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The Magnificent Agnes Moorehead
Angles, light, and shadow.
The girl between Tim Holt and Joseph Cotten is supposed to be Anne Baxter.
Aunt Fanny in Happier Times
Much Less Happy
Pretty Stiff Competition in 1942
It never ceases to amaze me that in the decades when women* had fewer rights or career options than we do today, female characters in the movies had more to do, say, and feel than they seem to do in modern pictures. This is certainly the case for the women nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1942 in parts that were assuredly "types": two ingénues, a spinster, and a couple of old ladies -- yet each of these characters was complicated, well-written, and beautifully acted.
The winner, Teresa Wright, played a young war bride in Mrs. Miniver a girl who must balance the fears for her newly-enlisted husband with hope for their future. In the same film, (Dame) May Whitty also earned a nomination as Wright's grandmother, a local noblewomen who must come to terms with the fact that class distinctions and privilege will be forever changed by the war. Susan Peters played the impossibly young and equally impossible parallel love interest to Ronald Coleman's memory-challenged veteran in Random Harvest, and Gladys Cooper turned in a chilling performance as the the cruel, domineering mother of unhappy spinster Bette Davis in Now, Voyager.
But it was the other unhappy spinster of the year who, in my opinion, should have taken home the trophy: Agnes Moorehead as Fanny Minafer, the maiden aunt whose narrow circumstances grow ever bleaker in Orson Welles's (and her) second picture ever, The Magnificent Ambersons.
The Magnificent Ambersons is the story of a well-to-do Midwestern family whose wealth and position afford them near-royalty status in their sleepy late-19th century town. Major Amberson, the source of that wealth, is the patriarch who has raised his son, Jack (Ray Collins) and daughter Isabel (Dolores Costello) in the grand manner in a grand mansion. When Isabel's beau, Eugene Morgan (Joseph Cotten), has a bit too much to drink one night, he tries to serenade her under her window and steps clean through his bass viol. Isabel is so horrified by the spectacle that, in spite of truly loving Gene, she breaks up with him and decides to marry quiet little unromantic Wilbur Minafer instead. Isabel, Wilbur, and Wilbur's sister Fanny (Moorehead) take up residence in Amberson mansion. Isabel and Wilbur have just one child, George Amberson Minafer, who turns out to be The Worst Little Brat Ever. There isn't a soul in town who can wait for the day little Georgie gets his "come-uppance."
Georgie (Tim Holt) grows up to be a horrible, egotistical snob. His mother still spoils him, his grandfather indulges him, his Uncle Jack ignores him, and Aunt Fanny alternately fights with and looks after him. It's been about 20 years since the bass viol incident, and Morgan comes back to town, a non-drinking, successful inventor now in the horseless carriage business. Morgan also has a beautiful, self-sufficient daughter called Lucy (Anne Baxter), who captivates Georgie when the Morgans come to one of the grand balls at Amberson mansion.
Aunt Fanny sets her cap for Morgan, but it is soon clear that he only has eyes for Isabel. When Fanny's brother (Isabel's husband) dies, Morgan and Lucy become more of a regular fixture at the Ambersons. Fanny becomes jealous and insinuates to George that Isabel only ever really loved Morgan (not his father), and that everyone in town knows about it. This sends Georgie into an irrational tizzy over his mother's reputation and he refuses to allow Morgan in the home. Morgan begs Isabel to put her own (and his happiness) first and marry him, but she is unable to hurt her son's delicate feelings, let alone tell him to mind his own business. So Isabel and George go off to Europe leaving Morgan heartbroken and Lucy furious on her father's behalf.
Isabel grows gravely ill while they're abroad and the two come home just in time for Isabel to die without seeing Eugene one last time. Shortly thereafter, Major Amberson dies, shell-shocked at the rapid changes in his community and in his family. He leaves no inheritance. Wilbur Minafer left a small bit of insurance for his sister, but she invested it all in a business scheme that went belly up and she is broke. Georgie never worked a day in his life, so he is broke. Any money Isabel had was spent in Europe or otherwise on her child; now the richest family in town find themselves in a modern world with absolutely nothing.
Forced into sudden straits, George pulls himself together for the sake of his Aunt Fanny, for whom it turns out he cares a great deal. He is miserable over how he treated his mother...and Eugene...and takes a high-paying dangerous job to make sure his Aunt, at least, can enjoy some comfort. One day, he is struck down by a car -- the machine he once scoffed at as a ludicrous fad that is now the source of Morgan's great fortune -- which breaks both his legs. This means certain destitution for him and his Aunt.
Orson Welles would have left it at that, had he not been called away to do war work on another film before his final edits were made. The studio snipped almost an hour from The Magnificent Ambersons and reshot Welles's intended grim ending for one that was truer to Booth Tarkington's novel: Lucy and Morgan visit George in the hospital and all is forgiven. Even Fanny is reconciled to eternal spinsterhood.
Had it not been so early in the war for the United States, the role of beleaguered, fretful Aunt Fanny might have earned more popular acclaim. As it was, audiences were more inclined to favor uplifting stories of noble sacrifice, escapism, or silliness. Welles's retelling of the Tarkington bestseller, was dark, sad, and completely antithetical to the American Dream for which so many were fighting. Moorehead's performance was intentionally (and effectively) highly strung and sometimes shrill. Indeed, moviegoers laughed at some of Aunt Fanny's breakdowns in early previews, forcing some of the famous edits the studio forced on Mr. Welles. Her sadness, her sudden, instantly regretted moments of spite and frustration are lyric. At least the New York Film Critics Circle thought so and gave Agnes Moorehead the award for Best Actress for 1942.
There is something beautiful in Agnes Moorehead's quavering voice, sharp features, and utter vulnerability in this picture. But it was, indeed, a tough year. In fact, I'm still scared of Gladys Cooper from Now, Voyager (so MEAN!). But if ever there were a performance worthy of an Academy Award among Agnes Moorehead's many, many pictures, this was it.
* I mean white women, of course. Women of color had far fewer options socially and even less opportunity to be seen as anything other than a servant or a pauper in those days, a fact that sadly, has not changed all that much.
This post is my contribution to The Oscars Snubs Blogathon, hosted by The Midnite Drive-In and Silver Scenes.
Please take some time to read the excellent entries in this blogathon. So many people were robbed so thoroughly over the years.
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My only familiarity with Ms. Moorehead was in a favorite episode of The Twilight Zone ("The Invaders") and the occasional glimpse when flipping past Bewitched (which I didn't like). Interesting argument. Thanks for playing.
This was one of my "discoveries" alone at the Amherst Cinema, and I'm still haunted by how familiar Aunt Fanny is. There's something so thrilling seeing adult behavior in black and white.


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La Lancia Z è una grande monovolume prodotta tra il settembre 1994 e il febbraio 2002 dalla Casa italiana Lancia.

Storia
La Z (o Zeta) nacque come prodotto della Lancia risultante dalla joint venture tra Gruppo PSA e Gruppo FIAT per la realizzazione di quattro monovolumi dalle caratteristiche simili commercializzate con quattro marchi diversi (Peugeot, Citroën, Fiat e Lancia). I due gruppi non erano nuovi a questo genere di operazioni, dal momento che già negli anni ottanta si erano adoperati assieme per la realizzazione di alcuni veicoli commerciali sulla base di un unico progetto. Il progetto che invece stava alla base della realizzazione di queste monovolumi prevedeva l'utilizzo di una piattaforma che sarebbe stata in seguito utilizzata, per il furgone Fiat Scudo, prodotto anche come Peugeot Expert e Citroën Jumpy.

Il risultato furono quattro monovolumi, pressoché identiche, sia come pianale sia come meccanica, che era di origine PSA, ma leggermente diversi sia per il marchio sia come livelli di allestimento. La Z era fondamentalmente la versione dall'allestimento più lussuoso.

