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DISPLACED AND IMMISERATED: The Shilluk of Upper Nile in South Sudan's civil war, 2014-19
Posted on October 4, 2019 by malakalpost
By Dr. Lam Akol
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DISPLACED AND IMMISERATED: The Shilluk of Upper Nile in South Sudan's civil war, 2014-19:
A publication of the Small Arms Survey's Human Security Baseline Assessment (HSBA) for Sudan and South Sudan project, by Joshua Craze, September 2019.
This publication is extremely important and timely. It deals with a tragedy that has befallen the Chollo (Shilluk) nation as a result of deliberate government policies targeting their land and very existence. The author gives an excellent analysis of these policies that led to the displacement and immiserating the Chollo people. It draws significant conclusions worthy of note.
However, on the issue of tribal boundaries and the genesis of the Chollo-Dinka land dispute, the report suffers from flawed assumptions and inaccuracies that render some of its conclusions hazy. It is this aspect of the report that this comment will focus on.
The author of the report makes the following assumptions about the land dispute between the Chollo (Shilluk) and Padang Jieng (Dinka):
The nature of the contemporary conflict is neither historical nor based on territorial disputes that pre-date the CPA period (p. 19).
Nothing in the present allows us to decide that one historical period, rather than another, should be central to the process of determining justice and boundaries in the current political situation (p.19).
The historical record will not allow us to determine the absolute borders of the two groups, because their ways of life during the period of the Anglo-Egyptian condominium were not commensurate with absolute borders (p. 20).
The claims to absolute and exclusive ownership emerged during the CPA period (2005-2011), and cannot be explained by prior historical claims to territory (p. 20).
The British attempted to impose 'the simplified forms of absolute borders' between tribes (p. 20).
In the process of advancing these assumptions the author makes errors some of which seem deliberate. We shall refer to them in the course of making this comment.
Genesis of the dispute
It is not true that the nature of the current land dispute is neither historical nor does it not predate the CPA period. In fact, the conflict is both historical and predated the CPA period. The author himself states that "both sides make historical claims to contested territories in Upper Nile" and goes on to give the version of each side (p. 19). Therefore, each side has its claims grounded in that it owned the land in some time in history. If that is not historical, what is it? Where the author fails as a researcher is in two areas: firstly, he did not weigh the claims of both sides against other well established historical sources1 to judge for himself which claim was right or wrong and secondly, he failed to realize or accept that for any such historical claims to be just there must be a definite time in history that should be used as the reference point relative to which such claims are evaluated. For example, the Chollo acknowledge that most, if not all, of the land they occupy today was previously Funj territory before they moved in. Can that historical fact be used to judge that the land today belongs to the Funj rather than the Chollo?
It is unanimously agreed previously within Sudan and currently in South Sudan that the reference point in all administrative and boundary issues is the 1/1/1956 border. This was agreed in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and subsequently in all conferences held in South Sudan since 2005. Even recently in the height of polarization engendered by the imposition of the 28 States (later to become 32) the IBC members who went to the States found that all sides were agreed that the 1st of January 1956 boundary was the accepted cut-off date in dealing with tribal and administrative boundaries in South Sudan. Therefore, it is rather puzzling for the author to claim that "nothing in the present allows us to decide that one historical period, rather than another, should be central to the process of determining justice and boundaries in the current political situation" (p.19).
That the dispute between the Padang Jieng and the Chollo predates the CPA is a well- established fact2. It started in 1980, when the Court President of Atar Ardeb area wrote to the Regional Government in Juba claiming some Collo areas around Khorfulus stream. A team of Surveyors was sent to the areas claimed by the Dinka and their findings were that these areas belonged to the Chollo. In 1982, a violent conflict erupted in the area which was resolved by the Regional Government in Juba by again ruling that the findings of the Surveyors sent there in 1980 must be respected. The basis of these rulings was the 1/1/1956 boundaries. On the 1994 petition of the Padang elders to the Sudan Government claiming that Malakal was part of Dinka land and the Chollo intellectuals' response to it in 1995, the author claims that "neither of these claims was resolved"(p. 24) quoting Akol3 as the source. This is a misrepresentation. Akol actually stated that "the government decided to respect the 1/1/1956 borders and that Malakal town is part and parcel of Collo land"4 (emphasis mine). In reality, what President Salva Kiir did through his decrees creating the 28 States in 2015 which became 32 in 2017 was to use the state power to rule on this tribal dispute dating back to the 1980s between the Padang Jieng and the Chollo in favour of the Padang Dinka. Pure and simple. The Chollo understood it as a brother standing by the side of his brothers. Period. The policy pursued by the government in displacing Chollo people from their land and immiserating them is precisely to implement this decision.
Tribal and Administrative Boundaries
The administrative units in South Sudan, whether the former districts or the current counties, were based on tribal boundaries and date back to the Anglo-Egyptian condominium when administration was based on the authority of chiefs and local potentates. This was the application of Lugard's concept of 'Native Administration'. It was a policy dictated not only by parsimony but also the colonial attempt to keep the detribalized elites away from administration. But despite other changes in administration these tribal units endured all through the national governments up to the present. Hence, the author's "putatively neutral series of administrative institutions"(p. 22) has no place in South Sudan at the moment as the tribal and administrative boundaries are interlinked. Herein lies the origin of what he calls "absolute territorial claims". It doesn't escape the notice of the author that land in South Sudan belongs to communities and communities are tribal, his semantics about 'people', 'tribe' and 'group' notwithstanding. The granting of a particular tribe grazing rights over another's land, or the shared use of land, is based on the recognition of the right over land of the tribe granting those rights as his example of the Seleim Arab and the Chollo demonstrates (p. 14). As such these lands too belong to one tribe not more.
Again the author got it wrong when he contends that "the confrontation over the status of Malakal only really emerged at the end of the second civil war, when in 2004, the leader of the SPLM/A, John Garang, established four Shilluk counties in Upper Nile, …"(p. 24). We have already mentioned that claims and counterclaims over Malakal and indeed the entire east bank of the Whilte Nile date back to the 1980s. These Shilluk counties, just like the other 75 counties in SPLM administered areas by then, were based on the chieftaincies because as mentioned earlier, this is the basis of constituting administrative units. Where would John Garang have created "counties with no definitive ethnic status" (p. 24)? The creation of these counties far from being "no doubt a concession to Akol" was a recognition of the reality on the ground as these areas were administered by the SPLM-United that Akol led and which united with the SPLM/A in 2003.
The author's narrative about Akoka and Pigi 'counties' leaves a lot to be desired but space will not allow a robust comment on that here.
The Chollo Predicament
The author claims that "many people in Upper Nile were suspicious of the Shilluk due to Akol's role in the SPLM/A split in the 1990s and the presence of his forces , with backing from the GoS, on the west bank of the White Nile for much of the 1980s and into the 1990s. For much of the second civil war, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) controlled the west bank of the White Nile, and it was thus not an SPLA area. The sentiment that the Shilluk were not a true part of the SPLA intensified after the signing of the CPA" (endnote 50 p. 103). These claims deserve attention.
The remark was made in relation to the formation in June 2009 of the SPLM-DC. We shall come to the latter later. If the 'suspicion' was the excuse for devastating Chollo land, then it was wrong both in terms of facts and moral grounds. Let us examine the facts. First, the claim that the presence of Akol's forces "on the west bank of the White Nile for much of the 1980s and into the 1990s" with "backing from the GoS" is mere fiction. At no time did the GoS exist on the west side of the White Nile in the period mentioned except in a few fortified garrisons of Lelo, Wau, Lul, Kodok and Detwok. Tonga and the entire countryside were under full control of the SPLA under different rubrics. The area was under the direct command of the C-in-C, Dr John Garang, up to July 1987 when Akol took over the command. In 1987-88, Akol was the SPLA Zonal Commander of Northern Upper Nile (which includes that particular area). He was replaced by Cdr Martin Manyiel Ayuel (a Dinka from Gogrial) who served for the period 1988 to 1990 and then by Cdr Stephen Duol Chol (a Nuer from Nasir) in 1990-91. All fell under the command of Dr John Garang. Where does the GoS come in here? And if it did, that cannot be blamed on Akol alone who left the area in 1988. After the split in 1991, the area was under the command of Cdr Akwoc Mayong Jago. It was not until 1994, when the SPLM-United split, that Akol again took command of the area. History records that since that time until the reunification of the two factions of the SPLM/A in 2003, there were no clashes between the forces on the west bank of the White Nile with neither the SPLA nor the SSIM under Dr Riek Machar. How could that happen if they were backed by the GoS?
Second, granted that the area was not an SPLA (under John Garang) area but it was under the SPLM-United not SAF. Third, it goes without saying that there were prominent Chollo serving Juba in the CPA period. The Secretary General of the SPLM and the Chief of the General Staff of the SPLA were both Chollo, in addition to others in the government by then. It defies logic that a regime they serve under targets their people simply because one of their own is a dissenting voice.
Therefore, the 'suspicion' could not be explained in terms of the past SPLM/A problems. The fate of the entire tribe cannot be tied to one person. All Nuer areas were not 'SPLA area' and they even fought against the SPLA. Yet, the Nuer were not subjected to the same mistreatment as Chollo. Explanation must be sought in Salva's resolve to grab Chollo's land and give it to the Padang Dinka, as the subsequent events clearly showed. Whenever, the Padang Jieng attacked a Chollo village, any response from Chollo is always met with SPLA's brute force5. In this dispute, the Chollo were not facing the Padang but the regime in Juba with all its might.
In the same vein the author avers that "Tensions between the Padang Dinka and the Shilluk worsened after the prominent Shilluk politician Akol and his followers split –once again- from the SPLM/A in June 2009 and created the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-Democratic Change (SPLMC…)"(p. 29), adding that a 4 September attack on Bony-Thiang (sic) was blamed on the SPLM-DC and that the government mounted revenge attacks on the Shilluk settlements at Abaneim and Nagdiar. This is a mix-up. The tensions between the two communities had already boiled over in January 2009 and there is no evidence that there was escalation due to the creation of SPLM-DC. In fact, the attacks on Abaniem and Nagdiar were in January 2009 well before the birth of SPLM-DC. The SPLM/A didn't want a competitor and were hell bent on strangling the SPLM-DC. Towards this end they used all kinds of accusations including owning militia6.
True, the Shilluk felt abandoned in relation to being fought by the government on behalf of Padang Dinka. They also felt marginalized at the State level politics. However, it is inaccurate to suggest that "it was partly to address this feeling of abandonment that Akol created the Sudan People's Liberation Movement for Democratic Change (SPLM-DC) in 2009" (p. 30). The SPLM-DC was a national movement that addressed the misrule, injustice and corruption prevalent under the regime led by the SPLM/A in Juba. These issues are spelt out in the statement on launching the SPLM-DC7. Nowhere is it mentioned that the SPLM-DC was established to address Chollo's feeling of abandonment. The situation in Chollo land features as just one example of the injustices meted out against the people by what was supposed to be their government.
Divisions among the Shilluk
The author correctly points out that the creation of the 28 States "remained a sticking point in the ARCSS" (p. 70). But what follows is full of errors and inaccuracies. In fact, it would not have been possible to form the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU) in April without the IGAD 55th Session of the Council of Ministers' Communique on 31st January 2016. It will be recalled that the Communique ordered for the freeze of the Order creating the 28 states and formation of a National Boundaries Commission that would study and recommend the appropriate number of States, failing which the country continues with the ten (10) states stipulated in both the Constitution and ARCSS 2015. Although there was agreement on 1st June 2016 between the President and the two Vice Presidents to form such a commission none was actually formed. Kiir insisted to go ahead with his project.
In his now familiar theme of targeting Akol, the author claims that "with the ARCSS dead in the water, Akol was looking for a new way to insert himself into the South Sudanese political process" (p. 71). The assertion suggests that Akol wasn't part of that process and has to "insert" himself to become one. This reflects either the author's full ignorance of the events that took place in South Sudan then or a deliberate attempt at denigration. Akol was Chairman of the National Alliance, the only effective opposition group in the country in the period 2013 -2016. The National Alliance was part of the peace negotiations in Addis Ababa right from the beginning until its delegation was prevented by the government from going to Addis Ababa on 23 September 2014. Yet, it continued to influence the negotiations from Juba. Akol was put under house arrest in Juba for a month, extending from April up to May 2015, and thereafter prevented from travelling outside Juba. All these actions were because the government feared that Akol's position in the talks was going to put the government at a disadvantage. The portfolio Akol occupied in the TGoNU was that of the National Alliance. Pursuing his line, the author alleges that the NDM "was now a faction in search of a people"! This is meaningless. Is there any party or movement in the world that doesn't look for people to join it ranks? Also it is not true that there were SPLM-IO that defected to the NDM, let the author mention just one. It is the same lack of doubt that drives the author to state with certainty that Gen Johannes Okiech was from northern Shilluk (p. 83). Wrong, he is not. His association with Gen Aywok Ogat is more on principles than region within the Chollo land.
The author's conclusion "that Akol then brought Tanginye….indicated the desperation of Akol's position" is superficial. A few personal interviews here and there do not make up for serious research. The devastation visited by Tang Ginya on the Shilluk land in 2003/4 which the author refers to was the work of some Chollo in the Sudan Government by then (led by one of them who was Deputy Governor of Upper Nile State. It was him who went to Canal Mouth to flag off the attack on Chollo land) following the reunification of SPLM-United and the SPLM/A in October 2003. Therefore, informed Chollo saw that as government policy, nothing to do with Tang Ginya as a person. In fact, a similar and more devastating attack on Chollo land was conducted by the Anya-nya 2 (comprising Nuers) in 1987. Similarly, Olony (and not Olonyi) was used by Juba to fight the SPLM-IO in 2014 and when he was approached by Dr Riek to join him in 2015 that wasn't 'desperation of Riek's position'. What was the difference? Counterinsurgency wasn't after all the monopoly of Khartoum. The truth is that when Gen. Gabriel Tang Ginya applied to join NDM in 2016, he did not belong to any armed Movement and there wasn't any justification to reject him.
The problems of the Technical Boundary Committee (TBC) and the Independent Boundaries Commission (IBC)
Here the author attempts to apply his assumptions which were enumerated in the first part of this comment. He rejects the British records on the boundaries as "incomplete, and often, inaccurate set of documents" without showing as to why this is the case simply to advance his so-called "shared rights".
The author asserts that:
"The TBC mandate repeats the errors of the British colonial administrators, who attempted to create a series of ethnically bounded 'states' from a series of interconnected groups, out of the areas in which these groups had shared rights." (p. 91).
The British didn't create anything. Rather they made use of the extant tribal set-up to further the objectives of their 'native administration'. These "errors" were not evident then and after independence. He continues:
"The creation and limits of the TBC in the R-ARCSS thus repeat the errors of prior peace processes in southern Sudan. In the CPA, a TBC was also created, and was also asked to delimit and demarcate the border between Sudan and South Sudan as it stood on 1 January 1956. It was a bureaucratic mechanism designed to resolve political crises in the present by appealing to a historical record, which could appear neutral in relation to the group's differing interests. Predictably the TBC was politicized, and on the basis of an uncertain documentary record it collapsed." (pp. 91-92).
In the first place, there was no TBC in the CPA "to delimit and demarcate the border between Sudan and South Sudan…" Thus, the wild claim that it collapsed is an imagination meant, again, to give credence to the author's unfounded assumption that there were "uncertain documentary record".
The author confidently avers that "That the TBC did not determine anything is, paradoxically, perhaps the best possible outcome" (p. 92). Well, the bad news is that the TBC did determine at least two things. First, it produced a reference map based on 1 January 1956 boundary lines showing clearly the tribal boundaries in South Sudan which is now authentic. Second, it compiled the claims of all sides in the tribal boundaries in dispute all over South Sudan. The author's statement that "…the TBC of the R-ARCSS was unable to come to a conclusion about political borders via a technocratic process"(p. 92), is misplaced. The TBC was never tasked to deal with political borders; only tribal.
The author turns to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague that arbitrated the Abyei Boundary Commission (ABC)'s report and concludes that:
"The PCA was not an adequate form for discussion of these forms of rights. Indeed, the PCA arbitration failed, in any event, to resolve the problem of the borders of Abyei, and its recommendations were left unenforced." (p. 92).
What we know is that the PCA did draw a map of what constitutes the Abyei area that will be subjected to the referendum on whether to join Southern Sudan or remain in Kordofan in Sudan. This map was accepted by the two sides in the arbitration case. Therefore, the PCA arbitration had succeeded to resolve the borders of Abyei area. What failed was the conduct of the referendum on the status of Abyei area and that has nothing to do with the PCA.
The administration in South Sudan today is based on the boundaries inherited from the colonial period which in turn are based on tribal boundaries extant at that time. Hence, historical records are unavoidable. The good news is that the British kept accurate and reliable set of documents on the matter. The neighbouring tribes have coexisted all these years knowing very well where their boundaries were.
The author imagines a situation in which what he calls "secondary rights" are incompatible with absolute rights. He also wrongly asserts that the CPA produced "new forms of borders". It did not. The boundaries did exist for more than a century and the dispute between the Padang Jieng and Chollo over their boundaries predate the CPA by a quarter of a century. What he calls "Garang's (2004) infamous memorandum creating four Shilluk counties" was actually in line with and on the same basis as his previous orders establishing the other 75 counties in Southern Sudan. There was nothing special about the four Chollo counties.
The import of President Salva Kiir's action by issuing the decree dividing the country into 28 states was in effect to use state power to settle the land dispute between the Chollo and the Padang Dinka in favour of the Dinka, the tribe he hails from. The author's excellent analysis on immiseration and recomposition of the Chollo population fits very well into that scheme.
Such sources include: Kelly, R.C., The Nuer Conquest, Ann Arbor:The University of Michigan Press, 1985; Willis, C.A., The Upper Nile Handbook, edited by Douglas H. Johnson, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995; Udal, J.O., The Nile in Darkness, A flawed Unity, 1863-1899, Norwich: Michael Russell, 2005. In fact, no discussion on the administration of Upper Nile is complete without reference to the seminal work of C.A. Willis referred to above. This does not appear anywhere in the report under consideration.
Akol, L., Collo Boundary Dispute, 2nd, Khartoum: Laser Printing, 2006, pp. 6-7.
Akol, L., Collo Boundary Dispute, South Sudan Publishing House UK, 2005, pp. 6-16, p. 6.
The attacks on the Chollo settlements in Anakdiar and Abaniem in January 2009, were carried out by the SPLA. Chollo members of the National, Southern Sudan and Upper Nile State Assemblies wrote a petition dated 10 January 2009 to the Governor of Upper Nile State on the unprovoked attack on Anakdiar (see Akol, L., 2nd edn, op.cit., pp. 48-50).
The SPLM has shown morbid hostility against the SPLM-DC right from its birth accusing it of owning militia (not specifying where they were). In fact, in November 2009, the Government of South Sudan issued an order banning the SPLM-DC from practising politics in Southern Sudan. This order was contested by the SPLM-DC before the Constitutional Court and the Court ruled in its favour in January 2010. It was on the strength of that court's decision that the SPLM-DC was able to take part in the 2010 elections.
SPLM-DC, Statement on the launching of Sudan People's Liberation Movement- Democratic Change, 6 June 2009, www.splmdc.com.
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In a May 6 report, Morgan Stanley recommended investors buy Chinese A-shares rather than NYSE-listed counterparts to hedge risks. Chinese equity markets tend to be more inward looking and freer from the institution-driven swings in US markets, and the transition to Chinese equities may allow investors to better diversify in a tumultuous market.
Business | Policy
DoC & Huawei Say Their Final Goodbyes
A recent series of events in the US-Huawei clash has quickly ended the trade détente experienced since high-level talks in mid-April. Beginning Friday, the Department of Commerce administered new rules barring Huawei and its suppliers from using American-made inputs in the semiconductor manufacturing process. Companies will need to apply for licenses to continue supplying chips, but it is likely that all requests with ties to Huawei will be denied.
Later in the day, Chinese state-owned investment funds made a move of their own by injecting $2.2 billion into the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., the largest domestic chipmaker in China. With the current and planned funding, the chipmaker intends to ramp up monthly production of 14-nanometer wafers from 6,000 to 35,000.
Beijing's move shows clear intent to reduce Huawei's American independence, but the transition may be rocky. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. counts Huawei as its second-largest customer, with it accounting for 15-20% of its annual revenues. Following the Friday news, TSMC has officially halted all new production orders from Huawei Tech.
Caught at a Crossroads
Luckin Coffee makes headlines again as the Nasdaq stock exchange announced plans to delist the company after news surfaced that it had been inflating sales by up to US$310 million. The notice was filed Tuesday, citing "public interest concerns" surrounding fabricated sales accounts and lack of transparency. The move follows Nasdaq's recent proposal for more stringent requirements on IPOs.
The first requirement would require companies to raise at least US$25 million or a quarter of their post-listing market value in an attempt to increase liquidity and dilute insider holdings. The second includes additional listing criteria based upon the qualifications of the listing company's auditors. While some scrutinize these actions as aligning with the decoupling of US and China, others claim that Nasdaq's efforts to promote stronger listing criteria is paramount to creating sound securities markets.
Although intended to increase transparency and accountability, these measures may end up limiting US investors' ability to easily access emerging market returns and properly diversify portfolios.
Business | Economics | Policy
Blockchain Finds a Home in Pearl Delta Trade
Chinese financial regulators recently co-published a strategy to finance infrastructure development in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Among the strategy's five pillars was an emphasis on spurred innovation within financial services, with a plan to build a blockchain-based financing platform.
The platform would allow for participating banks to share and exchange relevant trade information in a safe and reliable way. The announcement closely follows the recent April launch of China's nationwide Blockchain-based Service Network, a platform that offers companies low-cost blockchain cloud-computing services. It also precedes the anticipated release of the digital RMB.
Since Xi Jinping announced China's Fintech Development Plan in 2019, the technology has become the critical foundation that will support many of China's other technological ambitions such as cloud computing, 5G, digital currency, and more. The pandemic has also added another level of urgency by bringing a heightened awareness to the need for digitization. As China continues to make strides in its pursuit of leadership in technology innovation, we will likely see increasingly frequent blockchain utilization.
China Doubles Down on AI
By 2018, China-focused VCs had allocated US$8.1 billion into AI deals, a 27-fold increase in 5 years. Fast forward to today, and Beijing has recently announced that it is doubling down on its AI bet – initiating two new batches of AI projects to the tune of US$140.7 million.
The new projects will support development efforts in data intelligence, swarm intelligence, cross-media intelligence, hybrid intelligence and intelligent systems to be targeted for application across healthcare, supply chain, and city governance.
China's bet on AI can be traced back to 2017 when the State Council issued a plan for AI development and defined the industry as a major growth engine for the country's future economy. To date, China has established 11 AI pilot zones across the nation that offer a conducive environment for innovation development and testing.
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Dead Wrong: AIA and Ping An's Life Insurance Duel for China
The narrative of AIA and Ping An is one familiar to Western brands that enter China – with many fallen prey to the pitfalls of misaligned cultural values. AIA had not fully weighed the taboo of death when it entered the Chinese market and faced significant challenges when selling insurance – stymieing its growth and providing the perfect opportunity for China's now largest life insurer to seize the market.

