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From the Mouth of Babes - Part Deux
Location: DC
The Tea Party Cometh. Deleware republican Primary resulted in a Sarah-Palin-backed Tea Partier beating career politician (1966-??) Michael Castle. I'll allow Christine O'Donnell to introduce herself:
(On a litany of charges that she's perpertually in debt: failed to recieve a diploma from her college, crippled by student loans, sued by mortgage company, IRS filed a lien, 2008 campaign still in debt..) "I think the fact that I have struggled financially is what makes me so sympathetic."
It's true. Cause, when I vote for a candidate who preaches financial responsibility, I want to be sure that person can't even handle their own finances. I just want to be all, "Awwww! You're so cute -- you're so cute. Who can't pay their bills? Who can't handle their finances? YOU! Ha ha! AWWwwwWWW."
"It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be abstinent alone. The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery, so you can't masturbate without lust."
I thought this might be an odd campaign to run on, so I went to her website to see if there was any clarification on her position: Website. Nothing. No issues. No facts. Just a giant "gimme money" button. 'kay.
But I'm glad O'Donnell is running for senator. Cause I feel the three biggest issues facing our nation are "Unemployment," "Homeland Security," and "People who stare just a little too long at a Calvin Klein billboard." Though not in that order.
"[...] evolution is a theory and it's exactly that. There is not enough evidence, consistent evidence to make it as fact, and I say that because for theory to become a fact, it needs to consistently have the same results after it goes through a series of tests."
Okay, fine. If that's how you feel. Just don't say something li--
"Well, creationism, in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six 24-hour periods. And there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting that."
I was going to disagree you. But then I realized you call your holy book "The Gospel," which means "The Truth," so...
(on cloning)"They are -- they are doing that here in the United States. American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. So they're already into this experiment."
Uh, O'Donnell. That show wasn't a PBS documentary.
"He makes an excellent point [The point? a caller explains it's hard to garner sympathy for someone stricken with AIDS as they're like a bank robber who gets shot in the leg.] And the caller before him called people who get AIDS "victims"? It's that kind of spinning with words--and manipulating words--that empowers the bias when it comes to AIDS."
Those non-white-cell-having, sympathy-siphoning Fucks are ruining it for everyone!
And my favorite. An exchange between Eddie Izzard and O'Donnell about lying. Guess who takes a rabid, two-minute, no-shades-of-grey stance against ANY form of lying?
O'DONNELL: A lie, whether it be a lie or an exaggeration, is disrespect to whoever you're exaggerating or lying to, because it's not respecting reality.
MAHER: Quite the opposite, it can be respect.
IZZARD: What if Hitler comes to you in the middle of the Second World War and says, 'do you have any Jewish people in your house?' And you do have them. Would you lie to him? Cause that would be disrespectful to Hitler...
O'DONNELL: I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously. I believe that! -- You never have to practice deception!!!
Crazy, aside. What I love about this exchange: Not at one point after Eddie Izzard asks a very pointed question does O'Donnell experience or reach any point of genuine self-reflection about the nonsense is spewing from her mouth.
The conversation that followed:
LYING BAD! LYING BAD!!
But if lying could result in something good...
Thanks for the crazy, Tea Party <3
Homeless people need more seasoning, use bath salts.
Location: Easy street
You can't just go around quoting crazy people verbatum and in context.
It makes them appear...well...crazy.
We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood.
But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there." Dana Gould
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Location: Somewhere in a galaxy near you
Geez, with a track record like that, she just might get appointed president...
You might appreciate this:
http://www.slate.com/id/2267654/
Goudron
Location: near Cleveland OH
They should have these sorts of things attached to ballots.
White and feathery, yet crude and noisy, the chicken is the backbone of our farming community.
Location: sittin here on mah porch with dis here gun
dude that chick is totally uninformed. it's not mice, it's sea otters with the fully functioning human brains
"protestant heaven is in the basement of catholic heaven."
"there's just one more thing.... it's been emotional." lock stock and 2 smoking barrels
Goudron wrote:
If they did, it'd increase the bars' business later, just saying...
OK, there's "aw how cute and quaint" eccentric, and then there's "holy shit, lock her up, drug her to the gills, and throw away the key. then brick up her door and throw away the bricklayer" crazy.
http://thinkprogress.org/christine-odonnell-record/
It finally happened. My conscience stopped working. I've never felt so free.
^ Holy @#$%! That's way more research into bat-shit insanity than I cared to venture.
I think the problem with O'Donnell is she doesn't know when to shut the fuck up when arguing. She'll take a very hard line stance on an issue, which I guess is fine (for our hyper-partisan news media, anyway. "Hey, MSNBC and FOX, got some time to kill? You can have five minutes of unfiltered speaking points!"), then she'll get backed into a very obvious corner, but instead of deflecting the point being made in a proper manner (like any soulless politician should), she'll continue to hold her ground.
NO SEX!!! NO SEX FOR ANYONE!!!
You're going stop the whole country from having sex?
(In the clip: She says she's a young woman in her 30's who's still chaste to "prove" her point. This is, as recent interviews with her have shown, proven to be completely untrue. She's "dabbled" in college promiscuity.)
I expect a fair level of BS from politicians, but just fucking naivete and pathological lying is out of the question.
JustAGirl
walk wrote:
I, for one, welcome our new otter overlords.
Mark it 8, Dude.
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Location: St. Augustine, FL
JustAGirl wrote:
Yes, we will prepare for the coming of the otter overlords.
We will stop the wasteful cutting down of trees to make tables, and we will comense with the eating of our meals off of our prefectly good tummies!!
Or we will have our heads split like clams on the tummies of our overlords!!!!!
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science." - Albert Einstein
girlEgirl
so wait.... this crazy "dog in heat".... "don't slap on a condom" ...um person. is she actually running for something? or is this just some reality tv joke thingy, (like i'm really hoping that tea party nonsense is) that i missed since i got rid of cable?
clowns are people too...people who want to hurt you.
She's the punchline but not clever enough to figure it out yet-
if folks like that don't get you voting (against them), nothing will!
just found this
http://www.cracked.com/blog/15-things-christine-odonnell-will-probably-say-before-shes-not-elected/
my favorite is the one at the bottom
Yes, indeed, it is, Christine.
conspiracies unlimited
I hate people that dismiss theories due to thier own ignoramce as to what the work theory means... Stoopid fucking fuckers!!!
You are so whack.Wiggity whack?Nope, just the regular kind.
You can't dust for vomit
This is the Governor's wife. -- You mean she's not the hooker?
It's time to separate the awkwardly feminine from the possibly canadian
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In a world of medication errors, who can patients trust?
— In a world of medication errors, who can patients trust?
On behalf of The Leigh Law Firm | Nov 20, 2017 | Defective Drugs |
It is a widely held belief that doctors generally know best — this mentality can extend to the pharmacy industry, as well. After all, one of the primary duties of medical professionals is to ensure wellbeing and good health for all Texans. Even with the comfort of expertise, are doctors and pharmacists as reliable as patients would like to believe?
One major area that has sparked controversy is the accuracy of prescriptions and other medical direction. There is much speculation on the topic of medication errors, but the state of Texas seeks to eliminate these errors by getting to the root of the problem itself. Furthermore, the stigma about patient irresponsibility regarding medication errors may prove to be false.
U.S. News uses data from the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy to show that 1 to 5 percent of prescriptions filled in pharmacies across the nation involve error of some kind. The most common? The university states that prescription labels with faulty directions are most typical. In addition to this common mix-up, there are certain drugs that are easily mistaken for one another, drugs with interactions that pharmacists miss and medications going to the wrong customers. Open communication could be one solution to this potentially dangerous problem, but U.S. News encourages readers to take advantage of free pharmacy counseling and to always report incidents, especially if they cause harm. By documenting errors, patients can have accurate records and pharmacists can work to better prevent the problem in the future.
Further Prevention
The Texas State Board of Pharmacy has connected with the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners to develop the best ways to prevent medication errors. Contrary to what many might assume, most prescription errors are not the result of individual recklessness. Instead, the boards point toward flaws in the health systems themselves. To best prevent future errors, the boards have agreed that it is crucial for professionals to stay updated on advancements in the field, to only accept assignments for which they are qualified, promote team work and instill creative and innovative thinking. It is unlikely that these approaches will eliminate all medication errors, but they can potentially reduce the chances of unhealthy — and potentially harmful — situations.
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Her Majesty's SPIFFING
Her Majesty's SPIFFING Review (PS4)
Follow the space voyage of Captain Frank Lee English and his compadre Aled Jones as they take on the Queen's mission for a new British Empire. A point and click adventure full of humor and puns, it marks the beginning of a potential new trilogy in games. Everything you need to know about the game can be found right here!
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Her Majesty's SPIFFING, developed and published by Billy Goat Entertainment, is a puzzle adventure game that tells the story of how "societal isolation" (Brexit) has caused Britain to look towards the stars for rebuilding. Her Majesty the Queen has established an organization known as S.P.I.F.F.I.N.G. (Special Planetary Investigative Force For Inhabiting New Galaxies) after dissolving parliament and assuming ultimate power. The main protagonist, Captain Frank Lee English, is accompanied by his Walsh partner Aled Jones as they travel through space. This is the beginning of a three part series, where part two of the trilogy will completely depend on the success of the first.
You can buy the game on Steam or PlayStation 4 or Xbox One for $18.99
Everything is based off of the point and click genre, but while giving you control of the main character, Frank Lee English, to walk around and interact with things as you wish. I'll cut to the chase early and let you know that the game is incredibly short for the first play through, and unbelievably short if you play through it a second or third time, where you'll obviously remember everything necessary (I completed my first play through in roughly 4 hours). To paint the picture a little bit more clearly for you; after the initial conversation between Frank and Aled, you're tasked with going into the kitchen to fetch some tea for the both of you. After returning to the control room, and giving the steaming hot tea to your friend, you will have finished 11 percent of the game. Now you get what I mean by short.
