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Located in the central area of the country, the state of Puebla is one of the favorite destinations for tourists due to its architecture, its history, and its traditional flavors. Known as "the city of angels", Puebla de Zaragoza is its capital, which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO thanks to the beauty of its historic center and colonial-style buildings.
The climate is different between regions and ranges from the cold of the high mountains to the warm semi-desert of the Mixteca Poblana. In addition, it borders the Sierra Nevada, which is formed mainly by two volcanoes: Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, offering a unique setting in Mexico.
A temperate climate predominates, but variable in humidity, the rainiest season being the summer. In a large part of the Puebla territory, annual temperatures are 16º on average. However, reaching the Mixteca region and the center of the state, an increase in temperatures and less rainfall can be observed.
Puebla is one of the most cosmopolitan destinations in Mexico, combining the greatness of a historical past with the modernity of a one-of-a-kind city. In addition, this state has no less than 9 of the so-called Magic Towns of the country, which is why it is a destination frequented by foreign tourism. Cholula is among them one of those obliged to visit to be able to know the largest pyramid in Mesoamerica, its pre-Hispanic sanctuaries, as well as various colonial temples. By the way, there is a bike path that leads to said Magic Town. Surrounded by mountains, waterfalls, caves, and countless natural attractions, Cuetzalan is a Magical Town that lives up to its name with postcards worthy of a fairy tale. Chignahuapan, trapped in a permanent Christmas decoration due to its ancient tradition of spheres made from blown glass, make this town one of the most colorful and lively.
Legend has it that angels descended and traced the streets of the city in a dream and that for this reason they present perfectly delineated and symmetrical shapes. "Angelopolis" or "Puebla de los Angeles" as the metropolis of the state used to be called, is undoubtedly one of the most interesting places to visit.
The historical and cultural value of the architecture of Puebla de Zaragoza are the main reasons that the city was chosen as a World Heritage Site, with more than 5000 buildings (including churches, monasteries, and palaces characterized by their colorful constructions with multicolored tiles) which makes it the 2nd City with more buildings and historical monuments in Latin America only after Cuzco, Peru.
Religious tourism is one of the main attractions of the city of Puebla. As you walk through the historic center, you will find two exceptional examples of New Spain Baroque: the cathedral, which took two centuries to build and which has the tallest towers in Latin America, and the Chapel of the Rosary, the eyes cannot cope with the number of altars. covered in gold and talavera tiles that were mounted on its walls.
The unique flavors of the Puebla region stand out for its typical sweets (borrachitos, bride fingers, and guava sweet potatoes) and national dishes such as the famous poblano mole, chiles en nogada, and mole de hips.
Between ancestral traditions, history, unique flavors, and great human warmth, Puebla is an unmissable destination. It could also be said that for that visitor who intends to leave with a typical impression of the country, this state is ideal since Puebla is Mexico at its best.
Written by: My Guide Local Expert - Manuel Belerenian
PUBLISHED: Jan 21st 2021 | UPDATED: Jan 21st 2021

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Packers can beat you with pass or run
Vikings have perfect game plan, but lose, 24-21
MINNEAPOLIS – Vikings Head Coach Mike Zimmer tried to turn the clock back to 2012, when opponents ignored the Packers running game and focused their efforts on stopping Aaron Rodgers and the team's explosive passing attack. That was then, this is now.
Eddie Lacy is the difference. He gives the Packers a running game that can't be ignored. Instead, opponents are forced to pick their poison. The Vikings picked Lacy. Death came slowly, but surely, 24-21.
"They played a lot of two shell (safeties) and tried to take away Jordy (Nelson) and Randall (Cobb). Eddie ran it well. Finished off the game the right way," Rodgers said in his postgame interview.
As games go, this one won't do a lot for Rodgers' MVP campaign. He threw a couple of touchdown passes to reach 30 for the season, but this wasn't one of those six-touchdown, 400-yard spectacles that Sportscenter would trumpet over and over in its next 24-hour cycle.
Other quarterbacks had bigger days on Sunday. Rodgers' day was spent being the kind of quarterback that wins in the postseason, which is to say the kind of quarterback armed with a running game that controls the action.
"We didn't have a lot of drives. We had a couple of big drives," Rodgers said.
It's what the Vikings made Rodgers be on this gray day at TCF Bank Stadium.
Rodgers was important at crunch time, when he marched the Packers 87 yards to a game-clinching touchdown. He converted two third downs, one with his arm and one with his legs, and he tossed a nifty shovel pass to Eddie Lacy and Lacy rumbled 10 yards for a touchdown that turned out the lights on the Vikings and put a major dent in the Lions' title hopes, too.
"Eddie never goes down with first contact. He's agile for a guy of his size. He takes care of the football and does everything you want," Rodgers said.
The Vikings had the perfect game plan. They shortened the game; limited the Packers to a mere 62 plays. They took the game out of Rodgers' hands and put it into Lacy's, and still lost. That's what's important to note about this game: The Packers can clobber you with the pass, or beat you more respectably with the run.
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"It's different to play against a Mike Zimmer team. He had a great plan for us. Ball control was important for them; limiting the number of possessions in the game. They tackled pretty well and covered pretty well. You have to give them credit," Rodgers said.
Next week's game will likely be different. Rodgers' counterpart will be none other than Tom Brady. It's a game that'll be billed as a shootout between the two best quarterbacks in the game, and it's a game that likely won't disappoint.
The MVP might be on the line.
"Everything is right in front of us. We're 4-1 in the division, which is where you want to be. We have three of five at home. You have to take advantage of those," Rodgers said.
"Teams are going to take away what we do best," he added. "What we do best is get the ball to Jordy and Randall, so they tried to take them out of the game. Randall hit a couple of big third-down conversions. This is a big win. Needing two first downs to close out the game; that was big for us. Those are big character drives for us."
Head Coach Mike McCarthy had such trust in his running game to close out the win that he "put us in jumbo and felt confident we could get it done," Rodgers said of the final 3:23. The Packers didn't need to throw a pass.
"You have to give them credit. They held us to a low amount of passing yards."
And the Packers still won. That's the difference between what the Packers are now and what they weren't a few years ago. COMPLETE GAME COVERAGE
Instant replay: Packers 24, Vikings 21


