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Q: Minimum replacements in a string to make all 'X' chars to the left of all 'Y chars Hey everyone had this problem in an interview and can't seem to figure out the best way to do it. Any help would be much appreciated.
Problem:
You are given a string S. Each character of the string is either 'W' or 'R'.

*

*W represents a white-colored flower.

*R represents a red-colored flower

A string is considered beautiful if all the white-colored flowers are on the left of all the red-colored flowers. You can replace any white-colored flower with a red-colored flower and vice versa.
Your task is to find the minimum number of replacements that must be made to make string S beautiful.
sample cases:
1.) input: "RWRW"
output: 2 ("WWRR" or "WWWW" or "RRRR")
2.) input: "RRRR"
output: 0 ("RRRR")
3.) input: "RWWWRR"
output: 1 ("WWWWRR")

A: This can be solved in a single pass through the array keeping O(1) state.
We do this by finding the best place to split the array so that in the solution all the flowers to the left are white and all the flowers to the right are red. That's the same as finding i from 0 to N that minimizes the number of red flowers to the left of i plus the number of white flowers to the right of i, because that's the numbers of flowers we'd have to change to split the array at i.
Suppose the length of the array is N, there's R total red flowers (so N-R red flowers), and let r[i] be the number of red flowers to the left of i, r'[i] the number of red flowers to the right of i, and the same for white flowers with w[i] and w'[i].
We want to find i such that r[i] + w'[i] is minimized (the number of red flowers to the left of i plus the number of white flowers to the right of i -- these are the ones we'd have to change).
But w'[i] + w[i] = (N-R), and r[i] + w[i] = i, so r[i] + w'[i] = r[i] + (N-i)-(R-r[i]) = 2r[i] - i + (N - R).
Thus we need to find i that minimizes 2r[i] - i + (N - R). Since N-R is constant, that's the same as finding i such that 2r[i] - i is minimized. By the time we've processed the whole array, we have the value for R, and can construct the return value.
Here's some python code that uses this method, along with some test cases.
def min_changes(A):
    best, besti = 1e12, -1
    r = 0
    for i in range(len(A)+1):
        v = 2 * r - i
        if v < best:
            besti, best = i, v
        if i < len(A):
            r += A[i] == 'R'
    return best + len(A) - r, 'W' * besti + 'R' * (len(A) - besti)

tests = [("RWRW", 2, "RRRR"), ("RRRR", 0, "RRRR"), ("RWWWRR", 1, "WWWWRR")]
for s, n, r in tests:
    gotn, gotr = min_changes(s)
    if gotn != n or gotr != r:
        print("FAILED",)
    print(s, gotn, gotr)

A: This looks like a dynamic programming problem. Let
dp[i][0] = minimum number of changes if the i-th flower is white
dp[i][1] = minimum number of changes if the i-th flower is white

Base state:
dp[0][0] = int(arr[0] != "W")
dp[0][1] = int(arr[0] != "R")

Now, to calculate the values for dp[i], we look at the cases:

*

*If arr[i] == "R"

*

*If arr[i-1] == "R", then arr[i] has to be "R".

*If arr[i-1] == "W", then arr[i] can be "R" or "W".

*arr[i][1] = min(arr[i-1][0], arr[i-1][1])

*arr[i][0] = arr[i-1][0] + 1

*If arr[i] == "W"

*

*If arr[i-1] == "R", then arr[i] has to be "R" (so we'll have to modify current flower).

*If arr[i-1] == "W", then arr[i] can be "R" (which needs modification) or "W" (no modification needed).

*arr[i][0] = arr[i-1][0]

*arr[i][1] = min(arr[i-1][0], arr[i-1][1]) + 1
In the end, your answer becomes min(dp[n-1][0], dp[n-1][1])
Simple Python implementation:
s = "RWWWRR"
n = len(s)
dp = [[0,0] for i in range(n)]
dp[0][0] = int(s[0] != "W")
dp[0][1] = int(s[0] != "R")
for i in range(1,n):
    if s[i] == "R":
        dp[i][1] = min(dp[i-1])
        dp[i][0] = dp[i-1][0] + 1
    else:
        dp[i][1] = min(dp[i-1]) + 1
        dp[i][0] = dp[i-1][0]

print(min(dp[n-1]))