Presentata al Salone dell'automobile di Torino nell'aprile 1994, è una grossa monovolume in grado di competere con la Renault Espace, fino a quel momento leader incontrastata nel settore delle monovolume di grossa taglia. A differenza di quest'ultima, la Z (così come anche le sue sorelle) montava portelloni posteriori scorrevoli. Il suo abitacolo era in grado di ospitare sette persone (ma scegliendo di avere una panca da tre posti nella fila posteriore si poteva arrivare anche a otto posti), oppure, ribaltando i sedili, si poteva ampliare notevolmente la capacità di carico.

Nel 2002 la Z fu tolta di produzione per lasciare il posto alla sua erede, la Lancia Phedra, ancora più grande e accogliente.

Estetica
La linea della Z è la classica linea delle monovolume. Costruita negli stabilimenti francesi di Sevel a Valenciennes, condivide pianale, meccanica e lamierati con le sue tre sorelle (Ulysse, Peugeot 806 e Citroën Evasion) e ne ricalcava quindi anche l'estetica in modo pedissequo. Presenta quindi delle forme pressoché squadrate e votate alla razionalità, con sottili fari anteriori a sviluppo orizzontale e fari posteriori quadrati con angoli leggermente smussati. La calandra è quella tipica delle
Lancia dell'epoca, ed è uno dei particolari che maggiormente differenziano le quattro vetture derivanti da questo progetto.

Meccanica

La meccanica della Z, analoga a quella delle altre tre sorelle nate dallo stesso progetto, prevedeva inizialmente i seguenti motori, tutti a 4 cilindri e utilizzati anche su molte vetture del Gruppo PSA:

 1998 cm³ a benzina (Cod. RXG), turbocompresso a bassa pressione, con distribuzione a due valvole per cilindro e 147 CV di potenza massima;
 2088 cm³ a gasolio, turbocompresso, con distribuzione a tre valvole per cilindro e 109 CV di potenza massima.
 1998 cm³ a benzina, con distribuzione a 16V.

Non erano presenti sulla Z i due motori più semplici, ossia il 2.0 aspirato 8V e il 1.9 turbodiesel da 90 CV.

Successivamente, nel 2000, la gamma si arricchì del nuovo 2.0 JTD con tecnologia common rail. Questo motore di origine PSA fu utilizzato anche dalla gemella Ulysse e dalle due sorelle francesi 806 ed Evasion.

Motorizzazioni

Note

Voci correlate
Sevel
Fiat Professional
Gruppo PSA

Altri progetti

Z

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Pre-Conference is open to all—You do not have to be Reformed Episcopalian (REC) to attend.
Description: The transformation of the Diocese of Singapore from simply maintaining the Anglican ministry in that Island-Nation to planting and developing future dioceses in six surrounding countries is a story that can inspire Anglican dioceses and parishes in North America. The REC welcomes Canon Yee Ching Wah, Singapore Director of Missions and veteran missionary to Thailand, and Archdeacon Wong Tak Meng, former Dean of the Mission Deanery of Cambodia, who will tell their story. REC current and former missionaries and short-termers will be present.
And continue to do all these things with boldness and effectiveness today!
2. Meet current and former missionaries and short-termers who partner with overseas Anglican Churches.
Wednesday Night Dinner at Ridgecrest: We'll seek to eat together in the dining hall from 5:30-6:30. Pick up a tray and your food first, then look for us in the dining hall.
Note: Be sure to add Wednesday night's housing and the extra meals for this pre-conference to your Ridgecrest reservation for the New Wineskins Conference.


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A YouTube user uploaded a video some days ago about the E32. It shows technical details and design elements. I assume the original video is from 1986, as they explain the old Motronic M1.1, which was replaced later by the M1.3 for the M30.
Even if you do not understand German, it is worth to watch all 29.21 minutes, explains the complete system, where which control units are etc.
It is also good as DIY training video, how to remove bumpers, where all the relays and modules are.
Also nice the demonstration of the fuel injectors in normal operation and limited operation mode. If the inductive sensor/donut on the plug wire fails then it goes into gang firing, since the M30 is a semi sequential design meaning that it triggers the injectors in 2 banks of 3 every other revolution, when it goes into the gang fire, then it triggers all six at the same time every revolution but decreases the volume of fuel by 50% .


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999 call handler sacked after telling killer who threatened to take law into his own hands: 'That's entirely up to you'
Victim's family says 'important evidence' was withheld from inquest
Lewis Pennock
Robert Cox, 24, was stabbed to death by paranoid Derek Hancock, 41, who had told police he would 'take the law into his own hands' over delusional sexual harassment claims
A police call handler who told a paranoid hostel resident who went on to kill that it was up to him whether he took the law into his own hands has been sacked, it has emerged.
Derek Hancock, 42, spoke to Susan Akerman minutes before he stabbed Robert Cox, 24, to death at a Bishopston hostel for people with mental health problems in August 2013.
An inquest jury at Avon Coroners' Court concluded this afternoon that Hancock's significant mental health problems 'were not recognised or understood' prior to the stabbing at Egerton Road in Bishopston.
The jury also ruled that interactions between police call handlers and officers "were likely to have exacerbated the situation".
A statement from Mr Cox's family after the inquest said the jury gave a "perceptive and intelligent narrative conclusion" by returning the unanimous verdict of unlawful killing.
But the family added that "the opportunity to learn lessons has been lost" after the inquest because "important evidence" was withheld.
Derek Hancock was jailed after admitting manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility (Image: Avon and Somerset police)
"Deluded and psychotic" Hancock, who suffered from paranoia, was jailed in 2014 after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
On the night of Mr Cox's death, Hancock called Avon and Somerset police three times complaining about him.
In the third, three-minute conversation, he told handler Susan Akerman: "The law is not doing anything."
He then threatened to "take the law into my own hands".
In response, Ms Akerman told him police would deal with it, but later said: "That's entirely up to you, Derek".
Police 999 handler relives call from killer minutes before he stabbed Robert Cox
It is believed the police watchdog the IPCC concluded Ms Akerman could have a case to answer over her "advice" to Hancock, but that her actions did not contribute to Mr Cox's death.
They also concluded she may have given them false and misleading information in the subsequent investigation, which she denied.
Avon and Somerset Police said Ms Akerman was "dismissed following an internal disciplinary hearing" in 2014.
At Mr Cox's inquest, Ms Akerman said she did not know Hancock had mental health issues and had no relevant training.
The jury's ruling of unlawful killing included the following contributing factors:
A delay in diagnosis and treatment of delusional thinking.
A lack of standardised procedures in ensuring accurate recording and sharing of information between relevant services.
Interactions with police and call handlers along with an absence of on site support are likely to have exacerbated the situation.
A report published in January last year had found vital warning signs were missed by providers in the time leading up to Robert's death.
Mum of Charlotte Bevan hopes awareness will help prevent same thing ever happening again
Hancock had also alleged prior to the killing that Mr Cox had sexually harassed him – claims which were later found to be baseless.
But a Serious Case Review into the incident by the Bristol Safeguarding Adults Board showed the supported housing providers of the hostel had not been told that Hancock had made such allegations before.
Other key information about the intensity of Hancock's obsessions were also not passed through the Housing Support Register when Hancock moved into the hostel.
The report showed he was assessed as needing 24-hour support and self-contained accommodation, but managers at the hostel, which was not staffed at night and had no out of hours cover, had not known.
The inquest into Mr Cox's death was heard at Avon Coroner's Court
The full statement from Mr Cox's family after the inquest said: "Robert was a much loved son, brother, uncle, cousin and father to 2 children who adored him.
"His family would like to thank the Avon and Somerset Police, who have been open and forthright about their involvement on the night, and the positive steps they have taken to improve their service, also the jury for their input over the 10 days and their perceptive and intelligent narrative conclusion.
"The family is disappointed that Home Group who were responsible for the safe care of Robert and Mr Hancock did not, in our opinion, keep either of them safe. Their lack of transparency during the inquest and failure to retain records at the time is a concern. The Avon and Wiltshire Partnership who were responsible for mental health patients in Bristol let Mr Hancock down and in turn let Robert down.
Father killed in Bishopston hostel for people with mental health problems 'had turned a corner'
"The Avon Senior Coroner's decision to narrow the scope of the inquest and withhold important evidence has meant that an opportunity to learn lessons has been lost. Prior to the inquest an investigation took place and the Serious Case Review was deemed not fit for purpose.
"This incident, leading to Robert's death, has highlighted failings where there is multi agency care. There needs to be a joined up approach to care of vulnerable adults and unlike the coroner, we believe, there is more work to be done to prevent future deaths.
"Finally, we would like to thank Robert's legal team at Clarke Willmott and Ms Gollop who were diligent in their task and all our family and friends who have supported us over the last 4 years."
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset police said: "This matter has been the subject of a Serious Case Review, an Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation and Coronial proceedings which we've fully participated in.
"We're committed to ensuring relevant lessons are captured and implemented."
Pollard family reduced to tears as DIY SOS complete £180k transformation of Hartcliffe home

