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NYU / PENN CONFERENCE ON LAW AND FINANCE
The 2015 NYU / Penn Conference on Law & Finance was hosted by New York University on February 20th and 21st in New York City. This series is by invitation. Please contact us for more information.
The NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business,
The University of Pennsylvania Institute for Law and Economics,
and The Wharton Financial Institutions Center
Stephen Choi, NYU School of Law
Jill Fisch, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Itay Goldstein, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
David Yermack, NYU Stern School of Business
9:30am to 5:00pm - Conference
5:00pm - Cocktails
6:00pm - Event Dinner
8:30am to 12:30pm - Conference
12:30pm Lunch
EVENT PROGRAM:
Friday 9:15am - 10:00am
Friday 10:00am - 10:15
William T. Allen, Founding Director, NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business
Trevor W. Morrison, Dean, NYU School of Law
Friday 10:15 - 11:15am
Todd Gormley - The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
(with Ian Appel - The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
and Donald B. Keim - The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)
Passive Investors, Not Passive Owners
Commentator: Robert Jackson, Columbia Law School
Moderator: David Webber, Boston University School of Law
11:15 - 11:30am
Robert Bartlett - University of California Berkeley Law School
Justin McCrary - University of California Berkeley Law School
Dark Trading at the Midpoint: Pricing Rules, Order Flow and Price Discovery
Commentator: Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business
Moderator: William T. Allen, NYU School of Law
Bryan Kelly - Chicago Booth School of Business
(with Lubos Pastor - University of Chicago Booth School of Business
and Pietro Veronesi - University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
The Price of Political Uncertainty: Theory and Evidence from the Option Market
Commentator: Eric Talley, University of California Berkeley School of Law
Moderator: Michael Wachter, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Stephen Choi - NYU School of Law
Edward Rock - University of Pennsylvania Law School
(with Jill Fisch - University of Pennsylvania Law School
and Marcel Kahan - NYU School of Law)
Does Majority Voting Improve Board Accountability?
Commentator: Wei Jiang, Columbia Business School
Moderator: Michael Klausner, Stanford Law School
Alexander Ljungqvist - NYU Stern School of Business
(with Kerry Back - Rice University
and Tao Li - City University of Hong Kong)
Liquidity and Governance
Commentator: Quinn Curtis, University of Virginia Law School
Moderator: Jill Fisch, University of Pennsylvania Law School
8:15 - 9:00am
Saturday 9:00am - 10:00am
Emiliano Catan - NYU School of Law
(with Marcel Kahan - NYU School of Law)
The Law and Finance of Anti-Takeover Statutes
Commentator: Espen Eckbo, Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business
Moderator: William W. Bratton, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Saturday 10:00 - 11:00am
Kelly Shue - Chicago Booth School of Business
(with Ing-Haw Cheng - Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business
and Harrison G. Hong - Princeton University, Department of Economics)
Do Managers Do Good With Other People's Money?
Commentator: Brett McDonnell, University of Minnesota Law School
Moderator: Itay Goldstein, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Vikramaditya S. Khanna - University of Michigan Law School
(with Dhammika Dharmapala - University of Chicago Law School)
The Costs and Benefits of Mandatory Securities Regulation: Evidence from Market Reactions to the JOBS Act of 2012
Commentator: Craig Lewis, Vanderbilt University Owen School of Business
Moderator: Todd Gormley, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Lunch and Closing Remarks

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There are one or two matters I would like to comment upon.
In his article Large Elections by Computer, Dr Wichmann says there is strong evidence that the traditional method of STV counting produces the 'wrong' result. I would suggest that even with the use of quotation marks this is an unfortunate comment. The result is surely correct within the rules which have been used, and to suggest otherwise is to imply that there is something inaccurate, or wrong, with the count. It might lead to defeated candidates thinking they were defeated as a result of some procedural error by the Returning Officer, which would not be the case. It would be wiser to say that the election result might be different. I do not think we would wish to appear to cast doubts upon our own ballot organisation to count an election by STV.
The real problem with elections of this kind is the proportion of candidates to the number of places to be filled. In the UKCC example there were over 18 times more candidates than the 7 places to be filled. 129 candidates appears to offer those voting the widest possible choice, but the choice is unreal. Unfortunately few of the voters have sufficient knowledge about the candidates to be able to put more that a small number of candidates in preferential order. The candidates are allowed to provide information about themselves but there is still a great deal of information to read. One answer might be to re-examine the nomination process, with a view to there being more assentors to the nominations. The organisation may, of course, not wish to do this because it might create an unreasonable hurdle to nomination.
Dr Wichmann is under a misapprehension when he says It can hardly be considered a criticism of Newland and Britton, since it is doubtful whether they ever conducted an election of the size considered here. Major Britton and Mr Newland were closely involved with drafting the electoral arrangements for the UKCC and took a very close interest in the first two elections at Chancel Street to see how the counts went. The report of the first UKCC election records that 441 candidates were nominated and that 61,715 people voted. Therefore it would appear that there has been a decline in the number of candidates nominated. I can recall both Major Britton and Mr Newland being somewhat concerned at the number of candidates nominated for the first election, but thought the number would decline when it was realised that most of those nominated had no real hope of being elected. At the first two elections no candidate achieved the quota, the whole election consisting of exclusions, candidates being elected with a reduced quotient as votes became non-transferable. It was not until the third or fourth UKCC election that I recall being told that for the very first time a candidate had attained the quota during the count. My recollection is that Major Britton and Mr Newland would probably have recommended that the nomination procedure be amended if the number of candidates had not declined to a more manageable number for the voters.
I owe readers an apology if they were under any misapprehension on the use of the quotation marks. Of course, there was no implication that the rules were not correctly applied; indeed the simulations I made assumed that. It is also worth noting that since I used artificial ballot papers, the implications for any specific election (like the last UKCC one) are unclear.
I cannot apologise to Major Britton and Mr Newland for not realising their involvement in the early UKCC elections which were even bigger than the one I analysed.
I believe that a major contributory factor to the results I obtained was that not only was one candidate elected with the quota, but that the others were elected with very much less than the quota. The re-computation of the quota undertaken by the Meek method therefore makes a bigger difference than would typically be the case.
Lastly, it seems to me that an advantage of STV should be that many candidates can compete. Hence introducing barriers to nominations seems against the spirit of STV.


