I know I'm probably either ahead or behind the times. Usually it is Christmas in July but nope, not for me.
It's strange really, usually I tend to make holiday cards year round but I can't remember making a holiday card for months, maybe not since last year.
Lately I've been spending more time that I should looking at paper crafting blogs and have seen some gorgeous cards out there. Some I saved for future reference and a few I took as inspiration right way and made cards.
One great jumping off point if you want papercraft inspiration is the CASE study challenge blog, especially this post about their one year anniversary. It is loaded with participants in a wonderful CASE blog hop.
I knew right away when I saw this card by Teneale Williams that it would make a great holiday card idea.
This is what I think will be the final stage of this card. I say that as I made the card, wasn't quite as happy with it as I wanted to be. I added some stamping on the red cardstock but that still didn't cut it. Then after another day of thinking and looking at the card I added some liquid pearl designs to it. So I think it is done.
I'm sure the next one I make will be a bit different but I love it as a starting off point.
I still need a little work on making liquid pearl dots but not bad for one of my first liquid pearl designs.
This spring of pearls was from the bridal section, I think they were a Wilton product but I'm not sure. I knew when I saw them that I would use them on a card.
These leaf stick pins were a clearance find sometime last year. Now that I finally used the last of them I wish I had purchased more of them. I guess I'll have to hunt for similar ones for future cards.
I inked most of the cardstock edges and gave it a good amount of shimmer spray in various colors.
Inspired by Teneale I even added a few layers inside my card although nothing like her beautiful cards.
All in all, I'm happy with what may be my first holiday card of the year.
What about you, have you started on any holiday cards this year?
Very nice card. I really like the little pearlies. They add a special touch. Great job. I am your newest follower.
Wow, you are a master with the liquid pearls! I've only attempted perimeter "pearling" but now I'll have to try flourishes! What a great effect on your festive card, it's a super CASE of Teneale's! Thanks for playing along with CASE Study and for helping us celebrate our first birthday!
what a fabulous tribute to Teneale's card June, I think your skills with the liquid pearls are awesome, I love all the little details you have added in!
Your card is so pretty! I saw your card over on Tatertots & Jello.


I finally got around to reading this interesting little paper by Justus Haucap and Ulrich Heimeshoff published by the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics entitled, "Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay: Is the Internet Driving Competition or Market Monopolization?" It offers a nice snapshot of the current state of play in several online sectors and surveys much of the relevant economic literature on the issue of antitrust and information technology markets. The authors also familiarize readers with the basic economic concepts that are hotly debated in the field of digital economics, including: network effects, switching costs, multi-homing, and economies of scale.
On the one hand, it is rather obvious that many very successful Internet-based companies are nearly monopolists. Google, Youtube, Facebook, and Skype are typical examples for Internet firms who dominate their relevant markets and who leave only limited space for a relatively small competitive fringe. Furthermore, most of these providers do not generate content themselves, but "only" provide access to different content on the Internet. On the other hand, the crucial question from a competition policy perspective is not so much whether these firms have such a dominant position today, but rather why they have such a large market share and whether this is a temporary or non-temporary phenomenon. Do these Internet monopolies enjoy a dominant position because they are protected from competition though barriers to entry or do they just enjoy the profits of superior technology and innovation? Are we observing some sort of Schumpeterian competition where one temporary monopoly is followed by another, with innovation as the driving competitive force, or are we dealing with monopoly firms that mainly try to foreclose their markets through anticompetitive behavior?
Simply put, we now live in Joseph Schumpeter's economy. The Austrian-born economist had the digital economy figured out seven decades ago. Cascading waves of continuous change, or what Schumpeter called the "perennial gales of creative destruction," reverberate all around us in the tech economy. Innovative risk-takers are constantly shaking things up and displacing yesterday's lumbering, lethargic giants. In markets built largely upon binary code, the pace and nature of change has become hyper-Schumpeterian: unrelenting and utterly unpredictable.
Just five years ago, MySpace dominated social networking and had The Guardian wondering, "Will MySpace Ever Lose Its Monopoly?" A short time later, MySpace lost its early lead and became a major liability for owner Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch paid $580 million for MySpace in 2005 only to sell it for $35 million in June 2011.
Just six to eight years ago, the mobile landscape was ruled by Palm, BlackBerry, Nokia, and Motorola. Palm is now all but dead and BlackBerry is trying to stay afloat while Nokia and Motorola had to cut deals with Microsoft and Google respectively in order to survive.
Just 10 years ago, AOL's hegemony in online services was thought to be unassailable, especially after its merger with Time Warner. But the merger quickly went off the rails and AOL's online "dominance" quickly evaporated. Losses grew to over $100 billion and the entire deal unraveled within just a few years as AOL's old dial-up, walled-garden business model had been completely superseded by broadband and the new Web 2.0 world.
Just 12 years ago, Yahoo! and AltaVista were the go-to companies for online search. No one turns to them first today when they go looking for information online.
And just 15 years ago, Microsoft was on everyone's mind. Today, the firm is struggling to remain part of cocktail party chatter when the topic of modern Tech Titans is discussed. For example, a recent Fast Company cover story on "The Great Tech War of 2012" only mentioned Microsoft in passing. The rise of search, social media, and cloud computing represented disruptive shifts that Microsoft wasn't prepared for, although the company continues to innovate and remain relevant.
Schumpeterian thinking remains as controversial today as it did during his lifetime, but I think it perfectly explains the cycles of competition and innovation we at see at work in the modern digital economy. So, what conclusion do Haucap and Heimeshoff come to in their paper?
It is not possible to generalize with respect to the degree of competition in online markets. While some markets tend to lean towards high concentration ratios, the strong market position of Google and Facebook do not necessarily need to be longlasting. . . In the case of Facebook, multi-homing is not too costly so that there is scope for further competition. The entry of Google+ in 2011 is an interesting development for competition, but the further development remains to be seen. In contrast, eBay has managed to hold on to its dominant position in the market for private online auctions which is difficult to contest, as sellers' reputations are not transferable across platforms. . . . .
If direct and indirect network effects play an important role in a particular online market, it is not clear ex ante whether a monopoly or a dominant market position is actually good or bad from an efficiency perspective. While some authors . . . . argue for a stronger market regulation of eBay, there are also good and valid counter-arguments, based on innovation incentives. In fact, many online markets have been characterized by a large degree of Schumpeterian competition where one dominant player follows the other. A notable exception has only been eBay which has managed to hold on to its dominant position for more than a decade now. Still, a more interventionist approach beyond the application of general competition law rules appears not to be warranted so far.
The authors' focus on eBay is interesting. As I noted on Twitter the other day, I would agree that eBay is a bit of anomaly when it comes to digital age competition. eBay is really only digital platform that's been able to maintain lasting dominance in its field (online auctions). Over the past 12 years, it has not been significantly disrupted like other digital providers and platforms. But two caveats are in order here.
First, eBay actually does face credible competition at the margin for particular goods. For example, I am a car fanatic. I have moved 6 cars on eBay over the past decade. But I have also used Cars.com and AutoTrader.com to work deals or at least research cars I would later buy or sell on eBay. Likewise, I'm obsessed with consumer electronics, especially home theater gear. I can find plenty of great deals on eBay, but I also shop at dozens of other sites (some high-end retailers like Crutchfield; others are trading sites just for home theater stuff). And the same is true for many other types of products. There's an endless assortment of places online to find apparel and media content, for example. And heck, Amazon is a pretty big dog that eBay must contend with in several sub-markets. And there are plenty of other competitors that keep eBay's market power in check despite its continued dominance of the "online auction" marketplace, however you choose to define it.
Second, even if you think eBay has serious dominance in its market, what of it? Haucap and Heimeshoff note that a few scholars have called for greater regulation of eBay, but there has never been a serious push by academics or policymakers to drop the antitrust hammer on eBay's head. And the reason is simple: It is impossible to make a case that eBay is harming consumer welfare. In fact, eBay's "market power" helps consumers by greatly diminishing search and transaction costs. How many of us want to go sign up for a dozen different sites when we hope to auction off our old comic book or baseball card collection? Not me. I know that eBay will guarantee me the best chance to maximize the profit margin on my old junk by bringing together the largest universe of potential buyers all in one spot. If eBay ever tried to gouge users with outrageous listing fees or restrictive trading rules, I think we'd see other firms look to break into the market fairly quickly. The tough question is whether there would be any way to port over our reputational history / rankings to other sites. Probably not, but I still don't think that ends the threat of potential entry or innovation, especially at the margin for really popular goods.
Taken together, these two points make it clear that the online auction marketplace is what economists would call a "contestable market." The looming threat of entry at the margin keeps eBay on its toes and their "market power" in check.
Anyway, I encourage you to read the Haucap and Heimeshoff paper. It's quite interesting and I think they are right to conclude that "a more interventionist approach beyond the application of general competition law rules appears not to be warranted so far." Finally, if you really enjoy this topic and want to read some of the best literature in the field, you might want to check out my list of "The 12 Best Papers on Antitrust & the Digital Economy" that I put together last Fall.


