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EXHORDER To Perform Entire 'Slaughter In The Vatican' Album On Fall 2021 U.S. Tour
New Orleans thrash icons EXHORDER will return to the road later this month on a U.S. headlining tour. The journey runs from November 24 through December 19 and will see the band performing its classic 1990 debut, "Slaughter In The Vatican", in its entirety.
Comments vocalist Kyle Thomas: "It seems kind of crazy that EXHORDER is finally doing a proper U.S. tour for 'Slaughter In The Vatican' in 2021, thirty-one years after its release. The opportunities and possibilities didn't line up for us back in the day, so we've decided to take this show on the road and give everyone a proper tribute to this landmark album. As a band, we are truly grateful and honored to be able to do this, and for me, it's simply amazing. Almost like watching one of your children grow up and succeed in life! Without overstating the obvious too much, it's going to be immeasurably exciting to once again take the show on the road after more than a year and a half on hold due to the pandemic. May we all find good health in the upcoming months to make the shows on this tour as exciting to witness as it is for us to perform them! We look forward to rolling with our support acts TAKE OFFENSE, EXTINCTION A.D. and PLAGUE YEARS as well. See you all soon. Can't wait!"
EXHORDER tour dates with TAKE OFFENSE, EXTINCTION A.D., PLAGUE YEARS:
Nov. 24 - Saint Vitus Bar - Brooklyn, NY
Nov. 26 - The Middle East - Cambridge, MA
Nov. 27 - Cafe 611 - Frederick, MD
Nov. 28 - Craft House - Pittsburgh, PA
Nov. 29 - Reggies - Chicago, IL
Nov. 30 - Emerson Theatre - Indianapolis, IN
Dec. 02 - Southport Music Hall - New Orleans, LA
Dec. 03 - Warehouse Live - Houston, TX
Dec. 04 - The Rail Club - Ft. Worth, TX
Dec. 05 - Come And Take It Live - Austin, TX
Dec. 06 - Rock House Bar - El Paso, TX
Dec. 07 - Nile Theater - Mesa, AZ
Dec. 08 - 1720 - Los Angeles, CA
Dec. 09 - Brick By Brick - San Diego, CA
Dec. 10 - 1933 - Bakersfield, CA
Dec. 11 - Dive Bar - Las Vegas, NV
Dec. 12 - The Phoenix Theater - Petaluma, CA
Dec. 14 - Bossanova Ballroom - Portland, OR
Dec. 15 - El Corazon - Seattle, WA
Dec. 16 - The Shredder - Boise, ID
Dec. 17 - The Complex - Salt Lake City, UT
Dec. 18 - Moxi Theater - Greeley, CO
Dec. 19 - Marquis Theater - Denver, CO
Formed in 1986, EXHORDER's thirty-five-year long (and counting) journey has proven exciting, yet tumultuous, fraught with euphoric peaks and crippling valleys throughout its existence. The band recorded their controversial classic demo, "Slaughter In The Vatican", in 1987 and from there, the international attention the band drew via the world of underground tape trading was indisputable. As fate would have it however, the band broke up for the first time in early 1988 due to internal struggles. A reformation ensued later that year and EXHORDER set out once again to pursue its vision.
The band soon signed with Mean Machine Records but the label dissolved before the band's debut could be completed. The contract was subsequently purchased by R/C Records, a subsidiary of Roadracer/Roadrunner Records in the United States. With a small recording budget and repair to previous sessions, "Slaughter In The Vatican" was completed and released with the assistance of legendary producer Scott Burns in 1990, nearly five years after much of the material was written.
Following a series of lineup shifts, a second full-length, and multiple hiatuses, the band finally relaunched itself in 2017. Legends grow over time, and new generations emerge to keep them alive. With the demand of EXHORDER at an all-time high, the band set out once again to finish the job they had not yet completed. The band played a series of club shows and festivals to immense interest. A deal with the Nuclear Blast label was quickly inked and in 2019 the band released "Mourn The Southern Skies". Rave reviews from critics and fans saw the band's popularity increase yet again, and the band set out on the road to packed venues and large festivals.
In March of 2020, a direct support tour slot in front of OVERKILL allowed the band to showcase themselves at the level they had always strived to reach. Live reviews of the tour and audience reaction proved that the hunger for this band by the public continues to grow.
"Slaughter In The Vatican", which was recently inducted into Decibel magazine's coveted Hall Of Fame series and re-released on vinyl, remains a crucial release in the annals of metal. Decibel hailed the band's "precision groove and whip-smart thrash," Invisible Oranges lauded a "groundbreaking and incredibly heavy slab of groove-infused thrash and speed metal," Sputnik Music commended "an album which helped to kick-start the groove metal revolution, while staying true to its thrash roots," while AllMusic observed the album's "death metal-style double kick drums, chugging guitar riffs played at both slow and blistering tempos, and…the gruff but very expressive lead vocals of frontman Kyle Thomas." After a seventeen-month halt in touring due to the pandemic, EXHORDER put on a legendary performance of "Slaughter In The Vatican" in its entirety at Psycho Las Vegas 2021 and is fully ready to return to the stage with the record that started it all.
EXHORDER 2021 is:
Kyle Thomas - vocals
Marzi Montazeri - guitar
Jason Viebrooks - bass
Sasha Horn - drums
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It was the morning of 9-2-98 Micheal drove me to Barrow and we checked in to pre-op. Some things you never forget. My dad had given me a shirt that said don't forget your dad loves you and it had his photo on the front so I made sure I was wearing that so he could see before they made me change into the gown (part of me now believes he was fearful I wouldn't remember who he was so he was sure this would help. I guess it was easier for him to go cope and not have to share his emotions out loud).
We were told to go up stairs to pre op. Checked in and I met my Nurse Jan. It was awesome. Her section was filled with angels all around. 19 years ago they were allowed to decorate their area. I'm being serious I will never forget it.
Like many awaiting surgery family and friends came to say hello wishing me a successful surgery giving me those hugs and kisses that supported me but really helping them cope. It seemed even in the midst of my battle I was having to be strong for those struggling with the not knowing what to say or expect. That was ok because that is what I was good at.
In this blog, I want to be real because families need to know there are no directions to this journey and everyone is different. Sometimes different means "CRAZY". My dad was late I kept wondering where my dad was he and I are super close and he wasn't there yet he was always early. Besides I had to change and wanted him to see I was wearing my shirt. I later learned my step mom was causing conflict for him because she was upset he was sharing too much attention towards me. Yes sad and utterly insane but 19 years time goes on and well It's not a brain tumor so like FROZEN "LET IT GO". I only share to say even I was not immune from crazy HA HA. Oh far from immune stay tuned for the book someday. It will take a book to share all the stories but it would be a best seller for sure.


I've always had a strange love for drinking my meals instead of eating them. It started in high school, when we had to write down everything we ate for a week for health class. The assignment was to carefully measure portion sizes so we could correctly estimate the calories we were taking in. Naturally, I got tripped up when it came to entering my smoothie concoctions, and for the remainder of the year was known as "Smoothie" by my health teacher.
I've come a long way since then. My high school smoothie recipes usually consisted of sugary fruit juices, frozen fruit, and flavored yogurt. So, basically a sugar bomb. My main priority was sweetness, and sweetness was indeed achieved.
+ too much fruit can get very carb-heavy, leading to a sugar crash later. Make sure to include high-quality protein either in the smoothie, or in a small snack along with the smoothie.
+ berries keep the smoothie low-calorie and low glycemic. Although I'm not opposed to a tropical fruit smoothie in the depths of a Florida summer, a berry mix is my go-to frozen fruit.
+ I throw in as many handfuls of spinach as my blender can handle to up my vegetable count for the day. Tasteless and nutritious.
+ Apple juice used to be my liquid base - bad idea! So acidic and sugary! I now stick with water for my liquid base. Almond milk or coconut water would work, too!
Hydrate electrolyte mix for flavor + vitamin boost, powdered greens to up the nutrition factor, PB2, flax seed, vanilla protein powder, unrefined coconut oil, fiber, and apple cider vinegar.
- serve with a straw and enjoy!
My two-year-old can't get enough of these, and often steals my drink if she finishes hers first. She's a really good eater, so I don't necessarily worry about her getting enough fruits and vegetables, but it never hurts to have a little insurance that tastes like a treat, too!
What are your favorite smoothie ingredients?


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El Hospital Santa Ana se encuentra en el sector de Santa Ana, en el sureste de la ciudad de Manila  (Filipinas). Se ubica en el sitio de un hospital anterior, el Hospital Trinidad, que se trasladó a una nueva ubicación en 1998.

El Hospital Santa Ana fue construido por el Ayuntamiento de Manila con la ayuda de la Fundación de Lucio Tan llamada Tan Yan Kee. Este quería nombrar al hospital en honor de su madre o su padre, mientras que la ciudad quería nombrarlo en honor de Corazón Aquino. Ambas partes estuvieron de acuerdo en usar el nombre actual. El edificio del hospital fue terminado en abril de 2010, concretamente el 28 de abril. Santa Ana cuenta con diez pisos de altura, está totalmente climatizado y tiene una capacidad de 500 camas.