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Everyone's feet are different, but some feet are more "different" than others in a world where standardization and mass production are the norm. Very wide flat feet, for example, are hard to fit in standard shoe sizes, so they are good candidates for custom sandals. And since the particular feet in question belong to my husband, they are perfect candidates for my sandal experimentation.
I had tried, unsuccessfully, to find the padding that Michael of Island Sandals uses. Rob at Tandy suggested I try using a blue foam sleeping bag pad, which made sense to me, so I got one at REI and started hacking it up.
I cut the sole pieces a bit oversized so I would have room for stitching and trimming later.
I'm working with quite thick leather again, like I did for my first pair of sandals: 13-15 oz. saddle skirting for the sole bottoms, with an extra layer for the heels. I used 6-7 oz. leather for the upper layer of the shoe, and 10-11 oz. leather for the straps (no way is he going to wear through these straps!). In hindsight, I should have used thinner leather for the straps, maybe 6-7 or 8-9 oz., because these straps are awfully thick, stiff, and bulky. Besides, the nice thing about the free-floating straps (that is, they are not permanently fastened to the sole anywhere so they can be infinitely adjusted) is that they are relatively easy to replace if they wear out or break.
I glued the top sole to the bottom sole (carefully not gluing where the straps are), then used a drill press with a small bit (around 1/16") to drill the holes around the edge. It worked pretty well, so long as I kept the straps out of the way! It was definitely easier than holding a power drill by hand like I did for my daughter's thong sandals.
Stitching by hand around the edges took a while, but I eventually finished them.
I like the wood-grained appearance of the hand-dyed leather. I got that by using a small paintbrush to apply the dye to the upper sole pieces.
When I took the picture above, my husband had already been wearing the sandals for a while (several months), so some wear is visible on the soles. The SoleTech 3.5 is a little too thin and dainty for this purpose. When he eventually wears all the way through it, I'll replace it with more of the chevron soling. Meanwhile, the sleeping-bag pad foam has held up pretty well so far and is still pretty resilient.
Lacey wants to know when I'll be making a pair of shoes for her, but she points out that she has much daintier little feet than my husband!


