My earliest recollection of the Clarks brand is from about 1966 when their "desert boot" became popular in Los Angeles. My earliest recollection of the Clarks brand is from about 1966 when their "desert boot" became popular in Los Angeles.
- I began buying their casual shoes in the 1980s, particularly when it became hard or impossible to find Roots. I've found them very comfortable as well as attractive. My main complaint, which holds for most other shoes made today as well, is that it is impossible to replace the soles (those I've owned don't have heels, per se). I've also had other problems with the soles, including pinhole leaks after stepping on a nail or tack((which make them squeak or wheeze when walked on, as well as possibly letting water in.)). I also managed to break (split) open the soles on one pair by repeatedly crouching or kneeling in them: not enough resistance to repeated extreme bending of the (thick) soles. The wierdest --most surprising--problem with soles came from not wearing the shoes for a long time: the rubber or whatever they were made of lost its elasticity and strength, so when I did put them on, the soles crumbled--literally--with my first steps.((The crumbled-sole pairs are not shown below.)) + I began buying their casual shoes in the 1980s, particularly when it became hard or impossible to find Roots. I've found them very comfortable as well as attractive. My main complaint, which holds for most other shoes made today as well, is that it is impossible to replace the soles (those I've owned don't have heels, per se). I've also had other problems with the soles, including pinhole leaks after stepping on a nail or tack((which make them squeak or wheeze when walked on, as well as possibly letting water in.)). I also managed to break (split) open the soles on one pair by repeatedly crouching or kneeling in them: not enough resistance to repeated extreme bending of the (thick) soles. The wierdest --most surprising--problem with soles came from not wearing the shoes for a long time: the rubber or whatever they were made of lost its elasticity and strength, so when I did put them on, the soles crumbled--literally--with my first steps.((The crumbled-sole pairs are not shown below.)) The ones that disintegrated include a pair of black wing-tips I wore with suits (to the office).


This is just a reminder that the ebook for "Unbridled" is still FREE on Amazon! It's $0 for two more days.
Thank you to all who has downloaded the book so far! I really appreciate it.
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Goodreads Giveaway completed! Happy Winter Solstice!
My first giveaway for Unbridled ended last night, and 752 people entered the giveaway! Five winners were chosen, and I'll be signing those copies and sending them out this week.
Thanks to everyone who entered and showed an interest in my book!
Happy Solstice to everyone and Happy Holidays! I'm off to my aunt's house to spend time with family, eat turkey, and root for the Green Bay Packers!
GOODREADS GIVEAWAY! 5 copies of Unbridled!
Hello! Yes, I'm coming out of weeks of being a hermit to update this blog. I've been furiously writing my new story Autumn Fire so I could make the NaNoWriMo word count, and I'm happy to say that I have won it this year. There were some times where I got really behind and didn't think I'd make it, but I came through. I feel very accomplished, which is definitely a confidence booster that I needed lately.
Real life has also been hectic, with Thanksgiving and small road trips here and there. I finish off the month with another small Thanksgiving dinner today with my mother, sister, brother-in-law, and young niece today. It'll be good times with more turkey and apple pie.
In a couple of weeks, I'll be celebrating my birthday, where I will be doing my first ever Goodreads Giveaway for Unbridled to give out five free signed paperback copies. During the giveaway I will be posting links here.
This blog will go back to a regular schedule, hopefully with regular topics. I am determined to switch gears and finish working Killer Orange to release early next year. Christmas is approaching so I'm hoping for a little more time off from work and things to focus on it. Who knows? The holidays get very busy but I'm pretty adamant to get this done. I think I found a good editor too.
I hope everyone is doing well and that those who participated in NaNoWriMo came out with some great stories.
It looks like I'll be doing a Goodreads Giveaway in December. I signed up for December 9th as my start date, which is my birthday, so I thought that'd be a good time. Also, NaNoWriMo will be over so I'll have more time to work on it.
I'll be giving out 5 free copies of my debut novel Unbridled. I'm making them available to the United States and Canada.
Once approved, I'll post here and link to the giveaway. I'm getting rather excited for it!


Widely respected for his service in the Armed Forces, Elvis was enlisted as a private in the Army and was stationed in Germany during his tour. Despite all the smiles we see in publicity photos of Elvis in uniform and the attention paid to the celebrated private, he was treated much like any other enlisted man. One might not be able to tell it from the expressions on Elvis' face in this amazing collection of photographs captured by the press corps throughout his time in the Army as Elvis performed his civic duty, serving his country in an honest and honorable fashion. The group of incredible early photos captures many of the key moments in Elvis' military career, including embarking for basic training at Fort Hood with then-girlfriend Anita Wood; home on furlough from basic training; the famous Army haircut image; Elvis in uniform with his parents; carrying his gear and executing his duties; in the Army hospital; during maneuvers; with Vernon after Gladys' passing; and always being gracious with fans.
There are eight wire photos, photos that were literally sent over wire transfer machines from a news photo service to a publication such as a newspaper. There are nine original news service photos with United Press International stampings on the reverse, one photo with "Official U.S. Army Photograph" stamped on the reverse and several others from various sources. This collection captures nearly every phase of Elvis' service while he was out of the public eye serving his nation as an ordinary enlisted officer. A truly unique and timely grouping providing a glimpse into the period when this mega-star served the United States of America to protect the freedoms of its citizens. The photos range in size from 9 by 7 inches (22.86 x 17.78 cm) to 10 by 8 inches (25.4 x 20.32 cm) with several smaller. The collection is accompanied by a letter of authenticity from Graceland Authenticated.
The photos present with expected wear related to being used in the production of newspapers and or magazines, including scuffing, scratches, creasing and toning. Excellent condition overall.


Gallie returns to Blarney Books and Art. A creative hub in the town of Port fairy, Blarney Books & Art is not only a book store and a gallery but has an amazing room for live music. Gallie has played a couple of sold out shows here before, this time Tristan Courtney will be joining him on double bass. An afternoon not to missed.


WASHINGTON (CBSMiami/NSF) – President Donald Trump tweeted Friday he's sending lawyers to expose "fraud" in Broward County as ballots continue to be counted ahead of a Saturday deadline for canvassing boards to submit unofficial results from Tuesday's election.
Elias is an attorney for the campaign of Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, who as of mid-day Friday trailed Republican Gov. Rick Scott by about 15,000 votes in their race for Nelson's seat.
Nearly 8.2 million votes were cast.
Thursday night Scott announced that his campaign has filed lawsuits against Broward and Palm Beach elections supervisors and that he asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to conduct an investigation in the counties.
The FDLE does not have an active investigation of Snipes, according to FDLE spokesman Gretl Plessinger. He said they checked with the Department of State for any fraud claims against her and there were none.
The Dems are a rotten, corrupt party that always tries to steal elections.


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Nossaman has been recognized as one of the Best Midsize Law Firms To Work For by Vault, which annually ranks the top 20 law firms in this area. The Firm ranked #18 on the list. To determine its Best Midsize Firms, Vault surveys associates and uses a formula that weighs the most relevant categories for an overall quality of life ranking at a midsize firm. Additionally, Vault ranked Nossaman # 6 on its Best Midsize Law Firms For Diversity. Earlier this year, Nossaman was also on Vault's list of the Top 150 Under 150—which recognizes the leading small and midsized firms with 150 or fewer attorneys. The Top 150 Under 150 is not a ranking, but rather a list of leading law firms that have fewer attorneys, but no less expertise, than the global mega firms.

