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Finally! Jessica Jones, not a superhero at all. But something much better.
It seems like everybody is been bingewatching Jessica Jones since it came out last friday. I am half way though, and if you are not, I will try to convince you to go for it.
First of all, if you are not into Marvel, I am with you
Remember her those episodes on The Wire, and Breaking Bad, dealing with making up names of the re-up, same shit, different name, just to deepen your addiction, and create loyalty to one supplier. That's how I think about all this Marvel stuff coming out. Same old, different suit, no thank you, rather stay clean.
So why Jessica?
Well I will argue that she is not a superhero at all. That's just the premise. She is a detective.
Sure she can punch the highest score on a boxing ball, and jump really high like some leather clad locust. But it is her tenacity, her attention to detail and her wisecracking abrasive personality that are her real strong suits.
It has not been not easy to be a female PI in movies or TV.
The female detective became a thing in the Nineties, Sue Grafton, Patricia Cornwell, Nevada Barr, and Sara Paretsky, and lots more changed the game when they created her, this single, sarcastic girl. She is kick-ass, comfortable packing heat. Sex is not the primary way she relates to people, compassion and intelligence is.
Banking on the success of those thrillers they tried to bring V.I Warshawski to the big screen, with Kathleen Turner. What a mess of a movie that was. And if you hear Sara Paretsky, you see one reason why: ' Disney, you know, they bought the rights and then they were afraid to have a feminist project out there. They wouldn't let any women work on the screenplay and I didn't want to work on the screenplay because I don't know how to write screenplays and I knew it would be a big mistake to have my own work be the first venture into it. And then they would say that no women wanted to be associated with it when I had friends who were begging to work on it and who were being told that they didn't want women involved in it. The whole thing was, their way of doing it left a sour taste in my mouth.'
Sure we have seen many woman investigating, police officers, FBI, CIA. There have been so many great investigative minds, from Cagney and Lacey, to Olivia Benson, to Maya In Zero Dark Thirty to Carrie in Homeland.
But a PI is not affiliated, she works for nobody but herself. That's so cool about her. She has to balance the books, man! (Jessica: The only thing you can charge me with is trying to make a goddamn living in this goddamn city!)
I had to think really hard to find an example, the only one that comes to mind is Veronica Mars But she moonlighted ( see what I did there?) for her pop, and it was her dead girlfriend who had the insight to be sarcastic.
To come back on Jessica Jones. I am glad that Krysten Ritter was cast in this role. The last time I saw her she was leading our Jessie on the path of heroine and destruction, and saved him, by dying right in front of dear WW. So, yeah, girl deserves better. She nails it, her eyes always observing, her face immobile, always waiting for the shoe to drop. The casting and acting is fresh, crackling. Rachel Taylor as Jessica best friend Patricia Trish Walker is dazzling, and I really like Will Travel, another Australian like Rachel, who plays sergeant Will Simpson and Mike Colter as Luke Cage.
So finally what is it about? Quite simply Jessica Jones is trying to combat Kilgrave ( an acerbic David Tennant). He is a lunatic mind controller, who plays with people, making them do all kinds of crazy shit. Jessica was once under his spell, and is still living the consequences of the evil deeds he made her commit. Since then she tries to stay aways from other people as much as possible, earning her money by observing the worst part of humanity from the safe distance of her telephoto lens. But, Kilgrave is not done with her. As in a classic PI story, it all starts with new clients, asking Jessica to track a missing girl.
In the the first scene of the show we see Jessica punch a deadbeat paying right through the window in her door. Every self respecting PI has to have that door, from Philip Marlowe to Jessica's Alias Investigations, the name written on the frosted glass. Classic yes, but she breaks that glass right away, punch the hell through it, blow it to smithereens. Think about it.
The show is fluid, hypnotic, real, subdued in a satisfying way, without the hysteria of a Scandal, HTGAWM, Scream Queens, and so many other shows these days. All underscored by that hunting saxophone urging the noirish nights to brighten. As I say, I am halfway through, scared that the dark will not pass. The show can still go downhill from here. But it is too self assured for that. It is the kind of show that you can trust.
So Go Jessica, Go Trish, go Luke and go Will!
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Obama welcomes relatives of 1936 African-American Olympians
WASHINGTON (AP) Relatives of Jesse Owens and America's 17 other black athletes from the 1936 Olympics were welcomed to the White House on Thursday by President Barack Obama for the acknowledgement they didn't receive along with their white counterparts 80 years ago.
Along with the relatives of the 1936 African-American Olympians, gloved-fist protesters Tommie Smith and John Carlos and members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams met the president and first lady Michelle Obama. Obama congratulated the Rio athletes, thanked Smith and Carlos for waking up Americans in 1968 and praised 1936 Olympians who made a statement in front of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.
After running down a list of accomplishments of U.S. athletes in Rio, Obama singled out some people who ''paved the way'' for the current diverse Olympic team, including Owens, Smith and Carlos.
Owens winning four gold medals and being snubbed by Hitler is a piece of American history, but Obama made sure to note that the accomplishments at the 1936 Berlin Olympics weren't just about him.
''It was other African-American athletes in the middle of Nazi Germany under the gaze of Adolf Hitler than put a lie to notions of racial superiority - whooped 'em and taught them a thing or two about democracy and taught them a thing or two about the American character,'' Obama said. ''We're honored to have many of their families here today.''
Eighteen family members were in attendance, representing nine 1936 Olympians. Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, Jack Wilson, John Brooks, Tidye Pickett, Louise Stokes, James LuValle, Fritz Pollard Jr., John Woodruff, Mack Robinson, Dave Albritton, Archie Williams, Cornelius Johnson, James Clark, Howell King, Art Oliver, Willis Johnson and John Terry combined for 14 of America's 56 medals in Berlin.
Sprinter Allyson Felix, who won gold in Rio in the 400 and 1,600-meter relays and silver in the 400 and has nine Olympic medals, said afterward she was glad to meet some of the relatives of 1936 Olympians and hear their stories.
''It's been just so moving, so inspiring,'' Felix said. ''We're just honored to be able to share this moment with them.''
They also shared it with Smith and Carlos, who made their own American history 48 years ago when they raised their gloved fists on the medals stand at the Mexico City Olympics after the 200 in what they called ''a human rights salute.''
''We're proud of them,'' Obama said. ''Their powerful silent protest in the 1968 Games was controversial, but it woke folks up and created greater opportunity for those that followed.''
United States Olympic CEO Scott Blackmun said Wednesday night that the historic White House visits were meant in part to ''pay tribute to all the progress that has come since.'' That progress was on full display as part of the president's remarks.
Obama pointed out that the diversity of the 2016 U.S. Olympic team was part of what made it successful. He singled out swimmers Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky and others, but the first four medalists he mentioned were gymnast Simone Biles, shot putter Michelle Carter, swimmer Simone Manuel and boxer Claressa Shields, all of whom are black.
He also recognized Ibtihaj Muhammad, the fencer who became the first U.S. female athlete to compete in the Olympics in a hijab.
''Imagine what it means for a young girl or a young boy who sees somebody who looks like them doing something and being the best at what they do,'' Obama said. ''There's no kid in American who can't look at our Olympic team and see themselves somewhere.''
Owens said in interviews over the years that in 1936 President Franklin Roosevelt never sent him any words of congratulations or an invitation to the White House.
Marlene Owens Rankin and Beverly Owens Prather represented their father Thursday. Granddaughter Marlene Dortch said Tuesday night that her family members and others going to the White House to see Obama would have made her grandfather ''so happy.''
Obama was happy that the final U.S. Olympic team he'll host at the White House not only dominated the medal count but did so with so many different kinds of athletes.
''One of the wonderful things we love when we see our Olympians is everybody's from all kinds of different backgrounds and shapes and sizes,'' Obama said. ''There's something special about that.''
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Jamaica's men's four-man bobsled team will compete for Olympic gold for the first time in over 20 years.