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TV's offer of $250,000 prize for crabbers is called risky
By MIKE LEWIS, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Published 10:00 pm PDT, Wednesday, October 20, 2004
The Discovery Channel, which has produced popular documentaries on the dangers faced by Alaska crab fishermen, has come under sharp criticism by the Coast Guard and the crab industry for offering cash bonuses potentially linked to increased risk by the crabbers.
The cable station, which made arrangements to film on five boats for the red king crab season that ended Monday, promised a $250,000 prize to the boat among the group that returned with the most crab. The Coast Guard, which wasn't told of the arrangement, originally planned to work with Discovery but withdrew its support after learning about the prize and asked the station's filmmakers to rescind the offer.
They declined, Coast Guard representatives said.
"Specifically, we didn't want to endorse anyone putting themselves in harm's way for prize money," said Senior Chief Petty Officer Tyler Johnson, who works in the Coast Guard's Los Angeles-based motion picture and television office.
Added Alaska-based Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Paul Roszkowski: "The crew are already on edge. You put a quarter of a million dollars at stake, and you are going to get people hurt."
Jane Root, general manager for the Discovery Channel, said she originally was unaware of the Coast Guard's objections and that concerns expressed to the Alaska-based film crew didn't reach her East Coast office before the season was well under way. Root said she didn't see anything wrong with the bonus offer, calling it "a small thing."
"We don't want anyone to take unnecessary risks," she asserted, adding that it was meant to be an enticement for the deckhands to put up with film crews. This money simply was "recompense" and didn't do a thing to encourage additional danger, Root said.
"It's a competitive way of life" as it is, she said. "This didn't add to it." However, she said, the company won't make any more bonus promises after taking heavy criticism. "We won't be doing it in the future."
Among the five ships in the Discovery Derby, the Seattle-based F/V Northwestern won the bonus prize for the biggest catch, 80,000 pounds. In all, the 251-boat fleet this year aimed to catch 14.3 million pounds of Bristol Bay red king crab in the three-day season. The reported largest individual catch in the fleet was rumored to be 130,000 pounds.
At $4.70 a pound, that would translate into $611,000 for the crab boat -- which wasn't identified.
No deaths were reported, although the Coast Guard had to airlift out two crew members with major injuries. Cory Eisenbarth, a 40-year-old Seattle-based deckhand on the F/V Bella K, suffered a crushed pelvis in a pot launcher accident. The other man, who was not identified, received a skull fracture from a crab pot. Empty crab pots can weigh between 600 and 1,000 pounds.
Originally, Discovery had an arrangement to film aboard the Bella K but switched to another boat just before the season began. Instead the film crews boarded the Northwestern, Saga, Sea Star, Fierce Allegiance and Western Viking. None of the boats, the Coast Guard confirmed, reported any serious injuries.
The Discovery Channel first arrived in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, in the winter of 1998 to film a documentary titled "Deadliest Job in the World." Shot after the immense popularity of the best-selling book "The Perfect Storm," the film was a considerable hit for the station, ranking among its most popular and replayed shows ever.
It also gave Discovery's film crews unusual access to both the Coast Guard and crabbers, who liked the exposure the documentary gave their jobs.
Since then, Discovery has been back three times to update the dramatic high-seas footage, most recently airing "Deadliest Season" last summer. The hundreds of hours shot over the past three weeks were to be part of a multi-segment series, Root said, showing "American blue-collar heroes," such as the crabbers, at work.
Crews, however, reported that Discovery made the bonus offer in an attempt to create a reality-based quasi-documentary show with the race for the prize as the theme -- an assertion that contradicts Root's explanation for the bonus.
"I was astounded when I found out about the bonus," said Arni Thomson, a former crabber who is executive director of the Alaska Crab Coalition, an organization that represents about half of the fleet. "It injects more pressure into an already hazardous working environment."
Root said the prize never was intended to be a central focus of the filmmaking. And now that it has received complaints, "our sense is that this is not something we want to highlight."
They shouldn't, said Roger Simpson, an associate communications professor at the University of Washington. The issue isn't simply the ethical questions raised about dangling money as bait to exhausted crabbers but also Discovery's role in trying to influence an event while filming it -- if it was indeed intended to be a straight documentary.
Discovery, he said, has a good reputation for airing well-regarded documentaries. "But this (bonus) means you have to ask yourself questions about staging and payment," he said. "How does the offer change what they are filming?"
Not at all, countered Root. Crabbing is a dangerous job. Whether or not Discovery is there, she said, the crabbers work incredibly hard in dangerous conditions and push themselves to the limit, bonus or not. "You don't need to enhance that."
Then why try, wondered Lt. Cmdr. Chris Woodley, of the Coast Guard's marine safety division in Anchorage. Woodley said Coast Guard officers told the film crew of the objections and the producers decided to film anyway -- which is entirely legal, he added.
"We expressed very serious concerns," he said. "We said it would encourage risk-taking. They stuck to their guns."
But for how long? Root said Discovery now is unsure whether it will be back for snow crab season in January. Crabbing is changing for good, she added, making next season likely a slower, less dramatic event -- and less appealing to filmmakers.
Early this year, Congress changed the laws that regulate the crab fishery in an effort to make it safer. The changes -- assigning each longtime crabber a set percentage, or quota, of the annual catch -- likely will mean that this year's derby was the last.
In a derby, crabbers start at the open of the season, regardless of weather, and fish past exhaustion in a relentless free-for-all until the season closes days or weeks later. This, in part, has been blamed for crabbing's reputation for injury and death.
"It's an American way of life that is ending," Root said. "That's what we wanted to capture."
Film from the recent season likely will be aired next summer or fall as part of another crabbing documentary, she said. The bonus "won't be mentioned."


