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Could AltSchools Be the Future of Education?
By Deirdre Moore|2019-09-04T11:39:19-07:00October 1st, 2017|
Deirdre Moore | October 2017
I am not ashamed to say that technology intimidates me and worries me. What I fear about technology in education is that we use technology for the sake of using it without ensuring that it is actually benefitting our students. Between the way my district uses computers for testing students in writing who cannot type to computer learning games that I fear aren't teaching much, let's just say I have a healthy skepticism about technology in the classroom and the future of education.
I must admit, however, that I was intrigued by a story I heard on the BBC program "World Hacks" about some lab schools known as "AltSchool" – named both for an alternative to traditional schools and referring to the alt key on the computer keyboard. Started in San Francisco by Matt Ventilla, former Google executive, the schools embrace technology as a tool for educators, not a replacement for them. I was very heartened by this quote from the founder in an online article from Fatherly:
This isn't about e-learning, and it's not about handing a kid a tablet and moving away. In fact, part of our motivation and what we see as an opportunity as "technologists engaged in education" is not to just create some app or incremental functionality that superficially changes the experience. Rather, we're creating a kind of backbone by which content and services and other technologies can make their way into the average classrooms over time and be used for students and educators to interact with each other in a more directed way.
When I explored the website for the AltSchool, I was impressed to see Project Based Learning, group collaborative work, singing, painting, woodworking, PE incorporating cooperative play and individual physical challenges, meditation, and morning meetings. The website claims a holistic approach to education and that is what it looks like – not at all what I expected from a school founded by an IT guy! I was also struck by students being interviewed and from text on the website that emphasized "mistakes" as learning opportunities. One young lady talked about how she used to compare herself to others and worry about getting things wrong. Now she feels more comfortable in school because she is working at her own pace, setting and assessing her goals and reframing mistakes as a chance to learn.
The school website explains that the schools use Portrait, a tool that "tracks student trajectory toward competency by incorporating scores from third-party assessments, teacher narratives, samples of each child's work, and internal educator notes." All of that real-time data is available to teachers at all times to inform instruction. The students receive Playlists to guide their personalized learning. "Educators create, sequence, and remix curriculum units to curate Playlists where students can view assignments, communicate with their teacher, and submit work generated on- and off-line. Education teams provide feedback and assessments that update students' Portrait in real time." All classroom activity is being captured by cameras received by teams of programmers to help improve their algorithms which serve to guide the teachers in creating Playlists and which the founder hopes will eventually be sophisticated enough to suggest appropriate curriculum for students as well as the best learning groupings of students in the classroom. Teachers also watch the footage to critique their own teaching and lesson plan development. I love the idea of teachers being able to collaborate with engineers and programmers to merge great teaching pedagogy with technology developed intentionally for the way students learn.
The AltSchool claims that students are learning at a rate 1.5x that of average students due to the use of more personalized learning and increased student agency that comes from that. Ventilla hopes to have his system ready to sell to every school in America within 10 years. His hope is that not just the wealthy who can afford to send their children to one of the lab schools, but that every child in America could have access to this kind of personalized learning. I worry that large school districts with larger class sizes would not be able to duplicate those kinds of results but I am excited by the possibilities that such "smart" software could provide. We could be looking at the schools of the future who are flexible enough to help prepare our students for the fast-changing world in which they live.

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Q: Loading a Soundfont file in objective C SpriteKit project The app I am creating is for Mac OS X using SpriteKit, although this probably doesn't make much of a difference. I am trying to load a Soundfont file, but it is not loading and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. The Soundfont file is called "Grand Piano.sf2" and it is located in the main bundle of the project. How can I get it to load properly?
Here's my code:
NSString *filename = @"Grand Piano";
NSURL *piano = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:filename ofType:@"sf2"]];

This is the error I receive:
***-[NSURL initFileURLWithPath:]: nil string parameter

A: This is happening because  pathForResource: ofType: has returned nil , which means that file could not be located...
If you are sure that there is a file with that name located in your main bundle , then I would check under "Build Phases" -> "Copy Bundle Resources" to see if "Grand Piano.sf2" is present. If it isn't,  use the + button (add items will show up when hover) and add it.
Hope this helps.

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  tResult Start(__exception = NULL) override;
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  tResult Shutdown(tInitStage eStage, __exception = NULL) override;

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  tResult CreatePins(__exception = NULL);
  tResult CreateDescriptors();