Véase también
 Hospital General de Filipinas (Manila)
 Hospital Nuestra Señora de Lourdes (Manila)

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World Flights is a travel app. by Patrice Arnera that allows you to look up the departure and arrival information for all commercial flights around the world. The app. automatically detects your location and shows you a map of all of the airports near your current location. You can also search for an airport by country, state, city, or airport code.
Once you select an airport, you can look up domestic departures, international departures, domestic arrivals, international arrivals, or search by airline. You can also access that airport's general information by tapping the tab closest to the bottom of the screen. This screen contains the address, city, and country as well as links to "show route" (which takes you to google maps/directions) and for "weather info" that has the temp., sea level pressure, altimeter, sky condition, and change in weather anticipated from day to night.
When you pull up one of the departure or arrival sections, it shows the flights for the next 24 hours at the airport selected. The flight info is organized by flight, origin, date, and scheduled time of departure or arrival. Once the list of flights comes up, you can tap on any flight in the list to get more information. This screen will tell you the flight number, destination, status, airline, terminal, code share, date, scheduled time of departure/arrival and estimated time of departure/arrival.
The app. has a clean look and is very easy to pick up and use. I like the blue and white color scheme and the simple picture of the plane that appears at the bottom of most of the screens. The plane icon in the upper left hand corner serves as a back button, I wish it were just a back arrow instead for clarity's sake upon picking the app. up. Also, I wish there was a way to store frequently used routes/flights/airports, but I think this is going to be addressed in the next version (1.1).
World Flights is only $1.99- I think this is a small price to pay for the frequent traveler. This app. provides all the flight info you would need when you're on the go in a straightforward layout so you can access it quickly. Happy Travels!
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As one of South Africa's leading sport photographers, Roger Sedres was in Rio in August to cover the Olympics, being right there to get photos of Wayde van Niekerk and Caster Semenya as they won gold in spectacular fashion, as well as all our other athletes. Here's the story behind the pictures. – BY SEAN FALCONER
It's not easy being a photographer at the Olympics, nor is it glamorous, says Roger, but it is exciting to be right up close to the action all the time. "We get to see these great athletes in action and witness their achievements, while following them all around the world, but at the same time we're working incredibly hard and most of the time we're too busy to really enjoy these moments. I actually saw nothing of Rio, because I was always working and there was literally no time for sightseeing."
"In Rio, the heat got to everybody, and the biggest challenge for the media was transport, as we were always at minimum one hour's drive from everything – and that's not even counting getting through all the security checks! That meant I usually only got home at 3am after covering a days' action and getting my pics edited and uploaded, and then I had to be up again at 6am to catch the Uber back to the Olympic Park. Added to that, I got sick while over there, and then my laptop crashed, and the cost of food was incredible! Luckily Pieter Lourens of ASA brought me free Macdonalds from the Athletes' Village each day!"
That said, Roger is just as quick to point out that that he still really enjoyed his Rio Experience. "On the up side, because of my association with Nikon, having been a former ambassador for the brand, I was asked to test the new D5 camera, so I was given two new cameras to use at the Games. That meant that I had five cameras at my disposal, which allowed me to do more remote set-ups, but it also meant carrying five cameras around, along with all my lenses! But it meant I got even more great shots!"
Roger was born in 1969 in Cape Town, attended school in Belhar, and today he lives in Gordon's Bay with his wife of 15 years, journalist Shireen, and their two kids, Katherine (12) and Benajamin (7). At school he did athletics, specialising in the 100m sprint, and he was good enough to race against future Olympic silver medallist Frankie Fredericks of Namibia in his Matric
year. "However, my best was 11.00, which was not quite good enough, so I switched to the triple jump, until I hung up my spikes in 1992, but I stayed involved in the sport and have never lost my passion for athletics."
After school, Roger clerked at Old Mutual for a few years, then went to study photography at Peninsula Tech in 1991. "I unfortunately ran out of money after the first year and had to drop out, but ironically, the lecturers told me I didn't have what it takes to be a photographer. Landscapes and stills were not what I wanted to do anyway, I always wanted to be a newspaper photographer," says Roger. Dropping out actually proved a blessing in disguise, because in 1992 he saw an advert in the Cape Argus for an advertising photographer at one of the community papers, and he got the post.
The job was mostly taking product shots, but on weekends Roger worked for free, photographing community sports and supplying pics for the Monday newspapers in the group, and that soon brought him recognition for his talent. "In 1992 I won my first competition, The Hunters Gold Photographic Award, for a series of pics taken at a soccer tournament. Then in 1993 I won my first Metropolitan Life Photographer of the Year Award," says Roger. By early 1995 he was at Die Burger as a news photographer, and over the next 10 years he worked his way up to Chief Photographer, covering events like US President Bill Clinton's state visit and many jobs with Madiba, but he says the coverage of murders and urban terror began getting to him, so in 2005 he decided to start ImageSA and fly solo.
Sporting Focus
"I covered everything at first, but evolved into focussing on sport as the 2010 World Cup came around. Then in 2012 I was fortunate to cover the World Indoor Champs in Turkey and the World Junior Champs in Spain, which was my first exposure to international athletics. That same year I covered the 2012 London Olympics, and I learnt so much about covering multiple sports, surviving on minimal sleep, and having to plan ahead for booking sites for remote cameras. Those three meets really put me on the map in athletics, allowing me to build a great relationship with the IAAF, and now I specialise in athletics, although I still cover other sports."
Now you would think that the photographers at the Olympics and other large meets get to meet the stars of the sport, but Roger says it is actually very hard to build a relationship. "We don't really get to meet the athletes, because we're not allowed in the mixed zones where they relax or warm-up. Also, it is imperative that we get stock images of all the major stars, while also focusing on the up-and-coming athletes, especially African athletes, so we have to photograph all the heats as well, not just the finals and the winners." He quotes Wayde van Niekerk as a good example: "When an athlete bursts on to the world stage, publications and websites, even TV, need stock images of the athlete's developmental years, but in Wayde's case there are very few pics of him as a young athlete. That's why it is important to not only go to World Youth Champs and World Junior Champs, but also local athletics meets. But I have no problem with that, thanks to my passion for everything about athletics."
We asked Roger to select five of his all-time favourite images in his vast collection of athletics photos.
Antonio Alkanah in the 110m hurdles, IAAF World Champs 2015, Beijing, China
Long-jumper Luvo Manyonga wins silver at the 2016 Rio Olympics in Brazil
Johan Grobler's silver-medal effort in the javelin, IAAF Under-20 Champs 2016, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Wayde van Niekerk's golden World Record at the 2016 Rio Olympics
Pole-vaulting night action at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, 2016
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The memory of a much-loved pub manager is to "live on" through a new award celebrating other leading lights in Jersey's hospitality industry.
Following the sudden death of Old Portelet Inn Manager Yolande Kernoghan, Randalls, her former employer, is launching a new award in her memory to celebrate those who, like her, go "above and beyond" in their hospitality roles.
News of the memorial award came during her inquest, in which it was also heard that over 300 people attended Yolande's 'Celebration of Life' wake.
Held at Morier House yesterday, the inquest aimed to ascertain the cause of the landlord's death on 20 August. It concluded that she died after an epileptic seizure – a condition which she had suffered with for many years.
Pictured: Yolande at her home and place of work - the Old Portelet Inn. (Randalls)
At her inquest, and in recent months, many tributes have been paid to the Northern Irish pub manager, who was just 52 years old when she died.
In a statement read at the inquest by Assistant Police Coroner's Officer Glenn Cleave, one of Yolande's colleagues at the inn remembered her as "extremely popular and very highly thought of" who is "very much missed" by her co-workers and customers alike.
He also mentioned the launch of the new award by the Randalls Group.
"Yolande was a lovely lady and a good person to work with," he recollected.
Speaking to Express after the inquest, Managing Director of Randalls, Gavin Reid said: "It is Randalls' intention to honour the wonderful work and personality that Yolande brought to our company by introducing the 'Yolande Kernoghan Memorial Award' to allow her name and spirit to live on.
"It will be something contested and awarded on a yearly basis to one of our managers who we believe has gone above and beyond their position to promote hospitality within their outlet and who have ultimately achieved success for the company."
Pictured: Randalls Managing Director Gavin Reid.
Mr Reid said that the pub chain hopes to present the inaugural award at a special ceremony in the new year.
"Yolande has been a great loss to our company and we feel it is fitting to recognise and inspire our other managers to make the customer feel special and create a wonderful environment for our staff to work in, exactly as Yolande would have wanted and achieved."
The inquest was told that Yolande has been repatriated and laid to rest in her native Northern Ireland.
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Category: Friday Prayers
Raising the hands when making du'aa' on Fridays
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The basic principle is that one should raise the hands when making du'aa', because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Allaah is Most Generous, and He dislikes to turn away empty the hands of His slave when he raises them to Him." Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 3556; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Tirmidhi.
It says in Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi:
This hadeeth indicates that it is mustahabb to raise the hands when making du'aa'. There are many ahaadeeth concerning that.
But it was narrated with regard to the khateeb on Fridays that when he makes du'aa' on the minbar, he should point with his forefinger only and not raise his hands. Indeed some of the Sahaabah denounced the khateeb who raises his hands in du'aa'.
Muslim (874) and Abu Dawood (1104) narrated that 'Umaarah ibn Ru'aybah saw Bishr ibn Marwaan on the minbar raising his hands (Abu Dawood added: when he was making du'aa' on Friday), and he said: "May Allaah make these two hands ugly. I saw the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) doing no more than this with his hand," and he gestured with his forefinger.
Al-Nawawi said:
This indicates that the Sunnah is not to raise the hands during the khutbah, This is the view of Maalik and our companions and others.
In Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi it says:
This hadeeth indicates that it is makrooh to raise the hands on the minbar when making du'aa'.
As it is not prescribed for the khateeb to raise his hands, the members of the congregation are like him because they follow his lead.
But if the imam prays for rain on Friday whilst he is on the minbar, the Sunnah is to raise the hands, and for the members of the congregation to raise their hands and make du'aa' with him.
Al-Bukhaari (933) and Muslim (897) narrated that Anas ibn Maalik said: The people were stricken with drought at the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), so whilst the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was delivering the khutbah one Friday, a Bedouin stood up and said, "O Messenger of Allaah, our wealth has been destroyed and our children are hungry, Pray to Allaah for us." So he raised his hands [al-Bukhaari added in his muta'allaq report: and the people raised their hands with the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) making du'aa'], and we did not see any cloud in the sky. But by the One in Whose hand is my soul, hardly had he lowered (his hands) but there appeared clouds like mountains, and hardly had he come down from his minbar but I saw rain running down his beard (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). It rained that day, and the day after, and the day after, until the following Friday. Then that Bedouin or someone else stood up and said, "O Messenger of Allaah, our buildings have been destroyed and our wealth had been flooded. Pray to Allaah for us." So he raised his hands and said, "O Allaah, around us and not on us." Each time his hand pointed to part of the clouds they parted, and the clouds formed a ring around Madeenah. The wadis flowed with water for a month and no one came from any direction but he spoke of the heavy rain.
Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked:
What is the ruling on raising one's hands when the imam is delivering the khutbah on Friday? He replied:
Raising the hands when the imam is delivering the khutbah on Friday is not prescribed in sharee'ah. The Sahaabah denounced Bishr ibn Marwaan when he raised his hands during the Friday khutbah. But an exception is made in the case of prayers for rain (istisqaa'), because it is proven that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) raised his hands when praying to Allaah for rain during the Friday khutbah, and the people raised their hands with him. But apart from that one should not raise one's hands when making du'aa' during the Friday khutbah.
Fataawa Arkaan al-Islam, p. 392.
Translating the Friday Khutbah
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Are those who are appointed to guard important places excused for not praying Jumu'ah?
The proper way to make du'aa' during prayer
Sujood Ul-Sahw if in doubt while praying
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A student of ChogyamTrungpa Rinpoche, Acharya Maull is a personal representative of the current Shambhala lineage holder, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. He is also a senior teacher in the Zen Peacemaker Community. Acharya Maull has been practicing mindfulness meditation for more than 40 years and teaching mindfulness meditation for 32 years. He leads mindfulness meditation programs at retreat centers around the world.
Radical Responsibility offers an alternative to the "blame game." It involves stepping out of the blame paradigm altogether, to focus on choice and possibility. I define Radical Responsibility as the choice to embrace 100% ownership for every circumstance we face in life, as a conscious act of self-empowerment and the genuine exercise of personal freedom. Radical Responsibility is not to be confused with self-blame. It has nothing to do with blame. It is simply the choice to focus our attention, time and energy on that which we have some influence over…ourselves.
The practice of Radical Responsibility involves training ourselves in both mindfulness and emotional intelligence. We instinctually respond to discomfort, physical, mental or emotional, with avoidance, distancing or blaming. Developing greater awareness and moment-to-moment presence of mind through the practice of mindfulness can help us recognize shifts of attitude where we begin to feel victimized by our circumstances.
Strengthening our self-reflective muscles, so to speak, can help us recognize these self-limiting mindsets and make the choice embrace ownership, choice and personal freedom in the moment. Training in emotional intelligence helps us to understand our feelings and emotional triggers. We can explore how the perceptions of our needs being met or not lead to positive or challenging feeling states. Self-awareness, self-understanding and self-empathy all provide a foundation for accessing more power and freedom in our personal and professional lives.
Effective leadership involves stepping into a leadership position with ourselves. We cannot control others or the world around us, but we can become powerful and positive influencers and leaders, by reclaiming the "driver's seat" in our own lives, through mindfulness-based emotional intelligence training and the philosophy and practice of Radical Responsibility.
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Boner Fight for July 22nd, 2020
Boner Candidate #1: THERE'S PROBABLY STUFF IN THERE THAT WOULDN'T HELP OUR CASE.
The University of Utah says it shouldn't have to release the counseling records of student-athlete Lauren McCluskey — who spoke to a school psychologist in the days and hours before she was killed — arguing in a new lawsuit that those should be considered confidential even in death. The filing in state court Monday comes after Utah's State Records Committee ordered the U. last month to release the reports to McCluskey's parents and their attorneys. The school, though, is now appealing that decision shortly before it was supposed to turn them over. "Mental health records often contain highly sensitive and personal information, the disclosure of which would constitute a gross invasion of personal privacy," the U. argues in its lawsuit. The counseling records have become the latest focal point in how McCluskey's concerns were handled by the university. McCluskey's parents, who are separately suing the university for $56 million, say the school didn't take their daughter's concerns seriously. That focuses largely on the campus police department, which did little to investigate Lauren McCluskey's multiple calls for help when she was being harassed and extorted by someone she had briefly dated.
Boner Candidate #2: LAURA, TORONTO IS IN CANADA.
On Friday, the "Ingraham Angle" host took to Twitter to draw a bizarre connection between an online story that claimed Toronto had limited "religious freedom," and U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden. Will Joe Biden do more to protect religious liberty than Donald Trump? Not a prayer. "City of Toronto Bans Catholic Churches From Administering Holy Communion" "Will Joe Biden do more to protect religious liberty than Donald Trump? Not a prayer," Ingraham wrote, alongside a story from far-right website Big League Politics that said Toronto had "banned" Catholic communion. First of all, Big League Politics was founded by former Brietbart employees and has frequently trafficked in conspiracy theories. It has been described by the New York Times as "an obscure right-wing news site […] which has promoted conspiracy theories and written favorably about white nationalist candidates." The story Ingraham shared was inaccurate. In reality, the archbishop of Toronto modified the eucharist rite to observe safety protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic. There's now a modified version of communion where a priest delivers the blessing from a safe distance, hands the congregant their wafer, and they then move more than two metres away from the priest before removing their mask to consume it.
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SAN FRANCISCO: Kentik, the provider of network analytics for the cloud-native world, announced integrated support for Microsoft Azure. With Kentik's Azure support, enterprises and service providers gain access to a real-time view of their applications and services running in Azure, as well as into and across multi-cloud environments in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Networking doesn't go away with the move to the cloud. Multi-cloud environments add new network complexities as organizations struggle to understand where applications and services reside and which internal teams and external customers have dependencies on these applications and services, said Avi Freedman, co-founder and CEO of Kentik. At Kentik, we're focused on addressing these network complexities by bringing end-to-end network insights and business understanding to our customers. Adding support for Azure is another step forward in our efforts to enable comprehensive network visibility for enterprises and service providers.