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Super Senior: Helen Robb
By Joe Carroll
Published: Mar. 24, 2022 at 5:18 PM EDT
WEST BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (WCAX) - It's prime time at the Robb Sugarhouse in West Brattleboro.
"See that bubble coming down?" said Helen Robb, pointing to tubing strung between the maples. "It's running pretty good actually."
It's boiling season and sap will soon become "liquid gold." Robb may the maple operation's matriarch, but she doesn't work alone. There is her husband, Charlie, Charlie Jr., and Taylor Thurber, who started milking on the farm when he was 13.
Reporter Joe Carroll: Why do you keep coming back?
Taylor Thurber: I don't have a choice now. I'm part of the family, I'm stuck here!
"This is the original sugarhouse," Robb explains. "I spent a lot of hours in that. It was a small sugarhouse and it had a dirt floor."
The dairy operation soured with low milk prices and they sold the cows in 2011. "The hardest part is when we went out of dairy and dairy farmers. It's not just your business, it's your life and your identity," Robb said.
With 355 acres of land, they looked up to the maples. "Yes it was, but it was the best thing we could have ever done," said Charlie Sr. Maple syrup hit the sweet spot for profitability.
Reporter Joe Carroll: Could you do it without Helen?
Charlie Robb Sr.: I would not want to do it without Helen. She's the sparkplug.
Robb markets the syrup -- 98% is sold retail. They hope to sell 1,500 gallons this year. The 78-year-old knows the area, having grown up just a mile down the road. "I was never going to marry a farmer -- ever, ever, ever," she said.
Reporter Joe Carroll: What changed?
Helen Robb: What changed? I met a guy and fell in love with him. What can I tell you?
The Robbs moved their operation closer to the road to attract tourists -- visitors like Sarah Kudman from New York City. "It's been very cool to see the whole process," Kudman said.
"Hold it right up to the light, you can see the difference," Robb says, pointing out the difference in syrup grades.
Reporter Joe Carroll: They probably want you to buy stuff.
Sarah Kudman: I'm going to buy stuff, let's be real here.
The tour continues with a look at the new evaporator. "It's like our old evaporator, but it's fancier. I call it "male bling."
Reporter Joe Carroll: There are not too many women who do this. Why is that?
Helen Robb: I don't know. It's fun. I grew up with sugaring too, I think that has something to do with it.
A sample of what makes Vermont pretty sweet.