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Update January 16, 2018: As of today, the YouTube Partner Program now requires that your channel have at least 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time over the past year. Currently monetized channels that do not meet those requirements will continue to show ads through February 20th.
Learn how to use YouTube Analytics to understand your channel's watch time.
YouTube recently changed the eligibility requirements for monetization. Your channel must have at least 10,000 public lifetime views to display ads on videos. And if you are not currently a Partner, you now need to apply for the YouTube Partner program.
While that means you won't be able to immediately start monetizing videos on your new channel, you can set your channel up so it's ready to start monetizing when it becomes eligible.
Is your channel eligible for monetization?
Check your channel Status and Features (https://www.youtube.com/features) to see if your channel is eligible for monetization.
If your channel is not eligible , you should see a reason why.
To start the monetization setup process, click Enable on your channel Status and Features page, or open the Monetization Settings directly (www.youtube.com/account_monetization).
First - before you do anything else - read all the policies and ensure that your content is eligible for monetization!
What kind of content can I monetize?
The next step is to associate AdSense with your YouTube channel. You must have an active AdSense account to monetize your content.
If you have had an AdSense account disabled for invalid activity (or any other reason), you are not eligible to monetize your videos. Read and understand the policies before you start monetizing your content.
Before you start: make sure your browser accepts 3rd party cookies, and temporarily disable any ad blocking extensions.
NOTE: If you have an existing AdSense account, you are NOT allowed to create a new AdSense account. Link your existing AdSense account instead.
Follow the steps on your screen to complete the AdSense application or linking process.
AdSense applications are usually reviewed within a week, but sometimes may take longer than that.
Learn more about setting up AdSense in the YouTube Help Center.
You can select monetization options for your video uploads, so they can start earning money as soon as your channel is approved for the YouTube Partner Program.
Next to Set monetization preferences click START.
You can set what types of ads you want to run on your videos by default.
You also have the option to monetize all existing and future videos.
My suggestion: before you select the option to monetize all your videos, you need to be 100% positive that all of your current and future videos are eligible for monetization. If you submit videos for monetization that are not eligible, your monetization can be permanently disabled.
A safer option is to manually select the videos you want to monetize.
You can change the settings in your YouTube account's upload defaults so that your new videos are either automatically monetized or not monetized.
Note: YouTube implemented stricter eligibility requirements on January 16, 2018. Previously your channel had to have 10,000 lifetime views.
Once your channel has at least 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watchtime over the past 12 months, your application for the YouTube Partner Program will be reviewed.
Your monetization settings page shows the progress your channel has made towards that goal.
YouTube looks at whether your channel activity adheres to the YouTube Partner Program policies, YouTube Terms of Service, and the YouTube Community Guidelines.
The review process may take up to several weeks, so be patient!
When the review is complete, YouTube will send you an email and you can always check the status on your account's monetization settings tab (www.youtube.com/account_monetization).
If your application is rejected you can get your channel into compliance with YouTube policy, and re-submit an application after 30 days.
If your application is approved you can start earning money from your videos! You can always change the settings and review the terms you agreed to on your channel's monetization settings tab (www.youtube.com/account_monetization).
See your estimated earnings in your channel's YouTube Analytics Revenue report (AdSense does not show estimated earnings from YouTube).
Get details about your channel's estimated monetized playbacks, CPM, ad impressions by type and more in the YouTube Analytics Ad Rates report.
Set up your payment details in your AdSense account so you can get paid.
If you want to show AdSense ads on your own website or blog, you will need to upgrade your Hosted AdSense account for AdSense for Content.
If you have questions, contact YouTube Creator Support or post a question in the official YouTube Help Forum.
What will happen if your get strike while waiting for monetization, does it effect monetization issue?
If your channel has a strike or copyright issues when it is reviewed for the YouTube Partner Program, that might result in an unsuccessful application.
Hello Dear Peggy~k My Name Is Manir Uddin Ahmed And I Really Need Your Help Regarding My Youtube Channel. My Youtube Channel Is Related With Comedy And I Make Really Good Videos And My Subscribers, Like My Videos. And I Completed All The YouTube Policy And Also I Some Of My Video Gets Millions Of Views I Apply For Monetization Almost 3 months Ago But I Didn't Get any Kind Of Reply from Youtube. I Works Really Hard On Youtube And I invested My All Money on It But The Youtube Team Is Not Responding. So I See You On Google Fourms And You Are The Best And Top Contributor Of Google Forms And I Know You Can Help Me Regarding My Monetization. My All Videos are Really Good And Funny And They Are Fit On youtube Policys. And Kindly Reply Me For Further Detail.
Hi Manir Uddin Ahmed: if your application for the YouTube Partner Program is still under review, all you can do is continue to upload original content and make sure your channel complies with the YouTube Partner Program Policies. YouTube will eventually get your channel reviewed. Hopefully soon. But I can't do anything to speed up that process.


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Country of origin: Slovenia
Grega Repovš vas born in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1972. He graduated in Psychology at Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana in 1996 and was employed at the Department of Psychology as an instructor in General Psychology and a graduate student of Experimental Psychology the same year. In 1999 he successfully completed masters thesis Semantic memory and visual attention in schizophrenia and in 2002 successfuly defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled Computational model of attentional deficits in schizophrenia. In January of 2005 he joined Cognitive Control And Psychopathology laboratory at Washington University in Saint Louis as a post-doctoral fellow, where he focused on neuroimaging of working memory and cognitive control in health and disease, developing methods and tools for the study of functional connectivity during task and rest. In september 2008 he returned to Department of Psychology, University of Ljubljana to take the position of an assistant professor and in 2011 associate professor of cognitive psychology, and to establish a Mind and Brain Laboratory focused on integration of behavioral, EEG and fMRI methods in the study of cognition. Since his student years he was actively engaged in a number of associations and societies. He was a founding member and president of Slovenian Psychology Students Association, a founding member of Slovenian Cognitive Science Society, a founding member, secretary, and later president of SiNAPSA, Slovenian Neuroscience Association. He took active role in a number of projects and activities devoted to promotion and advocacy of neuroscience.
Mind & Brain Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Cognitive Control and Psychopathology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA
Ph.D.: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
General Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
My broad research interests are in integration of behavioral, EEG, fMRI, pharmacological and computational methods in the study of how human cognition is instantiated in the brain. More specifically, my work focuses on cognitive processes and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying working memory, attention, cognitive control and decision making. A significant effort is dedicated to uderstanding the representations enabling visual and spatial working memory, the mechanisms that support their maintenance, and those that lead to their degradation and loss. In support of this goal I'm investigating the neuronal correlates of working memory maintenance and load, and the effects of target and distractor stimuli features on the success and accuracy of their maintenance in working memory. Another key component of my work is the development and refinement of methods and tools enabling the study of functional brain connectivity and application of graph theory to the analysis of brain networks. The aim of this effort is to understand the mechanisms underlying effective flexible cognitive control and the integration of brain function, and to identify the ways in which these break down in disease. A significant long-term goal of this research is to identify and validate robust markers of brain disease that would facilitate development of tools enabling and supporting estimation of risk, diagnosis, and evaluation of treatment efficacy of schizophrenia, depression, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.
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Tomkat Comics proudly presents its show at the Joliet (IL) K of C #382 on Sunday, October 28, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Browse tables of comic books, toys, non-sports cards and collectibles. Admission is $3.00 for adults, kids are free with a paying adult. Admission is $1.00 for Seniors, and active or retired, first responders, and military personnel.
Be sure to fill out a door prize slip to get on our email list and have a chance to win one of the following one of two Free Admission Lifetime Passes to future Tomkat Comics events.


Youth (boys and girls) ages 5 to 10 looking to play lacrosse are invited to join the Teton Valley Youth Lacrosse league. Each of the girls and boys will be separated into two age groups: 5-8 and 8-10. Age ranges may increase based on interest and registration. The seven-week season begins mid-April each year and includes 14 practices and occasional scrimmages with Jackson. Regional tournament participation is possible and Fall session to be considered upon interest..
There is a $60 registration fee, a $40 equipment rental fee and a $30 fee to register with US Lacrosse.
For more information and to register, visit Tetonlax.com or email Tetonlax@gmail.com.


