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Cơm gà Bà Buội
22 Phan Chu Trinh St, Hoi An
The charming exterior. What horrors await inside?
Mood: Vaguely colonial
Theme: Venerable shabbyplace
We'reeee baaaack! (Though only for some vietnamese special features, but still). This time we visited a famous restaurant in Hoi An, who've apparently been around since the 50s. That's older and more famous (except for Tim Ho Wan) than any shabbyplace we ever visited before, so we enter with somewhat mixed expectations. The facade, like all of Hoi An, is painted in a pleasant yellow hue and looks generally, generically pretty in a somewhat bucolic fashion. Can this really be what it's purported to be, a shabbyplace?
Yes it can! Asia always delivers.
The cramped ('cozy') interior space sports some fancy hardwood pillars and terraces, but the grease-stained and bleached mint-green walls and hard concrete floor offsets any comforting feelings this might engender. Unless you're like us, that is; now, we're giddy with excitement. The color scheme and the peeling paint creates a vaguely Caribbean colonial atmosphere. An open kitchen, cold metallic tables, plastic footstols, bleached photographs and random plastic sheets with floral patterns completes the wonderful picture, though a bonus mention goes to the mystery door with a blue plastic curtain, framed by walls where the paint have peeled of and exposed the grey concrete underneath. What horrors lurk behind? Could it be the only thing worse than an Asian shabbyplace; an Asian bathroom?
We don't dwell on this, however, but eagerly proceed to the food. Like in a hundred thousand times more fancy (but less cozy) places in Europe, there's one single dish. In this case; Chicken rice. One should be able to assume they've mastered it by now, because we do have fond memories of similar shabbyplaces, surprisingly excellent, back in Kunming. Not taking anything for granted however, because Asia is the continent of randomness and weirdness, we take a bite. And two. And three.
There's tender, tasty chicken pieces on top of masterfully steamed rice, decorated with onion slices and a cornucopia of herbs, and accompanied by some bowls of a really, really amazing broth. Like most good vietnamese food, there's an odd feeling of freshness and crispness to it, despite it's ramshackle surroundings. Though the portions could have been bigger, of course it's dirt cheap, and we leave satisfied (and mystified that we haven't gotten stomach sick yet). Once again we've proven our case! The best food is found in the shabbiest places, in China as well as in Vietnam.
Chòngqìng Kǒukǒuxiāng Shāokǎo | 重庆口口香烧烤
Mayuan daokou 麻园道口
Mood: Neighborhood joint
Theme: Shāokǎo virtuosity
Tonight we went to explore the fundamental chinese institution of night shāokǎo (barbecue), in a place just off where the famous narrow gauge train tracks intersects Dianmian avenue. Chòngqìng Kǒukǒuxiāng Shāokǎo was reputed to have Kunming's best shāokǎo (at least according to one trustworthy but subjective source), so we were slightly giddy with anticipation. It turns out this place is truly above the norm, with a bbq master that'll lovingly tend to every skewer, sprinkling liberally with spicy goodness like it was an art form. He'll also happily shāokǎo the hell out of any random wierd shit you might have brought along, like in our case with some dog meat we bought up on Hongshan donglu just to make the experience a tad wierder. Chòngqìng Kǒukǒuxiāng Shāokǎo has a good selection of stuff, and does initially seem to be more keen on cleanliness than others, having the skewers on display covered in a plastic film. We quickly notice an insect crawling around underneath, however, giving us the comfortable assurance that this is indeed a proper shabbyplace. (In case you're picky (read: whiny), the laoban will still happily fetch new skewers of stuff from inside the restaurant, but given how it looks inside that isn't necessarily a guarantee of freshness).
The lotus roots are supposed to be good, and indeed, they are, with a perfect amount of spiciness that makes them just about the best barbecued ones we've ever had. There's also a kind of long, thin fish that's absolutely delicious (and a bargain, at just five kuai), as well as nice skewers of lamb, beef, leek, fish balls and mushrooms that are all not too oily, not too spicy (which one of us would argue is a drawback in the meat's case, but we did ask for bu tai la…), and just generally a treat. It's not the epitome of culinary exquisiteness (shāokǎo from a steel wagon in a god-forsaken back alley seldom is, despite the theme of this blog), but it is lovingly and masterfully barbecued, and definitely worth the excursion unless you're in Chenggong or something. The dog experience shouldn't really be part of this review as you'll have to go to the dog place on Hongshan donglu for that (it's easy to find, just look for a mutilated dog carcass on a plate…), but look if we care; it ought to be said to the barbecue master's credit that he manages to make the rather boring taste moderately more interesting after a short stint on his grill.
The outdoor seating do compromise our ability to truly savor the shabbiness, but in a nice Kunming night like this one even we can't bear to go inside; a true shāokǎo experience is supposed to take place under the stars (meaning, the smog). But we do make sure to explore a bit, and it's shabby indeed, with the compulsory decrepit plastic footstools, greasy miniscule tables, a random and dirty wash basin in a wierd crevice in the wall, visible and rusty plumbing, a complete lack of any decoration whatsoever, and a generally soulless urban decay feeling. It's still not Shípíng Shāokǎo-style horror, but well on the level of Uncle Shu-Shu; a true and properly shabby hole-in-the-wall of the kind western health inspectors would close down quicker than you could say 'laduzi'.
The master at work
Hóng Jī Shānzhuāng | 鸿吉山庄
Xishan Maomaoqing Ma'an Shancun
西山猫猫箐马鞍山村
Mood: Abandoned Mediterranean resort
Concept: Adult playground
Three stars in Guide Rouge is supposed to mean 'worth the trip', something few restaurants in the world have amounted to. Paradoxically, though, this one just might. Maybe because the trip, or rather the trek, is quite short and inexpensive. Even so, this place basically made our day as we crossed the Western Hills, to end up in that intriguing place which some signs point to, but never explains: Maomaoqing. All we had to go on beforehand was a short comment by chinese people coming from there: "好吃". To get chinese people to go anywhere, we figured, the food has to be good, and to get them to walk across a fucking mountain…that has to be haochi indeed. So we went viking to Maomaoqing, rowdy with anticipation.
Turns out Maomaoqing is quite a spread-out place with several dining options, so we'll never know what the particular "haochi" refered to was. (Some of us had hoped for something fucked up like cat meat, given the name of the place, but were sorely disappointed). In the end, we headed towards an imposing, mediterranean style building that didn't look too shabby, but had that third world-style concrete rural toilet that's always an adventure, a rabid dog, and a rusty old gate that filled no discernable purpose, given that the walls were a low row of concrete bricks.
'A' is for awesome.
The main feature of this place is its godawesome outdoor seating, complete with ping pong table, pool table, hammocks, a swing, and a several meters long metal pole hanging from a bar between two trees; the (at the very least 50 years old) laoban can (and will) climb the entire length of this pole without using his feet, a feat so awesome it defies description. Even zombified vikings like us were dumbstruck, something that in itself should earn this restaurant five laowais in "awesome" if there was such a rating. Unfortunately for Hóng jī Shānzhuāng though, there is not. Still, the outdoor seating in itself does lower the shabbiness rating; while the kitchen is moderately horrible, and the indoor seating area so depressing we cannot fathom how anybody would ever elect to sit there, the outdoors area is just plain…nice, like a small oasis of green and beauty in the middle of a derelict junk jard. We could have stayed there for hours, and one of us almost refused to leave.
The food is very much not expensive, but fails to impress. We order a large selection of dishes, that we are then supposed to carry out to the tables in the outdoor green area by ourselves (probably, the staff cannot understand why on earth we would prefer to be there, rather than face the gloom inside, and thus came completely unprepared for this turn of events…)
It should be said that there's some disagreement among our impressive host of guest reviewers as to the actual quality of the food. The meat dishes are definitely not bad, one even impressive, with a hearthy sauce and no bones or fat. The cabbage is plain and boring, as are, some of us think, the diced cucumber, mashed potatoes and most other vegetable dishes. Some speak in defense of the diced cucumber however, and the omnipresent egg-and-tomatoes is quite popular, quickly disappearing into our stomachs.
The truth of the matter is, however, that after 12> kilometers of walking up a mountain, all food is good food, and none of us leave this place unsatisifed. But we had higher expectations of the mysterious Maomaoqing, and the food alone in Hóng jī Shānzhuāng is not worth the journey. Seeing the ape-man-laoban being awesome though, most definitely is. In the end, one of us has almost been offered to marry his 180 cm tall daughter…
The Truck Stop Restaurant That Was Actually Good
In the desert between Ürümqi and Kashgar
Food: 4 laowai
Mood: Lively
Concept: Communist caravanserai
We have earlier discussed the strange phenomenon of truck stop restaurants in China always being horrible to some degree. Yet, sooner or later, we were bound to come across one that was not bad, and we did – in the middle of the desert, of course. Literally. Around this place, for as long as the eye can see, is only endless, lifeless wasteland with scattered patches of dying grass. Yet the place itself is quite lively, at least when the long-distance buses drop by; full of people chatting, playing, eating, or just hanging around. We can imagine it has been like this for a very long time, just with the camels and horses gradually replaced by roaring metallic beasts, and adobe and brick caravanserais gradually turned into communist concrete. It didn't look promising, for sure, though outdoor seating is always a plus. Amazingly though, all the chairs and tables match and are remarkably clean, almost shining, and the tableware also match, though it looks extremely 70's (orange plastic, fuck yeah). Sure, the interior of the building looks like an abandoned mental hospital, but nobody ever sits inside anyhow (though our driver at one point disappears into the building for a suspiciously long time, despite the toilets being in a separate building outside. We have no idea what he's doing).
Except for a quite nice outdoor seating, this place also has what might be the largest sign known to civilised man, so ridiculously overdone that it has to get bonus points just for the effort. As previously noted, the building itself is unremarkable, and the kitchen, whatever horrors might or might not be there, is hidden away deep inside it. One worrying sign, though, is the fact that the inbred-looking guy cleaning the toilets is a few moments later seen serving plates of watermelon to people. There is also a lot of cute uighur babies roaming about, which adds more to the atmosphere than the shabbiness, as there's no sign that they're even near the kitchen. All in all, this might be the cleanest and nicest chinese truck stop restaurant we've ever seen, and certainly so within Xinjiang itself – most similar places here are sheer horror, or at least depressing beyond belief. That being said, what we do get to see of the inside is…a different story, and that and the toilet guy does raise the shabbiness rating to two. The service is impersonal and extremely slow, though the watermelons are a nice touch (if you ignore for a moment who delivers them).
With this distinct lack of shabbiness in mind (there's a few sheep in the vicinity, but no other animals in sight), we would ordinarly suspect the food to turn out to be utterly disappointing, but no, not here. We get a pot of good tea and a bowl of cold laghman noodles, over which is added a plate of random diced meat/vegetable stuff. And it's quite tasty. The meat is not too laowai-friendly, but tender and warm, and the onions and the bell peppers have a nice and fresh taste and consistency, not oily or slimy. But especially the noodles themselves are a surprise, with a hearthiness you seldom find in boring Kunming varieties – just the kind of hearthiness one'd want in truck stop food. Despite slight stomach sickness and some initial reservations against uighur food, we leave this place feeling fulfilled, our taste buds pleased but not challenged, and travel onward to new culinary adventures and new confrontations with shabbiness, deeper into China's vast western lands.
Zhào Xìng Yuán | 兆兴园
37 yong le lu 永乐路
Mood: Weirdly tranquil
Concept: Painfully small stools
We don't have high expectations when we enter; the locale is just shabby enough to be mediocre, and the distinct lack of any kind of menu is always a headache for us laowais. But the ingredients lying about in plastic containers are surprisingly clean, though the meat does look a little off-putting. We ask for a menu and are pointed towards the few dishes pictured on posters on the wall; they don't look too appetizing. So we do it the risky way, and point to stuff in the containers, then sit down at a table with miniscule wicker footstools and try to ignore the pain in our long, smooth legs. The tables are covered with the customary sheets of transparent plastic that always look completely horrible, yet in some unfathomable way are also an indication that this is to be considered a "quality" restaurant.
As it turns out, it is. The food is bordering on the fantastic. Though the beans are tasteless and way too oily, with a weird moisture that probably hails from a sewer somewhere, the spring rolls with egg and mushrooms and some kind of sprouts are crisp and tasty, the mashed potatoes delicously seasoned and hearthy, and the meat is tender and laowai-friendly, no trace of fat or bones. It's actually perfect, among the best meat we've had in Kunming; it comes in a savory sauce with a touch of ginger and just the right amount of oil. The rice takes its time to show up, but eventually arrives in a giant wooden bucket, carried in from an undisclosed location. And it's warm.
The room itself has certainly seen better days, with bleached wall paintings whose like we haven't seen since the Truck Stop in the Middle of Nowhere. The kitchen is definitely dirty, complete with shabby wall tiles that have almost fallen off. Yet this restaurant has a uniform and thought-out design, with fake mud brick walls, red lamps and paper cutouts hanging from the roof, and matching flowery covers on all the miniscule stools. As to why they insist on using such spartan seatings in a room that could easily have accommodated entire sofas, nobody knows.
When we arrive, Zhào Xìng Yuán is almost empty, but a few people soon arrives from the nearby Chuang Ku Art Compound, apparently aware that this place is great. After a while, most of the (enormous) staff sits down to eat, accompanied by strange moments of eerie silence where only the klicking of chopsticks is heard. It's not exactly depressing, just…calm, and soon enough someone begans chatting in the usual, absurdly loud chinese style. Everything is back to normal. But we're full of great food.
Apartment Restaurant No. 1
112 Jianshe lu 建设路 (ask the locals)
Shabbiness: 1 laowai
Mood: Awkward
Concept: Mama's illegal cozy kitchen
Guest reviewers: 龙伟 and Sau
Have you ever been dining at restaurants that were not particular bad, but still left a sour feeling of anonymosity? Who are these people cooking my food, doing the dishes, choosing the music? Good food but an unpersonal experience. BOOORING! is what the Heaven in Hell-crew are shouting in unison. Look no further. We've found the perfect place for those of you who want to have an experience, rather than just have a meal.
This is where it happens.
Four floors up in an apartment building, just behind Jianshe Lu, mama will make you feel at home (well if your mom usually cooks Chinese!) with her buffet-style home-cooking ready with classic Chinese staples. In her apartment, that is. When restaurants and pubs in the west are trying hard to be like your "other livingroom", this is the real deal. If you are lucky you get a seat in the sofa, in front of the huge flat screen (momma makes sure money keeps on rollin' in) so you can watch the latest TV-series. The "restaurant"-part of her apartment is just a living room, but quite a lavish one that screams "new money". It has a huge poster covering the wall (of a sandy beach paradise in some part of the world), a giant aquarium that looks squeaky clean and matching furniture in dark wood. And mama are into details too. We are especially impressed by the veil around the water dispenser and we wonder if it is the same one she wore to her wedding in the 80's. It must also be said that this is one of the cleaner (chinese) apartments we've seen.
And what about mama's food? Like in the school canteen of your childhood (or if you are studying in China at a university), the food is served by mama herself. You point, she heaves it in a take away box. The array of dishes stretches to about ten different and you can mix and match as you like until the box is full. Sometimes mama objects: "You can't eat all that!", and then it is up to you to convince her. As a local patron says; "she really looks in your box to see if it's empty", before said person quickly puts some leftovers in the trash bin.
We are trying the Yunnan-style mashed potatos, fried chicken, fried pork, cauliflower and the ever so popular, 西红柿炒鸡蛋, stir-fried tomatos with eggs. And while we don't consider it bad in anyway (some of us stamps the chicken un-laowai-friendly with rich amounts of bone) we don't feel impressed either. The food is nothing out of the ordinary; the mashed potato is mashed like it should, the cauliflower is crisp. This is once again a place you wouldn't visit for the food; but for the mere experience of sitting in someones living room and having your meal. We agree that going here to watch tv and drinking beer (bring your own!) would be a nice second visit, occasionally chatting with mama and her family about the latest from the European Championships.