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Das Adjektiv sozial (von  und ) wird oft als Synonym zu "gesellschaftlich" verwendet und im erweiterten Sinn zu "gemeinnützig, hilfsbereit, barmherzig". Stattdessen beschreibt der Begriff des Sozialen zunächst die Gruppe als Handlungsvoraussetzung. Wie Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998) zeigt, bezeichnet der Gesellschaftsbegriff ein spezifisch-komplexes "soziales System".

Umgangssprachlicher Gebrauch
In der Umgangssprache bedeutet "sozial" den Bezug einer Person auf eine oder mehrere andere Personen; dies schließt die Fähigkeit (zumeist) einer Person, sich für andere zu interessieren und sich einzufühlen, mit ein. Aber es bedeutet auch, anderen zu helfen und eigene Interessen zurückzustellen. Zahlreiche Abschattierungen bestehen, so zum Beispiel, gegenüber Untergebenen großmütig oder leutselig zu sein, gegenüber Unterlegenen ritterlich, gegenüber Gleich- und Nichtgleichgestellten hilfsbereit, höflich, taktvoll und verantwortungsbewusst.

Unsozial in diesem Sinne handelt, wer das alles als unwichtig empfindet. Asozial (oft mit absprechendem Beiklang) ist, wer mit der gesellschaftlichen Umgebung (fast) unverbunden ist und nur an deren Rand lebt, wer sich also nicht in sie "einfügen" will oder kann.

Fachsprachlicher Gebrauch
 Die Soziologie – die "Wissenschaft vom Sozialen" – befasst sich mit der sozialen Beschaffenheit einer Gesellschaft und ihrer Sozialstruktur.
 Die Sozialpädagogik befasst sich mit erzieherisch einschlägigem sozialen Handeln und Verhalten.
Zahlreiche soziologische und sozialpädagogische Begriffe führen das Wort "sozial" mit sich, zum Beispiel "Soziale Rolle" gegenüber der "Rolle" auf der Bühne.

Der Begriff sozial wird auch verwendet in folgenden Fachbereichen:
 Biologie: im Sinne der Kooperation zwischen Individuen (vgl. Staat).
 Organisationswesen: meist in den "Freien Berufen" ist davon der Begriff von Zusammenschlüssen abgeleitet, zum Beispiel eine "Anwaltsozietät".
 Politik: Politische Zentralprobleme oder Problemkomplexe, die über längere Zeit behandelt werden müssen, werden oft als "Soziale Frage" bezeichnet.
 Politik: von der Umgangssprache her kommend, aber auch aufbauend auf politischen Lehren (zum Beispiel auf dem Sozialismus) als eine Zielvorgabe, die einige Parteien auch im Namen führen, beispielsweise (alphabetisch):
 Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern (CSU)
 Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (PDS)
 Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD)
 Neue Liberale – Die Sozialliberalen (NLDSL)
 Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ)
 Psychologie: als Synonym zu den Begriffen zwischenmenschlich oder intersubjektiv.
 Rechtswissenschaft: als eine grundgesetzliche Staatszielbestimmung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Sie ist ein "sozialer Bundesstaat". Demzufolge hat jeder Mensch in Deutschland (nicht nur jeder deutsche Staatsangehörige) einen Grundanspruch darauf, dass sich der Staat in äußerster Not um ihn kümmert.
 Sozialpolitik
 Volkswirtschaftslehre: abgeleitet in Form des statistischen Begriffs des Sozialproduktes.

Siehe auch
 Asoziale (Nationalsozialismus)
 Dark Social
 Dissozialität, Soziale Isolation
 Soziabilität
 Sozialwesen, Sozialmanagement, Sozialbilanz
 Sozialwirtschaft
 Sozialwissenschaft
 Soziale Arbeit
 Soziale Kompetenz
 Soziokultur

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Thank you for your considered and detailed review.
This has all the elements of a good mythical-fantasy fiction. The world building is good and there is enough intrigue to make you want to read more. The language structure, however, needs a lot of improvement. Also, I found portions that seemed to be over explaining things like timeline and etymology and I would much rather these things were woven into the story itself and let the reader have the pleasure of putting the pieces together.
Karna is a fascinating character to write about and to have his parallel in the modern World, it is story wise a brilliant set up. I really like the way the parallels are being set up--similar but not same. The atmosphere and the details, especially in the first chapter where the harshness of an abusive household is highlighted, are very well done. My only suggestion is that the dialogues and the overall narrative can use a little bit of levity--it will make the reading experience much more interesting. All the best!


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Rubicon Township may refer to several places in the United States:

 Rubicon Township, Greene County, Illinois
 Rubicon Township, Huron County, Michigan

See also

Rubicon (disambiguation)

Township name disambiguation pages


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Q: Why i am unable to bind a method on onClick event of div? I am trying to create div elements dynamically, and at the time of creation i am using onClick = 'showDimension();'. It shows the correct html on alert box but when DIV is created you can see that div is not having any onClick method attached [ firebug ]. Instead of that it is having a stray string 'showDimension();'. Why it is happening ? How to resolve it?
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Also, you can see that i am using
var eventDe = " onClick='showDimension("+i +");'";

and then, later this i will be used to find out the div id. Quite obvious it is not correct approach. How to use the event.target or event.srcElement to get the div from which the event is fired? I tried but unable to use that.

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$('#element_id').live('click', function(event){
   var trget = event.target;
});

The jQuery has the live() method you can use to apply click event to dynamic elements.
Example:
$('#element_id').live('click', function(){
  // your code...
});

A: You messed up with quotes. Sometimes you use " and sometimes '.
If you go to the route of generating your HTML by strings you may use ' to build your string in Javascript and the " for the HTML attributes as it should be. Like below:
  var style =  [' style="background-color: ' + getRandomColor(),
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*You don't have to camelize onclick as attributes are not case sensitive

*The showDimension(this), this will give you the reference of the clicked DIV.

You can get it with:
function showDimension(div){
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Something you may consider to avoid all these string manipulations is to use a javascript template engine. I contribute to PURE but there are plenty of others available.

A: Why don't you try the div class name approach.
Giv a class name to the div so that you can have a separate click handler
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A: If you don't want to use jQuery binders (live, bind, click) but the attribute onclick instead, make sure you add javascript: to indicate JS call and event as a parameter to your event handler so that you can access event.target and other data inside your function::
var eventDe = " onlick='javascript:showDimension(event, " + i + ");'";

I'd still recommend using jQuery. Remember that even if you are generating the HTML in your JS (such as in response for AJAX request), you can still do that using jQuery API and attach events to newly created nodes before you add them to parents (via methods like after).