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Helen Sound Check
By H.D.
"Helen" is incredibly sound-y. And by "sound-y," we mean awesome to listen to. It's got tons of repetitions, a big bunch of rhymes ("smiles" and "reviles"), a big pile of assonance ("hates" and "face"), and a whole heap of alliteration ("wan" and "white"). There are all of these repeated sounds bouncing around the poem. And they're bouncing around a bit haphazardly because there's no regular rhyme scheme in "Helen."
See, H.D.'s not after some fancy structure or sing-songy feel. Instead, when we read "Helen" aloud, we feel a bit like we're in an echo chamber. A really small one, that makes us a bit claustrophobic. The same sounds keep repeating and bearing down on us and we can't escape it all until we're dead.
Oh wait, that's Helen. Well, us and Helen. The poem's repetitions suffocate us as the constant hatred effectively suffocates Helen. Once again, form and content go hand in hand. Ain't that nifty?
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Summer has definitely arrived here in Central Texas…and the afternoons are starting to get hot. That means we're always on the lookout for icy beverages to keep us cool and refreshed. Iced tea and Texas basically go together like peas and carrots. Thanks to Owl's Brew cocktail mixers, I now have a fun way to incorporate iced tea into my Summer cocktails! Owl's Brew describes its creative cocktail mixers as "a tea crafted for cocktails." Owl's Brew combines tea blends, fruit juices, and agave into delicious mixers. Owl's Brew is fresh brewed from tea, spices, fruits, and herbs -- and it comes in four fun flavors: Classic (English Breakfast-based), Pink & Black (Darjeeling with a hint of hibiscus), White and Vine (white tea and watermelon), and tropical Coco-Lada (sweet with spices and coconut). For easy cocktails, simply mix two parts Owl's Brew with one part alcohol of your choice. Owl's Brew also offers lots of simple, creative cocktails recipes on its website.
I recently received samples of Owl's Brew mixers to create a fun and fruity tea-infused Summer cocktail. I used Owl's Brew White and Vine mixer to create a fruity, refreshing cocktail that's perfect for the upcoming July 4th holiday -- but it can be served all Summer long! White and Vine features light-tasting white tea paired with flavors of pomegranate, lemon peel, and watermelon. My fruity Tea-rific Red, White & Blue Sangria is simple to make and full of refreshing flavors and colors. The red comes from strawberries and watermelon, the blue from frozen blueberries, and white from diced green apple. I'm sharing the method to create individual sangria cocktails, but you can also easily multiply the ingredients and combine them in a pitcher if you're planning a large party. This tea-rific sangria is pretty much an automatic Summer party in a glass!
Directions: Place the strawberries, watermelon, apple, and blueberries in a large wine glass or tumbler. Add the Owl's Brew White and Wine, white wine, and lemon-lime soda. Stir well to combine and serve immediately.
That's it…so simple and delicious! This fruity sangria is lightly fizzy and features a burst of fruit flavor in every sip. The addition of white tea is subtle and refreshing, and the remaining alcohol-soaked fruit is also fun to eat when the sangria is gone. Don't drink alcohol? No problem! Owl's Brew is an alcohol-free mixer that can also be mixed with fruit juice or sparkling water to create fun mocktails and punch. Owl's Brew can be purchased online at their website, as well as at select retailers nationwide. I also have good news for my Texas readers: starting this month, you can purchase Owl's Brew at most Texas H-E-B locations!
Disclosure: Owl's Brew provided me with samples of their products to facilitate this article. All opinions expressed are solely my own.


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Use of the p-values as a size-dependent function to address practical differences when analyzing large datasets
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Author(s): Gómez de Mariscal, Estíbaliz; Guerrero Lozano, Vanesa; Sneider, Alexandra; Jayatilaka, Hasini; Phillip, Jude M.; Wirtz, Denis; Muñoz Barrutia, María Arrate
Publisher: Nature Research
Citation: Gómez-de-Mariscal, E., Guerrero, V., Sneider, A., Jayatilaka, H., Phillip, J. M., Wirtz, D. & Muñoz-Barrutia, A. (2021). Use of the p-values as a size-dependent function to address practical differences when analyzing large datasets. Scientific Reports, 11: 20942.
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Sponsor: This work was supported by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, under Grants TEC2015-73064-EXP, TEC2016-78052, and PID2019-109820RB-I00, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/, co-fnanced by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), "A way of making Europe" (AMB); BBVA Foundation under a 2017 Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators (AMB); the US National Institutes of Health under Grants UO1AG060903 (DW, JMP), P30AG021334 (JMP) and U54CA143868 (DW); the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. 1746891 (AS, DW). We also want to acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the Titan X (Pascal) GPU used for this research. We thank Claire Jordan Brooks, Prof. Joachim Goedhart (University of Amsterdam), Laura Nicolás-Sáenz, Pedro Macías-Gordaliza and Prof. Naomi Altman (Pennsylvania State University) for their constructive comments and fruitful discussions.
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Biomedical research has come to rely on p-values as a deterministic measure for data-driven decision-making. In the largely extended none hypothesis significance testing for identifying statistically significant differences among groups of observations, a sing Biomedical research has come to rely on p-values as a deterministic measure for data-driven decision-making. In the largely extended none hypothesis significance testing for identifying statistically significant differences among groups of observations, a single p-value is computed from sample data. Then, it is routinely compared with a threshold, commonly set to 0.05, to assess the evidence against the hypothesis of having non-significant differences among groups, or the none hypothesis. Because the estimated p-value tends to decrease when the sample size is increased, applying this methodology to datasets with large sample sizes results in the rejection of the none hypothesis, making it not meaningful in this specific situation. We propose a new approach to detect differences based on the dependence of the p-value on the sample size. We introduce new descriptive parameters that overcome the effect of the size in the p-value interpretation in the framework of datasets with large sample sizes, reducing the uncertainty in the decision about the existence of biological differences between the compared experiments. The methodology enables the graphical and quantitative characterization of the differences between the compared experiments guiding the researchers in the decision process. An in-depth study of the methodology is carried out on simulated and experimental data. Code availability at https://github.com/BIIG-UC3M/pMoSS. [+] [-]
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If your company shares images over the internet via DBGallery's web server plug-in, download the latest version at http://dbgallery.com/download/DBGalleryWebServerPluginUpgrade.zip. Copy all files to your current web server folder, overriding existing files. Web.config and other configuration files are not included in the upgrade package and therefore will not override your local configuration setttings. Note that this upgrade will not work unless placed in a web server already running the DBGallery web server plug-in.


From 2020, the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva (SIHH) and Baselworld in Basel, the two major events in the watch industry, will synchronise their calendars. In 2020, the SIHH will be held from 26 to 29 April in Geneva, followed immediately by Baselworld from 30 April to 5 May in Basel. The calendars have been synchronised until 2024.


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Q: Internally rewrite URLs in JSF with pretty-confg When I use following code
<rewrite match="/foo/(\w+)/" substitute="/bar/$1/" />

From following resource prettyfaces
It makes a redirect, I mean it changes URL in browser from '/foo' to '/bar'.
I want JSF to rewrite URL internally, I mean when user calls '/foo' or '/bar' it has to execute same resource.
Well I know I can add multiple URL pattern for same page bean, but actually URLs are complex (not just foo/bar) and I need to manipulate/rearrange path parameter to point to old URL from new URL. Is it possible?

A: Guys found the answer.
I had to add attribute redirect="chain" to rewrite element and it worked.
I hope it will help googlers..

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Q: Observable does not subscribe on page refresh, unless delay() is added I have an Angular app where I get some QueryParams from the URL and I use them to call a service.
On direct access, the page loads fine, but if I refresh the page an inner subscribe() method is not triggered. If I add a delay of 1 second to the subscribe method fetching the queryParams, I can see in the console that the "[WDS] Live Reloading enabled" message gets triggered before my code and the inner subscribe is called properly.
It seems somehow a timing issue.
ngOnInit() {
    this.activatedRoute.queryParamMap
    .pipe(
      delay(1000)  // <- Without this, the subscribe inside manageTaskState is not called
    )
    .subscribe(params => {
      // ...

      this.manageTaskState(params);
    });
  }

private manageTaskState(params: ParamMap) {
    if (this.isExpired(Date.parse(this.expirationDate))) {
      this.taskState = TaskState.EXPIRED;
      // ...
    } else {
      this.orderService.getTaskStatus(ProductType[this.productType], partnerNr, this.expirationDate)
      .pipe(
        withLatestFrom(this.partnerService.getByPartnerNr(partnerNr)),
        takeUntil(this.destroy$)
      )
      .subscribe({
        // It does not reach here on page refresh
        next: ([status, partner]) => {
          if (status.size > 0) {
            this.taskState = TaskState.ALREADY_SUBMITTED;
            // ...
          } else {
            this.loadComponent(this.productType);
          }
        },
        error: (e) => console.error(e)
      });
    }

