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Can APRA and Cossie feel vindicated by Adler jailing?
Rodney Adler got what he deserved, but did Treasurer Costello and his appointed regulators get theirs? The sentencing judge said the following right upfront: It is important to note at the beginning of these remarks that he has not been charged or convicted of being a director of a large public company which went broke […]
Rodney Adler got what he deserved, but did Treasurer Costello and his
appointed regulators get theirs? The sentencing judge said the
following right upfront:
It is important to note at the beginning
of these remarks that he has not been charged or convicted of being a
director of a large public company which went broke resulting in large
losses to shareholders and creditors, including a large number of
insurance claimants, whose claims could not be met and others such as
building owners who could not get their work done or completed because
insurance for buildings ceased to be available. As he has not been
charged or convicted of any of those things, he cannot be sentenced or
punished for them in these proceedings. It has not been suggested, and
cannot be, that the conduct alleged in these four counts and to which
the offender has pleaded guilty caused or significantly contributed to
the collapse of HIH in 2001 with debts of $5.3 billion.
That apparently didn't suit Treasurer
Costello, nor the ABC and ASIC head Jeff Lucy. After all, the HIH Royal
Commission into the HIH collapse cost a reputed $100 million, and
Adler, if they can be believed, caused the collapse. Let's make sure
we're all getting our money's worth here.
Today's SMH carried the following:
The federal treasurer, Peter Costello, said
the jail sentence would send a strong message to corporate Australia.
"Criminal conduct in the corporate sphere will be investigated, it will
be prosecuted and the courts have shown that they are prepared to
impose heavy jail terms."
The Government had invested millions
bringing those responsible for the HIH collapse to justice, he said.
HIH collapsed in March 2001 with debts of $5.3 billion, triggering a
torrent of litigation.
Much the same was reported by
the ABC on its 7pm news broadcast which also featured ASIC head Jeff
Lucy imputing the same sentiments.
So where does that leave the ABC, SMH , Costello and Lucy? Were they misleading the public? As the actor Harvey Kietel playing the FBI agent in the film National Treasure
says to Nicholas Cage, somebody has to go to jail. That's Adler, fallen
national treasure, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the
collapse of HIH. The media is doing nothing but falling for the party
line. No wonder they were such suckers for Adler's pitches.
why is a higher standard being demanded of Adler than the treasurer and
the head of ASIC (and APRA), who, it should not be forgotten, were
sound asleep at the wheel for years while trouble brewed at HIH? On the
Adler servitude scale, how many years in the iron motel would they rate
for overlooking the damage being done out there in corporate land and
misleading the public? Is it really now safe to go back into the
investment waters now that Adler is behind bars?
For instance,
what about the Pasmincos and Homesides of the world? Nothing misleading
there? All transparent? No investigation? Why not? Does it really just
come down to who is in the frame?
Catching and jailing a
colourful miscreant corporate tadpole in the scheme of things like
Adler does nothing to address the underlying rotten corporate morality
that festers behind the sharp suits, slick lawyers and well padded pay
packets of the sanctimonious big end of town. It appears they are quite
beyond the reach of the law. And the government and the regulators it
appoints give every impression of applying the law selectively. A far
cry from Eliot Spitzer indeed.


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Mariah Idrissi Famously Wore a Hijab in a H&M Campaign but It's the Reason 1 Brand Dropped Her
Mariah Idrissi Dropped From Beauty Campaign For Hijab
29 April, 2018 by Najla Moussa
A British model revealed that she was cut from a big beauty campaign because she wears a hijab.
Mariah Idrissi, 25, first rose to fame in 2015 as the first hijab-wearing woman to feature in an H&M campaign. However, it seems that not everyone in the fashion and beauty industry feels positive about the hijabi representation.
Idrissi revealed on ITV News series, Young, British and Muslim, that she was dropped from a big beauty campaign simply because she wears a hijab. The shocked model said that just as the deal was about to go through, one of the outlets that needed to sign off on the project balked at the idea of using Idrissi in their campaign as they believe it "limits the audience as she's Muslim."
Funny, that. Especially considering the fanfare and admiration British Vogue received when they featured nine diverse women on their May 2017 cover – including 20-year-old Halima Aden, the first hijab-wearing model to appear on the cover of the magazine ever since it was founded in 1916. Supermodel Naomi Campbell called the cover "stunning," "Divine," "Amazing," and "off the charts."
Seems like inclusion is the trend in the industry – one we feel is here to stay, kind of like your favorite LBD dress. And those brands that don't embrace it will feel the sting of rejection all-round – as they deserve, frankly.
Image Source: Instagram user mariahidrissi
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Q: How to optimize for-loop I'm using for-loop to filter matches from opencv knnFlann matcher, but i would need to optimize it
Code:
def orb_calc_matches(matches, distance_range=0.65):
    good_matches = []
    queried_matches = []

    for i in range(len(matches)):
        if len(matches[i]) == 2:
            if ((matches[i][0].trainIdx not in queried_matches) and (matches[i][0].distance < distance_range * matches[i][1].distance)):
                good_matches.append(matches[i][0])
                queried_matches.append(matches[i][0].trainIdx)
    return good_matches

can sombody propose, some more efficient way of doing this?

A: Make queried_matches a set. And use for m in matches: rather than a indexed loop as the indexes aren't needed.
def orb_calc_matches(matches, distance_range=0.65):
    good_matches = []
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    for m in matches:
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            if ((m[0].trainIdx not in queried_matches) and
                (m[0].distance < distance_range * m[1].distance)):
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    return good_matches

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Steven Johnson, author of several books including Everything Bad is Good for You , gives a short speech about where good ideas come from and how to actively cultivate them. The talk is part of a promotion that Penguin Books USA is doing to promote Steven's new book Where Good Ideas Come From which you can now pre-order.
Thanks to RSA for doing these wonderful whiteboard animations, keep them coming!
What happens to those RSA Animate whiteboard drawings?


