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While these businesses are spending more money on online advertising, it's their copy that will ultimately make or break their success.
Even if you're just starting out, you could easily boost their results, since more than likely they've written copy themselves or had a "tech" guy do it for them.
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Cyndee sent her dream client a promo letter, a case study promoting one of their products, and two Autorepsonders doing the same.
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Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear … "
Tough, wasn't it? (If you even stuck with it through the end.) But it's typical of the way Shakespeare wrote.
So why was his hard-to-understand writing so popular in his day?
Quite simple, really. Shakespeare wrote like the people talked back then. Yes, he used words in new and exciting ways, but he used the common language to accomplish his miracles of drama and diction.
He wrote like people talked. His audiences understood him.
This is not only one of the secrets of his success, it is a core secret of your success as a copywriter.
You hear it a lot, I know. "Write conversationally. Write like you talk." It's much easier to say than to do. Pick up a pen and piece of paper and write to your Aunt Jenny. No problem. Sit down in front of a keyboard and try to write a promo, and what happens?
Your writing suddenly becomes stiff and stilted. It lacks the ease and flow of conversation.
If it's so easy to write to Aunt Jenny, why can't it be that easy to write conversationally to your prospect?
Therein lies the secret – what I do when I can't find the right conversational voice for my copy. I stop writing to my prospect … and I write to "Aunt Jenny."
I imitate exactly what I'd do if I were writing an informal letter to a friend. I use a pen and paper. I start by asking my friend real questions about her real life. I write until "the flow" starts – the easygoing, natural tone I need. I don't force it. I don't look for it. I let it sneak up on me. When I feel it, I slowly shift gears. Instead of asking about her trip to Aruba, I start talking about how important it is to help street kids. Or about a new supplement that's helped my joint pain that I think she'd like.
Once I shift gears, I don't immediately run to the computer. I keep writing in longhand until I know I've got the tone and voice nailed.
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Inflation and the Delusional Guru
In Jungian psychology, Inflation can be defined as:
An overexpansion of the personality through identification with an archetype or, in pathological cases, with a historical or religious figure, which exceeds individual limitations. (ref Definitions of Jungian Terms)
This definition is especially relevant in considering certain apparently narcissistic gurus who are stuck in the Intermediate Zone. The only difference I would make would be to replace "archetype" with my own equivalent term, "attractor". Also, it should be pointed out that these gurus are not delusional in the way a schizophrenic is (although there may be a number of superficial similarities, this led me to misinterpret one IZ guru, Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, as schizophrenic, in an inlist email which was leaked to PNB followers)
Inflation, as defined here, is not the same as narcissism. Narcissism is an extreme form of egotism, which is associated (in the case of so-called gurus as well as ordinary people) with gross emotional immaturity, lack of empathy, and even child-like behaviour (not child-like in the sense of innocence, but in the sense of selfish, wanton, unrestrained, uncaring). It pertains to lack of development of the affective body and when excessive results in the narcissistic personality disorder.
Inflation is something quite different. It may occur even when a person, they may be a partially enlightened guru or sadhak for example, or a person on a drug trip, or having a psychotic experience, contacts something much vaster than their small human personality and is swallowed up by it, so that they identify with it and confuse their little human personalities with this much larger power. I call these big vast things "attractors". In the olden days they were called "gods" (this term is retained by contemporary hermeticists). Jung calls them "archetypes". It really doesn't matter what name one uses, or what conceptuual framework. What does matter is the reality of these forces.
The "place" (actually not an ontological reality, but a stage of spiritual development and opening to larger realities) where attractors are often found is the intermediate zone. This is where most people who have some experiences end up. Having had some experience, they then think they have the complete picture, that they are supremely enlightened, and make other ostentatious claims. These claims come about because they still have an ego, a locus of separate identity. They do not have to involve attractors. In fact Intermediate Zone Gurus who are non-narcisstic (i.e. who are emotionally mature) and who have not been captured by an attractor, can constitute authentic teachers, but only if there is in them an Inner Divine sincerity.
In the case of a guru who has had an experience of an attractor, or simply been possessed by one, or used in order to further some unfolding or agenda in the external or even the subtle world, the case is very different. Such a guru is an ambiguious figure, possessed of enormous charismatic power. The power has nothing to do with their petty little personality. It comes from the Attractor. Without that power, no-one would follow these people; why would you follow someone who may have a greatly inferior moral and spiritual consciousness to the average person? Or even if they don't, they are still no better than Joe Bloggs, once the power of the attractor and the intermediate zone charisma is taken away.
Through inflation, one may be be manipulated by or partake of the emanation of a class of astral entity or attractor called "luciferic" (to borrow Steiner's term - see Three Streams of Evolution). When unbalanced, Narcissism , which seems to be a common trait among many false and intermediate zone gurus. The result is a Delusional guru or master, who through ego-inflation and identification with attractors, fancies themselves possessing a spiritual status that in fact they do not really have.
The follower, through the act of following, of opening themself, themself partakes of identification with or being swallowed up by the attractor. But because they are followers, and lack the strength of personality or character or emotional or spiritual maturity to follow their own inner guidance, they cannot say that they are the attractor. Their identification comes through projecting an idealised ego image onto the guru
The Inflational Delusional Guru
There are two types of Delusional Guru; the Narcissistic and the Inflational. Although superficially similar, these delusions have a different origin, although it is cobnceivably possible to have both in the same person (that would be a pretty obnoxious so-called furu!) . In both forms they genuinely believe that they are enlightened beings, avatars, and so on, when in fact their consciousness has not attained that status. The Narcissist however does not go beyond the ordinary egoic identification at the level of the basic avidya surface consciousness (even if they believe they do). The Inflationist has, but has attained a sort of psychotic identification with an Attractor, they have in other words lost touch with common-sense reality. The Narcissist lacks empathy. The Inflationist lacks any sense of perspective at all.
The Inflational Delusional Guru is highly charismatic and may or may not be narcissistic. Genuinely believing they are an enlightened being or avatar, their inspirations do indeed come from beyond the ordinary mundane consciousness (the same can be said for schizophrenics, psychedelic drug experiences, and so on). in some cases they may be inspired by the false light of lower astral or adverse powers, in other cases the experiences would seem to derive ultimately from the mixed lights of the Intermediate Zone. All this depends on the samaskaras and personality and egotism or lack thereof of the guru in question. Whatever the nature of the experience, they identify it with the Absolute, with God, or with their own inflated ego. Even if they have authentic transcendent enlightenment experiences of the Intermediate Zone, this may (or may not) be distorted with side effects such as paranoia, and secondary mental and emotional self-deception.
They may still retaining some measure of personality, perhaps a lot, especially if there is also narcissism also involved in their make up. In this latter case, where both narcissism and inflation is present, the delusional guru will have tied up a lot of egotism and ego-defense mechanisms in this belief, and when their claims are challenged they become extremely defenisive and hostile and engage in rampant shadow projection on the wicked person or people who would dare imply such a thing. They also may (or may not) encourage their devotees to behave in such a way too.
The following charactereristics are suggested as a definition of the Inflational Delusional Guru type:
highly charismatic and persuasive, and hence good at manipulating people (although this comes ultimately from the attractor using them as its instrument
have some genuine insight, realisation, and Light, via the Intermediate Zone
tend to become slanderous or abusive and engage in much shadow projection when criticised, their followers therefore do the same
may have profound transpersonal experiences
these experiences are however psychotically misinterpreted or reinterpreted through ego-inflation and entity posssession or attractor identification.
teachings based on intuitions and experiences gained from the attractor, mixed with their own personal ideas, opinions and mental and/or emotional experiences
While Inflational Delusional gurus are not actually schizophrenic, being much as lucid and competent as any normal person, they do constitute a sort of tendency towards psychosis, paranoia, and schizophrenia. In addition, they cannot distinguish their attractor-induced fantasies from reality. So even if this does not mean that they are schizophrenic, they still do have some of that same attributes.
