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Taxicab companies must be sure to fill up those cabs so they can max out their ridership and expand to buy new cabs as well. If not the old cabs end up with too many miles with low income-per-revenue figures and that hurts their forward progress in the market place.
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Elections in Syria
Elections in Syria gives information on election and election results in Syria.
A civil war has been going on in Syria since 2011 following a period of demonstrations and unrest in 2011, which was part of the international wave of protest known as the Arab Spring. The government, headed by Bashar al-Assad, son of previous leader Hafez al-Assad, is based in Damascus, the traditional capital.
Latest electionsEdit
Presidential electionsEdit
Further information: Syrian presidential election, 2014
Elections were held on 3 June 2014. The winner was Bashar al-Assad of the Ba'ath party. There were observers from more than 30 countries.[1]
Parliamentary electionsEdit
Further information: Syrian parliamentary election, 2012
e • d Summary of the 7 May 2012 People's Council of Syria election results
Seats inside
National Progressive Front (al-jabha al-waTaniyyah at-taqaddumiyyah) 168
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (Hizb al-ba'th al-'arabi al-ishtiraki)
Socialist Unionists (al-wahdawiyyun al-ishtirakiyyun)
Communist Party of Syria (al-Hizb ash-shuyu'i as-suri, Wissal Farha Bakdash faction)
Communist Party of Syria (Yusuf Faisal faction)
National Vow Movement (Harakat al-'ahd al-waTani)
Arab Socialist Union (al-ittiHad al-ishtiraki al-'arabi)
Popular Front for Change and Liberation 5
Syrian Social Nationalist Party (al-Hizb as-suri al-qawmi al-ijtima'i)
People's Will Party
non-partisans 77
Source: Syrian parliament
Damascus governmentEdit
Syria elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The People's Council (Majlis al-Sha'ab) has 250 members elected for a four-year term in 15 multi-seat constituencies. According to previous Syrian constitution of 1973 Syria was a form of one-party state in which only one political party, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party was legally allowed to hold effective power. Although minor parties were allowed, they were legally required to accept the leadership of the dominant party. The presidential candidate was appointed by the parliament, on suggestion of the Baath Party, and needed to be confirmed for a seven-year term in a national single-candidate referendum. The most recent presidential referendum took place in 2007. The new Syrian constitution of 2012, approved in popular referendum, introduced multi-party system without guaranteed leadership of any political party.[2] In a new article 88, it introduced presidential elections and limited the term of office for the president to seven years with a maximum of one re-election.[3]
During the French Mandate and after the independence the parliamentary elections in Syria have been held under a system similar to the Lebanese one, with fixed representation for every religious community, including Druzes, Alawis and Christians. In 1949 the system was modified, giving women the right to vote.[4][5][6][7]
Election lawEdit
On August 2011 President Assad signed Decree No. 101 on amending the General Elections Law. The Law stipulates that elections are to be held with public, secret, direct and equal voting where each Syrian voter, who completed eighteen years old, has one vote. The Law does not allow army members and policemen in service to participate in elections. It also provides for forming a higher judicial committee for elections with its headquarters in Damascus to monitor the elections and ensure its integrity, in addition to forming judicial sub-committees in every Syrian province affiliated to the higher committee.[8]
In March 2014, President Assad signed General Elections Law No.5 which replaced previous election laws.[9]
Electoral calendar
^ "Kerry calls Syrian presidential vote 'meaningless'". Aljazeera. 4 June 2014.
^ SANA Syrian News Agency - Constitution of the Syrian Arab Republic Approved in Popular Referendum on February 27, 2012, Article 8
^ SANA Syrian News Agency - Constitution of the Syrian Arab Republic Approved in Popular Referendum on February 27, 2012, Article 88
^ "The Arab-American handbook: a guide to the Arab, Arab-American & Muslim worlds", Nawar Shora. Cune Press, 2008. ISBN 1-885942-47-8, ISBN 978-1-885942-47-0. p. 261
^ Albert H. Hourani, Minorities in the Arab World, London, Oxford University Press, 1947 ISBN 0-404-16402-1
^ Claude Palazzoli, La Syrie - Le rêve et la rupture, Paris, Le Sycomore, 1977 ISBN 2-86262-002-5
^ Nikolaos van Dam, The Struggle For Power in Syria: Politics and Society Under Asad and the Ba'th Party, London, Croom Helm, 1979 ISBN 1-86064-024-9
^ President al-Assad Issues Legislative Decree on General Elections Law, SANA news agency
^ Georges, Nael. "Election Law in Syria". The Legal Agenda. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
IFES Election guide - Country profile: Syria
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Memorial Day, for most Americans, is just another federal holiday where the banks are closed and customary barbecues ensue as the official start of summer begins. Family and friends gather at picnic locations around the country and play horseshoes, volleyball, and other games while some never knowing the significance of the celebration. I had the same philosophy until 1994, when my definition of Memorial Day changed.
Memorial Day 2017 will mark the 149th anniversary of the day when we remember those US soldiers that were killed while serving and protecting our country. On October 3, 1993, my second cousin, Sergeant Casey Joyce (an Army Ranger), was killed in Somalia during Operation Restore Hope. While that might not sound significant at first, it's a story that many of you already know. On that day in Mogadishu, 18 US soldiers were killed and three Blackhawk helicopters were downed. Several of the dead American soldiers were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu and shown on international new reports. Many of you reading this have seen the movie "Black Hawk Down" and know that, what started as a humanitarian mission, drastically shifted to a military operation. Casey was 24 years old, had been married for two and a half years, and his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery was shown on CNN, as he was the first of the 18 soldiers to be buried. Regardless of the questions that arise out of Casey's death as well as all of our fallen soldiers, we must never forget the price that has been paid for our freedoms.
This memorial day, crank up your barbecue grill, head to the lake, and create precious memories that will last a lifetime. Those days definitely go by too fast. But also remember those who gave all of that up so that you could have the opportunity to do so. In Memory of all of those soldiers who paid the ultimate sacrifice, Happy Memorial Day.


I'm still trying to find more time to play with Edge, but at my local user group meeting last month the co-manager, Ryan Letulle, demoed what I thought was a nice example of the tool in action. At our meeting he demonstrated using Edge to build a simple rotating banner for a web site. I've seen this done before with jQuery plugins, but he wanted to try out the tool himself. It was very direct, very simple, and very quick to set up, and best of all it wasn't difficult to tweak. You can see the site below. Be warned - the site itself is very rough and still very in progress, but watch the animation and then - like all good developers, take a look at the source.


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Last Flight is a book published in 1937 consisting of diary entries and other notes compiled by aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart during her failed attempt that year at flying solo across the Pacific Ocean. Her husband, publisher George Palmer Putnam, edited the collection which was published posthumously as a tribute to his wife.

Consisting of hand-written diary entries, Earhart's writings cover the period from March 1937 up until her final entry on July 1, the day before her plane was reported missing en route to Howland Island in the South Pacific. The work is augmented by additional material written by Putnam, as well as a poem, "Courage", which Earhart had herself written.

Although credited to Earhart, historians have cast doubt as to how much of this book was actually written by Earhart and how much had been rewritten or embellished by Putnam.

Summary

Chapter 1: A Pilot Grows Up by Lili Paricska and Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart explains the origin of her dream to fly a multi-motored plane, which was in May 1935 during her nonstop flight from Mexico City to New York. En route to New York, while flying her single engine Lockheed Vega, she ponders her nightmare that the only engine would "conk" or break down in mid-flight. Upon realizing "the very finest machinery could develop indigestion" Earhart vowed to never fly her beloved Vega across water ever again. Following this explanation, Earhart provides insight to her readers of the who, what, where, when, and why of her interest in aviation and her aviatrix career.