But luckily, the game wasn't built upon the idea of delivering a story worthy of an Academy Award, and if you can remember, it's only trying to tell the first third of the story that it is. The attractiveness of the game is it's humour and laid back approach to real world controversies as well as everything that it encompasses. It pokes fun at itself and doesn't take anything too seriously. Even the puzzles aren't extremely difficult or time consuming. You'll scratch your head here and there but more so because you're over thinking them. It's loaded with British references and jokes, movie and video game references (just look at the cover image for the game), and puns that are really funny because they are borderline extremely lame.
Sound and Graphics
It was a pleasant surprise to see how nice the game looked, even though it had only a number of environments to "explore." The rounded models of characters and objects meant that it all had a very comical and fun nature. There's no attempt at realism either, just quirky and silly actions. How can Frank possibly fit two steaming hot mugs of tea in his suit, sprint for a few good seconds on a treadmill, and still deliver it unspilt? It doesn't make sense to me or Aled Jones either but it happens. I didn't see too many technical issues while playing aside from the occasional screen tearing, and the fact that the camera cannot be rotated or moved.
The screen tearing feels minimum though since the overall flow of the game is pretty slow moving. Camera angles, while are locked into specific angles depending on the room, are not all that difficult to play within. At times I wished I could move it slightly in order to better observe the rooms, but nothing was ever truly blocked from my view. Voice acting is excellent throughout and delivers all of the humor as perfectly as you could hope for. The downside to in-game speech is repetition by the characters with actions. The first time you'll see it is during the beginning when Aled is responding to Captain Frank; regardless of what he says, he makes the same exact movements with his hands and head (it's a very subtle thing, and perhaps I'm nitpicking).
Her Majesty's SPIFFING could be viewed as a success just as easily as it could be viewed as sub-par (based almost entirely on what is to come in the future). I had fun with its extensive humor and not so subtle jabs at real world occurrences, stereotypes, and issues, but its incredibly short gameplay and story had no closure about them, and won't unless we are fortunate enough for the developers to make the next instalments and provide us with such conclusions. For me, the game feels up in the air in terms of being a worthy purchase or not; if you take the chance on it, I'm sure you'll enjoy much of what it has to offer, but don't forget that the rest of the story is still to come (maybe).
+ Fun characters and interactions – A little pricey
+ Creative story and setting – Short and lacks reason for multiple play throughs
+ It sets up some potential for sequels – Unsatisfying ending if there's no sequel
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Trump Closes the PLO's Washington Office
by Clifford Smith
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The Trump administration is squeezing the Palestinians' economy and calling out their support for terrorism in order to force them into making what President Trump calls the "ultimate deal" with Israel.
The decision to close the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Washington office last month comes on the heels of the administration's move to completely defund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) – a prime source of aid to purported refugees resulting from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
In announcing the most recent move, the State Department laid out its concerns with UNRWA starkly. Blasting the agency as a poorly run bureaucracy that has expanded "the community of entitled beneficiaries," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert declared the current situation "unsustainable." As a result, the United States will "no longer commit further funding to this irredeemably flawed operation." The U.S. decision will cut about $300 million from the agencies $1.24 billion budget.
Critics including Saeb Erakat, a longtime Palestinian diplomat, described this move as a reckless leap into the unknown. He called on other nations to "reject and condemn the American decision and provide all necessary assistance to UNRWA to enable it to continue to shoulder its responsibility towards the Palestinian refugees."
Backers of Israel such as Sarah Stern, president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, praised the move and expressed gratitude to the Trump Administration for recognizing that UNRWA "has actually perpetuated the sense of victimhood of the Palestinians, and has kept the original 1948 conflict alive."
However, even proponents admit there are significant complications to overcome if this is to resolve the question of Palestinian refugees.
UNRWA was created at the end of the Arab-Israeli war nearly 70 years ago to little fanfare, to care for refugees, both Jewish and Arab, from Israel's War of Independence. Today, UNRWA is a bête noire of Israel and its allies, accused of perpetuating the conflict rather than resolving it. Critics say UNRWA does not work to resettle refugees, but holds them in perpetual stasis and because UNRWA has a unique definition of a refugee that includes people generations removed from the conflict as well as individuals who are citizens of new countries. This inflates the number of purported "refugees" which is used to claim an expanded "right of return," thus threatening the Jewish state's existence.
Additionally, UNRWA's curriculum is often accused of being anti-Semitic and aimed at inciting terrorism, and its facilities have in the past been used for terrorism.
Like the partial cut of US funds for UNRWA in January, this complete cut is intended to coerce Palestinian concessions, which in turn would make a "deal" between Israel and the Palestinians more likely. Critics, such as the Jewish Democratic Council of America claim this tactic as "irresponsible," saying cuts will "imperil the security of Israel and the wellbeing of millions of Palestinians," and that the Administration announced the cuts "without a clear strategy."
However, the Administration seems to be following a plan it solicited from the Middle East Forum that was delivered in early August. In this plan, defunding UNRWA is the first step in a three-step process. The second step, involving direct funding of "hospitals, clinics, schools, municipalities, micro-financing programs, vocational capacity building initiatives, infrastructure managers, social service providers, and others," rather than funding UNRWA, or, as Trump Administration explains seeking out "new models and new approaches," including "direct bilateral assistance."
The third step involves ending "U.S. recognition of the fake Palestine refugees," by treating those not meeting more traditional definitions of a refugee as, instead, "needy people deserving of assistance." This final step can be aided by a still-classified State Department report which details the actual number of refugees not including UNRWA's expanded definition.
If this can be accomplished, it could be a significant step toward resolving the conflict. However, there are potential pitfalls to this strategy. For example, other countries may replace the funds, taking the pressure off UNRWA to reform.
Former UNRWA General Counsel James Lindsay, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, believes the Administration's calculation hinges on the agency not being able to replace the lost funding. Lindsay said there are "rumors" that Gulf States will make up the difference in funding, but only if UNRWA lessens the number of people it grants refugee status. Achieving a cut in the number of purported refugees is a major goal of the Trump Administration.
Others, however, remain skeptical that even this would solve the refugee issue. "Israelis will never allow large numbers of Palestinians to exercise a 'right of return' to Israel, and for good reason," said Robert Wexler, President of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace. "However, the refugee issue isn't going away, with or without UNRWA."
Middle East Forum President Daniel Pipes worries that Trump's pressure on the Palestinians to reach a deal could rebound, resulting in Israel being pressured into accepting a deal that would "(End) very badly for Israel."
In the short term some worry that the funding cut could reduce essential services. Lindsay worries about "potential schooling provided by alternate donors such as Hamas," or other bad actors, which would be even more dangerous. His remarks were echoed by Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, who expressed concern about "ensuring that certain key services like education, health and nutrition continue to ensure relative stability."
However, Lindsey suggests that "UNRWA may be able to make up for the loss of U.S. funding by revising rather than replacing its current educational programs—for instance, by making them means-tested and/or eliminating non-core programs," which itself would be a victory. Lindsay also suggested "quietly" giving money for similar programs to Jordan, a country friendly to the US. Schanzer stressed that "In the end, the goal should be to obviate the need," for such programs and blamed UNRWA for not previously taking "a single step" toward reform.
For now, the Trump Administration's future steps toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remain uncertain. But many believe defunding UNRWA allows for the possibility of positive change. Brett Schaefer, a scholar at the Heritage Foundation, said, "You are virtually assured of a bad situation if you continue to accept the unacceptable. This Administration is willing to do something to change the unsatisfactory status quo, even when there is risk associated."
Clifford Smith is the Washington Program Director for the Middle East Forum. His writings have been published in the Daily Caller, the American Spectator, PJ Media, and other outlets.
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Penny has a secret.
Under the alias Girl Online, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship, boys, high school drama, her crazy family, and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets Noah, a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American. Suddenly Penny is falling in love - and capturing every moment of it on her blog.
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Penny's bags are packed . . . When Noah invites Penny on his European music tour, she can't wait to spend time with her rock-god-tastic boyfriend. But, between Noah's jam-packed schedule, less-than-welcoming bandmates and threatening messages from jealous fans, Penny wonders whether she's really cut out for life on tour. She can't help but miss her family, her best friend Elliot . . . and her blog, Girl Online. Can Penny learn to balance life and love on the road, or will she lose everything in pursuit of the perfect summer?
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Penny's life is back to normal. As Penny starts the school year she's ready to face the world - alone. Noah has gone off the radar after ending his world tour early and no one, including Penny, knows where he is. So when she accepts Megan's invitation to visit her performing arts school it seems like an opportunity to make some new friends. Helping everyone else seems to be the right remedy. Elliot needs her friendship more than ever, and she meets Posey - struggling with stage fright and in need of support. But is charming Scottish boy Callum the right kind of distraction? And can Penny truly move on when Noah's shadow seems to haunt her round every corner?


