This insert collection was designed with the entrepreneur, blogger and/or girl boss in mind. This pack is the heart of the planner and was designed for weekly and monthly planning.
Taking Care of My Business: These UNDATED sheets are for WEEKLY planning and have a unique layout we think you will love. The right side is called the Master Planner page and is where you will record all your tasks, appointments and priorities on the right page for a high-level overview of your week's activities, which also allows you to "batch" like activities together. When you finish, begin assigning those tasks, errands, and appointments into blocks of time throughout your week on the left page, called the Weekly Planner. This will keep similar tasks together, like taking care of your social media work on a Tuesday afternoon, or doing all of your errands on a Friday, or outlining your blog posts for the week on Mondays. etc. Keeping a high-level view of ALL your tasks in one place gives you the best opportunity to plan how you will accomplish them throughout the week. The column format gives you ample space for creating task lists you can easily check off as you complete them.
What ____ Looks Like: These UNDATED sheets are for MONTHLY planning and allow you to use them as needed, anytime during the year. Simply fill in the month name and dates, and then important, high-level information. Lined boxes make for creating neat lists if needed.
Monthly Goals/Monthly Wrap Up: Kick off your month by recording your goals for the next 30 days, in areas of your life including business, personal and home. Create and track a new habit by utilizing the 30-day habit tracker, and be sure to reward yourself if you complete each day during the month. The Monthly Wrap Up allows you to do some simple memory keeping during the month, adding notes, photos from your pocket printer, and journaling. Look back on how you did in your business and life by recording some highlights on this page.
All the Things: Consider this page a semi-organized brain dump. Use each quadrant for a certain area of your business like social media, blogging, clients, content, products, etc. and then let the ideas fly. Jot down any and all thoughts that come to mind during your planning sessions or brain storms here. Transfer any actionable ideas to your weekly list of tasks.


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*Henry Hastings Sibley (1811–1891), US-amerikanischer Politiker (Minnesota)
Henry Hopkins Sibley (1816–1886), US-amerikanischer General der Konföderierten Armee

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SEC Charges Cantor Fitzgerald and Brokers in Commission-Splitting Scheme
Litigation Release No. 24179 / June 29, 2018
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Adam Mattessich and Joseph (a/k/a Jay) Ludovico, No. 18-cv-5884) (S.D.N.Y. filed June 29, 2018)
Washington, D.C., June 29, 2018 - The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. has agreed to settle charges stemming from an improper commission-splitting scheme in which a former supervisor received off-book payments from traders he managed. The SEC also filed a litigated action against the former supervisor and former senior trader for their roles in the scheme.
According to the SEC's order, for more than 10 years, Joseph "Jay" Ludovico and another Cantor Fitzgerald trader used personal checks to pay a portion of their commissions to Adam Mattessich, the firm's former global co-head of equities, and another trader. The practice violated the firm's policies and procedures and gave rise to conflicts of interest that were hidden from the firm's compliance department, customers, and regulators. As a result of the brokers' alleged commission-splitting scheme, Cantor Fitzgerald's books and records were inaccurate with respect to trader compensation.
Without admitting or denying the SEC's findings, Cantor Fitzgerald consented to the SEC's order finding that the firm violated Section 17(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 17a-3(a)(19) thereunder, a cease and desist order, a censure, and a civil penalty of $1.25 million. The SEC's complaint, filed in federal district court in Manhattan, charges Mattessich and Ludovico with aiding and abetting Cantor Fitzgerald's violations and seeks penalties and injunctive relief.
The SEC's investigation was conducted by Philip A. Fortino, Lee A. Greenwood, John O. Enright, Christopher Ferrante, and Sheldon L. Pollock of the New York office. The SEC's litigation against Mattessich and Ludovico will be handled by Messrs. Fortino, Greenwood, and Enright. The case is being supervised by Sanjay Wadhwa.
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Q: Datatable : Export Excel button Is there a way to set the position of the Export, PDF button ? (on the rightr of the table, bottom right of the table, ....)
http://www.datatables.net/release-datatables/extras/TableTools/

A: If you want to move entire table tools toolbar move T letter in the initialization. Example that pushes entire toolbar at the end is:
$('#example').dataTable( {
    "sDom": '<"clear">lfrtipT'
} );

You cannot reconfigure DataTables to move only pdf button, but you can use standard JQuery to take button with class "DTTT_button_pdf" to some new position. Probably something like:
var pdfButton = $(".DTTT_button_pdf").detach();
$("#newPosition").append( pdfButton );

In this example, newPosition is an id of the element where you an to place pdf button.

A:             var oTable = $("#tblViewMetadata").dataTable({
                "oLanguage": { "sSearch": "Search All Columns:" },
                "bJQueryUI": true,
                "bDestroy": true,
                "bPaginate": true,
                "bLengthChange": true ,
                "bFilter": true,
                "bSort": true,
                "bInfo": true,
                "bAutoWidth": true,
                "bDeferRender": true,
                "bRetrieve": true,
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                "sDom": '<"H"lTfr>t<"F"ip>',

                "aLengthMenu": [[ 10, 25, 50,100, -1], [10, 25, 50,100, "All"]],
                "iDisplayLength": 10,
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                "bSearchable": true,

