Aaron Brooks is the co-founder of Vamp, a digital startup which helps brands better connect with quality social influencers.
The famous summer of love came to an end last month, with 3.6 million of us tuning in to watch two contestants walk away with £50,000.
Love it or hate it, the ITV2 show has had a powerful effect over the last two months, not only on audiences, but on brands too. Now, they are rushing to recruit these new stars into their influencer marketing strategies.
Sponsorship deals on the show this year were rife, with Missguided being the ultimate winner. The fashion brand's sponsorship of the show sent searches soaring during air time, with some items of clothing being searched for thousands of times for several days after being shown on the program.
Contestant's sudden notoriety does not equate to the level of authenticity and credibility that smaller micro-influencers have created over the years.
Thanks to this success, 'Love Island Fever' has well and truly gripped the attention of brands across the world. Many contestants secured promotional deals for teeth whitening, 'skinny teas' and club appearances, even before their time in the villa was up. Some of the most followed contestants are rumoured to be already earning well over £7,000 per Instagram post.
They are temporarily hot property and, in a bid to catch some of the heat, brands may feel obliged to jump on the bandwagon, engaging with the latest contestants for an obscene cost. Yet, this strategy is far from a one way ticket to a successful influencer marketing campaign.
Some of the Love Island 'class of 2018' now have Instagram followings of over 2.5 million, understandably an attractive proposition for brands.
However a successful influencer campaign - one that drives action and return on marketer's investment - relies on engagement, not reach. After all, the amount of eyes on a post are irrelevant if they don't trust in the recommendation.
A survey by Edelman found that 49 per cent of internet users worldwide said they trusted information from online personalities with a small following, while only 36 per cent said the same of well-known online personalities. Celebrities, meanwhile, were the least trusted source of information, cited by 27 per cent.
Contestant's sudden notoriety does not equate to the level of authenticity and credibility that smaller micro-influencers have created over the years. While Love Island sponsored posts will be all over Instagram, as contestants rush to cash in, research suggests savvy audiences can recognise a brand partnership taken in haste. In this case, against the clock counting down their fifteen minutes of fame.
In contrast, influencers who have spent years building their following are less likely to agree to any opportunity that comes their way. They take the protection of their personal brand seriously, only partnering with brands that fit.
Brands hoping to engage with influencer audiences should look for longer term and more authentic solutions, rather than give into the Love Island hype.
On an upward trajectory, they also have the benefit of confidence that another opportunity will come back around. Partnerships as a result are more authentic and trusted by audiences. Love Island contestants meanwhile will be only too aware that their influence will wane as they leave the villa and prime time TV spot behind.
Smaller audiences should not be overlooked. Micro-influencers give brands access to followings with specialised interests so placements can result in much higher engagement. Brands should be carefully considering ambassadors based on the relevance the creator has for their audience, and not just their number of followers.
Another aspect brands ought to consider is the creativity of these posts. According to findings by Bazaarvoice, the repetitive nature of content and declining quality are now top customer concerns around influencer marketing.
Love Island contestants are not expert content creators. Brands, aware of this fact, will often give very prescriptive briefs which result in a news feed full of near identical sponsored posts, each as unimaginative as the next.
This is another area where influencers have the edge. The quality of their content is what they are known for. Their dedicated followings are validation that it is engaging and popular, so when brands deliver a brief, they're able to leave it open to their interpretation.
Allowing the influencer to translate it into their own voice not only helps the post feel more authentic, but the result is often more exciting and creative than the brand could have imagined.
Not only will budget go further - for the same price a celebrity post, you may be able to engage many micro-influencers across a longer stretch of time, resulting in a more sustained campaign - but the content will be of a higher quality, more creative and authentic. All things we know social media audiences demand in 2018.


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Q: How can I return only one record per person? I have a database that includes superannuation contributions for staff, I have tried to run a query to determine the frequency of their contribution and when I run the query I get one entry for each time the staff member has contributed.
All I want is one entry per staff member that is asked for in the criteria. eg. weekly,fortnightly etc.

A: You will need to group by the staff member ID or name field. In the query builder you can do this by changing the query type to Crosstab and then back to Select. Then you will have an option "Total" for each field. For the ID field set this to "Group By". To count the fields use a field with option "Count".
I'm not sure exactly what your criteria should be, I would need to see how your table is set up and exactly what you want to know. You'll probably just want how many records there are for each person over some time period.
Alternately, you can go to the SQL editor and write a query involving a GROUP BY clause.  Access's help should give examples.

A: The Query it sounds like you want should look like this:
SELECT Table1.StaffName, Count(Table1.StaffName) AS NumberOfEntries
FROM Table1
WHERE Table1.DateEntered Between #6/2/2009# And #6/15/2009#
GROUP BY Table1.StaffName

You can use any date range you want to and it will return only one row per person. One column will display said person's name, the other column will show a number representing how many records that person had within the selected date range.

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Myths, Myths and Legends in GTA San Andreas, Myth Characters,
Mary-Beth Maybell
Bone County
MURDEROUS
Mary-Beth Maybell is a mythical character found in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Mary-Beth Maybell is the host of the country music station K-Rose. Not much is explained about her personality as she lacks a physical appearance in the game. Maybell has been married six times, all of which ended which the husbands dying gruesome deaths, and has nine children. She lives in Bone County, but her actual location is never specified. She drives a pick-up truck, the exact make also not specified.
Because she is connected with the grisly deaths of multiple people, Maybell has become the source of various myths and legends in the GTA community.
Murders and Cannibalism
During her radio broadcasts, Mary-Beth makes various mentions towards her six dead husbands. For example, after All My Exes Live in Texas, Maybell satirizes the song by saying "all my exes are six feet under." In various other intermission periods, she makes many more minor references to her dead husbands.
In northern Bone County, there is a mass grave containing six body bags and a Bobcat parked nearby. The fact that the number of corpses matches the number of Maybell's exes, the pick-up truck, and the location in rural Bone County seem to suggest that she is responsible for the murders.
When switching between songs on K-Rose, Mary-Beth will sometimes comment on eating raw meat, including human meat. This seems to imply that not only has she murdered her husbands, but she has also eaten their flesh.
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EAST LANSING, MI — The Conquer Accelerator program announced today the five startup teams selected to participate in its third summer cohort.
Designed to help both newer and established companies overcome business hurdles, the Conquer Accelerator emphasizes smart planning and growth, extensive mentorship from an experienced bench of professionals, and structured components focused on bringing its cohort startups to success. The accelerator program is hosted and managed by Spartan Innovations, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Michigan State University Foundation.
The program's five teams will work through an intensive ten-week program, starting June 2018. In addition to $20,000 in seed funding, each startup receives tailored mentorship, a creative co-working space, as well as access to networking support and talent resources to enable them to grow their companies.
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Conquer Accelerator's third season kicks off Monday, June 4th, 2018. For more information or to follow this year's ten-week journey, visit www.conqueraccelerator.com. Follow the teams on Conquer Accelerator's social channels: Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.