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'Goldenballs' plan for a new footie stadium at the Port of Miami loses its lustre as the shipping fraternity weighs anchor on the project
David Beckham's dreams of building a football stadium in Miami have fallen foul of a formidable alliance of adversaries who have launched a newspaper campaign to condemn the plan, saying it would disrupt the port that is the lifeblood of the city.
The former England captain and star of the Major League Soccer team LA Galaxy announced his vision two months ago to bring an MLS side to Miami, stock it with some of the biggest names in the game, and build a 25,000-seat stadium on the city's waterfront. Some of Miami's most powerful business leaders, however, have urged authorities to give his plan the red card.
In a full-page advertisement in The Miami Herald, the group, the Miami Seaport Alliance (MSA), said that a stadium would interfere with cruise and cargo operations at the port, potentially jeopardising thousands of jobs and hindering expansion plans.
"We support a soccer franchise in Miami wholeheartedly and there are several suitable sites that would benefit tremendously from a stadium. However, Port Miami is not one of them," the group, which is led by Royal Caribbean Cruises, said.
The port is the area's most valuable economic engine after tourism, contributing $27 billion (£16 billion) a year to city coffers and supporting more than 207,000 jobs.
In anticipation of a doubling of cargo traffic over the next ten years, due in part to the expansion of the Panama Canal and growing cruise line operations, the MSA wants the vacant land on which Beckham hopes to build to be preserved solely for industrial purposes.
Well-paid jobs for crane operators and mechanics would be replaced by low-earning stadium jobs, such as food vendors, the advert said.
The opportunity to buy an MLS franchise for a cut-price $25 million was written into Beckham's contract when he signed for LA Galaxy in 2007. He would co-own the franchise with his investors, the Bolivian-born telecoms billionaire Marcelo Claure and his business manager Simon Fuller, the Pop Idol creator.
"I know this city is ready for football. This is a dream," Mr Beckham said at a Miami press conference announcing the move in February, at which he pledged to make the team the best in the world. However, he also predicted "a few bumps along the way".
Gaining the necessary planning permission is a process likely to be protracted by political and industrial influences. Though Miami's mayor is on board, some of the commissioners on the Miami-Dade County planning board who initially appeared in favour have since voiced doubts.
A failure to win planning permission would be likely to prolong, though not necessarily derail, Beckham's plans to bring MLS football to the city. Other potential stadium sites have been identified by his group, though the port area — overlooking the downtown skyline — is at the top of his wish list.
John Alschuler, Mr Beckham's real estate adviser, said yesterday: "David has proposed a stadium that would be transformative for Miami. There's always opposition with big moves and transformative activity. That's no great surprise. We are confident that the people looking to create a new future, new jobs and new energy will look beyond the narrow self-interest of people who have yet to muster any factual argument or identified any basis for opposition."
He added: "I have spoken with Simon Fuller several times and Simon is convinced that Miami will rally around an affirmative vision for its place on a global stage."
The MSA statement urged in its open letter to the local community: "Don't be misled by the rhetoric. Let's drop anchor on this harmful idea immediately and focus our attention on developing one of the other potential locations."
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Review: Don't Look Up
— by BEV QUESTAD —
A giant comet, possibly 6 miles in diameter, is on a path to destroy habitation on earth. Dr. Mindy and his graduate student, Kate Dibiasky, warn the president, whose plan emerges: "Sit tight and assess." Mid-term elections are coming up and her Supreme Court nominee has been exposed in a sex scandal. Who has time to think about the planet or, by the way, the people?
Leonardo DiCaprio certainly is a nerdy Dr. Mindy. He and his graduate student, Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), must convince the world, if not the president, that a comet big enough to destroy life on earth will be striking the earth in six months.
Replete with a gigantic painting of Nixon in the Oval Office, President Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) is the epitome of a leader who is most concerned with re-election. Carefully not mimicking anyone we may know, her dramatically curled wig belies her shallow narcissistic values. To her credit, but also to deflect attention from the unraveling perversion of her Supreme Court nominee, she approves a master plan to attack the comet with a suicide shuttle mission alongside missiles to either attack the comet, smashing it to smithereens or possibly knocking it off course. We're not told. However, just when her rockets of mass destruction successfully lift off, she calls them all back when an entrepreneur whispers how this potential catastrophe could be transformed into a lucrative boon for survivors.
"Saturday Night Live" Writer Makes it Big
This is Adam McKay, writer/director/producer, at his best. A wildly outrageous science fiction satire, "Don't Look Up" is his Netflix baby, though he allows improvisations and collaboration, most notably from Meryl Streep for her inclusion of asking, as the president, how she will die, from Leo DiCaprio on one of his character's final musings, and from Jonah Hill's comment as the president's son's on getting a Like on his cell phone.
Famous for "Vice" and "The Big Short," McKay is a prodigious talent. In 1995, at age 27, he was head writer for "Saturday Night Live" where he stayed until 2001. For the purpose of full disclosure, he identifies as a democrat socialist and endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020.
Apocalyptic Response to the Deniers
"Don't Look Up" is specifically a response to science deniers, most notably those who deny climate change. Though concept and script were in the works before Covid came to roost, the film's theme works for anti-vac folks as well. Deny the facts and you will suffer.
For those with specific questions about aspects in "Don't Look Up," like the feasibility of an object so large hitting earth, the US Planetary Defense Coordination Office explains that near-earth objects (NEO) are monitored and plans on how to either prevent or mitigate an earth (or sun) impact are in development. At present, astronomers calculate that over the next 100 years there will be no direct impacts with either the earth or sun.
Unfortunately, what Mindy and Dibiasky knew, is that if a huge item was hurtling towards earth, it "could not be shot down in the last few minutes or even hours before impact. No known weapon system could stop the mass because of the velocity at which it travels – an average of 12 miles per second" (https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/overview).
However, Gerald McKeegan, an astronomer at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, reports that three plans to protect earth from an impact are in development. One involves deflecting a NEO from its orbit/trajectory. As a matter of fact, this plan will be tested next September on an outlying NEO. Other methods in process include a gravity tracker involving a spacecraft that uses gravitational force to lead the object from its path and a rocket thruster that is attached to the NEO to push it out of the way.
McKay hired Dr. Amy Mainzer as his top science consultant for "Don't Look Up" to get the science for his film as accurate as possible. Formerly a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Dr. Mainzer is a professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona specializing in NEOs. She is the one who determined that the object in the film hurtling towards earth should be a comet, rather than an asteroid, and what it would look like. She was also consulted about how to focus on the importance of science, and science denialism. Mainzer reported, "We covered everything from the importance of the peer review process to the visual effects" (Kay, Don. Den of Geek. 24 Dec. 2021).
Expendable Truth
The media does not escape a lampoon. Fixated on giving an audience what they think they want rather than the hard core truth, Brie Evantee (Cate Blanchett), hard and manipulative, and Jack Bremmer (Tyler Perry), congenial and naive, typify the networks that trivialize, misrepresent, or ignore the big issues. As personalities, Evantee is without morals or empathy. She is a utilitarian – what works is what sells.
What's God Got to Do with It?
Whether it's the end of the world, the death of someone you love or the end of your personal life, what might our (last) thoughts be? Would we look to God? McKay has reported that he was just trying to process "what the eff is going on in reality." But his co-producer, Ron Suskind, asked him where faith was in this film. And that is why a skate-boarder, however ridiculous, comes to be connected to Jennifer Lawrence's character and appears in The Last Supper. And it is this scene that is my favorite. Finally serious, finally with each other, and finally grateful, the scene at the dinner table is the most tender and meaningful moment in the film.
The approaching comet gives McKay an opportunity to represent science. Whether it's about Covid or Climate Change, ignoring honest scientists like Dr. Mindy could lead the world to a precipice of No Return. The president, representing a brand of blind capitalism, narcissism and irresponsible self-interest, is a microcosm of the majority who elected her. She is Us and we are responsible for Her.
"Don't Look Up" has been nominated for 19 awards and will be nominated for more. As far as acting, set design, screenplay, directing, and presentation go, McKay's exceptionally important film will certainly be on Oscar's Best Movie short list.
Writer: Adam McKay (story and screenplay) and David Sirota (story)
Producers: Adam McKay and Kevin Messick
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi, Cate Blanchett and Meryl Streep
Cinematography: Linus Sandgren
Editor: Hank Corwin
Music: Nicholas Britell
Production Company: Hyperobject Industries
Distributor: Netflix
Release date: Dec. 10, 2021
Official Website: https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357
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Leader Anne Klaeysen interviews Sheri Berman, professor of political science at Barnard College, Columbia University, on the topic of free speech versus hate speech on university campuses. Dr. Berman's research interests include the development of democracy and dictatorship, European politics, populism and fascism, and the history of the left. Berman is the author of books on European social democracy and the fate of democracy during the interwar years and social democracy and fascism in 19th and 20th century Europe. Her latest book, Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Regime to the Present Day is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Sheri Berman is a professor of political science at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research interests include the development of democracy and dictatorship, European politics, populism and fascism, and the history of the left. She is author of books on European social democracy and the fate of democracy during the interwar years, social democracy and fascism in 19th and 20th century Europe and her latest book, Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. In addition to her scholarly work, she has published in a wide variety of non-scholarly publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, VOX, The Guardian and Dissent. In her spare time she runs, cycles and helps run an animal rescue organization in Brooklyn, New York.
Universal Children's Day celebration with Amy Reid! Children celebrate the UN "Rights of the Child," giving speeches to one another about their hopes and dreams for this world we live in.
Hosted by the Ethical Action Committee and local chapters of Amnesty International.