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If you are running a business, you can use contact forms on your website instead of using your real email ID. This may be your best option for reducing the amount of spam you get. Users won't see your email ID and instead fill out the form in the web browser which will send that info to your email address.
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Sandersiella kikuchii är en kräftdjursart som beskrevs av Michitaka Shimomura och Akiyama 2008. Sandersiella kikuchii ingår i släktet Sandersiella och familjen Hutchinsoniellidae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Iowa Mourns
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U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne says 'better safe than sorry' in canceling in-person events following U.S. Capitol attack
Nick Coltrain | Des Moines Register
Trump takes no responsibility for US Capitol attack
President Donald Trump is taking no responsibility for his role in fomenting a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne canceled in-person Iowa events to focus on the fallout from last week's U.S. Capitol attack — which includes votes to remove President Donald Trump from office — and said Tuesday it was also "better safe than sorry" given the heightened danger of political violence.
Last week, Axne scheduled two in-person events for Tuesday. On Monday, she reformatted a roundtable discussion on veterans' issues during the pandemic to be online-only and postponed a townhall focused on agriculture.
She said, following the virtual roundtable, that events from last week ended up loading her schedule with meeting and calls Democratic U.S. House colleagues. U.S. House leadership plans to hold a vote Tuesday evening to encourage Trump's Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office and Wednesday's planned vote to impeach Trump again.
But, Axne also noted increased threats of political violence could put herself and her staff at risk if they held a public event.
"The unfortunate thing is, as much as I trust Iowans, and I think we're good people here, I think last week was a pretty good example that we just don't know," Axne said following a virtual round table on veteran's issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Better safe than sorry, right?"
Axne was on her way to the Capitol last Wednesday when she was told to "literally hide" because of the mob of Trump supporters storming the building to stop certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory over Trump.
Five people died during the riot, including a Capitol police office who was beaten to death by the mob. Des Moines resident Doug Jensen was seen on viral videos chasing police through the Capitol halls. He was arrested early Saturday and charged with violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, among other crimes.
While Axne didn't name Jensen, she noted that some of the "perpetrators" of what happened in the Capitol are from her district. She did not expect the heightened alert, in which she thinks it's best "to err on the side of caution," to last forever.
"We have just a very short period of time where we may have to do that, and I think it's a wiser move to make," Axne said. "Why put other folks in possible danger? I just don't know. That's really it. I didn't expect to see our constituents on the front page of every paper being arrested at the Capitol."
U.S. Sens. Joni Grassley and Chuck Grassley, both Iowa Republicans, held events in Iowa on Monday.
More: U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley: There's 'very little opportunity' for Trump to lead the Republican Party, regardless of impeachment
The day after the mob stormed the Capitol, Axne called on Trump's cabinet to remove him from office via the 25th Amendment. The day after that, she said she would vote for a second time to impeach him. She said she received death threats after her first impeachment vote in December 2019.
"Once again, we're at a point in this country where no one wants to be," Axne said Tuesday. "Literally no one wants to be here. I don't want to have another discussion about impeaching the president. We had Capitol officers killed by Americans."
She paused briefly before repeating, "by Americans. They dragged them down the stairs and beat them."
Trump incited the riot and should be held responsible, she said.
Ahead of the riot last week, Trump repeated falsehoods about the election being stolen and encouraged the crowd to walk to the Capitol and "show strength" while members of congress and U.S. senators performed their business. On Tuesday, he said his speech before the riot was "totally appropriate."
"I believe he is a danger to this country," Axne said.
Nick Coltrain is a politics and data reporter for the Register. Reach him at ncoltrain@registermedia.com or at 515-284-8361.


It's so easy to sit in America and look at Israel and pontificate. Currently sitting at my desk, with my laptop, I am not threatened. I have no bombs flying over head. I fear for my brother, living in Tel Aviv; my friends sprinkled throughout Israel, but I am safe at home.
Yet, I remain seated in New York, my frustration building daily and I can't understand why.
As I read through article after article on Facebook, Twitter, and other shared news sources, it dawns on me that I, in fact, am doing nothing. I can write and repost and make comments on pictures, but what am I doing?
France. Seattle. Atlanta. Morocco. Sharia Law in parts of the UK. ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The Diaspora is dying. The once beautiful communities of Aleppo, Baghdad, Provence are no longer. Prague is but a shadow of its former glory. With the increase in anti-Semitism in America and Europe, what is keeping us here?
My frustration is that I am doing nothing tangible to help Israel and my extended family that live there. Sure, its all well and good to give money to an organization (I prefer One Israel Fund, tell them Simon sent you) but that is passing. So what can I, or for that matter, you, the Reader do?
A lot of my friends (which you can see on Facebook) will tell you: " Make Aliyah!! G-d will provide!" Very nice. So when my daughter needs formula, G-d will magically send it to my kitchen table? Probably not, I am not that holy that miracles happen to me. You have to put your work in too. Life is not a handout.
"Israel has a lot of jobs now! Its different now then it was 10 years ago." Also very nice. Most jobs in Israel now are tech related. Or Medical. Or Research and Development. What about me? I work in the Kosher Food industry. Where is my opportunity? For that matter, what about those in the construction industry? Film industry? Education?
Israel excels in many high range industries. Thank G-d for that, but I believe that a strong economy leads to many things: National Security, desire for immigration, new trade partners and a stronger international standing.
Israel must be too big to fail. Unfortunately, it's not enough to be a light unto nations, we must be too big to fail. When Hamas or Hezbollah, May their names and memories be eradicated, attack Israel, Russia must say enough. America must say enough. China, Japan, India, the UN, South Africa all must say that Israel is their greatest ally. Not only because Israel sends herculean humanitarian teams to areas that need, but because an existential threat to Israel is an existential threat to them by proxy.
So, for those who are in my shoes, who cannot make Aliyah at this moment, but want to do something: Invest. Grow. Build branches of your business in Israel if possible. Real Estate developers, start building commercial spaces for businesses to come. Build them in areas that the government is forgetting! One new office building, with one new business equals more taxes for infrastructure. It means growth. It means new communities to help ease the over-stuffed housing issues in the main cities like Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. The growth of these communities then require amenities such as restaurants, grocery stores, dry cleaners, banks, coffee shops, nail salons. All which can bring more jobs and more security for an area.
How do I know this works? If Israel were to give the "West Bank" away, one of the towns it would probably annex is Ariel. It is too big to give away. With a hospital, University, many businesses with a population of over 30,000 (residents and students), it produces too much tax income and is too important to give to the Palestinian Authority. If this is the case with Ariel, imagine what could be done in Karmiel, Rishon l'Tzion, Be'er Sheva?
With the growth in jobs, the growth in Aliyah comes. It opens up the opportunity for the regular Jew to make Aliyah a reality without worrying about where his paycheck will come from.
There is a story told of HaRav Kook ZTZ"L I heard from Rav Berel Wein. Rav Kook was sitting with his kids and his daughter bit into a bitter olive, making a face, she said "this tastes awful." Rav Kook said you cannot say that about produce grown in Israel, you can only say you don't like it.
My sincere hope for part of this blog is to strengthen Israel's security through a strong economy. In the future, I would like to highlight businesses that are either starting in Israel or opening branches in Israel to make Aliyah more accessible. When I hear "Its too hard to live in Israel, how am I going to make a living?" It kills me. You can't say that about Israel, you can only say that you need to figure it out. This one nation, so divided throughout the world, has to make it work.
If you are a business owner, or know of one, that is opening in Israel, please contact me. I would love to get the word out.


