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July 22, 2016, 11:16 a.m. July 22, 2016, 11:16 a.m.
There are a variety of different types of vehicle insurance fraud in the UK. In this blog post, we will look at each type of insurance fraud in detail, and talk about how you can avoid being a victim of vehicle insurance fraud.
Induced car accidents: this type of insurance fraud is more common with commercial vehicles. These 'accidents' are deliberately induced by criminals so that they can claim compensation.
Staged accidents: similar to induced road traffic accidents. However, this type of fraud involves two criminal parties intentionally crashing into each other so they can both make a claim.
Fronting: fronting is where a driver uses the details of another driver to get cheaper insurance. Putting a main driver as a named driver on an insurance application counts as fronting.
Phantom passengers: this is where the vehicles involved in staged accidents are carrying lots of passengers. Each one of the passengers then claims to have been injured in the collision to get more compensation.
Application fraud: the criminal has lied or intentionally held back information to get cheaper car insurance.
This list is not exhaustive, and there are many more types of vehicle insurance fraud so it's important to keep your wits about you on the road at all times.
Is insurance affected by gender? Click here to read our investigation.
Be alert at all times: if you're obviously not paying as much attention to the road as you should be, i.e. you're smoking a cigarette or adjusting your sat nav, you make it easier for insurance fraud criminals to target you.
Beware of broken brake lights: a common feature on fraudster's cars are non-functioning brake lights. Be aware of the speed you and the car in front of you is going, and if you stop at a traffic light and their brake lights do not illuminate, give that vehicle extra room.
Don't be distracted by a car behind you: Sometimes fraudsters use two cars, one drives behind and one drives in front of the victim. The car behind will tailgate the victim to intentionally distract them, and the car in front will slam their brakes on, causing an accident.


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Christelle Montus, artiste contemporain et peintre, née le  à Genève, de nationalité suisse et française, vit et travaille à Genève.

Parcours artistique
Née en 1973, Christelle Montus vit et travaille à Genève. Autodidacte, elle fait de sa passion un art. Elle développe depuis le début une vision plastique abstraite. Ses huiles sur toile de grandes dimensions, ses installations, ses collages, ses saupoudrages, expriment sa quête du sens. Tombé du ciel, Soleil Noir, Cousu de fil…noir, Firmament, Abyme, Cyclothymie, Suite de Convergence, Série Noire, Rencontre, On prend l'métro, Constellation sont autant d'essais vers le futur. Dans l'art contemporain, la pensée et le discours jouent un rôle décisif. Or, cette réflexion n'est pas extérieure au travail, elle ne provient en aucun cas d'un autre lieu que de la pratique elle-même, elle en émerge directement, comme une puissance implicite que contient déjà le travail lui-même.

Inspirée depuis son enfance par la vision nocturne du firmament étoilé, Christelle Montus ne cesse de rêver à ce que pourrait être une représentation artistique de l'Univers en expansion. Grâce à son travail pictural, elle a imaginé pouvoir symboliser ses visions cosmiques sur la toile. A la proposition de Joseph Farine, directeur artistique du laboratoire d'art contemporain Andata.Rıtorno à Genève, elle a réalisé in situ une œuvre éphémère couronnant sa recherche. Pour matérialiser sa vision du ciel, elle a utilisé les pigments et les paillettes. La couleur noire représentait le fond infini de l'univers. Dans ce décor brillaient les galaxies, les étoiles et les planètes, symbolisées par un saupoudrage de pigments et de paillettes aux teintes multiples.

Toujours au travers d'une œuvre éphémère réalisée in situ, Christelle Montus a projeté sa vision artistique de l'impact de la lumière solaire traversant Andata.Ritorno au solstice d'hiver à midi. Il s'est agi d'une peinture en négatif, où la lumière était noire sur les murs blancs. Dans cet oxymore Soleil Noir, se conjuguaient simultanément l'embrasement d'un plein soleil et l'aspiration d'un trou noir.

Encore chez Andata.Ritorno, Christelle Montus a entrepris d'habiller dans l'espace le pilier central de la galerie. L'œuvre éphémère développait entre le plafond et le sol un voile de fils noirs dont la trame convergeait vers le pied du pilier. Depuis l'infini sidéral, cette toile symbolique semblait focaliser sur le centre du monde l'innombrable multitude des rayons cosmiques. Christelle Montus était donc ici la couturière qui drapait le pilier de sa toison céleste.

Dernière corde à son arc, Christelle Montus crée une série de collages sur bois de tickets du métro parisien, chaque panneau se référant à une station. Fascinée par le mythe du Métropolitain de Paris, elle ne cesse de collectionner les tickets du métro parisien. Au fil des années, les couleurs changent, passant dernièrement du jaune au vert, au violet puis au blanc. Plonger dans le labyrinthe des bouches, des couloirs, des quais, des correspondances, c'est s'immerger dans un monde souterrain riche en sensations fortes. Sur des panneaux de 1,00 m par 1,00 m peints en noir, elle construit avec des tickets une figure abstraite, associée allégoriquement à une des stations. Chaque tableau porte donc un nom évocateur : Concorde, Louvre, Etoile, Nation, Bastille… Cette œuvre a été exposée au Beffroi de la Mairie du  de la Ville de Paris.

Christelle Montus fait de sa pratique une recherche, se donnant les moyens pour développer un travail à la mesure de ses désirs, de ses attentes et de ses propres exigences.

Expositions personnelles
 2012 : Andata.Ritorno, Laboratoire d'art contemporain, Genève
 2010 : Nestlé Product Technology Center, Orbe, Suisse
 2007 : Beffroi de la Mairie du , Paris
 2007 : Banque Cantonale de Genève, Cité Bleue Universitaire, Genève
 2007 : Andata.Ritorno, Laboratoire d'art contemporain, Genève
 2006 : Galerie du Diorama, Genève
 2005 : CAC Voltaire, Maison des arts du Grütli, Genève
 2004 : Bibliothèque Municipale de la Cité, Genève
 2003 : Théâtre du Galpon, Genève
 2003 : L'Antidote, Genève
 2003 : Le Libéral, Marseille
 2003 : Usine Corot, Marseille
 2002 : Ania Tanguy, Carouge, Genève

Expositions collectives
 2020 : Galerie de l'Angle, Paris
2019 : Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New-York
2019 : Crac, Andata.Ritorno, Laboratoire d'art contemporain, Genève
2019 : De l'image aux mots, Galerie Picenni, Genève
2019 : Galerie Fontaine, Satigny, Genève
2018 : De l'image aux mots, Andata.Ritorno, Genève
2018 : Printemps de la Poésie, Maison de Rousseau, Genève
 2017 : Ferme Sarasin, Grand-Saconnex, Genève
 2017 : Crac, Andata.Ritorno, Laboratoire d'art contemporain, Genève
 2016 : Halle Nord, Genève
 2013 : Villa Dutoit, Petit-Saconnex, Genève
 2011 : Musée Rath, Genève
 2011 : The Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery, Bay Shore, NY
 2010 : The Ontological and Fluxmuseum, Fort Worth, TX
 2010 : Andata.Ritorno, Laboratoire d'art contemporain, Genève
 2009 : Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles
 2009 : Galerie Hors-Jeu, Genève
 2004 : HyPegallery, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
 2004 : Galerie Hors-Jeu, Genève
 2003 : Galerie Espacio, Morges
 2003 : Galerie Delafontaine, Carouge, Genève
 2003 : Galerie d'Octobre, Carouge, Genève

Prix et Publications
 2019 : Big Paintings, Portaits Still lifes Landscapes, Pawika Editions
2018 - A l'autre bout des yeux de l'image au mot, Eliane Vernay, Voix d'Encre Editions
2018 - Livre d'A/R, 1981-2017, Andata/Ritorno, Laboratoire d'art contemporain
2003 :  du concours "5 ans d'Accrochages"

Notes et références

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Naissance à Genève
Naissance en novembre 1973
Plasticien suisse contemporain
Artiste contemporain suisse
Femme peintre suisse
Peintre suisse du XXIe siècle
Peintre genevois
Peintre abstrait
Peintre contemporain

