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814 AND 1556, TWO LAWS ONE INDUSTRY
por Studio AYMAC | Ene 21, 2021 | Our Articles, production | 0 Comentarios
Colombia as one of Latin America epicenters of the film industry, year after year, has consolidated alternatives to create and produce higher quality content. Laws, funds and incentives have allowed over 30 national audiovisual works to be produced annually in recent decades and more than 6 international production services provided. (Great advance, since 20 years ago, according to figures from the Ministry of Culture, there were not even 10 Colombian films produced in the same period).
The world scenario is increasingly diverse, thanks to the globalization of content that came with the world economic crisis at the beginning of the 21st century. This circumstance allowed the industry to boost the work between producers: co-productions, co-financing and co-creations are now key in filmmaking.
In 2003, Colombia passed Film Law 814, which generated the rebirth of the national film industry, giving way to the creation and export of works such as Embrace of the Serpent, Dog eats Dog, Colombia Wild Magic and The Shadow of your Smile. Simultaneously, The Cinematographic Development Fund (FDC) was created, two sources of financing that promote the sustainable development of the national industry. It is important to know how they work, to use them for the benefit of a project.
The FDC benefits cinematographic works and new media. It acts under the modality of calls for stimuli (Automatic and By Contest)); Any Colombian producer, production house, writer or director who meets the requirements can access. The Cinema Law works with the approval of a Resolution of Recognition as a National Cinematographic Project before the Ministry of Culture, which grants benefits on donations or investments to productions, issuing CIC's (Investment Certificates or Cinematographic Donation) that function as titles to the bearer for tax deductions. Only with these certificates is the deduction effective.
Now, although Law 814 benefits the entire value chain of the national industry, it does not include other areas of cinematographic work that have been generated with globalization and the economic and cultural exchange that it has brought, so it was necessary for the country to take an important leap to encourage foreign investment with the creation of Filming Law 1556 of 2012.
This new law promotes the territory as a destination for external audiovisual filming (projects in which the final result is not intended for display on national screens), in order to increase the visibility of the country, its good name and national tourism. In turn, generating dialogues between producers that strengthen the industry and contribute to collective development.
The law 1556, although in its interior it benefits local and foreign projects, it is a viable and broad law for cinematographic works, series, music videos, video games and advertising of international origin that are increasingly attractive thanks to its two incentives, among which you need to choose from the moment you apply to it:
Cash rebate (Refund of 40% of the expenses in audiovisual services and 20% of the expenses of logistics services in the country) which is subject to the balance approved by the Colombian Proimágenes and Fílm Commission stock exchange.
The CINAS (Certificates of tax discounts for 35% of the expenses in audiovisual and logistics services in the country) negotiable in the market.
Incentives that make it one of the most attractive and competitive laws in the world.
Choosing a Colombian producer to provide the service for the law 1556 and bringing this project to the country is a great opportunity for foreign producers and investors, since besides having different locations, different climates (without seasons), skilled production, accessible labor and well-established biosafety protocols represent significant budget savings and contribute to the creation of a more dynamic and global industry.
Large companies such as Netflix, Amazon, Paramount, Universal Studios and HBO are still betting on Colombia with such important projects (Narcos, American Made, Jack Ryan, Green Frontier, Jungle, Wild District, Gemini Man, Thousand Fangs, Loving Pablo.) Which have been filmed in the streets of the country with Hollywood talent, and today that continue to reap the benefits.
To conclude, my call is to inform yourself, understand and continue promoting projects with these two laws independently, always choosing the one that best suits the nature of the work: Law 814 that stands out with its benefits for national productions and the 1556 for international production services. We also hope that with the policies established in the National Development Plan, progress will continue to be made to strengthen this labor field.
Let's make the national production a sustainable and profitable industry.
If you have questions or observations, send me your comments and request free advice through my email may.mccausland@studioaymac.com or any of our contact channels on the web.
Studio AYMAC, we make each project unique. Contact us!

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Everyday Power ⋅ Inspirational Quotes ⋅ Stephen Hawking Quotes on Life, Religion, and the Universe
Stephen Hawking Quotes on Life, Religion, and the Universe
These Stephen Hawking quotes are truly inspirational.
Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest minds of our time.
Despite being told at 21 that he had only nine more months to live, Stephen Hawking defied all odds and lived until 76.
During his lifetime, Hawking became an internationally acclaimed physicist, cosmologist, author, and occasional TV show guest star whose intelligent wit, humor, and outlook on life remain an inspiration.
For someone who was dealt bad cards at a young age, Stephen Hawking certainly played his hand well.
Below is our collection of Stephen Hawking quotes on the nature of life, science and religion, and the universe around us.
For more insights from famous scientists, be sure to also check out our list of Charles Darwin quotes or these Carl Sagan quotes about the cosmos, love, and earth.
Look through our complete collection of inspirational quotes here.
Stephen Hawking quotes on life
1. "We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe." — Stephen Hawking
2. "Life would be tragic if it weren't funny." — Stephen Hawking
3. "I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first." — Stephen Hawking
You will also enjoy our article on science quotes.
4. "Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end." — Stephen Hawking
5. "Just because I do a lot of thinking doesn't mean I don't like parties and getting into trouble." — Stephen Hawking
Related Free Speech Quotes Celebrating Free Expression
6. "I like physics, but I love cartoons." — Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking quotes on science and religion
7. "Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion." — Stephen Hawking
8. "I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful." — Stephen Hawking
9. "There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works." — Stephen Hawking
10. "What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary." — Stephen Hawking
11. "If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?" — Stephen Hawking
12. "If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans." — Stephen Hawking
Related Dumbledore Quotes on Love, Life, Integrity and Socks
14. "The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car." — Stephen Hawking
15. "I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark." — Stephen Hawking
16. "Most of the threats we face come from the progress we've made in science and technology. We are not going to stop making progress, or reverse it, so we must recognize the dangers and control them. I'm an optimist, and I believe we can." — Stephen Hawking
17. "God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator." — Stephen Hawking
18. "Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest." — Stephen Hawking
19. "Science is not only a disciple of reason but also one of romance and passion." — Stephen Hawking
20. "Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge." — Stephen Hawking
21. "I wouldn't compare [scientific discoveries] to sex, but it lasts longer." — Stephen Hawking
You might also like these positive galaxy quotes for those who wonder.
Stephen Hawking quotes that will motivate you
22. "One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer." — Stephen Hawking
23. "Black holes ain't as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought. Things can get out of a black hole both on the outside and possibly to another universe. So, if you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up—there's a way out." — Stephen Hawking
Related Arrogant Quotes for a Pompous Attitude
24. "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning, and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away." — Stephen Hawking
25. "However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up." — Stephen Hawking
Which of these Stephen Hawking quotes inspired you to look up at the stars?
Hopefully, these Stephen Hawking quotes inspire you to not only look up at the stars, but to reach for them, too.
Stephen Hawking proved that no matter what curve balls life may throw at you, you can still accomplish your dreams if you are determined to really go for them.
Stephen Hawking rocked the world of physics when he discovered that, contrary to Einstein's theory, black holes are not really black voids, but that a way out does exist.
So, if there is a way out of a black void in the depths of space, there must also be a solution to any challenge we face.
More than just a scientist, Stephen Hawking was an observer.
He observed the human race and our universe.
Though he may be gone, luckily, we still have these Stephen Hawking quotes to remind us what he learned about life, science, and the universe.
What's your biggest takeaway from these Stephen Hawking quotes and sayings?
Do you have any other inspirational quotes to add?
Sckylar Gibby-Brown
August 10, 2022 5:00 AM EST
Stephen Hawking quotes on love, stars, and hope


This document is Volume I of the Ministry of Education's 2014-2018 National Education Sector Plan. It covers all levels of education except university education. Volume II will consist of the detailed action plans of each unit or department that must take actions in order to meet the targets of the strategy. This plan continues the focus on improving the quality of education that was outlined in previous plans, but it places much more emphasis on accountability by continuously monitoring results throughout the plan period.
The total cost of this ESP over the five-year period, beginning in 2014 is G$214 billion.
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is essential to any strategic plan.
Any five year plan in any sector and in any country is potentially vulnerable to events beyond the sector's control.
The initiatives to be pursued in this ESP are selected so as to achieve six intermediate outcomes.
In designing the Education Sector Plan (ESP) for 2014-2018, a wide variety of stakeholders both within and outside of the Ministry of Education (MoE) was consulted.


SOCOM doesn't reckon the Orion and its makers Aurora - now owned by Boeing - are ready for prime time, though, contending that Aerovironment are the only ones who can really make HALE aircraft at the moment.
"Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirements," it says.
Aerovironment, naturally enough, agrees with this. The company reckons it has a lock on various unique technologies.
"AV develops and commercialises entirely new solutions that offer our customers valuable new capabilities," says Tim Conver, Aerovironment's chairman and CEO. "We believe that Global Observer represents a game-changing new capability for defense, homeland security and, ultimately, commercial applications.
"We have developed the unique sub-systems necessary to enable this new category of aircraft. We intend... to deliver a brand new value proposition – affordable persistence in the stratosphere."
Aerovironment reckons (pdf) HALE comms platforms could provide a good alternative to satellites or 3G phone towers. It suggests Global Observer-like craft could orbit at 65,000 feet over countryside and cities, far above weather and air traffic, offering up to 50 Mbit/sec two-way connections to ground stations whose antennae could be "as small as two inches".
The company figures that a single Observer drone in flight (equating to one up and one or two on the ground) could cover an urban area 50 miles in diameter or a rural one five times as wide. Aerovironment says it's already carried out successful trials with airborne 3G cells using off-the-shelf handsets, and HDTV relays too.
Comms relay seems like much the most likely military mission, though it might perhaps be a while until SEALs and Green Berets can get HD sports coverage in Afghanistan. Still, it does seem quite plausible that Afghans will soon be able to get all sorts of American propaganda psyops 'casts from on high.
As if that wasn't enough, the Aerovironment chaps have another trick up their sleeve - a portable tube-launched combination drone/missile called Switchblade. This can be fired off from a soldier's shoulder, popping out its wings and flying about for up to 15 minutes as an eye in the sky. When it finds a target - a sniper, a mortar team, whatever - or is passed a target by another observer, it can plunge down like a miniature mechanoid kamikaze, detonating its explosive warhead on impact.