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'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'
By Matt Zoller Seitz
This long-awaited sequel is actually one of the most touching films of the year.
Like its predecessor, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is a melodrama, a contemporary morality play filled with big characters, corny dialogue, and commentary on recent events. But in the end, I was reminded of a classic Jack Benny routine. A robber points a gun at Benny and says, "Your money or your life." Long pause. "Well?" the robber demands. Benny replies, "I'm thinking."
Reptilian corporate raider Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) is this film's version of Benny. But his dilemma is no joke. He gets out of prison after serving a sentence for insider trading—his returned goods include a cellular phone the size of a combat boot—and hopes to re-enter both the financial world and the life of his daughter, Winnie (Carey Mulligan). As it turns out, the two wishes are intertwined. The younger Gekko is sitting on a huge Swiss savings account that's supposed to stake the raider's future business endeavors, but she's cut him off following the suicide of her brother, Gordon's only son—a tragedy she blames on Gekko's horrible fathering. Winnie's lover, Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf)—the film's eager beaver hero—doesn't know about the stash when he first hooks up with the now-allegedly-reformed Gordon, who's repositioning himself as a voice of wisdom and hawking a book about the evils of unfettered capitalism. Jake latches onto him after a book reading and starts to see him as a possible mentor, or at least an ally, and he desperately needs one. His firm has been destroyed and absorbed by a rival bank led by a frightening character named Bretton James (Josh Brolin, George W. Bush in Stone's W), who's like an icy, technocratic, next-generation version of Gordon. But the film really comes down to those three players and that stash. Each of their pure desires—Winnie's wish to define herself apart from her father's reputation; Jake's wish to spend the rest of his life with Winnie and get rich without hurting anyone; Gordon's wish to get back into Winnie's good graces—are all complicated, contaminated really, by that Swiss account.
In fact, the movie's central theme can be boiled down to three words: Money poisons everything. It's the mirror image of the most quotable phrase in the first Wall Street: Greed is good. And fittingly, the film's tone, pace, and preoccupations are all very different from the ones Stone gave us in Wall Street. In that film Bud Fox was—rather like Sheen's character in Platoon—an edgy male ingenue torn between father figures, and for all its moralizing, the first Wall Street ultimately came down to the deals. It was a gangster thriller substituting ticker-tape scrawls for massacres, with Gekko lording over everything like a bouncy, wiseass mob boss, Sonny Corleone in Armani. Tripped up by the very thing that made it a hit—its crowd-pleasing energy—the movie glorified what it set out to expose, and turned "Greed is good" from an ironic lament into a rallying cry. Wall Street's alchemical transformation from cautionary tale into quotable blockbuster evokes a famous quote by Francois Truffaut that that also applied to Platoon: There's no such thing as an antiwar movie because war is among the most beautiful of cinematic spectacles, and when you put it onscreen, it's exciting.
No such charge could be levied against the sequel. Money Never Sleeps is less a financial thriller than a domestic drama that happens to take place in and around America's financial capital. Jake is a more complicated character than Bud Fox—not a greedy blank slate looking to get rich fast, but a young liberal capitalist trying to reconcile profit and social good. His "good" father figure, Louis Zabel (Frank Langella), plucked him from obscurity as a caddy, got him a job at the now-crippled firm, and taught him that morality should not be divorced from business, and Jake never forgot that lesson (although he allows it to recede from time to time). He sees through Bretton from the start, but lets himself get pulled into his orbit because he mistakenly thinks he can use Bretton without getting used himself—a more nuanced (and less crudely exciting) situation than Gekko's seduction of the credulous Bud Fox in Wall Street. The real struggle in Money Never Sleeps isn't between rival forces jockeying to control a hero's soul, or between rival investors or companies angling for the fattest payday. It's a contest between the lure of the deal and the importance of everything else—the private, personal issues that get neglected or destroyed in the rush to make money.
In a perverse but amusing way, Money Never Sleeps sometimes seems like film noir for CNBC junkies. It's filled with characters that express a wish to be straight, or go straight, or do some good in the world, and many of them actually mean it. But they keep getting seduced from the straight and narrow. The femme fatale is money.
This is, to put it mildly, not the direction one might have expected Stone to go in, and it may prove a liability at the box-office, especially when fans of the original start spreading the news that Money Never Sleeps isn't an exciting movie and really isn't trying to be. Whenever the movie starts to get hopped up on the adrenaline rush of deal-making, Stone cuts to a human-scaled conversation between two people about mundane personal matters. Even the most purely (and gratuitously) cinematic scene in the entire film, Jake and Bretton racing bikes through winding woodland roads, ends sooner than you expect, and leads into Jake's stinging condemnation of everything Bretton stands for. The structure of Alan Loeb and Stephen Schiff's screenplay is as much a comment on the culture of moneymaking and what it does to people as any single line of dialogue.
Stone still knows how to make abstract notions concrete and visually exciting; I was especially fond of his use of multiple split-screens that segment the frame into a mosaic of little windows, computer-style (an more extreme version of a device he used in the first movie). More striking still are the transitions within and between scenes, which superimpose one face over another during a phone call, or shift from one location to another by having the first location disintegrate into glimmering pixels (suggesting that the "real" world has become a mere extension of what's happening 24/7 online). That's as corny a visual idea as an editorializing matte shot in a silent film that encloses two lovers inside a heart. But the Wall Street movies are primitivist entertainments—the first movie ended with the words "The End," for God's sake—so the flourishes are all of a piece. Stone isn't a dramatic pointillist: he paints with a siding brush.
Money Never Sleeps won't win any prizes for perfection, or even neatness. It has a lurching rhythm and often seems a bit ashamed of itself whenever it gets too excited over a deal or a bit of masculine one-upsmanship (a tendency that sits rather uneasily with all the images of men shouting up a storm in offices and on trading floors). LaBeouf, like Sheen before him, is watchable and likable but never more than that. The beguiling Mulligan is stuck in a largely reactive role and doesn't begin to flower until the film's second half. And it offers three, maybe four endings when one would have sufficed.
Yet Money Never Sleeps is still an engrossing and unusual movie. Parts of it are surprisingly powerful, and the overarching message—that the pursuit of an abstraction, money, has divorced America from the human struggles it should tend to everyday—is urgent and necessary, and conveyed with honesty. Its most powerful scene has nothing to do with takeovers, hedge funds, or cable news reports: It's a conversation between Winnie and Gordon on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exquisitely acted by Mulligan and Douglas. Gordon is begging his daughter to forgive him, and she's having none of it. Gordon Gekko's eyes fill with tears. He can barely finish a sentence. He's so abject and miserable that it's hard to look at him. The onetime Master of the Universe has been rendered helpless not by a subpoena or a jail sentence, but by the knowledge of what he lost and may never get back.
Matt Zoller Seitz is a contributor to Salon and the founder of Slant's "The House Next Door," where he has written extensively about "The Sopranos" and other series.
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The Mail has a pop at Arsenal's Mesut Ozil. The paper says the player "was recently pictured on holiday in a hookah lounge as the Gunners lost to West Ham". Arsenal lost 1-0 to West Ham on Saturday in the 12:30 kick off. The image reproduced by the Mail is of Ozil at Istanbul venue Lulu Hookah Lounge.
Ozil is seen posing for a photo with a well wisher. The image was posted on an Instagram page belonging to @paletzengin on January 13. The same image can be seen on Palet Zengin's Facebook page on the 12th at 11pm.
Istanbul is three hours ahead of London time. So was Ozil "chilling" at the same time as Arsenal were suffering defeat at West Ham? If he was, the paper provides no proof.