If you're looking to travel, get out of debt, or splurge on a caseload of dark chocolate, you have to regularly take care of your money.
You're stopping yourself from that dream vacation with fancy drinks on the beach or whatever dream you may have on your vision board.
Create a reason why you are doing this.
This is vital for staying on track when you get asked to go to happy hour and down tons of craft beer and chicken wings. Or maybe your work buddy drags you to Lulu Lemon and adopts you as their partner in shopping crimes. You can remind yourself of the reason for turning something like that down temporarily.
To jumpstart your motivation to stay disciplined, I'm giving the idea of low-cost weekends a double dose of enthusiasm with my 5 tips to spend less.
So let's say you want to cut back your spending by $200 a month. Instead of buying clothes or going out to eat every month, put a low cost weekend event on your calendar to put money away for what you envision. Start small. If you are use to having sushi every weekend for dinner, maybe you opt to have a less expensive outing like lunch or maybe even breakfast.
Instead of forking over extra money to pay a tip, you find a restaurant like Panera where you don't have to pay a waitress. So instead of spending 100 dollars every week, you block out two weekends of no cost or low cost activities and only spend two hundred that month versus $400 (assuming the month has four weeks in it). It may seem like a big deal at first but you'll get use to it. You can now put that money away for your goal.
So I'll finally tell you.
Kindergarteners practice this daily. So should you! Order a sandwich that you and a friend both like. Nine times out of ten half of a Panini or sub is enough for one person. It usually is cut in half for you without asking. So consider this the next time you head out to socialize.
2. Splurge on a book.
While I love digital books, every now and again, I'll buy a physical one that I know I'll enjoy. I'm particular about what I choose because I hate clutter and actively avoid it. So for ten-twenty five dollars, I'll buy it. Yes, I will pay top dollar for a good book if I can't find it cheaper because I know I'll reference it multiple times. I take the cost per reference into account.
One gem that I bought two years ago that still serves me well is Clinton Kelly's Freakin' Fabulous on a Budget. Every time I look at the book, I get advice from an expert whenever I need it. If I pay 25 dollars and reference the book 5 times, it's as if I paid thee Clinton Kelly five dollars each time to pick his brain.
I'm sure you never thought of it that way. Now that price sounds like a major bargain! What would you do without me? It's still cheaper than what you spend on a dinner out. Remember you may only revisit the meal the next day from a doggie bag.
The advice is timeless and there's a section that tells you about all of the classic pieces a woman should have in her wardrobe. There's even a section for men. It makes a big difference when you have somewhere to go and you need to look polished quickly. You may even be better equipped when you head back to Lulu Lemon and buy clothes that will last for years.
Why not try a new sport or exercise craze? Tennis is inexpensive. Once you buy the racquets and balls, you're set. Search for a nearby court and play whenever the mood strikes. You'll pad your wallet while staying in shape. A new hobby could blossom and you won't even realize you initially did this for frugality purposes. Get a mesh carry bag with tennis balls for $13 or so or a smaller can to start like Penn Championship XD Tennis Balls (Single Can/3 Balls) and get moving.
4. Clean your house and have people over.
Dedicate a weekend to cleaning up. Invite people over the following week for a potluck. This way you'll turbocharge your efforts when you bust out the feather duster and you'll impose a deadline on yourself to get it done.
You may even hit the declutter jackpot and save 30 dollars or more while you get organized. You can even sell CDS, clothes that no longer fit or that old beanie baby collection. Be sure to get rid of the items right away so you don't talk your self back into keeping anything.
5. Be a garden enthusiast.
Attempt to have a green thumb or just a greenish one. Start with something basic. You could even choose to grow veggies like green beans or beets. Look up vegetables and herbs that are easy to grow for starters. If you want minimal upkeep be sure to get something that is low maintenance and doesn't require a lot of clipping, etc.
If you are friendly with your neighbor and they happen to be avid gardener, see if you can get some perennials from them. You won't have to pay a dime unless you want to start from scratch and plant seeds. Either way, it can be an exciting process and you can get a mini science lesson as you learn. Now get going, enthusiasts!
If you want to seriously free up extra money, you can still enjoy yourself for less on the weekend. With the ideas mentioned, you can start scheduling your savings now — and avoid overspending later.


Pasta carbonara was once described to me as the Italian version of eggs and bacon. It is the ultimate comfort food, the only food that has every really been able to compete with macaroni and cheese in my heart. True life: my favorite thing in the entire world is macaroni and cheese.
When I'm in the united states, I have a lot of trouble not ordering mac and cheese if its on the menu. When I was in Rome, I had a lot of trouble not ordering pasta carbonara if it was on the menu. I remember feeling a lot of regret, actually, pretty much every time I didn't order it.
One of my favorite things to do after coming home from a trip is to try to learn to cook something that i ate a lot of when I was wherever I was. As it turns out, no one really wants to listen to you blabber on about how beautiful Rome is/was and why you felt like it was your spirit city. See? Your eyes just glazed over. I saw it.
The best way to share memories of a trip is by cooking a travel-inspired dinner for someone. Then, you'll be allowed 5 minutes of reminiscing about your trip while they gobble down the food you made them and politely nod as they ignore what you're saying. And so obviously, when I left the land of carbonara, I needed to figure out how to recreate it.
Ideally, you want to use guanciale for this recipe. Guanciale is cured pork jowl, and is similar to bacon or pancetta except that it is way better. For Chapel Hill and Durham folks, here are the sources that I've found: Weaver Street market, the trailer (not sure what it's actually called) that sells pork products at the Carrboro Farmer's Market, and Rose's Meats and Sweets in downtown Durham. Otherwise, use the absolute best, most thickly cut bacon you can find, or pancetta.
I like the addition of the lemons in this because the bit of acidity cuts through the richness really beautifully. Blanching and frying the lemons takes a little extra time, but it's so, so worth it to make this dish feel a little more special. Plus, they look so beautiful.
Bring a small pot of water to a simmer. Slice lemons as thinly as possible, making sure to remove the seeds. Place the lemons in the pot of water and simmer until the pith is translucent, about 10 minutes. Remove them from water and dry them gently on a paper towel.
Add guanciale to a cold dry pan, then heat to medium-high heat. Cook guanciale until crispy, about 10 minutes, stirring often to make sure it browns evenly. It will quickly release a lot of oil, so don't worry. Once cooked, reduce heat to low and remove the pieces with a slotted spoon. Then, gently add your lemon slices to the hot grease and cook slowly, flipping them often, until they're golden brown and crispy. Retain the oil.
Cook pasta according to the directions on the package. While this is happening, stir together eggs, pepper, and cheese until you have a pasty mixture. When pasta is just shy of being al dente, remove from heat and drain, retaining about 1/2 cup of the hot cooking water.
Place the pasta back in the pot and add enough of the guanciale grease to generously coat the pasta. Stir enthusiastically. Add about 2 tbsp of the hot water to the egg mixture and stir. Then, slowly add the egg mixture to the hot pasta, stirring quickly. Place the pot back on the burner, lowering the heat to a 1 or 2. Now you stir. Initially, the sauce will be runny and won't stick to the pasta very well. Keep stirring. At this point, you're basically cooking the eggs, but you want to do so at a speed that lets them get thick, shiny and smooth. You don't want them to scramble, so don't raise the heat. Keep stirring until the sauce is thick enough to coat the back of your spoon, or until there isn't much liquid in the bottom of the pot as you stir. Keep tasting, and add more salt and pepper to your preferences. I like a lot of pepper in mine, but not everyone is as addicted to pepper as I am.
Divide the pasta into two bowls and sprinkle the bacon on top. Place the lemons on top of that and serve.