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Ten Things About Rose Sinclair - An Author Interview
I am pleased to bring you another author interview today - please welcome Rose Sinclair to the hotseat! Let's jump right in to the questions:
Indie or Traditionally published? - Tell us how this works for you…
Indie pub life for me! I've worked with indie authors for several years now within several parts of publishing and I really love the freedom it allows authors. The ability to make faster choices and better adapt to the strange changing world we live in now.
Plot or Pants? Do you pre-plot your books, use an outline, fly by the seat of your pants or some combination of things? How do you keep track of characters in a series? Do you keep a journal of your characters' statistics, such as hair and eye color, relatives, hometown, etc.
I'm definitely a plotting pantser. Oftentimes whole scenes will come to me and I'll write them down until there's a small plot bunny farm in my note's app. Usually these scenes are out of order so when it is time to get the first draft done I'll organize those which end up serving as an outline of sorts.
Tell us about your first… published M/M fiction/romance
I've written several science fiction novels with men who love men, but my first M/M romance is called The 8th Rank. It's a fairytale retelling featuring the Big Bad Wolf, and within it I was able to show the rage and pain that most queer people feel and shape that into a story about love, healing, and learning to choose what you want.
and then your most recent one..
My newest romance is a standalone sequel in the Big Bad Magic series. While the first was about accepting all your feelings, The 9th Pawn is a lot more about having fun in the crazy wondrous world around you. It follows the Mad Hatter and is about being good on your terms and loving someone without fear.
What are your writing goals for the next year? The future?
I'd really love to be able to write more Big Bad Magic novels! I have plans for a third that will have an Aladdin inspired retelling. But I'd love to have an even larger series! There's so many fairytale stories that deserve some MM romance love. It's such a fun series because many of the fairy tales overlap and it's the interconnection of stories that really allow for me to showcase beautiful romances in new queer ways.
What's the hardest part about writing?
I think the hardest part of writing is always the beginning. A blank page is intimidating to anyone. It doesn't matter how many books you've written for that first second it's easy to doubt you know what you are doing when there's nothing on the screen to keep you company.
What made you decide M/M romance was the genre you wanted to write? Do you write other genres?
Before this I was a science fiction author, I love that genre and the queerness that cyberpunk allows. As I got older, I started wanting to be more self indulgent after nearly a decade of activism. After learning the hidden history of our communities, I came back to a simple and powerful truth: Gay love is sustaining and endlessly beautiful.
The second most common genre I'd write in was fairytales. Mixing magic and myth feels like tapping into something shared across cultures. These touchstones have helped us learn many things as kids, and how we each interpret them personally throughout different times in our lives can continue to teach us even more about love and life.
What is your favorite thing about writing M/M romance?
Given my background of writing heroes who try to save the day, it's deeply enjoyable to now focus on M/M romance. There's a simple truth that even when working to change the world we do that as an act of love. Being together, in the endless amount of ways people choose, is what allows us to survive the bad and scary parts of life.
How can we connect with you?
I'm mostly on Instagram @RoseOverChaos and I have an exclusive newsletter freebies at RoseSinclair.com!

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package org.lwjgl.test.mapped;

import org.lwjgl.util.mapped.MappedObjectClassLoader;
import org.lwjgl.util.mapped.MappedObjectTransformer;

/** @author Riven */
@SuppressWarnings("static-access")
public class TestMappedObject {

	static {
		boolean assertsEnabled = false;
		assert assertsEnabled = true; // Intentional side effect!!!
		if ( !assertsEnabled )
			throw new RuntimeException("Asserts must be enabled for this test.");
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		MappedObjectTransformer.register(MappedFloat.class);
		MappedObjectTransformer.register(MappedVec2.class);
		MappedObjectTransformer.register(MappedVec3.class);
		MappedObjectTransformer.register(MappedSomething.class);
		MappedObjectTransformer.register(MappedObjectTests3.Xyz.class);
		MappedObjectTransformer.register(MappedObjectTests4.MappedPointer.class);
		MappedObjectTransformer.register(MappedObjectTests4.MappedCacheLinePadded.class);
		MappedObjectTransformer.register(MappedObjectTests4.MappedFieldCacheLinePadded.class);

		if ( MappedObjectClassLoader.fork(TestMappedObject.class, args) ) {
			return;
		}

		MappedObjectTests1.testViewField();

		MappedObjectTests2.testFields();

		// MappedObjectBench.benchmarkMapped();
		// MappedObjectBench.benchmarkInstances();
		// MappedObjectBench.benchmarkIndirectArray();
		// MappedObjectBench.benchmarkDirectArray();
		// MappedObjectBench.benchmarkUnsafe();

		MappedObjectTests3.testMappedBuffer();
		MappedObjectTests3.testForeach();
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		MappedObjectTests3.testMappedSet();

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		MappedObjectTests4.testPointer();
		MappedObjectTests4.testCacheLineAlignment();
		MappedObjectTests4.testCacheLinePadding();
		MappedObjectTests4.testCacheLinePaddingPOJO();

