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Cultural Sites Are No Crime
Clifford A. Brown
It should not be surprising that even commenters on Fox News would miss the obvious. President Trump tweeted about having 52 targets to match the 52 American hostages seized and held by the Khomeinist regime at its founding. He included the word "cultural" to describe at least one of the targets. Why is no one seeing the obvious here?
….targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!
The US military does not develop target lists of international cultural treasures to smash. Who does not get this? President Trump is no LBJ, picking tactical targets. Surely everyone understands this. So, you can go with the obstinate position of someone like Ben Shapiro, certain that President Trump has no coherent foreign policy thoughts, and keep writing off every success as fortuitous and no thanks to The Great Big Ugly Man. On the other hand, you might just think for yourself for a moment.
President Trump took a briefing from Secretary of Defense Esper, General Milley, and Secretary of State Pompeo. We know this because they told us directly, in a short joint statement to the cameras. This was when the US military struck several Hezbollah targets in Iraq. Then Hezbollah attacked our embassy, under IRGC Quds Force orders, hearkening back to the 1979 attack in Iran. Then the leader of the IRGC Quds Force was allowed to fly into Iraq by the Iraqi Hezbollah officer who runs the Baghdad International Airport! That is the claim made by Oliver North on the Jim Bohannon Show on January 3.
So the American military killed him as a terrorist organization leader and as a foreign military officer coordinating attacks on our people.* See al Baghdadi and Admiral Yamamoto. This strike was certainly part of the options and capabilities our real national security experts briefed to President Trump, and it is reasonable to conclude that the "52" plan was also presented as part of the "and then what?"
So, given the particular set of lovelies in the Middle East, what do we all already know about sensitive or cultural sites? If I say "hospital, school, Hamas," what comes to mind? If I say "Iraq, mosque, weapons" what comes to mind? We all kind of know that there are forces in the region that use the cover of innocent, non-military sites to store weapons, to plan, and even to launch attacks. In part, this tactic is defensive, a shield made of our own ethics, and in part it is offensive, seeking to draw an armed response that their co-belligerents in our society can use to damage European and American domestic public opinion.
"They're allowed to kill our people. They're allowed to torture and maim our people. they're allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people. And we're not allowed to touch their cultural site? It doesn't work that way," POTUS SAID.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 6, 2020
A light goes on. President Trump is getting a threefer here: trolling domestic opposition, showing reasonable people he cares more for American lives than foreign buildings, and letting the ayatollahs know he knows they have bad stuff stashed in or under "cultural" sites. The president has to be loving the Democrats' outraged response, and just wishing the next Democratic presidential primary debate was this week so they couldn't get their heads on straight in front of the American people.
[UPDATE: 7 January 2020] Consider how Secretary of State Pompeo exposes Andrea Mitchel, who had just come back
Secretary Michael R. Pompeo Remarks to the Press [Excerpt]
PRESS BRIEFING ROOM
…In Afghanistan, there was an aspect of that conflict that deserves more attention, and that is the Islamic Republic of Iran's involvement there. Iran has refused to join the regional and international consensus for peace and is, in fact, today actively working to undermine the peace process by continuing its long global efforts to support militant groups there. Most people know about Iran's proxy networks in the Arab world, but the regime also has a relationship with the Taliban and related groups, such as the Haqqanis, the Tora Bora, and the Mullah Dadullah group. The Taliban's entanglement in Iran's dirty work will only harm the Afghanistan peace process.
…QUESTION: So just to be clear, the Soleimani strike was part of the administration's maximum pressure campaign, and going forward, the Iranians should understand, as they develop their calculus, that similar actions such as the Soleimani strike could well continue to be a feature of this maximum pressure campaign?
SECRETARY POMPEO: I think the President's been unambiguous in his – both the remarks he made down in Florida as well as the tweets that he's put out – about the seriousness with which we take this, the risk attendant that we are deeply aware of, and the preparations we've made to prevent those risks, as well as our determination that in the event the Iranians make another bad choice, that the President will respond in a way that he did last week, which was decisive, serious, and messaged Iran about the constraints that we are going to place on that regime so that it doesn't continue to put American lives at risk.
At the end, our Iran policy is about protecting and defending the homeland and securing American lives. I know that the efforts that we have taken not only last week with the strike against Soleimani, but the strategy that we've employed, has saved American lives. I'm highly confident in that.
…SECRETARY POMPEO: Andrea, yes, ma'am. How are you?
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you very much. A question about the issue of cultural sites, because the President said on Air Force One coming back, after you had been on the Sunday talk shows, that "They're allowed to kill our people. They're allowed to torture and maim our people. They're allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people. And we're not allowed to touch their cultural sites. It doesn't work that way."
Defense Secretary Esper has made it clear that he would not follow an order to hit a cultural site, would – would be a war crime. I'm wondering whether you would also push back in your advice or in your role. And secondly —
SECRETARY POMPEO: You're not really wondering, Andrea. You're not really wondering.
QUESTION: Well, the President is saying this repeatedly —
SECRETARY POMPEO: I was unambiguous on Sunday. It is completely consistent with what the President has said.
QUESTION: No, but the President has —
SECRETARY POMPEO: We will take – every action we take will be consistent with the international rule of law. And you – the American people can rest assured that that's the case.
QUESTION: But are cultural sites ruled out, sir?
SECRETARY POMPEO: Let me tell you who's done damage to the Persian culture. It's not the United States of America; it's the ayatollah. If you want to look at who has denied religious freedom, if you want to know who has denied – the Persian culture is rich and steeped in history and intellect and they've denied the capacity for that culture to continue. If you go back and look at the holidays around Cyrus and Nowruz, they've not permitted people to celebrate. They've not allowed people that they've killed – that Qasem Soleimani killed – they've not allowed them to go mourn their family members. The real risk to Persian culture does not come from the United States of America.
QUESTION: Can I ask a —
QUESTION: Sir, could I follow up? And so —
SECRETARY POMPEO: That – there is no mistake about that.
QUESTION: (Off-mike.)
SECRETARY POMPEO: Thank you, all. Everybody have a good day.
The United States was founded on tolerance. We have great respect for Persian history and its symbols, like Persepolis, Naqsh-e Jahan Square, and the Tomb of Cyrus. @khamenei_ir's corrupt regime should listen to the people of #Iran. They want their culture and their country back.
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) January 7, 2020
Suddenly @JZarif cares about Persian culture. No one has damaged Persian culture more than the Islamic Republic — disrespecting Cyrus and holidays like Nowruz, prohibiting dancing, and putting an end to religious tolerance. Iran's regime has defiled everything Iranians hold dear.
Secretary Esper bungled the "cultural" question, to the extent that he grants the hostile questioner's Orange Man Bad premise instead of rejecting it, like Secretary Pompeo, and then answering:
Press Gaggle With Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark T. Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley