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Kalen Etzler's signing with Ohio State men's basketball is a full family affair
Adam Jardy
CONVOY, Ohio — The time had arrived for Kalen Etzler to put pen to paper and add the next chapter to the family legacy.
Seated at a table with the Crestview High School logo behind him, the future Ohio State men's basketball player was ready to sign his national letter-of-intent for the class of 2021. It was his signature going onto the paper, but it represented the family name of those who surrounded him while he did so. Etzler had an eight-member entourage with him, each decked out in either Ohio State or Crestview gear.
The two schools have a strong relationship. Just over his left shoulder stood Etzler's uncle, Doug, who played for the Buckeyes from 1992-95. He's in his second year as head coach at his alma mater, the school where Doug's dad, Ray – who stood over Kalen's right shoulder – won 445 games as boys' basketball coach from 1964-94.
In this northwest Ohio village with a population of a little more than a thousand people, each of the roughly three dozen attendees for Wednesday's festivities was either a family member or close friend of the man of the hour. So while the evening was about Kalen Etzler, future Buckeye, he viewed it more as a chance to grow the family name through his own success.
"It's really just the people who got me here are really the ones going through my head, and I know that sounds really cliché but I just really wanted to thank everyone who's taken their time and invested in my dreams," he told The Dispatch. "I'm trying to not just uphold the standard, but I do it for myself and my personal pride. I don't mean that in an arrogant way, I'm just trying to keep my head on straight and put a good annotation behind my family's last name.
"I love what I do and I love the group of people who are around me."
After Etzler signed, he posed for photos in front of a massive wooden cutout of the state of Ohio featuring an Ohio State logo right in the center. During quarantine last spring, it was an art project he worked on with his mom, Krista Dailey, who sat directly to his right as he signed to play for the Buckeyes.
Mom was the brains behind the project and Kalen supplied most of the brawn, using a jigsaw to cut the state outline out of eight boards.
"When he got his own room he decided he wanted an Ohio State theme and I thought it would be neat to make a headboard in the shape of the state of Ohio," she said. "I like spending time with (the kids) and he's going to be leaving soon and I'm not going to get that time back."
Kalen also added some LED lights to the back, she said, that help illuminate the project that had to be wheeled into the room on a dolly. He hopes to bring it with him when he gets to Ohio State this summer.
It's a transition uncle Doug knows well. When he chose the Buckeyes over Ohio University and Bowling Green during his senior year at Crestview, Etzler committed himself to a long haul. After scoring 140 points during his first three seasons with the Buckeyes, he broke out and averaged a team-high 16.3 points per game as a senior.
"Everything's bigger, faster, stronger (at Ohio State)," he said. "Attention to detail is so much more intense. It's just a higher level. Kalen has worked extremely hard to get to this point, and being family it's awesome when someone in your family has a chance to check off the box of one of the dreams you know they set a long time ago."
Taking it all in, Ray Etzler felt like history was being repeated after seeing first Doug and now Kalen commit to the Buckeyes.
"For me, it's a dream come true for somebody who's worked real hard at the game," he said of his grandson. "It's really a blessing for the family. I'm very, very proud of the fact he gets an opportunity to go to a place like Ohio State."
First, though, comes a senior year and the hope for a somewhat normal season. Etzler's uncle and grandfather both said they expect teams to throw "junk" defenses at Etzler, a four-star recruit in the 247Sports.com composite rankings who averaged 11.7 points and 10.7 rebounds last season, in an effort to slow him down.
He'll need to put weight on when he gets to Ohio State, a fact that everyone in the family acknowledges. When he talks to Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann, though, Kalen said that's not something that is being stressed yet.
"Whenever I bring up my weight, he shuts down whatever I'm trying to say and tells me, 'Just do whatever you need to do. Work on the craft. We can do all that other stuff later,' " Kalen said. "I appreciate him for that."
ajardy@dispatch.com
@AdamJardy


