with colorful characters, some very spicy sex and of course, plenty of spells and witchcraft, as our Elaine goes from one man to another, leaving a trail of bodies, until she meets Det. Griff Meadows…could he finally be the one? It's a spooky and sexy ride to find out and while there are those who may not appreciate the moderate pacing, it matches the type of films it pays tribute to perfectly. Anna Biller displays both a creative talent and a deep love for her influences that are reason enough to watch this flick alone. It also has generous helpings of sex, nudity…and even a pinch of bondage…with a bit of blood spattering just as in the trashy, fun flicks this film embraces the style of. At the same time, it also succeeds in telling the story of a woman in search of love and finding her own sexuality, but all with a vengeance. It's wrapped in a package of sumptuous cinematography by M. David Mullen and told with the performance style and dialog of a bygone era that is all but lost. It's not perfect. It's a tad too long at two hours, a Renaissance Fair sequence in particular seems to drag on, but otherwise this a really enjoyable tale of female empowerment and a creatively crafted love letter to the pulp/witchcraft films of the 60s.
The cast all get the material perfectly. Lead Samantha Robinson is both stunningly beautiful and a captivating actress in a performance that oozes sexuality and mystery. She delivers the deliberately stylized performance as if time was turned back fifty years and does so with a charm and charisma of a star in the making. Her Elaine is enchantress, seductress and 60s housewife with a vengeance, all in one. Gian Keys also captures the tone of the heroic leads of that era with his rookie detective who falls for his #1 suspect. He is both charming and a bit arrogant. There is also Laura Waddell as Elaine's new friend Trish. Trish is a perky girl next door type who seems a bit naive to Elaine's witchy ways, till her own man is stolen by the enchantress. We also have good work by Jeffrey Vincent Parise as a teacher and Robert Seeley as Trish's husband, both victims of Elaine's quest for love.
Overall, I enjoyed this movie a lot for not only it's tribute to an almost lost style of film-making, but for the story of a woman coming into her own sexual power, though with a deadly side effects towards her pursuits. Anna Biller shows she is a creative force to be reckoned with, much like her Elaine in some ways, by being a one woman studio on this spooky, sexy and fun flick. Both a filmmaker and lead actress to keep an eye on!
Rated 3 and 1/2 (out of 4) cards of love.


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Q: How to put all rows at the same level in SQL? Trying to use this query for a procedure where a client ask for a loan:
select loan_id,
CASE WHEN status = 'document_sent' then date ELSE NULL END as document_sent,
CASE WHEN status = 'document_rejected' then date ELSE NULL END as document_rejected
from table
and status in ('document_sent', 'document_rejected')
order by 2 asc, 3 asc

And this is the result:

loan_id
document_sent
doc_rejected

123
2021-03-01 14:52

123
2021-03-01 14:57

123
2021-03-01 15:33

123

2021-03-01 14:54

123

2021-03-01 15:00

123

2021-03-01 15:39

I would like to have something like this:

loan_id
document_sent
doc_rejected

123
2021-03-01 14:52
2021-03-01 14:54

123
2021-03-01 14:57
2021-03-01 15:00

123
2021-03-01 15:33
2021-03-01 15:39

Is it possible? Thanks

A: If we don't make any assumptions about the absence/presence of each type of record:
select
 coalesce(a.loan_id,b.loan_id) as loan_id
 , ds.date as document_sent
 , dr.date as document_rejected
from
   (select * from tbl where status='document_sent') ds
   full outer join
   (select * from tbl where status='document_rejected') dr
   on ds.loan_id=dr.loan_id

If you know that one or the other status is always present, then it can be a little simplified (can be turned into left join), or if both records are expected to be there it can be simplified to:
select
  a.loan_id
 , ds.date as document_sent
 , dr.date as document_rejected
from
   tbl ds
   inner join
   tbl dr
   on ds.loan_id=dr.loan_id
   and ds.status='document_sent'
   and dr.status='document_rejected'