…SEC. ESPER: By the way, let me – let me elaborate on his answer because I know there's another question floating around out there. We didn't put any option on the table that we didn't believe in and that we – we knew that – that we couldn't execute.
And with each option we present the pros and cons, the cost and benefits. That's what we do all the time. That's my duty, my obligation. That's his duty and obligation as well.
Q: And you talk about de-escalate with Iran. Well, you just killed one of their two-star generals. They clearly want to take revenge on that. How do you expect them to de-escalate when you kill one of their senior officers?
SEC. ESPER: How – how do you expect us not to respond after they've been killing our people for 20 years? Sulimani alone has the blood of hundreds of Americans. He's wounded thousands of Americans and coalition partners.
So somehow them turning this around, he is a terrorist, a leader of terrorist organization who's been killing and attacking Americans for 20 some years. And the blood is on his hands. He was planning attacks on American forces.
He was there on the ground with the leader of Kata'ib Hezbollah, met him on the ground at the airplane, welcomed him so they can further coordinate attacks. This whole narrative that's being turned around is – is – is just – is silly.
GEN. MILLEY: So you've got a very long history here of a guy. We know his history. Importantly we knew his future. I'm not going to go into the details of that, and I know that a lot of people are out there – I've seen words like, oh, the intel was razor thin. Very, very few people saw that intelligence. He and I saw that intelligence. And I will be happy, when the appropriate time comes in front of the proper committees and anybody else, through history and every – I'll stand by the intelligence I saw, that – that was compelling, it was imminent, and it was very, very clear in scale, scope.
Did it exactly say who, what, when, where? No. But he was planning, coordinating, and synchronizing significant combat operations against U.S. military forces in the region and it was imminent.
…Q: For both of you if possible. The president has twice now, not hypothetical, said he is willing to strike cultural sites. Truly cultural sights not with weapons that makes them military targets. [This qualifying sentence is a lie, which Esper should have challenged.] So straight-up could you both say whether you are willing to target cultural sites?
SEC. ESPER: We will follow the laws of armed conflict.
Q: And that means no because targeting a cultural sight is a war crime?
SEC. ESPER: That's – that's the laws of armed conflict. [If the other guy hasn't turned the cultural site into a shield for legitimate targets.]
Secretary Esper seemed a bit flustered at this point in the press gaggle. He had just had to deal with a subordinate command on the ground leaking or improperly circulating an unsigned memo advising the Iraqi government of full American military withdrawal. This was immediately in the usual suspects' hands, as they quizzed the Secretary of Defense who had never seen or approved even a draft withdrawal statement. After that green-on-green bureaucratic friendly-fire incident, he was just a bit off message. He should have said something like:
"We have briefed the President on a number of contingency targets, and every one of them is a legitimate target, consistent with the laws of armed conflict as recognized in US law and treaties. The president has never asked me for any illegitimate targets. So, what I am telling you now is consistent with what President Trump has actually said, not what you say he said."
However, what he did say reinforces that the Department of Defense is not ginning up illegitimate target sets. President Trump didn't latch on to "culture" out of the blue; he got it from a briefing. Both Pompeo and Esper insist they comply with applicable laws. So, we are back to targets being briefed that included warnings about cultural sites. They should recommend a short phase that the president can use to clarify without giving away target identifications. Perhaps a tweet like this:
NO MORE HIDING BEHIND CULTURAL TREASURES. We know what is in, under, next door.
*It is worth noting that a strategic moment was largely unremarked, although the Washington Post and RT got the story [emphasis and comment added]:
The funeral procession for Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani began Saturday in Baghdad, where he was killed a day earlier by a U.S. drone strike. The next stops for Soleimani's body were the Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala, sites that are holy for Shiite Muslims. Soleimani's burial was scheduled for Tuesday in Kerman, his hometown in southeastern Iran, state media in Iran reported….
"In Najaf's dusty warrens, Iran has bankrolled schools and charities, built elaborate mosques and nurtured links with religious scholars in a bid to undermine the local clergy, who have long been fiercely independent," they wrote. "Clerics tied to Iran are promoting its particular brand of state-sponsored Shiite theology in the city's seminaries and have been maneuvering to install one of their own as Iraq's 'marja,' or supreme religious authority, Iraqi political operatives say."
That position is currently held by 89-year-old Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric who has opposed some of Iran's core teachings around religious oversight of state affairs. [The full truth is that Sistani has the most senior voice, period, and has denounced the Khomenist regime for corrupting the faith. So, the Washington Post is lying by omission here.]
In November, during the height of protests against Iraq's political establishment — including its links to Iran — protesters set fire to the Iranian Consulate in Najaf. [In other words, Iraqi Shiite faithful are rejecting the well-financed bully boys from Iran.]
So, this immediate response shows the level of penetration of Iraqi society by Iranians, who these same Iraqi Shiites fought to the death in the Iran-Iraq War. The Iranian regime exploited the most sacred sites in the Shia faith to advance their political objectives in the wake of the killing of their top general. It is the fecklessness of Bush the Second and Obama that allowed this bad turn of events after we ousted Saddam Hussein, a secular dictator who aligned himself with Sunni extremists after Desert Storm.
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@CliffordBrown
12:51 AM EST ⋅ Jan 9, 2020
Here, Secretary Esper gets his feet firmly back under him:
https://youtu.be/_ZqO0S3ee-Q
Press Briefing by Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper
STAFF: Barbara?
Q: Two points to follow up on, if I may.
You have talked about Iran needs to de-escalate. My first question is does the U.S. have any obligation to de-escalate or is that solely in Iran's court?
My second question, you have said several times in the past couple of days that you will follow international law on potential war crimes. I think the — let me set that aside; I think everyone would expect you to do exactly that. My question is not hypothetical. The president is out there with his position. If you get an order, would you resign from office rather than violate the law?
SEC. ESPER: Barbara, I'm not going to get into some hypothetical that you're portraying here. I am fully confident that the president is not going to — the commander in chief will not give us an illegal order. And — and as I said, the United States military will, as it always has, obey the laws of armed conflict.
Q: And escalation? Does the U.S. have any responsibility or obligation to also de-escalate, or is that, in your view, solely in Iran's court?
SEC. ESPER: Well, we have not — we're not the ones that have escalated this over the past, arguably, 40 years, and certainly over the past several months. It's been Iran, through its proxies, had — has consistently escalated this in terms of the size, scale, scope of — of their attacks.
So we reached the point where we had to act in self-defense. We had to take appropriate action.
So at this point, as I've said a few times now, the ball is in their court. What they do next will determine what happens in the subsequent moves.
Q: Thank you.
Mr. Secretary, can — can you please explain to us how the killing of one of Iran's top generals would contribute to the case of the de-escalation?
You're asking Iran to de-escalate now. Would the U.S. respond in such a manner if one of your top generals was killed in a third country?