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                                 "sPdfOrientation": "landscape",
                                 "sButtonText": "Export to Excel",
                                 "oSelectorOpts": { filter: 'applied', order: 'current',page:'current' },
                             }
                            ]
                }, "bProcessing": true,
                "bDestroy": true,
                "aoColumnDefs": [{
                    'bSortable': false,
                    'aTargets': [0, 1]
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lies in the feathers of Lighthouse just exceeding towards 400 m and 2.6 km from Havan Beach. The beach is named after the legacy of what hospitality stands for, it invites you with the bouquets of generosity and would make you feel like you have just ended somewhere around the periphery of your housing location.
The streets routes are busy at the Hawah beach, you can find shops at the basement of the beach house, as it can be stated as a commercial purposes for the people who keeps the ingredients at the shop. You can purchase south Indian traditional dresses and feel comfortable after wearing the attire.
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The ocean waves are thrilling and experimental to get occupied in the hydro sensation, and get tanned in the beach after getting soaked by the heat, you can suit yourself with beverages and compliment a good time, encouraging the willing power and the aroma of the beach will make you breathe the aliveness in yourself.
The criteria of being humble towards the hydro organic world you can experience the chilling breeze at the evening and make a dream flush in front of you by watching the red sun sets behind the hills.
If one desires to spend a quality vacation at the beach side, the Hawah beach is the right place to look forward, it ensures you with the facilities of internet surfing's, the exchange of foreign currency and the most you can see a doctor if you are feeling impatient regarding your health on a call, the other facilities includes the well improved laundry sections and the most you get a good transportations while hiring a taxi.
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Sponsored National Trades Union Congress
Food delivery platforms promise potential riders that they can be their own boss, enjoy flexible hours, and have opportunities to earn and grow.
The pitch is a simple and enticing one – earn money wherever and whenever you want.
This seems to be why so many people have taken up the offer, with 3% of Singapore's resident population, or 79,000 people working for platforms such as Grab, Deliveroo and foodpanda in 2020.
In reality, the truth is slightly more complicated.
The Myth of Freedom and Flexibility
Though it is true that platform workers can technically choose to work whenever and wherever they want, platforms' incentive systems heavily restrict this autonomy.
These incentive systems (or 'quests' as they are called sometimes) constitute a substantial portion of workers' payout, and as such, play a large role in their decision-making calculus. They can stipulate where you should work, for how long you should work, and even when you can work.
Take, for example, this incentive structure, which was in play between August 6 to August 7. To qualify for the additional $130, drivers and bikers need to complete about 32 orders a day in the areas mentioned. Even if we assume that each order takes 20 minutes to complete, this adds up to 10.6 hours of driving or riding. To put things into perspective, the International Labour Organisation recommends that wage workers transporting goods shouldn't drive for more than a total of 9 hours a day, including overtime.
Importantly, to qualify for any of these incentives, riders can only decline 10% of their orders. On Reddit and social media, there are also anecdotal accounts of how the platforms incentivise riders to work during wet weather for increased payouts.
In addition to all of this, the algorithmic allocation of work discourages platform workers from exercising their flexibility. Since it is not known how platforms allocate jobs to workers, drivers and riders end up speculating and sometimes erring on the side of caution. In a February 2022 Working Paper by the Institute of Policy Studies, a 40-year-old platform worker guessed:
Even if you have good reason, like medical reasons, go holiday. There's no such thing as apply leave. The ranking is still there. As long as you don't work, ranking goes down. You climb your way up there, then the moment you stop working, your ranking goes down.
Thus, after being promised that they can be their own bosses, platform workers end up working for algorithms. Unlike a real boss, you can neither talk to these artificial managers nor understand what they want.
Fatigue and Accidents
Last month, it was revealed in Parliament that 5 food delivery riders died on the job between January 2021 to June 2022.
When 12 riders were interviewed by TODAY in July, all except one said that they have been involved in an accident or have experienced a close shave on the job. They attributed this to harsh weather conditions and fatigue from long working hours. This is of concern because, as mentioned earlier, platforms' incentive structures and opaque algorithms incentivises riders to work for longer hours, potentially even in wet and dangerous weather.
For cyclists and personal mobility device (PMD) users, riding on the road presents unique challenges too. The small size of their bikes and PMDs relative to traffic on the road, leads to asymmetrical dangers. "By right, you need to keep a 1.5m distance away from the bike, and some of the roads are narrow, but some of these drivers don't care," said one of the riders interviewed by TODAY. This is pertinent considering that after the government banned all motorised personal mobility devices on footpaths in 2020, food delivery riders using e-bikes have only been allowed to use the road.
Lack of Protections
In Singapore, platform workers are not protected in the same way that other employees are.
The effects of this manifests in a few ways:
Firstly, platform workers aren't covered under the Employment Act, which means that they lack formal savings for retirement and housing under the Central Provident Fund. This is a significant problem, considering that platform employees aren't saving much themselves.
According to the earlier mentioned IPS paper, which surveyed about 958 respondents, more than 62% of riders and drivers said that they did not have enough savings to take care of their personal and family needs for the next three to six months if they stopped working today. The same survey also found that around 84% of respondents were worried about not having enough for retirement.
Medical and earnings protection
Unlike other employees, platform workers cannot claim for work injuries under the Work Injury Compensation Act (WICA) – which allows workers to claim medical leave wages, medical expenses and lump sum compensation. While platform companies like Grab, Gojek and foodpanda have come up with various insurance schemes to protect their riders and drivers, payouts can be less generous. In addition to this, certain benefits on platforms can vary by performance tiers, or be tied to conditions, and as such isn't universalised.
Legislation should change to give platform workers the same rights as other employees. This means making CPF contributions mandatory and amending WICA to cover gig workers.
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Encouragingly, the government seems to be heading down this route as well. In 2021, the Ministry of Manpower set-up the Advisory Committee on Platform Workers to look into these issues. The committee has taken the principle that platform workers are similar to other delivery workers, considering the "management controls exerted by the platforms and their algorithms". Following from this, members of the committee have since said that they have been considering mandatory CPF contributions and enhancing WICA.
Enhancements to apps themselves can also be considered. Algorithms which estimate delivery rider's time of arrival could be enhanced to take into account the rider's mode of transport, and the environment (whether they have to climb stairs to get to the destination, whether it's raining etc). The National Delivery Champions Association, which is under the National Trades Union Congress, also questions if it's time to phase out "distracting in-app notifications that create unnecessary stress and pressure". It has also stated that it is looking to work with platforms to be consulted on changes to payment rates, and to push for transparency in incentive structures. Its advisor, Labour MP, Ms Yeo Wan Ling has also called for stronger legislative backing to better represent point-to-point self-employed persons to increase their protection.
In all, the current relationship between delivery workers and platforms is imbalanced, favouring the platforms. Legislation needs to correct these imbalances by addressing issues with safety and financial security.
The #EveryWorkerMatters Conversations
On August 11 2022, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) launched a public engagement exercise, titled #EveryWorkerMatters Conversations. Through the exercise, NTUC seeks to understand the concerns, priorities, and aspirations of workers, and how NTUC can support them in their working lives.
The conversations were launched because NTUC thinks that the Singapore economy now stands at an inflection point. Rapid changes in technology, increased competition, and new ways of working have fundamentally changed the economy. During a press conference launching the initiative, Secretary-General Ng Chee Meng pointed to platform workers as an example of this.
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Press Release: Kiva Deploys $1 Billion in Loans to Female Entrepreneurs Around the World
Kiva, the nonprofit with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive, today announced that lenders on its Kiva.org platform have funded more than $1 billion in microloans to female entrepreneurs worldwide. To date, Kiva has facilitated loans to more than 2.7 million women in 94 countries around the globe.
"This is a truly amazing milestone, and I want to recognize all of Kiva's remarkable lenders, employees, volunteers, field partners, donors, and corporate partners that have helped Kiva fund more than $1 billion in loans to women and $1.4 billion in loans to entrepreneurs worldwide," said Neville Crawley, Chief Executive Officer of Kiva. "But our work is not done. Kiva will continue to support women and their communities through the Kiva.org platform, as well as seek and develop new ways to transform the financial and social systems to work better for them."
Kiva's goal is to create a more connected and inclusive financial system that empowers all individuals to realize their full potential. Today, one billion women around the world remain unbanked, meaning they don't have access to credit or financing options to invest in their futures. Worldwide, women also earn 37% less than men and spend three times as many hours on unpaid labor, such as housework.
Financial inclusion is critical to gender equality, which is why more than 80% of Kiva loans are provided to women around the world. These small but life-changing loans empower women to build a better life for themselves and their families. Women also have a proven track record of investing capital back into their families and communities. As a result, improving women's livelihoods and small businesses is critical to helping developing regions achieve self-directed growth over the long-term.
"The strength of these women who've put Kiva loans to work to benefit themselves and their communities is the reason that we exist today," said Goldie Chow, Director of Impact at Kiva. "We will continue to empower female entrepreneurship, and do all that we can to generate greater financial inclusion for the next generation of female entrepreneurs worldwide."
In celebration of this milestone, Kiva is partnering with The PepsiCo Foundation to help #FuelHerFuture, calling on new and existing lenders to build on this progress and continue to catalyze change for women around the world. From October 7 to October 13, 2019, anyone who makes a loan on the Kiva.org platform will receive a $25 credit from PepsiCo to lend to a female borrower of their choice, until funds last, and ignite funding for the next $1 billion in loans. PepsiCo is a longstanding partner of Kiva, and since 2014, employees at PepsiCo have funded $2 million in loans on Kiva.org to women in over 50 countries.
To learn more about the impact of Kiva loans on the lives of millions of women around the world, please visit www.kiva.org/women.
Photo courtesy of Hand in Hand International.
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namespace base {
class PortProvider;
}

namespace mojo {
namespace edk {

// |Core| is an object that implements the Mojo system calls. All public methods
// are thread-safe.
class MOJO_SYSTEM_IMPL_EXPORT Core {
 public:
  explicit Core();
  virtual ~Core();

  // Called exactly once, shortly after construction, and before any other
  // methods are called on this object.
  void SetIOTaskRunner(scoped_refptr<base::TaskRunner> io_task_runner);

  // Retrieves the NodeController for the current process.
  NodeController* GetNodeController();

  scoped_refptr<Dispatcher> GetDispatcher(MojoHandle handle);

  void SetDefaultProcessErrorCallback(const ProcessErrorCallback& callback);

  // Called in the parent process any time a new child is launched.
  void AddChild(base::ProcessHandle process_handle,
                ScopedPlatformHandle platform_handle,
                const std::string& child_token,
                const ProcessErrorCallback& process_error_callback);

  // Called in the parent process when a child process fails to launch.
  void ChildLaunchFailed(const std::string& child_token);

  // Called to connect to a peer process. This should be called only if there
  // is no common ancestor for the processes involved within this mojo system.
  // Both processes must call this function, each passing one end of a platform
  // channel. This returns one end of a message pipe to each process.
  ScopedMessagePipeHandle ConnectToPeerProcess(
      ScopedPlatformHandle pipe_handle);

  // Called in a child process exactly once during early initialization.
  void InitChild(ScopedPlatformHandle platform_handle);

  // Creates a message pipe endpoint connected to an endpoint in a remote
  // embedder. |platform_handle| is used as a channel to negotiate the
  // connection.
  ScopedMessagePipeHandle CreateMessagePipe(
      ScopedPlatformHandle platform_handle);

  // Creates a message pipe endpoint associated with |token|, which a child
  // holding the token can later locate and connect to.
  ScopedMessagePipeHandle CreateParentMessagePipe(
      const std::string& token, const std::string& child_token);

  // Creates a message pipe endpoint and connects it to a pipe the parent has
  // associated with |token|.
  ScopedMessagePipeHandle CreateChildMessagePipe(const std::string& token);

  // Sets the mach port provider for this process.
  void SetMachPortProvider(base::PortProvider* port_provider);

  MojoHandle AddDispatcher(scoped_refptr<Dispatcher> dispatcher);

  // Adds new dispatchers for non-message-pipe handles received in a message.
  // |dispatchers| and |handles| should be the same size.
  bool AddDispatchersFromTransit(
      const std::vector<Dispatcher::DispatcherInTransit>& dispatchers,
      MojoHandle* handles);

  // See "mojo/edk/embedder/embedder.h" for more information on these functions.
  MojoResult CreatePlatformHandleWrapper(ScopedPlatformHandle platform_handle,
                                         MojoHandle* wrapper_handle);

  MojoResult PassWrappedPlatformHandle(MojoHandle wrapper_handle,
                                       ScopedPlatformHandle* platform_handle);

  MojoResult CreateSharedBufferWrapper(
      base::SharedMemoryHandle shared_memory_handle,
      size_t num_bytes,
      bool read_only,
      MojoHandle* mojo_wrapper_handle);

  MojoResult PassSharedMemoryHandle(
      MojoHandle mojo_handle,
      base::SharedMemoryHandle* shared_memory_handle,
      size_t* num_bytes,
      bool* read_only);

  // Requests that the EDK tear itself down. |callback| will be called once
  // the shutdown process is complete. Note that |callback| is always called
  // asynchronously on the calling thread if said thread is running a message
  // loop, and the calling thread must continue running a MessageLoop at least
  // until the callback is called. If there is no running loop, the |callback|
  // may be called from any thread. Beware!
  void RequestShutdown(const base::Closure& callback);

  MojoResult SetProperty(MojoPropertyType type, const void* value);

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  // The following methods are essentially implementations of the Mojo Core
  // functions of the Mojo API, with the C interface translated to C++ by
  // "mojo/edk/embedder/entrypoints.cc". The best way to understand the contract
  // of these methods is to look at the header files defining the corresponding
  // API functions, referenced below.