UPDATE
After further investigation, the orderService.getTaskStatus call is triggered and I get the response from the server (looking at the Network Tab in DevTools), but the code inside the subscribe is never hit.
Below the other methods involved:
// From partnerService.ts
  get(): Observable<Partner[]> {

      // This method gets called elsewhere, hence
      // the ReplaySubject is created

      if (!this.partners$) {
        this.partners$ = new ReplaySubject(1);
      }

      this.getRoot()
        .pipe(
          switchMap(root => super.getCall(root.getLink('all'))),
          map(result => {
            return result.partners.map(p => new Partner(p));
          })
        )
        .subscribe({
          next: partners => {
            return this.partners$.next(partners);
          },
          error: error => this.partners$.error(error)
        });

    return this.partners$.asObservable();
  }

  getByPartnerNr(partnerNr: string): Observable<Partner> {
    return this.get().pipe(
      map(partner => {
        return partner.find(p => partnerNr === p.partnerNr);
      })
    );
  }

UPDATE 2
Changing withLatestFrom with CombineLatest solves the issue. It seems due to the timing when the second observable emits. This is though curious, as WithLatestFrom, according to the docs, should work fine no matter if it is faster or slower than the source observable.
combineLatest([this.orderService.getTaskStatus(ProductType[this.productType], partnerNr, this.expirationDate),
      this.partnerService.getByPartnerNr(partnerNr)])
      .subscribe({
        // I can access here also on page refresh
});

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Changing withLatestFrom with CombineLatest solves the issue.

As far as I can tell, if this works, it means that this.partnerService.getByPartnerNr(partnerNr) emits before this.orderService.getTaskStatus does.
This is what the source code tells us:
_next(value: T) {
  if (this.toRespond.length === 0) { // If all the observables provided to `withLatestFrom` emitted at least once
    const args = [value, ...this.values];
    if (this.project) {
      this._tryProject(args);
    } else {
      this.destination.next(args);
    }
  }
}

where toRespond decreases as the provided observables emit:
// Called when an `inner` observable emits
notifyNext(outerValue: T, innerValue: R,
            outerIndex: number, innerIndex: number,
            innerSub: InnerSubscriber<T, R>): void {
  this.values[outerIndex] = innerValue;
  const toRespond = this.toRespond;
  if (toRespond.length > 0) {
    const found = toRespond.indexOf(outerIndex);
    if (found !== -1) {
      toRespond.splice(found, 1);
    }
  }
}

Source code
So, withLatestFrom might not work because the provided observables do not emit at least once before the source emits.
In contrast to combineLatest which emits for the first time when all the provided observables would have emitted at least once. After that, it would emit every time one observable emits a new value.


The Lordship of Jesus is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to our hymn book, where all responsibility toward it may be comfortably discharged in a glow of pleasant religious emotion.The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute and final authority over all its members in every detail of their lives is simply not accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians. To avoid the necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instruction of our Lord in the New Testament, we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We find ways to avoid the sharp point of obedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that "Christ simply could not have meant what He said." Dare we admit that His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by "interpretation"? Dare we confess that even in our public worship, the influence of the Lord is very small? We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere!
"And it came to pass after many days" (vs 1). For 3 ½ years God had been preparing Elijah to go up on Mt. Carmel and call down fire from Heaven and call the nation back to God. God had a purpose in Elijah's life and He was preparing him for that purpose. Elijah had cooperated with God as He prepared him. Believer, God has some purposes for you, those purposes may seem great or small, but they are very important to God. Are you cooperating with God as He seeks to prepare you?"Go shew thyself unto Ahab", the time had now come, there is a time for preparation and a time to act. Notice the great secret of Elijah's life, the secret of all successful service for God, instant obedience. "And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab."Believer, if you are defeated or powerless in your life or service, search your heart or your life for some disobedience. Study this chapter, there are many wonderful lessons, but I want to draw your attention to the contrasts between Elijah and Obadiah. Purpose – Elijah was committed to doing the will of God. "I will send rain upon the earth" (vs 1). Elijah had discovered the will of God and had set about to bring it about at any cost. Obadiah was committed to do the will of Ahab. "Ahab said unto Obadiah, go into the land … peradventure we may find grass … to save the horses and mules alive". Elijah was focusing on the souls of men, while Obadiah was focusing on food for animals.Three Things about Obadiah1. He was governor of Ahab's house (vs 3). He had a high position in Ahab's kingdom.2. Obadiah feared the Lord greatly (vs 3). That was his attitude.3. Obadiah took 100 prophets of the Lord and fed them bread and water (vs 4).Obadiah had feared the Lord and he had served the lord. The famine had reached its peak and people were dying and in danger of dying. Look what God's man, Obadiah is doing in a crisis hour, (vs 5, 6) saving horses and mules, while people were dying. If ever the world has faced a crisis hour it is now, and yet today some of God's servants are caught up in the things of the world and the purposes of the world. What an unspeakable tragedy!Obadiah had feared God, now he fears Ahab. Obadiah had served God, now he serves Ahab. Obadiah had sought the souls of men, now he seeks food for horses and mules. What a change! Why the change? "Obadiah was governor of Ahab's house." He had lived too long and too close to Ahab (the world).Remember Daniel had occupied a high position in the world, but he went to the lions den rather than compromise. Joseph also had occupied a high position in Egypt. He went to jail rather than compromise. Moses left the courts of Pharaoh rather than turn away from God's call on his life.But not Obadiah – he knew that Ahab had introduced idolatry to Israel. Ahab had caused Israel to commit fornication with the temple prostitutes. Ahab had led the Jews to offer their own children in the fire to Baal.But Obadiah never said a word to Ahab. Compromise is not the way to win the world. Obadiah did not change Ahab, Ahab changed Obadiah. Ahab was not persuaded to do the will of God. Obadiah was persuaded to do the will of Ahab. Obadiah was God's child doing the work of the devil.Obadiah had done the will of God and the work of God in the past (vs 12, 13). But now instead of being salt he is sugar, a friend to the world and a hindrance to the work of God.What was the difference between Elijah and Obadiah? The fear of Ahab (the world) gripped Obadiah's heart (vs 14) but the fear of God gripped Elijah's heart (vs 15). Obadiah was committed to pleasing Ahab but Elijah was committed to pleasing God.Elijah said "as the Lord God liveth before whom I stand" 1 Kings 17:1God was real to Elijah, Elijah was His servant, and he spoke daily with God. He knew God intimately. He waited in His presence daily. He had learned to trust God.It was such a man who could stand before King Ahab and threaten him. This was a man who could stand on Mt. Carmel and call down fire from Heaven. This was a man who would turn the nation back to God. This was a man who could pray down rain after 3 ½ years drought.Dear believer friend, we live in a crisis hour, I have no desire to offend you but may I ask you respectfully, are you an Elijah or an Obadiah?The need of the hour is more Elijahs.
God promised Abraham three things; a land, a seed, a blessing.
"And I will establish my covenant between Me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and thy seed after thee." Gen 17:7 Later God confirmed that the seed would come through Isaac and Jacob.
If God can lie to Abraham about the promise land to Israel then He can lie to us about the promise of eternal salvation, but God cannot lie!
God's purposes for Israel and His future World Government are bound up in the land.
God made two major covenants with Israel.
The first was a works covenant. Two parties were involved, God and man. Both had to keep their promise, man failed, making the covenant of no effect.
The second was a grace covenant and involved only one party, God. Man was not involved in it, he made no promise. This covenant will always stand because it depends on God and God alone.
In Genesis 15:8 Abram said, "Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?" (The land) Lord how do I know that it will ever happen? How do I know you won't change your mind? How do I know that when my seed displeases you that you won't cancel the promise?
Lord give me assurance that you will do what you say. Lord prove it to me.
In the verses that follow (9-18) God did just that, study them and you will see that God made an unconditional, one-sided, eternal, promise (covenant) to Abram that his seed would inherit the Promised Land forever.
Study Hosea 3:4, 5 and Jeremiah 31: 8-10, 35-37.
It blinds our eyes to grace and closes our vision to the program of God for the closing days of this age.
God's Grace is greater than all of Israel's sin; the dividing line for individual Jews is faith or unbelief. For the nation of Israel their hope rests in the promises of God (Romans 11:26).
Today the whole world is saying Israel must give up the land God promised to them and restored to them.
The UN General Assembly voted 157 to 7 that Israel must give up her land. The EU, the US, Russia, China and the world are demanding a Palestinian state on Israel's divinely Promised Land.
Even Israel is acting in disobedience and unbelief in volunteering to give up God's land.
The whole world is on a collision course with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. That is the issue in our world today! God's response will be the Day of the Lord Judgment.
If only the world would understand that in a few short years 2/3 of the world's people will be killed in the awful Day of the Lord Judgment.
Blow the Trumpet! Sound the Alarm!
After being so adamant about Matthew 24: 34, preterists violate many clear statements of Scripture. They say that although the resurrection of the saints happened in 70AD, the bodies of Christians were left in the grave.
One of the most widely circulated attacks against the pre-trib rapture is the notion that a girl named Margaret MacDonald started this theological view back in 1830. The claim is typically made that MacDonald received a demonic vision, passed it on to John Darby, who in turn popularized it. Disproving this assertion proves rather easy. Pre-trib scholars have discovered a host of rapture writings which predate Margaret MacDonald. Epharaem the Syrian said, in 373 AD, "For all the saints and Elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins."One post-trib author offered a reward to anyone who could find a quote that predated MacDonald. He had to quickly cough up the money when someone identified a scholar who wrote about the pre-trib rapture several years before MacDonald. As of late, dozens of examples have been found, and the literary surface has hardly been scratched.
With the revealing of all these pre-MacDonald writings, you would think that this argument has been debunked. Unfortunately, this is not the case. We seem to be involved in a tug-of-war with the truth. Apparently, due to their lack of research, pre-trib opponents continue to pump out publications which cite MacDonald as the originator of the pre-trib rapture.