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– kolejny film z serii filmów o Godzilli, który powstał w 1992 roku.

Tło powstania
Wraz z produkcją Godzilla kontra Biollante Tōhō postanowiło wskrzesić swą drugą najpopularniejszą kreację – Mothrę. 1990 roku Kazuki Omori napisał skrypt do , gdzie Mothra miała walczyć z Baganem pojawiającym się wcześniej w anulowanym  z 1982 roku. W tym skrypcie Bagan to potwór opisany w starożytnych Chinach atakujący ludzkość za niszczenie Ziemi. Postanowiono również przenieść akcję filmu na skalę bardziej globalną. Nie ograniczono się tylko do Japonii, lecz akcja miała się dziać także w Tajlandii, Nepalu, Chinach, Malezji, oraz Indonezji. Widząc niesatysfakcjonujące wyniki finansowe Godzilla kontra Biollante, projekt anulowano, ponieważ obawiano się, że Mothra samodzielnie nie przyciągnie dużej widowni. Omori rozważał zastąpienie Mothry Godzillą. Niektóre elementy ze scenariusza Omoriego wykorzystano potem w Rebirth of Mothra z 1996 roku.

Po sukcesie Godzilla kontra Król Ghidorah Tōhō rozważało nakręcić kontynuację pt. , jednak uznano to za pójście po linii najmniejszego oporu. Wobec 60-lecia Tōhō planowano remake King Kong kontra Godzilla. W tej wersji King Kong miał zakochać się w uczonej, dla której był tylko królikiem doświadczalnym i zrobiła z niego cyborga. Projekt został anulowany ze względu na prawa autorskie do King Konga.

Wobec tego stworzono scenariusze do  i , w których obu głównym oponentem Godzilli miał być Mechani-Kong stworzony przez ludzi do ich ochrony przed nim i miał strzelać strzykawkami, w której jednej z nich miała się znaleźć kapsuła z naukowcami wystrzelona do wnętrza Godzilli. Koichi Kawakita i Shinji Nishikawa porównali ten pomysł do Fantastycznej podróży z 1966 roku. Pomysł na film upadł, gdy okazało się, że potrzebne są prawa autorskie do Mechani-Konga. W Micro Super Battle: Godzilla vs. Gigamoth drugim potworem był Gigamoth – stworzona przez radioaktywność Mechani-Konga bestia podobna do archaeopteryksa.

Tōhō po analizie doszło do wniosku, że Mothra była najpopularniejszym kaijū wśród kobiet i uznano, by stała się przeciwnikiem Godzilli w następnym filmie.  Wataru Mimura napisał scenariusz do . Gigamoth w tej wersji to jedna z larw Mothry zmutowana przez składowisko odpadów radioaktywnych. Gigamoth jest złym doppelgängeremem Mothry wydzielającym silne promieniowanie przyciągające Godzillę. Ostatecznie ginie wraz z Mothrą w walce z Godzillą, po której łączy oba owady łączą się w jedną Mothrę i pokonują Godzillę.

Ostatecznie Kazuki Omori stworzył nowy skrypt do Godzilla vs. Mothra, gdzie wykorzystał elementy z Mothra vs. Bagan zastępując Bagana Godzillą oraz Godzilla vs. Gigamoth traktując Gigamoth jako prototyp Battry.

Fabuła
W Ziemię uderza olbrzymi meteoryt, który wpada do Pacyfiku wywołując ogromny tajfun. Meteoryt budzi ze snu Godzillę. Oprócz tego szalejący tajfun wywołuje erozję na jednej z indonezyjskich wysp, która odsłania ogromne jajo widoczne z nawet z kosmosu. Japońska firma wysyła na wyspę grupę archeologów, którzy odnajdują jajo, a także pozostałości po cywilizacji zamieszkującej Ziemię 12 000 lat temu. Przy jaju spotykają dwie liliputki-strażniczki – ostatnie reprezentantki cywilizacji Cosmos – która zamieszkiwała Ziemię wiele lat temu. Ostrzegają one przybyszów aby zostawili jajo w spokoju gdyż należy ono do Mothry – strażniczki cywilizacji Cosmos i wszystkich ludzi na Ziemi. Opowiadają one historię o walce Mothry z Battrą – mrocznym wcieleniem Mothry, która stoczyła się 12000 lat temu. Mothra wygrała bitwę ale cywilizacja Cosmos nie przetrwała. Ekspedycja zabiera jajo do Japonii, podczas podróży statek atakuje Godzilla. Pojawia się też Battra w postaci larwalnej. Okazuje się, że była ona zamrożona na Arktyce a uderzenie meteorytu wyzwoliło ją z lodowego więzienia. W czasie bójki z jaja wykluwa się Mothra. Walka pomiędzy Godzillą i Battrą nie przyniosła rezultatu, ale Mothra rozwścieczona faktem, że jej 2 ulubione liliputki zostały zabrane do Japonii, postanawia ją zaatakować. W końcu gdy Mothra dociera do Tokio, liliputki zostają uwolnione a Mothra w podzięce za ich uratowanie zamienia się z larwy w dorosłego owada, aby ocalić ludzkość i pokonać zmierzającą do stolicy Japonii Godzillę. Do walki dołącza się także Battra (która też zamieniła się w owada). Bitwa jest o tyle ciekawa, że każde z 3 potworów nie wie z kim ma walczyć.

Obsada

 Tetsuya Bessho – Takuya Fujito
 Satomi Kobayashi – Masako Tezuka
 Takehiro Murata – Kenji Ando
 Keiko Imamura – Cosmos #1
 Sayaka Osawa – Cosmos #2
 Yoshiko Tanaka – Mayumi Fukazawa
 Makoto Otake – Takeshi Tomokane, prezes Marutomo Company
 Koichi Ueda – Minoru Ōmae, dyrektor zarządzający Marutomo Company
 Saburo Shinoda – prof. Shigeki Fukazawa
 Akiji Kobayashi – Ryuzo Dobashi
 Megumi Odaka – Miki Saegusa
 Akira Takarada – Joji Minamino
 Susumu Kurobe – dowódca sił powietrznych gen. Fuyuki Takaoka,
 Makoto Otake – Takeshi Tomokane
 Shiori Yonezawa – Midori Tezuka
 Kenpachiro Satsuma – Godzilla
 Hurricane Ryu – larwa Battry

Potwory występujące w filmie
 Godzilla
 Mothra
 Battra

Przypisy

Filmy w reżyserii Takao Okawary
Filmy o Godzilli
Filmy o Mothrze
Japońskie filmy katastroficzne
Japońskie filmy akcji
Japońskie filmy z 1992 roku
Filmy kręcone w Japonii
Filmy, których akcja toczy się w Tokio
Japońskie filmy fantastycznonaukowe
Filmy fantastyczne z 1992 roku

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Crime,
Merida,
The body of a woman is found in Ciudad Caucel
MÉRIDA, Yuc., June 11, 2020.- The State Attorney General's Office (FGE) investigates the death of a woman whose body was found on an empty lot in Ciudad Caucel.
Two construction workers made the discovery around 3 in the afternoon on Wednesday, June 10th, on the plot located at Calle 29-C, on the corner with Calle 118, an area where a subdivision is currently under construction, they noticed that the body of the woman was lying on the side of a water intake.
The corpse showed signs of putrefaction. So far her identity is unknown, she is approximately 40 years old and apparently the body had been lying there for several days.
Caucel is just 16 kilometers (10 miles) west of downtown Mérida. It´s considered part of the "metropolitan area" (INEGI)
The engineers in charge at the construction site were immediately informed and they notified the authorities. Police officers from the Metropolitan Unit of the Ministry of Public Security (SSP); as well as paramedics from the corporation, arrived on-site to carry out the corresponding procedures.
The place was cordoned off, as the causes of death are unknown.
FGE forensics personnel were in charge of carrying out the transfer of the body for the corresponding autopsy.
Investigative staff from the SSP and the Prosecutor's Office declared that an investigation is ongoing, as this could be femicide.
Ciudad CaucelCrimeFemicideMeridamurderYucatan