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Days of Our Lives Spoilers: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Scooter?
Days of Our Lives Spoilers, Tuesday, April 11th: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Scooter?
Nicole weighs her options in the Days of Our Lives spoilers.
The Days of Our Lives spoilers for Tuesday, April 11th, predict that Nicole considers her recourse when it comes to the Scooter situation.
Tuesday Nicole (Arianne Zucker) reviews in her mind methods to deal with the slime ball known as Scooter (Robb Derringer). She considers desperate measures even. These are desperate times for Nicole, after all. If Scooter blows her cover, she could go to jail and lose her daughter–not to mention the life she's made with Brady (Eric Martsolf).
Stay Out of It–But Soap Characters Never Do!
And that's why we love them, right, dear Soap Cities readers? They are an incorrigible lot. Take Jade (Gabrielle Haugh), for example, she insinuate herself into the Tripp (Lucas Adams) situation on the Johnson's behalf. That should go well! Excuse the sarcasm, but come on, Jade! You need to concentrate on getting better, not fixing other people's problems.
It's almost laughable to think that Victor Kiriakis (John Aniston), of all people, could stand in judgment of someone. But he does–of Eric (Greg Vaughan). Protective mom Marlena (Deidre Hall) lays into him about his latest act of hypocrisy. We love Victor, but he deserves a good tongue lashing from Marlena for this!
Meanwhile, Eric has a dream about Nicole. She is the person whom he may feel he needs to make amends with most, aside from Maggie (Suzanne Rogers), which he's already done. But how can he do so when she's off in Canada dealing with her own problems?
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'The Great Dictator,' 1940.(Screenshot: YouTube)
Everybody Hates Nazis!
The symbolic politics of anti-Nazism in the age of Trump
By James Kirchick
November 7, 2017 • 9:30 PM
At the height of its influence in the late 1930s, the German-American Bund summoned 20,000 people to jeer Franklin Delano Roosevelt and salute Adolf Hitler at Madison Square Garden. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Fritz Kuhn's pro-Nazi organization boasted 25,000 dues-paying members and 8,000 Sturmabteilungen (Stormtroopers)—numbers which may well underestimate the group's support. While World War II rendered sympathy for overt fascism taboo in America, the virus never went away entirely. A 1967 Anti-Defamation League report cited 75,000 members of the John Birch Society, (by no means a fascist organization, but the leading extreme right-wing group at the time), at least some of whom may have been open to fascist beliefs. Exploiting backlash to the civil rights movement and under the charismatic leadership of David Duke, the Ku Klux Klan (which claimed 4 million members in the 1920s) achieved a minor resurgence in the 1970s, and accumulated 10,000 followers by the end of the decade.
Fascism was hardly poised for a revival in America during the Cold War. Yet the 1984 murder of Denver Jewish radio host Alan Berg by members of an Aryan Nations offshoot, (an event dramatized in the 1988 Costa Gavras film Betrayed), rekindled the American's media's fascination with neo-Nazis. At the time, the ADL estimated total membership "of the entire white supremacy movement" to be 10,000, with about a tenth of that number ostensibly "willing to bear arms and fight." A decade later, spurred by bloody, highly-publicized confrontations involving federal agents at Waco and Ruby Ridge, anti-government militias, (some of them committed to resisting the Z.O.G, or "Zionist Occupied Government"), were believed to command the loyalties of anywhere from 20,000 to 60,000 people. Paradoxically, extreme right organizing then declined again under the administration of America's first black president, to the point that, by 2011 "the country's largest neo-Nazi party" could claim only 400 members dispersed across 32 states.
So are Nazis making a huge comeback in America? No. Nor was what appears to be a long-term downward trend in membership of neo-Nazi organizations gainsaid by the events of this past August, when a demonstration geared at mobilizing America's legions of fascists and haters summoned just a few hundred people to Charlottesville, Virginia. For all the warnings about a resurgence of fascism under the presidency of Donald Trump, the assembled skinheads and more nattily dressed denizens of the "alt-right" were massively outnumbered by counter-protestors. About Richard Spencer, the media-savvy, pseudo-intellectual alt right impresario, the description offered in a 1965 FBI monograph of American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell, a frequent subject of newspaper and magazine profiles in his day, seems spot-on: "a shrewd small mind inflated into a national nuisance by undeserved publicity … a braggart and bully, who tries to delude his maladjusted followers into believing they are crusaders." So too was David Duke in Charlottesville, his Botoxed face and buff torso more suggestive of an aging Fort Lauderdale muscle queen than America's führer emeritus.
None of this is to downplay the toxicity of these deranged individuals, one of whom killed a young woman in Charlottesville (and wounded many others) by driving his car into a crowd of people. But some perspective is in order. The fact that there are real pedophiles who molest children does not imply that there is an epidemic of pedophilia in America or that local nursery schools are run by pedophiles who engage in satanic rites. Similarly, the fact that there are 400—or even 10,000—people who call themselves neo-Nazis in America is regrettable and dangerous in every single instance. It's also normal.
To be sure, Donald Trump's election wasn't normal, and it owes itself at least partly to white racial resentment. Yet that doesn't mean that America has turned Nazi, either. As the minuscule turnout for the "Unite the Right" rally demonstrated, a very small percentage of the U.S. population is actually interested in taking political action to further overtly racist and anti-Semitic beliefs. While racism and anti-Semitism have hardly disappeared in American life and are unlikely ever to go away, there is no mass fascist political movement in America. To be an "anti-Nazi" or "anti-fascist," then, is a materially meaningless political identity in America today because literally everybody—with the exception of Richard Spencer and his harem of boys sporting "fashy" haircuts—opposes national socialism and fascism.
And yet ever since Donald Trump assumed the presidency, an increasing number of serious people seem to believe that they are engaged in a twilight struggle against Nazis, just like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca. The hysteria began with the label Trump's political opposition adopted for itself, "The Resistance," a moniker that, unless you are burying weapons in the forests of Poland or hiding in the basements of French country houses, one has no right to assume. Purporting to offer "lessons from the 20th century," a pamphlet by a leading Yale historian of Europe has become the unofficial Resistance bible, reaching No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list. "On Tyranny" offers tips on living under dictatorship ranging from the anodyne ("Make eye contact and small talk") to the paranoid ("Make sure you and your family have passports"). So common is the resort to hyperbole that Times film critic Manhola Dargis, in a review of Dunkirk, could casually complete her panegyric on armed British resistance to Nazism by observing, "the fight against fascism continues"—just like the Civil War continues, or the Renaissance continues, presumably. As a metaphor—but not in reality, right?
So where do all these legions of Nazis and passionate brigades of anti-Nazis come from? They come from the land of political hyberbole, which is where Trump came from, too. They come from Twitter and Facebook. They are the products of a moral panic with an underlying political cause, which is now being exploited by a wide range of political operatives—ranging from well-intentioned organizers who rightly see Donald Trump as a blight on the American polity, to PC commissars looking for fiercer ways to condemn everyone they disagree with, to activists with fund-raising machines who see an opportunity to turn scary swastikas and little-boy haircuts into mega-dollars.
Fighting Nazis is a free and easy moral victory because there is almost no one on the other side. This suggests that whoever generally advertises themselves to the polity as a brave and forthright fighter of Nazis is either immature or deploying lazy rhetoric to get their listeners to join in the unwitting pursuit of some other, presumably much less popular or acceptable goal. In other words, it's a con job.
The use of Nazis as a political straw man was long a propaganda technique of the Soviet Union, which casually slapped the label "fascist" on anyone or anything it didn't like. (The tradition continues with today's Kremlin propagandists, for whom "fascist" or "Nazi" is interchangeable with "critic of Russian foreign policy.") In the American context, hyping the threat of Nazism is a proven fundraising tool. The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago gave up its founding mission as an organization committed to the defense of poor black people's civil rights in the American south—which are still badly in need of defense—transforming itself into a money-making machine that targets progressive bête noires like the reformist Muslim Maajid Nawaz, whom it slanderously added to a list of "anti-Muslim extremists" (the making of "lists" being another time-honored Soviet pressure technique). The real problem, however, isn't so much the SPLC, which, like many non-profit groups can be expected to exaggerate whatever threat it raises funds to combat. What should worry us is a lazy and agenda-driven mainstream media that continues to treat a political smear operation with a shady Cayman Islands bank account as a dispassionate moral authority that fights Nazis.
For the first few months of the Trump administration, an outfit calling itself the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect could be relied upon to denounce the White House as a clear and present danger to Jewish lives. When Donald Trump belatedly condemned a wave of bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers (which turned out, as Trump himself had hinted, to be the work not of a MAGA-hat wearing neo-Nazi but a disturbed 18-year-old Israeli Jew), the organization dismissed his words as "a Band-Aid on the cancer of anti-Semitism that has infected his own administration." A few weeks later, then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's latest chemical weapons attack. He used the question to launch into one of his typically half-literate disquisitions in which he declared that "You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons" and referred to concentration camps as "Holocaust centers." It isn't giving Spicer the benefit of any doubt whatsoever to conclude from this performance that he is an abject and pitiful moron who could barely stumble his way through a junior high school history class—but he is not an anti-Semite, anymore than he was drunk or stoned. He was obviously just born that way. Yet there was the Anne Frank Center, with all the tact and subtlety one would expect from an organization devoted to preserving the memory of a 14-year-old girl murdered by the Nazis, announcing on its Facebook page, "BREAKING NEWS: SEAN SPICER DENIES HITLER GASSED JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST."
Anti-Nazism is a substitute for hard thinking. And it is important to recognize the rhetoric and tactics of contemporary anti-Nazism for what they are: not a proportional or apposite response to the actual American political situation, but instruments of a virulent new form of political warfare that insists on demonizing one's political enemies. One sees a similar dynamic at play with the notion of "white supremacy," which, in the America of 2017, means anyone or anything that a cohort of angry Twitterati doesn't like. George Wallace was a white supremacist, and so is Richard Spencer. As a political identification, a white supremacist is qualitatively different from a racist. The latter may harbor prejudices, and even support some discrete policies one could interpret as intentionally discriminatory (mandatory minimum sentences, say, or a low minimum wage, or barring convicted felons from voting). They may also, like Donald Trump, explicitly appeal to white racial animus. But this falls short of calling for the re-imposition of Jim Crow or the creation of a white ethno-state. Today, the term "white supremacist" is recklessly applied to everyone from David Duke to Columbia professor Mark Lilla (a liberal critic of identity politics) to the American Civil Liberties Union, recently the target of protest at the College of William & Mary by members of Black Lives Matter chanting "liberalism is white supremacy," an assertion that is the logical endpoint of the new progressive politics.
Attempting to conflate the majority of Americans who recoil at this sort of wildly divisive politics with the minuscule number of actual overt Nazis, and treating Richard Spencer as an emblematic and important political figure whose ill-attended rallies and pompous communiqués make front-page headlines, is the height of political idiocy. Not just idiocy in the factual sense of being wildly inaccurate, but idiotic in the practical sense, in that it alienates potential allies and will destroy any conceivable anti-Trump coalition, which, after all, mathematically speaking, will need to include at least some present or former Trump supporters. One saw this idiocy at work a few months ago in Boston, where tens of thousands of people descended upon the Common to denounce a handful of political eccentrics (including Senator Elizabeth Warren's Indian-American Republican challenger) as "Nazis" and "KKK." This politics of conflation makes sense if you are Richard Spencer, hoping to convince every white person that they must join his movement. And it also makes sense if you are a hard leftist who believes that polarizing and dividing society is the way for your radical beliefs to triumph. Which is, ironically, one of the ways Germany got Hitler.
Donald Trump will go down as among the worst presidents in American history for many reasons, one of which has nothing to do with his own behavior but rather the way in which his awfulness calls forth awfulness in response. In their predictions of impending fascist doom, many "resisters" are beginning to sound like right-wing survivalists. For all the talk of Trump violating the "norms" of American politics, which he has done repeatedly—beginning with his calls for his opponent to be jailed—so too are his opponents. Resolute in their righteousness, they have taken to playing dirty, violating democratic procedural norms themselves on an ongoing basis.
To take only one relatively trivial example, the unprecedented leaking of the transcripts of phone conversations between the president and various foreign leaders, while maybe providing a few laughs for late-night television hosts, is likely to have profoundly negative effects on the future of American diplomacy. "No leader will again speak candidly on the phone to Washington, D.C.—at least for the duration of this presidency, and perhaps for longer," writes David Frum, one of Trump's harshest critics on the right. The leaking of conversations between various Trump administration officials and Russian diplomats—none of which have shown any evidence of criminal behavior—should also give us pause. "A world without norms to prevent the disclosure of sensitive information about U.S. citizens is not just a world in which Michael Flynn is revealed as a liar and removed from office," former Bush administration assistant attorney general Jack Goldsmith wrote in a piece that otherwise excoriates Trump. "It is also a world in which intelligence bureaucrats repeat the trick for very different political ends that they deem worthy but that might not be." Violations of democratic norms by the "Resistance" exist on a spectrum that begins with leaking transcripts of the president's phone calls, progresses through intelligence community manipulation of domestic politics, and ends with street violence.
And that is where the politics of anti-Nazism leads. For if Trump is a proto-Hitler, if it is "pretty much inevitable" that he will stage his own Reichstag fire, then the response to his rule must be commensurate with the challenge. Hitler, after all, wasn't stopped by the filibuster, never mind pussy hats. And if Churchill and FDR allied with Stalin to fight Hitler, why shouldn't liberal Democrats link arms with the goons of antifa, as suggested by progressive luminaries like Cornel West?
For it takes no courage or discernment whatsoever to condemn Nazis in America. It's like condemning pedophiles or cannibals.
In the late 1960s, an element of the West German "extra-parliamentary" left adopted a critique of the postwar Federal Republic which claimed the country was not a real democracy but a mere continuation of the Nazi regime. One of the movement's leaders devised the term "Raspberry Reich" to describe a place where bourgeois consumerism masked the ruthlessness of a capitalist-imperialist state. Belief in this nonsense persuaded a group of young radical Germans to form a criminal gang called the Red Army Faction that killed over 30 people in a decades-long string of bombings and targeted assassinations. It was the same nonsense that motivated the Weather Underground, the Red Brigades and countless other left-wing terrorist groups around the world.
Thankfully, we have not seen the return of the organized left-wing terrorism that was the ugly byproduct of the 1960s counterculture. Yet. Though politically motivated, the June shooting at a congressional baseball game, which seriously wounded Republican Rep. Steve Scalise, was the work of a lone wacko who was not linked to any organization. The attack on Republican Sen. Rand Paul by his neighbor may have been simply a neighborly dispute. But the conditions for a resumption of domestic terrorism—from the far left and far right—are being lain, both by a president who daily does his very best to rile up his supporters with incitement against the media and anyone else who questions his fact-free statements of counter-reality and by an opposition that seriously asks the question "Is it OK to punch a Nazi?" The inclusion and celebration of Angela Davis—laureate of the Lenin Peace Prize and the East German Star of People's Friendship; enthusiastic supporter of the Jonestown People's Temple cult—at the Women's March was a worrying sign, as is the continued glorification of the empty-headed but reliably pro-Islamist Linda Sarsour. These are not good heroes to have.
In Europe, left-wing terrorism is already on the rise. A series of bombings and attempted bombings of political figures by far-left Greek organizations led that country's opposition leader to blame the ruling post-communist Syriza party, which for years fomented a "culture of hate." Meanwhile, the Berlin state interior ministry warns that "2016 was marked out by a spiral in left-wing violence that not only led to a multitude of serious crimes but also in part to a radicalized tone. … The inhibition threshold regarding physical attacks is sinking, and we are now at the stage where targeted assassination of political opponents no longer appears completely unrealistic."
In addition to licensing violence, another danger of calling your opponents "Nazis" is the spell of absolute and unassailable righteousness that the word casts over those who employ it, rendering them unable to see the weeds that are thriving in their own gardens. Last week, in response to yet a further series of anti-Semitic outbursts by British Labour Party members and elected officials, (one described Jews as "the corrupt 'master race,'" another asserted that "every f****** Jew that died in the Holocaust was a blessing"), Parliamentary Labour Party Chairman John Cryer told the Daily Mail, "I have no idea why people who hold these views would want to be a member of the Labour Party. The Labour Party has been at the forefront of confronting Nazism right from the 1930s—so what possesses these people to become members I don't understand."
I have no reason to doubt the sincerity of Cryer's bewilderment. For anyone who hasn't followed the peregrinations of the Western far left over the past two decades—catalogued no better than in Nick Cohen's depressingly prescient 2007 book What's Left?—it would indeed be difficult to understand why people who think the BBC is a "Zionist-propaganda puppet show," that "Israel is evil," or that "every f****** Jew that died in the Holocaust was a blessing" would want to join a social democratic party which stood "at the forefront of confronting Nazism" in the 1930s.
But that was the 1930s. Today, the undoubtedly proud anti-Nazi history of the British Labour party is utterly irrelevant to understanding why it has become the most influential anti-Semitic institution in the Western world. Defenders of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn respond to every suggestion that he tolerates or encourages anti-Semitism within his party's ranks by invoking the "Battle of Cable Street," a 1936 riot between Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists on one side, and an assortment of communists, socialists, Jews and other ethnic minorities on the other, which has assumed mythological status on the British left. Never mind how little this eight-decade-old street fight—against actual Nazism, not the cosplay of Richard Spencer and his sexually-repressed followers—has to do with contemporary political realities. One of the more perverse twists of recent British politics is that on today's proverbial Cable Street, much of the Labour Party would be on the other side. Now, British anti-Semitism is almost the exclusive domain of the hard left, which is firmly in control of the country's second major party.
Paradoxically, while anti-Jewish social prejudice, like saying the words "smelly kike," for example, or refusing Jews admittance to your country club, has become a serious social crime—the sort of transgression that can destroy careers—actual anti-Semitism ("a cabal of rich Jews secretly manipulates and controls American foreign policy to benefit Israel," "Israel is an illegitimate foreign colonial implant whose bloodthirsty leadership hates peace and delights in killing Palestinian children") has become increasingly acceptable, even mainstream on some parts of the left. Standing up to Nazism, as the members of the Democratic Socialists of America valiantly did in Charlottesville, serves as a convenient fig leaf behind which they can hide their institutionalized organizational anti-Semitism, which they giddily expressed just a week prior at their annual convention in Chicago, chanting "From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free," after passing a motion in support of the Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment movement against Israel.
Anti-Jewish prejudice, which used to be socially respectable, indeed, even a marker of one's elite status, has since become something with which respectable people under no circumstances want to be associated, "prejudice" of any kind being the ultimate vice. Today, not even the leaders of Hamas evince the sort of anti-Jewish prejudice upon which Evelyn Waugh once prided himself; Jews, they say, are welcome to live in their future state of Palestine, under Islamic law. Linda Sarsour doesn't have any problem with Jews, either—just "Zionists."
What the new seeming consensus against using bad words about Jews and other forms of anti-Jewish prejudice has left completely untouched, however, is anti-Semitism—which is not a prejudice at all. Anti-Semitism is a conspiracy theory, one whose lethality has been proven century after century. Anti-Semitism is lethal to the societies in which it takes root because it provides an entirely false account of how and why things happen. Try running a maritime trading nation, or a large empire, if you truly believe that the reason your ships sunk or your armies were defeated is because of a secret and malicious conspiracy of Jews, whose aim is to harm you. Anti-Semitism is a primitive superstition, an ideological virus. Left unchecked, it can drive entire societies insane. Social prejudice may be annoying, depressing, and generally unpleasant, but it's anti-Semitism that has proven to be physically dangerous—and very often lethal—to Jews.
The politics of anti-Nazism under Trump serve an important identity function for multiple groups. They allow the hard left, including its hardcore anti-Semitic elements, to pose as great friends of Jews, even while attacking Israel—and "Zionists"—as uniquely perfidious entities. And they allow liberal Jews, who have plenty of reasons to feel besieged, (as both Jews and as liberals), to make common cause with the left under a banner that makes them feel safer, or at least nominally protected by someone. Now, they can be the loudest and most visible anti-Nazis, and thereby serve a useful and honorable function in the larger identity politics constellation—as long as they resolutely shut their ears to some of the less pleasant and more anxiety-provoking implications of the surrounding chatter. This is the kind of bargain that frightened people make. But it's a bad bargain.
Far harder to condemn is the University of Chicago professor who makes lists of good Jews and bad Jews, the idealistic college student who supports boycotting and then somehow doing away with the world's only Jewish state and ending hurtful words and Constitutional protections for free speech, the murderous anti-Semitism and violent misogyny that pervades Muslim communities across Europe, or the colleague who celebrates an unhealthy obsession with "Zionist racism" and "warmongering neocons" on his Facebook page. In that silence breeds the potential that might give us actual Nazis, or whatever new kinds of monsters will emerge from the rubbishing of the Western liberal order—which is what the polarizing elements of both the right and left are truly aiming at. The word "Nazi" is a weapon in their hands. Jews, who know the true meaning of that word, should take it away from them, not encourage them to use it.
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James Kirchick, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, is a columnist at Tablet magazine and the author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age. He is writing a history of gay Washington, D.C. His Twitter feed is @jkirchick.
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Trump official tells court detained children don't need beds, soap or toothbrushes
Tom Embury-Dennis
The Trump administration has argued in court it should be able to force detained migrant children to sleep on concrete floors and deprive them of soap and toothbrushes.
In a Court of Appeals hearing in San Francisco on Tuesday, the Justice Department challenged earlier legal findings that a landmark class action settlement protecting undocumented migrant children from mistreatment in detention facilities had been violated.
Those judgements found the Obama administration had breached a 1997 settlement in the case of Jenny Lisette Flores v Edwin Meese, which established among other things that detained children be provided with "safe and sanitary" conditions.
US district judge Dolly Gee ruled in 2017 that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had breached the settlement by failing to provide some detainees with items such as soap, toothbrushes and towels, as well as adequate food and drinking water, according to Court House News.
She also said children were being deprived of bathroom access and adequate sleep, as well as living in sometimes near-freezing temperatures.
Tuesday's appeal by the Justice Department was an attempt to reverse Judge Gee's findings because they added new requirements not included in the 1997 settlement.
"You're really going to stand up and tell us that being able to sleep isn't a question of safe and sanitary conditions?'" US circuit judge Marsha Berzon asked the Justice Department's Sarah Fabian on Tuesday.
Judge William Fletcher added: "Are you arguing seriously that you do not read the agreement as requiring you to do anything other than what I just described: cold all night long, lights on all night long, sleeping on concrete and you've got an aluminum foil blanket?
"I find that inconceivable that the government would say that that is safe and sanitary."
Pressed by all three judges on whether she really thought inadequate bedding and failure to provide basic toiletries could constitute safe and sanitary conditions, Ms Fabian said: "I think there's fair reason to find that those things may be part of safe and sanitary…"
"Not may be. Are a part, why did you say 'may be'?" Judge Fletcher interrupted.
Tuesday saw no ruling of the appeal, and the judges failed to indicate when there would be one, though the Trump administration's prospects of success appeared distant.
"Have you considered whether you might go back and consider whether you really want to continue this appeal?" Judge Berzon said, adding: "There doesn't seem to be a whole lot left of it, considering that life has so moved on now."
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Known for its decade-long struggle for an independent state, Telangana is a place to dig in history if the past fascinates you more than the present. Separated from Andhra Pradesh on June 2, 2014, Telangana is nestled between Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. With Hyderabad being its capital city, the state offers the heritage of architectural marvels.
Once the ruling state of Kakatiyas gave the maximum contribution towards the architecture, Telangana is a paradise for history lovers.
Hyderabad, being the capital of Telangana is renowned for the Charminar, the amazing artifacts of Salarjung Museum, the Golconda Fort, and the beautiful Qutub Shahi tombs. The recently built Ramoji Film City is the largest integrated film city in the world. Telangana is a land of Gods is filled with a plethora of Hindu temples, a few Jain temples, Churches, and Mosques which are perfect for religious tours. The state is an ideal wildlife destination, as it houses various wildlife reserves and bird sanctuaries.
A food tour in Telangana is something to look forward to when visiting this Southern State. The state offers a wide variety of delicacies that will make you forget everything and binge. From the delectable Hyderabadi biryani to Golichina Mamsam and from Irani Chai to Karachi Biscuits, there is so much for a food lover to relish. The state also offers a rich art and craft, one can go back home with a bag full of fine craftsmanship. It is indeed a place in India that deserves to be explored, a soulful place that takes pride in its rich heritage, culture, wildlife, and beauty of nature.
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Stroll around Charminar in Hyderabad
Savour the delectable Hyderabadi biryani
Visit Ramoji Rao Film City
Spend A Relaxed Day at Hussain Sagar Lake
Visit Golconda Fort
Shop around Laad Bazaar
Most tourists visit Telangana during October to March as the pleasant weather makes for an excellent opportunity to explore the city of Nizams during these months.