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Inspired to greater things
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Across rural Cambodia, thousands of families feel insecure in their own homes. They live in fear and uncertainty because, since 2000, almost 800,000 people have been forcefully evicted from their homes.
In Eastern Cambodia, the privatisation of the local rubber plantation not only removed this communities livelihoods but threatened the loss of the homes these families had lived in for generations.
The community spent seven years fighting this injustice; but they had no success. Rather than allowing the conflict to escalate, Cord equipped the community with the skills and confidence to work peacefully with the local government and to develop a relationship of trust with them.
Now 434 families in this community have secured the land titles that protect their homes. Srey Neang's was one of those families.
Srey Neang is 25 and lives with her husband and two children in the community. Her land was passed to her by her mother who died when she was a child. Srey Neang was one of those who were told to leave in 2008. She was just a child, but even at that age she felt that moving was wrong; how could she know that the new place would be secure?
Now, a mother with her own children, she relied heavily on the community leaders but she was a willing participant in whatever way she could help. Their strength inspired her. At first Srey Neang was afraid, she didn't know what would happen in the future, but she listened to the community representatives like Soucheng and Srei Oun and understood that the community had the right to live in their homes, and that they should fight.
During one of the demonstrations, Srey Neang felt scared as the police closed in around the group carrying electric batons and threatened to fire water cannons to disperse them. But she had confidence because they acted peacefully and the community worked together as a strong team.
"So for me and my family, we are so happy to get this land title. I think that my family will have a brighter future."
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Updated: 14th February, 2018
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The term 'funnel' gets bandied around a lot in the digital world and there's an assumption that everyone knows what one is. It can be overwhelming for those just starting out, or those who've managed to live their lives blissfully unaware of what a sales funnel is (and let's face it, every industry has its jargon, there's no reason at all why someone not in the digital marketing field should know all the different terms used).
This blog post is for people for whom sales funnels are a bit of a mystery, but who are keen to learn more about them and how they can help in their own business, as well as that of their clients.
A sales funnel is no more than a process. It's a process which attracts your target audience onto your email list and from there filters them through a series of processes, which are designed to nurture the audience until they are ready to take the final action, which is typically to buy something and become a raving fan.
This funnel might be encouraging blog readers to turn from casual readers to committed fans, transform people who have never heard of a coach into one-to-one clients, change shoppers who have never heard of a brand into loyal customers and avid fans – and turn busy entrepreneurs who have never heard of YOU into your best clients ever!
The term sales funnel has been coined because it represents what happens. Lots of people will enter the funnel at the widest point, and less will filter through to the end. However, those that do make it through to the end, will be your die-hard fans.
What makes a funnel valuable, is that each step of the process is identified and can be analyzed, therefore when people fall out of the funnel for one reason or another, this can trigger other actions to be taken. This means you can tailor make marketing and promotional campaigns which are specific to the actions that someone took while doing through a sales funnel.
PRO TIP: Every stage of a sales funnel is intentional. Right from the very first contact you have with your audience through to the end goal.
How Will Sales Funnels Help Your Business?
A sales funnel will obviously help you build your own list and create an audience of raving fans who will become loyal clients. Loyal clients will help you spread the word about your services and ensure that you have the business you deserve.
However, in addition to using a sales funnel for your own business, providing funnel based services (or marketing automation) for your clients could be an important new revenue stream for you. Just take a look at Upwork and Fiverr, you will see a lot of marketing automation jobs posted. Busy entrepreneurs need help with this sort of work.
What makes a sales funnel magical, is that it introduces the three factors which are key in any transaction – know, like and trust. We know that people buy from people they know, like and trust – however in a busy online digital world, it's difficult to build the know, like and trust factor. However, that's the magic that a sales funnel brings to the sales process. It allows us a service providers or sellers of products, to interact with the audience, to help build the trust factor, so that when they are ready to buy, we have the product or service ready there for them.
Notice I said here 'when they are ready to buy'. This is super-important and shouldn't be overlooked. By taking people through a series of sequences, they are ready and want to buy your product or service. Without the sales funnel, the audience don't get to know, like or trust us, as providers, and it's a much harder sell. They are a cold audience.
Think of it like dating  If you go on a first date with someone and their first comment is 'how many kids shall we have', the likelihood is, you'll be backing out of that date as soon as possible. However, if in the first date you get to know someone a little bit, and in the second date you learn more, as time progresses and as the relationship builds, eventually the 'how many kids shall we have' question will be one you are both ready to ask.
In dating terms, the sales funnel magic is what stops someone climbing out of the bathroom window on the first date and creates a long and happy relationship.
So, we've established that a sales funnel is a set of processes that start with attracting your audience and end with a solid base of die-hard fans. Each process represents a stage of the funnel journey (appropriately, a sales funnel is also sometimes known as the buyer's journey).
Whether it's blog readers, potential clients or a new base of customers, at the top of every funnel is a method of enticing them them into your email list and into the funnel. This is often referred to as a lead magnet and it's something valuable that you give in return for, typically, someone's email address.
The lead magnet has to be of value. This is the first contact with the audience and this is what should pique their interest to learn more.
If the lead magnet is not of value, the danger is the recipient will at best unsubscribe from your list and at worst, mark any future emails as spam, which could hurt the deliverability of future emails.
At the second stage of the funnel it's all about introductions. This is where you introduce the audience to you and your services by offering a irresistible offer. This is something of value to the audience – something that shows you in your best possible light – and which the audience has to pay for. However, the offer should be irresistible, like a never ending supply of chocolate cupcakes. You are introducing yourself and your services / products to the audience, and you are learning more about them buy the actions they take.
The aim of this stage is not to make money from the sale, but to give something of value – and in return you are checking that this audience are prepared to spend money – even small amounts on a product or service. You are weeding out the tyre kickers and freebie hunters.
This is where we offer the audience the core offer – this is our core service or the product we think they will be interested in the most. Through the actions taken in the first two stages, the audience should be receptive to purchase.
The last stage of the sales funnel is where you now have a happy and engaged list. They have got to know you, they like you and your products / service, they trust you enough to purchase something from you and now they will become your very best fans – through your superb customer service. And as part of this final stage of the funnel, this audience will also be receptive to your Big Offer. This might be a platinum service plan or high-level mastermind, or this might be a invite to buy from a new product range or to purchase a limited edition item.
PRO TIP: Every stage of the funnel is a trade. You must give value to the potential clients which balances the value they bring to you. As your audience get further in the funnel, the more potential value they bring to you.
At each step of the process, some of the audience will have dropped out. From the first stage to the second stage, people might drop out because, for example, they don't have PayPal and your offer only accepted PayPal, they might have dropped out because while they loved your freebie, they are not ready to buy your irresistible offer – even though it is the best thing since unicorn toast – or they may not have purchased because they are freebie hunters and have no intention of buying anything. Ever.
While we could just focus on the audience in the funnel, that might mean we are losing a lot of potential customers. Therefore at each step of the process different actions take place based on activity. However, this starts to get a little more complex, so we'll save that for the next e-book on funnels.
There are a wide variety of programs and applications that will help you create and manage funnels and marketing automation.
If you are going to offer funnel services, then you will be largely driven as to systems to use depending on what your clients use. However, the principles remain the same regardless of the systems you use.
The best way to get started with funnels is to create one for yourself. This will help you get a better understanding of how sales funnels click, as well as sprinkling a little funnel magic on your own business.