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2020 Thankfulness.
I'm thankful for my brother.
On January 22, I was sitting in stopped traffic at 9:30 at night, thanks to two closed lanes on a major interstate. I'd been at work trying to get grades in shape while finishing the final for the next day, and was cursing my aversion to road tolls and the shorter trip home–I do what I can to deny the government money, but I'd have been home half an hour by now if I'd paid. Suddenly the world seemed to explode. I remember Tom Petty's "American Girl" was on the radio and thinking I'll never hear a song in this car again because some motherfucker just killed it. (Yes, readers, my first thought during what turned out to be a four-car pileup was that my beloved 2001 Honda Accord with 300K miles on it was no more.) The motherfucker in question was a county bus driver who never bothered to brake.
Four hours later, when the tow trucks finally came to clear up the mess and I'd made it to my mother's house (the closest to the accident), staring at the ceiling from my spot on her couch mulling a a grim and expensive month or three. Either I cut out of school at the semester cutover, when I get new students, all to buy a car in a hurry, or I uber to work, which would be $100/day. (You might think the bus company would cut a quick check but my instincts said no, and I was right). Yes, of course, I should have been grateful I was unharmed but I'm a pessimist. At 6 am, my couple hours sleep was woken by a text from my brother, already at work, wondering why my car hadn't been in the driveway. I'd gotten lucky, perhaps? Alas, no, I said, and texted back a picture of my car. He called. "Hey, my car just sits here all day. Want to borrow it?"
And so for the next two months I got up early, drove him and his bike to his store, and then to school. He rode his bike home and lost ten pounds. I got a blissful break from having to buy a car in a hurry. Even once the shutdown ended my commute, his car was mine to borrow whenever needed.
I pay most of the bills of our household outside of rent, as my salary is nearly double his, but when he had a chance to offer something of value, he didn't hesitate. I didn't buy a car until late July.
I'm thankful for all my family.
It was my stepfather's mechanic who mentioned he had a 2005 Honda Civic for $4000. I said no when my stepfather called. Automatic transmission? Civic not Accord? Pish tosh. He said I should think for longer. Five minutes later I called him back and said yes. The case may never settle. I had 4K in the bank. This was a nobrainer. Defying his daughter's social distancing orders, my stepdad and my mom drove me to check out the Civic, which I bought on sight. It's a good car.
I'm thankful that my sister mostly ignores the similar social strictures of her daughter, my niece, an adorable nurse who has been traumatized by her time in the covid-19 wards. I"ve defied nonsensical travel guidelines to visit twice: first in June, now for Thanksgiving.
I'm thankful my father is doing well as can be expected, given that he spent six weeks in the hospital in February and March. When he came home, he did so well that by early July, he was bored. When I called and told him that my brother and I would like to come see him and take him on a vacation but, you know, covid-19, you're 83 with every known risk factor and even if we could get in to take a test, the waiting period would render it useless. My dad said unhesitatingly, "Screw that. Let's go fishing." We went on a two-week trip through Table Rock Lake and Bull Shoals. Caught nothing, although my casting improved dramatically. Epic vacation.
I'm thankful my son is a good father and husband, even if it means I can't go see my grandkids because his wife is, well, clearly not of the same mindset as my family, and the kids can't leave the house because she's afraid they'll get covid19. He backs her play loyally. Or maybe she's convinced him. Whatever. I'm happy he's happy.
I'm thankful for my family's economic good fortune.
No one in my family is suffering from these idiotic pandemic shutdowns. It's truly a blessing that we're all still gainfully employed. Hell, my investments are even slightly ahead.
I'm thankful for my students.
Back in September late one night, endlessly grading, I noticed Valerie hadn't turned in anything in a week and suddenly realized I had no idea what Valerie looked like.
There's one mirror in my house, in the bathroom. Until the shutdown, I never spent more than a second or two seeing my face, usually when brushing my teeth. Now I spend all day looking at myself in a zoom shot but can't summon a mental image of my students–a tiny thumbnail impression, maybe, or their avatar.
I asked Valerie to office hours. She kept her camera off until I told her the missing assignments weren't a problem, that I just needed to know how she was doing. Could she turn on the camera? She was crying. She didn't understand anything. She was so busy with her English assignments. She kept putting my work off because she didn't know what to do or how to catch up. She listened, she paid attention, she just didn't get it. I told her to breathe, to not worry about catching up, and to turn in the next assignment no matter how much wasn't done so I could see what she needed.
Valerie nodded and smiled. She turned in the next assignment. And the one after that. She's doing well now. And I know what she looks like.
My attendance rates in all three classes are 100% most days. No chronic absences. No cuts. All of my students get enough work done to pass, most are learning and improving. Some are thriving.
I am so thankful they come back, day after day, in a world where their lives and opportunities have been traded off in a mostly doomed effort to save the elderly.
I wish their faces were all in my memory.
I'm thankful I'm a teacher.
I'm so angry at this wasted year. My own life is splendid, as you might infer from the regular mention of vacations. But the idiocy of politicians, the media, the "public health experts" who are doing their best to destroy the young and the poor, to obliterate small businesses by forcing them closed….enough. I'm not going to rant again. And I know they can only achieve this destruction with our permission. Far too many people are terrified of a generally mild illness, embrace the shutdowns, wear their masks in the belief they protect, blame the spread on non-compliance. I await the day those people, the compliers, the believers, realize what a waste all this is. Or the vaccine. Whatever gets life back.
Until then, I find great comfort in my job. Like many other teachers, I work constantly to improve my lessons, to reach more students, to find ways to help them learn. How much worse would all this be if I were forced to watch the effect of these hated shutdowns, do nothing? If nothing else, I can focus my energy on making education something enjoyable and productive for my ninety or so students. I'm grateful for that privilege.
I'm thankful you're reading.
Hope your Thanksgiving was as good as mine.
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2020 Election: Not Yesterday's Enterprise
(note: I began this before others made similar points, but decided to clear the cache. I like the two analogies.)
Ever hear of Paul Wylie?
Like most Americans, I only ever watch winter sports during the Winter Olympics, and only then when Americans have a shot at a medal. Which means watching figure skating, mostly. American men have only won 15 of 75 Olympic figure skating medals, and they were concentrated during two periods. 40% of that haul came from 1948-56 (the Buttons era). Since 1984, just five American men have won medals, 60% of them gold, and 60% from 1984-1992. One last 60% number–that's how many of the five are straight. Yes, a majority of the US male figure skaters who won Olympic medals the past 40 years are straight. 100% of the British male figure skater medallists are gay (that's a grand total of 2). But I digress. What was my point? Oh, yes, Wylie.
Paul Wylie's Alberville medal is one of the greatest Olympic stories in any sport. Long considered a highly talented skater with a life outside skating, Wylie spent over a decade in the top tier of US skaters and five years in the top 3, but he was famous for folding under pressure and never placed higher than ninth in international competition. After graduating from Harvard, he decided to give the nationals one more try, narrowly qualifying for the Olympic team in 92 by a tenth of a point, despite skating quite poorly. The US team coaches regretted his placement, wishing they could give younger fourth place finisher Mark Mitchell some international experience. Wylie had already been dumped from the Worlds, a few weeks after the Olympics, in favor of Mitchell. Todd Eldredge and Christopher Bowman, the other two Americans, had both been US national champions, and the heavy gold medal favorites were Canadian and Russian.
But in Alberville, all the favorites fell. Kurt Browning, the greatest skater never to medal at the Olympics, Bowman the Showman, Todd Eldredge, Victor Petrenko, they all had catastrophic errors during their short programs. Everyone except Wylie. For the first time in his skating career, he nailed the short program during a competition. Then in the free skate, with a shot at bronze, his nerves didn't fail him and he skated the only clean program of the final night. Most people who watched felt he should have gotten the gold, but Olympic judges, always iffy, were apparently determined to give Petrenko Russia's first gold medal in figure skating. And so Wylie became the oldest figure skating medalist in 60 years by taking silver.
It didn't matter. Not to Wylie, who would have been ecstatic with a bronze. Not to the people who watched his performance, who knew he'd won in any fair comparison. Not to Scott Hamilton, the 1984 gold medal winner who was mocked for plugging Wylie's chances after the short. Certainly not to me; the Wylie medal is in my top five great Olympic moments (second only to the 1984 4×200 men's relay when Bruce Hayes held off the Albatross.)
Donald Trump is not Paul Wylie. But I like this little history for more than its proof that I value second place finishes as extraordinary achievements, often superior to the winner's. Paul Wylie reminds me that for better or worse, expert opinion has no impact on outcomes. All of us, given the right circumstances, can ignore the naysayers, execute, and achieve far beyond what anyone predicted. So trust me when I say that short of a Trump win, I'm not just pleased with his finish. I'm ecstatic.
At right is just a sample of the conventional wisdom served up by pundits who hadn't learned a thing in 4 years.
He wasn't expanding his base. His approval numbers were horrible (based on polls, of course). He wasn't president to all the people. He was focusing on the hard right "extremist" wing of his voters.
And they were wrong.
Trump grew his voter support in absolute numbers by 16%. This increase registered in every demographic except white males, if we are to trust exit polls. Dramatically. He got the highest percentage of non-white voters of any Republican candidate since 1960.
Understand, of course, he did this with less money. With active media hostility and lies. With a conservative intellectual class at best halfheartedly behind him. With some conservative media outlets and of course, the Never Trump movement, actively agitating against him. With the polls showing him losing by historic margins in every battleground state.
Trump ignored that and played his game. He did it on his own, with only one real assist: the massive GOP registration effort.
It's customary to call Trump vain and weak. A weaker guy would have folded. He would have given off flop sweat. Loser fumes. The media mocked him endlessly. Poll analyst Nate Silver, who angrily told people after the election to fuck off if they thought the polls were bad, called the Trafalgar results "crazy" beforehand. David Wasserman nattered about how the private district results showed a wipeout.
The media did everything it could to depress Trump turnout by telling the world it was all over. Biden by a wipeout.
Result: Trump got more votes than any Republican or Democratic candidate ever.
Except–alas–Joe Biden.
We can trust counted votes. Maybe. Here's the growth in Trump vote, by state. Purple bars are battleground states.
I wrote once about the invisible Trump voters, the blue state voters The west coast ones came out in force. California is still counting votes and Trump is still up nearly 33%. Washington's nearly at 30%. Oregon and New Mexico increased by over 20%. Fifty percent more Hawaiians voted for Trump. The east coast blue states are still counting absentee ballots, but all gave Trump between 10 and 20% more votes.
As I've tweeted hundreds of times, in 2016 California gave Trump more than any state but Florida and Texas. I'll have to update that: in 2020, California gave Trump more votes than any other state, full stop. Sum up the votes in the 15 least populated states Trump won, and they're just barely ahead of California. Who knows, the state might even catch up when they find that last vote coming in on the mail boat from Kathmandu.
In the battleground states, his vote count increased an average of 16%, with a high of 33% growth….in Arizona. With Nevada just behind at 30%.
As the jubilant press corps reminds us daily, Trump's going to be one of just four single-term presidents since 1900. But take a look at his re-election numbers compared to other presidents since Eisenhower.
Nixon's huge numbers were because of George Wallace's relatively successful third party run in 1968. And hey, Clinton is the only Democrat president who got more votes in his second run.
I found only one president who improved on his re-election numbers yet lost the election: Grover Cleveland.