BOSTON, August 20, 2014 – Bowen Advisors is pleased to announce that BroadSoft has acquired Systems Design & Development, Inc. (SDD), a provider of software and services to the largest and most prominent global hotels, resorts, convention facilities, and fractional ownership properties. The acquisition of SDD represents a vertical expansion by BroadSoft, as the hospitality industry aggressively seeks cloud-provided communications services to replace aging PBXs and align with corporate IT cloud migration strategies. Bowen Advisors provided buyside M&A advisory services to BroadSoft.
Bowen Advisors is also announcing the sale of Whaleback Managed Services to Thinking Phone Networks, a leader in the Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) market. The acquisition demonstrates another move by Thinking Phone Networks to support its market growth by adding Whaleback's high-quality enterprise communication solutions and loyal customer base across healthcare, financial services, real estate, specialty retail, and non-profit verticals. "Bowen Advisors' knowledge of the market, breadth of contacts, and transaction advice enabled Whaleback to select the optimal partner," said Nina Saberi, chair of Whaleback and Managing Partner of Castile Ventures. Bowen Advisors provided sellside M&A advisory services to Whaleback.
Click here for BroadSoft's press release (8/4/14).
Click here for Thinking Phone Networks' press release (8/12/14).


text:
(function() {
module("can/route",{
	setup: function(){
		can.route._teardown();
		can.route.defaultBinding = "hashchange";
	}
})

test("deparam", function(){
	can.route.routes = {};
	can.route(":page",{
		page: "index"
	});

	var obj = can.route.deparam("can.Control");
	deepEqual(obj, {
		page : "can.Control",
		route: ":page"
	});

	obj = can.route.deparam("");
	deepEqual(obj, {
		page : "index",
		route: ":page"
	});

	obj = can.route.deparam("can.Control&where=there");
	deepEqual(obj, {
		page : "can.Control",
		where: "there",
		route: ":page"
	});

    can.route.routes = {};
    can.route(":page/:index",{
        page: "index",
        index: "foo"
	});

    obj = can.route.deparam("can.Control/&where=there");
	deepEqual(obj, {
		page : "can.Control",
        index: "foo",
		where: "there",
		route: ":page/:index"
	}, "default value and queryparams");
})

test("deparam of invalid url", function(){
    can.route.routes = {};
    can.route("pages/:var1/:var2/:var3", {
        var1: 'default1',
        var2: 'default2',
        var3: 'default3'
    });