		System.out.println("done");
	}

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All the drivers from the bus era would have also been conductors before they were promoted to driver. This is because Coventry Corporation had a deliberate policy that all bus crew members had to start as conductors. It may have been to avoid the charge of poaching because Coventry paid higher wages than any other bus operator outside London. The high wages would have been because of the car and machine tool industries, where wages were traditionally high compared with other cities. It is certainly the case that crews came to Coventry from Midland Red and from other undertakings as far afield as Glasgow.
Rocking Ron West drove a WMPTE double decker, but once a week he became a DJ for Mercia Sound. He is pictured here at both work and dressed up in his Teddy Boy suit, playing Rock and Roll from the 1950s. He had a large collection of 900 albums and 1500 singles, which he used to play on his radio show.
Ron Batter worked in the driving school. He had been there since the days of CCT in the 1950s. He was Peter Walduck's instructor when he joined CCT from the Midland Red and Peter thought he was "a very nice bloke". After many years service with Coventry Transport he finally left and joined Blackpool buses. The training record below, rescued from a skip at Harnall Lane by Alex Phelan, shows that on September 8, 1959 he had charge of Drivers O'Hara, Ryan and Wilson.
Driver Sykes' first name has not been recorded, but he drove double deckers in the 1940s and 1950s.
Graham joined CCT in 1965 and had several very memorable drives in XVC 281, with its Daimler Mk 8 engine.
Maurine was one of three female drivers who were the first to be trained as CCT drivers. Previously she had been a conductress, partnering her husband Jim as driver. Later in her career, she became an inspector.
Apart from being a CCT driver, Marlene was, apparently, a fisher, having been recorded as fishing the canal "just up from the basin". She was one of the first group of three female drivers.
Daphne was the third of the first group of three female drivers.
Jim and Maurine originally started their bus partnership with Midland Red and often brought the Wyre Farm pupils back to Coventry from Cleobury Mortimer. When they moved to CCT in 1956, Coventry was reputed to pay the highest bus crew wages in the country, outside London. Jim is pictured here soon after he joined CCT, possibly before he became a driver.
Jim (Dickie-Bow) Davis is seen here (in the cap) standing next to two Daimler Freeline Coaches.
Bill Bevan's conductor was the legendary Fred Bevan. Fred used to play the mouthorgan to the passengers on Service 19 to Berkswell and, apparently, Bill used to sing along with him. It is not recorded whether or not they were brothers. The picture shows Fred Bevan with two other CCT staff at the Berkswell Bear with a Daimler Freeline. Clearly, Fred is on the right of the picture and it is believed that Bill Cooper, who lived in Benton Green Lane, is holding the Child. It is not known whether Bill is the one on the left or whether, on the day the photograph was taken, Fred had a different driver.
After he retired, Ray was noted as a skilled model painter and re-modeller who converted a Solido "RT" model to Coventry's famed 99 (GKV 99).
Sid started his career with Coventry Transport as a conductor in 1939 and he did this job up until he was called up. He told that he went to Burma. After a number of years in the Army, Sid went back to work on the Buses and became a driver for Coventry Transport in 1946, being based at Foleshill Depot and later at Sandy Lane Garage. He absolutely loved his work and did it up until the day he retired in 1978. In all his 32 Years behind the wheel, he never got so much as a single scratch on any bus that he drove and his Safe Driving Medals are proof of that. Sid had the same Conductor with him for years, whom he thought of as being more like his Son than a work colleague. His conductor was a diabetic and, after finishing his shift at Sandy Lane Garage one day (while Sid was off work on holiday), he walked up over the railway bridge in Sandy Lane and collapsed in the bushes by the toilet block that once stood there and, sadly, died. Sid never really got over this loss and ended up working with a number of different conductors. One day he was unhappy with a clippy working on his bus and, when he reached the Radford Terminus, despite his being of a mild and gentle manner, he put her in her place! Sid himself always had a story to tell. Sadly, he died in January 1990.
Jack Bullingham was born in 1910 and drove for Coventry Corporation Transport in the 1950s.
The obituaries column of the Coventry Telegraph dated 18th June 2010 reported the death of former Coventry Transport / West Midlands Travel Bus Driver David Dunne. David Dunne was a popular with his colleagues and his son continued the family tradition of bus driving.
Robert Singh started driving for CCT just before the hand-over to WMPTE. Little is known of Robert, but it is thought he later drove for a haulage company.
Harry Gillen lived in Canley and was known as a great talker. He died in either the late 1950s or early 1960s.
Driver Elford lived in Canley in the same street as Harry Gillen.
Jimmy Nixon was a CCT driver in the 1950s. Unfortunately, he was driving one of the two busses involved in a crash on Hearsall Common late on the afternoon of Saturday 1st October 1955. The two buses were Daimlers CVA6, GKV 93, and CVD6, KVC 131. The accident happened at the junction of Canley Road and Tile Hill Lane. Bus 93 was operating Service 13 bound for Broad Lane, while 131 was operating Service 18 from Canley. From the photograph, it is clear that 131 must have pulled out in the path of the oncoming 93. I recall that, at the time, the road markings were not particularly clear and, on foggy days, it was often difficult to see the oncoming traffic. Apparently, the bus Jimmy was driving skidded on ice, but it is not recorded which bus he was driving. T W Moore recounts that they were big repair jobs. "The body structures and chassis frames got a real bending and I know the chassis side members of one of buses was sent to Rubery Owen in Birmingham to be straightened out. When repaired, 93 re-entered service with the rain strip around the front top deck painted maroon instead of cream. It became the only Daimler CVA6 so treated and was instantly recognized." Jimmy Nixon's whole family have been described as "A very lovely family" and Jimmy as "a nice bloke". After the crash, Jimmy was away from work for some time because of the injuries he received and, when he returned to work, he worked in the scheduling department upstairs at Harnall Lane. He was thought to be ex-RAF and to have later moved from Holbrooks to Rugby, where he died in the early 1990s.
In August 2011, copies of the above photographs were passed to Mr Mawee, who was still working for Coventry and he named: 1 Mr Palmer; 2 Karnal Singh*; 3 Aula; 4 Moria*; 5 Hussain; 6 Joshi*. The spellings were written down over the telephone, so it is possible that there may be spelling errors. He also confirmed: 10 Terry Curtis; 12 Dave Wale; 13 Boyd Sheldon (by 2011, Boyd was driving for De Courcey); 14 Roy Bennett (his son, Alan, was driving for Coventry in 2011); 15 Paul Smith; 16 Cliff Ellis*. Number 11 was still unknown at that time.
Sadly those marked* had already passed away by 2011.
John Kellas was a CCT driver who later worked for WMPTE, where his became an inspector. One of his jobs with WMPTE was that of courier, a less well known job within WMPTE.


True Blood : Part II, "Wolf Man Go Dig Hole"
For part II of Liz and Cait's dip into HBO's True Blood, the ladies present a cross over that they can guarantee no one has done before! It's a CROSSOVER with Pitbulls and Parolees on this episode of World Stealers : A Fan Fiction podcast!
A werewolf desperate to find a new place in society is given a second chance, but can he finally fins a place to call home and a family as well? If anyone can adopt out a grown man, who's also a werewolf, it's Villalobos.


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Q: Message persistence system design question guys, I have an application that does the following the shop owner posts a piece data on the website and these messages should be sent to all the users who are using the website; messages should be displayed like in a bulletin board. So my requirement is that messages should be persistent on the website even after the user reloads the page or re-opens the page. I have thought of several ideas but getting confused.

*

*use socket.io for real-time pushing of messages -- however, messages are not persisted.

*Use Redis for message caching and also simultaneously update in my MongoDB

*use something like a Kafka or Rabbitmq but I'm completely clueless on how to implement it

What approach should I choose, please guide me.
I'm using a MERN stack

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My Cinco de Mayo Fiesta!
For the past few years, I've wanted to host a Cinco de Mayo fiesta, but just never got around to it. I finally decided that I was going to make it happen this year, and it ended up being so much fun!
For the most of the party/entertaining posts I've done here on AGU, I didn't actually have the party. So this year I decided to invite a few of my best friends over to partake in the festivities! We had so much fun being silly while taking pictures and sipping margaritas.
The menu consisted of tacos, chips and guac, and margaritas. I forgot to warm up the corn tortillas, so they ended up breaking… But it was still super yummy!
As far as the decor, I bought pretty much everything from Target! (#targetdoesitagain) The dollar section has a ton of super cute summer party decor, and they also have a collection of Cinco de Mayo decorations. Probably my favorite part of the table is the green serape runner, which I found at an antique store outside of Yosemite last year.
I'm also trying to build my succulent collection, so I added a few to the middle. One of them (in the turquoise pot) is from @thesucculentguys, which was started by a couple of my friends just last weekend! They've been selling potted succulents at the Newport Pier Farmer's Market the past two weekends, and might be starting an online store soon! Follow them on Instagram to stay updated!
I had so much fun throwing this colorful Cinco de Mayo fiesta, and I hope you enjoy these pictures! If you're throwing a Cinco de Mayo party, snap some pics and share them with me on Instagram!


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Q: jQuery: running success in 1.3.2 but not in 1.4.2 Nothing is wrong, as soon as i change the lib to 1.3.2 my on success stuff works just fine? How comes? Not even the alert with TEST appears..
Here's the code this is happening on:
function crop() {
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        dataType: 'json',
        url:"functions.php?action=crop",
        data:
        {
            x: $('#x').val(),y: $('#y').val(),w: $('#w').val(),
            h: $('#h').val(),fname:$('#fname').val(),fixed:fixed,
            sizew:sizew,sizeh:sizeh},
            success: function(response)
            {
                alert('TEST');
                if(!fixed) // Missing { }
                {
                    $("#showPhoto").css({overflow:"auto"}); // Missing ;
                }
                $("#showPhoto").html(
                    $(document.createElement("img")).attr(
                        "src",response.filename)).show();

                $("#showPhoto").after("There you go...").show();
                $("#image").slideUp();
           },
          error:function(response) {
                   console.log('error: ', response);
               }
        });
    }

How can i make it to work with jquery 1.4.2 library?

A: The JSON coming back isn't valid, the example you posted:
({"filename":"images\/profilePhoto\/thumbs\/1283596240.jpg"})

And the response I got in the page:
({"filename":"1283597560.jpg"})

Both aren't valid JSON, you need to remove the () wrapper on there.  You can check your JSON response for validity here: http://www.jsonlint.com/
The 1.3.2 vs 1.4.2 difference is that in 1.4.0 jQuery added strict JSON checking, if it's not valid it'll fail (so it can take better advantage of browsers' native JSON parsers).
From the 1.4 release notes:

Strict JSON parsing, using native JSON.parse: (jQuery.ajax() Documentation, Commit 1, Commit 2, Commit 3)
jQuery 1.3 and earlier used JavaScript's eval to evaluate incoming JSON. jQuery 1.4 uses the native JSON parser if available. It also validates incoming JSON for validity, so malformed JSON (for instance {foo: "bar"}) will be rejected by jQuery in jQuery.getJSON and when specifying "json" as the dataType of an Ajax request.


