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Not all ships within the battle power are at sea at the similar time. Nearly all of the fleet is based in the continental United States (CONUS) to undergo routine maintenance and coaching, as well as to limit deployment time for sailors. Nonetheless, the CCDRs' necessities for naval power presence in each of their areas present an impetus to have as many ships ahead deployed as possible.
The Air Pressure should sustain its U-2 spy planes, RQ-four World Hawk drones and E-3 early warning aircraft via 2030, the report said. It's RC-a hundred thirty five household of special-mission plane — which includes the Rivet Joint, Cobra Ball and other planes with distinctive tools utilized in intelligence gathering — may very well be viable into the 2040s. In the meantime, the E-8C JSTARS ground surveillance aircraft should be retired within the mid-2020s so long as a capability hole is mitigated by different property, the think tank said.
The Navy transferred the bottom to the Air Power in the summer of 1948, and on Aug. 1, 1950 it was renamed Patrick Air Power Base. WASHINGTON — America's investments in military readiness are paying off, particularly for the Army, however its armed forces would be stretched dangerously thin if they take part in more than one massive war on the identical time.
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Georgia denies entry to British woman 'because of her birthplace'
By Shota Kincha
Tbilisi airport. Photo: OC Media.
A British citizen has claimed to have been the victim of racial profiling upon her arrival in Tbilisi International Airport after she was refused entry into the country and quickly deported without explanation.
Leila (not her real name), who was born in Tehran but moved to Britain as a child, told OC Media that she was denied entry to Georgia last week. She was visiting Georgia as part of her PhD research into Georgian culture.
Leila was travelling with her husband Stewart (not his real name), whom she said was let through 'no questions asked' and without any delay. She said that the only difference between her and her husband was that she was a woman and born in Iran, while Stewart is a British-born UK citizen.
The young academic claimed that on 26 April, Tbilisi International Airport's passport control interrogated her about the purpose of her visit and how much money she had. Her passport was eventually taken away to be checked.
Leila said that several police officers were rude to her, raising their voices at her when she tried to find out if there was a problem.
Leila also told OC Media that border police officers prevented her from speaking to her husband, whom they also 'shouted at' as he tried to find out what the problem was.
Leila was eventually escorted back to the plane to Munich. She said the pilot and main flight attendant who were recalled to pick her up looked 'shocked and confused' by the situation.
'This is at 05:17, and while trying to contact the [British] embassy, and communicating with my husband and the plane crew, I started to get really overwhelmed and I started crying. At this point, the border police officer started laughing, pointing at me, and mocking me in Georgian'.
She said her Georgian was not good enough to understand whether hate speech was used, but that she 'had never been so dehumanised'.
The police officer escorting Leila refused to return her passport and the official notice for her denial of entry until she had boarded the plane — and even then he only gave the documents to the flight attendant.
The official notice denying a person entry into the country includes a list of 14 possible reasons. Leila's denial of entry was listed under 'other cases envisaged by Georgian legislation', one of the most common and deliberately vague justifications given to people who aren't allowed into the country.
The form indicating the reason for Leila's denial of entry.
'No other explanation than racism'
Leila believes that racial profiling and racism were the real reason she was turned away at the airport.
'The only thing I can think of is my place of birth, because if you look at my passport, it says "Tehran". And I think it's also the way I look; I'm not white, I have dark hair', Leila said. 'They did not ask me any questions about my research. I had all the documents, Airbnb booking, and a flight [ticket] back out of Georgia.'
'I left Tehran with my parents in 2008 and have not travelled back to Iran since', she said, adding that her parents' work for British media led to 'harassments by the Iranian authorities', which prevented them from staying there. She became a British citizen in 2014.
Leila said that she had previously visited Georgia three times over the past six years, and while she was asked 'a lot of questions' about the nature of her visit each time, she was never refused entry before.
The newly-wed British couple, both young academics, were on their way to Georgia to continue their respective research — both connected to Georgian culture — on local carpet weaving and traditional music.
They had planned on celebrating their marriage with their family and friends before continuing their research and organising a conference in Tbilisi.
'We have strong friendships [in Georgia] and love for Georgian culture', Stewart told OC Media.
Leila said that the 'one-hour' experience she had at Tbilisi International Airport affected both her personal and professional plans, including her research.
'One hour has changed two years of my life and that's how ridiculous it is, just because of some racist police officers, I now have to change everything. I don't want to come back to Georgia any time soon. I'm not going to go somewhere I'm not welcome, and I had to change my research [topic] as well'.
The British couple said that they had already reached out to British Embassy in Tbilisi about the incident. They said that the embassy found the incident 'quite shocking' and claimed it was looking into the matter.
At the time of publication, the British Embassy had not commented on the incident or replied to our request for comment.
Leila's experience at the airport's passport control corroborates widespread reports that Georgian border police discriminate against foreign arrivals having any connection with Iran.
Leila said that she also witnessed another Iranian family, presumably based in Europe, 'being shouted at' by border police before being eventually let through.
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Non-Aligned Movement Backs Venezuela against US Sanctions
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The Non-Aligned Movement issued a statement Saturday rejecting the latest set of sanctions imposed by the United States against Venezuelan officials.
The 120-nation body described the sanctions as "intended to undermine Venezuela's sovereignty, its political independence and its right to self-determination."
The U.S. government announced a new set of sanctions last week which target former and current Venezuelan officials. The U.S. has justified various rounds of sanctions by claiming corruption and that human rights abuses occurred in the oil-rich county during a wave of opposition violence last year that left 43 dead.
However, the Venezuelan government has pointed out the sanctions are politically motivated and that they form part of U.S. plans to oust the country's elected government, given that the overwhelming majority of the 43 fatalities were caused by right-wing extremists.
The Non-Aligned Movement considers the unilateral sanctions a "violation of international law, including the United Nations Charter and the basic principles of international law of relations between states."
Furthermore, the group of nations considered the measure "coercive" and manifested its solidarity with the Venezuelan people and their government.
The UNASUR group of South American nations also rejected the sanctions and will launch a probe to evaluate Venezuela's evidence of U.S. meddling in the country's internal affairs.
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Founded in 2007, Omar Bookstore was one of the first independent bookstores to appear in downtown Cairo, following on the heels of Diwan's success over in Zamalek. The bookstore was founded by Omar Said Muhammad, who remains the owner, though you're more likely to find him in Tahrir Square where continues his father's and grandfather's trade of selling newspapers and books at a sidewalk stand. The decision to open a bookstore seemed like a natural extension of his profession of selling and distributing newspapers, journals, magazines, and books, and Muhammad opened his store on Talaat Harb with a desire to spread culture to anyone interested in buying a book.
While the store has grown since its opening and now has at least two full-time employees who are responsible for purchases and sales, respectively, it does not have a large, off-site warehouse. Thus the store only initially purchases about 10 copies of a new book to make sure it sells before buying in larger quantities, which means you may want to call ahead to make sure the book is in stock. Though the store itself is small, almost from the beginning Omar Bookstore has worked in cooperation with several different publishing houses and writers to promote new releases, host signing parties at off-site locations, and organize talks with authors.
While you almost have to know it's there to find it nestled above Felfela take-away, with the entrance to the building almost shrouded in colorful scarves, Omar Bookstore is worth tracking down. The bookstore isn't very large, but they fit an impressive number of titles in the space they have. Moreover, Mohammad Abdelazim Hussin and Ayman Mansour are happy to help you track down a title (if they can), whether by locating it immediately on the ever-changing bookshelves they have memorized, calling a neighboring store or publisher to run over a copy for you, or ordering the desired title with a promise to call you as soon as it's in. As with other independent bookstores, at Omar Bookstore you'll find only a smattering of government publications due to the difficulty of working with what has been described as endless paperwork and bureaucracy, as well as small returns. This bookstore currently has only one branch. Mohammad and Ayman talk vaguely of plans to expand, but nothing is in the works as of yet. The current store carries more than 100 different publishers, the vast majority of which are Egyptian, though they also carry a fair number of books put out by Lebanese and Syrian publishing houses, in addition to a handful of representatives from other Arab states.
When you enter the store, literary works greet you on the wall immediately in front of you and to your right, with bestsellers and prizewinners at eye-level, as well as the latest edition of the monthly graphic magazine Tok-Tok, if it hasn't yet sold out. Continue into the store and you'll find the first aisle to your right also filled with literature, organized here primarily by publishing house. Like several other Cairo bookstores, Omar Bookstore has a membership program that's worth checking out, especially early in the year (and if you're a regular enough customer you tend to become an honorary member). The membership program runs January through December, costs 25 LE, and provides a 15% discount on every book purchased from the store.