How many nails does it require to forever whack down the coffin lid on European social democracy? It's a political tradition once animated by socialist principles, though in practice social democratic parties have invariably taken the side of capital when the chips were ever seriously down.
In 1914, Lenin was outraged at the sight of social democratic parties across Europe tossing aside the noble principles of international working-class solidarity. These parties rallied behind their national flags, voting war credits to unleash the horrors of the World War I, which doomed millions of working-class conscripts drafted into their national armies.
Lenin would have been caustically unsurprised just over a century later at the current spectacle in Athens.
Here, the supposed leftist Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is ramming through a program of national economic suicide, so German and French banks won't be inconvenienced by bad loans to Greece. The Greek people are scheduled to pay a fearful price.
Ramming through an austerity package, amounting to over 78 billion euro extorted by the bankers, all but one of the 155 deputies of the ruling social democratic PASOK party voted for the government; all but one of the 143 MPs from all other parties voted against it.
The confidence vote took place against the furious protests and resistance of the Greek people. Around 28 billion euro of the total is to be raised through spending cuts and increased revenue, while 50 billion euro will be raised through the privatization of state enterprises, including ports, telecommunications concerns, real estate and stakes in the public power corporation.
Across the next five years, more than two billion euros, or $2.9 billion, are scheduled in cuts to the health sector through 2015 by reducing regulated prices for drugs and increasing taxes on heating oil and the self-employed. Public employment will be slashed. Greece has already cut the wages of its 800,000 public workers — a quarter of the work force — by more than 10 percent.
Papandreou had other options: Simply to refuse to blink in the face of blackmail from Euro-bankers and be prepared to return to its own national currency and restore a measure of sovereignty in the conduct of its economic affairs.
In Britain, Labour leader Edward Miliband has just condemned teachers and civil servants for a one-day work stoppage to protest savage conservative government cuts in pensions. The sheep-like Miliband declared the one-day strike as "wrong." Tony Blair did his best to sever all connections between the Labour Party and anything other than fawning obeisance to the bankers and the City of London — and Miliband is clearly set on following in his footsteps.
Move now to France. Lenin would have given yet another caustic laugh at the sight of Strauss-Kahn calculating that the post of managing director of the IMF — bludgeon of the major capitalist powers to extort money from the poorer nations — as a fine qualification to be the presidential candidate of the French social democrats.
The social democratic tradition is played out — and the future for radical challenges to the Money Power lies in reformulations of populism, perhaps in the style of Marine Le Pen now shifting the French Front National away from the unappetizing fascist idiom deployed by her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
It really is a bit rich to hear preachments from Germany about the importance of paying debts. Ninety percent of all Germans oppose a bailout for Greece on the grounds of the latter's aversion to paying reparations for its supposed profligacy.
Never has a country flourished more mightily than Germany from flouting reparations and debts.
Albrecht Ritschl, a professor at the London School of Economics, points out in an interview in Der Spiegel that Germany welshed on loans from the U.S. to pay the reparations levied by the Allies after World War I. The Germans invested the money in stocks, which went down the tubes in the crash of 1929. After World War II, a divided German was excused from reparations to countries that it had invaded, such as Greece. Under a 1953 treaty, the issue of reparations was on the table after reunification in 1990.