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REP. RIGGLEMAN: Killing Soleimani Made Us All Safer — Take It From This Veteran
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Rep. Denver Riggleman Virginia
Since President Trump took decisive action to eliminate Gen. Qasem Soleimani, Democrats in Congress have reacted predictably by deriding President Trump. They attack our president for defending national security simply because they are a one-note band eager to detract from their impeachment charade.
First, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the killing of Soleimani "provocative and disproportionate." Not surprisingly, her echo chamber of supporters followed suit. The chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, said, "President Trump recklessly assassinated Qasem Soleimani. He had no evidence of an imminent threat or attack." Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was concerned that we had simply killed a "government official" and conducted an "assassination."
They are wrong.
I am a former United States Air Force Intelligence Officer who had the privilege of mission planning initial bombing runs into Afghanistan in direct response to 9/11. Later in my career, I led an intelligence team in tracking IED technology transfer, tactics, individual units, personnel training and trainer movement for multiple IED types, including explosively formed penetrators (EFPs).
In short, we targeted bad guys from Iran and other countries who liked to blow up Americans.
The hypocrisy of the Democratic position is easy to see when President Trump's actions are compared with former President Barack Obama. Obama targeted bad Americans who threatened American lives when he authorized the killing of Anwar Al Awlaki. Not surprisingly, many of my Democratic Party colleagues had a different view when it was Obama in the Oval Office using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) against an American terrorist overseas, or the hundreds of other UAVs sent to kill thousands of people in Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Iraq. Anyone willing to search the internet can plainly see the hypocrisy of Pelosi and her colleagues. Pelosi obviously thought that the targeted killing program conducted by the Obama administration was neither provocative nor disproportionate.
The sophistication of the IED training, the advanced tactics, techniques and procedures, as well as the organized approach to securing and storing re-purposed battlefield munitions in Iraq were mostly attributable to Iran's Quds Forces led by Soleimani. Those who used deadly IEDs were trained by his Iranian Quds Forces.
Soleimani killed Americans and was the leader of proxy forces that killed Americans and allies until Jan. 3 of this year.
He was a terrorist.
He was a target.
Our response was not provocative and disproportionate. It was "necessary and proportionate."
Soleimani was a major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and, starting in 1998, commander of the Quds Force. Quds is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and directs unconventional warfare and terror operations for non-state actors, including supporting proxy terror organizations in Lebanon (Hezbollah), Yemen and the West Bank. Quds also oversees Shia militia operations in multiple countries, including Iraq. We had compelling evidence that Soleimani was planning an imminent, coordinated attack.
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, killed along with Soleimani, had three primary jobs. He was Soleimani's primary advisor, deputy chief of the Popular Mobilization Committee (PMC) and leader of Kata'ib Hezbollah, a Shia Militia Group (SMG). Why would Soleimani meet with al-Muhandis? The multiple hats worn by al-Muhandis could make him the center of the command and control infrastructure for Iranian backed SMGs inside Iraq. Al-Muhandis planned and participated in the embassy attack, controlled and coordinated proxy forces and had a sordid history of firing missiles at US personnel. Soleimani was meeting with a known threat and proxy mission planner.
Soleimani wasn't simply a government official. He was a terror leader with authority over a vast network of terror groups that posed a critical asymmetric threat to the United States and our allies. A terrorist wearing an official uniform is still a terrorist. Warren used the word "assassination" in an inflammatory way, suggesting an illegal and immoral action. This was neither illegal nor immoral but necessary and justifiable. If like me, Warren has friends and family currently serving, then I hope she wants their safety prioritized over all else, including killing one of the chief architects of IED technology transfer and training that maimed my compatriots serving in Iraq.
The United States must be prepared to fight terrorism with necessary, justifiable, and lawful means. Soleimani was a terrorist on our target list — plain and simple. And while he may have been a government official, terrorism doesn't wear a distinguishable uniform or play by the same set of rules.
Denver Riggleman (@Denver4VA) has represented Virginia as a Republican in the U.S. House since 2019.
The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of The Daily Caller.
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There have been other articles published of whose location I'm unaware of. There are more attached below as PDFs. Information in these articles may not be accurate hence I have written about the actual journey above.


As the various additive processes matured, it became clear that soon metal removal would no longer be the only metalworking process done through a tool or head moving through a 3D work envelope transforming a mass of raw material into a desired shape layer by layer. The 2010s was the first decade in which metal end use parts such as engine brackets and large nuts would be grown (either before or instead of machining) in job production rather than obligately being machined from bar stock or plate. It is still the case that casting, fabrication, stamping, and machining are more prevalent than AM in metalworking, but AM is now beginning to make significant inroads, and with the advantages of design for additive manufacturing, it is clear to engineers that much more is to come.


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Q: How to use expression trees in PHP? I'm currently making a PHP-program that solves equations. I've divided the input equation into an array so that each line in the array contains one term. (So. [0] = "+5x", [1] = "=", [2] = "-5", [3] = "+10". This is just a basic equation. The script also divides what is in () into sub-arrays. So for example 2x+(5-3x)=3(x+1) [0] = "+2*x", [1] = array([0] = "+5"....
However, I discovered expression trees that is the perfect thing to use in this equation-solver. I've searched the whole internet to learn it, but I can't find any websites that explain it in PHP (I know PHP OOP.). There are lots of pages explaining them in for example C, but as I only know PHP, that is of no help, because I don't understand the example code.
Can anyone here explain everything about expression trees in PHP and some practical example code?

A: Here is the algorithm described. you can implement this in PHP. I don't think anyone already implemented this in PHP (and distribute it as open source)
An example would be:
2*x+3*5-(6+9) = 0

Where:

*

** = priority 2

*+ = priority 1

*( = will increase priority of signs by 10

*+ (second +) = priority 11

*) = will decrease priority of signs by 10

*= = in this case it is showing that there is another expression (0)

The highest priority is the most important - the one you need to do first
Using these rules you can create an expression tree...
So.. a way in which you have to create the expression and then interpret is:
2 x * 3 5 * + 6 9 + -

Explained:

*

*2 * x | (1)

*3 * 5 | (2)

*(1) + (2) | (3)

*6 + 9 | (4)

*(3) - (4) = final
I don't remember exactly how to write a tree I did this to a course in Computer Science but it was something like this:
                                     -
                                /         \
                                E         (E)
                                |          +
                                +         / \
                             /    \      6   9
                            E      E
                            |      |
                            *      *
                           / \    / \
                          T   E   T  E
                          |   |   |  |
                          2   T   3  T
                              |      |
                              x      5

Now you have to create your own interpreter for this. You can use the interpreter pattern: PHP Interpreter

A: I would suggest you read a bit about the Composite design pattern for your expression trees. The Wikipedia article about it has some UML diagrams and example Java code, which is not so difficult to translate into PHP.
You will probably want to take a look over the Shunting-yard algorithm as well, for parsing your string into the expression tree.
A (very simplistic) PHP example of the expression tree could look like this:
interface INode {
    public function getValue();
}

class ValueNode implements INode {
    private $val;

    function __construct($val) {
        $this->val = $val;
    }

    public function getValue() {
        return $this->val;
    }
}

class AdditionNode implements INode {
    private $op1, $op2;

    function __construct($op1, $op2) {
        if(!($op1 instanceof INode) or !($op2 instanceof INode)) {
            throw new Exception("The operands must implement the INode interface.");
        }

        $this->op1 = $op1;
        $this->op2 = $op2;
    }

    public function getValue() {
        return $this->op1->getValue() + $this->op2->getValue();
    }
}

$a = new ValueNode(1);
$b = new ValueNode(5);
$c = new ValueNode(10);
$add1 = new AdditionNode($a, $b);
$add2 = new AdditionNode($add1, $c);

echo $add2->getValue(); // 16

In this case, the INode interface has just one method that should return the value of the sub-tree rooted in a node.
The ValueNode class is a simple wrapper to allow numbers to be part of your expression tree (in fact, in PHP you're not restricted to just numbers in the ValueNode). ValueNode objects can only serve as leaf nodes in your expression tree.
You start using the composite pattern with the AdditionNode class, which accepts INode objects as children and can help you build your expression tree.
You can extend this example further to add other operations, variables, constants etc. which would all implement the INode interface.