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2010 Pape Clément, Pessac-Léognan 12-Pack in OWC (Pre-Arrival)
SKU #1410187 100 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
I certainly underrated the 2010 Pape Clement from barrel, rating it only 93-95+. (Thank God I put a 'plus' there!) Having tasted it four times in Bordeaux, and rating it perfect three times and 99 the fourth time, this final blend of 51% Merlot, 47.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 1.5% Petit Verdot is perfection in a bottle. ...Its sublime elegance, the power, the medium to full-bodied texture, the silky tannins, the subtle notes of smoke, lead pencil shavings, black currants, charcoal, camphor, blueberry and cassis fruit are all remarkable. It is a rich, full-throttle wine, but the elegance and the great terroir of Pape Clement come through in abundance. It is slightly more developed and evolved than the 2005 was at a similar point in its evolution, but it certainly needs another 5-7 years to develop further nuances, which it surely will. This wine will last 30-40+ years. Kudos to proprietor Bernard Magrez, who has built an empire based on high quality more than any other characteristic. (RP) (2/2013)
96 points James Suckling
Intense blueberry nose with great precision and expression. Full and vibrant on the palate with a minty note. Vanilla. Wonderful structure. Firm but ripe tannins and very long. Needs time to soften. Great potential. Try in 2016. (2/2013)
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Cabernet Sauvignon and Blends
- Cabernet Sauvignon has come a long way from its role as a blending varietal, however dominant, in the wines of Bordeaux. Today it is the most planted red varietal in the world. Identified as a descendent of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc, the late-ripening Cabernet Sauvignon needs to be planted in warmer climates to fully ripen. Its small berries can easily be identified for their distinctive blue color, thick skins and high tannins. And while the varietal has its own definitive characteristics: green pepper-like aromas and black currant flavors among them, it is perhaps most prized for its ability to convey terroir, vintage and winemaking. A relatively new varietal, Cabernet Sauvignon started making inroads into the wines of the Médoc and Graves in the late-18th century. Today it is also dominant in the up-and-coming Entre-Deux-Mers region of Bordeaux and can also be found in Southwest France. It is the companion varietal to Sangiovese in Italy's Super Tuscans and is planted all over Europe, stretching to lesser-known winegrowing regions like Russia and Lebanon. In the Americas Cabernet Sauvignon has found champions in every nook and cranny of California and among winemakers in Washington, where it complements plantings of Merlot. In South America, Cab thrives in Chile, but can also be found in smaller amounts in Argentina and even in Mexico.
- When it comes to wine, France stands alone. No other country can beat it in terms of quality and diversity. And while many of its Region, Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne most obviously, produce wine as rare, as sought-after and nearly as expensive as gold, there are just as many obscurities and values to be had from little known appellations throughout the country. To learn everything there is to know about French wine would take a lifetime. To understand and appreciate French wine, one only has to begin tasting them.
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- Graves is the large red and white wine region located to the southeast of the city of Bordeaux along the Garonne River. Cabernet Sauvignon dominates the red wines from the area, while the whites are mixtures of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon. The most important area within the Graves is the village of Pessac-Leognan. Most of the great chateaux, including Haut Brion, a premier cru and the only wine outside of the Medoc to be included in the 1855 Classification, are located in this small appellation. Graves derives its name from the rocky, stony terrain of the region. Many people believe that the stony soil radiates the day's heat at night and thus makes the grapes ripen earlier than the other regions in Bordeaux.


