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War on Palestinian rights: Become a contributor to help the IPSC's work for justice
After fifty years of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the situation for the Palestinian people has never been as bad. At least 60 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces since the start of this year, many of them extra-judicially executed or shot during protests. Thousands have been injured. Hundreds of Palestinians, including children, have been imprisoned and likely tortured. Military raids on Palestinian communities occur every day and night, as do attacks by illegal Israeli settlers.
People in Gaza are facing into another winter under Israel's cruel and illegal siege living, while fishermen and farmers trying to eke out a living are being shot and harassed by the Israeli military. In August a UN report stated that "with electricity at only 2 hours a day and youth unemployment at 60%, the 'unliveability' threshold has been passed".
Millions of Palestinian refugees – denied their UN mandated right of return by the Israeli state – continue to carve out an precarious existence in refugee camps in the Middle East. The civil war in Syria, has seen many become refugees for a second, and sometimes even a third, time.
The Israeli state is not just waging a war against the people of Palestine; since last year Israel and its allies' attacks on Palestinian solidarity organisations have ramped up, with millions of dollars being pumped into sabotaging and shutting down the debate on Palestine and the struggle for Palestinian rights. In Ireland this has seen the Bank of Ireland unilaterally close the accounts of the IPSC (something we still haven't received any explanation for), thus-far unsuccessful attempts by Israel lobby groups to shut down the space for academic debate, highly personalised and scurrilous attacks and smears on activists, and most recently the deportation by Israel of four Irish human rights activists on their way to visit occupied Palestine (not the first Irish activists to been subject to such deportations).
Despite all this Western governments, including our own, refuse to take action, and mainstream media outlets remain mostly silent. Israel is not held to account for its violations of international law and crimes against the Palestinian people. This impunity ensures that this appalling situation will continue.
The IPSC is proud to be part of the global, Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to end Israel's impunity and help ensure justice for Palestine. Dr. Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS movement in Palestine has said that "the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is doing excellent work". But we need your help to continue this work!
The IPSC receives no state or corporate funding, we are an organisation that relies 100% on the generosity of our supporters, and without such support we cannot continue to exist.
For this reason we are appealing to our supporters to become regular contributor-members by donating on a monthly basis, via Bank Standing Order or PayPal. If just 100 of you donated €5 per month we could raise an extra €6,000 per year – allowing us to continue with our work in raising awareness about the situation in Palestine, promoting BDS, and crucially, being a part of the struggle against Israeli apartheid and for freedom, justice, equality and peace for the people of Palestine.
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We would also like to thank all those people who are already contributing on a regular basis; your ongoing support is greatly appreciated and has enabled us to carry out so much down the years – including the massive 'Freedom & Justice for Palestine' demonstration last June, David Cronin's book tour next month, and our plan for a huge weekend conference on Palestinian Freedom next May to mark 70 years since the Nakba.
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Hopefully you will never have need to. However, chances are that at some point during your time in Spain you will be unhappy with some aspect of service, some goods you have bought or perhaps will be at the receiving end of a criminal offence.
The good news is that the routes for complaint are quite clear here. If you have a complaint about a business or retail premises then you can ask to complete their 'hoja de reclamaciones'. If it is a more serious complaint that may require the attention of the police, you should make a denuncia.
Hoja de reclamaciones
You're in a shop or a restaurant and feel that you just haven't received the service or the goods that you expected. You've made your views clear and it doesn't look like your concerns are about to be met any time soon. What can you do next?
Every business must keep a 'hoja de reclamaciones' or customer complaint form as a legal requirement.
Each form has three pages:
A top (white) copy which is the original
A middle (green) copy which is for the consumer
A bottom (pink) copy which stays where it is
In some cases, just asking for this will see your complaint cleared up without having to go through the process.
If it doesn't then you should enter in the hoja:
A straight forward account of the cause of the complaint and how you would like it to be resolved e.g. refund, exchange or repair
The date and time
Personal details so that someone will be able to get in touch with you
Of course, there are two sides to every story and the business will complete their version of events on the form as well. Once you have completed it then you should sign and attach to it any other evidence that might be needed such as the receipt.
You should now take the green form with the original to the consumer's office. In most areas this can be found at the Oficinas Municipales de Información al Consumidor or the town hall.
The form will be stamped to acknowledge when and where you brought it in and you will be given a copy. Then you must wait patiently to hear from them. It won't be an immediate response and you must expect to wait between two weeks to four months, but they will respond.
If your complaint lies with a larger organisation such as Iberdrola, a bank or an insurance provider you should take your complaint to their customer complaint section first.
A denuncia
If your complaint is a more serious one and you feel that a crime has been committed then it is the police who will need to deal with it. You will need to attend the local police station or Guardia Civil station and take a translator with you if you do not speak fluent Spanish.
You should also take:
NIE (foreigner's identification number)
Spanish residency form (if you have one)
Any documentation, photographs or details of witnesses who could support your complaint
You are always better in Spain to take more than what you think you need rather than less. If you have had items stolen take any details you have of make/ cost and ideally photos if you have taken these as a precautionary measure.
When you arrive at the police station you will need to wait your turn. In busy holiday periods this can be quite a long time and you should go prepared. Eventually you will be ushered into a room and will make your report.
If someone has made a denuncia against you then the process will happen in reverse and you will be asked to attend the police station to make a statement. Prior to this you can make a denuncia yourself with your own version of events if you would prefer.
An alternative way of making your denuncia is through calling the 'servicio de Denuncias Telefónicas para Turistas Extranjeros' on 902 102 112. This service covers the language of English, French, German and Italian. Not all denuncias can be made this way but it is an alternative if you have been subject to a theft but haven't been personally attacked. You must, however, still attend a police station in order to sign the form.
Both the systems here are have been in operation for many years and provide a tried and trusted means of recording your concerns. With this record in place, decisions will be made about any action that needs to be taken. At this point you've handed over the information and now it is down to them.
http://www.policia.es/denunweb/den_tel_es.html
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Biden demonstrates his total ignorance again on "Jim Crow" history
He's launched an ignorant and incendiary attack on the new Georgia voting law.
By Bob Miller	 Last updated Apr 3, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 13: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks after receiving the Green Jobs Champion Award during the Good Jobs Green Jobs National Conference at the Washington Hilton April 13, 2015 in Washington, DC. Sponsored by a varied coalition including lightweight metals producer Alcoa, the United Steelworks union, the Sierra Club and various other labor, industry and telecommunications leaders, the conference promotes the use of efficient and renewable energy and cooperation in updating the country's energy infrastructure. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
President Joe Biden is so uncommitted to bipartisan cooperation and fact-based governance that he's launched an ignorant and incendiary attack on the new Georgia voting law.
Biden says the new law is "Jim Crow in the 21st century" and "an un-American law to deny people the right to vote."
