As the country continues to celebrate its national identity this year, Oliver Friggieri speaks to TEODOR RELJIC about the enduring relevance of Dun Karm Psaila's Innu Malti.
While the furore over the MEP elections was underway, the discussion of the island's national identity continued in hushed tones at the National Library in Valletta, as leading poet and critic Oliver Friggieri delved into the life of his favourite subject – Malta's national poet Dun Karm.
Under the auspices of 'It-Tnax il-Ruh tal-Malti' – a series of literary lectures organised by Fondazzjoni Celebrazzjonijiet Nazzjonali as part of this year's cluster of events celebrating Malta's national identity – Friggieri delved into that enduring Maltese poem: Dun Karm's 'L-Innu Malti', penned in 1922 and adopted as Malta's national anthem in 1941.
"The anthem has incessantly expressed and is still expressing the most salient aspect of Malta's cultural identity, namely the belief in God, an uninterrupted tradition of some seven thousand years (the pre-Christian and then the Christian periods)," Friggieri said, speaking about his lecture which took place on 23 May.
Entitled 'L-Innu Malti kelma b'kelma' (The Maltese anthem word by word), Friggieri's lecture – based on a booklet published by the author by the Zebbug Local Council, 'Analizi tal-Versi tal-Innu Malti' – demonstrated how the anthem is made up of Semitic words, whereas its poetic form is Latin, namely Italian.
According to Friggeri, "for a poet writing in the 1920s, this has implied a forceful political stand, placing the poet midway between the two extremes: the Stricklandian and the Mizzian, implying a fusion of both".
Friggieri said that the political element was a key concern for Dun Karm, insofar as he was eager for Malta to become more aware of its national identity.
Friggieri discussed this element of Dun Karm's biography, and artistic programme in his first Maltese-language book on Dun Karm, published in 1989 – following previous publications on the poet he had released in Italian.
"In this book I have sought to simplify some of the basic conclusions reached in my books on Dun Karm in Italian, and to show to what extent he got involved in the political debate prevailing in Malta in the post-war period, a point in time when Malta was getting closer to her major challenges.
The talk also delved into the revealing formal make-up of the 'Innu'. In his discussion of the poem's stylistic devices, Biblical references and rhythmic patterns, the talk showed how the poem achieves two aims: (first stanza) evoking a son's relation with his father ('Mulej') and his mother ('omm'); (second stanza) defining Maltese society in democratic terms, namely government ('min jahkimha), employer-employees relationship: ('sid', 'haddiem'), the people ('Maltin').
Friggieri claimed that the 'Innu', "gives poetic shape to the Maltese people's urge to maintain democracy".
Friggieri was keen to dispel the notion that the poem may be somewhat dated now, insisting that it remains relevant to contemporary Malta. Asked to comment on the somewhat fraught use of the term 'hakkiem' in the poem, Friggieri insisted that, contrary to what some may think, the word carries no explicit colonial connotations.
"The verb 'hakem', from which 'jahkimha' is derived, occupies a wide semantic range which includes the notion of administering, governing, leading, ruling. It has no colonial connotation at all," Friggieri said, highlighting the fact that "Dun Karm is Malta's most eminent voice of Maltese statehood – the awareness of being on the road towards Independence permeates his works, even the ones written in Italian.
Friggieri added that the use of the verb in this context precedes Dun Karm by many years, and that it can be found in poetry published prior to December 1922, when the anthem was first performed.
He also claims that basic terms in the local political phraseology can be traced back to Dun Karm. Some of these terms occurred frequently in 19th century poetry, and have survived largely thanks to Dun Karm. These include words like 'gensna', 'art helwa', 'ommna Malta', 'Malta tagħna', 'lkoll', 'flimkien', 'ahna'.
But despite and historical or political considerations, Friggieri is keen to emphasise that the 'Innu' survives as a result of its universal qualities, as delivered through clear language that can be understood by all.
"The 'Innu Malti' is typical of Dun Karm's major talent: unifying profundity and simplicity. Simplicity to me is a point of arrival, and not of departure. It is acquired through practice and the attainment of a higher sense of how loaded all words are," Friggieri said.
Citing Oscar Wilde's claim that "the only decent form of autobiography is criticism", Friggieri finds direct parallels between his work on Dun Karm and his own poetry – a direct link to a literary forebear that manifests itself in his own work.
"I once decided to produce a densely annotated edition of Dun Karm's major work, 'Il-Jien u Lilhinn Minnu', a poem of more that five hundred lines which encapsulates mankind's major concerns regarding the meaning of life, suffering and death.
"When I finished working on the annotated edition of this poem, I myself embarked on writing a long poem 'Il-Bikja tal-Masġar' (The Cry of the Woods), in which I somehow moved on from where the poet had stopped," Friggieri said.


Clay Matthews, the likely NFL Defensive Player of the Year, tries to wreak havoc on Matt Ryan and his sterling home record.
Clay Matthews will be named Defensive Player of the Year. The Packers stud is the best outside linebacker in the game, racking up 24 sacks in the last seasons, with two in two career playoff games. And while the Falcons don't allow many sacks — third-least in the NFL (23) — Matthews will still find a way to make an impact. Remember, it was his stop on a crucial third-and-1 that thwarted one of the Eagles' three red-zone trips last week.
Try everything. Some nicknames just roll off the tongue, but Matt Ryan, aka "Matty Ice," has earned it. In three seasons (46 games), the Penn Charter alum has orchestrated 13 game-winning drives, including six this season. (All-time leader, John Elway, had 47 in 16 years). Furthermore, Ryan holds a 20-2 record at the Georgia Dome, where this game is being played.
The knock on the Packers was that they couldn't run. Then, James Starks set a franchise rookie playoff record by gashing the Eagles for 123 yards. "With the way they're running the football, they have a chance to be even more multidimensional," said Falcons coach Mike Smith. Did Starks take advantage of a game plan geared to shut down the pass? Or is he for real? If it's indeed the latter, then the Packers may have a clear path to the Super Bowl.