  // These methods correspond to the API functions defined in
  // "mojo/public/c/system/functions.h":
  MojoTimeTicks GetTimeTicksNow();
  MojoResult Close(MojoHandle handle);
  MojoResult Wait(MojoHandle handle,
                  MojoHandleSignals signals,
                  MojoDeadline deadline,
                  MojoHandleSignalsState* signals_state);
  MojoResult WaitMany(const MojoHandle* handles,
                      const MojoHandleSignals* signals,
                      uint32_t num_handles,
                      MojoDeadline deadline,
                      uint32_t* result_index,
                      MojoHandleSignalsState* signals_states);
  MojoResult Watch(MojoHandle handle,
                   MojoHandleSignals signals,
                   MojoWatchCallback callback,
                   uintptr_t context);
  MojoResult CancelWatch(MojoHandle handle, uintptr_t context);
  MojoResult AllocMessage(uint32_t num_bytes,
                          const MojoHandle* handles,
                          uint32_t num_handles,
                          MojoAllocMessageFlags flags,
                          MojoMessageHandle* message);
  MojoResult FreeMessage(MojoMessageHandle message);
  MojoResult GetMessageBuffer(MojoMessageHandle message, void** buffer);
  MojoResult GetProperty(MojoPropertyType type, void* value);

  // These methods correspond to the API functions defined in
  // "mojo/public/c/system/wait_set.h":
  MojoResult CreateWaitSet(MojoHandle* wait_set_handle);
  MojoResult AddHandle(MojoHandle wait_set_handle,
                       MojoHandle handle,
                       MojoHandleSignals signals);
  MojoResult RemoveHandle(MojoHandle wait_set_handle,
                          MojoHandle handle);
  MojoResult GetReadyHandles(MojoHandle wait_set_handle,
                             uint32_t* count,
                             MojoHandle* handles,
                             MojoResult* results,
                             MojoHandleSignalsState* signals_states);

  // These methods correspond to the API functions defined in
  // "mojo/public/c/system/message_pipe.h":
  MojoResult CreateMessagePipe(
      const MojoCreateMessagePipeOptions* options,
      MojoHandle* message_pipe_handle0,
      MojoHandle* message_pipe_handle1);
  MojoResult WriteMessage(MojoHandle message_pipe_handle,
                          const void* bytes,
                          uint32_t num_bytes,
                          const MojoHandle* handles,
                          uint32_t num_handles,
                          MojoWriteMessageFlags flags);
  MojoResult WriteMessageNew(MojoHandle message_pipe_handle,
                             MojoMessageHandle message,
                             MojoWriteMessageFlags flags);
  MojoResult ReadMessage(MojoHandle message_pipe_handle,
                         void* bytes,
                         uint32_t* num_bytes,
                         MojoHandle* handles,
                         uint32_t* num_handles,
                         MojoReadMessageFlags flags);
  MojoResult ReadMessageNew(MojoHandle message_pipe_handle,
                            MojoMessageHandle* message,
                            uint32_t* num_bytes,
                            MojoHandle* handles,
                            uint32_t* num_handles,
                            MojoReadMessageFlags flags);
  MojoResult FuseMessagePipes(MojoHandle handle0, MojoHandle handle1);
  MojoResult NotifyBadMessage(MojoMessageHandle message,
                              const char* error,
                              size_t error_num_bytes);

  // These methods correspond to the API functions defined in
  // "mojo/public/c/system/data_pipe.h":
  MojoResult CreateDataPipe(
      const MojoCreateDataPipeOptions* options,
      MojoHandle* data_pipe_producer_handle,
      MojoHandle* data_pipe_consumer_handle);
  MojoResult WriteData(MojoHandle data_pipe_producer_handle,
                       const void* elements,
                       uint32_t* num_bytes,
                       MojoWriteDataFlags flags);
  MojoResult BeginWriteData(MojoHandle data_pipe_producer_handle,
                            void** buffer,
                            uint32_t* buffer_num_bytes,
                            MojoWriteDataFlags flags);
  MojoResult EndWriteData(MojoHandle data_pipe_producer_handle,
                          uint32_t num_bytes_written);
  MojoResult ReadData(MojoHandle data_pipe_consumer_handle,
                      void* elements,
                      uint32_t* num_bytes,
                      MojoReadDataFlags flags);
  MojoResult BeginReadData(MojoHandle data_pipe_consumer_handle,
                           const void** buffer,
                           uint32_t* buffer_num_bytes,
                           MojoReadDataFlags flags);
  MojoResult EndReadData(MojoHandle data_pipe_consumer_handle,
                         uint32_t num_bytes_read);

  // These methods correspond to the API functions defined in
  // "mojo/public/c/system/buffer.h":
  MojoResult CreateSharedBuffer(
      const MojoCreateSharedBufferOptions* options,
      uint64_t num_bytes,
      MojoHandle* shared_buffer_handle);
  MojoResult DuplicateBufferHandle(
      MojoHandle buffer_handle,
      const MojoDuplicateBufferHandleOptions* options,
      MojoHandle* new_buffer_handle);
  MojoResult MapBuffer(MojoHandle buffer_handle,
                       uint64_t offset,
                       uint64_t num_bytes,
                       void** buffer,
                       MojoMapBufferFlags flags);
  MojoResult UnmapBuffer(void* buffer);

  // These methods correspond to the API functions defined in
  // "mojo/public/c/system/platform_handle.h".
  MojoResult WrapPlatformHandle(const MojoPlatformHandle* platform_handle,
                                MojoHandle* mojo_handle);
  MojoResult UnwrapPlatformHandle(MojoHandle mojo_handle,
                                  MojoPlatformHandle* platform_handle);
  MojoResult WrapPlatformSharedBufferHandle(
      const MojoPlatformHandle* platform_handle,
      size_t size,
      MojoPlatformSharedBufferHandleFlags flags,
      MojoHandle* mojo_handle);
  MojoResult UnwrapPlatformSharedBufferHandle(
      MojoHandle mojo_handle,
      MojoPlatformHandle* platform_handle,
      size_t* size,
      MojoPlatformSharedBufferHandleFlags* flags);

  void GetActiveHandlesForTest(std::vector<MojoHandle>* handles);

 private:
  MojoResult WaitManyInternal(const MojoHandle* handles,
                              const MojoHandleSignals* signals,
                              uint32_t num_handles,
                              MojoDeadline deadline,
                              uint32_t *result_index,
                              HandleSignalsState* signals_states);

  // Used to pass ownership of our NodeController over to the IO thread in the
  // event that we're torn down before said thread.
  static void PassNodeControllerToIOThread(
      std::unique_ptr<NodeController> node_controller);

  // Guards node_controller_.
  //
  // TODO(rockot): Consider removing this. It's only needed because we
  // initialize node_controller_ lazily and that may happen on any thread.
  // Otherwise it's effectively const and shouldn't need to be guarded.
  //
  // We can get rid of lazy initialization if we defer Mojo initialization far
  // enough that zygotes don't do it. The zygote can't create a NodeController.
  base::Lock node_controller_lock_;

  // This is lazily initialized on first access. Always use GetNodeController()
  // to access it.
  std::unique_ptr<NodeController> node_controller_;

  // The default callback to invoke, if any, when a process error is reported
  // but cannot be associated with a specific process.
  ProcessErrorCallback default_process_error_callback_;

  base::Lock handles_lock_;
  HandleTable handles_;

  base::Lock mapping_table_lock_;  // Protects |mapping_table_|.
  MappingTable mapping_table_;

  base::Lock property_lock_;
  // Properties that can be read using the MojoGetProperty() API.
  bool property_sync_call_allowed_ = true;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(Core);
};

}  // namespace edk
}  // namespace mojo

#endif  // MOJO_EDK_SYSTEM_CORE_H_

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package com.gemstone.gemfire.cache30;

import com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.*;
//import com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.util.*;
//import java.util.*;
//import dunit.*;

/**
 * An abstract class whose test methods test the functionality of
 * {@link CacheLoader}s that are invoked locally.
 *
 * @see MultiVMRegionTestCase#testRemoteCacheLoader
 *
 * @author David Whitlock
 * @since 3.0
 */
public abstract class CacheLoaderTestCase
  extends CacheWriterTestCase {

  public CacheLoaderTestCase(String name) {
    super(name);
  }

  ///////////////////////  Test Methods  ///////////////////////

  public void testCacheLoader() throws CacheException {
    final String name = this.getUniqueName();
    final Object key = this.getUniqueName();
    final Object value = new Integer(42);
    final Object arg = "ARG";
    final String exception = "EXCEPTION";

    TestCacheLoader loader = new TestCacheLoader() {
        public Object load2(LoaderHelper helper)
          throws CacheLoaderException {

          assertEquals(key, helper.getKey());
          assertEquals(name, helper.getRegion().getName());

          try {
            RegionAttributes attrs =
              helper.getRegion().getAttributes();
            if (attrs.getScope().isDistributed()) {
              assertNull(helper.netSearch(false));
              assertNull(helper.netSearch(true));
            }