Good vs Evil. Who will win?
A good Idea for a Battle-Clip. Look's good.
Thanks Werner. Glad you liked it.
Great idea, thebiz. Good luck with it!!
That was some wonderfully silly fun.
I liked the way it just kept escallating from round to round.
I have to comment on the brave audience too. When the guns come out, I'm not sure I'd want to be there (just in case they miss once).
Devil dances to disco. That is evil. Good fun.
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Human Rights Oppression in China
April: Uyghur groups protest in Brussels, Belgium.
1 Million Uyghurs in Danger of Forced Organ Extraction?
"We only see women and children walking the streets of Xinjiang Uyghur's grand city of Kashgar, there are hardly any men. That's because the men have been taken to concentration camps. My two brothers and my aging father have been arrested, and I don't know where they are nor whether they are still alive."
So said Dolkun Isa, the leader of the World Uyghur Congress, in his message to Japan in April.
Unending Uyghur Arrests
There have been reports that since the spring of 2017 over 1 million innocent Uyghurs have been arrested and taken to 'reeducation concentration camps'.
"But 'reeducation' is just a name," said Isa. What goes on inside is similar to the Nazi concentration camps back in WWII. Prisoners are brainwashed with communist ideology, and many people die under the harsh living conditions".
The Beijing government threatens Uyghur students that their families will be thrown into prison if they do not return immediately. Many of these students go missing after they reenter Xinjiang Uyghur.
When Mao declared the People's Republic of China in 1949, he invaded East Turkestan and established the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Later they settled large numbers of Han Chinese in the area and now over half of the Uyghur region population consists of Han Chinese.
"The Han settlers removed and prohibited the Uyghur language, culture, religion, customs and history," explained Isa. "Speaking the Uyghur language and practicing Islamic rites were prohibited, and religious facilities – such as mosques – and traditional world heritage buildings were destroyed. The Uyghur people are now facing the crisis of disappearing from world history".
Ever since 9/11, the Beijing government has reinforced their predominance over the Islamic Uyghurs in the name of "counter-terrorism". Oppression further intensified when Chen Quanguo, who was the Communist Party Secretary of Tibet, became the Secretary of Xinjiang Uyghur in 2016.
Methods of oppression are developing on a daily basis. They have now introduced millions of surveillance cameras all over the cities, and the government can track each vehicle with GPS. Inspection checkpoints are placed every few hundred meters where armed police officers make random inspections of smartphones. They check to see that passers-by haven't used religious language in their messages or downloaded prohibited apps.
Additionally, the authorities have collected data on 90% of the Uyghur population (19 million people) including DNA, blood samples, fingerprints and eye-colour. They use this data in their surveillance methods. Xinjiang Uyghur has become one massive surveillance society experiment where the latest technology is used in tandem with human police officers.
1.2 Million Tibetan Victims
This inhumane oppression of the Uyghur people is very similar to the tragedies in Tibet. Tibet was another country that was invaded immediately after the People's Republic was founded. 3000 People's Liberation soldiers advanced into the Tibetan capital of Khasa, which was followed by invasions of the other major cities. When the Tibetan people resisted, the People's Liberation Army tortured or slaughtered them.
According to the Central Tibetan Administration, there have been 1.2 million victims in the 30 years since invasions began in 1949.
The Chinese Communist Party declared that Buddhism was poison and destroyed 98% of Tibet's Buddhist monasteries in 2 years.
"Tibet is still under martial law," says political scientist Pemo Gyalpo who defected from Tibet to Japan. "It is forbidden for more than 5 people to gather. That's why those people commit self-immolation as an individual's act of protest against the Beijing government. More than 120 people have commit self-immolation since 2000″.
Tibet had its religion taken away, and those who resisted were massacred. And this history is about to repeat itself in Xinjiang Uyghur.
Falun Gong Organ Hunting
In addition to minorities like the Tibetans and the Ughurs, Falun Gong practitioners are experiencing the worst human rights oppression in history. The Beijing government calls them a "cult" and imposes all manner of oppression on them. Many are imprisoned or have simply gone missing.
For around 10 years Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas has collected countless pieces of evidence that point to the ghastly fact that the imprisoned Falun Gong members have their organs extracted by force.
Large-scale arrests of Falun Gong practitioners began in 1999, and it is no coincidence that the number of organ transplantations in China started to climb in 2000. What is also absurd is that while the average waiting time is 7 years in Canada, 5 years in the U.S., and 3 years in the U.K., in China it is a mere 15 days. This can only be explained if China has a huge "organ bank" that they can draw from at any time.
The Beijing government alleges that they get 90% of their organs from executed criminals. The number of death sentences in China, however, is 2000 per year. The number of transplant operations they perform far exceeds this number.
According to the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), 96 hospitals in China perform 2000 to 3000 transplant operations per year. Just adding these makes it around 192,000 operations per year. If we consider that one liver transplant costs the patient around USD100,000 we can see how big this business really is.
The climbing number of operations, the absurdly fast waiting time, and the government's inconsistent answer: the evidence all points to the hidden truth that China holds a huge stock of people they can kill to take their organs.
Of the many testimonies, perhaps the most shocking was the one from the ex-wife of a surgeon in a Chinese hospital. Underground in a hospital in Sujiatun district in Liaoning, she said, thousands of Falun Gong members were detained. Their organs were extracted while they were still alive, and this was a daily occurrence.
Are the Uyghurs the Next Target?