Every sale starts with a conversation.
Auto Dealers today are expected to offer similar retail experiences as their non-automotive counterparts, providing customer service on the level of companies such as Nordstrom, Amazon and others. This means providing information helpful to the Consumers' overall experience of purchasing as well as ownership.
The Vin-UP™ program allows your Dealership to instantly inform a Service Customer of the possible value of their aging vehicle. Our professional, NO COST Call Center of commissioned Salespeople will reach out to every customer that receives a Vin-UP Ticket to reinforce the offer to buy their vehicle and set an appointment to receive a cash offer. Your store pays ONLY for "kept" appointments! Many service customers will also approach the Sales Department on the same day! This is the type of experience consumers have come to expect from other retailers. As a result, our Dealer partners will increase their Quality Pre-Owned inventory with vehicles that they themselves have been servicing for years (with no competition or bidding on the vehicle), sell more new vehicles, and avoid long term Service Customer attrition through aggressive Sales tactics.
The Vin-UP™ kit allows your valets, porters and Service Advisors to quickly scan the VIN Barcode on incoming Service vehicles with Smart Scanners utilizing our proprietary application. If the vehicle fits your desired profile (i.e., vehicles aged from 2004-2014), the Service Customer is handed an instantly printed coupon (from our portable printers) with a price offer on their vehicle. Dealers can include an added incentive (i.e., $30 Service Credit) to prompt more customers to approach Sales and discuss their vehicle. Service Advisors can "Upsell" the customer through a brief explanation of the offer. Since many Dealers provide "spiffs" to Service Advisors that initiate a sales, it's a great way for Advisors to increase their own income.
Our NO COST Call Center will then reach out to every customer that received a Vin-UP Offer, and ask them to return to the store to receive a cash evaluation on the vehicle.
That's up to each Dealer's Sales Manager/BDC. Vin-UP™ allows Sales to target aging Service vehicles in any range (i.e. "all service vehicles aged 2007-2013"). Service Customers that aren't in that age range will not receive any offers. For example, if your Dealership is servicing 70 RO's daily, it's likely that 40% of those vehicles are aged 4 years or older. You can use your service appointment log to control the number of offers you put out in any given day. Why not put an offer in 20 or more Service Customers' hands today?
Vin-UP utilizes data from partners such as KBB to generate instantly printed valuations. Dealers can choose their own valuation from a list, i.e. "Blue Book Trade in Average," etc. These can be changed at any time through the Customized Dealer Portal.
Service Customers with older vehicles come back to your store for one reason: An Excellent Retail Experience. An "uninvited solicitation" from a Salesperson, regardless of your intent or skillset, will drive many previously loyal Service Customers to independent and franchise repair shops for oil changes and other work. 0% of Service Customers want to be approached by Salespeople. Vin-UP™ provides valuable information on the possible worth of their current vehicle, and invites the customer to call an 800# to set an appointment at their convenience to receive a cash offer. Since most of these Customers have been loyal to your Dealership for 4 years or more, they are very likely to buy from you again. Aggressive Sales tactics in the Service waiting room however will have the opposite effect.
Every Dealer has experienced Customers "Showrooming" deals, using their smart phones to seek information on pricing from other sources outside their store. Successful Auto Dealers are comfortable with Customers having a solid starting point to begin negotiations, and today's educated Buyer/Sellers insist on it. You have the option to offer a "Rough Trade In" valuation to every customer, to assure the most conservative wholesale purchase price for pre-owned vehicles.
No, Vin-UP™ is an Appointment Setting program for Service Customers to wholesale their cars to the Dealer. Your current Data Mining tools can however be an important part of your selling process, once we bring the Service Customer to your Sales Staff.
No, Vin-UP™ is sold on a monthly subscription basis, you pay ONLY for "kept" appointments, not "appointments set." There are NO Call Center Fees!
Absolutely. Your customized Vin-UP™ Dealer Web Portal records Total Service Vehicles Scanned and Total Offers Made to Service Customers. Your Sales Staff can enter each customer's data in our portal, which can be uploaded through a CSV file to ANY CRM. It's easy to "match up" sold vehicles to Vin-UP™ leads generated from the Service Department at the end of the selling period.
Vin-UP™ is available for a reasonable monthly fee, which includes a single scanner/printer kit (enough for about 70 RO's/Day). Additional kits for larger Stores and thermal printing paper are slightly extra. We are priced in line with other lead generation services, please email sales@mssauto.com for rates and a Vin-UP™ Sales Kit.
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Benny Blanco, Selena Gomez, Tainy & J Balvin Dropped 'I Can't Get Enough'
By Jessica Goodman Feb 28, 2019
Benny Blanco teamed up with Selena Gomez, J Balvin and Tainy to bring a new Spanglish track called I Can't Get Enough. Not sure about you but I Can't Get Enough of this track! There are a lot of these Spanglish tracks but it making me appreciate music so much more.
Lady Gaga Finally Addresses Bradley Cooper Romance Rumors


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The Google Earth software is becoming increasingly popular among geographers today. If you are an expert in this area and seeking to work on the internet, then you can now visit Freelancer.com to get hired instantly.
Google Earth is a 3 Dimension rendition of the physical features in the real world. This software is popular among geographers and they use it to view the earth and features in it as they are seen from space.
Are you a Google Earth expert seeking to work online for some extra cash or even on full-time basis? If your answer is in the affirmative, then Freelancer.com is perhaps the most renowned, job-posting website today and freelancers here can review a number of jobs in their fields of expertise before making bids. The best thing is that the site also has a wide range of Google Earth projects, and with their rates going up to $300 per project, professionals here will have something to smile about.
Google Maps is a powerful tool that you can use on your website.