    // This path does not match the above route, and since the hash is not
    // a &key=value list there should not be data.
    obj = can.route.deparam("pages//");
	deepEqual(obj, {});

    // A valid path with invalid parameters should return the path data but
    // ignore the parameters.
    obj = can.route.deparam("pages/val1/val2/val3&invalid-parameters");
	deepEqual(obj, {
        var1: 'val1',
        var2: 'val2',
        var3: 'val3',
		route: "pages/:var1/:var2/:var3"
    });
})

test("deparam of url with non-generated hash (manual override)", function(){
	can.route.routes = {};

	// This won't be set like this by route, but it could easily happen via a
	// user manually changing the URL or when porting a prior URL structure.
	obj = can.route.deparam("page=foo&bar=baz&where=there");
	deepEqual(obj, {
		page: 'foo',
		bar: 'baz',
		where: 'there'
	});
})

test("param", function(){
	can.route.routes = {};
	can.route("pages/:page",{
		page: "index"
	})

	var res = can.route.param({page: "foo"});
	equal(res, "pages/foo")

	res = can.route.param({page: "foo", index: "bar"});
	equal(res, "pages/foo&index=bar")

	can.route("pages/:page/:foo",{
		page: "index",
        foo: "bar"
	})

    res = can.route.param({page: "foo", foo: "bar", where: "there"});
	equal(res, "pages/foo/&where=there")

    // There is no matching route so the hash should be empty.
    res = can.route.param({});
	equal(res, "")

    can.route.routes = {};

    res = can.route.param({page: "foo", bar: "baz", where: "there"});
	equal(res, "&page=foo&bar=baz&where=there")

    res = can.route.param({});
	equal(res, "")
});

test("symmetry", function(){
	can.route.routes = {};

	var obj = {page: "=&[]", nestedArray : ["a"], nested : {a :"b"}  }

	var res = can.route.param(obj)

	var o2 = can.route.deparam(res)
	deepEqual(o2, obj)
})

test("light param", function(){
	can.route.routes = {};
	can.route(":page",{
		page: "index"
	})

	var res = can.route.param({page: "index"});
	equal(res, "")

    can.route("pages/:p1/:p2/:p3",{
		p1: "index",
        p2: "foo",
        p3: "bar"
	})

    res = can.route.param({p1: "index", p2: "foo", p3: "bar"});
	equal(res, "pages///")

    res = can.route.param({p1: "index", p2: "baz", p3: "bar"});
	equal(res, "pages//baz/")
});

test('param doesnt add defaults to params', function(){
	can.route.routes = {};

	can.route("pages/:p1",{
        p2: "foo"
	})
	var res = can.route.param({p1: "index", p2: "foo"});
	equal(res, "pages/index")
})

test("param-deparam", function(){

	can.route(":page/:type",{
		page: "index",
        type: "foo"
	})

    var data = {page: "can.Control",
				type: "document",
				bar: "baz",
				where: "there"};
    var res = can.route.param(data);
    var obj = can.route.deparam(res);
	delete obj.route
	deepEqual(obj,data )
	return;
    data = {page: "can.Control", type: "foo", bar: "baz", where: "there"};
    res = can.route.param(data);
    obj = can.route.deparam(res);
	delete obj.route;
	deepEqual(data, obj)

	data = {page: " a ", type: " / "};
    res = can.route.param(data);
    obj = can.route.deparam(res);
	delete obj.route;
	deepEqual(obj ,data ,"slashes and spaces")

    data = {page: "index", type: "foo", bar: "baz", where: "there"};
    res = can.route.param(data);
    obj = can.route.deparam(res);
	delete obj.route;
	deepEqual(data, obj)

    can.route.routes = {};

    data = {page: "foo", bar: "baz", where: "there"};
    res = can.route.param(data);
    obj = can.route.deparam(res);
	deepEqual(data, obj)
})

test("deparam-param", function(){
	can.route.routes = {};
	can.route(":foo/:bar",{foo: 1, bar: 2});
	var res = can.route.param({foo: 1, bar: 2});
	equal(res,"/","empty slash")

	var deparamed = can.route.deparam("/")
	deepEqual(deparamed, {foo: 1, bar: 2, route: ":foo/:bar"})
})

test("precident", function(){
	can.route.routes = {};
	can.route(":who",{who: "index"});
	can.route("search/:search");

	var obj = can.route.deparam("can.Control");
	deepEqual(obj, {
		who : "can.Control",
		route: ":who"
	});

	obj = can.route.deparam("search/can.Control");
	deepEqual(obj, {
		search : "can.Control",
		route: "search/:search"
	},"bad deparam");

	equal( can.route.param({
			search : "can.Control"
		}),
		"search/can.Control" , "bad param");

	equal( can.route.param({
			who : "can.Control"
		}),
		"can.Control" );
})

test("better matching precident", function(){
	can.route.routes = {};
	can.route(":type",{who: "index"});
	can.route(":type/:id");

	equal( can.route.param({
			type : "foo",
			id: "bar"
		}),
		"foo/bar" );
})

test("linkTo", function(){
    can.route.routes = {};
    can.route(":foo");
    var res = can.route.link("Hello",{foo: "bar", baz: 'foo'});
    equal( res, 'Hello');
})

test("param with route defined", function(){
	can.route.routes = {};
	can.route("holler")
	can.route("foo");

	var res = can.route.param({foo: "abc",route: "foo"});

	equal(res, "foo&foo=abc")
})

test("route endings", function(){
	can.route.routes = {};
	can.route("foo",{foo: true});
	can.route("food",{food: true})

	var res = can.route.deparam("food")
	ok(res.food, "we get food back")

});

test("strange characters", function(){
	can.route.routes = {};
	can.route(":type/:id");
	var res = can.route.deparam("foo/"+encodeURIComponent("\/"))
	equal(res.id, "\/")
	res  = can.route.param({type: "bar", id: "\/"});
	equal(res, "bar/"+encodeURIComponent("\/"))
});

test("empty default is matched even if last", function(){

	can.route.routes = {};
	can.route(":who");
	can.route("",{foo: "bar"})

	var obj = can.route.deparam("");
	deepEqual(obj, {
		foo : "bar",
		route: ""
	});
});

test("order matched", function(){
	can.route.routes = {};
	can.route(":foo");
	can.route(":bar")

	var obj = can.route.deparam("abc");
	deepEqual(obj, {
		foo : "abc",
		route: ":foo"
	});
});

test("param order matching", function(){
	can.route.routes = {};
	can.route("",{
		bar: "foo"
	});
	can.route("something/:bar");
	var res = can.route.param({bar: "foo"});
	equal(res, "", "picks the shortest, best match");

	// picks the first that matches everything ...
	can.route.routes = {};

	can.route(":recipe",{
		recipe: "recipe1",
		task: "task3"
	});

	can.route(":recipe/:task",{
		recipe: "recipe1",
		task: "task3"
	});

	res = can.route.param({recipe: "recipe1", task: "task3"});

	equal(res, "", "picks the first match of everything");

	res = can.route.param({recipe: "recipe1", task: "task2"});
	equal(res,"/task2")
});

test("dashes in routes", function(){
	can.route.routes = {};
	can.route(":foo-:bar");

	var obj = can.route.deparam("abc-def");
	deepEqual(obj, {
		foo : "abc",
		bar : "def",
		route: ":foo-:bar"
	});

	window.location.hash = "qunit-header";
	window.location.hash = "";
});

if(typeof steal !== 'undefined') {
	test("listening to hashchange (#216, #124)", function() {
		var testarea = document.getElementById('qunit-test-area');
		var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
		stop();

		window.routeTestReady = function(iCanRoute){
			ok(!iCanRoute.attr('bla'), 'Value not set yet');
			iCanRoute.bind('change', function() {
				equal(iCanRoute.attr('bla'), 'blu', 'Got route change event and value is as expected');
				testarea.innerHTML = '';
				start();
			});
			iCanRoute.ready()
			setTimeout(function() {
				iframe.src = iframe.src + '#!bla=blu';
			}, 100);
		};

		iframe.src = can.test.path("route/testing.html?1");
		testarea.appendChild(iframe);
	});

	test("updating the hash", function(){
		stop();
		window.routeTestReady = function(iCanRoute, loc){
			iCanRoute.ready()
			iCanRoute(":type/:id");
			iCanRoute.attr({type: "bar", id: "\/"});

			setTimeout(function(){
				var after = loc.href.substr(loc.href.indexOf("#"));
				equal(after,"#!bar/"+encodeURIComponent("\/"));
				start();

				can.remove(can.$(iframe))