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What is crypto literature, and what can the advent of NFTs mean for writers and literary artists seeking to experiment with the enthralling world of blockchain technologies? Riding the waves of this emerging conversation is Kalen Iwamoto, the mastermind behind Twelve, a collaboration jointly developed by 12 different crypto writers and artists.
As a crypto writer, Kalen is devoted to building up a strong bond within the community, from the ground up. "Crypto writing is such a new thing, that I almost feel like I am making things up as I go along," says Kalen. She is the Founder of the Crypto Writers Discord, which connected her to writers and artists who were similarly interested in pushing forward the NFT communities' understanding of how literature and creative writing can interplay with the crypto world. Kalen says that, "I was determined to collaborate with artists whose works excited me, while presenting a wide range of practices to showcase a diverse idea of what crypto literature could look like."
Twelve is the result of this ambitious collaborative experiment, accompanied by a larger-than-life presentation on Decentraland (hosted and designed by @paleh0rs3). The project is a mystery-filled adventure that invites its readers and participants to put on their detective glasses, and dive deep into the exciting world of experimental writing.
Bringing together some of the best crypto writers in the scene, Twelve is made up of 12 individual NFTs. From the haunted fascinations of paleh0rs3's GAN imageries, the surrealist inspired texts against fire in Anonymous Nobody's animation, Brickwall's atypical haiku and serenely blue night sky, to TheKZA's moving words caged within a painted head, Twelve deeply embodies the spirit of transdisciplinary art-making. Intimately integrating the creativity of computers, James Yu, Osirène and artist collective aurèce vettier, extend their literary arms into the systems of AI and code-generated amulets. Galbraith's flash fiction, interwoven with his photographs of Glasgow, sits across from Justin Tagg's (Devoid) story 001 of a new micro metafiction series, signalling the beginning of masterful collections to come. simianAmber's instructional-based performance crosses into the spaces of ephemerality, while Dorkholm's playful collage pokes fun at the very resource from which it takes its reference. Last but not least, Nahiko presents his visual response, a man with his back to the light of the world and 12 spheres floating behind him, alluding to the high stakes high rewards of solving Kalen's mystery.
All 12 NFTs are united by Kalen's own poem, "Twelve", to be released on April 29. The eclectic mix of literary experimentations are tucked away in one, single wallet. Readers and participants, through purchasing and gaining access to Iwamoto's poem and its unlockable contents, will be invited to solve the riddles hidden within. Driven by her passion for words, Iwamoto has been on the hunt for ways to appropriate and play with texts in the blockchain world, with seed phrases – typically a string of 12 seemingly disparate words that hold the key to one's digital wallet – arising as a natural playground for her imaginations.
Inspired by NFT drop culture's ability to encourage interaction and conversations, Iwamoto, together with her husband, Julien Silvano, arrived at the idea of placing audience involvement at the heart of this project. In a race against time, each and every one of those who gain ownership of Iwamoto's poems will have a chance to uncover the correct seed phrase, and unlock the treasure trove of all 12 NFTs. The first to crack the code will be the winner amongst us all, free to walk away with everything inside this prized wallet.
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Controversy over the Economic Commission and its decisions. Ghaleb says it's frozen and Mu'yad It is not my responsibility
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Hafiz Ma'ayed, chairman of the Economic Committee, said that a legal problem led to the committee's failure to carry out the tasks assigned to it, and stressed that the committee is disabled, acknowledging that it has deviated from its functions to executive actions that are not its competence but of the government.
The Economic Committee was formed in August 2018, by the decision of President Hadi, to provide the tasks of providing consultations, proposals and economic plans, including plans to save the local currency (riyal).
The clarification came after the Committee was criticized for carrying out operational work, the most recent being the contracting of a French company to inspect fuel imports in the country of origin and for taking over the duties of granting and withdrawing licenses for incoming fuel shipments and fuel importing companies.
"We have repeatedly warned that the committee's name should not be used in actions that have not been presented to it, not approved, and are not in its area of competence, but are the work of the executive organs of the government," Mu'yad said in a post on his Facebook page.
He blamed the technical office of the committee for the recent decisions and pointed out that there is a technical office appointed by the president's office, which has taken the full work, calling on President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi to reconstitute the committee in a way that will end the confusion and achieve the objectives of its formation.
The Commission has become an executive who licenses shipments and fuel import companies that make huge profits, a fertile area for the growth of corruption, where it facilitates the collection of funds from commissions and where large companies, and recently announced the contract with the French company Perofretas to inspect and supply fuel.
According to experts in the law, the committee's announcement of the contract with the French company Perofretas to inspect and want fuel, is a violation of the law and a deviation from the tasks for which the commission was established, which prompted the chairman of the committee Hafiz Mu'yad to declare his non-responsibility.
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Gayle Not Picked For West Indies Squad In Test Series Vs India
St. John's (Antigua): Swashbuckling batsman Chris Gayle was not picked for West Indies' squad to face India in a two-match Test series despite his desire to play, while offspinning all-rounder Rahkeem Cornwall was drafted in. Gayle, 39, had said he would retire from international cricket after the home Test series against India, which is starting […]
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St. John's (Antigua): Swashbuckling batsman Chris Gayle was not picked for West Indies' squad to face India in a two-match Test series despite his desire to play, while offspinning all-rounder Rahkeem Cornwall was drafted in.
Gayle, 39, had said he would retire from international cricket after the home Test series against India, which is starting from August 22. He last played a five-day game in September 2014.
Alzarri Joseph, who was part of the team that beat England earlier this year and also made a splash in the Indian Premier League (IPL), was also not named in the squad on Friday as he is still recovering from injury.
Cornwall has 260 wickets from 55 first-class games and finished as the leading bowler in the most recent regional four-day tournament.
"Rahkeem has been performing consistently over a long period of time and has proven to be a match-winner, so we believe his elevation to the Test squad is merited at this time," Robert Haynes, the head of Cricket West Indies's interim selection panel, was quoted as saying by ESPNCricinfo.
"We believe he can provide an attacking option to our bowling attack with his sharp turn and extra bounce. He can also lend a bit of depth to the batting, so we are looking forward to him coming into the squad and making a valuable contribution."
Joseph, meanwhile, was last seen in the IPL playing for Mumbai Indians. He suffered a tear in his right arm.
"Alzarri is undergoing remedial work and we are monitoring his recovery," Haynes said. "But we do not think he is ready yet for last five days of a gruelling Test match. He represents a key part of West Indies future and we do not want to rush him back. We have two important series coming up later in the year in India and we want to be very careful how his recovery is managed."
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Jason Holder (Captain), Kraigg Brathwaite, Darren Bravo, Shamarh Brooks, John Campbell, Roston Chase, Rahkeem Cornwall, Shane Dowrich (wicket-keeper), Shannon Gabriel, Shimron Hetmyer Shai Hope, Keemo Paul, Kemar Roach
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Company is also building a 120,000 square-foot building to supplement its call center operations.
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Dell is expanding its customer call center operations in Oklahoma City by adding 1,000 new employees and erecting a new building, the company said Tuesday. Plans call for a new 120,000 square-foot facility, which is scheduled to open by March 31, 2006, the computer maker said. It will be a mirror image of Dell's existing plant on the Oklahoma River.
The additional 1,000 workers will consist mostly of salespeople but will include service technicians and managers. Dell said it needs extra hands on deck to deal with an influx of public-sector and corporate accounts, as well as the need to resolve technical questions regarding servers and storage. The plans represent an increase in its hiring projections; in July 2004, the computer maker had planned to hire between 250 and 500 employees in the area. Four months later, the company increased its employment projection to 700.
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Open Letter to Modi from a Human