          } catch (TimeoutException ex) {
            fail("Why did I time out?", ex);
          }

          Object argument = helper.getArgument();
          if (argument != null) {
            if (argument.equals(exception)) {
              String s = "Test Exception";
              throw new CacheLoaderException(s);

            } else {
              assertEquals(arg, argument);
            }
          }

          return value;
        }
      };

    AttributesFactory factory =
      new AttributesFactory(getRegionAttributes());
    factory.setCacheLoader(loader);
    Region region =
      createRegion(name, factory.create());
    loader.wasInvoked();

    Region.Entry entry = region.getEntry(key);
    assertNull(entry);
    region.create(key, null);

    entry = region.getEntry(key);
    assertNotNull(entry);
    assertNull(entry.getValue());

    assertEquals(value, region.get(key));
    assertTrue(loader.wasInvoked());
    assertEquals(value, region.getEntry(key).getValue());
  }

//  public void testCacheLoaderWithNetSearch() throws CacheException {
//    final String name = this.getUniqueName();
//    final Object key = this.getUniqueName();
//    final Object value = new Integer(42);
//    final Object arg = "ARG";
//    final String exception = "EXCEPTION";
//
//    final TestCacheLoader loader = new TestCacheLoader() {
//        public Object load2(LoaderHelper helper)
//          throws CacheLoaderException {
//
//          assertEquals(key, helper.getKey());
//          assertEquals(name, helper.getRegion().getName());
//
//          try {
//            RegionAttributes attrs =
//              helper.getRegion().getAttributes();
//            if (attrs.getScope().isDistributed()) {
//              Object result = helper.netSearch(false);
//              assertEquals(value, result);
//              return result;
//            }
//
//          } catch (TimeoutException ex) {
//            fail("Why did I time out?", ex);
//          }
//          return value;
//        }
//      };
//
//    Region region =
//      createRegion(name);
//    loader.wasInvoked();
//
//    Region.Entry entry = region.getEntry(key);
//    assertNull(entry);
//    region.create(key, null);
//
//    entry = region.getEntry(key);
//    assertNotNull(entry);
//    assertNull(entry.getValue());
//
//    Host host = Host.getHost(0);
//    VM vm0 = host.getVM(0);
//    vm0.invoke(new CacheSerializableRunnable("set remote value") {
//      public void run2() throws CacheException {
////        final TestCacheLoader remoteloader = new TestCacheLoader() {
////            public Object load2(LoaderHelper helper)
////              throws CacheLoaderException {
////
////              assertEquals(key, helper.getKey());
////              assertEquals(name, helper.getRegion().getName());
////              return value;
////            }
////          };
////
////        AttributesFactory factory =
////          new AttributesFactory(getRegionAttributes());
////        factory.setCacheLoader(remoteloader);
//        Region rgn = createRegion(name);
//        rgn.put(key, value);
//        flushIfNecessary(rgn);
//      }
//    });
//
//
//    assertEquals(value, region.get(key));
//    assertTrue(loader.wasInvoked());
//    assertEquals(value, region.getEntry(key).getValue());
//  }

  /**
   * Tests what happens when a {@link CacheLoader} returns
   * null from its {@link CacheLoader#load load} method.
   */
  public void testCacheLoaderNull() throws CacheException {
    TestCacheLoader loader = new TestCacheLoader() {
        public Object load2(LoaderHelper helper)
          throws CacheLoaderException {

          return null;
        }
      };

    AttributesFactory factory =
      new AttributesFactory(getRegionAttributes());
    factory.setCacheLoader(loader);
    String name = this.getUniqueName();
    Region region =
      createRegion(name, factory.create());
    loader.wasInvoked();

    assertNull(region.get("KEY"));
    assertTrue(loader.wasInvoked());
  }

  /**
   * Tests that a CacheWriter gets invoked on a
   * load.
   */
  public void testCacheWriterOnLoad() throws CacheException {
    final String name = this.getUniqueName();
    final Object key = this.getUniqueName();
    final Object oldValue = new Integer(42);
    final Object newValue = new Integer(43);

    TestCacheLoader loader = new TestCacheLoader() {
        public Object load2(LoaderHelper helper)
          throws CacheLoaderException {
          return oldValue;
        }
      };

    TestCacheWriter writer = new TestCacheWriter() {
        public void beforeCreate2(EntryEvent event)
          throws CacheWriterException {

          assertEquals(oldValue, event.getNewValue());
          assertTrue(event.isLoad());
          assertTrue(event.isLocalLoad());
          assertFalse(event.isNetLoad());
          assertFalse(event.isNetSearch());
        }
      };

    AttributesFactory factory =
      new AttributesFactory(getRegionAttributes());
    factory.setCacheLoader(loader);
    factory.setCacheWriter(writer);
    Region region =
      createRegion(name, factory.create());
    loader.wasInvoked();

    assertEquals(oldValue, region.get(key));
    assertTrue(loader.wasInvoked());
    assertTrue(writer.wasInvoked());

    writer = new TestCacheWriter() {
        public void beforeUpdate2(EntryEvent event)
          throws CacheWriterException {

          assertEquals(oldValue, event.getOldValue());
          assertEquals(newValue, event.getNewValue());
          assertFalse(event.isLoad());
          assertFalse(event.isLocalLoad());
          assertFalse(event.isNetLoad());
          assertFalse(event.isNetSearch());
        }
      };

    region.getAttributesMutator().setCacheWriter(writer);

    region.put(key, newValue);
    assertFalse(loader.wasInvoked());
    assertTrue(writer.wasInvoked());
  }

  /**
   * Tests that a CacheListener gets invoked on a
   * load.
   */
  public void testCacheListenerOnLoad()
    throws CacheException, InterruptedException {

    final String name = this.getUniqueName();
    final Object key = this.getUniqueName();
    final Object oldValue = new Integer(42);
    final Object newValue = new Integer(43);

    TestCacheLoader loader = new TestCacheLoader() {
        public Object load2(LoaderHelper helper)
          throws CacheLoaderException {
          return oldValue;
        }
      };

    TestCacheListener listener = new TestCacheListener() {
        public void afterCreate2(EntryEvent event) {
          assertEquals(oldValue, event.getNewValue());
          assertTrue(event.isLoad());
          assertTrue(event.isLocalLoad());
          assertFalse(event.isNetLoad());
          assertFalse(event.isNetSearch());
        }
      };

    AttributesFactory factory =
      new AttributesFactory(getRegionAttributes());
    factory.setCacheLoader(loader);
    factory.setCacheListener(listener);
    Region region =
      createRegion(name, factory.create());
    loader.wasInvoked();

    assertEquals(oldValue, region.get(key));
    assertTrue(loader.wasInvoked());
    pause(500);
    assertTrue(listener.wasInvoked());

    listener = new TestCacheListener() {
        public void afterUpdate2(EntryEvent event) {
          assertEquals(oldValue, event.getOldValue());
          assertEquals(newValue, event.getNewValue());
          assertFalse(event.isLoad());
          assertFalse(event.isLocalLoad());
          assertFalse(event.isNetLoad());
          assertFalse(event.isNetSearch());
        }
      };

    region.getAttributesMutator().setCacheListener(listener);

    region.put(key, newValue);
    pause(500);
    assertFalse(loader.wasInvoked());
    assertTrue(listener.wasInvoked());
  }