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FSC appoints CBA, ANZ wealth execs
The FSC has announced several changes to its board, including naming a new chairman as well as electing wealth executives from CBA and ANZ.
by Reporter - July 20, 2016 0 comments
In a statement, the FSC said its board had unanimously elected Geoff Lloyd, chief executive and managing director of Perpetual Limited, as chairman.
Mr Lloyd replaces Greg Cooper, chief executive of Schroder Investment Management Australia, who will step down from the role this week.
At the same time, the FSC has appointed Annabel Spring, CBA Wealth Management group executive, as co-deputy chair. Ms Spring has been a director at the FSC for four years and also co-chairs the FSC's Superannuation Board Committee.
Meanwhile, ANZ Wealth Australia managing director Alexis George has been elected to the board to replace Robin Burns, former MD of Equity Trustees Limited.
"We welcome the breadth of experience Alexis will bring to the board," said FSC chief executive, Sally Loane.
"During her 20-year career in financial services, Alexis has held senior roles spanning superannuation, funds management and insurance across Australia, Europe and Asia.
"She is passionate about helping Australians grow and protect their wealth, believes in the importance of giving consumers access to quality financial advice, and is a strong advocate for improving the customer experience."
Last Updated: 04 May 2017 Published: 20 July 2016
ISA welcomes O'Dwyer, urges industry change
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Q: covers of complete regular local rings It is well-known that if one assumes algebraic closedness and characteristic 0 of the residue field then finite covers of complete DVRs are all of the form $A[x]/(x^m-a)$ for some $a \in A$ (direct sums of such, more precisely).
Is there a similar description for finite covers of complete regular local rings in higher dimensions?

A: Depending on what you mean by cover your statement isn't true in the DVR case. To make it true in that case you can throw in the condition that the cover be normal and it may also be a good idea to assume the map is flat. However, under your assumptions the complete regular local ring is a power series ring over the residue field $k$ in $n$ say variables. Now, for $n$-dimensional complete local normal ring $R$ with residue field $k$ there is a finite map from $R$ to the power series ring in $n$ variables. If $R$ is also Cohen-Macaulay then the map is flat. Hence, any $n$-dimensional complete local normal Cohen-Macaulay ring with $k$ as residue field appears as covering. When $n>1$ there is an enormous number of possible such ring so those of the suggested type only cover a very small number of cases (for instance they have embedding dimension at most $n+1$ and there are normal Cohen-Macaulay local rings of fixed dimension and arbitrary high embedding dimension).