We'll have to wait four years to see if Trump has has anything more in common with Cleveland than increased votes and a much younger wife.
Great stuff. But.
Biden improved on Hillary's numbers by far more in the battleground states, with an average increase of 24% and a high of 44% growth….in Arizona. So he won.
"It was rather the moment that the American people surgically removed an unhinged leader and re-endorsed the gist of his politics. "–Andrew Sullivan…and a host of other anti-Trump, anti-woke folks saying the equivalent of "the voters removed Trump with admirable surgical precision".
No. Not with these numbers. This was a blow out election on both sides. There's nothing surgical or precise about 2020. Biden held on in the right states in much the way this Joplin hospital held on in the tornado:
A shift in 100K votes and Trump wins. Of course Biden got more votes. I wonder if that will be true from here on in, regardless of the winner. Something we once viewed as an anomaly will become the norm. But in the right places, Trump almost matched Biden's growth.
I wish just a few more Trump voters had gotten out there. Or I wish the absentee ballot fraud were less. Take your pick. I am neutral lean fraud on that issue.
I actually know relatives and friends who flatly disbelieve millions more voters came out for Biden. I was a bit shocked. I'm supposed to be the cynical one, but I totally expected a blue wave. I was just delighted there was a matching red one.
Still, do I think it's possible there was a coordinated Dem effort to manufacture millions of absentee ballots? Sure. The most likely rationale they'd use for the fraud was conviction that Biden had this locked up, but a massive blowout that totally repudiated Trump would be so much better, right? Wipe out the GOP fear of Trump voters, make them see the light and bend over to more immigration, more transgender nonsense, more government health care, blah blah blah. So why not create more votes? It's not like we're changing the election, or anything. Biden's going to win.
Those who follow me on Twitter know that I think voter registration fraud is a much bigger issue than voter fraud, and much easier to work out ahead of time. The Dems' concerted push to increase mail-in voting, lower the standards for counting, and fight for extended delivery is all in keeping with this. But hey, it's not like they were changing the results, or anything. Biden's going to win, right? The polls all say so. This is just beating down Trump voters, making them look fringe.
And then the stunner: Trump voters come out en masse, and Biden might lose. Stop the counting! And then got to the cities, where Trump did pretty well, and ask them to manufacture just enough votes. City machines are totally up with that sort of thing.
Do I think this happened? Eh. I don't know. I'm just as willing to believe it was authentically that close, with the usual marginal fraud in cities.
I do know that Megan McArdle and any other media figure who castigates reasonable skepticism "immoral" can whistle disapproval in swing time for all I care. Swim in outrage until they're pruny. Dunk their faces in smarmy self-righteousness while eating shit. I don't care.
Because here's what I'm absolutely certain of: if any "journalist" learned of an effort to rig the election for Biden, he or she would not expose such efforts but instead ask, "How can I help?"
And that's why so many Trump voters are convinced there's fraud. Fuck you all, media folk. You are the ones who have discredited America. You aren't speaking for America. You're entertainers, shucking and jiving for the people who pay. Once again, you got your hats handed to you with the enormity of Trump's vote count. Biden win or not.
I wish Trump had less slimy advocates, but then I always wish that. Because of Trump, other GOP pols will see the advantage in being and getting better advocates.
Back in the early days of Trump's presidency, I wrote:
The first Star Trek "reboot" took the bold act of altering the past in a famous fictional timeline. The new movies have the freedom to reinvent, while we watch the movies, fully aware what "really" happened. This got taken to extremes for "Into the Darkness", when the last half hour echoed word for word the greatest Star Trek movie ever made with a character swap, but it's still pretty clever.
Ever since Trump won in November, I've felt like we're all living through an alternate timeline. Like Tom Hanks' "Doug" said in that sublime Black Jeopardy skit, "Come on, they already decided who wins even before it happens". Everyone of any importance knew Hillary would win. Jobs were accepted. Plans were made.
But while I see it as a reboot, an opportunity to rewrite the future, all the people with any voice or influence think of the election as Yesterday's Enterprise. Just as the Enterprise C slipped through the temporal rift and forestalled the truce between the Klingons and the Federation, so too did a whole bunch of voters escape the notice of the Deep State.
The media wants to change the world back to way it was. What's happening now is all wrong, they're not supposed to be here, they have to fix it. If they can just keep the pressure on and play for time, someone who "wasn't supposed to be here" will drag the wounded Enterprise C back a hundred years to be destroyed. The timeline can be restored.
Sure, I'd have rather Trump won. But Trump ended his presidency with numbers that force the GOP to accept the reboot. There's no shoving the voters and Trump into the rift to fix the timeline. Republicans have been worried about their "demographic destiny" for years. Trump's showed them a way forward. (Something I predicted more than once, incidentally.)
History will, I think, be kinder to Trump than the current moment, but I wonder if they will understand his greatest achievement.
Trump faced down media and elite howls of disapproval and outrage. He didn't apologize. He ruthlessly attacked anyone who insulted him for his views. By refusing to back down, he showed all Americans how much the media, intellectual class, and even our political parties were throttling American policy by narrowly defining boundaries of acceptable opinions and proposals to their own political demands. He restored balance to American discourse almost singlehandedly. In doing so, Trump gave all Americans a real choice.
I was grateful back in 2016. I'm grateful now.
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2020 Election: Political What Ifs and Other Gasbaggery
First, thanks to Kyle Smith for writing part I of my planned article.
If the polls are right, Biden wins. All the endless nattering about "Trump's window closing"…no, wait, that's from 2016, this month the meme is "Trump's running out of time", is so much idiocy. The polls are either right and Biden wins in a landslide, or they're wrong in Trump's favor and he's got a shot. The point is, he's got a shot if the polls are wrong, not if he takes whatever sage wisdom various conservative pundits dish out about constructing a good closing story.
Political analysts are always retrofitting their reality post-hoc. The night that Trump won, I remember Steve Kornacki and Bill Hemmer talking about the staggering numbers they were seeing out of rural towns and counties in Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. They had just never anticipated that kind of outpouring and it clearly helped Trump win. But after the fact, no one ever mentions this; instead, "Trump won over the most disliked candidate in Democratic history" (who somehow, despite being epic-ally unpopular, got more votes).
So. If the polls are correct, it's a blowout. If the polls are right, Biden will win Arizona and Georgia, to say nothing of the original Blue Wall states. He might pull out Texas. If the polls are right, Joe Biden will win a higher percentage of the white vote than any Dem candidate since Jimmy Carter.
So this next part isn't for Dems. You Dems do what you do, I grok that. This part is for anyone who was even thinking of voting for Trump or who voted for Trump in 2016, the people who are responsible for the plummeting support for Black Lives Matter looting, the people who get utterly squicked out by feeding 8 year olds hormones to change their gender whether or not the parents approve. The people who support fracking and affordable gas prices and think trying to fix climate change is not worth destroying our country. The people who don't want the virtual open borders and fake asylum claims and amnesty, much less refugees dumped on states without consent, who loathe antifa, who can't believe that colleges are ending admissions tests. The people who don't want to spend young lives fighting pointless, endless wars in the middle east, who think the 1619 Project is bullshit, who are privately appalled at the media open hostility to Republicans. The people who think unisex bathrooms are a horrible idea, who don't want the courts stacked, don't want statehood for Puerto Rico, DC, and Guam. The people who are terrified that cancel culture has gone too far, that free speech is disappearing in America.
But are voting for Biden anyway.
If the polls are correct, and "Trump lost the suburbs" and suburban women in particular, who supported Trump last time, then they are all looking at the city riots and antifa street-blocking and Democrats defunding police and Biden always avoiding answering straight up that he won't support this until a desperate media pushes him to say something and saying yeah, that's my guy.
You're….tired of Trump? It's just always so much….struggle? You find him embarrassing? You think someone else would handle covid19 better? You just don't like him? You want someone the French and English will respect?
Jaysus. The question is, of course, how many of you are out there. To all those potential Trump voters who just got tired of the chaos and plan to or have voted Biden: you're kidding yourself. And if you are so numerous that the polls are correct, you're going to regret what comes. Worse than the lukewarm Obama voters of 2008 and 2012 regretted it when they patted themselves on voting for the first black President and then realized holy crap, he's a leftist and sent the Dems scooting, two midterms in a row. Except this will be worse because the Democrat left is ascendant and the pressure on moderates to go along or be cancelled is already unbearable. Let's hope you have the opportunity to reverse yourself and undo the damage.
A few Ricochet podcasts ago, Rob Long blew up at James Lileks and Peter Robinson for doing what I just did, in chastising people for switching to Biden. It's Trump's fault, he said. Politics is persuasion. Trump doesn't persuade. He doesn't understand what it's about. First, I understand the point. I just cry bullshit. Voters have their own responsibilities. Anyone who holds even some of the views I outline above and votes for Biden will get it, good and hard, and screw them for dragging the rest of us down with them. Again, Dems: not you. You do what you do.
So that's for if the polls are right. Which, again, they might be.
The polls didn't move. Not through the insane BLM riots, the mad, uncontrolled cities. The crazy violence and highway blockings. That's when I began to wonder. In 2016, I accepted the polls. I saw what Trump was trying to do and hoped like hell the state polls were wrong, but until election night it was a pipe dream. This year, I am really forcing myself to accept the state polls, but my basic stance is doubt. The national polls I think are realistic. But anyone who thinks an even 10% national lead spells a definite Biden rout is delusional. I've been pointing out for four years that every Republican in California, New York, Illinois, Colorado, and New Jersey could stay home and make no difference at all to the electoral outcome while creating a popular vote massacre.
Understand, even though every logical bone in my body doubts those polls, I try really hard to believe them and emotionally, I am totally prepared for a Biden blowout.
Is it possible that all this organic support for Trump, the car caravans and boat parades could represent a huge percentage of Trump voters, rather than the tip of the iceberg? Is it possible that untold gazillions of people who never make a political remark show up and vote Biden, crushing the louder opposition?
Oh, hell to the yeah.
But here's the thing: that's what everyone thought last time. That's what keeps on running through my mind, all the parallels. If you follow me on Twitter, you'll see me do the "Four Year Check" every time some media pundit makes a triumphalist comment: Bill Kristol cackling in glee, Republicans cutting Trump loose, white women hate Trump, Amy Walters confidently predicting a Trump loss, shock that Trump is only 5-7 points up in Kansas, Biden/Clinton lead insurmountable, Megan McArdle mocking the poll unskewers, Dave Wasserman talking of Trump's utter meltdown, and there's thousands more. It all feels exactly the same.
But it's different, they assure me.
Here's what reassures me: win or lose, Trump goes out fighting. It's widely reported that he didn't expect to win in 2016. You never saw him say so. The media not only loathes Trump but actively works as campaign hacks for Biden, but there are no Trump equivalent stories to the Bush family reunion in the 2016 South Carolina primary or the desperation in the last weeks of the McCain campaign. Trump didn't spend the last weeks of October sitting around the fire reading Hemingway short stories, and not only because he'd probably have trouble identifying one. The media may hate him, but they're scared he might win, and you'll never know otherwise from Trump. The man doesn't do flop sweat.