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NORFOLK, Neb. – Authorities say a worker has died at a joist and decking plant in Norfolk.
The accident occurred around 7:40 a.m. Monday at the Vulcraft plant. Details have not been released.
Madison County Attorney Joe Smith identified the victim as 60-year-old John Gallop Jr., who lived in Hoskins. He'd worked there for 39 years.


Coatesville Dems: Trump, Sessions & Miller's ICE are doing what Hitler's SS did in 1933. It took 9 years for the Nazis to get to the "Final Solution" at the Wannsee Conference in 1942.
Trump, Sessions & Miller's ICE are doing what Hitler's SS did in 1933. It took 9 years for the Nazis to get to the "Final Solution" at the Wannsee Conference in 1942.
In the film "Conspiracy" Adolf Eichmann, Reinhard Heydrich & others worked out their "final solution" in secret in suburban Berlin at a villa in Wannsee.
"The only discernible difference between what Donald Trump is doing to undocumented immigrants on our southern border and what the Nazis did all over Europe to Jews is that the Nazis had to go from house to house to round up their victims, while all Trump's Border Patrol has to do is wait for their victims to walk or swim across the border.
That's it. Practically everything else is the same. The actions Trump's Border Enforcement agents are taking when they separate immigrant children at processing centers from their parents have nothing to do with law enforcement. Neither did the Nazis when they separated Jewish children from their parents inside the gates of Buchenwald and Auschwitz and Dachau. Trump's agents on the border are carrying out a policy promulgated by his administration. Nazi SS stormtroopers were carrying out the policy of rounding up political opponents, "undesirables," and Jews, and incarcerating them in concentration camps. These camps were entirely extra-legal. You didn't have to be convicted of a crime to be incarcerated in a concentration camp. Nor have the immigrants and their children being held in hastily constructed cages been convicted of crimes.
The "crime" in Hitler's Germany and occupied countries was being Jewish. The "crime" committed by the children being rounded up and caged along our southern border is being brown and undocumented."
The "Final Solution" extermination of Jews and others was illegal. Efforts were made to keep the Wannsee Conference secret.
Trump, Sessions and Miller are not taking much effort to conceal what they are doing.
I believe Trump is trying to create a whites only nation.
"The Trump administration is analyzing decades-old fingerprints in an unprecedented effort to rescind American citizenship from immigrants who may have lied or falsified information on their naturalization forms.
But under a new policy memo issued by L. Francis Cissna, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency is investigating thousands of old fingerprint records and files to determine whether foreigners made false or fraudulent statements in their attempts to obtain legal residency in the United States."


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import { isMatrix } from '../../utils/is.js'
import { format } from '../../utils/string.js'
import { arraySize } from '../../utils/array.js'
import { factory } from '../../utils/factory.js'

const name = 'sqrtm'
const dependencies = ['typed', 'abs', 'add', 'multiply', 'sqrt', 'subtract', 'inv', 'size', 'max', 'identity']

export const createSqrtm = /* #__PURE__ */ factory(name, dependencies, ({ typed, abs, add, multiply, sqrt, subtract, inv, size, max, identity }) => {
  const _maxIterations = 1e3
  const _tolerance = 1e-6

  /**
   * Calculate the principal square root matrix using the Denman–Beavers iterative method
   *
   * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root_of_a_matrix#By_Denman–Beavers_iteration
   *
   * @param  {Array | Matrix} A   The square matrix `A`
   * @return {Array | Matrix}     The principal square root of matrix `A`
   * @private
   */
  function _denmanBeavers (A) {
    let error
    let iterations = 0

    let Y = A
    let Z = identity(size(A))

    do {
      const Yk = Y
      Y = multiply(0.5, add(Yk, inv(Z)))
      Z = multiply(0.5, add(Z, inv(Yk)))

      error = max(abs(subtract(Y, Yk)))

      if (error > _tolerance && ++iterations > _maxIterations) {
        throw new Error('computing square root of matrix: iterative method could not converge')
      }
    } while (error > _tolerance)

    return Y
  }

  /**
   * Calculate the principal square root of a square matrix.
   * The principal square root matrix `X` of another matrix `A` is such that `X * X = A`.
   *
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   *
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   *
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   *
   * Examples:
   *
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   *
   * See also:
   *
   *     sqrt, pow
   *
   * @param  {Array | Matrix} A   The square matrix `A`
   * @return {Array | Matrix}     The principal square root of matrix `A`
   */
  return typed(name, {
    'Array | Matrix': function (A) {
      const size = isMatrix(A) ? A.size() : arraySize(A)
      switch (size.length) {
        case 1:
          // Single element Array | Matrix
          if (size[0] === 1) {
            return sqrt(A)
          } else {
            throw new RangeError('Matrix must be square ' +
            '(size: ' + format(size) + ')')
          }

        case 2:
        {
          // Two-dimensional Array | Matrix
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            return _denmanBeavers(A)
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        }
        default:
          // Multi dimensional array
          throw new RangeError('Matrix must be at most two dimensional ' +
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Q: Does Typescript support the ?. operator? (And, what's it called?) Does Typescript currently (or are there plans to) support the safe navigation operator of ?.
ie:
var thing = foo?.bar
// same as:
var thing = (foo) ? foo.bar : null;

Also, is there a more common name for this operator (it's incedibly hard to google for).

A: Edit Nov. 13, 2019!
As of November 5, 2019 TypeScript 3.7 has shipped and it now supports ?. the optional chaining operator !!!
https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/typescript-3-7.html#optional-chaining

For Historical Purposes Only:
Edit: I have updated the answer thanks to fracz comment.
TypeScript 2.0 released !. It's not the same as ?.(Safe Navigator in C#)
See this answer for more details:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/38875179/1057052
This will only tell the compiler that the value is not null or undefined. This will not check if the value is null or undefined.
TypeScript Non-null assertion operator
// Compiled with --strictNullChecks
function validateEntity(e?: Entity) {
    // Throw exception if e is null or invalid entity
}

function processEntity(e?: Entity) {
    validateEntity(e);
    let s = e!.name;  // Assert that e is non-null and access name
}

A: Yes. As of TypeScript 3.7 (released on November 5, 2019), this feature is supported and is called Optional Chaining:

At its core, optional chaining lets us write code where TypeScript can immediately stop running some expressions if we run into a null or undefined. The star of the show in optional chaining is the new ?. operator for optional property accesses.

