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Wal-Mart Worker Uprising: Protests Held At 1,000 Stores on Black Friday
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HAVANA TIMES – A wave of historic protests struck the retail giant Wal-Mart on Black Friday — the busiest shopping day of the year. Workers and their supporters demonstrated at more than 1,000 stores. The Wal-Mart protests were organized in part by OUR Walmart, an organization backed by the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union.
Nine people, including three Wal-Mart workers, were arrested at a protest in Los Angeles after they blocked traffic. We broadcast the voices of protesters in Secaucus, New Jersey, and speak to Josh Eidelson, a contributing writer for The Nation magazine.
AMY GOODMAN: As we turn now to the wave of historic protests that struck the retail giant Walmart on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that's the busiest shopping day of the year. Workers and their supporters demonstrated at more than a thousand Walmart stores. Democracy Now! went to the Walmart in Secaucus, New Jersey on Friday.
PROTEST ORGANIZER: Once you get off the bus, we are going to divide in different groups. We're gonna start going in different groups to the store. We're gonna have a flash mob at 9 o'clock, we're gonna occupy the parking lot and we're gonna sing a lot of fun songs.
SUNDROP CARTER: My name is Sundrop Carter and right now, we are in front — actually we're in front of Sam's Club next to Walmart in Secaucus, New Jersey at a Black Friday protest. Workers across the country are walking out of stores today, telling Walmart that they're tired of treated badly and want fair wages and respect at their workplace, and we are here and solidarity with those workers.
Last I heard there's over 1,000 actions happening across the country, and there's walkouts happening — worker walkouts happening in over 100 stores.
WALTER AREVALO: My name is Walter Arevalo. I used to work at the store over at Kearny, New Jersey, that was store #5457. I worked there for like about two and half years. It was a pretty hostile environment. Particularly, they would expected one person to do like a three-man job, in basically eight hours. There were times, I don't know how I would do so, but there were other workers that they really just couldn't handle the amount of work that was given to them.
TAMMY TYREE: My name is Tammy Tyree, I am with the Retail Action Project, and we fight for change in the retail industry. Many people shop but they don't think about whose the person the person that's helping them, and that that person has a family and is making a living.
This is not just something that people do on their way to something else all the time, which is what the major employers try to tell people. These are careers. I made a living doing retail work for 30 years. Many people are not able to do so today. There's a large percentage of retail workers that are working for $7.25 an hour, which is minimum wage, and even some retailers are paying people below minimum wage. Benefits come to you when you work a certain number of hours and when you have a certain status, but if people are working and they're not getting even part-time hours, not even part-time hours, how can you get benefits? So the way that they are denied benefits is by not giving the workers the hours and giving them the classification of full-time or even authorized part-time work.
WALTER AREVALO: We talked about going on strike and everything, but that just never went through. We even talked about walking out on Black Friday even before all this happened. Management bullies them, and they'll just let them know, well look, if you do so and so, you're gonna lose your job, point blank.
PROTESTOR: …treat workers with respect —
PROTESTORS: …treat workers with respect —
PROTESTOR: …in solidarity —
PROTESTORS: …in solidarity —
PROTESTOR: …Occupy Wall Street —
PROTESTORS: …Occupy Wall Street —
PROTESTOR: …is occupying this store.
WALMART SECURITY: Excuse me.
PROTESTORS: …is occupying this store.
STEVE SHERMAN: People were doing mic-checks, like in groups about ten, and Walmart security was coming around and telling people they would have to leave.
PROTESTORS: [CHANTING]
STEVE SHERMAN: And so people sort of dispersed, and then we just found this other group of about 50 or 60 people who were being pushed out of the store by security and chanting on the way out.
MAX BRUNY: My name is Max and I'm from United Food and Commercial Workers local 888. The nation is finally catching up with what's going on at Walmart. It is one thing to say low price, low price, low price, but there is a price to the low price.
WALTER AREVALO: It's time for Walmart Associates and even associates now to show a message over to the folks over in Bentonville, Arkansas, that we're just not gonna take it anymore.
AMY GOODMAN: The voices of protest outside of a Secaucus, New Jersey Walmart, produced by Democracy Now! Sam Alcoff and Martyna Starosta. They produced the piece. The Walmart protests were organized, in part, by OUR Walmart an organization backed by the United Food and Commercial Workers. Nine people, including three Walmart workers were arrested at a protest in Los Angeles after they blocked traffic. Walmart responded by diminishing the impact of the demonstrations. This is the company's Marketing Officer, Duncan MacNaughton.
DUNCAN MACNAUGHTON: We estimate that less than 50 Walmart associates were involved in the protests across the United States, and in many of those locations, no Walmart associates took place. We had roughly the same number of call ins that we had last year for people that didn't come to work.
AMY GOODMAN: Well for more, we're joined by Josh Eidelson, contributing writer for The Nation Magazine, Salon and In These Times where he's been reporting on the Walmart protest. We did ask Walmart to join us today but they did not respond to our request. We had you on last Wednesday, before the big protest on Friday. Can you summarize what happened, Josh, on Black Friday?
JOSH EIDELSON: Sure, So what we saw Thursday night and Friday was over 1000 protests, strikes in 100 cities, according to organizers. Those strikes, they say, included hundreds of workers. Organizers say they're still counting the number, but, for perspective, in October, we saw 160 retailers go out on strike. So, if there were hundreds out, we've seen, not exponential growth, but likely steady increase in the number of workers who are out, and that comes after significant threats and captive audience meetings and other efforts by Walmart to suppress the protests and make workers believe that there would be "consequences."
AMY GOODMAN: What do you mean by captive audience meetings? And also talk about Walmart's changing or evolve response to these growing protests.
JOSH EIDELSON: So, I talked to workers for The Nation who described mandatory meetings where Walmart, a company that we know doesn't pay for anything they don't think they have to, paid workers to sit in meetings where they were told, that if they participated, it could hurt Walmart sales, it could cut into their bonuses. Where they were told no comment in response to the question of whether they could be disciplined for participating. And so we see, at the same time that Walmart has been publicly dismissive, privately, Walmart has made an intensified effort over the past week leading up to Black Friday to make workers believe that they could suffer adverse consequences if they participate.
AMY GOODMAN: And then talking about whether or not these protests were legal or illegal.
JOSH EIDELSON: Yes, so Walmart filed a National Labor Relations Board charge, which, as I explained at The Nation, is unlikely to succeed, but sends the message to workers that Walmart is claiming the strikes are not legally protected. Whether Walmart wins would be determined on whether the strikes are designed to win union recognition and the workers haven't really provided Walmart any evidence of that. But this was a shot across the bow to send the message that, even though the law protects strikes against unfair labor practices, Walmart sees the strikes as illegal, which would give Walmart justification to fire people who participated.
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Q: What is the best way to display the currency symbol locale-dependent? I would like to display the currency symbol ($, €) dependent on the current browser locale.
What is the best approach to do so?
I tried:
locale = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getViewRoot().getLocale();
System.out.println(locale); //gives: "en"
Currency.getInstance(locale).getSymbol(); //java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
Currency.getInstance(locale.GERMANY).getSymbol(); //gives €

How can I get the symbol based on locale dependent browser setting (which is "en" here)?
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locale.getLanguage() > "de"
locale.getDefault() > "de_DE"

Nevertheless, Currency.getInstance(locale).getSymbol(); fails.