Earhart was ten years old when she saw her first airplane at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, with which she was thoroughly unimpressed. Her following encounter with an airplane was much more significant in her memory, yet coincidentally also occurred at a fair. This fair was one held by "the aces returned from war" in Toronto, Canada, 1918,  where Earhart worked as a nurse. While on their break, her and a female co-worker went to watch these "aces" at their stunt exhibition. In attempt to be funny and scare the two women, one pilot flew low and directly over them, causing one to scamper away and the other, Amelia Earhart, to become mesmerized by her experience.

Nevertheless, Earhart continued with her medical career believing it was what interested her most; she even enrolled in Columbia University's medical program. At Columbia, she was simply going through the motions of being a physician, but her sole focus was on airplanes. When she went to California for a summer vacation, she went to every last air meet she could find, in hopes one day she would get to go up in the air herself. Recounting the day, she said "By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground I knew I had to fly."

She had found her true passion, but due to the expense of buying an airplane, Earhart's mother had to help buy her first one. Amelia Earhart described her plane as  "second-hand, painted bright yellow, and one of the first light airplanes developed in this country [United States of America]." Now that she had the plane, she spent a few hundred hours practicing in it and made a flight from Long Beach to Pasadena, but wanted nothing more than "to cross the continent by air". Unfortunately, she had to lend it out for demonstrations because hangar rental was also too expensive and she could not afford to pay for its storage. Then, one day, when she was working her social worker job at the Denison House, in Boston, she received a call asking if she would like to do "something dangerous in the air." After her appointment that evening with her caller, George Palmer Putnam, she was asked if she would like to fly the Atlantic, to which she quickly agreed.

From that point, she was asked to go to New York, for a proper interview; however, when she arrived, Putnam who was looking for "feminine perfection" seemed disappointed to Earhart. Although he was not pleased, he felt that she should meet the sponsors of this flight after the trouble she went through getting to New York. David T. Layman, Jr., and John S. Phipps were these representatives and they wanted a woman who was beautiful and brilliant, but not too brilliant as to outshine the men. Their verdict came a few days following their meeting with Amelia Earhart and they said that if she wished to, they would allow her to go.

Earhart never actually assisted in any three attempts to start the plane or the actual flying of the plane, as that was Lou Gordon (mechanic) and "Bill" Stultz's (pilot) job. On their fourth attempt, the "Friendship", the plane, took off and landed in Newfoundland where they stopped for thirteen days at Trepassey. Twenty hours and forty minutes later, the three found themselves in Burryport, Wales, completing their TransAtlantic flight. Although she did no actual piloting, Earhart tells that she did gain a lot of experience and "even dearer than such opportunities" (Amelia Earhart and George Palmer Putnam married in 1931). Following the "Friendship" flight, Earhart performed in a variety of flying exhibitions, but her aviation career began its climax in 1929 when the first women's derby took place. She along with various other female pilots seized this unprecedented opportunity and competed, but several plane complications ensued for most flyers.

It was not immediate that Earhart decided she wanted to cross the Atlantic, but once she told Putnam of her aspirations, he began setting it all up. After numerous hours of practicing with the newly purchased plane, Amelia Earhart had to wait for the weather to clear up for another lengthy period of time. Once she finally heard word that the sky over the Atlantic was "as good as [she is] likely to get it for sometime," she took five minutes to get ready and was off.

Earhart also puts into words that she carried a barograph, that at one point recorded a vertical drop of almost three thousand feet, yet she miraculously was able to regain control and successfully completed her flight.

Writing and publication
Earhart's book, was supposed to be called World Flight; however, because she did not make it all the way around the world, Putnam opted to call it Last Flight. The majority of the information came from her narrative of the flight as it she reported it by cable and telephone. She supplemented these narratives with notes and her log books, which she sent out by mail. Additionally, her own manuscript of World Flight was sent out to the publishers she promised it to, after she turned back from Honolulu. The other portion of the story that is not written by Earhart herself was from people who knew her, met her on her trips, or wrote about her. All of these pieces of her story were gathered and then compiled by Putnam.

References

1937 non-fiction books
Books by Amelia Earhart

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Remarks by President Obama and President Park of the Republic of Korea before Bilateral Meeting
4:21 P.M. KST
PRESIDENT OBAMA: I would like to thank President Park for welcoming me here today. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to come back to the Republic of Korea. But I am very mindful that my visit comes at a time of deep mourning for the people of this nation and I know that President Park and the South Korean government are focused on responding to the tragedy of the ferry Sewol.
In our press conference later, President Park and I will have the opportunity to address a range of issues that we'll be discussing here today. But for now, I just wanted to express on behalf of the American people our deepest sympathies for the incredible and tragic loss that's taken place. As allies but also as friends, we join you in mourning the lost and the missing, and especially so many young people, students who represented the vitality and the future of this nation.
So, President Park, I thought that it would be appropriate and fitting for us to begin today by honoring the lost and the missing. And our delegation, out of respect, would appreciate the opportunity to join together in a moment of silence.
(Moment of silence.)
PRESIDENT PARK: (As interpreted.) Mr. President, thank you so much for making this proposal to hold a moment of silence for the victims of the ferry Sewol. Right after the tragic accident, you personally expressed your condolences and your sympathies, and you were unsparing in providing active U.S. assistance, including the dispatch of salvage vessels. The Korean people draw great strength and courage from your kindness.
Just as the American people were able to rally together in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks and were able to prevail over difficult times, so, too, I am sure that Korean people will, in fact, pull through this moment of crisis and be able to achieve the renewal of the Republic of Korea.
Mr. President, my sincere welcome to you once again on your visit to Korea, and may our summit meeting today kick off the next 60 years and produce very meaningful results that allow us to do so.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, thank you, President Park. The Republic of Korea is one of our strongest allies in the world. I'm looking forward to our discussion and to reaffirming America's unshakeable commitment to South Korea and its security.
One last point I wanted to make -- I have with me this American flag that I believe our protocol people have. In the United States, we have a tradition -- after the loss of our servicemembers and veterans, we present a flag in their honor to their loved ones. This flag was flown over the White House the same day as the sinking of the Sewol. And in that spirit, I'm presenting this American flag to you and the people of the Republic of Korea on behalf of the American people. It reflects our deep condolences, but also our solidarity with you during this difficult time, and our great pride in calling you an ally and a friend.
PRESIDENT PARK: (As interpreted.) Mr. President, thank you so much again for sharing in our sorrow, the sorrow of the Korean people as well as the bereaved families, and for your gracious gesture.


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Q: Problem with calculating day difference between two dates Hello I have a problem with calculating difference between two dates using dayjs.
My code looks like this:
const isPeriodLongerThanNinetyDays = (timestamp) => {
    const dateOfFeedbackFormatted = dayjs(timestamp).format('DD/MM/YYYY');
    const actualDate = dayjs();
    const dateOfFeedback = dayjs(dateOfFeedbackFormatted);
    const dateDifference = actualDate.diff(dateOfFeedback, 'day')
    return dateDifference;
}

I'm missing out something because this method returns NaN everytime instead of number and I don't know why.

A: It looks like you tried to perform diff on a formatted date.
Just delete .format('DD/MM/YYYY')
If you need to format it - do it after diff
const isPeriodLongerThanNinetyDays = (timestamp) => {
    const dateOfFeedback = dayjs(timestamp);
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Another important piece of the puzzle is knowing fun places to take your pet. Let's face it, if you're going to take your dog to Flint, you don't want to leave him behind in the hotel room. What fun is that for either of you? That's why we also provide fun pet-friendly parks and beaches as well as pet-friendly cafes, bars, stores and shopping malls it they are available in the area. You can find these by browsing our list of pet-friendly places in Flint.
Pet Policy: Holiday Inn Flint is a pet friendly hotel. We allow small dogs under 60 pounds. A nonrefundable 25 dollar pet fee per pet, per night will be assessed for guests traveling with their pets. Limited space availability, must call hotel direct to reserve.
Pet Policy: Small pets under 40 lbs are welcomed. A one time fee of 25.00 is applied to the room charges. Pets may not be left unattended at any time during stay.
All pets are welcome and encouraged to sniff and investigate while their human tries to find the "purrfect" pair of running shoes. They will possibly be greeted by Milo the Bichon Frise (unless he's busy taking one of many power naps under the desk). Milo may invite your four-legger to run a mile or two with him on his in- store treadmill, but not before they are offered a bowl of water and a healthy biscuit. Please don't leave your pet in a hot car....bring them in!