SEC. ESPER: Well, let's take a look at history. [Loads magazine, releases slide, flips from safe to auto.]
Soleimani was a terrorist leader of a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization. He's been conducting terrorist activities against us and our coalition partners for over 20 years. He has the blood of hundreds of Americans, soldiers, on his hands, and wounded thousands more. And then we could talk about all the mayhem he's caused with — against the Syrian people, the people of Lebanon, even his own people in Iran. He is responsible, and the Quds Force, for — for the killing of Iranian people.
So this sense that somehow taking somebody who — oh, by the way, over the last few months had planned, orchestrated and/or resourced attacks against the United States that resulted in the killing of American and the siege of our embassy in Baghdad, and was in Baghdad to coordinate additional attacks — to somehow suggest that he wasn't a legitimate target, I think, is fanciful.
He was clearly on the battlefield. He was conducting, preparing, planning military operations. He was a legitimate target, and it was — his time was due.
Q: Can you give a little bit of a preview of what you're going to tell Congress tomorrow? This — in terms of how much detail will you be give — willing to give members that you haven't thus far told the — the public in terms of the size — size, scope and imminence?
You — you are aware of how skeptical people are of the imminent threat issue. You were there in 2003 when you heard all that. So what — temper our expectations. What we — what are you prepared to disclose in Congress tomorrow?
SEC. ESPER: Well, look, first of all, much of my messaging to Congress will be the same as what I'm delivering to you all here, in terms of my views on the policy, the — this — the — the broader regional situation and the history.
Obviously, with members of Congress we can go into a — a classified — we will be in a classified setting and be able to share more. But the exquisite intelligence that we're talking about that led to the decision to — that was, I should say, one of the factors that led to the decision to strike at Soleimani is — is — is only shared with a handful of members, the so-called Gang of Eight. And so they are getting that briefing this afternoon, and — and — and they will have access to that, but most members will not have access to that.
So, Mike Lee is being far less than honest. "The Senator from Mumbai" is posing, possibly to shake out more H-1B visas to suppress the wages of Americans trying to get out of under college debt. I might even become a Kevin McCarthy fan.
@Zafar
2:05 AM EST ⋅ Jan 9, 2020
Clifford A. Brown (View Comment):
That doesn't answer either question.
Re why he was there and why he was taken out:
Iraq's prime minister revealed that he was due to be meeting the Iranian commander to discuss moves being made to ease the confrontation between Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia…
Adil Abdul-Mahdi was quite clear: "I was supposed to meet him in the morning the day he was killed, he came to deliver a message from Iran in response to the message we had delivered from the Saudis to Iran."
Former US diplomat in Iraq Barbara Leaf said…she was generally uncomfortable with the prospect of the Saudis allegedly trying to discuss an accommodation with the Iranians in the wake of the sophisticated attack on the Saudi Aramco facility on Sept. 14 that the United States has attributed to Iran….
"When I heard this from the Iraqis … what concerned me at the time is that the Saudis were [allegedly] entering into these sort of proximity talks/message passing … outside of the US security umbrella," Leaf continued. She noted that the talks would have occurred after the Donald Trump administration was seen refraining from a military response to the Sept. 14 drone and cruise missile attacks on the Saudi oil facility, and that the Iranians would feel the Saudis were coming to the talks because the Trump administration refrained from responding.
Possible?
TBA (View Comment):
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Zafar (View Comment):
Can you imagine? First door Christmas ornaments, second door spare Cossacks, third door Papal Reactor, fourth door relics….
You don't want to know about the fifth door.
Or the green door.
We already have the Cossacks. Maybe spare cassocks?
cirby
@cirby
You mean the Iraqi PM who is currently on the way out, partly because because he sold his soul to the Iranians?
The more-important appointment that day was between Soleimani and the five other terrorist leaders who were actually in the caravan with him when he went to a very important meeting with Allah.
If Soleimani was actually supposed to be meeting with the Iraqi PM, he would have flown in during the daytime, in public, instead of sneaking in late at night under the cover of darkness.
Fake John/Jane Galt
@FakeJohnJaneGalt
Of course you are right. Trump is evil. I notice that the terrorist supported / sponsored by Iran avoid any site of any cultural significance whatsoever. They are truly superior, holy beings.
Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):
Of course you are right. Trump is evil.
I don't think he's particularly evil, but I also don't think that's relevant when assessing why Soleimani was killed and whether that was a good idea.
(The second quote above [from here] sort of indicates that it might have been a good idea, albeit for reasons of realpolitik.)
Tulsi Gabbard disagrees.
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CHEROKEE NF, E of ELIZABETHTON, TN—Around 11am the next morning, I stowed my camp chair and drove off, grateful for how easy it is to break camp compared to my travel trailer or old class C.
Because I had mentioned Boone in my previous post, Michelle had mentioned an ashram, Nicole had mentioned Blowing Rock, and Randy wanted me to check out an old windmill there.
I wouldn't have normally taken the route I did, but something about the email Nicole sent inspired me to detour and discover first-hand what a wonderful drive 221 is this time of year. Curving and lush with fall foliage and empty of cars and far more beautiful than the Blue Ridge Parkway which largely parallels it the whole way.
But Blowing Rock was packed with tourists so I headed on to Boone, but Boone was a bust.
I had driven through Boone a few years back but the traffic was miserable so I wrote it off as a holiday or something, but today as I write this it's a Monday and the town is still terribly congested. Beautiful mountains all around but way too many people packed into way too small an area. Sadly, if the people here were deer they'd have all starved off long ago.
Maybe it's just the time of the year. Maybe they just have a short tourist season.
But Boone is not a tiny little town, it's bigger than that (though it shouldn't be) and I wanted to give it a fair shot—I wanted to report on the ashram to Michelle and the windmill to Randy—so I stopped and had lunch at a Mexican restaurant where a leaving patron said the food was good but the food was not good, not good at all, and after lunch I walked next door to a Burger King whose parking lot was packed at three in the afternoon for some coffee and wifi and work but the coffee was too sweet and the wifi was down and the toilet was filthy (and did I mention the Mexican food was not good, not good at all?) and I said, "Screw it, I can take a hint" and I rolled the die and got a three and headed west to where my route (I assume) will eventually take me to the Natchez Trace then southwest and southeast and then off again.
About an hour later, driving on a winding and curvy road, I caught a glimpse of a forest sign which I saw by chance out of the corner of my eye and I turned around and found a free camping spot next to a tiny little stream which feeds a larger lake called Watuga out in eastern Tennessee.
Though there's a lot of highway noise and zero internet, it's a pretty little place where I'll sleep for the night, safely tucked away from the many, many people and the really bad Mexican food and all those tiny little shoppes with one too many e's.
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Concise: Also hexes foes near target (6...25...30 seconds). These foes have -0...2...3 Health degeneration.
As an AoE hex, it is very useful as a cover hex.
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Q: WSL - White space breaks bash command in CMD batch script In test.cmd -
wsl echo "Incoming File - $(printf %%q "$(wslpath -ua "%~dpnx1")")"
wsl ls -la "$(printf %%q "$(wslpath -ua "%~dpnx1")")"
pause