Similarly, I have no fear that all the idiotic pollster prattle will dissuade GOP voters. I worry maybe the weather will do a terrible thing, but have no fears that Bud and Mary will say "Jeeze, Nate Silver says Donald Trump only has a 10% chance to win and Dave Wasserman says he's almost seen enough, so let's order pizza and do some premature mourning." No, if Trump loses it's because not enough people in the right states want him to be President, not because any supporter didn't bother to show up. His supporters will come out, from the homeliest hamlet to the many usually invisible Trump voters in blue states (they've been having some fun with their rallies this time round). And that's comforting. The media might be trying to use certainty to depress the Trump vote. They'll fail.
I have disliked the media and "experts" generally since 2008, but at this point I just hate them all. Boundless contempt, I have. What comforts me is that I'm not alone. The media can still cancel. The media still has influence with corporations, with employers, public and private. But they have no influence over public opinion. The middlebrows who look to elites exist, but only on the Dem side, and it's a vanishingly small group. The rest of us think the media are hacks or honest activists, with the only question being whose side they're shilling for. If Trump doesn't win, it won't be because of a single thing the media wrote or didn't write.
Which brings up another point I've been mulling for a while: GOP voters need new media. The National Review couldn't even bring itself to endorse Trump, and published another vile diatribe by Kevin Williamson, who loathes America so much he's moving to Switzerland, which he finds much more civilized. If I want to read articles overflowing with disdain for the white working class, I'd read Twitter bluechecks. The editors couldn't bring themselves to endorse Trump and gave a voice to one formal yes, one formal no, and one formal who knows–but that's in addition to Kevin Williamson, Richard Brookhiser, and Jay Nordlinger all saying they wouldn't vote for him.
The Federalist has generally gone pro-Trump. Washington Examiner, with the single best reporter on the conservative beat, nonetheless has Tim Carney bragging he won't vote and begging people not to hate people just because they voted for Trump.
Never mind The Dispatch and The Bulwark and the other Never Trump folks just slavering to throw out those plebe Trump supporters. I listen to lot of podcasts, most of them by conservative media folks, and they spend their time bitching about Trump, endlessly. Then occasionally they'll bitch about Biden and the media and the left, but does that make them say Trump's better? Oh, hell no. Back to bitching about Trump.
Guys, he won without your help once. If he wins without your help twice, who needs you? And if he doesn't win, and you didn't fight for him–again, who needs you?
But the sad truth is that we Trump voters still read National Review, still read Jonah Goldberg's GFile, still talk about Ross Douthat, still call Bill Kristol a conservative and still support their various efforts to some degree because who else is there? They treat Trump voters like crap because they can.
OK, end bitching about media.
What if it's not a Biden blowout? What if the polls are wrong, at least in part?
Well, then, we have a narrow Biden win or a narrow Trump win.
Narrow Biden win:
Trump keeps Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia. Biden takes the blue wall states.
Trump keeps Florida, Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina. Biden takes the rest of the blue wall and….Georgia.
Narrow Trump win:
Trump keeps Georgia, Pennsylvania, Florida, and North Carolina. Biden takes the rest of the blue wall and…Arizona.
Trump loses Georgia but picks up Michigan in addition to the rest.
(as you can see, I have no truck with those single elector places. Assume they go to Biden.)
I naturally want Trump to win, but a narrow Biden victory will give serious pause to the plans to rework the GOP, particularly if Trump gets record numbers of blacks and Hispanics. Jim Geraghty hopes that a Trump loss will convince the GOP to be less "Trumpy", but a GOP that loses white suburbs while gaining with blacks and Hispanics is a GOP in a lot better shape than the free trade, no entitlements anti-affirmative action party that Geraghty dreams about, when he isn't having covid19 nightmares.
And as bad as a Biden presidency would be, a narrow win would set the media back on its heels, particularly if it was accompanied by an increased black and Hispanic vote.
If Trump wins, well, it's a great day.
One last election thought, on the Senate: if the Dems tie the Senate–or even if they don't–Mitch McConnell should have a heart to heart with Joe Manchin and Jon Tester. Both of them will face endless attacks by their own party if they don't go woke. And neither of them is woke. Both probably want to be re-elected, which will be increasingly difficult if the Democrats win the Senate. McConnell could probably promise them various committee chairs, right?
Everyone remembers that Jim Jeffords switched parties. But fewer people remember that Richard Shelby, senior senator from Alabama, did it back in 1994. He's still around.
And maybe that will give ideas to moderate Dem representatives, too.
Worth a shot, anyway. Let's start that realignment early!
If you haven't made up your mind: vote Trump.
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Alex Bordyukov: 5 Things To Know About 'Bachelor In Paradise' Contestant Falling For Victoria F.
After a date on the Oct. 24 episode of 'Bachelor in Paradise,' Alex Bordyukov is falling for Victoria Fuller big-time.
Alyssa Norwin
October 25, 2022 2:15PM EDT
Image Credit: ABC
Alex Bordyukov is a contestant on season 8 of 'Bachelor in Paradise.'
He was brought onto the show during week three when the original men and women were separated to see if they'd make connections with any new arrivals
Alex hit it off with Victoria Fuller during split week and they went on a one-on-one date.
He was previously on Rachel Lindsay's season of 'The Bachelorette.'
Alex Bordyukov went on a date with Victoria Fuller during the Oct. 24 episode of Bachelor in Paradise. Although Victoria was hesitant about forming a connection with anyone due to her relationship with Johnny DePhillipo, she decided to give it a shot with Alex. Victoria and Johnny were separated during split week, which is when she opted to take Alex on a date, and they connected on many levels.
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It's been quite a while since Bachelor Nation has seen Alex, and he made it clear that he's looking for something serious out of his time on BIP. Considering Victoria also admitted to wanting kids sooner rather than later, she was glad that they were on the same page about the future. During the Oct. 25 episode, Victoria will have to face Johnny for the first time after her date with Alex. Ahead of the drama-filled episode, learn more about Alex below.
Alex and Victoria on a date on 'BIP.' (ABC)
1. What Happened To Alex on 'The Bachelorette'?
Alex was on The Bachelorette back in 2017 for the show's 13th season. He dated Rachel Lindsay on the show. Alex received a group date rose during week three. However, he never earned a one-on-one date with Rachel. Despite not having much alone time with the Bachelorette, Alex still made it to week six before he was eliminated. He was then on season two of Bachelor in Paradise Australia in 2019, as well as season 1 of Bachelor in Paradise Canada in 2021.
2. Alex Dated Bachelor Nation's Caroline Lunny
On Bachelor in Paradise Australia, Alex was one of the first arrivals on the beach. He initially connected with Brooke Blurton, but she left the show during week 6. Caroline Lunny, who was on Arie Luyendyk's season of The Bachelor (US), arrived during week 7, and she and Alex hit it off. They decided to leave the show as a couple before the final rose ceremony. Although they dated for a few months, they eventually split. "We ultimately decided we weren't going to pursue it," he told MammaMia in 2019. "We still maintain a friendship, we speak on a weekly basis, but there's no more romantic involvement."
Alex and Victoria go for a stroll. (ABC)
3. Alex Was A College Athlete
In college, Alex was on the swim team at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He was on the swim team for all four years that he was in college. Alex received the DII ADA Academic Achievement Award during his junior and senior years, as well.
4. What Does Alex Do?
Alex works as an Information Systems Supervisor/ Accountant at Sutton Leasing, Inc. in Michigan, according to his LinkedIn. He graduated from Wayne State in 2012 with a Bachelor's of Science in Accounting. He is also employed by Wayne State as an Assistant Coach in the athletic department, where he works with strength and conditioning. Alex is also a model.
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5. What Nationality Is Alex?
Alex is Russian. He has already opened up to Victoria about how his parents fleed their home country to make a better life for their children in America. He still has family back in Russia.
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Sergeant Lawrence David Peters (16 September 1946 - 4 September 1967) was a U.S. Marine who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on 4 September 1967, during the Vietnam War.
Lawrence David Peters was born on 16 September 1946, in Johnson City, NY. He attended Benjamin Franklin Elementary and Junior High Schools in Binghamton, NY, and graduated from Binghamton North High School in 1964.
While still in high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve on 18 September 1963 and was assigned to the 48th Rifle Company, USMCR, Binghamton.
In September 1964, he completed recruit training with the 1st Recruit Training Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, SC. In October, he completed individual combat training with the 1st Infantry Training Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, NC; and advanced infantry combat training in December with the 2nd Infantry Training Battalion, at the same installation.
Upon completion of his training, he returned to Binghamton, where he remained with the 48th Rifle Company until he was discharged to enlist in the Regular Marine Corps on 30 January 1966. He was promoted to Private First Class on 16 December 1964; to Lance Corporal on 1 July 1965; and to Corporal on 1 January 1966.
Corporal Peters requested assignment to Fleet Marine Forces, Pacific, and in March 1966, joined Staging Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, CA, for transfer overseas.
In May 1966, he joined Company D, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine Division in the Republic of Vietnam, and served consecutively as fire team leader, squad leader, and non-commissioned officer in charge of the Combined Action Company. He was promoted to Sergeant on 1 September 1966. In November 1966, he served on temporary additional duty as company gunnery sergeant with Headquarters Company, 7th Engineer Battalion (Combined Action Company).
That December, he was transferred to Combined Action Company, Sub Unit #1, Service Company, Headquarters Battalion, 1st Marine Division, where he served as non-commissioned officer in charge, until April 1967. He then served with the Military Police Company, attached to the 1st Marine Division, until the following July.
Sergeant Peters next served as squad leader of Company M, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. While serving in this capacity, on 4 September 1967, he was killed in action during Operation Swift in Quang Tin Province. For his "indomitable fighting spirit and determination against overwhelming odds," Sergeant Peters was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a Squad Leader with Company M, Third Battalion, Fifth Marines, First Marine Division in the Republic of Vietnam on 4 September 1967. During Operation SWIFT, in the province of Quang Tin, the Marines of the second platoon of Company M were struck by intense mortar, machine gun, and small arms fire from an entrenched enemy force. As the company rallied its forces, Sergeant Peters maneuvered his squad in an assault on an enemy defended knoll disregarding his safety, as enemy rounds hit all about him, he stood in the open, pointing out enemy positions until he was painfully wounded in the leg. Disregarding his wound he moved forward and continued to lead his men. As the enemy fire increased in accuracy and volume, his squad lost its momentum and was temporarily pinned down. Exposing himself to devastating enemy fire, he consolidated his position to render more effective fire. While directing the base of fire, he was wounded a second time in the face and neck from an exploding mortar round. As the enemy attempted to infiltrate the position of an adjacent platoon, Sergeant Peters stood erect in the full view of the enemy firing burst after burst forcing them to disclose their camouflaged positions. Sergeant Peters continued firing until he was critically wounded by a gunshot wound in his chest. Although unable to walk or stand, Sergeant Peters steadfastly continued to direct his squad in spite of two additional wounds, persisted in his efforts to encourage and supervise his men until; he lost consciousness and succumbed. Inspired by his selfless actions, the squad regained fire superiority and once again carried the assault to the enemy. By his outstanding valor, indomitable fighting spirit and tenacious determination in the face of overwhelming odds, Sergeant Peters upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.
Sergeant Peters' Medal of Honor was presented to his family by Vice-President Spiro Agnew on 20 April 1970.
Lawrence David Peters' name is inscribed on Panel 25E - Line 108.
Sergeant Lawrence David Peters was killed in action on 4 September 1967. He is buried at Chenango Valley Cemetery in Binghamton, NY.