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  std::map<adtf::IPin*, A2O::OutputPin> _inputPinMap;
  std::map<adtf::IPin*, adtf::cOutputPin*> _inputPinToOutputMap;
  std::map<adtf::IPin*, tFloat32> _tsignalLastValue;
  std::map<adtf::IPin*, tBool> _boolLastValue;
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The Major Hitches A Ride In New Ghost In The Shell Image; Two Posters Boot Online
Of all the great many characters that Scarlett Johansson has portrayed on the big screen, Ghost in the Shell arguably heralds one of the actress' more challenging roles yet.
To date, ScarJo has embodied psychokinetic superhumans in Lucy and smart, funny, and ultimately seductive AI (or Samantha, if we're staying on a first-name basis) for Her, but Ghost in the Shell will stretch Johansson's physical and emotional range like never before as the actress looks to introduce Major Motoko Kusanagi – or simply The Major – to the moviegoing masses. Engineered to be the flagship product of Hanka Robotics, The Major is a best-in-class human cyborg capable of fighting crime head on without so much as batting an eyelid. Hanka's technological assets are under threat from the city's ring of terrorists, leaving Johansson's protagonist with little choice but to spearhead the elite task force known as Section 9 so as to protect the city and, ultimately, uncover the truth behind her makeshift identity.
It's a pitch that ought to interest anyone with even a passing interest in the cyberpunk genre, and with a March 31st release date looming large, Empire has lifted the lid an all-new action shot from Ghost in the Shell that sees The Major hitch a ride. It's an appropriately futuristic motorcycle, too, while there's also a pair of stylish one-sheets designed to separate friend (ScarJo's no-nonsense Major) from foe (Kuze?). After budding fans dissected the film's second and final trailer, we know that Rupert Sanders' live-action manga movie will toy with some form of connection between The Major and her sworn nemesis, but will it shed light on our hero's shady past?
Ghost in the Shell is booked in for release on March 31st.
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International Meeting on Kaliningrad Oblast Regionalization in the View of the Prospects of Meat Product Export to the EU Countries
The international meeting "Pathways to Achieve Freedom of the Kaliningrad Oblast from FMD and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy" took place in Kaliningrad on December, 17-18. Nikolay Vlasov, Deputy Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, Vladimir Zarudny, Minister of Agriculture of the Kaliningrad Oblast, Lorenzo Terzi, European Commission representative and specialists from the FGBI "ARRIAH", subordinate to the Rosselkhoznadzor took part in the meeting.
Bernard Vallat, DG of the International Animal Health Organisation alerts to the global biosecurity threat
Bernard Vallat reminded that at least 60% of human infectious diseases originate from animals and that further spread of animal disease agents could entail disastrous effects for both public health and food safety.
Videoconference of the Rosselkhoznadzor and Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment of Spain on the issue of African swine fever control
In view of the wide spread of African swine fever (ASF) in Russia including its spread in wild fauna as well as taking into account Spanish Veterinary Service's significant experience of the disease control during 1960-1995, the Rosselkhoznadzor applied to the General Directorate of Agricultural Production Hygiene of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment with a request to hold a videoconference in order to share experience in the field of development and implementation of measures aimed at prevention of the infection spread including its spread in wild boars.
Forthcoming negotiations between the Rosselkhoznadzor and National Plant Protection Organization, India
As it was previously announced a highly dangerous grain pest, i.e. khapra beetle (Trogoderma granarium Ev.), which is exotic and quarantineable for Russia, was detected during phytosanitary inspection of quarantined products supplied into Russia from India. In order to obtain a more clear picture of circumstances of infested product supply into Russia, as well as to discuss current situation and get additional information for the purpose of implementation of the utmost adequate protective measures, the Rosselkhoznadzor deems it necessary to conduct negotiations with the Indian party as soon as possible. A proposal on urgent negotiations to be conducted in Moscow has been sent to India.
Meeting between the Rosselkhoznadzor representatives and Dr. Bernard Vallat, General Director of the World Animal Health Organization (OIE)
A meeting between Dr. Bernard Vallat, General Director of the World Animal Health Organization, and officials of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance responsible for its informational support was held in Paris. The Russian delegation visited Paris at the OIE invitation to become familiar with the OIE activities in publishing, informational support and press communication.
Technical talks between the Rosselkhoznadzor and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply of Brazil
Technical talks between the specialists of the Rosselkhoznadzor and residue monitoring experts of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply of Brazil were held in Moscow.
Talks between the Heads of the Customs Union Veterinary Services
The Russian delegation was headed by Sergey Dankvert, Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, the Kazakhstani delegation was headed by Nigmat Zhakupbayev, Head of the Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance, Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan and the Belarusian delegation was leaded by Alexander Kutsko, Deputy Head of the Department for Veterinary and Food Surveillance, Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Belarus.
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The meeting took place in Buenos Aires. The Russian delegation was headed by Sergey Dankvert, Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor and the Argentinean party was headed by Cecilia Nahon, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship. Four working groups for cooperation in trade and economics, cooperation in the energy industry, cooperation in the agricultural sector and cooperation in education, science and technologies discussed the essential issues.
Negotiations between Sergey Dankvert, Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor and Hugo Federico Idoyaga Benitez, Head of the National Animal Health and Quality Department of Paraguay
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Welcome to the Monday edition of Flagrant 2, the a.m. recap of the night in sports.
This morning, we've got a double-shot of the NBA Finals, as LeBron James answered the bell (and his critics), drank plenty of fluids and carried the Miami Heat to a win in Game 2. Oh, also, bat-tossing brawls, angry millionaires in cowboy hats and Rafa reigning in France. We know, it's a lot to take in on a Monday morning.
LeBron James is Ice Cold.
It took LeBron James three quarters to heat up in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. Game 2 was a different story.
James started 1-for-4 from the field with three turnovers, but then caught fire, hitting 11 of his next 13 shots, scoring a game-high 35 and leading the Miami Heat to a 98-96 win over the San Antonio Spurs. Quite the way to answer those crampy critics.
James played Game 2 like he had something to prove, scoring 11 in the second quarter to cut an 11-point Spurs lead, and personally erasing a 62-59 Spurs lead by scoring eight points in less than a minute during a 14-point third quarter. And unlike Game 1, when cramps forced him to the bench, James didn't wilt in the fourth, finding Chris Bosh for a go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:18 remaining.
LeBron Sweltered, but the Spurs Squandered.
The Spurs had plenty of chances to take a commanding 2-0 lead in the series. They got out of the gates fast, leading 26-19 after the first quarter, and held a 78-77 advantage heading into the fourth. And despite James going off, San Antonio could have seized control midway through the final period, but stars Tony Parker and Tim Duncan missed four-straight free throws, keeping their lead at two.
Duncan finished with 18 points and 15 rebounds, his 157th career playoff double-double (a mark that ties him with Magic Johnson for the most all time). Parker had 21 and Manu Ginobili had 19 in the losing effort. And Kawhi Leonard was a non-factor, fouling out with only 9 points. If the Spurs stand a chance, he'll need to be better.
Game 3 is Tuesday night in Miami.
Bat-tossing brawl in Baltimore? Bat-tossing brawl in Baltimore. … Steve Coburn, eccentric coot (and co-owner of California Chrome) continued his scorched-earth campaign after his horse failed to win the third leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, on Saturday, claiming the winning horse, Tonalist, took "the coward's way out" and making odd analogies about Baskin Robbins. His outrage is 30-Wonderful. … Rafael Nadal won his fifth-straight French Open (and ninth overall), defeating Novak Djokovic in four sets. He won a silver baguette or something.