It's now practically mandatory for Democrats to launch such unhinged broadsides. Elizabeth Warren, accusing Georgia governor Brian Kemp of having stolen his 2018 election victory over Democratic activist Stacey Abrams (a poisonous myth), tweeted, "The Republican who is sitting in Stacey Abrams' chair just signed a despicable voter suppression bill into law to take Georgia back to Jim Crow."
Anyone making this charge in good faith either doesn't understand Jim Crow's hideousness or the Georgia law provisions.
The old Jim Crow was billy clubs and fire hoses; the alleged new Jim Crow is asking people to write a driver's license number on their absentee-ballot envelopes.
The old Jim Crow was poll taxes; the new Jim Crow is expanding weekend voting.
The old Jim Crow disenfranchised voters en masse based on their race; the new Jim Crow is limiting ballot drop boxes to places they can't be tampered with.
It's hard to believe that one actual voter will be kept from voting by the new rules.
To better ensure security, the law requires that voters provide a driver's license or state ID number to apply for a ballot and one of those numbers (or the last four digits of a Social Security number) when returning the ballot.
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Christopher Neill
Affiliated Investigator
Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center
Consortium Institution:
Marine Biological Laboratory
B.S.: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1980
M.S.: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, 1988
Ph.D.: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, 1992
http://www.mbl.edu/ecosystems/staff/neill/
Fulbright Scholar, University of São Paulo, 2007
Director, Environmental Section of the Logan Science Journalism Program, Marine Biological Laboratory, 2001 to present
Director, Brown-MBL Partnership and Brown-MBL Joint Graduate Program, 2010 to present
Senior Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, 2010 to present
Bullard Fellow, Harvard Forest, Harvard University, 2010
Insights into the long-term physical controls on estuarine food webs and implications for future change
Interactions between climate change and beavers in coastal streams
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Neill, C., Jankowski KJ., Brando P. M., COE MICHAEL. T., Deegan L. A., Macedo M. N., et al. (2017). Surprisingly Modest Water Quality Impacts From Expansion and Intensification of Large-Sscale Commercial Agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon-Cerrado Region. Tropical Conservation Science. 10, 194008291772066.
Neill, C., & Deegan L. (2015). Analysis of Sea Level Rise and Mitigation Potential at the at the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge and Surrounding Region.
Raciti, S. M., Fahey T. J., R. Thomas Q., Woodbury P. B., Driscoll C. T., Carranti F. J., et al. (2012). Local-Scale Carbon Budgets and Mitigation Opportunities for the Northeastern United States. BioScience. 62, 23 - 38.
HAYHOE, SHELBY. J., Neill C., PORDER STEPHEN., MCHORNEY RICHARD., LEFEBVRE PAUL., COE MICHAEL. T., et al. (2011). Conversion to soy on the Amazonian agricultural frontier increases streamflow without affecting stormflow dynamics. Global Change Biology. 17, 1821 - 1833.
Neu, V., Neill C., & Krusche A. V. (2011). Gaseous and fluvial carbon export from an Amazon forest watershed. Biogeochemistry.
Neill, C., Chaves J. E., Biggs T., Deegan L. A., Elsenbeer H., Figueiredo R. O., et al. (2011). Runoff sources and land cover change in the Amazon: an end-member mixing analysis from small watersheds. Biogeochemistry.
Deegan, L. A., Neill C., Haupert C. L., M. Ballester V. R., Krusche A. V., Victoria R. L., et al. (2010). Amazon deforestation alters small stream structure, nitrogen biogeochemistry and connectivity to larger rivers. Biogeochemistry.
Germer, S., Neill C., Krusche A. V., & Elsenbeer H. (2010). Influence of land-use change on near-surface hydrological processes: Undisturbed forest to pasture. Journal of Hydrology. 380, 473 - 480.
Neill, C., Bezerra M. Ometto, MCHORNEY RICHARD., & O'Dea C. B. (2009). Distribution, species composition and management implications of seed banks in southern New England coastal plain ponds. Biological Conservation. 142, 1350 - 1361.
Kniffin, M., Neill C., MCHORNEY RICHARD., & Gregory G. (2009). Nutrient Limitation of Periphyton and Phytoplankton in Cape Cod Coastal Plain Ponds. Northeastern Naturalist. 16, 395 - 408.
MCHORNEY, RICHARD., & Neill C. (2007). Alteration of water levels in a Massachusetts coastal plain pond subject to municipal ground-water withdrawals. Wetlands. 27, 366 - 380.
Neill, C. (2007). The challenge of managing disturbance regimes, terrestrial communities and rare species in a suburbanizing region: The northeastern US coastal sandplain. Biological Conservation. 136, 1 - 3.
Neill, C., Von Holle B., Kleese K., Ivy K. D., Colllins A. R., Treat C., et al. (2007). Historical influences on the vegetation and soils of the Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts coastal sandplain: Implications for conservation and restoration. Biological Conservation. 136, 17 - 32.
Neill, C., Patterson W. A., & Crary D. W. (2007). Responses of soil carbon, nitrogen and cations to the frequency and seasonality of prescribed burning in a Cape Cod oak-pine forest. Forest Ecology and Management. 250, 234 - 243.
Lezberg, A. L., Buresch K., Neill C., & Chase T. (2006). Mechanical Land Clearing to Promote Establishment of Coastal Sandplain Grassland and Shrubland Communities. Restoration Ecology. 14, 220 - 232.
G. Peterson, G., & Neill C. (2003). Using Soil 13C to Detect the Historic Presence of Schizachyrium scoparium (Little Bluestem) Grasslands on Martha's Vineyard. Restoration Ecology. 11, 116 - 122.
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exhibit A. a racist. you're also quite ignorant you know.
now we're getting somewhere. attraction is def not just based on looks but behavior and stuff and culture, which is true. If you dont like the act, that can really put you off someone, and you're right about that then. I can see what you mean. I find black women attractive but avoid certain types if ygm, even white girls who act like a certain way. but if you're just swearing that they're all ugly, control that mate. they are not just their skin colour, there's facial features that they share with other races who you'd find attractive. some things are selective blindness, and that's racist if you cant even admit she's got a pretty face or a nice smile or something.
now we're getting somewhere. attraction is def not just based on looks but behavior and stuff and culture, which is true. If you dont like the act, that can really put you off someone, and you're right about that then. I can see what you mean. I find black women attractive but avoid certain types if ygm, even white girls who act like a certain way. but if you're just swearing that they're all ugly, control that mate. they are not just their skin colour, there's facial features that they share with other races who you'd find attractive. some things are selective blindness, and that's racist.
Not racist, more of a preference. I have this kind of conversation always at school, people just can't control who they are attracted to.
Yes, blonde whites is the most common answer I get. I personally am not attracted to them, that does not mean I hate blonde people as I still interact with them.
Just proves the truth of the statement "till death do we part" True love isn't true, and love isn't forever.
All of the foregoing examples are of black people, inasmuch as 'black' represents a continuum. Conversely, the term 'black' is not conventionally applied in relation to South Asians of similar melanic expression to classical Africans.
Thus: what approximate degree of melanin concentration or pigmentation specifically do you find unappealing?
relax, i bet you he's not even white! i get desperate self-hater vibes.
****ing knew it! jog on. to therapy perhaps.
you dint have to rephrase mate that's exactly what i said, you'd get with a white girl even if she's not fit or if she's straight up butters. you just really want a white girl. idk why you struggle with your features so much, its certainly something west africans and west indians and african americans dont do as much as other africans and black hispanics. get it together lil bro.
Black people don't all share a single phenotype with respect to noses or hair, much less a particular mode of behaviour. Dark-skinned people do, however, all exhibit the property of dark skin.
Perhaps if you were capable of expressing yourself more coherently—i.e. 'I am not attracted to dark skin' or 'I am not attracted to urban black culture'—rather than conflating skin-colour with culture or ethnicity and then proceeding to extrapolate wildly from that given, limited subset of incidentally dark-skinned people to 'all black people' by association, you wouldn't find yourself in such an absurdly self-defeating predicament on the internet.
idk how my fudging body works my guy, like for some reason i dont find asians/black attractive. idrc if shes fit or not, just is shes cute or na. i wouldnt go for any white person i see..
im sure some asian and black guys feel this way, just search white girls and loads will come up.
h its certainly something west africans and west indians and african americans dont do as much as other africans and black hispanics.
By the definition of racism, yes not being attracted to a specific race is inherently racist. However, it is down to your moral compass to decide whether that is an acceptable form of racism.
lol what country are u from?? i have loads of british-west african mates nowadays.