The photograph below taken in 2017 shows a priority lane saying "Special Passengers/ Human Organs Transport Lane" in Kashgar airport, Xinjiang Uyghur. There is such a large number of organs that are transported out of Xinjiang Uyghur that they require a priority lane for it.
It was also in 2017 that mass arrests of Uyghurs began. The Beijing government has over 1 million Uyghurs imprisoned in their "reeducation concentration camps", and it is clear what they have in mind next.
2017: a priority lane marking at Kashgar airport. Former surgeon Enver Tohti, whose job in 1995 was to extract organs from executed criminals in China, says that the priority marker signifies how frequently organs are exported from Xinjiang Uyghur.
Faith Is the Key to Stopping Human Rights Oppression
Why does the Beijing government continue this intense oppression of human rights? It all boils down to one cause: it is because China is a materialist atheist national that denies the existence of a Creator God.
For them, humans are mechanical objects: killing the resisters and making money from their organs is all part of effective business skills.
Humans, however, are God-created souls. Each one is endowed with divine dignity. The concept of human rights stems from this religious truth.
Part 2 of this series are interviews with activist who strive for democracy and human rights in China.
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Ex-Saints Personal Assistant Sues for a Failure to Pay Overtime
Texas sports fans may be familiar with Tom Benson, the owner of the New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans. Benson's former personal assistant is suing the Saints for a failure to pay overtime. He has filed a case against the Saints in a federal court.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff was being paid $50,000 per year. He was classified as a salaried employee even though he did not perform any managerial duties. He believes that he should have been paid on an hourly basis and, therefore, entitled to overtime pay. The plaintiff alleges that he worked very closely with Benson and was required to do tasks such as waking up at 4 a.m. to stand outside a local bakery to purchase baked goods to take to the airport to be sent out and others he would deliver himself.
The plaintiff alleges that his regular work shift was 10 hours a day and sometimes he was not given a meal period. During basketball season, he could work up to 14 hours a day and, while the Saints were at training camp, it could be as many as 16. Ultimately, the plaintiff was terminated by the head of human resources after 25 years of service.
Over the last few months of his employment, the plaintiff claims that he was not with Benson as much and was not communicating with him as he had previously. In his lawsuit, the Saints are accused of violating federal labor laws because of the failure to pay overtime. Additionally, he alleges that, based on his employment agreement, he is entitled to a two-year salary for a termination fee because Benson was not the person who terminated him. Texas employees should make it a habit to keep track of the number of hours that they work, especially those involving overtime. If the extra hours are not reflected in their paychecks, they may consider a lawsuit to reclaim the money to which they believe they are entitled.
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Singapore Company Registration options for Foreigners
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Singapore's Economic Development Board has made an amazing work in offering incentives to international companies. Foreign companies looking for to set up their head office in Singapore are allowed to concessionary tax rates which range from 0 % to 15 % for up to five years.
The country also offers a wide-ranging network of trade agreements, covering over 20 free trade areas in 27 economies and 71 double taxation agreements. Apparent of all these incentives, it is not surprising to find a huge number of foreign companies forming the core of Singapore's mainstream industries. A foreign individual/entity wanting to incorporate a company in Singapore has several options which one can select based on their long-term business goals, type of industry, company size and other factors.
The Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority is mandated with the task of registering all businesses, including foreign companies. The foreigner must take on the services of a registered filing agent to carry out their company registration.
Multinational companies may register a company in Singapore using three distinct structures. They are:
A subsidiary company is a private legal entity that is set up locally as a private limited company register with majority shareholding foreign-owned. In Singapore, registration of a subsidiary takes 1 to 2 days. The government treats a subsidiary company as a local entity, and thus, the parent company is exempted from paying taxes.
Since a subsidiary is considered a separate entity from the parent company, it can take up a different name from that of the main company, by getting approval from the Registrar of Companies. As well, it is important for a company to keep up a registered office in Singapore and maintain all its legal documents in that office.
A Singapore branch office is a registered legal entity like a subsidiary company. But, unlike a subsidiary, a branch office is considered as an expansion of the foreign company.
Unlike Subsidiary, a branch office in Singapore is considered a non-resident entity and therefore is not eligible for the tax exemptions and incentives available to local companies in Singapore.
Different from Singapore subsidiary company in which liabilities are not extended to the parent company, the foreign company's head office bears the ultimate responsibility for any liabilities arising due to the acts of commission or omission of the Singapore Branch Office.
The branch office should use the same name of the head office and must be approved first before branch office registration. The company registrar generally approves the proposed name unless it's identical to an existing Singapore company name.
A representative office is like a temporary admin office which a foreign company establishes to do market research, admin support for the large project etc. A representative office is not allowed to book sales. The registration for representative office is valid for 3 years, and it fails if not renewed.
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And I have a module that has this code to grab the query from MS Access.
Public Sub OpenRecordset()