Marisa Poe stands fast for equality. Thoughtful and eloquent, the Maret School sixth grader speaks passionately and knowledgeably about the issues she holds most dear: gender equality and equal pay for equal work.
"I look at men and women and I know they're equal, but … they're not treated equally," Marisa says. An avid basketball player who wants to someday play in the WNBA, she became interested at a young age in the difference between NBA and WNBA salaries. When Marisa found out that the average WNBA player makes around $75,000 per year and the average NBA player makes close to $5 million, "I was just appalled that the difference was that great," she says.
So Marisa set out to make a difference. She talked to her peers about the income gap, encouraged her female friends to follow the WNBA and sought out opportunities to explore the issue further. When YPT integrated playwriting into her fifth-grade Constitution curriculum, then, she knew just what to write: The Basketball Duel, a play about the WNBA and women's rights, based on the Nineteenth Amendment.
The Basketball Duel tells the story of Kate Glader, a WNBA star who is sick of making so much less than her male counterparts. When her money-grubbing General Manager refuses to raise her and her teammate's salaries to the NBA average, Kate challenges him to a game of one-on-one for all the marbles. Who prevails? You'll have to find out on April 25 at the Logan Fringe Arts Space, when The Basketball Duel comes to life on Night Three of the 2016 New Play Festival!
We certainly hope she does—the world could use more people like Marisa! Thank you for standing up for equality both on and off the court!


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Lerma é um município do estado do México, no México. A sua cabecera municipal e sede do governo é Lerma de Villada.

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Christopher Reed: Art and Homosexuality
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Who's afraid of Gilbert and George?
Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas
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Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney, author of Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories (2005), and editor of The Age of Empires (2007). His latest book, Gay Life Stories (2012), was reviewed by Brian McFarlane in the June 2012 issue of ABR.
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News: constitutional monarchy characteristics
There are many modern day constitutional monarchies across the globe. The Jacobin Club was one of several organizations that grew out of the French Revolution, distinguished by its left-wing, revolutionary politics. Select a subject to preview related courses: So, does this mean that the monarch is without any power at all? When the royal family finally returned under guard to Paris, the revolutionary crowd met the royal carriage with uncharacteristic silence and the royal family was again confined to the Tuileries Palace. One of the stated goals of the National Assembly formed by the Third Estate on June 13, 1789, was to write a constitution. With the dauphin 's governess the Marquise de Tourzel taking on the role of a Russian baroness, the queen pretending to be a governess, the king's sister, Madame Élisabeth a nurse, the king a valet, and the royal children the alleged baroness' daughters, the royal family made their escape leaving the Tuileries around midnight. This is a powerful idea and not one limited to Western monarchies. They remained virtual prisoners in the Tuileries, the official residence of the king. This, however, strengthened the resolve of the revolutionary army and government to oppose them by any means necessary. This lesson covers a more detailed account of: Defining constitutional monarchy When the King used his veto powers to protect non-juring priests and refused to raise militias in defense of the revolutionary government, the constitutional monarchy proved unacceptable to radical revolutionaries and was effectively ended by the August 10 Insurrection. All democracies, republic, and constitutional monarchy. Deconstruct the government established by the Constitution of 1791. A parliamentary monarchy is a political system where the function of head of state (heads of state and government) is vested in a hereditary or elected monarch while a government accountable to the elected Parliament exercises the bulk of the executive powers, determines national … It originally included two members from the First Estate, two from the Second, and four from the Third. Bulgaria, France, Germany, Iceland, Portugal. The king was allowed a suspensive veto to balance out the interests of the people. When the National Assembly was replaced in 1791 by the Legislative Assembly comprising entirely new members, the divisions continued. Possibly the two most significant factors in the consequential split between the Montagnards and the Girondins were the September Massacres and the trial of Louis XVI, both in 1792. The rightists within the assembly consisted of about 260 Feuillants, whose chief leaders, Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette and Antoine Barnave, remained outside the House because of their ineligibility for re-election. Constitutional Monarchy countries in Asia: Bahrain, Brunei, Cambodia, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Qatar and Thailand, Constitutional Monarchy countries in Europe: Belgium, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Luxemborg, Monaco, Norway, Sweden and United Kingdom, Constitutional Monarchy countries in Africa: Lesotho and Morocco, Constitutional Monarchy countries in North America: Canada, South American Constitutional Monarchy countries: Not present, Other countries with Constitutional Monarchy: Australia. On August 10, a crowd stormed the Tuileries Palace, seizing the king and his family. {{courseNav.course.topics.length}} chapters | Characteristics of Monarchies. The forces opposing war were much weaker. Western fairy tales are full of stories of princes and princesses, but we always stop the story with their weddings. It was fractured into factions even more extreme than those of the Legislative Assembly. Monarchs across Europe lost more and more of their actual power as ideas about democracy, popular sovereignty, and the rights of the people took root and spread. While the figure of a king or queen has played a very important role in world history, monarchs don't actually govern their nations as sole rulers any more.
Another critical question was whether every subject of the French Crown would be given equal rights as the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen theoretically promised. Some radical deputies, such as Maximilien Robespierre, could not accept the distinction. He appeared twice before the National Convention. The members were generally young, and since none had sat in the previous Assembly, they largely lacked national political experience. It's called a constitutional monarchy.
Another important fact that should not be missed is the different variations or government types similar to Constitutional Monarchy.
You can test out of the "Innovators" sat on the left, "moderates" gathered in the center, and the "conscientious defenders of the constitution" found themselves sitting on the right, where the defenders of the Ancien Régime had previously gathered. The outbreak of the war with Austria in April 1792 and the publication of the Brunswick Manifesto led to the storming of the Tuileries by Parisian radicals on August 10, 1792. What type of government does Lesotho have? - Definition, Examples, Pros & Cons, Parliamentary Government: Definition, Examples, Advantages & Disadvantages, Forms of Government: Monarchy, Democracy, Oligarchy & More, What Is Democracy? Due to the cumulative effect of a host of errors, which in and of themselves would not have condemned the mission to failure, the royal family was thwarted in its escape after Jean-Baptiste Drouet, the postmaster of Sainte-Menehould, recognized the king from his portrait. Prompted by Marie Antoinette, Louis rejected the advice of the moderate constitutionalists, led by Antoine Barnave, to fully implement the Constitutio of 1791 he had sworn to maintain. The Magna Carta was, in essence, the first version of a constitution in English history, outlining the rights of the nobles that the king couldn't take away and giving real power to a small legislative body known as Parliament. Cambridge Dictionary: When the king or queen's power is severely limited, because they act only on the advice of the politicians who form the government, then it is called as Constitutional monarchy. In one sense this is true: in the United States there is a formal document called the Constitution, whereas there is no such document in the United Kingdom.
In English history (from where we get many of our modern political terms), the monarch's power actually began to be restricted back in 1215, when a group of nobles rebelled against the King and forced him to sign a document called the Magna Carta. In most constitutional monarchies, most power is held by a legislature, like the British Parliament or Japanese Diet. This attack led in turn to the suspension of the king's powers by the Legislative Assembly and the proclamation of the First French Republic on September 21. The contemporary press occasionally used the terms "left" and "right" to refer to the opposing sides. The Revolutionary Wars ended with great success for France and revealed the talent of a new military leader, Napoleon Bonaparte. However, on July 15, 1791 the National Constituent Assembly agreed that he could be restored to power if he agreed to the constitution, although some factions opposed the proposal. Members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the king to the president's right and supporters of the revolution to his left. These variations or similar types of governments are a result of advancements or growth that has taken place in Constitutional Monarchy over a period of time. The conflict between the Montagnards and the Girondins eventually led to the fall of the Girondins and their mass execution. What followed was a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 that would become known as the French Revolutionary Wars. They were staunch constitutional monarchists, firm in their defense of the King against the popular agitation. During the French Revolution, European monarchs watched the developments in France and considered whether they should intervene in support of Louis XVI or to take advantage of the chaos in France. The Jacobins in 1791, author unknown: The Jacobins were known for creating a strong government that could deal with the needs of war, economic chaos, and internal rebellion. What type of government did Winston Churchill have? They were suspicious of Louis XVI, some favoring a general European war, both to spread the new ideals of liberty and equality and to put the king's loyalty to the test. Many in France wanted to wage war, including the King, many of the Feuillants, and the Girondins, although for very different reasons. He and the royal family remained virtual prisoners in the Tuileries, a royal and imperial palace in Paris that served as the residence of most French monarchs. It distinguished between the active citizens (male property owners of certain age) and the passive citizens. This system of government is most often associated with Western Europe, where the idea as we know it was cemented. The Girondins comprised a group of loosely affiliated individuals rather than an organized political party. The duke then issued a proclamation called the Brunswick Manifesto (July 1792), written by the French king's cousin, Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, the leader of an émigré corps within the Allied army. The name survived for a few months as an insulting label for moderates, royalists, and aristocrats. The power of this symbolic office is extremely important in many constitutional monarchies, but may be most significant in Japan, where the emperor can claim to represent the oldest unbroken hereditary line of succession of any monarchy in the world, dating back to 600 BCE. To unlock this lesson you must be a Study.com Member. They had 302 members in 1793 and 1794, including committee members and deputies who voted with the faction. The Jacobins had a significant presence in the National Convention and were dubbed "the Mountain" (French: la montagne) for their seats in the uppermost part of the chamber.
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Thank you for this. I'm trying to customize a "Number" field as well, but differently. I am looking to remove the thousand-separator completely. Should I use this or is there a better/simpler way to do it?
I'm no expert I'm afraid but a variation of this code should work I presume..


