With any post-apocalyptic work of fiction, numerous large-scale themes such as existentialism and survivalism are bound to arise in the plot and dialogue. Actors Daniel Sharman and Sam Underwood are new additions to AMC's "Fear The Walking Dead" as brothers Troy Otto and Jake Otto, respectively. When visiting San Diego Comic Con to promote the return of the show for the second half of season three, we asked about these larger themes and what working on the show has made them learn on a personal level as a result of portraying and reflecting on such material.
"It's interesting because we obviously joined this cast on a well-established show," says Sharman. "People, actors as well, have gotten into a groove and way of working. It's quite interesting joining a cast when you're also playing a racist, white... very odd family. That's quite an odd way to introduce yourself. We shoot in a very remote location in Mexico so you feel like you've got to [form] a bond. I think it was really interesting, you form these really amazing attachments to people very quickly, and that happens in the show, which I'm really glad the writers put in there. Human beings, it doesn't matter how crazily different they are. You will always form these tendrils of attachment to people through it and that's what's so beautiful about some of the writing and it's got that - even though we are so different."
"I think that from a thematic standpoint, the basic idea that Troy represents, this is kind of what I take away from it," begins Underwood. "Troy represents the arm of society that again particularly right now is angry and is there for survival, there's fear of the Other, and there's this real animal need to protect ourselves. Our dad has set up this beautiful community for people which the majority is a really peaceful community. But they have to have this kind of border militia, mindset to keep us safe and that's why the racism and that kind of culture comes into it. So Troy represents in my mind that need for intense survival and aggression towards protecting yourself whereas Jake, being a constitutional lawyer, he is the exact opposite in a way. [He's] hoping to rebuild a crumbling or crumbled democracy cause now the lines are blurred between what's right morally and ethically and what is accepted and what do we need to do to survive? Jake thinks that civilization needs some form of democracy or some form of constitution in a way to keep everyone maintaining a sense of morals and ethics. I think that's the question that comes up a lot between us in this beautiful clash of ideals which continues throughout the season. It's really, really cool."
Fear The Walking Dead returns for season 3B on AMC on September 10.


If you didn't catch our 2016 Candy Buyback event, you really missed out! It was a lot of fun. Specifically, it was more than a half-ton of fun.
You see ^ that? That's all candy! More than 1,000 pounds of it. We'd like to give a shout out to South State Bank for sponsoring the shipping for Operation Gratitude.
We collected 1,060 pounds of candy in a little over three hours. That's a new record! That's so much candy that only the strongest man in the world would be able to lift it all.
All of this candy was donated to former or current service members of the U.S. military through Operation Gratitude, and we are supremely grateful for everyone's participation.
Operation Gratitude sends more than 200,000 care packages every year to America's veterans, first responders, as well as active duty members.
We had all sorts of fun things going on during the Candy Buyback event. There were games, crafts, face-painting, and our friends at Sweetgrass Selfies even made a visit. Take a look at the fun time we had!
You brought in a lot of candy, but that's not all you did, Mt. Pleasant.
We also took the opportunity to raise money for Water Mission International, an organization based in North Charleston that helps people around the world gain access to clean drinking water. After the recent destruction of Hurricane Matthew, they have been working tirelessly to help Haiti rebuild.
During our Candy Buyback, kids were able to donate $1 or more to Water Mission International and they received a coupon for a kid's meal from Cracker Barrel. Mt. Pleasant children raised a bunch of extra candy for WMI. Great work!
We'd also like to extend our congratulations to the Stoudenmire family! This clan of marauders were the winners of our Halloween costume contest. They'll be collecting their booty from Sweetgrass Selfies, who will provide a one hour party booking. Yaaarrrrrrrrh, mateys!
By any metric, the 2016 Candy Buyback was a success. We wouldn't have been able to do it without the contributions from our Mt. Pleasant community, The Smiles by Dr. Randy team, our friends and family, and all of you that took the time to attend our event is what made it possible, so thank you.


ARS Administrator Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young (center) meets with ARS Scientists and International Partners in South Africa.
Agricultural problems ignore country borders, threatening the environment, food safety, and animal and human health; and in turn can affect the U.S. economy and trade. ARS collaborates with all levels of government agencies, universities and the private sector at home and abroad to tackle critical agricultural problems before they harm the U.S.
The ARS Office of International Research Programs (OIRP) together with the ARS National Program Office, facilitate strategic bilateral and multinational partnerships.These efforts benefit all partners, expedite research results to the private sector, exchange information and knowledge, stimulate economic development and U.S. trade, preserve the environment, and improve the quality of life for all Americans.