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Lorn Eugene Hall 62 of Belo, WV went home to be with the Lord on September 22, 2017 while a patient at the Pikeville Medical Center. He was born Jan. 29, 1955 at Holden, WV the son of the late Earl Jr. "Dunk" Hall and Judy Butcher Hall and Martha Novella Farley. He was also preceded in death by his first wife, Brenda Hall. Lorn was affectionately known as "Blue" by his family and friends. He was a disabled Veteran of the Vietnam War having served in the US Navy. He worked as a steel worker for many years after leaving the Navy. In his later years he was a Coal Miner having worked many years for Hampden Coal Corp. He was a member of the Duncan Fork United Baptist Church. Lorn was loved by many including his wife, Jackie Ooten Hall, sons, Lorn H. (Stephanie) Hall of Honea Path, SC and Donald C. Murphy of Columbus, OH, daughter, Michelle (Johnny) Dingess of Chattaroy, WV, brothers, Earl (Brenda) Hall, Larry (Debby) Hall, Terry Hall, Freeland (Angie) Hall and Richard (Juanita) Hall, sisters, Linda Faye (Rob) Brewster, Darlene (Lonnie) Hannah and Bonnie (Ronnie) Estep. He also leaves behind 12 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Monday Sept. 25, 2017 at 11:00am at the Chafin Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Roger Ooten and Rev. Terry Blankenship officiating. Burial will follow in the Brown-Hall Cemetery at Belo, WV. Visitation will be at the funeral home chapel on Sunday evening from 6-9pm. Friends and family will serve as pallbearers. Online condolences can be made at ChafinFuneralHome.Com
Lorn Eugene Hall 62 of Belo, WV went home to be with the Lord on September 22, 2017 while a patient at the Pikeville Medical Center. He was born Jan. 29, 1955 at Holden, WV the son of the late Earl Jr. "Dunk" Hall and Judy Butcher... View Obituary & Service Information
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican court has unfrozen the bank accounts of a local company blacklisted by the United States for trading in oil with Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA despite U.S. sanctions, Mexico's anti-money laundering unit said on Saturday.
In a statement, Mexico's Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) said it disagreed with the decision by a local judge to unfreeze Libre Abordo's bank accounts and said it had filed an appeal.
Libre Abordo and its related company Schlager Business Group threw a lifeline to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro late last year by signing a deal to trade its crude and fuel in return for Mexican corn and water trucks.
The companies said the oil-for-food deal did not violate U.S. sanctions imposed on PDVSA in January 2019.
However, the U.S. Treasury blacklisted both companies in June, accusing them of helping Maduro's administration evade sanctions. The UIF, part of Mexico's finance ministry, said the following day it had frozen the bank accounts of both companies.
Libre Abordo and Schlager declined to comment. The court did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"The UIF demonstrated to the court that the accounts were blocked due to a request for international assistance, cooperation and collaboration made by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Treasury," the agency said, adding the judge's ruling contravened Mexico's international commitments.
In June, Libre Abordo said it would ask lawyers to evaluate a decision by the U.S. Treasury Department, which sanctioned it for trading millions of barrels of Venezuelan crude and fuel.
Libre Abordo said U.S. sanctions are wrongly linking the company to unrelated entities under sanctions.
Libre Abordo said in May it was declaring bankruptcy after what it said were losses of $90 million amid what it called "excessive" U.S. pressure. The trade with Venezuela was suspended, the company said.
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Protein P126, a parasitophorous vacuole major antigen of Plasmodium falciparum and precursor of 3 major exoantigens (50, 47, and 18 Kd in strain FCR-3) has been studied in 10 culture-adapted isolates originating from various endemic areas. Two monoclonal antibodies (specific for 50 and 47 Kd exoantigens, respectively) were used to immunoprecipitate culture supernatants and parasitized erythrocytes in each case. It was observed that all the parasite isolates reacted with both monoclonal antibodies, indicating the ubiquity of the epitopes analyzed. Further, two of the exoantigens (the 50 and 18 Kd of FCR-3) were found to have a stable molecular mass in all the isolates tested, whereas, the other one (47 Kd in FCR-3) was found to have a variable molecular mass, from 47 to 50 Kd. The molecular mass of the precursor varied from 126 Kd to 128 Kd. No correlation was found between geographic origin and antigenic size.
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might crudely be referred to as the double-consciousness of Eve.
as she is now both *with* Adam and *below* him, both there and not.
"imparadis't in each other's arms."
> Weirdly, her left hand appears unfinished.
>> emotional subjection that Adam confesses and Raphael warns against.
>> I don't recall any other blondes in the Klimt oeuvre.