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Q: Updating a C array while reading an input file I am now using cython to read an input file, convert the string to int and store them in a c array (instead of a list) to save space. The code I have looks like this:
cdef long p[10000000]
cdef long i
i = 0
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for line in f:
    temp = map(int, line.split())
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    i = i + 1
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However, the program is always aborted when I refer to the array p. Somehow the array is not "defined" as the memory usage is very low. It works, however, if I'm doing
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*the code you posted is actually wrapped in a function, in which case p is allocated on the stack and as soon as the given function returns, access to p is illegal.

*you don't check i for overflow, what happens if i > 1000000?

*trying to allocate 1M 8-byte integers on stack may be beyond what is allowed, check ulimit -a
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*is that code top-level in module or content of a function?

*how is program aborted (SEGV?)

*referring to p in what context?

*what os/arch do you use?

I could not reproduce your problem with Python 2.7.3 Cython 0.17.2 gcc 4.7.2 linux 3.6.9 x86-64

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Rejection: The Final Frontier
Mar26 by lfullbright
The two best pieces of advice I ever got about writing were: One, you have to know all the rules before you can break them, otherwise it shows; and, two, should you decide to take your writing on the road, you must believe that rejection is not about you as a person, otherwise you won't last two minutes.
The first piece of advice, about rules, is actually easy. If you care about words and stories—or building things, or sports, cooking, photography, gardening, whatever—you probably want to be really proficient at this thing you love. If you're a writer, it's natural to want prose that shows a command of punctuation, grammar, syntax, and rhythm—because anything less than complete proficiency here takes away from the main event: the story.
But the second piece of advice I got, about rejection—now this one just sucks eggs. Not the advice—it's right on. It's the subject matter. Ick. Every writer I know has agonized over rejection. Agonized. I once knew a writer whose query had been rejected eight times, and he absolutely couldn't figure out what was wrong with them (you do know who them is, right?).
But eight rejections is nothing. Eight rejections is just getting started. So's fifty rejections, and a hundred.
And unlike actors who go to audition after audition, their "out there" personalities under a spotlight, a requirement of their business, it's not the same for writers.
Writers aren't known for spotlights. The act of writing, of creating something from nothing, is a solitary cerebral endeavor, not an "out there" one. And so of course many, many writers' basic natures are largely introverted—not to say we don't like people, because that's not the point or even necessarily true. The point is we require time alone, and often feel drained by the presence of others (it's not personal; it's who we are, and we often mesh best with other introverts or "introvert-hybrids" who get this). We're also self-starters; otherwise, we couldn't write.
We're also probably much, much worse at rejection than other artists, whose job descriptions put them front and center from the get-go.
So, yes, rejection can feel covers-over-the-head, chest-pounding devastating. Every submitting writer has been there. I've been there, and there's just no other way of putting it: it sucks dozens of eggs and the hens that laid them. Literary agent Rachelle Gardner recently wrote a post entitled "Do You Have a Thick Skin?" and said, "I'm here to tell you: some of you will never develop a thick skin. But the important thing is: You'll survive."
Of course, if you want to excel, if you want to trump yourself, survival in and of itself won't be enough for you. (my words).
Neither will the metaphorical suit of armor.
It will take all your bravery (dig down deep)—especially for solitary writers not heretofore necessarily known for their great balls of steel, though that doesn't mean they don't have them; they just don't flaunt them—to get out of your own way and consider if the criticism or feedback you've received has merit. If it does, be braver still and get out of bed and go back to work. Just do it. If the criticism doesn't have merit—and criticism is always subjective—still get out of bed and go back to work.
And, yes, it is hard to move forward when you're not feeling the love. Is it ever. But if you've already completed a project, or have made inroads on one, you are already so waaaay ballsy, my friend, sticking to something so hard and making it look easy, meaning you can survive rejection and live to laugh about it, too (though it doesn't have to be today).
More about survival: The Angry Woman Suite, a novel about a celebrity double murder in the early 1900s, and its effect on three generations of two Pennsylvania families, is just out in print (in addition to e-book format) and is now available via Amazon and Barnes and Noble websites.
Check out amazon.com/author/leefullbright—and thanks for stopping here. Comments are always welcome!
How do you handle criticism?
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Francie says:
How do I handle criticism? I usually cry, as soon as I am alone. And then I think about what was said. Is there something I could learn from this? I evaluate, pick myself up and keep on going (but usually after a good cry and feeling worthless for a few second. It never feels good
roomsofourown says:
Crying is good. 🙂
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briansarfati says:
How do I handle criticism? I usually keep a smile while nodding in the right places. When it's done, I think about what the person who criticized me said and try to view it as objectively as I can.
If it makes sense, I change what has to be changed and thank them later for their insight.
If their critique isn't exactly objectively made or if it makes no sense, I ignore it and tell them I'll "consider" it.
You are a very wise man. I also think you are a beautiful writer . . . I just visited your site. Lovely.
Thanks for your comment, Brian!
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This week is full gas; one of those weeks that the whole calendar is based off of. I knew all weekend today would be big; I woke up this morning feeling blah, feeling overwhelmed. I felt like my to-do list was so long that it couldn't be tackled. I felt defeated before starting. And it was only 7:30 am.
I spent the weekend thinking about this. I knew feeling overwhelmed, exhausted and buried wasn't how I wanted to start the week. I tried to avoid it and here it was. So I took a few moments to slow down and make the conscious decision to approach everything better.
instead of feeling buried by that massive to-do list, I told myself I would get it done. I'm not lazy and checking boxes would be enough. There was no need to approach it like it was anything bigger than a list. Step-by-step.
But more importantly, I decided to find a happy, positive and good mental place to approach it all from. Instead of being buried, I tackled it.