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Rock Vault
U.D.O. – Steelhammer Review
Released by: AFM Records
Links: http://www.udo-online.com/
Udo Dirkschneider (vocals)
Andrey Smirnov (guitar)
Kasperi Heikkinen (guitar)
Fitty Wienhold (bass)
Francesco Jovino (drums)
01. Steelhammer
02. A Cry Of A Nation
03. Metal Machine
04. Basta Ya
05. Heavy Rain
06. Devil's Bite
07. Death Ride
08. King Of Mean
09. Time Keeper
10. Never Cross My Way
11. Take My Medicine
12. Stay True
13. When Love Becomes A Lie
14. Book Of Faith
Sometimes when a band breaks up it signals the end of an era so to speak. Other times a band will forge on creating music that cheapens the prior catalog of material. And other times still a member will leave a band to pursue a solo career overtaking their previous bands greatness, or simply crashing and burning under the weight of their own ego. Lucky for fans of the legendary German band Accept, as well as those who loved the music and vocals provided by former vocalist Udo Dirkschneider, both band and singer are still putting out top notch metal, just not as one unit. Just as Accept have been able to take the significant loss of such an iconic singer and move on putting out some of the best material they have in their career, at the same time U.D.O has managed to release some outstanding solo albums as well.
Steelhammer is his latest and continues to demonstrate his greatness. His voice may not be for everyone, however for those of us that get it, it is a treasure that keeps the metal alive. Musically, the songs are just as strong as anything he recorded with Accept, yet beyond the obvious metal music comparison, has created a sound all his own while remaining true to what brought him to the game. With standout tracks like "Take My Medicine," "Metal Machine," and "Death Ride," it packs a metal powerhouse punch that doesn't let up. Still sounding as fresh as ever, Udo still is one of the masters of metal, and that my friend is awesome!
Honestly, there's not a helluva lot to be said about Steelhammer other than prior fans of U.D.O. and Accept have another German metal masterpiece on their hands, and despite the amicable split, there are two forces pumping out some of the best metal out there. Forever linked in the pantheon of metal legend, it's nice to know that a band can lose a vocalist and fans of both gain two outstanding music creators. It doesn't happen often, but this time it exceeds giving the fans more metal to get them through the tough times we live in.
Written by Chris
Ratings Chris 8/10
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How to Use Online Calculators for Lead Generation & Quadruple Conversion Rates
SUMMARY: Many companies have online calculators on their Web sites, but not many create entire lead generation efforts around them.
Our latest Case Study shows you how a marketer used a green marketing campaign featuring an online calculator. Traffic has increased 25%, and the calculator is converting at a rate 3-4 times higher than their white papers.
"For some time we were looking for ways to quantify the value that videoconferencing brings to an organization," says Marjorie Agin, Manager, Global Corporate Communications, Tandberg. "We definitely were being asked to put some hard ROI figures to that question, but most people think in terms of travel reduction and the cost of plane tickets and hotel rooms. They don't think about the whole picture of what's lost when you take a trip."
Over the past year, that picture has expanded to include a new element: the environmental costs. In a world where Al Gore has won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work raising awareness about climate change, Agin and her team realized that a green marketing angle could attract prospects to the company's videoconferencing services.
Still, they felt they needed some kind of hands-on, interactive feature that would show the environmental advantages of videoconferencing compared to business travel. So the team decided to test online calculators as a way to quantify both the economic and carbon-emissions impact of business travel.
The green campaign grew out of an initiative from the company's European office, which had built a long, detailed calculator to show prospects in that region the economic and environmental impact of their business travel. Agin's corporate marketing team adapted that tool as the centerpiece of a global campaign that combined the calculator with a new green marketing microsite dedicated to the environmental benefits of videoconferencing and remote working.
Here's how they built the calculator and microsite:
-> Step #1. Determine the type of calculator to build
Agin's team started with a review of the carbon-footprint and travel-related cost/productivity calculators already on the Web. From that research, they determined that existing calculators focused on only one of the two topics: either the CO2 impact of travel or the cost and time spent on business travel.
As a result, they decided to combine the two elements. "We wanted to get the productivity message, the hard dollars and cents, and the green message all in one place."
The team decided to create calculators for individual and organizational travel:
- The first was a simple tool that estimated the impact of one person's travel habits. Users had to answer a handful of questions about a trip itinerary, mode of transportation and travel frequency. The site did not require users to register to use that tool.
- The second tool estimated the impact of an entire organization's travel habits. That calculator was more detailed; it asked several questions about the size of the organization, number and types of employees traveling, typical range of trips (e.g., domestic or international), interest levels in the ROI and environmental impact of travel, and current use of videoconferencing tools.
It also required users to register before completing the travel questionnaire, requesting:
o Name
o Job title
o Company name
o Email address
o Phone number
o Industry
-> Step #2. Compile data for calculator's engine
For the calculator to deliver reliable estimates of travel impact, Agin's team had to assemble a database of statistics on which to base calculations.
The key to delivering meaningful results was finding third-party sources that were authorities in the field. Some of the sources they turned to were:
- Travel organizations, such as the International Air Transport Association, to provide distances from point to point.
- Environmental organizations, such the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the UK, which had a database showing how much CO2 is produced by different modes of transportation.
- Industry groups and human resources associations, which provided salary estimates for different levels of employees at large, medium and small businesses in different industries. These estimates were used to calculate the value of lost time due to travel.
The company provided its own assumptions for the percent reduction in travel that could be achieved through the use of videoconferencing technology based on actual customer experiences.
To establish the credibility of the calculators, Agin's team provided a PDF download outlining the different assumptions and databases used to establish users' estimates. "People were very surprised until we laid it all out, line item by line item, and showed them what all the assumptions were behind it."
-> Step #3. Build the calculator and test for usability
After licensing data from different sources, Agin turned to her Web development team to write the calculator code. Each calculator took up to 1 1/2 months to develop and required several testing steps to make sure it was simple to use.
Testing focused on discovering disconnects between the way Web users would enter data and the system's design, resulting in several usability changes:
- For travel distance calculations, the team had to create models for itineraries that weren't already in the database. The database used to calculate flight distances only included point-to-point flights, which meant that for some hypothetical travel itineraries -- say, Boston to Fiji -- users would have had to choose multiple legs and connections to create the complete trip.
That process would have required too many steps to make the calculator easy to use, so the team created models for the complete distance of those flights based on assumptions about connections a traveler would have to make -- say, Boston to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to Fiji. This way, a user could simply pick a starting city and an end city, and still receive a general estimate of travel time and CO2 emissions.
"The bottom line is that when we loaded in this database and went into testing, we found it was more important to make the calculator easy to use than to make it absolutely 100% accurate."
- For organization-wide calculations, the developers had to build intelligence into the calculator that would recognize inconsistencies in the information provided by users. For example, if a user indicated they came from an organization of 250 people, but then entered figures for senior and middle managers that equaled more than 250 people, the calculator would stop the registration process, highlight the inconsistency in red and prompt users to correct the information.
- Because it was a global campaign, the team also made accommodations for users from different countries. The calculators allowed users to specify several options, including:
o Currency choice (dollars, euros and pounds sterling).
o Distance measurement (miles or kilometers).
o Language (translations offered for 5 different languages).
-> Step #4. Create microsite to host calculators
The original calculator developed by the European office was hosted on Tandberg's homepage. Agin's goal was to use the calculator in a less product-specific, green marketing campaign that would attract prospects unfamiliar with Tandberg or videoconferencing technology. To do that, the team created a microsite that offered a broader look at reducing carbon emissions with the calculators as the centerpiece.
Links to the calculators were prominently featured on the homepage and in the top navigation bar. Other areas of the microsite downplayed company branding in exchange for useful resources, such as:
o Environmental news headlines.
o Links to third-party white papers and reports on environmental issues and carbon-footprint reduction.
o A quiz that tested users' knowledge of green issues.
o Customer case studies outlining the environmental benefits of using videoconferencing technology
"People are interested in these issues and we wanted to be part of that conversation, providing meat around the message."
-> Step #5. Promote the microsite and calculators
With the calculators and microsite up and running, Agin's team promoted the campaign through multiple channels:
o Email messages to the in-house prospect nurturing database
o Online advertising with environmental sites, such as Greenbiz.com and Treehugger.com
o Paid search ads for keywords related to the environmental impact of business travel
In addition to those corporate promotions, regional offices were encouraged to use the calculator in their own marketing campaigns. Individual country or regional managers could promote the new site through:
o Email blasts to rented email lists aimed at specific audiences, such as corporate social responsibility officers or HR managers
o Public relations efforts
o Trade show appearances
o Local print advertising
-> Step #6. Multi-stage follow-up to deliver calculator results
The team designed the calculators to offer several ways to report results and continue interacting with users.
- The first stage of the reporting process delivered results directly on screen, providing links to other sections of the microsite to learn more about reducing carbon emissions or to the Tandberg site for more information on videoconferencing.
- Users who completed an organization estimate received an email report of their results. It featured hotlinks to the Tandberg site for more information and a note that a representative would be calling to discuss the results in detail.
- A member of the sales team followed up by phone with users who completed a calculation for the entire organization. Sales reps offered to discuss the results in detail or lay out how videoconferencing services could reduce the firm's travel costs and environmental impact.
The calculators have proven to be the kind of sticky application that Agin hoped they would be, attracting an entirely new target audience for Tandberg's services.
After moving them off the homepage and onto the microsite, traffic to the calculators increased 25%. Those visitors have come from 99 countries, and the average visitor length on the microsite now ranges between three and four minutes -- an indication that users are exploring the materials provided there.
What's more, the company-wide calculator, which requires user registration, is converting visitors at a rate 3-4 times higher than the average rates seen for company white papers. "We're extremely pleased, from the instant measurement we can get in terms of customer interest to the long-term value of providing the tool to our current customer base and sales people," says Agin. "This is something sales people can take into a meeting or do on the phone with prospects that gives them a new and different way to talk about videoconferencing."
Agin says the company has landed at least four new customers thanks to the calculator campaign, based on interviews with those clients who said the calculator was their point of entry into the company's sales cycle. And with the company's typical videoconferencing system installation price points, which range from tens of thousands of dollars to upward of $1 million, four customers is a coup. "One customer who comes through this pays for it 10 times over."
Online and search advertising have been the biggest traffic drivers to the microsite. The banner ads on Treehugger.com and Greenbiz.com are among the top-10 referrers. Google search ads have achieved a 2.78% clickthrough rate, with the best performance coming from an emphasis on the interactive nature of the calculators:
o Best performing ad: "Measure CO2 emissions"
o Best performing keyword: "Carbon calculator"
Creative samples from Tandberg's Global Calculator Campaign:
http://www.marketingsherpa.com/cs/tandberg/study.html
See Green, the company's environment-focused microsite:
http://www.seegreennow.com
GreenBiz.com:
http://www.greenbiz.com
TreeHugger:
http://www.treehugger.com
Tandberg:
http://www.tandberg.com
Tandberg's calculators:
http://www.seegreennow.com/calculate.aspx