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Wireless Microphones: Updates and Frequencies Best Practices
February 1, 2017 jill Blog
There's been a lot of discussion and questions regarding the FCC's 600 MHz incentive auction. We contacted Joe Ciaudelli of Sennheiser to walk us through some specifics of the update and options houses of worship have. We also touched on steps organizations can take to achieve synergy when they have microphones from multiple manufacturers on multiple frequencies
FCC website: In the May 2014 Incentive Auction Report and Order, the FCC adopted rules to implement the broadcast television spectrum incentive auction, which will involve reorganizing the existing television band and repurposing a portion of the UHF television band for new wireless broadband services, which will no longer be available to wireless microphones. This repurposing of the 600 MHz spectrum will, therefore, affect wireless microphone operations across the current TV bands in the future.
What are the main points to know about the incentive auction?
If you have wireless microphones that don't tune above 608 MHz the incentive auction does not impact them. Systems that tune between 470 and 608 will remain under traditional rules. We still don't know if the FCC will allow equipment to be modified and then put back into the field. If you do have systems that operate in the 600 band, you can still operate them for about 3 years.
What can you explain about licensed vs. unlicensed operators?
Licensed operators have rights and privileges over unlicensed operation of any device. If you're eligible to get a license, I encourage you to do so. The benefit of having priority over other operators and ensuring they don't interfere with you is very much worth the paperwork. While we've lost the 600 MHz band, we have successfully gained access to alternate bands. 941-960 MHz is being added, which is for licensed microphone operators only.
How could an organization get a license?
Traditionally, to be a licensed operator you had to be a broadcaster, or cable station, or other content producer. However, those privileges have been broadened to include venues or sound companies that routinely use 50 wireless systems or more. Houses of worship that broadcast are instantly eligible, regardless of how many microphones they use.
What if you're an unlicensed operator?
In general, there will be new equipment that is introduced into the market that will comply with the new rules. In addition there are going to be two pockets in the 600 MHz band where you can operate after the repurposing is complete. These are the duplex gap and the lower guard band. You will need to register your microphone if you do choose to operate in these pockets.
If you're just operating a few microphones, you should be able to do so easily in the 500 MHz band. Let's say you're operating 20 microphones and you can't hold them all in the empty channels that exist in your area in 500 MHz band. Going to the two pockets of 600 MHz will be helpful.
What about other bands for unlicensed devices?
Over the past couple of years manufacturers have introduced systems that work in other bands that are for unlicensed devices such as 2.4 GHz or 1.9 GHz. These are good for semi-professional applications where not a lot of microphones are used simultaneously and it's a shorter distance.
What if you already have a system that operates in the 600 MHz band and will be adversely affected?
You've got a few options:
Like Sennheiser, many manufacturers are offering a trade-in program.
You can sell the microphone outside of the United States. Just clearly mark that it's for use only outside of the U.S.
You can donate it to churches or missions outside of the United States.
Often times we see organizations who have different sound engineers, musicians, etc. who have personal preferences on wireless systems. There may be wireless systems that are different manufacturers, or operating on different bands on the same stage. What are some best practices for making this work?
You can make them work together with 3 steps:
Find out what the vacant channels are in the town you're operating in
You can go online to FCC approved spectrum databases and you can enter your zip code and it will list the channels that are open for wireless microphones.
Make sure everyone uses a frequency within these channels
Make sure everyone is on unique frequencies
Avoid equally spaced frequencies. If you were to use 500, 501, and 502 (equally spaced by 1) this won't work well.
You'd be better off doing 500, 501, 502.2, etc.
Coordinate those frequencies. Mathematically certain frequencies are more compatible than others.
There is free frequency coordination software on Sennheiser or other manufacturer's websites.
You can input the frequencies that everyone is using and make sure they're compatible. If they aren't compatible, the software can pinpoint which devices are the problem and suggest a new frequency.
To learn more about the FCC Incentive Action Update, visit www.spectrumaffairs.com or www.Sennheiserusa.com/spectrum.
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I'm doing a booksigning with 20 other romance and mystery authors on Saturday to help raise money for adult literacy. I'll be signing copies of Immortal Wolf. The first ten people who buy a copy, I'll be giving a FREE copy of my December release, HOLIDAY WITH A VAMPIRE III.
Here's the link to the website for more information.
Got word that Jasmin, the baby pictured here, has died.
I'm not surprised. Not even sad or numb. Just resigned. I knew she would die. The hospital in Haiti where she was lacked an incubator, hell, they didn't even have feeding tubes to keep her alive.
All they had was an IV to drip fluids into her, and a heating lamp that shone directly into the little girl's eyes.
I've added her to my "2009 Wall of Death" at work. Four children whom we've met in the field and tried to save, and failed to save. They are on a filing cabinet, staring over my shoulder. I want them over my shoulder so I can feel their painful eyes on me, watching, silently asking, "Will you forget about us? Will our deaths mean nothing?"


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LElagabalium era un tempio di Roma, costruito sul lato nord-orientale del Palatino dall'imperatore romano Eliogabalo (218-222) e dedicato alla divinità solare di origine siriana Deus Sol Invictus, del quale l'imperatore stesso era gran sacerdote.

Storia

Il tempio, circondato da colonne, aveva dimensioni di 70 m per 40 m, ed era a sua volta circondato da un portico colonnato. Si trovava di fronte al Colosseo e, sotto l'imperatore Eliogabalo, fu il centro del controverso culto del Deus Sol Invictus. La piattaforma del tempio era stata costruita già sotto Domiziano (tra l'81 e il 96), ed era probabilmente un luogo di culto di Giove. I resti di questa terrazza sono ancor oggi visibili sul lato nord-orientale del Palatino, che dà sull'Arco di Costantino. L'area in cui sorgeva il tempio era quella indicata nella Forma Urbis severiana come Adonaea, cioè sacra al culto di Adone, il che si prestava bene ad accogliere Eliogabolo, dal momento che anche Adone come quest'ultimo era una divinità siriaca ed era rappresentata con gli attributi del sole.

Quando Eliogabalo salì al trono nel 218, introdusse il culto del dio El-Gabal, il dio solare della città di Emesa in Siria, di cui era originario l'imperatore. Eliogabalo mutò il nome della divinità in quello di Deus Sol Invictus e diresse personalmente il culto del dio, la cui personificazione, un betilo nero conico, potrebbe essere stato un meteorite. Eliogabalo dedicò ad El-Gabal/Deus Sol Invictus un piccolo tempio nel luogo dove oggi sorge la basilica di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme e gli ridedicò, dopo averlo allargato, il tempio sul Palatino (220/221). Per promuovere il culto di Deus Sol Invictus, l'imperatore lo inserì nel pantheon romano al di sopra di Giove, e ordinò che gli oggetti più sacri della Religione romana fossero trasportati nel suo tempio: tra questi vi erano la Magna Mater, il fuoco di Vesta, gli Ancilia dei Salii e il Palladio. Dopo la morte di Eliogabalo, il tempio fu ridedicato a Giove dal suo cugino, figlio adottivo e successore Alessandro Severo (222-235).

Del tempio rimangono oggi solo la terrazza e pochi resti nel giardino della chiesa di San Sebastiano al Palatino.

Sito archeologico

Il tempio si trovava di fianco all'attuale chiesa di San Sebastiano. Questo settore del Palatino era occupato da un gigantesco terrazzamento artificiale di forma rettangolare, del quale restano alcune delle poderose sostruzioni in laterizio nei pressi dell'Arco di Tito.

Da qui partiva il Clivus Palatinus, che collegava il colle con la parte orientale del Foro Romano, ed era decorato da un ingresso con scalinate, forse il Pentapylum, la porta "dei cinque ingressi", citata nei Cataloghi regionari.

Nelle vicinanze sono stati ritrovati anche i resti di un arco trionfale dell'inizio dell'età imperiale, forse un ingresso monumentale al palazzo imperiale sul Palatino.

Note

Bibliografia
Fonti primarie
Erodiano, Storia romana

 Fonti secondarie
Filippo Coarelli, Guida archeologica di Roma, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Verona 1984.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
  "Temple of Elagabalus", maquette di Roma antica, raffigurante il tempio.