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Las relaciones Botsuana-Venezuela se refieren a las relaciones internacionales que existen entre Botsuana y Venezuela.

Historia

Durante la primera presidencia de Carlos Andrés Pérez, Venezuela fue electa como miembro no permanente del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas para el periodo 1977-1978. El representante del país ante la ONU, Simón Alberto Consalvi, apoyó la denuncia de Botsuana contra el régimen Rodesia del Sur y Sudáfrica en dicho órgano.

Misiones diplomáticas

  Venezuela cuenta con una embajada concurrente en Windhoek, Namibia.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Embajadas de Venezuela en el mundo - Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Venezuela

Venezuela
Botsuana


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"""Tests for manipulating Pods via the DB API"""

import six

from magnum.common import exception
from magnum.common import utils as magnum_utils
from magnum.tests.unit.db import base
from magnum.tests.unit.db import utils as utils

class DbPodTestCase(base.DbTestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        # This method creates a pod for every test and
        # replaces a test for creating a pod.
        super(DbPodTestCase, self).setUp()
        self.bay = utils.create_test_bay()
        self.pod = utils.create_test_pod(bay_uuid=self.bay.uuid)

    def test_create_pod_duplicated_uuid(self):
        self.assertRaises(exception.PodAlreadyExists,
                          utils.create_test_pod,
                          uuid=self.pod.uuid,
                          bay_uuid=self.bay.uuid)

    def test_get_pod_by_id(self):
        res = self.dbapi.get_pod_by_id(self.context, self.pod.id)
        self.assertEqual(self.pod.id, res.id)
        self.assertEqual(self.pod.uuid, res.uuid)

    def test_get_pod_by_uuid(self):
        res = self.dbapi.get_pod_by_uuid(self.context, self.pod.uuid)
        self.assertEqual(self.pod.id, res.id)
        self.assertEqual(self.pod.uuid, res.uuid)

    def test_get_pod_by_name(self):
        res = self.dbapi.get_pod_by_name(self.pod.name)
        self.assertEqual(self.pod.id, res.id)
        self.assertEqual(self.pod.uuid, res.uuid)

    def test_get_pod_by_name_multiple_pods(self):
        utils.create_test_pod(bay_uuid=self.bay.uuid,
                              uuid=magnum_utils.generate_uuid())
        self.assertRaises(exception.Conflict, self.dbapi.get_pod_by_name,
                          self.pod.name)

    def test_get_pod_by_name_not_found(self):
        self.assertRaises(exception.PodNotFound,
                          self.dbapi.get_pod_by_name,
                          'not_found')

    def test_get_pod_that_does_not_exist(self):
        self.assertRaises(exception.PodNotFound,
                          self.dbapi.get_pod_by_id, self.context, 999)
        self.assertRaises(exception.PodNotFound,
                          self.dbapi.get_pod_by_uuid,
                          self.context,
                          magnum_utils.generate_uuid())
        self.assertRaises(exception.PodNotFound,
                          self.dbapi.get_pod_by_name,
                          'bad-name')

    def test_get_pod_list(self):
        uuids = [self.pod.uuid]
        for i in range(1, 6):
            pod = utils.create_test_pod(uuid=magnum_utils.generate_uuid(),
                                        bay_uuid=self.bay.uuid)
            uuids.append(six.text_type(pod.uuid))
        res = self.dbapi.get_pod_list(self.context)
        res_uuids = [r.uuid for r in res]
        self.assertEqual(sorted(uuids), sorted(res_uuids))

    def test_get_pod_list_with_filters(self):
        bay1 = utils.get_test_bay(id=11, uuid=magnum_utils.generate_uuid())
        bay2 = utils.get_test_bay(id=12, uuid=magnum_utils.generate_uuid())
        self.dbapi.create_bay(bay1)
        self.dbapi.create_bay(bay2)

        pod1 = utils.create_test_pod(
            name='pod-one',
            uuid=magnum_utils.generate_uuid(),
            bay_uuid=bay1['uuid'],
            status='status1')
        pod2 = utils.create_test_pod(
            name='pod-two',
            uuid=magnum_utils.generate_uuid(),
            bay_uuid=bay2['uuid'],
            status='status2')