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Three into two doesn't go
June 29, 2016 by Jeremy
By their nature, if referenda are to be used only for matters of the greatest import, a clear answer must be forthcoming and therefore only binary outcomes can be permitted. In fact, though the Brexit referendum voting slip had just Remain or Leave printed on them, the Leave campaign was a coalition of two different perspectives. Michael Gove and Boris Johnson wanted to leave the loss of sovereignty implied by being a member of the EU with its automatic imposition of any Brussels regulations, but did not wish to lose the ability to trade freely with the EU, particularly in financial services where the UK dominates Europe. Many in wealthy parts of the UK voted Leave for this reason. For Nigel Farage on the other hand, the key issue was control of immigration – the EU's freedom of movement for people in the single market was not acceptable and many in the poorer parts of the UK voted Leave for this reason.
The UK thus finds itself in a situation of intransitive preferences, known as Condorcet's paradox. This occurs when a society prefers A over B and B over C and C over A. For a single individual this is obviously inconsistent, but in a society of many different points of view, this state of affairs is quite possible.
The referendum shows that the UK prefers Leaving the EU to Remaining in it. However, leaving the EU requires that we have to choose between continuing to be part of the Single Market with its economic benefits and having constraints of the freedom of movement of EU citizens. EU leaders have made it quite clear that this is the price to be paid to be part of the single market.
Thus it is entirely possible that there is majority preference to Remain rather than no longer be part of the single market but have control of immigration, ie Remainers plus many of the richer Leave voters, and a different majority preference to Remain rather than not have control of immigration and continue to have full participation in the single market, ie Remainers plus many of the poorer Leave voters.
Theory shows that for society as a whole such intransitive preferences have no good solution and this is where the UK finds itself today – wanting to Leave but with no plan and the world laughing at it.
Boris Johnson, now in campaigning mode to be the next Prime Minister, proclaims that the UK can have both, but David Cameron has already admitted that the UK must choose. The next Prime Minister will thus have to choose between the interests of business and the City and the poor. As a Conservative the obvious course may be to save the interests of business, but such a course of action will further alienate the poorer sections of the country and boost the support for UKIP and its anti-immigration stance.
There is already speculation that France would be prepared to offer the new prime minister zero tariffs on goods (where the Eurozone has a large surplus with the UK) and controls on immigration from the EU but no passporting rights for UK banks in to the EU. This would be exactly what the Farage wing of Leave would accept, but do great damage to the City and Conservative supporters.
As ever in politics there will likely be a compromise with some damage to the UK's access to the single market in services in exchange for some flexibility on EU freedom of movement.
Filed Under: Economics & Markets Tagged With: Boris, Brexit, choice, EU, Farage, referendum, single market
In or Out – the UK's European hokey-cokey
For the last 50 years the UK has had a tortuously ambivalent political relationship with the rest of Europe – the referendum will not resolve this. This is for reasons of both geography and history. As an island with nothing but sea to the west but a huge landmass to the east, the UK is both naturally separated, and hence different, from the rest of Europe and at the same time ineluctably tied to and influenced by what happens there. The UK is both a part of Europe and not a part of Europe. This is reinforced by the sharing of a common language with the largest economy in the world, so providing the US with its key gateway to the European continent. Half of the UK's trade is with Europe, emphasising the importance of the relationship, and of course the other half is not.
Post-war history has highlighted the indecision of the UK with regard to its relationship with Europe. In the early days of inter-government discussions between the nations to discuss political and economic co-operation and integration in the 1950s, the UK was largely absent and played no part, believing such plans were of little interest or relevance to them. By the early 1960s this indifference had turned to concern as it became clear that important economic decisions were being made in Europe that were affecting the UK's interests. Macmillan changed course and decided the UK needed to join the European project, but was dismayed to find that the UK's entry was vetoed by de Gaulle's. So the 60s was a decade of the UK banging on the door of Europe but not being allowed in.
Ted Heath's premiership in the early 70s was built around heavy diplomatic efforts aimed at negotiating the UK's entry into the Common Market. This was finally achieved in 1973 at which point domestic politics intervened and Labour came to power with an election mandate to renegotiate the terms of entry which had only just been agreed, and then to hold a referendum. The renegotiation delivered very little and the public voted 2 to 1 to stay in.
For most of her premiership in the 80s, Margaret Thatcher was a convinced pro-European, because she saw it as good for business, and it was she who pushed hard in negotiations with the rest of Europe to deliver the European single market – the UK at this time was consistently arguing for more European integration, with opposition from much of the rest of Europe!
This reversed dramatically in the 90s as Jacques Delors led the European drive towards monetary union and the creation of the euro. In the UK this was seen as a backdoor way of seeking greater political union and sparked the rise of the Eurosceptic wing of the Conservative party, which has been the key faultline within the party ever since. Major European initiatives since then such as the Schengen free travel area and the single currency have seen the UK opt out, while letting others move forward together in greater integration.
The Blair and Brown governments in the Noughties were keen to be seen as leading Europe, with both men seeking to extend British influence by positive engagement, but increasingly the UK media railed against Brussels bureaucracy and increasing European regulation.
David Cameron was forced, for reasons of maintaining short-term party unity, to cede a second referendum, and polls, with less than a week until the vote, show a nation badly split over whether to remain in or leave the EU.
Though the shorter term consequences of the vote will be significant, on a longer term view, the UK's essential ambivalence in its attitude to Europe will persist.
A victory for Remain will be seen as a rather grudging acceptance that the economic benefits of staying in (which have been very real for the UK economy over the last 40 years) are worth the perceived loss of sovereignty and democratic accountability, but there are few in the UK who have made an emotionally charged positive case for Europe. The UK would continue to be in but the tone will be reluctantly in – the historic ambivalence will continue.
A victory for Leave, though at first sight a clear statement that the UK does not wish to be tied to Europe, will not bring to an end the need for close understanding of European rules. The most successful UK , in services, in order to trade successfully with Europe, will be forced to comply with whatever regulations the rest of Europe decides to impose, not just with regard to those specific industries but also more generally with regard to European laws, which the UK will have no part in deciding.
The UK's destiny with Europe is thus set to remain halfway "In" and halfway "Out" – the UK's European hokey-cokey. The referendum will be a significant event in the UK-European relationship but will not change that fate.
Filed Under: Economics & Markets Tagged With: Brexit, Europe, Leave, Macmillan, referendum, Remain, Thatcher, UK
Inequality – more and less
A World Bank study a few years ago concluded that the forces of globalisation prevalent in the period 1988-2008 led to the first decline in global income inequality since the Industrial Revolution. The key drivers of this were the startling economic growth in the Chinese and Indian economies, both with populations of over one billion people, relative to the growth seen in the developed economies of the world. The increase in the size of the middle classes in emerging economies has been one of the most important growth themes in global equity investing for the last decade, benefitting the share prices of many global consumer products companies.
This reduction in global income inequality has however been achieved at the expense of rising income inequality in the developed world. The same forces of globalisation that have led to the creation of many jobs in the emerging world, destroyed the jobs of many in the developed world. The much lower wages available to employers in Asia saw first unskilled manufacturing jobs move from the West, followed by semi-skilled manufacturing jobs and digitalisation has also enabled many service sector jobs also to move locations. Workers in the developed world with modest skill levels and education have discovered that the global clearing price for their labour has fallen due to the increase in supply of such labour. However, those with the skills to be in the upper management echelons of many international companies found they benefitted from their companies' larger global markets and higher profitability. Financial market services was one industry in particular that benefitted from these trends. For the top 1% in the developed economies, globalisation has boosted incomes.
Thus income inequality in the developed world has become much more marked at the same time as global income inequality has fallen. The statistic that demonstrates this most vividly is that the real income of the median US household has barely changed from 40 years ago. All the benefits of economic growth in that period have gone to the very richest in that society and national income inequality is back at the peak levels last seen in the 1920s.
Does this matter?
In purely economic terms, with the notable exception of the US economy, Andersen and Maiborn show a positive cross-country correlation between the level of GDP per capita and the rising equality of income in developed economies, in other words wealthier countries have a more equal income distribution, implying that greater inequality is negative for a country's standard of living.
Perhaps the greater danger though is to politics and democracy. Recent political trends on both sides of the Atlantic show the poorer parts of the population of developed economies to be increasingly unhappy with the standard political approaches and type of politician. Instead more populist political figures such as Trump, Johnson and Le Pen, are on the rise with disguised and undisguised attacks on "others" in society as the source of the lack of improvement in living standards.
In a democracy the economic system must be seen to be operating in a manner that most in society believe to be fair and reasonable. If this is not the case then politicians will have an incentive to propose policies that produce better economic results for most people.
Rising inequality does matter within a democracy, and current levels in the developed economies are back at peak levels seen in the late 1920s. It may be worth a reminder that the 1930s saw the Great Depression and the rise of fascism.
Filed Under: Economics & Markets, Uncategorized Tagged With: inequality, populism
Debt without Growth
June 1, 2016 by Jeremy
Much has been made of the fact that the last seven years have seen one of the weakest economic recoveries from recession on record. Not only has real growth been relatively low in this recovery but inflation has also remained consistently low. The two together comprise nominal (or money) GDP, which is the growth rate of the economy in actual money terms, and is what businesses and consumers experience directly. In the UK real growth of 1.5-2.0% is coinciding with inflation of near zero, so that nominal growth has been less than 2%. This compares with typical nominal growth rates of 5-6% before 2007.
This appears to be following a worryingly similar pattern to the Japanese economy which since the early 1990s has seen average real growth of about 1% and inflation of minus 1% giving zero nominal growth over the last twenty-plus years. Such stagnant nominal economic growth, if it goes on too long, affects expectations about the economy. When companies and households expect no or very little nominal growth, they lose confidence in future economic opportunities and do not seek to invest to benefit from such growth or seek to spend since there is a fair chance that purchasing anything will be cheaper in the future and they have little confidence that their revenues or pay are likely to rise in the future.
In such conditions debt becomes a huge burden as it is a fixed nominal sum. If it was taken on with expectations of nominal growth of 5% per annum, but in fact there is very little nominal growth, the cash flow to service the debt is harder to find. The rational behaviour of economic agents is thus to save and pay down debt, further constraining the level of demand in the economy and creating a negative feedback loop.
This process terrifies central bankers for while they all know how to get inflation to fall if it is too high, they do not possess safe tools to get inflation to rise when it is too low. Thus we have been in a world of first low interest rates, then zero interest rates and now negative interest rates and several rounds of QE where money has been pushed into the financial system. By and large these have failed to get inflation rising again though financial market assets have seen price inflation. Since the Global Financial Crisis, government deficits have continued to lead to more debt being issued while companies have also increased debt, not to invest productively but in order to buy back equity. Debt has continued to grow but economies have not kept up
There are only three ways to get rid of any debt burden – Deflate, Default or Devalue. "Deflate" means to spend less than your income to provide the savings to repay the debt – this is fine for individual borrowers, but troublesome for the economy when pursued by governments or many borrowers at the same time. "Default" means not repaying – a terrible solution for the lenders who will reduce their own spending to compensate and also become far less keen to lend again in the future. Since the first two are very unattractive options to policymakers, their preference is usually for "Devalue". This means apparently repaying the debt but doing so with money that has far less value. There are two routes to achieving this, first (for governments) by letting your currency fall on the foreign exchanges and second by creating inflation so that the real value of the debt repayment is much less. A good way to achieve both routes is to create a lot more supply of your own currency.
So the global economy finds itself in a real bind – weak growth has meant that the debt burden has increased and this has ensured that weak growth will continue. Policymakers have so far been unable to break free of this cycle.
For investors, the key actions are to be prepared for continued low growth and low inflation – which means low returns from all asset classes – until such time as policymakers panic and decide to get serious about creating inflation to devalue the global debt burden. At that point bonds and cash will lose a lot of real value and gold will find itself in massive demand as the inflation hedge and the only currency that politicians cannot create at their discretion.
Filed Under: Economics & Markets Tagged With: debt, gold, growth, nominal GDP, QE