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Pres. Weah meets Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Photo Credit: Executive Mansion (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
— Pres. Weah tells 'trade gurus'
President George Weah appears to be putting his reputation as a former professional footballer on the line as a way to convince investors that under his watch, their investments in Liberia would be safe.
In a bid to market Liberia's rich investment climate and woo some of the world's major investors to take advantage of his administration's patronizing policies, the President said: "I am honest, and so is my government. Many of you here today are witnesses to my sincerity. During my soccer career, I did not cheat or dive to win a penalty like many do; yet, I became the best player in the world. This same honesty I bring to politics and governance."
According to an Executive Mansion release, the President spoke these words to an assembly of international investors, entrepreneurs and governments on Monday, November 18, 2019. He said that his administration has re-worked Liberia's trade and commerce ecosystem, making it ideal and perfect for serious investment.
He spoke of Liberia's vast natural resources, including timber, iron ores, rubber, gold, diamonds, fertile soil and favorable climatic conditions, which he said are underpinned by his government's anti-graft policy and zero tolerance for corruption.
"You will certainly not regret investing in Liberia," the President told his audience, adding, "My Government is fair and honest; and my people are hospitable and loving."
In conversation with CNN's Africa Correspondent, Eleni Giokos, who moderated President Weah's presentation, President Weah spoke of improved conditions and policies for visa issuance, which is done either on arrival or online, government's anti-graft, and cordiality as his government's way of attracting meaningful investors.
Though, the country's economy is suffering to gain strength, President Weah urged the audience to ask those currently doing businesses in Liberia to verify his claim of the current business climate under his leadership of being fair and well improved.
"My goal is to help the people of Liberia live in peace and have better life. With my team of cabinet ministers, and our counterparts in the judiciary and legislature, we are committed to achieving this," the President said.
He added that Liberia and Africa need sincere investors—investors who, he said, will not defraud the people of Liberia in taxes and will "not swindle our government; investors who are true and honest partners."
The President told the forum to pay special attention to startups, and the youth as they are the future of any cooperation.
Prior to the interactive forum with Correspondent Eleni Giokos, President Weah held a closed-door meeting with the President of Dubai and Vice President of the United Arab Emirates, H.H. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
President Weah was later on expected to hold bilateral discussions with the President of United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi. The President is attending the Global Business Africa 2019 held under the theme, "Scale Up Africa."
It is being organized by Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It aims to underline the important role of cross border cooperation in supporting and accelerating Africa's next phase of sustainable economic growth and development.
According to Hamad Buamim, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Chamber since its inception, GBF Africa has served as a catalyst for UAE-Africa economic cooperation and business exchange.
"The 2019 edition will highlight new high-potential areas where African companies can collaborate with their UAE counterparts to create new business opportunities and capitalize on existing trade and investment potential," he noted.
Meanwhile, President returned to the country yesterday via the Roberts International Airport in Margibi County.
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Garyehwhalah November 21, 2019 at 3:41 am
I wonder this idiot of a president still think he's playing soccer. Has he realize the amount of stealing going on in his government to which he is also party to? I only blame Liberians for electing this buffoon from Clara town as president. They will stay long inside
Bus2nice November 21, 2019 at 6:35 am
Fool like you will stay long outside because no one will let you in nonsense.
The Real Hard Truth November 21, 2019 at 9:03 am
Garyehwhalah, you are a silly fool and a realisticly idiotic nincompoop. Go back to school and learn your elementary past and present tenses before coming here to display your stupidity.
That is, instead of expressing your thoughts in such broken english as "Has he realize the amount of ….."; you should write "Has he REALIZED…?.".
Next time, you must use "REALIZE" in the past tense, when expressing your stupid thoughts in such a context, Mr. Fool!
Your very stupid behind ranting about someone from Clara Town becoming president.
Did Charles Taylor not come from Arthington?
You better close your stupid backside when you have nothing essential to offer or proffer, Mr. "Has he REALIZE?""
NYENIAI N WORNOR November 21, 2019 at 4:29 pm
Are you an English teacher?
Garyehwhalah November 21, 2019 at 5:12 pm
The Real Hard Truth…….I think before criticizing someone's grammar in such a public forum, you should know better than the person when it comes to the Queen's language.
I made a mistake but in correcting me, you used "Realisticly" instead of Realistically. At least the word I used was spelled correctly, but yours was wrong in every context. But I am not here to teach you how to speak or write English, that should have been your English Teacher's job in Elementary school. LOL
You mentioned Charles Taylor……are you trying to compare a school drop-out dummy like Weah to Taylor? You must be the biggest joker in the Republic of Liberia. LOL. I am not a Charles Taylor fan my brother, but dummy Weah comes nowhere close to Taylor. Besides, you cannot compare a slum like Clara Town to Arthington, Mr. REALISTICLY. Hahahahahahahaha.
Bus2Nice, if I wanted to be a thief like our idiotic president, I would have been in and join the corrupt gravy train in Liberia. But I do not want to be a part of it, hence I am outside. stay in and enjoy the loots with the playboy president. LOL
You better close your stupid backside when you have nothing essential to offer or porffer, Mr. "Has he REALIZE?""
Garyehwhalah November 21, 2019 at 10:08 pm
My brother, you did not say anything new. All you did was to repeat the same line, and insults. I won't stoop low by insulting you. I have no qualms with you my brother, but do have a problem with the President of the Republic, because he has no clue as to what he's doing.
But then again, I don't blame him. I blame Liberians for electing such a dummy. If you want to be a blind loyalist, go straight ahead. When it all goes wrong as the ship has started sinking, at least some of us would say, we saw the wrongs and we voiced our opinions on issues of national importance.
Solomond November 21, 2019 at 4:01 am
Mr Weah, you did not dive for penalty but you dribbled to score goals just as you as re doing as president of Liberia.
Joseph M. Akoi November 21, 2019 at 5:38 am
Again fellow Liberians, president George Weah thinks he still playing football, comparing soccer playing with running a government. Setting himself up as being honest and fighting corruption. The business audience must have really look at our president as being foolish and seriously out of his mind by considering his administration as zero corruption tolerance when the word corruption is placard on the face of president George Weah. Did he really meant this or just another spine talk to mislead those that don't know what factual happening in Liberia. Mr. Weah seems to lack the understanding and respect of his office as president of our republic. Wake up president Weah and lead our nation from the messed we are facing. Prosecute those that steel from Liberia regardless of friendship and partisans. Let declear war on corruption by labelling it as a "capital crime" which is punishable by capital punishment if found guilty. President Paul in Rawanda is not practising witchcraft or performing magic that putting his nation ahead, he is cracking down on corruption in every way one can ever imagine. Do you really think our lawmakers deserve the kind of salaries they presently received for working 2 days in a week, when the masses they are representing are barely surviving on $2 a day meal? This is just another form of corruption at the highest level of governance and something need to be done about it or Liberia is going nowhere. When last did you, president George Weah drove by road from Monrovia to Foya solomba or from Monrovia to grand Gedeh to see the suffering of the vase majorities travelling method?
Just if we actually paid out the right salaries to our lawmakers and members of the judiciary circle, there will be surplus of public funds to maintained our rural roads and eventually pave them. Business can not be as usual president Weah if you want to help Liberia and Liberians to have a better life than before. Drastic measures must be put in places to combat the anti progressive ones that feel they deserve more than their share or they will steal. What standard of lifestyle do you really want for your fellow Liberians in your administration and leadership tenure? The answere remain yours and will be known by your actions.
Momo J. Cole November 21, 2019 at 7:11 am
Thank you Mr. President. I know you will make your critics shame. You will be the best President ever in Liberia just how you became the world best footballer before.
Petarus Dolo November 21, 2019 at 9:11 am
Amen Momo!
Congratulations Mr. President!
Well spoken for Liberia. What a lobby!
However, for those businessmen and women to come to Liberia and invest, they need to work with Liberians. What is the literacy rate of the country for which you are wooing investors? How many companies have come and gone?
Work on your human capital Mr. President!
Haha, congratulations don't pay salaries, does it? If you have an above average IQ, you would ask why investors are not coming to Liberia. and let me tell you why. The country has a very negative image internationally because of corruption and bad leadership by George Weah – that's the reason. Why would investors risk their capital in LIberia when they can go to Ghana, or Ivory Coast, or Sierra Leone which are better governed than Liberia?
Matilda Witherspoon November 21, 2019 at 9:07 am
Mr. President, you are really a BORN GOD-SENT LEADER for our country! We can see that you will build us a very great and prosperous nation!
So be it Matilda!
That is our hope.
We are waiting to see.
Keep hoping and praying to God because this idiot and thief of a President will not do shit to improve your life. The government has a very negative image in the internationally community and that's why no investors are coming to Liberia. You guys will pay the price for electing him. You need smart people to property run a country, not those dumb asses.
Cyrus J Bartuah November 21, 2019 at 9:17 am
Understanding all your plan talk more, ask for help since last year you been moving from country to country who has come here to invest?, pre weah you making us suffering days and nights .
To put it simply, this government has a bad image and that's the main reason investors are not coming.
Flomo Gomo November 21, 2019 at 11:13 am
It is still clear to me that Mr. Weah doesn't understand what it takes to run a business nor less a country. Do you understand profit and loss and that the major objectives of any firm is to make profits or minimize loses. What you need to do is focus on the infrastructure: adequate electricity, water, road network, and trained manpower, education, education,,education. Under you administration most children are hardly in school. What company will run a factory on generator? Or take days to bring in raw materials. How about tax incentives and duty free privileges. Providing visas is a non issue. How about good governance, rule of law, corruption, adequate healthcare when employees get sick from typhoid, malaria, etc. How about the market for the product? Think Mr. so called president. The government needs to create the environment that will attract investors. Business is not about giving, it is about making profit. Under your administration, Liberia is not there yet, because you have no clue. And because of your ineptitude, it will miss out a generation. The pain just started…
Yvonne November 21, 2019 at 1:46 pm
Listen to this idiot.
Right.To.Be.Anonymous November 21, 2019 at 3:05 pm
Weah's speech at the business conference in Dubai was to simply reiterate to the public who he was before his rise to presidential fame. He was a footballer in the literal sense of the word, and nothing else.
One would imagine that he would have touted his record of experiences as an ambassador to the United Nations and ECOWAS and thus finally put to rest the haunting rumors that he was not a presidential material, and neither had the gravitas to become one. Moreover, his stints at the two international organizations were dismal. But instead, he chose the football-route explanation. Why did he choose that route anyway? Well, the man was being truthful to himself, his political party, and his supporters. Football had been his forte. It is what he had known to do best!
So, Liberians will finally learn how an individual can apply the physical attributes of football to the grueling intellectual tasks of building a nation, especially one that is recovering from a tragic civil war, without the knowledge, proper experience and education.
George Weah has yet to get an official meeting with the President of the United States which is very important for a Liberian leader given America is our close ally. If Weah is such a good leader as he and his supporters claim, why is it so difficult to get a White House visit? The government hired an expensive firm in Washington D.C. to lobby on its behalf but so far, no White House visit. It tells you everything about this very corrupt, dysfunctional government under Weah. The entire government is corrupt including Weah. The man runs the country like its his personal property. He's a failure.
tonyleewaye2013 November 23, 2019 at 2:30 am
Wow! Can we as a people, discuss critical national issues free of profanity? I sincerely pray that our Creator will save our Nation and its gullible majority. In any case, my concern is this excerpts from President Weah's public relations line in quotation reported by Daily Observer below.
I'm specifically perplexed by the story line of President Weah that his government has put in place solid foundation, including anti-graft policy and zero tolerance for corruption. Really? This statement is factually inaccurate and misleading. This CDC's Government cannot account for US 25m and 16b Liberian Dollars and President Weah has the audacity to claim that his government has put in place measures to contain and curb corruption? Interestingly, the very people who are responsible for the disappearance of the people's money are the juries and judges in the so-called investigation of the missing money. With this level of ineptitude and criminal facilitation, Liberia is going no where and corruption will continue to thrive to higher heights.
Petarus Dolo November 23, 2019 at 11:01 am
Dear tonyleewaye2013
Thanks for your observations. However, we need to uphold our young democracy and do the following two things:
–	Hold the government accountable for every sleazy governance and transaction. Let's keep our eyes wide open. Demand accountability, basic infrastructure, the upliftment of the livelihood of our people as was promised and draw attention to all ills until the next elections in 2023.
–	Whilst stay vigilant, it's high time we came together under the leadership of Alexander B. Cummings to devise strategies in every sector of our economy, earmark resources to be dispensed, identify the resourceful human capital and begin spreading our ideals to our people in every hamlet, village, town and city of Liberia. Now is the time.
The profanity will NEVER go away. The people in power and their supporters do not have the appropriate vocabulary to defend themselves. They will always resort to that, don't blame them.
Petarus Dolo on "During My Soccer Career, I Did Not Cheat to Win A Penalty"
J. Yanqui Zaza on Count the Liberian Banknotes and Reform Our Economy (Part 1)
tonyleewaye2013 on "During My Soccer Career, I Did Not Cheat to Win A Penalty"
Nya Kamein Suu on To Stabilize Economy: 'Engage in Currency Swap'
Hney on To Stabilize Economy: 'Engage in Currency Swap'
Dumayal on To Stabilize Economy: 'Engage in Currency Swap'
Petarus Dolo on Gov't Receives US$23M Boost for Cocoa Sector
Hney on Cllr. Charles Walker Brumskine Dies
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Those are some fantastic photos.
I'm looking forward to the snow wheelin' season.
Topic: 1-10-14 Tonga Ridge, alive and well!!
Re: 1-10-14 Tonga Ridge, alive and well!!
Nobody wrote: Nice. Looks like old man winter finally decided to show up. What elevation did you get to?
Topic: 3rd Gen 4Runner on 35" PBRs - Where to go wheeling?
Re: 3rd Gen 4Runner on 35" PBRs - Where to go wheeling?
H8PVMNT wrote: So I take it the pit bulls work pretty well in the snow?
I dig 'em. I've heard Iroks are still better but I have no complains about PBR so far. I really like them. I have a run coming up early next month with some friends. I'd have to see how it fairs when next to some other rigs.
3rd Gen 4Runner on 35" PBRs - Where to go wheeling?