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Cherokee Nation says Warren is 'undermining tribal interests' with DNA test
Politics Oct 16, 2018 9:37 AM EST
A Cherokee Nation official says Sen. Elizabeth Warren "is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage."
Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. said Monday that DNA tests are useless to determine tribal citizenship and don't distinguish whether a person's ancestors were indigenous to North or South America.
He said "using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong."
Warren on Monday released DNA test results providing some evidence of a Native American in her lineage.
The Massachusetts Democrat, who said she was told her mother was "part Cherokee and part Delaware," acknowledged that DNA and family history have nothing to do with tribal affiliation or citizenship, which is determined by tribal nations.
She said she respects that distinction and doesn't list herself as Native American in the Senate.
READ MORE: Elizabeth Warren releases DNA analysis as evidence of Native American heritage
Left: The Cherokee Nation is criticizing the way Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has characterized her Native American heritage. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Trump says climate change not a hoax, but not sure of its source
Elizabeth Warren releases DNA analysis as evidence of Native American heritage
DNA ancestry searches can now identify most white Americans. Here's why that's legally questionable
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Complete our online application form. When you hit send, your details will be sent directly to our business development team for review. Please complete as many points as possible as this will greatly assist us in expediting prevette approval (confirmation from our banks that they wish to review a full application from you).
Once we receive a completed application form, your personal account manager will be in touch within 2 business days to confirm next steps.
Alternatively, you can send an email to info@fac.bm to establish contact with the Business Development department.
Via e-mail and conferences calls, our business development team will work with you to confirm requirements and will advise on which of the banks, in which jurisdictions, will be right for you. They will review your processing history, and your future needs, and will work with the banks to tailor a pricing proposal that is right for you.
Once pricing and terms are agreed, our business development team will send you the relevant bank(s) application form(s) and list of the required supporting corporate documentation.
Timelines for bank approval are down to how you can obtain the relevant supporting corporate information. In the first instance you will be able to e-mail the completed application forms and supporting information. Final approval will be dependent on the bank receiving certified copies of original documents directly from you.
Once we receive approval from the bank(s), our business development team will advise you directly. Approval is the trigger point for the review and signature of our payment processing agreements. You will also receive account opening forms and contracts containing your final pricing directly from our bank colleagues.
Approval is also the point at which you must initiate incorporation of a company that complies with Card Association requirements that merchants have a corporate presence in the jurisdiction in which they settle their online sales (if required). You may already have a company in place that is compliant. If not, our team can introduce you to a trusted fiduciary and you can discuss your particular requirements directly with them.
Approval is also the trigger for our business development team to make the appropriate introductions to our technical team so that integration and testing can begin.
Once your merchant accounts are open and we have set-up and tested your MIDs (merchant Ids) in our system, final testing with you will take place, followed by user training, as required, on our web reports.
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Most people will automatically assume that the answer to this question is to re-mortgage and take your mortgage balance elsewhere.
However that is not actually the case these days.
Most banking providers who have been stung by offering the best deals to new customers have now started to consider what happens if they make deals available to everyone who is savvy enough to take them.
And indeed now many financial providers will allow you to siwtch to a different rate of interest or even another type of mortgage.
The only caveat to be aware of is that if you have a mortgage that includes some sort of early repayment charge (a menacing and mean thing called ERC) then you will probably have to pay that off if you do switch, so you will need to offset the cost of that against the better rate you would presumably get by switching or at least the benefits of the new mortgage type you are considering.
Of course, the other way to change interest rate is simply to remortgage and go elsewhere.
This is the route that many choose and is perenially popular.
There is something extra to consider with that option, however, and that is with regard the fees that there will be such as legal fees and solicitors costs etc which may start to stack up, as well as valuation fees, if you choose to move elsewhere.


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With that in mind, we've rounded up 18 wedding-guest dresses in a wide array of styles, from maxi dresses to picks with sleeves and without.


This backless sheer chiffon belly dance halter top features different shaped paillettes, sequins, colourful bells, and intricate bead work.
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…a disease that both kills and gives life. Fire, by its nature, both creates and destroys. "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower," wrote Dylan Thomas, "Drives my green age, that blasts the root of trees/ Is my destroyer." Mania is a strange and driving force, a destroyer, a fire in the blood.
In other works, Jamison extensively explores the relationship between bipolar and creativity, citing examples in the lives of many artists past and present who displayed significant symptoms yet produced amazing expressions of life and the world around them.
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Not many of us (only one, in fact) can be Kay Redfield Jamison. I see my bipolar more as a "thorn in my flesh" than something that has enhanced my life. Still, I am grateful. Through this thorn I have discovered that God's grace is sufficient. This realization has led me to a more abundant life in Christ and given me a greater appreciation for the struggles of others.
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Discussion in 'Off-Topic' started by sleigher, Jan 23, 2012.
and I wanted to use it to output a certain frequency, somewhere in the 40 to 44 Khz range, what could I do to take the output and manifest it mechanically in a piece of sheet metal or something like that? Or am I going about solving this completely the wrong way and I need to generate that frequency another way?
I am new to this sort of thing and only know what I have taught myself at home testing circuits and what not.
and manifest it mechanically in a piece of sheet metal or something like that?
If you have a look at the first picture in the datasheet you posted you'll see that all you need is a resistor to determine frequency.
For about 44kHz tie pin 4 to Vcc and use a resistor value of 22k.
The oscillator IC will run at the frequencies you mention. It is not clear however whatm problem are you trying to solve, nor how you are trying to do it.
if the power requirement wasn't too high.
I know all I need is a resistor to set the frequency. That's the easy part. I will probably use a variable POT to attempt to fine tune the frequency.
I want to vibrate a piece of 26 gauge stainless steel. It is very thin metal so the transducer thing might work. I guess I will have to sort out how much power I will need. Will be a plate about 5 or 6 inches square. Maybe about 10 of them together.
I will just have start small and experiment to see where I need to go.
Thanks guys. This was a big help.
is a high power 44khz transducer made specifically for what it sound like you are doing. The page even offers suggestions on how to attach it and to drive it.
I am curious about the transducer though. From what I have read the ceramic type are cut for a specific frequency. I am not exactly sure what the specific frequency is that I need. Somewhere in the 41.5 to 43 Khz range.
Are transducers capable of dealing with a varying frequency? Is there something else I can use to dial in the specific frequency I need? A variable ultrasonic transducer?
What are you trying to achieve? There may be a simpler solution to what you'd like to do.
This company sells transducers for ultrasonic cleaners, which is about the best drive you'll be able to get for your project, though I'd suggest using a thinner metal sheet of the smallest dimensions to start with.
The amount of power used in cleaners is 50 Watts (A LOT of amplification, if you are starting with the VCO) and the transducers aren't able to be tuned over a wide range, maybe 500Hz either side of center, you'd be best getting info from a company similar to the one linked.
You'll also probably want to get a small transducer as a receiver to connect to an amp and scope to determine if the output in air is at the amplitude and frequency desired.
Other than making sheet metal shake, what are you trying to accomplish? What part of your project is frequency sensitive?
You guys gave me a good idea. I am gonna take apart one of those ultra sonic humidifiers and see if I can modify that to get what I want cheaply. They sell them online for $45.
Ultimately, I want to make the metal resonate at the frequency of water, while performing low voltage electrolysis to see if it increases the output of HHO gas. Seems I need a lot of power for the frequency aspect of it to be at all useful though. I guess that's what testing is. Test different methods and see what I get.
I see lots of dry cells and wet cells but I don't see anyone attempting to mix the different theories together to increase production.
I might even go down the path of making chemalloy to see if vibrating that at the resonant frequency of the water will increase output. Also while performing electrolysis with it. 3 HHO producing technologies in one.
Wouldn't it be easier to just use an ultrasonic cleaner bath?
Here are two units of different sizes and prices.
Yes, it would. The second one looks perfect.
There is no resonate frequency of water, unless you count the terahertz range (10e15 hertz). This is a myth promoted by scammers selling HHO.
HHO is not allowed at this site, as it is a scam that we refuse to support. I assume you are talking overunity, which is the usual goal. If overunity existed, the creation of energy from nothing, the universe would basically cease to exist in the explosion that would follow. However, it is very profitable for scammers, and so it goes. There are three laws of thermodynamics that cover this, but science does not let a scammer make money.
I am closing this thread. This is not a punishment, but as I said, this subject is not allowed here.