Two days I had another nail in my tire. I stopped counting over the years. Driving off-road it happens that I drive over nails, screws or other metal spikes that puncture my tyres.
What I usualy do is leave the object in the tyre, till I can get to a garage. It keeps the air in and spares me from actually changing the tyre.
So this afternoon I went to goodyear in Chiang Mai and got my tyre fixed, let them rotate all the tyres and had them check the breaks. This all for 100 baht (3.-SFr. / 2.60$) I love taking care of my truck here in Thailand.


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Q: How to create a python script that copy website including its content and files? I am struggling to copy the website using python pywebcopy script to the local directory. How do accomplish this using this library? How do i also load this script to the server either FTP? That could get the same URL responsive?
import pywebcopy
from pywebcopy import save_website

kwargs = {'project_name': 'ClassCentral_Copy'} # it will create a folder in the desired folder with the name 'test'

save_website(
    url='https://www.classcentral.com/',
    project_folder='C:/ClassCentral_Copy',
    **kwargs
)


Unfortunately, much of the Sagebrush Sea suffers from a tragedy of the commons.
Accessible, irrigable, and rich in minerals, the Sagebrush Sea has been a working landscape since ranchers, miners and homesteaders first laid claim to it 200 years ago. Millions of acres have been lost to agriculture and development. Sagebrush steppes with the deepest soil were permanently converted to croplands. Cities and towns line the region's waterways and super highways divide huge swaths of sagebrush habitat.
Most of the remaining sagebrush habitat is fragmented and degraded by a host of land uses and related effects, including oil and gas drilling, livestock grazing, mining, unnatural fire, invasive weeds, off-road vehicles, roads, fences, pipelines and utility corridors. Climate change will exacerbate these impacts and may cause sagebrush habitats to contract across the West.
The cumulative effects of these threats can be deleterious to fish and wildlife, which have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Indeed, less than five percent of the landscape receives some level of federal protection, making the Sagebrush Sea one of the least protected landscapes in the U.S.


Carlo Gavazzi's CA18 and CA30 CAN/CAF capacitive proximity DC sensors feature several significant upgrades from its previous sensors, including superior electromagnetic immunity and refined sensitivity adjustment with stability indication. The sensors come in flush or non-flush, cable or plug versions, with NPN or PNP output types and NO and/or NC output functions. They are available with a dust or temperature alarm function. Featuring an ECOLAB certified sensor housing rated to IP69K standard, these sensors are exceptionally well suited for reliable detection in environments subject to high temperatures, harsh chemicals, steam, and high-pressure cleaning.
The CA18 and CA30 CAN/CAF sensors are ideal for a wide range of applications that require dependable measurements or monitoring of solid material or fluids.


Freeletics is a fitness-program that combines functional body weight training with running exercises. There is a same-named company from germany that founded the program and provides the platform for the freeletics community with training-schedules, nutrition guide and social features. Freeletics is proven to be hard, but also very effective. To measure improvements, you keep track of your workout times and try to beat them – but always with an eye on the correct execution of the exercises.
One nice thing about Freeletics is that you can to it almost everywhere. The only thing required sometimes is a place to do pullups or a wall. Your main tool as a FreeAthlete is the mobile app. It helps to track the times and stay in touch with other atheles all around the world. The app in general is free, but requires a payment to unlock all exercises and the so called coach.
The coach is a personalized program that gives you a weekly workout schedule. The weekly routines are generated using an algorithm that consideres your personal progress and your evaluation of the last week. That's just an asumption – nobody outside the Freletics company really knows how the algorithm works and what parameters effect the calculations – I guess.
I started Freeletics in april 2014 and it become an important part of my life. Since I started, I feel more comfortable in my body, am in a much better shape and general phyiscal and mental condition. Also I met a lot of nice and interesting people, that share this passion and become really good friends. If you want to find out more about Freeletics, visit the official website.


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Q: android fragment cannot open in the emulator Firstly I'm new android and English :) sorry about that. I've a problem with Fragment manager. I read some code for using fragment in the main activity. However it's cannot run in emulator and also you can see the codes in below. I think the problem that about "import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;" line. I dont know maybe I must use it like that "import android.app.FragmenManager"
I hope you can understand my sentence and help me.
Thank you.
   package com.example.ilk.fragmenttransactions;

import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransaction;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends FragmentActivity {

    FragmentManager fm;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }

    public void addA(View v){
        FragmentA f1 = new FragmentA();
        FragmentTransaction transaction = fm.beginTransaction();
        transaction.add(R.id.fragment_container, f1, "A");
        transaction.commit();
    }

    public void removeA(View v){
        FragmentA f1 = (FragmentA)fm.findFragmentByTag("A");
        FragmentTransaction transaction = fm.beginTransaction();
        if(f1 != null){
            transaction.remove(f1);
            transaction.commit();
        }
        else{
            Toast.makeText(this, "There is no A! you cannot delete it", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
    }

    public void addB(View v){
        FragmentB f2 = new FragmentB();
        FragmentTransaction transaction = fm.beginTransaction();
        transaction.add(R.id.fragment_container, f2, "B");
        transaction.commit();
    }

    public void removeB(View v){
        FragmentB f2 = (FragmentB)fm.findFragmentByTag("B");
        FragmentTransaction transaction = fm.beginTransaction();
        if(f2 != null){
            transaction.remove(f2);
            transaction.commit();
        }
        else{
            Toast.makeText(this, " There is no B! you cannot delete it ",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();

        //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            return true;
        }

        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}

A: use import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager.
the fragment is not loaded because you are not making any transaction when your app is initialized:
 @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }

i think you are trying to load the fragments by clicking an element of the layout with
android:onClick property
for example:
<Button
    android:id="@+id/myButton"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:onClick="addA" />

that executes this method:
  public void addA(View v){
        FragmentA f1 = new FragmentA();
        FragmentTransaction transaction = fm.beginTransaction();
        transaction.add(R.id.fragment_container, f1, "A");
        transaction.commit();
    }