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CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury (right) with Chief Minister-elect Pinarayi Vijayan in Thiruvananthapuram on May 20. Photo: PTI
LDF supporters celebrate the party's victory in Kollam. Photo: C. Suresh Kumar
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In a State that values its secular political traditions, voters rally behind the Left Democratic Front because of its consistent stand against divisive politics and its opposition to the misguided policies of the Congress-led front.
Kerala's political landscape may have turned hazy all of a sudden with the arrival of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led third front, but the election verdict was unequivocal: it was against corruption, bad governance, misguided policies and communal politics and emphatically in favour of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF).
In a contest in which the BJP pulled out all the stops to make its long-cherished breakthrough in Kerala —with an array of its national leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah, leading the campaign of an alliance of nearly a dozen community-based organisations, and fielding candidates in all the 140 constituencies—the State gave the LDF one of its most resounding electoral victories in the past few decades.
The clear turn to the Left was marked by the 91-seat victory that it gave the LDF, 23 seats more than what it had in the 140-member Assembly last time. It won 39.1 per cent of the total votes (not including the percentage of votes of the five CPI(M)-backed independents); the ruling Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF), which won 47 seats, got only 36.6 per cent of the total votes, a sharp fall from its share in the 2011 election.
Yet, for the first time in the history of the State, the BJP succeeded in winning a seat in the Kerala Assembly, lost another by a whisker (89 votes), and came second in six other constituencies, pushing the UDF in most cases, or the LDF, to the third position.
A day after the results were announced, the CPI(M), which won 63 seats (including those of its five independents), chose former party secretary Pinarayi Vijayan —who, along with Opposition Leader V.S. Achuthanandan, had led the LDF's spirited election campaign against both the UDF's corruption-tainted government and the BJP's new alliance—as the new Chief Minister of Kerala.
The quick decision came as a relief for party cadres, just as the cordiality that the two leaders maintained throughout the campaign did, which was one of the main reasons for the LDF's historic victory.
The BJP's long-cherished dream of winning at least one seat in Kerala was made a reality finally by its most familiar face in Kerala, former Union Minister O. Rajagopal, who won at Nemom, a constituency adjoining Thiruvananthapuram, after several unsuccessful attempts earlier. The only sure vote-getter for the party until now, who seemed fated to contest in hopeless elections, finally created history for the party by defeating the CPI(M)'s two-time MLA V. Sivankutty by a margin of 8,617 votes.
The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 15.8 per cent of the total votes polled in Kerala this time, up from the 6.3 per cent the BJP got in the Assembly election in 2011, when it contested alone.
None of its alliance partners—the Bharath Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS), claiming the support of Ezhavas, the largest Hindu backward caste community in the State; the Janadhipathya Rashtriya Sabha (JRS), formed by former Adivasi Gothra Mahasabha leader C.K. Janu; or the Kerala Congress faction led by former NDA Member of Parliament P.C. Thomas—managed to win a seat or even a second place in any constituency. Janu came third in Sulthan Bathery, a constituency in the tribal district of Wayanad, the only seat her new party had contested. She got 27,920 votes as against the 75,747 votes for the winning UDF candidate.
An individual who made history of another sort this time was the former Kerala Congress (M) rebel leader and Government Chief Whip, P.C. George, a controversial crusader-politician prone to switching loyalties. He won again as an independent from the central Kerala constituency of Poonjar, fighting the ruling and opposition fronts tooth and nail, as well as the candidate of the BJP-led front and 15 other independents. In a State where only candidates supported by either of the two traditional coalitions usually win elections, George emerged victorious with 63,621 votes, 27,821 more than his nearest Kerala Congress (M) rival, Georgekutty Augusty.
But the real story of this election is certainly the total domination of the LDF, especially in the southern and northern districts. Only in Kottayam and Ernakulam, the two central districts, and in Malappuram, the Muslim League's stronghold in north Kerala, could the UDF gain a higher, though reduced, tally of seats.
Among the LDF's prominent winners were Pinarayi Vijayan (victory margin: 36,905 votes) at Dharmadom in Kannur district; V.S. Achuthanandan (27,142 votes) at Malampuzha in Palakkad district; E.P. Jayarajan (43,381 votes) at Mattannur; former Finance Minister Thomas Isaac (31,032 votes) in Alappuzha; and A.K. Balan (23,068 votes) in Tarur.
Within the LDF, the CPI(M) got 58 seats on its own this time, and the CPI 19; the Janata Dal (Secular) three, the Nationalist Congress Party two, and the Communist Marxist Party, the Congress (S), the Kerala Congress (B) and the National Secular Conference one each.
The extent of the LDF's sweep can be gauged from the nature of the results in the 14 districts. It won nine of the 14 seats in Thiruvananthapuram (UDF four and NDA one); all the 11 seats in Kollam; four of the five seats in Pathanamthitta; eight of the nine seats in Alappuzha; two of the nine seats in Kottayam (UDF six and the independent P.C. George one); three of the five seats in Idukki; five of the 14 seats in Ernakulam; 12 of the 13 seats in Thrissur (the UDF won Wadakkancherry by just 43 votes); nine of the 12 seats in Palakkad; four of the 16 seats in Malappuram; 11 of the 13 seats in Kozhikode; two of the three seats in Wayanad; eight of the 11 seats in Kannur; and three of the five seats in Kasargod.
The UDF lost a total of 25 seats it had won last time. The Congress won only 22 seats (23.7 per cent of the votes), just three more than its biggest partner, the Muslim League (18 seats, with 7.4 per cent of the votes). The other prominent UDF partner, the Kerala Congress (Mani)—KC(M)—won only six seats. K.M. Mani, its leader, who was forced to resign as State Finance Minister in the wake of court observations in the bar bribery scam case, scraped through at Pala, his stronghold for several decades, with a margin of 4,703 votes. In contrast, his party colleague and co-chairman of the KC(M), P.J. Joseph, triumphed at Thodupuzha with the highest margin of 45,587 votes in this election.
The only other UDF partner to win a seat was the Kerala Congress (Jacob), with Minister Anoop Jacob retaining his family fief, Piravom. Three other UDF constituents, the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), the Janata Dal (United)—JD (U)—and the Communist Marxist Party (C.P. John faction), do not have a representative in the new Assembly.
Four members in the UDF Cabinet—Excise Minister K. Babu, who was also involved in the bar bribery scam, Labour Minister Shibu Baby John, Agriculture Minister K.P. Mohanan and Scheduled Tribe Development Minister P.K. Jayalakshmi—lost in their respective strongholds. Assembly Speaker N. Sakthan, Deputy Speaker Palode Ravi, Government Chief Whip Thomas Unniyadan and several prominent Congress MLAs and spokespersons too failed to make it.