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/*
http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-determine-if-a-binary-tree-is-balanced/

How to determine if a binary tree is height-balanced?

Logic:
- Get max height of left and right subtree and compare the heights
- Tree is height balanced if left and right subtree height difference <= 1

New stuff learned:
- Just getting max height is not sufficient, need each subtree to be balanced as well
- Can't live without multi return value anymore
*/
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"math"
	"reflect"
	"strings"
)

func main() {

	/*
			2
		   / \
		  1   3
			   \
				5
			   / \
			  4   7
	*/

	n2 := &Node{Value: 2}
	n1 := &Node{Value: 1}
	n3 := &Node{Value: 3}
	n5 := &Node{Value: 5}
	n4 := &Node{Value: 4}
	n7 := &Node{Value: 7}

	n2.Left = n1
	n2.Right = n3
	n3.Right = n5
	n5.Left = n4
	n5.Right = n7

	check(n2, false)
	check(n4, true)
	check(n3, false)
	check(n5, true)

	/* Left and Right subtree have same height but one of the subtrees is not balanced
			15
		   / \
		  10   20
	     /      \
		9		25
	   /	    / \
	  8		  21   30
	*/
	n15 := &Node{Value: 15}
	n10 := &Node{Value: 10}
	n9 := &Node{Value: 9}
	n8 := &Node{Value: 8}
	n20 := &Node{Value: 20}
	n21 := &Node{Value: 21}
	n25 := &Node{Value: 25}
	n30 := &Node{Value: 30}

	n15.Left = n10
	n15.Right = n20
	n10.Left = n9
	n9.Left = n8

	n20.Right = n25
	n25.Left = n21
	n25.Right = n30

	check(n15, false)
	check(n25, true)
}

type Node struct {
	Value int
	Left  *Node
	Right *Node
}

func check(root *Node, expected bool) {

	result, _ := isHeightBalanced(root)
	fmt.Printf("input %v \n result %v \n expected %v \n match %t \n\n",
		root,
		result,
		expected,
		reflect.DeepEqual(expected, result))

	if !reflect.DeepEqual(expected, result) {
		panic(fmt.Sprintf("Results different: expected %-v result %-v", expected, result))
	}

}

func isHeightBalanced(root *Node) (bool, int) {

	if root == nil {
		return true, 0
	}

	leftBalanced, leftHeight := isHeightBalanced(root.Left)
	rightBalanced, rightHeight := isHeightBalanced(root.Right)

	fmt.Printf("At node %v leftBalanced %t leftHeight %v rightBalanced %t rightHeight %v \n", root.Value, leftBalanced, leftHeight, rightBalanced, rightHeight)

	if leftBalanced && rightBalanced && math.Abs(float64(leftHeight-rightHeight)) <= 1.0 {
		return true, int(math.Max(float64(leftHeight), float64(rightHeight))) + 1
	}

	return false, int(math.Max(float64(leftHeight), float64(rightHeight))) + 1
}

func isHeightBalancedBad(root *Node) bool {

	leftHeight := maxHeight(root.Left)
	rightHeight := maxHeight(root.Right)

	fmt.Printf("leftHeight %v rightHeight %v \n", leftHeight, rightHeight)

	if math.Abs(float64(leftHeight-rightHeight)) > 1.0 {
		return false
	}

	return true
}

func maxHeight(root *Node) int {

	if root == nil {
		return 0
	}

	leftHeight := maxHeight(root.Left)
	rightHeight := maxHeight(root.Right)

	if leftHeight == rightHeight {
		return leftHeight + 1
	} else if leftHeight > rightHeight {
		return leftHeight + 1
	} else {
		return rightHeight + 1
	}
}