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Delays on A52 in Derby after crash involving a motorcycle
The incident happened at around 3.20pm
An accident on the eastbound carriageway of the A52 caused delays for motorists this afternoon.
According to traffic information company Inrix, the incident happened near the A5111 Raynseway/West Service Road at around 3.20pm.
Derbyshire police said a motorcycle and a car were involved in the crash, and no-one was seriously injured.
One of Derbyshire's most senior police officers suspended
Queues of traffic built up in the area which affected drivers on both sides of the A52.
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Traffic returns to normal rush-hour levels
Traffic on the A52 has returned to what we would expect for a normal rush hour in Derby.
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Five-minute delays on A52
Drivers will experience delays of around five minutes in both directions on the A52 near Pentagon Island this evening.
There is heavy traffic following the earlier crash, which is causing a headache for motorists.
Congestion is generally heavy across the city this evening. Hot spots include London Road and Osmaston Road.
Heavy traffic on both sides of the A52
There is now heavy traffic on both sides of the A52 following the crash.
Drivers from Nottingham will face delays as they approach Pentagon Island, and drivers from Derby will hit delays as they leave Pentagon Island and head towards Nottingham.
Police update: No serious injuries in crash
Derbyshire police says there have been no serious injuries as a result of the collision.
A spokeswoman confirmed the incident was a crash between a motorcycle and a car.
She said the force was first alerted to the incident by a member of the public at 3.16pm.
She added that the crash happened on the eastbound side of the A52 near the Wyvern retail park.
The dark-red line shows heavy traffic on the eastbound side of the A52, heading towards Nottingham. (Image: Google)
Nottingham Road also affected
The incident is having a knock-on effect on Nottingham Road as drivers attempt to avoid the A52.
Current traffic conditions
The graphic below shows the current traffic conditions on the eastbound carriageway.
The red line indicates very slow or stationary traffic.
(Image: Google traffic)
According to Google traffic, there is congestion from Pentagon Island to Wyvern Way. There is no indication as to whether the carriageway is closed. We have contacted Derbyshire police for more information.
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More information about the Big Dummy is here on the Surly Blog.
Dimension city bars (not cruiser) give a great heads-up riding position and offer a relaxed hand position. Their modearate width makes them great for climbing out of the saddle. Ergon grips eliminate hand numbness. Brooks saddle, simply the best and most comfortable. The lay-back seatpost decreases the seat angle for a more comfortable yet powerful position (think leg press machine at the gym). We choose dual piston hydraulic brakes with 8 inch rotors for low maintenance and better stopping for Seattle's hills. 24" wheels make the bike handle better loaded and are stronger than 26" wheels (actual wheel diameter is 25.5 inches). Pedal strike is not a problem because the BB is higher than a normal MTB by 1cm. It is no different than if you put skinny slicks on your mountain bike for commuting! Don't be fooled by the "low-spec" of the shifters. Alivio shifters are every bit as durable as Deore LX! 8 speed drivetrains are much more durable than 9 speed, and replacement parts are in the reasonably priced. The Shimano XT rear hub freewheel mechanism is more durable than the Deore and is easily available as a replacement part at any bike shop. Surly's NEW Disc front hub (bolt-on) gives you the low-maintenance advantage of cartridge bearings at less than half the price of Phil Wood. We have "upgraded" the security and strength of the rear axle by swapping it for solid bolt-on. We choose a square taper Shimano crank because it is simple and fits the IRD bottom bracket. The chainrings are replaceable. Platform pedals with sealed cartridge bearings will last many years. Schrader valve tubes require no special pump to inflate and the valves are more durable and easily allow Slime tire sealant injection.
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Forrest and his Big Dummy.