While out in Park City, UT this past September for work – I had the opportunity to fish with the guys that made this video. Love the edit.
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Notes: by Malvina Reynolds; previously unpublished.
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And the reflection of waterworn cliffs ages old.
You can only soil it and mar it.
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Birthdays. Weddings. Funerals. While our German ancestors may have lived hundreds of years ago, the life milestones we deem important today held similar significance to our relatives in the past. For us family historians, using these milestones can be extremely helpful in piecing together our ancestors' life stories. But what if you don't speak German?
Below, I've gathered together a list of 25 of the most important milestone words in German genealogy. The German word is on the left, followed by the English translation on the right. An example of the word in the old German handwriting (Kurrentschrift) is also provided.* Knowing these German words, along with a bit of the old German handwriting, can be a great help in deciphering German records and discovering the mysteries of the past (and if you would like a professional genealogy translation, you can always contact me here).
* Keep in mind that handwriting varied by person, place and time, so the handwriting sample is only provided to give you an idea of how the word might look. See Twenty Tips for Deciphering Old German Handwriting for more information.


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Latest instalment of WKLIFE workshop helping to advance methods for stocks for which knowledge is limited.
Published: 4 November 2016
The data-limited puzzle
Providing fishing opportunity advice on 260 individual fish and shellfish stocks relies on the pooling and processing of a vast quantity data. While for a number of these stocks it's possible to piece together a well-rounded picture underpinned by full quantitative assessments based on models and an estimate of stock size, over 60 percent of them lack sufficient data and knowledge to be able to carry out such an evaluation.
All ICES stocks are sorted into six categories depending on the amount and type information available to scientists for running an assessment of a stock's state stock and level of exploitation. Numbers one and two denote stocks like herring or hake for which the available data and information allow an analytical assessment and provision of stock size information. Categories three to six meanwhile are graded as information-limited, where only various pieces of the jigsaw are available. For categories five and six, this means only commercial landings and by-catch figures and for category four, just catch data.
For category three stocks, meanwhile, without a quantitative assessment and with perhaps a lower confidence in the data to hand, a reliable indicator for stock size has to be found in the absence of an absolute estimate. These can take the form of abundance indices from research surveys, which show patterns in the creatures' life-history traits such as biomass, recruitment, and mortality. From rays and skates to eastern Baltic cod, such indices provide a proxy for the size of category three stocks through which a catch value can be advised.
Because knowledge of stocks in category three through to six is incomplete, advice is based on the precautionary approach (conservation limits on fish caught and biomass as well as buffers accounting for uncertainties) rather than on the maximum sustainable yield (MSY) as it is for category one and two stocks.
Data-limited comes to LIFE
Back in 2011, ICES embarked upon its data-limited journey, the process of defining a way of issuing advice along these lines. A year later and 68 data-limited stocks were added to the advice repertoire, helping to ensure that flounder, brill, and pollack fisheries among others could be conducted sustainably. It was in 2012 that the WKLIFE workshop was first convened, bringing together experts to examine how alternative methods could be adopted for the numerous species on which information and knowledge were either lacking or of limited quality. There was plenty of information for these, but not the sort that would allow for the traditional analytical assessment and thus a picture of the stock size. Other biological details – such as growth, maturity, and size (life history parameters) – however, were often available instead, which were used in new and creative ways. Because of this, ICES has moved away from the term 'data-limited' to describe these stocks, instead using the category system.
Although initially intended to run for three years, WKLIFE has continued, becoming a yearly fixture on the ICES calendar. It has carried on developing new means of gauging the stocks as well as setting advice rules (ARs) and evaluating management strategies – this to the backdrop of ICES overall goal of cementing an approach that would see category three and four stocks move from a precautionary framework to an MSY-based one.
Ascertaining uncertainty
WKLIFE's sixth meeting early this October was the latest chapter in the story. Chaired by Manuela Azevedo and Carl O'Brien, the group's main tasks included creating rules for providing precautionary advice for the stocks in a way consistent with the MSY approach, reflecting on advice rules already in place. This effort included investigating the effectiveness of the 20 percent precautionary buffer for category three stocks, a level to safeguard against true mortality or biomass slipping into the danger zone, something ICES has never been able to do before.
"We arbitrarily assumed a 20 percent buffer but in fact our simulations show that it could be increased to 25 percent," explained O'Brien. "The buffer came in because when ICES started to implement some of the methods, the advice would have potentially been inconsistent with the past, because you're looking at stocks where you don't really know exploitation rates or the stock status. If you just applied the uncertainty cap alone, you could end up giving advice that was higher than the previous trends based advice and the European Commission's arbitrary annual quota cuts of up to 30 percent, so the buffer was to guard against that. Twenty percent seemed a sensible starting point, but based on our simulations six years later, 25 percent is actually safer in terms of risk."
Indeed, the uncertainty cap applied to survey index data was another issue for WKLIFE. Survey indices, as often used with these stocks, can be quite noisy. If signals go up a lot it doesn't follow that the stock is really abundant and vice-versa if going down; instead, it could just mean the survey indices are merely tracking noise in the data. A 20 percent cap either way built into the advice takes this into account. Based on their simulations, the 20 percent value for categories three to six stocks was judged by the group to be appropriate.
Reflecting on rules
O'Brien also outlined another success from the workshop, the decision to propose reinforcing the so-called two-over-three rule. For category three stocks, this means taking the average of the last two years' survey indices relative to the three preceding years. Increasingly, however, a three-over-five rule has since been favoured by many ICES stock assessment scientists.
"The three-over-five rule has been preferred for skates, rays, and elasmobranchs, which have really long generation times, and so this rule has been better because it picks longer time-series. Here it shows the mean time for recovery longer and you end up with instability in catches and also in the development of the stock, so it's a riskier strategy. If you use two-over-three, which was the original intention of the approach, you got a lower probability of the spawning stock biomass being below the critical half of Bmsy – so in terms of risk it's actually better."
Another issue addressed was examining how suitable it is using an advice rule of F (fishing mortality) = M (natural mortality) as an MSY proxy for stocks with very limited information, such as some of the shellfish stocks.
"Is fishing at natural mortality precautionary or not, or should ICES be advising to fish at a different lower level?" asked O'Brien. "What our work shows is that a reference point of ¾ natural mortality actually reduces the risk of falling below the biomass threshold and reduces catch variability. So you get more stability for the fishery in terms of catch rate and a lower risk of being outside safe biological limits."
Moving forward with stock status
Another important cog in the process was the WKPROXY process. Beginning in 2015, this saw ICES earlier this year provide the European Commission with a framework for classifying the status of category three and four stocks relative to MSY. Here each stock was ranked according to two proxy indicators for exploitation and biomass, and was colour coded either green to signify a desirable status or red to signify an undesirable status, depending on levels of the two. As O'Brien explained, WKLIFE was also key in moving this forward.
"What we managed to do this year was, having identified status with respect to desirable or undesirable, to try and embed that in a form of advice rule or management strategy evaluation. So we evaluated something called DLMtool, a data-limited methods toolkit. The tool allows you to set up a hypothetical population that mimics the stock you are interested in and then try and apply different types of fishing to it – simulate the effects of fishing – and see how the population evolves. Do you end up with a stock collapsing, rebuilding, or becoming stable? You then choose the strategy that gives you the best risk profiles or the best biomass trajectories."
"So that's a big change. I think all we really managed to say with the MSY proxies was whether a stock is in a good or bad state without saying what to do about it. Now, we're in a position to start giving some guidance on what you should be doing and identify fishing opportunities for next year and beyond."
WKLIFE will report to ICES Advisory Committee (ACOM) with their recommendations for future advice.
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There are many different systems so this post will touch on some important areas. Consult your owner's manual or check the maker's website for detailed maintenance items and recommendations. Most "Box Style" systems require a dedicated power supply, terminating in a receptacle that will accept a standard "Cigarette Lighter" plug. On older vehicles with true cigarette lighters, the existing wiring was capable of carrying up to 15 amps of power to heat the lighting element. Today these power outlets are designed to recharge cell phones or power low power items such as GPS's. All of the makers of these brake systems have auxiliary power outlet kits which will provide sufficient power safely. Read one of our following Blog postings to see how to make your own.
If the brake system requires adjustment or can be adjusted, ensure that it can be done either each time you set up if that is required to tow or if it is permanently installed, ensure that it is still within the adjustment range. Adjust as required to be within the brake system's manufacturer's specification.
Check to make sure that the warning system that lets you know that the brake is "On" in the towed vehicle is working. It is not only necessary to monitor normal brake action of the towed vehicle, it is especially necessary should the breakaway system be triggered. On many systems the breakaway pin is no longer removed and reinserted each time the system is connected and disconnected from the tow car and RV. Instead a removal carabineer with coiled cable is connected and disconnected. This lack of "exercise" can cause the switch to corrode and not function when the pin is removed. Pull the pin out and confirm that the brake system actuates the towed vehicle's brake pedal as it should. If not, clean the internal connections with a material such as Corrosion Block® or replace the defective switch. I recommend checking it each time you setup the system. If your brake system requires air to operate then ensure that the coach air is up and the connection to the Towed Vehicle is connected at both coach and Towed Vehicle ends.