A: Currency depends on the Country-Part of Locale. Since en does not contain a country part it is an illegal argument for creating a Currency instance.
In other words: Would you expect $, US$, AU$ or £ for Locale "en"? Or something else? There is no currency for "English". There are currencies for the US, GB, Australia and so on but not for English.
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If the user configured his browser properly then you'll get indeed a Locale with both: Country and Language Part (e.g. en-US). These locales you can use the way you've done it in your question.
BUT you should consider using Geotargeting based on IP-Address. There exist databases like GEO-IP and MaxMind. Be aware that there are differences - an US student on semester abroad in Germany surfing with his laptop. His browser may return en-US but a GEO-IP database will target most probably to Germany. But maybe this is exactly what you want?!
Finally you can use one of these approaches as primary targeting factor and the second as backup. When both fail then switch to a default (e.g. US$)

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Conservative Watchdog Group Uncovers Millions of "Extra" Voters – Warns 5 States to Clean Up Voter Rolls or Face A Lawsuit
Judicial Watch, the Conservative watchdog group, recently found not thousands, but millions of extra voter registrants than there should be registered.
And we're not dealing with just a single state like California, but these were found cumulatively in 5 different states.
Judicial Watch issued notice-of-violation letters to a total of 19 counties in 5 states letting them know that if they do not fix this issue immediately by cleaning up their voter rolls, they'll face a federal lawsuit.
The states involved in the voter fraud are California, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado. To be honest, I'm surprised that New York wasn't one of them, but maybe it just hasn't been uncovered yet.
From Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch announced today it is continuing its efforts to force states and counties across the nation to comply with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), by sending notice-of-violation letters to 19 large counties in five states that it intends to sue unless the jurisdictions take steps to comply with the law and remove ineligible voter registrations within 90 days. Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act requires jurisdictions to take reasonable efforts to remove ineligible registrations from its rolls.
Despite successful litigation by Judicial Watch to bring counties and states into compliance with the National Voter Registration Act, voter registration lists across the country remain significantly out of date. According to Judicial Watch's analysis of data released by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) this year, there are 378 counties nationwide that have more voter registrations than citizens living there and old enough to vote, i.e., counties where registration rates exceed 100%. These 378 counties combined had about 2.5 million registrations over the 100%-registered mark, which is a drop of about one million from Judicial Watch's previous analysis of voter registration data. Although San Diego County removed 500,000 inactive names from voter rolls following Judicial Watch's settlement with Los Angeles County, San Diego still has a registration rate of 117% and has one of the highest registration rates in the county.
This is something that could impact our country for years if not decades. The people behind this should face some serious prosecution.
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Thomsons Argument Of The Trolley Problem Philosophy Essay
A utilitarian is concerned with providing the greatest happiness for the greatest amount of people, so in this first case a utilitarian would agree with Thomson and would say that it is mandatory to pull the lever and save the greater number of people. An opposing view would say that pulling the lever constitutes as a moral wrong, and would make the bystander partially responsible for the death. One has a moral obligation to get involved in these cases just by being present in the scenario and being able to change the outcome. Deciding to do nothing would be considered an immoral act if one values five lives more than one. In the first case, the bystander does not intend to harm anyone; the harm will be done regardless of which way the trolley goes. In the second case, pushing and harming the large man is the only way to save the five people on the trolley.
in contrast, Thomson argues that a key distinction between the first trolley problem and the second case is that in the first case, you simply redirect the harm, but in the second case, you actually have to do something to the large man to save the five workers. Thomson states that in the first case, no worker has more of a right than the other not to be killed, but in the second case, the large man does have a right not to be pushed over the bridge, violating his right to life.
To put the first trolley case in a different perspective I will present a similar case. Something has gone terribly wrong on an airplane and is inevitably about to crash and is heading straight to a heavily populated area. The airplane pilot knows that regardless innocent people will die so he turns the plane towards a less populated area, killing less innocent people. Was the pilots action to steer the plane in a different direction morally permissible? Thomson would say that the pilot's actions were correct, because the greater populated are has the same right to live as the less populated area, and you are merely deflecting the harm to kill less people which is morally permissible because no rights have been violated.
Thomson presents an alternative case to the second trolley problem to better illustrate her argument. In this case, a surgeon has 5 patients that are all in need of organ transplants, and they will die without the organ, but since they all have a rare blood type there are no organs available. A traveler comes into the office for a check up, and the doctor discovers that this traveler has the necessary organs that could save these five dying patients. The doctor asks the traveler if he would donate and but he sincerely declines. Would it be morally permissible for the doctor to kill the bystander and operate anyway? Thomson would argue that it is not permissible to operate on the traveler, because the doctor would be violating his right to life. This differs from the first trolley case because in the first case you are simply deflecting the harm as opposed to the second trolley case, and the transplant case, you have to act and do something to an innocent person in order to save the five people. In the first case none of the workers have more of a right than the other not to be killed, but in the second case the large man has a right not to be killed. In the transplant case, a utilitarian is concerned with the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people, so just like in the first case where a utilitarian would say to pull the lever to kill one and save five, he would do the same in the transplant case to kill one and save five. Thomson disagrees and states that in the first case killing one is a side effect of killing five, in the transplant case you are violating a person's right where the act could have been avoided to begin with. Thomson states that killing is worse a death caused by letting someone die.
In the first trolley case it would seem rational to agree that the person is morally obligated to pull the lever and save the five people. In the second case, the person should not be forced to push the large man onto the track because in this case he is killing the man to save the others where as in the first case it is inevitably one or the other. It would also seem rational that the doctor should not kill the man for the transplant because it is similar to the second case. Although in every case you are sacrificing one to save five, there are situations where it is not morally permissible to kill the one person, such as the second case and the transplant case. In these case the persons right to life is violated, and therefore would make it morally permissible to kill them.
In order for Thomson to justify her opinions she needs to identify the differences in both cases that is strong enough to make a valid argument. In short, Thomson identifies that in both cases there is an innocent bystander who is not responsible in any of the events, but has the opportunity to get involved in order to save five people instead of the one. She assumes that there is no relationship or tension at all between the bystander and the workers so he has a clear mind on what his decision should be. Thomson states that we need to focus on the rights of the people as a "means to an end" relationship between the bystander and the workers. She argues that in both cases the bystander does wrong to the person whose life he chooses to sacrifice, but in the second case where the bystander pushes the large man, there is a direct violation of his rights. By performing the act of pushing, the bystander is directly violating on the large mans right not to be killed. This differs from the first case where the bystander pulls a lever to kill one and save five, because it does not violate the single workers rights; diverting a train does not violate anyone's rights, but pushing an innocent man does. Thomson feels that this explains why the bystander is allowed to intervene by pulling the lever because the bystander can maximize the utility without violating anyone's rights, whereas in the second case, in order to maximize utility the bystander would have to violate someone's rights. The problem arises that in the first case, although the bystander is not directly violating the single workers right, he is indirectly violating his right not to be killed. Thomson replies to this concern by saying that although this is true but it being direct or
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I have to admit that I was disappointed that this book wasn't darker. I had been hoping for something really dark and fucked up and I thought I heard in a review in booktube that it was, but I was let down. I gave the book three stars because I felt it could have been pushed further and I disliked the ending. The Creeping by the same author is on my TBR and I am a little nervous it is not going to live up to my expectation. In this book, it felt like there were two different storylines happening and they didn't mesh well together. I started not to believe the motivation of some of the main characters and honestly didn't know why they were doing what they were doing at times. Overall the book was okay. I don't think I would recommend it to anyone or reread it, but it wasn't the worst book I've read and there were a few things I enjoyed.
This slow burn almost did me in. It was so good and so angsty. My only disappointment was that I didn't get a raunchy scene in the end. But I will survive. This book reminded me of another one of my favorites, My Lady Jane but with more debauchery. I found this book to be quite hilarious and laughed out loud several times as well as groaned at the angst. I loved it. It is a wonderful historical romantic comedy.
This book broke my heart. I knew it would and I read it anyways. Marissa Meyer is my new favorite fairy tale retelling author. I never would have thought up this back story for the Queen of Hearts and yet, her story completely works. And it was completely heartbreaking. I loved all the characters, the whimsy, the plot and the kookiness. The only reason I did not give this a 5 star rating was because I saw the ending coming. The foreshadowing was just a little too obvious for what I typically like, but that is my only nitpick. If you loved Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles, you will love this book as well.
I am in a reading slump. And I cannot get out of it. I started to read The Nest and I just…stopped. I feel like I need to read something else to get back into the swing of it and then I can finish The Nest.
I am pretty sure the reason this happened it because I checked out too many books from the library recently. I have this habit of getting overly excited and checking out way more books than I can get through, and then I get overwhelmed and barely read. I think I checked out 12 books and actually read 2.
So, I plan on going to the library soon and I am limiting myself to only check out 2 books at a time. We shall see how it goes.
Also this weekend I plan on going through all the books I own and making a list of the ones I have not read yet. I am a little terrified at how long the list might be. Wish me luck.
I don't know why I have been dreading writing this review. I loved this book. LOVED it. I think I know that what I write here will not do it justice.
This is one of those science fiction novels that you can enjoy even if science fiction is not your thing. I felt the same way about The Host by Stephanie Meyer and The Martian by Andy Weir. I did listen to the book from Audible . It has a full cast for the narration and it's brilliant. The book is written as a series of interviews between one man and everyone else involved in the discovery and the project.