In C:\test, I have two files nospace.txt and has space.txt
When I drag nospace.txt to test.cmd -
C:\test>wsl echo "Incoming File - $(printf %q "$(wslpath -ua "C:\test\nospace.txt")")"
Incoming File - /mnt/c/test/nospace.txt

C:\test>wsl ls -la "$(printf %q "$(wslpath -ua "C:\test\nospace.txt")")"
-rwxrwxrwx 1 yvon yvon 0 Feb  2 18:09 /mnt/c/test/nospace.txt

C:\test>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

When I drag has space.txt to test.cmd -
C:\test>wsl echo "Incoming File - $(printf %q "$(wslpath -ua "C:\test\has space.txt")")"
Incoming File - /mnt/c/test/has\ space.txt

C:\test>wsl ls -la "$(printf %q "$(wslpath -ua "C:\test\has space.txt")")"
ls: cannot access '/mnt/c/test/has\ space.txt': No such file or directory

C:\test>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

It seems WSL does not appreciate escapes for white spaces. Why?

A: Don't use printf. Don't escape the file name at all.
wsl echo "Incoming File - $(wslpath -ua "%~dpnx1")"
wsl ls -la "$(wslpath -ua "%~dpnx1")"

Output -
C:\test>wsl echo "Incoming File - $(wslpath -ua "C:\test\has space.txt")"
Incoming File - /mnt/c/test/has space.txt

C:\test>wsl ls -la "$(wslpath -ua "C:\test\has space.txt")"
-rwxrwxrwx 1 yvon yvon 0 Feb  2 18:09 '/mnt/c/test/has space.txt'

A: By all means you can use printf with %q to see the escaped version of your input file argument:
wsl printf '%%s' "Incoming File - $(printf '%%q' "$(wslpath -ua "%~f1")")"

However, unless you're copying and pasting it somewhere, I'm not sure why you'd need to do that, so the following should be sufficient:
wsl printf '%%s' "Incoming File - $(wslpath -ua "%~f1")"

Your second command, shouldn't have any issues with the space characters, so there's no need to use printf or %q, the following should suffice:
wsl ls -la "$(wslpath -ua "%~f1")"

If neither of these example lines are your intention, you should consider revising your question, to make it clear what you intended to ask.

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Album osiągnął 4 pozycję w rankingu Oricon i pozostał na liście przez 2 tygodnie, sprzedał się w nakładzie  egzemplarzy.

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School days. Remember the timetable? Wishin' and a hopin' for something easy on a Friday afternoon? The tyranny of double maths? But it got stuff done. Without it, time wouldn't have been apportioned to what was necessary. Perhaps too much drama and not enough trig. Or plenty of football but where's the physics?
We still need a timetable. Create one with the team. When will coaching happen? Strategic thinking for next year? Training and development? Of course the timetable in itself doesn't mean that when the time comes the coaching will happen. Bit it's much more likely especially if everybody buys in to it and Deep Productivity Drivers 1 and 2 are in play.


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from os import environ
import codecs
import os.path
import sys
sys.path.append('..')
sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'data'))

from nyc_geoclient import Geoclient
from nyctext import nycaddress as parser
import json

# Address with multiple LUs doesn't get chunked properly
# 'Bronx Engineering and Technology Academy: 99 Terrace View Avenue Bronx, NY'

class Address:

    def __init__(self, source, verbose=False):
        self.source = source
        self.address = parser.parse(source, verbose=verbose)
        if self.address:
            self.address = self.address[0]
        else:
            self.address = None

    def asDict(self):
        return dict(address=self.address, source=self.source)

    def __str__(self):
        return json.dumps(self.asDict(), indent=1)

def bad_addresses():
    return '''Academy of Innovative Technology: 999 Jamaica Avenue Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Lab School: 999 Jamaica Avenue Brooklyn, NY
Central Park East High School: 1573 Madison Avenue New York, NY
Multicultural High School: 999 Jamaica Avenue Brooklyn, NY
The Urban Assembly School for Global Commerce: 2005 Madison Avenue New York, NY
'''.split('\n')[:-1]

def lines():

    files = [
             'data/ACRIS_-_Personal_Property_Parties.txt',
             'data/DOHMH_New_York_City_Restaurant_Inspection_Results.txt',
             'data/Lower_Manhattan_Retailers.txt',
             'data/Mapped_In_NY_Companies.txt',
             ]