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Listed below are the names of the men who reached the rank of Admiral between the years of 1904 and 1945. The ranks listed here are the highest recorded for this time period. Those who served beyond 1945 may have ultimately achieved a higher rank than shown here. The list has been compiled primarily from the ADM 196 series of documents which The National Archives has kindly allowed me to access. I am still in the process of completing the four rank lists so, if there is someone you expect to see here but don't, you may find them on one of the other rank pages which you can access from 'Flag Officers' on the menu bar above. Also, as I complete the lists, someone who used to be here may no longer be listed having been transferred to one of the other ranks as further information about the highest rank they held came to light.
The rank flags in the columns to the right indicate the extent of information available on each individual. At this stage only basic information is available on most officers. I do have images of the Service Records and Captain's Confidential Reports for the majority of officers now so, if there is someone you are particularly interested in for whom only basic information is held on site do please contact me.
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Cunningham, Admiral Sir John Henry Dacres, G.C.B., M.V.O.
Fitzgerald-Purefoy, Admiral Richard, C.B.E., M.V.O.
Fitzherbert, Admiral Sir Herbert, K.C.I.E., C.B.
Foot, Admiral Cunningham Robert deClare, C.B.E.
Foote, Admiral Sir Randolph Frank Ollive, K.C.B., C.M.G.
Ford, Admiral Sir Wilbraham Tennyson Randle, K.C.B., K.B.E.
Freemantle, Admiral The Honourable Sir Edmund Robert, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., C.M.G.
Freemantle, Admiral Sir Sydney Robert, G.C.B.
French, Admiral Sir Wilfred Frankland, K.C.B., C.M.G.
Fuller, Admiral Sir Cyril Thomas Moulden, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
Fullerton, Admiral Sir Eric John Arthur, K.C.B., D.S.O., M.A.
Gaunt, Admiral Sir Ernest Frederic Augustus, K.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G.
Gaunt, Admiral Sir Guy Reginald Archer, K.C.M.G., C.B.
Giffard, Admiral Sir George Augustus, C.M.G.
Gilbert, Admiral Thomas Drummond, C.B.
Gillett, Admiral Owen Francis, C.B.
Gilpin-Brown, Admiral Frederick Dundas, C.B.E.
Glennie, Admiral Sir Irvine Gordon, K.C.B.
Godfrey, Admiral John Henry, C.B.
Goodenough, Admiral Sir William Edmund, K.C.B.
Grace, Admiral Henry Edgar, C.B.
Grant, Admiral Sir Edmund Percy Fenwick George, K.C.V.IO., C.B.
Grant, Admiral Sir Heathcote Salisbury, K.C.M.G., C.B.
Grant, Admiral Hugh William, C.B.
Grant, Admiral Sir William Lowther, K.C.B.
Greatorex, Admiral Clement, C.B., M.V.O.
Green, Admiral Sir John Frederick Ernest, K.C.M.G., C.B.
Haggard, Admiral Sir Vernon Harry Stuart, K.C.B., C.M.G.
Hall, Admiral Sir Herbert Goodenough King, K.C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O.
Hall, Admiral Sydney Stewart, C.B.
Hall, Admiral Sir William Reginald, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.C.L., M.P.
Halsey, Admiral Sir Lionel, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E., C.B.
Hamilton, Admiral Sir Frederick Tower, G.C.V.O.
Hamilton, Admiral Sir Louis Henry Keppel, K.C.B., D.S.O.
Harcourt, Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson, G.B.E., K.C.B.
Harwood, Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, K.C.B., O.B.E.
Heard, Admiral Hugh Lindsay Patrick, C.B., D.S.O.
Henderson, Admiral George Morris, M.V.O.
Henderson, Admiral Sir Reginald Friend Hannam, G.C.B.
Henderson, Admiral Sir Reginald Guy Hannam, G.C.B.
Henderson, Admiral Sir William Hannam, K.B.E.
Henniker-Haughan, Admiral Sir Arthur John, Bart., C.B.
Hibbert, Admiral Hugh Thomas, C.B.E., D.S.O.
Hickley, Admiral Cecil Spencer, C.B., M.V.O.
Hodges, Admiral Sir Michael Henry, K.C.B., M.V.O.
Hope, Admiral Sir George Price Webley, K.C.B., K.C.M.G.
Hope, Admiral Herbert Willes Webley, C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O.
Hornell, Admiral Robert Arthur, D.S.O.
Hotham, Admiral Sir Alan Geoffrey, K.C.M.G., C.B.
Hunt, Admiral Sir Allen Thomas, K.C.B., C.S.I.
Hutchison, Admiral John de Metre, C.M.G., C.V.O.
Jackson, Admiral Thomas, K.B.E., C.B., M.V.O.
James, Admiral Sir William Milbourne, G.C.B.
Jeffreys, Admiral Edmund Frederick, C.V.O.
Johnson, Admiral Charles Duncan, C.B., M.V.O.
Keighly-Peach, Admiral Charles William, D.S.O.
Kelly, Admiral Sir William Archibald Howard, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G.
Kemp, Admiral Thomas Webster, C.I.E., C.M.G.
Kennedy, Admiral Francis William, C.B.
Kennedy-Purvis, Admiral Sir Charles Edward, G.B.E., K.C.B.
Keppel, Admiral Sir Colin Richard, G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E., C.B., D.S.O.
Kerr, Admiral Mark Edward Frederic, C.B., M.V.O.
Kerr, Admiral William Munro, K.B.E., C.B.
Kinahan, Admiral Harold Richard George, K.B.E., C.B.
King, Admiral Sir Edward Leigh Stuart, C.B., M.V.O.
King-Hall, Admiral Sir George Fowler, K.C.B., C.V.O.
Kiddle, Admiral Sir Edward Buxton, K.B.E., C.B.
Larken, Admiral Sir Frank, K.C.B., C.M.G.
Laurence, Admiral Sir Noel Frank, K.C.B., D.S.O.
Layton, Admiral Sir Geoffrey,K.C.B, K.C.M.G., D.S.O.
Learmouth, Admiral Sir Frederick Charles, K.B.E., C.B.
Leatham, Admiral Sir Ralph, K.C.B.
Leveson, Admiral Sir Arthur Cavenagh, G.C.B.
Ley, Admiral James Clement, C.B., C.V.O.
Limpus, Admiral Sir Arthur Henry, K.C.M.G., C.B.
Little, Admiral Sir Charles James Colebrooke, G.C.B., G.B.E.
Lowry, Admiral Sir Robert Swinbourne, K.C.B.
Luard, Admiral John Scott, C.B.
Lyon, Admiral Sir George Hamilton D'Oyly, K.C.B.
Markham, Admiral Sir Albert Hastings, K.C.B.
Marx, Admiral John Locke, C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O.
Mawby, Admiral Henry Lancelot, C.B., C.V.O.
Meade-Featherstonhaugh, Admiral The Honourable Sir Herbert, K.C.V.O., C.B., D.S.O.
Meyrick, Admiral Sir Sidney Julius, K.C.B.
Miles, Admiral Sir Geoffrey John Audley, K.C.B., K.C.S.I.
Milne, Admiral Sir Archibald Berkley, Bt.
Mitchell, Admiral Francis Herbert, C.B., D.S.O.
Moody, Admiral Sir Clement, K.C.B.
Moore, Admiral Sir Archibald Gordon Henry Wilson, K.C.B., C.V.O.
Moore, Admiral Sir Arthur William, G.C.B., G.C.V.O.
Morgan, Admiral Sir Llewellyn Vaughan, K.B.E., C.B., M.V.O., D.S.C.
Mundy, Admiral Godfrey Harry Brydges, C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O.
Napier, Admiral Charles Lionel, C.B.
Napier, Admiral William Rawdon, C.B., C.M.G.
Nicholson, Admiral Sir Douglas Romilly Lothian, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.
Nicholson, Admiral Randolph Stewart Gresham, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., D.S.C.
Nicholson, Admiral Sir William Coldingham Masters. K.C.B.
Nicholson, Admiral Wilmot Stuart, C.B.
Noble, Admiral Sir Percy Lockhart Harnam, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.V.O.
Norris, Admiral David Thomas, C.B., C.M.G.
North, Admiral Sir Dudley Burton Napier, G.C.V.O., C.B., C.S.I., C.M.G.
Pakenham, Admiral Sir William Christopher, K.C.B., M.V.O.
Palmer, Admiral Norman Craig, C.V.O.
Parker, Admiral Edmond Hyde, C.B.
Parker, Admiral Henry Wise, C.B., C.M.G.
Parry, Admiral Sir John Franklin, K.C.B.
Parry, Admiral Sir William Edward, K.C.B.
Paton, Admiral William Douglas, C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O.
Payne, Admiral Sir Christopher Russell, K.B.E., C.B.
Pelly, Admiral Sir Henry Bertram, K.C.V.O., C.B.
Phillimore, Admiral Sir Richard Fortescue, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.V.O.
Philpotts, Vice-Admiral Edward Montgomery, C.B.
Plunkett-Ernle-Earl-Drax, Admiral The Honourable Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurley, K.C.B., D.S.O.
Poore, Admiral Sir Richard, Bart., K.C.B., C.V.O.
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Prendergast, Admiral Sir Robert John, K.C.B.
Preston, Admiral Sir Lionel George, K.C.B.
Pridham-Wippell, Admiral Sir Henry Daniel, K.C.B., C.V.O.
Raikes, Admiral Sir Robert Harry Taunton, K.C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O.
Ramsay, Admiral The Honourable Sir Alexander Robert Maule, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., D.S.O.
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Ramsey, Admiral Sir Charles Gordon, K.C.B.
Rawson, Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.
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Where to Shop – Celebrating the Holidays in Dartmouth, c. 1973
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The History of Spanish Influenza in Halifax
by LocalHistory September 14, 2018
By Aaron, staff member, Halifax Central Library
How to Dodge "Flu"
By the end of Summer 1918, Halifax and Dartmouth were still rebuilding after the deadly Halifax Explosion that claimed nearly 2,000 lives and devastated both communities. In all appearances, the First World War was slowly drawing to a close, but this bustling military port on the East Coast was still busy with comings and goings of maritime traffic. Little did anyone foresee the arrival of a deadly illness that would kill more than 50,000 people across Canada before the end of the decade and shut down much of public life in Halifax and Dartmouth for the entire month of October.
Deadly traveler
According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, opens a new window, the pandemic known as the "Spanish Flu" developed first in Asia, but outbreaks at military bases in the USA, Spain, and war-torn Europe caught the public's attention in the spring of 1918. As a particularly strong viral infection, the Spanish Flu did not discriminate between the old and the young. A healthy adult would die within 48 hours once the infection swiftly became bacterial pneumonia, and with no antibiotics or vaccines available, there wasn't much that could be done.
A glimpse into the past
An interesting way of exploring how the Spanish Flu arrived in Nova Scotia is to look at the local daily newspapers, like the Halifax Evening Mail, available at Halifax Central Library's Local History Room. While news of the pandemic trickled in from Boston, on September 21, a report from "An Atlantic Port", (Sydney, Nova Scotia) raised the alarm province-wide that over 500 American soldiers had arrived sick and were in need of hospitalization. Over the next 2 months, cities like Sydney, Halifax, and Dartmouth rushed to control both the spread of the disease, and to provide proper care for the victims.
Featured daily in the newspapers were some of the following efforts:
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Halifax and Dartmouth's Boards of Health ordered all public gathering places, including churches, theatres, schools, and restaurants to reduce open hours or to close completely. This cautionary measure provoked anger from business owners, and discontent from late-night industrial workers.
On the flip side, some businesses saw opportunity. One men's clothing stores advertised their products would help avoid the influenza by keeping you warm and dry. Unproven "miracle cures" like drinking pasteurized milk from sterilized bottles and caps as a resistance against the flu were advertised.
The general public even had their own ideas on how to stop the spread of disease, including burning sulphur on street corners.
Boston and the State of Massachusetts suffered greatly from the pandemic. Less than a year after the Halifax Explosion, Halifax repaid Boston in kind by sending available local doctors and nurses to help. Samuel W. McCall, Governor of Massachusetts, sent a telegram offering thanks for the assistance: "This act of yours typifies the spirit of Halifax and Nova Scotia and serves to bind together with closer ties this commonwealth and your province."
As the Spanish flu spread, newspapers published daily reports, listing new cases, infected occupant addresses, and sadly, deaths. Both Dartmouth and Halifax opened hospital beds at the quarantine facility on Lawlor's Island, the Cogswell Street Military Station Hospital, unused wards in Victoria General Hospital, and at Greenvale School, but they also quickly built a facility in Willow Park. Funerals had to be performed quickly, with no public attendance.
By the end of October, the number of cases had peaked and then just as quickly, the pandemic seemed over and both cities began to return to normal. However, walking through Halifax and Dartmouth, it must have felt like a weary, strange place; twin cities recovering from the Explosion, enduring the fourth and final year of a world war, and now struggling to contain a fast-striking disease. On November 5, all public health restrictions were lifted and life began to return to normal, just in time to celebrate the end of World War One on November 11, 1918.
Of course, there's so much more to the Spanish Flu story in Nova Scotia.
Some other sources to explore:
Central Library's Local History Room has a clipping file called "Public Health (Diseases)" where you will find over one hundred newspaper clippings from the Halifax Evening Mail.
"The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: The Nova Scotia Experience" in the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia's newsletter, The Griffin (September 2009, Volume 34, No.3, pp. 9, 22).
"Home Sick", by Paul A Erickson in Canada's History (April-May, 2011, pp. 50-51).
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Q: Pythagorean theorem The Pythagorean theorem is typically written as
$a^2 + b^2 = c^2$
where $a$ and $b$ are the two shorter sides (legs) of a right triangle and $c$ is its longest side (the hypotenuse).
Given the exponent powers $c^{2\, \times\, 1/2} = c$, why cant I express "$a = c - b$".
The correct answer given was $\sqrt{c^2 - b^2}$