Refer to the TypeScript 3.7 release notes for more details.

Prior to version 3.7, this was not supported in TypeScript, although it was requested as early as Issue #16 on the TypeScript repo (dating back to 2014).
As far as what to call this operator, there doesn't appear to be a consensus. In addition to "optional chaining" (which is also what it's called in JavaScript and Swift), there are a couple of other examples:

*

*CoffeeScript refers to it as the existential operator (specifically, the "accessor variant" of the existential operator):

The accessor variant of the existential operator ?. can be used to soak up null references in a chain of properties. Use it instead of the dot accessor . in cases where the base value may be null or undefined.

*

*C# calls this a null-conditional operator.

a null-conditional operator applies a member access, ?., or element access, ?[], operation to its operand only if that operand evaluates to non-null; otherwise, it returns null.

*

*Kotlin refers to it as the safe call operator.

There are probably lots of other examples, too.

A: We created this util method while working on Phonetradr which can give you type-safe access to deep properties with Typescript:

/**
 * Type-safe access of deep property of an object
 *
 * @param obj                   Object to get deep property
 * @param unsafeDataOperation   Function that returns the deep property
 * @param valueIfFail           Value to return in case if there is no such property
 */
export function getInSafe<O,T>(obj: O, unsafeDataOperation: (x: O) => T, valueIfFail?: any) : T {
    try {
        return unsafeDataOperation(obj)
    } catch (error) {
        return valueIfFail;
    }
}

//Example usage:
getInSafe(sellTicket, x => x.phoneDetails.imeiNumber, '');

//Example from above
getInSafe(foo, x => x.bar.check, null);

A: I don't generally recommend this approach (watch out for performance concerns), but you can use the spread operator to shallow clone an object, which you can then access the property on.
 const person = { personId: 123, firstName: 'Simon' };
 const firstName = { ...person }.firstName;

This works because the type of 'firstName' is 'propagated' through.
I'll use this most frequently when I have a find(...) expression that can return null and I need a single property from it:
 // this would cause an error (this ID doesn't exist)
 const people = [person];
 const firstName2 = people.find(p => p.personId == 999).firstName;

 // this works - but copies every property over so raises performance concerns
 const firstName3 = { ...people.find(p => p.personId == 999) }.firstName;

There may be some edge cases with the way typescript infers types and this won't compile, but this should generally work.

A: It's called optional chaining and It's in Typescript  3.7

Optional chaining lets us write code where we can immediately stop
  running some expressions if we run into a null or undefined

A: The Elvis (?.) Optional Chaining Operator is supported in TypeScript 3.7.
You can use it to check for null values: cats?.miows returns null if cats is null or undefined.
You can also use it for optional method calling: cats.doMiow?.(5) will call doMiow if it exists.
Property access is also possible: cats?.['miows'].
Reference: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-3-7-beta/

A: It is now possible, see answer of user "Donut".
Old answer:
Standard JavaScript behaviour regarding boolean operators has something that may help. The boolean methods do not return true or false when comparing objects, but in case of OR the first value that is equal to true.
Not as nice as a single ?, but it works:
var thing = foo && foo.bar || null;

You can use as many && as you like:
var thing = foo && foo.bar && foo.bar.check && foo.bar.check.x || null;

Default values are also possible:
var name = person && person.name || "Unknown user";

A: It's finally here!
Here are a few examples:
// properties
foo?.bar
foo?.bar()
foo?.bar.baz()
foo?.bar?.baz()

// indexing
foo?.[0]
foo?.['bar']

// check if a function is defined before invoking
foo?.()
foo.bar?.()
foo?.bar?.()

But it doesn't work exactly the same as your assumption.
Instead of evaluating
foo?.bar

to this little code snippet we are all used to writing
foo ? foo.bar : null

it actually evaluates to
(foo === null || foo === undefined) ?
    undefined :
    foo.bar

which works for all the falsey values like an empty string, 0 or false.
I just don't have an explanation as to why they don't compile it to foo == null

A: This is defined in the ECMAScript Optional Chaining specification, so we should probably refer to optional chaining when we discuss this. Likely implementation:
const result = a?.b?.c;

The long and short of this one is that the TypeScript team are waiting for the ECMAScript specification to get tightened up, so their implementation can be non-breaking in the future. If they implemented something now, it would end up needing major changes if ECMAScript redefine their specification.
See Optional Chaining Specification
Where something is never going to be standard JavaScript, the TypeScript team can implement as they see fit, but for future ECMAScript additions, they want to preserve semantics even if they give early access, as they have for so many other features.
Short Cuts
So all of JavaScripts funky operators are available, including the type conversions such as...
var n: number = +myString; // convert to number
var b: bool = !!myString; // convert to bool

Manual Solution
But back to the question. I have an obtuse example of how you can do a similar thing in JavaScript (and therefore TypeScript) although I'm definitely not suggesting it is a graceful as the feature you are really after.
(foo||{}).bar;

So if foo is undefined the result is undefined and if foo is defined and has a property named bar that has a value, the result is that value.
I put an example on JSFiddle.
This looks quite sketchy for longer examples.
var postCode = ((person||{}).address||{}).postcode;

Chain Function
If you are desperate for a shorter version while the specification is still up in the air, I use this method in some cases. It evaluates the expression and returns a default if the chain can't be satisfied or ends up null/undefined (note the != is important here, we don't want to use !== as we want a bit of positive juggling here).
function chain<T>(exp: () => T, d: T) {
    try {
        let val = exp();
        if (val != null) {
            return val;
        }
    } catch { }
    return d;
}

let obj1: { a?: { b?: string }} = {
    a: {
        b: 'c'
    }
};

// 'c'
console.log(chain(() => obj1.a.b, 'Nothing'));

obj1 = {
    a: {}
};

// 'Nothing'
console.log(chain(() => obj1.a.b, 'Nothing'));

obj1 = {};

// 'Nothing'
console.log(chain(() => obj1.a.b, 'Nothing'));

obj1 = null;

// 'Nothing'
console.log(chain(() => obj1.a.b, 'Nothing'));

A: Update: Yes its supported now!
It just got released with TypeScript 3.7 : https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-3-7/
It is called optional chaining : https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-3-7/#optional-chaining
With it the following:
let x = foo?.bar.baz();

is equivalent to:
let x = (foo === null || foo === undefined) ?
    undefined :
    foo.bar.baz();

Old answer
There is an open feature request for this on github where you can voice your opinion / desire : https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/16

A: Operator ?. is not supported in TypeScript version 2.0.
So I use the following function:
export function o<T>(someObject: T, defaultValue: T = {} as T) : T {
    if (typeof someObject === 'undefined' || someObject === null)
        return defaultValue;
    else
        return someObject;
}

the usage looks like this:
o(o(o(test).prop1).prop2

plus, you can set a default value:
o(o(o(o(test).prop1).prop2, "none")

It works really well with IntelliSense in Visual Studio.