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BRUSSELS – July 16, 2020 – BSA | The Software Alliance is pleased that today's decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) upheld Standard Contractual Clauses, consistent with BSA's amicus brief and arguments submitted to the Court, but is disappointed that the ECJ invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield.
"Today's ECJ decision creates a challenge for more than 5,300 U.S.-based companies—including over 250 with headquarters in Europe—that relied on the Privacy Shield to transfer personal data to and from Europe," said Thomas Boué, Director General of Policy—EMEA at BSA. "70 percent of the companies certified to the Privacy Shield were SMEs, and they will now have to spend time and resources finding alternatives to carry out daily business transactions like processing payroll, sending emails, or storing documents on cloud-hosted servers."
"Companies need to have reliable and stable mechanisms to send data from the EU to the United States. This is an unwelcome development at a time when businesses on both sides of the Atlantic are focusing on recovering from the economic impacts of Covid-19 and are increasingly relying on data-driven tools and services to do so," Boué added.
"BSA is studying the details of the decision. We stand ready to work immediately with the European Commission, the US Government, and the transatlantic business community, who share the common goal of finding a new, sustainable data transfer mechanism that will work for the long term," said Boué. "More positively, the Court has upheld the ability to use Standard Contractual Clauses as a responsible, trusted tool to transfer personal data outside Europe, including to the United States."
Standard Contractual Clauses – or SCCs – are the main transfer mechanism used by 90 percent of companies that transfer data internationally. SCCs, which are issued by the EU Commission, were also under review by the ECJ. SCCs underpin transfers of personal data from the EU to some 180 countries, including Australia, Singapore, South Korea, Brazil, India, and Mexico. These clauses impose a range of contract-based obligations to help ensure EU law's strong privacy protections flow with any personal data sent outside of the EU. The SCCs impose mandatory safeguards and companies that use SCCs also apply additional safeguards that are tailored to each specific transfer.
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Microsoft's foldable device is said to run Android apps, launch next year
By João Carrasqueira Neowin @indospot · Jun 23, 2019 21:14 EDT with 52 comments
Much has been speculated about Microsoft's foldable device over the past few months and years, and earlier this month, it was reported that the company had showcased it internally. Now, a new report from Forbes claims to have some new information on the computer, citing sources at market research firm IHS Markit.
Regarding the form factor itself, it's said that the device will have two 9-inch displays in the 4:3 aspect ratio - a different approach from what we see in Lenovo's foldable PC, for example. It's said to run on Intel's 10nm Lakefield SoC and have always-on connectivity, which could come in the form of LTE or 5G. Naturally, the device would run the rumored Windows Core OS, a necessity for the form factor.
The most notable part of the report, though, might be the fact that the device is said to be able to run Android apps, something that Windows Central's Zac Bowden corroborates based on his own sources. The idea of Android apps on Windows is not new at all, and those that followed Windows 10 development will likely be familiar with Project Astoria. That strategy was eventually canceled, but after all, recent Windows 10 builds do ship with a full Linux kernel inside.
As to when we can expect this device to hit the market, both Forbes and Windows Central seem to agree that it should be coming in the first half of 2020. Next year could very well end up being a big year for foldable computers, as Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 is slated to come out in 2020 as well.
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Bedlam Plus is a new aerosol insecticide by MGK offering a longer lasting residual than the original Bedlam with the addition of Imidacloprid. This longer lasting residual additive along with an updated formulation gives Bedlam Plus the ability to kill all stages of bed bugs, their eggs and even pyrethroid resistant bed bugs. It is very important to mention that Bedlam Plus is solely a crack and crevice spray and should not be applied in areas that may come in contact with skin. For mattress applications, Bedlam Plus is designed to applied until damp along the folds, tufts and edges of the mattress and not on the top surface where we sleep.
We like to use Bedlam along the folds of mattresses, sofas, chairs and on drapes and other fabric materials that do not come into contact with skin. Bedlam is a residual in that the ingredients remain active for several weeks allowing it to continue killing bed bugs. The only drawback to Bedlam is it's more expensive than other non-aerosol residual killers such as our JT Eaton Kills Bed Bugs II.
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New York, NY – Dec 13, 2016. With virtually all of the world's top- ranking squash players entered in the 2017 J.P.Morgan Tournament of Champions (ToC), the just-released draws offer the promise of scintillating competitive clashes during the seven days – January 12– 19 – that have become known as 'Squash Week" in New York City. With 64-player women's and men's main draws, each of which include eight qualifying spots, the ToC will host 128 of the world's top-ranking squash players who have found the lure of playing in the sport's most public and majestic venue irresistible.
The women's draw, which includes four former titleholders, features defending champion and current world No. 1 Nour El Sherbini of Egypt facing a tricky first round encounter with unorthodox Hong Kong player Joey Chan. The 21-year-old Sherbini's quarter of the draw includes 2014 ToC champion Nicol David, the Malaysian superstar who retained the world No. 1 ranking for more than nine consecutive years. David will face England's Jenny Duncalf in first round play.
Egypt's Raneem El Welily, the 2015 ToC titlist and also a former world No. 1, is seeded second and could meet American number one and 2016 runner-up Amanda Sobhy in a quarterfinal encounter. Sobhy, who grew up in Sea Cliff, Long Island and is currently ranked No. 7 in the world, is sure to have the hometown crowd in her corner when she faces Australia's Donna Urquhart in first round play. Natalie Grinham, a two-time titlist and a former world No. 2, has received the wild card entry in the draw and will play Joelle King of New Zealand in the first round.
of past champions, all of whom have enjoyed stints at the top of the world rankings. Elshorbagy, who plays a qualifier in the first round, is drawn to meet his younger brother Marwan, the sixth seed, in quarterfinal play. France's 34-year-old Gregory Gaultier, who won the ToC title in 2009, is seeded third, and will face 20-year-old former World Junior Champion Diego Elias in one of the stand-out, first-round encounters.
England's 33-year-old James Willstrop, the 2010 winner, will meet 2014 semi-finalist and crowd favorite Miguel Angel Rodriguez of Colombia in a tantalizing first-round encounter that promises to be a thrilling battle of styles. Should Willstrop prevail, he is likely to face a second round encounter with perennial domestic rival Nick Matthew, the 2012 ToC champion who has been runner-up in the last two years.. Matthew, at 36 the oldest player in the men's draw, will meet a qualifier in first round play.
Three-time ToC and World champion Ramy Ashour of Egypt, whose dazzling play has been sorely missed by the TOC crowds as he has had to sit out the last two championships due to injury, has drawn a qualifier for his first round match. Should Ashour reach the quarterfinals he is likely to encounter countryman Karim Abdel Gawad, who has shot up to No. 2 in the world rankings having won three of his last four tournaments including the 2016 World Championship.
"It is fitting that, on the 20th anniversary of staging the ToC in the awe-inspiring setting of Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall, we have been treated to one of the strongest line-ups and most compelling draws in the tournament's history," said John Nimick, President of Squash Engine, Inc., the tournament promoter. "To have all of the world's top male and female players, a host of current and past champions, and some of the most promising talents in the game come together for the first event of the year is incredibly exciting".
The J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions is one of eight World Series events sanctioned by the Professional Squash Association (PSA) and one of only three to offer equal prize money and draw size for both men and women. It is the only PSA World Series event to have been staged in the same venue for two decades. Fans will be able to catch the action in Grand Central from the ticketed seats in the stadium, free standing room at the front wall or on closed circuit TV screens on the west side of Vanderbilt Hall.
Tickets for the tournament range in price from $8 to $170 and can be purchased online at www.tocsquash.com.