Wednesday, April 13, 2005A survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 28% of users with a personal email account say they receive more spam than they used to, while 22% say the amount has decreased.
53% of the users surveyed said that spam has made them trust e-mail less; this is down from 62% last year. 22% (down from 29% last year) report that they use e-mail less because of spam.
Spam however is becoming more accepted. 77% of users last year reported spam has made being online unpleasant, this year the number falls to 67%. Users also reported that pornographic spam is down.
In contrast, "phishing" (email fraudulently requesting personal financial information) is up. 35% of users say they have received a phishing attempt, and 2% have provided the requested information to phishers.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project is a non-profit research centre that produces reports that study the social effects of the Internet.


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Daydreamers
Daydreamers is the fan name given to Adele's fans. The term is derived from Adele's song "Daydreamer" (from her debut album, 19). The term was first used on the fan forums on Adele's official website.[1] Members of the fan forum came up with the name "Daydreamers" for Adele fans using the site, and it was later used to refer to Adele fans in general.[2][3] Adele has now officially begun referring to her fans as "Daydreamers," as seen in a blog post uploaded by her on her official website.[4]
Billboard magazine has also used the term "Adeleholics" in describing her die hard fans.[5]
↑ http://www.adele.tv/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18662
↑ http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=officialadeledaydreamers&isTeam=true
↑ http://www.adele.tv/blog/417/to-the-daydreamers
↑ http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6786002/adele-grammys-not-nominated