Templi antichi di Roma
Roma R. X Campitelli
Palatino

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Parenting Challenges
Motherwell September 4, 2018 Family
By Abigail Rasminsky
@AbbyRasminsky
For months my daughter has been taking ballet and tap at the local recreation center, and she recently came to the requisite end-of-year performance. My kid is only four, so her part was minimal—a few short, absurd appearances, flanked by all the other little giggling girls in her class. The real show started and ended with the older girls. I knew I wasn't in store for something professional, but I still didn't expect what was coming.
There was one preteen whose performance was so cringeworthy—who was so totally lost, so out of sync with the other girls—that my husband, not at all a ballet connoisseur, turned to me, utterly befuddled, and said, "Did that girl just join the class today?"
Hands partially shielding my eyes, I immediately dubbed her "Anxiety Dream Girl" because she was, quite literally, my worst and most common anxiety dream come to life. As a child I was a competitive gymnast and, in my twenties, a professional dancer, so this particular storyline still appears again and again whenever I am at all on edge: I am thrown onstage, and not only do I not know what show I'm in, what steps I should be performing, but I don't even know how to dance.
I just never thought I'd see such a thing onstage.
But here's the thing: the performance wasn't, I must now say, all painful. The real-life thing—not the one in my dreams—also involved acting, and this pre-teen was very good; perhaps the best one up there: confident, easy to hear with good articulation, joyful. The dancing, it seemed, was the problem. It just wasn't her forte. And yet, as the lingo now goes, she persisted.
Forgive me if I sound too cruel? I shouldn't be so quick to point out this one poor girl because she was not surrounded by little Baryshnikovs. The little kids—those in the 3-6 range—stirred loud ooohs and ahhhs from all of us, adorable in their matching outfits. (Who can resist a toddler in tap shoes?) Although you could spot the ones who relished the spotlight, it was impossible to tell if any of them had any talent. They were turning in the wrong direction and bumping into each other; they were giggling and waving at the audience and falling over and missing their entrances and exits and getting stuck in the curtain—exactly the kind of comedy of errors you'd expect from little kids. Did this stop me from crying and laughing in delight at my own child onstage? It did not.
Other than Anxiety Dream Girl, the older girls did actually seem to know where they should be standing, and in which direction to turn. But it soon became clear that not one of them demonstrated any real understanding of basic ballet technique. But did they care? No, they were wholly committed to their every mistake. They were showing up, step after awkward step. They were showing us all the hard work they'd put in. They were, for the most part, dancing with gusto, proud of themselves in their fairy dresses and blushed cheeks. And it made me feel—could it be?—that I'd never had an experience like that, of doing something really badly, just because I loved it.
When I started training as a gymnast at age seven, it felt just like that: training. That's not to say there wasn't joy in it—there was, in heaps and bounds, so much so that I eventually competed all over the country, and later became a professional dancer, performing all over New York. But I was good at it. How did I know it? I advanced. I won medals. I did it because I loved it, but for a long time—at least as a child—I continued to do it because I was succeeding. I was achieving something tangible. A medal, a qualification, words of praise from Someone Important. And later, as an adult: another job, a bigger break, a good review. There was a ladder and I was visibly ascending.
Would I have kept doing it if I had shown little talent? I stopped my gymnastics training when it became clear I'd hit a plateau and wouldn't actually make it to the Olympics. The pleasure was, it turns out, all wrapped up in the success. Would I even deign to try something now—in public, no less—that would make me feel so wildly out of control and unskilled? That might make me look like a complete fool?
I'm not suggesting that these girls will keep dancing forever, in spite of all evidence to the contrary that they won't—this horrible phrase—"make it." Soon enough, too soon, they will come up against the reality of how the dance world, the professional one, at least, really works. Perhaps most of them don't dream of being professional dancers anyway. Perhaps they just love the freedom of moving through space, the way I always did, the way I still do—a feeling that nobody has monopoly over.
Anxiety Dream Girl made me laugh, but my tears were real. They were the result of being deeply, deeply moved—by her willingness to show up, to get onstage in front of hundreds of people and dance those steps she didn't know and could not follow. In her awkwardness, she reminded me of what we too often forget: that we are allowed to do what we love, no matter what. That there is real value in satisfying your soul with no outside accolades to show for it. That pleasure-seeking need not produce evidence of even marginal success. That our biggest anxieties—being thrust onstage with no clue as to how to comport ourselves—might actually be a path to happiness, to our own shaky liberation.
Abigail Rasminsky has written for New York Times, The Cut, and O: The Oprah Magazine, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is getting up the courage to go back to dance class. More at AbigailRasminsky.com and on Twitter @AbbyRasminsky.
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Flood Victims Not Abandoned In Anambra — Omenugha
Raymond Ozoji, Awka
Contrary to some reports in the media that victims of flood disaster in Anambra state have been abandoned to their fate and currently suffering from hunger and privation, the state commissioner for basic education Prof. Kate Azuka Omenugha has debunked such reports saying that flood victims had not been abandoned and they are not hungry.
She said that the flood victims had enough food to eat and that the surroundings where they were kept was clean and devoid of infections.
Omenugha who spoke with our correspondent in her office in Awka, disclosed further that Anambra State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) had equally responded to the needs of the flood victims with regular supply of food items necessary for their welfare and well-being in the holding centres.
Although the commissioner noted that there might be challenges as the camps were not their natural homes but the state government according to her, was responding to the needs of the victims.
She said the wife of the state governor Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano also visited the holding centres to sympathize with the victims as well as gave them food items, mattresses, toiletries and a host of other things to ensure that they didn't lack what government was in a position to provide.
The commissioner explained that there were volunteer teachers at the holding centres who came to teach children in the camps and that government equally made sure that children in the caps were accommodated in nearby schools as the flood truncated school activities in affected areas.
She said government was also planning to change school calendar to cover lost months for children displaced by flood.
Apart from that, Omenugha informed that the Ministry of Health was also making sure that the medical and health needs of the flood victims were taken care of stressing that there are sick bays in every holding centre with doctors and nurses on ground to respond to emergencies.
Omenugha was of the view that there are toilet facilities at the IDP camps with good sanitary conditions and that government's education in emergency has really served as an alternative solution in teaching displaced children at the Internally Displaced Persons' Camps across the state.


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Truck-Car Collisions: It's Not a Fair Fight
A truck-car collision is not a fair fight. A car weighing 3500 pounds does not stand a chance in a collision against a tractor-trailer weighing upwards of 80,000 pounds.
Because commercial trucks can be so deadly in a collision, the trucking industry is highly regulated. In order to drive a commercial truck, the driver must first obtain specialized training leading to study and testing for a state's Commercial Driving License (CDL). Operating vehicles of this size and complexity require knowledge in special areas. Before a CDL will be issued, the driver must show knowledge and operational skill in:
Brake systems, including air-brakes, jake brakes, and adjustment of brake systems
Load distribution and securement
Coupling and uncoupling procedures (including making sure all lights are connected to the trailer)
Speed and space management
Hazard perception
Night operations
Extreme weather driving conditions
Skid control and recovery
Once employed as a truck driver, the carrier must ensure that its drivers are alert, awake, and sober to operate this dangerous machinery on the highway mix with passenger cars. Safe carriers require drug and alcohol-free driving from their drivers. This means that employees may be randomly (and frequently) tested for any potential substance that may affect their driving. Federal regulations for interstate truck drivers limit the amount of time on duty driving the truck. Drivers must keep a record in their possession of all time driving and resting for the previous 7 consecutive days. Most carriers use an automatic on-board recording device to accurately record hours of service of a driver. Many carriers limit the speed allowed on highways—often to a maximum of 70 mph. All commercial trucks carry computers that collect and transmit information about the truck and its operation, including its location, its speed, braking, hours of service an operation. When this system data is immediately transmitted to the dispatch office of the truck company, a system monitor can quickly determine whether the company speed limit has been violated. Some companies, especially those hauling hazardous materials, will terminate a truck driver on the spot for a speed infraction.
Different government regulations apply to the truck driver depending on whether he is driving inter-state (across state lines) or intra-state (all pick-ups and deliveries are within one state, such as Colorado). Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR) apply to companies, and drivers, who operate across state lines. Most states have adopted most or all of the FMCSR for trucking operations within their states, with a few exceptions. For example, in Colorado, 18-year-olds are allowed to obtain a CDL and drive trucks within the state, while a driver must be 21 years old to drive trucks across state lines.
Catastrophic injuries, including death, often result from a car-truck collision. It would not be wise to handle this kind of claim on your own. The complexity of ownership of trucks and truck companies, determining the cause of the collision, issues of whether the truck driver was an employee or a "contractor" and the complexity of applicable state and federal regulations require the assistance of an experienced personal injury attorney in a truck accident case. The Colorado Springs personal injury attorneys at Clawson & Clawson LLP offer free initial consultations to discuss the issues, and options, for handling a truck injury claim.


