Valeria Spring began her photography journey in the late 90's in her home town of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A year after she graduated from high school she signed up for an introductory class at a local photography school and immediately fell in love with the medium. She spent the next decade working with film, developing and printing her work in her in home darkroom.
Photography was put on hiatus for several years, until 2009, when she returned to the medium, this time, mainly in digital format. Starting over was very freeing for her, as she felt she didn't owe anything to anyone and was able to truly explore beyond the set rules she had once learned. This new freedom allowed her to create and shoot in a very different way which made her love for photography grow deeply.
Valeria moved to the U.S. in 2001 and to Seattle in 2004, where she now lives with her husband and their two daughters.


Become part of one of the fastest-growing professions in the U.S.—counseling—particularly in the areas of substance abuse, behavioral disorder, mental health, and grief counseling.
Pace University's MS in Mental Health Counseling program prepares you to take advantage of this trend and for jobs in professional settings such as mental health counseling facilities, hospitals, private practices, and intervention facilities. Our degree provides strong foundations in advanced psychology, plus specialized knowledge in groundbreaking research like resiliency and positive-approach psychotherapy. Importantly, it also prepares graduates to become licensed practitioners in mental health counseling with specialties and emphases on areas ranging from loss and grief counseling, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress and resilience, and positive psychology.
View the research interests of expert professors within the Mental Health Counseling graduate program.


designXchange is your source for your decorating needs, whether you're looking for the perfect piece to complement your existing décor or if you're ready to make a major change and need a place for new ideas. New items arrive daily from consignors, artists, and specialty vendors. We have the best quality merchandise at prices well within budget.
We have wonderful consignment items for your kitchen, dining room and your outdoor spaces. We are all about your Porch and Pantry!
Come bring a girlfriend (or two) and visit us! All consignments will be accepted at Hartland location only.
We are designXchange Porch and Pantry!
A new look and new concept. Come visit us, just a short block from the Pewaukee beach. All consignments will be accepted at Hartland location only.
Consignment accepted from 10 a.m.—5 p.m. Mon-Thu ONLY. No consignment accepted on Fri & Sat.
Please email photos of items larger than a side table for approval .
Limit of 20 items per day.


The Northern Territory Government's 'Welcome to the Territory' incentives will boost the Territory's population and create more jobs.
The 'Welcome to the Territory' incentives are part of the Northern Territory Population Growth Strategy 2018 – 2028, which aims to create 21 000 jobs and boost the Territory's economy by $10 billion over the next ten years, by returning the population growth rate to historical averages.
The New Territorian Bonus, paid upon arrival in the Territory, will assist with costs associated with relocation and transition to the Territory.
The Local Spending Benefit will be paid in instalments to be spent here in the Territory on lifestyle experiences including our great cafés and restaurants, tourism adventures or assist with the cost of living, including child care payments or vehicle registration and licensing.
To encourage long term retention, a 5 Year Retention Bonus is available after 5 years' continuous residency in the Northern Territory. The money must be spent locally for purposes that benefit a long-term resident such as garden supplies, repairs and maintenance, white goods or other eligible products/ services etc.
The targeted incentives will apply to women aged between 20 and 39 years and people aged between 55 and 65 years who apply for jobs on the High Priority Occupations list.
To be eligible, applicants must secure a job in the Territory for a minimum of 12 months and not have lived in the Territory during the two years preceding the date of application. Jobs with the Northern Territory Public Sector and self-employed and entrepreneurs starting a new business are not eligible for the program.
The Territory is home to people from across Australia and the world. We welcome anyone looking for new opportunities and a vibrant community to call home.
Full program details will be released on 1 October 2018, with applications opening from 1 November 2018.