A: You need to think more carefully about what is going on.
Note that $$25=9+16 \text { or } 3^2+4^2=5^2$$ but it is not true that $$3=5-4$$ instead it is true that $$3=\sqrt{3^2}=\sqrt {5^2-4^2}$$ Using very simple examples as a check can help you to avoid mistakes, and also to see where the mistake is. But don't rely on them to replace formal arguments - sometimes simple cases miss the point.

A: That is because $\sqrt{c^2-b^2}$ is not in general equal to $c-b$.
If you are raising things to a power, in general you can't do it term by term (just try some explicit examples to see why this is).
In that particular case you can either write $a^2 = c^2-b^2$ or $a = \sqrt{c^2-b^2}$.

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Brenda Schoonover papers, 1994-2008 2.1 Linear Feet — 1000 Items
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Brenda Schoonover was the former ambassador to Togo (1998-2000) and the interim ambassador to Belgium (2003-2004). Accession (2009-0259) (1000 items; 2.1 lin. ft.; 1994-2008) consists largely of speech files and other items created by Schoonover during the latter part of her career in the U.S. Foreign Service, including her ambassadorship to Togo, her time as Diplomat-in-Residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her subsequent post as Charge d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Belgium, where she became interim ambassador in 2003. Speech topics range from international diplomacy, the Peace Corps, September 11th, trade, foreign relations, and West Africa development. Also included are media articles, the majority from Belgium newspapers in 2003-2004; miscellaneous photographs and letters; and numerous videocassettes documenting ceremonies and programs during her time in Togo. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
This collection is divided into 4 series: Speeches and writings, Media coverage, Miscellaneous materials, and Videotapes. The materials all date from the latter part of Schoonover's career, especially focusing on her time at UNC Chapel Hill and at the American Embassy in Belgium.
The majority of this collection consists of the texts of speeches, public remarks, and presentations made by Schoonover, beginning in 1997 with a few items from her Senior Seminar studies in Washington, D.C. Materials from her years in Togo are fairly light, with only a few embassy speeches. Her time as Diplomat-in-Residence at Chapel Hill and as Charge d'Affaires at the Belgium Embassy are strongly represented, with a variety of speeches discussing her Togo ambassadorship, conditions in West Africa, terrorism (both the Kenyan embassy bombings and September 11th), trade missions, and her Peace Corps experiences. Her remarks also reference her embassy activities in Belgium, both as Deputy Chief of Mission and interim ambassador. Audiences include Fulbright recipients and committees, the American-Belgium Association, schools and students, and businessmen. There are special speeches for Armistace Day and Flanders Field, as well as the Marine Corps anniversary celebration.
Videotapes make up another significant portion of the collection, and the majority deal with Schoonover's ambassadorship in Togo. Most appear to be recordings of her participation in ceremonies and events, including her presentation of credentials, receptions, interviews, and press conferences.
The media coverage of Schoonover covers her time in Togo, Chapel Hill, and Belgium, with the majority of the materials being from Belgian coverage of her interim ambassadorship.
The miscellaneous materials series includes official portraits, photographs, and certificates of Schoonover in various events and ceremonies; a booklet that she wrote about her aunt's life in 2008; and miscellaneous letters and brochures, dating from 1994-2004.
Duke University/University of North Carolina Center for Research on Women records, 1982 - 1992 30.5 Linear Feet — 20,500 Items
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The Duke-UNC Center for Research on Women was founded in 1982 as a collaborative endeavor between Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to promote Women's Studies scholarship, research, and curriculum development in the South. The project was originally named the Duke-UNC Women's Studies Research Center, but changed its name to the Duke-UNC Center for Research on Women in 1987. The Center operated with support from the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, smaller grants from local foundations, and institutional backing from Duke and UNC. The records contain correspondence, reports, grant documents, audiotapes, a videotape, and other materials relating to the Center for Research on Women. Major subjects include women's studies curriculum development and research, pay equity, and the relationships between race, class, and gender. Materials range in date from 1982 to 1992. English.
The records of the Duke University/University of North Carolina Center for Research on Women contain correspondence, reports, grant documents, audiotapes, a videotape, and other materials relating to the Center for Research on Women. Major subjects include women's studies curriculum development and research, pay equity, and the relationships between race, class, and gender. Materials range in date from 1982 to 1992.
Some of the materials in this collection are not immediately accessible because they require further processing before use. Please contact the University Archives before visiting to use this collection.
George Wesley Johnson papers, 1829-1939 10 Linear Feet — 7 boxes, 2,620 items and 77 vols.
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Correspondence, daybooks, in the early 1840s, ledgers, notebooks, accounts, bills, receipts, orders, promissory notes, postal records, and other papers (chiefly 1831-1888) of George Wesley Johnson and of his family. The material pertains to Tennessee agriculture, purchases of goods in Philadelphia and other northern cities before and after the Civil War, Wake Forest College, the University of North Carolina, Greensboro Female College, economic conditions after the Civil War, and the mercantile activities of the Johnsons.
This collection contains business and family papers of George W. Johnson, postmaster, justice of the peace, general merchant, and farmer; of his brother and business partner, James M. Johnson; of George W. Johnson's son, Francis Marion Johnson; and of other members of the family.
The collection contains letters to George W. Johnson from friends in Tennessee relative to agricultural and economic conditions there, 1838-1844; letters between George W. and James M. Johnson while one or the other bought goods in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before the Civil War; bills, accounts, receipts, orders, promissory notes, and letters of a business nature, including occasional reference to another brother of George W. Johnson, Hiram, who had a financial interest in the mercantile establishment; numerous letters from George W. Johnson, his wife, Martha Johnson, and friends, including one at Wake Forest College, North Carolina, to Francis Marion Johnson while the latter was a student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1855-1858; letters, 1858-1861, from another brother of George W. Johnson, J. H. Johnson, who-was operating a store at East Bend in Yadkin County, North Carolina, as well as references to the debt of Olin High School, North Carolina, notices of meetings of Mocksville Lodge No. 134, letters to Martha Johnson from her daughter, Jennie, while a student at Greensboro Female College, North Carolina, 1857-1859, prices of foods and general commodities, letters from Eagle Mills, Buffalo Paper Mills, and W. Turner's cotton mill at Turnersburg, North Carolina, and bills of lading for various commodities.
Material during the Civil War period is limited to a few letters in 1863 from W. G. Johnson (younger brother of George W. Johnson) near Kinston, North Carolina; tax in kind returns and a petition from Francis Marion Johnson asking for military exemption on the basis of operating a grist mill. Postwar material consists largely of mercantile records of the Farmington store showing that goods were purchased from wholesale firms in New York City; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Richmond and Lynchburg, Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; and Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Wilmington, and Salisbury, North Carolina.
Volumes consist of small notebooks, recording goods bought by George W. Johnson; daybooks; ledgers; postal records of the Farmington, North Carolina, post office, 1838-1856, including postage books, newspaper postage books, and receipt books for registered letters; blacksmith accounts; itinerary of a journey made by George W. Johnson, S. Taylor, and D. N. Reynolds through North Carolina and Tennessee in 1836; minutes of the Farmington Lodge No. 46 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and the Davie County Division of the Sons of Temperance. Included also are a few business letters from Nathaniel Boyden and Son, and a letter to Francis M. Johnson from a friend in Norfolk, Virginia, describing a typhoid epidemic in 1855.
Rainbow Triangle Oral History Collection, 1997-2006 4 Linear Feet