A: As answered before, it's currently still being considered but it has been dead in the water for a few years by now.
Building on the existing answers, here's the most concise manual version I can think of:
jsfiddle
function val<T>(valueSupplier: () => T): T {
  try { return valueSupplier(); } catch (err) { return undefined; }
}

let obj1: { a?: { b?: string }} = { a: { b: 'c' } };
console.log(val(() => obj1.a.b)); // 'c'

obj1 = { a: {} };
console.log(val(() => obj1.a.b)); // undefined
console.log(val(() => obj1.a.b) || 'Nothing'); // 'Nothing'

obj1 = {};
console.log(val(() => obj1.a.b) || 'Nothing'); // 'Nothing'

obj1 = null;
console.log(val(() => obj1.a.b) || 'Nothing'); // 'Nothing'

It simply silently fails on missing property errors. It falls back to the standard syntax for determining default value, which can be omitted completely as well.

Although this works for simple cases, if you need more complex stuff such as calling a function and then access a property on the result, then any other errors are swallowed as well. Bad design.
In the above case, an optimized version of the other answer posted here is the better option:
jsfiddle
function o<T>(obj?: T, def: T = {} as T): T {
    return obj || def;
}

let obj1: { a?: { b?: string }} = { a: { b: 'c' } };
console.log(o(o(o(obj1).a)).b); // 'c'

obj1 = { a: {} };
console.log(o(o(o(obj1).a)).b); // undefined
console.log(o(o(o(obj1).a)).b || 'Nothing'); // 'Nothing'

obj1 = {};
console.log(o(o(o(obj1).a)).b || 'Nothing'); // 'Nothing'

obj1 = null;
console.log(o(o(o(obj1).a)).b || 'Nothing'); // 'Nothing'

A more complex example:
o(foo(), []).map((n) => n.id)

You can also go the other way and use something like Lodash' _.get(). It is concise, but the compiler won't be able to judge the validity of the properties used:
console.log(_.get(obj1, 'a.b.c'));

A: Not yet (as of September, 2019), but since the "safe navigation operator" is now at Stage 3, it's being implemented in TypeScript.
Watch this issue for updates:
https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/16
Several engines have early implementations:
JSC: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200199
V8: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=9553
SM: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566143
(via https://github.com/tc39/proposal-optional-chaining/issues/115#issue-475422578)
You can install a plugin to support it now:
npm install --save-dev ts-optchain

In your tsconfig.json:
// tsconfig.json
{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "plugins": [
            { "transform": "ts-optchain/transform" },
        ]
    },
}

I expect this answer to be out of date in the next 6 months or so, but hopefully it will help someone in the meantime.

A: I think this is what you're looking for. Similiar example at Powerbite
/**
 * Type-safe access of deep property of an object
 *
 * @param obj                   Object to get deep property
 * @param unsafeDataOperation   Function that returns the deep property
 * @param valueIfFail           Value to return in case if there is no such property
 */
export function getInSafe<O,T>(obj: O, unsafeDataOperation: (x: O) => T, valueIfFail?: any) : T {
    try {
        return unsafeDataOperation(obj)
    } catch (error) {
        return valueIfFail;
    }
}

//Example usage:
getInSafe(sellTicket, x => x.phoneDetails.imeiNumber, '');

//Example from above
getInSafe(foo, x => x.bar.check, null);

A: _.get(obj, 'address.street.name') works great for JavaScript where you have no types. But for TypeScript we need the real Elvis operator!


The insurance cover popularly known as "Life Assurance" is surely a misnomer. The more accurate description of this type of protection would be "Premature Death Cover". It is simply the protection of income or assets for the next of kin in the event of premature death.
- Money to meet future financial needs such as education of children, repair and maintenance of the family home etc.
Just like making a will, the arranging of "Life" cover does not precipitate death! However, it does provide peace of mind that should the worst happen, at least there is a financial safety net there for the surviving family/business partners. The good news is that unlike most other forms of insurance, the cost of "Life" cover is actually cheaper today than ever (especially for non-smokers).
This is a form of term insurance that is designed to pay off the outstanding amount of your mortgage should you or your partner die during the term of the loan and will be required by your bank as a condition of the mortgage loan. The amount of cover reduces each year, in line with your mortgage as you pay it off, assuming interest rates do not go over a defined level, typically 8 - 9% per annum and your repayments are kept up to date. The monthly or annual premium is fixed through the term of the policy. Mortgage protection is cheaper than standard term assurance because the level of life cover reduces over the term of the policy.
This protection policy pays out a Tax-Free lump sum on the diagnosis of a specified illness covered by the policy. This is an increasingly popular feature of some life assurance policies and is also available as a stand-alone policy. Almost everybody needs some amount of serious illness cover, although as with life cover it depends on your personal circumstances and the stage you are at in life.
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Until today, something like a protective pall of sympathy had hung over Anna Pehota, the 76-year-old woman accused of murdering her husband of 56 years, John, last September by shooting him four times at point-blank range in their Hammock home.
A more ominous pall creeped into that sympathy today. The jury got to see the final two hours of the three-hour interview Pehota gave Flagler County Sheriff's detectives the night of the shooting. The jury had seen the first hour on Wednesday. Pehota came across as candid, helpful to the detectives, distraught, occasionally confused, but also willful, disassociated from her husband's death even though she repeatedly admits to killing him–she barely reacts when she is told that he is, in fact, dead–and more concerned about humidity "killing" her house, and about Elvis her dog, than remorseful over the shooting.
She knew she had done something terribly wrong. She was sorry about it. But she spoke as if it had been a matter of time. He was pushing her buttons. She had had enough. So she picked up a gun she'd bought to kill possums and killed him.
She may yet have an ally to sway the jury her way: her failing mind. She displayed several signs of early dementia, confusing events, having trouble drawing a plan of her house, not remembering details of the shooting–or anything about it other than firing three times (she actually fired four shots), repeatedly speaking with paranoia of service workers and, on a couple of occasions, of lawyers who'd twist her words, twice evoking suicidal wishes, and (as with individuals in early stages of dementia) seizing obsessively on one particular detail about her life just then and not letting go: in this case, the humidity that would "kill my house" if she weren't allowed to go home or if someone did not tend to the humidifiers there.
Clear signs of early dementia, but the defense is barred from making that argument.
But the defense is not allowed to mention dementia, Alzheimer's or any such allusion to "diminished capacity." Short of invoking an insanity defense, it was not allowed to play the card halfway, or partway. So it was up to the jury to reach its own conclusions, though Pehota's lawyer, Ray Warren, had prepared the jury to keep its ears open for those "inconsistencies" when he made his opening argument Wednesday. It was one of a few gambles.
She hadn't planned it. "It's like stubbing your toe," she said, in a comparison that again showed how disassociated she seemed from the gravity of the act. She insisted again and again that it was a mental issue, the culmination of a lifetime of resentments against a man who, in her description–and in that of her children, who wrote a judge about it–had done nothing but sit around, ordered her around and expected to be served. He had his first heart attack at age 38, according to Anna's sister, and was "dying every day of his life," in the words of his daughter, who said she heard those words since she was 14. Their mother would echo the same resentment in her interview with detectives even as she came across as her husband's only companion, the only person who cared for him, and who would tell doctors that when they were treating him, they were treating her. But he seemed not grateful. "I think it was anger inside. Maybe he laughed at me. I don't know," she said. The psychotropic drugs he was taking, temazepam and oxycodone, and that she'd once flushed down the toilet to his immense anger, weren't helping. ("He said he was going to shoot men, and that's when I threw his temazepam down the toilet.") The drugs, she said, were "driving him crazy," making him into a different man.
In a letter she wrote one of her children subsequently, two months after the killing, the details she put forth were at once more chilling and more revealing of what her daughter had written the court before her arraignment: that her mother had not been in her right mind.
"Throughout this entire case, the state has presented evidence that Mrs. Pehota does not remember what happened," Warren said. "Even when she says she remembers, she doesn't do it right." He was seizing on Pehota's inability to keep events in sequence. "They're actually building a case saying we can establish ill will and hatred within the definition of the term, based upon an 'I don't remember.' I remember firing a gun, but firing a gun in and of itself is not a crime. There are plenty of instances where firing a gun is not a crime where somebody dies," Warren said, though he was not raising the argument of self-defense.
If I testify will you help me in a way that if I need to answer a question with words following it, and not just yes or no, will you allow me that?" Pehota asked the judge.
"I can't tell a witness how to answer is what I'm telling you. I cannot do that," Foxman said.
Pehota was worried about not being able to go beyond yes or no, saying the answer would be "misleading." Moments later, she told her attorney she would not testify.
"The defense rests in this case," Warren said in his most surprising move yet. He had seemingly decided to take advantage of the fact that Pehota would not be cross-examined while still having the advantage of her three-hour interview, which he can now interpret to the jury to his reasoning's content.
Closing arguments are set for Friday at 9 a.m. They won't last an hour, so the jury will have the case for deliberation before lunch.
Flagler County Sheriff's detective Jorge Fuentes.
On Friday, she will either get to go home–assuming her home has not been "killed" for lack of upkeep–or go to prison, likely for the rest of her life even if the sentence is relatively short.
When Foxman at the end of today's session asked Pehota if she cared to say anything to him, she, too, had soured.
"Not right now," she snapped.
Until someone is placed in her shoes and what she has said she went through for decades, and that is verbal and maybe physical abuse nobody knows how much stress one takes before they break, she broke and ended the treat. If she is found guilty what is the courts going to do, hard time in a state prison, nope she will end up in a nice faculty that will take care of her and her continuing loss of her memory.
I think it's a miscarriage of justice if this elderly lady was not examined to determine her mental capacity.
What would locking her away (at tax payers' expense) for the rest of her life accomplish exactly?
* Would her punishment teach her a lesson, so that she would not do the same thing again? NO, as she would spend the rest of her days in prison.
* Would her being jailed be a deterrent to stop others from doing the same? Not Likely, as this case is not highly publicized.
So, should we throw away compassion and lock this elderly, likely mentally impaired, woman away for all her remaining days only as punishment for ending the life of her tormentor of many years? That is a very difficult question to answer. I am glad I am not sitting on that jury.
Having had a close relative that has dementia and reading this ladies story .. I think they need not to place her in a prison cell .. but place her in a Nursing Home that actually has a Memory Center .. it's sad to see people like this .. but there are places they should be … one is in Ormond and hopefully she can go there.