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Mike Magee
Real Name: Mike Magee
HT: 5' 10" WT: 160
Age: 35 (09/02/1984)
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Hometown: Chicago, IL
@magee9
Out of contract following 2016 season.
A member of the first MLS free agent class, the 2013 league MVP returns to LA after time in his hometown of Chicago. Magee has made almost 300 regular season appearances, and has scored 66 goals during that time. On the opening weekend of the 2016 season, he became just the third player to score two goals, notch an assist and win a penalty in the same game during the Opta-MLS era. Magee is also known as a clutch playoff performer, with three goals in both of the Galaxy's triumphant MLS cup runs in 2011 and 2012.
INTERNATIONAL: Magee began his National Team career in the Fall of 2000 during a two-year stay at the U.S. Under-17 residency camp in Bradenton, Fla. before being drafted by the MetroStars. He has also represented the U.S. U-18, U-20 and U-23 National Teams. He played for the U.S. at the 2001 Under-17 World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago. In 2003, he represented the U.S. at the Under-20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. In late 2004 he was called into senior National Team camp for the first time. He was also called to participate in the 2014 edition of the annual January camp.
Career Statistics (Regular Season)
2016 LA Galaxy 30 16 6 1467 4 33 18 15 3 1 0
2015 Chicago Fire 12 3 0 360 2 3 0 6 1 0 0
2014 Chicago Fire 17 17 7 1519 4 40 16 15 7 4 0
2013 Chicago Fire 22 22 15 1901 4 78 37 17 3 3 0
2013 LA Galaxy 10 10 6 892 0 36 13 14 5 1 0
2010 Los Angeles Galaxy 16 9 1 789 1 19 8 10 5 2 0
2009 Los Angeles Galaxy 23 19 2 1507 6 24 8 17 3 3 0
2008 New York Red Bulls 26 18 5 1665 1 35 19 25 2 2 0
2007 New York Red Bulls 7 0 0 144 0 5 3 5 0 0 0
2006 New York Red Bulls 17 9 3 938 1 23 12 28 4 4 1
2005 MetroStars 29 21 5 1830 5 27 13 36 9 2 0
2003 MetroStars 29 19 7 1704 2 44 25 33 11 1 0
Career Totals - 316 225 70 20100 38 481 220 294 68 31 1
Career Statistics (Post Season)
2016 LA Galaxy 3 1 0 110 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
2012 LA Galaxy 6 6 3 540 1 10 4 5 1 0 0
2010 Los Angeles Galaxy 3 3 0 225 0 5 2 4 1 0 0
2009 Los Angeles Galaxy 4 4 2 370 0 12 3 4 0 0 0
2008 New York Red Bulls 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2005 MetroStars 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2003 MetroStars 2 1 0 86 0 4 1 3 1 0 0
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OKLAHOMA CITY - A man with a lengthy violent past is found guilty of a deadly 2016 stabbing.
Merwin Hill, 63, testified during the trial and said he was defending himself from his ex-girlfriend, Raelyn Grant.
Prosecutors told the court Hill threatened to kill his on-again, off-again girlfriend only weeks before she was stabbed to death.
The victim's daughter Michael Berryhill said her mother was fearful of Hill and would never hurt anyone.
That's likely what drew Hill to 54-year-old woman. Hill testified during the trial that he and Grant would be together forever even though she was trying to distance herself after he threatened her a number of times.
Hill also testified that the day Grant was stabbed to death he was defending himself. He told the court he snapped and punched Grant in the face, but blacked out and does not remember stabbing her.
Grant died from three stab wounds to her back.
His attorneys claim Hill had PTSD from his military days and asked the jury to consider manslaughter.
In closing arguments, prosecutors brought up Hill's violent criminal history and the many times he threatened his former girlfriend.
It took the jury two hours to come back with a guilty verdict and recommend Hill serve life in prison without parole.
Hill was also found guilty of stealing the victim's car after the deadly stabbing. He will be sentenced later this month.