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AP4 CEO: Strong H1 returns sign of still-volatile market
12 July 2019By Rachel Fixsen
Sweden's AP4 has reported strong returns in the first half of this year — 13% after costs compared to 3.8% this time in 2018 — with the head of the Stockholm-based fund warning that these were a clear sign of continuing market volatility.
Niklas Ekvall, chief executive of the national pension buffer fund, also repeated criticism of the latest batch of government-proposed changes to the investment rules for AP4 and the other three main AP buffer funds, saying a new set of rules to give the funds enough flexibility was now urgently needed.
The 13% return was AP4's highest return for a single first half-year since the start of the new pension system in 2001.
Ekvall said the extent of the first half return was very gratifying. "But it illustrates perhaps above all the volatile market environment that we currently find ourselves in, and the fact that evaluation of a pension fund must be done over a long period of time in order to be meaningful," he said in the fund's interim results statement.
AP4's total assets rose to SEK391.4bn (€37.1bn) at the end of June.
The latest step in the ongoing reform of the state pension buffer funds' investment rules was a bill published in May with the stated intention of increasing the funds' cost efficiency and return potential and giving them the same set of options open to similar investors regarding long-term illiquid assets, while also increasing sustainability.
In the ensuing consultation the bill has been criticised by AP1-4 and other stakeholders as being too limited.
In AP4's results statement, Ekvall said: "In its response [to the consultation], AP4 points out that the memorandum's proposals do not go far enough to achieve the previous statement about the legislative change, and that it is urgent to now create a set of rules that give the AP Funds sufficient flexibility to be able to operate in a rapidly changing financial market for many years into the future."
He added that the proposals, despite their intentions, did not provide the funds with similar conditions in comparison to comparable institutional investors.
AP4 reported a SEK45.2bn return between January and June, with the portfolio's active return exceeding its benchmark by 1.7 percentage points — corresponding to a profit contribution of SEK5.8bn, it said.
The fund paid SEK3bn to the state pension system in the period, and total costs amounted to 0.1% of average assets under management, it said.
AP4,
Sweden,
AP1, AP4 say draft rules on illiquid assets must go further
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Q: Stargate SG-1 S3E3 Fair Game: Why is the speaker's lectern so close to the Stargate? In the episode where SG-1 is trapped on a prisoner's planet we learn from Daniel Jackson that the initial blue burst out of the Stargate is deadly and not a way to escape.
So why is the speaker's lectern where Hammond stays in this shot so close to the Stargate?
What if the Stargate activates from outside?

A: If there is an unscheduled off-world activation, there is time to close the iris, which prevents anything (including the destructive Kawhoosh) from coming through.  If the gate were activated during the event, the iris would be closed immediately, and the gate room would also be evacuated.

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Najib has been in high spirits this week since learning Malaysia's next king could be from Pahang. However, observers say the ex-premier remains humble and has been overheard saying 'pardon me' several times.
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Doll's Hospital moving on
By Anne Stewart | March 6, 2012.
Chris Nolan, owner of the Dolls Hospital was "blown away" by the vast numbers of people who came into the shop to say goodbye on their last day of trading.
"There were 150 people in the shop at any one time," Mr. Nolan said.
The Doll's Hospital and Teddy Bear Clinic is moving to a new location in the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre.
Melissa Nolan, wife of Chris and originally from the Liberties, is delighted to have found a new home for her beloved Doll's Hospital.
The Doll's Hospital has been in existence for 74 years and Chris and Melissa Nolan have been owners for the past 28 of those. The original Doll's Hospital opened in 1938 in Mary Street and moved to George's Street in 1982.
The Doll's Hospital will re-open in early March in the Powerscourt Townhouse centre in South William Street, Dublin 2.
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Billy Brennan, owner of the Camera Exchange shop next door, said there were unsubstantiated reports that "a charity shop would move in" to replace the Doll's Hospital. He said he didn't mind what type of business took over as long as the space wasn't left vacant.
Declan Marron, who works in Foot Solutions, also next door, suggested the space may be occupied by a restaurant.
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Agile development methodologies are experiencing rapid adoption across industries as software organizations embrace the key themes of streamlining processes, tighter integration between development and test, and strong emphasis of continuous delivery of working software. However, as organizations embrace various new agile practices, individual development teams often don't have the visibility into broader, measurable business values, and where their contributions fit in.
Walter Sun, Principle at PRTM, will share how agile development teams can ensure they are value delivery-focused and how organizations can avoid the common challenges of agile adoption.
Walter Sun, Principle at PRTM, a leader in Management Consultancy, has been instrumental in successfully guiding Agile teams in many of world's largest technology organizations to drive growth, boost profits, and set new standards for market leadership.