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Q: Why is this for loop not working the way I expect it to work? I was trying to solve this codewars question called "Your order, please". Our task is to  to sort a given string. Each word in the string will contain a single number. This number is the position the word should have in the result.
Lets say given string is "is2 Thi1s T4est 3a" then expected result is "Thi1s is2 3a T4est".
So here is my code
let words = "is2 Thi1s T4est 3a";
let wordsArr = words.split(" ");
let result = [];
let r = /\d+/g;
let j = 1;

for (let i = 0; i < wordsArr.length; i++) {
  if (wordsArr[i].match(r) == j) {
    result.push(wordsArr[i]);
    j++;
    i = 0;
  }
}

console.log(result.join(""));

It only returns Thi1s.
I tried to write down the iterations of how I think it would work with this for loop.

*

*iteration (i=0, j=1)

*

*2==1? no then i++

*iteration (i=1,j=1)

*

*1==1? yes then push.result, j++, i=0

*

*result=[Thi1s]

*iteration  (i=0,j=2)

*

*2==2? yes then push.result, j++, i=0

*

*result=[Thi1s, is2]

*iteration  (i=0,j=3)

*

*2==3? no then i++;

*iteration  (i=1,j=3)

*

*1==3? no then i++

*iteration  (i=2,j=3)

*

*4==3? no then i++

*iteration  (i=3, j=3)

*

*3==3? yes then push.result, j++ i=0

*

*result=[Thi1s, is2, 3a]

*iteration  (i=0,j=4)

*

*2==4? no then i++;

*iteration  (i=1,j=4)

*

*1==4? no then i++;

*iteration (i=2,j=4)

*

*4==4? yes then push.result, j++ i=0

*

*result=[Thi1s, is2, 3a, T4est]

Why is it not working the way I expected to work?

A:

let words = "is2 Thi1s T4est 3a";
let wordsArr = words.split(" ");
let result = [];
let r = /\d+/g;

outerLoop: // this is a "label" which we can use to reference this for loop
for (let i = 1; i <= wordsArr.length; i++) { // loop 1 to 4, same as the numbers in text
  innerLoop:
  for (let word of wordsArr) { // for each word
    let match = word.match(r); // get the match result
    if (match && match[0] == i) { // if match found, and the part that matches is our next i
      result.push(word); // add word to array
      continue outerLoop; // go to next i
    }
  }
}

console.log(result.join(" "));