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Lured In (Fishing for Trouble #2)
October 5, 2016 Holly	Leave a comment
Author: Laura Drewry
Publisher: Loveswept
Buy Links: Amazon
Type: Novel in Series
Blurb: The O'Donnell brothers continue to cast their lines and find love at the Buoys—their magnificent Pacific Northwest fishing haven—in this alluring romance from the bestselling author of Off the Hook.
Seasick. That's how Jessie Todd feels when her best friend and boss, Finn O'Donnell, tells her that the Buoys will be featured on a popular fishing program—which just so happens to be hosted by a guy she used to date. She's still friendly with her ex, but her new feelings for Finn are making things . . . complicated. His life is out on the sea, and though Jessie works at the resort, her paralyzing phobia of water keeps her on land, where she's safe. To take a shot with Finn, she'll need to face her fears—and her innermost desires—head-on.
Finn has been nursing a crush on Jess for a long time, so when she suddenly asks for swimming lessons, he dives right in. Holding her shaking hand as she steps into the ocean makes his heart swell—despite the sinking feeling that she's just doing it to impress that smarmy TV host. Finn doesn't trust anyone with his bruised and battered heart, but he'll be forced to lay it all on the line to keep Jess from being the one that got away.
Review: While I've never been one to think fishing is sexy, this book made a fish whisperer believer out of me. The story was richly layered including revealing painfully awful pasts for both characters, lots of suspenseful intrigue, and the things we do in the name of family loyalty. I have to say I really enjoyed it and I'm going to go and read the first in the series about Liam and Kate–already got it on the kindle.
Jess had escaped the ominous cloud hanging over her family by running away at seventeen to the farthest, most remote location she could find–the Pacific Northwest. Buoys was a well known but isolated Canadian fishing lodge and seeing their help wanted posting had come at the right time. She'd gotten off the sea plane and just never left. That didn't mean she'd never wanted to be more than a combination maid/organizer/fish cleaner at Bouys forever. But the O'Donnells had become her family, and Finn was her best friend. Which made it super annoying that she was having feelings for him.
When they get the news that a popular fishing show host wants to film an episode there, it's great news for their place but bad news for Jess. She'd casually dated the host of the show, Sam, a while back, and they're still friends., but she's not interested in getting back together with him either. But between his mysterious hints on the phone and the others pressuring her to be nice to him, it's making her feel really uncomfortable. Plus, his brother Liam and his girlfriend Kate seem to be hinting obliquely that she shouldn't get together with Finn–apparently, her new feelings for him aren't quite as hidden as she thought.
Finn has always cared deeply for Jess and considered her his best friend. He's been having disturbing feelings for her and seems to be viewing her in a new light…until they get the news that her old boyfriend Sam is coming to the Buoys. What that could mean for their family business is amazing; for him personally? Not so much. He's been thinking of Jessie as his–now what if she got back together with Sam?
Great, meaningful story with emotional depth and lots of great character development. Laura Drewry does for fishing what other authors are doing for hockey–making it a sport worth watching! Thanks
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Holy? – Well, Well, Well!
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The veneration of water extends back "well" into prehistoric times. Ritual offerings were placed in it, shrines, temples, stone circles and avenues were built next to it, and ritual shafts and wells have been dug into and towards it. Even today people continue to throw coins into wishing-wells and fountains.
Local stories, legends and archaeology all show that the good burhgers of Marlow and its environs were by no means immune to the lure of water. A well in Bisham was said to cure people with bad eyesight, and the Hughenden dragon's dragon-pool exists to this day next to the road from Terriers (though, somewhat sadly, its flayed skin has gone!)
An Altar from Covantina's Well
But what is a holy well? A holy well or sacred spring is a well, small pond, spring or minor body of water that was revered by Christians or Pagans, usually both. Many belong to local folklore and are imbued with mystical properties, such as healing, good luck or wealth creation. Many were said to flow where a (thirsty?) saint had struck the ground with his staff.
Many of the stories of wells probably date to Celtic times.
The Celts practised an outdoor religion, with sacred groves of trees, sacred rivers, streams, pools and springs. They revered the head – whether the head of a well or of an enemy, as the source of the attributes they admired most. They carried home the heads of vanquished enemies and displayed them to visitors. They used carved heads as decorations, which can still be seen on many Celtic artefacts.
As with many practices, the Christian church simply took-over and "Christianised" some ancient rituals, possibly as it was easier than eradicating them. This worked well with water cults and many wells were converted for use in Christian baptisms. Chapels and baptisteries were built next to them, many of them grew into the churches of today, such as High Wycombe's All Saints, which seems to include both Celtic & Roman remains. Within a few feet of the church are the sites of both a Roman well and of tales of another well immediately east of the Chancel.
Some wells were said to have the ability cure all illnesses, others were highly specific, with eye troubles being the commonest. Others were reputed to heal infertility, rickets, whooping cough, rheumatic pains, skin complaints, indigestion, deafness, headache, toothache or even madness. Although rich, ritual offerings could be expensive and impressive, most people would leave a simple pin, pebble, or a piece of clothing tied to a nearby tree. Nobody understands the significance of this – is the cloth a gift, or was it hoped that the disease would transfer to it, and disappear as the rag rotted away?
Folklore has tales of holy well water divinities that took many forms, from fairies and mermaids to ghostly women in white or animal forms. Many wells had sacred fishes or eels that were highly respected. Their movements were said to predict future events – such as the course of an illness or love affair.
One of the country's richest holy well sites in the UK is Northumberland's Coventina Well, where they found 14,000 coins as well as stone and bronze heads, a human skull, models of animals, jewelry, pottery, and twenty-four altars – many carved with water nymphs and goddesses.
In their heyday there were thousands of holy wells spread across the country and many still survive. Indeed, in some parts of Ireland and Scotland, pilgrims still visit occasionally.
A well dressed Tissington well
Well dressing
Well dressing, or flowering is a summer custom where wells are decorated with flower petals. The custom is mainly linked to the Peak District but was only celebrated in one or two villages by the 19th century when the Duke of Devonshire reintroduced it to commemorate supplying Buxton with water.
The origins of well dressing may be Pagan, though some think it was to give thanks for the purity of specific wells during the Black Death. Well dressing was revived, almost singlehandedly, by the Shimwell family in Tissington in the 1920s and 30s,
But let us move closer to home and a look at some of the many local wells. Unfortunately there is no comprehensive or even generally agreed list – perhaps because almost all wells were once considered holy. These are just some of my favourite local wells, with the stories that surround them:-Bisham
We know there was once a holy well in Bisham because Bishop Erghum of Salisbury tried to stop people visiting it! He covered the well with stones but some 'sons of the devil' from Marlow and High Wycombe removed them and quickly restored the well to use.
A 14th century account tells of a bird that sat in the tree overhanging the well – it was so tame it could be easily handled. Then we hear of an hermit who took up residence in the tree alongside the bird – no doubt so he could plunder the offerings!
The well still existed in 1905 and although I haven't visited it, Alan Carver wrote that he followed a stream by Bisham Abbey and then a tributary that led to a small clump of trees to a spring. In the banks were old brick walls, possibly Victorian, indicating that it had once been properly cared for.
One report mentions not one but six holy wells in Wycombe – Malmers Well, Castle Well, Bowden Lane Springs, Priory Wells, St Mary's Well and the Round Basin and indeed all of these were once the site of wells (there are many other sites as well). The first of my two favourite Wycombe wells is by All Saint's Church (see above). Although I couldn't definitely identify the well to the east of the Chancel, the site of the Roman well sits prosaically under the pavement opposite, outside the Polish food and bicycle shops.
The Round Basin well was at the east end of the Rye, which fed the watercress beds past Bassetsbury Manor. The water from this well may have been used by St Wulftstan in one of his two Wycombe miracles (see December 2010 issue). The well was regularly visited by pilgrims until this was forbidden by Bishop Hugh of Lincoln soon after Wulfstan's death.
Bapsey Pond in the grounds of the Buddhist Nichiren Shoshu's manor house in Taplow is amongst the most significant holy wells in the UK (it is only accessible, with permission, see the background image of the pond on the last page). The spring that fills the pond once rose at the top of the hill besides the church of St Nicholas, which was demolished in 1828, and the spring culverted to the pond. This was also the site of the stunning Taplow Anglo-Saxon hoard, which was the UK's richest treasure before Sutton Hoo.
Legend says St Birinus converted the local chieftain and baptised him in this pool.
Black Well is a brick-built keyhole shape well – a type known from other ancient wells, but sadly we don't know its history, other than it was renovated in the 1980's and a plaque records it as circa 1850.
The Dragon's Pool in Hughenden is named after a dragon that terrorized the area. The October 1758 edition of The Gentleman's Magazine ran a letter from Edgar Bochart, who told of his visit to the area where, on a farm wall, he found a painting of a dragon-like creature and a pencilled record of its history.
It said that in 1578 a woman from the farm was troubled by a large water serpent, which she often saw while pulling water from the well. Being frightened she told the neighbours who, planning to kill it, hid behind some briars near the pond. The woman acted as a lure to the serpent, the neighbours sprang and the dragon was slain. To mark the event the dragon's skin was stuffed with straw and hung outside the house. Eventually the skin rotted and the likeness of the creature was painted on the wall.
The Egyptian well at Hartwell near Aylesbury is said to have been named by Julius Ceasar, who saw a hart drinking there while campaigning during the invasion of Britain.
Actually it was built in the 1840s by the eccentric Dr Lee, a campaigner for teetotalism.
Stay traveller! Round the horse's neck the bridle fling
And taste the water of the Hartwell Spring
Then say which offers thee the better cheer –
The Hartwell water or the Aylesbury Beer!
I'm afraid I would go for the beer!
By Gerry Palmer
Elizabeth's Well at Bisham
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Two miracles in High Wycombe and a muddy shoe in Marlow
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Interesting article, not sure all those sites in Wycombe were holy but hats a long debate! You may be interested in my blog, I did a post on Bucks some while back and James Rattue's book on holy wells of Buckhamshire. It's worth getting if you can find a copy.
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61,848 new plug-in electric vehicles hit the Nordic roads in 2016. As a result, the total stock has increased with 162% in 2016.
At the same time the last quarters show that the Norwegian market is stabilising – a market which is the undisputed Nordic leader within sale of battery-powered vehicles.
Sales of EV and PHEVs reached 16,761 in the fourth quarter of 2016 and now more than 162,000 electric cars are on the streets in the Nordic countries. This is stated in the recently published edition of the industry publication Insero Quarterly, which presents the latest development in sales of battery-powered vehicles in the Nordic countries.
"The recent quarters show that the sale in Norway seems to have stabilised. Even though Norway still is the leading market in the Nordic, we will see that growth will come from Sweden and Finland in 2017", explains Jens Christian Morell Lodberg Høj, Team lead E-Mobility at Insero.
In total 45,384 battery-powered cars were sold in Norway during 2016, which account for 73% of the total sale in the Nordic countries. Sweden enters second with 21% of the total sale followed by Denmark and Finland with respectively 3% and 2%.
In total 8,233 plugin hybrids and 8,528 electric vehicles were sold in 2016 across the Nordic countries. Plugin hybrids are especially popular in Sweden and Finland, where the segment represented respectively 76% and 85% of the sale in the fourth quarter.
"We have seen plugin hybrids gaining a large market share increase. This is amongst other things due to the growth in Sweden and Finland, but also that the Norwegians seems to have opened up a new part of the market. We expect that plugin hybrids will continue to represent a solid part of the total sale in the years to come", says Jens Christian Morell Lodberg Høj, Team lead E-Mobility at Insero.