Dear Prime Minister Modi,

I extend my congratulations to you on your appointment to me as migrant-city-labour from native-place-based happy labour. I had a great expectation from you. Today, my disappointment forced to write a letter to you. I am an ordinary citizen of the country. After seven year of happy life, now, I am bound migrate from my village in order to search for livelihood.

Congress government's rural safety program MGNREGA, where we worked with much enthusiasm comes to an end, because you reduced allocation for this scheme, and also there is no alternate of it. It was life line for poor like us. Though it has not removed our poverty, but it helps to fill the hungry stomachs. You run miles in the morning for losing fat from body, at the same time we also run miles in the morning in the search of food for two times. The drought like situation in the state brings turbulent economic condition. The worrisome at large. You gave a deadly blow to our income and purchasing power. Although there are serious loop holes like huge delays in wage payments, poor quality of accessing work, but nothing is better than something. Instead of transformational changes in the scheme, you are silently trying abolish it.

While whole India celebrated Diwali, my family members' tears are falling continuously since I left home, though they attempted to hide fill up eyes to me, but I can experience it. You have been travelling to abroad since you became Prime Minister, I don't know what I will get from it, but for me, there is God, where food is. So I decided to migrate in the search of food. I don't know what is my future?

Finally sir , I want to say something. You have said that Hindus and Muslims must decide what they want to fight, each other or poverty. To me this is nothing but another empty slogan because poverty is inextricably connected to religion, caste and class. For vote you politicians can do anything. Unless we face up to these challenges with greater honesty and courage, not just our poverty but our backwardness will remain indeed incurable. But it will not going to happen because enslavement is our religion.  Nothing… poor men have nothing… rich men need nothing…nothing is more evil than the devil… and nothing is greater than God… but if you eat nothing, you'll die (eventually)… I am not frustrated; hope one day better days will come.

With kind regards,

An Indian (Not a Hindu, Muslim or etc).

Author: Sanjay Kumar Bisoyi,He blogs at (https://thetribalissue.wordpress.com) .