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Q: Error in comparing two std::chrono::time_point instances I have two std::chrono::time_point instances in variables exp and time. exp has a time in the future and time is the current time. But when I compare them as in this snippet:
std::time_t t_exp = std::chrono::system_clock::to_time_t(exp);
std::time_t t_time = std::chrono::system_clock::to_time_t(time);
std::cout << std::ctime(&t_exp) << std::ctime(&t_time) << (time > exp) << std::endl;

I get output:
Sat Apr 26 01:39:43 4758
Fri May 29 18:11:59 2020
1

Which is wrong because exp is in the year 4758 and time is in the year 2020.
Where am I going wrong?

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t_exp is -4243023785

This value of time_t corresponds to 1835-07-18 22:16:55 (assuming the Unix epoch and a precision of seconds, neither of which are specified by the standard, but are common).
Apparently the implementation of ctime on your platform can't handle dates this far in the past, which is a little surprising as 1835 is not very far in the past.
The value of exp is -4243023785 times a million or a billion (depending on the precision of system_clock on your platform) and is stored with a signed 64 bit integer (there is no overflow).  Thus time > exp == 1 is correct (time is 1590775919s converted to the precision of system_clock).
Sat Apr 26 01:39:43 4758 corresponds to a time_t of 87990716383.
I see nothing wrong with your use of the chrono library in the above code.
Update

The value 87990716383 is being converted to a time_point using from_time_t()

Ah, this combined with the knowledge that on your platform the precision of system_clock is nanoseconds tells me that you are experiencing overflow on the construction of exp.
This is not the code you have:
std::time_t t_exp = std::chrono::system_clock::to_time_t(exp);
std::time_t t_time = std::chrono::system_clock::to_time_t(time);
std::cout << std::ctime(&t_exp) << std::ctime(&t_time) << (time > exp) << std::endl;

The code you have looks something like:
// ...
std::time_t t_exp = 87990716383;
auto exp = std::chrono::system_clock::from_time_t(t_exp);
std::cout << std::ctime(&t_exp) << std::ctime(&t_time) << (time > exp) << std::endl;

On your platform, system_clock stores nanoseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC in a signed 64 bit integer.  The maximum storable date (system_clock::time_point::max()) on your platform is:
2262-04-11 23:47:16.854775807

Beyond this, the underlying storage of nanoseconds overflows.
When 87990716383 (seconds) is converted in from_time_t, it is multiplied by a billion which overflows.  The overflowed value is -4243003985547758080 which corresponds to the date 1835-07-19 03:46:54.452241920.
You can get a larger range by using a coarser precision, for example:
std::time_t t_exp = 87990716383;
time_point<system_clock, microseconds> exp{seconds{t_exp}};
// exp == 4758-04-26 01:39:43.000000