func padLeft(len int) string {
	return strings.Repeat(" ", len)
}

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US Wars and Military Action
Defining a Just War
Ends and means.
I have never since my childhood supported a shooting war in which the United States was involved, although in retrospect I think the NATO war in Kosovo achieved beneficial results. The war in Afghanistan against apocalyptic terrorism qualifies in my understanding as the first truly just war since World War II. But the justice of the cause and of the limited ends is in danger of being negated by the injustice of improper means and excessive ends. Unlike World War II and prior just wars, this one can be won only if tactics adhere to legal and moral constraints on the means used to conduct it, and to limited ends.
The perpetrators of the September 11 attack cannot be reliably neutralized by nonviolent or diplomatic means; a response that includes military action is essential to diminish the threat of repetition, to inflict punishment and to restore a sense of security at home and abroad. The extremist political vision held by Osama bin Laden, which can usefully be labeled "apocalyptic terrorism," places this persisting threat well outside any framework of potential reconciliation or even negotiation for several reasons: Its genocidal intent is directed generically against Americans and Jews; its proclaimed goal is waging an unconditional civilizational war–Islam against the West–without drawing any distinction between civilian and military targets; it has demonstrated a capacity and willingness to inflict massive and traumatizing damage on our country and a tactical ingenuity and ability to carry out its missions of destruction by reliance on the suicidal devotion of its adherents.
There are three types of responses to the attack, each of which contains some merit and enjoys some support. None of them are adequate, however.
I. ANTIWAR/PACIFIST APPROACH The pacifist position opposing even limited military action overlooks the nature of the threat and is thus irrelevant to meeting the central challenge of restoring some sense of security among our citizenry and in the world generally.
Also, in the current setting, unlike in the civil rights movement and the interventionist conflicts of the cold war era (especially Vietnam), antiwar and pacifist stands possess little or no cultural resonance with the overwhelming majority of Americans. It may be that at later stages of the war this assessment will prove to have been premature, and even now Quaker, Christian, Gandhian and Buddhist forms of pacifism offer a profound critique of wars. These critiques should be seriously heeded, since they lend weight to the the view that the use of force should be marginal and kept to an absolute minimum. Certainly the spiritually motivated pacifist witness can be both inspirational and instructive, and help to mitigate and interrogate militarist postures.
Another form of antiwar advocacy rests on a critique of the United States as an imperialist superpower or empire. This view also seems dangerously inappropriate in addressing the challenge posed by the massive crime against humanity committed on September 11. Whatever the global role of the United States–and it is certainly responsible for much global suffering and injustice, giving rise to widespread resentment that at its inner core fuels the terrorist impulse–it cannot be addressed so long as this movement of global terrorism is at large and prepared to carry on with its demonic work. These longer-term concerns–which include finding ways to promote Palestinian self-determination, the internationalization of Jerusalem and a more equitable distribution of the benefits of global economic growth and development–must be addressed. Of course, much of the responsibility for the failure to do so lies with the corruption and repressive policies of governments, especially in the Middle East, outside the orbit of US influence. A distinction needs to be drawn as persuasively as possible between inherently desirable lines of foreign policy reform and retreating in the face of terrorism.
II. LEGALIST/UN APPROACH International treaties that deal with terrorism on civil aircraft call for cooperation in apprehending suspects and allow for their subsequent indictment and prosecution by national courts. Such laws could in theory be invoked to capture Osama bin Laden and his leading associates and charge them with international crimes, including crimes against humanity. A tribunal could be constituted under the authority of the United Nations, and a fair trial could then be held that would avoid war and the ensuing pain, destruction and associated costs. The narrative of apocalyptic terrorism could be laid before the world as the crimes of Nazism were bared at Nuremberg.
But this course is unlikely to deal effectively with the overall threat. A public prosecution would give bin Laden and associates a platform to rally further support among a large constituency of sympathizers, and conviction and punishment would certainly be viewed as a kind of legal martyrdom. It would be impossible to persuade the United States government to empower such a tribunal unless it was authorized to impose capital punishment, and it is doubtful that several of the permanent members of the Security Council could be persuaded to allow death sentences. Beyond this, the evidence linking bin Laden to the September 11 attacks and other instances of global terrorism may well be insufficient to produce an assured conviction in an impartial legal tribunal, particularly if conspiracy was not among the criminal offenses that could be charged. European and other foreign governments are unlikely to be willing to treat conspiracy as a capital crime. And it strains the imagination to suppose that the Bush Administration would relinquish control over bin Laden to an international tribunal. On a more general level, it also seems highly improbable that the US government can be persuaded to rely on the collective security mechanisms of the UN even to the unsatisfactory degree permitted during the Gulf War. To be sure, the UN Security Council has provided a vague antiterrorist mandate as well as an endorsement of a US right of response, but such legitimizing gestures are no more than that. For better and worse, the United States is relying on its claimed right of self-defense, and Washington seems certain to insist on full operational control over the means and ends of the war that is now under way. Such a reliance is worrisome, given past US behavior and the somewhat militaristic character of both the leadership in Washington and the broader societal orientation in America toward the use of overwhelming force against the nation's enemies.
Yet at this stage it is unreasonable to expect the US government to rely on the UN to fulfill its defensive needs. The UN lacks the capability, authority and will to respond to the kind of threat to global security posed by this new form of terrorist world war. The UN was established to deal with wars among states, while a transnational actor that cannot be definitively linked to a state is behind the attacks on the United States. Al Qaeda's relationship to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan is contingent, with Al Qaeda being more the sponsor of the state rather than the other way around.
Undoubtedly, the world would be safer and more secure with a stronger UN that had the support of the leading states in the world. The United States has for years acted more to obstruct than to foster such a transformation. Surely the long-term effects of this crisis should involve a new surge of support for a reformed UN that would have independent means of financing its operations, with its own peacekeeping and enforcement capabilities backed up by an international criminal court. Such a transformed UN would generate confidence that it could and would uphold its charter in an evenhanded manner that treats people equally. But it would be foolish to pretend that the UN today, even if it were to enjoy a far higher level of US support than it does, could mount an effective response to the September 11 attacks.
III. MILITARIST APPROACH Unlike pacifism and legalism, militarism poses a practical danger of immense proportions. Excessive reliance on the military will backfire badly, further imperiling the security of Americans and others, spreading war and destruction far afield, as well as emboldening the government to act at home in ways that weaken US democracy. So far the Bush Administration has shown some understanding of these dangers, going slowly in its reliance on military action and moving relatively cautiously to bolster its powers over those it views as suspicious or dangerous, so as to avoid the perception of waging a cultural war against Islam. The White House has itself repeatedly stressed that this conflict is unlike previous wars, that nonmilitary means are also important, that victory will come in a different way and that major battlefield encounters are unlikely to occur.
Such reassurances, however, are not altogether convincing. The President's current rhetoric seems to reflect Secretary of State Colin Powell's more prudent approach, which emphasizes diplomacy and nonmilitary tactics, and restricts military action to Al Qaeda and the Taliban regime. Even here, there is room for dangerous expansion, depending on how the Al Qaeda network is defined. Some maximalists implicate twenty or more countries as supporters of terrorism. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy Paul Wolfowitz and others are definitely beating the drums for a far wider war; they seem to regard the attacks as an occasion to implement their own vision of a new world, one that proposes to rid the world of "evil" and advances its own apocalyptic vision. This vision seeks the destruction of such organizations as Hezbollah and Hamas, which have only minimal links to Al Qaeda and transnational terror, and which have agendas limited mainly to Palestinian rights of self-determination and the future of Jerusalem. These organizations, while legally responsible for terrorist operations within their sphere of concerns, but also subject to terrorist provocations, have not shown any intention of pursuing bin Laden's apocalyptic undertaking. Including such groups on the US target list will surely undermine the depth and breadth of international support and engender dangerous reactions throughout the Islamic world, and possibly in the West as well.
Beyond this, there is speculation that there will be a second stage of response that will include a series of countries regarded as hostile to the United States, who are in possession of weapons of mass destruction but are not currently related to global terrorism in any significant fashion. These include Iraq, Libya and possibly even Syria, Iran and Sudan. To expand war objectives in this way would be full of risks, require massive military strikes inflicting much destruction and suffering, and would create a new wave of retaliatory violence directed against the United States and Americans throughout the world. If military goals overshoot, either by becoming part of a design to destroy Israel's enemies or to solve the problem of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the war against global terrorism will be lost, and badly.
Just as the pacifist fallacy involves unrealistic exclusion of military force from an acceptable response, the militarist fallacy involves an excessive reliance on military force in a manner that magnifies the threat it is trying to diminish or eliminate. It also expands the zone of violence in particularly dangerous ways that are almost certain to intensify and inflame anti-Americanism. It should be kept in mind that war occasions deep suffering, and recourse to international force should be both a last resort and on as limited a scale as possible.
But there is a fourth response, which has gained support among foreign policy analysts and probably a majority of Americans.
IV. LIMITING MEANS AND ENDS Unlike in major wars of the past, the response to this challenge of apocalyptic terrorism can be effective only if it is also widely perceived as legitimate. And legitimacy can be attained only if the role of military force is marginal to the overall conduct of the war and the relevant frameworks of moral, legal and religious restraint are scrupulously respected.
Excessive use of force in pursuing the perpetrators of September 11 will fan the flames of Islamic militancy and give credence to calls for holy war. What lent the WTC/Pentagon attack its quality of sinister originality was the ability of a fanatical political movement to take advantage of the complex fragility and vulnerability of advanced technology. Now that this vulnerability has been exposed to the world, it is impossible to insure that other extremists will not commit similar acts–even if Osama bin Laden is eliminated.
The only way to wage this war effectively is to make sure that force is used within relevant frameworks of restraint. Excessive force can take several forms, like the pursuit of political movements remote from the WTC attack, especially if such military action is seen as indirectly doing the dirty work of eliminating threats to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and Jerusalem. Excessiveness would also be attributed to efforts to destroy and restructure regimes, other than the Taliban, that are hostile to the United States but not significantly connected with either the attack or Al Qaeda.
The second, closely related problem of successfully framing a response is related to the US manner of waging war: The US temperament has tended to approach war as a matter of confronting evil. In such a view, victory can be achieved only by the total defeat of the other, and with it, the triumph of good.
In the current setting, goals have not been clarified, and US leaders have used grandiose language about ending terrorism and destroying the global terrorist network. The idea of good against evil has been a consistent part of the process of public mobilization, with the implicit message that nothing less than a total victory is acceptable. What are realistic ends? Or put differently, what ends can be reconciled with a commitment to achieve an effective response? What is needed is extremely selective uses of force, especially in relation to the Taliban, combined with criminal law enforcement operations–cutting off sources of finance, destroying terrorist cells, using policing techniques abetted, to the extent necessary, by paramilitary capabilities.
Also troubling is the Bush Administration's ingrained disdain for multilateralism and its determination to achieve security for the United States by military means–particularly missile defense and space weaponization. This unilateralism has so far been masked by a frantic effort to forge a global coalition, but there is every indication that the US government will insist on complete operational control over the war and will not be willing to accept procedures of accountability within the UN framework.
The Administration has often said that many of the actions in this war will not be made known to the public. But an excessive emphasis on secrecy in the conduct of military operations is likely to make the uses of force more difficult to justify to those who are skeptical about US motives and goals, thus undercutting the legitimacy of the war.
In building a global coalition for cooperative action, especially with respect to law enforcement in countries where Al Qaeda operates, the US government has struck a number of Faustian bargains. It may be necessary to enter into arrangements with governments that are themselves responsible for terrorist policies and brutal repression, such as Russia in Chechnya and India in Kashmir. But the cost of doing so is to weaken claims that a common antiterrorist front is the foundation of this alliance. For some governments the war against apocalyptic terrorism is an opportunity to proceed with their own repressive policies free from censure and interference. The US government should weigh the cost of writing blank checks against the importance of distinguishing its means and ends from the megaterrorist ethos that animated the September 11 attacks. There are some difficult choices ahead, including the extent to which Afghan opposition forces, particularly the Northern Alliance, should be supported in view of their own dubious human rights record.
How, then, should legitimacy be pursued in the current context? The first set of requirements is essentially political: to disclose goals that seem reasonably connected with the attack and with the threat posed by those who planned, funded and carried it out. In this regard, the destruction of both the Taliban regime and the Al Qaeda network, including the apprehension and prosecution of Osama bin Laden and any associates connected with this and past terrorist crimes, are appropriate goals. In each instance, further specification is necessary. With respect to the Taliban, its relation to Al Qaeda is established and intimate enough to attribute primary responsibility, and the case is strengthened to the degree that its governing policies are so oppressive as to give the international community the strongest possible grounds for humanitarian intervention. We must make a distinction between those individuals and entities that have been actively engaged in the perpetration of the visionary program of international, apocalyptic terrorism uniquely Al Qaeda's and those who have used funds or training to advance more traditional goals relating to grievances associated with the governance of a particular country and have limited their targets largely to the authorities in their countries, like the ETA in Spain and the IRA in Ireland and Britain.
Legitimacy with respect to the use of force in international settings derives from the mutually reinforcing traditions of the "just war" doctrine, international law and the ideas of restraint embedded in the great religions of the world. The essential norms are rather abstract in character, and lend themselves to debate and diverse interpretation. The most important ideas are:
§ the principle of discrimination: force must be directed at a military target, with damage to civilians and civilian society being incidental;
§ the principle of proportionality: force must not be greater than that needed to achieve an acceptable military result and must not be greater than the provoking cause;
§ the principle of humanity: force must not be directed even against enemy personnel if they are subject to capture, wounded or under control (as with prisoners of war);
§ the principle of necessity: force should be used only if nonviolent means to achieve military goals are unavailable.
These abstract guidelines for the use of force do not give much operational direction. In each situation we must ask: Do the claims to use force seem reasonable in terms of the ends being pursued, including the obligation to confine civilian damage as much as possible? Such assessments depend on interpretation, but they allow for debate and justification, and clear instances of violative behavior could be quickly identified. The justice of the cause and of the limited ends will be negated by the injustice of improper means and excessive ends. Only the vigilance of an active citizenry, alert to this delicate balance, has much hope of helping this new war to end in a true victory.
Richard FalkRichard Falk, professor emeritus of international law and practice at Princeton University, is the former United Nations Human Rights Rapporteur in the Occupied Territories and a member of the Nation editorial board. He is the author of many books, including Chaos and Counterrevolution: After the Arab Spring.