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Halifax, May 3, 2016 – CarShareHFX (Halifax) announced today its development plan for 2016. The company unveiled a new logo and website and announced a brand change: CarShareHFX becomes CarShare Atlantic. Its carsharing fleet will also grow by almost 30% as 10 new hybrid cars will be added to the existing fleet of 35 vehicles. The number of hybrid cars will go from 10 to 24 cars.
"We are excited to present our new name and look", says Pam Cooley, President of CarShare Atlantic.
"Our new logo expresses different meanings" said Ms. Cooley. "The green circle in the middle reminds our members that they are the heart of our community. The second circle represents a "C" for community and a wheel whose motion reflects the positive impact of carsharing on urban space. If you put those circles together, you see a target that signifies our conviction that carsharing is a key solution to mobility challenges. We share this logo with the carsharing pioneer Communauto and its network of cities. By changing our name to CarShare Atlantic, we mark our regional vision" she explained.
This new branding is the latest development in the 2011 partnership with North America's pioneer carsharing company, Communauto. "The combined strength of Communauto and CarShare Atlantic has created new synergies and increased capacity to answer to the growing demand", said Jean-François Charette, Operations Director of Communauto. "For members of CarShare Atlantic it means they will soon be able to reserve cars in Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa, Kingston, Gatineau, Sherbrooke and even Paris, France", he explained.
A complete overhaul of the website has been made and carshareatlantic.ca has a fresh new look and user-friendly navigation. It features an uncluttered design with the integration of pictures of Nova Scotia taken by Chris Reardon, a recognized local photographer. To reaffirm its status as a company well-rooted in its community, the website features a page recognizing the local partners that make the development and accessibility of carsharing possible.
Since 2008 CarShare Atlantic has been providing Halifax citizens with the most affordable and flexible mobility solution: combining carsharing with public transportation, biking and walking. With almost 1100 members and 45 cars, residents and businesses benefit by maintaining a more sustainable lifestyle. We also reduce our city's dependency on personal or fleet owned vehicles. CarShare Atlantic is part of network that offers sustainable mobility solutions to a nearly 50,000 in Quebec, Ontario and Paris (France).
CarShare Halifax now on Transit App: connect all your mobility needs!


Diverse analytical techniques are available to determine the particle size distribution of potentially toxic elements in matrices of environmental interest such as soil, sediments, freshwater and groundwater. However, a single technique is often not exhaustive enough to determine both particle size distribution and element concentration. In the present work, the investigation of mercury in soil samples collected from a polluted industrial site was performed by using a new analytical approach which makes use of sedimentation field-flow fractionation (SdFFF) coupled to cold vapour generation electrothermal atomic absorption spectroscopy (CV-ETAAS). The Hg concentration in the SdFFF fractions revealed a broad distribution from about 0.1 to 1 μm, roughly following the particle size distributions, presenting a maximum at about 400–700 nm in diameter. A correlation between the concentration of Hg in the colloidal fraction and organic matter (O.M.) content in the soil samples was also found. However, this correlation is less likely to be related to Hg sorption to soil O.M. but rather to the presence of colloidal mercuric sulfide particles whose size is probably controlled by the occurrence of dissolved O.M. The presence of O.M. could have prevented the aggregation of smaller particles, leading to an accumulation of mercuric sulfides in the colloidal fraction. In this respect, particle size distribution of soil samples can help to understand the role played by colloidal particles in mobilising mercury (also as insoluble compounds) and provide a significant contribution in determining the environmental impact of this toxic element.


Your God demands a sacrifice... But it must be the correct one!
As a cultist who whorships the statue of the mighty Chicken God, Vib must offer monsters in sacrifice and throw it to the fire. But be careful! Chicken God is a capricious deity and it will only accept those sacrifices that it requires from you!
You know, sacrifices must be made.
Your God Demands is a small action arcade platformer game that was developed in 72 hours during 43rd Ludum Dare by daruudaruu and Sapphiris.
This is a LD project so we aren't asking for money. Just spread the game between your friends! But if you REALLY want to donate to us, we've set-up the download as pay what you want. But remember: this a jam game and it's totally FREE.
Reach out to me on daruudaruu's and Sapphiris's Twitter pages. Also, if you follow daruudaruu, you will get some updates and news of new thingies and new projects. And if you did love the game, we'll be happy to hear about it!
You can just leave a comment here too :).
I wasn't very good at the game, but I saw some YouTuber who were pretty good at it. I thought that maybe the guys on the left only move to the right and vice versa, creating a possible loop hole; but you guys were ahead of me and I couldn't outsmart the game. Maybe the game is easier using a controller, but I only played it with a keyboard. The only minor issues I have are the controls of the menus (just let me use my mouse) and maybe the jump can be binded to the spacebar.


No matter where you decide to buy or sell your bonds, you should be prepared to pay a transaction cost. The costs you will pay depend on the market on which you buy your bonds.
The difference between the price a broker-dealer pays for a bond and the price at which it is sold to you is known as the bond's markup. The markup is a transaction cost. With new issues, the broker-dealer's markup is included in the par value, so you do not pay separate transaction costs.
Everyone who buys a new issue pays the same price, known as the offering price. If you are interested in a new issue, you can get an offering statement describing the bond's features and risks.
Instead of charging you a commission to perform the transaction for you, the broker-dealer marks up the price of the bond to above its face value.When you buy or sell bonds through a broker-dealer on the secondary market, the bonds will have price markups. Instead of charging you a commission to perform the transaction for you, the broker-dealer marks up the price of the bond to above its face value. Markups are usually from about 1% - 5% of the bond's original value. Bond dealers generally charge higher markups on smaller bond sales than larger ones. If you are buying a Treasury bond over the counter, you may have to pay a small, additional flat fee.
If you sell a bond before it matures, you may receive more or less than the par value of the bond. Either way, your broker-dealer will mark down the price of your bond, paying you slightly less than its current value. He or she will then mark up the price slightly upon resale to another investor. This is how broker-dealers are compensated for maintaining this active secondary market.
Bonds bought on the exchanges generally have much higher markups than bonds bought over the counter. It is difficult to know how much of a markup you are paying, because the markup is built into the price of the bond.


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It's week five of Dancing With the Stars and I still can't get over Paula Deen pulling her dress up to show off her bloomers…my eyes will never be the same! There is some amazing dancing going on as well…Bindi Irwin and Alexa Penavega were outstanding this week.
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Nick Carter & Sharna Burgess might win.
I think Sharna Burgess and Nick Carter will win….he's a veteran dancer.
I agree with the above, Nick and Sharna.
I like Bindi Irwin and hope she wins!
I don't watch, but if Bindi Irwin is on, I'm rooting for her.
I think Bindi Irwin has a good chance.
Don't know at this point.
I honestly couldn't say because I can't even remember their names. I did see part of it this week and know they really work hard while doing this competition and they all look good to me. Thanks for this opportunity.
I really hope bindi irwin wins, she really has alot of talent.
I think Nick Carter has a pretty good shot to win. I mean, he has dancing experience already… so it should be pretty easy for him.
I think Nick & Sharna will win DWTS!
I hope Bindi and Derek.
Sharna and Nick have a good chance!
I would like to see Bindi win.
It is hard to say at this point. I would like to see Nick Carter win.
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Q: Use Realm's non-persistant properties in new RLMArray I'm trying to use Realm with an ignored property. Actually much like in this article
http://www.raywenderlich.com/81615/introduction-to-realm
distance which is declared as a model property but is actually not persisted and used temporarily to be calculated and displayed.
And then I have something like this
func calculateDistance(stops:RLMResults) -> RLMArray {
    let currentLocation = getCurrentLocation()
    var results:RLMArray = RLMArray(objectClassName: Stop.className())
    for (var i = 0; i < Int(stops.count); i++) {
        var stop = stops[UInt(i)] as Stop
        let stopLocation = CLLocation(latitude: stop.coordinates.latitude, longitude: stop.coordinates.longitude)
        let distance = currentLocation.distanceFromLocation(stopLocation)
        if kDistanceMeters >= distance {
            println("Distance to \(stop.stopName) --> \(distance) m ---- max(\(Int(kDistanceMeters))")
            realm.beginWriteTransaction()
            stop.distance = Double(distance)
            results.addObject(stop)
            realm.commitWriteTransaction()
            println(stop.distance) // Prints out the distance. It's in the object
        }
    }
    println("Getting the results")
    println(results) // Distance property isn't there ...
    return results
}

Basically I'd like to use this new temporary results RLMArray to display only the results I want in the view, with distance property.
The property is actually assigned on the object, but once in the RLMArray it disappears. I'm not getting any errors btw.
I also read on stackoverflow that ignored properties of Realm should not be used like that.. so what be a proper solution to my problem getting results into an array with additional property added? Converted to a normal object?