If `full outer join is not available:
select
 coalesce(a.loan_id,b.loan_id) as loan_id
 , ds.date as document_sent
 , dr.date as document_rejected
from
   (select * from tbl where status='document_sent') ds
   left join
   (select * from tbl where status='document_rejected') dr
   on ds.loan_id=dr.loan_id
union all
select
 coalesce(a.loan_id,b.loan_id) as loan_id
 , ds.date as document_sent
 , dr.date as document_rejected
from
   (select * from tbl where status='document_sent') ds
   right join
   (select * from tbl where status='document_rejected') dr
   on ds.loan_id=dr.loan_id
where ds.loan_id is null

Thanks @nbk for pointing out.
You could also use MIN/MAX (although we don't want to find min/max of anything, we want to take advantage of their behaviour that 1.they accept dates, and 2. they ignore null values, 3.they are used with GROUP BY to group rows together):
select
  loan_id
 , min(case when status='document_sent'
            then ds.date else NULL end) as document_sent
 , min(case when status='document_rejected'
            then ds.date else NULL end) as document_rejected
from
   tbl
group by id


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My first band was called Sudden interruption and we where playing covers on Status Quo and Rush. Strange combination by the way? Then I moved on to progressive bands that also had synthesizers that was exclusive those days.
We were all influenced by Genesis and Yes and wanted to write really complicated songs. The band was called Schizo and we also played some Zappa covers live. After that I just decided to stop singing around 1980 and did my military service at a hospital for a year.
When I got back I hooked up with the base player from Schizo and started a band called BB Brain together with some other friends.
Now it was all about ZZ Top and bluesrock suddenly.
I have suddenly started to listen a lot to bands like Kansas, Foreigner and Saga.
At the side of the music we played and we joined a competition for other bands that was pretty local and ended on the second place. The band was a band called Ail Regal and the guitar player in that band was Dan Stomberg.
He heard me sing and heard a potential in me for singing hard rock and metal so after the competition was over he confronted me and asked me if I had any interest creating a new band called Madison.
At the time loyalty was important to me and I turned the offer down but a year and a half later when there was a lot of internal problems with BB Brain I remembered his offer and since I had kept Dan's number I called him up.
A year later we had our first demo 4 songs including Run Boy and Picture returns that we used to trade for a major record company deal. It did not take long… so around '85 we recorded our first album "Diamond Mistress" and moved to Gothenburg where we had found a management that had interest in the band.
After the second album I got an offer from John Norum to sing 3 songs on his first solo album "Total Control" that was hard to say no to and I decided to leave Madison. Total Control was released '87 and did not lead further in my case so I went on playing with different cover bands in Gothenburg waiting for something to happen doing some demos here and there with bands like Talisman, and a band called Vanessa that former became Kharma.
All in a sudden Vinnie Vincent contacted me and asked me to come over to LA to help him out with a new album.
It showed later that he had no contract with Geffen records anymore so he used that demo we recorded in two weeks to find a new deal and I went back to Gothenburg to sit and wait for him… after a year I was getting restless and when Yngwie's manager called me and asked if I was interested in doing an audition in Miami I just went and since the audition went well signed a contract with Malmsteen.
Ironically Vinnie called me the same day more or less as I got back to Sweden to pack my bags.
Well from then on I made two albums and spend 3 years around Yngwie travelling around the world and recording in Criteria Studios in Miami.
An easy life if it wasn't for Yngwie himself.
1993: I was back on the street so to speak unemployed looking for a new band and stumbled over Glory when Janne Granwick called me up one day….
I invested royalty money from Yngwie lyrics into a homestudio and suddenly I could do my work from home. I involved myself in all kind of projects such as Vindiktiv, Brazen Abbot, Street Talk, Kharma, etc. And still do from my Matilda Music Studio by the sea.