Remember in the 1980s when practically every comedy or action movie had at least one montage? My favorite is an obvious classic: Rocky.
When Rocky needed to become the best version of his boxing self he committed to training and we got to see that training in the form of a montage. Smash cuts from him running the streets of Philadelphia to punching slabs of meet in a cold room. He dedicated himself to the work he needed to do to become the best boxer he could. Because he knew that was the only way he had a chance to keep up with Apollo Creed.
You'd think all those montages would be an eye opener to a kid who for whatever reason believed that it was more about natural talent than hard work. Would have been nice if I'd emulated those montages everytime I wanted to be better at something.
But, like many people I would often 'commit' to things and then rarely do anything about it.
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There are probably other reasons, but those are more than enough. And those reasons kept me from being a hard worker for years. In December I told myself it was time. So, I set out a very ambitious goal to write a completed rough draft of an original pilot script once per month.
It's April 5 and I'm happy to report that I have three pilots done and I'm already done with the outline and two pages into my fourth.
In order to satisfy my goal I merely need a completed first draft every month. But I can't just do the bare minimum. I feel like I'm in school again in that regard. My January pilot is in revision 7 and my February pilot is in revision 5.
So, what I'm saying is that I'm in the middle of my own Rocky-style montage right now. And I can tell you it is not as fun as movie montages. Movie montages have one high energy song that plays from start to finish. There are quick cuts, so we don't actually see Rocky do 100 one handed pushups. We just see a few and are led to believe it's 100 in total.
Also, in real life you can't just devote every waking moment to training. At least I can't. I need to make money. I need to spend time with my girlfriend, my dog, my friends. I need to read, watch and listen to media. I need to go hiking, pay bills, run errands, perform in shows, hustle to find private clients when I am short on cash, etc.
So, my montage is taking a long time. It would make for a relatively boring movie montage even with a great song and killer camera movements. It's just me at my computer typing. The most variance I do is go from typing the script itself to typing out notes in a separate document or typing in search engine terms to research something.
My point is that while I absolutely am satisfied with how I'm spending my time, I have to deal with the fact that my movie montage is almost nothing like a movie montage. It's hard work in real time with no specific soundtrack and no script that definitively knows what the future holds. I knew from watching Rocky that it was going to pay off. That's how most Hollywood stories work. I could predict it. I cannot predict that my hard work will yield anything. I hope it does. That's why I'm doing it.
But right now I am working hard and sacrificing a lot of video game time to create scripts that may or may not ever get sold or even read by someone in the industry.
And to be perfectly honest, I'm not okay with that. I am betting big on myself. And I think I am afraid that I won't pay off. And that I'll be really disappointed in myself. And then I'm fraid I'll go back to hating myself – which was a big problem for me for many years.
Anyway, I gotta stop writing his, because I need to go work on my fourth pilot.
If you have never had your own Rocky montage, I encourage it. If nothing else, you'll be super proud of yourself for setting goals and sticking with them. And for those of you who have already gone through a montage or two, I commend you and hope you came out happier on the other side.