A: I built an expression tree in PHP which parses math expressions and tries to solve the problem. You can find the source here http://codehackit.blogspot.com/2011/08/expression-parser-in-php.html
I pretty much explain all the details in that blog post but if you find any ambiguities just ask here ;)
Cheers, hope it helps or at least inspires

A: I wrote a bracket parser for this utility a few years ago - it takes a bracketed SQL WHERE expression of pretty much any depth, and converts it to PHP Propel code. The whole tarball is here and the expression parsing is kicked off here. The code could be tidier, and bear in mind I'm not familiar with any formal expression analysis techniques - but it works, after a fashion :).

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Just took my DS23 to my local mechanic and he came across something odd apart from a split inner rubber garter on the left hand side he said the left wheel is soft and easy to lift and the right is hard and tight, when i got it home i put it on stands at the front and and released the pressure and i find he is right i can lift the left wheel by hand but cant budge the right. Do i have a problem?
At least there shouldn't be. On the other hand, if there is a solid column of fluid with only a tiny path back to the reservoir through the height corrector, it might feel pretty solid. Easy enough to check. Remove both spheres while the wheels are dangling and see if it makes any difference..
After lettering the car sit for a few day I can lift the right side all seams ok but it still is a bit easier to lift the left wheel.


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Congratulations to my neighbors selected for this prime real estate! I am honored to be in this anthology with you, and am grateful to Juli Rew for believing in my little mail order fantasy tale!


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From The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) is thrilled to announce that it has been named Favorite Visual Arts Camp in the 2018 JerseyArts.com People's Choice Awards for the fourth consecutive year. Presented by Discover Jersey Arts, a program of ArtPride New Jersey Foundation and New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the annual awards highlight the work of New Jersey's vital and diverse arts community. "We're so grateful for this designation and to be named once again among the top arts organizations in the state," said Lora Urbanelli, MAM director. "It is a great honor to be recognized in these awards, and to receive such overwhelming support from our peers and audiences, year after year." This year, more than 18,000 art lovers cast their ballots for their favorite local arts groups and destinations. MAM's SummerART camp garnered 1,541 votes and was amongst those honored this morning at ArtPride New Jersey's headquarters at Lyceum Hall Center for the Arts in Burlington, NJ. In this competitive year, the Museum not only received recognition for its camps, but was also named among the top adult art classes and museums in the state. Montclair organizations had a strong showing, with Montclair Film…
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The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) is thrilled to announce that it has been named Favorite Visual Arts Camp in the 2018 JerseyArts.com People's Choice Awards for the fourth consecutive year. Presented by Discover Jersey Arts, a program of ArtPride New Jersey Foundation and New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the annual awards highlight the work of New Jersey's vital and diverse arts community.
"We're so grateful for this designation and to be named once again among the top arts organizations in the state," said Lora Urbanelli, MAM director. "It is a great honor to be recognized in these awards, and to receive such overwhelming support from our peers and audiences, year after year."
This year, more than 18,000 art lovers cast their ballots for their favorite local arts groups and destinations. MAM's SummerART camp garnered 1,541 votes and was amongst those honored this morning at ArtPride New Jersey's headquarters at Lyceum Hall Center for the Arts in Burlington, NJ. In this competitive year, the Museum not only received recognition for its camps, but was also named among the top adult art classes and museums in the state. Montclair organizations had a strong showing, with Montclair Film Festival, Montclair Jazz Festival, Opera Theatre of Montclair, and Montclair Center all winning their respective categories.
What continues to set MAM's SummerART camp apart is the integrative and dynamic experience that teaches specific art skills while applying them to interdisciplinary topics. Campers improve self-esteem, develop a sense of personal voice, and strengthen their creative thinking. Spring and summer registration is now open atmontclairartmuseum.org, with spring classes starting April 9 and summer offerings starting June 25. Camps are now also held during school vacations, including spring break March 30–April 6, and offer before and after care.
"For more than a decade, the People's Choice Awards has blown us away, and this year is no exception," said Allison Tratner, Interim Executive Director of the State Arts Council, during today's awards ceremony. "The outstanding nominees get better every year, and their passionate patrons and fans come out and vote by the thousands, making it known that the arts in New Jersey are not to be missed."
"The arts are an unwavering force in N.J. They make an incredible impact on the economy and bring our communities together to move them forward," said Adam Perle, President & CEO of the ArtPride New Jersey Foundation. "And, after celebrating 10 years of the awards, it's clear that the arts matter to New Jerseyans."
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The Wilson family's Utah legacy began in 1958 when John F. (Jack) Wilson and Florence (Flo) Wilson moved their growing family from Cincinnati, Ohio to Salt Lake City, Utah when Jack accepted a faculty position with The University of Utah Medical School while continuing his practice in pediatrics and research into childhood blood disorders.
Jack and Florence, who are celebrating sixty-five years of marriage this year, ultimately had eight children; three sons and five daughters. Reflecting on a family of ten, certainly large by today's standards, Florence says, "Catholics had big families and we did our part," smiling fondly as she considers her brood of children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
John B. Wilson, the eldest child of Jack and Flo, was seven years old when the family moved to Utah. John is currently serving as President of The Catholic Foundation of Utah and is married to Lynn Harner Wilson. They are the proud parents of daughter Rebecca, and son John Daniel. Daniel and wife Cori Moody Wilson share the abundant blessing of their two sons, John Lucas (Luke), age four, and James Ryan, born August of this year, who can often be seen accompanied by their doting grandparents John and Lynn.
All of Jack and Flo's children attended either The Cathedral or Saint Vincent's grade schools and went on to graduate from Saint Mary of the Wasatch or Judge Memorial, as did Lynn Wilson and her two older brothers. Rebecca and Daniel and all of their cousins living in Salt Lake City are graduates of Judge as well.
Jack and Florence regularly contribute to John and Lynn's endowment, while also establishing an endowment for promoting priest vocations through their estate planning efforts.
The Wilson family; four generations steeped in the tradition of sharing and giving. The Wilsons continue to display a dynamic family bond and a love of being Catholic.
Thank you Wilsons and may your Bulldog spirit carry on!