    for fn in files:
        count = 5000
        with codecs.open(fn, encoding='utf8') as dataset:
            for line in dataset:
                line = line.encode('ascii', 'replace').strip()
                if line == '':
                    continue
                count -= 1
                if count < 1:
                    break
                yield line

def processAll(g):
    nUnparsed, nParsed = 0, 0
    unparsed, parsed = [], []
    dic = []
    for line in lines():
        if line.strip() == '':
            continue
        ad = Address(line, verbose=False)
        if ad.address is None:
            dic.append(dict(parsed=False, text=line))
            unparsed.append(line)
            nUnparsed += 1
        else:
            dic.append(dict(parsed=True, text=line))
            parsed.append(line)
            nParsed += 1

    print '\n\nSummary:\n\tUnparsed: %d\n\tParsed: %d' % (nUnparsed, nParsed)
    total = 1.0*(nParsed + nUnparsed)
    print 'Completion %%: %f' % (nParsed/total*100)

    f_parsed = codecs.open('ad-pass.txt', 'w', 'utf-8')
    f_unparsed = codecs.open('ad-fail.txt', 'w', 'utf-8')
    print 'Writing outputs'
    for line in parsed:
        f_parsed.write('%s\n' % line)

    for line in unparsed:
        f_unparsed.write('%s\n' % line)
    f_parsed.flush()
    f_unparsed.flush()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    fn = 'data/Lower_Manhattan_Retailers.txt'
    fn = 'data/Mapped_In_NY_Companies.txt'
    # import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()
    appid = environ['DOITT_CROL_APP_ID']
    appkey = environ['DOITT_CROL_APP_KEY']
    g = Geoclient(appid, appkey)
    # processAdys(g, fn)
    processAll(g)

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I want my .gitlab-ci.yml to run parallel jobs for each subfolder. My goal is to have separate .gitlab-ci.yml files. Yes, it looks messy to touch only one file when you have to configure the CI of a few projects.
What is the exact command line to run jobs from the main .gitlab-ci.yml?
You can use the include:local syntax for this. Include the CI files from your subfolders in your main .gitlab-ci.yml file.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged gitlab yaml gitlab-ci gitlab-ci-runner or ask your own question.
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What is the most appropriate mount for the average troll? This Crocker Troll Riding Gator answers that question. Astride a none too happy alligator is this quirky little troll. He wears a cap that conceals some of his face, though his large nose and lopsided smile are easily seen. His noble steed is fitted with a collar and saddle, and the troll rests one hand on the gator's leg as if to urge him onward, even if the gator appears ready to eat his rider!