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8150 SUNSET BLVD (Crescent Heights & Sunset Blvd)
8150 Sunset Blvd DEIR Released NEW
Draft Environmental Impact Reports (DEIR)
COMMENT DUE DATE: The review period for the Draft EIR begins onNovember 20, 2014 and ends on January 20, 2015 (Tom LaBonge's office had previously conveyed a Jan. 23 date after HHWNC requested Jan. 22).
If you wish to submit comments regarding the Draft EIR, please reference the file number above and submit in writing, preferably by e-mail, by Tuesday, January 20, 2015 no later than 4:00 P.M. You may also submit comments directly by clicking on "Submit & View Comments" link found within the Draft EIR page ( 8150 Sunset Boulevard ).
The City has posted a Notice of Extension of the public review period for the Draft EIR for the Project, which is available at the following link:http://cityplanning.lacity.org/eir/8150%20Sunset/DEIR/8150SunsetDEIR_CommentPeriodExtensionLtrSigned.pdf.
You are invited to submit your written comments on the Draft EIR to the Department of City Planning via email at [email protected], or via regular mail using the contact information provided below, until January 20, 2015.
Please reference City Case No. ENV-2013-2552-EIR in your comments.
Master Land Use Application – Tentative Tract Map
CLICK HERE to view Application – September 4, 2014
Click Here "Environmental Leadership Development Project" (ELDP)
NOTE: To review "Environmental Leadership Development Project" (ELDP) application and submitted information regarding 8150 Sunset Blvd. ScrollDown past the text to Project Information Box. See 8150 Sunset Boulevard Office of Planning and Research – California Jobs (AB 900)
Demolish existing commercial buildings and construct a mixed-use commercial / residential development with approximately 111,000 sf of commercial uses (approximately 25,000 sf organic grocery, 51,000 sf of retail uses, 22,000 sf of restaurant uses, 8,000 sf of fitness uses and 5,000 sf of bank uses) and 249 dwelling units with approximately 222,564 sf of floor area.
Vesting Tentative Tract Map No. 72370 for the subdivision of prosperity to create ground and airspace lots, and for condominium purposes.
Listed pending case: CPC-2013-2551-CUB-ZV-DB-SPR; ENV-2013-2552-EIR
Applicant's Name: Tyler Siegel Company; AG SCH 8150 Sunset Boulevard Owner, LP (310) 285-7081
Project Contact Person; Jeff Haber – Edgar Khalatian and Michael Nytzen
Tyler Siegel, on behalf of AG SCH 8150 Sunset Boulevard Owner, LP, filed an application with the City of Los Angeles' Planning Department to demolish the existing shopping center and redevelop the approximately 2.56 acre site. The Planning Dept.'s case no. is CPC 2013-2551-CUB-ZV-DB-SPR.
The owner is applying for permission to build a mixed use commercial/residential development.
The project is proposing taking the traffic island at Sunset/Crescent Heights and incorporating it into the site as additional open public space. The traffic and parking aspects of the proposed project undoubtedly will generate additional discussion. While 849 parking spaces are included in the proposal, 295 parking spaces would be for residential units, and 554 parking spaces would be for the commercial parking. A large percentage of the total parking spaces would be allocated to "compact", rather than regular size cars. Bicycle parking stalls are part of the proposal too.
The project itself would consist of 110,000 square feet of commercial space along Sunset and Crescent Heights, where the project height would be two stories. Two apartment buildings are being proposed. One apartment building would be a 108 foot high, 9-story apartment building on the south side of the site along Crescent Heights. The second and taller apartment building would be a 191 foot high, 16-story apartment building along the south side of the site along Havenhurst Drive. The art storage facility is located there now.
The two apartment buildings would provide 249 residential apartments, including 28 for "Very Low Income Households". Various amenities such as a community room, a gym and a pool are included in the proposal. The developer is electing to qualify for various bonuses provided by the Planning Department for building affordable housing and building near transit stops. The project would have a 3:1 floor area ratio.
As part of the commercial space in the project, the applicant is asking for four conditional use permits for restaurants which would allow the sale of a full line of alcoholic beverages from 8 am to 2 am daily. Outdoor dining and sales of alcohol are part of the application, but the outdoor dining would be on private property in the project.
The applicant also is asking for a variance to obtain permission to put a substantial portion of the outdoor dining on rooftops, and to hold special events on those rooftops. Putting outdoor dining above the first floor would seem to require a variance; so, the flow of noise to the upslope residential areas will need to be looked at too.
There are other variances and discretionary agency actions being requested, including to eliminate a 16 foot side yard requirement which otherwise would apply, and to allow a gym to be one of the commercial tenants.
The proposed project will be considered in an environmental impact statement; so, the community will have plenty of opportunities to weigh in. However, we're hoping to work with the applicant(s) to set up one or more informational presentations before that formal process gets underway.
Gabe Kramer is the communications consultant at Marathon Communications for the project. He can be reached at (323) 655-4660 and [email protected].
Jeff Haber, Esq. at Paul Hastings is listed as the lead contact person for the project. He can be reached at (213) 683-6000 and [email protected].


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Q: Seperate datetime in python and counting hours

Nama
No.ID
Tgl/Waktu
No.PIN
Kode Verifikasi

Alif
100061
17/12/2022 07:53:26

Sidik Jari

Alif
100061
17/12/2022 13:00:25

Sidik Jari

Alif
100061
19/12/2022 07:54:59

Sidik Jari

Alif
100061
19/12/2022 16:18:14

Sidik Jari

Alif
100061
20/12/2022 07:55:54

Sidik Jari

Alif
100061
20/12/2022 16:16:16

Sidik Jari

Alif
100061
21/12/2022 07:54:46

Sidik Jari

Alif
100061
21/12/2022 16:15:41

Sidik Jari

Alif
100061
22/12/2022 07:55:54

Sidik Jari

Alif
100061
22/12/2022 16:15:59

Sidik Jari

Alif
100061
23/12/2022 07:56:26

Sidik Jari

Alif
100061
23/12/2022 16:16:56

Sidik Jari

So I have a few questions in this thread. the first one is from the table above how to separate the Tgl/Waktu column from the excel file into 2 separate new column that is date and time.
then how do I count the total work hour from that code, I have an idea where you subtract the bigger hour to the lower one when the date is the same, but I cant execute it