The candidates for the US Presidential elections are now preparing for their final head to head debate. So, you'd imagine that their sparring might be absolute. But it's not. Both candidates, President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney profess to have a high opinion of one another…personally. But, when it comes to their politics, of course it's all different. That much was obvious when the duo gave back-to-back speeches at the 67th Annual Alfred Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York last week.
Because, their speeches were certainly the highlights of the jovial evening organised in aid of the Roman Catholic church. The Waldorf Astoria hotel event has the tradition of the respective candidates giving speeches in election year.
Beyond the candidates speeches, the diners, who paid more than $2,500 per head, also heard an Archbishop Dolan speech. Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York is, of course, no stranger to public speaking. All the commentators acclaimed his speech prior to his accession to Cardinal in Rome.
So, in their speeches the two candidates joked and poked fun at each other in a practised, professional and funny manner. This wasn't brutal comedy. But it was certainly fit for purpose.
Their respective speeches also contained some good self-deprecating humour. This was the sort of thing that you don't expect to hear from a candidate, on message with only weeks to go before the all-important election.
The speeches were clearly well-written by good comic writers. And the candidates, who both read from scripts, had clearly prepared themselves and practised beforehand. They paused in all the right places, timed their pauses and waited for the laughs. And they did laugh as this was genuine laughter.
The election might well become more intense, starting with the final debate today, but these speeches at the Alfred Smith dinner showed both of them off very well.
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Q: How do I load values into input text fields once the page is loaded? Right now I'm trying out the following code, but nothing will appear in any of my input text boxes on page load.
HTML:

<input type="text" id="line0"></input>

<input type="text" id='line1'></input>

<input type="text" id='line2'></input>

Javascript:
function test() {
    var value = "test|some|thing";
    var valueArray = value.split("|");
    for (var lineNumber=0; lineNumber < valueArray.size(); lineNumber++)
    {
        line = "line" + lineNumber;
        document.getElementById(line).value = valueArray[lineNumber];
    }
}

JFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/mWL9m/1/
In my actual code, I will be bringing in a value from outside the function, but that isn't really important. Right now I'm just using the test value value.
I've looked at several different threads, but all seem to be focused on onclick rather than onload.

A:

or

A: Updated your fiddle, here is the code.
(function(){ //This replaces the onload by executing the code within this annonymous function once the page loads.
var value = "test|some|thing";  //No edits here
var lineNumber = 0; //No edits here
var valueArray = value.split("|");
for (lineNumber=0; lineNumber < valueArray.length; lineNumber++) { //using .length instead of size and initialized lineNumber again, mostly because I like to keep my initialization in the loop, personal preference.
    var lineid = "line" + lineNumber; // It was missing "var", changed the variable name too
    var currentLine = valueArray[lineNumber];  //same deal
    var inputElem=document.getElementById(lineid); //I get the element before accessing the value property, again, preference mostly
    inputElem.value = currentLine; //same code.
} //End of for loop
})(); //end of the annonymous function

A: You are using the wrong property to get the size of the array. User .length instead of .size().
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/u2g2p/1/
function test() {
    var value = "test|some|thing";
    var valueArray = value.split("|");
    for (var lineNumber=0; lineNumber < valueArray.length; lineNumber++)
    {
        line = "line" + lineNumber;
        document.getElementById(line).value = valueArray[lineNumber];
    }
}