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> ARCHIVE > JULY / AUGUST 2011 > LOGGING IN CHELSEA
Logging in Chelsea
A tree grows in Chelsea... and becomes a safety hazard.
Safety, Endpaper
Jo Anna Isaak and Dan O'Connell
A board member and a shareholder discuss safely removing a large, overbearing tree without causing damage to the surrounding buildings.
Read this article in the digital edition.
President and Shareholder, 329 West 21st Street, Manhattan
When we purchased our small co-op apartment in Chelsea more than 20 years ago, the biggest appeal to us was the deck and garden area that came with it. Hidden behind the main 10-unit building, the dominant feature of the small courtyard was a large, old ailanthus tree. It had already reached to the top of the adjoining property – 45 feet or so. And it had a charming peculiarity: in its search for the sun, it leaned at a Pisa-like 15-degree angle, toward the building on our west side. It also attracted rare and unusual birds, resting on their migratory paths. It gave us shade in the summer and leaves to sweep in the fall. Its only downside, we thought, was that we had to scoot around its massive, elephantine trunk when bringing food from the building to our outside dining table.
For 20 years, we enjoyed our tree. There was a question about how many of the nutrients of our intensely cultivated garden were being hogged by the tree. It must have had a big appetite, but the vitamins we had pumped into it each year helped. Then, one day last winter, we noticed something peculiar: the tree's roots were breaking through the ground, coming up and pulling our wooden deck up with them.
The tree leaned more in the wind and heavy rain; its branches cracked in the night. Finally, it came to rest its massive weight against the wall of our adjacent building. Alarmed, the board called in the tree experts. Our co-op requires competitive bidding when it comes to matters like this, and the three tree removal experts agreed, if not on price, then on one matter. It was, as one said ominously, "a dangerous tree."
Not only was the tree dangerous but, it seemed, so would be its removal. It would involve a lot of lines strung from adjoining buildings and the danger of the tree toppling into the neighbors' windows, with potentially considerable damage. Calls to our insurance company followed. The question of responsibility arose: was the tree solely ours, or possibly the co-op's responsibility? No consensus seemed near.
Whatever the legal situation, the tree had to be taken down – now. The scenarios presented to us by the various tree specialists ranged from a tree climber lopping off branches from top to bottom, to an alarming notion that we might need to bring in a crane, which involved closing off our street, police permits, and a bill of up to $15,000. A helicopter was mentioned.
Finally, we decided upon Savatree, a Westchester tree removal service that we had used for many years to look after this tree. They proposed having one of their super-athletic tree climbers do the job. The next day, the tree removal crew appeared. After inspecting the tree and adjoining rooftops, they said they could do it. Doing it involved permissions from the adjacent buildings to sling lines across their roofs, and from our fellow co-op residents to rig lines to their fire escapes.
The crew was not taking any chances that the tree would go over when the branches leaning against our neighbor building were cut. Half-a-dozen large men clambered onto our roof and the two neighbor buildings, and the intrepid tree-cutter began rappelling down the side of the building on our west side, establishing cable lines. Spikes on his boots, and a gas-powered chainsaw hanging from his waist, this logger, as fine as any to be found in British Columbia, climbed to the top of the tree and began lopping off the smaller branches near the top.
Meanwhile, we joined half of the residents whose windows faced the courtyard and watched in admiration. Some had had the foresight to tape the glass on their windows and take in their air conditioners since, as we were told, "there will be damage."
As we watched in high anxiety, first the branches, then sections of the main trunk itself, began to fall into our yard from 50 feet up. This guy was good: he saw to it that the falling huge sections missed our plants. As the pieces hit the ground, his fellow tree demolishers carried them out to the street, where they were fed into a tree-pulverizing machine. The machine made a terrific racket, much to the delight of the schoolchildren in the school across the street, PS 11. We thought of the poem that begins, "There's a machine on my street/That eats trees and [spews out] sawdust."
Amazingly, in about three hours, the tree was gone. All that remained was to cut it down to a mere nub, so that we could put some new deck over its remains. No damage, no complaints from the neighbors. We were so impressed with the work of the urban logger that we sent him a Christmas gift.
A side benefit of the successful removal is fewer leaves to sweep in the fall. The garden seems to be doing better this summer: more sun, and the big tree isn't eating the nutrients any more. For the first time ever the dogwood tree – always previously in the larger tree's shadow – began blooming.
Still, time passes. And sometimes, in the mornings, we miss the birds that used to perch in the tall branches and the old elephant trunk.


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WVU made 'flawed' decision, University revokes degree after scathing report on M.B.A. awarded to Bresch,
Thursday, April 24, 2008 , By Len Boselovic and Patricia Sabatini, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"The panel said WVU officials did not put enough reliance on records maintained by the Office of Admissions and Records, the university's official records keeper. Those records, which showed Ms. Bresch did not earn the degree, were trustworthy, the panel concluded."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08115/876164-298.stm
Gary Link, CRM
Corporate Records Manager
Astorino
227 Fort Pitt Blvd.
Pittsburgh, PA  15222
www.Astorino.com


Can we talk about imposters?
Specifically church-dropouts who say they love the Lord.
Recently, we were having a lively Facebook discussion about church leadership and whether divorced people – specifically someone with multiple divorces – should be considered for deacon.
I submit to you that anyone who points the finger at another Christian – even someone who is mean-spirited and wrong-headed about everything – and says, "You are the reason I no longer go to church" is being dishonest.
A liberal professor is the reason I don't read my Bible. My parents are the reason I don't go to Sunday School ("I was made to go as a child!"). A bad preacher is the reason I don't like long sermons.
A church practiced racism or elitism or liberalism or was unfriendly, and so you decided to write off all churches?
A pastor ran off with the organist and you abandoned the kingdom of God?
Your father was the pastor and because of the mistreatment this good man endured at the hands of some evil people, you no longer believe in the church?
"Deceiving and being deceived" is how the Apostle Paul put it in our text. That's an interesting expression. As certain people spread their falsehood, Paul says, they get caught up in their own snare and start believing it.
One of the first things a religious cult does with a new convert is to get him teaching others. As he deceives them with the false doctrine, he ingrains the wickedness further into his own soul. Deceiving others, yes, but mostly himself.
To be sure, there are some racists in church. Yes, some preachers run off with the organists. It is also true some pastors are crooks who prey on the unsuspecting or rob the church bank account. And some church members are unfriendly, unloving, do not know their Bibles and have no business representing the Lord Jesus Christ.
However, someone else's shortcomings and sins are no excuse to write off the church.
Someone protests, "Just because I no longer go to church does not mean I do not love the Lord. I do love Him, but not His people." Sorry, Charlie or Charlene, it doesn't work that way.
The Church is the Body of Christ, the household of faith, the Bride of Christ, the temple of God. Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it. Do you dismiss so easily what Christ values so highly?
Please, cease playing the lame blame game that insists you are part of the Church universal even though you declare you no longer have any use for the congregations in your town. Show me that in the Bible. Nowhere can you find a justification for this self-deception.
I do have a suggestion. Humble yourself as a little child.
Confess to the Lord what you are doing and ask for His forgiveness. Ask Him to forgive you for turning away from Him and the blaming others. Ask Him to show you the real cause for your attitude and your withdrawal from church.
Then, when you finish, ask Him to lead you to a church where you can heal and grow.
Ask Him to help you to keep the focus on the Lord Jesus and not on the people in the pews or in leadership. Expect those people to be human and to make mistakes sometimes. Ask God to help you to show them the same grace you wish to receive.
Finally, may I suggest a brief scripture?
In Luke 18:9-14, our Lord speaks of two men praying in the temple. One is justifying himself while at the same time putting down others. (Sound like anyone you know?) The other is humble, childlike, and honest.
Guess which of the two is accepted by the Lord and blessed.
Have a wonderful day. Oh, and please come back to church. We miss you.