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amad b. Bashīr at-Tanūkhī, the author of At-Tanbīh 'alā Mabādi' at-Tawjīh) said: "The established position in the madhhab is the contrary view" [Book of Food – Section 1 of his said work].
In his superb compact text Al-Qawānīn al-Fiqhiyyah, Ibn Juzayy, when dealing with insects and reptiles, quoted what Ibn Shās had stated on this topic, and added that Imam ash-Shāfi`ī had declared the eating of insects forbidden on the ground that they were bad (khabā'ith). As for snails, Ibn Juzayy added, they were eaten so long as they had been cooked in boiling water or grilled, as opposed to those exemplars which had suffered a natural death.
On the other hand, Ibn Shās, in his abovementioned book which he modeled after the pattern of al-Ghazālī's Al-Wajīz on the fiqh of the Shāfi`iyyah, quoted Ustādh Abū Bakr at-Turtūshī, notoriously a strict scholar, as stating that every animal, from the elephant down to ants and worms, and every species in between, size-wise, could legitimately be partaken of, save for the human being and the pig. He added that the Māliki madhhab had reached such a position based on one of the two sound narrations relating its stance on this subject, being the one which had been narrated from the savants of the Iraqi school of the Mālikiyyah, the only distinguisher being one between the unrestrictedly permissible and the disliked (the latter category including such as horses and mules, predatory animals, monkeys, cats and dogs, etc). Both Ibn Juzayy (who came after him) and his predecessor Ibn Bashīr (who had first reported the words of at-Turtūshī in his At-Tanbīh 'alā Mabādi' at-Tawjīh) have quoted the same.
One can thus begin to see the juristic richness within the madhhab, contrary to the modernist propaganda that "madhhabism" is rigid and rigidifying.
In Al-Kāfi fî Fiqh Ahl al-Madīnah al-Mālikī, the hāfiz of the West, Ibn 'Abdi'l-Barr, mentioned that a group of Madinan savants disallowed the eating of snakes and geckos, mice, and insects, with no slaughtering of them being possible, and that any animal which might legitimately be killed could not be lawful to eat. Ibn 'Abdi'l-Barr specifically attributed such position to Ashhab and 'Urwah, though he clarified that they were not the only Madinans endorsing such stance.
In his encyclopedic Adh-Dhakhīrah, the Egyptian polymath Imam al-Qarāfī quoted Ibn Shās' aforesaid view, and gave as its efficient cause the statement of Allah, may He be Exalted: «Making bad things (al-khabā'ith) harām for them» [Sūrah al-A`rāf: 157].
Al-Qarāfī goes on to mention that the Imams of Ahl as-Sunnah have concurred on the permissibility of eating locusts , due to a) his, Sallallāhu 'alayhi wa-sallam , saying, as reported by al-Bukhārī: "If a fly falls into the vessel of any one of you, let him immerse it therein fully. Healing, in fact, is ensconced in one of its wings, while sickness lies in the other." The more likely scenario is that, once the fly is immersed completely inside the container, it will die. Had the case been that its death rendered it impure, the Prophet, Sallallāhu 'alayhi wa-sallam, would not have instructed the Muslims to insert both wings inside the vessel, and would have ordered the food affected by the fly falling into it to be safeguarded from its "impurity".
This hadīth thus establishes the root position applicable to every animal from which no blood flows";
and to b) his, Sallallāhu 'alayhi wa-sallam, further statement: "Two dead things have been made lawful to me: Fish and locusts."
Al-Qarāfī accordingly records his astonishment regarding the said sweeping generalization that one encounters in Ibn Shās' book, despite the firmly embedded permissibility of locusts, and despite what is found on this issue in the "mother-book" of the school, Al-Mudawwanah, namely: "There is no objection to eating the locust and the daman (= a small herbivorous mammal)".
Al-Qarāfi, therefore, is rightly critical of the rigid position enounced by Ibn Bashīr, echoed by Ibn Shās, and approvingly adopted by subsequent scholars in the madhhab.
In Al-Ishrāf 'alā Nukat Masā'il al-Khilāf, Judge 'Abdu'l-Wahhāb al-Baghdādī maintained that locusts could only be eaten in the madhhab if they died as a result of a supervening cause, as opposed to natural death, whereas both Imam Abu Hanīfah and Imam ash-Shāfi`i contended that they could be eaten regardless, their joint view being endorsed among the Mālikiyyah by the Egyptian jurist-cum-historian Muhammad b. 'Abdi'l-Hakam (d. 214 AH), who penned Al-Mukhtasar al-Kabīr, a book wherein he abridged what he orally received from Ashhab. Judge 'Abdu'l-Wahhāb identified the effective cause ('illah) of the Māliki rule as set out by him with the fact that the locust was a land animal, and was thus in need of being slaughtered like the rest of land-based animals.
In the course of his brilliantly luscious work Al-Fiqh al-Mālikī wa-Adillatuh – Vol. 3, al-Habīb b. Tāhir, a student of the late Tunisian jurist Muhammad al-Akhwah, who was a close friend and contemporary of my late shaykh Muhammad ash-Shādhili an-Nayfar (both of them having graduated from Zaytūnah Mosque where they had studied the true Dīn according to the classical method), mentioned the permissibility of eating insects, and grounded it on the following proofs:
1. The general import of āyah 145 of Sūrah al-An`ām, 146 according to the Warsh riwāyah: «Say: 'I do not find, in what has been revealed to me, any food it is harām to eat, except for carrion, flowing blood, and pork – for that is unclean – or some deviance consecrated to other than Allah'». Insects, in fact, fall within the generality of animals that have not been excluded from permissible eating by this Qur'ānic āyah. Cf. Al-Bāji's Al-Muntaqā, Al-Ishrāf 'alā Nukat Masā'il al-Khilāf, and Sharh 'Ibn 'Abdis-Salām, being a commentary by the said Tunisian savant on the juristic abridgment penned by the Egyptian scholar Ibn al-Hājib, his so-called "mukhtasar fiqhī or far`ī" (To distinguish it from his abridgment of the science of the root-principles of jurisprudence, i.e. his "mukhtasar usūlī", called Muntahā al-Wusūl wa al-Amal fi 'Ilmay al-Usūl wa al-Jadal) bearing the title Jāmi al-Ummahāt;
2. The aforesaid "source-hadīth" on the fly which has been transmitted on the authority of Abū Hurayrah and reported by al-Bukhārī in his Sahīh, chapter on what happens if a fly falls into a vessel. It is in fact the flowing of blood that makes one deem certain species of animals filthily unclean;
3. Contrary to what asserted by Imam ash-Shāfi`ī, insects are not subsumable under the category of foul things (al-khabā'ith) which are proscribed in the sharī`ah by His statement, Exalted is He, «Making bad things (al-khabā'ith) harām for them» [Sūrah al-A`rāf: 157], since the generic word "khabath" (the singular of the said Qur'ānic word) has occurred in the Noble Qur'ān with a multiplicity of different meanings, whence the juristic ambiguity assigned to such a term. Ambiguity entails a range of possible diverse interpretations. In terms of the arch-principles of the science of jurisprudential analysis, probative support is removed from an evidentiary element which is open to such varied legitimate interpretations. Cf. Adh-Dhakhīrah by al-Qarāfī;
4. They are treated analogically to vipers, which can be eaten on condition that they are slaughtered by shaving off their skins. Cf. Al-Muntaqā.
Dr. Al-Gharyānī from Libya further mentions the following two corroborating narrations:
I – Mulqām b. ath-Thalb narrated from his father that he said: I kept the company of the Prophet, Sallallāhu 'alayhi wa-sallam, and I heard no prohibition of eating insects living on land from him;
II – He, Sallallāhu 'alayhi wa-sallam, said: "Whatever Allah declared lawful in His Book is indeed halāl; whatever He forbade in it is verily harām; and what He did not mention is something you are excused for. Accept from Allah, then, His concessionary exemption" (Cf. Mukhtasar Musnad al-Bazzār). The latter saying is traceable to the first efficient cause referred to by al-Habīb b. Tāhir.
By analogical deduction, the "slaughtering" of insects takes place through the type of death which locusts are subjected to (= throwing them into boiling water, burning them to death or striking them to death with stones), since the effective cause or 'illah is the same, i.e. the fact that they are "bloodless" in the sense that blood does not flow if somehow slaughtered by the throat. Cf. Ahmad ad-Dardīr's Aqrab al-Masālik ilā Madhhab al-Imām Mālik.
Examples of such insects one is enabled to eat in the fiqh are: Scorpions, scarabs or dung beetles, grasshoppers, earthworms, ants, flies, worms, woodworms and ordinary vermiform creatures.
If ordinary worms and their like die in the food, and the part thereof which is affected by them can be separated from the rest, it has to be obligatorily thrown away, and is not partaken of with the rest of the food, since such varieties of worms have not been slaughtered. The remainder of the food is not dumped, given that the worms are ritually pure, and their said natural death is likewise not ritually impure.
With regard to the different scenario when they do not meet their death inside the food, it is permissible to eat them so long as one intends their slaughtering in his mind, though factually incapable of being carried out, and recites Allah's name on them, Exalted is He, as a compulsory requirement for rendering them lawful, subject to the proviso that one must be able to do so.
The "locus" of the permissibility of partaking of insects is one's natural predisposition to eat them. If such disposition is lacking, eating them is disallowed since harm would accrue to their consumer due to his detestation of them. The juristic position, in that instance, would be identical to the one where a ritually pure and neutrally permissible nutriment is offered to a sick person who would suffer illness were he to partake of it. Such sick person would be legally interdicted from eating it in such case. In the country I was born in, the Yemen, grasshoppers are regarded as delicacies and as common food, so there is a favorable inclination towards their consumption, in the same way as in European nations, such as Italy, certain varieties of cheeses which lay bare live worms growing inside them when they are cut with a knife, are deemed by the local inhabitants and by plentiful gourmands to be among the best spreads one could possibly eat with bread, crackers, biscuits and their like [See shortly below for their legal ruling]. Mopane worms are a typical local food of some Blacks in South Africa (Refer to the previous photo].
If worms and what is akin to them, which have died inside the food, cannot be separated from the rest of such food, being inextricably commixed with it, the whole food has to be thrown away, since the dead worms that are present in it in such a guise cannot be legitimately consumed (given that they are incapable of being "conceptually" or "constructively" slaughtered), notwithstanding their ritual purity. In order to avoid wastefulness, such food can be hurled to a cat, dog or other animal. This ruling only applies where the undifferentiated worms are not substantially less in size than the food. In the opposite scenario where the share of the food is so preponderant as to reach two-thirds or more of the amorphous mass (and thus the undifferentiated worms are one-third of it or less), it is said that it can be eaten due to the negligible amount of impermissible worms in it, the overarching principle being that negligible impurity is discounted and thus paid no heed to.
Worms and woodworms, whether small or large in quantity, can be lawfully eaten along with fruit, seeds, dried dates and cheeses, whenever they are generated from such nutriments themselves, regardless of the fact that they die therein or not, and irrespective of the possibility of distinguishing them from the rest of the food or otherwise. The only conditional requisite is to intend their "slaughtering". Cf. Az-Zurqānī's commentary on Khalīl's Mukhtasar.
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J&K Govt signs MoU with Century Financial for $100 million investment in Jammu & Kashmir
Investment will cover 3 hotels and one commercial cum residential complex in Jammu & Kashmir.We are happy to see the interest shown by UAE's big business houses and leaders in supporting this vision of our Hon'ble Prime Minister: LG
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By Bold News Online Desk	 Last updated Jan 9, 2022
DUBAI, JANUARY 07: In its ongoing efforts to strengthen the Hospitality & Tourism Industry in Jammu Kashmir Union Territory, the J&K government today signed an MoU with UAE's pioneering financial services company, Century Financial that will invest $100 million in the Union Territory. The MoU was signed in a special event presided by the Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha.
Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi is committed to the development of the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir: LG
The investment will cover 3 hotels and one commercial cum residential complex in Jammu & Kashmir. The owner of Century Financial Sh. Bal Krishen is originally a native of the Doda district of Jammu and has been a forerunner in supporting his home region.
The MoU was signed by Principal Secretary, Industries, J&K, Sh. Ranjan Prakash Thakur and Sh. Bal Krishen, Owner of Century Financial in the presence of Sh. Aman Puri, Consul General of India in Dubai and several distinguished UAE-based business owners, investors, and entrepreneurs.
Speaking on the occasion, Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha said "Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi is committed to the development of the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir. We are happy to see the interest shown by UAE's big business houses and leaders in supporting this vision of our honorable Prime Minister. Global business & industry are waking up to the vistas of opportunity in J&K."
"Despite challenges of global pandemic, neither the pace of economic and policy reforms nor the implementation of key infrastructure projects has slowed in any way in UT and we as responsive administration will continue to respond to business's concerns", said the Lt Governor.
Lieutenant Governor further congratulated Sh. Bal Krishen for his commitment and passion to support his home region and thanked him for this grand gesture.
Sh. Ranjan Thakur, Principal Secretary, Industries and Commerce J&K, stated "Jammu & Kashmir is one of the safest places in India to do business offering the most attractive incentive schemes for investments in the union territory compared to other states in the country."
"I have always believed that Jammu & Kashmir has tremendous investment potential and there cannot be a better time than now. Making a significant contribution to my home region has always been my dream and today as I see this dream getting realized, it's immensely gratifying" said Century Financial's owner, Bal Krishen.
The event was held at The Oberoi Dubai, Business Bay.
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NEWS: "It'll be Short and Sweet" Says Cook Ahead of Narvaez 22nd June Showdown – LIVE ON FITE.TV
June 20, 2019134
This coming Saturday Ben 'The Claxican' Cook steps into the ring at the Prince's Theatre in Clacton-on-Sea, where he's set to go toe-to-toe with Nicaraguan Pedro Narvaez, on the undercard of the Nathan Decastro versus Tommy Jacobs World Boxing Union (WBU) and World Boxing Foundation (WBF) Super Middleweight World Championship contest, which will be broadcast live on FITE.TV.
Back in November Cook made his professional debut at the Prince's Theatre, against fellow debuting Chris Wong from Belfast and is clearly pleased that he will be fighting in his home town again on Saturday, as he said:
"Saturday can't come quick enough for me. I'll be fighting in my home town and it'll be on TV, it doesn't get much better than that.
"I don't mess around in my fights anyway, I always go to war.
"But this one I've had his manager in my ear continuously, so this is going to be a war like no other.
"I'm relentless in my attack, I'll be showing him why I have the nickname 'The Claxican".
"It'll be short and sweet, He'll be very lucky to make the final bell.
"No hard feelings Pablo, it's just business"
Ben 'The Claxican' Cook vs Pablo Narvaez is on the undercard of the Nathan Decastro versus Tommy Jacobs for the World Boxing Union (WBU) and World Boxing Foundation (WBF) Super Middleweight World Championship Unification that headlines the event at the Prince's Theatre, Town Hall, Station Road,, Clacton-on-Sea CO15 1SE on Saturday 22nd June 2019,
In addition to the two Championship contests there are further International non-championship bouts and all contests will be broadcast live on FITE.TV, the full fight card is:
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Tackie Annan Vs Ben Ankrah
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Rob Elden Vs Ronny McField
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First fight live on FITE.TV 7:30pm (GMT) – 2:30pm (EST) – 11:30am (PST)
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Nathan Decastro versus Tommy Jacobs for the World Boxing Union (WBU) and World Boxing Foundation (WBF) Super Middleweight World Championship Unification headlines at the Prince's Theatre, Town Hall, Station Road,, Clacton-on-Sea CO15 1SE on Saturday 22nd June 2019.
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Mr Lee Kwan Yew: A Modern Day Hero
I am writing a children's book about TRAILBLAZERS – people who have forged ahead, been innovative, determined and achieved their goals. I find that children are desperate to hear such stories and sadly starved of them!
I have tried to focus very much on people children can identify with to help inspire them to "reach for the stars" themselves.
There are stories of kindness, cussed determination, a boy with learning difficulties who was determined to read, a woman who never goes anywhere without cat-food in her handbag and much more. Collecting these stories has uplifted and inspired me and I cannot wait to share them with children!
Yesterday, when hearing the sad news of the passing of
Mr Lee Kuan Yew, I found myself pondering his story. What a modern-day hero! This man showed incredible bravery during his life, determination with his studies, such reverence for education, absolute love of country and amazing planning and organisational skills in order to forge the prosperous and peaceful Island state of Singapore. What a story!
His story needs to be studied by children and not just by Singaporean kids!
He was the leader we all joked about in the West with the threats of haircuts for long haired young men, passing through Singapore on their ways to the hippie trails of the India and the Middle East.
We had no idea what he was really doing. He couldn't have cared less about our opinions! He just wanted the best for his people and he got it. That singleness of purpose is a unique characteristic that is hard to achieve but that plus his high values makes Lee Kuan Yew such an inspirational figure.
Yes – I know there are detractors who point out his faults but at the end of his days he died a HERO– a man who held steadfast to his vision. A giant of a man!
RIP Mr Lee Kuan Yew- we have all learned so much from you. Let's make sure your values and achievements are shared with children all over the world- these kids NEED and HUNGER for heroes in this sadly pessimistic, rather dark world we dwell in! You were the ultimate TRAIL BLAZER!