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The Army gave him the opportunity to work in other countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Turkey, Italy, Kuwait, and Iraq. At the request of his mother, he left the Army to help with the family business. Steve always had the desire to work in healthcare and decided to become a physical therapist. That direction changed while visiting family in Vietnam.
After a few days of being in the country, he contracted the flu. He felt as if he was on his death bed. He was treated by an uncle with acupuncture, cupping, Gua Sha, hydration, and adjustments. It was the spinal adjustments that made him feel instant relief and, in that moment, he found chiropractic care to be the vehicle to his life's purpose.
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Drivers in Birmingham and Leeds face congestion charge to enter the city centre under new clean air zones from 2020
Car owners in Birmingham could face charges of £10 a day to enter the city centre from 2020 - and commercial motorists in Leeds could be slapped with even bigger fees
By Dan Elsom
DRIVERS in Birmingham and Leeds could be charged a minimum of £6 a day to enter the city centres from 2020.
Both city councils have announced plans to launch new congestion charges in a bid to tackle "crisis-level" air pollution.
Drivers in Birmingham could be charged up to £10 a day to enter the city centreCredit: Alamy
Birmingham City Council is looking to impose a fee of between £6-£10 on car drivers travelling into its planned Clean Air Zone (CAZ) if their motors doesn't meet emissions standards.
And the levy could be up to £100 per day for Heavy goods and other commercial vehicles.
In Leeds, charges of up to £50 per day will apply to lorries and coaches, while taxis and private hire vehicles will be charged £12.50.
At this stage, private motorists won't be slapped with a fee in the Yorkshire city.
Buses and taxis could be charged to enter Leeds city centre from 2020Credit: Alamy
The zones will be similar to London's current T-Charge, and the central Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) due to come into force in April 2019.
Both cities will impose restrictions on vehicles which fail to meet emissions standards.
In Birmingham, these will be similar to the conditions set out in London's ULEZ, with pre-2004 petrol and pre-2015 diesel cars slapped with a fee.
Both city councils will need government approval on their schemes before they come into force on the proposed January 1, 2020 start date.
TOXIC ZONE Diesel drivers face paying £12.50 A DAY to travel around London as Sadiq Khan confirms pollution tax
The proposed introduction of the CAZ charge is in response to a looming 2020 deadline for Birmingham to urgently find a solution for its poor air quality.
When a charge was first suggested in 2015, it was only due to hit the most polluting vehicles like older buses, taxis, coaches and lorries.
But the council is now including private cars in its plans, and has not ruled out the inclusion of motorbikes as well.
Based on 2016 data, the local authority has estimated that about half of all cars in the West Midlands city would fall within the charging scheme.
Waseem Zaffar, cabinet member for transport and environment, said air pollution was one of Birmingham's "biggest challenges", and that the proposed charges were "not about making money".
He said: "It's the fourth biggest health concern and we need to work together.
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The capital already operates a wider Low Emission Zone for commercial vehicles with charges of £200 for lorries, buses and coaches weighing more than 3.5 tonnes and £100 for others, like minibuses.
The T-Charge has also been operating to keep pollution levels low until the ULEZ arrives in central London next April - and expands to all of inner London by 2021.
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Favela Brasil Xpress: The Delivery Solution
By Lynsey Alexander on November 27, 2021 The Good News
LOS ANGELES, California — According to World Bank data, 16% of Brazil's population in 2018 lived in favelas — a type of shantytown that, despite poverty, usually harbors a prominent local culture and a great sense of community. However, the Brazilian government tends to neglect these areas, making those who live in favelas responsible for finding their own way of accessing basic services like clean water and sanitation.
Delivery Difficulties in Favelas
Product delivery is another service frequently denied to those living in favelas. A situation even further aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic as people rely more on e-commerce purchases and donations. Lack of delivery services is blamed on a number of factors: outsider prejudice against favelas, difficulty finding physical addresses inside them, fear of crime and now, fear of COVID-19 exposure.
Besides, the pandemic sent the unemployment rate skyrocketing up to 14.7%, meaning Brazil's jobless grew from 11.5 million people to nearly 15 million since the virus outbreak. It was against this backdrop Giva Pereira founded Favela Brasil Xpress, a logistic startup designed to connect neighbors and create jobs in Brazilian favelas.
The 21-year-old social entrepreneur told The Borgen Project he started the company from scratch, feeling like a distant dream in the beginning. But not anymore. "Today, we are really starting to transform favelas in the entire country," he said.
Favela Brasil Xpress' History and Concerns
Pereira says he always did his part to improve his living environment. "When I moved to Paraisópolis, I lived in a risk area within a shack that housed 10 people. I could not settle for it, so I decided that I would change that reality."
He founded Favela Brasil Xpress in September 2020 amidst the COVID-19 chaos. By then, the young entrepreneur had already identified the delivery problem in Paraisópolis — one of Brazil's biggest favelas and "home to nearly 100,000 people." However, another issue also inspired him: The difficulty of receiving donations from outsiders.
As a response to the social impacts of the pandemic, Pereira and other volunteers gave out free meals and groceries to the most poverty-stricken families in Paraisópolis. Throughout this process, they realized many outsiders wanted to make donations but were hampered by the many barriers. This prompted the volunteers to start picking up donations themselves, distributing them among the most vulnerable families.
As their assistance work continued, Pereira identified one more problem: "The unemployment rate was too high, and the volunteers also needed some income to make a living," he said. Besides, small business owners from Paraisópolis found it difficult to deliver products both inside and outside the community. Pereira solved both by officially creating Favela Brasil Xpress and immediately started looking for partners. Whilst this was not an easy process, companies slowly started signing on, especially after the startup won first place at an urban logistic contest.
Pereira sees Paraisópolis as a place of opportunity. "It is a city for me, actually. It is a country where I search for everything, where everything is possible." Although Paraisopolis was the first to benefit from the startup's work, the team at Favela Brasil Xpress has already started replicating its first model in six other favelas, including the Rocinha neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro.
Strategies and Impact
G10 Bank, a financial institution designed to provide micro-loans to the communities, financed Favela Brasil Xpress, while also partnering with Lojas Americanas, "one of Brazil's biggest retailers."
Pereira's startup works mostly with "the last mile" concept. E-commerce companies drop their products at a Favela Brasil Xpress distribution center, where workers from the community make deliveries on foot, bike, motorcycle, car or even in an electric vehicle. "We don't deliver packages, we deliver happiness," Pereira said. "For a long time, it seemed to be a distant dream for the residents to have a package delivered at their doorsteps. But it goes way beyond the packages. We create jobs, promote sustainability and help to develop the local economy."
Even better, some older people have the opportunity to work formally for the first time. A local manufacturer shared a review online expressing gratitude for Favela Brasil Xpress, saying it's been easier to purchase raw material and deliver their products outside Paraisópolis.
But Favela Brasil Xpress does not have to be just for Paraisópolis. It's a model Pereira says can be replicated in other favelas and his company already has started doing it. However, he warns it's important to understand the peculiarities of each space and adapt the original model to attend to the specific needs of each community. The kind of terrain and the width of the streets, for example, must be taken into consideration before choosing the best delivery vehicle in each location.
Pereira hopes Favela Brasil Xpress will eventually branch out to 50 locations throughout Brazil. But that will be possible only if they find more companies interested in partnering with them. Brazil continues to have a lack of opportunities, mainly for those living in the favelas. Pereira believes expanding his company will create even more job opportunities, develop the local economy and consequently, reduce poverty inside the communities.
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Home News Technical issues, not permafrost, to blame for Arctic fuel spill, says Russian...
Technical issues, not permafrost, to blame for Arctic fuel spill, says Russian environment watchdog
Norilsk Nickel had previously suggested that a tank collapse might have been caused by permafrost thaw.
The TPP-3 power plant, owned by NTEK, a subsidiary of Russian mining company Norilsk Nickel, is seen during work on the demolition of a fuel tank which collapsed on May 29, resulting in a spill of diesel fuel, in Norilsk, Russia July 30, 2020. (Irina Yarinskaya / Reuters)
MOSCOW — A major fuel spill in the Russian Arctic this year was caused by violations during the construction and operation of a reservoir, not thawing of the permafrost, a preliminary investigation showed on Tuesday.
A fuel tank at a power station near the remote, industrial city of Norilsk lost pressure and collapsed in late May, leaking more than 20,000 tonnes of fuel into rivers and subsoil. This led President Vladimir Putin to approve a state of emergency in the city and publicly dress down senior regional officials.
"The accident resulted from related technical and organizational violations, both during the reservoir's construction phase, and its operation," Russia's nuclear and environmental watchdog Rostechnadzor said in a statement.
"No signs of permafrost degradation under the foundations and in the neighboring area were discovered."
Norilsk Nickel, the world's leading nickel and palladium producer, did not immediately provide comment.
It has previously said the accident could have been caused by a thaw in the permafrost weakening the foundations of a storage tank, a version of events later espoused by its co-owner Vladimir Potanin.
Rostechnadzor, which intends to publish conclusive findings on Nov. 13, also said it believes the company began operating the tank after repairs in 2019, without notifying the authorities, and that mistakes were made during hydraulic tests.
Norilsk, a city of 180,000 people located 300 kilometers (190 miles) inside the Arctic Circle, is built around Norilsk Nickel.
The company has disputed the environmental cost of the spill, put at 147.8 billion rubles ($1.94 billion) by Russia's environment watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor.
Reporting by Anastasia Lyrchikova and Alexander Marrow.
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Jem Karacan is aiming to bounce back with a bang as the Royals prepare for a return to the Football League.
The Turkish midfielder was a key part of the side that won the Championship title a year ago, and is determined to leave his mark once again after a short respite over the summer.
"We've done it before, we want to start bright next year, go all guns blazing and take the Championship by storm," said Jem.
The 24-year-old now has 159 appearances under his belt in a Reading shirt since graduating through the Academy – and has urged everyone connected with the club to continue to show their traditional spirit.