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The extensive personal archive of Professor Erik Amburger is a catalogue of about 100,000 foreigners in the Russian Empire until 1917 and presents a unique documentation that researches of many countries intensively make use of. Professor Amburger bequeathed this register to the Leibniz Institute for Eastern European Studies.
The work was supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation from May 1991 until October 1992, and also by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior until the end of 1993. Towards the end of 1996, the Volkswagen Foundation approved of a generous funding with which it was possible to hire additional assistants and a project manager in order to completely process the data by 1999 and also to make them accessible on the internet.
The online database was converted from 2006 until 2007 with DFG-funding as part of the Virtual Library Eastern Europe (ViFaOst) and is accessible again since the beginning of October 2007.
Furthermore, the Ancestor Tables of 2960 families are of immediate importance for biographical research. They represent a unique collection of genealogical data in list format which can be consulted at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies.


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Officials looking into Meat House payroll, gift card issues
Employees, customers looking for answers
Heather Hamel
Two state offices said they are officially looking into the Meat House, which closed four of its corporate stores in the last couple of weeks.The inquiries involve payroll and gift cards. The state Labor Department said there have now been 15 complaints filed by employees that payroll wasn't made or the checks had bounced.While the labor board works with the Meat House to resolve those problems, the Attorney General's Office said it will begin an inquiry into Meat House gift cards.At Fiddlehead Farms Marketplace in Dover on Monday, signs were posted notifying customers that it Meat House gift certificates wouldn't be accepted. The Meat House is a tenant at the marketplace, and Fiddlehead handles the checkout.The Dover Meat House location is the only corporate-owned store in New Hampshire that remains open.The consumer division of the state Attorney General's Office told News 9 that it has received official complaints from customers who were unable to use Meat House gift cards.News 9 also found one complaint filed with the Better Business Bureau. A customer saying the local Meat House closed, and the customer tried contacting the company but received no response.The Better Business Bureau also noted a failure to respond by the company.The Meat House posted notices at corporate-owned stores saying the closures were for remodeling. One of the co-owners told News 9 this week that remodeling was the plan until an investor deal fell through.The co-owner said the company is now working with a new investor and hopes to re-open the stores by Memorial Day. The co-owner admitted there were financial problems.The owner of a business who used to work with the Meat House said that in recent months, payments were made so slowly that he began requiring cash on delivery.The owner of Joy's HVAC said that near the end of last year, he received $500 in gift cards for payment. That company is no longer doing business with the Meat House.Labor officials said they're in touch with the Meat House every day, working to get the pay that's owed to employees.News 9 contacted the Meat House owners and is working on getting a comment from them.
Two state offices said they are officially looking into the Meat House, which closed four of its corporate stores in the last couple of weeks.
The inquiries involve payroll and gift cards. The state Labor Department said there have now been 15 complaints filed by employees that payroll wasn't made or the checks had bounced.
Meat House faces multiple lawsuits, totaling in excess of $580,000
State liquor commission says Meat House owes money
While the labor board works with the Meat House to resolve those problems, the Attorney General's Office said it will begin an inquiry into Meat House gift cards.
At Fiddlehead Farms Marketplace in Dover on Monday, signs were posted notifying customers that it Meat House gift certificates wouldn't be accepted. The Meat House is a tenant at the marketplace, and Fiddlehead handles the checkout.
The Dover Meat House location is the only corporate-owned store in New Hampshire that remains open.
The consumer division of the state Attorney General's Office told News 9 that it has received official complaints from customers who were unable to use Meat House gift cards.
News 9 also found one complaint filed with the Better Business Bureau. A customer saying the local Meat House closed, and the customer tried contacting the company but received no response.
The Better Business Bureau also noted a failure to respond by the company.
The Meat House posted notices at corporate-owned stores saying the closures were for remodeling. One of the co-owners told News 9 this week that remodeling was the plan until an investor deal fell through.
The co-owner said the company is now working with a new investor and hopes to re-open the stores by Memorial Day. The co-owner admitted there were financial problems.
The owner of a business who used to work with the Meat House said that in recent months, payments were made so slowly that he began requiring cash on delivery.
The owner of Joy's HVAC said that near the end of last year, he received $500 in gift cards for payment. That company is no longer doing business with the Meat House.
Labor officials said they're in touch with the Meat House every day, working to get the pay that's owed to employees.
News 9 contacted the Meat House owners and is working on getting a comment from them.