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60 Minutes, Holocaust Survivors, and Digital Immortality
A groundbreaking project showcases the potential for virtual remembrance.
Did you catch the recent 60 Minutes special, hosted by correspondent Lesley Stahl, about the project to create conversational avatars of Holocaust survivors so that their stories could be shared long after they pass away? It's an incredible, groundbreaking demonstration of the potential for the technology of digital immortality, an effort that HereAfter cofounder James Vlahos wrote about the project in his book, Talk to Me.
Here's an excerpt for those looking to learn more:
Private companies aren't the only ones creating clones, as a ground- breaking project called New Dimensions in Testimony illustrates. A joint effort by the Institute for Creative Technologies and the USC Shoah Foundation, the project aims to memorialize Holocaust survivors.
In 1943 the Nazis captured a ten-year-old boy named Pinchas Gutter and his family, and imprisoned them in concentration camps. Gutter's sister and parents were killed in the gas chambers before he could even say good-bye. He would go on to be beaten, shuttled between different labor camps, and put on a death march before finally being freed by the Red Army in 1945.
Gutter, now in his eighties, has devoted himself to sharing these horrors, giving talks and answering questions. But like all of the remaining Holocaust survivors, Gutter will not be around much longer to do so. Testimonies like his have, of course, been captured in print, audio, and film. But telling a story in person has unique power. As Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, once explained, "There's nothing like the human witness who can look you in the eye and say, 'Look, this is what happened to my husband. This is what happened to my children. This is what happened to my grandparents.'"
Targeting the immediacy of in-person storytelling, the New Dimensions team interviewed Gutter and more than a dozen other Holocaust survivors, asking them hundreds of questions apiece in multiday sessions. I interviewed my dad in his bedroom; these interviews took place on a soundstage inside of what looked like a giant geodesic dome. Mounted on the inside of the dome were thou- sands of tiny LED lights and thirty cameras recording the survivors from every angle.
Using visual-effects technologies that were originally developed for military training simulators and movies such as Avatar, the project's scientists transformed these recordings into movie clips, which, when projected onto a special screen, appear to be three- dimensional. As holographic display techniques continue to improve, the scientists will be able to create even more lifelike holograms. They could project Gutter or another survivor into any room, illuminate him as if by the ambient lighting of that space, and allow people to walk around him. Paul Debevec, a professor of computer science at USC, says that the goal is to make it "seem like they are sitting in the same room as the audience."
ICT's conversational-AI experts, in turn, created a natural- language system to interpret what people were asking about and retrieve an appropriate answer in the digital version of the survivor's brain. Those answers might be short but often are many minutes long. There's less back and forth than with the Dadbot. But this system has matching video of someone actually speaking. The system is currently being displayed in museums around the United States.
David Traum, an ICT computer scientist who worked on the conversational part of the system, says he believes that interactive preservations of the dead will become widespread in the future. If the price of the technology comes down enough, ordinary people may keep versions of their late relatives around. And conversational avatars will almost certainly become a standard part of education. Traum says students will be able to talk to Plato, Einstein, and the "top people in the world, the people who have invented things, made historical decisions, and lived those experiences."
Fritzie Fritzshall, another Holocaust survivor who participated in the New Dimensions project, is a believer in the technology. Most of Fritzshall's family perished in concentration camps, for- ever silencing their voices. Fritzshall, too, will die before long, and she says she is glad that her digital double will continue to share her narrative. "I have passed it on to my twin, so to speak," Fritzshall said. "When I'm no longer here, she can answer for what's asked of me. She will carry on the story forever."
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American Forest Foundation
This article is part of the Center for Media & Democracy's spotlight on front groups and corporate spin.
The American Forest Foundation (AFF) is a conversation organization. According to its website, the AFF "is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that was chartered in 1981 with the purpose of encouraging the long-term sustainability of America's forests, restoring wildlife habitat, and developing quality environmental education programs, to assure that Americans today, and in the future, enjoy healthy, growing forests."[1]
2 Project Learning Tree
3 Wants change to estate tax for family-owned forests
6 Resources and articles
AFF is committed to creating a future where North American forests are sustained by the public that understand and values the social, economic, and environmental benefits they provide to our communities, our nation, and the world.
The American Forest Foundation has a list of co-sponsors, cooperators and coalition partners that includes logging and timber interests such as Sierra Pacific, Pacific Lumber, MacMillian Bloedel, Williamette Industries and Boise Cascade.[2]
Project Learning Tree
One of AFF's core programs is Project Learning Tree, which "works to promote paper products, logging and industrial management of our nation's forests. They offer this version of 'environmental education' to students from pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade and reach more than 500,000 educators and 25 million students."[2] PLT began in 1976.[3]
Wants change to estate tax for family-owned forests
AFF supports bill S. 3664 which would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain farmland from the estate tax, and for other purposes.[4] AFF says "Around the country, families are facing the prospect of having to sell off their forests in order to pay estate taxes. Too often, the land is developed and our forests are lost for good."[5]
Tom Martin, President & Chief Executive Officer
Kathy McGlauflin, Senior Vice President
Rita Neznek, Vice President, Public Policy
Rachel Bayer, Manager, Education & Network Partnerships, Project Learning Tree
Board of Trustees:[7]
Clint Bentz, (Chair) Certified Public Accountant, CMA, Boldt, Carlisle & Smith, LLC
Connie Best, (Vice Chair) Managing Director, The Pacific Forest Trust
Kenneth Stewart, (Treasurer) Commissioner, Georgia Department of Economic Development
Shorna Broussard Allred Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University
James M. Branson, SVP, Timberlands, Weyerhaeuser Company
1111 Nineteenth Street, NW, Suite 780
Email: info AT forestfoundation.org
Web: http://www.affoundation.org
John A. Luke, Jr., Trustee
Norman L. Christensen, Jr., Trustee
Thomas M. Lindquist
↑ About page, American Forest Foundation, accessed October 2010.
↑ 2.0 2.1 "Targeting Children: Industry's Campaign to Redefine Environmental Education," PR Watch Newsletter, Vol. 7, No. 2.
↑ "Our History," Project Learning Tree.
↑ S. 3664: Family Farm Estate Tax Deferral Act of 2010, govtrack.us, accessed October 2010.
↑ Estate Tax for Family-owned Forests, American Forest Foundation, accessed October 2010.
↑ Staff, American Forest Foundation, accessed October 2010.
↑ Board of Trustees, American Forest Foundation, accessed October 2010.
"OSU Receives Grant from American Forest Foundation to Address Transfer of Family Forests", Oregon State University, March 12, 2009.
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1.} favorite fall lip product?
2.} favorite fall nail polish?
3.} favorite starbucks fall drink?
but I love hot chocolate with marshmellow and cinnamon or spray cream !!
5.} favorite fall scarf or accessory?
6.} haunted house, haunted hay ride, or haunted corn maze?
8.} favorite candy to eat on halloween?
9.} what are you dressing up as for halloween?
Something different for my school with some false lashes and a beautiful eye make-up just to create a halloween like a different day !!!
10.} what is your favorite thing about fall?