As many of us may be (painfully) aware, Valentine's Day is this upcoming Tuesday, when we single out one day of the year to show exuberant amounts of affection. In honor of this holiday, I am going to be creating several posts about love, and I don't just mean romantic love. I think that it is just as important to remember that there are several kinds of love, like for family and friends. So this is going to be a week of all kinds of love, not just the couple-y stuff.
I am actually super excited about this week despite the fact that this is probably my least favorite holiday! Looking at the schedule, I think I am most excited to put together my top 10 OTPs. I am also looking forward to reading November 9 by Colleen Hoover, because I have heard just great things about her writing.


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To make the pastry, blend the butter and sugar together in a food processor and then add the flour, cinnamon and almonds. Process briefly and add the egg. Process again until the pastry has just come together as a ball of dough. Do not overwork. Wrap in clingfilm and chill for 30 minutes in the fridge.
Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured work surface and use it to line a 23cm/9in tart tin. Chill for 15 minutes. Line the pastry with baking paper and baking beans and blind bake for 20 minutes, or until the pastry is golden. Remove from the oven.
Reduce the temperature of the oven to 170C/150C Fan/Gas 3.
To make the filling, place the pumpkin in a steamer or cook in a saucepan of boiling water until tender. Drain and leave to cool slightly. Put the pumpkin into a food processor or blender with the maple syrup, milk, eggs, egg yolk, amaretto and nutmeg and blitz until smooth. Push the mixture through a sieve and then pour into the pastry case. Cook for 45 minutes–1 hour, or until the filling has just set.
Grate over some more nutmeg and sprinkle over the amaretti biscuits. Serve the pie in slices with the crème fraîche.


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As much as I'd like to pretend time hasn't marched on (by, say, neglecting to post anything recently), in fact, it only makes the changes seem more acute, the time more compressed once you finally take stock.
So many old favorites are still on point, and still serving up some of the best food anywhere. Fore Street (still our top pick), Miyake, Street & Co., Becky's Diner and Eventide Oyster Co. (we had to try to stop ourselves from eating lunch there every day) are as awe-inspiring as the first time we tried them. New discoveries included nearby Cape Elizabeth's Inn by the Sea, Central Provisions (just after our return, Bon Appetit named it as one of the 10 best new restaurants in the country) and an epic meal at Hugo's — our first since our first trip six years ago. From the swordfish with shishitos and lobster toast to the mad-chemist coffeemaker, it was a refined and joyous experience, thanks in part to the staff. Now part owners, they clearly love their work, and they love showing you how it's done as you sit at the counter. I'm not usually a fan of counter- or family-style service, which seem to be the rage these days, but here it works — the chairs are comfortable, the space your own, except when you choose to interact with others. For cocktails, we also liked the Portland Hunt and Alpine Club, LFK at Longfellow Square and the North Point, near the old Port. Harraseeket's Lunch & Lobster, in Freeport, filled our eyes, ears, nose and throats with everything you might expect of a dockside lobster shack on a gorgeous Maine August day. In Freeport, I also dropped in one of my favorite shops, Maine native's Jill McGowan, specialist in great white shirts and well-fitting jeans (and what else do you want to wear, ever?). The shirts (this is the one I bought this time) and dresses are her own designs; the jeans and some other garments are US made and carefully curated by others, including my new favorite Levis and Raleigh Denim (the label reads "Made by Non-Automated Jeansmiths"). I also found this great handmade, hair-on calf leather purse at the small shop Kurier, by a former McGowan employee, now making her own charming leather goods. A bit further north, in Kennebunkport, the Cape Arundel Inn helped remind us that even in late summer, a real "bold coast" night can include flooded streets, flickering electricity and a glowing fireplace — all fine as long as you're the one enjoying dinner overlooking the crashing waves, and not the desperate driver begging for a room after abandoning her stalled car. Yikes.
In Asheville, the scene is getting so crazily good so fast it's hard for us to keep up. We've just heard that both Uber, and a local version of the car service, called CabHound, have just started up here — good news for those of us who love both downtown and West Asheville restaurants, and want to have cocktails at both. First, however, the bad news: Our once-beloved home base bar, Sazerac, has changed name and management, now called the Social Lounge. Gone are the careful, thoughtful craft cocktails, the TV tuned to TCM, the interesting bartenders, the delicious bar bites (so long, duck gumbo!). It's the first casualty we've noticed to the tourist trade, now merely handy and open late (though not our first bad experience at a dining establishment — I'm looking at you and your desperately sad and overcooked pasta, Vincente's.) The good news: There are so many good spots to replace it, starting with Nightbell downtown, and the "members-only" (it costs $1) Double Crown in West Asheville. John Fleer's Rhubarb, also on Bon Appetit's Best 10 New Restaurants list, is fun, and the new Korea House is a welcome bit of diversity in this roots-centric village. Wicked Weed is hard to beat for lunch, and while Table is still a sentimental favorite, West Asheville's the Admiral now wears the feathery plume in its cap of our top choice. (Vinyl fans: Lots of good stuff all over town, but Harvest Records, across the street, may have the deepest bins). Like Portland, Asheville also has a small, well-curated women's shop I always visit: Maison Mary, on Broadway. Mary isn't a designer, but several friends are, and she commissions a few pieces from them, all made in town. She also features vintage designer clothes and shoes (including Prada, Versace, Diane von Furstenburg, Ferragamo and many others) and costume jewelry. It's a small shop, so you have to visit often, and it will pay if you listen to her suggestions to try some pieces on before dismissing them. This trip, I scored a graphic black-and-white print dress with a collar that also works as a hoodie, or simply loops down the front or back of the neckline.
Eventide's corn with peanuts, aioli and bonito flakes.
Good lord. It's fall already, isn't it?


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Miconia tomentosa es una especie de fanerógama en la familia de Melastomataceae. Es endémica de Bolivia y de Perú.

Taxonomía
Miconia tomentosa fue descrita por (Rich.) D.Don ex DC. y publicado en Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 3: 183. 1828.
Etimología
Miconia: nombre genérico que fue otorgado en honor del botánico catalán Francisco Micó.

tomentosa: epíteto latíno que significa "peluda"
Sinonimia
 Melastoma tomentosum Rich.
 Miconia amplexans (Crueg.) Cogn.
 Pogonorhynchus amplexans Crueg.

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Almeda, F. 2007. Melastomataceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. VI. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 111: 394–574.
 Alverson, W. S., D. K. Moskovits & J. S. Shopland. 2000. Bolivia: Pando, Río Tahuamanu. Rapid Biol. Inv. 1: 1–79.
 Balick, M. J., M. H. Nee & D.E. Atha. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85: i–ix, 1–246.
 Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Cat. Pl. Vasc. Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá.
 Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2009. Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): i–xvi, 1–855. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Fl. Mesoamer.. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México.
 Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080403/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro.