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How much money does the NHS waste?
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37715399
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The NHS is the second biggest area of public spending behind welfare. Last year, the Treasury handed over £118bn to the Department of Health in England - that is enough to buy more than 1,200 Paul Pogbas, the most expensive football player on the planet.
But, of course, not all of that goes to the front line. An organisation the size of the NHS - it is the fifth biggest employer in the world and sees a million patients every 36 hours - needs some form of management, administration and regulation.
So how much goes on that sort of stuff? Well, if you look at the £118bn, £17bn was sliced off by the Department of Health with the rest handed down to bosses at NHS England to distribute across the health service.
They gave more than £90bn to hospitals, GPs, mental health services and ambulance trusts.
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So what happened to the rest - both that held by NHS England and the Department of Health?
Plenty, you could argue, went to the front line via other routes. Over £3bn went to councils to pay for public health services, such as stop smoking services and sexual health clinics.
Another £3bn went on training doctors and nurses, while £3.7bn was set aside for buildings and facilities maintenance.
The rest went on what you could call central administration and regulation - and that includes £1.4bn set aside for clinical negligence claims, a figure which is on the rise.
All in all, that means over £100bn is funnelled to services and areas that provide care directly to patients.
Why Nick wrote this article:
We asked readers to send BBC health correspondent Nick Triggle questions on the NHS.
Nick chose four questions, and we asked you to select your favourite, which came from dentist Rachael Sullivan.
She asked: "How much of the NHS budget gets spent on administration, settling lawsuits, internal market; what's left for treatment? Is this poor value?"
Her question was prompted by her own experience but also by that of other health professionals.
A hospital nurse I talked to said 37 forms require filling in to admit a patient to hospital," she said.
"And then more electronic data needs entering into the computer.
"That has to be utterly scandalous in terms of wasted manpower."
She went on to ask: "Can't we get rid of ambulance-chasing lawyers who make all healthcare chronically inefficient and more costly as defence against them means forever documenting the obvious as well critically important information?"
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But, of course, that does not mean every penny is well spent or is not also used to pay for the management and administration of these services.
Research has suggested about 15% of hospital budgets goes on administration - but that includes everything from managers to clerks on wards helping nurses with paper work so they are free to concentrate on care.
That is more than some health systems that do not have an internal market, but much less than the biggest spenders - the US, at 25%, and the Netherlands, at 20%.
So does that mean we can assume money that goes to the front line is well spent? No. In fact, this has been the subject of a recent government-commissioned review by Labour peer Lord Carter.
He identified £5bn of savings he believes hospitals can make by 2020, including through:
better management of staff (sickness rates can vary widely)
more intelligent procurement of goods and services
more efficient use of space (he found one trust that used only a third of its estate for care)
greater use of cheaper generic medicines
You can also question whether doctors and, to a lesser extent, nurses are always making the right decisions.
Two years ago, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges looked at the issue of over-treatment.
They estimated £2bn a year was being wasted by giving patients unnecessary X-rays, drugs and treatments.
So where does that leave us? Well there is certainly waste in the system, but in terms of efficiency the NHS is often ranked well in international comparisons.
In fact, a report by the Commonwealth Fund found it was the most cost-effective in the world.
But what these comparisons also show is that the NHS lags behind the very best in terms of outcomes, such as cancer survival.
Why is this? Nigel Edwards, the widely respected chief executive of the Nuffield Trust think tank, says we may be getting the NHS on the "cheap" - compared with other leading European countries, we spend less as a proportion of GDP (a measure of the size of the economy).
His point? By spending more, we would have better buildings and quicker access to technology and treatments, which would improve care and make it more efficient.
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Cancer may be the fastest-growing specialty therapy area in the world, but sales reps are facing increasingly higher barriers when it comes to getting access to US oncologists.
So claims a report from sales and marketing consulting firm ZS Associates, which is compiled using a tool that incorporates call reports from more than 200 different US pharmaceutical sales teams. The study examines how often 350,000 prescribers met with reps and defines 'accessible' as doctors who met with more than 70% of reps who call on them and 'access restricted' as physicians who talk to 31%-70% of sales people who call. The third category, 'severely access restricted', equates to no more than 30% of reps getting through the door.
About 61% of oncologists placed moderate-to-severe restrictions on visits from reps, making cancer the most restrictive of the 20 most common medical specialties measured in the report. By comparison, about 47% of cardiologists and 38% of primary care physicians restrict rep access to the same degree.


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How do we learn from that? Or are we suppose to feel sorry for them? I wonder if there are any articles that depict the peoples opinion in that area. Why don't they want to live there. What a mystery.
Something about this Ordos district reminds me of Autoworld, but on a much greater scale. Whoever came up with the Ordos district makes the people who came up with Autoworld look good by comparison, just for failing on a much smaller scale. But actually, Ordos reminds me even more of the economic problems of Las Vegas. One point to be taken from this is there's plenty of problems nationwide and worldwide, not just a Michael Moore type obsession with Flint's problems.


The Earth is made up of layers of rock and minerals. The surface of the Earth is called the crust. Just below the crust is the upper mantle. The upper mantle, like the crust, is relatively hard and solid. The crust and upper mantle together are called the lithosphere.
While the lithosphere doesn't flow like lava, it can change. This happens when gigantic plates of rock, called tectonic plates, move and shift. Tectonic plates can collide, separate, or slide along one another. When this occurs, the Earth's surface experiences earthquakes, volcanoes, and other major events.
Orogeny (or-ROJ-eny), or orogenesis, is the building of continental mountains by plate-tectonic processes that squeeze the lithosphere. It may also refer to a specific episode of orogeny during the geologic past. Even though tall mountain peaks from ancient orogenies may erode away, the exposed roots of those ancient mountains show the same orogenic structures that are detected beneath modern mountain ranges.
In classical plate tectonics, plates interact in exactly three different ways: they push together (converge), pull apart, or slide past each other. Orogeny is limited to convergent plate interactions—in other words, orogeny occurs when tectonic plates collide. The long regions of deformed rocks created by orogenies are called orogenic belts, or orogens.
In actuality, plate tectonics is not at all that simple. Large areas of the continents can deform in blends of convergent and transform motion, or in diffused ways that do not give distinct borders between plates. Orogens can be bent and altered by later events, or severed by plate breakups. The discovery and analysis of orogens is an important part of historical geology and a way to explore plate-tectonic interactions of the past that do not occur today.
Orogenic belts can form from the collision of an oceanic and continental plate or the collision of two continental plates. There are quite a few ongoing orogenies and several ancient ones that have left long-lasting impressions on the Earth's surface.
The Mediterranean Ridge is the result of the African plate subducting (sliding) underneath the Eurasian plate and other smaller microplates. If it continues, it will eventually form extremely high mountains in the Mediterranean.
The Andean Orogeny has been occurring for the past 200 million years, although the Andes have only arisen in the past 65 million years. The orogeny is the result of the Nazca plate subducting underneath the South American plate.
The Himalayan Orogeny started as the Indian subcontinent began moving towards the Asian plate 71 million years ago. The collision between the plates, which is still ongoing, has created the largest landform of the past 500 million years—the combined Tibetan Plateau and Himalayan Mountain range. These landforms, along with the Sierra Nevada range of North America, may have induced a global cooling around 40 million years ago. As more rock is lifted to the surface, more carbon dioxide is sequestered from the atmosphere to chemically weather it, thus decreasing Earth's natural greenhouse effect.
The Alleghanian Orogeny (325 million years ago) was the most recent of several major orogenies to help form the Appalachian Mountains. It was the result of a collision between ancestral North America and Africa and resulted in the supercontinent of Pangea.
The Alpine Orogeny began in the Late Cenozoic and created mountain chains on the African, Eurasian and Arabian plates. Although the orogeny ceased in Europe within the past few million years, the Alps continue to grow.


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What the November Jobs Report Tells the Markets
Meme Stocks Like AMC and GameStop Have A Lot to Prove
AMC Entertainment and GameStop are getting crushed as meme stocks are under pressure. Can these two reverse the technical damage on the charts?
Meme stocks have been under assault, which is not too surprising given the climate.
The Nasdaq suffered a peak-to-trough decline of 7.9% amid the latest correction, but growth stocks have been hit even harder.
Despite many of these names being high-quality holdings — like Twilio (TWLO) - Get Twilio, Inc. Class A Report and PayPal (PYPL) - Get PayPal Holdings, Inc. Report — they have been decimated from the highs.
Now growth stocks are trying to prove that a bottom is in.
In that sense, it's no surprise to see stocks like GameStop (GME) - Get GameStop Corp. Class A Report and AMC Entertainment (AMC) - Get AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. Class A Report under pressure.
Here's how r/WallStreetBets is reacting to the decline and here's how the charts look.
Trading GameStop Stock
Daily chart of GameStop stock.
GameStop reported earnings last week, but it was not enough to spur much interest from the buyers.
The stock fell about 10% after earnings, sending GameStop below the prior week's low near $159. This level then turned to resistance as shares have continued to move lower.
Now the stock is struggling to hold the prior quarter's low near $145.70.
While GameStop stock did give investors a nice bounce and bullish reversal on Tuesday, it's still struggling with the third-quarter low.
Even if it wasn't struggling with this level, GameStop would need to do a lot more than that to prove that bulls are back in control.
For starters, it also needs to recover the $159 level, as well as the 10-day and 10-month moving averages. If it can do that, we could see a quick move and a big rally.
Specifically, that could put the 50-day and 200-day moving averages in play.
Of course, it will also need to contend with the 21-day moving average, which is currently near these other measures now but unless the rally happens quickly, the declining 21-day will likely be much lower.
A move below this week's low could put the 21-month moving average in play, followed by the $100 level.
Trading AMC Stock
Daily chart of AMC stock.
AMC stock is struggling with some box-office duds plaguing its momentum. But the stock has been struggling for several weeks now.
Once support gave way in late November near $35, it was all but over for the stock.
Rather than bouncing at key measures — like the 200-day — AMC stock sliced right through it. Then instead of reclaiming these areas, they were resistance.
Like GameStop, AMC had a nice bullish reversal on Tuesday. However, we're not seeing much upside follow-through on Wednesday.
If AMC continues lower, the $20.36 level should be on watch, which was the high in January on the initial meme-stock thrust. Below that level puts the 21-month moving average in play, then the $14.50 breakout level.
To undo some of the damage, AMC needs to reclaim $28.90 and its 10-day and 10-month moving averages. If it can do that, the 200-day moving average and December high is in play.
Bulls will have a hard time seizing control if the stock is below these levels.