A traditional look has been updated with a new waistband and a great body hugging pattern. For those who value modesty try our new skort. This style gives you the combined look of our skirts with the comfort of our shorts underneath. 97% cotton 3% spandex. Top stitched, side zipper.


If you are a CFO, like me, we spend a good chunk of our time working with our teams to ensure risk in the form of tax, treasury, internal controls and integrity of financial reporting is mitigated. Sometimes there's a niggling risk worry that will cause us to wake up in a cold sweat— but we are all trained to deal with these 'known knowns'.
We also spend evenings and weekends on forecasting, guidance, squeezing costs and appraisal of investment opportunities to boost the top or bottom lines. All of this is necessary and our stakeholders look to us to get it right as custodians of the assets of our organizations. The risk of getting these things wrong causes us, as professionals, sleepless nights, but unless we get them catastrophically wrong it mostly causes nothing more than a ripple in the organization that is easily recovered. This is where we spend the vast majority of our time.
However, there is a new, constantly mutating threat lurking in the shadows and as a CFO community, I do not think that we have yet fully grasped the role we could, and should, play in mitigating against it. If we are serious about being the custodians of our organization's assets then we need to take our heads out of the sand. We are doing some things to counteract this new threat but not nearly enough. Yet.
All organizations are now digital. Our IT infrastructure, applications, and data are the nerve center of any organization and without it, the business simply ceases to operate. Serious outages caused by attacks on the nerve center wreak a level of havoc which is difficult to imagine happening if we get things wrong in other areas that we spend most of our time managing. Think about the recent hits to that nerve center that has had some very high profile casualties: Equifax, Maersk, NHS, WPP, Mondelez, Deutsche Post; and those are just the ones we know about! The cost in terms of the lost market cap, cost of the clean-up, reputational damage and regulatory fines is almost incalculable.
This new risk is not going away; it is only going to get worse.
We dedicate our time ensuring we have the right internal controls to prevent a fraud which might, at worst, cost us a few hundred thousand. We feel proud when we manage to squeeze another 1% out of the cost base, reduce our effective tax rate by 2% or gain 3% percent on our stock price by under promising and over-delivering. These are all important, worthy things yet how much time do we spend on the biggest existential threat to our organizations where a bit of simple code developed by individuals intent on causing maximum havoc to an organization can bring down our nerve center and therefore our entire organizations in a matter of minutes. The potential cost and loss of assets dwarfs almost any other risk event, but how much time do we spend on it?
Pretending that 'it will never happen to us' is being the Ostrich CFO. IT may not report to the CFO (although often it does). The CFO will probably spend an hour or more at Board meetings explaining, in detail, the financial performance and metrics of the business. Could any of us talk for an hour, in detail, about what we are doing to secure organizations against a catastrophic breach of the nerve center that could bring the business to an abrupt halt?
The CFO role is always evolving and, if we are serious about being custodians of our organizations, it is time to add another string to our bow. We don't need to be technology experts but asking simple questions like "are we up to date and patched with our software" will go a long way – I guarantee you will be worried at the answer, and if you are not, I suspect you are not getting a straight answer.
The recent WannaCry and Petya attacks could have been avoided in any organization whose software was current. The attack on Maersk cost it $300m, even before taking into account longer-term reputational damage. They could have been current for a tiny fraction of that amount, but who was asking the question?
Our natural skepticism and analytical skills position us perfectly to ask searching questions and our position at the Boardroom table provides the platform to ensure these issues are taken seriously and are properly funded, although it is not expensive to stay current and approving funding for the latest fancy cybersecurity tool might feel like action but is useless if you have left the windows and doors open.
The role of CFO evolved and was enhanced after the financial crisis; it is time for us to evolve again to deal with this latest threat to our organization's assets. Get current and #StayCurrent.


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Outspoken Borrell nominated for EU foreign policy chief
Spain's Foreign Minister Josep Borrell has been nominated as the European Union's next top diplomat AFP/File
Madrid (AFP)
The nomination of Spain's outspoken top diplomat Josep Borrell as EU foreign policy chief marks a return for the 72-year-old to the frontline of European politics after a first stint over a decade ago.
Known not to mince his words and prone to the occasional outburst, Borrell has led efforts to revive Spain's reputation after a failed secession attempt in Catalonia. He has been active over the crisis in Venezuela and has not hidden his criticism of US President Donald Trump.
His appointment, if approved by European Parliament, marks a meteoric political rebirth for the man who in 1999 renounced leading the Socialist Party -- and thus stand for election the following year -- over a financial scandal.
That prompted Borrell to turn to European politics, serving as president of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2007.
Then followed a period largely out of the public eye until Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez picked the Catalan last year to be Spain's top diplomat.
Staunchly pro-EU and against Catalonia's secession movement which culminated in a failed declaration of independence in October 2017, Borrell set about defending Spain's judiciary and democracy after nine Catalan separatist leaders were jailed pending a trial for rebellion.
"It is a war in which we can't use weapons but propaganda is key. They use it very well and the Spanish government very badly," Borrell has said.
In March, he stormed out of an interview with a German television station after being asked about the treatment of jailed Catalan independence leaders.
He has also been active over Venezuela, helping Spain take the lead in Europe on its dealings with the economically-strapped Latin American country that is going through a major political and humanitarian crisis.
And on more than one occasion, Borrell has hit out at Trump.
In September last year, he revealed that the US president had suggested building a wall along the Sahara desert to stem the arrival of migrants, as he plans to do on the Mexican border.
"'But do you know how big the Sahara is?'," Borrell said he responded.
He has also accused Trump's administration of acting like "a cowboy" for its implicit threat of military intervention in Venezuela.
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Born on April 24, 1947 in a tiny village in the Catalan Pyrenees, Borrell is the son of a baker who used to accompany his father to deliver bread in villages by donkey.
A bright student, he won several scholarships which allowed him to obtain a degree in aeronautical engineering in Madrid, then a masters degree at Stanford University in the United States and another masters in Paris. He also has a doctorate degree in economics.
A father of two children from a first marriage with a French woman he met while working at a kibbutz in Israel, Borrell has been in a relationship for the past two decades with Cristina Narbona, president of the Socialist Party.
He served as deputy finance minister and then public works minister under former Socialist prime minister Felipe Gonzalez, who was in power between 1982 and 1996.
Borrell was elected leader of the party in 1998 but he renounced the position the following year before a 2000 general election due to a financial scandal involving two of his former co-workers when he was deputy finance minister.
Before returning to the frontline of national politics last year, Borrell was a member of the board of renewable energy group Abengoa.
Last year, he was fined 30,000 euros ($34,000) for insider trading after selling shares in the group in 2015 shortly before it announced it was on the verge of bankruptcy.
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Q: Threads inside a qt class I have this class inside a qt application that has some data defined:
class TableView:public QWidget
{
  Q_OBJECT

  public:TableView (QWidget * parent = 0);

  std::vector < float >  arr;

and some class functions and so on..
Now I want to add a socket server in another thread (posibly from inside this class) that is able to access data from this class when it recives something from the socket, calculate
new data and return.
For the test I used:
  //defines
  DWORD WINAPI SocketHandler(void* lp);
  DWORD WINAPI starttremeshserver(void* lp);

  CreateThread(0,0,&starttremeshserver, (void*)csock , 0,0);

This works. Now I need something easy and platform independent. Maybe something with qthread since I am working in qt.
So the question is, can I make a new thread function inside a class that can access class data. ty

A: Qt provides everything you need. Your needs are as follows:

*

*Thread-safe (serialized) access to the data members of the TableView class.