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MAGIC is with you all the time, when hiking through the Mols Bjerge National Park in Syddjurs Municipality, Central Jutland. The Mols Bjerge Trail is 60 kilometers of hiking through the National Park with its great variation in landscape and nature.
During the latest Ice Age, 18,000 years ago, the ice stopped its progressing in what is today the National Park on the peninsula west of Arhus.
Here it stood like a cold white wall several hundred feet above the land. The ice melted away in an inferno of stones, ice and water.
Out of these profound changes, the magical landscape was born with large curved ridges above crystal clear bays, fascinating kettle holes and glacial valleys.
Many years later, man came to the area and created with his livestock a cultural landscape with immensely high natural value.
Here, hikers can enjoy a hilly landscape lined with white beaches, spectacular historical monuments, varying scenery and charming villages.
Red kite floats elegantly high on the sky. Wild horses graze in "the Danish mountains" with the great biodiversity of the sunny grasslands.
Impressive Bronze Age burial mounds are towering in the countryside, and from the top you look down on several blue bays.
You pass the national medieval icon, Kalø Castle ruin, a beautiful manor landscape, miles of coastline and the cozy seaport of Ebeltoft with its topped cobblestones, half-timbered houses and hollyhocks in the gardens
THE DANISH WAY OF ICE AGE HIKING
Start and End Point: Kalø Castle ruin and Ebeltoft
THE MOLS BJERGE TRAIL consists of three daily stages of approx. 20 km between Rønde und Ebeltoft: The Kalø stage, The mountain stage - a circular route and the most challenging stage of all three - and The Ebeltoft stage.
The starting and ending points of the three stages are all connected by bus line 123, so it is easy to get back to your starting point - no matter where you stay overnight and from where you hike out.
The best way to experience Mols Bjerge
By far the best way to experience the Mols Bjerge National Park landscape and nature is to put on sensible shoes and go out into the landscape.
You can also choose shorter trails. The yellow marked routes ensure that you get back to the starting point where your car is parked.
From most car parks in the area marked trails lead into the landscape, and leaflets about the area are at your disposal at the car parks.
There are many shorter routes of different lengths both in the hills of Mols, in the old forests near Kalø Castle Ruins, the area around Lake Stubbe, in Dråby and near Ebeltoft
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It looks like a helpful gent from the online community is going to hook me up with a Thing. Nice to have that one take care of.
I'm seeing reports of Magik popping up already, so I guess my Walgreens trips are still not done.
Sooooo...before I could seal the deal with my online hook up, I found Thing at Walgreens.
Paid a return visit to my nearest Walgreens. Still no joy in Muddville. It'll come though, just have to be patient.
On the upside, got my shipping notice from Megalopolis.Toys. Bishop, Omega Red, Wolverine-23, Poison and Scream are on their way.
Finally got my Dr. Octopus preorder from EE although they didn't shipped the other 2 figures I had preordered and so they got me good with the shipping, this is why I prefer Amazon. Speaking of Amazon I ordered Scarlet Spider from them so that's one less from that wave. Target put the 10th Anniversary sets on clearance so I got the Cap/Crossbones 2 pack which is the one I really wanted.
UPS delivered my order today. If I didn't say it before, big thanks to JayC and his contest.
That's a good haul, besides Typhoid and maybe Spider-Ham, Scream is the only other figure from that wave I'm even remotely interested in. Congratulations on winning the contest.
Yeah, I guess this has been my month for luck. A couple days after ordering those, I found Chickpool and Xpool on Amazon for considerably below SRP (doesn't happen often, but it DOES happen). Not only that, but my client is adding a nice little bonus to my check today.
I'm probably pushing it, but I'm gonna go for the hat-trick and hit the local Walgreens to look for Thing again.
Nope, still nothing (see what I did there? No THING). I haven't actually checked EVERY Walgreens in the Central Arkansas area, but I've gone through a large and wide enough sampling that I'm pretty sure ole' Blue eyes hasn't hit here... yet.
Did finally break down and pull the trigger on that Ross/Killmonger set. Movie figure or not, you can never have enough guys in suits.
Also snagged Chillpool at a Walmart, so not a total loss.
I hear you, I'm starting to think that if I want the Thing figure I may have to overpay.
Won't lie, I've considered going that route myself. But no. If the Has' wants me to buy it, they'll put it in stores where I can find it, and in numbers large enough that I have a fair shot.
I will sell... no scratch that, I will BURN my other Fantastic Four figures before I'll give one red cent to a scalper to finish the set.
Of course, Walgreens hasn't let me down yet, no reason to think they'll start now.
Done. I ordered it off Ebay a couple minutes ago. Paid ten bucks more than at retail, but for that ten bucks, I bought my freedom. I don't have to go back to Walgreens two or three times a week to hunt for a figure I know isn't gonna be there.
I don't know why every Walgreens in the state of Arkansas dropped the ball on this one figure, and I don't care. For a mere ten bucks, I don't have to worry about it. I'd call that a fair trade.
The trips to empty Walgreens, Ebay mark-up, post office delay (we really gotta crack that Transporter technology thing), it was all worth it. This figure is what happens when a company brings its A-game.
The vintage wave Wasp is beautiful! Mini Ant Man is also a bonus since I can never have too many of those for my "growing" effect. This one fits perfectly in between my smallest and third smallest Ant Mans.
It's an exceptional figure. He's going to be high on everyone's top ten of the year, I don't see how he couldn't be.
With Thing and Magik out of the way, the Retro Series 2 figures not yet having reached saturation, and not being quite ready to drop a dime on the HYDRA and AIM sets, I decided to take advantage of the brief lull in my ML collecting to fill a long-standing hole in my collection.
I hit ebay and managed to track down an MOC ML MOJO Series Falcon for a VERY reasonable price. Always kinda regretted selling off my original one, and since the Has' is dragging their heels with getting us a new one, I decided to correct my mistake.
Granted that funky TB articulation makes him look like a black version of the nursing home ghost from "The Unborn," but I still love that figure, and have a soft-spot for that classic Falcon costume.
Gamerverse Spidey arrived sometime this week. Honestly, between the cold from Hell and the brief respites provided by over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, my ability to gage the passage of time has gotten a little whonky. No idea what day it arrived. Great figure though. Might even be a worthy successor to Pizza Spidey.
I have the "modern" variant of this figure. I wanted this one because the wings are bigger. But I want to track down a classic one because I'm a "classic look" kind of guy.
So I found a classic TB Falcon on ebay loose with the wings stripped off, no accessories. Basically a fodder figure. This is fine with me because my plan is to swap out the arms from my modern Falcon. It's listed for $15 OBO. I offered $8. $5 for the seller, $3 for shipping in a bubble mailer, but I got declined. The search continues.
I paid $25 MOC. Of course being a ToyBiz figure the left hip was broken coming out of the package. The seller was cool enough to offer a $15 partial refund, and I MacGyvered a new hip joint using the hip from a Face-Offs Iron Man. Basically, I ended up with a "mostly" new Falcon for 10 bucks. Not bad.
Congrats, Devilbat, that's an awesome find, I only have Cap and Black Suit Spidey from that line but from what I have seen in pictures that Hulk is a thing of beauty.
On a related note, Amazon Prime better hang on to their selection of martial arts movies, cause they aren't winning any points from me for action figure selection or pricing structure.


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Shama started her journey of self-transformation in 2002. Her search brought her first to India, where she started to explore herself, learned to practice different kinds of meditation techniques and trained in Meditative therapies. Subsequently, she dove into Breathwork and Reichian therapy methods which target the letting go of inhibitions, blocks, and tensions that interfere with self-awareness and self-expression. After training for 4 years, she completed "Diamond Breath School" in Italy and continued to work with the masters of breath work in Europe and assists them in Italy, Greece, Russia, Turkey, and China.
In her journey of understanding the depth of human psychology and herself, she participated in dozens of therapy groups, workshops and she has trained in many different body-mind healing modalities. Through her many years of learning, practicing and combining eastern and western therapy methods as complimentary each other in her work, she ultimately found her unique way of working with people. Shama likes to create a custom-made session series for her clients. She believes that every nervous system is different and as a result of this difference everyone has to be approached in a different way, according to their unique needs. In her sessions she combines breath work, Somatic Experiencing® techniques, bioenergetics, bodynamics and meditation techniques for the integration of being.
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With her current success, there seems to be no stopping this Renaissance Woman. Her Chadelier Status is shining brighter than ever from center stage, to the big screen, to behind the scenes writing, producing and directing her own path to success. With her fresh approach to comedy, her distinctive style, and her groundbreaking accomplishments in the entertainment industry, she is a true "Queen of Comedy," – a title she plans to hold for years to come.