A: If there were no lunch breaks, the hours worked can be calculated by simple max - min subtraction:
df['Tgl/Waktu'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Tgl/Waktu'])
df['date'] = df['Tgl/Waktu'].dt.date
df['time'] = df['Tgl/Waktu'].dt.time
hours_worked = (df.groupby(by='date').max()['Tgl/Waktu'] - df.groupby(by='date').min()['Tgl/Waktu'])\
.reset_index().rename(columns={'Tgl/Waktu': 'hours_worked'})
df = df.merge(hours_worked, on='date', how='left')
df['hours_worked'] = df.hours_worked.dt.seconds / 3600

Output:
    Nama    No.ID           Tgl/Wakt No.PIN Kode Verifikasi date    time     hours_worked
0   Alif    100061  2022-12-17 07:53:26 NaN Sidik Jari  2022-12-17  07:53:26    5.116389
1   Alif    100061  2022-12-17 13:00:25 NaN Sidik Jari  2022-12-17  13:00:25    5.116389
2   Alif    100061  2022-12-19 07:54:59 NaN Sidik Jari  2022-12-19  07:54:59    8.387500
3   Alif    100061  2022-12-19 16:18:14 NaN Sidik Jari  2022-12-19  16:18:14    8.387500
4   Alif    100061  2022-12-20 07:55:54 NaN Sidik Jari  2022-12-20  07:55:54    8.339444
5   Alif    100061  2022-12-20 16:16:16 NaN Sidik Jari  2022-12-20  16:16:16    8.339444
6   Alif    100061  2022-12-21 07:54:46 NaN Sidik Jari  2022-12-21  07:54:46    8.348611
7   Alif    100061  2022-12-21 16:15:41 NaN Sidik Jari  2022-12-21  16:15:41    8.348611
8   Alif    100061  2022-12-22 07:55:54 NaN Sidik Jari  2022-12-22  07:55:54    8.334722
9   Alif    100061  2022-12-22 16:15:59 NaN Sidik Jari  2022-12-22  16:15:59    8.334722
10  Alif    100061  2022-12-23 07:56:26 NaN Sidik Jari  2022-12-23  07:56:26    8.341667
11  Alif    100061  2022-12-23 16:16:56 NaN Sidik Jari  2022-12-23  16:16:56    8.341667

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After picking up the phone, the couple lost more than 10 thousand yuan.
2018-10-28 09:17:52 category:Society
Lovers pick up mobile phones and robber owners more than 10 thousand: no need for white (source: ~)
Recently, Mr. Gong, a police officer in Nanchang, Jiangxi, said the bank card had been stolen for 12300 yuan and had lost its cell phone before. The police then arrested a pair of lovers, who said they had picked up the cell phone without locking the screen and changed the Alipay code to spend the money. The woman reminded her boyfriend of breaking the law, but her boyfriend said he didnt need it. At present, two people have been arrested.
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My life has taken a drastic turn; if you saw my since deleted post, it's because of that, but I was asked to take it down. Lets just say that things have changed and I've now begun to work out of the house more than I was in the past; some days I am working 8 hours out of the house and some days only 4 or 5, but predominantly I am doing cleaning, which is lots of physical labor (but fortunately pays terrifically in my location) and also cooking for people. Because of that, I haven't had that much time available to do things to save money, but I still have managed to do some frugal things, and I wanted to share my recent frugal accomplishments that I managed to fit into my super busy and, I'll admit it, tiring life.
I mentioned the other week that I discovered a "free store" where I got a bunch of terrific free clothes and other household things. One of the things that I got was a gorgeous dress for my daughter, Rose, but there was a seam that opened up. I managed to sew it closed using a "sewing machine stitch" that my mother taught me as a child, and got it fixed in less than five minutes, and now Rose has a gorgeous dress to wear.
Going to and from work, I've been trying to do calculations to make sure I'm not paying more for the bus than necessary. Most days I just get a transfer and my transportation costs are minimal, but some days I have a lot of errands to do, and since I plan those days in advance, I already know in the morning when I'm first getting on the bus that I'll be doing a lot of traveling, and then I buy a daily bus pass which works out so much cheaper.
A big thing for me is making sure to have food to eat while I'm at work; I've been very good about packing a lunch for myself every day, most days packing healthy leftovers, so I nourish my body on the cheap.
I was gifted some lamb, and I rendered the fat to use in cooking.
I cooked some chicken and then used the drippings at the bottom of the pan to season some soup that was too bland.
The women in my community wanted to have a barbecue as a get together, but were worried it would be too expensive. I volunteered myself and "worked my magic" and managed to throw together a very respectable and delicious barbecue with more than enough food, and lots left over, on the cheap. I did it by price comparing, going to cheaper stores, and making things from scratch. It was a big hit and I got lots of compliments on it after.
My girls needed new shoes, and I went to a favorite shoe store of mine and looked at the sales rack first. They had shoes for $2.85 for one and the second 20% off, so I ended up getting my daughters cute matching shoes for for a total of $5.11 or $2.55 a pair! Even I was shocked about this one!
I was trying to make a nice dinner the other night, but was super short on time, so I decided to revamp leftovers, which also meant I saved lots of time and also saved money. I had some roasted zucchini and some tomatoes that were really on their way out the door, so I cut out the yucky parts from the tomatoes, cooked them up with the zucchini, and blended them for a delicious soup. My kids had taken gluten free rolls and left them out all day, so they got stale, so I cut them up into cubes and baked them into croutons to eat with the soup, and they were amazing and, even better, they were made from something otherwise destined for the trash. I took some potatoes that were nearly spoiled, including some very wrinkled ones, chopped them up and boiled them, making half into a potato salad, using up the last of my homemade mayonnaise, and half into a ground chicken shepherd's pie. I found a chunk of pumpkin and half a butternut squash in my fridge and used them to make a delicious Korean roasted pumpkin dish.
I foraged purslane to make into delicious salads. It was right outside where I was working, so it wasn't any extra work on my part.
I stopped at the scratch and dent store and purchased gluten free cereal for my kids at 94 cents a box. At another scratch and dent store I bought 105 salted caramel chocolate bars, all fair trade, for a total of $17.14 or 16 cents a bar.
I called up my internet and phone provider and I got them to tremendously cheapen what I'm paying them each month.
I got some groceries from a family going out of the country who wanted to clean their refrigerators before they left. Yay for free food!
Am I being as frugal as possible now? No, there's a limit to how frugal I can be when I'm zapped of energy, but I do think I'm managing pretty well with frugal living despite being short on time and energy!
What are you doing to save money lately? What are your tricks to saving money, even when short on time and energy?
I saw the first few sentences of your deleted post in my Feedly after it was deleted, and just wanted to say I've been thinking of your family and hope that is going as ok as can be.
You're doing awesome, Penny- much more than lots of moms who work far fewer hours out of the home!
No one is commenting probably because no one knows what to say. I didn't see the post that was taken down, but I hope the situation you mentioned is temporary. It sounds like you're working awfully hard. Just taking care of 4 children in a frugal way is work enough, but we do what we have to.
I missed your last post unfortunately! Quite curious to why your life took an unexpected turn!
Ah yes. I work full time outside the home and have two children. There's only so much you can do when you aren't physically at home and are tire. Two weeks ago, everyone in my house was sick except me - so I was doing everything. All of the cooking, dishes, kid duties, bedtime duties. Last week husband left on a week long business trip. So then I had to do all school drop offs and pick ups. All homework help. All cooking and dish chores. Then husband came back...sicker than when he left (he was on the mend when he left). Sigh. I'm tired.
We eat a lot of leftovers when I'm tired. Also, I do all my food prep whenever there is time. Cooking something on the stove? Might as well cut up a melon. A few minutes before bath time? I'll start tomorrow's salad. Working on dinner? Wash dishes as I go and wash a head of lettuce.
Penny I love reading about all of your innovations. I did not see the deleted post either but you and your family will be in my prayers for whatever the situation. I'm a single mom with 2 jobs. And with just 1 child I am always exhausted and feel a serious lack of creative brain power. Thank you so much for sharing the gift of you - struggles and all. I absolutely loved all your suggestions about self-care and for reinforcing how important it is to give ourselves permission to partake of it. You go girl!
Thanks for another great post. I'm unfamiliar with the deleted post as I'm always a few days behind on my email. Hope everything works out.
To save money lately, I've been using my coupons (online & paper) and cash back programs (Ibotta, SavingStar). Since I'm working nights now, I make myself one big meal that I can use for lunch for my work lunches. Also, shopping from my pantry & freezer instead of the stores. Best part is that I got my husband on board, so he's trying to shop from the pantry/freezer as well now that he has to cook dinner (aka my breakfast) now on my work days.
Did get a great deal on some pita's. 99 cents for 4, plan to stuff them with some chicken salad. Yum.
Keep up the great posts. Love 'em!