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Politically charged rapcore stalwarts Stray From the Path have always drawn strong comparisons to their heroes in Rage Against the Machine, but the Long Island, New York, band's latest single brings to mind a different pioneering alt-metal act: Deftones. Titled "Bread & Roses," the alternately savage and soaring song appears on Stray's forthcoming new album, Euthanasia, and features a guest spot from Stick to Your Guns vocalist-guitarist Jesse Barnett. Check it out above via YouTube.
"If you know Stray, you know that since we first met in 2008 and throughout our whole career, Jesse Barnett is family," Stray From the Path guitarist Tom Williams commented. "He's a person that walks the walk and someone that everybody should look up to as an example of direct action to help people in need. We had this idea for the song and there aren't many people that are qualified for it more than him.
"In addition to his voice being the perfect fit for the vibe, we wanted to do something that helps boost his efforts and supports his mutual aid projects in the Los Angeles community. We did a special All Power Books vinyl variant of our new album, where all of the profit from these sales go directly to people in need.
"A lot of time, it is hard to feel confident where your money goes, but we've seen directly where this money goes with our own eyes, and you can also see by following them at @allpowerbooks and @apfreeclinic."
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Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc. Obtains Regulatory Approval to Acquire Narragansett Bay Insurance Company and Sets Closing Date for Acquisition
CLEARWATER, Fla., Nov. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:HRTG) ("Heritage" or the "Company"), a property and casualty insurance holding company, today announced that it has secured regulatory approval from the Insurance Division of the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation to proceed with its acquisition of NBIC Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Narragansett Bay Insurance Company ("NBIC"). Heritage has set the closing date for the transaction as of the close of business on November 30, 2017. The combined entity will be a leading super regional personal lines carrier, with a presence in 12 states and over $900 million of gross premiums written. The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to earnings per share and return on average equity.
Bruce Lucas, the Company's Chairman and CEO, said, "I am very excited to close the acquisition of NBIC. The acquisition represents a significant step forward for Heritage as we continue to diversify our top line growth and geographic diversification. Upon closing, Heritage will have over $900 million in gross written premiums spread across twelve states. This is a major milestone in our evolution from a Florida insurer to a super regional insurer with approximately two-thirds of our total insured value outside of Florida. NBIC is a seasoned company with a strong track record and talented management team, and will be a important asset for the Company as we continue our growth. We look forward to working with NBIC's employees and agents as we continue to continue to build a best in class super regional insurer."
Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc. is a property and casualty insurance holding company headquartered in Clearwater, Florida. Its subsidiaries, Heritage Property & Casualty Insurance Company and Zephyr Insurance Company, write personal and commercial residential premium through a large network of experienced agents in Florida, Hawaii, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc. is led by a seasoned senior management team with an average of 30 years of insurance industry experience.
About Narragansett Bay Insurance Company
Narragansett Bay Insurance Company is a property and casualty insurance carrier headquartered in Pawtuckett, Rhode Island. NBIC writes personal residential premium through a large network of experienced agents in Rhode Island, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey.
Statements in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those discussed herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, words such as "may," "will," "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "could," "would," "estimate," "or "continue" or the other negative variations thereof or comparable terminology are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements about the proposed acquisition by Heritage, the expected closing date of the acquisition, the potential benefits of the proposed acquisition, and the anticipated synergies from the acquisition, relate to Heritage's current expectations, beliefs, projections and similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts and are not guarantees of future performance. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ from those expressed or implied herein include, without limitation: the success of the Company's marketing initiatives; inflation and other changes in economic conditions (including changes in interest rates and financial markets); the impact of new federal and state regulations that affect the property and casualty insurance market; the costs of reinsurance and the collectability of reinsurance; assessments charged by various governmental agencies; pricing competition and other initiatives by competitors; our ability to obtain regulatory approval for requested rate changes, and the timing thereof; legislative and regulatory developments; the outcome of litigation pending against us, including the terms of any settlements; risks related to the nature of our business; dependence on investment income and the composition of our investment portfolio; the adequacy of our liability for losses and loss adjustment expense; our ability to build and maintain relationships with insurance agents; claims experience; ratings by industry services; catastrophe losses; reliance on key personnel; weather conditions (including the severity and frequency of storms, hurricanes, tornadoes and hail); changes in loss trends; acts of war and terrorist activities; court decisions and trends in litigation; and other matters described from time to time by us in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2017. The Company undertakes no obligations to update, change or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, additional or subsequent developments or otherwise.
Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc.
Steve Martindale, CFO
smartindale@heritagepci.com
Joseph Peiso, Investor Relations Director
jpeiso@heritagepci.com
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Q: Java : Removing First three characters from a String I am getting a String value as
String A = KS!BACJ
String B = KS!KLO
String C = KS!MHJU
String D = KS!GHHHY