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UNIVERSAL HELL
Universal Credit means my baby and I go without food – and childcare fees mean I can't go back to work
Single mum Lauren Anderson, 24, is thousands of pounds in debt and often can't afford to buy food due to Universal Credit
By Dan Moore and Tara Evans, Digital Consumer Editor
SINGLE mum Lauren Anderson lives on a knife-edge, constantly in fear of falling deeper into debt but unable to get back into work due to Universal Credit.
Sometimes Lauren, who lives in Bradford, can't afford to buy food or even top up her gas and electricity.
Single mum Lauren, 24, first claimed Universal Credit in July last yearCredit: ©Andrew McCaren
"It's so wrong. I should be able to provide for my little boy but sometimes I struggle to even pay for food for him," Lauren told The Sun.
"I get a sense of dread every time I go to the supermarket and always have the calculator app open on my phone, adding everything up to make sure I don't overspend.
"But I dread when I get to the checkout too in case I've added it up wrong and I'll have to put something back.
"I don't like having to ask my family for help but I have to - I can't see another way around it.
"Everything just piles up on top of each other and it's so overwhelming. I feel helpless."
The 24-year-old waitress first applied for Universal Credit in July last year, three months after her son Harley, now aged one, was born.
She had taken 52 weeks maternity leave from her job in a pub but knew she wouldn't be able to afford to pay childcare fees upfront when she went back to work and decided to hand in her notice six months in.
Immediately her benefits and government-paid maternity allowance stopped - and it was five weeks until she got her first Universal Credit payment.
On Universal Credit working parents also get 85 per cent of childcare fees paid - but they must pay this upfront and for single mums like Lauren this is impossible.
The Sun wants to Make Universal Credit Work
UNIVERSAL Credit replaces six benefits with a single monthly payment.
One million people are already receiving it and by the time the system is fully rolled out in 2023, nearly 7 million will be on it.
But there are big problems with the flagship new system - it takes 5 weeks to get the first payment and it could leave some families worse off by thousands of pounds a year.
And while working families can claim back up to 85 per cent of their childcare costs, they must find the money to pay for childcare upfront - we've heard of families waiting up to 6 months for the money.
Working parents across the country told us they've been unable to take on more hours - or have even turned down better paid jobs or more hours because of the amount they get their benefits cut.
It's time to Make Universal Credit work. We want the Government to:
Get paid faster: The Government must slash the time Brits wait for their first Universal Credit payments from five to two weeks, helping stop 7 million from being pushed into debt.
Keep more of what you earn: The work allowance should be increased and the taper rate should be slashed from 63p to 50p, helping at least 4 million families.
Don't get punished for having a family: Parents should get the 85 per cent of the money they can claim for childcare upfront instead of being paid in arrears.
Together, these changes will help Make Universal Credit Work.
Join our Universal Credit Facebook group or email UniversalCredit@the-sun.co.uk to share your story.
The Sun wants the government to pay childcare costs upfront so parents can get back to work faster, as we've demanded in our Make Universal Credit Work campaign.
Lauren added: "Universal Credit is designed to encourage people to get back to work, but it doesn't work if you're single with a baby.
"Universal Credit will contribute to childcare but you have to make the upfront payment for the first six weeks before they give you the money for it.
"Where am I going to get over £500 from to pay for his childcare?
"Even then childcare is capped at 15 hours per week, which isn't great if you want to support yourself and get to and from work.
Single dad opens up to Professor Green about his ongoing battle on Universal Credit
Some days, Lauren says she can't afford to feed her son, HarleyCredit: �Andrew McCaren
"Harley will only get 15 hours free childcare when he is two. What I can earn at 15 hours per week is an absolute pittance."
After waiting five weeks Lauren got her first Universal Credit payment of £483 - but a large chunk was missing.
'It's disgusting that my payments were docked for maternity pay'
Her money was docked due to a lump sum of £1,300 for maternity allowance and holiday which was paid to her in the same month.
As this was considered income the government taxed her Universal Credit payment - known as the taper rate - taking 63p off for every £1 she earns over £409 a month.
Lauren feels it was unfair that this money was included in her earnings for the month and subjected to the taper rate meaning she had her UC payment reduced.
"I had to get an advance because I wouldn't have had anything to live on. My little one would have had nothing to live on. Nothing," Lauren told The Sun.
Lauren says she can't get back into work because she can't afford the upfront cost of childcareCredit: ©Andrew McCaren
Lauren often has to borrow from her step-mum and dad to ensure she has enough cash for foodCredit: �Andrew McCaren
"It's laughable to say this amount was 'take-home pay', it was the last maternity allowance payment I got. It was a benefit, not pay."
"I think it's disgusting. You don't get a lot of maternity pay as it is.
"You start off with what you would get when working then they slowly decrease the amount up to 60 per cent.
Are you on Universal Credit? Tell us your story. Email: universalcredit@thesun.co.uk and join our Universal Credit Facebook group.
"That they take money off you when you have a new baby is not right. It's disgusting, it really is."
The Sun also wants the taper rate reduced and work allowance increased.
And to make matters worse Lauren had even more money docked from her first Universal Credit payment to pay back the advance she'd needed while her benefits stopped.
It left her with £336 to last a month – and it wasn't even enough to cover her bills.
'I worry about how to feed my son - I should have to ask for help'
She said: "I didn't have any money left until the month after when I got universal credit. I was worried about fending for Harley.
The single mum now lives with mounting debts hanging over her headCredit: �Andrew McCaren
She was left with £336 to last a month – and it wasn't even enough to cover her bills.Credit: ©Andrew McCaren
"I shouldn't have to ask my family for money for him I should be able to do it myself."
The Sun's Make Universal Credit campaign also wants the government to reduce the amount of time people wait for cash to two weeks, down from five.
The single mum now lives with mounting debts hanging over her head.
She said: "I'm £5,000 in debt, due to my ex, who left after taking all sorts of finance out in my name, and never paid a penny.
"I also opened some clothing accounts just before Christmas 2017 and got into a mess trying to make repayments."
"I've been trying to get the money together to get a Debt Relief Order, but I can't afford the £90 fee."
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"I'm left with nothing. I do my shopping with whatever scraps I'm left with and need to borrow from step-mum and dad to ensure I've got enough to feed myself and Harley and we don't get cold at home."
A DWP spokesperson said: "Ms Anderson received over £3,300 in income and Universal Credit during the first two months of her claim, and continues to receive over £900 a month now. She has turned down any budgeting support offered by the jobcentre.
"If Ms Anderson starts work she can claim back up to 85 per cent of her childcare costs and there's help available for any upfront costs."
Lauren disputes that she gets £900 a month as £100 is taken off each payment to repay loans she needed to take out during the five-week wait for cash.
How is Lauren Anderson doing now?
SIX months on from the launch of our Make Universal Credit Work campaign, we've revisited some of our most hard-hitting stories.
We spoke to Lauren Anderson again in June 2019 to get an update on her situation.
She told us that she's now got a job as a barmaid in a pub working two shifts a week, from 10am to 5pm, earning around £400 a month.
Lauren really enjoys the work, but she's worried she will fall foul of Universal Credit's harsh taper rate, which reduces your benefit entitlement the more you earn.
The Sun wants to see the amount of money earned before your benefit starts falling slashed from 63p in every £1 to 50p in every £1.
Lauren said: "It's really not fair. I'm in danger of being penalised for working. They should increase the working allowance threshold so single parents such as me aren't hammered for just trying to work."
The mum has also had issues with the childcare element of Universal Credit since she started work five weeks ago.
She says she was given the impression that she would get 85 per cent of the £80 she pays each month for Harley to go to nursery on the days she works up front.
But actually, Universal Credit pays her a month afterwards.
She said: "I had to borrow money off friends just to make sure Harley kept his place. Luckily for me my sister works at the nursery, and the people who run it are very understanding."
She is less impressed with Universal Credit's handling of the situation: "It came out of the blue.
"Why on earth didn't they think it wasn't worth telling me that I'd need to find the money for childcare up front?
"Were they embarrassed or something? If they weren't they should be."
The Sun is also campaigning for Univesal Credit childcare payments to be made upfront instead of in arrears.
In an updated comment, a spokesperson for the Department for Work and Pensions said: "It's great to see that despite her previous concerns Ms Anderson has been supported back into work through Universal Credit.
"She continues to receive support and recently received over £900 in benefits, as well as over £300 in childcare costs back."
Over one million people are on Universal Credit with a further 7million set to be rolled onto it by 2023. But there are BIG problems with the system, The Sun wants to help Make Universal Credit Work
What is Universal Credit, who's eligible to claim it and how has the benefits system changed?
We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online Money team? Email us at money@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 78 24516
Make Universal Credit Work
DAME AND BLAST
Helen Mirren slams BBC's 'heartbreaking' axing of free TV licences for OAPs


Most of the movies set to preview footage during the Super Bowl have been seen by movie lovers (if they have been paying a bit of attention). Movies like Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness have released teasers and trailers giving us looks at the pending sequels. Justin Lin's Fast and the Furious 6, however, has been under wraps … until today.
I like the catchphrase "All roads lead to this." I'm not sure what that means about the other five movies. What did they lead to? And while we have been reading that most of Fast and the Furious 6 will take place in London (or, at least, scenes were filmed there), Diesel's character Dom appears to be standing on a closed track? Or a deserted road? Hard to tell. We should know more after the Lin airs his Super Bowl ad. Until then, what do you think of the one-sheet?