Driving to work, listening to news radio, I heard a woman complain about negative advertising. Her life was too busy. She didn't like being interrupted by attack ads. Busy? I thought. How can she be busy watching television?
I haven't noticed the campaigns this season. I stopped watching TV long ago. And I've missed something. People learned to be busy watching television. I looked it up: most of us watch four and a half hours a day. At the same time, Americans are overwhelmed and depressed by how much they have to do. This doesn't seem possible. I suspect people only feel like they have a lot to do. Maybe, they're anxious because the few things they must do eat into those precious four and a half hours.
The election will be a popular show, too. Millions of us will spend more than four and a half hours, fascinated by pictures of numbers and maps of the United States. Did Joe win? Did Barbara lose? It makes no difference. We'll go back to busily watching TV and anxiously protecting our viewing time.
Few human beings make a difference. Watching TV, you're not one of them. You could be if you would. Stop watching and get busy. Things will begin to change. You will start to matter. Just like, stop apologizing and exercise. Things will begin to heal. You will start to grow. But you won't do it. I understand God loves you, even so.
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Worship is always absurd. We put complete faith in the preposterous. And always, the rules laid out by the prophets become the nonsense we're utterly devoted to. The deity is thoroughly obscured.
So today, otherwise right thinking people, from bottom to top, are convinced the world is controlled by money. This is great for the people who own the money. We've forgotten the invisible hand isn't just invisible. It's not real. There is no market force optimally allocating resources and demand. There are only academics confusing ideas with reality, and politicians promoting the holy doctrine which has crowded out all other thinking. Astonishingly, people now believe the path to prosperity is: paying debt.
After decades of smashing unions, selling lottery tickets, and moving their factories offshore, money owners have reduced private sector wages so far that government employees are said to be grossly overpaid. Private sector workers, envious and desperate, instead of demanding higher wages for themselves, are clamoring to bring the others down as well. The calf is bawling. The faithful sacrifice.
Barack Obama is a black man.
I haven't lived on the street for a long time. I lived on the street for a long time. I had it hard, for a white kid. I was hungry and mean. I was smart and ambitious. On the street, you know who's got a shot and who never has a chance. I had dreams, attitude, and abilities. If I'd been born black, with the same dreams, attitude, and abilities, I'd have been imprisoned or killed.
Look, we just had a rich white president who knew where he came from. A lot of us didn't like him before he arrived, and most didn't after he'd been around a while. But he had this trait that earned real respect: he did what he believed in and wanted to do. He did it despite conscience, country, and Constitution. He won the presidency and he shoveled the rewards to the people who helped him.
Most of America lives pretty close to the street. Barack Obama got elected because we all saw, wow, the United States can elect a black president. We wanted to be part of that. But the man's got to earn his own respect. He won the presidency. Then he did this for the people who helped him: he told them to pull up their pants.
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Perhaps politicians don't have strong opinions. I think mostly they don't. Some of them get pretty awkward trying to look like they have strong opinions. I think they just want to be the ones saying the things people agree with. So they get the big prize. Which is winning, I guess.
Too bad, because they might not know what they're talking about. When they win, they might just be managed by background guys who hire the speech writers. So then they might behave differently than promised, and maybe even do things they wouldn't otherwise believe in, if they had strong opinions.
I have scant background in economics. I haven't participated a lot in my country's intellectual culture. So like you I'm pretty sure I know what I'm talking about. Social prosperity in a market driven economy requires the bulk of profits to be distributed as increasing wages to an expanding middle class, which drives capital accumulation and reinvestment through purchases from a proliferating number of small businesses. Absent that, suffering just increases. And it's no mystery how to accomplish that. It makes me sad. When I was young, it seemed obvious that's what we'd all choose to do. Now, I don't believe I'll live to see it.
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When I was a child, I thought of an American native, hundreds of years ago, standing in the night sounds toward the moon, heart wide open, pleading with his Great Spirit to understand this big joy in his soul, and receiving the same life that Jesus offered to me.
The Bible says: when it looks like the end, run for the hills. I began wondering how that could possibly help, in the twenty-first century. Maybe a lot. After ten years, it's clear the government is waging its war for its own members, not for you and me. The enemy they're promoting by attacking various peoples isn't after us, it's after them. We're supposed to believe we'll get mowed down by terrorists on their way to Washington – so we'd better stand tough.
It's a new day. 'Standing tough' means never saying anything you'll be sorry for. But you don't know what that might be. You do know: saying things is a lot more fun than ever. You can write instant letters to new friends. You can write instant letters to old friends. You can share the moment. You can share the moment with old friends you haven't heard from in fifty years. You can spill your guts. This is fun.
This is also the property of somebody else as soon as you write it, and it's all directed through a massive government content filter looking for comments suggesting you're with the enemy. Or maybe that old friend is, and forgot to mention it to you.
We're told our national survival depends on being endlessly alert; the new war requires watching everyone – everyone – for clues of the attack before it comes. To experiment with this, try writing your old friend some satirical prose about being part of an imminent Al Qaeda strike on Houston. You see, freedom means safety from observation. It really does. Freedom means the absence of suspicion. It really does. Freedom means liberty. And yours is lost.
The president is bright, but not particularly creative. So he gathers his experts, hears them pontificate, then tries to pick his best way forward. He's fairly helpless when all the experts are wrong. So today he adds to his errors by joining the consensus on American education: it doesn't provide enough certificates.
This is an attractive idea: schools confer certificates on students who possess skills described by their certificates. A certificated graduate is promptly available for appropriate, certificate-level jobs, and the wheels of competitive commerce turn faster and faster.
But we know that people with certificates do not possess their represented skills. Just go hire somebody. American schools were once great because we built them to educate our children. All together. All classes in one classroom. Because education is about learning with each other. We didn't give a hoot about job preparation. Educated people create their own jobs. Now our schools exist to provide certificates. Our graduates are unprepared to work, and unable to think.
There's a governor's race in California and the Republican candidate is very rich. She's had a maid for nine years who turns out to have been in the country illegally. The candidate fired the maid after deciding to run for governor, but she didn't turn her in for deportation. The candidate does, however, support the deportation of illegal residents.
This reminds me of being laughed at by a rich friend of mine, years ago, for expressing concern for suffering people on the far side of the world. He just didn't believe I really could care. But you see, I was poor, and it meant he didn't care about me. It turns out, I guess, we only really care about people we know, individually, like the candidate's maid. When we're thinking about groups, we imagine we'd be best off if they simply didn't exist.
There's some pretty miraculous technology in the world today, and it's getting better fast. Any billionaire can hire a lab and some scientists to manufacture a chipmunk that's part tomato. Viruses are easy. We've got the techniques today to concoct easily transmissible, fatal human viruses, and to whip up their antidotes at the same time. Some billionaires are concerned how many people would need to be inoculated first, before a widespread release. After all, they want to preserve their fancy life styles afterward. So far, I guess, their loose affiliation has been dickering over the numbers. So far, no billionaire has gone ahead and just cleaned up the planet. But any billionaire can.
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You're actually just printing up money – trillions of dollars of it – and calling it 'quantitative easing.' People are buying this money by the ton, in current dollars, and spending it on government bonds, by the ton, at lower and lower interest rates. This while the dollar is losing value every day!
Get it? People know your dollars are worth less and less, but they keep asking for more and more. When it comes time to inflate out of this thing, you're going to be the smartest guy in the room.
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Two children found alone at home watching movie, police say
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MUNCIE, Ind. – Police investigate report that two boys aged 7 and 4 were left alone at home, said they found the young people watching "Home Alone" on television.
This 1990 film featured the adventures of an 8-year-old man, played by Macaulay Culkin, after he was accidentally left behind when his family took a Christmas break in Paris.
Investigators said the circumstances that led the Muncie boys to stay home alone on Tuesday did not result in an accident.
The boy's mother – 25-year-old Taylor Joann Cumings – reportedly left the child at home to watch her younger brother, who was in bad weather, when she went to work at the Youth Opportunity Center.
The police went to the family home around 12:45. after the shippers received an anonymous tip about the youth.
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"Home Alone" featured Culkin's efforts to ward off two potential burglars. Muncie's boys were also scared when adults came to their homes, although the visitors were police officers, not idiotic criminals.
When a policeman knocked on the door, the older child glanced through the blinds and exclaimed, "It's the police!
He then rushed to the phone and called his aunt. The reporting officers were outside and he was scared.
The aunt arrived quickly and persuaded the boys to open the front door. The agent introduced to the young toys that he had in his police car.
Later, Cumings arrived at the house. She said she was at work since 7 am and that after being unable to find a babysitter, she decided to "let (the biggest of the children) stay at home". school and watch out (his youngest brother) ".
The mother said: "She had already done it but she almost always stays with her children or has a babysitter," wrote an officer.
Cumings was arrested – out of sight of her children – on a negligent charge of a dependent. She stayed in Delaware County Jail on Wednesday with a $ 10,000 bond.
A child services department official said the boys could stay at home in the custody of their aunt.
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Man accused of Ramniklal Jogiya murder 'conspired to frame 4th suspect', jury hears
He was quizzed in court yesterday as part of the ongoing trial
One of the four men accused of murdering a Belgrave jeweller allegedly conspired with two of his co-defendants to frame the fourth suspect for the 74-year-old's death.
Callan Reeve is one of four people on trial for the muder of 74-year-old Ramniklal Jogiya. While giving evidence in court yesterday, he was accused of working with two of the other men to blame the death on Javon Roach.
Roach was left alone with the jeweller when the other defendants, Thomas Jervis and Charles Mcauley, were making their failed attempt to raid the abducted Mr Jogiya's Belgrave Road shop.
Reeve said Roach attacked the defenceless Mr Jogiya in the back of the van which was used to kidnap him on the evening of Wednesday, January 24, this year, the murder trial at Birmingham Crown Court heard yesterday.
He said Roach, who denies any involvement in Mr Jogiya's death, carried out the attack in anger after learning the raid had failed.
Mcauley made the same claim when giving evidence earlier in the trial.
Reeve told the court his role was to stay near the shop after the abduction and to keep a watch on it to ensure the coast was clear.
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He said Roach, Jervis, Mcauley and a fifth man he refused to name, were in the van in the first phase of their crime.
Leaving Mr Jogiya in the van with Roach and the fifth man, Reeve said Jervis and Mcauley switched to another stolen vehicle and drove together to Mr Jogiya's shop.
Jervis, now wearing a burka and pulling a shopping trolley, used the keys and security codes taken forcibly from Mr Jogiya to open the shop
and switch off the alarm.
However, he could not open the safe because it was time-locked and he left after less than two minutes, rejoined Mcauley and the pair fled the scene.
Roach's legal representative, John Ryder QC said to Reeve: "You accept you were involved in the kidnap and robbery. There's no issue about
that. The same is true of your friends, Mr Mcauley and Mr Jervis.
Mr Jogiya, 74, was last seen locking up the family's shop, Vama Collections, in Belgrave Road, Leicester about 7.45pm on Wednesday, January 24 (Image: Chris Gordon)
"What you say is Mr Roach did something none of you expected or intended."
Reeve said: "Mr Roach was the only person in the back of the van [with Mr Jogiya].
Mr Ryder replied: "You say Mr Roach was the last one in the van. You keep saying that. Are you just relating a story that's been cooked up between the three of you [Reeve, Mcauley and Jervis]?
Reeve said he and his co-defendants had not been able to confer because they had been arrested within days of Mr Jogiya's death.
Mr Ryder said: "Did you have a mobile phone in prison?'
Reeve said he had no idea how to obtain a phone in prison.
Mr Ryder asked him: "How did Mr Jogiya end up dead?"
Reeve denied playing any part in the violence or knowing about it in advance and replied: "If Mr Roach was alone with him then Mr Jogiya didn't just die on his own did he?"
Mr Ryder asked him why he did not mention Roach's alleged role in Mr Jogiya's death when he was taken into custody and questioned by Leicestershire Police.
Mr Ryder said: "Mr Roach had dropped you in it hadn't he? He killed a man you and the others had intended should not be harmed.
"He is not a friend of yours and he had done this terrible thing.
"Why did you not give [the police] at least a clue of this?
"Is it because there is no truth in it?"
Reeve said he was 'scared' during his police interviews and agreed he had not mentioned his allegation against Roach.
Mr Ryder said: "You were perfectly in control of yourself during those police interviews.
"You chose to lie and you chose to mention nothing at all about Mr Roach being the last man in the van because there is no truth in your suggestion that Mr Roach killed Mr Jogiya."
Reeve denied this.
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Thomas Jervis , 24, of Enderby Road, Whetstone, Callan Reeve, 20, of Biddle Road, New Parks, Leicester, and Charles Mcauley, 20, of Gooding Avenue, Braunstone, Leicester, have previously pleaded guilty to kidnapping and robbing Mr Jogiya but deny murder and manslaughter.
Javon Roach, 30, of Norwich Road, Beaumont Leys, Leicester, denies robbery, kidnap, murder and manslaughter.