*Networking primitives.

*Flexibility to move network access to a separate thread.
You are probably receiving data from the network, and want to update the arr member. You'd do it like so:

*

*Create a QObject-derived class, say Processor, that has a slot that sets up the network connection (probably a QTcpServer). Upon a connection, use QTcpSocket to exchange data. Make sure all your data handling is done in slots in the class. When you have new values to update in the vector, simply emit some signal, like hasFloat(int,float).

*Add a setFloat(int,float) slot in the TableView.

*Connect the setFloat signal from the instance of Processor to your TableView.
At this point, everything runs in the GUI thread, but the code is non-blocking since you never wait for network data; you respond to the signals emitted by QTcpServer and QTcpSocket. You can leave it like that if you wish.
Having the Processor class run in a separate thread, if your benchmarking shows that your main thread is CPU bound, is then trivial:
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
   bool separateThread = true;
   QApplication app(argc, argv);
   TableView view;
   Processor proc;
   connect(&proc, SIGNAL(hasFloat(int,float)), &view, SLOT(setFloat(int,float)));
   QThread thread;
   if (separateThread) {
      thread.start();
      proc.moveToThread(&thread);
   }
   view.show();
   const bool rc = app.exec();
   if (thread.isRunning()) {
      thread.exit(); // tells the event loop in the thread to bail out
      thread.wait(); // waits for the above to finish
   }
   return rc;
}

There's this misconception that spreading things across threads somehow magically makes them better. Threads are a solution to a particular problem: CPU-boundedness of the computations being done, and blocking APIs. If your processing is trivial, you are not likely to be CPU bound. Qt provides nonblocking, asynchronous networking. Thus, usually, spinning a second thread is entirely unnecessary.
You must show real numbers first to show you otherwise. Else you're buying into the cargo cult of threading: oh, it's networking, it must go into a separate thread. Nope, not necessarily. Measure first. Understand what you're doing.
The reason for thread safety in the above code is as follows: when you move the Processor instance to a different thread, Qt will reconnect all signal-slot connections using Qt::QueuedConnection type. Thus, when Processor emits hasFloat, it will internally cause an event to be queued in the event queue of the thread where TableView lives -- the GUI thread, in this case. When the event loop spins (here it'd be the application's event loop) -- it'll pick up the event and execute a call to TableView::setFloat. This ensures that the access to the arr data member is serialized and there are is no possibility of concurrent access from multiple threads.

A: Qt has threading support as can be found here.
In addition to threads and accessing the data, you'll need synchronization for thread-safe code. This is called pthread mutex in linux, and in Qt its called QMutex as mentioned here.
You can find the Qt networking primitives here.
Using the Qt implementation of these threading and networking primitives will be portable, so should work for you on windows.
Regarding your question about creating a thread function from a class that accesses data on that class, the answer is yes. Instead of creating a thread function, it would be better to create a thread object, namely a QThread. When you create the thread object, you'll need to pass a reference to the instance of said class, which will allow the thread to access the class instance.

A: I'd personally look for more high level socket support, something based on boost perhaps, anyway for threads you can use <thread> in C++11.
To answer your specific question:
class Foo
{
private:
    void spinthread()
    {
        thread t([this] {
            this->bar = 12;
        });
    }

private:
   int bar;
}

If you're using Win32 threads API, the thread proc has a parameter which you can use to pass your instance to during the CreateThread call.