A: For now you will need to create your own NSArray of objects sorted by closest distance. You can only query on persisted properties right now.


One of Paris's most beloved shops is saying farewell to its fans by joining forces with an icon of French fashion.
Colette closes its doors on 20 December and, for its last hurrah, Paris's favourite concept store is collaborating with one of the city's best fashion houses: Saint Laurent. The luxury label has taken over the first floor of Colette's Rue St Honoré shop, filling the space with an eclectic mix of products designed especially for the occasion, ranging from slogan hoodies and wallets to cameras and a motorbike. Today the brand will also unveil an exhibition: the walls have been mounted with images by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. They show model Anja Rubik in various states of undress and combine photography with painting. It's only fitting that customers get used to buying Saint Laurent products from 213 Rue St Honoré: it will take over the space permanently and turn it into a flagship store once Colette moves out.
Loved by Swiss rail passengers for more than 70 years, Mondaine has given its clocks a makeover – but kept their timeless design.
Swiss watchmaker Mondaine rolled into train stations across Switzerland in 1986 when its honest, easy-to-read wall clock – an update on compatriot Hans Hilfiker's 1944 design – became the "Official Swiss Railways Clock". But it has not rested on its laurels: seven decades on from Hilfiker's original, Mondaine's creative mechanism is still ticking away and the company has launched a contemporary variant for the home. The crisp, reliable design remains untouched but the clock does connect to smartphones and tablets via the custom-made Mondaine app, adjusting time automatically (no more fidgety finger-winding come summertime) and even measuring room temperature. "We work with the original 1944 drawings," Mondaine CEO Andre Bernheim tells Monocle. "Even today they're simple, young and timeless. That's what makes good design." It's not reinventing the wheel but it is giving a time-honoured creation a nudge into the modern living space.
These two tasty books will make your mouth water (but Santa might need some help getting them down the chimney).
Recipe books make apt Christmas gifts but Karen Mordechai's duo of tasteful new titles arrive in stocking-bursting proportions. Simple Fare: Spring and Summer and Simple Fare: Fall and Winter are a delicious pair of books from the talented soul behind Sunday Suppers, a New York-based dinner club and forum that turned out a smart cookbook of the same name back in 2014. Each book contains 68 simple and seasonal dishes: think crispy chicken with garlic toast or roasted carrots over smoked-ricotta toast. The books' vast size makes use of artful and indulgently oversized close-ups: variously of glistening pasta, flame-licked apricots or cream-dolloped banana bread. The result? A feast for the eyes and a tactile delight, these books are as handsome as they are handy.
Sick of this sickly sweet season already? Netflix has the antidote.
Don't worry if the cold nights have had you tucked up and zooming through your current Netflix favourites like nobody's business; the streaming service has hit us with another scoop of seasonal Gothic creepiness. Dark is set against the backdrop of the mysterious disappearance of two children in a German forest (and that's about as much cute Hansel and Gretel-ishness as you're getting) and then, of course, the plot thickens like blood. There are secrets, small-town histories slowly revealed and – it's back – time travel. Where Stranger Things was cosy like the 1980s and creepy like Stephen King, Dark is gritty like Nordic noir and strange like folk horror. The first entirely German production on Netflix is your next fix.
Executive chef Martyn Nail on what the London institution has served throughout its long history.


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What is this type? How do I create an array with the same Byte[] type?