1926 - serves as a flight instructor.
September 1926 - designated as a "combat pilot".
December 28, 1927 - meets with other influential members of the Aviation Regiment to discuss the need for new training aircraft.
August 21, 1928 - noses over Martinsyde ADC.1 #14 while landing.
December 1929 - checks out in the Bristol Bulldog.
August 30 - September 7, 1930 - participates in the goodwill flight around Europe.
1932 - recipient of the Latvian chapter's Clifford Harmon Trophy.
1932 (exact date unknown) - Linins flips a Fiat CR.1 upon landing.
August 1932 - on the roster of the 2nd Fighter Squadron.
May 20, 1936 - named Commander of the 5th Reconnaissance Squadron.
October, 1938 - still Commander of the 5th Recon Squadron.
1939 - responsible for the mechanic's training section of the Aviation Regiment's flight school. Rank: Captain.
1941 (Soviet Occupation) - arrested by the Soviets and deported to Siberia, where he subsequently perished due to the harsh conditions.


The spectacular African coastline and islands off the coast of Tanzania are a wonderful adjunct to an African wilderness safari. Steeped in history, this region is where Africa meets Arabia.The vast Indian Ocean has some of the best beaches in the world, coupled with true luxury dream accommodation and worthy of the finest holiday memories, barefoot luxury, spa treatments, wildly beautiful beach shelters, private plunge pools and incredible underwater adventures – this African paradise awaits.
The superb quality of Indian Ocean beaches and private Indian Ocean Islands compliment any African safari itinerary. These are easily accommodated in most safari itineraries, and the eye-opening diving and snorkelling found here, can continue your wildlife adventure into this African paradise.
Zanzibar is an archipelago made up of the Zanzibar and Pemba Islands, and several islets. It is located about 25 miles off the Tanzanian mainland and known locally as Unguja, it is 97 km long and 32 km wide. Characterised by beautiful sandy beaches fringed with spectacular coral reefs, and the magic of historic Stone Town – the only functioning ancient town in East Africa.
Seychelles – giant tortoises, coconut crabs, and black parrots claim this idyllic archipelago as home, due north of Madagascar. The dramatic rock formations along Anse Source d'Argent on La Digue Island compete with the more than 900-metre-high Morne Seychellois on Mahé and dense tropical forests of Praslin islands.
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ALIBABA IS THE WORLD'S LARGEST eCOMMERCE COMPANY, BUT DOES IT POSE A REAL THREAT TO AMAZON AND eBAY?
Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group
Alibaba to invest more abroad as globalization becomes a top priority
Group Holding Ltd will invest heavily in existing and new ventures abroad, making its push beyond the China market a top priority, the Chinese e-commerce leader's new CEO, Daniel Zhang, said.
Alibaba Group CEO Daniel Zhang (Click Image To Enlarge)
Zhang's comments come at a time when Alibaba aims to maintain its rapid growth even as the prospect of e-commerce saturation at home looms over the company.
Zhang said in his first speech since taking up his new post this week, according to a report on Thursday on Alibaba's news and commentary website, Alizila.
"We must absolutely globalize,"
The vast bulk of Alibaba's revenue comes from its dominant domestic online marketplaces, but the company has been investing in a range of sectors abroad. Just this week it announced it would set up a cloud computing base in Dubai, and boosted its stake in U.S. e-retailer Zulily Inc.
Alibaba Group Holding Limited - Revenues by Segment - 2010 Through 2014 - Includes China vs International Revenues - In Millions of Yuans - Statista (Click Image To Enlarge)
Zhang was quoted as saying.
"We will organize a global team and adopt global thinking to manage the business, and achieve the goal of 'global buy and global sell'."
Alibaba, which handles more transactions on its platforms than Amazon.com Inc and eBay Inc combined, would continue to invest heavily in new and existing overseas operations, Zhang was quoted as saying. Those included AliExpress, a platform for overseas consumers to buy Chinese goods, and Tmall Global, a marketplace for overseas goods to be sold online in China.
For the quarter ending in December 2014, Alibaba achieved $127 billion in China retail gross merchandise value (GMV). For calendar year 2014, Alibaba achieved $370 billion in China retail GMV. A key reason for the strong GMV growth is the continued growth in active buyers across its platforms—Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com. The company explained that an active buyer is someone who came to its retail marketplaces to make at least one purchase during the period of measurement.
Alibaba Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) - Taobao and Tmall - By Quarter in Billions of Chinese Yuans - Q4 2012 through Q4 2014 (Click Image To Enlarge)
The GMV growth was also driven by category expansion. On November 11, 2014, the company's Singles Day promotion generated GMV of $9.2 billion. This was an increase of 58% compared to the Singles Day in 2013. These transactions were settled through Alipay on its retail marketplaces within a 24-hour period.
Alibaba's online shopping gross merchandise volume (GMV) in millions of Chinese Yuan's from Q2 2012 through Q1 2015 (Click Image To Enlarge)
Zhang said if Alibaba does not globalize it won't be able to last 100 years - a goal set out by Executive Chairman Jack Ma.
But growth of Alibaba's international commerce business is lagging the pace of growth in China, even as the new CEO faces the prospect of slowing domestic growth as saturation among online shoppers threatens to hobble expansion.
In the three months ended March, Alibaba's revenue from China commerce grew 39 percent to $2.2 billion. International commerce grew 27 percent to $264 million and only accounted for 9 percent of revenue, compared to 11 percent in the same period a year earlier.
Alibaba says some of its larger overseas markets include Brazil and Russia. The company and its affiliates are also making overtures in India, where it is in talks with phone maker Micromax Informatics to buy a $1.2 billion stake, according to several people with direct knowledge of the matter.
For the United States, Alibaba is planning a major move to win business this year, by offering American retailers new ways to sell to China's vast and growing middle class.
Mobile commerce is driving an increasing share of Alibaba's business
Alibaba's growth has been further boosted by an exponential increase in mobile users. China's 600 million-plus Internet users are migrating to smartphones, setting off a race to capture this new market. Alibaba's mobile GMV now represents over 51% of a staggering 289 million mobile active users.
Alibaba said it had 289 million mobile active users (MAUs) out of 350 million buyers at the end of Q1 2015. Mobile users represented $49 billion or 51% of total gross merchandise volume (GMV) on its Chinese retail platforms during Q1 2015, up from 42% in Q4 2014. Mobile users also represented a whopping 40% of total ecommerce revenues for Q1 2015, up from 30% in Q4 2015.
Alibaba Active Buyers and Mobile Active Users by Quarter in Millions - Q1 2014 Through Q1 2015 (Click Image To Enlarge)
Alibaba Total Mobile Active Users (MAUs) in Millions, Mobile Gross Merchance Volume (US$) and Mobile Revenues as a % of China Retail Rvenues (US$) for Q1 2015 (Click Image To Enlarge)
Alibaba Mobile GMV, Mobile Revenues and Revenue Contribution by Quarter - Q1 2013 Through Q1 2015 (Click Image To Enlarge)
Does Alibaba represent a serious competititve threat to Amazon and eBay?
Wether Alibaba represents a serious to U.S. ecommerce leaders Amazon and eBay depends on who you ask. Let's look at the opinions of a few ecommerce experts.
Mike van Dulken, head of research at Accendo Markets, says Yes
In terms of sheer size, accounting for 80 per cent of all Chinese online shopping, with volume growth easily outstripping rival internet retailers thanks to 1 billion items on offer to 350 million buyers, and with 30 million shipments made per day, fast-growing behemoth Alibaba represents a genuine threat to the likes of Ebay and Amazon.
Jack Ma's stateside charm offensive has provided key insight into the firm's goals, with some impressive numbers, such as sales of a landmark $1 trillion by 2019, generated by a whopping 2 billion customers. The founder has made it clear that the aim is to reduce reliance on China, increasing rest-of-world sales by a factor of 20.
This implies taking market share, which the promise of 72-hour worldwide shipping and attracting US businesses to its already highly-successful platform may well help deliver. Outside China, Alibaba is looking increasingly like the retail elephant in the internet chatroom. The competition better watch out.
Steve Mader, a vice president at Kantar Retail, says No
In the short term, Alibaba is not focused on entering the US or European retail markets to compete on Amazon and Ebay's home turf. Its attention is connecting Chinese businesses to Chinese consumers, Chinese businesses to the world, and the world to Chinese businesses.
Ma's goal is to remove a significant amount of friction from Chinese retail trade and have Alibaba positioned as the conduit the traffic flows through, generating a massive number of monetisation opportunities through media and marketing services, or payment programmes such as Alipay.
With Alibaba focusing on China, it offers global retailers the ability to learn and adapt. We're already seeing this with Amazon's moves in the UK to become more flexible in its distribution network by partnering with other retailers such as Smiths News, and Ebay becoming increasingly brand focused. In the longer term, however, the tech giants would be foolish to dismiss the threat of Alibaba.
COMMENTARY: Based on Alibaba Group CEO Daniel Zhang goal to expand internationally by a "factor of 20," both Amazon and eBay should take this as a threat, but not an eminent one. Alibaba Group faces several hurdles in order to successfully penetrate the U.S. market.