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This precious Easter basket is by La Galleria and you can get it at The Home Show 2014. BTW, it is 0L. Yup, that's what I said…zero lindens. I want to mention that Pam of La Galleria has a subscriber group, and she has some of the nicest home & garden gifts on the grid for her members. Slap the board at the landing point. It's free, takes up no group slot, and you won't be disappointed.
The cute basket of eggs and planter are from Terrashop. Finding this shop back in November on one of many walkabouts, Terasum's flowers have become a staple for my landscape and decorating needs.
I missed this bunny avatar during my rounds of Seasons Story. How cute!! I ran around as a red fox (previous arcade item) and a small dalmation that someone gave me for a gift.. it was sort of fun! I like Terrashop, but I havent been in a while.. so I must go check out these Easter stuff!
I think for going to events this could be a fun thing as I don't try demos on at any event or store. But to be honest this was just too much fun period. And do check out Terrashop. I love going there.
Congratulations Cougar ! I have nominated you for a 'Seed of Light Award'. Please accept this as my admiration for your artistry and creativity and for sharing your wonderful posts with us all.
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Mayors Of Salt Lake City and Asheville Win First Place Honors for Climate Protection Efforts
Matt Ball on June 23, 2013 - in Projects, Smart Cities
Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker and Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy have been selected as the nation's top winners in the 2013 Mayors' Climate Protection Awards, an initiative sponsored by The U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and Walmart. The winners were announced today during the Mayors' Climate Protections Awards luncheon, which was held in conjunction with USCM's 81st Annual Meeting.
The annual awards program, now in its seventh year, recognizes mayors for innovative practices in their cities that increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. An independent panel of judges selected the winners from a pool of applicants.
"Mayor Becker and Mayor Bellamy are great examples of the strong leadership at the local level working on climate protection," said Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter, President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. "As others debate these issues, mayors are acting on real climate solutions, showing how to curb both energy use and climate-harming emissions."
"We are proud to honor these cities and their mayors, who remind all of us how their leadership is making a real difference in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving the quality of life in their communities," said Greg Hall, Walmart's Vice President of U.S. Sourcing and Manufacturing. "At the end of the day, these local efforts reduce our energy dependence and save money, results that help strengthen the U.S. economy."
"In Salt Lake City, we are committed to doing what we can right now to address the climate change impacts that are already being felt at a local level, and will only become more challenging," said Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker. "Setting goals for ourselves like constructing net-zero public facilities is one of the many things we can do as a community to help address the mitigation and adaption necessities that will ensure a vibrant and sustainable future for our City."
"The City of Asheville is honored to receive this award," said Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy. "By reinvesting our energy savings through our Green Capital Improvement Program, we are reducing air pollution in our region, making neighborhoods safer by installing high quality LED lights, and demonstrating fiscal responsibility by recycling tax dollars."
"Mayors are leading the way on climate protection just like so many other issues before the nation," said Conference of Mayors CEO and Executive Director Tom Cochran. "In their cities, we can see the innovation and imagination that leads to new strategies to combat the growing energy and climate challenges before us."
Salt Lake City, UT Mayor Ralph Becker for the Net Zero Public Safety Building and Salt Lake Community Solar (Large City Category – population over 100,000)
The Salt Lake City Public Safety Building will be the first public safety building in the nation to achieve a Net Zero rating. To reach this lofty goal and ensure the building produces as much energy as it uses, the city employed a host of innovative technologies including rooftop solar and an off-site solar farm, planned LEED Platinum certification, locally-sourced and environmentally-sound materials and high efficiency mechanical systems. Its Salt Lake Community Solar (SLCS), a unique, market-driven approach to reducing the cost of solar energy using innovation and ingenuity to tackle the logistical and financial barriers of going solar, helps businesses and homeowners purchase and install solar energy systems.
Asheville, NC Mayor Terry Bellamy for the Green Capital Improvement Program (Small City Category – population under 100,000)
The City of Asheville established a goal to cut carbon emissions in its municipal activities by 80 percent by 2030. In the five years following the adoption of this target, the city has achieved a 17.67% reduction in emissions, and it has also established a self-sustaining funding source that recycles energy savings to invest in additional sustainability programs. More recently, these energy savings and dollars are directed into the Green Capital Improvement Program (Green CIP) which funds the city ongoing initiatives to make further progress on its 80 percent reduction goal. During the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Asheville creatively reinvested energy savings to invest in improved greener services for its citizens.
In addition to the first place winners, Honorable Mentions were awarded to mayors in four large cities and six small cities for their exceptional achievements in efforts to promote climate protection:
Large City Honorable Mentions: Mayor Donald L. Plusquellic, Akron, OH, Mayor Gregory A. Ballard, Indianapolis, IN, Mayor Thomas Barrett, Milwaukee, WI, and Mayor Vincent C. Gray, Washington, DC
Small City Honorable Mentions: Mayor Kathleen J. DeRosa, Cathedral City, CA; Mayor Roy D. Buol, Dubuque, IA, Mayor Nancy R. Rotering, Highland Park, IL, Mayor Jerry Willey, Hillsboro, OR, J. Richard Gray, Lancaster, PA, and Mayor Chris Koos, Normal, IL.
Brief descriptions of ALL winning programs can be found at: usmayors.org/climateprotection/2013awardees.
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The Communist Manifesto
By Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels & Eric Hobsbawm
Genre: Political Science
In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word "capitalism" itself fell out of use in the absence of credible political alternatives. But with the outbreak of financial crisis and global recession in the twenty-first century, capitalism is once again up for discussion. The status quo can no longer be taken for granted.
As Eric Hobsbawm argues in his acute and elegant introduction to this modern edition, in such times The Communist Manifesto emerges as a work of great prescience and power despite being written over a century and a half ago. He highlights Marx and Engels's enduring insights into the capitalist system: its devastating impact on all aspects of human existence; its susceptibility to enormous convulsions and crises; and its fundamental weakness.
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BOSE Professional leverages portable and installed sound solutions expertise in India with release of new path-breaking products and technologies
Published 15 April, 2018
Bangalore event featured Bose Professional's new range of products including the debut of the recently launched S1 Pro system; as the brand reaffirms its commitment to the growth of portable and installed sound markets in India
Bose Professional team at the Bangalore Event
The bodies of the cartridge have been broadened, to offer greater stability during performances. Its unique 2-seqment body design creates a fresh and attractive aesthetic.
Bose Professional, a global leader in professional audio technologies and solutions, exhibited an exciting range of cutting-edge products aimed at revolutionizing portable and installed sound applications in India. The showcase event which took place at the Leela Palace in Bangalore on Monday, 12 March 2018, drew an attendance of over 180 professionals that comprised the region's leading consultants, system integrators, sound engineers, performers and Pro AV dealers.
The new products showcased at the event included Bose Professional's EdgeMax in-ceiling premium loudspeakers, the MB210 compact subwoofers, the Panaray MSA12X loudspeaker and the debut of Bose Professional's game-changer for the portable-sound market in India – the new S1 Pro multi-position PA system.
Leveraging the brand's commitment to the installed sound market, Bose spotlighted the EdgeMax series of in-ceiling premium loudspeakers which feature proprietary PhaseGuide technology with high-frequency compression drivers to create a new category that combines the room-filling coverage patterns typical of larger surface-mount speakers with the architect-preferred aesthetics of in-ceiling models. Designed to mount near wall-ceiling boundaries, EdgeMax loudspeakers provide improved audio quality and coverage, while reducing the number of required units, compared to conventional dome-tweeter ceiling speakers.
In the same stride, the audience also witnessed a live demonstration of the Bose Professional Panaray MSA12X, which is a self-powered digital beam-steering loudspeaker that enables improved room aesthetics, with outstanding vocal intelligibility and tonal consistency. The proprietary Articulated Array transducer configuration allows wide, 160° horizontal coverage throughout the room, and MSA12X's modular design allows building of vertical arrays using 1-3 units. Dante digital audio network interface comes standard for connection with other Dante-enabled products over Ethernet-based networks.
Vibhor Khanna, Country Manager – SAARC, Bose Professional (l) and Mr. Christian Liebenberg, Bose Professional Regional Sales Manager addressing the audience comprising of leading consultants, system integrators, sound engineers, performers and Pro AV dealers
Additionally, emphasizing its effort to redefine the concept of portable sound reinforcement, the brand showcased the new Bose Professional MB210 compact sub-woofers which are designed for background/foreground music and small sound-reinforcement systems that require low-frequency extension down to 37 Hz. The MB210 subwoofer features two (2) 10-inch high-excursion woofers, derived from the award-winning Bose Professional F1 subwoofer, in a compact, Baltic-birch plywood enclosure optimized for fixed-installation applications. Featuring outstanding performance to size ratio, the MB210 is designed to complement Bose Professional loudspeaker lines, such as FreeSpace, Panaray, and RoomMatch Utility with additional bass impact.
The debut of the brand new Bose S1 Pro multi-position PA system was the highlight of the night. The system is designed for musicians, DJs and performers as the ultimate all-in-one PA, floor monitor and practice amplifier that's lightweight, rugged and ready to be your go-anywhere Bluetooth music system for nearly any occasion. The event included a special showcase to spotlight the S1 Pro system's power, as the system was used for a high energy live performance by new pop sensation Jas Karan.
Representatives of Bose Professional received an overwhelming positive response from the various consultants, system integrators, performers and dealers present at the event; with keen interest evoked about the respective products' specifications, pricing and availability in India. The event was led by Bose Professional's General Manager, Dr. Akira Mochimaru and Mr. Christian Liebenberg, Bose Professional Regional Sales Manager; who both emphasized the brand's commitment to supporting the professional audio business in India with their path-breaking products and technologies.
Mr. Christian Liebenberg added "These new product launches are key to Bose Professional's vision of re-affirming itself as the game changer and technological leader in professional audio globally. We're extremely pleased to share these products and technologies with the Indian market, and are excited about receiving a positive response from key trend influencers that shape the business landscape in the country."
In conclusion, Mr. Vibhor Khanna, Country Manager – SAARC, Bose Professional, stated, "Bose is committed to delivering superior technologies across India; and with the event in Bangalore receiving such a rousing response, we are confident that our new line of products will be met with equally great enthusiasm and acceptance around the country. A sincere vote of thanks to all the professionals who attended the event and who expressed their appreciation and support."