The RSP, which included a faction that left the LDF during the 2011 Assembly election, faced a rout, failing to win even a single seat this time against LDF candidates. The party lost all the five seats it contested, and its leaders, Shibu Baby John and general secretary A.A. Aziz, were defeated in the party's strongholds.
Similar was the case with the JD(U), which had left the LDF during the 2011 Lok Sabha election to join the UDF. It contested in seven seats this time.
KC (M), which had won nine seats last time, lost three prestigious seats—Poonjar, Irinjalakkuda and Kothamangalam. Another Kerala Congress, KC(B), named after one of the founding members of the UDF, K. Balakrishna Pillai, had joined the LDF this time, and managed to retain Pathanapuram in Kollam district. Pillai's son, the controversial actor-politician K.B. Ganesh Kumar, won comfortably with a margin of 24,562 votes, over two other prominent Malayalam film actors, Jagadish and "Bheeman" Raghu, fielded by the Congress and the BJP respectively.
Another popular film actor, Mukesh, the CPI(M)'s candidate in Kollam, also won an easy victory. Of the two local media personalities who contested as CPI(M) candidates, only one, Veena George, won in Aranmula in a tough three-cornered fight with a popular Congress MLA, K. Sivadasan Nair, and the BJP leader M.T. Ramesh. At Azhikode, former UDF Minister M.V. Raghavan's son, Nikesh Kumar, was, however, defeated by the Muslim League MLA K.M. Shaji.
The State saw the rout of three Kerala Congress factions in 2016. The Democratic Kerala Congress, a faction that left the KC(M) and joined hands with the LDF on the eve of this election, was rejected by the electorate. All its four leaders were defeated in prestigious contests, some involving their former party colleagues. The new party's chairman, Francis George, son of the founder-chairman of the original Kerala Congress that split later into various factions, himself lost the Idukki seat to a KC(M) MLA, Roshy Augustine, by 9,333 votes.
The Kerala Congress (Scaria Thomas), an LDF partner, and Kerala Congress (P.C. Thomas), part of the NDA, also failed to win a seat.
The UDF got 12 of its tally of 47 seats from a single district, Malappuram, the stronghold of the Muslim League, which was the only party to emerge relatively unscathed from the LDF onslaught. The UDF won 12 of the 16 seats in the district; its tally there was 14 in 2011.
In Tanur, a constituency that had remained a Muslim League fortress for over 60 years, and Nilambur, a fief of the prominent Congress leader Aryadan Muhammed, the LDF's strategy of fielding independents led to the shocking defeat of the Muslim League leader Abdurahiman Randathani and the Congress' Aryadan Shoukat (Aryadan Muhammed's son) respectively. The LDF's sitting MLAs, K.T. Jaleel and P. Sreeramakrishnan, were also able to increase their vote share in Thavanoor and Ponnani respectively.
It seemed ironic that two opposing camps were celebrating this time in Kerala after the Assembly election results were announced: one camp had taken an uncompromising stand against corruption and religious majority communalism all along and triumphed in this election, winning 91 of the 140 seats. The other was out to make gains for the first time with a new divisive strategy in Kerala politics and had won just a single seat in the Assembly, way behind a thoroughly demoralised UDF.
For the BJP leadership, obviously, it was a now-or-never battle this time, and it has more reasons to be happy about the marked rise in the party's total vote share than the single seat it managed to win this time. Party leaders have since said that the battle for Kerala is "only beginning".
Kerala witnessed stiff three-cornered fights for the first time in constituencies such as Vattiyoorkkavu (where the BJP State president Kummanam Rajasekharan lost to former State Congress president K. Muraleedharan by 7,622 votes); Kazhakkoottam and Kattakkada in Thiruvananthapuram district; Aranmula in Pathanamthitta district; Chengannur in Alappuzha district; Manalur in Thrissur district; Palakkad and nearby Malampuzha (where it came second after Opposition Leader V.S. Achuthanandan); Kozhikode North and so on.
At Manjeswaram in Kasargod district adjoining Karnataka, another seasoned BJP candidate, K. Surendran, lost the contest by just 89 votes against the Muslim League's P.B. Abdul Razak in a contest in which the CPI(M) candidate too won more than 42,565 votes. An independent candidate, "K. Sundara", got 467 votes. In Kasargod constituency, an unknown BJP candidate, Ravisha Tantri Kuntar, lost by 8,607 votes to N.A. Nellikkunnu of the Muslim League and pushed the LDF candidate, the Indian National League's (INL) A.A. Ameen, to the third place.
In a large number of constituencies, the BJP-NDA candidates won between 20,000 and 35,000 votes, although it would take a more careful analysis of the results to see whether it was the BJP or its allies, especially the BDJS, which benefited more from the alliance. The BDJS had fielded candidates in 36 constituencies as part of the NDA front. In at least 20 constituencies, they have managed between 20,000 and 35,000 votes, not enough to win the election but sufficient to play the role of a spoiler.
But the case of Nemom is different. Unlike in Manjeswaram, for instance, where the candidates of the Muslim League, the BJP and the CPI(M), won 56,870, 56781 and 42,565 votes respectively in one of the closest triangular fights of the 2016 election, at Nemom, the contest seemed bipolar. While Rajagopal won 67,813 votes, the CPI(M) candidate Sivankutty got 59,142 votes. The UDF, which got 32,639 votes in the Lok Sabha election and 33,100 votes in the local body elections in the Nemom Assembly segment, got only 13,860 votes this time. Its candidate, V. Surendran Pillai, lost his deposit, something unheard of in Kerala for a UDF or an LDF candidate. In a contest that was so crucial for the BJP, the UDF, surprisingly, fielded Surendran Pillai, a politician and a former Minister who had switched sides from a Kerala Congress faction in the LDF on the eve of the election campaign.
In spite of statements by Congress leaders such as A.K. Antony that his party's main enemy was the BJP, a lukewarm UDF campaign, with little support from Congress workers, eventually fetched Surendran Pillai merely 13,680 votes, obviously the main reason for the BJP's first-ever victory in Kerala. This has given credence to the LDF's allegations about an unholy alliance between the Congress and BJP leaderships for mutual benefit in this election, namely, support for Rajagopal to win Nemom in return for similar help for the Congress party in other constituencies.
The results need a more detailed scrutiny before firm conclusions can be drawn about the impact of the rise of the BJP alliance in the State. No doubt, the categorical verdict favouring the LDF this time is the result mainly of the extreme credibility deficit the UDF government faced towards the end of its term. Innumerable scams and scandals had besieged it. As Frontline reported earlier, activities of liquor barons, land grabbers, exploiters of natural resources, unscrupulous ruling front politicians and a businesswoman of uncertain integrity caused shocking allegations to be raised against members of the Cabinet, including the Chief Minister, which led to governance being kept on hold for months on end.
Even the government's accidental liquor policy which sought to introduce prohibition in a phased manner by first closing down nearly 730 liquor bars, and the string of development projects that the UDF government claimed credit for—including the metro rail in Kochi, the airport project in Kannur, the mega port project at Vizhinjam (near Nemom) that it launched with the support of the Adanis (a business group known to be close to Prime Minister Modi and his party)—did not convince the people, especially as the LDF mounted a persistent campaign against them.