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CAR USE DIMINISHING AMONG U.S. YOUNG PEOPLE
Is love affair with the car dimming among the young?
By Paul Nussbaum, Philadelphia Inquirer July 28, 2013
Is America's love affair with the car over?
Or just less torrid?
Some key indicators - such as vehicle use, driver's license registration, and public-transit ridership - suggest that the 100-year-old Auto Age is waning.
Economics, urbanization, technology, and environmental concerns are changing the way Americans travel, and young people are leading the shift, transportation experts say.
Young people are getting driver's licenses later or not at all. They take the train or bus or bike to work, or telecommute. If they need a car, they can rent one by the hour.
"It's so much easier to get around the city without a car," said Jim Krider, 21, of Havertown. A junior at Temple, he didn't get his license until he was 20 and doesn't own a car.
"You don't have to pay for gas or insurance or the car," he said.
"I really never had a real need for it," said Marysia Pomorski, 24, a social worker from Haddonfield, who also waited until she was 20 to get a driver's license. When she attended Oberlin College in Ohio, she said, she "biked everywhere" and didn't miss having a car or a license.
Many of her classmates from urban areas were also without licenses, while students from the Midwest "were always very surprised that I didn't have it, because they wouldn't have had a choice," she said.
Although some decline in vehicle use and ownership may be a result of the recession that began in 2008, several important indicators began to decline earlier and may not be reversed by an improving economy.
The declines before 2008 "make me believe something else is going on," said Michael Sivak, a research professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. "Some of the trends are likely to be permanent."
In a recent paper, "Has Motorization in the U.S. Peaked?," Sivak noted that vehicles per person, per driver, and per household all peaked in 2006, before the recession began.
Sivak suggested that "societal changes that influence the need for vehicles" may be prompting the decline.
The vehicle miles traveled per person have dropped eight years in a row. They are now about 7.5 percent below their 2004 peak.
And the drop-off in driver's licenses began even earlier.
In 2010, 69.5 percent of 19-year-olds had a driver's license. That was down from 75.5 percent in 2008 and 87.3 percent in 1983.
Smaller declines in licenses have also occurred in all other age groups, except those over 70 and those between 25 and 29, Federal Highway Administration data show.
Meanwhile, public transportation use has been rising - in the Philadelphia region and around the nation.
SEPTA last week reported its highest-ever commuter-rail ridership, at 36 million passengers per year, up 50 percent in 15 years.
To cross the Delaware, fewer commuters are driving and more are taking the train: PATCO rail ridership reached an 11-year high last year, while vehicle traffic fell to an 11-year low on the four toll bridges operated by the Delaware River Port Authority.
Amtrak is on track this year to set another annual ridership record, its 10th in 11 years.
Buses, trains, subways, and trolleys carried 10.56 billion riders in the United States in 2012, the second-highest total since 1957, according to the American Public Transportation Association.
"There's a generational trend going on that's very real," said Art Guzzetti, vice president of policy at APTA. "Baby boomers had a love affair with the car. Now times are different. Now young people find freedom in different ways, with the cellphone or texting. It's not all about a car."
High gas prices and traffic congestion have also helped boost public-transit use, Guzzetti said.
APTA calculates Philadelphia-area residents could save $12,120 per year by taking public transit, based on a two-person household using one fewer car.
Sivak suggested four key factors in the shift from cars:
Economics: It's more difficult to afford the costs of buying, insuring, and maintaining a car.
The Internet: People can interact, shop, and be entertained without driving somewhere.
Urbanization: Young people and empty nesters are moving to cities where they don't have to own a car.
The environment: Young people are more environmentally conscious than their elders, interested in burning less gasoline.
The American Automobile Association, which was founded in 1902 at the dawn of the auto age, doesn't believe the car is in its twilight years.
"There may be a trend here, but it is clearly being overstated," said Jenny Robinson, spokeswoman for AAA Mid-Atlantic in Philadelphia.
"Consumers have been balancing economic uncertainty with family and/or personal transportation needs," she said. "We don't believe this downward trend is the 'new normal,' rather an artifact of the poor economy over the last five to six years."
Vehicle sales have rebounded since the recession, she said. After peaking at 17.8 million in 2000, sales of light-duty vehicles (cars, pickups, SUVs, and minivans) fell to 10.6 million in 2009 before recovering to 14.8 million in 2012.
Robinson noted that the number of licensed drivers has been increasing in Pennsylvania (faster than the population) and that the number of vehicles registered in Philadelphia has grown over the last seven years (more slowly than the population).
She also said: "People have been forming families a bit later in life, but many eventually find their way to the suburbs, where they still need cars."
Any shift in vehicle ownership and driving habits may require a change in the way Americans pay for their transportation.
Currently, most road and bridge construction and public-transit projects are funded by gasoline taxes. But as people drive less, vehicles become more fuel efficient, and inflation reduces the purchasing power of the taxes, gas-tax revenues are falling short.
In 2008, for the first time, the federal Highway Trust Fund did not collect enough to meet highway costs, and Congress took $8 billion from the general fund to keep it solvent.
The raids on the general fund have continued: Last year, Congress authorized an $18.8 billion transfer to the Highway Trust Fund, and by the end of next year, $54 billion will have been taken from the general fund to make up for the shortfall in federal gas-tax revenue.
States also are struggling to meet their transportation costs without significant gas-tax increases.
In Pennsylvania, legislators left Harrisburg this month without approving a new transportation-funding law, prompting warnings of bridge closures and transit cuts.


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Home Football Munetsi makes winning return from injury
Munetsi makes winning return from injury
Marshall Munetsi celebrates after scoring for his French club Stade de Reims
Warriors star Marshall Munetsi made a winning return from a lengthy injury setback after starring in Stade de Reims shock 2-1 win away at Olympique Lyon's Groupama Stadium on Wednesday evening.
Munetsi has been sidelined for the last eight weeks after picking a serious hamstring injury during Zimbabwe's 2022 World Cup qualifier against Ghana in Cape Coast on October 9.
The hamstring injury ruled him out of the remainder of the qualifiers, where the Warriors were still to play Ghana in the return fixture before winding up the campaign against South Africa and Ethiopia.
The 25 year-old box-to-box midfielder also missed the last six matches for Stade de Reims.
Munetsi marked his return with an appearance from the bench at the start of the second half and played an important role as Reims' scored an injury time winner in the 2-1 victory against Lyon.
He was introduced in the 46th minute for Guinea-Bissau international Moreto Cassama. Munetsi's recovery is a big boost for the Warriors ahead of the rescheduled 2021 AFCON finals to be held in Cameroon next month.
After marking his return Munetsi will be aiming to recapture the form which saw him being rated as one of the top performers in the French Ligue 1.
Statistics released by the French Ligue 1 last month rated the Zimbabwe international midfielder as the player who had covered the most distance this season after the first nine matches.
The indefatigable box-to-box midfielder has been enjoying an incredible season at Stade de Reims with main highlight of his season thus far coming in September when he kept a tight leash on PSG's Argentine superstar Lionel Messi.
While Munetsi played a crucial role in his team's victory, fellow countryman and Lyon striker, Tino Kadewere continues to play second fiddle at Lyon as he was an unused substitute in the game.
Kadewere has struggled for game time this season due to injury problems and poor form when he given an opportunity.
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Q: Access denied for published code I have used the below line to download the temp files in c# mvc
string pathUser = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.UserProfile);
string pathDownload = Path.Combine(pathUser, "Downloads");
imgPath = pathDownload + "\\Images\\Img\\Folder1\\";
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but after hosting it in windows server 2012 i am getting error as Access Denied as "Downloads/Images/Img/Folder1"
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import {loop, Effects} from '@jarvisaoieong/redux-loop';

import {
  MODIFY_FIRST,
  MODIFY_SECOND,
  modifyFirst,
  modifySecond,
} from './actions';