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Article November 1, 2021 Features By Deanne Machado
The perfect storm: policing in the era of decriminalization and unfunded budget pressures
Deanne Machado is the deputy director of police services at the city of Davis. She can be reached at dmachado@cityofdavis.org.
In a decade, how might city leaders recall this period of policing in California? Will it be remembered as a period of great reform or one of great posturing? The evidence appears to support the former, as criminal justice reform in the domains of drug decriminalization and property crime have significantly affected the role and expectations of California law enforcement agencies. Whereas misdemeanors have historically accounted for most arrests, recent legislative reforms mean that officers are increasingly expected to issue citations or provide referrals to social services and diversionary programs in lieu of arrest.
This should serve as a strong signal to law enforcement agencies about their future role as feeders into a rehabilitative system. Law enforcement executives can use this unique opportunity to create substantive change by leaning into innovation.
Offender realignment and decriminalization have exponentially increased over the last decade. These reforms represent a shift in public opinion and are a stark contrast to the early 1990's "tough on crime" policies — which led to an explosive growth of the criminal justice system. Today's voters have repeatedly expressed a preference for the enforcement of violent crime over drug and property crime. They have also signaled a growing distaste for incarceration as a response to many misdemeanors. A recent study found that nearly 3 in 4 voters support "alternatives to incarceration such as community service or electronic monitoring"; 6 in 10 support "alternatives to incarceration for individuals convicted of nonviolent crimes."
While the appetite for rehabilitation and decriminalization appeared to increase in 2021, it is important to note that these efforts began with two prior initiatives: AB 109 (Committee on Budget, 2011) and Proposition 47 in 2014. Although both have been discussed among law enforcement professionals for years, a brief review of both provides thoughtful context for our present circumstances, which include even greater reform.
Although often touted as a movement to end prison overcrowding, the real impetus behind AB 109 can be traced to a severe funding shortfall within the California prison system, made evident by the landmark ruling in Brown v. Plata (2011). In that case, the U.S. Supreme Court held that deficiencies in medical care caused by overcrowding violated prisoners' Eighth Amendment rights. The state had two choices: reduce the capacity of each prison through new construction or reduce capacity through some other approach, such as early release or displacement into local jails. California simply did not have the required resources to retrofit or build additional prisons and thus AB 109 was imposed as the prevailing compliance measure.
Following the passage of AB 109, known as the California Public Safety Realignment Act, defendants convicted of less serious felonies serve their time in local jails rather than state prison. Local law enforcement had few tools to manage this new population of offenders other than flash incarceration or arrests for "fresh charges." The utility of either appeared questionable, as local jails were already at capacity and thus forced to make daily releases to keep up. Ultimately, the individuals who were released as a result of realignment either reintegrated back into their communities, recidivated, or became homeless.
With jails at capacity, California needed a plan to ease overcrowding at the local level. Prop. 47 redefined the thresholds and consequences for many low-level, misdemeanor crimes to include shoplifting, petty theft, and drug offenses. The proposition de facto decriminalized these crimes, as local law enforcement was increasingly expected to issue citations or provide referrals to services and diversionary programs. This outcome greatly impacted the daily work of police officers, with some studies suggesting a 20% decrease in overall arrests. As law enforcement considered the most appropriate way to respond to these changes, questions about resource deployment took hold.
Should they expand their services through community policing? Should they increase the number of civilian employees used for non-enforcement tasks, such as taking burglary reports or responding to nuisance-related calls for service? Should they shrink their overall presence entirely? As law enforcement began to react, several other key reforms were passed, including:
AB 3234 (Ting, 2020), which extends the reach of diversionary programming to nearly all misdemeanants, with the exception of those charged with domestic violence, stalking, and registerable sex offenses and expunges the offenses with successful program completion.
AB 1950 (Kamlager, 2020), which places caps on probation terms of up to one year for misdemeanors and two years for felonies with some exceptions.
SB 823 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review, 2020), which phases out the three remaining California juvenile prisons and replaces them with a newly funded Office of Youth and Community Restoration.
California's criminal justice system has continued to shift and transform itself from a punitive model to one built around concepts of rehabilitation. Accordingly, the traditional role of law enforcement has also changed. Instead of interdicting low-level crimes and drug offenses — which formerly constituted much of the workload for police — agencies are in a position to redefine their mission. This comes at a critical time, as recent polls suggest record low public opinion toward police, with approval ratings dipping below 50% for the first time in recorded history.
What can law enforcement leadership do?
As law enforcement responds to these changes in public opinion and new legislation, they have an opportunity to optimize and redeploy resources with potentially significant cost savings — with the understanding that their strategies ought to mirror the public's priorities and preferences. This has the added benefit of addressing a pressing challenge: growing and often unfunded pension obligations.
A study by the League of California Cities found that by fiscal year 2024-25, cities' dollar contributions are projected to increase by more than 50%. The problem is much worse for cities with sizeable retiree liability and public safety professional staff. For these cities, the average contribution rate as a percentage of payroll is projected to be 67.5%" by fiscal year 2024-25. To address unfunded pension obligations, many cities have been forced to raise taxes, reduce services, or require employees to pay more.
Alternatively, cities could increase the ratio of civilian staff to sworn officers, which would reduce their pension liabilities. This can be achieved through attrition in cases of future vacancies or through the addition of new civilian positions. Although this approach bucks the status quo, studies demonstrate that this approach can significantly and positively impact local budgets, increase efficiency, and create conditions that allow officers to return to work in core policing roles.
This approach is already used in the United Kingdom. For example, as a result of the Police Reform Act of 2002, the UK created police community support officers; their primary role is to help deter crime by responding to nuisance offenses. Community support officers can seize vehicles, issue tickets, and even detain individuals under certain circumstances. Two years later, the Surrey, UK Police implemented mixed civilian-sworn Criminal Investigations Department, which led to a 42% increase in efficiency and reduced the time to investigate undetected crimes from 47 to 36 days.
Another alternative is to partner with community organizations for intervention efforts, something the public has demonstrated a strong preference for. Successful examples of this approach can be seen in Vacaville, with their Family Resource Center, and in Yolo County, where nonprofit partners such as the Yolo Conflict Resolution Center work with police agencies to divert offenders from entering the system. These arrangements are unique, as sworn officers often serve in these types of capacities in addition to their regular patrol duties, especially at mid-sized or smaller agencies.
Another solution some municipalities may want to consider is to enter into consortiums or other shared service agreements. Efforts to do this in the domain of juvenile justice are already underway as a result of SB 823. As prescribed by SB 823, California will shutter its Division of Juvenile Justice and all three of its remaining state-run juvenile facilities by 2023. Similar to AB 109, SB 823 transfers the responsibility for juvenile offenders, including all rehabilitative treatment services, to each county. This presents obvious challenges for smaller jurisdictions that may not be able to support or build the infrastructure required to run these programs.
Consortium approaches provide great solutions for these emerging issues as they help to pool risk and involve "less administrative burden with more focus on outcomes." Yolo County has signaled a move toward a consortium approach in response to SB 823 which would "allow youth to be relocated to other counties, based on the need of each youth" as opposed to building redundant infrastructure to support a relatively small number of offenders.
Law enforcement leaders should consider these recommendations — or some variation — to help address the relevant issues in today's policing environment. Since none of the recommendations are mutually exclusive, each one can be used simultaneously to achieve significant cost savings without disruptions to or reductions in service.