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The Rainbow Triangle Oral History Project was originally conceived in 1996 as a way to document the lives of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) people in the Triangle region in particular and central North Carolina in general. Ian Lekus became the Project Coordinator in 1996 and worked with a varying group of volunteers to acquire resources, conduct interviews, and ensure the preservation and access of the oral histories collected. More than 60 interviews were conducted between 1999 and 2004. The Rainbow Triangle Oral History Collection includes original oral history recordings, transcripts, biographical information on narrators, newsclippings, correspondence, and research materials.
The Rainbow Triangle Oral History Collection includes original oral history recordings, transcripts, biographical information on narrators, newsclippings, correspondence, and research materials. Oral history interviews are primarily sound recordings, covering a wide range of topics including the narrators' early lives, families and family relationships, education, social life, experience of their own sexual identity, experience in or work with the LGBT community (in the Triangle and elsewhere), activism, working lives, romantic partners, professional activities, and many other topics. Original recordings are primarily on audiocassette tapes. About half of the oral histories also include printed transcripts. A few oral histories also include additional biographical information about the narrator, much of it included on an information sheet created by the Rainbow Triangle project, but sometimes also including additional material such as news articles, correspondence, flyers, and other items. Also included are materials related to the planning and development of the project, including correspondence, drafts, notes, and background research into LGBT life in the Triangle and oral history as a documentary form, as well as several years worth of the Pink Triangle issue of the local Independent Weekly.
Romeo Guest papers, 1925-1987 and undated 21.4 Linear Feet
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Greensboro, North Carolina developer and construction company executive; originator of the concept and name for Research Triangle Park. The Romeo Guest Papers span the dates 1925-1987 with the bulk of the collection dated 1950-1986 and consists of correspondence, business records, clippings and printed material, and plans documenting the development of Research Triangle Park from conceptualization and groundbreaking through periods of growth and success in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection is organized into series for Appointment Books, a Condensed File of key events, Chronological Files, Corporate Files, Manuscript Material, People, Pinelands Company Files, Printed Material, and Audiocassettes. The Appointment Books Series houses Guest's annual schedules for the bulk of his professional life, consisting chiefly of notes on appointments but also containing ideas and thoughts as they occured to him. The Condensed File Series contains files on important events in the development of the "Research Triangle" and individuals instrumental in the bringing that vision to fruition. These people include Guest, business investor Karl Robbins, William Newell, Gordon Gray, and NC governor Luther Hodges. More detailed files on events and people described in the Condensed File can be found in the Chronological Files Series. These document the coordination efforts between the three major research universities in the area, private corporate interests, and the North Carolina state government. The Corporate Files Series contains files related to Guest's construction company, C.M. Guest and Sons, including some files on Research Triangle projects as well as other construction works in North and South Carolina. A series for Manuscript Material houses drafts and notes of Guest's unpublished history of the inception of Research Triangle Park. The People Series houses additional files on people of interest to Guest, including some involved in the success of the Research Triangle as well as research work on Guest and the Research Triangle. The Pinelands Company Files Series contains files documenting the work of the company created to acquire and develop land for Research Triangle Park. A series of additional Printed Material includes newspaper clippings documenting the construction of Research Triangle and the success of companies there as well as publicity for the then-new Research Triangle. The Audiocassettes Series, containing recorded oral histories and interviews with important figures associated with the development of the Research Triangle, completes the collection.
The Romeo Guest Papers span the dates 1925-1987 with the bulk of the collection dated 1950-1986 and consists of correspondence, business records, clippings and printed material, and plans documenting the development of Research Triangle Park from conceptualization and groundbreaking through periods of growth and success in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection is organized into series for Appointment Books, a Condensed File of key events, Chronological Files, Corporate Files, Manuscript Material, People, Pinelands Company Files, Printed Material, and Audiocassettes. The Appointment Books Series houses Guest's annual schedules for the bulk of his professional life, consisting chiefly of notes on appointments but also containing ideas and thoughts as they occured to him. The Condensed File Series contains files on important events in the development of the "Research Triangle" and individuals instrumental in the bringing that vision to fruition. These people include Guest, business investor Karl Robbins, William Newell, Gordon Gray, and NC governor Luther Hodges. More detailed files on events and people described in the Condensed File can be found in the Chronological Files Series. These document the coordination efforts between the three major research universities in the area, private corporate interests, and the North Carolina state government. The Corporate Files Series contains files related to Guest's construction company, C.M. Guest and Sons, including some files on Research Triangle projects as well as other construction works in North and South Carolina. A series for Manuscript Material houses drafts and notes of Guest's unpublished history of the inception of Research Triangle Park. The People Series houses additional files on people of interest to Guest, including some involved in the success of the Research Triangle as well as research work on Guest and the Research Triangle. The Pinelands Company Files Series contains files documenting the work of the company created to acquire and develop land for Research Triangle Park. A series of additional Printed Material includes newspaper clippings documenting the construction of Research Triangle and the success of companies there as well as publicity for the then-new Research Triangle. The Audiocassettes Series, containing recorded oral histories and interviews with important figures associated with the development of the Research Triangle, completes the collection.
Triangle Universities Computation Center (TUCC) records, 1954-1990 and undated 18.2 Linear Feet — 11,400 Items
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The Triangle Universities Computation Center (TUCC) was incorporated in 1965 as a cooperative venture between Duke University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with the goal of providing main-frame computing services, such as electronic data and batch processing, to the universities, RTI International and others. It dissolved in 1990 due to financial difficulties, the increased use of personal computers, and disagreements among the partners. Materials in the collection include administrative records, correspondence, meeting minutes, financial and statistical reports, memoranda, proposals, newsletters, photographs, slides, a scrapbook, and other materials from the Triangle Universities Computation Center.
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Q: Why does the command transaction.update is executed before the carrelloAttuale.prodotti.add() command I'm trying to get a product from a document form the cloud firestore and then put that product in the shopping cart. When i read (successfully) the product, i try to put it in an arraylist that is declared outside but it doesnt work unless i put final to the variable.
Doing so, when I run the code below, I successfully retrieve the data, but the operation carrelloAttuale.prodotti.add(prod) is executed after the command transaction.update(), so the update doesn't upload nothing different from the start.
//prendo l'utente
                FirebaseAuth auth= FirebaseAuth.getInstance();

                //mi salvo il codice del prodotto scannerizzato
                final String codiceProdottoScannerizzato=String.valueOf(intentData);
                final FirebaseFirestore db = FirebaseFirestore.getInstance();
                final DocumentReference docRef = db.collection("carrelli").document(auth.getUid());
                final DocumentReference docrefprodotti = db.collection("prodotti").document(codiceProdottoScannerizzato);
                db.runTransaction(new Transaction.Function<Void>() {
                    @Override
                    public Void apply(Transaction transaction) throws FirebaseFirestoreException {
                        DocumentSnapshot snapshot = transaction.get(docRef);
                        final Carrello carrelloAttuale = snapshot.toObject(Carrello.class);