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Now on DVD: The Passion of the Bush
by : Frank Rich
Monday October 4, 2004 - 21:22
By Frank Rich
You can run but you can't hide: Oct. 5 will bring the perfect storm in this year's culture wars. It's on that strategically chosen date, four Tuesdays before the election, that the DVD of "Fahrenheit 9/11" will be released along with not one but two new Michael Moore books. It's also the release date of the equally self-effacing Ann Coulter's latest rant, of a new DVD documentary, "Horns and Halos," that revisits the Bush mystery year of 1972, and of an R.E.M. album, "Around the Sun," that gets in its own political licks at the state of the nation.
When Dick Cheney and John Edwards debate in Cleveland that night, Bruce Springsteen will be barnstorming in another swing state, as the Vote for Change tour hits St. Paul. All that's needed to make the day complete is a smackdown between Kinky Friedman and Teresa Heinz Kerry on "Imus in the Morning."
Of the many cultural grenades being tossed that day, though, the one must-see is "George W. Bush: Faith in the White House," a DVD that is being specifically marketed in "head to head" partisan opposition to "Fahrenheit 9/11." This documentary first surfaced at the Republican convention in New York, where it was previewed in tandem with an invitation-only, no-press-allowed "Family, Faith and Freedom Rally," a Ralph Reed-Sam Brownback jamboree thrown by the Bush campaign for Christian conservatives. Though you can buy the DVD for $14.95, its makers told the right-wing news service WorldNetDaily.com that they plan to distribute 300,000 copies to America's churches. And no wonder. This movie aspires to be "The Passion of the Bush," and it succeeds.
More than any other campaign artifact, it clarifies the hard-knuckles rationale of the president's vote-for-me-or-face-Armageddon re-election message. It transforms the president that the Democrats deride as a "fortunate son" of privilege into a prodigal son with the "moral clarity of an old-fashioned biblical prophet." Its Bush is not merely a sincere man of faith but God's essential and irreplaceable warrior on Earth. The stations of his cross are burnished into cinematic fable: the misspent youth, the hard drinking (a thirst that came from "a throat full of Texas dust"), the fateful 40th-birthday hangover in Colorado Springs, the walk on the beach with Billy Graham. A towheaded child actor bathed in the golden light of an off-camera halo re-enacts the young George comforting his mom after the death of his sister; it's a parable anticipating the future president's miraculous ability to comfort us all after 9/11. An older Bush impersonator is seen rebuffing a sexual come-on from a fellow Bush-Quayle campaign worker hovering by a Xerox machine in 1988; it's an effort to imbue our born-again savior with retroactive chastity. As for the actual president, he is shown with a flag for a backdrop in a split-screen tableau with Jesus. The message isn't subtle: they were separated at birth.
"Faith in the White House" purports to be the product of "independent research," uncoordinated with the Bush-Cheney campaign. But many of its talking heads are official or unofficial administration associates or sycophants. They include the evangelical leader and presidential confidant Ted Haggard (who is also one of Mel Gibson's most fervent P.R. men) and Deal Hudson, an adviser to the Bush-Cheney campaign until August, when he resigned following The National Catholic Reporter's investigation of accusations that he sexually harassed an 18-year-old Fordham student in the 1990's. As for the documentary's "research," a film positioning itself as a scrupulously factual "alternative" to "Fahrenheit 9/11" should not inflate Mr. Bush's early business "success" with Arbusto Energy (an outright bust for most of its investors) or the number of children he's had vaccinated in Iraq ("more than 22 million," the movie claims, in a country whose total population is 25 million).
"Will George W. Bush be allowed to finish the battle against the forces of evil that threaten our very existence?" Such is the portentous question posed at the film's conclusion by its narrator, the religious broadcaster Janet Parshall, beloved by some for her ecumenical generosity in inviting Jews for Jesus onto her radio show during the High Holidays. Anyone who stands in the way of Mr. Bush completing his godly battle, of course, is a heretic. Facts on the ground in Iraq don't matter. Rational arguments mustered in presidential debates don't matter. Logic of any kind is a nonstarter. The president - who after 9/11 called the war on terrorism a "crusade," until protests forced the White House to backpedal - is divine. He may not hear "voices" instructing him on policy, testifies Stephen Mansfield, the author of one of the movie's source texts, "The Faith of George W. Bush," but he does act on "promptings" from God. "I think we went into Iraq not so much because there were weapons of mass destruction," Mr. Mansfield has explained elsewhere, "but because Bush had concluded that Saddam Hussein was an evildoer" in the battle "between good and evil." So why didn't we go into those other countries in the axis of evil, North Korea or Iran? Never mind. To ask such questions is to be against God and "with the terrorists."
The propagandists of "Faith in the White House" argue, as others have, that the president's invocation of religion in the public sphere, from his citation of Jesus as his favorite "political philosopher" to his incessant invocation of the Almighty in talking about how everything is coming up roses in Iraq, is consistent with the civic spirituality practiced by his antecedents, from the founding fathers to Bill Clinton. It's not. Past presidents have rarely, if ever, claimed such godlike infallibility. Mr. Bush never admits to making a mistake; even his premature "Mission Accomplished" victory lap wasn't in error, as he recently told Bill O'Reilly. After all, if you believe "God wants me to be president" - a quote attributed to Mr. Bush by the Rev. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention - it's a given that you are incapable of making mistakes. Those who say you have are by definition committing blasphemy. A God-appointed leader even has the power to rewrite His texts. Jim Wallis, the liberal evangelical author, has pointed out Mr. Bush's habit of rejiggering specific scriptural citations so that, say, the light shining into the darkness is no longer God's light but America's and, by inference, the president's own.
It's not just Mr. Bush's self-deification that separates him from the likes of Lincoln, however; it's his chosen fashion of Christianity. The president didn't revive the word "crusade" idly in the fall of 2001. His view of faith as a Manichaean scheme of blacks and whites to be acted out in a perpetual war against evil is synergistic with the violent poetics of the best-selling "Left Behind" novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins and Mel Gibson's cinematic bloodfest. The majority of Christian Americans may not agree with this apocalyptic worldview, but there's a big market for it. A Newsweek poll shows that 17 percent of Americans expect the world to end in their lifetime. To Karl Rove and company, that 17 percent is otherwise known as "the base."
The pandering to that base has become familiar in countless administration policies, starting with its antipathy to stem-cell research, abortion, condoms for H.I.V. prevention and gay civil rights. But ever since Mr. Bush's genuflection to Bob Jones University threatened to shoo away moderates in 2000, the Rove ruse is to try to keep the most militant and sectarian tactics of the Bush religious program under the radar. (Mr. Rove even tried to deny that the wooden lectern at the Republican convention was a pulpit embedded with a cross, as if a nation of eyewitnesses could all be mistaken.) The re-election juggernaut has not only rounded up the membership rosters of churches en masse but quietly mounted official Web sites like kerrywrongforcatholics.com as well. (Evangelicals and Mormons have their own Web variants on this same theme, but not the Jews, who are apparently getting in Kerry just what they deserve.) Even the contraband C-word is being revived out of sight of most of the press: Marc Racicot, the Bush-Cheney campaign chairman, lobbed a direct-mail fund-raising letter in March describing Mr. Bush as "leading a global crusade against terrorism."
In this spring's classic "South Park" parody, "The Passion of the Jew," in which Mr. Gibson's movie tosses the community into a religious war, one of the kids concludes: "If you want to be Christian, that's cool, but you should focus on what Jesus taught instead of how he got killed. Focusing on how he got killed is what people did in the Dark Ages, and it ends up with really bad results." He has a point. It's far from clear that Mr. Bush's eschatology and his religious vanity are leading to good results now. The all-seeing president who could pronounce Vladimir Putin saintly by looking into his "soul" is now refusing to acknowledge that the reverse may be true. The general in charge of tracking down Osama bin Laden, William G. Boykin, has earned cheers in some quarters for giving speeches at churches proclaiming that Mr. Bush is "in the White House because God put him there" to lead the "army of God" against "a guy named Satan." But all that preaching didn't get his day job done; he hasn't snared the guy named Osama he was supposed to bring back "dead or alive."
"George W. Bush: Faith in the White House" must be seen because it shows how someone like General Boykin can stay in his job even in failure and why Mr. Bush feels divinely entitled to keep his job even as we stand on the cusp of an abyss in Iraq. In this pious but not humble worldview, faith, or at least a certain brand of it, counts more than competence, and a biblical mission, or at least a simplistic, blunderbuss facsimile of one, counts more than the secular goal of waging an effective, focused battle against an enemy as elusive and cunning as terrorists. That no one in this documentary, including its hero, acknowledges any constitutional boundaries between church and state is hardly a surprise. To them, America is a "Christian nation," period, with no need even for the fig-leaf prefix of "Judeo-."
Far more startling is the inability of a president or his acolytes to acknowledge any boundary that might separate Mr. Bush's flawed actions battling "against the forces of evil" from the righteous dictates of God. What that level of hubris might bring in a second term is left to the imagination, and "Faith in the White House" gives the imagination room to run riot about what a 21st-century crusade might look like in the flesh. A documentary conceived as a rebuke to "Fahrenheit 9/11" is nothing if not its unintentional and considerably more nightmarish sequel.
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Фели́сити Ке́ндалл Ха́ффман (; род. , Бедфорд, Нью-Йорк, США) — американская актриса. Обладательница премий «Эмми», «Золотой глобус» и Гильдии киноактёров США. Она известна на телевидении по своим ролям Линетт Скаво в телесериале «Отчаянные домохозяйки» (2004—2012) и Даны Уитакер в драмеди «Ночь спорта» (1998—2000).