Flora de Sudamérica occidental
Flora de América del Sur continental

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Plantas descritas en 1828
Plantas descritas por Rich.
Plantas descritas por D.Don
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How big is 1,637,000,000,000 square inches?
It's about 60,000 times as big as The Kennedy Center.
In other words, 1,637,000,000,000 square inches is 62,000 times the size of The Kennedy Center, and the size of The Kennedy Center is 0.0000160 times that amount.
(a.k.a. John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts) (Washington, DC)
Hosting over 2,000 performances and nearly two million audience members annually — including events and guests for presidential inaugurations and galas — the Kennedy Center is approximately 26,000,000 square inches in total area.
It's about 65,000 times as big as The Biltmore Estate.
In other words, 1,637,000,000,000 square inches is 64,800 times the size of The Biltmore Estate, and the size of The Biltmore Estate is 0.00001540 times that amount.
(Asheville, North Carolina) (house only)
The main house of Biltmore Estate covers 25,300,000 square inches and contains 250 rooms. The fifty-six auxiliary buildings of the estate are interconnected through the nearly 71 km of roads on the Biltmore grounds.
It's about 75,000 times as big as The Great Banyan Tree.
In other words, 1,637,000,000,000 square inches is 73,300 times the size of The Great Banyan Tree, and the size of The Great Banyan Tree is 0.00001360 times that amount.
(a.k.a. The Great Banyan, a.k.a. Ficus benghalensis) (Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah, West Bengal, India)
The Great Banyan Tree is a single tree in the Indian Botanic Garden in West Bengal with aerial roots covering a total area of about 22,300,000 square inches. While its exact age is unknown, the tree has been noted in guidebooks for over 200 years.
It's about 100,000 times as big as a City Block (Manhattan).
In other words, the size of a City Block (Manhattan) is 0.00001000 times 1,637,000,000,000 square inches.
(per Bridges, William - 1811 Commissioner's Plan for New York City) (approximate)
A Manhattan city block measures about 200 m between the Northeast-Southwest streets by about 60 m between the Northwest-Southeast streets for a total area of about 20,000,000 square inches. There are roughly 2,000 blocks within the city, representing one of the most prolific applications of the city planning grid plan in history.
It's about one-one-hundred-fifty-thousandth as big as The Land area of Earth.
In other words, 1,637,000,000,000 square inches is 0.0000070910 times the size of The Land area of Earth, and the size of The Land area of Earth is 141,020 times that amount.
The Earth has a land area of 230,860,000,000,000,000.00000000000000000000000 square inches. Only an estimated one-eighth of this area — or 28,858,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000000 square inches — is inhabitable by humans, with uninhabitable terrain such as deserts and high mountains covering the rest.
It's about 150,000 times as big as The White House.
In other words, the size of The White House is 0.00000590 times 1,637,000,000,000 square inches.
(Washington, DC) (including wings)
Housing the presidency, the White House occupies six stories and a total of 9,600,000 square inches of floor space. This space includes 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, 28 fireplaces, and 3 elevators, as well as a tennis court, bowling alley, movie theater, jogging track, swimming pool, and putting green.
It's about 200,000 times as big as a Football field.
In other words, 1,637,000,000,000 square inches is 197,362.0756 times the size of a Football field, and the size of a Football field is 0.0000050668295670 times that amount.
(American) (per NFL regulation)
Per NFL rules, a football field should measure 109.728 m (120 yards) long by 48.768 m wide, for a total area of 8,294,400 square inches. Due to a blizzard, the first NFL playoff game in 1932 was held indoors in Chicago Stadium (it was also the first indoor game) on a field measuring just 55 m by 40.0 m, for a total area of 3,410,006.820 square inches.
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Things are not looking too hot for the HP TouchPad right now as apparently not even the recent price cuts are helping retailers move more units off store shelves. According to a report on AllThingsD, Best Buy has sold just 25,000 units -- less than 10 percent of its inventory -- and with surplus stock of over 200,000 the company is now asking HP to take back the unsold tablets.
HP is reportedly pleading with Best Buy to be patient and is sending a senior executive over to Minneapolis soon to meet Best Buy executives. That could mean we'll see further discounts in the coming weeks or perhaps some bundle deals with HP laptops as the back-to-school buying season revs up.
Analyst Rich Doherty of the Envisioneering Group says sales are also poor at Walmart, Microcenter and Fry's. The report comes just hours ahead of HP's quarterly earnings call today, where many expect the company to keep TouchPad numbers under wraps, or if they do share some figures it will probably reflect "channel sales" (the number of tablets shipped to retailers) rather than actual "sell through" numbers.
HP's first foray into tablets has seen a lukewarm reception, with initial reviews pointing to the TouchPad's slow responsiveness and limited app catalog. WebOS is the key piece of the HP's $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm last year and is supposed to be a big part HP's future -- with plans to put it on everything from laptops to printers.
The software itself, while noticeable buggy, does show promise, but HP dropped the ball on the hardware side -- much like Palm did with the original Pre. Now the company is being forced to take some drastic measures to get WebOS and its TouchPad tablet off the ground. Earlier this month, HP already announced a $100 discount on the TouchPad, bringing the price down to $400 for the 16GB version and $500 for the 32GB version.


Matt's Community Tags. This is the VERY BETA plugin I'm using for the community tagging on my photos, which allows people to submit tags which then go into a moderation queue to be approved or modified by an admin. Not recommended for general use yet, just getting it out there since a lot of people have asked about it.
Oo.. can't wait to give this one a whirl.
What needs to be done show the form for people to submit tags?
Another great folksonomy plugin is this one: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tag-this it might be worth your while to check out. It focuses on letting readers tag posts.
Great plugin for photobloggers out there.
Tagged one of your photo just a moment ago!
You have to add the special div to your page somewhere.
Final step is you need to display the tags using the_terms().
Is there a way to make the link in the admin work on MU? If i manually go to /admin.php?page=mct-manage-tags it works but when you click on Community Tags it goes to /mct-manage-tags and I get a 404.
Great plugin! I'm trying to use this plugin for WordPress MU and for some reason, in the admin panel when you try to click on Community Tags, it writes the URL as: http://website.com/wp-admin/mct-manage-tags instead of http://website.com/wp-admin/?page=mct-manage-tags. Is there something I can change to make it MU compatible?
Great plugin! I'm trying to use this plugin for my WordPress MU install and in the admin panel where Community Tags appears, the URL appears as: http://domain.tld/wp-admin/mct-manage-tags and not http://domain.tld/wp-admin/?page=mct-manage-tags. Is there something I can change in the plugin so that it works in MU? Thanks!
Could you copy and paste the_terms code you use matt?
Any plans on releasing another version anytime soon? Thanks!