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Burton Pedwardine is a hamlet  and civil parish in the district of North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 187.  The hamlet is situated approximately  south-east from the market town of Sleaford and south-west of the village of Heckington.

Burton Pedwardine is named after a Herefordshire family, the Pedwardines, who acquired the hall and manor through marriage about 1330.

The village Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Andrew. It was rebuilt by Sir Roger Pedwardine in the early 14th century on a cruciform plan with central tower. The tower collapsed in 1802, and the church was rebuilt. It was again rebuilt in Decorated style in 1870, retaining its original transept from the pre-1802 church. A grille for the exhibition of relics, and a lead effigy of Dame Alice Pedwardine (c.1350), wife of Roger, lie in the east wall. Against the west wall is the tomb of Thomas Horsman (d. 1610), with effigies of Horsman and his wife Mary. The west wall contains decorative Saxon and Norman elements.

The parish holds the site of Mareham Grange, which was the property of Sir Thomas Horsman in the late 16th, early 17th century. Earlier it was held by Sempringham Priory. The site may also have been the location of Mareham or Cold Mareham, a lost medieval village. Near the Mareham Grange earthworks is the base of a 15th-century wayside cross.

A further Grade II listed building is Glebe Farmhouse on the village's Main Street.

A notable murder occurred in the parish in 1728, when Captain Thomas Mitchell, a Justice of the Peace, killed a bailiff named Pennystone Warden of Ewerby. The captain was committed to Lincoln Castle by two of his fellow magistrates and subsequently sentenced to death at Lincoln Assizes.

The Peterborough to Lincoln Railway Line runs past the village with both Scredington Road and White Cross Lane passing over the railway.

References

External links

"BurtonPedwardine", Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2011
"History of Burton Pedwardine", Burton Pedwardine Online (parish website). Retrieved 5 July 2011
Aerial view of Burton Pedwardine

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My paternal grandfather would have loved Pulaski Polka Days.
Though he stood as wide as he was tall (and he was not a short man), Pap had amazingly light feet, particularly when he danced the polka.
A retired coal miner and a man of few words, Pap came to life when he heard that cheerful oom-pah-pah and he whipped his dance partner around the floor with gleeful abandon.
I thought about him Saturday as we skipped our way around the sweaty dance floors in Pulaski. For 34-years this small town has celebrated its Polish heritage with a festival including food (holubkis, pierogis, Polish sausage and paczkis), games, a craft fair, religious services and a parade.
But the star of the four-day event is the polka, a happy dance essentially no more complicated than a kindergartner's skip.
With the smell of sauerkraut wafting through the steamy air, we made our way through the entrance and saw the first polka tent immediately to our right. Except for weddings, we'd never publicly danced the polka together and we were nervous at first to jump in. There's an intimidating traffic flow we didn't want to interrupt.
We watched for a bit and, with visions of embarrassing collisions dancing in our heads, we decided to mosey on over to the food tent.
Eventually, we returned to the dance tent, closed our eyes and jumped in, steering ourselves immediately to the center of the floor where we could get our bearings and find the beat without ramming a grandma. Gingerly, we made our way into the polka traffic, not unlike a student driver merging onto a highway for the first time, and then we relaxed.
We certainly weren't the best dancers on the floor — those perspiration adverse couples maintained enviably serene faces while they dressed up their polkas with high kicks and dizzying turns. But, eventually we did feel like we blended right in.
We highly recommend Pulaski Polka Days and we plan to make it an annual event.
Here is Pap — he loved babies, polkas, snuff, and an occasional shot-and-a-beer.
The entrance to the festival. The aroma of sauerkraut is pulling us in.
You don't often see pierogis and cabbage rolls on a festival menu.
Such an unflattering photo of me, but proof that we braved the dance floor. Dancing the polka is super fun and excellent exercise.
This young man gamely led his grandmother around the dance floor for a couple of tunes. The polka is a family dance.
They're waiting for the music to start up again, but this couple could really dance and I loved their matching patriotic ensemble.
We stopped at Smurawa's Country Bakery, home of the famous paczki. We picked up some frozen pierogis, halubkis and babka. I'm going to word this next part carefully because I don't want my Grandma to smite me from on high, but these pierogis were some of the best I've ever tasted.
Another great T-shirt and proud Polish man.
Thank you so much for visiting us this past weekend during our Polka festival. It is especially gratifying to hear the wonderful comments and sharing them with our family and staff. It was once again a joy to share our bakery and village with so many wonderful visitors. We hope to see you again soon.
We're already planning a return trip to the bakery and we've been sending other people there as well. Delicious!


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Bird flu reaches 32 districts in MP, emphasis on containing it
Bhopal, Jan 20 (IANS) Bird flu is fast becoming a new problem in Madhya Pradesh, posing a major threat not only to the birds but the poultry business as well. It has been confirmed in crows and other wild birds in 32 out of the 52 state districts, while the infection has been reportedly found in poultry products in three districts.
Overall, bird flu has spread to 75 per cent of the districts in the state.
Coronavirus is still prevalent in the state, but people breathed a sigh of relief after vaccines were found. Now there is an outbreak of bird flu and the fear of its subsequent expansion. While crows and wild birds continue to die, the poultry business has also not remained untouched by bird flu, leading to concerns over the industry.
Madhya Pradesh Animal Husbandry Minister Prem Singh Patel has instructed the districts unaffected by bird flu to increase vigilance. He said the deaths of crows has led to the outbreak of bird flu which has now spread to 32 districts, including the poultry business in three districts.
The bird flu affected districts are Indore, Agar, Neemuch, Dewas, Ujjain, Khandwa, Khargone, Guna, Shivpuri, Rajgarh, Shajapur, Vidisha, Datia, Ashoknagar, Barwani, Bhopal, Hoshangabad, Burhanpur, Chhindwara, Dindori, Mandla, Sagar, Dhar, Satna , Panna, Balaghat, Sheopur, Chhatarpur and Raisen.
Patel said the culling of chickens infected with the virus in poultry markets in Jhabua, Harda and Mandsaur has been done according to the advisory issued by the Centre.
The bird flu was also confirmed at Kadaknath in Jhabua district and a large number of poultry products have been destroyed. The chicks from Kadaknath were to be supplied to the farmhouse of former Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
It is a big challenge to stop bird flu from spreading. This is the reason that the state Animal Husbandry Minister has appealed to the poultry farmers in the unaffected districts to be vigilant and immediately inform the control room of their district as soon as they get information about unnatural deaths of birds or chickens.
The Minister said the reservoirs and sanctuaries in the state should be strictly monitored. To deal with untoward situations, PPE kits, disinfectants, necessary equipment and medicines should be kept ready.
So far 3,890 crows and wild birds have died in the state. As many as 453 samples from various districts have been sent to the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases in Bhopal for examination. Bird flu control measures and surveillance are going on in the affected districts.
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Q: Wrong to have a function change the variable reference it was called from? JavaScript has all amounts of crazy flexibility. I decided to take advantage of it and have a function change itself on the first call. Is this a bad thing to do? It works like this:
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This function is called inside of a main loop, so it gets called many times, but the instance is only ever "supposed" to be instantiated once.