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package org.hisp.dhis.dxf2.metadata.objectbundle;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.hisp.dhis.common.IdentifiableObject;
import org.hisp.dhis.dxf2.metadata.feedback.ImportReportMode;
import org.hisp.dhis.dxf2.metadata.objectbundle.feedback.ObjectBundleValidationReport;
import org.hisp.dhis.feedback.ErrorCode;
import org.hisp.dhis.importexport.ImportStrategy;
import org.hisp.dhis.render.RenderFormat;
import org.hisp.dhis.render.RenderService;
import org.hisp.dhis.test.integration.TransactionalIntegrationTest;
import org.hisp.dhis.user.UserService;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;

/**
 * @author Morten Olav Hansen
 */
class ObjectBundleServiceImportReportModeTest extends TransactionalIntegrationTest
{
    @Autowired
    private ObjectBundleService objectBundleService;

    @Autowired
    private ObjectBundleValidationService objectBundleValidationService;

    @Autowired
    private RenderService _renderService;

    @Autowired
    private UserService _userService;

    @Override
    protected void setUpTest()
        throws Exception
    {
        renderService = _renderService;
        userService = _userService;
    }

    @Test
    void testImportReportModeErrorNotOwner()
        throws IOException
    {
        Map<Class<? extends IdentifiableObject>, List<IdentifiableObject>> metadata = renderService.fromMetadata(
            new ClassPathResource( "dxf2/metadata_no_defaults.json" ).getInputStream(), RenderFormat.JSON );
        ObjectBundleParams params = new ObjectBundleParams();
        params.setObjectBundleMode( ObjectBundleMode.COMMIT );
        params.setImportStrategy( ImportStrategy.CREATE_AND_UPDATE );
        params.setObjects( metadata );
        ObjectBundle bundle = objectBundleService.create( params );
        assertFalse( objectBundleValidationService.validate( bundle ).hasErrorReports() );
        objectBundleService.commit( bundle );
        metadata = renderService.fromMetadata(
            new ClassPathResource( "dxf2/metadata_update_not_owner.json" ).getInputStream(), RenderFormat.JSON );
        params = new ObjectBundleParams();
        params.setObjectBundleMode( ObjectBundleMode.COMMIT );
        params.setImportStrategy( ImportStrategy.CREATE_AND_UPDATE );
        params.setImportReportMode( ImportReportMode.ERRORS_NOT_OWNER );
        params.setObjects( metadata );
        bundle = objectBundleService.create( params );
        ObjectBundleValidationReport validate = objectBundleValidationService.validate( bundle );
        assertTrue( validate.hasErrorReports() );
        assertEquals( 4, validate.getErrorReportsCount() );
        validate.forEachErrorReport( errorReport -> assertEquals( ErrorCode.E5006, errorReport.getErrorCode(),
            "Invalid error code, expected E5006" ) );
    }
}


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Home Live Review Music Park: Warpaint @ Union Transfer (Philadelphia) — 10/9/16
Music Park: Warpaint @ Union Transfer (Philadelphia) — 10/9/16
Warpaint perform at Union Transfer in Philadelphia on Oct. 9, 2016.
Warpaint have a great new album, Heads Up, and the ladies are wrapping a US tour of it tonight.
But along the way, they hit DC last week to perform at the 9:30 Club (check out our pix) and Philadelphia on Sunday to play to a very full house at Union Transfer. I was able to catch the Philadelphia show personally, and I was impressed at what great form the Los Angeles psych poppers have achieved and how much the new material really suits them.
Warpaint own a unique sound, delicately balanced on the guitars of co-vocalists Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman. We often call them dreampop, but in concert they eschewed synthesizers for a more rock-n-roll sound.
In the middle of the set, Warpaint perform "Whiteout" with Theresa on lead vocals, and the song perfectly captures the band's tribal, psychedelic character, which is fully explored on Heads Up, released last month via Rough Trade.
Many Warpaint songs owe a debt of gratitude to the band's stellar rhythm section. Jenny Lee Lindberg plays bass from her hip, eternally swaying hypnotically in the depth of her groove, while drummer Stella Mozgawa achieves a flow that sees her drumsticks pace evenly across skins and cymbals with remarkable consistency.
Watch it all come together as Warpaint perform "Whiteout" for WFUV Public Radio on August 4, 2016, on YouTube:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUa2Z9c4hj0]
Theresa also takes lead vocals on "New Song," the first single from the new album, which has a bit more of an R&B groove but remains very much within Warpaint's toolkit. "New Song" has quite a bit of snap to it but Emily and Theresa's psychedelic sensibilities permeate the song through their guitars.
Let's not forget to point out that two lead vocalists is one of the strengths of Warpaint. Emily takes lead vocals on the powerful "Love Is to Die," the breakout tune from Warpaint's second self-titled album. Her lush, dreamy voice brings depth and dimension to songs that gently wash over the audience. "Love Is to Die" is heartbreakingly breathtaking as a listen, and the band achieve a rare feat in bringing the audience inside the song in live performance. The four women take to their instruments as a unit, each synchronized on stage both melodically and physically, as they unpack the song.
And this brings me to another intriguing aspect of Warpaint. The band presents sensual songs with laidback appeal. I hope to make some sense here without sounding too much like an idiot, but Warpaint are sexy. They achieve this sexiness in embracing the sensuality of their songs and getting lost in the rhythm of their performance. They aren't compelled to follow a typical pop starlet route for knocking us over the head with their sexuality. Instead, it's subdued but powerfully present throughout their set.
Warpaint close their encore with "Krimson" from their debut EP Exquisite Corpse. The song is a good closer as it has a bit of urgency not necessarily found in some of their more recent songs. In Philadelphia, the audience yelps in happy response to the spare opening chords of the song and then proceed to dance hard to the very end.
Warpaint close their US tour tonight in Los Angeles and then hop to Europe. The ladies have really come together in a way that would convince you they have a psychic bond, each filling in a key part but contributing to a greater whole in a way that is thoroughly satisfying. To catch a live Warpaint show is truly to extend your understanding and appreciation of their music, so I highly recommend catching them at your next opportunity to do so.
Here are some rather amateur pictures I took of Warpaint at Philadelphia's Union Transfer on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. You can find some better pictures on our blog from their show at the 9:30 Club on Oct. 4.
jennylee
Union Transfer
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Psednos anoderkes és una espècie de peix pertanyent a la família dels lipàrids.

Descripció
 La femella fa 2,7 cm de llargària màxima.
 Ulls molt petits.
 Pell pàl·lida.
 Nombre de vèrtebres: 42.

Hàbitat
És un peix marí i batidemersal que viu entre 0-2.036 m de fondària.