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'One of the pre-eminent voices in Irish literature' - Poet Eavan Boland dies aged 75
Eavan Boland has died at the age of 75.
Mon, 27 Apr, 2020 - 19:43
Digital Desk staff
The Irish poet died at her home in Dublin today following a stroke.
She was Professor of Humanities and Director of the Creative Writing Programme at Stanford University from 1996 to her death.
She has continued to publish work for over 50 years with her poems and essays appearing in publications which included The Irish Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and American Poetry Review.
In 2016 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
We are shocked to hear of the death of Hon. MRIA Eavan Boland and our thoughts are with her family RIP. She was a pleasure to work with and is pictured below at the UN reading her poem about women's suffrage 'Our future will become the past of other women' https://t.co/n82CTzS44S pic.twitter.com/pruPMtRZMR
— Royal Irish Academy (@RIAdawson) April 27, 2020
The Royal Irish Academy's expressed its sympathy with her family, saying "she was a pleasure to work with".
The President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to her saying she had the "extraordinary ability to invoke Irish landscapes, myth and everyday experience".
She published 10 volumes of poetry, releasing her first collection, 23 poems in 1962 before she was 20 years old.
Her work remains very well known, having featured on the Leaving Cert English syllabus in recent years.
In an interview with the Irish Examiner last August Ms Boland spoke of her confidence that the medium of poetry would move forward in the digital age and even suggested social media platforms would be vital to the art form's future.
"I don't want to criticise too much … There have always been people who think of themselves as gatekeepers, who think poetry has something to fear from this. They think it is a sort of populism that it brings elements of social engineering that don't belong in poetry. I don't agree with that.
"Poetry has always changed with the changing world. If it doesn't, it will run the risk of not being a living language."
When asked how her inspirations and motivations have shifted with the seasons of her life, she replies: "The poet Robert Lowell once said: 'All the poems I'm interested in I can't write and all the poems I can't write, I'm not interested in'. I think you spend your time with poems between those two things."
Boland was also reluctant to view herself as a trailblazer.
"No. I think that does me far too much credit. I did raise certain issues and the conversation changed but I'm afraid that society issues permissions to people to be a poet.
"What you worry about is that someone of great value, a woman, a person of colour, or someone disabled might think 'I couldn't do that or I don't feel I have the permission to do that'.
"What you really want to do is to begin to try and change those permissions."
Paying tribute this evening President Higgins said: "With the passing of Eavan Boland Ireland has lost not only an internationally acclaimed poet, distinguished academic and author, but one of the most insightful inner sources of Irish life, not only in life as expressed but as sensed and experienced.
"It was her particular gift to reveal the beauty in the ordinary.
"Over the years, through her poetry, critical work and teaching she displayed an extraordinary ability to invoke Irish landscapes, myth and everyday experience. She became one of the pre-eminent voices in Irish literature, noted for the high standard she sought and achieved.
"The revealing of a hidden Ireland, in terms of what was suffered, neglected, evaded, given insufficient credit, is a part of her achievement.
"If the long legacy of Irish poetry was a well from which she drew, its contemporary richness was recognised in her critical work. It owes much to her encouragement and generosity to fellow poets.
"A passionate believer in poetry, in the editorial to her final issue as editor of Poetry Ireland Review she wrote:
The life of the poet is always a summons to try to set down some truth that was once true and will go on being true. No poet should have to worry about the public respect, or the lack of it, in which this art is held.
"This was a principle by which she lived and wrote.
"She will be missed by all who have read her work and by students who have had the privilege of learning from her in any one of the academic institutions to which she made such a distinguished contribution, including Trinity College, University College Dublin and Stanford University.
"To all of us who had the privilege of knowing her, her passing is a source of great loss and sadness.
"To her husband Kevin, their daughters and the members of her extended family, her colleagues in poetry and her wide circle of friends, Sabina and I send our deepest condolences."
The Minister for Culture, Josepha Madigan paid tribute to the internationally acclaimed poet saying she had a stellar career and was "undoubtedly the foremost female poet of her generation".
She said: "Eavan was such an inspiration in her work as a poet, as a reviewer for the Irish Times and as a professor at Stanford University all of which continued right up to her death.
"I would like to offer my condolences to her husband Kevin Casey and her daughters.
"Love will heal What language fails to know. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam uasal."
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Purnendra Jain is a professor in Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide in Australia, and is currently affiliated with the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore. His main research focus has been on contemporary Japanese politics and foreign policy. He has also researched and written extensively on Japan–India, Japan–South Asia relations, Australia–Asia relations; regionalism and regional institutions; energy and foreign aid issues; and comparative studies of the politics and foreign policy of Japan, China, and India.
His research results have been published in such journals as Asian Survey, Pacific Review, International Relations of the Asia Pacific, Japan Forum, Japan Studies, Leviathan, and Australian Journal of International Affairs. He is a frequent commentator on Japan's current affairs in newspapers, radio, and television in Australia, Japan, India, Singapore, and China. He has been a Japan Foundation fellow twice, a JSPS fellow, and has recently been a part of a JICA (Japan's aid agency) project on Japan's foreign aid.
He was a visiting fellow/professor at the National University of Singapore, University of Tokyo, University of Oxford, Columbia University, Harvard University, University of California San Diego, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (Delhi), and ORF (Delhi). He is a former president of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia and of the Asian Studies Association of Australia and co-convenor of the 9th International Convention of Asian Scholars. Full bio at: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/purnendra.jain
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Once a powerhouse, a trouncing at the general elections leaves India's opposition reeling and democracy transformed.
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Modi and Abe: judgement waits on India-Japan ties
The recent summit showcased a strong personal chemistry but this special relationship still faces obstacles.
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A bittersweet victory for Prime Minister Abe
Shinzo Abe was re-elected leader of the LDP but faces serious political and policy challenges in his final term.
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Shinzo Abe's road to be Japan's longest serving PM
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James Lawton: Balotelli may just be beginning to vindicate gamble on volatile talent
This latest evidence certainly increases the possibility that one day Mancini will be able to say that Mario Balotelli was indeed worth all of the trouble
Monday 16 May 2011 00:00
It may not have been universally noted but Mario Balotelli did hint at one perilous moment. He got hold of a giant model banana and appeared to be toying with a rather blunt expression of Manchester City's new and maybe historic virility.
But then, it was confirmed quickly enough, this was indeed a time, however fleeting, when all of his demons had been gathered together and whipped into submission.
As his team captured what might prove to be the first day of the rest of their lives, it was as though he too was drawing a line in some rather seriously scuffed sand. What he found in the desert of quite a lot of his past may just have been a strangely compelling power to re-shape it.
It was, like so much of Balotelli's virtuoso performance, an example of exquisite timing.
We already had copious evidence that he could be bad, or at least ungovernably eccentric, but what we didn't have any reason to know was that he could also be so very good in such a sustained and disciplined way.
Certainly his post-match assertion that he had made a conscious effort to be part of the team, rather than an alien presence beamed down from who knew quite where, had been underpinned in the only place that matters – out on the field.
You could make a labyrinthine library out of the good intentions of vastly rewarded footballers. Here, though, was the eloquence of authentic action, of what looked like a conscious effort to set for himself new standards of discipline and commitment.
One consequence which may well prove influential in City's continued progress is that he may just have given himself the challenge of living down a good name.
Such a suspicion was certainly encouraged by the sight of him abandoning a lone dash from the presentation stand, which alerted some security men, in favour of jumping up and down with his triumphant team-mates. It was, in the circumstances he had done so much to create, a much more appropriate reflection of his remarkably well-ordered contribution to his club's first trophy win in 35 years.
Balotelli the team player is not a concept that has grown seamlessly since his arrival from Internazionale and no doubt it will take more than one outstandingly rounded performance to reassure his manager and patron Roberto Mancini that he can create moorings strong enough to secure the long-term effectiveness of a loose but impressively charged cannon. Yet who can dismiss the possibility that, on such a pivotal day in his attempt to re-make the richest football club in the world, Mancini received a massive transfusion of a manager's lifeblood – the potentially sweet vindication of a seriously big gamble.