                        docrefprodotti.get().addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<DocumentSnapshot>() {
                            @Override
                            public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<DocumentSnapshot> task) {
                                if (task.isSuccessful()) {
                                    DocumentSnapshot document = task.getResult();
                                    if (document.exists()) {
                                        Prodotti prod=document.toObject(Prodotti.class);
                                        prod.id=codiceProdottoScannerizzato;
                                        prod.totalePezziCarrello=1;
                                        carrelloAttuale.prodotti.add(prod);
                                        Log.d(TAG, "PRODOTTO: " + prod.toString());
                                    } else {
                                        Log.d(TAG, "No such document");

                                    }
                                } else {
                                    Log.d(TAG, "get failed with ", task.getException());
                                }
                            }
                        });

                        Log.d(TAG, "CARRELLO FB: " + carrelloAttuale.size());
                        transaction.update(docRef, "prodotti", carrelloAttuale.getProdotti());

                        // Success
                        return null;
                    }
                }).addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<Void>() {
                    @Override
                    public void onSuccess(Void aVoid) {
                        Log.d(TAG, "Transaction success!");
                    }
                })
                        .addOnFailureListener(new OnFailureListener() {
                            @Override
                            public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception e) {
                                Log.w(TAG, "Transaction failure.", e);
                            }
                        });

I expect that the command update is executed after the carrelloAttuale.prodotti.add(prod)
in the debug log the order of tags are:
CARRELLO FB: 0
PRODOTTO: Nome: latte

A: Data is loaded from Firestore asynchronously, since it may have to be retrieved from the server. To prevent blocking the app, the main code continues while the data is being retrieved. Then when the data is available, your onComplete gets called.
This means that any code that needs the data from the data, must be inside the onComplete method, or be called from there. So something like:
docrefprodotti.get().addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<DocumentSnapshot>() {
    @Override
    public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<DocumentSnapshot> task) {
        if (task.isSuccessful()) {
            DocumentSnapshot document = task.getResult();
            if (document.exists()) {
                Prodotti prod=document.toObject(Prodotti.class);
                prod.id=codiceProdottoScannerizzato;
                prod.totalePezziCarrello=1;
                carrelloAttuale.prodotti.add(prod);
                Log.d(TAG, "PRODOTTO: " + prod.toString());
            } else {
                Log.d(TAG, "No such document");

            }
        } else {
            Log.d(TAG, "get failed with ", task.getException());
        }

        Log.d(TAG, "CARRELLO FB: " + carrelloAttuale.size());
        transaction.update(docRef, "prodotti", carrelloAttuale.getProdotti());
    }
});

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*How to return a DocumentSnapShot as a result of a method?

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A: "the command update" is executed before "carrelloAttuale.prodotti.add(prod)" is called because the onComplete() method has an asynchronous behaviour and returns immediately. This means that listener will not get invoked until some time later, after the database update operation is complete. There is no guarantee how long it will take. Depending on your connection speed and the state, it may take from a few hundred milliseconds to a few seconds for the update operation to complete.
If you want to use some logic with that data, you must wait until the asynchronous Firebase database operation is complete. This means that you can only use the prod object inside the listener callback itself.
For more informarions, I recommend you see the last part of my anwser from this post in which I have explained how it can be done using a custom callback. You can also take a look at this video for a better understanding.


Dr. Anita Johnston: What I love about this is it's really taking the idea that your struggles with eating and weight are not just about food and your body, but there's something way bigger going on, way more complex, and in my mind, way more interesting. And understanding this is really the path out. So, what you are saying is that — if you're wanting to move your body, and then you sit down and instead grab the remote for the TV — there's a reason for this..
Dr. Anita Johnston: And a very good reason.
Dr. Anita Johnston: How about the "should"?
Francie White: Right. It's the power of the feminine soul, the unconscious factions, the collective consciousness within women that is in an uproar right now with regard to diet and exercise and body image, because we can think we want one thing on the outside, and it's what the culture tells us is right and good, and then we find ourselves headlong into either rebellious overeating or somehow just being cut off from our very natural, instinctive drive to move our bodies.
Dr. Anita Johnston: How about this, the idea that there's nothing wrong with you? You're not damaged or broken in some way if you can't stick to your exercise regime, but that there are other forces at work in your psyche that are worth finding out about.
Dr. Anita Johnston: That's where it gets really exciting and actually even fun.
Francie White: Yep, and going inside through the process of the transformation from exercise resistance to an embodied relationship to movement is an exciting, incredibly worthwhile journey that people can do in the privacy of their own homes, in groups, in support groups, in workshops, with therapists, you know, indefinitely. That's what we're going to be talking more about.
Dr. Anita Johnston: So join us at the Light of the Moon Café, where we go even deeper into understanding what this is and what's underneath that resistance or that avoidance of claiming your birthright, which is to move your body in joy. Thank you, Francie, for joining us, and we hope to see you next time.


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 Bundesstraße 64, une route fédérale allemande reliant Telgte à Seesen ;
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Join me in making the world a better place.
Scroll down for the Landing Page (aka Table of Contents) for 2018 #Write31Days Series.
Do you ever do special projects for your birthday? I.e. Folks will collect money for a charity or accomplish 30 things by the time they are 30.
I like to do things involving my birthday years.
I read 58 books when I was 58.
I watched 59 musicals when I was 59.
This year I want to do 60 Intentional and/or Random Acts of Kindness (RAK's).
I think it is important to do acts of kindness, intentional and random. These acts cheer up others and sometimes provide some much-needed help. It helps our world to be a nicer place. It helps me to be a nicer person.
RAK's and I have history. These are meaningful actions that make individual and global differences.
I have written several blog posts about them, already.
This year for #Write31Days, I am doing my series on acts of kindness, intentional and random. The title is Scattering Kindness: a 31 Day Adventure.
Doing 31 acts of kindness for this series will help me get half of my birthday list done. And hopefully I will discover that this time of focused energy will make me and my world different.
Below is a brainstormed list of kind acts of service. They are not in any particular order. What should I add to this list? I want to do 60 by the end of March 2019. As I complete and write about an intentional or random act of service, the link will go live.
Your Turn . . . What would you add to this list? . . . What was the last act of kindness, intentional or random, you did? . . . Do you do anything unique to celebrate your birthday? . . . Will you join me in this adventure?
This post is part of #Write31Days where bloggers write every day in October on one topic. I am writing about Acts of Kindness, random and otherwise. By November, it will be interesting to see if I am different and/or my community is different. To see what other bloggers are doing, go here.
Related Posts . . . These are important backbone posts on kindness.
Entry filed under: Main, Random acts of kindness. Tags: #Write31Days 2018, RAKs.
I think it of an Act of Kindness by not always complaining and being negative around friends. You are already super positive, but maybe a No Complaining Day could be considered a RAK?
You have a great list going there. Staying positive isn't always easy but you definitely have a head start. Good luck with the challenge.
I totally love the birthday goal idea. I'm going to be thinking about how I could do that, but I would have to do 65 this year.Guess I better do 66 next year. My time is running out for this year. Your idea for the 31-day Write is awesome. I'll be looking forward to the suggestions you make!
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I loved your list. I can't wait to delve into this series even more.
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I like walking alone from choice. but it's amazing how many people walk alone because they are lonely; don't just pass people by, always say hello, you will often others be pleased and want to chat, and appreciate your time.


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Haven't done a slimline in a very long time. Recently found that the finial appears to be too big for the standard clip - same problem with a music themed clip I tried.
Drilling out the hole in the clip is doable but has anyone else had to do this?
I have had that problem with slims with the rhodium plating. My fix was to drill out the small end of an old cigar center bushing so that it fits over the part of the finial that is pressed into the tube. Put the clip on the finial as far as you can and then use the bushing with your pen press to press it home. Had to do that this morning, as a matter of fact.
Thanks very much - that sounds like a much safer method.
I just use a file on them it didn't take much effort.
Done that as well. However, too time consuming. When this happens, the problem is solved inside a minute.
I just carefully press it on with my pen press. I also use a touch of LockTite blue and these finials.
Thank you all for your input - much appreciated.
I kept a Dremel next to my pen press (actually an arbor press). A few passes on the inside of the ring, top fits great.
Yes, loctite is a good idea on all clips--as they wear they are prone to spinning.
I use a piece of 600 grit sand paper wrapped around a transfer punch and sandy lightly and I always use "blue" Loctite on all parts (finale, clips and nibs) during the assembly regardless of the kit.