Thus, the situation as the UDF completed its five years in office was very similar to the one in Kerala in 2006, when another discredited Congress-led government was voted out of power on a wave of anti-incumbency factors. But this time in the State, the BJP too was extending its hand to the people as an alternative by mobilising an umbrella grouping of caste and community organisations and through an unprecedented, motivated campaign.
To its credit, even as it opposed the policies and misdeeds of the UDF government, the LDF left no one in doubt about its opposition to religious majority communalism and the facets of its spread in India. Right from the beginning, it also opposed the BJP-BDJS alliance as a vicious communal challenge that threatened the secular, democratic fabric of Kerala.
The UDF, on the other hand, often came through as taking a softer stand towards the BJP's new alliance. Its leaders perhaps saw in the BJP's coalition a political opportunity, believing that the votes that the BJP/BDJS attracted would be from the majority community, especially the Ezhavas, a large section of which has habitually voted for the LDF in the past. Similarly, the conventional belief was that, come what may, minority votes would go in favour of the UDF, especially because of the presence of the Muslim League and all the main Kerala Congress factions in its fold.
But as the results have shown, the BJP alliance seems to have gained at the expense of the UDF, not the LDF, in a number of constituencies where the NDA had substantially increased its share of votes. The trend could be seen in the results from constituencies with significant minority/Ezhava populations too. In a State with its time-tested social and political traditions which seek to bind all sections of people together irrespective of religion or caste, the NDA's divisive mobilisation was the red rag that made all those apprehensive of its intentions to rally behind the LDF, which had consistently opposed the BJP's agenda as well as all the misguided policies of the tainted UDF government.
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William Ward was born in July, 1787, at Islington and educated at Winchester where he first played cricket. He was a fine powerful batsman being a hard driver and generally, he played with a bat weighing 4 lb. but much heavier bats were in use at the time of the underhand bowling. His first recorded match was in 1810 when he appeared for England against Surrey at Lord's. At the beginning of his career he did nothing remarkable, being unable to spare the necessary time. Then, when thirty, he was appointed a Director of the Bank of England and from then on his batting steadily improved for the next ten seasons. His greatest achievement was when at Lord's in July, 1820, he scored 278 against Norfolk, a score that remained unparalleled in first class cricket until W. G. Grace eclipsed it with 344 in 1876. The innings began on Ward's thirty-third birthday and lasted from the first to the third day of the match. After this he made many impressive scores, 120 for Hampshire against England, 109 and 95 for his own eleven against the bowling of Budd, Caldecourt and Powell, 171 not out for the M.C.C. v. Middlesex and 102 for Gentlemen v. Players. Ward was against the new round-arm bowling, mainly because he had difficulty playing it, but his many high scores added much weight to the argument for a bowling reform. He appeared several times for Hampshire, owning property in that county and he made 18 appearances for the Gentlemen against the Players between 1819 and 1838. About 1825, he purchased from Thomas Lord, the lease of Lord's Ground for five thousand pounds, when Lord was considering selling the ground for building. In 1836 J. H. Dark purchased the remainder of the lease from Ward. He continued to participate in the game until two years before his death in 1849.
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I checked my normal daily feeds and saw a post titled "Important announcement regarding FreeNAS Corral" on the FreeNAS forums. Once I opened it, I realized it was Kris Moore (direct of engineering for FreeNAS) posting. Uh oh.
I half expected that this post was going to say that Corral is going the paid route or someone bought it. Instead, with a heavy hand, Kris Moore typed out that because of user issues and lack of full feature integration, FreeNAS Corral is being pulled from an official stable build status to a "technology preview" status.
The main take away is that the FreeNAS Corral UI was built on a less-than-standard framework called MontageJS and the Montage Studio development team disbanded. On top of that, many features (some of which I would label as requirements, not features) are not supported or at least not implemented yet in FreeNAS Corral which is why I couldn't continue to run it. There is not configuration for post-init scripts for configuring network interfaces after boot (think bridging, etc.) and there was serious amounts of settings missing from iSCSI setup.
I personally did deploy FreeNAS Corral but as soon as I booted up and realized there was no post-init config script support along with iSCSI access control, I had to boot back into 9.10 U2.
That said, hats off to the FreeNAS team for deciding that pulling Corral off the shelf for the time beingFreeNAS 9.10 has been unbelievably solid for myself and others everywhere. Instead of forcing Corral out the door with known issues and discontinued UI support, the team is going to release a new Angular-based UI in 9.10.3 with many of the added features from Corral.
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At a press conference Monday morning in the Roosevelt auditorium, Duong was recognized as the contest's winning artist. Her work will be featured on 300 manhole covers to be placed throughout the city as reminders to residents to help protect our water by being more conscientious about residues flowing from their properties into central Iowa waterways.
There was plenty of wetland wildlife on hand, and Gil, the biggest bluegill you'll ever see, but the central focus of the event was, of all things, a manhole cover.
Duong's design depicts water flowing between the fingers of a human hand in the foreground against a backdrop of the Des Moines skyline. It's framed by the words: It Is In Our Hands – Protect Our Water.
"I had pretty much forgotten about the contest until last week," said Duong prior to the recognition ceremonies. Entries, by the way, were not limited to student submissions.
Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie called her to the podium and awarded her a full-sized replica of the winning work that will be installed as the city completes storm water projects on streets around town. Call it a plaque, a trophy or a prototype; it's a masterpiece in the rarely used medium of cast iron. She also received a check for $250.
"Last week Ellie wondered why she was being called to the office," said Mayor Cownie. "It certainly wasn't for any sort of punishment. It was to share the news that her beautiful artwork had been selected for this campaign."
Chris Hensley represents the Roosevelt ward on the City Council and she said Duong's award-winning creation represents a merger of arts and science.
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Now, in addition to the Pappajohn Sculpture Park, the I.M Pei-designed wing of the Art Center and the David Chipperfield Central Library, Des Moines boasts the avant-garde Duong manhole covers.
The first of them has already been installed on Center Street which runs adjacent to the Roosevelt campus between 42nd Street and Polk Boulevard. The rest will be coming soon to neighborhoods.