        res = self.dbapi.get_pod_list(self.context,
                                      filters={'bay_uuid': bay1['uuid']})
        self.assertEqual([pod1.id], [r.id for r in res])

        res = self.dbapi.get_pod_list(self.context,
                                      filters={'bay_uuid': bay2['uuid']})
        self.assertEqual([pod2.id], [r.id for r in res])

        res = self.dbapi.get_pod_list(self.context,
                                      filters={'name': 'pod-one'})
        self.assertEqual([pod1.id], [r.id for r in res])

        res = self.dbapi.get_pod_list(self.context,
                                      filters={'name': 'bad-pod'})
        self.assertEqual([], [r.id for r in res])

        res = self.dbapi.get_pod_list(self.context,
                                      filters={'status': 'status1'})
        self.assertEqual([pod1.id], [r.id for r in res])

        res = self.dbapi.get_pod_list(self.context,
                                      filters={'status': 'status2'})
        self.assertEqual([pod2.id], [r.id for r in res])

    def test_get_pod_list_bay_not_exist(self):
        res = self.dbapi.get_pod_list(self.context,
                                      {'bay_uuid': self.bay.uuid})
        self.assertEqual(1, len(res))
        res = self.dbapi.get_pod_list(self.context, filters={
            'bay_uuid': magnum_utils.generate_uuid()})
        self.assertEqual(0, len(res))

    def test_get_pods_by_bay_uuid(self):
        res = self.dbapi.get_pods_by_bay_uuid(self.bay.uuid)
        self.assertEqual(self.pod.id, res[0].id)

    def test_get_pods_by_bay_uuid_that_does_not_exist(self):
        res = self.dbapi.get_pods_by_bay_uuid(magnum_utils.generate_uuid())
        self.assertEqual([], res)

    def test_destroy_pod(self):
        self.dbapi.destroy_pod(self.pod.id)
        self.assertRaises(exception.PodNotFound,
                          self.dbapi.get_pod_by_id, self.context, self.pod.id)

    def test_destroy_pod_by_uuid(self):
        self.assertIsNotNone(self.dbapi.get_pod_by_uuid(self.context,
                                                        self.pod.uuid))
        self.dbapi.destroy_pod(self.pod.uuid)
        self.assertRaises(exception.PodNotFound,
                          self.dbapi.get_pod_by_uuid,
                          self.context, self.pod.uuid)

    def test_destroy_pod_that_does_not_exist(self):
        self.assertRaises(exception.PodNotFound,
                          self.dbapi.destroy_pod,
                          magnum_utils.generate_uuid())

    def test_update_pod(self):
        old_name = self.pod.name
        new_name = 'new-pod'
        self.assertNotEqual(old_name, new_name)
        res = self.dbapi.update_pod(self.pod.id, {'name': new_name})
        self.assertEqual(new_name, res.name)

    def test_update_pod_not_found(self):
        pod_uuid = magnum_utils.generate_uuid()
        self.assertRaises(exception.PodNotFound, self.dbapi.update_pod,
                          pod_uuid, {'status': 'Running'})

    def test_update_pod_uuid(self):
        self.assertRaises(exception.InvalidParameterValue,
                          self.dbapi.update_pod, self.pod.id,
                          {'uuid': ''})

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Q: com.android.volley.ParseError: org.json.JSONException: Value Here's my problem:
I am trying to get data from a server through PHP in android and whenever I try to do that, I get this error:
[  com.android.volley.ParseError: org.json.JSONException: Value br of type java.lang.String cannot be converted to JSONArray  ]
I'm sure my code is correct because I tried using the data from https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/
and it worked.
I am using xampp server and using php for connecting.
here is my java code :
final String url1 = "http://192.168.0.101/deliveryApp/sellerProfile.php";

    JsonArrayRequest jsonArrayRequest = new JsonArrayRequest(url1, new Response.Listener<JSONArray>() {
        @Override
        public void onResponse(JSONArray response) {

            Log.v("response is : ", String.valueOf(response));

            for (int i = 0 ; i < response.length() ; i++){
                try{
                    JSONObject jsonObject = response.getJSONObject(i);

                    String tvfirstname = jsonObject.getString("firstname");
                    String tvlastname = jsonObject.getString("lastname");
                    String tvphonenumber = jsonObject.getString("email");
                    String tvemail = jsonObject.getString("phonenumber");

                    sellername.setText(tvfirstname +" "+ tvlastname);
                    selleremail.setText(tvemail+" ");
                    sellerphonenumber.setText(tvphonenumber+" ");

                }catch (JSONException e){

                }
            }

        }
    }, new Response.ErrorListener() {
        @Override
        public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
            System.out.println(error);
        }
    });
    requestQueue.add(jsonArrayRequest);

my php script for this :
<?php
    $dbname = "delivery_app";
    $username = "root";
    $password = "";
    $host = "localhost";

    $connection=mysqli_connect($host,$username,$password,$dbname);

    session_start();
    $email = $_SESSION['tempemail'];
    //$email         = $_POST["email"];

    $querySellerProfile = "SELECT * FROM login WHERE email = '$email'";

    if($fetchresult = mysqli_query($connection,$querySellerProfile)){
        while ($response = mysqli_fetch_array($fetchresult)) {

            // echo $response['firstname'];
            // echo $response['lastname'];
            // echo $response['email'];
            // echo $response['phonenumber'];
            // echo $response['password'];

            $response2[] = $response;
        }

        echo json_encode($response2);

    }else{
        die("failed to get profile information");
    }

/*
    THIS CODE WILL RETRIEVE USER DATILS , AND ITS WORKING PERFECTLY
*/
?>

and the response from the server is :
[
  {
    "0": "2",
    "1": "testfname",
    "2": "testlname",
    "3": "testemail",
    "4": "9650684491",
    "5": "5555",
    "id": "2",
    "firstname": "testfname",
    "lastname": "testlname",
    "email": "testemail",
    "phonenumber": "9650684491",
    "password": "5555"
  }
]

I used POSTMAN app to check if my php is working or not, and it did.
I just can't find the problem with my code.
Any kind of help would be appreciated.

A: Try like this.
JSONARRAY array=new JSONARRAY(response);
Then use array in for loop.

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Certain areas of application require a specific level of security. We put together the service package according to your requirements. You choose the duration, response time, spare part warranty, etc., and we provide the solution.


Connecticut Capitol Building Aesthetic Expression | John Canning & Co.
Up until the 1870's, the seat of power in Connecticut was a single governing body, the State General Assembly, which met annually in either New Haven or Hartford. As the state grew, it became clear that a single, permanent home for the state legislature needed to be established.
After a feverous debate, it was decided that Hartford would serve as the new state capitol. In 1871, the news of the proposed capitol building was announced and several architects submitted plans for the new space. It was the work of Richard Mitchell Upjohn which was ultimately selected by the planning committee. The son of famed American Gothic Revival architect Richard Upjohn, R. M. Upjohn was officially appointed "Architect of the State House." Ground was broken in 1872 and work was completed in 1878. Officially accepted by the Board of Capitol Commissioners in 1880, the Capitol as it stands today is a testament to the architectural vision Upjohn had.
The exterior is distinctly crafted in the Second Empire style, replete with mansard roofs, metal cresting and dormers— hallmark characteristics associated with this movement. Contrasting the Second Empire style of the exterior is the striking Victorian Gothic interior. Embellished by William McPherson, the interior is decorated in the High Victorian Gothic Style, intricately adorned with complex diaper and running patterns and color pallets. McPherson's interior work serves as one of the highest expressions of the Aesthetic Movement.
At the age of 12, Scottish-born McPherson began his 9 year apprenticeship with Hayes of Edinburgh. Upon completing his education under a master craftsman, McPherson and his brother Walter immigrated to America in the early 1840's and opened a craft studio in Boston. During the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, McPherson was commissioned to complete a number of interior spaces within the Executive Office Building. By the time word got out about the new state capitol building, McPherson was an acclaimed decorator and competed successfully against 11 highly regarded firms for the contract to complete the interior design. While McPherson served as the principle figure overseeing the completion of the interior, other firms were contracted to complete various specialties throughout the building, such highly regarded Portier and & Stymus, who received the contract to complete the furniture and woodcarvings.
The designs seen within the Connecticut Capitol Building can best be described as the highest expression of the Aesthetic Movement Design. Characterized by a strictly tertiary color pallet and symmetrical design layout, a two-dimensional flat decoration scheme pervades. Highly stylized flower-and-leaf motifs, often outlined in black to remove any possibility of a third dimension are seen throughout, along with Moorish and Far East influences. What makes the building remarkable is in part the extent and intricacy of decoration but perhaps most remarkable is the consistency of the decoration motifs throughout the building. As generations come and go and the present en vogue style changes, impressions are left throughout a space, changing and altering its makeup. Free of such changes, the capitol building remains a pure homage to the Aesthetic movement.
Though the interior and exterior remain distinctly different styles, McPherson echoed motifs from Upjohn's plans, maintaining the respectful relationship between architecture and design. Notes of Upjohn's work are echoed throughout the interior spaces and can be seen across materials, including marble, paint, and glass work.
John Canning Studios was brought in during the 1980's at the request of the state of Connecticut appointed architect Dominic Cimino to help provide insights into the condition of the building and to ultimately design and execute conservation and restoration work in multiple spaces.
Make sure you stop by our blog next week to learn more about one of those spaces, the House Chamber.