1) U.S. buyers do not use escrow accounts to make online purchases like Alibaba Group uses to make sales. We prefer to use credit and debit cards to make our purchases, expect a liberal merchandise return policy, and delivery of our purchases within 1 to 5 days. I don't think Alibaba Group's business model translates well in the US market except for very expensive items like jewelry, art and collectables.
2) U.S. buyers are very loyal to both Amazon and eBay. The seller reviews on eBay weed out crooked sellers. Likewise, product reviews on Amazon are very useful in assisting buyers to make their purchasing decisions.
3) U.S. buyers have the advantage of buying products from sellers located and shipping within the U.S. Alibaba Group does not carry merchandise, but depends on millions of small sellers, to produce and ship the product directly to the customer. Alibaba would have to open large distribution centers in the U.S. in order to meet the demands of U.S. customers for quick turnaround of their orders. This would require a huge investment in facilities and merchandise inventory to meet the demand of customers in the U.S. and Europe.
4) Both eBay and Amazon have fond ways to weedout sellers of cheap knockoffs. On the other hand, Alibaba Group has been criticized by the government for the large number of sellers selling knockoff products through their ecommerce platforms. Alibaba Group has spent over $1 billion over the last two years to control the knockoff problem.
5) U.S. and European online buyers are much more sophisticated than Chinese consumers. They are very leary of these small Chinese producers, the quality of the products they sell, and how to deal with merchandise returns. This is a big reason why I believe that Alibaba Group will have to adopt a business model that is similar to Amazon and eBay in order to compete with those companies.
6) Alibaba Group does not have a well known brand name in the U.S. This lack of brand awareness by U.S. consumers is a huge weakness. This lack of a strong brand identity will hurt Alibaba with U.S. consumers who are used to buying from well established companies like eBay and Amazon.
In spite of these weaknesses and disadvantages, Alibaba Group still represents a threat, probably within 5 to 10 years. Alibaba cannot just compete on the basis of price, it must compete on the basis of the four P's (price, product, promotion and place).
Courtesy of an article dated June 11, 2015 appearing in CityAM, an article dated May 14, 2015 appearing in Reuters, an article dated January 29, 2015 appearing in The Wall Street Journal, an article dated March 23, 2015 appearing in Market Realist, an article dated March 23, 2015 appearing in Yahoo Finance, First Quarter 2015 Earnings Presentation for Alibaba Group, Full Year 2014 Earnings Statistics by Statista
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Gutenberg is more than an editor. While the editor is the focus right now, the project will ultimately impact the entire publishing experience including customization (the next focus area).
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One thing that sets WordPress apart from other systems is that it allows you to create as rich a post layout as you can imagine — but only if you know HTML and CSS and build your own custom theme. By thinking of the editor as a tool to let you write rich posts and create beautiful layouts, we can transform WordPress into something users love WordPress, as opposed something they pick it because it's what everyone else uses.
Gutenberg looks at the editor as more than a content field, revisiting a layout that has been largely unchanged for almost a decade.This allows us to holistically design a modern editing experience and build a foundation for things to come.
The block unifies multiple interfaces. If we add that on top of the existing interface, it would add complexity, as opposed to remove it.
By revisiting the interface, we can modernize the writing, editing, and publishing experience, with usability and simplicity in mind, benefitting both new and casual users.
When singular block interface takes center stage, it demonstrates a clear path forward for developers to create premium blocks, superior to both shortcodes and widgets.
Considering the whole interface lays a solid foundation for the next focus, full site customization.
Blocks are the unifying evolution of what is now covered, in different ways, by shortcodes, embeds, widgets, post formats, custom post types, theme options, meta-boxes, and other formatting elements. They embrace the breadth of functionality WordPress is capable of, with the clarity of a consistent user experience.
Imagine a custom "employee" block that a client can drag to an About page to automatically display a picture, name, and bio. A whole universe of plugins that all extend WordPress in the same way. Simplified menus and widgets. Users who can instantly understand and use WordPress — and 90% of plugins. This will allow you to easily compose beautiful posts like this example.
Check out the FAQ for answers to the most common questions about the project.
Posts are backwards compatible, and shortcodes will still work. We are continuously exploring how highly-tailored metaboxes can be accommodated, and are looking at solutions ranging from a plugin to disable Gutenberg to automatically detecting whether to load Gutenberg or not. While we want to make sure the new editing experience from writing to publishing is user-friendly, we're committed to finding a good solution for highly-tailored existing sites.
Gutenberg has three planned stages. The first, aimed for inclusion in WordPress 5.0, focuses on the post editing experience and the implementation of blocks. This initial phase focuses on a content-first approach. The use of blocks, as detailed above, allows you to focus on how your content will look without the distraction of other configuration options. This ultimately will help all users present their content in a way that is engaging, direct, and visual.
These foundational elements will pave the way for stages two and three, planned for the next year, to go beyond the post into page templates and ultimately, full site customization.
Gutenberg is a big change, and there will be ways to ensure that existing functionality (like shortcodes and meta-boxes) continue to work while allowing developers the time and paths to transition effectively. Ultimately, it will open new opportunities for plugin and theme developers to better serve users through a more engaging and visual experience that takes advantage of a toolset supported by core.
Gutenberg is built by many contributors and volunteers. Please see the full list in CONTRIBUTORS.md.
How can I send feedback or get help with a bug?
We'd love to hear your bug reports, feature suggestions and any other feedback! Please head over to the GitHub issues page to search for existing issues or open a new one. While we'll try to triage issues reported here on the plugin forum, you'll get a faster response (and reduce duplication of effort) by keeping everything centralized in the GitHub repository.
We're calling this editor project "Gutenberg" because it's a big undertaking. We are working on it every day in GitHub, and we'd love your help building it.You're also welcome to give feedback, the easiest is to join us in our Slack channel, #core-editor.
Where can I read more about Gutenberg?
This update broke my entire theme's compatibility with Visual Composer, but moreover I find the new editor very confusing. This isn't Evernote - why the minimalist "block" editor that does away with everything people actually use, while still not being an actual page builder? I am very surprised this update was released with so many problems.
The concept of Gutenberg and the idea of block-builders in general makes the utmost of sense. A lot of us love WordPress but aren't necessarily developers or don't want to spend additional time creating page templates and new layouts which may be used for single blog posts or pages. Wordpress' Gutenberg in my opinion was supposed to be a "proper" and "lean" drag and drop builder which would render a lot of the third party plugins irrelevant, however the UX is clunky and leaves a lot to be desired. Instead of streamlining the act of writing a blog post, it's not much harder to write a simple piece of content. In theory there are more options but overall it feels more restrictive when every element needs to be a seperate block. The fact it doesn't work as an either or option, or in tandem with classic editor is also quite frustrating and doesn't allow users to dip their toes into the water. Instead you get the cold shock of this unfamiliar interface and writing a quick piece of content becomes a pain. - It's certainly not all doom and gloom though and undoubtedly a lot of the poor feedback (mine included) is because we all as humans don't like change. With a few tweaks and new functionality, I can definitely see this working. My issue is that right now it feels like it's in beta and shouldn't have been released just yet. Reputation wise I think it has suffered for this but I trust the awesome WordPress team to eventually get this right and make us all forget/stop installing classic Editor!
I enjoyed using Gutenberg and it is future or editing!
Gutenberg looks like something that existed before WordPress was created. It is a HUGE step back for WP, and something I really hate using: it is counter intuitive and breaks a lot of things on my sites (theme, plugins, DB). Everything seems slower and more complicated than before. One of my copywriters even quit because it was a mess to use. Please hear the admonestation of Humanity, and bring WordPress back, and let Gutenberg coexist as a standalone plugin (for those who really want to use it).
Bad editor!!! this is the complete opposite of what WP is all about !!!
Awful editor - this is the complete opposite of what WP is all about !!!
Every time I start a new WordPress project, I give Gutenberg (the new default editor) a chance. Yet, every time I end up turning away from it. The reason is simple: It makes simple things way too complicated. This editor is only good for ONE thing: Writing. And that is exactly the number of stars it deserves. WordPress is supposed to be a full-featured CMS. Yet this editor makes an u-turn and turns WordPress back to a blogging platform.