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[PRESSWIRE] VANCOUVER, B.C. October 28, 2022, Fobi AI Inc. (FOBI: TSXV / FOBIF: OTCQB) (the "Company" or "FOBI"), a leader in providing real-time data analytics through artificial intelligence to drive operational efficiencies and profitability, is very proud to announce its addition to the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index ("Index"), a benchmark index representing selected TSX Venture listed companies that meet qualifying metrics. Inclusion in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index Provides FOBI With Significant Exposure & Visibility To Index Funds, Institutional Investors And Large Family Offices
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TERRA BALCANICA INTERCEPTS 465.5 G/T SILVER EQUIVALENT OVER 8.7 AND EXTENDS CUMAVICI VEIN BY 80 METERS AT VIOGOR-ZANIK IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
[PRESSWIRE] Vancouver, British Columbia – October 24th 2022 – Terra Balcanica Resources Corp. ("Terra" or the "Company") (CSE:TERA) is pleased to announce additional high-grade polymetallic results from the first phase of drilling at the Cumavici prospect at its 90% owned Viogor-Zanik project, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Further assays from the drill program are expected over the coming months.
TERRA BALCANICA INTERCEPTS 465.5 G/T SILVER EQUIVALENT OVER 8.7 METRES INCLUDING 1196 G/T AGEQ. OVER 2 METERS AND EXTENDS CUMAVICI VEIN BY 80 METERS AT VIOGOR-ZANIK IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
[PRESSWIRE] Vancouver, British Columbia – October 22nd 2022 – Terra Balcanica Resources Corp. ("Terra" or the "Company") (CSE:TERA) is pleased to announce additional high-grade polymetallic results from the first phase of drilling at the Cumavici prospect at its 90% owned Viogor-Zanik project, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Further assays from the drill program are expected over the coming months.
Fobi Provides Business Update on Various Pilot Projects
[PRESSWIRE] VANCOUVER, B.C. - October 21, 2022 -- Fobi AI Inc. (FOBI: TSXV FOBIF: OTCQB) (the "Company" or "FOBI"), a leader in providing real-time data analytics through artificial intelligence to drive operational efficiencies and profitability, provides a Corporate Update to the market. As a result of a review by the British Columbia Securities Commission ("BCSC"), we are issuing the following news release to update our disclosure with respect to certain programs and contract negotiations.
Skyharbour Signs Option Agreement with Tisdale Clean Energy to Option the South Falcon East Property, Saskatchewan
[PRESSWIRE] Vancouver, BC - Skyharbour Resources Ltd.'s (TSX-V: SYH) (OTCQX: SYHBF) (Frankfurt: SC1P) ("Skyharbour" or the "Company" or the "Optionor") is pleased to announce that it has entered into an option agreement (the "Option Agreement" or the "Agreement"), dated October 19th, 2022, with Tisdale Clean Energy Corp. ("Tisdale"), which provides Tisdale with an earn-in option to acquire an initial 51% interest and up to a 75% interest in the South Falcon East Property located in the Athabasca Basin in Northern Saskatchewan (the "Property"). The Property consists of a series of mineral claims totaling 12,464 hectares and is a portion of the Company's existing South Falcon Point Project. Skyharbour will retain a minority interest in the Property assuming the earn-in is completed as well as a 100% interest in the remaining and adjacent 32,006 hectare South Falcon Point Project.
Regulatory breakthrough: ZTLment becomes Europe's first payments institution built on blockchain
[PRESSWIRE] COPENHAGEN (19 October 2022) – Danish fintech startup, Ztlment, is the first in Europe to gain a licence that lets it operate fully regulated payments on top of blockchain.
The European announces its 2022 awards
[PRESSWIRE] London, UK – 19.10.22 -- The European continues to acknowledge businesses that have been able to weather the storm and boost the economy in a variety of sectors despite more global challenges such as climate change and social responsibility.
CANADA CARBON ANNOUNCES RECEIPT OF PERMITS FOR ITS 2022 TRENCHING AND DRILLING CAMPAIGN ON ITS ASBURY GRAPHITE DEPOSIT
[PRESSWIRE] October 17th, 2022, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada - Canada Carbon Inc. (the "Company" or "Canada Carbon" or "CCB") (TSX-V:CCB),(FF:U7N1) is pleased to announce its receipt of permits for forest intervention to open access trails, open trenches and prepare drilling pads near the MC-8805 showing on the eastern part of the Asbury Graphite Deposit, located in Notre-Dame-du-Laus, QC (the "Asbury Property" or "Asbury").


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Manual Transmission Will Die With The BMW M4
Fri May 1, 2020 at 7:26 am
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BMW will soon stop offering manual transmissions on its entire range of cars with the advent of electric powertrains and increased efficiency of automatic gearboxes.
Out of the three Germans, BMW has long been seen as the more performance-oriented manufacturer. Its range of cars caters to the businessman, turning into out-and-out sports cars with the addition of the venerable M badge. Giving these cars a manual gearbox has earned the brand a loyal following.
With the unveiling of BMW's upcoming G20 platform, the company has declared that the manual transmission is no more its priority for the future. While it does sound disappointing, engineers at BMW say those buying M cars shouldn't worry, at least for the next decade.
BMW development chief Klaus Frohlich discussed the future of the manual transmission with regards to M cars at the Los Angeles Motor Show. He brought glad tidings for enthusiasts, announcing that the company will continue to offer the next-generation M4 with the six-speed manual transmission, calling the car as a "fortress" of BMW's last stick-shift.
Manuals Are Slow
"Honestly, the pure engineering answer is, you're much faster with paddles and an automatic transmission," said Frohlich while talking to Road and Track at the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show. "They're very precise and sporty. Especially on the Nurburgring, you are much better in control when you're not taking one hand away. I think, in the overall portfolio, manuals will disappear. But I think M4 should be the fortress of manual. So the last manual transmission which will die, it should die in an M4, as late as possible. That's my view."
Though Frohlich accepts that an automatic 'box is quicker around the track, he acknowledges the niche market that BMW has generated around a very specific platform that defines the lineage of the M3 and M4. These two cars have always had a front-mounted inline-six with a manual gearbox that powers the rear wheels. Due to this, Frohlich confirmed that the next-generation M4 will feature the same manual transmission with an available rear-wheel-drive configuration. BMW will keep producing the M4, which people affectionately call the "Drift Machine", until 2027 or 2028.
Manuals Are Not Strong Enough
On the flip side, BMW is not investing in a new manual 'box. With the increasingly shrinking number of people buying stick-shift M cars that are torque-heavy, building a reliable manual transmission for the desired power output costs too much to turn a decent profit.
"Honestly, you have a problem with manuals," Frohlich continued. "Because we have these turbocharged engines with 600 Nm of torque, to develop such a high-torque manual transmission for such a small volume isn't profitable at all. So I tried to prolong the lifetime of the manuals, but we can't invest in developing a new manual transmission. No transmission partner will do that with us. So we are evolving our existing manuals as long as possible."