			},30);
		}
		var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
		iframe.src = can.test.path("route/testing.html");
		can.$("#qunit-test-area")[0].appendChild(iframe);
	});

	test("sticky enough routes", function(){
		stop();
		window.routeTestReady = function(iCanRoute, loc){
			iCanRoute.ready()
			iCanRoute("active");
			iCanRoute("");
			loc.hash = "#!active"

			setTimeout(function(){
				var after = loc.href.substr(loc.href.indexOf("#"));
				equal(after,"#!active");
				start();

				can.remove(can.$(iframe))

			},30);
		}
		var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
		iframe.src = can.test.path("route/testing.html?2");
		can.$("#qunit-test-area")[0].appendChild(iframe);
	});

	test("unsticky routes", function(){
		stop();
		window.routeTestReady = function(iCanRoute, loc){
			iCanRoute.ready()
			iCanRoute(":type")
			iCanRoute(":type/:id");
			iCanRoute.attr({type: "bar"});

			setTimeout(function(){
				var after = loc.href.substr(loc.href.indexOf("#"));
				equal(after,"#!bar");
				iCanRoute.attr({type: "bar", id: "\/"});

				// check for 1 second
				var time = new Date()
				setTimeout(function(){
					var after = loc.href.substr(loc.href.indexOf("#"));
					if(after == "#!bar/"+encodeURIComponent("\/")){
						equal(after,"#!bar/"+encodeURIComponent("\/"),"should go to type/id");
						can.remove(can.$(iframe))
						start();
					} else if( new Date() - time > 2000){
						ok(false, "hash is "+after);
						can.remove(can.$(iframe))
					} else {
						setTimeout(arguments.callee, 30)
					}

				},100)

			},100)

		}
		var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
		iframe.src = can.test.path("route/testing.html?1");
		can.$("#qunit-test-area")[0].appendChild(iframe);
	});
}

test("escaping periods", function(){

	can.route.routes = {};
	can.route(":page\\.html",{
		page: "index"
	});

	var obj = can.route.deparam("can.Control.html");
	deepEqual(obj, {
		page : "can.Control",
		route: ":page\\.html"
	});

	equal( can.route.param({page: "can.Control"}), "can.Control.html");

})

if(typeof require === 'undefined') {

test("correct stringing", function(){
	var route = can.route;

	route.routes = {};

	route.attr('number', 1);
	deepEqual(route.attr(), {'number': "1"});

	route.attr({bool: true}, true)
	deepEqual(route.attr(), {'bool': "true"});

	route.attr({string: "hello"}, true);
	deepEqual(route.attr(), {'string': "hello"});

	route.attr({array: [1, true, "hello"]}, true);
	deepEqual(route.attr(), {'array': ["1", "true", "hello"]});

	route.attr({
		number: 1,
		bool: 	true,
		string: "hello",
		array:  [2, false, "world"],
		obj:    {number: 3, array: [4, true]}
	}, true);

	deepEqual(route.attr(), {
		number: "1",
		bool: 	"true",
		string: "hello",
		array:  ["2", "false", "world"],
		obj:    {
			number: "3",
			array: 	["4", "true"]
		}
	})

	route.routes = {};
	route(":type/:id");

	route.attr({type: 'page', id: 10, sort_by_name: true}, true)
	deepEqual(route.attr(), {
		type: 				"page",
		id: 					"10",
		sort_by_name: "true"
	});
});

}

test("on/off binding", function() {
	can.route.routes = {};
	expect(1)
	can.route.on('foo', function() {
		ok(true, "foo called");

		can.route.off('foo');

		can.route.attr('foo', 'baz');
	});

	can.route.attr('foo', 'bar');
})

})();

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
from settings.base import rel

CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
    'django.core.context_processors.request',
    'django.core.context_processors.debug',
    'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
    'django.core.context_processors.media',
    'django.core.context_processors.static',
    'django.core.context_processors.tz',
    'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
    # 'pangolinfog.context_processors.recaptcha',
)

TEMPLATES = [

    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [rel('templates'),
                 rel('product/templates'),
                ],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {'context_processors': CONTEXT_PROCESSORS},
    }
]


The Cadillac XT4 is powered by a compact 2.0L 4-cylinder engine aided by a turbocharger. Though diminutive in size, the engine makes a stout 237 horsepower, feeding power to the front wheels via a 9-speed automatic transmission. Acceleration on the small SUV is so good that it easily outpaces most of the non-performance oriented vehicles in its class, yet still returns respectable mileage. Cadillac estimates that owners will see around 30 mpg on the freeway in front-wheel drive versions.
The XT4 is available in three basic trims. The base trim is, fittingly for a Cadillac, simply dubbed "Luxury." Standard items on the Luxury trim include dual-zone automatic climate control, a remote starter, four USB ports, aluminum interior trim, power front seats, Cadillac's CUE infotainment system with an 8-inch color touchscreen, faux leather trim, 18-inch alloy wheels, LED headlamps, LED tail lamps and a rear park assist system.
The midlevel trim for the XT4 is called "Premium Luxury". Stepping up to Premium Luxury adds a powered liftgate, a memory function for the driver's seat, an auto-dimming mirror, wood trim, additional ambient interior lighting, leather seating surfaces, power folding mirrors, illuminated exterior door handles with satin chrome accents and a more powerful suite of electronics for avoiding accidents. In addition to the rear park assist system, the Premium Luxury gets a lane change alert system, a rear cross-traffic alert system and a safety alert seat.
The top-of-the-line trim for the XT4 is dubbed "Sport." The Sport trim includes much of what was in the Premium Luxury trim, but adds LED turn signals, tinted taillights, a gloss black front grille, body colored door handles, carbon fiber decor and a sportier steering wheel. Active suspension is also available on the XT4 Sport, making it better to handle than any other SUV out there.
Options across the board include a sunroof, all-wheel drive, a trailering package, a cold weather package, 20-inch wheels, a navigation system and a Bose surround sound system.
Compact SUVs have become one of the fastest growing segments in America and now Cadillac finally has an entry into the field. The XT4 is an all-new vehicle, slotting below the XT5 and the Escalade as the smallest SUV or crossover in Cadillac's lineup. Its introduction helps broaden the Cadillac lineup, as well as move it a little downmarket, making the marque accessible to a greater variety of people.
The Cadillac XT4 is a luxury compact SUV, competing with other small SUVs and crossovers such as the Mercedes GLA and BMW X1. With a base price of under $34,000, the XT4 can even be seen as a decent alternative to a fully spec'd out Ford Escape or other non-luxury compact SUV. That base price also makes the XT4 one of the cheapest ways to get into a Cadillac, only the ATS Sedan has a lower starting price. The XT4 also combines the luxury that Cadillac has become known for with a compact footprint that should make the vehicle easy to drive in the city. Of course, it still has decent ground clearance and available all-wheel drive for those trips out of the city and into the countryside.


Issue #10638 has been updated by Charles Nutter.
Works ok on current trunk (48948).
An empty Hash passed to a method taking a keyword rest argument is not dup'd. A modification to the keyword rest Hash in the method modifies the object passed to the method.
This behavior differs from passing a non-empty Hash.


A stock split is where a publicly traded company increases the number of shares available to be purchased in the market . A stock split does not alter the market capitalization of the company, so the stock price must be adjusted accordingly.
A 2 for 1 split is a common split. This is where a company doubles the amount of stocks available. If the stock price was $1,000 before the split, the price would be $500 afterwards.
For investors with existing stocks, their stocks would essentially be split in half, so they would own twice as many stocks. They would still own the same proportion of the company.
Ratios for a 2 for 1, 3 for 1 and 3 for 2 are the most commonly seen for stock splits, although any ratio is possible.
Splits of 4-for-3, 5-for-2, and 5-for-4 are used, though less frequently. Investors will sometimes receive cash payments as opposed to taking fractional shares in a company's stocks.
Why Would A Company Do A Stock Split?
As a stock split lowers the stock price, it would ultimately make the stock more attractive to a wider group of investors. Prior to a split a stock may not have been affordable for many, whereas after, it may be.
A stock split is often seen a positive sign that a company is growing and is likely to continue to grow. As a result a company's stock price often increases after a split.
It is often stated that stock splits, in and of themselves, lead to higher stock prices; research, however, does not bear this out.
What is true is that stock splits are usually initiated after a large run up in share price, and momentum investing suggests that the stock price would continue to rise regardless of a stock split occurring.
In any event, stock splits do increase the liquidity of a stock as there will most likely be more buyers and sellers for 10 shares of a company's stock at $20 than 1 share of stock at $200.
Some corporations employ the opposite strategy. When a company refuses to split the stock and keeps the price of purchasing shares high, they lessen trading volume and the volatility of their stock.
Another effect of a stock split could potentially be psychological. If a number of investors believe that a stock split will result in an increased share price and purchase the stock, the share price will tend to increase creating a self-fulfilling scenario where the stock price goes up after a split because people think it will.
Other people believe that the management of a company is implicitly signaling its confidence in the future prospects of the company by initiating a stock split.
As its name suggests, a reverse split is where a company decreases the number of available stocks. A reverse stock split is also referred to as a stock merge.
Many stock exchanges require companies to maintain a minimum stock price. If a company's price goes too low, a reverse split may be needed.
If a company's stock price is $1, a 5 to 1 reverse split would take the price up to $5. If you already own stock in the company, the number of shares you own would be cut to just a fifth of the amount owned previously. The market capitalization would remain the same.