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Add a new Group block.
Add vertical alignment support to the Media & Text block.
Add the image fill option to the Media & Text block.
Improvements to the Image Block flows.
Automatically add mailto: to email addresses when linking.
Add visual handles for side resizers for various blocks.
Improve the performance of the annotations by avoiding excessive memoization.
Announce the color accessibility issues to screen readers.
Add enum block attributes validation to browser block parser.
Use a consistent grey background in the Shortcode block.
Improve accessibility of video block select poster image.
Respect prefers-reduced-motion for fixed backgrounds in Cover block.
Prevent ArrowLeft key press in multi-line selection from prematurely triggering multi-selection.
Avoid keeping the RichText value in cache indefinitely.
Fix the post title input borders in the code editor.
Fix the block restrictions to insert, replace or move blocks.
Select gallery images on focus.
Fix removing gallery images on delete/backspace key press.
Fix small visual regression in the block autocompete popover.
Fix the data module resolver resolution status.
Avoid saving metaboxes when previewing changes.
Fix selecting the separator block.
Fix displaying the color palette tooltips on hover.
Fix Firefox/NVDA bug not announcing the toggle settings button.
Fix arrow navigation in paragraph blocks with backgrounds.
Fix the columns block click to select.
Fix post dirtiness after fetching reusable blocks.
Fix the hover and focus styles for buttons with the isBusy prop.
Remove the box shadow from the side inserter button.
Changing the region navigation shortcuts to avoid conflicts.
Fix space insertion in the Button block in Firefox.
Prevent the link popover from animating constantly as we type.
Fix the warning triggered by clearing the height of the spacer block.
Fix undo behavior after fresh post loading.
Add design documentation to the Modal component.
Clarify the CSS naming coding guidelines.
Tweaks and typos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Bootstrap the design of the new widgets screen (non functional yet).
Use a babel plugin to load block.json files.
Introduce block.json metadata for all client side blocks.
Move the edit functions and the icons to separate files.
Move the transforms and save functions to separate files.
Add forwardRef support to the PlainText component.
Support Button Block Appender in the InnerBlocks component.
Unset the focal point attributes from the Cover block if not needed.
Consistently return promises from the data module action calls.
Remove obsolete CSS currentColor usage.
Improve the e2e test CLI arguments and docs.
Improve the e2e test login stability on MacOS.
Remove invalid urls and ids from media test fixtures.
Remove the deprecated Gutenberg plugin functions slated for 5.4 and 5.5.
remove or rename undocumented RichText package functions and constants.
Adjust paragraph block spacing to use standardised variables.
Allow spaces in file paths for package build process.
Update pre-commit to check modified files only.
Improve the performance of the webpack build configuration.
Update dependencies with known vulnerabilities.
Fix typo in variable names.
Accessibility improvements to the Button component.
Enhance the unsupported block type.
Fix image upload progress not being displayed consistently.
Visual refinements for the native nextpage block.
Fix importing the column block.
Remove DOM logic from the list block toolbar.
Put the caret at the end of the text field after merging blocks.
Fix caret position after inline paste.
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'As a politician, I must tell you I already know.
A twitter account focusing on the positive aspects of Academia.
The more ironic and funny side of Academia. This person does in one or two sentences what PhD Comics does with figures.
Yup, it's possible to sum of 3-6 years of work and up to a couple of hundred pages in one sentence.
On a more serious note, a Twitter account for mutual support and tips.
Two very skilled authors/teachers who write (and tweet) about academic writing.
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Project Runway recap
If you missed it on Instagram, my daughter has now gone from commenting on the runway shows, to creating her own. I don't know how to break it to her that the season is over!
Spoilers ahead...
Best moments: No weird crazy drama. Everyone finished. And they didn't even need to bring in helpers like they usually do.
Worst moments: You know what I'm going to say, right? The collections were SO BORING. I miss the days of Seth Aaron or Mondo, when you didn't know what to expect and saw something new in every garment.
Also, the models were the worst (with the exception of Ashley's). They all looked so angry/mean that I wanted to run away from them AND the clothes.
Best collections: It was clear to me that Ashley and Kelly were the top two. They used the most color and had the most cohesive collections. (But Ashley's finale look with the glued-on flowers was the ugliest thing I've ever seen...I thought it HAD to be some kind of joke.) When it came down to the two of them I did think it was a crapshoot as to who the judges would prefer. They weren't breaking any molds in terms of silhouette. Kelly had better fit but her pieces didn't look as expensive. Given that Ashley had had the courage to show PR's first plus-size collection, you had to know that would put her over the edge. When Gretchen beat Mondo we all learned that there is more at work here than who shows the best collection. I don't know that we've ever been given the criteria the judges use, anyway. For all we know, they put the names in a hat.
Worst collections: Edmond's was disappointing. I'm going to assume that he meant to show a collection of pieces that met the quality of the bow dress, which I thought was beautiful. But somehow he couldn't get there. He had a lot of throw-away looks (including the LBD that Heidi loved). And there was too much black.
Which brings us to Candice. She listened to the judges and toned it down, but that didn't really help her. She probably should have done what she wanted, which apparently was to put on a spectacle. What irks me the most about her stuff is her unrelenting use of leather and black. She had a lot of good ideas or good pieces that could have worked perfectly fine in other textiles. It would have made the collection more interesting and less bondagey/hooker. I get it, she thinks it's her signature, but you really need to be more varied than that, I think. Your ideas should be your signature, not your textiles.
Overall, this was a lame season and a predictable winner. My only hope is that Ashley does something meaningful with her win, that whether or not she deserved it she puts her winnings to good use. Poor Kelly. Her disappointment was hard to see. Reunion show this week!
SewCraftyChemist November 10, 2015 at 9:09 AM
Kelly should have won. Total PC move by PR. Yawn.
No matter...and I hope Edmond makes All Stars. I like Edmond!
Yup, I agree ^^^
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MIAMI (AP) — Martin Prado homered and drove in four runs, leading Dan Haren and the Miami Marlins over the Philadelphia Phillies 7-0 on Saturday.
The Marlins won for ninth time in 10 games and sent Philadelphia to its fifth straight loss.
Haren (3-1) gave up four hits in six innings. He walked none and struck out four.
Prado hit a three-run homer off Cole Hamels (1-3) in the second inning and added an RBI double in the sixth.
Prado is hitting .313 with two homers and nine RBIs in 67 at-bats against Hamels, who is 9-15 lifetime vs. the Marlins.
Miami second baseman Dee Gordon, who leads the major leagues with a .440 batting average, recorded his sixth consecutive multihit game. He went 3 for 3 with two walks, scored three times and stole two bases.
Gordon also took away a hit away from Carlos Ruiz with an over-the-shoulder catch running into shallow center field.
J.T. Realmuto drove in two runs and Giarcarlo Stanton added a sacrifice fly.
Hamels allowed six runs and 10 hits in six innings.
Ichiro Suzuki of the Marlins was called out on a bizarre play in the second.
Suzuki was on first base when Adeiny Hechavarria hit a bloop single to right field. Suzuki ran to second, touched the base, and then retreated a few steps back to first in case the ball was caught.
When the ball dropped in, Suzuki darted to third. The Phillies appealed the play and he was called out for not retouching second base on his way to third.
Marlins manager Mike Redmond came out to discuss the call with second base umpire Clint Fagan, but was not able use his instant replay challenge after a failed try in the first on a play at the plate.
Cards again beat Pirates 2-1 in extras, win in 11th: Matt Carpenter hit a sacrifice fly in the 11th inning Saturday and the St. Louis Cardinals once again beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 in extra inningss.
The Cardinals have won five in a row. They defeated the Pirates 2-1 Friday night on Matt Adams' single in the 10th.
Pittsburgh left a season-high 18 runners on base and the Cardinals stranded just four. St. Louis has won 15 of its last 18 against the Pirates at Busch Stadium.
Peter Bourjos doubled in the St. Louis 11th. He was trapped off second by Jared Hughes (0-1) and caught stealing third. Pete Kozma and Jon Jay singled and Carpenter hit a deep fly to left that easily scored the winning run.
Carlos Villanueva (3-1), the seventh St. Louis pitcher, went one inning.
St. Louis starter John Lackey gave up one run and six hits in six innings. He struck out four and walked three.
Francisco Liriano allowed up one run on three hits over eight innings. He did not allow a hit until the sixth.
Josh Harrison hit an RBI single in the third that put Pittsburgh ahead. Gregory Polanco began the inning with a single, stole second and went to third on a throwing error by catcher Yadier Molina.
St. Louis tied it in the sixth on a run-scoring ground out by Jay. Bourjos and pinch-hitter Jason Heyward led off the inning.