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To counter the likes of Whatsapp and Hike Messenger, technology giant Google has launched its own version of a messaging app called Google Allo for the Android and iOS platforms. Said to be powered by artificial intelligence, Google has customized Allo for Indian users by enabling smart replies in Hinglish. It is also rolling out over 200 stickers relevant to Indian users that have been created by popular independent artists. "Sometimes a "Badhai Ho" or "Party to banti hai" say a lot more," said the company in a statement.
Allo has features such as smart reply, options for sharing photos, emojis and stickers. Google Allo will also introduce users to Google Assistant, in a preview edition. "Now users no longer need to leave a conversation with friends just to grab an address, or share a YouTube video, or pick a dinner spot. Chat with your Assistant one-on-one in Google Allo to answer questions, or type @google to bring the Assistant into your chats with friends, whenever you need it," said the statement.
Google also said that messages sent through Allo will be end-to end encrypted and users can also chat in Incognito mode which will have features like discreet notifications and message expiration.


Official Spice Girls T-shirts sold to raise money for Comic Relief's 'gender justice' campaign were made in a Bangladesh factory where women earn 35p an hour.
Money raised from the 'IWannaBeASpiceGirl 'T-shirts, which cost £19.40, will be used to help 'champion equality for women and girls here in the UK,' according to Comic Relief.
Dozens of celebrities have been spotted sporting the garments, including Jessie J, Holly Willoughby, Sam Smith and Jessica Ennis-Hill.
While both Willoughby and Ennis-Hill also uploaded pictures of themselves wearing the T-shirts to Instagram with the hashtag #iwannabeaspicegirl.
The Spice Girls themselves - now comprising Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Emma Bunton and Geri Halliwell - also posed in the T-shirts to launch the campaign.
The news comes as the Spice Girls announced they would no longer be singing and dancing under the banner of 'Girl Power' anymore.