}


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Git-R-Done: Larry the Cable Guy
By OffbeatMOG
We know him best as Larry the Cable Guy, one of the four Blue Collar comedians. But, where did he come from? Who is he really? Is what we see on stage how he really is in real life?
No, of course not. "Larry" is an ingenious character that made this talented comedian extremely famous.
He was born as Daniel Lawrence Whitney on February 17, 1963 in Pawnee City Nebraska to Shirley Whitney and Tom Whitney Sr. (a preacher and former guitarist for the Everly Brothers). He has two older siblings: Tom Jr. and Debbie.
When he was 16 years old, he and his family moved to Palm Beach County, Florida. After his schooling was complete, Whitney worked at a few different places such as Wendy's and the Ramada Inn, where he was a bellhop. It was there that customers, coworkers and friends encouraged him to go into stand-up comedy.
His Road to Stardom
In 1986, on a dare, Whitney got up onstage during an open mike night at a local club and he was hooked. By 1988, he had quit his job at the Ramada to pursue his career in comedy.
In 1991, Whitney got a job in radio comedy where he would call into the radio station as fictional characters. While working in that position, he was asked to call in as a cable installer and thus, "Larry the Cable Guy" was born.
His Comedy Career
Whitney was huge on the radio scene for many years, as he was a DJ all over the country in cities such as Blue Springs, Missouri Springs; Omaha, Nebraska; Orlando, Tampa, and Jacksonville, Florida; Baltimore, Maryland; Albany, New York; and Tehachapi, California.
Since his radio days, Whitney has flourished in his comedic career, as he has made 6 comedy albums and been in 8 movies.
1997 Salutations and Flagellation's
2001 Lord, I apologize
2004 A Very Larry Christmas
2005 The Right to Bare Arms
2007 Morning Constitutions
2007 Christmastime in Larryland
2003 Larry the Cable Guy: Git-R-Done
2003 Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
2004 Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again
2006 Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
2006 Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road
2006 Cars (voice of "Mater")
2007 Delta Farce
2008 Witless Protection
Over the years that we have grown to idolize Larry the Cable Guy we've heard him say some hilarious things. In particular, there are three phrases that he repeats a lot in his acts.
Repeated Sayings
1. "Git-R-Done"
2. "I don't care who you are. That's funny right there."
3. "Lord, I apologize for that right there, and please be with the starvin' pygmies down there in New Guinea. Amen"
He also has been known to throw some great short jokes and one liners in his act. These are three of his best.
Funniest Short Jokes
1. "I was more confused than Ray Charles with a Where's Waldo book."
2. "I tipped a stripper with Monopoly money and after that she said, 'That's fake money' and I said, 'Alright, well them's fake titties.'"
3. "I was seeing a girl for about 6 weeks until someone took my binoculars."
One thing you may have found surprising in Larry the Cable Guy's biography is that the comedian is from Nebraska.
I don't know if you've ever heard him in an interview as himself, Dan Whitney, but if you have, you would have discovered that the southern accent is completely fake!
I believe that this brilliant and talented entertainer who is extremely popular in show business and in comedy will continue to be very successful for a long time.
The great thing about Larry the Cable Guy (Dan Whitney) is that he is able to continue to bring us that genuine "dumb redneck" act, but with new fresh material.
Whitney is so good at his Larry the Cable Guy act that you probably wouldn't know it was an act except that you realize that he really can't be that dumb to be that calculated and he must be brilliant.
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December 8, 2009 at 3:20 am · Reply
There you go. Git-R-Done
sorry but i read the whole thing again, and i aint know dumb redneck, and im froms THE SOUTH, DOWN IN THE CAROLINA'S
December 21, 2009 at 6:27 pm · Reply
Pawny City, Nebraska has a street named after him. There is also a winery/ brewery named Stonebridge that has a beer named Git-R-Done Lager, and it's pretty good too.
oohh…!!! my gosh i love you larry!! you are like one of the most funiest ppl i loe that i have evr saw.. i almost wet my self everytime… i love your jokes!!


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Perfect Knight for U.S. gold
January 6, 2021 / NationalTeamsOfIceHockey / 0 Comments
Arthur Kaliyev and Alex Turcotte celebrate a Team USA goal in the gold-medal-game win against the U.S.
Trevor Zegras had a goal and assist and Spencer Knight was terrific in goal for the Americans as they won their fifth all-time gold medal with a flawless 2-0 win over Canada. It was a game of tight checking and stifling defence, blocked shots, great saves, and few great scoring chances.
This was the fifth time the North Americans have met for gold, and after losing the first one the U.S. has now won the last four.
Knight was particularly sensational in the third period as Canada tried everything to get a goal. Shots were 15-1 in the last 20 minutes, and 34-21 overall for Canada, but Knight stopped them all.
With his two points, Zegras wins the scoring title with 18 points to go with being named tournament MVP.
This game was also the 12th shutout of the tournament, surpassing 2004 for the most in one U20 event. And, it was the lowest-scoring game between the two countries since a 1-1 tie in Winnipeg in 1999.
It was clear from the early going that Canada was going to continue its game of puck pressure, but equally clear that the Americans could handle the strategy by moving the puck quickly. Canada controlled the early going in this way, but unlike all previous games when it got an early goal to create some forward momentum, the U.S. held the fort and slowly but surely wrested control from the hosts.
This change of pressure from Canada to the United States resulted in a period of sustained pressure inside the Canada end, and as the defensive players wore down the Americans forced the issue. Zegras got the puck back to the point where Drew Helleson took a quick shot that was tipped in front by Alex Turcotte, beating Levi at 13:25.
That goal alone ended Levi's bid for a record fourth shutout, another bid for the longest shutout sequence, and Canada's bid for going through the tournament without trailing.
More important, the goal energized the U.S., and they came right back with another great shift. That momentum was dulled by a tripping penalty, the first to either side in a period in which the referees let the players play. On the ensuing power play Canada was all over the Americans, but Knight stood tall in goal and Canada misfired when it mattered most.
It was still a 1-0 game after 20 minutes, but Canada went to the dressing room feeling better while the U.S. was very happy with its period.
It was the Americans, though, who started the second firing on all cylinders, and just 32 seconds in they made it 2-0. Canada failed to get the puck out, and a quick shot by Arthur Kailyev went wide. But Levi thought the puck was coming out to his left, and instead it came out the other side where Zegras flipped it into the empty cage.
Canada dominated the rest of the period, but it encountered two problems it hadn't previously. One, the players started to miss great chances they usually buried. Two, Knight was playing flawlessly in the blue ice.
Bo Byram joined the rush on a short-handed odd-man rush, and his shot off the deke hit the post. Quinton Byfield had a great chance in front but shot wide, and Braden Schneider was stopped from in close by the glove of Knight.
In all, Canada couldn't buy a goal despite leading the tournament with 41 through six games.
In the third, Knight was the difference, to be sure, but the Americans gave Canada the puck but little time to do anything. The result was plenty of puck possession but not many bona fide chances.
Lundell leads Finns to bronze
A sports complex with an ice rink in Chingeltei district will be opened soon


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A Window into the Past
December 18, 2014 – The busy-ness continues as we surge toward Christmas. Tom has gigs to play as the various bands are booked for holiday events. He plays every night this weekend!
Yesterday late afternoon was another Mardi Gras fundraiser planning committee meeting for the below-market-rate housing program on Sanibel. We actually had fun at the meeting, posing for goofy party-planning photos. The full committee showed up, having been forewarned that the next meeting, after Christmas, will be only four weeks before the event. I delighted in watching the few fellow Zontians at the table deal with one difficulty in the committee. I had to do that at an earlier meeting, with the same difficulty, and now the others were taking up the task, with zeal. It is nice not to have to do the heavy lifting all the time. I love being surrounded by other leaders.
One of my newer Zonta friends who was there, Joyce, is also joining the Committee of the Islands board, and so she saw me in action at the COTI meeting last week. What a difference – I was so active in the COTI meeting last week, and fairly quiet at the Mardi Gras meeting. For her, it was the reverse. She's a patent attorney and a wellness consultant – an unusual combination! With her red hair, bone structure, and pale skin, she looks like the faces in a few of the portraits of some of my ancestors that I've been researching lately.
Another one of these Zonta friends who were at the Mardi Gras meeting is Sue, who speaks the Queen's English – literally. She has the most exquisite southern English accent. She said when she was younger, she heard herself on a voice recording for the first time, and was appalled. "I sounded just like the Queen!" she said, aghast.
And then the third Zonta friend at this meeting was Kathleen, who is a retired professor of English. She's a Medievalist, to be precise, and she received her Ph.D. from the same school where Tom received his: Indiana University at Bloomington.
All three of these women have strong leadership qualities. And there is something about each one of them that brings to mind the people I've been learning about as I've been doing this genealogical work, tracing family roots back through time, to England, to France, to the Medieval era, all the way back to Charlemagne.
At the Zonta holiday party on Monday evening at the Captiva Yacht Club, Kathleen was seated at our table. I pointed out the IU connection to her and to Tom, and the two of them seemed to be delighted at all the things they had in common. Upon learning that she was a Medievalist, I asked her to say something in Old English. She immediately rattled off a fluent sentence and I applauded.
A double rainbow seen from our back deck a few years ago.
Now our friends from Germany, Arnold and Mareen, have arrived for a few weeks' stay in their Sanibel home. I can't wait to tell them that one of my 31st great grandfathers was Henry the Fowler, King of Germany from 919 to 936. Yes, that certainly was a long time ago.
We'll see them on Sunday, when I'll break the news about our "kinship." It isn't all that unique. Each person could theoretically have up to 8,589,934,592 thirty-first great grandfathers, you see. But because of repetition of ancestors (something found generally beyond ten generations back), people today have far fewer than 8,589,934,592 thirty-first great grandfathers. Please don't ask me how many fewer; I have no idea, and I'm sure there's a wide variation in that number, from one individual to the next. Basically, the same ancestors keep popping up again and again in each person's ancestry.
In doing this genealogical work, I simply got lucky. I was able to find an ancestor, Sir Ralph Sadlier, who worked for Henry VIII of England. He was a highly literate and well-documented person, so from there I was able to use history books and encyclopedia articles to do genealogical work. That's what enabled me to go so far back in this one small portion of our family's genealogy.
Sir Ralph Sadlier's ancestry wasn't all that remarkable. But his oldest son, Thomas, had a second wife, Gertrude Markham, who did have remarkable roots. My dad is a descendant of Thomas and Gertrude, and that might explain how his cousin Gert got her name.
At Happy Hour on Friday, Darla asked me about the genealogy work because she and I share the same maiden name, White. I explained that it wasn't the White family roots that I was able to trace back so far; rather, it was my dad's paternal grandmother, Mary Ann Tolson, whose lineage set me off on this long trek.
I've been reading Wikipedia articles about the many illustrious ancestors; noting that some of them did appallingly horrible things. Of all the ancestors, the one whom I admire the most is a young man who ventured away from his native England, and came to America, in about 1680. His name was Joseph Thomas Sudler. Joseph Thomas' mother had died when he was only 10 years old, and he was raised then by a stepfather. As soon as he was old enough, he set off for the brave new world of Maryland Colony, where he met and married Cecily Evans, a young widow who had also immigrated from England years earlier.
Joseph Thomas and Cecily had seven children, but he died at the young age of 41. Life in Maryland Colony must have been difficult in the 1600s. England may have been more comfortable. But I'm glad Joseph Thomas Sudler came to America.
Barbara Joy Cooley Henry the Fowler Sadler Sadlier Sanibel Mardi Gras Sudler Tolson
The Polystyrene Problem
What keeps me so darned busy?