I'm happy to be apart of the Herb of Grace Blog Tour today and feature the newest book by Adina Senft, Herb of Grace, the first book in the new Healing Grace series, and offer a look into the first chapter!
Amish widow Sarah Yoder has been struggling to raise her two teenaged sons and provide a home where family and members of her Old Order Amish church can find fellowship and friendship. Though she is close to her in-laws, lately it feels like her relationship with her boys is splintering. Her stepson Simon wants to move out west with his cousins to find work. And her youngest, Caleb, is spending far too much time over at the tumbledown home of a man who left the church long ago. Henry Byler only returned recently to Willow Creek when he inherited the family farm--under protest--and now seems caught in a struggle between the faith of his childhood and the world he's come to know.
Ruth Lehman, the local Dokterfraa, believes Sarah should use her gift for growing plants to become an herbal healer, too. Sarah is reluctant, however, uncertain if caring for others will take her away from her family--the place where she believes God wants her. But when she feels called to help members of her community, she soon discovers that the heart can be scarred as deeply as the body. As she compiles her herbs, she waits for God to do his healing work in a man who rues a harsh decision, in a lonely prodigal who has lost everything, and maybe even in a herbalist-in-training who firmly believes she will never love again.
You can take a look at the first chapter of Herb of Grace, the first book in the Healing Grace Series HERE.
Writing as Shelley Bates, she was the winner of RWA's RITA Award for Best Inspirational Novel in 2005, a finalist for that award in 2006, and, writing as Shelley Adina, was a Christy Award finalist in 2009.
A transplanted Canadian, Adina returns there annually to have her accent calibrated. Between books, she enjoys traveling with her husband, playing the piano and Celtic harp, and spoiling her flock of rescued chickens.
Thanks for joining in and checking out this new release!
Here is a link to take you to the Blog Tour List.
I really like the title - so gorgeous - and two thumbs up for the cover. Thanks for sharing, Kate!
Ganise, The cover is very pretty! The colors are great. :-) Thanks for visiting!


Although the major physical development milestones of adolescence happen to everyone, the timing of these milestones varies a lot, both between and within the sexes.
Some adolescents exhibit physical signs of maturity sooner than their peers, and others exhibit them later. For example, the visible physical changes in males often begin a couple of years after they begin in females. The timing of a female's first period also varies: girls can start their period as early as eight and as late as 16.
These differences can be hard for adolescents: they may feel self-conscious, or worry that they don't fit in if they don't look like others their age. These variations also can lead to other people treating adolescents in a way that does not match their cognitive or emotional development. For instance, females who develop visible curves or males whose voices change during middle school may be treated more like older teenagers by both their peers and adults, even if they do not have the cognitive or emotional maturity of older teenagers. In contrast, adolescents who exhibit physical changes later than their peers may be treated like younger children, even though they are more mature cognitively and emotionally. Some research suggests that youth who experience faster physical development are more likely to engage in risk-taking behavior than their peers and that teens who develop more slowly than their peers may be more likely to face bullying.
Genes. A person's genetic makeup can affect the timing of puberty and what the changes look like.
Diet/nutrition and exercise before and during adolescence. Overweight females, for example, are more likely to have their first period and experience breast development at younger ages than their peers.
Chronic illnesses. Conditions such as cystic fibrosis, asthma, diabetes, or bowel problems also can contribute to delays in growth and puberty because of nutrient deficiencies, toxin excess, and/or medication side effects.
Development in other areas. Variations in cognitive, emotional, social, and/or moral development also can influence and be influenced by physical changes in adolescence. For instance, those who look different than their peers (e.g., being overweight or underweight) are at a higher risk of being bullied by peers.
Additional information on adolescent physical development can be found in The Teen Years Explained: A Guide to Healthy Adolescent Development, produced by the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.