For displaying "very bad judgment" in concealing $110,000 of stolen cash, a duo could not escape jail time.
Kenetta James, a mother of Chateaubelair, and Mark Williams, of New Montrose, were sentenced on March 8 by Justice Brian Cottle, after being convicted by a jury in January this year for the offence of handling stolen goods.
James and Williams follow in the footsteps of Junior James, Kenneta's brother, who pleaded guilty to the June 21, 2013, burglary of the Georgetown branch of the Government Employees Cooperative Credit Union (GECCU), during which $110,000 was stolen from a safe.
Junior James was sentenced to seven years imprisonment, minus the three years and some months that he had already been incarcerated.
The facts accepted by the court show that Williams and Kenetta James both hid the money for Junior James.
Williams had first met Junior drinking at a shop and he apparently told Williams that they "eat a food" in Georgetown.
Williams became involved in this matter when he visited Junior James in custody after Junior had been arrested for the offence. It was said that Junior then whispered to him to collect the money from a "Tantie Mary".
This woman gave him a bag of money, which was dirty and appeared to have been buried. He took the bag home, took out $1100, and then hid the bag in his backyard.
This money was used to secure a lawyer for Junior James, some money was given to Junior's girlfriend, and some Williams kept for himself.
After receiving further instructions, Williams was to hand over the bag of money to Kenneta.
Kenneta took the money back to her home in Chateaubeliar and buried it in the hillside.
The police came to her home to execute a search warrant but nothing was found at first. However, Kenneta ended up giving them the bag.
The maximum penalty for the offence of handling stolen goods was noted as being 10 years imprisonment, but the Justice decided to adopt a starting point of four years.
Both individuals were thought to be candidates for rehabilitation, James by the prison authorities who have been observing her behaviour since her incarceration, and Williams' neighbours.
James had no criminal record before she decided to assist her brother, but Williams had some serious offences to his name. When he was 10 years old, and also when he was 16 he was convicted for burglary. However, the general consensus is that he turned his life around after the second burglary and he is now described as a quiet and hardworking individual. The Justice decided that he was considered these offences to be dated, committed when Williams was much younger. He did not count them as an aggravating factor.
For Kenneta, she assisted the police, and her personal circumstances are that she is the mother of one daughter.
The judge described Williams as having a "troubled childhood" and noted that he dropped out of secondary school in the fourth form.
He decided to move downwards from his starting point of four years, to a final sentence of two years.
However, the duo had both already spent some time in jail with regard to the offence. Therefore, Williams has a remaining sentence of nine months and 15 days, while James will be incarcerated for a further one year, five months and 15 days from March 8.
The case was prosecuted by crown counsel Karim Nelson. The two defendants were unrepresented.


the Montagues and Capulets (residents depression is getting worse of Verona, a city in northern Italy about sixty-five miles west of Venice and the Adriatic coast) and. Consequently, the Capulets were jealous of the Montagues, and vice versa. Worms' meat means that Mercutio knows he is about to die and that worms will feed on his flesh after he is buried. The acting company bought the prompt copy, gaining sole possession of it, after paying the writer. It is also possible that they weakened manuscripts.
So deep is the enmity between the two families that the friends of the Montagues and the friends of the Capulets are also enemies. Ever ready to fight the Montagues at the slightest provocation, he personifies the hatred generated by feuding families.
Compare the love that Romeo feels for Juliet to the love that he felt for Rosaline.
One of the many types of Shakespearian plays is a tragedy in which the ending is usually tragic.
The tale of Romeo and Juliet is no different, with a multitude of deaths and a forbidden love that is seen as one of the strongest love connections in history.
Type of Work Romeo and Juliet is a stage tragedy written between 15The play centers on a teenage boy and girl who fall in love and marry against the wishes of their parents.
Romeo, in turn, kills Tybalt. She is referring to Tybalt, her good friend; Juliet thinks she is speaking of Romeo and wonders whether he has killed himself. The fighting has attracted citizens of Verona, including the prince; he banishes Romeo. Lord Montague arrives alone, my favorite literary character essay telling the prince that his wife died during the night of grief brought on by Romeos exile. Romeo and Juliet is a stage tragedy written between 15The play centers on a teenage boy and girl who fall in love and marry against the wishes of their parents. There is nothing of a sickly and sentimental cast.