It came with irrefutable evidence that if nine out of 10 managers, with Jose Mourinho, no less, the loudest of the majority, would have turned their backs on Balotelli and his bizarre and troubling accumulation of baggage, Mancini may just find huge reward in taking such a calculated risk.
This latest evidence certainly increases the possibility that one day he will able to say that Balotelli was indeed worth all of the trouble.
Indeed, the proposition might have been passed by a show of hands if Stoke City's splendid goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen had not so brilliantly turned away a shot of sumptuous power and control in the first half.
As it was, Yaya Touré was again the history man, the enforcer of City's revised destiny, but in the moment of breakthrough Balotelli was again bitingly relevant. Earlier he had taken a shot in the face from Robert Huth that could easily have earned a red card but his reaction involved no more than brief and routine theatrics.
Without Balotelli the Cup final which was supposed to stand on its own as a reannouncement of its important place in the diary of English football would have been doomed to the deepest and most depressing mediocrity.
This was the threatened cost of Stoke's total failure to produce the best of themselves in their effort to end a drought that had gone four years longer than City's. But for Sorensen's spirit and technique, and Jermaine Pennant's despairing application, Stoke might have raised the white flag somewhere along the southbound lanes of the M6.
Fortunately for City, and the spectacle, Touré seized his moment with the power and the certainty that marked his winner against Manchester United in the semi-final and it helped that whenever Balotelli touched the ball there were new and striking possibilities.
It meant that the symbolism of City's joy inevitably outweighed the meaning of their winning performance.
They were winners rather than mere applicants for glory at the gates of Europe and wherever you turned in the stadium there was the sense that Manchester United's noisy neighbours had something to say that could no longer be so lightly dismissed.
However, this did nothing to scale down the priorities now facing Mancini. Balotelli's performance was immensely encouraging but still no more than a down payment into a reliability fund and if Carlos Tevez's talent is something you can take to the bank his commitment to the club's future is plainly not.
The talk is of three major signings along with a significant clear-out, which you may say is pretty much par for the course of such a huge work in progress. This, though, does not lessen the pressure on Mancini to make moves aimed not only at augmenting the talent base but also enhancing the team's understanding of what it takes to gain football's highest ground.
Touré, on both his visits to the national stadium in a few weeks, has shown he has both the nerve and the mettle. Nigel de Jong and Joe Hart have displayed similar substance and from Balotelli there is at least the promise that he may just be able to keep his eyes fixed on the stars.
The City revolution will have to run a lot deeper than this, of course, but the point Balotelli might have made would have been somewhat gratuitous. Gaining Europe and the Cup in one season is confirmation enough. City have, no doubt, joined the big bananas.
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California mom accused of hosting sex parties for teens social media supporter went by 'nun'
Shannon O'Connor, 47, is facing dozens of charges for allegedly hosting drunk sex parties for her 15-year-old son and friends.
NS california A new report says the mom accused of hosting wild booze-filled sex parties for her 15-year-old son and his teenage friends allegedly went to 'The Nun' on social media and told the girls to Tiffany Greed with gifts like jewellery.
Shannon O'Connor, 47, who is accused of luring 14- and 15-year-olds into her $4.7 million home in Los Gatos, has been portrayed as a tech-savvy 'hunter' Taught to lie and even allegedly used. Gifts to feed them, the parents say.
a Denver Post The article, published on Sunday, details O'Connor's alleged strategy to gain the trust of teenagers.
'She's really good with the phone. She's a pro with social media,' one mom told the outlet. 'She tries to put a nail between the parents and the kids. He is a hunter.'
O'Connor was extradited from Boise, Idaho, to Santa Clara County, California, on October 19, and was later indicted on 39 charges, including felony, child abuse, sexual assault and contributing to the felony of a minor. Was.
She was denied bail last week and given 15 protective orders to prevent her from contacting the victims, including her child.
O'Connor allegedly harassed a teen with dozens of phone calls after the girl broke up with her son, and made 37 phone calls to the teen within a span of three hours.
The mother of two is accused of hosting parties at her $4.7 million, 5,122-square-foot Northern California estate in Los Gatos, which has a pool, sports court and more
O'Connor, a mother of two, reportedly organized at least a half-dozen large parties and smaller gatherings at her home in Los Gatos, but also in Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe, where prosecutors said That he 14- and 15-year-olds with vodka, dispenses condoms, encourages minors to have sex, and even watches and laughs when teens engage in sexual acts some of which were called non-consensual.
O'Connor reportedly made up her son's underage girlfriend by buying her a $200 Tiffany necklace and flowers, and ordering an Uber Eats meal at her house.
A mother in Boise, Idaho told the Post that she became acquainted with O'Connor after she learned she planned to relocate to the state.
The mother, whose identity was not disclosed, said that when her daughter began dating O'Connor's son, she ignored the red flags in the relationship — including the fact that O'Connor married a teenage girl. pampered with a dozen roses and a $200 Tiffany necklace.
The mother claimed that she sent Uber Eats to the girl's house when she was hungry.
The mom said she later received a tip from a California parent and began pouring through her daughter's text messages for clues.
An online trail revealed that O'Connor was allegedly helping his daughter out of the house after her parents fell asleep.
According to the Post interview, 'Are you alone,' said the text. 'Are your parents sleeping? Did he get well?'
O'Connor reportedly communicated with underage teens on Snapchat under the nickname 'The Nun'
The relationship between the teens ended immediately, but O'Connor was reportedly unwilling to leave.
He reportedly tried to reach the girl through various Snapchat accounts, and the teenager received dozens of blocked calls—27 of which were within a three-hour period.
The Denver Post reported that when the girl accepted the call, there was only a heavy breathing sound on the other end.
The girl's mother told the outlet that phone records traced the call back to O'Connor.
'We were all really fooled by the "cool mom" thing,' she said. 'Looking back… there were red flags.'
Officers in Idaho, where O'Connor recently visited with her children, said when deputies arrived to arrest her on a runaway warrant earlier this month, they found a dozen teens at her home.
Another mom whose daughter dated O'Connor's son shared her 'crazy' experience with the post.
Soon after her daughter began an affair with Connor's son, she began exhibiting precocious behaviors such as lying and drinking – even passing out at the table, her mother said.
The teenager later revealed that she was harassed at O'Connor's parties.
The girl's mother told the outlet, 'Shannon was telling her what to do and when and how to lie to me and her father.
'It was completely insane.'
Another group of parents told the Post that they doubted their son's childhood friendship after O'Connor took him from a Halloween party held last year.
The outlet reported that the 14-year-old was standing barefoot near the road 'wet and cold', the teen said and smelled like alcohol.
While the boy was sleeping, the parents said they started reading incoming Snapchat messages on his phone.
O'Connor allegedly taught teens to lie to their parents about parties they hosted
That's when she learned that O'Connor – under the nickname 'The Nun' – was using the stage to discuss the party, which happened when she and her husband were not at home.
The nun reportedly said in the source: 'How did it all happen'.
A boy replied: 'Thanks Shannon!'
Then She Turned To Damage Control: 'Do Your Parents Kneel' [sic],' and 'Did anyone know I wasn't there.'
Judge Johnny Gogo refused bail to O'Connor last week after prosecutors said they had "clear and convincing evidence that if the defendant is released to the public, the victims in this case would be greatly affected." There is a possibility of causing bodily harm. to members of the public,' the East Bay Times reported.
Deputy District Attorney Rebekah Wise also alleged that O'Connor, who relocated with her sons to Starr, Idaho, where she allegedly continued to throw boozy parties for minors, was a flight risk.
O'Connor hosted parties inside her 5,122-square-foot Los Gatos home, which was recently listed for sale for $4.7 million.
The two-acre property has a pool, spa, sports court, nanny quarters, and five en-suite bedrooms.
If convicted on all counts, he faces more than 20 years in prison.
While working as an administrative assistant at Aruba Networks, O'Connor also faces unrelated fraud charges involving more than $120,000 in unauthorized charges on company credit cards.
Prosecutors said O'Connor used the card to purchase limousine rides, clothing purchases and alcohol deliveries to his home.
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Q: PHP; PDO; MySQL INSERT query with drop down I am struggling with this two input INSERT query. It will not insert anything to the db. First, it is supposed to accept user input and the dropdown menu selection which is the id from another table hence the SELECT query. Once this code is fixed I will set up a relationship between the two tables involved via the 'pubid'.
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   try {
      $conn = new PDO("mysql:host=$dbhost;dbname=$dbname;charset=utf8",$dbuser,$dbpass,$dbo);
   } catch (PDOException $e) {
      echo $e->getMessage();
      exit;
   }