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Schoenfeld International String Competition postponed to December
The competition was originally scheduled to take place this July 2020
Responding to the coronavirus pandemic, the organisers behind the 5th Schoenfeld International String Competition have decided to postpone this year's edition from 15-29 July. It will now take place from 2-16 December 2020 in Harbin, China.
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Sitting on the jury will be:
Jean-Jacques Kantorow (France), Arto Noras (Finland), Claudio Bohórquez (Germany), Alexander Chaushian (UK/Armenia), Jinjoo Cho (Korea), Young-Chang Cho (Germany/Korea), Michael Frischenschlager (Austria), Stefan Popov (UK/Bulgaria), Linus Roth (Germany) and Lina Yu (China)
Details of shortlisted candidates are still to be announced.
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The Roots have cancelled their SXSW showcase due to "a security concern." The Roots & Friends Jam was set to take place tonight at Fair Market in Austin, Texas, but the venue reportedly received a bomb threat, according to the Austin Chronicle. A man was later arrested in connection with the threat. Bud Light apologized for cancelling in a statement, saying, "We felt it was necessary to take all safety precautions." See the company's full response below. Questlove initially tweeted about the cancellation in two since-deleted posts; he described the reason as "a severe emergency." Ludacris, Dermot Kennedy, Jessie Reyez, Rapsody, Tank & the Bangas, and more were scheduled to participate in the event.
Due to a security concern, we have made the difficult decision to cancel tonight's Bud Light x The Roots SXSW Jam. After working proactively with SXSW, the Austin Police Department, and other authorities, Bud Light believes this is the best course of action to ensure the safety of our guests, staff, and artists, and appreciate your understanding. We are truly sorry to have to cancel the event, but we felt it was necessary to take all safety precautions.
Earlier this week, three packages that were delivered to residential homes in Austin exploded. Two people were killed. The crimes appeared to have been related, the New York Times reported, but no connection to SXSW has been established.