Is it possible to remove the KS! from the String so that it only looks like  BACJ
public class Main {
    public static void main(String args[])  {
     String A = "KS!BACJ";
     if(A.startsWith("KS!"))
     {
     }
    }
}

A: Try String a = A.substring(3);

A: You can create a new string by using String#substring(int idx).
In your case it is yourString.substring(3), which will return a string without the first three characters, e.g.:
String newString = yourString.substring(3);

Note: We cannot "Remove First three characters from a String" (not easily at least) because String is immutable - but we can create a new string without the first 3 characters.

Bonus:
To "Remove the first characters from a String" - you are going to need to work hard and use reflection.
This is not advised to ever be used, here for educational purposes alone!
String A = "KS!BACJ";
Field offset = A.getClass().getDeclaredField("offset");
offset.setAccessible(true);
offset.set(A, (Integer)offset.get(A) + 3);
Field count = A.getClass().getDeclaredField("count");
count.setAccessible(true);
count.set(A, A.length()-3);
System.out.println(A);

A: Try this.
String.substring(String.indexOf("!")+1 , String.length());

A: With Apache commmons-lang StringUtils:
String aString = "KS!BACJ";
String bString = StringUtils.removeStart("KS!");

A: Use StringBuilder instead. It does not make a new String object. It just deletes the first 3 letters or more from the given string.
String st = "HELLO";
StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder(st);
str.delete(0, 3);
Log.d("str", str.toString());

Output:

LO

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Starting air compressors are only a small part of a new ship, but one that is all the more important during operation. For this reason, it is necessary that their most recent specifications are already available to shipyards when ordering. Otherwise, operators may face some disadvantages: inadequate operation, high maintenance costs, low machine availability and many more.
The Sauer "Marine model" is there to prevent this! After carrying out a joint analysis with our customers, we developed this new series whose standard model contains everything required by classification societies and everything needed to ensure reliable, efficient operation. This enabled us to cover about 90 % of all special requirements, and further option packages can be selected – many of which are even free of charge.
By the way: An "extra" that will be included as part of the standard model is the future IE2 motor that Sauer is currently developing for shipping.
Many can probably relate wholeheartedly to this recent comment made by a well-known ship owner. Saving on energy on board is still an important issue.
While starting air compressors may not be at the forefront as energy guzzlers, savings can still be made here too. For this reason, Sauer is working on introducing high efficiency IE2-standard electric motors – as the standard drive for shipbuilding compressors from the Marine series!
Existing IE2 motors are unsuitable: According to the standard IEC 60034-30:2008, they are specified neither for operation above an ambient temperature of 40° C, nor for the typical on-board supply voltage of 440 V. Together with our certified motor suppliers, we are going to close this gap. And this beyond statutory provision, for even the most recent "Eco- Directive" 2009/125/EC excludes ships.