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Since January 1995, we've recorded most of our Sunday morning and evening messages on video. Our intention is to preserve these in a digital library that can be viewed, searched, and referenced as desired. This is a work in progress.
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Recent Videos (December 2016 to present)
Our first live broadcast was on December 18, 2016 using Facebook Live and a webcam connected to a laptop. We've come a long way since then but this is the first high definition broadcast and although it was a proof-of-concept test, it effectively kicked off our streaming ministry. Although we have archives of these videos, the easiest way to find them on on our Notchey Creek Baptist Church Facebook page. We started with 720p (a Facebook requirement at the time) and moved to 1080p in early 2019. In January 2018 we moved from the laptop with webcam to a multi-camera setup which allowed us to capture a combination of shots, such as wide angle and zoomed in shots for special music and preaching.
Near History (circa 2010 to December 2016)
In this recording era, we recorded standard definition video to a DVD recorder. Although the quality was slightly higher due to the digital format, DVDs also face organic degradation so these are being copied to a more modern storage method. Some of these have been copied to our YouTube channel in a playlist called "Sermon Videos" and more may be added in the future.
Distant History (January 1995 – 2010)
As far as we can tell, our video ministry began in January 1995 when the new sanctuary was dedicated and began being used starting with revival services. Thankfully someone set a camera on a tripod and began recording. In those early days the master recorded was made to VHS tapes, followed in the early 2000s by DVDs. Beginning in 2019 we have begun digitizing the VHS recordings to hard drives for long term storage. We will slowly be adding some of these videos to our Archive playlists on our YouTube channel, starting with a 1995 archive playlist. We plan on capturing data into a searchable database for our digital library so things like who led the choir, who sang special music, who preached, who was baptized and who was saved could be searched for. This seems like the most efficient way to provide value to you without trying to upload almost 2,000 raw videos.
Ancient History (pre-1995)
Sorry if that makes us feel old but digitally speaking, anything prior to 1995 is ancient. We're told there are old videos and maybe even some reel-to-reel recordings in private collections. At this time we don't have any of those but if you know of how we can see them, PLEASE contact us! We would love to digitize a copy to share with the community and to preserve the recording.
We may have a few boxes of old audio recordings and if so we will of course digitize those as well.
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If you have a request for a specific date, please send us a note and we'll try to digitize it and upload so you can view the video online.
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In the flood of daily news headlines, it is sometimes difficult to remember that there was a time when the US government, if not always its citizens, took pride in welcoming immigrants to these shores. So, although neither I nor anyone else involved in the timing of my latest podcast interview with Adrienne Celt planned the coincidence, it seems somehow appropriate to feature a novel that traces the divergent but ultimately converging life histories of three migrants.
In this case, the force driving the characters' decision to leave their homeland is the chaos created by the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the formation of the new Bolshevik regime.
Lev Orlov—explicitly inspired by the well-known author Vladimir Nabokov, here recast as a writer of science fiction—and his wife, Vera, flee the disintegrating Russian Empire because their aristocratic backgrounds leave them without a place in the land of their birth. They are "former people," in the language of the 1920s.
Zoya Andropova, in contrast, should have no trouble fitting into the new Soviet Union. A peasant by birth, she is the daughter of a revolutionary and a loyal member of the Young Pioneers. But the October Revolution, like the French Revolution before it, proved all too willing to eat its own children. When Zoya's mother dies and her father disappears (i.e., is shot by the state), Zoya ends up in an orphanage. A US charity intervenes and sweeps her off to the New World. And there, in due course, Zoya's trajectory intersects with that of the Orlovs—producing, not to put too fine a point on it, fireworks worthy of the Fourth of July.
As usual, the rest of this post comes from New Books in Historical Fiction:
Zoya Andropova—soon to be known in her adopted country as Zoë Andropov—didn't ask to be rescued from her Soviet orphanage, even after the arrest of her father, a strong supporter of the very regime that has now taken his life. But rescued she is, by well-meaning Americans, who soon dump her at a wealthy boarding school where she struggles to retain far more than her name. She takes refuge in literature, in particular by the émigré writer Lev (Leo) Orlov, whose science fiction transports her to more satisfying times and places.
So perhaps it is no surprise that when Orlov shows up to teach at the school where Zoya, having nowhere else to go, has moved from student to worker, she tumbles into love with him, ignoring both his advances to the other girls and his very present and controlling wife, Vera. Zoya charts the evolution of this romantic triangle in her diary, which we read, interspersed with letters from Lev to Vera.
As Adrienne Celt notes early on, Invitation to a Bonfire (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018) is inspired by the life of the well-known Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov. But as the story builds, it leaves the details of Nabokov's life and marriage behind, roaring out of a deliberately quiet academic beginning until it reaches a place that upends much of what we have believed up to that point.
The Literary Hub chose this interview for its Friday Feature this week, but because of the holiday the staff decided to run the post on Monday, in the expectation of greater traffic. So you can find their transcript and listen to the podcast by clicking on the preceding link.
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Our House in Yellowstone, Part 2 – Hydrothermal Edition
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October 28, 2016:
Geysers and mudpots and hot springs, oh my!
Yellowstone is probably best known for its hydrothermal features. We aren't going to give you a tour of the various basins and sites and the various features they contain, but more of an overall view of what the features are like. You really need to go and see for yourself.
The best known hydrothermal feature in Yellowstone is, of course, Old Faithful. It not only puts on an impressive show, sending a plume of super heated water as high as 185 feet (56 m), it is also one of the most predictable geysers on Earth, erupting about every hour. It's been doing that since explorers discovered and named it in 1870. [click to enlarge]
Old Faithful is just one of many hundreds of geysers in Yellowstone. It's not even the biggest, just the best known and most reliable.
Many are a lot less reliable.
The park's, and probably the world's highest currently active geyser is Steamboat Geyser (above), which can erupt up to 300 feet (91 m) into the air. It might not be worth waiting around to see it, though. It hasn't erupted in more than 2 years, and the period between major eruptions has varied between 4 days and 50 years.
Most geysers are a lot smaller. [click to enlarge]
It was fun to watch this one drain and fill:
Some erupt pretty much all the time:
Yellowstone is home to hundreds of clear and colorful hot spring pools. [click to enlarge]
These springs may be boiling hot, or they may appear to boil as gasses from far below bubble up to the surface.
Some of these springs look like they would be a great place to take a dip, especially on a chilly fall day. In reality, many of these pools are either so hot or so acidic (or both) that the park takes serious measures to ensure that you can view them, but stay out of them.
These measures include boardwalks through hydrothermal viewing areas [click to enlarge]:
Some folks don't have the good sense to heed the repeated signed warnings and decide to venture off the boardwalks. Disaster can ensue.
There's a lot of color around many of the hydrothermal features. [click to enlarge]
What causes those brilliant colors? For the most part it's caused by thermophilic (heat loving) microbes. Microbes of different colors have their own preferred temperatures, resulting in colored patterns as the water changes temperature.
The minerals and microbes in these pools join up to form interesting new structures. [click to enlarge]
On a larger scale, silica and other minerals dissolved into the water below get left behind, creating a new stony mineral, geyserite: [click to enlarge]
In some places, there is relatively little water, and more minerals. In these places, features range from tinted water to slowly bubbling mud pots:
Some of these features become more or less viscous as the seasons become wetter or drier.
In addition to geysers and mudpots and hot springs, there are also several places where steam escapes from underground through vents called fumaroles. Sometimes just a gentle mist, and sometimes blasting out like an industrial nightmare.
Many of these features are accompanied by a strong odor of sulfur, and some, particularly the fumaroles, make foreboding hissing and roaring noises. It certainly isn't surprising that some explorers and early (possibly present) visitors have wondered if they were witnessing the gateway to the underworld.
The hydrothermal features constantly shift. Today's parking lot is tomorrow's steam vent:
One of the best parts about walking around and seeing all these hundreds of features is that there is so much variety. Each feature is the result of a unique collection of water temperature, water quantity, soil conditions, and other factors, so that most really are something quite new to look at. And on top of that, you're looking at all these amazing features in the context of an otherwise amazing place:
We think Yellowstone would be one of the amazing places on Earth, just because of its hydrothermal features. But stay tuned, we have another side of Yellowstone to show you. In the meantime, here are some more pictures:
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9 thoughts on "Our House in Yellowstone, Part 2 – Hydrothermal Edition"
Dad, Mom October 28, 2016 / 6:04 pm
Beautiful pictures as usual. What an amazing place!
Ann October 28, 2016 / 11:47 pm
Beautiful shots…good job, guys!
Larry G Jones October 30, 2016 / 8:27 am
Is it at all like Arkansas Springs? Where you can soak in the water? Frankly, I'd be afraid. Great shots.
ourhousein November 2, 2016 / 4:34 pm
No soaking Larry Jones. The water can literally boil your bones!
ourhousein October 30, 2016 / 2:33 pm
There are actually two places in Yellowstone where you can swim in the warm water, both in rivers where the heat is mitigated by the cooler river water. Outside the park, there are several hot springs developed for people to soak in as they do in Arkansas and other places around the world. For the most park, this requires development that completely erases the natural appearance of the place, so even if some of the springs in Yellowstone were safe to enter, we still wouldn't want people going in them. Besides, it might encourage them to try others . . .
Ron Johannsen October 30, 2016 / 4:50 pm
As always a great report. I didn't know about the thermophilic bacteria and layered colors association-Thanks. Miss you guys, Dad
Debbie October 31, 2016 / 3:16 pm
I had no idea there was so much color associated with different geysers. Gotta get me some of that geyserite. (But not out of the park.)
Kate Kielkopf November 2, 2016 / 2:30 pm
Wow! Amazing photos.
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Instagram can be a great resource for small business visual advertising. Since Instagram is a picture sharing system, you must make every effort to create the best visuals for your followers in order to involve clients - App for Instagram Pictures.
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Buddhism is one of the influential religion in the world. Buddhism is not only established as a religion but it also inaugurates philosophies that plays an important role in the history of philosophy. It was evolved in northeastern India in the 5th century BC as a counter of Hindu religion (Santan Dharma). Buddhism is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as "The Buddha", who was born in Nepal. The purpose of Buddha was to overcome Dukkha (sorrows) and to get rid of the dualism that mankind is crawling in his whole life. In a word it is a goal to attain "Nirvana". The Buddhism Temples are the center of Buddha's teaching. The temples also bear the symbol of peace and serenity. Today we are over viewing some the most famous Buddhist temples in the world.
Haeinsa, well known as "Temple of Reflection on a Smooth Sea" is one of the three jewel temples in South Korea. Haeinsa is quite famous for being the home of the Tripitaka Koreana, the whole of the Buddhist Scriptures engraved onto 81,350 wooden blocks. First built in 802, the temple had to rebuild in the 19th century after it was burned down in a fire in 1817.
According to Korean Legend, two Korean monks, Suneung and Ijeong returned from China, and healed King Aejang's wife of her illness. The king ordered the construction of the temple in gratitude of the Buddha's mercy.
Wat Arun Ratchawararam Ratchawararamahawihan, located on the Thonburi side of the Chao Phraya River is one of the oldest and best known Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand. The name of the temple attains from the Hindu god "Aruna" who is represented as the radiations of the rising sun. The central prang represents Mount Meru of the Hindu cosmology. . Despite it is called "The temple of Dawn", the best views of it can be seen in sunset.
Situated in Vientiane, Pha That Luang is a gold covered stupa. It is one of the most important Buddhist monument in Laos. The stupa terraces has three level. Each level represents a different stage of Buddhist doctrines. It was built in the 16th century on the ruins of an earlier Khmer temple. The temple was destroyed by a Thai attack in 1828, later reconstructed after 2nd World War. It is our 8th choice in our list of top 10 most famous Buddhist temples around the world.
The Jokhang Temple is one of the famous Buddhist temple, situated in Lhasa. It is the most sacred place in Tibet. The temple attracts thousands of pilgrims each year. It was built during the reign of King Songtsän Gampo. It is well known traditionally that the temple was built for the two wives of the king. The Jokhang temple had been sacked by Mongolian several times but the building remains. It is probably a major tourist attraction and a spiritual center of Lhasa.
Tōdai-ji is a famous Buddhist temple complex that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples. It is situated in the city of Nara, Japan. Built in the 8th century by Emperor Shomu, a little remains of the original buildings of Todaiji. It resides one of the largest Buddha statues in Japan. This is one of the temple that UNESCO World Heritage Site listed as one of the "Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara".
Boudhanath is one of the largest stupas in the world in a suburb of Kathmandu. For its enormous mandala, it is one of the largest spherical stupas in Nepal. In the last few decades, It has become the center of Tibetan Buddhism in Nepal and many refugees from Tibet have settled here .This Bauddha stupa was built just after the death of Buddha. That makes it more special than others probably best known for the Buddha eyes that are featured on all four sides of the tower.
The Mahabodhi (Great Enlightenment) Temple is one the most famous Buddhist stupa in Bodh Gaya, India. It is said that Buddha himself attained Nirvana (Enlightenment) here. The holy Bodhi tree is on its western side, next to the temple. In 250 BCE, about 200 years after the Buddha gained Nirvana, great Emperor Asoka built a temple at this spot. The present temple is 5th-6th century old. Mahabodhi Temple is considered at number four in our list of top 10 most famous Buddhist Temples.
The Shwedagon Pagoda (or Golden Pagoda) located in Yangon, is the holiest Buddhist shrine in Myanmar. Historians and archaeologists mentioned that the pagoda was built by the Mon people between the 6th and 10th centuries CE. But according to legend, the Shwedagon Pagoda was constructed more than 2,600 years ago. So Mon people might rebuilt it. Base of the stupa is made of bricks covered with gold plates.
Bagan, a city that once was the capital of the "Kingdom of pagan", located on the banks of the Ayerwaddy River, home to the largest area of Buddhist temples, stupas, pagodas and ruins in the world. The kingdom fell to the Mongols, actually after refusing to pay tribute to Kublai Khan and Bagan in 1287. It was quickly declined as a political center but continued to flourish as a place of Buddhist lessons.
The Borobudur, a Mahayana Buddhist temple is the largest and most famous Buddhist temple in the world. It is located on the Indonesian island of Java, 40 km (25 miles) northwest of Yogyakarta. It was built over a period of some 75 years in the 8th and 9th centuries by the kingdom of Sailendra and abandoned in the 14th century. Borobudur is Indonesia's most visited tourist attraction for so many generations.
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The Counsel of the Cunning	by Steven C. Harms
Review by Sandra Tow
An unexpected visit from billionaire and former Senator Jürgen Sandt propels Roger Viceroy and his team of investigators to search for Sandt's only son, who went missing in the jungles of Guatemala ten years prior. A mysterious package left at the Sandt estate suggests Bertram Sandt is still alive. Viceroy and his team meet a litany of nefarious characters and face life-threatening danger as they track down leads from the streets of Milwaukee to Washington D.C. and the jungles of Guatemala. It becomes a race to save millions for Viceroy and his team as the investigation uncovers an unspeakable plot to control humanity.
The Counsel of the Cunning is the second installment in the Roger Viceroy series by Steven C. Harms. While not having read the first novel in the series, this didn't hinder interest or connection to the characters or storyline. The writing and backstory are executed in a way that doesn't leave a reader lost. The novel does have secular elements, which may deter some readers who don't pick up a thriller with spirituality in mind. It doesn't discouraged from continuing the book, though, and the storyline and pacing eclipse secular references if that's an element the reader wouldn't usually seek in a thriller.
Harm's novel is a fast-paced thriller exploring greed, power, grief, and faith. This book will appeal to readers drawn to a genre that thrives on break-neck pacing and puzzling twists and turns. Readers will not be disappointed.
Sandra Tow is a writer who lives in North Carolina with her husband, daughter, three dogs and an alarmingly increasing flock of chickens. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte and is currently working on a memoir and a short story collection.
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Le canton de Valensole est une circonscription électorale française située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence et la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
À la suite du redécoupage cantonal de 2014, les limites territoriales du canton sont remaniées. Le nombre de communes du canton passe de 4 à 10.