A new report by the Northeast Group has determined that South America's smart meter market will reach 104.5 million meters and $25.1 billion by 2020. The study, Smart Grid Market Forecast (2011-2020), projects other smart grid technologies including distribution automation will also grow quickly. Brazil is poised to be first to initiate large-scale deployments, followed by Chile and Argentina.
The largest country in South America is preparing to becoming the "smartest" as well. General Electric (GE), Trilliant and AES Eletropaulo are collaborating in a smart grid research and development project that will ultimately bring the benefits of smart meters to Sao Paulo. The end goal is to use Sao Paulo as the foundation for establishing a more reliable and efficient energy infrastructure throughout the entire county.


Canada - Please allow up to 5 working days before querying your parcel. To track your order please email us- hello@darlingspaces.com - with your name, contact number and invoice number.
United States - Although most arrive quicker, please allow up to 10 working days before querying your parcel. To track your order please email us – hello@darlingspaces.com - with your name, contact number and invoice number.
Shipping in the US is a standard 20$. Additional expenses, such as custom duties, are the responsibility of the buyer.
Standard rate of 20$ applies for Shipping to the United States. Additional expenses such as duties are the responsibility of the buyer.
If your order is bulky there may be extra shipping charges; we will notify you if this is the case, and you will be given the option to cancel.
Free, priority and standard shipping options do not include insurance coverage.
Once an order is submitted and shipped we are unable to change or cancel the order.
From time to time Darling Spaces has special offers that can be applied to your order by using a promotional code that we provide to you. In order to take advantage of these promotions, you must enter the promotional code in the space provided on the Voucher Code page . The value of the promotion will be applied to your order automatically. Please note only one promotional code may be used per transaction and cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotions.
Standard Canadian orders are typically processed within 24 hours pending availability and credit card verification. Once processed the delivery time will vary depending on your location. The average delivery time is 5 business days.
Products shipped internationally are typically processed within 24 hours pending availability and credit card verification. Once processed your orders should typically be delivered with 7-10 business days. Please note international orders may attract customs duties and taxes. As the recipient, you are liable for all import duties, customs and local sales taxes levied by the country you are shipping to. As we are unable to advise the amount this may be, please check with your local customs authority prior to placing an order.
We cannot accept responsibility for delays in delivery due to unforeseen circumstances (ex: Strikes, floods etc).


CORONATION Street's Dev Alahan was blasted by viewers after he callously dumped Gina Seddon.
Soap fans were left fuming at Coronation Street's Dev Alahan after he called time on his relationship with Gina Seddon.
Gina had made a real effort to dress up for Dev's golf club launch, but he barely gave her a second glance.
Confronting him, she told the corner shop owner that she believed he was embarrassed by her because of her bipolar disorder.
When Dev didn't respond, an emotional Gina told him that if he felt like that then their relationship was over.
Crossing his arms, he told her that it was indeed over and Gina stormed out in tears.
Over on social media, fans were absolutely gunning for Dev.
"No Dev no don't be a d*****e she's made such an effort," fumed one.
"Dev is such a d***, have a word with yourself," scolded a second.
"Dev is dumping Gina just because of an illness that she can't control like that is the lowest of the low," remarked a third.
Gina may not be single for long by the look of things, however.
Could she get caught up in an affair with sister's Sally's hubby Tim Metcalfe when he offers her a place to stay following her split from Dev?


Size of this preview: 800 × 496 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 198 pixels | 900 × 558 pixels.
Subscribe to our newsletter and receive updates on File:Shane-monopoli-1955-buick.jpg and other subjects featured on Kustomrama.
If you have additional information, photos, feedback or corrections about File:Shane-monopoli-1955-buick.jpg, please get in touch with Kustomrama at: mail@kustomrama.com.
This page was last edited on 30 August 2010, at 11:32.


With "The Escape", we want you to spend a weekend without worrying about what happens on weekdays. We want you to forget your boring weekend tragedy and ESCAPE to a place where you can enjoy the calm of nature while you listen to a live indie-band, watch movies, catch up with like-minded people, attend creative workshops or just laze around in a hammock and read a book. All of this, at just a stone's throw away from the City (clock says 30 mins).


text:
// Copyright (c) 2011-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.