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Q: regex - Match a portion of text given begin and end of the portion in Javascript I need to trim a very long string that can change during time. Since it's html I can use tags and attributes name to cut it regardless of the content. unfortunately I can't find a way to write the regex match. Given the following example:

This is (random characters) an example (random characters)

How can I match the (random characters) and "This is" using the rest, which is always the same? I've tried something along the lines of the followings:
^(This is)((.|\s)*an)$

This is^(?!.*(an))

but everything seems to fail. I think that the "any character or space in beetween" part makes the search go right to the end of the string and I miss the "an" part, but I can't figure it out how to add an exception to that.

A: I don't know javascript, but I will assume the following functions I will write in some loosely C-like code exist in some form:
string input = "This is (random characters) an example (random characters)";

string pattern = "(^This is .*) an example (.*$)";
RegexMatch match = Regex.Match( str, pattern );

string group0 = match.GetGroup(0);//this should contain the whole input
string group1 = match.GetGroup(1);//this should get the first part: This is (random characters)
string group2 = match.GetGroup(2);//this should get the second part: (random characters) at the end of the input string

Note: Normally in Regular Expressions, The parentheses create capture groups.

A: 'Look behind' would be good for this, but unfortunately, JS doesn't support it. However, you can use a RegExp and capturing groups to get the result you want.
let matchedGroups = new RegExp(/^This is (.+) an example (.+).$/,'g')

matchGroups.exec('This is (random characters) an example (random characters).')

This returns an array:
0:"This is (random characters) an example (random characters)."
1:"(random characters)"
2:"(random characters)"

As you can see this is a little clunky, but will get you two strings that you can use.

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Q: Add column header with value using sed in CSV I am adding below 2 columns into my existing CSV. Everything is working fine apart from the header name or column name
I import this CSV into MongoDB later
Current CSV:
"US_Business_Email_Data_01","AL"
"US_Business_Email_Data_01","AL"

Required CSV:
"FolderName","FileName"
"US_Business_Email_Data_01","AL"

Additional Information:

When converted to JSON in mongodb Current document:
 {
    "US_Business_Email_Data_01" : "US_Business_Email_Data_01",
    "AL" : "AL"
    }

When converted to JSON in mongodb Required document:
   {
    "FolderName" : "US_Business_Email_Data_01",
    "FileName" : "AL"
    }

My Bash Script:
Sed in my bash script is the following.
x=$zip_folder_name;y=$csv_name_updated; sed "s/$/,$x,$y/g" ${inner_file} > updated.csv
mv updated.csv ${inner_file}

Please Help Thanks in advance!

A: It finally worked using awk, the original answer is https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46610794/how-to-add-new-column-with-header-to-csv-with-awk
ORIG_FILE=${inner_file}
        NEW_FILE="updated.csv"
        awk -v d=$zip_folder_name -F"," 'BEGIN {OFS = ","} FNR==1{$(NF+1)="Folder Name"} FNR>1{$(NF+1)=d;} 1' $ORIG_FILE > $NEW_FILE
        mv ${NEW_FILE} ${ORIG_FILE}

        ORIG_FILE=${inner_file}
        NEW_FILE="updated.csv"
        awk -v d=$csv_name_updated -F"," 'BEGIN {OFS = ","} FNR==1{$(NF+1)="File Name"} FNR>1{$(NF+1)=d;} 1' $ORIG_FILE > $NEW_FILE
        mv ${NEW_FILE} ${ORIG_FILE}


Accurately forecasting adoption requires understanding the purchasing process and hurdles – specifically, how it is driven and influenced by real individuals, operating in unique cultures, priorities, constraints, and roles.
Getting addressable market size wrong is often the result of focusing too much on the value proposition, and failing to understand the perceived risks that customers face when adopting new technologies. Dozens of factors contribute to a higher risk-based barrier: high cost of downtime, high re-training costs, uncertainty of return (i.e., relative to other options competing for resources), and even the end-users' demographics. These create significant risk-aversion that may override any economic or other benefits.
Getting timing wrong is often the result of conflating different types of decision-making events within the customer organizations: customers sometimes have radically different processes for changing technologies vs. reconsidering brands within a technology vs. replenishment. Conflating these can lead to miscalculating adoption rates and timing by an order of magnitude. This can cause cash flows from adoption to occur 3, 5 or even 10 years after they were projected, with significant impact on return.
Who is the real decision maker?
What might that person(s) perceive the risk of taking on something new to be?
What are the consequences – focusing on both the personal as well as the organizational consequences – of getting it wrong?
How much work does the decision maker perceive to exist to fix the situation if the wrong choice is made?
What organizational inhibitors exist (e.g., competing priorities)?
Clear answers to these questions are the best guideposts to adoption. And, understanding the differences by segment can reveal the action-ability of each segment and therefore the best addressable market estimate. When combined with a strong understanding of the purchasing cycle, understanding the purchasing process can provide visibility into both timing and magnitude of adoption.


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Dianli Jianshe/Electric Power Construction- Impact Score, Overall Ranking, h-index, SJR, Rating, Publisher, ISSN, and Other Important Metrics
Title Dianli Jianshe/Electric Power Construction
Abbreviation Dianli Jianshe/Electr. Power Constr.
Subject Area, Categories, Scope Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Q3); Energy Engineering and Power Technology (Q3); Fuel Technology (Q3); Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (Q3)
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The ISSN of Dianli Jianshe/Electric Power Construction journal is 10007229. An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is a unique code of 8 digits. It is used for the recognition of journals, newspapers, periodicals, and magazines in all kind of forms, be it print-media or electronic. Dianli Jianshe/Electric Power Construction is cited by a total of 513 articles during the last 3 years (Preceding 2021).
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The impact score (IS) 2021 of Dianli Jianshe/Electric Power Construction is 1.17, which is computed in 2022 as per its definition. Dianli Jianshe/Electric Power Construction IS is increased by a factor of 0.14 and approximate percentage change is 13.59% when compared to preceding year 2020, which shows a rising trend. The impact score (IS), also denoted as Journal impact score (JIS), of an academic journal is a measure of the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. It is based on Scopus data.
Dianli Jianshe/Electric Power Construction Impact Score 2022 Prediction
IS 2021 of Dianli Jianshe/Electric Power Construction is 1.17. If the same upward trend persists, impact score may rise in 2022 as well.
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The IS0 4 standard abbreviation of Dianli Jianshe/Electric Power Construction is Dianli Jianshe/Electr. Power Constr.. This abbreviation ('Dianli Jianshe/Electr. Power Constr.') is well recommended and approved for the purpose of indexing, abstraction, referencing and citing goals. It meets all the essential criteria of ISO 4 standard.
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Owner of the Coeur d'Alene Honda dealership and a former county Republican Party chair, Sims is seeking a fourth term in the House. She earlier served a term in the Senate after being appointed, but lost to then-Sen. John Goedde, R-Coeur d'Alene, when redistricting pushed the two Republicans into the same district as she sought re-election. A critic of urban renewal laws and of the local redevelopment agency, she is vice chair of the House Local Government Committee. Sims also serves on the Judiciary and State Affairs committees. She is a Rotarian and a board member of the Idaho Auto Dealers. A Spokane native, Sims graduated from North Idaho Junior College in accounting. She served on the Idaho Human Rights Commission; and has two daughters and four grandchildren.


Due to the funding lapse at certain federal agencies between 12/22/18 and 1/25/19, FERC is reopening the comment period on the Adelphia Gateway Project environmental assessment until 3/1/19. Click here to read.
East Goshen Township's Comments regarding the Adelphia EA were filed with FERC on 2/1/2019. Click here to read.
At their meeting on 1/29/2019 the Board of Supervisors approved filing comments in response to FERC's request for comments on the Adelphia Environmental Assessment.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has released the Environmental Assessment for the Adelphia Gateway Project.
Rick Smith, West Chester, PA.
In light of the concerns expressed by several of our Township residents I am writing to request that Adelphia be required to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement. Rick Smith, East Goshen Township Manager.
What is Adelphia Gateway Pipeline Project?
What is the regulatory process to approve this pipeline?
What is the current status of the approval process?
What are the concerns with respect to impacts from this pipeline?
What opportunities are there for residents, municipalities, and elected officials to advocate for public safety, private property, clean air and clean water?
30 minute PowerPoint presentation to be followed by Q&A and community discussion. All residents and township officials from across the region are welcomed and encouraged to attend this event.
Light refreshments to be served. More information here.
Click here to read the Public Notice from Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on the Adelphia Gateway Pipeline Project.
East Goshen Township has filed a Motion to Intervene Out of Time in response to Adelphia Gateway's application to acquire, own and operate the existing pipeline facilities in Pennsylvania. This filing has been accepted.
On Monday, January 29, 2018 survey crews on behalf of the Adelphia Gateway project will be conducting topographic surveys to the Interstate Energy Pipeline Easement. The purpose of the work is to gather all above-ground features. The only equipment crews should be using on Monday is GPS equipment. All survey activities will be limited to within the existing easement or on public roadways.
Click the link to view the notice Adelphia posted in the Philadelphia Inquirer on January 26, 2018.
On January 12, 2018 Adelphia submitted an application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity.
It has been brought to our attention that Adelphia Gateway LLC plans to convert the Interstate Energy Pipeline, which currently runs through East Goshen Township, to carry shale gas. More information about the project can be found through the following link to Philly.com.
The Interstate Energy Company Pipeline runs through the Township's open space in the Wentworth development which is located by the CVS Drugstore. At their meeting on December 5th the Board of Supervisors acknowledged receipt of a letter from Adelphia Gateway regarding possible changes to their right-of-way. The Township also has recently been advised that other property owners have received similar letters.
What does all of this mean? Based on what we know, Interstate Energy is a Public Utility that that has a tariff from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to transport natural gas and oil in the eastern part of the state.
The following link will take you to the Chairman's letter that appears in our Winter 2018 Newsletter. The Township will continue to monitor this matter and provide updates as required. The Board of Supervisors encourages residents to contact the Governor and State Legislature to change the state laws that govern pipelines.