В 2006 году Хаффман была номинирована на «Оскар» и выиграла «Золотой глобус» в категории «Лучшая женская роль в драме» за роль трансгендерной женщины в независимой драме «Трансамерика». Также она известна по ролям в фильмах «Магнолия», «Путь к войне», «Крутая Джорджия», «Фиби в Стране чудес», «Неуправляемый» и «Торт». В 2012 году она получила именную звезду на Голливудской «Аллее славы». С 2015 по 2017 год Хаффман снималась в сериале-антологии «Американское преступление», принёсшем ей номинации на премии «Эмми», «Золотой глобус» и Гильдии киноактёров США.

Ранняя жизнь
Фелисити Кендалл Хаффман родилась 9 декабря 1962 года в городе Бедфорд, штат Нью-Йорк, США. Её мать, актриса Грэйс Валле, и отец, банкир Мур Петерс Хаффман, не считая Фелисити, имели ещё шестерых дочерей и одного сына. Когда Хаффман был всего год, они развелись. С тех пор будущая актриса росла с матерью.

Карьера

Фелисити Хаффман начала свою карьеру в театре в начале восьмидесятых, она выступала во многих постановках. В 1988 году она дебютировала на Бродвее в главной роли в постановке «Speed the Plow», где заменила Мадонну. В том же году она начала карьеру в кино, она снялась в ролях второго плана в фильмах «Всё меняется» и «Сладкая фабрика». Она также не оставляла работу в театре. В 1990 году она снялась в фильме «Изнанка судьбы», она сыграла роль Мини, назойливой и пытающейся пойти до правды в расследовании дела об убийстве.

В 1991 году Хаффман сыграла свою первую главную роль на телевидении в мини-сериале по роману Стивена Кинга «Золотые годы». В следующем году она появилась в фильме «Зыбучие пески: Нет выхода», где её партнером выступил Дональд Сазерленд, сериале «Ворон», телефильмах «Человеческий фактор», «Водяной мотор» и «Сердце справедливости». Она была гостем в сериале «Закон и порядок» в 1992 и 1997 годах, «Секретные материалы» в 1993, а также в «Завтра наступит сегодня», «Надежда Чикаго» и снялась в главной роли в мини-сериале 1996 года «Сказки на ночь». В 1994 и в 1995 годах она получила престижную театральную премию Obie за роль в пьесе «Криптограммы».

В период между 1995 и 1998 годами Хаффман появилась в фильмах «Хакеры», «Преступный мир» и «Испанский узник». С 1998 по 2000 год Хаффман играла одну из главных ролей в высоко оцененным критиками сериале «Ночь спорта», за который получила ряд премий и номинаций, в том числе и «Золотой глобус».

После завершения сериала Хаффман родила своего первого ребёнка и вернулась к работе. Она сыграла главную роль в неоднозначной постановке о близости женщин в 19 веке Boston Marriage и других театральных постановках. Она также с начала девяностых является преподавателем актёрского мастерства в собственной независимой академии. В 2001 году она сделала пилот сериала «Сердечный департамент» для канала CBS, но он решил ограничиться телефильмом. В тот же год она сыграла вместе сМэр Уиннингэм в телефильме «Быстрое решение» и была приглашенной звездой в сериале Аарона Соркина «Западное крыло». В 2002 году она сыграла роль Леди Берд Джонсон в фильме HBO «Путь к войне», появилась с камео-ролью в фильме «Дверь в дверь».

В 2003 году Хаффман сыграла главную роль женщины-наркомана в мини-сериале Showtime «Развал» и снималась в десятом и одиннадцатом сезонах ситкома «Фрейзер». В начале 2004 года она появилась в фильмах «Модная мамочка», «Обратимые ошибки», Рождество с неудачниками" и в недолго просуществовавшем сериале «Окружной прокурор».

С 2004 по 2012 год Хаффман играла роль Линетт Скаво в телесериале «Отчаянные домохозяйки». За выступление в шоу она получила множество наград и номинаций, включая «Эмми» за лучшую женскую роль в комедийном телесериале в 2005 году и три награды Гильдии киноактёров США". Примечательно, что Хаффман является единственной из четырёх ведущих актрис сериала, кто выиграл «Эмми» и после повторно номинировался на премию.

В 2005 году выходит независимый фильм «Трансамерика», после которого Хаффман была признана одной из лучших актрис года и получила похвалу от критиков. Она получила множество наград и номинаций за роль трансгендерной женщины. В 2006 году она выиграла «Золотой глобус» в категории «Лучшая женская роль в драме» и была номинирована на «Оскар». Она также получила престижную премию «Независимый дух».

После успеха фильма «Трансамерика» актрису стали приглашать на главные роли в кино, она сыграла в драмеди «Крутая Джорджия» в 2007 году и оцененной критиками независимой драме «Фиби в стране чудес» 2008 года. Хаффман осенью 2010 года представила публике свой фильм «Лестер», который стал её дебютом в качестве режиссёра и автора.

7 марта 2012 года Хаффман, а также её муж Уильям Мейси, стали обладателями двойной звезды на Голливудской «Аллее славы».

В феврале 2013 года было объявлено, что Хаффман будет играть главную роль в пилоте Fox «Бумеранг». В центре сюжета находится Марджи Гамильтон (Хаффман), являющаяся профессиональной убийцей, шпионом и мастером маскировок, которая без труда выполняет свою работу и одновременно занимается воспитанием детей, ведя двойную жизнь.

В 2014 году, Хаффман была приглашена на главную роль в сериал-антологию «Американское преступление», который выйдет на ABC в сезоне 2014—2015 годов. Позже было объявлено, что Хаффман разрабатывает собственный проект для ABC, совместно с Кэрол Мендельсон, где также сыграет главную роль специального агента по борьбе с терроризмом в Нью-Йорке.

Личная жизнь
6 сентября 1997 года Хаффман вышла замуж за актёра Уильяма Х. Мэйси после 15 лет отношений. У них есть двое дочерей — София Грейс (род. 1 декабря 2000) и Джорджия Грейс (род. 14 марта 2002).

Обвинения в мошенничестве
12 марта 2019 года Хаффман стала одной из десятков обвинённых ФБР и прокуратурой США в скандале, связанном со вступительным экзаменом в колледж. Прокуроры утверждали, что пожертвование Хаффман в размере 15 000 долларов США в фонд Key Worldwide Foundation, якобы благотворительное, фактически было платой человеку, который притворился дочерью Хаффман, сдал за неё SAT и получил оценку, значительно выше по сравнению с оценкой дочери на предварительном уровне. Хаффман была арестована 12 марта по обвинению в заговоре с целью совершения мошенничества с использованием почты и мошенничестве с частными услугами, но была освобождена под залог в размере 250 000 долларов США. Во время своего выступления в суде в Бостоне 3 апреля она признала обвинения, отказалась от предварительного слушания, подписала условия освобождения, и ей разрешили уйти. 8 апреля она признала себя виновной в одном заговоре с целью совершения мошенничества с использованием почты и мошенничества с использованием частных услуг.