import {
  reducer as randomGifPairReducer,
  initialState as randomGifPairInitialState,
} from 'modules/randomGifPair';

export const initialState = {
  first: randomGifPairInitialState,
  second: randomGifPairInitialState,
};

export default (state = initialState, action) => {
  if (action.type === MODIFY_FIRST) {
    const {model, effect} = randomGifPairReducer(state.first, action.action);

    return loop({
      ...state,
      first: model,
    },
      Effects.map(effect, modifyFirst),
    );
  };

  if (action.type === MODIFY_SECOND) {
    const {model, effect} = randomGifPairReducer(state.second, action.action);

    return loop({
      ...state,
      second: model,
    },
      Effects.map(effect, modifySecond),
    );
  };

  return loop(state, Effects.none());
}

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U.S. Supreme Court appears cautious of broad gay marriage ruling
March 27, 2013 · 9:00 AM EDT
The United States Supreme Court in 2010. (Photo by Steve Petteway via Wikimedia Commons).
The U.S. Supreme Court took up the first of two cases regarding same-sex marriage on Tuesday.
The first case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, challenges California's voter approved ban on same-sex marriage known as Proposition 8.
Emily Bazelon, legal scholar and lecturer at Yale Law School, says during Tuesday's hearing the courtroom was electric with anticipation of what the Justices were going to say.
It is not clear whether the defenders of Proposition 8 have the right to challenge a trial court ruling because the Attorney General and Governor of California declined to defend the constitutionality of the measure, Bazelon says.
"The court is not clear about whether to get rid of this case for lack of standing, or to strike down Proposition 8...in a way that would just affect California or affect some states -- or all the states," she says. "What I did not hear were five votes to uphold the gay marriage ban in California."
In Tuesday's arguments, the Justices had various concerns about the case.
"You could hear Justice [Stephen] Breyer uncomfortable with the idea that the eight states that have civil unions and not marriage would be somehow penalized for making some progress toward gay marriage, but not going all the way," she said.
Justices Ruth Ginsberg, Sonia Sotomayor and Anthony Kennedy were heard wondering if the case should have been granted at all, Bazelon says.
Greg Stohr, reporter for Bloomberg News, says there are two different ways the Supreme Court could back out of the case: The first is by deciding that the defenders of Proposition 8 have standing in the courtroom, Stohr says. The other, raised by Justice Kennedy, is if the court should have agreed to hear this case and make this very big decision when the debate is still at an early stage.
"The more likely thing would be that the court would find an incremental step. This is a very incremental-ist court…it's a court that tries to defer to the political process to social change," he says. Historic decisions like Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade came with a price and the court was viewed as forcing the decision on the country.
Justice Kennedy, who has been generally viewed as supportive of gay rights, surprised observors during the trial because he said the decision was not clear, Stohr says.
"One argument you heard from the more conservative Justices was that this is such a new debate and we need to let this percolate a little bit more," he says. "There was clearly a reluctance among them to declare a nationwide right to gay marriage or even a California-specific right."
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear the United States v. Windsor to determine the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Audio of Tuesday's Hollingsworth v. Perry hearing can be heard here.
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When driving my 2010 Honda Fit Sport AT, the car will start to rattle when I let off the acceleration pedal and hold it at a point where RPMs are kept constant. The noise appears to be coming from the engine bay, possibly the engine itself. The noise is not as pronounce or present at all when accelerating or decelerating, just when enough to hold RPMs. The amount of RPMs does not seem to matter. Can occur at 2,000 or 4,000, for example. Noise is present when in park and just revving the engine up a bit and then holding RPMs.
My car has 70000 miles.
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Home Finance Responsible-investing strategy is ahead of curve
Responsible-investing strategy is ahead of curve
Two years ago, Elias Rauch and Jeff Gitterman, co-founding partners of Gitterman Wealth Management LLC in Edison, were thrilled to have the opportunity to speak publicly about a message they're passionate about: You can make money while doing good with your money.
The 75 or so wealth advisers inside the modest venue weren't the only ones to hear it.
Representatives from the United Nations have since approached the local duo to ask that they do a presentation for the organization on investing in a socially responsible manner, in front of at least 1,000 financial professionals.
At the same time, the two wealth advisers had started to nearly run out of venue space to talk to others about how the sustainability emphasis had become the thrust of their New Jersey practice.
Taking up the thought-leader mantle, Rauch and Gitterman began traveling outside the region to speak about environmental, social and governance (referred to by the acronym ESG): three factors considered central in measuring an investment's sustainability and ethical impact.
They always mention one thing: They weren't the first wealth advisers to promote this idea.
"It's not a new concept," Rauch said. "It's about 20 years old."
But it's been evolving along the way.
Rauch said that there was a spectrum of wealth management firms also focused on this, but with very few being wholly dedicated to it. Over time, more in the industry have started to take an interest in it. That's true both locally and across the globe, which is why the local professionals' voices are being amplified now.
"The origin of this was that it was more about investing in a socially responsible manner, but conceding returns for doing that social good," he said. "Additionally, it was a negative filter, in that they wanted to eradicate from portfolios those that were doing socially irresponsible things — environmental pollutants or alcohol or tobacco."
Those two features of this sort of investing have changed over time, too.
Rauch said Gitterman Wealth Management has the tools and data to analyze these investments and come to conclusions that don't require that clients concede competitive returns. It also involves an additive calculus that not only excludes certain investments but includes ESG investments.
Gitterman Wealth Management allows clients to get granular in their portfolios with deselecting companies that don't score well by ESG criteria as well as adding investments judged as having a positive impact.
It has found success in a niche segment of the market that Rauch doesn't expect to stay a niche for long, with trends on the horizon such as the increase of millennial clients.
"At the end of the day, people do want to put their money where their mouth is," Rauch said. "We believe, in a decade's time, this is not going to be a minority stake in portfolio construction, as in just a couple percent. It's going to be entire portfolios."
Pension players
Besides its namesake financial service, Gitterman Wealth Management LLC manages pensions, too.
"When it comes to ESG, we're leading from the wealth management side, and we hope it cascades over to the pension side," Gitterman co-founder Eli Rauch said. "The hope is that we can develop a socially responsible strategy within the state's pension system, but that would take a very different kind of effort."
The firm works closely with university professor pensions. Rauch said those in academic circles have long demanded that their assets get invested in a socially responsible manner, and have made headway in getting universities to divest from fossil fuels.
"So, our academic client base is out in front of these issues," he said. "But changing the entire state of New Jersey to be socially responsible in the same way is another issue altogether."
It does happen to be an opportune moment to look at the prospects of doing so, he added, because the state is heading into a bidding process for pension proposals that occurs once every seven years. During the 2011 bidding process, the ESG space was not meaningfully involved, Rauch said.
"Now, as we go into 2018, we'll have the capacity to get involved and present a comprehensive ESG-compliant strategy for New Jersey's pension system," he said. "So, it's an interesting window that's opening at just the right time for us."