Histoire

Par décret du 24 février 2014, le nombre de cantons du département est divisé par deux, avec mise en application aux élections départementales de mars 2015. Le canton de Valensole est conservé et s'agrandit. Il passe de 4 à 10 communes.

Géographie
Ce canton est organisé autour de Valensole dans l'arrondissement de Digne-les-Bains. Son altitude varie de  à Gréoux-les-Bains à  à Brunet pour une altitude moyenne de .

Représentation

Conseillers généraux de 1833 à 2015

Conseillers d'arrondissement (de 1833 à 1940)

Conseillers départementaux après 2015

Élections de mars 2015

À l'issue du premier tour des élections départementales de 2015, deux binômes sont en ballottage : Laurence Turquet et Robert Vidal (FN, 30,95 %) et Jean-Christophe Petrigny et Nathalie Ponce-Gassier (PS, 27,65 %). Le taux de participation est de 58,54 % ( sur ) contre 55,34 % au niveau départemental et 50,17 % au niveau national.

Au second tour, Jean-Christophe Petrigny et Nathalie Ponce-Gassier (PS) sont élus avec 55,89 % des suffrages exprimés et un taux de participation de 61,34 % ( pour  et ).

Nathalie Ponce-Gassier et Jean-Christophe Petrigny sont membres du groupe Majorité départementale.

Élections de juin 2021

Le premier tour des élections départementales de 2021 est marqué par un très faible taux de participation (33,26 % au niveau national). Dans le canton de Valensole, ce taux de participation est de 42,58 % ( sur ) contre 40,72 % au niveau départemental. À l'issue de ce premier tour, deux binômes sont en ballottage : Michèle Cottret et Marcel Gossa (LR, 37,69 %) et Martine Ravier et Robert Vidal (RN, 26,08 %).

Le second tour des élections est marqué une nouvelle fois par une abstention massive équivalente au premier tour. Les taux de participation sont de 34,3 % au niveau national, 42,59 % dans le département et 44,56 % dans le canton de Valensole. Michèle Cottret et Marcel Gossa (LR) sont élus avec 68,52 % des suffrages exprimés ( pour  et ).

Composition

Composition avant 2015
Le canton de Valensole regroupait quatre communes.

Composition depuis 2015
Le nouveau canton de Valensole regroupe dix communes.

Démographie

Démographie avant 2015

Démographie depuis 2015

Bibliographie

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 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
 Arrondissements des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
 Liste des cantons des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
 Liste des communes des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
 Liste des conseillers départementaux des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

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Four Plastic Items to Stop Using Right Now
Plastics are an epidemic threatening the health of our planet. People should opt for more environmentally safe products.
Camille Radhakrishnan, Staff Reporter|November 30, 2019
A majority of the plastic produced by humans ends up as litter or can be found in a landfill. According to Environmental Health News, plastic humans rely on can have detrimental health effects. Chemicals are often added to these plastics that are harmful to people. Some of these chemicals have been found to cause a change in hormones.
Even though plastics have an immense amount of negative impacts, they are still constantly used by consumers. The reason for this is the cost. Plastic production is usually cheap for companies. It is developed from crude oil, which means as the price of oil decreases, the cost for manufacturing does as well. Due to low fabrication prices, plastic can be found in almost anything.
In the hopes of making a dent in the plastic problem, major corporations are attempting to reform.
The Evian water bottle company announced that by 2025, their waters will be sold in 100% recycled plastic bottles.
Companies such as McDonald's, Starbucks, and Norweigan Cruise Line Holdings have moved or are moving away from the use of plastic straws.
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Seattle has fully banned plastic utensils, cocktail pits, and straws.
Many organizations are implementing drastic changes that contribute to a decline in the amount of plastic output. Students at Dunbar can take part in the environmental movement through simple lifestyle modifications.
Teenagers can administer any of the four following changes that not only benefit the environment but also save money in the long run.
The first change is the use of plastic water bottles. On average, citizens of the United States purchase 42.6 billion plastic water bottles each year. 79% of these bottles end up in landfills. By purchasing a reusable water bottle, around 217 plastic water bottles will be prevented from potentially entering the ecosystem. By eliminating the costs of plastic bottles, a family of four can save around $120,000 in five years. This means one individual can save $30,000 in five years and $6,000 in one year, simply by purchasing a $20 water bottle.
The next step towards action is eliminating the use of plastic straws in daily life. It is estimated that an average of 500 million plastic straws is used by Americans each day. Straws are not heavy enough to be processed through a mechanical recycling sorter.
This leads to a majority of plastic straws being disposed of as garbage and ending up in oceans. Once in the marine ecosystem, straws break down into microplastics which are detrimental to marine life. They block animals' digestive tracts, cause a change in feeding behaviors, and affect their desire to eat. When eating at a restaurant requesting "No straw" while ordering a drink will significantly decrease the amount of plastic entering the environment.
Daily, 100 million plastic utensils are used in the United States. The Ocean Conservancy Threat Rank Report categorizes plastic cutlery as one of the most deadly articles of trash for marine life. Disposable forks, knives, and spoons are commonly mistaken as food to ocean animals such as birds, seals, and turtles. A way to prevent sea life from ingesting these harmful items is reusable utensils from home.
Almost every American household possesses a set of metal cutlery. Bringing a fork, knife, or spoon from this set could not only potentially save an animals life, but save money that would initially be spent on plasticware.
Plastic bags are used in grocery, convenience, and clothing stores, as well as restaurants and gas stations. It is estimated that around 100 billion plastic bags are used by Americans annually. Of these, only about one percent are recycled, leaving the rest as litter or disposed into landfills. Littered plastic bags pose a significant danger to human health and safety.
During the monsoon season in Bangladesh, plastic bags have played a major role in events of flooding. They cause a blockage in the city's drainage system, resulting in an overflow of water.
Plastic bags are commonly mistaken by oceanic life as food. Around one-third of the 114 marine species found to have ingested microplastics end up being consumed by humans. The plastics ingested by these sea animals present threats such as internal injury, choking, entanglement, and starvation. These plastics contain some chemicals that interfere with hormone function and others that disrupt brain development.
The way to prevent the issues caused by plastic bags is simple: purchase reusable grocery bags. Reusable bags save money and resources. Plastic bags are made from crude oils. It takes approximately 14 plastic bags to supply enough fuel to drive one mile. By eliminating the use of these oils to create plastic bags, millions of barrels in oil will be saved every year.
Plastics are heavily relied on in the daily life of human society and can be found in almost anything. However, plastics contain chemicals that have the power to significantly impact human and animal health. Realizing this issue, major cities and corporations are moving away from their reliance on plastics, and Dunbar students can do the same.
By using reusable water bottles, cutlery, and bags, and eliminating the use of plastic straws, it can be possible to stop the output of plastic that is plaguing planet Earth.
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In the United States, it is now three years since the "Great Recession" began, and twenty-one months since it officially ended. Whether or not the end of the Great Recession means that the economy is now on the way to sustained recovery is another matter. Wall Street has rebounded dramatically, as have corporate—and especially financial sector—profits, but for ordinary men and women, circumstances are nearly as troubling today as they were at the bottom of the downturn in June 2009.
The January employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows an unemployment rate of 9.4 percent for December 2010, which represents about 14.5 million people. This was down from 9.8 percent in November. However, if there had been no dropouts from the labor force (by virtue of people having become discouraged enough to stop searching for jobs) between November and December, the unemployment rate would have remained at 9.8 percent. If we were to count those dropouts, along with other "marginally attached" workers, as unemployed, and add the part-time workers who desire full-time work, we would get an expanded measure of labor market distress—the underemployment rate ("U6" in BLS parlance), which in December was 16.7 percent, or 26.1 million persons. In June 2009, it was 16.6 percent. So nearly two years after the recovery began, we have the same amount of actual labor market misery.
These overall rates hide great variability—by duration, race and ethnicity, and age. Six million four hundred thousand workers have been officially unemployed for longer than six months, an incredible 44.3 percent of all the officially unemployed, down only slightly from the post-Second World War high of 45.6 percent hit in May 2010. And there are millions of workers who have been unemployed for at least a year; a recent New York Times article cites evidence that the re-employment rate—the chance that these people will find a job in the next month—is a meager 8.7 percent. It is 30.7 percent for those unemployed fewer than five weeks (Catherine Rampell, "Unemployed and Likely to Stay That Way," December 2, 2010, http://nytimes.com).
So-called minorities have been hit hardest by the crisis. In December, black and Latino workers had official unemployment rates of 15.8 and 13.0 percent, respectively. The rate for workers of all races between ages sixteen and twenty-four was 18.1 percent—particularly troubling because young people are being denied the initial entry into the workforce so essential to their future economic well-being. Young nonwhite men and women are experiencing unemployment rates that defy belief. For example, black teenagers had an unemployment rate of 44.2 percent. A recent study conducted by the Community Service Society of New York (Unemployment in New York City During the Recession and Early Recovery, http://cssny.org) found that the average unemployment rate for black, non-Hispanic men sixteen to twenty-four in New York City, during the eighteen months between January 2009 and July 2010, was 33.5 percent. Their labor force participation rate—the share of the working age population in the labor force—was a minuscule 38 percent, meaning that a high proportion of New York City's black youth has dropped out of or never entered the labor force. Most startling was that only one in four were employed at all.
The grim labor market news is matched by the statistics on poverty and inequality. A record number of people, 43.6 million, now live in poverty, and nineteen million of these have annual incomes less than one-half of the poverty level, an amount equal to $10,977 for a family of four. Income inequality keeps getting worse, as most of the gains in national income now go to the richest 1 percent of households.
The federal government's response to the continuing depressed conditions of the nation's working men and women has mimicked the propaganda emanating from the wealthy and their media puppets. Capital wants to go in for the kill, eliminating the last bastions of working-class security and power: social security and public sector labor unions. President Obama appointed two vicious opponents of social security to his deficit reduction commission, and the media are full of attacks on public employees. There is no evidence that social security will soon be insolvent, or that public employees are overpaid and unproductive. But as editor John Bellamy Foster recently argued on the Public Broadcasting Service, "It doesn't seem to matter to those making such charges that all of this is false—as long as they have the power to spread such misinformation and people are sufficiently gullible" ("Public sector workers are a 'privileged new class,' says billionaire," January 17, 2011, http://pbs.org).
This gullibility may be short-lived. Day-to-day pressures on the working class have become severe, and there is a ready audience for truthful explanations.
Associate Editor Michael D. Yates taught a two-week class this January in Labor Economics to students in the Union Leadership and Administration program of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He began teaching this course in 1997 and reports that Marx's analysis of capitalism has never been more popular among his trade union pupils. Hopefully, they will return to their unions and spread the word. To encourage this, Michael will give each member of his class a gift subscription to Monthly Review. He suggests that readers take his lead and give gift subs to their friends, coworkers, and family members. They are a bargain at $29. Visit the MR store to give a gift sub.