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VIII.16 State and political subdivisions to provide housing for individuals
To enhance the availability of adequate housing in the state and to improve the economic and general well-being of the people of the state, it is determined to be in the public interest and a proper public purpose for the state or its political subdivisions, directly or through a public authority, agency, or instrumentality, to provide, or assist in providing, by grants, loans, subsidies to loans, loans to lenders, purchase of loans, guarantees of loans, or otherwise as determined by the general assembly, housing, including shelters to provide temporary housing, in the state for individuals and families by the acquisition, financing, construction, leasing, rehabilitation, remodeling, improvement, or equipping of publicly or privately owned housing, including the acquisition of real property and interests in real property. Laws, including charters, ordinances, and resolutions, may be passed to carry into effect those purposes, including but not limited to the authorization of the making of grants, loans, subsidies to loans, loans to lenders, purchase of loans, and guarantees of loans by the state or its political subdivisions, directly or through a public authority, agency, or instrumentality, which laws, charters, ordinances, resolutions, grants, loans, subsidies to loans, loans to lenders, purchase of loans, guarantees of loans, and any other actions authorized by the general assembly shall not be subject to the requirement, limitations, or prohibitions of any other section of Article VIII, or Sections 6 and 11 of Article XII, Ohio Constitution.
The general assembly also may authorize the issuance by the state, directly or through its public authorities, agencies, or instrumentalities, or obligations to provide moneys for the provision of or assistance in the provision of housing, including shelters to provide temporary housing, in the state for individuals and families, which obligations are not supported by the full faith and credit of the state, and shall not be deemed to be debts or bonded indebtedness of the state under other provisions of this constitution. Such obligations may be secured by a pledge under law, without necessity for further appropriation, of all or such portion as the general assembly authorizes of revenues or receipts of the state or its public authorities, agencies, or instrumentalities, and this provision may be implemented by law to better provide therefor.
The powers granted under this section are independent of, in addition to, and not in derogation of other powers under laws, charters, ordinances, resolutions, or this constitution, including the powers granted under Section 14 of Article VIII and Articles X and XVIII, and the provision of any capital improvements under Section 2i of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution. The powers granted under this section do not impair any law, charter, ordinance, or resolution enacted prior to the effective date of this section or any obligations issued under such law, charter, ordinance, or resolution. The powers granted under this section are subject to the power of the general assembly to regulate taxation and debt of political subdivisions, including the regulation of municipal taxation and debt pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII and Section 13 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution.
The powers granted to political subdivisions under this section shall be operative on and after September 1, 1991, or on an earlier date that an act of the general assembly declares such powers shall be operative.


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The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS)
Strengthens University of Michigan's preeminence in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and enables their transformative use in a wide range of research disciplines to achieve lasting societal impact.
The Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE)
The focal point for the wide spectrum of research in computational science and engineering at the University of Michigan.
The Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG)
An interdisciplinary unit of the University of Michigan Office of Research, supporting research on women, gender, and sexuality.
The Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention (IFIP)
Fosters collaboration among researchers in disciplines ranging from the social sciences and the arts to engineering and public health so that, together, they can formulate and answer critical questions about firearm injury prevention.
Bold Challenges is a new initiative, led by the Office of the Vice President for Research, that integrates social and technical sciences from across the University of Michigan to address societal challenges that intersect equity, health, infrastructure and sustainability.
Presidential, Provost & Vice President for Research Multidisciplinary Research Initiatives
The university has invested in many centrally administered research initiatives, which bring together the perspectives of diverse disciplines, as well as of industry and other partners, to address emerging challenges and opportunities in areas of broad potential impact.


Just days after suspected shooter Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students who survived the deadly rampage and residents in the area rally in protest, demanding more effective gun control. This comes as a gun show less than 50 miles away in Miami displays AR-15s, similar to the one used in the shooting. NBC's Maya Rodriguez reports for Sunday TODAY.


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