#define BOOST_TEST_MODULE Bitcoin ABC unit tests

#include <util/system.h>

#include <test/util/setup_common.h>

#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>

namespace utf = boost::unit_test::framework;

/**
 * Global fixture for passing custom arguments, and clearing them all after each
 * test case.
 */
struct CustomArgumentsFixture {
    CustomArgumentsFixture() {
        auto &master_test_suite = utf::master_test_suite();

        for (int i = 1; i < master_test_suite.argc; i++) {
            std::string key(master_test_suite.argv[i]);
            std::string val;

            if (!ParseKeyValue(key, val)) {
                break;
            }

            if (key == "-testsuitename") {
                master_test_suite.p_name.value = val;
                continue;
            }

            fixture_extra_args.push_back(master_test_suite.argv[i]);
        }
    }

    ~CustomArgumentsFixture(){};
};

BOOST_TEST_GLOBAL_FIXTURE(CustomArgumentsFixture);

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
@interface MPExperimentManager : NSObject

@property (assign, nonatomic, readonly) BOOL showPrintIcon;

+ (MPExperimentManager *)sharedInstance;

- (void)updateVariationsWithDeviceID:(NSString *)deviceID;

@end


Amsterdam's Ferreck Dawn and Berlin's Robosonic have had house heads grooving and shaking all year long with their recently released collaborative track, "In Arms." It's a highly danceable tune with a stout hip-hip crossover vibe. Now Fools Gold Records co-founder and turn table extraordinaire A-Trak has given the single a bumpy, bass-bolstered bloghouse facelift.
A-Trak's remix of "In Arms" is out now on Big Beat Records.


Lucid Plane is a specialist, professional photographic service based in London. We excel at individual artwork documentation, studio and art gallery installation shots and the recording of exhibitions and art collections. Run by artist Peter Abrahams, Lucid Plane produces insightful and relevant, high-quality, digital photographic documentation of all kinds of art objects and artwork. Lucid Plane is particularly skilled in location photography, in documenting on-site artwork and interior architecture.


La Bayadère was the first work in a series of successful reconstructions of 19th century repertory which has been completed with Paquita in December 2014.
Created in 1877, La Bayadère is a mixture of an exotic tale, a thriller and a celebration of virtuosity. At its center are the two lovers: the priestess, the Bayadère, Nikija and the soldier Solor. The latter however is promised in marriage to Gamzatti, the daughter of the Radja, whilst the Great Brahman has fallen in love with his priestess Nikija. Nikija falls victim to murder by her rival and Solor dreams himself into the 'Kingdom of Shades' in order to be reunited with his love. What follows is one of the most famous, magnificent white acts in ballet history.
The Great Brahmin, his priests and the temple dancers, called Bayadères, assemble for the festivities of the Holy Fire. The last to appear is Nikiya, the noblest and holiest of the Bayadères. The Great Brahmin vows Love to her, but she refuses him. Solor, a rich and noble warrior of royal caste, is on his way to a hunt. While he sends on his friends he secretly awaits Nikiya. Solor and Nikiya confess their love. The Bayadère demands of him his vow of fidelity. The Great Brahmin who has witnessed the meeting of the lovers desperately swears revenge.
The Rajah announces to his daughter Gamzatti that her wedding with Solor, to whom she has been betrothed since childhood, will soon take place. She is enchanted by Solor, but does not understand why he behave in such a restrained way towards her. After a few dancers presented some entertainment the Great Brahmin appears to confess a secret to the Rajah. He tells him of the forbidden love between Nikiya and Solor, hoping that the Rajah might dispose of Solor. Instead, to the dismay of the Great Brahmin, the Rajah in blind fury orders Nikiya`s death. Gamzatti has overheard the conversation and sends her servant Aiya to call the Bayadère. She asks Nikiya to abandon Solor, offers her jewels as a reward. Nikiya refuses and in her despair attacks Gamzatti with a dagger. Aiya stops her, she can escape, Gamzatti swears her death.
The engagement festivities of Solor and Ganzatti. A grand procession opens the festivities during which Solor presents a tiger as bag. The Great Brahmin brings Nikiya as a temple dancer in honour of the ceremony. Nikiya is given a basket with flowers by Aiya, which she takes to be a secret sign of love by Solor. However, it is by the rajah and his daughter who had a snake hidden in it. When Nikiya continues to dance, embracing the small basket, the viper attacks her with a deadly bite. The Great Brahmin offers Nikiya an antidote if only she would accept his love. She refuses it and dies, urging Solor never to forget his vow of love.
Solar, haunted by reminiscences of Nikiya, seeks oblivion in opium. He finds himself in the Kingdom of Shades, united with Nikiya who introduces him to the world of shades and reminds him of his vow of eternal fidelity. On awakening he sees his friends and the Rajah who wants to accompany him to his wedding.
A ritual procession unites Gamzatti and Solor for their wedding ceremony. The dance of the lotus flowers with Solor`s friends and the dance of the Golden Idol are symbols of the good wishes for beauty and riches to the couple. In the ensuing dance of Solor with Gamzatti Nikiya shade takes part, visible only for Solor. Solor decides in favour of life, of Gamzatti. In the moment of the wedding oath to which the couple is summoned by the Great Brahmin there happens a earthquake. The temple falls in ruins and everybody is buried under them.
In the world hereafter we see Solor, Nikiya and Gamzatti united in the picture of eternal light.
The Bavarian State Ballet has worked on this version, together with the French choreographer Patrice Bart and the Japanese stage- and costume designer Tomio Mohri. The heart of the piece, the 'Kingdom of Shades' act, the betrothal celebration scene with it ceremonious line filing dance and some elaborate pantomime scenes can be seen in its original version.
The final act, lost in Russia since the beginning of the century, is part a new creation, part reconstruction.