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Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Neve Campbell has talked to producers about starring in a fifth installment of the Scream franchise once again as Sydney Prescott. The franchise started in 1996 and was created by the late Wes Craven. The meta approach to horror became a genre unto itself, making the film an instant horror classic.
Throughout the Scream franchise, Ghostface has been played by different actors and different characters, but the one constant throughout each story is Sydney Prescott. Now, Campbell is looking to resume that role:
"We're having conversations. I have been approached about it," Campbell told Rotten Tomatoes in an interview. "The timing's a bit challenging because of COVID. You know, we only started the conversation maybe a month and a half ago, so it's going to take some time to figure out how it's all going to work out… We're negotiating, so we'll see."
If Scream 5 does happen, it will be directed by Ready or Not helmers Matthew Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. Campbell has said in the past that she had written off starring in another Scream film without Wes Craven at the helm, but after talking to Olpin and Gillett, they have decided that Scream 5 could be a great way to honor his memory.
We will keep you posted when we get more updates on Scream 5. Do you think they should make one more? Let us know in the comments!
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Millions of people in Britain could now get their state pension paid ahead of time by retiring early.
The Government's "life expectancy calculator" means Brits may be able to retire early.
The pension age will rise from 66 to 67 by 2028. However, consultant LCP says there is, in fact, no case for the rise until 2051.
LCP's argument centres around the idea life expectancy improvements have largely yet to materialise.
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Underpinning the state pension age is a set of calculations which are designed to make sure that we spend no more than one third of our adult life in retirement.
The idea is that if we all keep living longer, then state pension ages would be linked to rising life expectancy. That, in theory, means the retirement age shouldn't rise.
However, life expectancy has not risen. To give one example, when the last state pension age review was undertaken they thought that a 66 year-old woman alive today would live to 89. More recent figures say she will only live to 87.
Delaying the increase by 23 years would give a reprieve to more than 20million people born between 1961 and 1984, who would be able to retire at 66 rather than 67.
However, it would also deprive the Treasury of £195billion in planned savings, says the Mirror.
Former pensions minister Sir Steve Webb, now a partner at LCP, said: "The Government's plans for rapid increases in state pension age have been blown out of the water by this new analysis.
"Even before the pandemic hit, the improvements in life expectancy which we had seen over the last century had almost ground to a halt. But the schedule for state pension age increases has not caught up with this new world. This analysis shows that current plans to increase the state pension age to 67 by 2028 need to be revisited as a matter of urgency.
"Pension ages for men and women reached 66 only last year, and there is no case for another increase so soon."
The warning comes days after the Department for Work and Pensions announced its second review of the state pension age will assess whether the retirement age remains appropriate. It is due to be published in May 2023.
In 2013 the Government stated the state pension age should be linked to life expectancy, with people spending no more than a third of their adult life in retirement.
Under this formula, the state pension age should move to 68 between 2039 and 2041. In 2017, the DWP indicated it planned the 67 to 68 rise between 2037 and 2039.
Using the most recent population estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), a 66-year-old woman's life expectancy has reduced by two years to 87. LCP believes the increase to 68 will not be needed until the mid-2060s.
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First meeting with LFC representatives Today, Tuesday 4 May 2021, Spirit of Shankly, with the full backing of affiliates, met with Billy Hogan and Liverpool FC representatives. At the meeting SOS tabled the following requests: Two SOS representatives at LFC board level in relation to issues that impact fans and the Anfield community as a whole. This would involve a reconstitution of the LFC board that includes effective, elected and accountable fan representation, and not for members of the current LFC board to be that elected representative. This cannot be token representation, but one that [...]
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Time for change: next steps
Time for change: next steps. It has been a tumultuous, sickening few days for us all. Spirit of Shankly have always asked for honesty, integrity and transparency from club owners FSG, but the arrogance and deception they have shown behind this money-grab is frightening. But not surprising. We have noted John Henry's apology, but this PR exercise is too little too late. These crocodile tears will not wash. Actions speak louder than 'hollow' words. Liverpool Football Club is not an American franchise, it is a community steeped in history and tradition. The 'future of football' [...]
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European Super League update
European Super League update Spirit of Shankly note with anger that club owners FSG are still hanging on to this shattered nightmare of a European 'Super' League. We are calling on the FSG board to withdraw our club from this catastrophic idea and consider their positions with immediate effect. To coin a previous campaign of ours 'Not Welcome Here' Back to Latest News >>
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European Super League: a statement
European Super League: a statement Liverpool Football Club's confirmation, made at 11.30pm on 18th April 2021, that they "have joined Europe's leading clubs in agreeing to form a new competition, the European Super League" is both shocking and shameless. Spirit of Shankly were formed when the result of broken promises by the club's previous owners threatened LFC's existence. This proposal threatens to destroy everything on which our club was built. And the reason? Greed, pure and simple. The Champions League, as was its predecessor the European Cup, is the pinnacle for LFC, for the players, [...]
European Super League Spirit of Shankly are aware of the speculation surrounding a breakaway Super League that has been reported today, Sunday 18 April 2021. When talk of this happening has occurred over the past few years, SOS have always been opposed to the idea. Today's news was unexpected, but at this point in time it is mainly speculation. Once an official statement has been made, we will report back. Back to Latest News >>
Season ticket renewals update
Season ticket renewals 2021/22 We're pleased to see LFC have listened to fans. No Season Ticket price increase, a one-season 'holiday' if wanted, and continued payment plan. We're waiting for full details, but the chance to share ticket with friends & family sounds positive. Read LFC Season ticket renewals 2021/22 announcement here. Back to Latest News >>
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VAR online survey The Football Supporters' Association (FSA) have launched an online survey to gather the opinions of supporters on the implementation of VAR, supporters' experiences with it, and the areas that need improvement. The Premier League recently launched a VAR consultation with players and managers. The results of this survey will be fed into the Premier League consultation as part of the regular meetings the FSA have with the game's authorities. Spirit of Shankly support this initiative and believe it's vital that the supporters' view is heard on perhaps the biggest issue in football [...]
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FSA Discussion with PGMOL
PGMOL presentation on VAR Earlier this month, the Football Supporters' Association (FSA) invited Spirit of Shankly and representatives of other fans' groups to attend a presentation on VAR. It was given by Mike Riley, former referee and general manager of the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) group. Before the meeting we asked members and non-members for their opinions and we published our summary here Your Views on VAR. The FSA have reported back on the meeting and you can read their report here FSA Report. SOS are now in a position to publish what [...]
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Your Views on VAR – Update
Your Views on VAR Spirit of Shankly will attend an online VAR briefing event on Tuesday 16 February 2021 hosted by The Football Supporters' Association (FSA). Former referee Mike Riley, now general manager of the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) group, will give the presentation relating specifically to VAR issues and the procedures and processes of decision making, interpretation and effectiveness. Ahead of the meeting Spirit of Shankly asked members and non-members for their opinions and thoughts on VAR. Below is a summary of what you said: Is there anything good about VAR? The [...]
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Opinions on VAR
What do you think of VAR? The Football Supporters' Association (FSA) have invited Spirit of Shankly to an online VAR briefing event on Tuesday 16th February 2021. Former referee Mike Riley, now general manager of the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) group, will give a presentation relating specifically to VAR issues and cover such subjects as procedures and processes of decision making, interpretation and effectiveness. Mike will be joined by Adam Gale-Watts (PGMOL deputy general manager). PGMOL are responsible for 550 match officials across the Premier League, EFL and non-league. Ahead of the meeting [...]
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Player of the Week: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.)
By The Hill Staff — 11/18/13 07:48 PM EST
This is an important week for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Kirsten Elizabeth GillibrandThe Hill's Morning Report: Trump walks back from 'send her back' chants Biden, Harris set for second Democratic debate showdown Rand Paul accuses Jon Stewart of being 'part of left-wing mob' after criticism over 9/11 victim fund MORE (D-N.Y.) and her legislative effort to reduce sexual assault in the military.
Since unveiling her bill in May, Gillibrand has been building up support for her legislation that would remove sexual assault cases from the military chain of command.
She has attracted 47 backers in the Senate, but that's not enough to pass the upper chamber.
For Gillibrand, a former House member who has indicated an interest in running for the White House, combating sexual assaults has become her signature issue.
But she is pitted against powerful lawmakers, including Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin Carl Milton LevinListen, learn and lead: Congressional newcomers should leave the extremist tactics at home House Democrats poised to set a dangerous precedent with president's tax returns The Hill's 12:30 Report — Sponsored by Delta Air Lines — White House to 'temporarily reinstate' Acosta's press pass after judge issues order | Graham to take over Judiciary panel | Hand recount for Florida Senate race MORE (D-Mich.).
Levin and other senators say Gillibrand's legislation could make it worse for victims and would torpedo the Pentagon's system of justice.
The Pentagon opposes the Gillibrand measure.
Trying to round up more votes, Gillibrand last week suggested she was considering changing her bill, but supporters balked and Gillibrand backtracked.
In an interview on ABC's "This Week," she said, "We're going to stick to the original plan because it's a better bill."
A competing plan is being spearheaded by Levin and Sen. Claire McCaskill Claire Conner McCaskillTrump nominees meet fiercest opposition from Warren, Sanders, Gillibrand Feds allow campaigns to accept discounted cybersecurity services GOP frets over nightmare scenario for Senate primaries MORE (D-Mo.). In recent days, the debate has intensified amid dueling press conferences.
A bipartisan agreement to merge the Gillibrand and McCaskill bills, which had seemed possible earlier this year, now seems unlikely.
The competing pieces of legislation could be debated this week as part of the Senate's debate on the defense authorization bill. That has caused a headache for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Harry Mason ReidDems open to killing filibuster in next Congress Webb: Questions for Robert Mueller Steyer's impeachment solution is dead wrong MORE (D-Nev.), who has to decide how to handle the intraparty fight.
Reid usually defers to his committee chairmen. Gillibrand has waged an impressive battle, but she doesn't appear to have the votes to trump Levin.
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El Pont Vell de la Pobla de Lillet, també conegut com a Pont Gran, és un pont medieval sobre el riu Llobregat al nucli urbà de la Pobla de Lillet (Berguedà).

Descripció
Pont gòtic, d'esquena d'ase, format per un sol arc apuntat que reposa sobre pilars de secció quadrangular. La morfologia de l'arc i la barana denoten que es tracta d'una construcció gòtica, tot i que la diferència de diversos paraments permeten un estudi de les diverses fases constructives. Els pilars del pont presenten a la base un aparell de carreus escairats i ben treballats, característics de l'època romana. El pilar esquerre està fet amb carreus de considerables proporcions i el dret, amb carreus més petits, reposa en el mur de contenció. Inicialment era de dos arcs, però amb la construcció d'un mur al vessant dret del riu es va desmantellar, i l'arcada que resta dempeus era la petita. La volta de l'arc és feta amb carreus a plec de llibre i enllosat superior. El paviment és de còdols, amb pendent cap ambdues bandes, més pronunciat pel costat nord, tot i que és gradual gràcies a una sèrie de graons fets amb pedres més grans. Aquest costat de tramuntana desemboca en una escala (que forma angle amb el pont) que permet l'accés des del nivell de la carretera actual; aquesta és una actuació de la primera dècada del . El Pont Vell salva el desnivell entre el barri del Regatell (a un nivell superior) i la carretera de Berga a Ripoll.