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Jackson Galaxy on the Best Way to Introduce a Cat to a New Home, His 'Cat Mojo' Tour and More
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Jackson Galaxy is taking his show on the road.
The star of Animal Planet's My Cat From Hell and Cat vs. Dog kicks off his Total Cat Mojo Live tour on November 4 in Los Angeles and will travel to 16 additional cities through November and December. (Check to see if he's coming to a town near you by visiting jacksongalaxy.com/events.)
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"The cool part about it is it's not me standing up there doing a TED Talk on cats, it's entertainment," says Galaxy. "There's going to be everything from animation to music to give and take with the audience."
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Parade.com chatted with Galaxy about his tour, the concept of "cat mojo" and the biggest mistake cat caretakers make.
Tell us a little about the tour.
It's called Total Cat Mojo Live, and it's kind of an extension of my book, Total Cat Mojo. My hope is that I'm going to not just teach you about cats but pull you into their world a little bit so you can empathize with them a little bit more. It's going to be a stage show. That's what, I think, makes it hyper-exciting for me because I finally get to pull together everything that I've done over my life, which, if you boil it down, is as a performer and a cat guy. It all comes together, finally.
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How is the live show going to be different from your television show?
Well, first of all, there's a live audience, and I'm so used to working in front of a camera, which is a real, different, intimate vibe—it's just me and the family and the cat and the camera. This is a big house full of people, and it's a cat party. It's much more of a communal experience, which is what theater is, it's a communal experience. It's energy bouncing from audience to stage to audience. It's an experience, and that really is by and large what makes a difference. And hopefully you come away with the same sort of knowledge base of cats that you come away with from My Cat From Hell, but you also come away knowing that we have an experience together.
What is Cat Mojo?
Whether you're a cat or a human, mojo means confidence, an internal confidence. It's not something that you have to put on like clothes or a pose or something like that. It's something that emanates from your bones out. Whether it's a cat or a human, that's something that comes from knowing that you own this moment in this place in time. That this is what you're meant to do with your life. And for cats, that all comes from the same place. That's what I'm hoping to hook you guys into. What is that place, how every cat can be a master of their domain.
How can people better understand what their cats are trying to tell them?
The first thing to realize is that their experience on this planet is nothing like any other animal. We suffer from what I call "looking at cats through dog-colored glasses," and we judge them based on their failure to be dogs and to act like a dog and to treat us the way dogs treat us and to respond to us the way dogs respond to us. That's just not who they are. So if you want to have a better relationship with your cat, learn cat. Do them a favor and learn about what makes them tick. And again, that's what I'm here for. I'm here to be your tour guide through that world. That's the No. 1 thing. From there, it's remembering that it's a relationship with an animal. It's not a case of ownership, it's a relationship, and that means give and take, it means compromise, it means allowing yourself to have feelings that make you vulnerable. I really don't see it as being different from relationships with humans except for the fact that they can't, through language, tell you what they want—but you should still be listening.
What is the most common problem you see when introducing a cat to a new home?
The one thing we need to remember is cats define themselves by territory. They're beyond territorial. Part of what gives a cat mojo is feeling a confident ownership of that territory. The best thing to do is to start slow. Give them what I call their base camp. Give them a room that's theirs that they get to claim, they get to learn the smell of the house from inside that room because they can smell from inside that room, to give them property from within that room that's theirs. Plus, it smells like you a little bit. Then slowly expand out as they tell you they're comfortable with, which they will, instead of just plopping them in the middle of the house and saying OK you guys just work it out. That's not going to happen. In my experience, asking cats to work it out with other cats or dogs or kids or adults, it's never going to work.
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Episode 5: Os Guinness
Posted by Phil Vischer | Jun 26, 2012 | The Phil Vischer Podcast | 2 |
This week's special guest on the Phil Vischer Podcast is Os Guinness!
Os Guinness is an author, a social critic, and Senior Fellow of the EastWest Institute in New York. Great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War Two where his parents were medical missionaries. A witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford. Os has written or edited more than twenty five books, including The American Hour, Time for Truth, The Call, Invitation to the Classics, Long Journey Home, and Unspeakable: Facing up to the challenge of evil. His latest book The Case for Civility – and why our future depends on it was published by Harper One in January 2008.
Previously, Os was a freelance reporter with the BBC. Since coming to the United States in 1984, he has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies and a Guest Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 1986 to 1989, Os served as Executive Director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation, a bicentennial celebration of the First Amendment. In this position he helped to draft the Williamsburg Charter and co-authored the public school curriculum Living With Our Deepest Differences. From 1991 to 2004 he was a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, and a frequent speaker and seminar leader at political and business conferences in both the United States and Europe. As a European visitor to this country and a great admirer but detached observer of American culture today, he stands in the long tradition of outside voices who have contributed so much to America's ongoing discussion about the state of the union. He lives with his wife Jenny in McLean, Virginia.
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brad on July 2, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Os articulated one reason why I'm personally opposed to politics: the motivation of fear and deep insecurity. (On the flip side, if motivation is coming from a place of security, and a deep desire for responsible social polity, participation in politics cannot be a public platform for strident evangelism.)
But there's an even bigger one!
"Christian" doesn't universally define morality, and it is historically aspects of morality that the church has chosen to elevate as its "principles". I do not endorse Christians getting into politics to build their platform for their particular sacred cow, and who then claim to speak on Christianity's behalf. When people do that, or when Christians expect that of their Christian politicians, the "war" must be fought internally (within the church) and externally (with the society), and neither is very useful.
Christians have a pretty atrocious history, on pretty much every scale (family, church and state), when we use God's name in vain to claim power. I'm immensely grateful to live in a place and time that is (mostly) a respite from that!
I agree with Os' perspective on calling, freedom (for vs from), and that keeping a perspective on the Kingdom is the way forward. He then frays that point a little with his comment on chasing relevance. I would instead take his point even further — people need to feel more freedom and more impetus to figure out God's call on their lives, in a greater variety of directions, while maintaining their humility and Christ-centredness. I believe that is how God is going to organically shape the world.
Tate on January 11, 2013 at 6:11 pm
I was a bit disappointed with Os Guinness in this interview for a few reasons.
First is that he doesn't seem to understand libertarianism when he says it is unsustainable. I think he is mistaking it for "libertinism" which is something quite different. Libertarianism is a political ideology with the underlying foundation that the use of aggressive force is wrong. Libertinism is the based on the idea that most moral restraints are illegitimate and are fine to ignore. It seems that if he is going to criticize libertarianism in his book, he should at least know what it is.
Second is that he believes that the Industrial Revolution was one of the worst periods in human history. This seems quite amazing if one compares the lot of people before it to after it. According to Henson in "The Effects of the Industrial Revolution on Women and Children," in 1750, England's population was 6 million, 9 million in 1800, and 12 million in 1820: a population growth unprecedented in any era. This means that most people alive today would not be so if not for industrialization. As well, "'The proportion of those born in London dying before five years of age' fell from 74.5 percent in 1730-49 to 31.8 percent in 1810-29. Children hitherto would have died in infancy now had a chance for survival."
Third is that he blames economic disparities on too much economic freedom. Such claims seriously put into doubt his credibility on the subject. Could it be that governments privilege the well-connected and wealthy? Trillion dollar bailouts of banks is not a feature of laissez faire free markets. With all of the corporatism in the US, it's hard to say it even remotely resembles a freed market.
Fourth (and this is more of a disappointment regarding Phil) was that as Os Guinness was talking about the decline of the American Empire, that thousands of overseas troops in US military bases in hundreds of countries were coming home out of economic necessity, Phil took that as a cause for sadness and disappointment. This is a GREAT thing! Besides the hundreds of billions in wasted money, the US military can become one that actually protects Americans! As well, this can only improve America's image in the world. I'm surprised how little applied the Golden Rule is in this circumstance: would you want some other country's military setting up bases where you live or in your country? It is this issue that American Christians disappoint me the most on. While they are quite zealous in defending the lives of the unborn, they seemingly couldn't be more apathetic to the lives of the thousands of civilians killed by the US military overseas.
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Today's Bible Reading - NIV Old & New Testament Reading Plan
1 Kings 19-20
Elijah Flees to Horeb
19 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, "May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them."
3 Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, 4 while he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. "I have had enough, Lord," he said. "Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors." 5 Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep.
All at once an angel touched him and said, "Get up and eat." 6 He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again.
7 The angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, "Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you." 8 So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. 9 There he went into a cave and spent the night.
The Lord Appears to Elijah
And the word of the Lord came to him: "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
10 He replied, "I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too."
11 The Lord said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by."
Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 13 When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.
Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
15 The Lord said to him, "Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram. 16 Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet. 17 Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu. 18 Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him."
The Call of Elisha
19 So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. 20 Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. "Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye," he said, "and then I will come with you."
"Go back," Elijah replied. "What have I done to you?"
21 So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant.
Ben-Hadad Attacks Samaria
20 Now Ben-Hadad king of Aram mustered his entire army. Accompanied by thirty-two kings with their horses and chariots, he went up and besieged Samaria and attacked it. 2 He sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, saying, "This is what Ben-Hadad says: 3 'Your silver and gold are mine, and the best of your wives and children are mine.'"
4 The king of Israel answered, "Just as you say, my lord the king. I and all I have are yours."
5 The messengers came again and said, "This is what Ben-Hadad says: 'I sent to demand your silver and gold, your wives and your children. 6 But about this time tomorrow I am going to send my officials to search your palace and the houses of your officials. They will seize everything you value and carry it away.'"
7 The king of Israel summoned all the elders of the land and said to them, "See how this man is looking for trouble! When he sent for my wives and my children, my silver and my gold, I did not refuse him."
8 The elders and the people all answered, "Don't listen to him or agree to his demands."
9 So he replied to Ben-Hadad's messengers, "Tell my lord the king, 'Your servant will do all you demanded the first time, but this demand I cannot meet.'" They left and took the answer back to Ben-Hadad.
10 Then Ben-Hadad sent another message to Ahab: "May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if enough dust remains in Samaria to give each of my men a handful."
11 The king of Israel answered, "Tell him: 'One who puts on his armor should not boast like one who takes it off.'"
12 Ben-Hadad heard this message while he and the kings were drinking in their tents, and he ordered his men: "Prepare to attack." So they prepared to attack the city.
Ahab Defeats Ben-Hadad
13 Meanwhile a prophet came to Ahab king of Israel and announced, "This is what the Lord says: 'Do you see this vast army? I will give it into your hand today, and then you will know that I am the Lord.'"
14 "But who will do this?" asked Ahab.
The prophet replied, "This is what the Lord says: 'The junior officers under the provincial commanders will do it.'"
"And who will start the battle?" he asked.
The prophet answered, "You will."
15 So Ahab summoned the 232 junior officers under the provincial commanders. Then he assembled the rest of the Israelites, 7,000 in all. 16 They set out at noon while Ben-Hadad and the 32 kings allied with him were in their tents getting drunk. 17 The junior officers under the provincial commanders went out first.
Now Ben-Hadad had dispatched scouts, who reported, "Men are advancing from Samaria."
18 He said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; if they have come out for war, take them alive."
19 The junior officers under the provincial commanders marched out of the city with the army behind them 20 and each one struck down his opponent. At that, the Arameans fled, with the Israelites in pursuit. But Ben-Hadad king of Aram escaped on horseback with some of his horsemen. 21 The king of Israel advanced and overpowered the horses and chariots and inflicted heavy losses on the Arameans.
22 Afterward, the prophet came to the king of Israel and said, "Strengthen your position and see what must be done, because next spring the king of Aram will attack you again."
23 Meanwhile, the officials of the king of Aram advised him, "Their gods are gods of the hills. That is why they were too strong for us. But if we fight them on the plains, surely we will be stronger than they. 24 Do this: Remove all the kings from their commands and replace them with other officers. 25 You must also raise an army like the one you lost—horse for horse and chariot for chariot—so we can fight Israel on the plains. Then surely we will be stronger than they." He agreed with them and acted accordingly.
26 The next spring Ben-Hadad mustered the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel. 27 When the Israelites were also mustered and given provisions, they marched out to meet them. The Israelites camped opposite them like two small flocks of goats, while the Arameans covered the countryside.
28 The man of God came up and told the king of Israel, "This is what the Lord says: 'Because the Arameans think the Lord is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that I am the Lord.'"
29 For seven days they camped opposite each other, and on the seventh day the battle was joined. The Israelites inflicted a hundred thousand casualties on the Aramean foot soldiers in one day. 30 The rest of them escaped to the city of Aphek, where the wall collapsed on twenty-seven thousand of them. And Ben-Hadad fled to the city and hid in an inner room.
31 His officials said to him, "Look, we have heard that the kings of Israel are merciful. Let us go to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life."
32 Wearing sackcloth around their waists and ropes around their heads, they went to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-Hadad says: 'Please let me live.'"
The king answered, "Is he still alive? He is my brother."
33 The men took this as a good sign and were quick to pick up his word. "Yes, your brother Ben-Hadad!" they said.
"Go and get him," the king said. When Ben-Hadad came out, Ahab had him come up into his chariot.
34 "I will return the cities my father took from your father," Ben-Hadad offered. "You may set up your own market areas in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria."
Ahab said, "On the basis of a treaty I will set you free." So he made a treaty with him, and let him go.
A Prophet Condemns Ahab
35 By the word of the Lord one of the company of the prophets said to his companion, "Strike me with your weapon," but he refused.
36 So the prophet said, "Because you have not obeyed the Lord, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you." And after the man went away, a lion found him and killed him.
37 The prophet found another man and said, "Strike me, please." So the man struck him and wounded him. 38 Then the prophet went and stood by the road waiting for the king. He disguised himself with his headband down over his eyes. 39 As the king passed by, the prophet called out to him, "Your servant went into the thick of the battle, and someone came to me with a captive and said, 'Guard this man. If he is missing, it will be your life for his life, or you must pay a talent of silver.' 40 While your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared."
"That is your sentence," the king of Israel said. "You have pronounced it yourself."
41 Then the prophet quickly removed the headband from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets. 42 He said to the king, "This is what the Lord says: 'You have set free a man I had determined should die. Therefore it is your life for his life, your people for his people.'" 43 Sullen and angry, the king of Israel went to his palace in Samaria.
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23 Then the whole assembly rose and led him off to Pilate. 2 And they began to accuse him, saying, "We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Messiah, a king."
3 So Pilate asked Jesus, "Are you the king of the Jews?"
"You have said so," Jesus replied.
4 Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."
5 But they insisted, "He stirs up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He started in Galilee and has come all the way here."
6 On hearing this, Pilate asked if the man was a Galilean. 7 When he learned that Jesus was under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time.
8 When Herod saw Jesus, he was greatly pleased, because for a long time he had been wanting to see him. From what he had heard about him, he hoped to see him perform a sign of some sort. 9 He plied him with many questions, but Jesus gave him no answer. 10 The chief priests and the teachers of the law were standing there, vehemently accusing him. 11 Then Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked him. Dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate. 12 That day Herod and Pilate became friends—before this they had been enemies.
13 Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers and the people, 14 and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was inciting the people to rebellion. I have examined him in your presence and have found no basis for your charges against him. 15 Neither has Herod, for he sent him back to us; as you can see, he has done nothing to deserve death. 16 Therefore, I will punish him and then release him." [17]
18 But the whole crowd shouted, "Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!" 19 (Barabbas had been thrown into prison for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)
20 Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate appealed to them again. 21 But they kept shouting, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"
22 For the third time he spoke to them: "Why? What crime has this man committed? I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore I will have him punished and then release him."
23 But with loud shouts they insistently demanded that he be crucified, and their shouts prevailed. 24 So Pilate decided to grant their demand. 25 He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for, and surrendered Jesus to their will.