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Posts Tagged 'figures'
Artist of the moment…….Sheng Qi
{ September 19, 2015 @ 12:15 pm } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: Beijing, Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts, central saint martin's college, china, chinese, contemporary artist, England, figures, London, political activism, portraits, sheng qi } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Sheng Qi is a modern contemporary artist renown for his work with political activism and figure. Sheng Qi was born in Anhui Province in the year 1965. Sheng Qi is a painter, performance artist, and photographer.
Sheng Qi had a fantastic collegiate career studying in some of the world's best institutions for art. Qi attended the Central Academy of Art and Design located in Beijing. Qi also lived and work in Italy for a few years before earning a M.F.A. from the Central Saint Martin's Academy of Art and Design located in London, England.
In this clip we view Sheng Qi's first solo exhibition in London, England:
Qi's often paints with acrylics on canvas.
Price range information: Most works priced between $5,000 and $40,000.
The artist is now based out of Beijing, China.
Below a link to the website of the artist:
http://www.sheng-qi.com/work
Sheng Qi has a wonderful sense of design. The aspect of his artwork that I enjoy the most is his brush strokes.
Artist of the moment…….Alaniz
{ Tags: alaniz, Argentina, berlin, face, figures, germany, wheat pastes } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Alaniz is a contemporary street artist renown for his wheat pastes of the face and figure.
Alaniz was born in Argentina. The artist now resides in Berlin,Germany.
Below a link to the artist's website:
In this great clip we are taken on a tour of the best locations to view street art in Berlin, Germany:
Below we view a time lapse of the artist at work on a mural:
Alaniz does a great job at portraying the emotions of his characters.
Artist of the moment……Ken Danby
{ August 18, 2015 @ 2:17 pm } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: canada, canadian, figures, horses, ken danby, oceans, ontario college of art, painter, realism, Sault Ste Marie } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Ken Danby was a Canadian painter renown for his paintings of the figure, horses, and the ocean. Ken Danby was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada in the year 1940. For his figurative paintings he concentrated on the female figure and also male hockey players.
Danby attended the Ontario College of Art.
Price range information: The artist worked in watercolors and oils. These works range between $10,000 and $150,000. Danby was a prolific printmaker and many works range between $1,000 and $5,000.
Danby was made a member of the Canadian Academy of Art.
In this clip Danby talks about the importance of ART in education:
Ken Danby passed away in 2007 whilst on a canoe trip.
A link to the artist's website and representation:
http://www.kendanbyart.ca/files/index_1.html
Danby was a very skilled painter. My favorite works of his are the horses in water. His figure watercolor paintings of the figures recall another artist who recently passed away this year, Steve Hanks.
The artist also created works in tempera and oils which remind me of Andrew Wyeth with their attention to different textures.
Artist of the moment…….Qaqaq Ashoona
{ June 26, 2015 @ 11:24 am } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: canada, canadian, cape dorset, carver, figures, hand tools, ikirasak, Inuit, kaka ashoona, mayoreak ashoona, Nunavut Territory, pitseolak ashoona, qaqaq ashoona, sedna } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Qaqaq Ashoona was a son of the famous Inuit artist Pitseolak Ashoona.
Qaqaq Ashoona was born in Ikirasak, Nunavut Territory in the year 1928. The artist began life as a hunter and trapper. He turned to art to make a living in 1953.
Ashoona used only hand tools to make his wonderful carvings.
His wife was also a well respected Inuit artist, Mayoreak Ashoona. She was a renown printmaker already featured here.
The artist passed away in 1996.
Qaqaq Ashoona put great detail in his art. I enjoy his interpretations of the Goddess of the Sea, Sedna. They show a great sense of creativity and the sculptures have a great sense of life and animation.
Artist of the moment……..Keith Wolfe Smarch
{ June 18, 2015 @ 12:07 pm } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: canada, Dempsey Bob, figures, first nations art, keith wolfe smarch, masks, Tlingit } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Keith Wolfe Smarch is a Tlingit artist specializing in carvings and masks. Keith Wolfe Smarch is from the community of Teslin, Yukon, Canada. It is a very small city of less than 500 residents.
Keith Wolfe Smarch was born in the year 1961.
In this clip we view an interview where Keith Wolfe Smarch talks about carving canoes and walking sticks:
The artist received inspiration and knowledge from legendary Tlingit and Thaltan carver Dempsey Bob.
The works that Keith Wolfe Smarch carves represent the knowledge he has learned about his Tlingit cultural background and history.
In this clip a brief interview with Keith Wolfe Smarch:
Keith Wolfe Smarch has spent time living in Japan.
http://keithwolfesmarch.com/
What a great example of contemporary First Nations art.
Artist of the moment……..Aaron Douglas
{ May 15, 2015 @ 1:59 pm } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: african american, american, faces, figures, harlem renaissance, modernist, painter, university of kansas, university of nebraska at lincoln } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Aaron Douglas was an African- American artist associated with the Harlem Renaissance who painted in a Modernist style. Aaron Douglas was born in Topeka, Kansas in the year 1899.
Douglas attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln earning a B.F.A. A year later he added a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Kansas.
A few years after earning his second degree the artist relocated to Harlem, New York.
Douglas was one of the most sought after illustrators of the leading African- American magazines. He even tried to start his own magazine that was to showcase the up and coming younger artists.
He spent part of 1931 in Paris, France studying art as a grant award recipient.
In this clip we find Aaron Douglas at the Nebraska Museum of Art:
Douglas started the art department at Fisk University located in Nashville, Tennessee.
In this clip we get a peak at Aaron Douglas at the easel. Some jazz music is played and I must pass on the sad news that American Jazz legend B.B. King passed away at the age of 89:
Aaron Douglas passed away in 1979 at the age of 79.
Price range information: Works range from $20,000 to $500,000. Douglas worked in oils, watercolors, and gouache.
Douglas was of the first African American artists to earn a degree, and surely one of the first to earn two degrees. Yet, I feel as he is under appreciated for his contributions to the art world.
Artist of the moment……..Jaroslav Serych
{ May 5, 2015 @ 11:34 am } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: abstract, academy of fine arts prague, czech republic, figures, illustrator, jaroslav serchy, painter, printmaker } ·	{ Comments (1) }
Jaroslav Serych was a Czech artist who was a painter, illustrator, and printmaker. Jaroslav Serych was born in what is now called Havlickuv Brod, Czech Republic in the year 1928.
Serch attended the Academy of Art located in Prague.
Serych had nearly 100 solo exhibitions over his lengthy career. For his work in printmaking and illustration the artist won many awards including one for "Book of the Year."
Below we visit the studio of Jaroslav Serych:
Jaroslav Serych passed away in 2014 at the age of 86 years old.
Serych produced a large body of work over his career with his printmaking works that are abstract with no figures. These works show a great use of color and very abstract organic shapes.
Artist of the moment……..Gino Severini
{ Tags: Cortona, cubist, dancers, figures, futurist, giacomo balla, gino severini, italy, motion, rome fine art institute } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Gino Severini was an Italian painter associated with the Cubist and Futurist movements. Gino Severini was born in Cortona, Italy in the year 1883. His father worked in the courts and his mother was a dress maker.
Below a montage of works by Gino Severini:
Severini studied in Rome at the Rome Fine Art Institute. After relocating to Paris, France in 1906 the artist fell in the love with the city and considered with Cortona (his birthplace) the artist's two favorite cities.
Severini enjoyed painting the figure whilst in motion. Some favorite subjects of the artist included dancers and musicians.
One of his biggest influences was the artist Giocoma Balla, already profiled here.
Price range information: Works range from $5,000 to $750,000. The artist was a prolific printmaker.
Gino Severini passed away in 1966.
Severini had a great eye for composition. His Cubist and Futurist works showing the movement of human figure are fascinating for how many shapes they contain, whilst still showing a great sense of movement through out the picture.
Artist of the moment…….Roger Hilton
{ April 28, 2015 @ 11:32 am } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: abstract movement, animals, England, figures, London, roger hilton, slade school of art } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Roger Hilton was a English artist renown for his abstract works. The artist was born Roger Hildesheim, but the family later changed it's surname due to anti German feelings after the First World War. Roger Hilton was born in Northwood, London, England in the year 1911.
Hilton attended the Slade School of Art located in London, England.
Hilton served in World War 2. After a failed plan of attack by the Allied Forces, Hilton spent multiple years as a prisoner of war.
Though he was best known for his abstract art, later in his career the artist worked with the figure.
In this lengthy interview the artist's widow talks about Mr. Hilton during a show that celebrates his 1o0th birthday:
Roger Hilton passed away in 1975.
The artist won the John Moore Painting Prize.
Price range information: Works range from $20,000 to $300,000. Hilton worked in oils, watercolors, gouache, ink, pastel, and charcoal.
Hilton was a wonderful abstract using many different techniques of applying paint and mediums. Though he is associated with the Abstract Art movement after the War period, I enjoy his animals and figure works he painted later in his career the best. These works have almost perfect combinations of realism and abstraction.
Artist of the moment………Qavavau Manumie
{ Tags: animals, canada, canadian, cape dorset, drawings, figures, Inuit, Nunavut Territory, printmaker, Qavavau Manumie } ·	{ Leave a Comment }
Qavavau Manumie is a contemporary Inuit artist renown for his drawings of animals and people. Qavavau Manumie was born in Brandon, Manitoba in the year 1958.
The artist is now based out of Cape Dorset, Nunavut Territory, Canada.
His first solo exhibition took place in 2008. In this clip we view a show featuring Manumie that took place in 2012:
Manumie was one of the featured artist in the 2015 Cape Dorset print calendar.
Below a great interview with the artist:
I enjoy the Pop art aspect of Manumie's art. Though he works with traditional Inuit motifs, the artist also pays homage to modern items such as stiletto high heeled shoes. From a design aspect, his work is similar in composition to Kenjuak Ashevak.