Why should I hire Ace Estate Sales to handle my estate sale?
ACE Estate Sales holds itself up to the highest standards of estate sale practices. Our philosophy is that we work for our client to get them the most money possible in a 2-4 day period. We inspect all items in your home, find items of higher value, get appropriate appraisers in when needed and price items accordingly. We set up the sale quickly, handle all advertising, write receipts for each transaction, hire necessary people to work the sale. Money is paid within 10 days of the sale including copies of sales receipts/sales, and an excel spreadsheet with totals of all receipts.
What is the most important thing I can do to help get the sale ready?
First and foremost, DO NOT THROW ANYTHING AWAY!! I cannot stress this enough to my clients. Just because you do not believe it is valuable, doesn't mean it's not. People collect just about everything. I've had clients throw away or donate costume jewelry, old pictures, old Valentines cards, military items, vintage clothing, food….we sell it all…even rocks! You are throwing away money!!
Why should I hire a company…I can do it myself and save the percentage!
Yes you can, but I can't tell you the number of times I have heard of families doing their own sales and selling gold watches for $2 (gold melt would be $600 or more), fine art for $5, vases worth $10,000 for $25, etc. You think you are saving money, but you are losing money.
We also know how to advertise to get the right people there for your items. We have a following and a database of customers that we specifically advertise to.
Also beware that you must get the right company, there are many pop up companies that don't know what they are doing, they will slap any old price on items…do your homework! A lower percentage is not necessarily good…you get what you pay for.
Why can't we be there when you set up?
Believe it or not, when you are there you slow us down. It is hard to work quickly and efficiently when we are constantly asked questions, talked to, and told stories about all the items in the sale. We pay our workers by the hour and we need them to work.
Why can't we be there during the sale?
Most clients get emotional when they see strangers rummaging through their life long collections of personal items. Also, customers who are often friends/co-workers or neighbors of the clients will turn to you for better prices or to try to get items for free. Furthermore, neighbors/co-workers and friends come to chat, wish their condolences or view the house, which often causes congestion in the home which hinders the sale. For me to run the sale efficiently, and get the most money that I can for the estate, it is best if you are not at the sale.
Why don't you allow children in the sale?
There are clients that bring 4-6 kids. Children can be a distraction. If we let one in, we have to let all in. We cannot discriminate. It is best to keep this a strict rule. Unfortunately, we have caught children stealing and some have even said, "Is this the place we can steal, Mommy?" Sad isn't it. Just this week another estate sale company caught 2 children putting jewelry under their shirt and up their sleeve. We are a close-knit society and we do talk.
When can we expect to get our part of the proceeds?
I try very hard to get the money to you within the first week after the sale, but it should not take more than 10 working days to make the final payment.
Why do you add 5% for a total clean-out?
The base percentage is for the sale. Due to the amount of people having sales and getting rid of unwanted items, it is getting harder to find good people to do a total cleanout of a home. Yes, even they are getting picky. I have to buy boxes, tape, supplies, pay personnel, take trips to the dump, etc. It can take an extra 2-4 days to do a total clean-out in some instances.
I don't think I have enough items left in my house to conduct a sale, what should I do?
It is best to have ACE come and see what you have. We can always combine estates if necessary. Buyers will come to a full house before they will go to a half empty house. I usually have clients who have storage units, etc that are waiting for a house to put items in. I try to match clients with similar items for best results.