LONDON - BMW was left alone at the altar twice last Thursday.
Chrysler married Daimler-Benz, after years of naming BMW as its favorite carmaker for a potential alliance.
Vickers chose to sell Rolls-Royce to Volkswagen, after agreeing to sell it to BMW.
'Good luck,' said BMW Chairman Bernd Pischetsrieder to Daimler-Benz and Chrysler when he heard their news, according to one of his colleagues. If he said the same when he learned Volkswagen had won the Rolls-Royce prize, it was probably with irony.
Global competition is forcing mid-size companies to enter new segments and markets, or lose out. 'Both Daimler-Benz and Chrysler were in good shape and growing,' said Chrysler Chairman Robert Eaton, 'but they will grow faster together.' Fiat and Renault embarked on strategies of organic growth in emerging markets.
In the early 1990s, Ford and General Motors made new acquisitions of Jaguar and Saab. The second half belongs to the German carmakers.
Before last week, BMW had already expanded with Rover Group, and Daimler-Benz had joined with watch maker Swatch in a daring joint venture to make the Smart car.
Volkswagen has moved in all directions. Into new segments with the Lupo supermini and the New Beetle retro. Into new markets with Skoda and Seat. Now into the super-luxury zone with Rolls-Royce.
Both Chrysler and Daimler-Benz chairmen believe that competition will force more mergers.


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Tariffs May Force Walmart to Hike Prices
In a letter the U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Walmart says that they may be forced to hike prices on food products if the tariffs continue.
With the latest round of tit-for-tat tariffs going into effect today, Walmart has warned that any additional duties could force the company to hike prices.
In the letter, written two weeks ago to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, the company says that the tariffs would impact prices of everything from food products, to beverages and personal care items, Reuters reports. Walmart continued to urge the two countries to find solutions that won't hurt the consumer.
"As the largest retailer in the United States and a major buyer of U.S. manufactured goods, we are very concerned about the impacts these tariffs would have on our business, our customers, our suppliers and the U.S. economy as a whole," Walmart wrote.
According to Reuters the retailer named that gas grills, bicycles and Christmas lights could be directly affected by the tariffs.
Lobster Industry Hit by Tariffs
Ships Forced to Return After China Imposes New Tariffs


Stand in the shallow area with one leg in front and the other behind. Bend the front knee until your shoulders are under the water. Hold the aqua dumbbells with straight arms down by your side.
Jump and switch legs as you push your both arms - until aqua dumbbells are parallel to the bottom of the pool. Then jump, switch legs again as you push your arms down and return to the starting position.
Feel your lat muscle as you pull your arms down. Feel your quadriceps as you jump with your legs.
Warning: Do not perform if you have knee injury.


Microsoft in an Attempt to Set a New Record by Leveraging Modern Technology | Toronto's Premium Colocation Datacenter Facility | Nuday Networks Inc.
The latest news in the world of technology is that Microsoft is attempting to set a new record by leveraging the latest submarine technology, and collaborating with marine energy industry leaders. Currently, Microsoft is in its second phase of developing a state-of-the-art underwater data center capable of providing cloud services as quick as lightning to the coastal cities. According to Microsoft, an experiment involving a shipping-container-sized prototype is currently underway near Orkney Islands, Scotland.
This Northern Isles data center was built by Microsoft during Project Natick; it was constructed based on years of research investigating the possibility of developing and operating environment-friendly data centers at the bottom of the sea. These data centers are not only quick to deploy, but also capable of providing astonishing internet connectivity for many years to come.
This Northern Isles datacenter is 40-feet long, and there are 12 racks loaded in it. The racks contain 864 servers, as well as a technologically advanced infrastructure for cooling. For those who do not know the history, this data center was designed and manufactured in France. Later, it was brought to Scotland on a flatbed truck. The data center was then attached to a triangular base before being deployed on the seabed.
Deploying a data center in a large body of water is not a trivial achievement. For this reason, the Northern Isles data center is considered to be the most brilliant chapter of Project Natick's story. The European Marine Energy Center, where the datacenter is deployed, is a worksite for wave energy converters and tidal turbines that generate electricity with the help of movement from the sea. This movement is what Microsoft intends to leverage; they want this colocation to be powered by marine renewable energy. This innovative idea is a step closer to Microsoft's vision of developing data centers operated by sustainable power sources.
Recognizing the growing reliance on the internet and cloud computing in the corporate world, there is a need to strengthen data centers, the backbone of the internet. Microsoft Project Natick caters to the need of the corporate world to shift their networks to the cloud and other internet-dependent smart devices. To launch this project, Microsoft collaborated with Naval Group, a company with 400 years of history and expertise in designing and manufacturing military ships. Naval Group used the same heat exchange process in the Northern Isles data center that is dedicated to keeping submarines cool underwater.
The first phase of Project Natick was focused on determining whether developing an underwater data center was feasible. Moving forward, phase 2 is focused on determining out whether the concept is environmentally and logistically practical.
Using nature to promote a cost-effective solution is an excellent idea. Our data center, Nuday Networks, is based in Toronto, and uses the cold climate to its advantage. Nuday Networks implemented innovative fresh air cooling technology to lower costs for colocation.


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Q: Laravel: how to handle count in query Currently I'm getting the list of table list in controller. And i got it successfully..But there is a problem, i return a list and a total.But when there is value package my count() is limited by skip - take .So I have to split it into 2 queries. Is there any way to combine those 2 queries into one to compact the code. Please give me your opinion. Thanks.
public function listData(Request $request)
    {
        $package = $request->package;
        $userId = [1,3];
        $list = List::whereIn('user_id', $userId)
        ->when(!empty($package), function ($query) use ($package) {
            $query->where('idPackage', '=' . $package);
        })->orderBy('created_at', 'DESC')->skip(0)->take(20)->get()->toArray();

        $count = List::whereIn('user_id', $userId)
        ->when(!empty($package), function ($query) use ($package) {
            $query->where('idPackage', '=' . $package);
        })->count();

        return response()->json([
            'list'  => $list,
            'total' => $count
        ], 200);
    }

A: This is so simple.. I think you should try this:
public function listData(Request $request)
    {
        $package = $request->package;
        $userId = [1,3];
        $list = List::whereIn('user_id', $userId)
        ->when(!empty($package), function ($query) use ($package) {
            $query->where('idPackage', '=' . $package);
        });
        $count = $list->count();
        $listData = $list->orderBy('created_at', 'DESC')->skip(0)->take(20)->get()->toArray();

        return response()->json([
            'list'  => $listData,
            'total' => $count
        ], 200);
    }