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Yet in the past couple of days I've felt … lighter than usual. Super-super unusually grateful for being alive.
The sky seems so blue!
World politics are horrifying, & there are some things going on that I'd be willing to get arrested protesting (for the record, NOT climate change; been there, done that; that ship sailed longgggggg ago, for me anyway).
"The radiance of the doomed." Or was it damned??
I can look it up, of course – but right now I have zero desire to turn on any of my devices.
Right now it's just me & a cup of coffee & a notepad & pen.
Heaven help us on a thousand fronts – personal & global.
Just gonna enjoy this "radiance" while it lasts!
p.s. & the "radiance?" It came at a time when I was doing an incredible amount of work on a 5-day nuclear licensing hearing that those of us in the know were aware was really only a huge exercise in theatre, with the decision already long since pre-determined. All the players merely acting out their roles. Despair-making, if one lets oneself go down that kind of rabbit hole … hmmm? It was really odd, feeling so ... calm ... about stuff that usually makes me feel utterly crazy & awful. Pretty cool….
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shared_examples "user profile form" do
  describe "user info" do
    it "populates the form" do |user|
      within '.sidebar #edit_form.edit_user' do
        user = subject
        expect(page).to have_field 'Email address', with: user.email
        expect(page).to have_field 'Username (visible to others)', with: user.username
        expect(page).to have_field 'Address Line 1', with: user.address_1
        expect(page).to have_field 'Address Line 2', with: user.address_2
        expect(page).to have_select 'City', selected: user.city
        expect(page).to have_select 'State', selected: user.state
        expect(page).to have_select 'ZIP', selected: user.zip
        expect(page).to have_content 'Survey'
        expect(page).to have_field 'user_yob', with: user.yob

        expect(page).to have_field 'user_awareness_code',
          with: user.awareness_code
        expect(page).to have_field 'user_yearsInMinneapolis',
          with: user.yearsInMinneapolis

        if user.gender
          expect(page).to have_checked_field 'user[gender]', with: user.gender
        end

        if user.ethnicity
          expect(page).to have_checked_field 'user[ethnicity][]',
            with: user.ethnicity[0]
        end

        if user.rentOrOwn
          expect(page).to have_checked_field 'user[rentOrOwn]',
            with: user.rentOrOwn
        end

        if user.heardOfAdoptATreeVia
          expect(page).to have_checked_field 'user[heardOfAdoptATreeVia][]',
            with: user.heardOfAdoptATreeVia[0]
        end

        if user.previousTreeWateringExperience
          expect(page).to have_checked_field 'user[previousTreeWateringExperience]',
            with: user.previousTreeWateringExperience
        end

        if user.previousEnvironmentalActivities
          expect(page).to have_checked_field 'user[previousEnvironmentalActivities]',
            with: user.previousEnvironmentalActivities
        end

        if user.valueForestryWork
          expect(page).to have_checked_field 'user[valueForestryWork]',
            with: user.valueForestryWork
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

describe 'Edit Profile', js: true do
  context "New User" do
    subject { create(:user) }

    before do
      sign_in(subject)
      find_link('Edit profile').click
    end

    it_behaves_like "user profile form"
  end

  context "Modified User" do
    subject { create(:modified_profile_user) }

    before do
      sign_in(subject)
      find_link('Edit profile').click
    end

    it_behaves_like "user profile form"
  end
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Texas gunman was fired from job, called FBI…
Texas gunman was fired from job, called FBI before shooting
Los Angeles-based artists Noah Reich, right, and David Maldonado, behind the tree, hang a heart-shaped sign on a tree outside a benefit concert by Khalid for the Walmart shooting victims in El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. (Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP)
By Boston Herald Wire Services |
PUBLISHED: September 2, 2019 at 5:52 pm | UPDATED: September 2, 2019 at 5:52 pm
ODESSA, Texas — The gunman in a spate of violence after a routine traffic stop in West Texas had just been fired from his job and called both police and the FBI before the shooting began, authorities said Monday.
Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said 36-year-old Seth Aaron Ator had been fired Saturday from Journey Oilfield Services. He said both Ator and the company called 911 after the firing but that Ator was gone by the time police showed up. FBI special agent Christopher Combs says Ator's statements on the phone were "rambling."
Authorities said Ator killed seven people and injured at least 22 others Saturday before officers killed him outside a busy movie theater in Odessa.
Combs said Ator "was on a long spiral down" before the shooting and that he went to work that day "in trouble."
"This did not happen because he was fired. He showed up to work enraged," said FBI special agent Christopher Combs of the suspected shooter.
Combs said the place where Ator lived was "a strange residence" and that the condition reflected "what his mental state was going into this." He didn't elaborate.
Online court records show Ator was arrested in 2001 for a misdemeanor offense that would not have prevented him from legally purchasing firearms in Texas, although authorities have not said where Ator got the "AR style" weapon he used.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted Monday that "we must keep guns out of criminals' hands" — words similar to his remarks that followed another mass shooting in El Paso on Aug. 3, when he said firearms must be kept from "deranged killers." But Abbott, a Republican and avid gun rights supporter, has been noncommittal about tightening Texas gun laws.
He also tweeted that Ator failed a previous gun background check and didn't go through one for the weapon he used in Odessa. He did not elaborate, and a spokesman referred questions to the Texas Department of Public Safety, which didn't immediately respond for comment.
Authorities said those killed were between 15 and 57 years old but did not immediately provide a list of names. Family and employers, however, said that among the dead were Edwin Peregrino, 25, who ran out of his parents' home to see what the commotion was; mail carrier Mary Granados, 29, slain in her U.S. Postal Service truck; and 15-year-old high school student Leilah Hernandez, who was walking out of an auto dealership.
Boston Herald Wire Services


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Q: ESlint Error Install from Command Line I get the following error installing eslint:
npm ERR! Darwin 15.4.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "eslint"
npm ERR! node v5.5.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.8.8
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access

npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR!     at Error (native)
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules']
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/Leviathan/lj/npm-debug.log

I have not been able to figure out how to install eslint and also get this line:
eslint --init to run to create the .eslintrc file

A: Try
npm install eslint --save-dev and then eslint --init.
Let me know if you face any issues.

A: If you're getting eslint: command not found try:
./node_modules/.bin/eslint --init

A: It looks like you're trying to install globally while your user doesn't have access to the global  node_modules folder. You can try installing it as root or chown  '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'.
Install as root -
    sudo npm install -g eslint

Chown -
    chown user:group /usr/local/lib/node_modules
    npm install -g eslint

You can also change permissions to /usr/local/lib/node_modules to allow your user access using chmod.
Edit:
Try the solution in the answer here
"Permission Denied" when trying to install ESlint on OSX globally
Add this to ~/.npmrc:
prefix = ${HOME}/.npm-packages
https://github.com/sindresorhus/guides/blob/master/npm-global-without-sudo.md
You also have to add ${HOME}/.npm-packages/.bin to your PATH so that your shell knows where to look up the globally installed scripts.