Distribució geogràfica
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How to detect if a point is below a bounding box (thread-safe)?
I am trying to cast a shadow on a set of points in Unity that are below a BoxCollider object (have an x and z that would be in the box but y is below it). I previously used InverseTransform point to check if the points were in the bounding box, however it doesn't seem to work here because it would only check if the point y in the box frame is below the box.
In addition, I am doing this calculation on a thread so I can't use raycasting or any of the other Unity APIs available. How might I check if a point is below the box using strictly vector/quaternion math?
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Photo: UN Women Albania/Violana Murataj. Saudita Marku, a beekeeper and certified tourist guide in Albania
Providing access to employment and better income opportunities are among the most effective ways to empower women. Yet, the main challenges for women in Albania remain the persistent gender pay gap, few opportunities in the labor market, lack of skilled entrepreneurs and their access to services and credit.
Women's average salary is almost 18 per cent lower than men's in urban areas and twofold lower in rural areas. Women are over-represented in Albania's informal economy and as unpaid family workers in businesses and on farms. Over 50 per cent of Albanian women work in agriculture – 87 per cent of them in unpaid family jobs – and rural women are not covered by basic social, pension and health services.
UN Women has a long history in supporting Albanian Government to meet many international commitments that support women's economic empowerment, including the Beijing Platform for Action, The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Sustainable Development Goals and the EU legislation on gender equality.
In close cooperation with the Government, private sector and civil society our interventions focus on providing access to employment and better income opportunities, which are among the most effective ways to empower women. Therefore, UN Women intervention has been projected at two levels: first, working with the private sector to increase women's participation in the workforce corporate leadership and distribution networks through Women's Empowerment Principles of UN Global Compact, and second, working with key ministries and institutions to implement women-oriented economic policies and programs.
Since 2011, UN Women Albania has been working with women to strengthen their entrepreneurship skills and enhance their knowledge on business opportunities and credits. The program serves as a promoter of women's economic empowerment among the private sector and public institutions at central and local level.
UN Women has boosted the capacities of public institutions on designing and implementing policies and strategies for rural women's economic empowerment, inclusive employment, as well as prevention of violence against women and their trafficking. One critical area of support is also increasing the capacities of institutions in implementing existing legislation on women's economic and property rights. In the mean time, we have provided them access to nationally generated and disaggregated data and statistics on women's economic opportunities and constrains.
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ImageNation Soul Train Tribute
Abdullaye Wouadjou
Summer may be coming to a close, but that doesn't mean there aren't events worthwhile. If you are in the New York City area, I would recommend checking out ImageNation's Outdoor Film Festival on Saturday, August 12, in Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park. This day will include a Soul Train Tribute by various artist which include: Abiah, Asa Lovechild, Keith Anthony Fluitt and additional musical selections from Sunday Sermon's Stormin Normin. Thenceforth, there will be a screening of two award winning films.
The first film that will be displayed is 90 Days, a short film directed by Jennia Fredrique and Nathan Hale Williamsdevoted to educating the Black community about HIV/AIDS via a love story of a young couple. The film also received the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Short Film.
In addition to 90 Days, the next film that will be screened is Ava Duverney's critically acclaimed 13TH, a documentary that guides viewers throughout the history of the United States' prison system, and its significance within the African American community. The documentary has received in total nine awards including the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, MTV Movie Award for Best Documentary, and Critics Choice Documentary Award for Best Documentary.
In all, I would recommend everyone within the New York City area to attend on Saturday. The event will be filled with entertainment, education, and enlightenment. If you would to like to learn more about the event, visit ImageNation's website athttp://www.imagenation.us or pick up a brochure at the RAW SPACE Gallery located on 2031 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. (7th Ave. Between 121st and 122nd)
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The U.S. Department of Commerce's U.S. Commercial Service office in Northern NJ and the NJ District Export Council, in conjunction with Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr., present a Seminar on Exporting. This seminar is designed to help companies start or sharpen their export knowledge to gain increasing skills and innovation in their overseas activities. The seminar content is for novice exporters that would like expert advice on export-related topics.
This seminar is designed for companies interested in or currently involved in exporting. Staff that should attend include anyone with a responsibility for export functions: marketing, sales, export operations and finance, and shipping.


"Airbus for batteries"-style alliance announced this week in Brussels aims to expedite European battery cell manufacturing and strengthen continent's storage value chain in face of Asian and U.S. competition.
Matthias Machnig, German State Secretary for Energy; Brune Poirson, French Minister of State for Ecology; Jadwiga Emilewicz, Polish Deputy Minister of Economic Development, and Maroš Šefčovič, European Commission VP in charge of the Energy Union, at the launch of the battery alliance in Brussels this week.
The EU Commission's VP Maroš Šefčovic has this week launched a new battery alliance initiative that aims to nurture a continent-wide improvement of Europe's battery production landscape.
The initiative is being called an "Airbus for batteries" and was launched on October 11 with the assistance of the EU and a suite of largely German firms, including automakers Daimler, engineering company Siemens and chemical group BASF. French car giant Renault was also invited to the gathering, which aims to promote a consortium of invested players across Europe eager to improve the competitiveness of cell manufacturing.
Battery cell producers are thin on the ground in Europe. The market's leading names are either Korean (LG, Samsung), Chinese (BYD, CATL), Japanese (NEC, Panasonic) or American (Tesla). However, European giants Daimler and Volkswagen, as well as Total's Saft Group, have expressed an interest in joining the alliance, the EU said.
Storage technologies are widely expected to form a vital pillar of Europe's energy transition. The EC has said that it will adopt a strategic plan early next year, and could be supported by up to €2.2 billion in EU funding.
Thomas Speidel, president of the German Storage Association (BVES), told pv magazine that it welcomes the EU-Commission's acknowledgement of the pivotal role energy storage technologies play in a carbon-free system.
Speidel concluded that Europe currently has a "good hand that should be played well" in the fast-changing and competitive global storage market.
Swiss storage specialists Leclanché, who were invited to the initiative, welcomed the move. "Battery technology is vital to the future security of Europe's energy supply and the initiative of Vice-President Šefčovič will help create the right momentum and sends a clear signal as to its importance," said Anil Srivastava, Leclanché CEO.
I see the Koreans and Japanese building battery factories in Europe.


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Q: Dropdown menu appears even mouse hovers on other areas on the web page Am using the below drop down for my site header menu.
https://www.script-tutorials.com/demos/364/index.html
In this, When mouse hovering below spaces of the menu also Dropdown menu appearing.
I used this code in my site. I wasn't able to find out whats the solution.
I tried z-indexing and position as relative but still it appears. please guide me.
Thanks.
yes z-index but it a minus value like z-index:-100;

A: I checked the plugin the problem is your action happens when you hover li and the sub-menu is present inside li. So that is the reason whatever element that comes inside of li will be part of li.
You can do 1 thing in this scenario:
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Trade-talk gridlock hinders Canada's ability to take care of business
Barrie McKennaEconomics Reporter
France and Ireland are reluctant to open their markets to more Canadian beef because they fear the U.S. will want even more in a future U.S.-European Union deal.Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press
Imagine a chess exhibition where a grandmaster simultaneously takes on multiple opponents, and you have some idea of the convoluted web of trade negotiations Canada has on the go.
Throw in all the other proposed bilateral and regional trade agreements in the world, and the possible moves are head spinning.
Why, for example, would Canada put its best dairy offer on the table in the European trade talks when it knows the U.S. and New Zealand will be gunning for it in the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks?
France and Ireland, similarly, are reluctant to open their markets to more Canadian beef because they fear the U.S. will want even more in a future U.S.-European Union deal.
"The more you have these [trade negotiations] going on simultaneously, the more complicated and multidimensional the chess game gets," acknowledged Matthew Kronby, who was Canada's lead lawyer in the European free-trade talks before joining law firm Bennett Jones last year.
When the Doha round of multilateral trade talks stalled in 2008, countries wanting to expand trade more rapidly looked elsewhere. It spawned an explosion of proposed trade deals.
Canada alone is now engaged in 14 separate sets of free-trade talks involving dozens of countries, as well as an ambitious international services agreement with a select group of 22 World Trade Organization members. In some cases, Ottawa is simultaneously negotiating with the same countries in multiple venues.
The hope is that all these efforts will collectively break down trade barriers and get a little closer to the ultimate goal of global free trade.
It's not at all clear that's happening. The very real danger is that all these overlapping negotiations, paradoxically, make signing deals less likely and freer trade more elusive.
Countries are loath to give up too much in the short term, fearing they'll lose leverage in future negotiations that may offer richer rewards.
The players at the table in any one set of talks may not reflect real world trading patterns. The vaunted Trans-Pacific Partnership, touted as the gold standard of free-trade deals, spans the globe, but doesn't involve either China or Europe – two of the most important players in world trade.
Canada learned the hard way that, as a relatively small player, it can easily become a pawn in a trade chess game dominated by larger players. South Korea, for example, stopped negotiating with Canada in 2008, realizing it had virtually everything it needed after wrapping up a deal with the United States.
Unless Ottawa can complete negotiations soon with the European Union, Canada risks being big-footed again as the U.S. and Europe begin negotiations.
Bilateral and regional trade deals can also complicate existing trade flows.
Consider Canada's 6.1-per-cent tariff on cars and auto parts, which has become a significant issue in both the European and Korean free-trade talks. Japan looks at these negotiations and says: "What about us?" Korea and Europe stand to get preferential access to the Canadian market when, unlike the Japanese, they don't even make cars or invest heavily here.
Meanwhile, Canada has begun free-trade talks with Japan. Japan is also poised to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, and it has already sketched out a tentative agreement with the U.S. on the thorny and politically sensitive issue of cars.
As neither Korea and nor the European Union are involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it is unclear where, or when, Canada should bargain away its auto tariff.
Some chronically sensitive sectors, such as rice or dairy products, are not controversial in the context of Japan-Canada talks because Canada isn't a rice producer and Japan doesn't export dairy products. But those same products are certain to be tricky in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, where rival countries compete in those markets.
Adding to the complexity of all these deals is a more practical problem – the shortage of trade-negotiating expertise. With so much going on, the federal government's bench is stretched thin. There are only so many experts capable of negotiating investment rules, customs procedures and the like. The same labour shortage is affecting other countries too.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is anxious to secure a trade victory for Canada.
But negotiating fatigue and gridlock are threatening to deny him the win.
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Channel 4 has become the first broadcaster to partner with zeebox, the social TV app from the former BBC iPlayer boss Anthony Rose.
Zeebox launched in the UK in October as a second-screen app that turns TV into a two-way, social viewing experience.
The apps for the iPad, tablets and laptops allow users to see what their friends are watching and share, chat and tweet about TV programmes.
The deal will see the pair creating new content to accompany Channel 4 programme Desperate Scousewives, which starts on 28 November.
Zeebox users will be provided with tailored interactive content from Channel 4 alongside the standard service features, such as related Twitter feeds, news, instant chat and information from Wikipedia.
The Desperate Scousewives content will include a bespoke Twitter visualisation app, cast tweets, cast videos, music information through iTunes, as well as links to a Scouse glossary and a Google map plotted with key Liverpool locations.
Zeebox creator Rose is the former chief technology officer of the BBC's iPlayer.