A: There are 2 issues with your fiddle. The first is that you should use length instead of size() to get the length of your array (I don't believe there is a built-in size method for Javascript arrays):
for (lineNumber=0; lineNumber < valueArray.length; lineNumber++) {

And the second is that because of the declaration scope of your test function, it's not being found on load. Read this:
JavaScript not running on jsfiddle.net
And change
function test() {

To this:
window.test = function() {

A: It's .length for the number of objects in an array.
/*Javascript*/

function test(){
    var testVal = "test|some|thing";
    testValArr = testVal.split('|');

    for (i = 0; i < testValArr.length; i++) {

     document.getElementById('line' + i).value = testValArr[i];
  }
}


This article explores the town of Bjelovar in Croatia as a great travel destination.
In Croatia, you will find hidden gems of unsurpassed beauty, amazing historical sites and interesting cultural attractions. The town of Bjelovar, located 74km (46 miles) east of Zagred, the capital, is well worth the detour as you make your way towards Osijek.
Bjelovar has a long and interesting history. In the 15th century, it was mentioned as a settlement and you can still see the history as you approach her. One of the loveliest town centres in Croatia is here, known as the Trg Eugenia Kvaternika. Before it was built up, the town centre was once just pasture of livestock. Today, it has lovingly laid flowerbeds, pine trees and a quaint bandstand, all surrounded by four statues of different saints which were created in the 1770s. In addition to this, it is a memorial to over 100 Slavonian residents who died in the Yugoslav war.
The best time to wander here is in the morning as Croatia's largest and busiest outdoor markets, Setaliste Dr. Ives Lebovica, gets in full swing. You will find rows and rows of stalls selling fruit, vegetables and beautiful flowers.
Another great attraction to visit is the Crvka svetog Terezija Avilske (Church of Saint Theresa of Avila). This stunning church was built in 1772 and can be found on the south side of the main square. The baroque façade is yellow with age and is a fusion of different architectural periods and has several false white columns and volutes (spirals) attached to it. It is simply charming in appearance and a good location to take some photographs.
There are several festivals that are held each year in Bjelovar. In June, the town holds the annual Terezijana Theresa's Days. They townspeople put on a stage production of Maria Theresa's visit as well as other stage and musical productions.
Bjelovar has few cultural attractions to visit in town. However, if you go outside town, you will find some interesting places to visit. About 40km (25 miles) southeast of Bjelovar is the town Daruvar which the Romans called Aquae Balissae. It is one of the loveliest places in Croatia to relax and soak in the atmosphere. The main attraction to visit here is the spa, Daruvarske Toplice, which was built between 1810 and 1818. It was built on the foundations of the ancient baths the Romans established centuries ago. It is said that the warm waters here are good for treating different types of ailments.


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Savage Love: Shop Around
I'm a straight cis woman in my early 40s and a single mother. I have not dated or hooked up with anyone in years. While I miss dating, the biggest issue right now is that my sex drive is off…
I'm a straight cis woman in my early 40s and a single mother. I have not dated or hooked up with anyone in years. While I miss dating, the biggest issue right now is that my sex drive is off the charts. While watching porn and masturbating once my child goes to sleep helps, I really want to get well and truly fucked by a guy who knows what he's doing. I could likely go to a bar or on Tinder and find a man for a one-night stand, but I'm hesitant to do that. To add to my complicated backstory, I have a history of childhood sexual abuse and have had only two partners in my whole life, one of whom was abusive. My past sexual forays have not been particularly satisfying, in part due to my lack of experience and comfort indicating what I do/do not like, as well as some dissociation during the actual act. I keep thinking it would be easier to find a sex worker to "scratch the itch," as presumably, a male sex worker would be more open, sex-positive, and skilled. But I have no idea how I might go about it or what the procedure or etiquette is. And I am fearful that I could get arrested given the illegality of soliciting in my conservative southern state. Getting in trouble could have devastating effects on my life, and I would definitely lose my job. I am trying to weigh the pros and cons, but I feel out of my depth. Any advice for a gal who wants to get fucked but is not sure how to make that happen in a safe-ish space?
– Single Mom Absolutely Stupid Horny
"In the recent past, the answer would have been 'Google,'" said John Oh, a Sydney-based male sex worker for women. "But in a post-SESTA/FOSTA world, that route is now unreliable—especially in the United States, where advertising on the web is far more difficult."
SESTA/FOSTA—the "Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act/Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act"—is a 2018 law that was crafted, backers said (backers lied), to fight sex trafficking. It made it a crime for web platforms to knowingly or unknowingly allow someone to post a sex ad. The law is so vague that platforms like Craigslist, Tumblr, and Facebook purged sexually explicit content in an effort to prevent sex workers from basically being online at all. SESTA/FOSTA's backers claim they want to protect women—and only women—but in reality, pushing sex workers out of online spaces (where they could more effectively screen clients, share safety tips with each other, and organize politically) made sex work more dangerous, not less, and has led to more sex trafficking, not less.
But one platform—one much pilloried but still popular platform—is bucking the anti-sex-worker/anti-sexually-explicit-content trend.
"Twitter is still a (mostly) safe place for sex workers, and I have not heard of law enforcement using it to entrap potential clients," said John. "So I believe that it is a reasonably safe place to anonymously research male sex workers. Many of us advertise there."
Since no one knows how long Twitter will allow sex workers to use its platform, you might want to get started on that search now, SMASH. And while sex work is work, and it's work many people freely choose to do, not everyone is good at their job. Since your experiences with unpaid sex weren't that great, I asked John for some tips on increasing your odds of finding a skilled male sex worker.
"Sadly, in places where sex work is criminalized, it's harder to find a suitable male sex worker," said John, "especially for someone who needs extra special care due to trauma. I expect that for SMASH, traveling to a place where sex work is not criminalized would not be practical, but that might be an option for others."
"If traveling to Australia, where John lives and where he's been doing sex work for nine years (legally, as sex work is decriminalized in his state of New South Wales, and legalized in much of the rest of Australia), is unrealistic, John suggests chatting with sex workers in your area—but not, at least at first, the male ones.
"Her best option may be to talk to female sex workers on Twitter and ask them for a recommendation," said John. "This has two benefits—the first is that female workers in her general area will have local knowledge. The second is that female workers are generally very careful about endorsing male workers. So if a few female workers suggest a male sex worker, there is a high likelihood that he will be safe, capable, and professional. But if SMASH goes this route, tipping the female workers who help her out would be polite—otherwise this would amount to asking for unpaid labor."
An older guy at my gym tentatively inquired if he could ask me an "inappropriate question." I told him he could. I'm straight, he's pretty obviously gay, and I figured he was going to hit on me. Then he said the question was "sexual in nature" and was I sure it was okay? I said yes. He asked if he could buy the shoes I wear to the gym once they're worn out. I know why someone would want my old shoes—he's obviously masturbating with them—and that's fine, everyone's got their weird thing (myself included). Two quick questions: Isn't what he did risky? (I could easily see some other guy reacting badly.) And how much should I charge?
– Smelling Nikes Entertains A Kinky Senior
It was definitely a risky ask, SNEAKS, but you're probably not the first guy he's approached. I imagine he has a hard-earned feel for who's likely to react positively and who's not (and a few canceled gym memberships along the way to show for it). And I'd say $20 would be fair. It's not the full cost of replacing the shoes—he's a shoe perv, not a fin sub—but it's enough to be worth your while and it reflects the value of your old shoes. Not on the open market, but to him.
A straight couple I know that "dabbles" in kink recently visited a famous leather/fetish/bondage store with deep ties to San Francisco's gay community (Mr. S Leather, not that it's important). They purchased some simple bondage implements that they could just have easily ordered online from any number of stores that aren't institutions in the gay BDSM subculture. I don't think straight people should be barging into spaces that aren't theirs to purchase items that were not created for them. I am not gay myself, but I try to be a good ally, and part of being a good ally is holding other straight people accountable.
– Respect Queer Space
You've got to be kidding me with this shit, RQS. Donald Trump banned trans people from the military, the Trump administration has made it legal for doctors and EMTs to refuse to treat queer people, they're allowing federally funded adoption agencies to discriminate against same-sex couples, and they just shut down promising research into a cure for HIV (much to the delight of religious conservatives, who have always and still want us dead). And heaping insult on injury, RQS, Donald Fucking Trump "celebrated" Pride Month with a tweet—and you're not only worried about a straight couple buying a little gear in a gay leather/fetish/bondage shop but you're coming to me with this shit expecting praise? If a couple of straight people wandering into a gay-owned business that's legally obligated not to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation—a law that protects queer people, too—is what you're wasting your time on right now, RQS, with everything that's going on, you're a shit ally and a worse human being. Just to make sure it was okay with Mr. S, I shared your letter with general manager Jonathan Schroder, who said: "We are owned by gay men and very explicitly market to gay men. But everyone is welcome here. We're happy there are straight people who feel comfortable shopping here."
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The Pet Rescue will actually interview you, ask you quite a lot of questions to just remember to are an excellent fit for the pet. It is in fact essential to keep in mind that some rescue dogs may have preliminary issues in adjusting to a new setting and a brand new life-style, they might want re-training or need to "un-learn" habits, but you will most likely find that that is less work than the coaching a pet wants in the first year of its life!
It's a identified fact that most pets which can be supplied in pet shops come from mass breeding facilities more commonly often known as "pet farms" or "pet farms." This is not a enterprise follow that you just need to assist. That's because rescue groups rely solely on donations and adopting fees whereas shelters get some money additionally from the government.
The next myth is perpetuated by individuals who need a purebred animal and assume they can't discover one at a shelter. If a person is interested in adding an animal to his or her family, they might want to adopt a pet that is often considered to be a traditional pet. Sadly, not all of the shelters can afford to give ample and well timed food to their animals; neither have they got enough house to accommodate all the animals discovered on the street.