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Q: ProtractorTestResults.trx file is not generating in angular testing report I am new in end-to-end testing, I am generating the report for my E2E test cases my code in config is
  onPrepare:
function () {

  require('protractor-trx-reporter');
  jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(
  new jasmine.TrxReporter('ProtractorTestResults.trx'));

}

already install protractor-trx-reporter via npm but still not able to get the ProtractorTestResults.trx file.


If you take a look into Cire' Alexandria's Etsy shop, you will be transcended into all things feminine. She is a total girly girl and it shows through her work. I absolutely adore the dainty pieces (great for layering) like this Mini Blue Teardrop on Sterling Chain. It is a perfect little accessory and the color is breathtaking! Cire' started making jewelry in high school when her boss would give her lots of vintage pieces that he got from estate sales. It has been ten years and the passion for jewelry exudes into colorful, feminine, romantic gems that are causal enough for everyday wear yet flashy enough for a night out! She uses a combination of gold, sterling, semi-precious stones, pearls and charms.
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The two year-old daughter of noted violinist Balabhaskar was killed while the musician and his wife were injured when the auto they were travelling in rammed into a roadside tree at Pallippuram on Tuesday. Balabhaskar, his wife Lakshmi and driver Arjun are now admitted to a private hospital.
The accident apparently happened in Pallipuram, near Thiruvananthapuram.
Police suspect that the driver might have dozed off and resulted in losing the control of the vehicle.
The document has floated to tech companies such as Facebook and lawyers at white-shoe firms around Washington . The order continues to state that consumer harm could come "through the exercise of bias".
According to the sources, Bala Bhaskar was returning with a visit to a temple of Trishchur with his wife and daughter and during this time big accident took place.
The violinist and his family were travelling in the vehicle on Tuesday morning when it hit a tree. The information also suggests that Balabhaskar was sitting in the front along with his daughter next to the driver. The news report also quotes Asianet to claim that both Balabhaskar and his wife Lakshmi are now on ventilator. Balabhaskar has serious spinal injuries, and the medical team is apparently planning to do surgical procedures to save his life.
Later, Balabhaskar became the heartthrob of music lovers after he started working with fusion scores.