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Q: How can I fix the formatting for this print? Preferably using pandas if possible I've been looking at trying to print the results of this query using results[0][0] which is a userID in my database.
test = "SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE UserID = ?"
test1 = c.execute(test, (results[0][0],))
test2 = c.fetchall()
print(test2)

As this is, the results do print but not in a format that is readable to the user:
[(13, 1), (14, 1), (15, 1), (16, 1)]

I've tried a few different methods of converting this to a pandas print but haven't had any success, so some pointers on this would be very much appreciated, thanks.
UPDATE:
Looking to format like this:
OrderID       UserID

 Data          Data

I've tried using the pandas read_sql_query
One of the methods I've tried so far using the read_sql_query
def test():
    print(pd.read_sql_query("SELECT * FROM Products WHERE UserID = ?", conn), (results[0][0],))
test()

New code using a dataframe:
test = "SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE UserID = ?"
test1 = c.execute(test, (results[0][0],))
test2 = c.fetchall()
df = pd.DataFrame(data=test2)
df.rename(columns={'0': 'OrderID', '1': 'UserID'})
print(df)

I have attempted to rename the columns, however when running the program it still names the columns 0 and 1 rather than the expected results.
Current print:
    0  1
0  13  1
1  14  1
2  15  1
3  16  1

A: test = "SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE UserID = ?"
test1 = c.execute(test, (results[0][0],))
test2 = c.fetchall()
df = pd.DataFrame(data=test2)
df.columns = ['OrderID', 'UserID']
print(df)

Complete solution with ability to rename columns and using dataframe instead of read_sql
print:
  OrderID  UserID
0       13       1
1       14       1
2       15       1
3       16       1


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In-Person Instruction At Washington Township High School Pushed Back After More Positive COVID-19 Cases
By CBS3 Staff September 23, 2020 at 6:18 pm
Filed Under:coronavirus, Local, Washington Township News
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBS) — Washington Township High School will not resume in-person instruction Thursday due to a coronavirus outbreak. In-person instruction has been pushed back until Monday.
In the past 24 hours, the school district says it's been made aware of positive COVID-19 cases involving a staff member and several students.
Contact tracing is underway.
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package com.arkcraft.mod.core.handler;

import java.util.Random;

import com.arkcraft.mod.core.Main;

import net.minecraft.entity.Entity;
import net.minecraft.entity.EntityList;
import net.minecraft.entity.EnumCreatureType;
import net.minecraft.world.biome.BiomeGenBase;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.common.registry.EntityRegistry;

@SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
public class EntityHandler {
	static private int entityID = 0;

	public EntityHandler() {}

	public static void registerMonster(Class eClass, String name, BiomeGenBase... biomes) {
		int eggID = EntityRegistry.findGlobalUniqueEntityId();
		Random rand = new Random(name.hashCode());
		int mainColor = rand.nextInt() * 16777215;
		int secondColor = rand.nextInt() * 16777215;

		EntityRegistry.registerGlobalEntityID(eClass, name, eggID);
		EntityRegistry.addSpawn(eClass, 25, 2, 4, EnumCreatureType.CREATURE, biomes);
		EntityRegistry.registerModEntity(eClass, name, ++entityID, Main.instance(), 64, 3, true);
		EntityList.entityEggs.put(Integer.valueOf(eggID), new EntityList.EntityEggInfo(entityID, mainColor, secondColor));
	}

	public static void registerMonster(Class eClass, String name) {
		int eggID = EntityRegistry.findGlobalUniqueEntityId();
		Random rand = new Random(name.hashCode());
		int mainColor = rand.nextInt() * 16777215;
		int secondColor = rand.nextInt() * 16777215;

		EntityRegistry.registerGlobalEntityID(eClass, name, eggID);
		EntityRegistry.addSpawn(eClass, 25, 2, 4, EnumCreatureType.CREATURE, BiomeGenBase.beach, BiomeGenBase.desert, BiomeGenBase.forest, BiomeGenBase.birchForest, BiomeGenBase.extremeHills);
		EntityRegistry.registerModEntity(eClass, name, ++entityID, Main.instance(), 64, 1, true);
		EntityList.entityEggs.put(Integer.valueOf(eggID), new EntityList.EntityEggInfo(entityID, mainColor, secondColor));
	}

//	public static void registerPassive(Class eClass, String name) {
//		int entityID = EntityRegistry.findGlobalUniqueEntityId();
//		Random rand = new Random(name.hashCode());
//		int mainColor = rand.nextInt() * 16777215;
//		int secondColor = rand.nextInt() * 16777215;
//
//		EntityRegistry.registerGlobalEntityID(eClass, name, entityID);
//		EntityRegistry.addSpawn(eClass, 15, 2, 4, EnumCreatureType.CREATURE, BiomeGenBase.plains, BiomeGenBase.savanna,
//				BiomeGenBase.beach, BiomeGenBase.desert, BiomeGenBase.extremeHills, BiomeGenBase.coldBeach, BiomeGenBase.jungleEdge,
//				BiomeGenBase.jungle, BiomeGenBase.plains, BiomeGenBase.swampland);
//		EntityRegistry.registerModEntity(eClass, name, entityID, Main.instance(), 64, 10, true);
//		EntityList.entityEggs.put(Integer.valueOf(entityID), new EntityList.EntityEggInfo(entityID, mainColor, secondColor));
//	}

	public static void registerModEntity(Class<? extends Entity> eClass, String name, Object mainClass, int trackRange, int updateFreq, boolean sVU) {
		EntityRegistry.registerModEntity(eClass, name, ++entityID, mainClass, trackRange, updateFreq, sVU);
	}
}

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Urbanization of avant-garde design with 2 and 3 bedroom homes in Los Dolses, Orihuela Costa. This residential area is just a few minutes away from the well-known La Zenia shopping center, where you will find all kinds of shops and a large supermarket. In addition to its location close to all kinds of shops, the Orihuela Costa beach is just a few minutes away by car. This residential offers a cozy and modern urbanization fully equipped with swimming pools for children and adults, green areas, sauna, gym and even heated indoor pool. The houses offer 2 and 3 bedrooms and terraces of up to 80 m2. The floors are very bright and are built with finishes of high quality and elegance.
Particularly noteworthy are the open-plan living rooms and kitchens. The kitchens, fully furnished and equipped with Balay appliances are part of the decoration of the living room. They include air conditioning ducts, double glazing and underfloor heating in the bathrooms. This housing complex is ideal to enjoy a quiet area throughout the year and close to shops. A few minutes from the beach and with a great international atmosphere.