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12/6/2020 Abraham Jam Documentary Film Release!
A free virtual screening of the new documentary,
telling the story of the band Abraham Jam.
A Muslim, a Jew, and a Christian walk into a concert hall …
In historically divisive times, it's good to be reminded that we don't have to be the same in order to form deep friendships and create community and art together.
Please join us on Sunday, December 6, at 4:00 PM Eastern, to see this new 18-minute documentary from John Kennedy and David Saich. The one-hour online program will include a screening of the film, Q & R with the band and filmmakers, and music from Abraham Jam (Billy Jonas, David LaMotte, and Dawud Wharnsby).
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Billy Jonas is Bridging Divides, with music. He has spent the pandemic writing songs commissioned by individuals and organizations, towards the mending of rifts in our society.
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The virtual event will once again be streamed free at 8pm on YouTube and Facebook Live: RSVP to the Facebook event and/or subscribe to Tosco Music's YouTube channel. A $10 donation is requested from those who are able to help keep these events accessible to all and ensure TMP's can resume in person when theaters reopen.
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We Hear: Mazda's Next-Generation Rotary Engine Delayed, Not Cancelled
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by writer: Steve Diehlman October 21, 2010
Mazda may be in the process of discontinuing the RX-8, but the automaker insists Wankel rotary engines won't disappear from its lineup. The company's next-generation rotary has been under development for some time now, but officials insist the program is delayed -- not dead in the water.
According to Automotive News, the new engine is reportedly a 1.6-liter unit, and is roughly 30 percent more efficient than the RX-8's 1.3-liter 13B-MSP Renesis engine. According to Mitsuo Hitomi, general manager of Mazda's powertrain operations, the new engine, which is fitted with direct injection, is 30-percent more fuel efficient than the current Renesis, and is also stingier on fuel than the company's current 2.0-liter I-4.
Sounds good? Absolutely -- but don't look for it to launch for several years yet. Although the basic design of the 16X was unveiled at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show (where it was installed in the Taiki show car), the program has been perpetually delayed. Development priorities shifted during the financial crisis, and engineering and fiscal resources were instead focused on Mazda's new SkyActiv powertrain range, not the 16X.
Further complicating the matter is meeting new emissions standards, particularly in Europe. Hitomi says these headaches alone have delayed the engine's development by roughly a year, and the company is nowhere near close to announcing a production timeframe for the engine.
"Maybe within two years we can tell you when we will introduce it to the market," he told AN.
Here's hoping Mazda's newly expanded R&D budget, which was bumped by $240 million earlier this month, helps push the 16X closer to production. Recent reports suggest the automaker is working on a new RX sports car that could possibly launch as soon as 2013 -- not a moment too soon, in our opinion, as the RX-8 is set to disappear from U.S. showrooms after the 2011 model year.
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LITERATURE AND REFERENCES: Cf: Sotheby's, The Jewels of the Duchess of Windsor, Geneva, Thursday 2nd April 1987, Lot 26.
Cf: Suzy Menkes, The Windsor Style, London, 1987, chapter entitled Objects of Desire with details of several items in the jewellery collection of the Duchess of Windsor including the Anniversary heart brooch.
NOTE: This jewel was created in May 1957 by Cartier commissioned by the Duke to commemorate the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's Twentieth Wedding Anniversary. This jewel was composed of gems un-set from other pieces belonging to the Duke.
Throughout their time together the Duke and Duchess assembled a personal collection of jewels that were often very thoughtful, romantic and poignant to them. Her collection was composed mostly of modern and contemporary jewels by designers and houses including Suzanne Belperron, David Webb, Van Cleef & Arpels and Cartier. These jewels were often created specifically for the Duchess, sometimes using gems from the Duke's collection.


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Pera Film is kicking off the summer season with On the Beach! Presented in conjunction with Pera Museum and Istanbul Research Institute's Istanbul's Seaside Leisure: Nostalgia from Sea Baths to Beaches, an exhibition exploring a nostalgic story while also addressing the change and socialization of the norms of how Istanbulites used their free time. Pera Film's On the Beach journeys through the layered meanings of the beach and its representation on celluloid.
On the Beach elucidates that the beach does not only represent a romantic stance and moments of pleasure and fun, but it may also reflect a darker side to summer holidays. In addition to cinema classics such as Pauline at the Beach and A Summer's Tale by French New Wave director Éric Rohmer, L'Avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni, Mr. Hulot's Holiday by Jacques Tati and Bonjour Tristesse by Otto Preminger, the program also features recent productions such as Asghar Farhadi's About Elly, Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Love and Yorgos Lanthimos's Kinetta.
This program's screenings are free of admissions. Drop in, no reservations.
19:00 Pauline at the Beach
21:00 Death in Venice
16:00 Sim Sala Bim
18:00 About Elly
16:00 The Blue Wave
19:00 Paradise: Love
19:00 Eternity and a Day
Sex and Lucía
The Beaches of Agnès
21:00 L'Avventura
16:00 Bonjour Tristesse
A Summer's Tale
16:00 Mr. Hulot's Holiday
Sim Sala Bim
19:00 A Summer's Tale
21:00 The Beaches of Agnès
19:00 Kinetta
19:00 Sex and Lucía
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Mr. Hulot's Holiday
Pauline at the Beach
Eternity and a Day
Paradise: Love
The Blue Wave
Istanbul's Seaside Leisure
The First World War played a critical role in shaping the transformation of the Ottoman people's relationship with the sea. Swimming in the sea, regarded as a matter of privacy, was considered wrong and even illegal for a long period.
Venuses Throughout History
José Sancho does not conceal the voluptuousness of his female torsos; he highlights it. These torsos are symmetrical from front, but on the other hand, from the side, the juxtaposition of concave and convex forms creates dynamism.
Demons, Symbols, and the Cosmos
Beliefs surrounding illness and healing in Byzantium stem from the myths, astrology, and magic practiced around the Mediterranean by Jews, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and Greeks.
Happy Republic Day!
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Pera Museum invites artist Benoît Hamet to reinterpret key pieces from its collections, casting a humorous eye over 'historical' events, both imagined and factual.
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Registration Deadline to obtain the best seats is October 2.
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Join us for Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill- the second play in our eight-play Milwaukee Rep field trip series. It will be staged in true cabaret fashion.
A TRIBUTE TO A WOMAN WHO SHAPED SO MUCH MORE THAN JAZZ AND BLUES.
As the 1950s come to a close, the famous Billie Holiday puts on a show in a small bar in Philadelphia. Unbeknownst to the audience, they will witness one of the last performances of her extraordinary life. Full of show stopping numbers like "God Bless the Child," "Strange Fruit," and "What a Little Moonlight Can Do," Lady Day shares her loves and losses in this award-winning musical fresh from its Broadway revival. Pull up a chair for an intimate evening that's up close and personal, with one of the greatest jazz/blues vocalists of all time!
WHAT'S LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR AND GRILL? SHOULD I SEE IT?
Who doesn't like jazz music? And who did it better than Billie Holiday? The Stackner Cabaret is transformed into a Philadelphia bar at one of Billie Holiday's last concerts. Listen to the sultry music and hear incredible stories of Lady Day's life.
To learn more about Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, explore its Milwaukee Rep's webpage.
The Milwaukee Rep's production of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill opens September 9. The running time is approximately two hours (2:00 PM – 4:00 PM) with one intermission.
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I am focusing on Irvington, Indianapolis for single family home as my start of my buy and hold investment. I have looked at a particular property selling for 62K, with a lot of rehabs pending in order to become habitable. I am a newbie and I would like comments to see what to look for upon the transcation.
Thank you for everyone's comments.
You don't know the rehab costs? Time frames for rent ready?
@Ken Yeung I would definetly look at what rental rates are for your home, make sure you compare apples to apples if it is a 3/1 or 3/2 etc. You can check rentjungle.com or rentometer.com for rental rates. Knowing your rehab budget is key, make sure you have a property manager you can trust and leverage his or her contacts. Maybe they know a contractor that can help you. Building your team is step one.
@Ken Yeung The Indianapolis market is very competitive and inventory very tight. Why restrict yourself to the Irvington area? There are a lot of good areas in Indy. You may have to consider casting your net wider.
@Mike D'Arrigo Thank You and appreciate the thought.
Out of curiosity why are you focusing on Irvington? I'm looking to begin investing in Indianapolis as well, and have seen a few good options in Irvington but I can't find much information on it, beyond the basic neighbourhood zone grade. If you have any links to info on Irvington it would be very helpful. Thanks!
Irvington is a nice area. We have over 400 doors in Indy, and maybe 2 in Irvington. It's gotten too pricey... Many other areas with better ratios.
@Ken Yeung I like Irvington and the rentals that we have out there are pretty decent. Irvington is established and predictable for the most part. Be sure to understand whether or not your home is under the Historic Society as they limit the types of materials you can use for rehabs.