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Enneagram 5w4 Relationships
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): Enneagram 5w4 Relationships
What Enneagram types go best together?
Which Enneagram type is most rare?
What does Enneagram 5w4 mean?
How do you make an Enneagram 5 feel loved?
What Enneagram should a 2 marry?
Divya Tiwari
The 5w4 relationships may be concerned with discovery and knowledge as other parts of their life, as the enneagram 5w4 cares most about knowledge and wisdom, though in a relationship these individuals might often be devoted and attentive towards their partner.
An enneagram 5w4 relationship will be punctuated by their desire to know everything about their partner, which will usually make them keen and curious, and while some people might like this, some people may find them too curious and investigative and this may put them off.
5w4 relationships are by no means a priority to these people and even though they like people just fine, they may not like very much to hang around someone and do affectionate things and so on, and they may not be inclined to wait on someone or show too much love in a conventional manner.
5w4 relationships may be full of gestures, however, and they might want to do things for someone or use the wisdom they have gained to help them when they need it and often they will want to include their partner on their journey to whatever they are currently interested in studying and their partner needs to see this as a great honor because this is the most amazing thing these people can offer.
While the wing 4 makes the 5w4 quite emotional, they may still not be too emotional, like the type 2 for instance, but when they love someone or are in a relationship with them, they may think about them a lot sometimes even more than the great mysteries of life, and they will definitely prioritize them over others.
5w4 relationships may also display a very strong need for boundaries but sometimes they may be willing to cut some slack for the one person they love the most, and they might be much more flexible and adaptable, and they may also be more willing to do things they ordinarily would never even consider.
The enneagram 5w4 relationship that involves true love may even see them change their schedules or even the quest for the wisdom they are constantly on, to make time for the person they love.
5w4 is a personality type that stands for Type 5 with a wing on type 4, or simply 5 wing 4, and in this personality type one might find the core traits of the type 5 and some traits of type 4.
Enneagram 5w4 is also known as the Philosopher, because at the crux of this personality are type 5 traits like investigating and observing and a healthy drive to attain knowledge, and they may always be trying to find the answers to both the abstract and the real world.
The enneagram 5w4 personality is full of the ability to introspect and they have an innate capacity to ponder the great mysteries of both self and the world.
The 5w4 will identify most with 5, but they definitely share traits with type fours, which makes the individual curious, creative, and reserved, but they may at the same time be introverted and deeply emotional as well.
5w4 may have a tendency to be alone so they may reflect and recharge, but in a twist they may also be very emotional and artistically self-expressive than other fives, who tend to be more rational and pragmatic in their quest for knowledge and wisdom, and they may also not fit the type 4s, which may be shy or withdrawn.
Type fives with a four wing has a basic fear similar to that of enneagram type 5, that is, being helpless and incompetent and not knowing enough or being caught without their knowledge in some way.
The unhealthy enneagram 5w4 may overcompensate to get over this basic fear by spending their time developing new knowledge and skills to feel useful and worthy and sometimes these individuals may even ignore the more practical, real-world needs in the process.
The basic desire of the five wing four is to feel helpful and able, and find out as much as they can about the things that exist both inside and outside them.
The enneagram 5w4 desires more than anything to pursue knowledge and gain an understanding of the world, and they may do so rather passionately, even trying to seek people to see what they might learn from them.
The enneagram 5w4 may also guard themselves against any possible accusations of being incompetent or not being good enough by withdrawing from the world and being by themselves while they introspect on these very fears, which may sometimes get them into troubled waters.
The enneagram 5w4 has a tendency to be guarded or withdrawn from others, which expresses itself in their preference for isolation in weak moments, which may sometimes make 5w4 relationships rather strained.
This personality type is all about seeking new skills and knowledge and their tendency to explore new environments is unparalleled.
Given below is a list of some of the best enneagram 5w4 characters from fiction:
L from Death Note
Alex from Modern Family
Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds
Howard Roarke from the Fountainhead
Shallon from Way of the Kings book series
Agent Mulder from X files
Elphaba from Wicked
Daniel Jackson from Stargate
Peter Parker (Spiderman) in the comics
Ford from Gravity Falls
An enneagram 5 in love tends to be someone who is very creative and passionate about displaying their affections, and they may struggle with the actual emotionally expressive aspects of the relationship.
The enneagram 5 in love may be just as focused on information and on logically understanding things that they may forget that there is more to love than trying to solve the mystery of how and why.
The enneagram 5 in love may try to understand the partner as well, and while that can be really nice sometimes, to be the center of such attention, it can get quite exhausting after a while when the person just won't show emotions in a more direct manner.
Just because the enneagram 5 in love can't show their love doesn't mean they do not feel things deeply, it is just that they find it so much easier to focus on the knowledge aspect of their connection.
Because of their basic fears and desires, the main thing an enneagram 5 is concerned about is being seen as capable and according to their logic, someone who is caught up in feelings won't be seen as capable, which is why they prefer to focus on their inner minds and intellectual practices.
While this is a great strategy in the real world, an enneagram 5 in love may quickly find there is little place for intellectual pursuits in a romantic relationship and while they can rely on their traits like loyalty, creativity and problem-solving abilities, sometimes they may need to let go and be emotional even if they think of it as weak.
The first enneagram test was made by Don Riso and Russ Hudson after they had theorized about the presence of levels of development in a personality and accounted for the possibilities of growth or disintegration in the personality types.
Their test came to be known as the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator (RHETI), and they recommend taking another supplementary test after someone has taken this one, and this other test is known as the Instinctual Variants Questionnaire, which helps to further refine the understanding of the Enneagram subtypes and centers.
Other tests for enneagram personality types also exist online, but one has to keep in mind that these tests are not validated as carefully as the original tests, and may therefore not provide the absolute true data.
In this brief guide, we looked at enneagram 5w4 relationships, as well as other details of the 5w4 personality type. We also looked at some other concepts about enneagram like enneagram test and Enneagram type 5 in love.
The enneagram type 5 and 5w4 personalities are both intensely investigative and thinking oriented personalities, which means that they are unlikely to want to be with someone that they don't relate to on an intellectual level.
These personality types may find that they relate much more to people who like to think and seek knowledge and care about significant things, and this is evident in the way they get along with the thinking oriented personality types.
If you have any questions or comments about the enneagram 5w4 relationships or other things about this personality, please feel free to reach out to us.
The enneagram types that go best together are type 3 and type 1 and type 6 and type 8.
The enneagram type that is most rare is type 4 the individualist and type 8 the challenger. Along with these types, enneagram type 5 and type 2 are also considered somewhat rare.
Enneagram 5w4 contains the characteristics of both enneagram Type 4 and Type 5, and in 5w4, the type 5 traits are the core type.
People of the enneagram 5w4 personality type can be somewhat withdrawn and individualistic, but the wing 4 traits may also make them slightly more emotional and self-revealing and this personality type may be prone to some intense emotions.
To make an Enneagram 5 feel loved, you can do things like the following:
Try to get them new and interesting insights to problems and theories they may be pondering, as they appreciate a true intellectual match.
Provide them a place where they can let their guard down and share things, as they are usually deeply personal.
Witty and well-thought out gifts and cards.
Give them plenty of space to learn and grow together.
Try to provide them with an easy and comfortable feeling of familiarity.
Enneagram type 2 should marry someone that needs their grounding and affectionate abilities most, like type 3 or type 8, as these individuals might need the grounded approach of the type 2 and the affection they show their partners.
When an enneagram type 2 marries a type 3, they may get along very well because they share similar interests, energy levels, and charisma, and this may often be a beru high-energy match.
Here is how you can make an Enneagram 9 feel loved:
Try not to take their critical or judgmental attitude too personally and try to show them you accept them.
Try to create rapport with them, and try to respect their integrity and take things seriously.
Try to avoid Making agreements or promises with them that you may not be able to keep
Try not to ignore traditional good manners.
Try to work with them towards seeing how things can be improved.
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Divya is currently a Clinical Psychology Trainee in a Master of Philosophy program and holds a Master's in clinical psychology. She has a special interest in Personality studies and disorders, having researched the subject before, and Neuropsychology; with an additional interest being Mood disorders. She likes to write about Psychiatric issues, having worked in multiple specialty setups during her time as a clinical psychology student, and in her free time she likes to cook and read.
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I should also stop comparing this movie to John Wick, because it's actually quite different. Hotel Artemis has a clever little bait and switch, one that's not going to blow anyone's mind—it's not even hiding it all that much—but it's what makes the whole thing work. The secret? It's Jodie Foster, quietly slipping into this tiny indie action movie and delivering an incredible performance after several years away from movies.