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Q: file selector in a qtablewidget I'm trying to get one cell in a QTableWidget to be a box with button at end"..." with file selector, but don't know how to change what kind of widget the cell is.

A: To control the types of cells in a table, it's best to use the QTableView class. Then, by using QItemDelegate you can make some table cell a button, to which you may bind a signal that opens a dialog.
I recommend starting by reading about delegate classes in the Qt docs.


I do not have time to write what I wanted to write about now. It is going on 9 PM CST. I am not usually up past 8:30 PM but I was able to stay up past 8 PM tonight because my IRIS employee does not have to be here until 7:30/8 AM. She wants to help her daughter get to work in the morning. I have done a lot of posts and sharing at Empowr.com today and this evening, and I was making sure that my diaries were up to date at Dear Diary before bed. I will write about God tomorrow. It has been a good day.


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Bridging civic engagement theory and practice in the Arab world
WINGS / June 17, 2014
This article was originally published on the American University of Beirut website on 6 June 2014. The original article can be found here.
The interaction between scholarly analysis and lived experiences, with the aim of contributing to sound policy and practice in philanthropy and civic engagement in the Arab world, was the underlying theme of the Takaful 2014 conference, which was held at AUB and at the University of Balamand on June 4-6, 2014.
"The urgency to respond is needed more than ever as evidenced by the turbulent times that are shifting the course of history in the Arab world," said Provost Ahmad Dallal, in his welcoming speech at the Charles Hostler Auditorium on June 4. "Universities are to develop the theories for change to support the existing homegrown methods, which are still in their infancy."
Now in its fourth year, the annual Takaful research conference on the Arab region has become the leading opportunity to strengthen a growing network of scholars and practitioners working on philanthropy and civic engagement. By bringing together mature scholars, young researchers, policy-makers, activists and practitioners from within and outside the region, the conference provides a unique venue for disseminating empirical findings, innovative ideas, and thus generating bottom-up solutions for Arab socio-economic development.
AUB researchers presented several papers at the conference. These included: "Civic Engagement in an Educational Setting: the Case of the American University of Beirut" by Mounir Mabsout, director of Civic Engagement and Community Service at AUB, one of the co-hosts of the event; "Youth Donating Life" by Hussein Sleiman, MA candidate in environmental technology and Mohamad Mahdi Alloush MS candidate; and "The Biodiversity Village Award: Promoting the Decentralization of Biodiversity Conservation through Civic Engagement" by Salma N. Talhouk, associate dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Services, and research assistant Lama-Yasmine Tawk.
The conference was co-hosted by the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at the American University in Cairo (AUC), the Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service (CCECS) at the American University in Beirut (AUB), and the University of Balamand (UOB)..
"Universities are not just for academia but a place to steer the mind and imagination towards developing tools for civil society," said Georges Dorlian, UOB Dean Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. "Now is the time to move from analyzing situations to finding the suitable solutions and initiating system transition in the political, civic, environmental and economic spheres."
"We are in for the long haul in building a knowledge base where hardly anything existed before 2004," said Barbara Ibrahim, AUC director of Gerhart Center. "Only the vigorous evaluation of the past, open debate, and sound analysis will further the voice of those we work for."
According to Ibrahim, 119 submissions were made for Takaful 2014 of which 36 were chosen for presentation and the number of registered participants went up from just 70 during the first Takaful event in 2011 to 180 in 2014.
In lieu of a keynote speech, extracts from Carol Mansour's award-winning documentary "Not Who We Are" were shown. The documentary focuses on the plight of refugee women from Syria who share their experiences of displacement and loss, and their survival in an often harsh and unfriendly environment.
"About 80 percent of the world's 45 million refugees are women and children who bear the brunt and cost of wars and conflicts," said Mansour. "In 2013 the Syrians were the fourth largest refugee population in the world, and their numbers in Lebanon constituted 20 percent of the overall Lebanese population."
"The situation is akin to having eight million French people cross over the border into Switzerland," said Abdul Haq Amiri, UN Head of Office, Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs. "No one can gauge what the reply of the Swiss would be in such a case."
There are over one million registered Syrian refugees currently in Lebanon with an ongoing weekly inflow of 11,000 according to Jean-Marie Garelli Assistant Representative UNHCR. Health care, education and shelter remain the largest challenges faced.
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Arriving home late afternoon. She peels off layers of stress to enjoy the calm serenity of nest.
She soaks in a bath with nothing but the sound of bubbles popping as they caress her skin.
Pink Floyd is one of my all time favorite bands. They were an English rock band that achieved international acclaim with their progressive and psychedelic music. Their high level of instrumental music and showmanship when they perform on stage is what I wanted to portray in this painting. Giving credit to artist Storm Thorgerson with his iconic graphics and glowing lights, brings this painting to life with an hypnotic feel. Founded in 1965 Pink Floyd to date have sold more then 250 million records worldwide. In 2005 the band reunited for the last time but their music will be heard forever.
My tribute painting brings the past and the present together to keep their legacy alive as one of the most unique rock bands.


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