Història

Fou construït al , probablement aprofitant els fonaments d'un pont anterior d'època romana, ja que el Pont es troba en una situació estratègica, situat en una cruïlla de camins entre el Llobregat i el Ter (vies naturals de penetració), i des d'on parteixen diverses vies de comunicació antigues. L'any 1339 es tenen notícies de deixes testamentaries i donacions a favor de l'obra del pont, entre les quals cal destacar: Roger de Pallars, Guillem de Pujol, procurador de Roger Bernat de Pallars, i als mateixos prohoms de la Pobla.

A finals del  o principis del XIX trobem una tercera fase constructiva, a la qual pertany la morfologia que s'ha conservat fins als nostres dies sense grans canvis. El paviment actual, així com l'enlluït de les baranes i l'escala al costat nord, són de factura moderna. Pel que fa a l'escala, es va construir arran de la construcció de l'actual carretera.

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Kevin Stein is a retail veteran having served in the wine & spirits industry for 17 years. He has worked many aspects of retail liquor and can tell you about just about any brand you point to in the store! Getting to taste whiskey and wine as a perk of his job has trained his palate to discern many subtle differences. He enjoys whisky and wine alike, with a strong preference for Scotch neat and old world wine.


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Maddie Riggs a Golfers Life
Maddie Riggs is a golfer getting her professional career started after a successful run at University of California Irvine. Being an athlete at a Division 1 college is no easy feat, balancing school work and the rigors of high level athletics. Maddie was able to graduate as a two-time All American scholar and now she is excited to continue her golf journey to the professional ranks.
We had a great talk about the differences in college golf and how no longer having academics on her schedule is allowing her to stay focused on her golf game. We also talk about her obsessive compulsive habits which, at times, have made it difficult for her on the course. Maddie was brave to discuss with me her anxiety issues and how it affected her at her first qualifying school (Q School) rounds.
Make sure to follow Maddie on her social media pages to see where she will be playing next or contact her for some golf lessons.
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ABOUT Maddie Riggs
Madison Riggs has established herself as a leader on the course and in the classroom throughout her first three years with the UC Irvine women's golf team. In the truncated 2019-20 season, Riggs recorded a team-best scoring average of 75.79 across 19 rounds and registered a top-10 finish at The Gold Rush. She is also a two-time WGCA All-American Scholar and was named to the 2020 Big West Spring All-Academic Team.
The Burbank native attended John Burroughs High School prior to attending UC Irvine, where she earned first-team All-Area honors on two occasions and was the Mike Torres Award recipient for Best Female Athlete.
Had a team-best scoring average at 75.79 over 19 rounds
Had a personal-best 10th place finish at The Gold Rush (221)
Tied for the lowest round of the season by an Anteater, carding a 71 on the second round of the Rebel Beach Intercollegiate
Played in every tournament
Had a 77.81 scoring average
Recorded a season-low 73 on the second round of the UC Irvine Invitational
John Burroughs High School
Mike Torres Award recipient for best female athlete
Member of the All-Area First Team in 2016 and 2017
Recipient of an Indian Award
Public health policy major
Two-time WGCA All-American Scholar
Big West Spring All-Academic Team
Father Brady is a PGA Top 100 Teacher
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The prawn sandwich is a British classic widely used at posh corporate events, tea parties and from top end cafes. The prawn sandwich sauce is made from a tablespoon of mayonnaise with a sprinkle of dill filled in a wholemeal bread.
In the last couple of years and prawn sandwich has disappeared and replaced with the prawn mayonnaise sandwich. Here, we've brought back the classic prawn sandwich with a touch of class and tradition. The prawn sandwich is a winner with seafood lovers and perfect for tea parties.
Give your prawn sandwich a kick with a dollop of seafood sauce. Try not to use to much as it is quite a strong tasting sauce.
This traditional prawn cocktail sandwich would make a great addition to your next English tea party.


Costa Daurada lies just south of Barcelona in Spain. Driving time from Barcelona Airport is 1 hour if choosing the excellent toll roads (C-32 and AP-7).
The quality of roads and highways is excellent and it is easy to find your way from the hotel to the different golf courses. Please use the map below to know more about the region.
Costa Daurada means "The Golden Coast" and once you have visited you will know why.
It is the perfect destination for your next golf holiday in Spain!


Man, I don't get why my online banking has lower requirements than the thing I would use to file medical receipts. It's my data, FFS, so I just dropped this in to their customer contact bin.
I tried to set up my southern cross today, and got to the password page where it requires two letters and two numbers.
I stopped there and won't be continuing - you're asking me to keep a different type of password to what I usually use, and I'd be constantly forgetting it and having to reset.
Just thought you'd find the feedback useful; since it's my data you're holding it's not your job to tell me security requirements as it's my risk, and I doubt I'll be using the service until it better suits my needs.  As it happens the password I was trying to use was a) 13 characters long, b) contained shifted case, and c) had three special (non-letter/number) characters.  This was good enough when I worked in a secret-cleared environment for the Police so I'm not sure why it's not good enough for me to file claims with you.
The average person has about 150 different accounts online these days, and they need onerous and one-off passwords like they need a case of cancer.


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Placidochromis — рід риб родини цихлові, налічує 35 видів. Ендеміки озера Малаві (Центральна Африка).

Види

Переглянуті (старі) назви
 Placidochromis stonemani див. Aulonocara stonemani (Burgess & Axelrod, 1973)

Джерела

Бібліографія
 Axelrod, H.R., 1993. The most complete colored lexicon of cichlids. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, New Jersey, USA.
 Eschmeyer, William N.: Genera of Recent Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, USA. iii + 697. ISBN 0-940228-23-8. 1990.
 Helfman, G., B. Collette i D. Facey: The diversity of fishes. Blackwell Science, Malden, Massachusetts, USA, 1997.
 Moyle, P. i J. Cech.: Fishes: An Introduction to Ichthyology, 4a. edició, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA: Prentice-Hall. 2000.
 Nelson, J.: Fishes of the World, 3a. edició. New York, USA: John Wiley and Sons. 1994.
 Römer U.: Cichliden Atlas, Bd. 1. Melle. 1311 p. 1998.
 Wheeler, A.: The World Encyclopedia of Fishes, 2a. edició, London: Macdonald. 1985.

Посилання
 NCBI
 Encyclopedia of Life
 World Register of Marine Species
 AQUATAB.NET
 ITIS

Роди риб
Pseudocrenilabrinae


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Norman North High School is a public, co-educational secondary school in Norman, Oklahoma. It was established on August 21, 1997, on the grounds of what had been Longfellow Middle School since 1972. Longfellow Has now been relocated to the building that once was Central Mid-High.

Notable alumni
 Mauro Cichero, professional soccer player, currently playing for the Charleston Battery
Jordan Evans, currently plays for the Cincinnati Bengals
 Ray William Johnson- YouTube Comedian/Personality
 Owen Joyner, actor
Charlie Kolar, NFL football player for the Baltimore Ravens
 Trae Young, currently plays for the Atlanta Hawks, former First-Team All-American, 2017-18 NCAA scoring and assists leader

References

External links
Norman North Home Page

Public high schools in Oklahoma
Educational institutions established in 1997
Buildings and structures in Norman, Oklahoma
Schools in Cleveland County, Oklahoma
1997 establishments in Oklahoma