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Q: How to get the last real order Number Magento 2 I'm trying to get the last order number in magento 2.
I've tried getting it this way.
$objectManager = \Magenato\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
$checkout_session = $objectManager>get('\Magento\Checkout\Model\Session');
$order = $checkout_session->getLastRealOrder();
$orderId= $order->getEntityId();
$number = $order->getIncrementId();

but returns null.
Please assist , Thank you.

A: To get the last order number ...
$objectManager = \Magenato\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
$checkout_session = $objectManager>get('\Magento\Checkout\Model\Session');
$order = $checkout_session->getLastRealOrder();
$orderNumber = $order->getId();
echo $orderNumber;


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Study: Technology Is Zapping Your Sex Life
Newsflash: We're having less sex than our parents (no need to picture that). Could switching off, turn you on? - by Melissa Shedden - Women's Health
Sex. It's twerking at you from Miley's video clips and even the underwear aisle at Target these days. Despite living in a more sexualised world, things aren't looking good for our libidos. The irony.
The recently released Second Australian Study of Health and Relationships (ASHR2), AKA our sex census, shows that the only thing regularly going down, is the weekly frequency average (from 1.8 times in the first study in 2003, to 1.4 times per week in 2014). Hetero Australian couples are getting less than ever. Yikes.
Lead author of ARHR2 study, Professor Juliet Richters from the University of New South Wales, says a number of factors may be at play even if you're not. "We've seen the general intrusion of work into home life, it's not uncommon to take laptops and phones to bed," she says.
"Women may also be feeling they don't have to 'service' their men and have relaxed after hearing from the last report that other people are doing it twice a week and not nearly every night," Richters says.
Bedside tables across the country are a scramble of chargers. Australia has more than one mobile subscription for every person (31.09 million) and 11.19 million Aussies have a smartphone, the 2012-2013 ACMA Communications report shows.
We are experiencing a "tyranny of devices", says Dr Meagan Tyler, lecturer in Sociology at Victoria University and author of Selling Sex Short.
"Technology is affecting all kinds of social interactions. You interrupt face-to-face conversations to answer your mobile or reply to a text. Why would sex be any different? Look at the rise of the selfie, and now the #bedselfie (a snap of your post-sex face). What's next?"
OK, admit it. Sex has been pushed to the bottom of your priority list, after work or reaching the next level on Candy Crush. "We're too tired and busy," says sexologist and relationship therapist Tanya Koens.
She's seen an increase in clients relegating getting lucky to the weekend. "Then they fill up too. You have to reinvest in your relationship, which doesn't mean spending eight hours a day in it. You can spend six seconds or 10 minutes daily and see a change."
If you could get abs in six seconds you'd do it. Research shows regular kissing increases the amount of sex you're having, according to a 2009 sample study by Arizona State University Professor Kory Floyd.
Instead of a harried see ya, do a six second kiss hello and goodbye says Koens. "Kiss with intention. You can squeeze your partner's bum, kiss all the way from the ear and back again, suck their lips or kiss their neck."
"There's nothing like not having sex to fuel low libido," says WH health expert Dr Ginni Mansberg. "Like going for a run, you'll make every excuse to get out of it. Then after you've done it, think 'that was good, I should do it more often'. Sex is sometimes the same, you have to mentally readjust and build up a tolerance."
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On the plus side, you might be getting less, but you are getting all kinds of freaky. "Australians appear to be having sex less frequently, but they have broader repertories of sexual behavior," says Richters.
Down Under we're having less sex, but more sexual partners in a lifetime (from 6.9 to 8.9), more same-sex relationships and more anal intercourse (don't worry it's only the incidence of anal, the frequency is low). The use of sex toys is also up 10 per cent among women and oral sex, 15 per cent.
The Fifty Shades of Grey effect could be, ahem, behind the increased experimentation, or as Richters suggests, "the increased availability of pornography via the internet which frequently depicts oral and anal sex." Sixty per cent of ASHR2 respondents felt pornography could improve sexual relations (though men were more likely to express this view).
"Female friendly stories on eroticstories.com and cliterotica.com offer an alternative," says Koens, "read to each other and see what happens." If you're interested in a movie night with a difference choose a saucy storyline that turns you both on.
"Do something to help you relax like have a bath or glass of wine. Afterwards have an open conversation about what you liked, didn't like, would like to try and what's strictly off limits," Koens says. But watching it and doing it, are two different things. Is sex going the way of cricket and becoming more of a spectator sport?
"The pseudo-anonymity of technology enables you to connect, explore sexual tastes and become better informed and aware about sex. You have permission to discover what your sexual taste is," says Hellyer.
"Like with food, we all have sexual tastes. There are a whole bunch of things that pretty much everyone likes. Then there are some things only a minority enjoy, and everyone else thinks is a bit weird. Being more exposed to possibilities, you can tap into what you like and don't."
THE FUTURE OF FOREPLAY
Technology is part of modern coupledom these days (buzzy bedroom toys included) so use what you've got. Your phone is more than your alarm clock. A 2013 study from the Burnet Institute found 46 per cent of participants reported sending a sexually explicit message. "Sexting is a form of foreplay," says Professor Catharine Lumby. "It's part of modern dating and flirting."
You might think your G-spot is the key to orgasm, but your largest sex organ is actually your brain. "For women desire is 75 per cent subjective," says Koens, "you need to be in the moment and the mood". You've heard of mindful eating, why not mindful foreplay?
"Women need to be energetically ready for sex. You can't just put down the iPad and say sure. You need to be relaxed, off the 'busy' merry go round, in a relaxed environment and in a state where you want sex," says Koens. Foreplay then pretty much begins at the end of the previous orgasm.
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Three things erotic couples do, according to psychologist Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity and the woman behind the Ted Talk that went viral - The Secret to desire in a long term relationship.
1. Have more 'me' time, "Erotic couples have a lot of sexual privacy, an erotic space that belongs to each of them." Whether that's QT with the electronic boyf or alone time with the ab cruncher, learn how to turn yourself on.
2. Be bad to be good. "Stop being the good citizen who is taking care of things and being responsible. Responsibility and desire just butt heads." Swap the water bill for the water-based lube.
3. Understand that spontaneity and the LTR (long-term relationship) are myth. "Committed sex is premeditated sex. It's willful. It's intentional. It's focus and presence." Pen it (not pencil) in your diary.