A: May be updating the dependencies to their latest versions (including major version changes) in the package.json file. would save you time.
npx npm-check-updates -u

or you may have to install eslint globally.
npm i eslint -g

and after removing node modules of your current project
eslint --init

A: For: Zsh: command not found: eslint
npm install eslint-plugin-react-hooks --save --dev

then run:
npm install -g eslint

It should work

A: Run a general update to upgrade all outdated packages
run npm outdated to see updated packages then
run npm update
also
npm-check-updates and npm install to finish up and your bug might be fixed

A: eslint --init to run to create the .eslintrc file is says create .eslintrc, you probably forgot to include . before eslintrc


Pet Tails is a monthly column by Contributing Editor Liz Beasley. It follows the adventures of her faithful friend and companion, Angus the dog.
Most mornings, our dog gets to go for a walk, and naturally we have to go with him so we get one too. Some walks are more exciting than others. For instance, one morning in September, around the time of the heavy rainfall, our dog, Angus, spotted the deer family before I did. He's pretty well behaved and almost blasé about deer; he usually just chases them if they are on his property, but he loves to stalk! They were sure watching him though and he was in stalking mode. This particular family had three fawns, who were getting to be fairly decent size; however, the family decided to cross the street and get a bit farther away, while keeping an eye on him. As we walked past them, I realized one fawn had stayed behind and was not sure what to do. I kept watching after we passed the area, and she (or he!) finally crossed the road. Since there was a slight drizzle, we were turning around to head back home sooner than usual. She stopped and was busy studying Angus. Don't you wonder what they are thinking? He was totally ignoring her and just busy sniffing for other critters. After a few seconds, the fawn turned and bounced off, tail in the air. She was beautiful! I continue to find it amazing that such tiny legs can support so much body on deer and elk!
Our dog is a beautiful, oops, handsome (!) black and tan Gordon Setter. For those of you who haven't met any Gordons, they are great family dogs, are a Scottish-bred bird-hunting dog and are usually affectionate, smart, and opinionated. He loves to explore, stalk, point, and, of course, sniff everything he can find. I would like to say he is fearless, but that only applies to deer, elk, other dogs, cats, and bears! If I get out the nail clippers or even his brush, he starts trembling. He heads off in the other direction when our daughter says the word, "Bath!". He hates personal grooming, but really thinks he looks great afterward! Go figure!
My husband had dogs when he was a child, but my first ones were found just a few months before we got married. He wanted to take me for a drive over to visit a Bouvier des Flandres family. His plan was to get a male dog; we left with a male and female! I am so glad we got both of them. They had a great time playing, digging, and doing other fun stuff while we went off to work. Since then, we have had different breeds of dogs, some rescue and some from breeders. We have loved them all.
We moved here with a Bouvier des Flandres. Bouviers tend to be wonderful family dogs and great watchdogs. She was beautiful and was one we adopted as a rescue dog. Overall, she had good care growing up, however, sometime before we adopted her, she developed a strong dislike for men wearing caps and an even stronger "dislike" for men wearing caps and smoking! She got pretty tough with those smokers and made a pretty good Smokey Bear for us!
I was talking with a friend who told me a pet story from their early days here on the mountains. When they moved, they brought along 4 cats and 2 dogs so you know their move was event-filled! Before construction on their house was completed, they rented in the Village. Her 2 dogs were used to having a fenced yard and not at all used to being on a leash. When she first started walking them, she had to be a contortionist! These two, named Prudy and Sadie, by the way, would head off in opposite directions, leaving my friend with arms stretched out, just trying to hold on! One time while this was happening and she was focused on trying to get the dogs pulled back, she ran head long into a stop sign and smacked her forehead! Fortunately, she was wearing a cap and the brim took the brunt of it, allowing her to keep her nose intact (this would have been the third break for her poor nose)! My first thought would have been to look around and make sure nobody saw me! Thankfully, she didn't have to walk her 4 cats!
This article was originally published in the May 2011 print edition of the Mountain Monthly.
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Swedish House Mafia Sign with Sal Slaiby, Manager to The Weeknd, Doja Cat & More
Swedish House Mafia Sign with Sal Slaiby, Manager to The
Weeknd, Doja Cat & More
Swedish House Mafia has signed with XO CEO Wassim "Sal" Slaiby, also manager to The Weeknd, Doja Cat, French Montana, Bebe Rexha and Ty Dolla $ign.
As Billboard reports, Sal will manage the EDM supergroup consisting of Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso moving forward as they continue to make their comeback.
MORE: Swedish House Mafia Back In Studio Working On New Music
Swedish House Mafia have been juggling management teams in recent years. Most recently, we reported their amicable split from Columbia Records and Ron Laffitte of Patriot Management earlier in 2021. Before that, they unexpectedly parted ways with longtime manager Amy Thomson in 2018.
It's been nearly a decade since Swedish House Mafia released original music. Their studio album Until Now came out in 2012, giving life to timeless classics "Don't You Worry Child," "Save The World" and more.
We hope this move results in new music and the comeback we've all been waiting for.
Source: Billboard | Photo via Rukes.com
This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Swedish House Mafia Sign with Sal Slaiby, Manager to The Weeknd, Doja Cat & More
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You may already have in-house bilingual call-center agents (or at least bilingual employees) on staff to meet your language-support needs. Whether or not this is the case, perhaps you've considered working with a language services provider (LSP). If you don't already have one, you could be missing opportunities to make stronger connections with multicultural customers.
The great news is you can establish a partnership with an LSP that can provide you access to on-demand language support that is available when you need it, 24 hours a day. Think of it as an in-language customer-support insurance policy.
Here are just a few ways a language services provider can add value to your call center.
Scalability always looms over call-center managers. They can't predict when a non-English call will come in; conversely, they may have difficulty hiring multilingual agents when volumes surge. Even if your organization has access to qualified bilingual agents, it may not make make financial sense to hire them on a full-time basis (at a premium) to accommodate every language.
But even if the few calls you receive in Swahili each month aren't enough to justify the cost of a full-time agent, the cost of turning those customers away could be even higher.
Partnering with a large language services provider gives you access to interpretation in hundreds of languages on demand. The right provider can connect you to an interpreter in just seconds.
All organizations should expect their non-English speaking customer base to grow exponentially in coming years. Multilingual customer support will be a competitive differentiator for attracting and retaining these new customers, increasing customer satisfaction, and building customer loyalty. Partnering with a language services agency can help supplement your in-house capabilities and cover unexpected language needs as the customer base grows.
The multilingual employees you do have, whether fluent in common or rare languages, can't work all day and night to meet growing consumer demand for service whenever it is needed. A language service provider has interpreters available 24/7, allowing you to add capacity during peak hours of demand and continue to serve all your customers, no matter what their language, on evenings and weekends.
Even if you currently have bilingual staff to support some languages spoken by your clients, it is hard to assess their language skills if others in your organization don't speak that language. This is especially true in the fields of financial services, insurance, and law. Unless those responsible for hiring and evaluating your staff are multilingual themselves, it can be difficult to know whether agents are providing effective customer service and to ensure you are providing a standard across all languages you support.
This is where a language services provider can help. For instance, LanguageLine offers language proficiency testing for bilingual employees and job candidates. And for high-volume needs, the testing platform can be incorporated into an organization's onboarding platform.


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TODO1 Chooses StraTech Data Center Support Services
StraTech
CARY, N.C. and NEW YORK, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- StraTech, a brand of Midas Medici Group Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX:MMED), and provider of data center, IT consulting, infrastructure, and support services, announced TODO1, an online banking and e-services company, has selected StraTech to provide Dell technical support.
"TODO1 has been a long-time customer," said StraTech Vice President, Customer Care and Managed Services Lee Whitaker. "Expanding our relationship to support their Dell infrastructure demonstrates our commitment to customer requests for additional manufacturer support programs."
As a member of Dell's Customer Appointed Service Provider (CASP) program, StraTech is authorized to provide single-source accountability, contract consolidation, and cost efficiency for Dell products. StraTech's service contract includes on-site technical services and 24/7 support.
"Particularly in more mature IT markets, extending the usable life of infrastructure provides companies additional time to design, finance and implement new technology infrastructure," said Nana Baffour, CEO of StraTech's parent company, Midas Medici. "Our IT asset lifecycle approach allows us to advise future IT needs for our customers while keeping current infrastructure operational."
About TODO1
TODO1 services independent banks in the Andean Region. Core services include online banking solutions, mobile banking solutions, e-marketplaces for corporate segment, and payment solutions. More information about TODO1 can be found at www.todo1.com.
About StraTech
StraTech, formerly Consonus, provides Data Center Services, IT Consulting, Infrastructure, and Support Services. A brand of Midas Medici Group Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX:MMED), StraTech has over 20 years of expertise helping customers build, protect, manage, and support mission critical data center infrastructures. Visit StraTech at www.stratech.com.
About Midas Medici
Midas Medici Group Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX:MMED) is a managed IT services and infrastructure company that supplies mid-sized and select enterprises and institutions with leading-edge IT solutions in the fields of virtualization, cloud computing and data management, as well as working with utilities and other institutions to transform the electric grid through digital technologies in the United States and Brazil. Across its Cimcorp, StraTech and UtiliPoint brands, Midas works with its customers by optimizing IT and data center investments, streamlining communications between departments, reducing costs and preventing data loss, all while maximizing productivity. Visit Midas Medici at www.midasmedici.com.
Jonna Murnick
Investor Relations:
John Mattio, SVP
MZ Group / Midas Medici
SOURCE StraTech