Reach Gitterman Wealth Management's Elias Rauch at: erauch@gittermanwealth.com or 848-248-4870.
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Martin Luther's protest at corruption of the sacraments and the reactions that followed have left a centuries-old wound both Catholics and Lutherans are determined to heal. Here's what Francis, who travels today to Sweden to commemorate the start of the Reformation, brings to that effort.
When, on this day 499 years ago, a small-town Augustinian friar lecturing in a start-up college in provincial Germany posted dozens of arguments on the door of a castle church, he offered a prime example of what scientists call "the butterfly effect," namely that small causes can have large effects.
In reality, Martin Luther's nailing (or more likely gluing) his hard-to-read 95 theses on what was, in effect, Wittenberg university's bulletin board, was less the trigger of the Reformation than the copies he posted, together with an accompanying letter of breathtaking audacity.
One was to Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz, then the most powerful bishop in Germany, which meant, sooner or later, the pope himself would be involved.
Luther was not the first to critique the sale of indulgences, or the way the sacrament of confession had been reduced in late-medieval Europe from a channel of God's grace to a mechanistic transaction. (A local Dominican friar loathed by Luther had a marketing jingle: 'As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from Purgatory springs').
But as all great polemicists do, he nailed the theological error behind the corruption at the crucial moment, provoking a disproportionate reaction that in turn fueled an uprising. And part of that was about timing.
Tomorrow's Feast of All Saints was when the ruler of Saxony used to bring out his impressive display of relics, and indulgences were granted (for a price) to the pilgrims who viewed them.
By attacking the system, Luther put into doubt not just the whole medieval basis of clerical livelihoods, but a powerful network of interests — from bankers and bishops all the way up to Rome — that was never likely to take the assault lying down.
There was also a moment when the protest went viral: at Worms, when Luther in 1521 was called on to answer to the emperor. His extraordinarily courageous act of turning up and defying the might of state and Church won many hearts and minds, and gave birth to a revolutionary movement that soon span out of control.
It wasn't just the authorities' self-interested over-reaction, but Luther's own mercurial psychology — tripped by the knowledge that he faced execution at any moment — that explains the series of events, movements and conflicts that we now call the Reformation.
But whatever its causes, the result was tragedy. A valid critique of genuine corruption descended into heresy, division and war.
Luther did not intend to split the Church, yet most of the northern European church over time rejected Rome. Luther never intended to question the Sacraments, yet they were soon thrown into doubt. He never wanted a social uprising, yet that is what occurred.
But of all the unintended consequences of Luther's protest, the secularization of Europe, especially of its educated classes, is probably the greatest of all — a five-century process meticulously traced in Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation.
Endless doctrinal controversy followed by a hundred years of destructive and inconclusive political-religious wars led to the privatization of religion and the search for empirical observation and philosophy and ideology as a means of uniting society.
When these eventually collapsed — as they now have — relativism and individualism are (mostly) all that remains.
And, of course, shopping. The drive for technology and to consume were the seventeenth-century Dutch responses to sectarian conflict, and are nowadays pretty much the western world's dominant religion.
Of course, both sides are to blame in that cycle of events — something that will be acknowledged today in the first ecumenical global commemoration of the Reformation in Lund.
The dialogue between the two sides is 50 years old, and has produced a number of significant documents — which begs the question of what Pope Francis today can add to the process.
Here, at least, are five things he brings to the table which no previous pope has.
First, he is — to borrow my biography's title — a "great reformer," one who sees the need for the Church to be always in need of renewal in response both to internal degradation and external needs. He has said this is something the Church can learn from Luther, although it is equally present in the great reforming popes of the past, or in saints such as Ignatius of Loyola and Francis of Assisi.
Second, he comes with no fear or suspicion of Lutherans but decades of fellowship. In his interview with the Swedish Jesuit journal Signum he spoke of many friendships with Argentine Lutherans —Danish as well as Swedish — with whom he has had sincere exchanges. Traveling with him on the plane today will be one of his oldest non-Catholic friends, the evangelical pastor Marcelo Figueroa.
"Going ahead" in this case means opening up opportunities for collaboration and friendship through common witness and joint works, which Francis passionately believes create new spaces for the Holy Spirit to bind people together. What happens today is intended to break new ground for the theologians later to work out.
Fourth, Francis has a specific abhorrence of the kind of corruption Luther denounced. One of the pope's favorite phrases is "spiritual worldliness," an illness identified by the Jesuit theologian Henri de Lubac as using the Gospel in the service of particular worldly interests — whether ideology, money, or status.
In my biography I show how Jorge Mario Bergoglio constantly fought against symptoms of this worldliness in the Jesuits and later in the clergy. As cardinal he saw it in Rome and hated it; now he is pope, he is quietly attacking it on many different fronts.
To take one example: under John Paul II, a cardinal in receipt of a very fat donation could arrange for the benefactor to have a bacciamano — kiss the pope's hand — after Mass with him, and of course a picture with the pope to sit on his desk to impress the world.
Try doing that now with Francis, and you'll get a flea in your ear.
Finally, Francis is the pope who, more than any other leader of the Catholic Church in modern times. has restored the primacy of mercy to the Church's proclamation. The whole point of mercy is that it is about God's reckless forgiving and our complete inability to merit it.
Perhaps the main task of today's ecumenical acts in Lund and Malmö is simply to help both Lutherans and Catholics "receive" the results of 50 years of dialogue between the two Churches. The result of that dialogue is a series of agreements — as well as persisting disagreements — ably summed up in the joint document prepared for the occasion, From Conflict to Communion.
The LWF speaks for some 90 percent of the world's Lutheran Churches, with a combined membership of around 80m people.
In a telephone interview, Rusch told Crux he hopes that the papal visit will enable what he believes to be the next step in the Lutheran-Catholic dialogue, namely a juridical process that binds the LWF's member Churches and of course Catholics.
The great step forward in this respect was the 1999 Declaration of Justification. According to Rusch the achievement was not just in what it said — essentially, that the roots of Luther's disagreements with the papacy no longer pertain — but how it came about.
The process showed that there could be a "magisterial function for the global Lutheran communion," which effectively allowed the theological agreements to move from paper to practice.
It frustrates Rusch that since then, that gain hasn't been built upon. While he admires From Conflict to Communion and the recent US Catholic-Lutheran document, Declaration on the Way: Church, Ministry, and Eucharist, he says neither provides a practical basis for moving forward.
But this kind of institutional process is not where Francis's interest lies. He believes in praying and working together for justice and peace; such common witness, he believes, is what opens hearts and minds — and prevents the kind of institutional rigidity which is toxic for Christian unity.
Today, we might just see a gesture, or an initiative, which shakes open a new phase for the future of the dialogue, and which is aimed as much at secular Europe as the Lutherans.
Restlessness is one area where the reformers Martin Luther and Pope Francis are definitely on common ground.
[Austen Ivereigh is traveling with the pope for Crux. Stay tuned for his updates].