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Judy Collins And Ari Hest On Mountain Stage The veteran folksinger is joined by one of her favorite songwriters, live on stage in West Virginia.
Mountain Stage
West Virginia Public Broadcasting presents live concerts: folk, country and the blues
Judy Collins And Ari Hest On Mountain Stage
June 7, 201612:18 PM ET
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Judy Collins and Ari Hest perform on Mountain Stage.
Judy Collins and Ari Hest appear together on Mountain Stage, recorded live on the campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown. Inspired by trailblazers like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, as well as the traditional songs of the '50s folk revival, Collins embarked on a career that has lasted more than five decades and is still going strong: At 77, she plays about 100 shows a year.
She's accompanied here by one of her favorite singer-songwriters, Ari Hest, a respected performer in his own right who is no stranger to Mountain Stage. The two became friends backstage at a concert years ago; that led to them recording a song for Collins' last album, which landed her on the Billboard charts for the first time in decades. The pair reunited to make the new album Silver Skies Blue as a true collaboration, the first of its kind in Collins' career.
This set includes two songs, "Someday Soon" and "Helplessly Hoping," that were not heard during the radio broadcast.
"Strangers Again"
"I Choose Love"
"Someday Soon"
"The Weight"
"Silver Skies Blue"
"Drifting Away"
"Home Before Dark"
"Helplessly Hoping"


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Q: How to remove BOM (ÿþ) from JGR and Deducer output in JGR console? I am grateful in advance for the help in removing the BOM from JGR console (analysis by Deducer package). In the output, attached screenshot, I see BOM (ÿþ) and I have tried everything I could find here and on the Web including Control Panel > Region > English (US), updating Java, Encoding using UTF-8 or UTF-16LE, etc.
The only thing that works is that I save the output and open it using RStudio, and using Find and Replace I replace all of BOM instances with nothing. This clears the output and make it readable.please see screenshot of the output from JGR console.
I would really appreciate it if anyone could help me getting rid of those unwanted characters in the outputs. Thank you!


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Home/Blog/10 Lessons for Travel's Recovery by Markus Wishenbart
10 Lessons for Travel's Recovery by Markus Wishenbart
Anderson Send an email May 24, 2021
The COVID-19 epidemic is undoubtedly considered the greatest decline in the tourism situation in terms of its speed, scope, and thoroughness of impact. As destinations and firms begin to revive after blockages, the tourism industry needs to think about what the skill has taught us about the nature of decline to prepare for the coming aftermath of COVID-19.
Ten things we have learned:
1. COVID-19 is not a normal decline: it is a mass emergence
As COVID-19 spreads into early 2020, almost all industries and firms have turned to or rushed to, their decline management strategies. Unfortunately, managers, specialists, and planners have noticed that they are lacking.
Not once did a tourism body or a company expect an event of this magnitude, moving at such a speed and impacting such a large number of people. There was practically no intention to react properly to the actions that had taken place. Why? Because the bulk of crisis management intentions were designed to contain and manage these events, like terrorist attacks or natural disasters.
Conventional crisis management focuses on logistics, communications, and global information tools at the district level to mitigate adverse illusions worldwide. COVID-19 rapidly evolved from a neighborhood difficulty to a cross-border decline and, eventually, to a mass emergence that affected every country and, ultimately, every person on earth. Such an assignment has changed the way we look at the decline in our globalized world, requiring intense district, regional, and mass management of fresh occurrences – whether cyberterrorism or climate disasters.
2. There are no Facts, only Basics
The year 2020 was marked by the unprecedented introduction of the text "Unprecedented," and for good reason.
No one has ever seen anything similar before. The Spanish flu of 1918 was not spread by global mass cross-border travel. The 1969 Hong Kong flu epidemic was not accompanied by "infodemic" misinformation and disinformation on public networks.
History is a great mentor, but our reality today is shaped by fresh forces: public, scale, and technology. But we have to analyze and evaluate our past results in the management of declines; we still have to think about the fact that we have entered a new era in which the future declines or appearances are considered fresh and will give us new challenges.
3. Warnings are worthwhile
It is inaccurate to say that we were not warned about a likely pandemic of this family. Warnings were ignored, and preparedness was relegated to "planning for the future." Almost all destinations and firms elementarily ignored much more early warnings that would have had the potential to help.
4. Overtourism was a probability of preparedness
Overtourism has dominated the conversations of our branch until recently. Overtourism has combined us with other branches of industry, such as mining and industrial agriculture, to influence the surrounding environment, climate, and societies. Extreme tourism has undermined and turned into a product of the skill of travel.
Some have argued that there was not the slightest real decline in tourism and that it was an important collapse of management. The size of tourism only had to be handled and distributed more than anything else to guarantee a steady rise.
5. Bazaar recalls
For the tourist firms, this collapse was an existential threat, and their key motivation is survival.
The reality is that almost all firms will not survive a long-term travel halt or, quite possibly, will not be able to compete in the emerging regulated, shrinking market. One thing has become clear, though. Every travel firm hoping to get healthy owes an aristocracy to the fact that the way they responded to COVID-19 will be remembered.
6. Fresh protocols here to stay
The result is COVID-19 can be cured, vaccinated, or stopped. But the fresh norm is just that, and we are not going back to where we were.
As firms cure, almost everyone believes that the current protocols have every chance of being temporary and will be eliminated with the support of a vaccine or cure, but this is virtually impossible. The correlation between mass travel and vector-borne viral transmission was a distinct warning: if COVID were more deadly, the resulting epidemic would have the potential to extend beyond a major public health collapse to an extinction-level action.
7. Recovery is a regional effort
The trip resumes but in phases. These phases are guided not by opportunism, but by policies pursued by several governing bodies.
How and when the destination is resumed is now beyond the scope of the Destination Management Organization (DMO) or the Ministry of Tourism. The health, foreign affairs, and security authorities are considered part of the conclusion process. The first real indicators of progress are the harmonized bilateral travel agreements, allowing travel between states that have reconciled their affairs, which leads to the creation of "weightless bridges" or "travel bubbles.
8. Global tourism: a thing of the past?
The sustainable future of travel after COVID-19 is likely to be the least large-scale, authentic, and experiential.
In recent years, the economics of tourism have been built on scale, and the globalization of business society has led to the prevalence of travel brands that have labored on large models. This has led to the transformation of travel into a global market product.
Before COVID-19, cracks were already being created in these global tourism models. The actual danger of excess tourism and the resulting displacement of tourism in Europe gave rise to mass antipathy and increasing attention to global travel. Younger travelers of the millennium have begun to apply technology to find true, small-scale skills, while more and more notices of the "Invisible Burden" of global tourism on the surrounding environment are becoming mainstream.
9. The future is costly
Global tourism made emotions that were more cheap and inexpensive, but the least personal. Apart from that, they were more overcrowded and no longer closed to the risks to well-being.
The painstaking balance between size and price was always a matter of cost. But almost all destinations labored to create strategies aimed at maximizing economic returns while lowering the impact, market forces, and political incentives for upswing and employment led to inevitable lowering of rates in return for building up the number of guests.
10. Skill is more significant than hygiene
After all, because the difficulties of resuming travel are considered a current reality, we never have to lose sight of the importance of customer service.
The temptation at the moment is to make a non-hazardous, hygienic trip a basic part of the travel equation and publicize it to interest guests. This is the same solely gaffe that was made after 9-11. Protected and secure was never an advertising message; it was a suspicion on behalf of the trade, proper that guests needed obvious reassurances to solidify confidence in the trip.
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