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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens [A Review]
A Tale of Two Cities is one of the most widely read novels in history, yet it has a number of qualities at odds with that. It is picaresque and disjointed; it is a 'tale' but a long one; it is historical fiction but avoids a lot of the history and, given its source material, runs several risks of unoriginality. But, in the hands of a master, it becomes a classic.
After 18 years imprisoned in the Bastille, the infamous Paris fortress converted to a prison, Alexandre Manette, a former physician, has been released. The news is shocking to his adult daughter, Lucie, who had long thought him dead. When she is taken to him, she finds him much changed. He is being cared for by a former servant, Defarge, who now owns a wine shop in Paris. The long imprisonment has taken a heavy toll on Manette and the sudden change is especially frightening to him. Confused and afraid, he recognises none of the friendly faces around him and finds comfort only in obsessively pursuing his prison occupation of making shoes.
We next see the Manettes five years later, in London, where they are witnesses in the trial of Charles Darnay, a Frenchman who is accused of providing intelligence of British troops to the French during the recent American Revolution. The Manettes happened to be travelling with Darnay on one of his frequent trips between England and France and can therefore verify some of his movements. Darnay, however, is acquitted because a key witness admits he can't tell Darnay apart from another man in court – Sydney Carton – whose resemblance is strikingly alike to Darnay's and who happens to be one Darnay's counsellors in his defence.
After the trial Darnay and his lawyers, Carton and Mr Stryver, all stay close to the Manettes, in no small part due to the three men all being drawn to Lucie's beauty. Carton, a heavy drinker and idler, self-pitying and lacking ambition, knows he has no prospects with Lucie, but nevertheless vows to serve her. It is Darnay who wins Lucie's hand but, before he marries her, he confesses to her father that 'Darnay' is not his real name – it is St Evrémonde. Darnay changed his name to renounce his aristocratic heritage. The revelation causes Dr Manette considerable anxiety – the Evrémonde's were responsible for Manette's long imprisonment. Further, anti-aristocratic feeling is swelling in France and Darnay's despised father, the Marquis St Evrémonde, has just been murdered.
'Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend,' observed the Marquis, 'will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof,' looking up to it, 'shuts out the sky.'
While events in France become more troubling, the family and their friends settle into a comfortable life in London. Until Darnay receives a plea from a friend in France, imprisoned by revolutionaries, begging for help. Despite the considerable risk to himself, Darnay is unwilling to avoid doing what he can. He and his family will leave the security of London and dare the blood-stained streets of Paris.
A Tale of Two Cities begins with one of the most famous openings in all of literature:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
This was not my first time reading A Tale of Two Cities. It is a book that, while not one of my favourites, is one that I flagged as deserving another read to see if I liked it better second time around.
Among the strengths to recommend it, there is no denying that Dickens knows how to write a great scene. In a general sense, he creates a tone for the reader to feel in the world he is creating for them, such as when he describes the poverty and hunger in France, with the tools and weapons lying sharp and ready.
The mill which had worked them down, was the mill that grinds young people old; the children had ancient faces and grave voices; and upon them, and upon the grown faces, and ploughed into every furrow of age and coming up afresh, was the sign, Hunger. It was prevalent everywhere. Hunger was pushed out of the tall houses, in the wretched clothing that hung upon poles and lines; Hunger was patched into them with straw and rag and wood and paper; Hunger was repeated in every fragment of the small modicum of firewood that the man sawed off; hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and stared up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat. Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves, written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread; at the sausage-shop, in every dead-dog preparation that was offered for sale. Hunger rattled its dry bones among the roasted chestnuts in the turned cylinder; Hunger was shred into atomies of every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant oil.
Dickens always has a way of arming his words with drama and tension. He then deliberately concentrates his ability to give certain chapters and moments in the story great power. The chapter where Lucy is reunited with her father shortly after his emancipation from the Bastille (The Shoemaker, Book 1 Chapter 6), is one of the most memorable scenes in all of my reading. The only other passage I can compare it to is from another Dickens novel – when we first meet Miss Havisham early in Great Expectations.
Reading A Tale of Two Cities again made me feel that it is a novel of two halves. We often think of the French Revolution as being a sudden explosion of violence and terror but five years span the Storming of the Bastille to the end of the Reign of Terror and A Tale of Two Cities begins 14 years before the Bastille. The first half of the novel, set mostly in London, therefore, covers a large block of time, it is somewhat disjointed and jumps ahead several years at a time. The second half, set mostly in France during the Terror, flows continuously and has all the momentum and urgency you would expect. Does the drama and tension of the second half make up for the slow build up of the first? Maybe it does just enough.
All this, though, is what Dickens intended. He wanted A Tale of Two Cities to be picaresque. Hence, the jumpy timeline; the effort put in to make key scenes powerful; the vignettes outside the main story and even a certain vagueness in the text to avoid being caught by historical specifics.
A Tale of Two Cities also feels like a story that stakes a lot on the ending. One senses Dickens came up with the ending first and then crafted a story to make it plausible and meaningful. Reading it again, I could not help but wonder how a modern writer would do it differently – perhaps beginning closer to the end and breaking up the narrative with passages of backstory; to allow better pacing, dissolve the leaps in time and spread the tension throughout? I say Dickens 'came up with' the ending but the fact is that the ending, even in a French Revolution setting, is not original to A Tale of Two Cities – it had been done before. To write A Tale of Two Cities long after the events also required Dickens to do a large amount of research. He certainly set himself a difficult project in pulling this story off.
Did he succeed? Again, I think he does just enough. The research Dickens undertook, not just into the French Revolution but for much else besides, such as prisoner psychopathy, was extensive and the novel benefits from it. It is true that some historical errors are present in the novel but that does not take much away from the story. The psychology of the characters can also seem a little cliché but I think this is due to the passage of time whereby most readers today are used to more psychological complexity in fictional characters. It is an aspect of fiction that has evolved a lot since Dickens' time.
'You see,' said Doctor Manette, turning to him after an uneasy pause, 'it is very hard to explain, consistently, the innermost workings of this poor man's mind. He once yearned so frightfully for that occupation, and it was so welcome when it came, no doubt it relieved his pain so much by substituting the perplexity of the fingers for the perplexity of the brain, and by substituting, as he became more practised, the ingenuity of the hands for the ingenuity of the mental torture; that he has never been able to bear the thought of putting it quite out of his reach. Even now, when, I believe, he is more hopeful of himself than he has ever been, and even speaks of himself with a kind of confidence, the idea that he might need that old employment, and not find it, gives him a sudden sense of terror, like that which one may fancy strikes to the heart of a lost child.'
The character of Sydney Carton exemplifies these threads. In the first half of the novel, once the reader is introduced to him, Dickens seems to put in a lot of heavy lifting for him. A lot of effort is made to make him psychologically known to us and it feels somewhat forced, especially if you already know the story. In the second half of the novel, he's a far more likable, respectable and understandable; the writing begins to feel more clever than contrived and you wonder if all the early effort was really necessary.
Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him, a mirage of honourable ambition, self-denial, and perseverance. In the fair city of this vision, there were airy galleries from which the loves and graces looked upon him, gardens in which the fruits of life hung ripening, waters of Hope that sparkled in his sight. A moment, and it was gone. Climbing to a high chamber in a well of houses, he threw himself down in his clothes on a neglected bed, and its pillow was wet with wasted tears.
A Tale of Two Cities has possibly sold more copies than any other novel in history. It has therefore been read and reread, analysed and dissected more than most. When it comes to the themes in the novel, I probably have little to add to the already existing plethora. A significant theme of the novel is of resurrection/rebirth and second chances – from Manette's release from prison, Carton finding purpose in his life, amongst other examples. But I would like to examine another theme that struck me particularly on this second reading.
The novel, obviously, contrasts extremes and showcases extremists. I say 'obviously' because it is emblematic in the title. Though, I think London and Paris of the era are not directly compared as often or as comprehensively as the title might imply. The comparison is mostly indirect and symbolic, such as the application of the rule of law despite prejudices in Darnay's London acquittal in contrast with the excesses of the Terror. Elsewhere, we see the contrast between the characters of Darnay and Carton who look alike but don't have much else in common or between characters for whom violence and hate come easily and those who can not bear to conceive of it. But we also see that, in an era where extremist views hold power and wield the threat of violence, those who do not view the world in black and white terms, but appreciate its complexity and nuances, find themselves in a difficult position.
Dr Manette has every reason to hate Darnay for having his life ruined by Darnay's family. But Manette's feelings are complicated by his affection for his daughter, his want for her happiness and by recognising Darnay as an individual distinct from his family – a truth that contradicts the revolutionary feeling in France where people are guilty by association; being judged and killed not for their deeds but for their relations. Similarly, Manette's former servant, Defarge, is torn between his loyalty for his former master and his revolutionary feelings which urge him to destroy Manette's new family.
'I entreat you to observe that I have come here voluntarily, in response to that written appeal of a fellow-citizen which lies before you. I have come here to clear him and to clear myself. I demand no more than the opportunity to do so without delay. Is it not my right?'
'Emigrants have no rights, Evrémonde,' was the stolid reply. […] 'My name is Defarge, and I keep a wine-shop in the Quarter Saint Antoine. Possibly you have heard of me.'
'My wife came to your house to reclaim her father? Yes!'
The word 'wife' seemed to serve as a gloomy remined to Citizen Defarge, to say with sudden impatience, 'In the name of that sharp female newly born and called La Guillotine, why did you come to France?'
'You heard me say why, a minute ago. Do you not believe it is the truth?'
'A bad truth for you,' said Defarge, speaking with knitted brows, and looking straight before him.
The edition of A Tale of Two Cities I read was a Penguin Classics edition that includes an Introduction and Notes by Richard Maxwell, then of Yale University. The Introduction contains several interesting ideas about the novel including Dickens' interest in the French Revolution and the question of oppression justifying or causing violent uprising; the Bastille legend and its influence on Gothic and historical romance novels; an interpretation of the novel around Manette, Darnay and Carton's different relationships to Lucie and the novel's influence, for example on Hugo's Les Misérables which was published a few years after A Tale of Two Cities.
Another advantage of this Penguin Classics edition is an appendix which covers Dickens' source material for the French Revolution, life in Paris of the time, Bastille lore and real-life events and people which were inspirations for characters and events in the novel. One annoyance was that the explanatory notes contained spoilers which, in my opinion, ought to be avoided. I can understand spoilers in Introductions, which is why I avoid reading them until after I've read the novel, but they should not be in the notes which are there to aid uninitiated readers.
When I posted my 2020 Reading List I said that I was unsure if I would reread A Tale of Two Cities. The purpose of my rereading books is to experience some of my favourites again and to give non-favourites a second chance. I was unsure whether A Tale of Two Cities deserved a second chance. But I actually underwent an appraisal of the books I have read and which made it clear that it did – I did enjoy and admire it the first time around, it was worth seeing if I would like it more a second time as I have for some others. It didn't quite achieve that – I still enjoy and admire it and would recommend it, I just wouldn't call it a 'favourite'. I don't regret making the time to reread it either. It is, after all, a story about second chances.
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marijo1951 says:
I love most of Dickens' books especially his late great trio. I can never decide whether "Bleak House", "Little Dorrit" or "Our Mutual Friend" would be my desert island book. However I've always had problems with his two historical novels "A Tale of Two Cities" and 'Barnaby Rudge". Do you know Noah Baumbach's film "The Squid and the Whale"? Jeff Daniels plays an embittered, overbearing and rather contemptible character, but I warmed to him somewhat when he said that his son should be studying "David Copperfield" or "Great Expectations" at school rather than "A Tale of Two Cities", which he summed up as "minor Dickens".
It sounds a bit harsh, but I think once I read more Dickens I'm going to agree and say A Tale is a minor Dickens. So far I've only read A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations, but I am eager to get to David Copperfield and Bleak House.