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Hostages 2 – Web Series Review
September 7, 2020 by Samrat
Some shows end at cliff-hangers. The hostages, whose debut season premiered last year, prevented a mid-crash. CM Handa (Dalip Tahil) had survived, trafficking to his death at the last moment to face his past. Season 2 resumed with Handa and his kidnappers – led by Prithvi (Ronit Roy). As the city unwittingly prepares for the minister's funeral, Prithvi and Nepal head for the team. However, they ambush the highway and take refuge in a dilapidated house. This all happens in the initial 30 minutes, so you are better taking notes. Unlike the title of a rival show, the hostages don't let you breathe.
The first season of Hotstar Special Series was played by Sudhir Mishra. Adapted from the Israeli show Beni Aruba, it took a keen interest in the distorted dynamics of a hostage situation. It was a show where the kidnappers advised the relationship and looked around for the afternoon light. Parenting was also presented as a mild form of Stockholm syndrome.
The new season, directed by Sachin Mamta Krishnan (Sudhir is credited as the series director), cut-and-dried the proceedings. The main drama Ping-Pang between Prithvi and ATS officers (Divya Dutta, Kanwaljit Singh, and others) closed on their case. In an epidemic year, it can be found in a strange old house full of people to watch. To offset this though, the authors offer a series of side-quests. A Snoopy intelligence officer (Shweta Basu Prasad) joins the fray. Shibani Dandekar played the role of a businessman sent for damage control. And there is a murderer (Dino Morea) killing people from both sides.
From the beginning, the show is full of small non-parity. We follow these players over four impossible action packed days. It is never clear when they blink or bite. Surely they charge their always ringing phone? How to bathe in hot Delhi weather? The pace is severely stretched around the Middle Passage, with an all-natural gas plot rearing its head. The plot moves ambitiously in all directions, just a crisp landscape and a blot of deadlock that works.
On Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Al Pacino gave one of his biggest performances as Sunny Wortczyk, the first bank robber who faced heavy pressure. Prithvi Singh appears to be the antagonist of Pacino: a person with a restless nerve and a curt, calm. He does not sweat when negotiating with the police or managing a sudden crisis. Of course, the ease of his years of force is stated, but it speaks strongly to Ronit as an artist we buy into the character. "What's our plan?" Prithvi is asked that Episode 8. "Paat nahi yaar …" he answers calmly. "I think." I do not know, I am thinking friend
This is a show that is connected to the truth. "You're making a mistake," says a reporter eager to wind up with a half-baked lead. "No, I'm stopping one," his editor replied. It hardly matters what finally comes out right. The fact is that the Indian news room is still confident enough for such a discussion.
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In-game music video showcases GTA Online's After Hours update
Spitting bars.
Enjoy your first glimpse of Black Ops 4's Battle Royale mode
All 13 seconds of it.
Dan Whitehead
Brace yourselves - Gran Turismo Sport is adding microtransactions
New update lets players buy low end cars for real money.
The Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 multiplayer beta kicks off on PlayStation 4 at the end of this week, and Activision is whooping up the crowd with a trailer trumpeting that very fact. Tucked away at the end, however, is something particularly interesting: 13 whole seconds of fast-cut footage from the game's new Blackout mode, aka Call of Duty Does Battle Royale.
Check out the trailer below, or skip to 1m 25s for the Blackout footage.
What do we get to see? Not much, but you can get a sense of the open terrain as players on quad bikes battle with rivals in a helicopter. Even through the trailer editing, it certainly looks and feels very different to a traditional COD match.
The PS4 beta runs from August 3 to August 6. It will feature the Team Deathmatch, Domination, Hardpoint, Search & Destroy, and Control game modes, playable on six maps. A variety of the game's new Specialist classes will also be available. The same content will be in a multi-platform beta kicking off on August 10. Everyone who takes part will unlock a special item to prove they were in there first.
A separate beta for the Blackout mode is reportedly planned for September. Expect a lot of interest in that one.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 launches on PS4, Xbox One and PC on October 12.
Dan has been playing games since the 1980s, and doesn't plan on stopping any time soon. Also, get off his lawn. You can contact him by email if you need to know exactly how to leave his lawn.


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Q: Limpar valor do input no angular material Tenho um input no Angular Material:
<mat-form-field
    class="width-layout p-0 col-xs-12 col-sm-4 col-md-4 col-lg-4"
    [class.mat-form-field-invalid]="errorValue" appearance="outline">
    <mat-label [class.input_disabled]="isDisabled">Numero</mat-label>
    <input type="text" [readonly]="read"
        matInput
        formControlName="numero"
        name="numero"
        id="numero"
        placeholder="numero"
        (change)="valida($event.target.value)" />
</mat-form-field>

Onde ele só fica habilitado quando clica em um checkbox, caso o checkbox esteja ativado, ele pode alterar o valor inicial, se caso esteja desativado, o input fica desabilitado com o valor inicial.
Quando clico pra habilitador o input, coloco valor lá, e depois desabilito, volta pro valor normal, mas quando eu habilito de novo, o input volta pro valor anterior que eu coloquei, e nao zera.
Tentei deixar o input vazio assim:
if (checked === true) {
  this.couponForm.controls.numero.enable();
  (document.getElementById('numero') as HTMLInputElement).value = '';
}

Ele ate fica sem valor, mas quando passo o mouse no input ele já mostra o valor anterior, e não o input com o valor vazio como deveria ser.

A: Olá.
Pelo que eu vi você esta trabalhando com ReactForms, isso é bom. Então vamos a resposta:
1º Mudei a responsabilidade do "change" Para o CheckBox:
<mat-checkbox formControlName="checkbox"  [checked]="true" (change)="change($event.checked)" >Check me!</mat-checkbox>

2º Alterei a função e agora caso toda vez que o CheckBox estiver true o input é habilitado, se false o input volta para o valor " "  e desabilita o input do formulario.
change(checked: any){
    if(checked){
      this.form.controls['numero'].enable();
    } else if(!checked){
    this.form.controls['numero'].setValue('');
    this.form.controls['numero'].disable();
    }
  }

Caso Tenha alguma duvida é só falar.


You love classic black-and-white movies – especially ones with legends such as Dorothy Lamour, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Cagney, and Bing Crosby. The glamor and elegance of old Hollywood intrigues you … and the architecture from that era inspires you. If this sounds familiar, then art deco is the decorating style you've been searching for.
So what, exactly, is art deco – and how can you bring some of that chic style into your home, apartment, or condo? Art deco became popular during the late 1920s and continued until the late 1930s. Art deco celebrated the Machine Age and stayed popular right through the Great Depression. It is luxurious and opulent, yet sparse and somewhat stark – reflective of the era it flourished in.
Art deco has some common themes: sunbursts, pointed edges, touches of black, chevrons, trapezoids and circles, feathers, mirrors and reflective surfaces, and bold contrasting colors. Think lacquer, chrome, silver, and glass mixed with brilliant reds, bright pinks, or bold greens.
Skip the floral and plaid patterns. Instead, you want solid blocks of vivid color. If you do choose a pattern, look for something with a geometric design – this is especially true for your area rugs. You want large rugs with bold patterns (preferably over black and white marble tile or a polished parquet floor).
When selecting furniture, look for sleek lines and unembellished pieces. Simple, classic furniture with high-polished wood, lacquer, chrome, plastic, and mirrored surfaces are perfect for art deco design. Look for items with gentle curves and strong symmetry – you want parallel lines and circles. When looking for artwork, think Picasso – you want modern, sophisticated, and daring. Cubist artwork, chevrons, checkerboards, circles, pyramids, and diamonds all work well in art deco style.
Apartments are ideal for art deco style, because the background (the walls and floors) should be a neutral color – such as white or cream. The color comes in bold pops – in the artwork and in vivid accent pieces. Don't overdo it – art deco is sparse, bordering on austere. It is perfectly fine to leave the walls bare. The same applies to the floor. You want a neutral background for your area rugs that should feature bold colors and geometric designs. Marble – especially in black, white, or black-and-white checks — is classic art deco. If you can't bring this in with floor tiles, consider adding a marble vase (perhaps filled with peacock feathers) or marble artwork.
When looking for lighting for your art deco space, keep "modern" in mind. Look for polished bronze, steel, and chrome. Look for painted glass (especially in vivid colors) and angular designs. The lamps of the art deco era, like most of the furniture, are oversized – so look for large, bold pieces that bring to mind machinery. Neon lighting is also a key art deco element.
Decorating in art deco can be done with a very small budget – due in part to the uncluttered look, but also because the era celebrated man-made materials such as plastic, glass, and chrome. Items were mass-produced rather than handmade and are still plentiful today. Also, you can cut corners by looking for clean-lined furniture and painting it in a high-gloss finish. If you can't find (or can't afford) art deco artwork for your walls, simply print some designs, frame, and hang. The Library of Congress offers an online catalog of prints and photographs that you can download (copyright free).
While you may automatically think "Miami" when someone mentions art deco, this glamorous style will fit your space nicely no matter where you live. It is bold, yet simple; dramatic, yet cool; opulent, yet sparse. The "Golden Era" of movies left us with a decorating style that persists in popularity – it disappeared in the 1940s only to reemerge in the 1960s, then vanished again until the 1980s – today, it is favored once again. Perhaps it is the contrasts, the symmetry, or the balance of the design – or perhaps it is the elegance that surrounded screen legends that helps art deco persist.