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Soundpeats is gaining market share in Bluetooth Music Space .. Recently they introduced New Bluetooth neckband Q1000 which is an upgrade of Q900.
I am using this headset since couple of months now and in this post I will narrate my experience using Q1000 as well as its comparison against predecessor Q900.
Both borrows Soundpeats branded sound signature.
I was skeptical since many people has complained about the noise cancellation of these earbuds .. but as per me it works great at given price range !! Yes for sure it can't conceal all the ambient noises but remember what you are spending for … not a $300 earbud ..right ..so I give full marks ..
In fact when I wear them, I am absolutely unable to listen to another person standing in front of me .. I am sure this much noise reduction is perfectly okay ..
While I was testing these earbuds, I got a phone call and tested it quickly, I found the mic quality is really very good. and as said previously he noise cancellation works great … these earbuds are good for vocals .. so he call clarity is good.
If you compare them with predecessors Q900, these are substantially smaller & lighter too.
Its comfortable to wear, soft touch to skin .. really light weight .. I don't even feel them wearing ..
Although they are provided with three different sized eartips, in the first go I got fitted them perfectly … so not tried all sizes … originally fitted once are good enough for me in terms of comfort and noise isolation.
Now a days magnetic back feature is quite popular .. and these earbuds are also equipped with magnets. Well its surely convenient since the magnets prevents dangling around.
Simple to use sliding switch, rather than pressing a small button for few seconds in traditional headsets.
When in charging mode (even if currently in use), the headset will automatically turn off.
I liked this auto-turn-off feature which saves power and extends use. Even if I forget to switch them off, they get switched off within 3 minutes if I don't pair them to any handset.
Secondly they switch to standby mode when I switch my mobile BT off, I think withing 5 minutes, which later turns off automatically.
Battery charging microUSB cover: Yes its quite hard to put this cover back to place! But I think this is worth if I need to protect them from sweat!!
Absolutely no issues… it quickly paired with my phone as well as the computer .. I think with delay of 10 to 15 seconds for first time paring … and 2-3 seconds for paired devices .. good ..
I am able to connect to two devices at the same time. Now this means I am able to take calls from phone and listen to music from tablet ..
The headset BT connection works perfectly good till 20~25 feets, when in range of sight. However if there is obstacle like moving persons in Gym, furniture or solid wall the BT signal gets weaker delivering an interrupted music .. I think this is the only area where I am slightly unhappy .. and which Soundpeats engineers need to work further to improve the signal strength.
With the price-point Soundpeats has launched Q1000, its a good deal indeed. Yes you can go for it.
It scores 4.5 Stars out of 5 Stars as per my rating.
Here is video review by Viaa, out youngest team member, obsessed with headphones and gadgets.
Charge the headset at least once every 3 months when not in use for extended periods of time.
To ensure the charging safety, please do not use any USB charging adapter with current over 1A.
Please do not use any type of quick charger to charge the headset.


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