An Iconic carbon fiber floor lamp, whose silhouette speaks elegance and balance. Since 2011, Katana also expresses the emotion of music thanks to the Bluetooth technology driving a refined audio system well hidden inside its slender body.
In essence, Dual Inside is the meeting of sound and light within a single design element. A technology unique in the world that combines a traditional lamp with high fidelity sound reproduction by means of wireless systems, and can be controlled with extreme ease by any user. Thanks to Sensai technology, a Japanese word that evokes the sought-after values of refinement, harmony and domestic tranquillity. A technology that can be defined as "transversal and versatile" owing to its ease of application. The label distinguishing these products includes all the elements required for their identification.
Dual inside: two forces within – light and sound. Sensai Technology: The technology that allows all the above to materialise, to create a truly original solution. The functionality and ease of use of an advanced technology.


The Bearcat defense forced five turnovers and held 2006 Harlon Hill Award winner Danny Woodhead to 91 yards and no touchdowns. He ends his four-year career two points shy of former Pittsburg State running back Germaine Race's Division II record for career points scored.
Omon had 204 yards and two scores in the first half. He took the second play of the game 34 yards untouched for a score. His 4-yard touchdown with 45 seconds remaining in the first half gave the Bearcats a 16-0 lead.
Woodhead, who had 16 yards on 16 carries in last year's game against Northwest, had 10 yards on 10 carries in the first half of this year's contest. His longest run was a 50-yard dart up the middle in the third quarter, but the drive was ended by a Ryan Jones interception.
Woodhead lost two fumbles in the game and the Bearcats intercepted three passes. Jones, Ike Urum-Eke and Matt Robertson each recorded their first interceptions of the season.
The Bearcats scored the game's first 19 points and took a 19-7 lead into halftime. The teams exchanged punts to begin the second half. Michael Stadler had a 50-yard boot that helped pin the Eagles back to the 2-yard line. Chadron State went three-and-out and punted to the Eagles' 35.
The Bearcats moved the ball to the 26, and on fourth-and-one, quarterback Joel Osborn under threw a wide open Josh Gannan in the end zone. Woodhead's 50-yard run came on the next play.
Jones got the Bearcats the ball back on the interception and Osborn fired back with a 13-play, 93-yard drive capped by a 1-yard run by Omon. Osborn was 4-for-4 on the drive with third-and-long completions to Gannan and Abe Qaoud. He hit Qaoud later in the drive for 10 yards to the Chadron 15. Three plays later Omon was in the end zone to make it 26-7.
Osborn was 19-of-32 in the contest for 201 yards. His longest completion was a 36-yard lob over the defense to Mike Peterson on the first play of the game.
Qaoud and Kendall Wright each had five catches each. Qaoud had a team-high 53 yards receiving.
Osborn's counterpart, Joe McLain, was 31-of-66 for 289 yards and two scores for Chadron. He connected twice with Joel Schommer for touchdowns. The second was a 25-yard strike with 1:56 remaining in the game.
Chadron recovered the onside the kick that followed and marched to the Bearcats' 4-yard line with 44 seconds left, but McLain's fourth down pass bounced off the hands of Woodhead and Northwest took over on downs.
In addition to setting the school's all-time rushing mark for a game, Omon broke Northwest's single-season record. He now has 1,982 yards this year, topping the 1,829 yards gained by Jesse Haynes in 1996.
Omon scored his 93rd career touchdown and scored his 560th career point, moving ahead of Emporia's Brian Shay for second-place on the MIAA's all-time list.
-Xavier Omon rushed for a school-record 309 yards on 37 carries, surpassing the previous mark of 290 yards set by Claude Arnick Nov. 16, 1974 against Missouri-Rolla.
-With his first touchdown, Xavier Omon surpassed Brian Shay for second-place on the MIAA's all-time scoring list.
-Northwest has outscored its opponents 157-37 in the first quarter this season.
-Northwest's three defensive interceptions ties a season high.
-Matt Robertson, Ike Urum-Eke and Ryan Jones each earned their first interceptions of the season. Urum-Eke and Jones earned their first career interceptions.


The story of Oleg Sentsov, based on ODF's earlier publications (2014-2015), was publishing in Swedish independent publishing house Ariel Förlag. This publishing house for two decades specialized in introducing contemporary literature from the Baltic republics, Poland, and Russia.
During its presidency of the European Union in 2009, the Swedish authorities proposed launching the Eastern European Partnership programme with the project regarding energy efficiency and the environment, the financial support for which will come from the Fund.


If Operating Systems Were Airlines is a popular article that predates the web, and was first seen in Usenet in the 1980s. Over time, it has undergone several revisions all over the internet. Here is a compilation as far as I can do. Most of this is sourced from webaugur.com. But there has been other OSes added from elsewhere. Illustrations and logos are from random places about the web.
All the stewards, stewardesses, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents look the same, act the same, and talk the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you are told you don't need to know, don't want to know, and would you please return to your seat and watch the movie.
The airline has bought ancient DC-3s, arguably the best and safest planes that ever flew, and painted "747" on their tails to make them look as if they are fast. The flight attendants, of course, attend to your every need, though the drinks cost $15 a pop. Stupid questions cost $230 per hour, unless you have SupportLine, which requires a first class ticket and membership in the frequent flyer club. Then they cost $500, but your accounting department can call it overhead.
There is no airplane. The passengers gather and shout for an airplane, then wait and wait and wait and wait. A bunch of people come, each carrying one piece of the plane with them. These people all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they're building. The plane finally takes off, leaving the passengers on the ground waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting. After the plane lands, the pilot telephones the passengers at the departing airport to inform them that they have arrived.
You turn up at the airport,which is under contract to only allow XP Air planes. All the aircraft are identical, brightly coloured and three times as big as they need to be. The signs are huge and all point the same way. Whichever way you go, someone pops up dressed in a cloak and pointed hat insisting you follow him. Your luggage and clothes are taken off you and replaced with an XP Air suit and suitcase identical to everyone around you as this is included in the exorbitant ticket cost. The aircraft will not take off until you have signed a contract. The inflight entertainment promised turns out to be the same Mickey Mouse cartoon repeated over and over again. You have to phone your travel agent before you can have a meal or drink. You are searched regularly throughout the flight. If you go to the toilet twice or more you get charged for a new ticket. No matter what destination you booked you will always end up crash landing at Whistler in B. C.
You enter a good looking terminal with the largest planes you have ever seen. Every 10 feet a security officer appears and asks you if you are "sure" you want to continue walking to your plane and if you would like to cancel. Not sure what cancel would do, you continue walking and ask the agent at the desk why the planes are so big. After the security officer making sure you want to ask the question and you want to hear the answer, the agent replies that they are bigger because it makes customers feel better, but the planes are designed to fly twice as slow. Adding the size helped achieve the slow fly goal.
Once on the plane, every passenger has to be asked individually by the flight attendants if they are sure they want to take this flight. Then it is company policy that the captain asks the passengers collectively the same thing. After answering yes to so many questions, you are punched in the face by some stranger who when he asked "Are you sure you want me to punch you in the face? Cancel or Allow?" you instinctively say "Allow".