Dim qdf As QueryDef
Set qdf = CurrentDb.QueryDefs("QOff2")

Dim db As Database
Dim rs As Recordset
Dim StrBusinesses As String

Set rs = qdf.OpenRecordset
If rs.EOF And rs.BOF Then
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Exit Sub
Else
rs.MoveFirst
End If
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rs.MoveNext
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rs.Close
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Set rs = Nothing

End Sub

What I want is for the recordset to do a lookup, and compare [forms]![form].[text10] to Qoff2.filenum, then list all the related fnam's into [forms]![form].test, but for some reason I can't get it to work. I get a too few paramaters error expected 1 error. It works just fine when I run the query inside access and have the form open. I get an error of too few parameters when I run the module in vba and it highlights Set rs = qdf.OpenRecordset.

A: You need to specify the parameter:
Set qdf = CurrentDb.QueryDefs("QOff2")
qdf.Parameters(0).Value = [forms]![form]![text10]

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She's A Maneater serves up a 'whopping' performance
…Diamond Mile the next objective but Will In Charge is going to be there seeking revenge
BY RUDDY ALLEN
Observer staff reporter
After successfully defending her Burger King Superstakes crown on Saturday, (November 10, 2018), trainer Wayne DaCosta believes She's A Maneater can do the same in the December 1 Diamond Mile sponsored by the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Commission and Supreme Ventures Limited.
"If all goes well for the upcoming Diamond Mile, I am expecting another good run. She is a champion filly, so it a short time off, then full preparation for the Diamond Mile," DaCosta informed.
She's A Maneater entered the Superstakes with many doubters weighing heavily in her back, especially after being beaten by Will In Charge, three times this season.
She succeeded in turning the tables on Will In Charge, getting by her rival by a short head after a titanic tussle to the wire which brought all and sundry at the Park to their feet, cheering and just admiring two horses perform at their best. She's A Maneater won in a time of 2:05.0 for 10 furlongs (2,000m).
"I think the main thing that got her in front of Will In Charge this time was the weight. She was over-handicapped in her last two races and as a result of the change in the weight, she delivered," the trainer said.
Ridden by Omar Walker, She's A Maneater sat in third position behind Drummer Boy (Phillip Parchment), who led the small field of six runners at a merry clip with Will In Charge (Robert Halledeen) staying just behind the leader.
Approaching the half-mile (800m) pole, Will In Charge went through to take up the lead with She's A Maneater moving as well.
At the top of the lane, Will In Charge continued to hang tough and with She's A Maneater showing no signs of quitting, a raging battle ensued with She's A Maneater getting home by the 'bob' of a neck at the wire. Seven lengths adrift in third place was Bigdaddykool.
It was good to see the stands shaking again, as racing fans stood and watched the Superstakes stretch drive involving two great horses.
The following is an assessment of the Superstakes result in winning order.
FIRST: She's A Maneater — Despite tasting several defeats in her four-year-old season, She's A Maneater delivered probably her most gutsy and courageous performance. Her fighting spirit was something to behold as she gave no quarter and put down a performance which will be remembered for a long time. She's A Maneater demonstrated that it takes not only talent to win big races, but a toughness rarely seen in fillies. Make no doubt about it, She's A Maneater's achievements on the track are truly outstanding.
SECOND: Will In Charge — Lost no merit in this defeat. Jockey Robert Halledeen rode a controlled and well-judged race, but in the end was pipped by a short head. Will In Charge, as is usually the case, was tough and his never-say-die attitude spoke volumes of his development in 2008. A credit to his trainer and for sure the battle with She's A Maneater is going to continue in the Diamond Mile. Let's hope the promoters can handle the crowd on the day.
THIRD: Bigdaddykool — Simply did not run as expected after a good return following injury. Bigdaddykool was in good positions throughout the race with his customary late surge not materialising.
FOURTH: Perfect Neighbour — Continues to earn.
FIFTH: Drummer Boy — Came in the race to lead, did his job and then backed out.
SIXTH: SOTOMAYOR — Missing in action.
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2 edition of Minicomputers and microprocessors found in the catalog.
Minicomputers and microprocessors
John Hargadine Carson
a tutorial
by John Hargadine Carson
Published 1976 by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in N. Y, Long Beach, CA. : available from IEEE Computer Society .
Minicomputers.,
Microprocessors.
Statement John H. Carson ; sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society.
Contributions IEEE Computer Society.
Pagination 280 p. in various pagings :
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Hangouts Meet recordings have been supported to this point in G Suite so that isn't new. What is new is that you can set a different retention policy for those recording than what is set for Drive. Previously, whatever the Drive policy was on your domain was applied to Meets recordings too. Now they are separated with a retention policy for each.
Speaking of Drive, with this update to Vault, admins can now set a specific retention policy for Drive trash folders of users. This allows for the creation of policies that are separate from Team Drive and is only applicable to the individual user's Drive trash folders.
Finally, an improvement to the searching of domains in this update as well. Now you have a much faster and more transparent searching of larger domains and Organizational Units (OUs).
All of these changes have been released to G Suite domains that are on G Suite Business, Enterprise, and Education editions only, as well as G Suite users with the Vault add-on customers. The rollout of these changes is expected to take up to 15 days so if you aren't seeing it on your particular domain yet, it is just a matter of when it is updated on the cloud side from Google.