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More tributes paid to soldier and dad Ross Standing as extra pictures are released
The father-of-three, who was originally from Cheltenham, died in a road traffic collision in Oxfordshire
Robin JenkinsChief Cheltenham Reporter
Ross Standing, with his wife Yasmin (Image: Copyright unkown)
Further tributes have been paid to a father-of-three and soldier who died in a road traffic collision.
Ross Standing died when the car he was driving was involved in a collision with an HGV on the A420, between Faringdon and Littleworth in Oxfordshire, on Sunday.
The British Army soldier was 27 and lived in Faringdon but was from Cheltenham and was a former Bournside School pupil.
Ross Standing, who died in a road traffic collision (Image: Copyright unkown)
Ross was the co-founder of a family-run fashion brand called International Ballers Apparel.
It said, on its Facebook page: "This is devastating to our family and business. It goes without saying that things will never be the same without him. Thank you, we all love you and we miss you terribly. Rest in peace ❤❤❤."
A loving father: Tribute to dad-of-three Ross Standing from Cheltenham who died in car crash
He also played football for RAF Brize Norton FC.
It tweeted that it had lost "one of its own".
An online fundraising appeal has been set up by Lucy Brown.
It has raised nearly £2,500 towards a target of £20,000.
Lucy explained why she had started the appeal, which can be accessed here.
Another picture of Ross (Image: Copyright unkown)
She said: "On Sunday July 14, 2019, a tragic and fatal accident took place on the A420. Ross Standing, an amazing father of three beautiful children and devoted husband to Yasmin, was taken from his family at the young age of 27 years old.
"I thought that this Go Fund Me page could go some way to showing our support. "Whether to help with funeral costs, on-going financial help or just to show we care, I hope this will be one practical way we can pour all of our disbelief and sadness into something to support them through this terrible time."
More thoughts for the family came in comments on our Facebook page to our first story about the tragedy.
Maggie Ireland said: "R.I.P Ross x God Bless all your family at this very sad time xx Lots of love and hugs being sent to your mum at this extremely difficult time xxx."
And Tina Hale said: "R.I.P Ross, thinking of your beautiful wife, children and the family at this awful time. Let's hope and pray they find the strength to stay strong and remember the good time you all had together xx
Thames Valley Police have asked the public to help with their investigation into the collision.
Investigating officer PC Mark Dunne said: "We are appealing for witnesses to this tragic incident.
"Our thoughts are with the family at this sad and difficult time.
"I would also ask motorists who were in the area around the time of the collision to check their dash-cam footage in case it may have captured anything that could assist us with the investigation.
"Anyone with information can call police on 101, quoting reference 43190214007, or make a report online.
"Alternatively you can contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111."
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Bankruptcy Mulled to Stop Historic Pennsylvania Amusement Park Sale
Published August 8, 2014 • Updated on August 8, 2014 at 12:05 pm
County officials have authorized a sheriff's sale of a historic 122-year-old amusement park in northwestern Pennsylvania, but park trustees may file for bankruptcy to hold off the sale.
The Erie-Times News reports that commissioners in Crawford County voted Friday to authorize the sale of Conneaut Lake Park.
But Mark Turner, executive director of the Economic Progress Alliance of Crawford County, says park trustees will consider filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to stop the sale and freeze assets. He said the redevelopment agency could then proceed with plans to revitalize and expand the park.
Officials say the park owes more than $910,000 in back taxes. State officials say insurance was inadequate when fires burned the park's Dreamland Ballroom in 2008 and its Beach Club a year ago.
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Superbalist.com asked me to go online an pick my favourite summer dresses. Now if you know my style, I keep it simple and comfy but always chic. Lately I have been trying to incorporate a sporty edge to some of my looks, hence the occasional sneaker appearances on my outfit posts.
I have listed my favourites below, if you would like to take a look at one of my picks I have added links below. I have picked a formal piece, some casual and a few in betweeners that you will be able to transition from day to night. Keeping in mind that the December holidays are around the corner, these dresses will be perfect for any holiday! To take a look at the full dress range, click here.
Also, Superbalist.com has recently launched their very own blog type space where they share latest trends, lookbooks, Monday Mixtapes features, up and coming events, trendy musicians and basically all things trendy at the moment. If you are looking for some fresh content pieces to take your mind off your day or studying then go take a look at "The Way Of Us". Their most recent post is about two blogger besties and their style. Go take a look, you won't regret it.
I have ordered something off the website, I cannot wait until I receive it so that I can share it with you. Keep a look out via my social platforms – links to these on the side bar of my blog!
I would love to know what some of your recommendations are and if you have shopped on Superbalist.com, what was your experience?
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Help Us Win the Tough Fights for Animals
By	Wayne Pacelle	on	December 29, 2011	with	0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
The HSUS works to provide hands-on care to tens of thousands of animals a year. But our greatest charge is to prevent cruelty, so that animals are not harmed in the first place and so that we can improve the lives of billions of animals at risk. And we do that by tackling large-scale, institutionalized cruelty such as seal killing, extreme confinement on factory farms, captive hunting, and puppy mills.
My old boss, Cleveland Amory, liked to say that you can tell a lot about someone by his friends, but also by his enemies. That's definitely true of The HSUS. There are millions of self-sacrificing people who support our animal welfare work. But we've also got a good, long list of companies and individuals who profit from animal abuse and who sometimes tell it like it is. They all strike a similar tone, and here's just what some of our traditional adversaries in the agribusiness sector have to say about the organization they dread most.
"Of all the animal organizations, HSUS has the money and the political savvy to be problematic for my clients going forward," said Michael Boccadoro, a poultry industry lobbyist. "They are on another level. We are aware of it and are watching in terms of their actions." – The Associated Press, Nov. 13, 2011
"HSUS is by far the most powerful animal rights organization in the country…" – Summary of comments by Animal Agriculture Alliance, an agribusiness lobbying group, in Capital Press, Nov. 23, 2011
"HSUS is clearly the nine-million-pound gorilla. They are powerful, sophisticated and rich and they are good at what they do. They are good at building the agenda, good at framing issues, they know how to talk about issues, which is why they are effective." – Wes Jamison, communications and public relations professor, Meatingplace, Jan. 8, 2010
"'The Humane Society of the United States is one of the largest, richest and most powerful organizations in the country,' Michigan state Rep. Brian Calley (R-Portland) said. 'They can shove a ballot initiative down your throat like they did in California.'" [Referring to Prop 2, California's widely supported ballot initiative to phase out cramped cages and crates for farm animals] - Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Sept. 18, 2009
"The big problem today is the Humane Society [of the United States]." – Rick Berman, frontman for agribusiness and other industry groups, in September 2009 Meatingplace magazine
"Fifteen years ago we were confronted by about 150 animal rights organizations, subject to infighting and competition. Today, the movement is defined by the Humane Society of the U.S. and its president, Wayne Pacelle." – Steve Kopperud, agribusiness lobbyist, Cattle Network, Nov. 7, 2008
More than anything, animals need a powerful force that can stand up and tackle the biggest problems that affect them in society. When you support The HSUS, you enhance our strength and provide a greater measure of hope that the circumstances for animals can change for the better. I hope you will consider making a generous year-end gift supporting our programs to improve the lives of all animals, no matter what powerful and entrenched interests try to stand in the way of common-sense reforms.
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How tall is a police box?
They stand 10 feet in height with a chrome finish and act as 24-hour information points, with three screens providing information on crime prevention, police force recruitment and tourist information.
Is it possible to make the TARDIS?
What are police boxes made of?
How many police boxes are left?
Is the TARDIS still a police box?
Can a TARDIS exist?
Who invented TARDIS?
Is Doctor Who actually real?
Is TARDIS possible?
Is TARDIS real?
Is a police box copyrighted?
How do you make a police call box sign?
How do I get a police logo?
"It's still not big enough to hold swimming pools and a costume shop," Macdonald notes. There's probably no way that people could ever build something like the TARDIS. "But that's part of the fun" of putting science into science fiction, Macdonald says.
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Are police boxes copyrighted?
The BBC actually owns the copyright to the design of the police box used as the design for the TARDIS. It was bought from the Metropolitan Police. Besides using the term "copyright" when they mean "trademark" (a common mistake and not one worth making a fuss about), the first part of the trivia is correct.
Is the Tardis 4th dimensional?
The official explanation, they note, that the alien Doctor gives to puzzled companions is that the TARDIS is "dimensionally transcendental." That means that the inside and the outside of the ship exist in separate dimensions. A dimension is just "a direction you can measure in," Eldridge explains.
Police Boxes Around Today – Real and Replicas Whilst sadly the vast majority of real police boxes have all now vanished, there are at least eight real Police Boxes still around, of which most are the Glasgow type with three panels.
The Doctor's rather unreliable type 40 TARDIS appears as a Police Box – but only because the chameleon circuit that allows the TARDIS to appear in any form got jammed on earth in 1963. Police boxes used to be everywhere – they contained emergency telephones for 'Bobbies' to use before the Police got walkie-talkies.
Doctor Who's time-traveling TARDIS could theoretically exist, says new study. Good news, Doctor Who fans! A pair of physicists have proposed a spacetime geometry where Doctor Who's TARDIS would actually be capable of traveling both forward and backward through space and time.
What were police boxes made of?
Is a TARDIS possible?
In order for a TARDIS to function, it needs to exist in a universe where the construction of closed timelike curves (CTCs) is possible. A closed timelike curve is defined by instances where the time dimension curves back on itself creating a closed loop.
Peter Brachacki
One of the designers for the first episode, Peter Brachacki, created the first Tardis.
The BBC's long-running time-traveling sci-fi series "Doctor Who" may seem like fiction (OK, it is fiction), but many of its stories come from very real scientific theory.
Doctor Who fans can rejoice! According to a paper published by a pair of Whovian physicists, the geometry of spacetime that the TARDIS maneuvers in might exist in our own universe, allowing for travel in all directions through space and time.
Is the Tardis sound copyrighted?
The term "TARDIS" is trademarked by the BBC. The Daleks are trademarked by the estate of Terry Nation.
Do Time Lords exist?
In fact, given the sheer scale of the universe — how big it is, how long the universe will exist for before it dies, land the number of habitable planets — it's fairly likely that Time Lords actually already exist. Or will exist in the future.
The Tardis actually is kind of real A time machine – much less a police-box-shaped time machine named Time And Relative Dimension In Space – seems too crazy to be believed.
You will need a 'police call box' sign. Having a sign-writer do this for you is as good a way as any of getting it done, unless you are able to do it yourself. On a piece of acrylic sheet approximately 3 or 4 mm (1/8″ to 3/16″) thick have the sign prepared.
What can you do with an old police box?
It is big and strong enough to be used as a garden shed to store garden tools etc., and it can be transformed into a cattery, a pool side changing shed, or any other type of quirky rendition that could be limited only by your imagination. This is a full-size version very similar to the police box outside Earl's Court tube station in London.
What's inside a police box?
In addition to a telephone, they contained equipment such as an incident book, a fire extinguisher and a first aid kit. The Metropolitan Police boxes, designed by Gilbert Mackenzie Trench in 1929, became Britain's most recognisable police boxes. Between 1929 and 1938 around 1,000 examples of the Mackenzie Trench police box were installed.
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Q: Automatic "fancy" comment insertion with Vim I like to have comments like this in my C code:
/********************************************************
 * Blah
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But I get tired of typing all those asterisks, and copy/pasting can also get annoying. I was wondering if I could possibly create a macro with Vim so that if I press (for example) CTRL+L, it'll automatically insert that structure in my code and align the cursor in the middle (where the actual comment is written).
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

A: If you are planning to go on snipmate (which IMHO is a good choice!), you should consider using the version maintained by Garbas on github (pay attention to the required plugins in the readme file).
The version from msanders is no longer maintained.
Since I am new  I can't add a comment to the answer above... Sorry

A: Take a look at snipmate, a vim plugin for TextMate-like snippets.