   if(isset($_POST['addBtn'])){
      $q = $conn->prepare("INSERT INTO series (title, pubid) VALUES (:title, :pubid)");
      $q->bindParam(':title',$title,PDO::PARAM_STR);
      $q->bindParam(':pubid',$pubid,PDO::PARAM_INT);
      $q->execute();
   }

   $sql = 'SELECT pubid, name FROM publisher ORDER BY name';
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         Comics DB > Add Series
      </title>
      <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="comicsdb.css">

       <menu>

Home

Add

Edit

Delete

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Search

      </menu>

       <form action="addseries.php" method="POST">

            Series:
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$dbname     = 'comicsdb';
$dbuser         = 'root';
$dbpass     = 'FuckYou';
$dbport         = '3306';
$charset    =   'utf8';
$dbo            = array(
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PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES => false
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, PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION
// fetch associative arrays (default: mixed arrays)
, PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => PDO::FETCH_ASSOC
);

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<?php

   error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', 1);

   require_once("dbconn.php");

   try {
      $conn = new PDO("mysql:host=$dbhost;dbname=$dbname;charset=utf8",$dbuser,$dbpass,$dbo);
   } catch (PDOException $e) {
      echo $e->getMessage();
      exit;
   }

   if(isset($_POST['addBtn'])){
      $title = $_POST['title'];
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      $q = $conn->prepare("INSERT INTO series (title, pubid) VALUES (:title, :pubid)");
      $q->bindParam(':title',$title,PDO::PARAM_STR);
      $q->bindParam(':pubid',$pubid,PDO::PARAM_INT);
      $q->execute();
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  $q->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

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         Comics DB > Add Series
      </title>
      <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="comicsdb.css">

         <menu>

Home

Add

Edit

Delete

List

Search

         </menu>

            <form action="addseries.php" method="POST">

                  Series:
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A: You didn't assign anything to your variables.
Assign them to your POST arrays:
if(isset($_POST['title'],$_POST['pubid'])){

$title = $_POST['title'];
$pubid = $_POST['pubid'];

      $q = $conn->prepare("INSERT INTO publisher (title, pubid) VALUES (:title, :pubid)");
      $q->bindParam(':title',$title,PDO::PARAM_STR);
      $q->bindParam(':pubid',$pubid,PDO::PARAM_INT);
      $q->execute();
   }

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*Kudos to Ghost for catching this.

<select> bears the name attribute, not the <option>.
Change your <select> to read as <select name="pubid"> and remove the name="pubid" from the <option>.

Edit:
As per your edit, you still have an unnamed attribute for the select:
<select>
<option name="pubid" id="pubid">Select</option>

that needs to read as:
<select name="pubid">
<option>Select</option>

that's why you're still getting an undefined index notice.
Plus, you can move your id inside it:
<select name="pubid" id="pubid">


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It's 2:00 A.M. Michael, 54, has just been admitted into the emergency room. He has hemorrhaged in his brain, an incident that modern science calls a stroke. If Michael survives, he could face paralysis, loss of normal brain function, and other serious effects. But due to a medical break through, Michael has a chance to return to a normal life. Research has shown that the effects of a stroke can possibly be completely eliminated by introducing stem cells into the human brain (BBC). These stem cells would save Michael's life, but since stem cell research isn't supported by the U.S. government, Michael my be left with the results of a stroke. The research of stem cells should be endorsed by the U.S. government because it would increase many patients' chances of survival and insure an improved life.
Stem cells can be manipulated into becoming almost any cell that is in the human body (Robinson). When a specific type of cell is needed, these stem cells can be used to form the needed cells. The treatment of these cells could cure many diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. The illnesses that the treatment of stem cells could cure are diseases that typically remain uncured. Many people are forced to suffer with their sicknesses for their entire lives because there is no other option. Stem cell research can provide the option that they are searching for (Badge).
The research of stem cells occurs in America, but it isn't endorsed by the government (Pros and Cons of Stem Cell Research). Stem cell research is legal but legislation has been passed to prevent federal funding. Why can this research be allowed but not funded? Many critics state that since stem cell research is such a controversial issue, such legislation had to be passed against it. But the legislation that was passed does not put an end to the controversial issue; it simply does not provide it with federal funding. Any other level of government, such as state or local, is free to fund the research if the citizens of that government choose to do so (Robinson). But why exclude the federal government? The smaller levels of government usually prove not to have adequate funds to cover the extensive research needed. Having local governments to fund the research also causes the issue to be unequal throughout the country. With some governments in America funding research and others disallowing it, not everyone in the country has an equal chance at recovery from the terrible diseases that they suffer. If the federal government funded the research, then everyone would have an equal opportunity.
Why is stem cell research so controversial? It's a life-saving study, but there are many aspects of the research that many people don't support. Stem cells mainly come from human embryos and umbilical cords. Many argue that the use of human embryos for harvesting stem cells is unethical (Ethics of Stem Cell Research). Those who oppose it suggest that a human life is killed when the stem cells are collected. Although the embryo that is used for gathering the stem cells is destroyed, the embryos that are used are the results of abortion (Schnurr). Whether the fetus will be used for research or not, it has already been aborted and will be discardedand wasted. Pro-life activists believe that if stem cell research is endorsed, then abortion will never be abolished (Schnurr). This idea is false because stem cell research could continue without the use of aborted fetuses; the stem cell simply would not be as plentiful. Stem cell research could use the blood from the umbilical cord to further the research (Fumento). This would decrease the progress of the research
Stem cell research is an advanced scientific discovery that has the possibility to revolutionize the medical community if adequately funded. The research has the potential to cure presently "incurable" diseases and give many people a chance at a better life. Scientists have been searching for a discovery that could change everything for the better. It's right in front of us, but will we seize the opportunity to benefit from it?
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dattpham95
Within the lyrics of the song "Bitch better have my money" by Rhianna, she says "please don't call me on my bluff". It means "don't dare me", doesn't it? By the way, I also didn't understand pretty well about the name of this song, because the grammar is quite weird.
SpookySquirtle
A lot of English songs will mess with grammar to make the song flow, so It's perfectly fine if you don't understand it.
@SpookySquirtle so could you help me to answer my first question above? I'm really thankful for you.
@dattpham95 I honestly don't know what it means either lol
@SpookySquirtle omg hahaha, I appreciate that, though
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it wont be close that is why I posted to have one made.
If he wanted I will send him one can not promise how well it will run due to Texas is not CT.
Not really but there is a member over here that thinks I am a joke so I had to set him straight but last I checked he still hasn't seen the light .
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