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Part I: I'd hate to be...
It's one of my favorite times of the year: Spring. Warmer weather. Blooming flowers. Red Sox Opening Day. And a new batch of TONY Award hopefuls hitting The Great White Way.
After seeing several of Broadway's latest offerings over this past month, I've come to the conclusion that I'd hate to be...a musical revival this year. This season, there are five musicals eligible in the Best Revival category: GIGI, THE KING AND I, ON THE TOWN, ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, and SIDE SHOW (closed). To date, I have been lucky enough to see three of these revivals and it is safe to say competition will be stiff. If you happen to be in New York this spring, definitely carve out some time for one of these three knock-out musicals.
1. On the Town: On the Town topped my Best of 2014 List from January and it should remain a priority on your must-see list. This pitch-perfect production is stacked with all-around terrific performances, boasts one of the biggest orchestras on Broadway, and features some of Broadway's best choreography. Performing in the 1,900 seat Lyric Theatre - there's no excuse for you to not be able to secure a ticket and see one of this season's best offerings. For more on On the Town, check out my Best of 2014 List.
2. The King and I: Anyone who knows me well, knows that I'm not a big Rodgers and Hammerstein fan. Unorthodox, I know, but I prefer my Rodgers with Hart and my Hammerstein with Kern. That being said, no one tackles R&H like Bart Sher and his dream-team of collaborators from Lincoln Center. In 2008's South Pacific, theater-goers were left breathless as Sher began with a dramatic reveal of one of the fullest orchestras Broadway had seen in years. His The King and I launches with even greater gusto when an equally large pit is covered as a docking ship (built to scale!) heads toward the audience and Siam in the opening beats of this lavish musical revival. The elements that make this production work should come as no surprise to those who have long-admired Sher's approach. No director more than Sher shows greater affection and respect for the text at hand. He works hard to achieve authenticity in terms of: performances (O'Hara delivers a beautifully strong, though surprisingly, and perhaps refreshingly, understated Anna) aethestics, and context (historic, socio-political, and cultural - as these relate to both the plays' settings and the times in which they were written and were originally and are currently performed). Sher and his actors dig deeper than any other production previously to explore and highlight themes of modernity, Westernization, and gender ensuring the material remains relevant for 21st century audiences. It is highly unlikely that we will ever see a more exquisitely staged, designed, and performed production of The King and I. I might be as bold to say that the sensitivity and intelligence that Sher brings with his direction probably helps LCT's production transcend its original 1951 mounting. And for those of you who grew up watching Brynner and Kerr (voiced by Marni Nixon) in the 1956 film adaptation, you can rest assure that the iconic "Shall We Dance" remains intact and has never looked better thanks to the Vivian Beaumont's beautiful, expansive stage.
3. On the Twentieth Century: On the Twentieth Century, adapted from Howard Hawk's hilarous 1934 hard-boiled comedy, Twentieth Century, left me grinning from ear to ear from the overture through the finale. Comden and Green's book and lyrics are still laugh-out-loud funny and director Scott Ellis couldn't have assembled a more perfect cast if he tried. Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher headline this madcap musical comedy as Lily Garland and Oscar Jaffee, respectively. While many film adaptations have had a hard time finding their voices in musical comedy, let it be noted, megalomania lends itself well to the medium of song, especially when it comes in the form of Coleman's varied (from operetta to vaudeville) score. Chenoweth and Gallagher's superb performances are supported by terrific turns by Michael McGrath and Mark Linn-Baker as two-thirds of Jaffee's desperate Three Musketeers, Andy Karl as Garland's brawny beau (showing a real sense of humor sadly hidden from last season's Rocky, even during numbers like 'My Nose Ain't Broke'), and Mary Louise Wilson as a nut on board for the ride. With David Rockwell's beautiful art-deco set, William Ivey Long's stunning period costumes, and Ellis and Warren Carlyle's clever staging and choreography, audiences are treated to one delightful surprise after another. This production is as bubbly as a bottle of Schramsberg and goes down just as smoothly. Mixing sophisticated wit with low-brow punches, this is a musical that is so well written and adapted that it should inspire young writers to go out and do the same. With On the Town and On the Twentieth Century running side-by-side on 42nd Street, Comden and Green are having a 'helluva' year with two first-rate revivals on Broadway this season, as is Scott Ellis (represented this season with On The Twentieth Century, The Elephant Man with Bradley Cooper, and You Can't Take it With You). With a musical theater treasure like Chenoweth in the lead, this is a revival you don't want to miss as a train of this caliber doesn't make a stop on Broadway very often.
Stay tuned for Final Bow's next blog entry: Part 2: I'd hate to be... featuring some of this season's Best Actress performances.