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*https://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate

*1min screencast: http://vimeo.com/3535418

snipMate.vim implements some of TextMate's snippets features in Vim. A
  snippet is a piece of often-typed text that you can insert into your
  document using a trigger word followed by a <tab>.

A: You can use cvim, and edit ~/.vim/c-support/templates/c.comments.template to your liking.

A: Heh, just today I was beefing up my own support for this (as these headers are mandated by company coding standard).
iabbrev //== // (96 equal characters)<Enter>//<Enter>// (96 equal characters)<C-O>k
iabbrev //-- // (96 dashes)<Enter>//<Enter>// (96 dashes)<C-O>k

These allow me to type //== and when I press space the whole thing is entered and I'm left with the cursor "in the middle" where I want it.
So- for the OP, if you want to use Ctrl-L, do something like this:
inoremap <C-L> /*****<Enter> * <Enter>*****<C-O>k

(I like abbreviations myself, though...)
Since there are other points in our coding standard where we need to extend dashes and equals out to column 100, I whipped this up today:
iabbrev <expr> === InsertTo99Width('===')
iabbrev <expr> --- InsertTo99Width('---')

function! InsertTo99Width(insertion)
    let l:line = getline('.')
    let l:linelen = strlen(l:line)
    let l:col = col('.')
    let l:numchars = (99 - col)

    let l:inserted = a:insertion
    if (l:linelen <= l:col) && (l:numchars > 0)
        let l:numchars += len(l:inserted)
        while len(l:inserted) < l:numchars
            let l:inserted = l:inserted . l:inserted
        endwhile
        return l:inserted[0 : l:numchars]
    else
        return l:inserted
    endif
endfunction

(I'm sort of a vim scripting newb so there may be an easier way to make a string of N characters long, but this allows arbitrary strings of arbitrary length to be repeated so if you like dash-space-equal-space or something, it'll still look "nice".)
Anyway finally- you can use <expr> in the inoremap too if you want, so you can make your asterisks go to a set width based on the output of a function.  There's a lot of power in there, but it may take some fiddling to get it just the way you want...


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The purpose of this study is to show the effects of dental occlusion on postural position. Thirty subjects were divided into two groups: an experimental group who wore mandibular orthopedic repositioning appliances (MORA) and a control group who wore no oral device. All of the subjects underwent the same Fukuda-Unterberger experimental stepping test to check their postural attitude. Any deviation of the subject during the test from his initial position was analyzed. The results seemed to confirm that altering dental occlusion by wearing an oral appliance could induce some fluctuations in dynamic postural attitude. The phenomenon occurs after prolonged wearing of a MORA. Feedback effects are gradual after removing the mandibular splint.


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Alexander Nikolajewitsch Tkatschow (; * 23. Dezember 1960 in Wysselki, Region Krasnodar) ist ein russischer Politiker der Partei Einiges Russland.

Leben
Tkatschow studierte Ingenieurswesen am Krasnodar Polytechnik Institut. 1994 wurde er als Abgeordneter in die Duma gewählt und 1999 als Abgeordneter wiedergewählt. Vom 3. Dezember 2000 bis 22. April 2015 war er als Nachfolger von Nikolai Kondratenko Gouverneur der Region Krasnodar. Ihm folgte im Amt als Gouverneur Weniamin Kondratjew.

Seit 22. April 2015 war Tkatschow als Nachfolger von Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Fjodorow im Regierungskabinett von Dmitri Anatoljewitsch Medwedew Landwirtschaftsminister der Russischen Föderation. Im zweiten Kabinett Medwedews folgte ihm im Mai 2018 Dmitri Patruschew nach. Er ist mit Olga Tkatschowa verheiratet und hat zwei Kinder.

Kritik
Der Umweltaktivist Jewgeni Witischko, der zu drei Jahren Lagerhaft verurteilt wurde, prangerte Umweltschäden durch die Baumaßnahmen für die Olympischen Winterspiele 2014 an und soll an der Villa des Gouverneurs der Olympia-Region Krasnodar, Alexander Tkatschow, Protestplakate angebracht haben, weil das Gebäude ohne rechtliche Grundlage gebaut worden sein soll.

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Landwirtschaftsminister (Russische Föderation)
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Person auf der EU-Sanktionsliste infolge des Konflikts in der Ukraine
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Duma-Abgeordneter (Russische Föderation)
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Problems with trial by jury in Russia
12:51 11/09/2012 A bill which aims to reduce the power and scope of juries has failed to receive adequate government support, according to the official conclusions on the draft law published on the State Duma website. The argument draws attention to the fact that trial by jury is the most effective way of ensuring the adversarial principle is adhered to in our justice system.
Louboutin v. YSL: in the battle for the red-lacquered sole, everyone wins
10:25 08/09/2012 Louboutin's telltale red lacquered soles are entitled to trademark protection, so long as that protection extends only to contrasting red soles, and not to monochromatic designs. In so deciding, a panel of US federal judges for the Manhattan-based Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed in part a lower court decision which had centered on the theory that within the fashion industry a single color can never serve as a trademark.
Drone strikes: the legal controversy
09:58 28/08/2012 In the aftermath of several drone strikes carried out earlier this month in Pakistan's North Waziristan, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) spokesperson reiterated Friday Pakistan's view that such attacks lack legal legitimacy.
Mass killer Anders Breivik sentencing - live text coverage
11:30 24/08/2012 RAPSI hosted a live text coverage of the verdict handed down Friday against confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik. The 33-year-old Norwegian has admitted to having killed 77 people by way of twin attacks carried out in Oslo and on nearby Utoya Island on July 22, 2011.
Profile: Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik case
15:00 23/08/2012 While Anders Behring Breivik has confessed to having killed eight people in an Oslo bombing, and having gunned down another 69 at a nearby youth summer camp in 2011, he has refrained from admitting guilt for the crimes that he has been charged with in this connection.
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(CHATSWORTH, CA) -- From everyone at Cherry Boxxx and Baby Doll Pictures, to all our friends from each and every local, national, international, print, TV, radio, and the numerous internet media outlets, thank you for each and every one of the over 75 interviews Conducted over the course of 4 days at our booth.
Thank you for your time and patience. We look forward to a Spectacular year after such an amazing kick off to 2004.
For those of you we had to reschedule, thank you for understanding, we'll see you soon.