Regardless of the approach each agency ultimately pursues, the realities of the present era must be addressed. These realities involve scarce and costly resources, a troubled pension system, and a public who increasingly want their police to focus on felonious crimes as opposed to low-level ones. Effective resource allocation and an awareness of priorities informed by the community will ultimately place agencies in an optimal position to withstand the challenges ahead.
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St. Andrews Resident Awards "Pay it Forward" Scholarships
To offset a global nursing shortage, a former nurse is funding a $250,000 college scholarship and inspiring students to "pay it forward" after graduation.
Kay Carpenter, of St. Andrews Estates, knew she wanted to be a nurse when she was three years old. "As a small child I was hospitalized a number of times and it turned out that nurses were some of the nicest people I met," she said.
"There is a terrible nursing shortage now," Kay added. "I want to encourage young women who may be discouraged because of financial problems."
Kay worked as a nurse in the South Bay area of San Francisco. She went to nursing school in Switzerland, graduating from Ecole Le bon Secours in Geneva.
"There was only one nursing school in Geneva," Kay said. "I asked for an interview… once I passed the language and entrance exam I was accepted."
Throughout her career, she also returned annually to Geneva to train nurses in her specialty: hospice care. She now lives at St. Andrews Estates retirement community in Boca Raton, Florida, with her partner of 20 years, B G Carter.
The couple completed an exhaustive search to find the nursing program that would be the perfect fit.
"We chose FAU because of its high standing," Kay said. Florida Atlantic University's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing graduates achieved a perfect 100 percent passage rate on the National Council Licensure Examination, earning the top spot in Florida.
Kay met the recipients at a luncheon and was touched by their gratefulness and affection.
"I was surprised," Kay said. "Receiving the scholarship, none of them took it for granted that they were chosen. They were very eager to give back what they had received."
Kay invited each recipient after graduation and stable employment "on his/her honor" to pay a portion of it forward for the benefit of future nurses.
"I think it's incredible: we literally fund this scholarship ourselves," said Shanice Clayton, one of the first recipients. "To pay it forward, it's like a melting pot of love we pour back into this."
"Immediately when I saw Kay Carpenter – you know people who are true, honest and genuine - I gave her a big hug," Shanice beamed.
Shanice was accepted in a nurse residency program at a level one trauma center where she helps patients with brain and spinal cord injuries. She's aiming to become a stroke-certified nurse after her father suffered two strokes.
"The specialty chose me," Shanice explained. "It just clicked. My dad had two strokes in the past. This is a stroke unit. It literally found me. More so divine intervention I'd say."
Shanice's mother is also a nurse: "She matriculated through this same program. I'd like to follow in her footsteps."
Kay Carpenter hopes her scholarship will ease the financial burden on students and help them focus on their studies.
"Some students have to work during nursing school, care for relatives and miss classes," Kay said. "I didn't want that to happen."
"It's such a blessing and a huge weight off my shoulders," Shanice said. "I'm elated, honored and so grateful."
"This scholarship is bigger than us," Shanice added. "It's not just about getting our education and getting another degree. It's about learning so we can help people in the future."
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Cardi B and Offset are back together. Here's a timeline of their on-again, off-again relationship.
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Cardi B and Offset began dating in 2017.
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Musicians Cardi B and Offset met in 2017 and got married that same year.
The couple has been on-again,off-again for a few years.
In 2018, the pair welcomed their first child, a daughter named Kulture.
Cardi B filed for divorce from Offset in September and the two got back together in October.
On Monday, Cardi B filed to dismiss her petition for divorce, according to court records obtained by Insider.
The "Bartier Cardi" rapper Cardi B and Migos star Offset began dating in 2017, which is also the year they privately wed.
In September, after three years of marriage, Cardi B filed for divorce. On Monday, after getting back together with Offset in October, Cardi B filed to dismiss her petition for divorce, according to court records obtained by Insider.
Here's a timeline of Cardi B and Offset's relationship:
February 5, 2017: They sparked dating reports at the Super Bowl.
The Superbowl was their first official date.
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Cardi B and Offset set the internet ablaze when they were spotted sitting together at the 2017 Super Bowl.
Later, Offset would reveal in a Rolling Stone article that he had his publicist set the two up on a group hang in New York ahead of the big game, but that the Super Bowl was their first official date — a date Offset called "a power move."
May 18, 2017: Cardi B and Offset starred in the video for "Lick."
Cardi B and Offset recorded the song together months prior.
Cardi B and Offset dropped the video for their first musical collaboration, "Lick."
Interestingly, they recorded and released the song a month before they'd ever met (it's likely they recorded the track without ever meeting).
June 22, 2017: Cardi B publicly acknowledged the relationship.
Cardi B first talked about Offset in an interview with Fader.
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Cardi B finally opened up about her reported beau in an interview with Fader, though she played coy, only referring to him as "the boy," and talking mostly about their musical collaboration.
"It's been a blessing, me meeting him and meeting his friends. I see how hard they work. And that motivated me to work even harder," Cardi B told Fader.
August 27, 2017: Cardi B hinted at an engagement at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Cardi B said she wants to be engaged.
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Speaking to Charlamagne at the MTV Video Music Awards Pre-Show, Cardi B dropped a very loud hint to her boyfriend that she'd like to get engaged.
"I'm a woman. Every woman, I think, wants to get married and wants to have children. It's never too early to get married now. You know, if you want to propose to me, you can," she said.
October 21, 2017: Cardi B reportedly said she was "single."
Cardi B posted a confusing relationship status on Instagram.
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Cardi B posted a selfie to Instagram and captioned it: "Single." She quickly deleted the post.
The very next day she confirmed that she and Offset were still together and wrote: "I really loveeeee my man … he was gifted to me from Jesus."
October 27, 2017: Offset proposed to Cardi B.
Cardi B and Offset got engaged at a concert.
Offset proposed to Cardi B onstage at Power 99's Powerhouse concert in Philadelphia with a 20-carat diamond ring that he said cost "half a million."
Offset later told Rolling Stone that he proposed to her because "she is real solid, came from where I came from, did what I did. She's herself, man. I seen her develop from the trenches all the way up, and I like how she did it. I respect her grind as a woman."
Cardi B later wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post: "Jesus Christ I'm so emotional, [Offset] I loveee you so much. Thank you for seeing the potential in me since you met me. For giving me advice molding me and loving me. Your such a amazing man to me your family, friends, kids and you are extremely talented. I can't wait to spend FOREVAAAA with you. Let's make a lot shmoney and love together."
Months later, Cardi B would tell Jimmy Fallon during an appearance on "The Tonight Show" that she was surprised by the proposal and more specifically, the size of the ring.
"I mean, he always used to tell me, 'I'm going to marry you. I'm going to marry you.' And it's just like, 'Mmm. It's the right thing to do,'" she told Fallon. "But I knew he was going to give me a very expensive gift because he wasn't there for my birthday, but I thought he was going to give me a watch or something. He just went out of his way, okurrrrr!"
December 22, 2017: Cardi B name-dropped Offset all over "Bartier Cardi."
She sung about her relationship on "Bartier Cardi".
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Cardi B released "Bartier Cardi," which features references to Offset all over the song. After some criticism, she went on social media to defend her relationship.
"If I wanna put my man name on all my songs [so f------] what!! … I'm his biggest fan," she said.
December 24, 2017: A video claiming to be of Offset cheating on Cardi B surfaced online.
A second video leaked a few months later.
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In September 2017, someone claimed to have hacked Offset's iCloud account and leaked a video that was said to show Offset cheating on Cardi B with an unknown woman.
Then, a second video with another woman leaked in January 2018.
Cardi B immediately went on Instagram Live and defended her relationship and said, seemingly confirming the veracity of the video, "You live and you learn." A few days later, she told fans onstage at a concert, "I let a n---- know though … you pull that s--- again, you gonna lose your wife."
Cardi B's fans continued to pester her about her relationship into the new year.
"Why do I have to explain myself?" she wrote in a series of now-deleted tweets. "I don't ask ya why you still with that man that lives with his mom, that don't pay your bills … Since when you guys had perfect relationship?"