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Two years after the January 6 Capitol riot, do we still care? What extremism can teach us about evangelism
January 6, 2023 - Ryan Denison, PhD
FILE - A video of former President Donald Trump is shown on a screen, as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its final meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 19, 2022. From left to right, Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
I'll admit, my initial reaction when I realized that I would need to write about the second anniversary of the Capitol riots was somewhere between "not this again" and "I just don't care."
That's not to say that the breach of the Capitol lacked significance or was in any way an appropriate or moral response to the 2020 election. As Dr. Denison wrote in the days following those events, "what we saw [on January 6] was abhorrent and sinful." However, it was also not, as President Biden described it, "The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War."
The truth is that most Americans think what happened that day was wrong, but far fewer think it is worth continuing to dwell on or investigate going forward. So, if that's the case, why am I writing about it today?
In short, it's because it provides a good opportunity to think about a larger cultural question that continues to impact all of us, regardless of our political affiliation: Why is it that we so often feel the urge to push views to the extreme?
And, as we'll see in a bit, the answer to that question has a profound impact on the way we should see evangelism as well.
Why people are pushed to extremism
With the Capitol riots, we see this trend in those who, like President Biden, exaggerate the historical significance of the attacks. However, we also see it from those who view the breach of the Capitol as a patriotic defense of liberty.
Both are minority positions that seem unreasonable to those who do not hold them. However, for those who do, they quickly become the only viable lens through which the events can be viewed.
But why are people drawn to such extreme views in the first place?
One reason is that extreme events push people to choose a side rather than remain in the middle, a fact that can exert a powerful pull to those who care a great deal about a particular issue. But while such an approach may help to garner support to some extent, it can also push those who reject such extremism—on either side of a subject—to extreme apathy.
As David French discussed in a recent article, if you do not hold what could be considered an extreme position on a subject, then engaging with those who do is often not worth the time. As French describes, "you instantly experience a cost-benefit analysis. Do I want to end my relationship with a beloved aunt or uncle over an issue I can't impact? Or do I choose discretion, decide to maintain the relationship, and move on?"
After all, it can be just as difficult—if not more so—to have a rational conversation about an event when those involved assign it different levels of significance than when they hold fundamentally opposed views.
For example, the person who sees the January 6 riot as the greatest assault on democracy since the 1800s likely has more common ground for discussion with the person who sees it as a righteous protest against a stolen election than either does with someone who thinks it's really not worth fussing about two years after the fact. The reason is that the first two participants are more likely to feel invested in the conversation while the apathetic person will probably look for a way out shortly after the dialogue begins.
Most of us probably don't have to think back very far to remember such a conversation.
Whether it was about politics, sports, family events, or any number of other issues, we all get trapped in discussions we'd prefer to avoid from time to time. And remembering what that feels like is important when it comes to sharing our faith.
Knowing when to speak
If you have a personal relationship with Christ and your life has been transformed by his grace, chances are that you see the gospel as profoundly more important than those with whom we are called to share it.
There's nothing wrong with that. In fact, we should be the ones most fired up about telling other people about Jesus. That purpose is central to what it means to be a Christian (Matthew 28:18–20).
However, that reality also means that we are likely to be seen as the extremists by those who accord faith and religion a less essential place in their lives. As such, we shouldn't be surprised when it feels like non-Christians just don't care as much as we think they should.
If someone has shown that they have little interest in the gospel and seem to check out every time you bring it up, continuing to press them about it is unlikely to prove productive. That doesn't mean we should give up on them, but people can get to the place where continuing to hit them over the head with God's word—figuratively speaking—can do more harm than good to their long-term prospects of accepting Jesus.
When people reach that point, it's all right to give them space when it comes to the subject of spirituality. We should absolutely continue to live out the gospel around them and make sure they know that we are available to talk should they ever want to do so, but it's all right to leave it up to them.
Ultimately, God knows their heart and their mind better than we can. He understands when the gospel will be welcome and when it will be ignored. And while his word promises that it will never return void, that is only when it is sent out according to his will (Isaiah 55:11).
That's why it's so important that we rely on the Holy Spirit to guide our interactions with others and to respond in obedience when he prompts us to share our faith with them. He has a way of redeeming hardships and using the events in a person's life to help them assign faith a higher level of importance, even if that shift is fleeting.
Will you be ready the next time God gives you that opportunity?
NOTE: Thank you to Dr. Ryan Denison for writing today's Daily Article. He is the Denison Forum Senior Editor for Theology and has written more than four hundred articles for Denison Forum.
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Diana had agreed to meet up with Rita, one of the friends she made at a concert, for breakfast that morning. It just kind of happened. She called Rita up because she was bored one night and now they were going to meet up after a long ass time, to meet up at this breakfast place for its famous dim sum. Even though Diana's family came from Minstrel, after living in Fiore for such a long time, she was no longer afraid to try new things. Dim sum was not really a Fiorian thing, but there were immigrants all over the country and they were probably the ones who brought dim sum to Fiore. And Diana was craving for some of that deliciousness.
The next thing she did after drying her short hair was spend approximately fifty minutes coming up with an outfit for the day. Rita was kind of hot, and she did not want to let that just slip by. There was a chance and she wanted to see if it could work, because honestly she did catch Rita staring at her ass a couple of times before. After what felt like ages, she finally came up with an idea of what the wear. With a satisfied chuckle, she grabbed her keys and left the hotel room. She had rented a bike for her stay in Baska, but since she wasn't going anywhere far, she decided to walk. The dim sum place was only a few blocks away. Diana wasn't surprised to see that Rita was already there.
"Hey, Dee! What's up?" she hollered.
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"Hey, RiRi," Diana replied, taking a seat opposite Rita's. Rita was one of the people who called Diana 'Dee' or 'D.D.' because 'Diana' sounded too princess-y, and apparently Diana was the opposite of that. If she saw Diana when she lived like a princess, under her parents protection and everything...actually she wouldn't. Because if Diana still lived like that, she would never have come to meet someone like Rita, because her parents would never let her go to a concert on her own, and probably would not have let her buy tickets that were not VIP or VVIP. Yeah.
The two finally caught up to speed, and breakfast time was almost over. Rita tossed some flirty comments at the way Diana was dressed, like she was teasing her or something and Diana flirted right back but she did it in a not so subtle way, it made Rita blush. "Geez, can you make it less obvious?" was the nervous response she got. This made them both laugh. Diana paid for the both of them, which Rita was not very happy about, but Diana did not do it often anyways because she already learnt the result of doing that the hard way.