13 мая 2019 года Хаффман признала себя виновной в мошенничестве с частными услугами. 13 сентября Хаффман была приговорена к 14 дням тюремного заключения. Она также была оштрафована на 30000 долларов и получила 250 часов общественных работ. 15 октября 2019 года Хаффман начала отбывать 14-дневное наказание в Федеральном исправительном учреждении в Дублине, Калифорния. Она должна была быть освобождена из тюрьмы 27 октября 2019 года, но была освобождена на 2 дня раньше, потому что 27 октября выпало на выходной день. После освобождения она также получила один год условного наказания.

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There's really no convenient time to get sick, but I really hate getting sick in the Winter because it's cold, gets dark faster, and there are many damp rainy days. There are some things you can do to prevent getting a cold in the first place, and things you can do if you're currently sick. I'm sharing my top 7 tips for fighting the cold and flu. If you're not much into reading blog posts, I recommend you skip to the video and get my easy and quick tips that way!
Stay hydrated. Staying hydrated has so many benefits, especially when you are feeling sick.If you are properly hydrated this will help you decongest, and it will also help rid your body of toxins. If you have a sore throat, opt for room temperature or warm water. You can add 1 tbsp of apple cider vinegar and a little honey to make the drink even more soothing for your throat.
Get lots of rest. Some of us are not so great with sitting still because we feel idle and non-productive. Resting and letting your body heal is very productive! If you took the day off of work, maybe try not still working from home, but instead set up a comfortable place to rest and make sure you're warm, getting enough fresh air, and have everything you will need within reach. I tend to camp out in my bed rather than the couch, because my bed is easier to disinfect than my couch. I bring in a tray with tea, cough drops, water, a good book, my laptop for movies, warm socks, and an aromatic candle. Make yourself comfortable and force yourself to rest.
Blend dark leafy greens into your smoothies. Consuming dark leafy greens will give you a huge boost in vitamin C. If you're sick you may not have much of an appetite or have trouble swallowing due to swollen tonsils or a sore throat. A smoothie is a way to get a meal that is rich in nutrients, but not a hassle to eat. You can also add other supplements to the drink. I love adding baby spinach to smoothies since it blends easily and you can add about 3 cups without noticing the flavor.
Drink fruit and herb infused water. I love infusing water with citrus and herbs which not only tastes good, but has many health benefits. I feel like it freshens and perks me up as well since sometimes sickness can give me this slow, sluggish, toxic feeling. I made a video of my favorite ways to infuse water, so you can check that out as well.
Don't overdo it. Some people like to just ignore the cold and go about their day hoping it'll just get better without effort. This rarely works. What is likely to happen is you go to work and spread germs, overexert yourself and end up feeling worse, and now instead of needing 1 day of rest, you need more. We all have to get rid of the guilt from taking a day off, and just do it. When you need time to get well, take it! You can skip a gym day and you can also skip work.
Steam vapors. I like to take a hot shower and let the steam open up my lungs when I have an upper respiratory infection. I usually will do this twice a day to improve breathing and this helps me not cough as much. When I get out of the shower, I rub a small amount of essential oil on my chest.
Know when it's time to visit the doctor. One time I had a horrible cold with a cough that just would not quit! It persisted for more than five days and I felt awful, so I finally went to urgent care. It turns out I had whooping cough and needed anti-biotics. I had been coughing for days at that point, and had actually cracked a rib. It was so painful. If your sickness feels more severe than usual or continues to persist, call or visit your doctor.
Here's a video I made that you can share with others and help people get well and stay well!


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Q: Update column value based on PHP variable which is equal to a column name $rating =  mysqli_real_escape_string($conn,$_POST['rating']);
$id = mysqli_real_escape_string($conn,$_POST['id']);
mysqli_query($conn,"UPDATE table SET $rating=$rating+1 WHERE id='$id'");

Is there any way to update a column based on the PHP variable $rating? $rating is a column name.
Also, this may be prone to security risks etc, so I'd like to know if this is even a good way to go about it.

A: Yes you can use variable name as field name in the sql. However you must validate it first before putting it into sql string. Since its not a field value, you cannot "quote" it.
$rating =  $_POST['rating'];
// Define list of valid "rating" db field names here
$valid_fields = Array('rating_a', 'rating_b', 'rating_c');

if (in_array($rating, $valid_fields)) {
    $id = mysqli_real_escape_string($conn,$_POST['id']);
    mysqli_query($conn,"UPDATE table SET $rating=$rating+1 WHERE id='$id'");
}

A: First and foremost your sql is not correct because  I don't think a variable can be a column name in mysql. So please check in the mysql database for the exact column you want to update. So your sql will be something like
$rating =  mysqli_real_escape_string($conn,$_POST['rating']) + 1;

$id = mysqli_real_escape_string($conn,$_POST['id']);
mysqli_query($conn,"UPDATE `table` SET `rating`=$rating WHERE id='$id'");

If rating is not your column name then change it to the exact column name.
Hope I helped.


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John Legend expresses his support for Chrissy Teigen.
John Legend spoke candidly about his wife Chrissy Teigen's struggle with alcohol in a recent interview with "Elle."
Legend said that he and Teigen are honest with each other about everything, including her drinking.
His main focus is supporting her in whatever she sets her mind on.
Just over a week after Chrissy Teigen opened up about her struggles with drinking too much alcohol and her desire to cut back, her husband, John Legend, is weighing in. And because he's half of one of the most candid couples on the internet, he was just as open about it as Teigen was.
In a Q&A with "Elle," Legend was asked this question: "In [a recent] interview, Chrissy revealed that she's made a conscious decision to cut back on drinking. Did you and Chrissy have a discussion when she felt that her drinking was getting out of hand? What was that conversation like?"
Legend's answer? That he and Teigen are honest with each other about everything, including her drinking.
"We're always honest with each other, so we discuss everything that's on our minds," he said. "When she was thinking about how she wanted to drink less, we talked about it. I just want to support her. I want her to be happy and to live the fullest, most awesome life she can, and I want us to do it together. Whenever she sets her mind to anything, I always tell her, 'I want to support you and help you do it.'"
In the interview with Teigen that "Elle" referenced, she explained to Cosmopolitan that a lot of her struggles with alcohol stemmed from award shows, where she would have a glass of wine while getting her hair and makeup done, a glass during dinner and then several more glasses during the event. The availability of alcohol played a part too.
"Everything is there, always. I don't know how to go to an award show and not drink," she said.
Sounds like Teigen and Legend are as open with their fans as they are with each other.


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"The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd."
- Benjamin Graham
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Berkshire billionaire with more than Gates
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It doesn't work all the time
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Risk-free returns for everybody
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Calculate the number of grains of wheat on a chessboard given that the number
on each square doubles.

There once was a wise servant who saved the life of a prince. The king
promised to pay whatever the servant could dream up. Knowing that the
king loved chess, the servant told the king he would like to have grains
of wheat. One grain on the first square of a chess board. Two grains on
the next. Four on the third, and so on.

There are 64 squares on a chessboard.

Write code that shows:
- how many grains were on each square, and
- the total number of grains

## For bonus points

Did you get the tests passing and the code clean? If you want to, these
are some additional things you could try:

- Optimize for speed.
- Optimize for readability.

Then please share your thoughts in a comment on the submission. Did this
experiment make the code better? Worse? Did you learn anything from it?

* * * *

For installation and learning resources, refer to the
[exercism help page](http://exercism.io/languages/ruby).

For running the tests provided, you will need the Minitest gem. Open a
terminal window and run the following command to install minitest:

    gem install minitest

If you would like color output, you can `require 'minitest/pride'` in
the test file, or note the alternative instruction, below, for running
the test file.