Melbourne has fantastic access to an abundance of local, seasonal fruit ripe for the picking throughout spring. The humble strawberry is grown all across Victoria most of the year, with an estimate of over 100 active farms spanning across the state.
Like many berries, strawberries are considered a superfood. In addition to antioxidants, they also contain nutrients such as fibre, vitamin C, potassium, magnesium and more. The sweet, juicy flesh is often a favourite for desserts and also works well in a range of savoury dishes.
Rather than sticking to the same old recipes time and time again, we thought we'd share four unique ways to use this wonderfully versatile fruit as it hits its seasonal peak.
This fresh, tangy salad is right at home on all spring menus. The sweetness of the strawberries are superbly complemented by the sharpness of the blue cheese and slight bitterness of the walnuts.
Combine the baby spinach, walnuts and strawberries in a mixing bowl.
Crumble the blue cheese and mint on top, along with the goat's cheese if you're using it.
Whisk together dressing ingredients, or place in a jar with a secure lid and shake to emulsify. Drizzle over your salad ingredients immediately before serving.
This flavour combination may surprise you, but the spice of the chilli works exceptionally well with the sugary strawbs. When you have a swag of strawberries to use in a short time, this is a great recipe to ensure none of your precious bounty goes to waste.
Puree half of your strawberries in a food processor. Roughly chop remaining half. This gives the jam a heartier texture.
Combine strawberries, lemon juice and zest, chilli and the salt. Following that, stir in the fruit pectin. Bring to the boil over high heat, stirring as you go. Reduce heat slightly.
Stir through the sugar, then return to the boil, stirring for one minute. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
Turn off the heat and skim any foam off the top.
Chocolate-coated strawberries are an easy, popular dessert treat. We've changed things up a bit using Japanese green tea matcha for both its eye-catching colour and unique flavour.
Place white chocolate buttons in a heatproof dish that will fit nicely over your saucepan. Bring water in a saucepan to a simmer, before placing the heatproof dish on top. Stir occasionally until the chocolate is glossy and melted.
Stir through matcha powder. This should create an even, pale green colour through the mixture.
Arrange a sheet of baking paper on a tray. Dip your strawberries in chocolate, then place on the lined tray making sure strawberries aren't touching. Sprinkle immediately with black sesame seeds and pop in the freezer for a few minutes until chocolate is set.
When most people think strawberry on pizza, the first thing that comes to mind is some kind of dessert. Well, have we got news for you. This savoury pizza is light on ingredients but maximum on deliciousness. For a sweeter variation, sub basil for pineapple sage leaves. You can make your own pizza base or use store bought; just make sure it's thin and crispy.
Preheat your oven to 220C, then place your pizza base in it for 3-5 minutes.
Drizzle the olive oil over the base, using the back of a spoon to spread evenly.
Distribute strawberry slices. Top with lemon juice, crumbled goats cheese and pieces of torn mozzarella. Season well with salt and pepper.
Place the pizza in the oven for 10 minutes until the buffalo mozzarella is melted and golden.
Remove pizza from the over, sprinkle over the fresh basil leaves and serve.


You would have seen some people with dark circle under their eyes. Those people will always be with less energy and you will find that these people have pre occupied minds. It is because they will have mental depression as they loose their beauty because of those dark circles. This is a common problem most people are facing and they try many different things to get it solved. But whatever you do you will find it difficult to get rid of dark circles.
Dark circles appear under the eyes for various reasons. The one common reason is the lack of sleep. People who don't sleep for atleast 7 hours a day will develop dark circles. They will be then advised to sleep well and the dark circles will gradually disappear. For some people dark circles appear because of some allergy. When their allergic season is over their face will turn bright. For others it may be due to insufficient nutrients in their diet. These people should start taking balanced diet to get rid of dark circles.
Avoid the chances of dark circles.
One effective way to prevent dark circles from appearing is to drink plenty of water daily. The skin under the eyes is very delicate and any abnormality in the body will show up in this area. You may get dark circles even because of dehydration. This dehydration is not very serious to spoil your health but it may give an alarm by forming dark circles under the eyes. Always carry a bottle of water wherever you go and drink a mouthful of water frequently.
Dark circles may appear due to exposure to sun. If you are a person who has to stay in sun for a long time, then you have to apply protective sun lotion particularly under the eyes to avoid the damage. A sun lotion with SPF 30 will be very good for effective sun blocking.
Laser surgery is now common to overcome the dark circles under the eyes. With the advancements in the medical field laser surgery is very simple and comfortable for the patient. Always consult a good doctor and ensure that he knows what he is doing. Since the skin under the eyes is delicate, a wrong laser treatment may cause serious damage to the eyes. You may also consult a dermatologist to recover from dark circles.
Chinese medication says that the area under the eyes is related to kidneys and if you have dark circles it may be a symptom of kidney problem. Chinese medicine says that the kidney is the vital organ of the body. To cure dark circles they prescribe food that balances the functioning of kidney. The dark circles will definitely affect the beauty of your face and you will definitely feel dejected with the ill look. When you get dark circles under your eyes, take it seriously and consult a doctor to identify the reason and overcome the problem to regain the beauty of your face.


The above information about Smile Cleaning Service, located at the address 79 Boston St, Somerville, MA, is accurate and has been gathered from open sources. To contact the company via phone and get all the necessary information, call (617) 623-0808.
If you wish to personally visit the office, enter the following GPS-coordinates into your car navigation system: 42.38330800, -71.09411600.
Information about the company is also available by visiting on the following categories on this website: Cleaning & Waste Management, Dry Cleaning & Laundry Services, Housecleaning Services, Industrial Cleaning Services, Janitorial Services, Garbage Dump Services, Waste Management Services, Laundry Equipment Repair & Services, Pressure Washing Services.
Near this company, there are 3 similar companies that may be of interest to you. The closest company is called Sebastian Cleaning and is located at a distance of 0.0095 miles; 0.0153 kilometers. The company farthest away is called Paivas's Cleaning and is located at a distance of 0.2480 miles; 0.3991 kilometers away.


I'm not going to let you go to the dance with Nils.
Even though Russ tried to explain it to Donald, she still couldn't understand.
Alfred decided to call for help.
That's exactly what I've been telling Shatter.
I know what got Susumu rattled.
What can you tell me about Gunnar?
Stephanie put her finger on my lips.
Are you sure Gilles didn't do it?
List didn't look very well.
Emma is one of my best friends.
I'm not looking forward to seeing Raif.
Chuck walked in and quietly closed the door behind him.
Tracey vanished into the darkness.
Oscar stayed there a long time.
I came here today to talk to Sidney.
Cindie told me that I had no choice but to do what he said I had to do.
Spass went without lunch because he didn't have enough time to eat.
Tell Noam I want my belongings returned to me immediately.
Erwin said he was afraid to go there.
Niels needs to talk to a lawyer.
Thierry grew up in Australia.
Nou is ten pounds heavier than Jack.
Do you still miss Elric?
Valeria wanted to grab a bite to eat on his way home.
Lindsay has a sister who likes to play tennis.
Josh may have an alibi.
Herbert told me he wanted to live on a secluded beach.
I don't want to hurt Rudolph again.


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The Rule of Law Collaborative was awarded a $5 million grant by the U.S. Department of State in October 2014.
Number of students sworn in by Chief U.S. District Judge Terry L. Wooten in October 2014 as inaugural members of the newly-formed USC Law chapter of the Federal Bar Association.
The University of South Carolina School of Law's national ranking for the lowest average financial indebtedness of 2013 graduates, according to U.S. News & World Report.
The University of South Carolina School of Law's national ranking for the percentage of 2012 graduates employed with state and local judicial clerkships, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Years in a row that USC Law has been named a "Best Value" law school by The National Jurist magazine.