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Why We Believe (Hardcover)
Evolution and the Human Way of Being (Foundational Questions in Science)
By Agustin Fuentes
Yale University Press, 9780300243994, 280pp.
A wide-ranging argument by a renowned anthropologist that the capacity to believe is what makes us human
Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. Evolutionary scientists answer with proposals for why ritual, religion, and faith make sense as adaptations to past challenges or as by-products of our hyper-complex cognitive capacities.
But what if the focus on religion is too narrow? Renowned anthropologist Agustín Fuentes argues that the capacity to be religious is actually a small part of a larger and deeper human capacity to believe. Why believe in religion, economies, love? A fascinating intervention into some of the most common misconceptions about human nature, this book employs evolutionary, neurobiological, and anthropological evidence to argue that belief—the ability to commit passionately and wholeheartedly to an idea—is central to the human way of being in the world.
Agustín Fuentes is the Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Professor of Anthropology and chair of the department of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame.
Praise For Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being (Foundational Questions in Science)…
"A wholly impressive look at how our capacity for belief evolved, with fresh insights, especially about early Homo sapiens. I found Fuentes' case studies on religion, economics, and love fascinating."—Barbara J. King, author of Evolving God
"We are the believing species. Much of what we are and what we do is driven by belief of one kind or another. Agustin Fuentes, a gifted writer and teacher, helps us understand both the power and role of belief in this brilliant book. Why We Believe is an exciting intellectual tour through culture, neurobiology, prehistory, religion, economies, love, war, and more. Read it to better know yourself and your species."—Guy P. Harrison, author of At Least Know This: Essential Science to Enhance Your Life, Think: Why You Should Question Everything


This is good. Now, what creations will your desk evoke from the depths of your creativity and intellect? Watching this space!
I'm quite envious; this seems like such a serene and beautiful writing space. I've tried to build myself a little writing haven in my house before, but it always gets lost under clutter, or I end up spending more time maintaining the space and improving it than actually writing there. Like Gina says above, I'd be very interested in hearing how this space works out for you and the difference it makes to your work.


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Q: Trying to change the routing in my MVC 5 application When I started this site I didn't think too far a head and forgot to add product category to my data model. As it stands now when I click Products it shows the Index view which displays all the necklaces. with a path like so /Products/Index.
Now what I'm trying to do is change the routing so Index shows a list of categories then when you click, say Necklaces, I want a path like so /Products/Necklaces/Index, and so forth for all categories. Can I add folders inside my Products folder (where my views are at), or how can I go about changing the routing to account for this change?
I tried this in the RouteConfig.cs file
routes.MapRoute(
       name: "Products",
       url: "{controller}/{category}/{action}/{id}",
       defaults: new { controller = "Products", category = "Necklaces", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }

);
But /Products/Necklaces/Index still gives me a 404 error

A: Here are two ways you can tackle this issue.
You can add this following to your RouteConfig.cs like you did before.
routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Products",
    url: "{controller}/{category}/{action}/{id}",
    defaults: new { controller = "Products", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);

OR
Add this to your RouteConfig.cs.
routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes();
And then add this Route attribute to your Index Action.
// The id? means it is an optional parameter.
[Route("Products/{category}/Index/{id?}")]
public ActionResult Index(string category, string id)
{
    return View();
}

Both of these will work.
Make sure your Action looks like that for both methods.


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LA Chargers News
The LA Chargers need to learn something from past two champions
TAMPA, FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 07: Tom Brady #12 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Patrick Mahomes #15 of the Kansas City Chiefs speak after Super Bowl LV at Raymond James Stadium on February 07, 2021 in Tampa, Florida. The Buccaneers defeated the Chiefs 31-9. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
The LA Chargers are one of the most exciting teams in the NFL as we head into the 2021 season. Justin Herbert took the league by storm and with a new head coach and a solid offseason, the Chargers have a lot of potential to make some noise.
All in all, the Chargers have done a really good job navigating the offseason thus far. While they have made all the right moves thus far, there is a looming storyline that is hanging over the front office's head: potentially trading for star wideout Julio Jones.
I have already made it clear that I think this is a no-brainer as the Chargers would create the best receiving corps in the NFL. Even if the team gets outbid for Jones, there is still a philosophy that they should be following if they want to be legitimate contenders.
A philosophy that the last two Super Bowl Champions — the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs — have both had.
What the LA Chargers can learn from the Chiefs and Buccaneers:
The logic is simple: surround Justin Herbert with as many weapons as possible, even if it gets to the point where it seems like they are overdoing it. Of course, the salary cap is something that almost must be considered but the Chargers have plenty of cap space to make more additions.
That is why the team is able to add Jones and why they ultimately should. The goal should be to surround Herbert with as many weapons as possible and they have a legitimate chance of getting a future Hall of Famer who still produces at a high level. If either the Chiefs or Bucs could do this, they would.
And that is why the Chargers should do it.
It is more than Jones, as mentioned. The team should not hesitate to bring in more help throughout the year when more options become available, and they will. There will be a disgruntled running back or receiver that gets released and the Chargers should not turn their nose up to them.
Heck, Todd Gurley is still a free agent and at this point is probably going to be pretty cheap. There is absolutely no harm in the team signing someone like Gurley with an elite past to help the team's depth.
The Chiefs and Bucs have operated with this logic. The Chiefs brought in LeSean McCoy two seasons ago and Le'Veon Bell last season. And while neither had a massive impact, having that depth and the potential of them having a big impact is worth it in upon itself.
Tampa Bay is the perfect example. They traded for Rob Gronkowski when they did not even need a tight end and most people in the football world mocked the move. He caught two touchdowns. The other receiving touchdown went to Antonio Brown, another player the team signed to add to its riches.
There was one more touchdown in that game and who did it belong to? Leonard Fournette, the running back that had a Pro Bowl year with Jacksonville, regressed and then broke out in the playoffs for Tampa Bay and was exceptional.
And that is why these moves are so huge for contending teams. They might not put up huge regular-season numbers but they are another option in the playoffs and sometimes, like with Fournette, you strike gold at the right time and get big contributions on someone you brought in for virtually nothing.
Jones is an extreme example of this but it is part of the philosophy. Get as much help as possible, especially when there are established players available for cheap.
Next. 53-man roster predictions following the 2021 NFL Draft
The worst-case scenario is the LA Chargers get a veteran depth piece. The best-case scenario is what we saw with Tampa Bay.