January 14, 2018: Offset got Cardi B's name tattooed on his neck.
Offset hot "Cardi B" tattooed on his body and seemingly confirmed they were still together.
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Seemingly implying that he and Cardi B had worked through their issues, Offset made it official by getting her name inked on his neck.
A week later, Offset told Rolling Stone that he and Cardi B were indeed together but that there were no immediate plans for a wedding.
"We chilling. We don't got time for that right now," he told the magazine.
In an interview with Cosmopolitan, Cardi B seemingly addressed Offset's reported infidelity.
"It's like everybody is coming down my neck like, 'Why are you not leaving him? You have low self-esteem.' I don't have low self-esteem … I know I look good. I know I'm rich, I know I'm talented. I know I could get any man I want—any basketball player, football player," she told Cosmopolitan.
"But I want to work out my s--- with my man, and I don't got to explain why. I'm not your property. This is my life ... I'm going to take my time, and I'm going to decide on my decision … It's not right, what he f------ did — but people don't know what I did, 'cause I ain't no angel," she continued.
March 29, 2018: Cardi B released "Be Careful" and fans thought some of her lyrics were directed at Offset.
The song was off of her new album.
The rapper dropped the song "Be Careful" off her "Invasion Of Privacy" album and fans thought some of the lyrics were referring directly to Offset on the topic of his infidelity.
"Be careful with me, do you know what you're doing?" she sings. "Whose feelings that you're hurting and bruising? You gonna gain the whole world, but is it worth the girl that you're losing? … Yeah, it's not a threat, it's a warning."
Meanwhile, Cardi B denied rumors that she was pregnant and told a fan on Instagram that she's just "fat."
April 7, 2018: Cardi B announced her pregnancy on "Saturday Night Live."
Cardi B confirmed her pregnancy while performing.
After several months of reports, Cardi B finally confirmed her pregnancy during her debut performance on "Saturday Night Live."
Immediately after her performance, Offset tweeted, "Cardi and I look forward to our next chapter together."
June 20, 2018: Cardi B and Offset solidified their spot as music's newest power couple.
Offset and Cardi B at Summer Jam 2019.
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The couple appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone together where they addressed their growing family (Offset has three other children — two sons, Jordan and Kody, and a daughter, Kalea).
"People want to make fun of me, saying I'm the fourth baby mom, [but] I know I'm not having a baby with a s----- a-- man," Cardi B said.
"We really love each other," Offset told the publication. "She's real. I wanted real. I also wanted successful."
June 25, 2018: Cardi B announced that they've been married for nine months.
The pair got married privately.
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At the 2018 BET Awards, Offset casually referred to Cardi B as his "wife."
Many brushed it off as a term of endearment, especially since Offset called her his wife in their recent Rolling Stone interview.
However, Cardi B (and TMZ) eventually confirmed that they had indeed wed back on September 20, 2017 — a month before they got engaged.
"One morning in September we woke up and decided to get married," she tweeted in June.
They got married in their bedroom in Atlanta, Georgia, and their only witness was Cardi B's cousin.
As for why Offset publicly got down on one knee a month after they were legally wed, Cardi B explained that she always wanted to experience "that special moment … when he got down on one knee."
July 10, 2018: Cardi B gave birth to Kulture Kiari Cephus.
Cardi announced the birth of her baby on Instagram.
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Cardi B gave birth to a baby girl named Kulture Kiari Cephus and announced it on Instagram with a lavish nude photoshoot.
September 28, 2018: The couple adopted a dog.
Two months after welcoming their first child together, Cardi B announced that she and Offset also adopted a dog.
"We got another one," Cardi B captioned a photo of her husband with the cute puppy.
December 2018: Cardi B said that she and Offset broke up.
She released the video on her Instagram.
Cardi B announced in an Instagram video posted on December 4, 2018, that she and her husband have broken up after getting secretly married in September 2017.
"We've got a lot of love for each other, but things just haven't been working out between us for a long time. And it's nobody's fault," she said. "It's just, like, I guess we grew out of love. But we're not together anymore."
Also in the video, Cardi B said they are looking into getting a divorce, but it "might take time."
February 2019: The couple seemed to be back together and they appeared at two major events.
They touched tongues on the red carpet, too.
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Cardi B and Offset were photographed together at a 2019 Super Bowl party in February and they hit the Grammys red carpet together a few days later.
While walking the carpet, they even touched tongues while posing for photographers.
July 2019: Cardi B seemingly got a tattoo that says "Offset."
It seems they both have tattoos for each other.
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On July 21, Offset posted a FaceTime screenshot on Instagram, which showed Cardi B revealing the words "Offset" printed on the back of her thigh.
He captioned it, "CANT WAIT TO GET HOME" with three tongue emojis.
December 2019: In a Vogue interview, Cardi B said she and Offset brought used priests and prayer to help them overcome his cheating scandal.
Cardi B told Vogue that "monogamy is the only way."
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Reflecting on the cheating scandal that happened a year ago, Cardi B told Vogue magazine that she and Offset worked through everything together.
"I believe in forgiveness. I prayed on it. Me and my husband, we prayed on it. We had priests come to us. And we just came to an understanding like, bro, it's really us against the world," she told Vogue magazine.
The rapper went on to say that "monogamy is the only way" and that the two of them have now "come to a clear understanding."
December 2019: Cardi B gave Offset cash for his birthday.
It's quite a gift.
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When Migos turned 28 years old, to celebrate, Cardi B gave him half a million dollars.
"So, you know everyone's saying you got every car, you got every jewelry, [sic] you got everything. You got every shoe. What else can I give someone that got everything?" Cardi B said in an Instagram video before telling Offset to look in the fridge behind him.
The fridge was filled with stacks of cash, which she said amounted to $500,000. Offset then told her, "You don't have to give me this money."
"I know I don't have to give you the money, but I don't know what to give you, so I suppose I gotta give you something," she added, telling him he can use it to buy a car, more clothes, jewelry, or whatever he wants.
January 2020: The two attended the Grammys together.
Cardi B and Offset at the 2020 Grammys.
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The couple chose to skip the red carpet, but appeared at the award show together and at a pre-Grammys event days earlier.
The two were nominated for best rap performance for their collaboration "Clout," though they did not win.
May 2020: The couple celebrated Mother's Day together.
Cardi B and her daughter, Kulture.
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Cardi B shared a photo of her, Offset, and Kulture on Instagram with the caption, "Happy Mother's Day."
Offset also shared a tribute to his wife on Instagram, writing, "Happy Mother's Day since I met you it's been love thank you for my beautiful daughter she smart with attitude like you and talented like us both my kids and you help me become a better guy all around
Thank You WIFE !!!!"
The next day, Cardi B shared a photo of herself with her gifts, which included dozens of roses and two Birkin bags.
September 2020: Cardi B reportedly filed for divorce from Offset.
Cardi B has reportedly filed for divorce.
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After almost three years of marriage, Cardi B reportedly filed for divorce from Offset on September 15.
According to court documents obtained by E! Online, the marriage was called "irretrievably broken." Per the publication, in the documents, Cardi B requested child support for their 2-year-old daughter, Kulture.
According to court papers obtained by TMZ, Cardi B is also reportedly seeking legal custody and primary physical custody of Kulture.
October 2020: Cardi B shared she and Offset were back together.
Cardi B said she and Offset were back together.
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In an Instagram Live video, acquired by TMZ, Cardi B shared that she and Offset were back together.
"One day I'm happy, the next day I want to beat him the f--- up," she said in the video. " ... It's really hard not to talk to your best friend, and it's really hard to have no d---."
She also responded to accusations that she got back together with Offset because he gifted her a Rolls Royce for her 28th birthday.
"I do like material things," she said. "What do y'all want me to do?"
Representatives for Cardi B and Offset did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
In November, Cardi B filed to dismiss the divorce.
Cardi B is a rapper.
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On Monday, the rapper filed to dismiss her petition for divorce, according to court documents obtained by Insider.
The dismissal was filed "without prejudice," meaning Cardi B can refile for divorce from Offest in the future.
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