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Found a nice recipe this week in the Oregonian for Arroz con Pollo with Saffron. A copy of the recipe is also here.
Even though we had Jambalaya last weekend I thought I'd give it a try.
I cooked it in my large Viking skillet so I could cook all the chicken in one batch. Since I don't cook with this pan very often, I was a little out of practice on the temp. I over browned the first side of the chicken thighs even cooking on medium.
The recipe calls for 2 bell peppers. I'm not fond of green bell peppers so I got yellow and red; they were fine.
While frying the chicken, steep 1/2 teaspoon saffron buds in chicken stock.
When done with the chicken, drain most of the fat and sauté the onion, jalapeño, and bell peppers. Then add the tomatoes. Finally coat the rice with the liquid and add the stock and chicken. Simmer, covered, for 25 minutes.
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The Legendary Stevie Nicks Cancels Tour
Because of concerns regarding the spread of COVID, Stevie Nicks has canceled five forthcoming performances at music festivals. Stevie was set to headline one day each of BottleRock Napa Valley in California and the Jazz Aspen Festival in Colorado in September. In October, she was to have played two days of the Austin City Limits Music Festival and one day of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. "These are challenging times with challenging decisions that have to be made. I want everyone to be safe and healthy and the rising COVID cases should be of concern to all of us," explained the 73-year-old singer. "While I'm vaccinated, at my age, I am still being extremely cautious and for that reason have decided to skip the 5 performances I had planned for 2021. Because singing and performing have been my whole life, my primary goal is to keep healthy so I can continue singing for the next decade or longer, I'm devastated and I know the fans are disappointed, but we will look towards a brighter 2022." As Stevie was releasing her statement, one of the festivals she was scheduled to perform at was doing the same thing. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has been canceled for 2021.According to a statement released by officials, the current growth of new COVID cases in New Orleans and the region and the ongoing public health emergency is the reason behind rescheduling for 2022. Other artists like Reba McEntyre, Josh Groban and Pearl Jam have canceled performance and appearances for 2021 and the list no doubt will get longer with Garth Brooks announcing he is seriously considering stopping his stadium tour.
Good for you Stevie Nicks. You are an iconic artist and a National Treasure musically speaking and all your fans and friends want you to stay safe.
Nicole Gray
Dianne Dixon says:
Country legend Reba McEntire actually got COVID and she said it was no joke. That is why she is taking the rest of 2021 off. She plans to stay safe and wants all her fans to do the same. Her Las Vegas shows with Books & Dunn have been canceled and will be rescheduled when it is safe for people to get together and enjoy. Thank you Reba, thank you Stevie Nicks. You have my utmost respect not just as artists but as human beings.
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I love Stevie Nicks and I am so glad she made this decision. It is better for her and for her fans. We have to stay safe people! Do the right thing. Stevie Nicks did!
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I believe Stevie Nicks did the right thing and so did the New Orleans Jazz Festival. I live in New Orleans and like in so many other cities, this "thing" has not gone away. Some want to wish it away, but that is not the reality of COVID. I wish I could thank all the artists personally who have taken a stand against COVID. No doubt they have saved lives.
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People are getting sick after attending these music festivals, so a round of applause to all those artists who are taking a stand against COVID by canceling their shows. Thank you Stevie Nicks, Josh Groban, Reba McEntire and all the others who care.
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Thank you Stevie Nicks for doing what is right, not just for you, but for the fans who would have attended your shows.
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I wish more artist would do what Stevie Nicks did. I know we are all tired of staying home, wearing masks, not going out to concerts or sporting events (Go Niners), but COVID is not taking a vacay people. If we would all do the right thing, this horrible pandemic would end. Think about it.
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Garth Brooks just cancelled his stadium tour dates. Whether we like it or not people, the pandemic is still with us and we have to be smart. God bless you Garth for caring about your fans. You too Stevie and all those artists who get it!
Cam Cotton
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The Fantastic Clock In The Lobby Of New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Is Pure History
Matic April 13, 2017 5 min read
While passing through New York City recently, I decided to duck into the historic Waldorf Astoria hotel to have a look at its famous lobby before the hotel closes for construction at the end of February 2017. Every major luxury hotel goes through periods of renovation from time to time, but when this iconic location re-opens in two to three years, many of its hotel rooms will have become apartments or condos.
The art deco edifice at 310 Park Avenue opened its doors in Midtown Manhattan in 1931. Since then, its kitchen has brought forth such iconic staples of world gastronomy as the Waldorf salad, Eggs Benedict, Thousand Island dressing, and Red Velvet cake.
Presidents, celebrities, musicians, and royalty regularly stayed or lived at the Waldorf-Astoria.
The property was sold to Chinese investment group Anbang in 2014 for $1.95 billion, making it the most expensive price ever paid for a hotel. Though the group hasn't confirmed how much of the hotel is to be converted into flats, sources estimate that only 20 percent of the original sprawling hotel will still be used as hotel space.
The clock in the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, New York City, is a focal point
This definitely marks the end of an era, which makes it is a great time to have a closer look at the extraordinary clock that graces its lobby.
An electric presence
When I walked into the Waldorf-Astoria's impressive lobby, the first thing I saw was the nine-foot-tall bronze-and-mahogany clock tower topped off by a gilded depiction of Lady Liberty. A gift from Queen Victoria to America, this unique timekeeper made its debut at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, the same six-month fair on the banks of Lake Michigan that brought us Wrigley's gum and the Ferris wheel (described in detail in Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, a must-read).
Historical photo of the clock now in the Waldorf-Astoria lobby at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago (photo Wiki Commons)
Queen Victoria commissioned the Goldsmith Company of London to create this clock in the late nineteenth century. It is doubly remarkable in that the clock is powered by an electric movement, though to be fair progressive technology was an overwhelming theme at that edition of the World's Fair.
Not long after the fair had ended in October 1893, American businessman John Jacob Astor IV bought it for an unknown sum. According to a 1903 brochure from the hotel's archives, the clock tower was valued at £25,000 at the time – a sum that would be equivalent to more than $1 million now.
Iconic clock in the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, New York City
Astor built the original Astoria hotel in 1897 on Fifth Avenue, four years after his relative William Waldorf Astor built the Waldorf on an adjoining property. These two significant hotels, both built in German Renaissance style by architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, were connected by the 300-meter Peacock Alley after a merger the same year.
The gargantuan hotel comprised 1,300 rooms, making it the largest in the world at that time. And it was the world's first hotel to offer private bathrooms and full electricity.
The clock became a focal point within the original Waldorf-Astoria on Fifth Avenue, where it was located in front of the Rose Room restaurant.
Park Avenue entrance of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, New York City (photo Wiki Commons)
The original Waldorf-Astoria was demolished in 1929 to make space for the Empire State Building. The Waldorf-Astoria as it stands today was designed by architects Schultze and Weaver and completed in 1931. At 47 stories, it was the world's tallest hotel until 1963. And until 2014, it was part of the Waldorf division of Hilton Hotels.
Clock in the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, New York City
The only constant is change
The clock's octagonal tower features bronze bas-relief busts of Queen Victoria, Benjamin Franklin, and six American presidents including George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Grover Cleveland.
Bronze bas-relief bust of George Washington on the clock in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, New York City
The original clock did not have the gilded Statue of Liberty miniature crowning it; this arrived in 1902 as a gift to Astor from French government officials soon after he purchased the clock. The gift was made in honor of the hospitality his hotel had shown the people of France since he opened his hotel.
Lady Liberty atop the clock in the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City
Apparently Queen Victoria did not care for Astor's alteration to the clock, and legend has it that she wanted to purchase it back. This did not occur.
Also, the clock originally was outfitted with gold-plated silver figurines that revolved around the platform between the bust and clock levels when chiming was on. It's thought that the figures went missing or were misplaced when the clock went into storage in 1929 due to the original building's demolition.
Clock in the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, New York City (photo Wiki Commons)
And after those moments of nostalgia contemplating a history I had only just come to know, the time came for me to take my leave of the historic building's lobby, so I sauntered past the Cellini watch boutique and other shops located at the lobby level on my to the Lexington Avenue exit. But not before I heard the sonorous Westminster chimes, which ring every quarter hour and which invited me to continue admiring the clock in wonder for a little while longer before taking my leave.
For more information on the hotel's uncertain fate, see www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/nyregion/chasing-waldorfs-history-as-it-becomes-history-itself.
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Weight: approximately two tons
Movement: electric
Case materials: bronze, mahogany
Some information in this post originates in a story by Rachel Young from Cellini's annual Status magazine of 2014.
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Since the 1970 and 1975 Treaties, Parliament's role in the budgetary process has gradually been enhanced. The Lisbon Treaty gave Parliament an equal say with the Council in the entire EU budget.
Interinstitutional Agreement (IIA) between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management approved by Parliament on 19 November 2013 and by the Council on 2 December 2013, following the political agreement reached between the Presidents of Parliament, the Council and the Commission on 27 June 2013.
The exercise of budgetary powers consists in establishing both the overall amount and distribution of annual EU expenditure and the revenue necessary to cover it, and in exercising control over the implementation of the budget. The budgetary procedure itself involves the preparation and adoption of the budget. (1.4.1 for details on EU revenue, 1.4.2 for details on expenditure, 1.4.3 for details on the MFF, 1.4.4 for details on implementation and 1.4.5 for details on budgetary control).
The 1975 Treaty gave Parliament the right to reject the budget as a whole.
Until the Lisbon Treaty came into force, the Council and Parliament each engaged in two readings in the course of the budgetary procedure, at the end of which Parliament could either adopt the budget or reject it as a whole.
No substantial modifications were introduced by subsequent Treaties until the major changes brought by the Treaty of Lisbon. The Treaty of Lisbon introduced a simpler and more transparent budgetary procedure (budgetary codecision). The modifications derive mainly from the removal of the distinction between compulsory expenditure and non-compulsory expenditure, allowing for equal treatment of all expenditure under the same procedure. The procedure has been further simplified, with only one reading in each institution, based on the draft budget presented by the Commission.
Article 314 of the TFEU sets out the stages and time limits that must be respected during the budgetary procedure. However, the institutions agree on a 'pragmatic' calendar each year in due time before the start of the budgetary procedure based on the present practice.
Parliament and the Council lay down guidelines on the priorities for the budget. The Commission draws up the draft budget and forwards it to the Council and Parliament by 1 September at the latest (under Article 314(2) TFEU, but by the end of April or beginning of May according to the pragmatic timetable). The Commission may modify the draft budget at a later stage to take account of new developments, but no later than the point at which the Conciliation Committee (see below) is convened.
The Council adopts its position on the draft budget and forwards it to Parliament by 1 October at the latest (under Article 314(3) TFEU, but by the end of July according to the pragmatic timetable). The Council must inform Parliament in full of the reasons which have led it to adopt its position.
Parliament has 42 days in which to react. Within that period, it may either approve the Council's position or decline to take a decision, in which case the budget is deemed finally adopted, or else Parliament can adopt amendments by a majority of its component members, in which case the amended draft is referred back to the Council and to the Commission. The President of Parliament, in agreement with the President of the Council, must then immediately convene a meeting of the Conciliation Committee.
From the day on which it is convened, the Conciliation Committee (composed of the representatives of the members of the Council and an equal number of representatives of Parliament) has 21 days to agree on a joint text. To do so, it must take its decision by a qualified majority of the members of the Council or their representatives and by a majority of the representatives of Parliament. The Commission takes part in the Conciliation Committee's proceedings and takes all the necessary initiatives to seek to reconcile the positions of Parliament and the Council.
Should the Conciliation Committee fail to find an agreement on a joint text within the 21 days referred to above, a new draft budget must be submitted by the Commission. If the Conciliation Committee does agree on a joint text within the deadline, then Parliament and the Council have 14 days from the date of that agreement in which to approve the joint text. The following table summarises the possible outcomes at the end of that 14-day period.
In the event of unavoidable, exceptional or unforeseen circumstances (in accordance with Article 41 of the Financial Rules), the Commission may propose draft amending budgets amending the adopted budget for the current year. These amending budgets are subject to the same rules as the general budget.
In 1970, Parliament gained the right to have the last word on non-compulsory expenditure. The proportion of non-compulsory expenditure rose from 8% of the budget in 1970 to more than 60% in the 2010 budget, the last year in which the distinction was made. With the abolition of the distinction between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditure (TFEU), Parliament now has joint powers with the Council over all budget expenditure. Parliament's position can even be considered stronger than that of the Council since the latter may never impose a budget against the will of Parliament, while Parliament may in some circumstances have the last word and impose a budget against the will of the Council (see B.4 above). However, this is rather unlikely, and it would be more appropriate to say that the new budgetary procedure is based, for the most part, on genuine (albeit specific) codecision between Parliament and the Council, on an equal footing, covering all Union expenditure. Parliament has rejected the budget as a whole on two occasions (in December 1979 and December 1984) since acquiring the power to do so in 1975. Under the new rules agreed in the Lisbon Treaty, the Conciliation Committee has thrice failed to reach agreement (on the 2011, 2013 and 2015 budgets). In all three cases, the new draft budget presented by the Commission, reflecting the near-compromise in conciliation, was finally adopted.
In the case of the 2018 budget, the three institutions reached an agreement at the conciliation committee held on 18 November 2017, followed by the adoption of the Council position on the new draft budget on 30 November and the plenary vote in Parliament on the same day. The negotiators agreed to a compromise package of EUR 160.1 billion in commitments and EUR 144.7 billion in payments. The 2018 budget focuses on boosting growth, investments and job creation, supporting youth employment, and tackling migration and security challenges.
Following repeated disputes concerning the legal base for implementation of the budget, the institutions adopted a joint declaration in 1982, which also laid down measures designed to ensure smoother completion of the budgetary procedure. This was followed by a series of Interinstitutional Agreements covering the following periods: 1988-1992, 1993-1999, 2000-2006 and 2007-2013. These successive agreements have provided an interinstitutional reference framework for the annual budgetary procedures and have considerably improved the way the budgetary procedure works.
The current IIA entered into force on 23 December 2013. It aims to facilitate the annual budgetary procedure and to complement the provisions of the MFF regulation (which has become a binding regulation, with binding ceilings), notably on the special instruments outside the MFF. These provisions concern the following special instruments: the Emergency Aid Reserve, the European Union Solidarity Fund, the Flexibility Instrument, the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund and the Contingency Margin.
Although MFFs do not replace the annual budgetary procedure, the Interinstitutional Agreements have introduced a form of budgetary codecision procedure, which allows Parliament to assert its role as a fully-fledged arm of the budgetary authority, to consolidate its credibility as an institution and to direct the budget towards its political priorities. The Lisbon Treaty and the Financial Rules also stipulate that the annual budget must comply with the ceilings set in the MFF, which must itself comply with the ceilings established in the decision on own resources.
On 7 September 2010, the Economic and Financial Affairs Council approved the introduction of the 'European Semester', a cycle of economic policy coordination at EU level with the aim of achieving the Europe 2020 targets. This is a six-month period every year, during which the Member States' budgetary and structural policies are to be reviewed in order to detect any inconsistencies and emerging imbalances. On the basis of the analytical economic assessment, the Commission provides policy guidance/recommendations to the Member States covering fiscal, macroeconomic and structural reforms. The aim of the European Semester is to strengthen coordination while major budgetary decisions are still under preparation at national level. In addition to coordination between national budgets, the European Parliament is also seeking to exploit synergies and strengthen coordination between national budgets and the EU budget.
OJ L 298, 26.10.2012, p. 1.
OJ C 373, 20.12.2013, p. 1.
This occurs if Parliament confirms some or all of its previous amendments, acting by a majority of its component Members and three-fifths of the votes cast. If Parliament does not reach the required majority, the position agreed in the joint text is adopted.


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Cast bronze plaques stand the test of time.
Cast bronze plaques are the plaques you often see outdoors attached to benches and buildings. They are very sturdy and will stand up to the elements and vandalism. Cast plaques are ideal for outside applications including memorial, dedication and wayfinding signs. There are many colour choices and they can have clip art, logos or photos incorporated. Please call or email for more information.