Some jobs are too much of a risk for even the best bounty hunters — but that never stopped Boba Fett! The Imperial "Death Ship" Azgoghk , designed for the sole purpose of exterminating alien species, continues its duties long after the Empire has fallen apart. Now it's time for justice and REVENGE. When the last member of a dying species seeks to exact revenge on the Azgoghk and its crew, there's only one man he can turn to — BOBA FETT!
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Whether it's taking on an Imperial ship designed to wipe out entire alien species or battling amidst a vicious civil war fueled by both the Rebellion and the Empire, entering an abandoned Star Destroyer seeking a mysterious prize or settling a dispute between an Imperial outpost and the local leadership, there's no job too deadly for the man in the Mandalorian armor–if the price is right!


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It always amazes me how fast the internet is. I was reading my Google reader this morning when I cam across an article about Google Reader Trends.
I thought, Wow, this is great. I posted a article about it then noticed that Scoble had already commented on another article about it.
I did a Google Bloge search for Google Reader trends in Google Blog search at 09:00 am Central Standard Time (GMT -6:00) and found 3,466 hits for that search!
The article was posted on January 3, 2007, I was not able to find a time for it. It just flat impresses me that so many people not only read the post, tried it out, then blogged about it.
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A collection of home quotes. Your home is a place where you should feel relaxed. A place where you can relax and feel secure.
Home is a place where we feel safe, and comfortable. A place to relax and recharge.
At home, parents or guardian should uphold good moral values and present themselves as good examples to their children.
The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes.


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//  HSL Common Library
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//  Created by John Arnold on 2012-08-14.
//  Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Handelabra Studio LLC. All rights reserved.
//

/**
 Simple update checker, requires iOS 5+ and ARC.

 It uses your app's bundle identifier to ask the app store about the app,
 and if the version on the app store is different, it presents an alert with
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 The check and alert will only be performed once per new app store version
 (so that if a user declines, they do not continue to get bothered).
*/
@interface HSLUpdateChecker : NSObject <UIAlertViewDelegate>

/** Checks for update and presents a UIAlertView if there is an update available.

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As I began discussing yesterday, young children can become media literate with their parents' help. In today's media-saturated world, raising media literate children is an increasingly important goal. Our kids need to (1) understand how the media work, (2) be able to think critically about media content, and (3) learn how to create their own media texts–empowering them not just to consume, but also create.
In my post yesterday, I explored my family's approach to teaching our four-year-old son how the media work–particularly, how commercials work. From an early age, he learned my mantra: "Commercials try to sell us things we don't need." This simple concept helps him understand that commercials aren't neutral or factual. They have an agenda: persuasion. And kids have such an innate sense of justice that the idea of being "tricked" really rankles them!
Although my son will often complain about commercials trying to sell him things he doesn't need, some days, he has a little fun at my expense. He'll look at me with a wicked gleam in his eye, a smile playing on his lips, and say, "Mommy. I LIKE commercials." The little tease!
This always makes me smile, at least inwardly: if he has figured out that he can tease me about liking commercials, he has also figured out what my values are. And knowing what we value as a family is an important part of thinking critically about media content.
A couple of strategies have worked well in helping my four-year-old develop the ability to think critically about what he sees on screen, which is a fundamental part of being media literate. First, I make sure that we watch things together, and that while we're viewing, we talk about what's on screen in ways that draw upon our family's values.
Second, I find opportunities to talk with him about his favorite shows at other times–like when we're driving in the car, or having dinner, or chatting before bedtime–when we can have broader conversations, e.g., comparing different movies he likes.
By viewing media together, parents can help their children become media literate. This means that whenever possible, I watch programs with my son, so that I'm present to see and hear his reactions.
But viewing together is not enough; active viewing is key. This means I talk with my son about what we are seeing. I talk back to the screen, share my ideas and concerns with my son, and respond to anything he says, too.
We wind up talking about characters' behaviors a lot. Lots of kids' programs focus on bad behaviors. Academic studies show that even prosocial children's media, like the kind found on PBS that are meant to teach lessons about good behavior, spend way too much time modeling bad behavior. The result: little kids often don't pick up on the resolution or good behavior that such programs mean to encourage. The exciting and interesting bad behaviors get all the attention.
What's great is that the older he gets, the more often he'll turn to me and offer the kinds of commentary that I model for him. For example, we recently watched Beauty and the Beast together for the first time; he'd been asking about it for a while. "The Beast shouldn't yell like that," he told me. "It's naughty." Then, later, when Belle appeared in her gold dress for the ballroom scene: "Hey, where did her blue dress go that I like??" (Blue is his favorite color.) Whatever his comments are, I like to hear them–and I make sure to give him an answer so he knows I'm listening.
Even though my son is only four, I've had some conversations with him about topics or behaviors that are shown across more than one program and movie. Such conversations need to take place while the television is off, so I've found it important to pay attention to his interests and his reactions while we're viewing things together, to gauge what he might like to talk about later.
For example, my son has been interested in the concept of "thieves" since he was about two and a half years old. One day, our family were enjoying a picnic on a park bench in Salem, when a sneaky seagull stole his sandwich! It just crept up behind us and grabbed it through the slats in the bench. To say we were caught off guard is an understatement.
Our little guy was really upset about losing his sandwich this way, so we encouraged him to shoo the nearby seagulls away by shouting, "Go away, thieves!" He seemed a bit empowered by his ability to fight back.
Now, anytime we are at the beach or another location where seagulls approach, he is vigilant about shooing them away, saying, "You can't have our food, thieves!" He's even noticed seagulls creeping up on other families and seems to have made it his personal mission to try to scare encroaching seagulls away. He doesn't like thieves.
About a year ago, he had an experience with a real thief when my iPhone was stolen while we were running errands in the mall. I wound up spending a couple of hours in the mall's Apple store, tracking the phone's whereabouts on their computers ("Find my iPhone" is an amazing application) and giving a police report to an officer who came to meet me. We were actually able to recover it that same night–but that is a story for another day!
In the midst of all the excitement about mommy's phone being stolen, my son was amazed to learn that people could be thieves, too–not just seagulls.
Yes, we said; some people are thieves!
Well, because sometimes, people make bad decisions.
And guess what? After becoming enamored of the Disney films Tangled and Aladdin, he realized that Flynn and Aladdin are thieves. Thieves! Uh-oh. He had a hard time making sense of this, since both are really likable characters, and he feels very keenly that stealing is wrong.
So we've talked a lot WHY Flynn and Aladdin are thieves, and the differences between the two characters. Flynn seems to steal because he's greedy and thinks it's fun; in his verse of the "I've Got A Dream" song, he sings that his only dream is to be "surrounded by enormous piles of money." In contrast, Aladdin is a boy without parents who steals food because otherwise, he won't eat. And he's not greedy, either: in an early scene in the film, he gives his stolen bread away to littler kids who are also hungry, showing that he is a kind person.
In my opinion, being able to identify differences between on-screen characters and their motivations is a form of age-appropriate media literacy. It's the result of talking and thinking critically about how people are represented, and why characters are shown doing the things they do. I'm glad that my child has a basic understanding that depictions of bad behaviors don't make those bad behaviors okay, even when the characters engaged in them are fun and exciting.
In other words, media literacy can be developed in simple, age-appropriate ways, connected with real-world experiences.
My hope is that these conversations are laying important groundwork for the future, making it clear that we discuss and think critically about media content in our family. Considering the content he'll likely see later in childhood and in adolescence, I think it's crucial to establish parent-child communication and critical thinking practices as the norm now.
Coming soon: Stay tuned for my next post in this series, in which I'll explain how I've been talking with my preschooler about how media are created, and how I've also begun helping him to use the tools that would allow him to create his own media texts.