Foster plays The Nurse, the woman who keeps the Artemis running, and while Hotel Artemis is an ensemble film, if it's about any one person, it's her. Who she is, and why she's there, gives the movie its surprisingly emotional core, one that grounds this byzantine criminal underworld in something extremely human. That underworld is represented by the cast—all career criminals, all assigned aliases upon checking into the hotel. Sterling K. Brown serves as our gateway in as Waikiki, who comes to the Artemis after a robbery gone wrong and his brother, dubbed Honolulu (Brian Tyree Henry) is left in critical condition. Unfortunately for him, his brother also unwittingly pocketed something extremely valuable to the king of the near-future L.A. underworld that the Artemis services, turning a sanctuary into a target on one of the worst nights in history.
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"I know exactly what it's like when your health insurance plan is … 'I hope you don't get sick,'" said Gina Ortiz Jones, the Democratic candidate running for Texas' 23rd Congressional District.
Ortiz Jones said she would oppose the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion services.
Like many across the United States, voters in Texas' Congressional District 23 are worried about their health care.
"People either can't afford it today, are fearful that they're not going to be able to afford it tomorrow, or they physically can't get to it," said Gina Ortiz Jones, the Democratic candidate hoping to unseat Republican Rep. Will Hurd to represent the district in the U.S. Congress.
It's a large district, spanning hundreds of miles and hugging roughly "40 percent of the [state's] border with Mexico," Ortiz Jones told Rewire.News in an interview. Its size means "there are some differences in health care and education outcomes based on if you live in San Antonio versus a rural part of the district, and health care is one of those areas where you see the disparity," she said.
Ortiz Jones hopes that, if elected, her efforts in Congress could help steer the United States "toward a health-care system that covers everyone," adding that Texas is "the most uninsured state in the country" thanks in part to state-level Republicans' refusal to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). "You know, I can't help but also think about the ways in which what is happening in Texas is going to have an outsized effect on the country given that one in ten kids in the country goes to school in Texas," she added.
"I don't think the quality of somebody's care should be dependent on their income level," Ortiz Jones said. "I think everybody deserves the opportunity to be healthy, to take care of themselves, their kids, or their aging parents." To do that, Ortiz Jones supports a single-payer system, as noted on her campaign site, and "a good interim would at least be giving people a Medicare option once they turn 50-years old," she said.
Ortiz Jones' views on health care views are based in part on her own experiences. Ortiz Jones recounted how, "having been raised by a single mother, I know exactly what it's like when your health insurance plan is … 'I hope you don't get sick.'" She remembers when her mother was diagnosed with colon cancer while Ortiz Jones, a military veteran, was deployed. "You hear the horror stories about how things like this bankrupt families," she said. "And so I was obviously very concerned about my mother's life, but I was also concerned about what this was going to be for us financially."
Hurd does not feature health care on his campaign website. Last spring, Hurd voted against the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the GOP's effort to repeal the ACA. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated the GOP bill could have resulted in 24 million people losing their health insurance. But in his statement explaining his vote, Hurd gave mixed messages, claiming the ACA—which has helped millions gain access to insurance before GOP-led attacks on it began to reverse the upward trend—had done "the opposite" of making health care more affordable and accessible.
Though some have cited his vote against the GOP's attempt to dismantle the ACA as proof of Hurd being "unafraid of bucking the GOP and the president himself," according to analysis from FiveThirtyEight the Republican has voted in line with President Trump 95.7 percent of the time since Trump took office.
When it comes to reproductive rights, Ortiz Jones' campaign site makes a clear statement of support. Her platform on "accessible affordable healthcare" includes a promise to work in Congress to "Ensure full, safe, and affordable access to reproductive health services for all women— including those in our rural communities challenged with limited access."
In her interview with Rewire.News, Ortiz Jones called reproductive health care both "an economic issue" and "a social justice issue."
"A woman has to be able to make decisions about her own body," she said. "Any decision that a woman has to make should only be between her, her family, and her doctor, and that's it …. I think people have to have the resources to plan for themselves as well as to plan for the economic strength of their own families."
It's another issue on which Ortiz Jones and Hurd have contrasting positions, the Democratic candidate said. Hurd is a reliable anti-choice vote in Congress, having supported bills to defund Planned Parenthood and ban abortion at 20 weeks' gestation. Hurd's office has referred to the lawmaker as a "pro-life conservative," though his views on abortion rights aren't featured on his campaign site.
The Hyde Amendment, an annual anti-choice budget rider that bans federal funding for abortion care and disproportionately affects people of color and those with low incomes, "is not something that I would support," Ortiz Jones said. That's in-line with the Democratic Party's 2016 national platform, which for the first time called for the repeal of the anti-choice restriction.
"We have to again be smart about this issue and understand the outcomes as it relates to communities that are already underserved in a number of ways," she continued. "And, unfortunately, when they are, that traditionally means that women and communities of color are underserved when it comes to … reproductive health services."
In Ortiz Jones' district, barriers to abortion care are immense. In 2014, 96 percent of counties in Texas had no abortion providers, according to the Guttmacher Institute. The ACLU of Texas estimates that "About 900,000 reproductive-age women in Texas live more than 150 miles from an abortion clinic."
The state has been the epicenter of high-profile attacks on reproductive rights. That includes Texas' notorious omnibus abortion bill, HB 2, parts of which were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt in 2016. The abortion restrictions still enforced in the state include state-directed counseling, a forced waiting period, a ban on telemedicine abortion, a parental consent and notification requirement for minors, and forced ultrasounds.
But to change things, Ortiz first need to win—and District 23 is the only congressional district in Texas considered to be a true swing seat. Ortiz Jones says she hopes to represent it because, "The short of it is, I've seen firsthand that challenge is universal—opportunity is not."
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Boomer thriller writer tells of discrimination and the wonders of writing
On the back of thriller writer Gayle Lynds' book, "Masquerade," a quote from Cosmopolitan says, "You won't sleep until you finish."
It was true for me. I vowed I'd get to get to bed on time, but "Masquerade" is a page-turner. Although I put it down to carry out other activities, I kept coming back to it.
Lynds opened her keynote talk at the Pacific Northwest Writers Association recently by telling how she "lived in books" as a child.
Although she loved reading, she thought only gods and goddesses wrote books.
Lynds studied journalism at the University of Iowa. While there, she took some literature classes from Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut worked as an editor in a think tank for a time, which he described as exploding with so many ideas they seemed to bounce off the wall.
Marrying young, Lynds worked for a newspaper in Arizona and as a magazine editor in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Intrigued by Vonnegut's think tank experiences, Lynds also took a job as an editor at a think tank. She obtained a security clearance and found the place was exciting, and fertile with secrecy, information, and sexual liaisons.
As Lynds was going through a divorce, she took the opportunity to decide what type of work would make her happy.
Lynds figured out all she really wanted to do was write fiction. She began writing short stories, which she said were bad. She put them in a box.
After buying a one-day ticket, Lynds attended a writers' conference in Santa Barbara.
"I sat by two women," she said. One had been working on the same book for five years. The other one hadn't started on her book yet. Both called themselves writers.
"Maybe I'm a [book] writer, too," Lynds thought.
At the conference, Lynds also met mystery writer Dennis Lynds, who she later married.
With two children to support, Lynds knew she needed to begin making money from writing fiction.
Dennis obtained contracts to write books about Nick Carter, America's 007, but she was the one who wrote them. At that time, women weren't taken seriously as spy novel writers.
During the 1980s, Lynds wrote pulp fiction and worked as a magazine writer. "It was a good way to learn about voice [as a writer], character, and action," she said.
"I learned to be very good at it," Lynds said. "It felt like getting a master's."
By the 1990s, she thought that she was ready to write her own books. Lynds loved big ideas. The excitement of spy stories, especially thrillers, appealed to her.
She wrote "Masquerade," a novel about brain washing a woman to kill an assassin. Lynds had heard rumors about a brainwashing program called MK-ULTRA, which was launched during the 1950s.
After every publishing house in New York had rejected her novel, Lynds began asking people what was wrong. She was told the first 150 pages weren't needed, so she reduced them to 15. She also rewrote the ending. It took a full year.
After Lynds found a new agent, the head of Dutton Books said she loved the book. However, Dutton wouldn't be buying it, Lynds was told, because "no woman could have written this book."
But Doubleday published the book. The hardcover book was sold in 20 countries, and the paperback became a New York Times bestseller.
When "Masquerade" first came out, Publishers Weekly, a news Web site of book publishing, said Lynds was aping her male betters, the author told the conference audience.
Now Publisher's Weekly lists "Masquerade" as one of the top 10 thrillers of all time.
Lynds advice to writers at the conference: "Don't give up."
Lynds' latest book is "The Last Spymaster." She has also written "Mosaic," "Mesmerized," and "The Coil."
With Robert Ludlum, she co-created the best-selling Covert-One series and wrote three of the novels – "The Hades Factor," "The Paris Option," and "The Altman Code."
Lynds is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Operatives and the Military Writers Society of America as well as co-founder and co-president of International Thriller Writers Inc.
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A search for single top quark production via flavour changing neutral currents (FCNC) was performed with data collected by the OPAL detector at the e^+e^− collider LEP. Approximately 600 pb^(−1) of data collected at –209 GeV were used to search for the FCNC process e^+e^−→tc(u)→bWc(u). This analysis is sensitive to the leptonic and the hadronic decay modes of the W boson. No evidence for a FCNC process is observed. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level on the single top production cross-section as a function of the centre-of-mass energy are derived. Limits on the anomalous coupling parameters κ(γ) and κ(Z) are determined from these results.
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