Unfortunately, Rita had a job to attend to around noon and she wanted to get ready for it. Which was a bummer, because D had wanted to spend more time with her. Not because she was lonely, but because she was bored. Now that her company was leaving, she decided to go make some money herself. She headed to the request board in town and browsed through the many different colorful fliers pinned to the board.
Among the many different colored fliers, Diana's attention was completely absorbed by a pink one whose client name was the main reason she was so interested in it. 'Fernando Milano'. That name sounded like it belonged to someone who was a fashion icon, like a nation-wide famous fashion designer or something like that. She read the details of the job quickly as she walked towards the spot she where she was supposed to meet the client. This was definitely a unique job. She had never done anything like that. And so she began walking to the boutique that Fernando owned.
Once she got there, the first thing she noticed was how busy everyone in the little boutique was. It was a fabric storm in there, and not a single busybody realised an outsider was standing right at their doorstep, open mouthed in awe. Snapping herself out of it, Diana walked in, asking around for the client as she showed the pink flier. Fernando came out from the back, dressed flamboyantly though a bunch of fabric pieces were draped over his shoulders. It seemed like his face displayed a different emotion every half of a second as he talked about the distress he was in.
Fernando launched himself towards a pile of selected fabrics, bringing her samples of them so that she had an idea of what he wanted. Since Diana was not an expert in this area, she did her best to remember exactly what he asked her to bring.
After hearing instructions from Fernando, Diana felt like she could take a nap to process the information because she heard a bunch of fabric terms that she thought never existed. Thankfully, she recognized some because of how her mother used to teach her since she was a girl and a girl should know how to handle shit like that. Apparently. Anywho, Fernando gave her the location of local stores and flea markets, in case she did not know, and told her to be back before three, which was convenient because it was only half past ten. Not even noon yet.
As she left the boutique to find the stores that Fernando mentioned, Diana bought herself some milk tea on the way. The first shop didn't have much to offer, so she visited two more until she got impatient of how few fabric types she could get in stores. Next, she went to the flea market where she was stunned by the number of types of fabrics she found there. A bunch of random merchants who claimed to have brought their fabrics from outside of Fiore, kept shoving their wares in her face. She was kind of pissed about this, but she wasn't the only person who was having to go through this, so she felt less pissed about it.
Unable to control herself and resist the temptation, Diana bought way more fabrics than necessary, but Fernando did mention to bring back as many as she could, and gave her a lot of money, too. It only took her a little over an hour to spend every last jewel that Fernando gave her, and returned to collect her reward. That was unsatisfyingly easy. She probably should find another job, since it was only noon.
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A recent Facebook post of a black-and-white photograph of John Lennon and Paul McCartney with two Oriental-looking female fans evoked memories of a past that offered a refreshing respite from pandemic times.
The guy who posted it claimed the photo was taken at the Manila Hotel, where the Beatles were billeted for the duration of two scheduled shows on 4 July 1966 at the Rizal Memorial Football Stadium.
But a Google search yielded a colored version, which indicated it was taken when the Beatles flew to Hong Kong for a concert on 9 June 1964. In the photo, George Harrison is in the middle, flanked by McCartney, Lennon, and the two women, who looked very Pinay.
In any case, I remembered my parents telling me that they brought me along to watch the Beatles' 1964 film A Hard Day's Night at the Filipinas Theater in Malabon.
"You kept crying," dad said. I was then just a year old.
The Beatles in Hong Kong, 1964. Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon with unidentified female fans. Ringo Starr was said to be indisposed at the time in England. SCREENSHOT FROM YOUTUBE/ELENA THE BEATLES PHOTOS
Hippie-era musicians Edmond Fortuno, Wally Gonzalez and Joey Pepe Smith. Fortuno would form Anak Bayan, and Smith would join Gonzalez in the Juan dela Cruz Band. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF EMEE FORTUNO'S FACEBOOK PAGE
Intertwining lives, careers
The 60s were a period when many Filipino youth formed their own bands — initially influenced by the Beatles, Rolling Stones and other British Invasion groups, but later on wrote their own songs and developed a sound that would be called Pinoy Rock.
Two fine examples were the Juan dela Cruz Band (JDLC) and Anak Bayan. These two groups' members were buddies, their personal lives and careers intertwined. Joey "Pepe" Smith and Edmond Fortuno both had stints in Japan as members of a combo (the popular term for bands back then), before Smith and Mike Hanopol joined Wally Gonzalez in JDLC, and Fortuno, a co-founding member of JDLC, formed Anak Bayan with Vic Naldo, Bing Labrador, Alex Cruz and Sonny Tolentino.
There's a vintage photo of Smith, Gonzalez and Fortuno in hippie attire, with Fortuno and Gonzalez seated at a table in what seemed like a press conference for an event.
Fortuno's wife, Emee, said she's not sure if that was the presscon for a local production of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, held on 3 and 4 September 1971.
As a young journalist covering the local music scene in the late 80s, I would meet Smith and Fortuno, and later on, Gonzalez. I would become a manager of Smith upon his release from jail in 1994. Fortuno died in 2000, and Smith in 2019.
Nilo Santos with wife Tessy Alfonso, a.k.a. Pinoy Rock Queen Sampaguita and their son Kowboy.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF KOWBOY SANTOS
Pinoy Rock Queen
If Smith was regarded as the King of Pinoy Rock, Sampaguita was the Queen.
Known as the fashion model Tessy Alfonso, whose dad, Pete Alfonso, owned and operated Cafe Indonesia on Dewey (now Roxas) Boulevard, Sampaguita was launched as a singer just as Pinoy Rock would reach its zenith in the mid-70s.
The brains behind Sampaguita's career was her husband, Nilo Santos, who produced her albums, as well as Mike Hanopol's solo records, under the name Nilsan Productions — the same outfit that mounted the New Moon concerts and Eric Clapton's 1979 concert at the Araneta Coliseum.
The Santos and Sampaguita union bore a son, Kowboy Santos, who is also now a musician in his own right.
I got hold of a photo of Kowboy as a toddler with his parents. "I was probably three years old," he said.
The original members of Side A: (front row) Pido Lalimarmo, Joey Benin, Mar Dizon; (back) Kelly Badon, Naldy Gonzalez and Rodel Gonzalez.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF FB/RODEL GONZALEZ
It's a tie
On 21 June 1975, the RC Cola National Battle of the Bands was held in Makati City. Over 200 groups joined, recalled Joey Puyat, whose band Mother Earth made it to the finals, along with the band Destiny.
Mother Earth was composed of Harry Tambuatco, Colby dela Calzada, Gabe Ascalon, Uly Avante, Ed Jose, Cherry Mapua and Puyat.
Destiny's members were Richie Quirino, Bob Aves, Eggy Moran, Nick Lizares, as well as Dela Calzada and Jose.
"The judges decided it was a tie and called both bands and asked if they would like a 'face-off' (perform again to finally decide who wins)," said Puyat.
Mother Earth's Tambuatco and Destiny's Quirino decided against the face-off and just split the cash prize of P10,000.
There's a photo of the two bands gathered onstage after the finals. Most of them went on to become professional musicians, notably Dela Calzada and Puyat, who remain active to this day.
At the RC Cola National Battle of the Bands finals (first row, from left) Gabe Ascalon, Eggy Moran, Bob Aves. Ed Jose; (second row) Harry Tambuatco (standing), Joey Puyat, Colby dela Calzada, Cherry Mapua, Richie Quirino; (top) Nick Lizares.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF JOEY PUYAT
Fun and camaraderie
In 1985, brothers Rodel and Naldy Gonzalez, Mar Dizon, Kelly Badon and Joey Benin formed the band Side A, later on adding Pido Lalimarmo as its sixth member.
The band played at Hyatt Regency Hotel's Calesa Bar and built a large fan base.
From playing a repertoire of contemporary pop, rock and jazz covers, Side A released original albums and went on to become one of the country's top bands.
There's a photo of the band that captures the fun and camaraderie of their early days.
This original lineup of Side A is reuniting for an online benefit concert on 30 January.
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