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Q: How to get text from Find_All Beautiful Soups 4 I am trying to extract text from a find all function in beautiful soup 4 but I don't know how to do this, here is my current code that is not working. I have read the docs but still do not see or understand anything that is said in it. Here is a minimal reproducible example of my problem:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
page = requests.get("https://weather.com/en-IE/weather/tenday/l/e98742cdb581b2f4461e4f438badbfb0e16dc9e70ffbf4c8df1b0f7a4394f9f9")
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content,"lxml")
info = soup.find_all("span", class_ = "DetailsSummary--extendedData--365A_")

print(info.get_text())

I hope people can help me as soon as they can because this is most likely a very simple question that I don't know the answer to.

A: There's just one issue here, info will be a list that you need to iterate over. Using a for you can do
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
page = requests.get("https://weather.com/en-IE/weather/tenday/l/e98742cdb581b2f4461e4f438badbfb0e16dc9e70ffbf4c8df1b0f7a4394f9f9")
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content,"lxml")
info = soup.find_all("span", class_ = "DetailsSummary--extendedData--365A_")
day = soup.find_all("h2", class_ = "DetailsSummary--daypartName--2FBp2")
for item in info:
    print(item.get_text())
print()
print()
print(info)

A: .find_all() returns a list . So you need to iterate over that list and print the test using .get_text().
This way:
for item in info:
    print(item.get_text())

Directly get the text using List Comprehension.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
page = requests.get("https://weather.com/en-IE/weather/tenday/l/e98742cdb581b2f4461e4f438badbfb0e16dc9e70ffbf4c8df1b0f7a4394f9f9")
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content,"lxml")

info = [item.get_text() for item in soup.find_all("span", class_ = "DetailsSummary--extendedData--365A_")]
day = [d.get_text() for d in soup.find_all("h2", class_ = "DetailsSummary--daypartName--2FBp2")]

Gives you
>>> info
['Cloudy', 'Cloudy', 'AM Showers', 'AM Showers', 'Cloudy', 'AM Showers', 'Mostly Cloudy', 'Showers', 'Mostly Cloudy', 'Partly Cloudy', 'PM Showers', 'Showers', 'PM Showers', 'Showers', 'Showers']
>>> day
['Today', 'Sat 13', 'Sun 14', 'Mon 15', 'Tue 16', 'Wed 17', 'Thu 18', 'Fri 19', 'Sat 20', 'Sun 21', 'Mon 22', 'Tue 23', 'Wed 24', 'Thu 25', 'Fri 26']

A: You need to iterate over the find_all result --> docs
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = "https://weather.com/en-IE/weather/tenday/l/e98742cdb581b2f4461e4f438badbfb0e16dc9e70ffbf4c8df1b0f7a4394f9f9"
page = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, "lxml")

info = soup.find_all("span", class_="DetailsSummary--extendedData--365A_")
day = soup.find_all("h2", class_="DetailsSummary--daypartName--2FBp2")

# Find_all if found returns an Iterator
# which you need to loop
info_text = [i.get_text() for i in info]
day_text = [i.get_text() for i in day]

print(info_text)
print(day_text)

Better Print the result
from pprint import pprint

pprint(info_text, indent=4)
pprint(day_text, indent=4)

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FORT KENT, Maine (AP) More than a dozen mushers departed Saturday amid a cacophony of barking dogs and cheering spectators for a 250-mile dash across the wilderness of northern Maine.
The Irving Woodlands Can-Am Crown, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, takes dog sled teams through forests and over hills near the Canadian border. The grueling course is tough enough to serve as qualifier for the 1,100-mile Iditarod across Alaska.
''We cross one mountain to the other. You just feel like you're climbing them, never descending them,'' Martin Massicotte said in French, which his wife translated for him.
The seven-time winner from St. Tite, Quebec, was among more than a dozen mushers who will make their way to Portage Lake and then to the town of Allagash before looping back to Fort Kent by Monday morning. There is a combined purse of $44,000 for the 250-mile race, along with two shorter races.
The temperature plummeted to minus-38 during the first Can-Am Crown, and winner Andrew Nadeau, of Sainte-Melanie, Quebec, had 6- to 7-inch icicles dangling from his beard at the finish line. A year later, the temperature soared to 61 degrees, and the race had to be cut short at 200 miles.
This year, there has been recent record-breaking warmth in New England, but there is still 2 feet of snow on the ground in the woods in northern Maine.
High temperatures in single digits Saturday and in the teens Sunday should be perfect for the mushers and their dogs, said Beurmond Banville, race spokesman.
Massicotte works in the paving business when he is not mushing. While he has won seven times, the competition is fierce and victory is never a sure thing, he said.
His most memorable moment came three years ago, when he broke Nadeau's record of four victories with a comeback on the last stage to win by a mere 1 minute, 5 seconds. In 2008, he was down to eight dogs but managed to overtake Don Hibbs 15 miles from the finish.
''I do not remember winning any of these races easily,'' he said.


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package com.adaptris.core.jms;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotSame;
import javax.jms.Session;
import javax.jms.TextMessage;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.rules.TestName;
import com.adaptris.core.AdaptrisMessage;
import com.adaptris.core.AdaptrisMessageFactory;
import com.adaptris.core.jms.activemq.EmbeddedActiveMq;
import com.adaptris.core.util.LifecycleHelper;

public class MessageIdCorrelationIdSourceTest {
  @Rule
  public TestName testName = new TestName();

  private static EmbeddedActiveMq activeMqBroker;

  @BeforeClass
  public static void setUpAll() throws Exception {
    activeMqBroker = new EmbeddedActiveMq();
    activeMqBroker.start();
  }

  @AfterClass
  public static void tearDownAll() throws Exception {
    if(activeMqBroker != null)
      activeMqBroker.destroy();
  }

  @Before
  public void setUp() throws Exception {
  }

  @After
  public void tearDown() throws Exception {
  }

  @Test
  public void testCorrelationIdAdaptrisMessage_ToMessage() throws Exception {
    JmsConnection conn = activeMqBroker.getJmsConnection();
    try {
      LifecycleHelper.initAndStart(conn, false);
      Session session = conn.createSession(false, Session.CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE);
      AdaptrisMessage adpMsg = AdaptrisMessageFactory.getDefaultInstance().newMessage("hello");
      TextMessage jmsMsg = session.createTextMessage();
      MessageIdCorrelationIdSource cs = new MessageIdCorrelationIdSource();
      cs.processCorrelationId(adpMsg, jmsMsg);
      assertEquals(adpMsg.getUniqueId(), jmsMsg.getJMSCorrelationID());
      session.close();
    } finally {
      LifecycleHelper.stopAndClose(conn, false);
    }
  }