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Primark is taking advantage of the positive sentiment, and while full details of the second Belfast store have not yet been revealed, it is expected to open in April.
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Sponsored by The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Early American Studies is now a quarterly journal. The main reason we decided to move from three to four issues a year is to accommodate the increasing number of submissions and McNeil Center-sponsored conferences. The latter, along with initiatives of past fellows and others, warrant the publication of two special/theme/guest-edited issues a year, along with the two regular issues. The journal is dedicated to publishing original research on the histories and cultures of North America in the Atlantic world before 1850. Contributors and subscribers span the variety of disciplines concerned with early America, including history, art history, literary studies, religious studies, music, philosophy, and material culture studies, among others.
Congratulations to Eran Zelnik, winner of the Dorothy Ross Prize given by the Society for US Intellectual History.
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The Dorothy Ross Prize is awarded annually for the best academic article in U.S. intellectual history published in the previous calendar year by an emerging scholar. The recipient is Eran Zelnik (California State University, Chico) for "Yankees, Doodles, Fops, and Cuckolds: Compromised Manhood and Provincialism in the Revolutionary Period, 1740-1781," Early American Studies 16:3 (Summer 2018): 514-544.
Written in an energetic and engaging tone, Zelnik examines 18th century culture wars between town and country, elites and commoners, empire and colony all fighting to define manhood on the eve of the American Revolution. Zelnik connects personal identity with nascent national identity, while linking the fields of intellectual, gender, class, and political history.
The John M. Murrin Prize
The winner of the 2018 Murrin Prize for the best article published in that year's issues of Early American Studies is Sara E. Johnson for "'Your Mother Gave Birth to a Pig': Power, Abuse, and Planter Linguistics in Baudry des Lozière's Vocabulaire Congo," which appeared in 16.1 (Winter 2018): 7-40.
The Prize is named for John Murrin, Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University, who has long been one of the most active members of the McNeil Center community, as former chair of its Executive Board, as a fixture of its Advisory Board, and as a witty and insightful participant in its seminars. Few historians can match him as a master of the historical essay form, and so this prize is a particularly fitting tribute to his long career and his many contributions to early American studies.
Recipients of the prize, which includes a certificate and a cash award, are chosen by a sub-committee of the EAS editorial board, whose members this year were Denver Brunsman (chair), Rose Beiler, Caitlin Fitz, Carla Pestana, Martha Schoolman and Megan Walsh. The committee provided the following statement about Sara Johnson's article:
Sara E. Johnson's essay uses Baudry des Lozière's Vocabulaire Congo (1803), a phrasebook designed to help francophone slaveholders control their enslaved Kikongo-speaking Africans, to provide an astonishingly textured and harrowing account of enslaver-enslaved relations in revolutionary-era Saint-Domingue. Through exhaustive research, informed speculation, and empathetic imagination, Johnson derives a stunning amount of information from the seemingly simple lists of translated phrases that Baudry, himself a slaveowner, deemed most essential to human control. Careful, nuanced, and thoroughly interdisciplinary, Johnson's article reminds us that "African languages were American too."
Johnson's article further stands out as an extraordinary study of how linguistics participated in the intersection of systems of power and globalism by the early nineteenth century. She asserts a crucial, but often forgotten fact about the polyvocality of Saint Domingue: Kikongo joined French and Haitian Kreyòl as a lingua franca. The west Central African language provided the Kongolese population in Saint Domingue with a source of self-identity and tool to resist the violence of colonialism. Yet, in Baudry's Vocabulaire, Johnson finds a chilling attempt to deploy Kikongo as an instrument of labor extraction and psychological abuse. In her words, language was "a weapon of war."
With its highly original, boundary-crossing argumentation, Johnson's essay contributes to almost too many subfields to count. They include native studies, black Atlantic studies, Haitian revolutionary studies, French colonial history, and African linguistics (both as a historical and present-day pursuit). Perhaps most important, the article further establishes the "Kongolese Atlantic," which spanned areas including Saint Domingue, Brazil, Cuba, and the South Carolina/Georgia low country, as a geographical and cultural construct essential to early American studies. With erudition and political urgency, Johnson expands the very definition of what constitutes the American past.
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School Shooting Survivor Joins 50-Mile Gun Protest March In Mass.
Filed Under:David Hogg, Lisa Hughes, March For Our Lives, Smith and Wesson, Springfield, Worcester
WORCESTER (CBS) – The fight against gun violence spearheaded by young people is about to center on Massachusetts. It's called the March for Our Lives, and it kicks off Thursday in Worcester. WBZ spoke to some of the students planning the multi-day march about what they hope to accomplish.
"The fact that we're walking 50 miles in itself is so powerful it's kind of hard to ignore," says Vikiana Petit-Homme from Boston who along with Jack Torres from Somerville are march organizers.
Jack Torres and Vikiana Petit-Homme (WBZ-TV)
Both high school students were also involved in the Boston March for Our Lives earlier this year.
"Getting youth involved is really important. Getting them involved in the political process, getting them involved with activism and issues they care about, getting them registered to vote, those are all big focal points of our march," Jack says.
David Hogg (WBZ-TV)
This youth movement started in the aftermath of the mass murder at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and has spread across the country. One of the survivors of that tragedy, David Hogg, will be a part of Thursday's protest.
The 50-mile march starts at Worcester City Hall and ends on Sunday with a protest rally at the Springfield headquarters of gun maker Smith and Wesson. "We believe that Smith and Wesson can take their company in a new direction. We're hoping they can become a leader in the industry in terms of gun manufacturers being on the side of violence prevention," says Jack.
March For Our Lives protest in Boston (WBZ-TV)
And both teens say they're not stopping until gun laws across the country are strengthened.
"Where it's not exactly to ban all guns or take away all guns. It's just to make sure that the laws that we have properly and thoroughly protect people instead of guns," says Vikiana.
About 40 students are planning to make the full 50-mile march. Then on Sunday morning anyone who is interested can join the group for the final mile to the protest rally. WBZ reached out to Smith and Wesson to ask the company to comment on the march, but no one responded.