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Erin Weir on the Nexon Takeover
Erin Weir for Saskatchewan NDP Leader
Last week, Erin Weir emerged as the only progressive voice addressing the proposed Chinese takeover of Nexen from a Saskatchewan perspective.
Weir highlighted the deal's implications for our province with the following letter to the editor in The Globe and Mail (page A10):
"Your editorial (Nexen Takeover Must Be Good For Canada – July 24) states that the resources "belong to the Crown in the right of Alberta." In fact, the company has as many wells in Saskatchewan as Alberta.
In particular, Nexen acquired the former SaskOil after this Crown corporation was privatized. The resources still belong to the people of Saskatchewan, but ownership of the production assets has drifted from the provincial government to a foreign government – perhaps not what the apostles of "privatization" intended."
- The Globe and Mail, Page A10, July 25, 2012
Erin elaborated his concerns about the proposed takeover in a blog post that day:
"Nexen extracts a substantial portion of its Canadian natural gas from Saskatchewan. It is also expanding shale-gas extraction in BC. Neither Saskatchewan nor BC would benefit from a possibly larger head office in Calgary, but both would be exposed to the risk of CNOOC underpricing their resources. Saskatchewan's government has been conspicuously silent on the proposed takeover."
The Regina Leader-Post's financial editor, Bruce Johnstone, interviewed three people about Nexen: former Wascana Energy CEO Frank Proto, former federal finance minister Ralph Goodale and United Steelworkers economist Erin Weir, "who is considering running for the leadership of the provincial NDP." Erin's interview was printed in The Leader Post (page D1) and Saskatoon StarPhoenix (page C5):
"Regina-based economist Erin Weir says the proposed $15 billion US takeover of Nexen Inc. by Chinese state-owned oil company, China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), would have winners and losers, with Saskatchewan one of the latter."
- "USW's Weir says deal bad for Sask", Regina Leader Post, July 26, 2012
That evening, Erin discussed the Chinese bid, the Northern Gateway Pipeline and provincial resource royalties on CBC's The Lang & O'Leary Exchange:
Erin's work was also featured in some progressive Saskatchewan blogs including Greg Fingas' Accidental Deliberations and John Warnock in The Bullet:
"And Erin Weir notes that whatever benefit Alberta may receive from a head-office promise, Saskatchewan looks to do nothing but lose out if the sale is approved."
- Accidental Deliberations Blog
"Erin Weir, a [former] economist with the Steelworkers, has reminded us that the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Corporation (Sask Oil), once a Crown corporation, was privatized beginning with Grant Devine's Conservative government, became Wascana Energy, and then was taken over by Occidental Oil corporation, which then became Nexen. So much of Nexen's land holdings and oil and gas wells in Saskatchewan will now end up as Chinese assets."
- The Bullet, No. 672
The Saskatchewan NDP needs a leader who can speak to major economic and business developments confronting our province as they happen. Erin has proven himself to be a timely, credible and progressive defender of Saskatchewan's economic interests.
Labels: CCF/NDP, Saskatchewan Resources


This portion of the guide will feature many tutorials to get you used to the game, so bear with us. Fortunately most of the stuff remains the same as in FFXIII, so we won't have a tough job.
Enter Serah, one of the main protagonists and you'll get to control her. Serah has even less monies than Light did in FFXIII. Zero gil to start the game with is not fun at all. At least she has 3x Potion.
Choose the appropriate camera setting for yourself.
By advancing the storyline or meeting special requirements you will obtain entries into your DATALOG .
Check the door and answer the Live Trigger: (Dreams of strange worlds; clothes appearing from nowhere. What's going on?). Jump over obstacles by pressing Circle and head outside for another Live Trigger: (Where's the village? Everything out here is completely different. What is this place?), then slip into the event battle at the Town Square.
Both Serah's and Noel's starting roles are Commando, Ravager and Sentinel. Your prearranged paradigms are: COM/COM, RAV/COM, COM/SEN, SEN/SEN. The enemies you face are no threat so destroy them with extreme prejudice!
In the main menu new entries have been added: Equipment, Status and Bestiary.
There is a big commotion on the beach, so run into the few enemies roaming around to trigger the next lot of fights.
Once you clear the beach completely, there will be some scenes. Afterwards follow Noel to the north] and talk to him for a Live Trigger: (This strange young man says he met with Lightning in Valhalla. I need to find out more.).
When in a pinch, items can save the day. Items can be used instantly, and using items does not affect the ATB in any way. Some items are used on all party members, and some can be used only on one.
Choosing Item command will bring up a list of available battle items. Choose the one you need at the moment and then select who you want to use it on. The AI can assist you by automatically putting the cursor on the one that needs it the most.
Go up the wooden railing, jump up the stone and proceed north to Winding Way. Open the treasure sphere for 3x Potion , then talk to Noel for a Live Trigger: (Noel is staring at Cocoon like he's seeing it for the first time. What to say?). Follow him further north, and at this time Mog's bobble will light up and he'll point to a certain treasure sphere. Open it for the Map of New Bodhum .


Great spot tucked under Mesa Verde's Point on 4 acres. Cute updated 3 bedroom, 2 bath manufactured home on permanent foundation. Nice open layout with sunny kitchen that has views to the La Plata mountains plus a separate dining room. Living room is nice sized with views of Mesa Verde. Master bath is being upgraded to tile flooring. Laundry Room with tub sink. Front Deck is perfect for morning sun and afternoon shade. Detached 2 car garage plus storage shed.


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Q: How do I get it to select a single row based on the value? I'm working on simplifying an excel worksheet and I want information in the rows to be transferred based on the value. If the value = "done", I want it transferred to Carc. If the value = "On-going", I want it transferred to Ccon (haven't typed this up yet). This have been written-up in VBA but I'm open to trying other things if it would make things easier.
Main thing is that I'm trying to find a way to make the code already made, simpler and more practical. Only thing I haven't figured out is how to have it select 1 individual row, instead of all rows.
Sub MoveBasedOnValue2()

Dim TakeCell As Range
Dim DestCell As Range

Dim Status As Range
Dim Cjob As Worksheet
Dim CArc As Worksheet

Dim Contact As Range, Subject As Range, JobNo As Range, QuoteNo As Range
Dim Dateofcommision As Range, Ddate As Range

Set Cjob = Sheet4
Set CArc = Sheet1

If Cjob.Range("G2") = "Done" Then

Set Contact = Cjob.Range("A2")
Set Subject = Cjob.Range("B2")
Set QuoteNo = Cjob.Range("C2")
Set JobNo = Cjob.Range("D2")
Set Dateofcommision = Cjob.Range("E2")
Set Ddate = Cjob.Range("F2")

Status.Select
Contact.Select
Subject.Select
QuoteNo.Select
JobNo.Select
Dateofcommision.Select
Ddate.Select

If CArc.Range("A2") = "" Then
    Set DestCell = CArc.Range("A2")
Else
    Set DestCell = CArc.Range("A1").End(xlDown).Offset(1, 0)
End If

Contact.Copy DestCell
Subject.Copy DestCell.Offset(0, 1)
QuoteNo.Copy DestCell.Offset(0, 2)
JobNo.Copy DestCell.Offset(0, 3)
Dateofcommision.Copy DestCell.Offset(0, 4)
Ddate.Copy DestCell.Offset(0, 5)

Status.ClearContents
Contact.ClearContents
Subject.ClearContents
QuoteNo.ClearContents
JobNo.ClearContents
Dateofcommision.ClearContents
Ddate.ClearContents
End If

A: You can do something like this:
Sub MoveBasedOnValue2()

    Dim cStatus As Range, wsDest As Worksheet

    Set cStatus = Sheet4.Range("G2") 'first cell to check status

    Do While Len(cStatus.Value) > 0
        Select Case LCase(cStatus.Value)
            Case "done": Set wsDest = Sheet1
            Case "on-going": Set wsDest = Sheet2 'for example
            Case Else: Set wsDest = Nothing      'no move to make
        End Select

        If Not wsDest Is Nothing Then 'got a destination sheet?
            'here Range("A1:F2") is *relative* to the whole row...
            cStatus.EntireRow.Range("A1:F2").Cut _
               Destination:=wsDest.Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Offset(1)
        End If

        Set cStatus = cStatus.Offset(1, 0) 'next source row
    Loop
End Sub


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Q: Flutter listview headers I want to make a listview with headers per day, like the google calendar and the google contacts. I couldn't find an example how to make something like this in a flutter view.
So I want to have a header stick on the left side such as the date for the first item with that date till the next day gets on top and then the previous day has to continue to scroll. Should I work with a MultiChildLayoutDelegate like the animation example in the gallery or can I do this with the listview in some way?
Edit: Made a package myself: https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/side_header_list_view

A: For everybody looking for a solution, I just made a library that does this:
https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/side_header_list_view
You can look for the code on github:
https://github.com/renefloor/side_header_list_view
Basically I show/hide the header part of a listitem depending on the position and added a fixed header on the top left. For now the listitems have to have a fixed height.


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Q: Can we have many coordinator nodes at one time in Cassandra? Hope this is the right place to ask!
I am trying to set up a cluster with spark, cassandra and one more external tool. So, the external tool is executed in parallel across the cluster with the help of spark(pipe command) and this tool has the ability to store straight into cassandra database(see picture below) through a simple sql Insert command. This means that in every node the results are send from the external tool of the node straight to the cassandra of the node.
My wild guess/doubt/question is that each of these nodes will act as coordinator node and will be responsible for destributing/sending the data to other nodes according to the primary/partition key at the same time. Is that right? If not...what will happen?
external_tool_to_cassandra

A: Each of the Cassandra nodes can act as a coordinator. If your tool is correctly configured to use TokenAwarePolicy, your tool should choose for each request a replica as a coordinator, avoiding a few extra network hop. If you insert in Batch, try to batch together data with the same partition key.
Note that in your diagram, you will get better performance you write directly from Spark to Cassandra. You can use the spark-cassandra-connector for that.


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An attractive, height-adjustable folding cane suitable for everyday use. The derby handle provides excellent support and the cane is fitted with a non-slip rubber ferrule. The folding cane is height adjustable between 79-89cm (31"-35").