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The Evidence Paradox in Performance Measurement: When is a series not a series?
Tony Travers , Christopher Hood , Ruth Dixon / June 11, 2015 /	0	/	1.2k
Niels Goet 2015-06-11
In a recent briefing paper on breaks and discontinuities in official data series in the UK, two of us [Dixon and Hood] highlighted the tension between the demand for quantitative evidence to drive performance improvement and the tendency to systematically destroy the very evidence by which performance can be evaluated. This paper was discussed, and further examples of data breaks across the public sector were explored, at a seminar at LSE in April, attended by senior civil servants and academics. The ensuing discussion embodied the same tensions, with some participants emphasising the need for indicator continuity, and others stressing that indicators must change as methodologies, purposes, and audiences evolve. Can this tension be resolved? In this article we suggest that recommendations arising from the seminar might point to a way to reconcile these demands.
Continuity versus Responsiveness
At the LSE event, most of the panellists argued that a degree of indicator continuity is essential to measure government performance or to track headline public spending numbers. Tony Travers showed examples of how (apparently) final 'outturn' public spending data in the official Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) are altered in subsequent years. Ruth Dixon showed how the definition of central government administration costs in PESA changed so much over the 2000s that no meaningful comparison can be made over that period (see Figure 1). Nor did EU or OECD data series seem to be any more stable or long-lasting than national datasets.
Figure 1. Breaks and Discontinuities in Reported Government Administration Costs.
Alexander Jan (from Ove Arup, a consultancy) described how when Arup was commissioned by the Office of Rail Regulation to review the costs and efficiency of Network Rail, they found that the calculations changed radically at each reporting round. In some cases the data supplied were arguably not suitable for some of the purposes for which they were intended. Alex quoted Roger Ford, editor of Modern Railways, 'this is the fourth year in a row that Arup has provided a qualified opinion for regulatory financial statements. Well, if Arup can't work out what's going on after four attempts, what hope for the rest of us?' As Alex noted, the remuneration of some senior managers was linked to these indicators. Ideally, they need to be readily understood by those holding the organization to account such as ministers, non-executive directors and regulators.
Several participants noted that there is little incentive for rigorous data archiving, continuity or 'ownership' of data series in government. Some of the audience agreed that policymakers need to know whether a time-series used to inform public policy decisions 'really is a series' in any meaningful sense.
Other participants questioned the value of stability in every data series, arguing that many retrospective comparisons are of limited value. A former government accountant pointed out that financial reporting methods continue to mature, and the best (or newest) systems should not be rejected simply to ensure continuity. For instance, UK government moved from cash-based to resource-based accounting in the 2000s, and latterly moved to whole-of-government accounts. Others pointed out that the value of any indicator as an instrument of control over public bodies depends on its being changed to counter gaming and reflect current concerns. Indicator change may also reflect major changes in policy, as when the definitions of employment and benefit changed with the introduction of Universal Credit.
It is undeniable that indicators that never change become subject to gaming, cause output distortions, or simply cease to reflect the concept that they were originally designed to measure. But the question remains whether current practice represents the optimal balance between continuity and change. If the main official national records that purport to offer an authoritative picture of the state of the public finances (for instance, PESA and the Local Government Financial Statistics) cannot even be compared from year to year by experts, where should we turn? The data series in which we found serious discontinuities or complete breaks are not trivial or obscure, but are (or should be) of major importance to the evaluation of government of any political stripe, such as total public sector capital investment, local government spending (on which the Office for Budget Responsibility and the government differ whether it is rising or falling), how much the government costs to run, and how much the civil service costs to employ. It is possible to provide long-running, consistent official series. For instance, civil service staff numbers have been reported in Civil Service Statistics since it was first published in 1970. And consistent records of tax revenues have been included in the annual budget reports (the Treasury's Red Book) for many decades.
Overlapping Series Provide Transparency
In our briefing paper [Dixon and Hood], we suggested that overlapped stepped series offer a possible reconciliation between continuity and responsiveness. By this, we meant that when indicators change their definition or methodology, the effects of the change must be shown by calculating the metric in the old and new ways for several overlapping years. If transparently reported, this method allows us to identify significant changes and understand the consequentiality of those changes. That technique was used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to show Total Managed Expenditure with and without the support given to banks after the financial crisis in 2007 as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Example of Good Practice: Transparently Showing Effect of Classification Change.
Some participants argued that this requirement is simply too onerous—unavoidable changes are too frequent and complex for the tension between continuity and change to be reconciled in this way—and that officials are required to report the situation 'as it is now'. Policymakers, they said, are not interested in some hypothetical 'might have been'. But we argue that if that is the case for indicators on which public policy depends, the data should not be presented as a time-series at all. As Iain McLean demonstrated in his presentation, sometimes the data turns out to be so corrupt that there is no remedy other than 'breaking' the time-series and starting again, as he and his colleagues found when they looked into EU regional spending figures reported in PESA in the mid-2000s. In that case, they had to inform the Treasury that the data prior to 2004 was 'irretrievable.'
In summary, we find ample evidence that breaks and discontinuities are so ubiquitous in official data sets that tracking government performance over time is severely compromised. Of course there is no easy solution for reconciling the need for continuity with the demand to update and modernize indicators. Nevertheless, we suggest that at least for key or leading official statistics such as those summarizing the state of the public finances, public organizations should (i) consider carefully whether the 'pros' of updating an indicator outweigh the 'cons' caused by the discontinuity; (ii) carefully report, explain, and justify each change in methodology or definition, properly archiving such documentation; and (iii) demonstrate the consequentiality of each change by means of overlapping stepped series. Oversight bodies such as parliamentary select committees and audit bodies should press for such practices to be followed, in consultation with professional authorities such as the Royal Statistical Society and the Chartered Institute for Public Finance and Accountancy.
'Is the EU doomed?' by Jan Zielonka
Democracy for our Digital Future (Part I): Seven reasons why 'We, the People' should take charge of constitutional change
Tony Travers
Tony Travers is Director of LSE London, a research centre at the London School of Economics. He is also a Visiting Professor in the LSE's Government Department. His key research interests include local and regional government and public service reform.
He is currently an advisor to the House of Commons Children, Schools and Families Select Committee and the Communities and Local Government Select Committee. He has published a number of books on cities and government, including Failure in British Government, The Politics of the Poll Tax (with David Butler and Andrew Adonis), Paying for Health, Education and Housing: How does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings (with Howard Glennerster and John Hills) and The Politics of London: Governing the Ungovernable City.
Christopher Hood
Christopher Hood is Gladstone Professor of Government Emeritus and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He specializes in the study of executive government, regulation and public-sector reform.
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Ruth Dixon
After studying Chemistry at Cambridge and Warwick Universities, and working in the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Oxford, Ruth Dixon was from 1992 to 2001 a senior (non-clinical) scientist at the MRC Biochemical and Clinical Magnetic Resonance Unit, University of Oxford.
Ruth's work on the biochemistry of human disease resulted in about 40 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters etc.
A career change brought Ruth to the Department of Politics and International Relations in 2006 to work on the ESRC's Public Services Programme.
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