I just saw this on the BMFA website.
The BMFA needs our help to respond before the 17th of September 2018 to a UK Government Consultation on Proposals for new legislation for Drones(Including Model Aircraft).
It's a bit of a pain to fill in but the BMFA have been kind enough to produce a document with the answers they are using and suggest that we use to help provide a common point of view.
Can be completed directly online or using a response form via email.
Well, I've completed the survey and I agree with Peter. As a consultation document I regard it as seriously flawed - riddled with assumptions trying to force answers that are not appropriate to model flying. NOWHERE is there any real recognition that a F/F rubber model weighing 251g is any different to a multi-rotor, highly sophisticated drone capable of carrying drugs into prisons!!!
The more I think about this survey, the more appalling I regard it as being. It is shot through with questions at the level of 'Have you stopped beating your wife - yes or no?'. There is no opportunity to make basic points - that it is an exercise of one size fits all when it clearly doesn't. To my mind this document gives no opportunity for genuine consultation.
I completed this survey a few days ago. It seemed to me that it was compiled by a very junior or very naive member of the D of T. Whoever compiled it had no knowledge at all of any form of UAV whether a rubber powered F/F model or a sophisticated commercial multi-copter or all things in between. I think this is particularly apparent in the section of questions relating to intercepting drones about to do something naughty. Clearly it doesn't recognise that such craft may be entirely autonomous so shooting it down isn't really an option. As most/ all UAV's that are in the hands of hobby type users employ radio control on 2.4 Ghz and employ some form of frequency hopping control protocol so taking control won't happen. If I'm a terrorist I would program my IED carrying drone to detonate once it detected a high level interfering signal and let the news media do the rest!
Couldn't agree more!! It is a truly ignorant piece of work. If it wasn't so bloody serious for the future of our hobby it would be a joke.
In several places on the form I have queried how "drone electronic effectors" can be reasonably used in the DETECTION of crimes (which was part of the question they asked).
There was nowhere on the form to add it, but I feel we should look to get them done for plagiarising the late Iain M Banks' term "Effector" without suitable attribution.
I haven't filled it out yet, just trying to get my head around some of the terminology?
Can someone tell me what 'drone electronic effectors' are please? I have tried a search on it and came up with zilch!
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They seem to mean something that will interfere with the electronics controlling the drone and presumably cause it to land - or in our case crash somewhere!
I completed the document because, if nothing else, it at least lets the authorities know I am interested enough to make an effort and may be willing to push back against unacceptable legislation.
Although you might be right, putting an ambiguous/vague phrase into a document that has far reaching implications on the hobby in the UK is frankly shoddy. It should have been proof read by a grown up who knows what they're talking about and put it in language that isn't open to interpretation.
So, I thought I'd take a different tack, and started to look at the average punter filling in the form offline downloaded to EMail back.
It is an .odt file, and if you don't know what that means, Google will completely blank ".odt" or ".odt file" enquiries, so is no help.
It loads into Word 2010, and is read as a "OpenDocument Text" file (Obviously!).
I'm pretty sure I probably just agreed to my organs being harvested while I fly. Nevertheless, I have filled it in. Meh, my body is broken anyway - jokes on them!
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Mongolia: Capacity Building of the Unified State Inspection
Jacobs, Cordova & Associates, technical advisor to the Government of Mongolia, proposed modifications to Mongolia's legal and institutional framework for business inspections. Our report, Capacity Building of the State's Specialized Inspection Agency, diagnosed the burdens on businesses resulting from the current inspection systems and proposed a package of reforms to "streamline and modernize the general regulatory system of Mongolia and the inspection framework in order to reduce administrative burdens." These efforts were expected to build the capacity of the new, unified State Specialized Inspection Agency. We helped design the modern inspection law that will help eradicate the misuse of terms and abusive interpretations; implement risk-based inspections; and protect the rights of regulators and those inspected. We proposed to implement modern tools for public consultations and communication, including an Information Management System to serve as database and a One Stop Shop.
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Researchers Find the Swastika Predates the Indus Valley Civilization
Researchers maintain that the ancient symbol of the Swastika arrived from India to the Americas and other parts of the world. Researchers have concluded that the symbol of the swastika is older than the Aryans and even the Indus Valley Civilization.
Unlike popular belief, the swastika is a symbol of peace and continuity.
Ever since the Second World War, the symbol of the Swastika was transmuted and became a symbol of discrimination and slaughter, a product of Adolf Hitler's regime.
For Hitler, the Swastika was the symbol of his Aryan supremacy, but for historians and archaeologists around the globe, the Swastika is anything but that.
In fact, the symbol of the true Swastika goes back over 11,000 years and is believed to have originated in the Harappan period and the culture of the Indus Valley Civilization.
"We have found the most mature and geometrically ordered Swastika in the pre-Harappan times in the form of seals. We have also been able to trace the mention of the Swastika in the Vedas around the same time. These are scintillating findings that will help us announce that the Indian civilization is far more ancient than what is written in accepted history books, mostly by Europeans," said Joy Sen, a faculty member at IIT-Kgp faculty and lead project investigator.
According to experts, the symbol of the Swastika migrated from India –through the Tartar Mongoodi route via Kamchatka to the Americas, the reason why the symbol can be found among the Aztec and Maya civilizations.
It reached other parts of the world through the Western Land route arriving in Finland, Scandinavia, British Highlands and parts of Europe where the symbol is found in a number of different adaptations.
"After dividing the world into nine quadrants into which Swastika moved from India, we retraced its footprints and have been able to graphically prove our claim through ancient seals, inscriptions, imprints, and religious symbolism in these countries. We will reveal it in great detail," Sen said.
Today, the Swastika is firmly rejected in society because people have absolutely no idea the true meaning of the symbol. It is a hijacked symbol.
It inspired Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and their progeny, Adolf Hitler, who started an inverted agenda of anti-Semitism based on a falsified Aryan invasion myth through seven years of war, terror, corruption and extermination," Sen said.
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Microsoft extends support period for Windows NT 4.0
Carol Sliwa
Published: January 28th, 2003
Windows NT Server users who were worried that they might be running an unsupported operating system next year got some welcome news from Microsoft Corp.
A Microsoft spokesperson said this week that pay-per-incident and premier support for Windows NT Server 4.0 will run through Dec. 31, 2004. Nonsecurity hot fixes, however, will no longer be available as of Jan. 1, 2004.
Bob O'Brien, a group product manager in Microsoft's Windows server division, today said that many Windows NT Server 4.0 customers have been planning migrations but didn't expect to complete the upgrades by the end of this year, when the extended support phase for Windows NT Server 4.0 was due to end.
O'Brien estimated that "somewhere between 35 per cent and 40 per cent" of the Windows server operating system deployments are NT 4.0. "Common sense dictates that if you want to have a relationship with these customers for the next seven to 10 years, you don't ignore" their needs, he said.
But O'Brien cautioned that the decision to extend support is "not intended to send a message to customers that they should hold off and wait until the last minute to plan their migrations."
Many Windows NT Server 4.0 users will find benefits in the new Windows Server 2003 operating system due out in April, he said, particularly customers looking to do server consolidation. The Windows System Resource Manager allows IT managers to allocate CPU and memory on a per-application basis, so they can run multiple applications on a single instance of the Windows server operating system.
O'Brien said that if a customer is already in the midst of planning or deploying Windows Server 2000, "that's a fine place to go."
Tom Bittman, an analyst at Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn., said that Windows NT Server 4.0 has been around a long time and that Microsoft needs to do the marketing work to convince people to move. He estimated that at least 50 per cent of the installed base of the Windows server operating system is still NT 4.0.
Bittman said Microsoft "might have underestimated the slow rate of migration away from NT" when it made its support phaseout decisions for Windows NT Server 4.0. "Even though the deadline continues to shift, I think [users] need to take the deadline seriously, because they don't want to be caught without support," he said.
Microsoft set the timetable for the phaseout of support for Windows NT Server 4.0 last October. Al Gillen, an analyst at IDC in Framingham, Mass., said the public announcement gave customers a chance to provide feedback to Microsoft, which, in turn, responded with the change in plans.
In a report issued last February, IDC projected that a third of the Windows server operating system installed base would be NT 4.0 at the end of 2002, Gillen said. "The ones that are left are going to be harder to move," he said, adding that users should do whatever makes the "right business sense" for them. That may differ on a company-by-company basis, he said.
"If they're getting good service, if their applications are acceptable and nothing is driving them to upgrade the operating system or applications, there's no reason for them to move," Gillen said. But those users who have been highly dependent on Microsoft for support may want to consider an upgrade, he said.
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