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tango your buttons dont seem to be minimizing properly when pressed.. might wanna make sure that shortcut buttons are arranged/brought to the front, and lock all icons..
looks pretty fast on your phone..
Depending how the mapping is set up for the layout it may be moving them to the upper left corner of the icon. You'll have to try putting a border around it at the actual size so it stays centered.
everything seem to be correct. this is tga format. and your icons is png and its seem fine.i try to replace it with the orginal background and it shinking affect fine, but the new icon seem to not minimize right.
putting border and stuff is something not sure of. i got this icons from you without changing any format but back to making it centered i dont know how. once again thanx guys.
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So come on now ... give it up .. where can we get pocket snow?
I tried adding a line around the image with no fill and it creates a weird background. It seems there is no way to fix this right now. The image alignment would have to centered rather than in the upper left corner of the image. In torx version all of the icons are the same size because of the background, With these the pressed image is actually smaller so it realigns them to the upper left corner.


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The 2015–16 Rider Broncs men's basketball team represented Rider University during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Broncs, led by fourth year head coach Kevin Baggett, played their home games at Alumni Gymnasium and were members of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. They finished the season 13–20, 8–12 in MAAC play to finish in a tie for seventh place. They defeated Quinnipiac in the first round of the MAAC tournament to advance to the quarterfinals where they lost to Monmouth.

Roster

Schedule

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References

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San Francisco Public Library has incorporated additional product options into its popular laptop and mobile wireless internet hotspot (mifi) device lending program, Tech'd Out.
In its first year, Tech'd Out saw great demand for the program that allows SFPL patrons to check out laptop/mifi bundles for use outside the library so that users can connect with the internet on their terms.
Stand-alone mifi devices have been added to the already circulating laptop/mifi bundles.
These neatly packaged devices allow patrons to connect up to 20 wireless devices to Verizon's 4G LTE wireless data network.
What's in the mifi box?
Each mifi device comes conveniently packaged in a sturdy protective case, along with a charging block and power cord.
What's in the laptop bundle?
Bundles circulate in a handy Tech'd Out laptop bag.
SFPL patrons who have library cards with borrowing privileges in good standing can borrow mifis or laptop/mifi bundles for up to three (3) weeks – just like borrowing a book or a DVD!
Patrons with Welcome or Digital Access cards are not able to borrow mifis or laptop bundles.
Patrons must read and sign the library's Laptop & MiFi Bundle Use Agreement.
Mifis and laptop bundles are not renewable. At this time, patrons are not able to request them through the library catalog.
Devices and bundles are available on a first-come, first-served basis at lending locations.
Devices and bundles MUST be returned to a staff person at the original lending location during library open hours. These items should NOT be placed in book drops or into the return machine at the Main Library.
Laptops will ONLY connect to the mifi device included in the bundle, but patrons can connect other personal electronic devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.) to the mifi device.


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Why the show is important:
Canada's Jewish flavour is so strong, that it deserves a show of its own. Don't you think? That is how we the creators of Canadian Jewish TV feel.
So we have created a weekly program to showcase the best Jewish-style restaurants, local businesses, entrepreneurs and pioneers in the GTA and right across Canada.
A show that will get up close with the Jewish moguls and icons, to speak about their journey to fame and fortune. And how being Jewish has shaped their life and career.
A show that will evoke all of the old-world splendour of Eastern Europe, where so many of our loved ones endured hard lives to eventually come here and give us better ones.
A show that tips its hat to the incredible diversity of our many Jewish communities across Canada.
A show that celebrates and promotes advancements, breakthroughs and pioneering initiatives from Israel.
A show that educates and informs the region on facts about the Jewish people, dispelling the horrible misinformation that leads to Anti-Semitism.
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Q: Prevent users from deleting Outlook folders We're having a problem with a user losing folders in Outlook. The problem persisted through a mail provider migration and a computer change, so we're pretty sure it's a user problem.
Since we can't blame the user because he's the owner of the company, is there a way that we can silently prevent him from accidently moving/deleting his folders? If not silently, is there any way at all?
Infrastructure details:
Outlook 2016;
Mail type: IMAP;
We don't have access to the mail server configurations.
Thanks!

A: Preventing deletion of folders would affect the normal use of Outlook; a user needs to be permitted to manage own folders. On a shared folder the folder could be protected from deletion server side by limiting permissions, but that isn't so easy when the user is the owner of the mailbox.

we can't blame the user because he's the owner of the company

I would implement some kind of auditing instead of prevention. Logging of deletions would give proof of what's really happening. Blaming without evidence might be rude, but if you can show this is a user error, it should be possible to discuss about it - unless the boss is totally egoistic and ignorant.

We don't have access to the mail server configurations.

This is a dead end. You can't implement anything without access to configuration.


The Tour of the Orchestra of Folk Instruments of TURKSOY went on with a concert in the city of Yokohama in Japan on November 15th, 2018.
The event which was the second concert of the tour featuring 50 artists from 12 countries took place in Kenmin Kyosai Mirai, the most important concert hall of Yokohama. Prior to the concert which started at 06.30 p.m., the Ambassador of Turkmenistan to Tokyo H. E. Elyasov Gurbanmammet and the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Tokyo H. E. Gürsel ISMAYILZADE greeted the audience.
In the opening speech he delivered, the Ambassador of Turkmenistan to Tokyo Gurbanmammet congratulated TURKSOY on the occasion of its 25th anniversary and and stressed that thanks to the consdierable contribution and efforts of its Secretary General, TURKSOY is getting more and more connected to the world through deepening diplomatic ties. Ambassador Gurbanmammet further said "As you know culture is one of the most important components of the project aiming at the revival of the Silk Road highly praised by the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguli Berdimuhamedov. Within this framework, TURKSOY carries out major cooperatiopn activities togather with all Turkic speaking countries to introduce cultural values of our respective countries to the world".
Following Ambassador ISMAYILZADE's speech, TURKSOY Secretary General Dusen KASSEINOV extended a souvenir plate of TURKSOY especially prepared for the 100th anniversary of of Gara Garayev to him.
The concert which lasted approximately 90 minutes featured colourful performances of traditional folk musicians,soloists and dancers from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Bashkortostan (RF), Khakassia (RF), Tyva (RF), Sakha-Yakutia (RF), Gagauzia (Moldova) and Mongolia.
At the end of the concert, the audience joyfully applauded the artists and cued to have their photographe taken together with the artists. The tour of the Orchestra of Folk Instruments of TURKSOY to Japan will go on with a concert in Tokyo on November 16th, followed by a performance in Hamamatsu on November 18th and a concert in Tokyo on November 20th, 2018.


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Q: Sorting MySQL results within a resultset I have a resultset of lets say 10 results.
3 of them have a type 'Pears', and the next 3 have a type 'Apples' and the next three have a type of 'Bananas'. The last record has a type of 'Squeezing Equipment' - unrelated to the fruits.
How do I return this set of results (for pagination too) in a GROUPED order that I specify WITHOUT using any inherent sort factor like ALPHABETA or ID etc?
I have the all types at my disposal before running the code so they can be specified.
i.e.
ID | Bananas
ID | Bananas
ID | Bananas
ID | Apples
ID | Apples
ID | Apples
ID | Pears
ID | Pears
ID | Pears
ID | Squeezing Equipment

A: Use an order by clause. If you want "Squeezing Equipment" to come last use this:
ORDER BY CASE name
    WHEN 'Bananas' THEN 1
    WHEN 'Apples' THEN 2
    WHEN 'Pears' THEN 3
    WHEN 'Squeezing Equipment' THEN 4
    END

A: This will sort all of the types that are not Squeezing Equipment alphabetically first:
select ID, Type
from MyTable
order by case when Type = 'Squeezing Equipment' then 1 else 0 end, Type

If you have more than one non-fruit type, you can do:
select ID, Type
from MyTable
order by case when Type in ('Squeezing Equipment', 'some other type') then 1 else 0 end, Type

A: Doesn't a simple ORDER BY and GROUP BY achieve this? Or am I missing something?
SELECT ID, Type FROM TheFruityTable
GROUP BY Type
ORDER BY Type;


52 Weeks of Meal Planning (Week 4) + Free Printable!
I'm loving this meal planning series and trying out so many tasty new recipes!
However, I'm going to be honest here and let you know this past week hasn't been that great for me. I've been seriously slacking on my meal planning! Work and family life has kept me busy.
All the more reason to meal plan, right?
This week I have a mixture of my favorites and favorites from some awesome bloggers from around the web.
Monday – Korean Tacos let me tell you, these are so tasty and you can really turn up the heat on them! This is a must cook recipe. Best part is this recipe cooks up in under 30 minutes!
Tuesday – Turkey & Sausage Meatballs healthy and tasty…major win in my book! Bonus, if you are doing a low-carb diet these will fit in perfect!
Wednesday – Homemade Posole prior to posting this recipe I thought everyone knew what posole was. I was wrong! Well let me tell you, it's a homemade and very authentic Mexican soup. It's so yummy and believe me once you try it you'll fall in love. Sad part is hardly any restaurants make it (they like menudo…yuck!).
Thursday – Cheesy Quinoa Casserole quinoa is all the buzz lately, so I'm excited to try this recipe.
Friday – Pulled Pork Pizza I haven't tried this recipe yet but I can tell you it's already a win. Pork, Pizza and BBQ sauce…yes please!
Saturday – Crockpot Cilantro Lime Salad Saturday is the best day to take it easy and what better way than an easy salad!
Sunday – Cheeseburger Sliders it's Game Day! Here is a great recipe to get your Game Day started.
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