A: It is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
For example, It can be a useful way of implementing state changes in a state machine, but I'm sure that you could find many other uses.
You may also want to look into how to implement the same functionality with closures -- it may be cleaner depending on the use case.
Edit; example of a closure which doesn't change the prototype
Something = (function(){
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The benefit of the closure is that you don't change the global prototype function for that object type, and you can now have multiple independent object where each closure object can keep their own state.


GOP politicians and their followers love to play the Christianity card. They wave their bibles and wag their fingers at anyone whose behavior doesn't pass their sanctimonious moral judgment.
They call themselves Christians, but in Catholic school I was taught that Christians adore and follow Jesus Christ. These holier-than-thou Republicans don't reflect the Jesus that I read about in the New Testament.
To illustrate this point, let's compare the teachings of Jesus with the actions of his so-called followers in the GOP.
But GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney changes his opinions on the issues from 'yes' to 'no' and back again as much as needed to achieve his immediate political goals. And the "Christian" Republicans will vote for him.
But the GOP has in recent decades become the Greedy Old Party, working to cut social services for the underprivileged in order to give unneeded tax breaks to the very wealthy.
And so the "Christian" Republicans will call her a welfare queen.
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All gardening enthusiasts know that brushcutters are an indispensable tool for finishing the edges of lawns, gardens and embankments, as well as for removing brambles or cutting pastures and flowerbeds.
But many people still don't know how to fully exploit their features in a safe and effective way. So what are the secrets to using this machine like a professional and getting the best results out of it? Let's take a look.
You can't expect to get the most out of a brushcutter unless you know before buying which model is best suited to the task in hand.
As we saw in previous months, the brushcutter head plays a decisive role in choosing which device to use. (see: Brushcutter: blade or line head?).
Even though there is a trimmer line for brambles, in principle electric line trimmers such as the TR 91 E are sufficient for finishing garden lawns or cutting fine shrubs, whereas professional brushcutters such as the BC 400 S with disc head are preferable on areas where vegetation is thicker.
If, as in the latter case, you find yourself working on overgrown areas, we suggest you attach a 3-tooth brushcutter blade on larger machines and a 4-tooth blade on smaller models.
If you have a petrol-driven machine at home, then before you start cutting, remember to check whether the brushcutter blade is the one that best suits your needs.
A professional brushcutter is not sufficient to achieve a clean cut, unless you use it correctly.
If you want to cut edges evenly, you need to try and tilt the brushcutter so that it contacts the turf at a slight angle. This allows you to achieve an aesthetically pleasing tapered effect, without the risk of creating height disparities between different areas of the lawn.
When you encounter obstacles such as pathways and fences, remember to tilt the brushcutter so that the line is vertical and walk along the edge you are cutting.
Finally, if the obstacle is not passable or the grass is very high, move the machine horizontally in a U-shape, trying to cut in gradually overlapping passes, in order to avoid missing any spots.
Is your garden lawn already short? Then you can finish the edges, alternating back and forth with simple movements.
Line brushcutters use the tension generated by the high-speed rotation of the line to generate the energy needed to cut the grass. The faster the wire ends move, the more precise and efficient the cut.
It is therefore very important to throttle up in order to accelerate the blade before each cut and decelerate at the end of each pass, in order to avoid overworking the motor. All these tasks must only be carried out after the blade has reached a fast rotation speed.


Invite your friends and family to dine with us on Wednesday, October 18th, Chipotle will donate 50% off your bill to the James Logan Band Boosters. Dinner night out is from 3pm to 9pm at the Chipotle in Union City (30920 Dyer St, Union City, CA 94587-1767).
Please print your fundraiser flyers on white paper. Flyers cannot be altered in any way.
In order for purchases to be credited towards the fundraiser, supporters can show the cashier the flyer (in hand or on a mobile device) or just tell the cashier – no paperwork needed - that they are supporting the fundraiser when paying at checkout.
Gift card purchases during fundraisers do not count towards total donated sales, but purchases made with an existing gift card will count.
If placing an order online during your fundraiser, please note you must choose the pay in-store option and inform our cashier of your participation before paying. This will ensure your order is counted towards the fundraiser!
Our first event of the season will be the WBA's Valley Christian Quest Classic on October 7th at Chabot College.
Spectator parking is located in LOT G, J, and the front of Lot B.
PROGRAMS: Will be on sale at the ticket booths and in the stands for $5.
TICKETS: $15 for adults. $5 for children ages 4-11.
Invite your friends and family to dine with us on Wednesday, September 20th, Mountain Mike's will donate 20% off your bill to the James Logan Band Boosters. Simply download, print, and bring the following flyer to Mountain Mike's in Union City. You must present this flyer at the time of purchase.


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package com.facebook.buck.intellij.plugin.ws.buckevents.consumers;

import com.intellij.util.messages.Topic;

public interface BuckBuildProgressUpdateConsumer {
    Topic<BuckBuildProgressUpdateConsumer> BUCK_BUILD_PROGRESS_UPDATE = Topic.create(
            "buck.build.progress.update",
            BuckBuildProgressUpdateConsumer.class
    );
    void consumeBuckBuildProgressUpdate(long timestamp, double progressValue);
}