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Adelanto council nixes water study (October 16, 2015)
With state mandate comes issues, but officials prepared to fight rate increases
ADELANTO — Lesser revenues due to state-imposed water conservation measures have added strain to the city's public utility, which is already dealing with rising operating costs. But city officials were unwilling late Wednesday to pay nearly $19,000 for a consultant to advise them to increase rates.
We already know what they're going to say, Mayor Rich Kerr said. They're going to say to raise the rates and we're going to say, 'no,' so why pay $18,000 to say, 'no,' again?
In question was a proposed five-year water rate analysis meant to determine the suitability of current rates. The last rate hike was in 2009 extended over a three-year period, but since then Adelanto Public Utility Authority revenues have remained stagnant while operating costs have gone up, officials said.
The state mandate levied on Adelanto to cut water use by 20 percent compared to 2013 baseline figures — which they have failed to meet in back-to-back months, recording 10 and 13.6 percent drops — has only elevated the issue.
Additionally, the state has since ordered the city to comply with certain conditions, which include pushing public outreach, implementing an active rebate program, auditing commercial, industrial and institutional customers and hiring two new or existing part-time employees to enforce outdoor water restrictions, among other things.
Those conditions are expected to only create another cost burden to the APUA, officials said.
We're actually doing a pretty damn good job (of conservation), City Councilman John Bug Woodard said. APUA is not making what they did because we're saving water. On the other hand, you can thank Gov. Jerry Brown up in Sacramento for this.
City Attorney Todd Litfin insisted the issue was not affecting only Adelanto. Most water agencies across the state were worrying about meeting bond covenants because they simply aren't generating the same revenue as before, he said.
Backed by wide support from the audience, the Council unanimously rejected signing off on the study with a Huntington Beach-based accounting firm. Instead, officials said they preferred, if anything, to analyze rates in-house.
It's also possible the city could look into incorporating consumer price index as a component into monthly bills in order to avoid as significant of an increase as was seen in 2009. At the time, residents were livid over fee increases which saw some bills doubled and tripled. Prior to that increase, the last hike hadn't been enacted since 2002.
Martinez and city staff acknowledged such significant increases were more likely the longer the period between them. For instance, a rate adjustment now could be under 5 percent, according to Martinez, yet prolonging an increase could result in a bigger chunk.
As it stands, the city's rates currently fall in the middle when compared to other municipalities in the High Desert, she added.
But the Council appeared more likely to vet other options, including desalination plants, in order to stave off the increases Martinez seemed to believe were inevitable. Martinez said the city has also looked at energy efficiency for savings.
I'm not happy that we're forcing this charge on the citizens — not just in Adelanto, but everywhere. We're being forced to use less water, and now our prices have to go up, Mayor Pro Tem Jermaine Wright said. There's no way in hell I'm going to vote to add more money to people who are already paying too much in the first place.
Source: Shea Johnson, Daily Press
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The History Of Rush by Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson: The Early Years
By Paul Elliott (Classic Rock) 2016-02-03T19:30:00Z Classic Rock
Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson talk us through the prog icons' history. Part 1: the early years
In this exclusive interview, guitarist Alex Lifeson and bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee tell the story of the band's formative years: their school days and early adventures in music, the struggle to make it, the difficult birth of the first Rush album, the tough decision to fire original drummer John Rutsey, and how the subsequent arrival of Neil Peart – drummer and lyricist – completed the classic Rush line-up that survives to this day.
1966-1967: The High School Years
Alex Lifeson: I met Geddy when were thirteen years old, in our first year in junior high school. We were aliens in a class of conformity, and we became best friends.
Geddy Lee: The first time I saw Alex he had a paisley shirt. He looked kind of cool. He was also a teacher's pet – a bit of a suck-up to the teachers. But he was very funny so I liked him. At school we had a blast together – we cracked each other up. And we understood where each other came from, culturally. We were sons of Eastern European immigrants who had left Europe after the Second World War to start a new life in Canada. So we were, both of us, a little bit different.
Alex Lifeson: I'm first generation Canadian. Both my parents were Serbian, so of course my birth name was Serbian – Aleksandar Živojinović. My parents actually met in Canada after the war. They had come over as refugees. My father had been married before, to a Serbian woman. They had married in Italy, and my sister was born there. They tried to get into the States, but they were denied and then sent to Canada. In cities like Toronto they didn't really want these people, but Eastern Europeans could find work in the mines in British Columbia, and my mother's family worked on a farm. My father's first wife died, and some years later he met my mother. We eventually moved to Toronto in the early 50s because there were greater opportunities there.
Geddy Lee: My parents were Polish Jews, survivors of the Holocaust. They met when they were thirteen at a work camp and they were both in Auschwitz for a time. My mom had such a strong Jewish accent, which is how I ended up being known as Geddy instead of Gary, my real name. My friend and I would be playing on the street and my mother would be calling me in, saying, 'Geddy, come in the house!' My friend would say, 'What is she calling you?' I said, 'What do you mean? She's calling me by my name.' So he started calling me Geddy and I said, 'Why are you calling me that?' He goes, 'Because that's what your mom calls you.' And basically, it stuck. Eventually my family was calling me Geddy. So a little later, when I turned sixteen, I legally changed my name to Geddy, because so many people were calling me that anyway.
Alex Lifeson: It was at junior high, in that 'getting to know you' stage, that Geddy and I got heavily into music.
Geddy Lee: We wanted to be rebellious, to break away from our families, like all kids want to do. And we both had a really deep passion for music and wanting to play it. Almost every day we'd go to his parents' place after school and we'd jam for two hours.
Alex Lifeson: For a long time we were in different bands, but we always jammed together. We loved to learn all those great Cream songs, play along to the record player, and play them better and better and better. It was really a lot of fun. It was just the two of us – no drummer. The good old days! We'd either play along with the record, or we would both plug into Ged's amp and just play, him on bass, me on guitar. We were beginning to look at music more seriously and really trying to figure out what the musicians were playing, how the bands worked. And we loved to play. We just couldn't get away from it.
Geddy Lee: The first time I ever got high was with Alex. He was just a terrific pothead, and a terrible influence on me. We went to the local public school grounds to smoke some pot. At that time I was playing in another band, and after I got high with Al, I went over to the guy in my band's house for rehearsal. But I was a little too high to be very functional, and this guy was really mad at me. He was very straight and he was really upset with me. He was threatening to tell my mother that I was high. That was a bummer!
Fresh-faced: Geddy Lee.
(Image credit: Chris Walter/Getty)
1968: The First Gig
Alex Lifeson: It was cool to be young and be in 'a band'. I had a friend named John Rutsey who played drums, and we had a little basement band called The Projection. The guy that lived next door to me, Gary Cooper, was the bass player. He was older than us and he was the only one who had a car. That was a very important friend to have. That band never really gigged. We just played at a party maybe once every six weeks during the summer. It was mostly about getting together and playing the three or four songs that we knew. And Gary Cooper didn't stick around for long. But out of The Projection came the first gig as Rush. John's brother Bill had said, 'You need a better name for the band – how about Rush?' And we liked it. We were offered this gig at a drop-in centre, so I called this guy I'd been jamming with, Jeff Jones, who played bass and sang. We did that gig. Twenty people showed up. The following week we were offered another gig at the same place, but Jeff said he couldn't do it – he was already in another band at the time. So that's when I called Geddy.
Geddy Lee: I was a pretty shy kid. I didn't really want to be a frontman. I was just the one with the best voice – or the most appropriate voice! So stepping out in front was not a natural thing for me. I had to learn how to deal with it. John used to announce the songs, and he was totally good at it, really funny, a real acerbic wit. And in those early days, John was the leader of the band, to all intents and purposes. He was a very opinionated guy – about music, about what he thought the band should be, how we should look.
1971: Hitting The Clubs And Bars
Alex Lifeson: For a couple of years we just needed to learn our trade. At that time you played maybe three times a month if you were really lucky, at high school dances and drop-in centres. The turning point for us was in 1971 when the legal drinking age in Ontario, our province, was lowered from twenty-one to eighteen. Now we could play bars and clubs. Suddenly there was this opportunity to play as a full-time musician. We played constantly in bars.
Geddy Lee: We put in as much original material as we could, but mostly we played covers: Cream, Hendrix, The Who. The bars wouldn't hire a band that just played their own shitty songs. And our songs were pretty shitty back then! We didn't think so, of course, but they were.
Alex Lifeson: It was a really great training period for us. At first, the gigs were indifferent, not much interest, maybe a dozen people. But the better that we got at it, we started to develop a following. Word spread, and we became a good draw. After a year playing clubs, the shows were packed. We were making a thousand dollars a week. Back then, that was good money. And those were fun times, playing the clubs and having so many friends familiar faces around. It was that generation – everybody wanted an outlet, everybody wanted to be part of music, connected in some way either as a player or a listener. And in that period, as band, we went from like zero to a hundred in no time.
Geddy Lee: The problem was that when it came to making an album, nobody had even the slightest interest in signing us. There was no big rock label in Canada. Really, there were just distributor outposts for the American companies. And nobody cared anything about Canadian music.
1973: The Debut Single
Alex Lifeson: We made a single, a cover of Not Fade Away – based more on the Stones' version than the Buddy Holly original. It was a song that people knew and could identify with, rather than an original Rush song. The feeling from management was: let's do something that people will get as an introduction. I think that was bad advice. Playing that song live was great. We played it quite heavy. It sounded really good. But the recorded version was terrible.
Geddy Lee: I was so excited about doing a record and having our name on the disc, the whole deal. But to be honest, I was embarrassed by how it came out. It was so… dinky.
Alex Lifeson: It just didn't sound like us. We were a hard rock band. We had some powerful songs – Working Man, What You're Doing. But that record sounded so tame.
Geddy Lee: It was so disappointing. But our manager Ray Danniels put up the money for us to make an album. We had to do it cheap, recording late at night, after hours. The problem was that our producer, David Stock, was just not that great. So we had to record that album twice. The first version had Not Fade Away on it, and the whole thing sounded as tinny and shitty as the single did. So we had to redo the entire album, and that's when Terry Brown came in as producer.