Spent all day Saturday in Richmond. A couple of hours in the morning swimming in the Swale.
Then it was a short walk up to the castle for a commemoration of 70 years since the outbreak of the second world war. Singing girls "The Spitfires"
then a magnificent fly by with a vintage Spitfire and Hurricane.
Following this it was an afternoon watching cricket with Richmond v Darlington, with a sleep under the covers.


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Q: Linq Query - get current month plus previous months I need to build a Linq query that will show the results as follow:
Data:

Sales   Month
----------------------
10      January
20      February
30      March
40      April
50      May
60      June
70      July
80      August
90      September
100     October
110     November
120     December

I need to get the results based on this scenario:
month x = month x + previous month
that will result in:
Sales   Month
--------------------
10      January
30      February (30 = February 20 + January 10)
60      March    (60 = March 30 + February 30)
100     April    (100 = April 40 + March 60)
.........

Any help how to build this query ?
Thanks a lot!

A: Since you wanted it in LINQ...
void Main()
{
    List<SaleCount> sales = new List<SaleCount>() {
        new SaleCount() { Sales = 10, Month = 1 },
        new SaleCount() { Sales = 20, Month = 2 },
        new SaleCount() { Sales = 30, Month = 3 },
        new SaleCount() { Sales = 40, Month = 4 },
        ...
    };

    var query = sales.Select ((s, i) => new
    {
        CurrentMonth = s.Month,
        CurrentAndPreviousSales = s.Sales + sales.Take(i).Sum(sa => sa.Sales)
    });
}

public class SaleCount
{
    public int Sales { get; set; }
    public int Month { get; set; }
}

...but in my opinion, this is a case where coming up with some fancy LINQ isn't going to be as clear as just writing out the code that the LINQ query is going to generate. This also doesn't scale. For example, including multiple years worth of data gets even more hairy when it wouldn't have to if it was just written out the "old fashioned way".

A: If you don't want add up all of the previous sales for each month, you will have to keep track of the total sales somehow.  The Aggregate function works okay for this because we can build a list and use its last element as the current total for calculating the next element.
var sales = Enumerable.Range(1,12).Select(x => x * 10).ToList();
var sums = sales.Aggregate(new List<int>(), (list, sale) => list.Concat(new List<int>{list.LastOrDefault() + sale});