In order to run the test, you can run the test file from the exercise
directory. For example, if the test suite is called
`hello_world_test.rb`, you can run the following command:

    ruby hello_world_test.rb

To include color from the command line:

    ruby -r minitest/pride hello_world_test.rb

The test files may have the execution bit set so you may also be able to
run it like this:

    ./hello_world_test.rb

## Source

JavaRanch Cattle Drive, exercise 6 [http://www.javaranch.com/grains.jsp](http://www.javaranch.com/grains.jsp)

## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.


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The 2017 MLB All-Star Game was approximately even in the overnight ratings with last year's historic low but still ranked below "America's Got Talent" in total viewers, according to Nielsen data.
Airing on Fox, the game is currently averaging a 2.2 rating in adults 18-49 and 8.6 million viewers, staying even in the demo and dipping slightly from 8.7 million viewers in 2016. However, due to the nature of live sports, those numbers will likely change later today when the final ratings are tabulated. 2016"s All-Star Game marked the first time the game failed to draw more than 10 million viewers, and was down 20% in total viewers and 29% in the key demo from 2015.
Fox aired only the All-Star Game during primetime.
On NBC, "America's Got Talent" (2.2, 12.3 million) outpaced the All-Star Game in total viewers and was even with last week. "World of Dance" (1.7, 7.2 million) held even with last week at 10 p.m.
CBS, ABC, and The CW aired only repeats.
Fox and NBC tied for first place in the demo with a 2.2. NBC was first in total viewers, however, with 10.6 million. Fox was second in total viewers with 8.7 million. CBS was third overall with a 0.6 and 5.5 million viewers. ABC was fourth with a 0.5 and 2.2 million viewers. The CW averaged a 0.2 and 584,000 viewers.
Mlb All-star Game


By Adam Buick and John Crump. Published by Theory and Practice.
A 100-page booklet reproducing two chapters from the authors' State Capitalism: The Wages System under New Management (1986) and the late John Crump's introduction to Non-Market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1987). It describes and explains capitalism and its alternative, a world-wide non-market society of no-ownership, democratic control, production directly for use, calculation in kind and free access, refuting the 'economic calculation argument'. Also describes the various currents which have kept alive the concept of such a society as the alternative to capitalism, both private and state.


Note - This post is dedicated to Navratri, with each story depicting one of the nine forms of Goddess Shakthi.
They waited; hyenas relishing the anticipation of the kill. The waiting game will pay. She will get exhausted; will break; will deliver. They have the whole night.
Moments melded into minutes; minutes into hours.
The dawn broke. They ran leaving 2 of their buddies at her feet bleeding, the knife still in her hand, her eyes still burning.
The kid raced through the fields laughing at the top of her voice. The wind swiveled through her loose hair as she tumbled into her father's open arms. He lifted her over his shoulders with a surplus smile on his lips.
Nothing new; Nothing much; He did not really care when celebrating his daughter's youth.
Her child slipped and fell down with a tearing shriek. The pain jack sawed through his tender body. She rushed to her child, dried his tears, cajoled him, checked him for serious wounds, cleaned the mud off him and she left him alone.
Left him alone to pick himself up once again.
She could never breast feed her baby. The doctors were kind enough to explain with patience. But all she heard in the damning silence was her own soul wailing.
Hard decisions; harder to live through them; Months passed.
She never breast fed and her kid's still healthy. She sighed. Love cannot be breast fed.
She always laughed loudly; especially after arriving there. Her voracious mirth; verbally signed; Deep and sonorous; lucid and warm guffaws; brimming with unsaid humor; listless possibilities and life in abundance; the happy echoes reverberated not just with air, sweeping through corridors of the old age home, touching and cuddling the few listening souls.
The sickle in her hand moved with a practiced rhythm as they went through all the unwanted weeds. Their dry roots were torn apart from the earth without mercy. After going through the entire field, she sighed with satisfaction.
The land owner paid her in full without any questions. She still had the sickle in her hand.
Chaos reigned. Chairs were thrown. Curses exchanged. Parties formed. Favors fished. Violence sought. Bullies brought. Politics played. Nobody was listening to nobody; Bedlam on riot.
She came into the room with a brisk walk. A deep hush was followed by a warm greeting of the kindergarten kids wishing their teacher Good morning.
She sat on her bed, staring at the mirror. A frail old woman stared at her back with drooping breasts, generous age lines, white wisps of hair, pale pallor, wrinkled skin, over her bent body. She sighed to herself.
Her chubby ten year old eyes looked at him with a sad glint.
"Oh" his squeaky voice responded, his eyes caught between her and the small spherical candy.
I wanted to bring out the different faces of Goddess Shakthi - with simple everyday women. I took the help of Wikipedia to get to know all the forms of Shakthi and then, wrote stories that best suited the various shades of their nature. I wish all of my friends, reading this post- a Subh Navratri.
For people, interested to know more about Navratri - a prominent Indian festival, kindly follow the link here. I have avoided putting many pictures, so as not to disturb the flow of the fiction and also, no to disrupt the respect for the Goddess that the festival and the idea of the fiction is based on.
Hey. Nice post... Very beautiful how you have merged your own creativity to along with the Nine forms of Shakti.
all of the 55ers are good, I liked the first one though .. she was not afraid and fought well ..
Interesting information ! Very nicely written.
:) Thanks for your wishes!!
Thanks a lot.. Welcome to my blog..
Brilliantly told...Happy Dusshera to you too!
this is one beautiful post i read after such a long time...!
i liked the first and the 5th story..
very creatively put forth Muthu..proud to know you and sincerely wish you become the writer you always wanted to be.
And I am glad you loved them. :D -- Welcome to my blog. And I hope you enjoy your time here.
Thanks for following , I have reciprocated.
have been reading all ur posts one by one..not really lazy to comment, but not wanting to break the flow! but i 'had' to comment here...this is so beautifully written...looking at the everyday woman in the different forms of Shakti was wonderful! u write so amazingly well!
Thank-you, I wanted it to be so..
Thank-you, I am so happy to have engaged you And that I think is the most I want with anybody reading me- engaging them and giving something memorable for them remember.
Honestly, I love to write about Strong Women. they make for such powerful characters.. Did you try my story -- The spring -- that also deals with the feminine side of a household.


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Colbert Unveils Plans for Live Election Night Special
Stephen Colbert will be covering the presidential election live on Nov. 8, but not on his CBS show. Colbert unveiled plans today for a live special to be televised on Showtime.
"It'll be all the political comedy you love from my CBS show, with all the swearing and nudity you love from Showtime," Colbert said.
The special, "Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale: Who's Going To Clean Up This Shi*t?," is set for 11 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. PT on Election Night, Tuesday, Nov. 8. The announcement was made today by David Nevins, President and CEO, Showtime Networks Inc.
"By bringing his unique comedic perspective to the anything-goes nature of premium cable, Colbert will be able to do things he's never been able to do in this campaign, such as directly quote a candidate without being bleeped," Showtime notes in its announcement. "The special program will feature the much beloved and totally irreverent Colbert reacting in real time to the election results as the state by state returns come in, making it the perfect election night destination for people who want to see all the latest news, without actually having to watch the news."
The one-hour program will air live from The Ed Sullivan Theater in New York and will include a studio audience.
The election night special will be produced by the same team responsible for "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." Colbert, Chris Licht, Tom Purcell and Jon Stewart are the executive producers.
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