Alex Lifeson: Terry had a studio, Toronto Sound. And once we got in there with him, I think we spent another three days recording, so that whole album was done in about a week.
Geddy Lee: It was pretty straightforward – it was only eight-track recording. And at the time, we were playing these songs a million times over and over, so it wasn't a big deal to go in and re-record them. Terry really fixed that record. It sounded great. We were very proud of it.
1974: Rush & Working Man
Alex Lifeson: The album came out on Moon Records, the label that our manager set up. The big turning point was when Working Man got picked up on a radio station in Cleveland, Ohio – WMMS. That was a time, 1974, when FM radio was still based on the DJs' tastes.
Geddy Lee: It was a very different time, before the consultants took over American radio. So you hear a song like Working Man, seven minutes long, on the radio. And that led to us singing with Mercury Records. Whether that deal would have come some other way, who knows? But certainly that was the breakout.
Alex Lifeson: We knew early on that John had problems with his health. He had diabetes, and he was very concerned about whether it would be manageable for him on the road. In 1974, John got ill and missed out a few months of gigs. We used another drummer, Jerry Fielding, and then John came back for a month of club shows. But that was it for John. We had to fire him.
Geddy Lee: That was hard. It was clear that there was going to be a break with John sooner or later. What he wanted to do as a musician and what we wanted to do as musicians was not the same, and eventually that would have caused the band to break. We were guilt-ridden at first, but we realised that it's just the way it had to be. He wasn't happy and we weren't happy. He had personal issues. It was a complicated time. We were discussing a future and not knowing what that meant. The rehearsals were becoming not much fun. There were definitely two different views in the band.
Alex Lifeson: Ged and I were listening to more progressive music – Yes and Pink Floyd. We wanted to work that into our music. John was more of a straight rocker. So we were kind of relieved that John was gone, but it felt weird without him there as we started auditioning new drummers.
Geddy Lee: On the day that Neil (Peart) auditioned, we had five guys in – three before Neil and one after. The last guy had come a long way, a two-hour drive, and it was a very uncomfortable situation having him audition after Neil, because Neil was so fucking good. This poor guy had written charts and was playing our songs to charts. We were going through the motions. It was really awkward. I'm looking at Alex and Alex is looking at me. We were embarrassed for this guy because we were both so excited by Neil's playing. There was no denying that Neil was the man.
Alex Lifeson: We were so blown away by Neil's playing. It was very Keith Moon-like, very active, and he hit his drums so hard. And then after we'd jammed, we chatted and he was so bright. We connected on many levels. I have to admit that on that first day I said to Geddy, 'You know, maybe we should still hold out and see who else is out there.' But when we talked again we were convinced he was the right guy.
Geddy Lee: The first thing that we jammed with Neil in his audition was Anthem. That song was written, for the most part, while John was still in the band. It was very different to any of the songs on the first album – more complex. There were a lot of things that John was unhappy about, and one of them was the direction that Alex and I wanted to go in. And I think with that little bit of Anthem, our musical differences were sort of brought to the fore.
Alex Lifeson: As soon as Neil was in the band, we started writing new material. We worked on most of the songs together in those days. But we were touring all the time back then, so we didn't have any time to go anywhere and write. We were writing on the road, in the backs of cars, going to gigs, dressing rooms. And it was still experimental for us. We were still feeling each other out.
Geddy Lee: We were still an opening act at that time, and the one beautiful thing about being an opening act is you just have thirty five minutes to play. You don't need a show. It's all about your chops and trying to impress in thirty-five minutes. And when you're done, you have plenty of time to jam and to write.
Alex Lifeson: What we needed was somebody to write lyrics…
Geddy Lee: We kind of pushed Neil into writing lyrics. A lot of the songs on the first album, John had written the lyrics. But when we were on the road, we saw Neil reading books all the time. We thought, this guy is pretty smart. And the bottom line was, Alex and I didn't want to write lyrics. So we gently encouraged Neil to do it. And what he wrote was so cool, so different to the kind of stuff that John had written.
"Keith Moon-like": A young Neil Peart in action.
(Image credit: Fin Costello/Getty)
1975: Enter Neil Peart…
Alex Lifeson: In many ways, the second album (Fly By Night) felt like a new start for the band.
Geddy Lee: Anthem was a holdover. Pretty much everything else on that album was written fresh. With a lot of the songs on that record, the music came first. But sometimes, Neil would have a lyric and Alex and I would put the music to it. One song that happened like that was Beneath, Between & Behind, which was the first lyric that Neil wrote for the band. There was also a lot of diversity on Fly By Night, much more than on the first album. We had the heavy songs like Anthem, but we also had that really long quiet song Rivendell, which was our first attempt at showing the lighter, ballad-y side of Rush. We liked having a bunch of different styles on that record, and that diversity was something that carried on through every album. We wanted each song to show another side to the band.
Alex Lifeson: We had some cool songs on that record. Anthem was really powerful. And of course there was By-Tor & The Snow Dog, which became a really big song in the development of the band.
Geddy Lee: The lyrics that Neil wrote for By-Tor & The Snow Dog were very tongue-in-cheek. There was a kind of comic lexicon that we had on the road – a bunch of stuff that we would joke about. And that's where By-Tor & The Snow Dog came from. It was a joke that got out of control. Our manager Ray had two dogs, and Howard Ungerleider, our lighting guy, called them Biter and Snow Dog. So Neil took these two names and created fictional characters and we turned it into a song.
Alex Lifeson: It was a little inside joke, but Neil made it into this really powerful story – a good-versus-evil fantasy piece. And what came out of that was something much bigger than just one song. In terms of song structure, By-Tor & The Snow Dog was the first time that we tried to do a whole multi-parted piece of music. It was a pivotal song for the band. And as we developed there were bigger concepts and more space to play.
Geddy Lee: Suddenly, it was a very different band. Once we had Neil with us, so much changed in the way we wrote music and the way we presented it. And from that point on, it felt like we could do anything…
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Joanne Marcotte Reminds Us That Nationalists Do Want Francophones To Learn English
A week from today, Quebecers will decide who will form the next provincial government. That has obviously put pressure on all the political parties to pull out every weapon imaginable to gain as much support during the home stretch of their campaigns. Critics all have different opinions on the parties and how they've performed in the past month. One of those critics is journalist and filmmaker Joanne Marcotte.
Marcotte is known for lifting the veil off of Quebec politics and showing the public just how complex, confusing and hypocritical it can be. She was a former Journal de Montréal/Québec journalist until she was fired just before it was announced that former Québecor Media CEO, Pierre Karl Péladeau, would be running as a candidate for the Parti Québecois. Québecor is the parent company of Journal.
This past week, after Québec Liberal leader, Philippe Couillard, took what is seen as an unpopular public stance in support of bilingualism during the last television debates via TVA, Marcotte published some interesting information on her blog. She referenced a 1992 interview between Time magazine and Jacques Parizeau. That article includes a quote from the former Parti Québecois leader and Québec premier on the subject of bilingualism.
Q. How would a free Quebec deal with English and French languages?
A. Well, we have been committed since the notorious–some would say–bill of 1977 [declaring French to be Quebec's official language] to set up a society that functions in French. Does that mean that Quebecois should not learn English? By God, I'll boot the rear end of anyone who can't speak English. In our day and times, a small people like us must speak English.
Somehow the world didn't implode after Parizeau made the statement. However, last week, Couillard took a beating from his opponents, for suggesting that it would benefit workers who might come in contact with English-speaking clients to be bilingual in both French and English.
It's interesting that Couillard's position was criticized very heavily by Québec Solidaire, the CAQ and the PQ, because in 2008, there was a nationalist who took a brave step and talked about the importance of bilingualism, particularly in our schools. Nationalists had a fit after current Quebec premier Pauline Marois made the following statement, which appeared in the Montreal Gazette in addition to other media:
All Quebec parents dream of their children having a good knowledge of a second language, and English is the language that is most useful to us.
Marois even went on to admit that there was poor English-language instruction in French schools and that this could be the reason many Francophone students were flocking to English CEGEPS. She was then called a traitor in an article via Le Devoir.
It's interesting how short-term the memory is of Quebec nationalists. And, the truth is that all parents in Quebec do want their children to have the best advantages when it comes to education. There should be no shame in admitting this. After all, both Parizeau and Marois did prior to Couillard.
You can see more of Joanne Marcotte's thoughts on the current electoral campaigns, including her opinion on 89-year-old Janette Bertrand's outlandish statement regarding "rich McGill students." We also strongly recommend you watch Marcotte's independently-produced documentary available in French as well as in English.
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Superstar Rajnikanth's single scene in Ra.One
October 29, 2011 by The Editor 1 Comment
Superstar Rajnikanth's is back to acting. Interestingly he is back in not in a Tamil film but a Hindi film.
Rajnikanth after the illness struck has been resting silently for the past several months. Now he has done a cameo role in 'Ra.One', Shahrukh Khan film. The film was dubbed and released in Tamil on Dewali day. Though his presence is for a very short time, that's enough for the fans to celebrate and enjoy, as it implicitly ensures that all is well with Rajnikanth.
One of his fans Rajini Anbu said, "We were very much worried about the health condition of Rajnikanth though it was repeatedly said that he is fine. Only now we are happy to watch him on screen. He has given a rocking performance once again," he said.
The scene for Rajnikanth was created by Shahrukh Khan and director Anubhav Sinha to pay tribute to Rajnikanth and his legendary character Chitti the Endhiran: The Robot. Ra.One was produced by Shahrukh Khan's Red Chillies entertainment and Eros international.
Ra One – Superstar Rajnikanth's Entrance
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Superstar Rajnikanth's cameo rocks in RA.One!!!
The wait is finally over. RA.One got released on Wednesday and Rajnikanth-fans gotan opprtunity to catch a glimpse of their favourite hero.
It is just for a minute but the applause in theatre continue for over five minutes. Rajnikanth makes an entry at an interesting point in a car.
The super-powered vehicle immediately s**ks up all the weapons from the villains. Kareena Kapoor and others starts admiring the superhero Chitti. Then Rajnikanth steps out and flips his sunglass.
Across all theatres, the scene was welcomed with glee by fans and requests for a repeat was on loud.
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