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Q: isomorphism of rings that arise in Iwasawa theory Let $p$ be an odd prime. Let $(1+p\mathbb{Z}_p)$ denote the multiplicative group of p-adic numbers 1 mod p. Why is
$$\mathbb{Z}_p[[(1+p\mathbb{Z}_p)]] \cong \mathbb{Z}_p[[t]] $$
(non-canonically) via $(1+p) \mapsto 1+t$?
This is claimed many places but I never see the details anywhere I read.
By definition we have inverse limit
$$\mathbb{Z}_p[[(1+p\mathbb{Z}_p)]] = \lim \mathbb{Z}_p[(1+p\mathbb{Z}_p)/(1+ p\mathbb{Z}_p)^n]$$
where on the right hand side we have the group algebra.  I'm struggling to understand for sure what elements of $(1+p\mathbb{Z}_p)/(1+ p\mathbb{Z}_p)^n$.


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Home / News / AnaCap's portfolio company MRH Trowe accelerates growth and secures financing facility with Bain Capital Credit
AnaCap's portfolio company MRH Trowe accelerates growth and secures financing facility with Bain Capital Credit
AnaCap Financial Partners ("AnaCap"), a leading specialist mid-market private equity investor in technology enabled financial services, today announced that its portfolio company MRH Trowe ("MRHT" or "the Group") has closed on a new financing facility in support of its organic and acquisition-driven growth strategy.
MRHT is one of the ten largest German industrial brokers, offering extensive expertise in most insurance lines for both industrial and commercial customers, as well as affluent private customers.
Having been identified by AnaCap as the ideal platform to achieve scale in its market, MRHT has accelerated its buy and build execution in 2021, signing or closing 11 bolt-on acquisitions since December last year. In line with its strategic roadmap, the Group remains well positioned to further grow inorganically in the large and consolidating German market.
Following a competitive process among leading specialist lenders, AnaCap and MRHT opted to partner with Bain Capital Credit, whose expertise in insurance brokerage and strong belief in local consolidation will help the Group unlock its growth potential. Local saving banks that have historically been a key part of MRHT's development will retain positions in the new financing model, demonstrating important continuity and a strong commitment to MRHT's ambitions.
This additional funding will be deployed to support the ongoing, targeted buy-and-build approach followed by the Group, while enabling MRHT to diligence and acquire larger target companies than has been the focus to date.
"We are delighted to announce a working partnership with such a reputable name in the market such as Bain. Securing this funding structure will act as an important catalyst for MRHT to further accelerate its activities on the M&A trail, following what has already been a hugely impressive 2021 to date. The Group felt this strategic financing was important to optimise its financing position and put in place a strong platform that ultimately offers both flexibility and investment capability."
Ralph Rockel, Co-Founder and Board Member at MRHT, commented:
"We look forward to the future cooperation with Bain Capital Credit with both excitement and confidence. Bain Capital Credit's insurance brokerage expertise and strategic understanding make it an ideal partner for MRH Trowe to leverage its inorganic potential. The partnership allows us to make even more effective use of the opportunities in the current market consolidation and to further strengthen MRH Trowe's market position."
Tom Maughan, Managing Director at Bain Capital Credit, added:
"MRH Trowe is widely recognised as a high-quality operator and we are excited to support the Company in the next phases of its growth trajectory."
Alessandro Nuti, Vice President at Bain Capital Credit, commented:
"The financing of MRH Trowe builds on our experience in the insurance brokerage sector and we are delighted to support MRHTs consolidation of the attractive and fragmented German market."


The world is not always as we want it to be :). So from now and then you have to place a nice hack here and there. Years ago I've already written about a similar issue with input fields.
Doing something like the following..


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Chelsea and Todd Boehly eye shock move for Man United star as Christian Pulisic replacement
Chelsea will plot a sensational move for Manchester United forward Jadon Sancho once they sell wantaway star Christian Pulisic, according to reports. Following a wealth of transfer talks, Sancho joined United from Borussia Dortmund in 2021 for £73million, but could now leave the just over a year after he signing for the Red Devils.
The 22-year-old struggled in his first season at Old Trafford, scoring just five goals in 38 appearances in all competitions. Despite making a positive start to this campaign, finding the back of the net in the wins over Liverpool and Leicester earlier this season, Sancho missed United's final five games before the World Cup break.
Pulisic meanwhile has also struggled for form at Chelsea under all three of the managers at the helm since his arrival in 2019. The USMNT forward starred for his country at the World Cup that saw Arsenal and Man United declare their interest.
The 24-year-old looks set to leave west London and while the Blues are eyeing potential moves for Portuguese stars Rafeal Leao and Joao Felix, along with the pre-contractual agreement in place for Christopher Nkunku , they have identified a potential Pulisic replacement.
According to Calciomercatoweb, Chelsea are plotting a move to sign Sancho who can be considered a Pulisic replacement with the report claiming that Todd Boehly will make a move on the former Manchester City academy product once the club offload Pulisic. Before their respective moves to England, Pulisic and Sancho were team-mates at Dortmund and enjoyed a number of years together at Signal Iduna Park.
Sancho is not the first Man United player that Chelsea have been interested in with Boehly known as a keen admirer of Cristiano Ronaldo. Marcus Rashford has also emerged as a possible acquisition for Chelsea as they look to bolster their attacking options.
Cristiano Ronaldo breaks silence on Al-Nassr transfer as Chelsea and Todd Boehly given boost
PSG go public in Jude Bellingham transfer as they hope to beat Chelsea and other clubs in the race


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