This simple modification is done by using the adapter that mounts over the original gas opening. The adapter is mounted by using the existing screws (I replaced the existing screws with new stainless steel screws) and screw holes used to hold the fuel filler neck to the quarter panel. It is a simple modification making it easy to revert your car back to its original state without leaving any tell-tale signs. I think it looks sharp too. See pictures below.
I have several left, PM me if interested!
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I would provide just the adapter not the gas cap. That way you can choose the style of flip top gas cap you prefer. Either cap is readily available on E-bay or through other sources. I have chosen to use the cheaper aftermarket non-NOS version.....becuse it was cheaper.Just be sure it is either the Charger (1967-1970) cap or the Barracuda (1967-1969) style flip top gas cap. These are the styles that fit best and do not have the raised cap base.
I will start a list for those interested. I will not request any payment until I have the adapters in hand and available for shipping. When they are ready I will send you a PM and let you know they are ready and where to send Pay-Pal payment if you are still interested (no obligation), otherwise I will go to the next person in line on the list. Your order will ship the following day. I was also asked what the return policy is, I will provide a full refund (you pay the shipping) as long as you have not drilled any holes or damaged the adapter in any way....fair?


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B.A., Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 1986
B.A., Political Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1993
M.P.A., The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1994
Ph.D., The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Public Administration, 1999
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Lloyd Blanchard currently serves as UConn's Associate Vice President of Budget, Management and Institutional Research. He is a seasoned public administrator with wide-ranging government and academic leadership experience. He has been a senior White House budget official, chief operating officer of two public organizations, deputy chief financial officer at NASA, and an academic executive at Louisiana State University and the Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York. He has also served on the public administration faculty at the University of Washington and Syracuse University, and directed a consulting practice in performance management for a risk management consulting firm. Dr. Blanchard's research and published work has centered on social capital, education policy and finance, racial and ethnic disparities in education, and disparities in small business lending.
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DataCore Adds NAS Performance Acceleration, High-Availability File Sharing Support to SANsymphony-V
Economical NAS extensions to SAN software target non-stop NFS/CIFS requirements in server and desktop virtualization rollouts.
Note: ESJ's editors carefully choose vendor-issued press releases about new or upgraded products and services. We have edited and/or condensed this release to highlight key features but make no claims as to the accuracy of the vendor's statements.
DataCore Software, a provider of storage virtualization software, announced that its SANsymphony-V software now addresses the three major roadblocks -- cost, performance and business continuity -- that have made it impractical for critical virtualization projects to utilize Network Attached Storage (NAS).
Available today, SANsymphony-V overcomes these shared storage shortcomings and helps enterprises employ the widely used NAS services already built into the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 platform in those environments. DataCore's feature set can be configured to enhance these Microsoft services. The integrated combination cost-effectively accelerates performance and adds a new level of fault tolerance to clustered network file system (NFS) and common Internet file system (CIFS) sharing.
The new solution is well-suited for IT organizations that prefer to store their VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenDesktop virtual machine images under NFS or CIFS. Many are eager to economically eliminate bottlenecks and disruptions in their underlying storage systems.
No Specialty NAS Hardware Required
Virtual data center managers concerned with single points of failures in their vital NFS/CIFS files shares have had few alternatives. They could pick from a few specialty devices that provided the needed redundancy at a steep price or risk that a storage-related disruption would cripple their entire virtual infrastructure. Those without the required funding have little choice but to postpone virtualizing their more important applications.
The solution announced today employs standard Windows servers with off-the-shelf disks to achieve the required levels of uninterrupted shared file services at a reasonable price. Moreover, these systems now scale to performance levels once achieved only by "enterprise" NAS hardware.
DataCore's design employs mirrored copies of the SANsymphony-V software layered beneath clustered file shares (NAS) integral to Windows Servers 2008 Enterprise. Any standard storage device can be used for disk space, ranging from the basic internal hard drives packaged by the server manufacturers to bigger external disk arrays offered by the popular storage systems vendors.
The software combination can be fielded in two high-availability arrangements based on the scale of the file shares. In the smallest configuration, the DataCore software co-resides with the clustered file share functions on each of two redundant Windows Enterprise servers. SANsymphony-V performs adaptive I/O caching directly on top of Hyper-V to accelerate block disk access while mirroring updates to the other servers' virtual disk copy. All disk space is thin provisioned to maximize utilization. Snapshots and continuous data protection (CDP) can be turned on for added protection, helping customers recover from events such as virus attacks and inadvertent deletions.
During normal operation, both servers actively handle file requests. Should one of the two systems fail or temporarily be removed from service, the remaining machine transparently takes over all duties using the mirrored disk copy. When the idle machine is reactivated, the system automatically returns to its original active-active state.
For larger environments, the file share cluster remains split across two machines while the DataCore software runs on two separate servers dedicated to block storage virtualization. The cluster then accesses the DataCore virtual storage pool over an iSCSI or Fibre Channel SAN.
Customers who start small and later outgrow the two servers can simply reassign their DataCore software licenses to the two additional servers. Incremental capacity licenses may also be added at any time to cover expansion.
Existing DataCore SANsymphony-V customers running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with Hyper-V do not need to buy additional software to support the clustered NAS file sharing features. For those new to DataCore, SANsymphony-V software, including the NAS capabilities, can be professionally installed through DataCore-authorized solution providers across the globe.
More information is available at www.datacore.com.


society ... but there is a strong case, admittedly, for doing so.
neglected amid all the politics. That is RESEARCH. Should I repeat it? Yes.
research I do NOT mean TRAINING.
but the wakeup call is very long overdue.
too often been too great.
longer if you simply decided to go home and take up needlepoint by the fire.


Explore a city-within-a-city on the New York Street movie set of Paramount Pictures Studios, with backlot Program-Only tickets. Program-Only tickets start at only $10 for students and youths. Please note that the backlot at Frieze Los Angeles is an outdoor experience, please check the weather forecast before travelling.
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Activating the cinematic setting, works for Frieze Projects Los Angeles will be encountered in buildings, streets, and interior spaces that have been captured countless times in films, photographs, and television shows.
On the approach to the backlot you will also encounter Max Hooper Schneider's Female Odobenid, 2019 (P15) and Nicolas Party's Head, 2019 (P16).
Watch new and significant video works by artists including Cécile B. Evans and Tala Madani, selected by curator Ali Subotnick. Frieze Film screenings take place in the iconic Paramount Theater.
Creative enterprises will also pop up in the backlot at Frieze Los Angeles.
Browse the world's best arts and lifestyle magazines on the New York Street film set, including frieze magazine (M7), Galerie (M1), ARTnews & Art in America (M2), Artforum (M3), Cultured & LALA (M4) and the Financial Times (M5) among many others.
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