Selene Nelson: inappropriate behaviour for a freelance writer?
William Sitwell's "joke" was obsviously wrong. But was Selene Nelson's response unprofessional too? Should disclosure of commercial emails be the norm?
The joke William Sitwell made about Selene Nelson's vegan recipe pitch was clearly inappropriate. Whether he deserved to be forced to resign for causing upset is open for debate and one that will no doubt rumble on. For the time being at least his conduct will be the focus of discussions.
My attention has turned to Nelson's actions. Clearly upset, they decided to publish the initial query and the response that came back their way. That it was done so brazenly is, in my view, as unprofessional as Sitwell's conduct.
This was not an exchange between private individuals. Nelson was acting in a professional capacity as a freelance writer. The reply was from someone acting in their capacity as editor for Waitrose Magazine.
For a business to publish a commercial email in this way is wholly unacceptable. Aside from breaking commercial confidence, questions must be asked about whether privacy laws have been violated.
The business may also suffer longer term harm. Anyone speaking to them in future must surely be wondering whether discussions will remain private. Could a perceived misstep or slight be exposed to public scrutiny again? Might a source decline to step forward for fear their emails could be shared?
I'm sure Nelson will secure further work for their business from this debacle, if only for a short time. The industry doesn't forget though. Just as I occasionally hit hurdles because of my name (wrong Ross Hall!), I'm sure there will be times when they encounter an editor who remembers the time Sitwell fell and decides past conduct is not worth future risk.
As freelancers it is easy to blur the lines between private and business communication. The distinction is important though, and we must remember that when we act hastily to satisfy a short-term need we expose our business to longer term reputational harm.


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Q: How does the buoyant force on an object change as its being lowered into water? Buoyancy
I for one cannot find any answer to my question and myself am quite confused.Google isn't very much help for the question I have.I researched "how does it change as it being submerged into water"still I had no answer after I had searched it.

A: Archimedes' principle states that the magnitude of the buoyancy force is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced, so as more of the object is submerged, the buoyancy force increases.

A: The buoyancy force is the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. Mathematically, $$B=\rho g V_\mathrm{submerged}$$
The buoyancy force depends only on the volume submerged in the water. If the object is fully submerged in water then the buoyancy force won't change until some part of the object is lifted out of the water.


MAKING TRACKS: Jessie Hillel, 11, runner-up on New Zealand's Got Talent is releasing her first album. See the video at the bottom, her rendition of Ave Maria.
Jessie's mother is from Kaloor, Kochi and her Father is from Kottayam, Kerala.
The 11-year-old songstress who captured the country's attention last year on New Zealand's Got Talent is set to release her first album.
Competition runner-up Jessie Hillel can't wait to hear the final cut of the album With Love, recorded in Auckland, which will hit the shelves on April 26.
"It'll be really fun to walk into a store and see yourself on the album," said Jessie, who lives in Churton Park, Wellington.
The CD is a collection of classical music and popular opera tunes, including Ave Maria - which she sang on the TV show - and Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, from Phantom of the Opera.
She said she did not have a favourite track, but Orinoco Flow was the most fun to produce. She sang in the studio with the Marina View School choir from Auckland. "It was really cool to hear it come together piece by piece."
Jessie's success on New Zealand's Got Talent has opened up several other opportunities for the year 7 Otari School pupil, who has been singing since she was 3.
She was invited to represent New Zealand at last year's International Children's Concert, which screened on television in China on New Year's Eve.
Albums and international concerts - on top of school, singing lessons, and learning the guitar - might seem enough to keep her busy, but Jessie is also getting involved with the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
However, her first priority was still the same as always: "Work hard, practise heaps and continue singing. Never give up."


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Greenwich moves access to rec facilities to a single card
Trumbull officials move to quell mall incidents after arrests
Trumbull town council approves $40,000 for pension study
Last legal hurdle cleared for Trumbull senior housing projec
Trumbull school budget talk ends on sobering note
Trumbull superintendent unveils 'lean' 2023-24 budget proposal
A month after Trumbull EMS chief departure, no replacement yet
Trumbull property transfers, Dec. 31 to Jan. 6
Trumbull light display raises $4,600 for social services
Trumbull officials seek public's feedback on town's schools
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Footage of the attack on former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband will be released to the public after a judge on Wednesday denied prosecutors' request to keep it secret.
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Stephen M. Murphy ruled there was no reason to keep the footage secret, especially after prosecutors played it in open court during a preliminary hearing last month, according to Thomas R. Burke, a San Francisco-based lawyer who represented The Associated Press and a host of other news agencies in their attempt to access the evidence.
The San Francisco District Attorney's Office handed over the evidence to Murphy on Wednesday following a court hearing. Murphy asked the court clerk's office to distribute it to the media, which could happen as soon as Thursday.
Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's husband, was asleep at the couple's San Francisco home on Oct. 28 when someone broke in and beat him with a hammer. Prosecutors have charged 42-year-old David DePape in connection with the attack.
During a preliminary hearing last month, prosecutors played portions of Paul Pelosi's 911 call plus footage from Capitol police surveillance cameras, body cameras worn by the two police officers who arrived at the house, and video from DePape's interview with police.
But when news organizations asked for copies of that evidence, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office refused to release it. The attack, which occurred just days before the 2022 midterm elections, prompted intense speculation from the public that fueled the spread of false information.
The district attorney's office argued releasing the footage publicly would only allow people to manipulate it in their quest to spread false information.
But the news agencies argued it was vital for prosecutors to publicly share their evidence that could debunk any false information swirling on the internet about the attack.
"You don't eliminate the public right of access just because of concerns about conspiracy theories," Burke said.
The San Francisco District Attorney's Office did not respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking comment.
The news agencies who sought the release of the footage includes The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Press Democrat, CNN, Fox News, CBS, ABC, NBC and KQED, an NPR-member radio station in San Francisco.
DePape pleaded not guilty last month to six charges, including attempted murder. Police have said DePape told them there was "evil in Washington" and he wanted to harm Nancy Pelosi because she was second in line to the presidency. His case is pending.
Democrats lost their majority in the House of Representatives after the midterm elections. Republicans elected California Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy as the new speaker. Pelosi will remain in Congress, but she stepped down as Democratic leader. She was replaced by Hakeem Jeffries from New York.
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Ted Talks are today's gold standard in public speaking. Here's what your marketing team can learn from their example.
Increasingly, companies are relying on their employees to act as thought leaders. Whether you're getting original ideas out there, showcasing work your company has done, or pitching new customers, public speaking is an important part of modern business life. Great public speaking has been redefined thanks to the popularity of Ted Talks. Luckily, studying these online masterpieces covering topics from science to economics can give you strong insights into how to deliver a message with punch and command a stage. Here are key lessons to learn from this important platform.
Laser-focus on a topic: Ted Talks have a single, organizing theme. It's often very specific and much narrower than many talks have traditionally been. As a result, speakers go deeper into a subject than usual. It's not about going broad and hitting all the points; a strong talk takes listeners to the heart of an issue and showcases your mastery at multiple nuanced levels.
Harness the power of story: Many Ted Talks begin with a story that helps draw people in. Stories also make speakers relatable, which is important because there can feel like there's a power disparity between many speakers and the audience. In addition, sprinkling your presentation with stories helps bring more life and energy to the information you're offering.
Hook them with a benefit: In addition to starting with a strong story, the best Ted Talks present a clear benefit. They'll make you smarter, stronger, or simply give you a funny anecdote to share on your next coffee date. Whatever the key, be clear about what benefits people who listen to your presentation will get and work that into your introduction. People are hungry for both self-improvement and a better world; show them how you can help.
Create a wow moment, or offer new information: To be selected for a Ted Talk, a guest has to bring something unique and interesting to the table. It's either a moment that wows, new information and insights, or an integration and perspective audiences haven't heard. While every presentation may struggle to deliver the same level of impact, aim high. Marketers who manage to achieve even a degree of this will capture their audience and create an unforgettable experience.
Keep it short: Attention spans are shorter than ever. Even if you're deeply compelling, Ted Talk best practices suggest that under 20 minutes is the optimum time frame for impact. Don't try to deliver a talk that's hours long. Find a way to say what you need to in 30 minutes or less. If you have the platform for more, open up the floor for discussion and have an interactive Q&A with your audience.
Being a compelling speaker is a skill today's marketers must develop. Not only is it good for your brand and company's marketing efforts but also it will be a long-term asset in developing your career.