  @Test
  public void testCorrelationIdMessage_AdaptrisMessage() throws Exception {
    JmsConnection conn = activeMqBroker.getJmsConnection();
    try {
      LifecycleHelper.initAndStart(conn, false);
      Session session = conn.createSession(false, Session.CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE);
      AdaptrisMessage adpMsg = AdaptrisMessageFactory.getDefaultInstance().newMessage("hello");
      String originalId = adpMsg.getUniqueId();
      TextMessage jmsMsg = session.createTextMessage();
      jmsMsg.setJMSCorrelationID(testName.getMethodName());
      MessageIdCorrelationIdSource cs = new MessageIdCorrelationIdSource();
      cs.processCorrelationId(jmsMsg, adpMsg);
      assertNotSame(originalId, adpMsg.getUniqueId());
      assertEquals(adpMsg.getUniqueId(), jmsMsg.getJMSCorrelationID());
      assertEquals(testName.getMethodName(), adpMsg.getUniqueId());
      session.close();
    } finally {
      LifecycleHelper.stopAndClose(conn, false);
    }
  }

  @Test
  public void testCorrelationIdMessage_AdaptrisMessage_NoCorrelationId() throws Exception {
    JmsConnection conn = activeMqBroker.getJmsConnection();
    try {
      LifecycleHelper.initAndStart(conn, false);
      Session session = conn.createSession(false, Session.CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE);
      AdaptrisMessage adpMsg = AdaptrisMessageFactory.getDefaultInstance().newMessage("hello");
      String originalId = adpMsg.getUniqueId();
      TextMessage jmsMsg = session.createTextMessage();
      MessageIdCorrelationIdSource cs = new MessageIdCorrelationIdSource();
      cs.processCorrelationId(jmsMsg, adpMsg);
      assertEquals(originalId, adpMsg.getUniqueId());
      assertNotSame(adpMsg.getUniqueId(), jmsMsg.getJMSCorrelationID());
      session.close();
    } finally {
      LifecycleHelper.stopAndClose(conn, false);
    }
  }
}


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HUMA PhD Thesis Presentation
Becoming Zoroastrian: The Making of the Global Network of the Parsee Community
Zoroastrianism is widely regarded as the oldest surviving monotheistic religion in the world and was the state religion of the Persian empires. However, Zoroastrianism and its devotees were suppressed since the invasion of the Islamic Arabs in the 7th century. Some of the Zoroastrians fled Persia and arrived at Gujarat, India. They are known as "Parsees", who become an ethno-religious minority gladly accepted by the local society.
During the British colonial period, Bombay was the center of the Parsee-Zoroastrian community who was known for their self-governance and operation of the charity trusts. Since the 19th century, Parsees have been leaving Bombay and establishing various diasporic communities, in Hong Kong, UK, North America, and Singapore. Facing new social, economic, and political environments, the Zoroastrians have to develop respective strategies to survive. In a new foreign environment, especially without ritual specialists, it is not easy for the Zoroastrians to maintain their religious practices, while Bombay has become the "homeland" for religious authority. In the eyes of the homeland Zoroastrians, the diasporic communities sometimes deviate from the orthodox. In several generations, the Zoroastrians have developed their diasporic communities and ways of interacting with the native communities. For the new generations, in addition to their "Parsee" root, they need to have a "new" identity which links to the status of Zoroastrian in their host communities. Through their global connections, the Zoroastrians diasporic communities support each other on religious and financial issues which have gradually built a transnational ethno-religious network. This thesis discusses the strategies of three Zoroastrian communities on how they deal with their challenges and on how they attempt to maintain a balance among various diasporic communities and also with their Indian homeland community.
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Date : 11 Jan 2021 (Monday)
Venue : The presentation will be conducted via ZOOM
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Could spousal support changes outside California set a precedent?
On behalf of Law Office of Stuart E. Bruers posted in Divorce on Wednesday, December 16, 2015.
Divorce negotiations are often contentious. It is possible that the chances for this may be increased in the case of high net worth divorce, where requested spousal support in particular can reach levels beyond the imagination of many people. Some California residents may be aware of changes in the laws relating to spousal support in New York, due to come into effect in the next few weeks. They could result in a last-minute rush on divorce cases commenced by the less affluent spouses of wealthy individuals.
Currently, the maximum salary amount that is considered when calculating spousal support if $543,000. Following the change in the law, this figure will be reduced to $175,000. Based on an income of $500,000, this could represent a drop in monthly maintenance payments from $13,575 to $4,375, almost 70 percent. While the revised figure may still sound more than adequate to many people, there are other elements that will also affect future income.
The current guidelines for duration of spousal support state that those whose marriages have lasted for 10 years may collect maintenance payments for a term equivalent to half of the union's term, or five years. This will be reduced to three years. The cumulative difference in spousal support payments for those who initiate divorce before the changeover could be substantial, potentially in excess of $1 million at the higher end of the scale.
The home of Hollywood has many famous and wealthy residents, many of whom may be contemplating the best way forward. Divorce laws vary by state, and it is unclear whether New York will be followed by other jurisdictions in the future. California residents should ensure that they have the appropriate advice according to individual circumstances. Spousal support is as important to someone whose wealth is measured in thousands as it is to one whose assets are measured in millions.
Source: New York Post, "Better get divorced now - or it could cost you $110K a year", Richard Morgan, Dec. 3, 2015


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Krupa na Uni (; "Krupa an der Una") ist eine Verbandsgemeinde (opština) im Nordwesten von Bosnien und Herzegowina. Sie befindet sich südlich der Una in den Bergen östlich von Bosanska Krupa und entstand 1992 während des Bosnienkrieges als Abspaltung der Vorkriegsgemeinde Bosanska Krupa und wurde nach dieser benannt. Sie liegt in der Republika Srpska direkt an der Entitätengrenze.

Geographie
Die nächsten größeren Orte in der Umgebung sind Bosanska Krupa und Bosanska Otoka, die beide zur Föderation Bosnien und Herzegowina gehören. Die nächste Stadt innerhalb der Republika Srpska ist Novi Grad etwa 24 Kilometer nördlich. Das Ufer des Flusses Una, nach dem sie benannt ist, berührt die Gemeinde nur auf einem kurzen Abschnitt von etwa anderthalb Kilometern im äußersten Norden.

Zu Krupa na Uni gehören die Gemeindeteile Donji Dubovik, Donji Petrovići, Gornji Bušević, Hašani, Mali Dubovik, Osredak, Otoka (Anteil), Potkalinje (Anteil), Srednji Bušević, Srednji Dubovik, Srednji Petrovići und Veliki Dubovik (Anteil).

Geschichte
Die Ortsteile der heutigen Gemeinde gehörten bis zum Beginn des Bosnienkrieges 1992 zur Verbandsgemeinde Bosanska Krupa und wurden von dieser durch die Grenzziehung nach dem Abkommen von Dayton getrennt.

Bevölkerung
Zur Volkszählung 2013 hatte die Gemeinde 1597 Einwohner. Davon bezeichneten sich 1592 als Serben. Somit ist Krupa na Uni jene Gemeinde in Bosnien mit dem höchsten serbischen Bevölkerungsanteil (99,69 %). Vor den ethnischen Umwälzungen des Bosnienkrieges waren etwa 29 der Bevölkerung Bosniaken.

Infrastruktur
Die Gemeinde Krupa na Uni verfügt lediglich über eine einzige Grundschule. Nicht alle Ortsteile sind über asphaltierte Straßen mit dem Gemeindezentrum in Donji Dubovik verbunden.

Im Una-Tal im Norden queren zwar die Magistralstraße 14 sowie die Una-Bahn das Gemeindeterritorium, jedoch besteht von dort aus keine Verbindung zum Rest der Gemeinde.

Persönlichkeiten
 Branko Ćopić (1915–1984), jugoslawischer Schriftsteller; geboren in Hašani

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

Gemeinde in Bosnien und Herzegowina

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