PPB Powdered Peanut Butter Chocolate contains 70% less fat than traditional peanut butter (when compared to the best selling supermarket brands). Our peanut butter is high in protein & fibre, certified gluten free, dairy free, palm oil free and vegan. There are no refined sugars and contains all natural ingredients.


Tumble Dry.. Socks: Polyester And Spandex Blend. Machine Wash. Tee: 60% Cotton, 40% Polyester..Boys (8-20) Puma Set Includes A Long Sleeve, Crew Neck Color.
Tumble dry.. Socks: Polyester and Spandex blend. Machine wash. Tee: 60% Cotton, 40% Polyester..Boys (8-20) Puma set includes a long sleeve, crew neck color block tee with.
About The Tumble dry.. Socks: Polyester and Spandex blend. Machine wash. Tee: 60% Cotton, 40% Polyester..Boys (8-20) Puma set includes a long sleeve, crew neck color block tee with.
Socks: Polyester and Spandex blend.
Boys (8-20) Puma set includes a long sleeve, crew neck color block tee with a screened First Rule of Fast design and a pair of low cut performance socks with a Puma logo.
More from Tumble Dry.. Socks: Polyester And Spandex Blend. Machine Wash. Tee: 60% Cotton, 40% Polyester..Boys (8-20) Puma Set Includes A Long Sleeve, Crew Neck Color.


text:
Q: JQuery self closing an li which has been created at runtime I have some jquery code that's adding list items at runtime:
function addlistitem() {

$('#mylist ul').append(`

    <button onclick="selfclose()">Del</button>
       Some Text Here

`);

}

And the html is:

How can I get the added list items to self close when its button is clicked?

A: Pass this to selfclose. Then use that to find the enclosing li and remove it.

function addlistitem() {

  $('#mylist ul').append(`

    <button onclick="selfclose(this)">Del</button>
       Some Text Here

`);

}

$("#add").click(addlistitem);

function selfclose(el) {
  $(el).closest("li").remove();
}

<button id="add">Add LI</button>

A: Without using the inline onclick="" which I always discourage, the jQuery could be rewritten as:

const $myList = $('#mylist ul'); // Cache your reusable static elements

const addListItem = (cont) => $('
', {
  appendTo: $myList,
  'class': 'list-group-item',
  html: typeof cont === 'string' ? cont : 'Some HTML content Here',
  prepend: $('<button/>', {
    text: '\u2715',
    title: 'Remove list item',
    click() {
      $(this).closest('li').remove()
    }
  })
});

$("#add").on('click', addListItem);

// Additional example: Create some LI on app init:
addListItem("I'm created on init");
addListItem(":) me too!");
<button id="add">INSERT NEW</button>

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


I've grown up with planned obsolescence, so that idea is nothing new to me, but scheduled obsolescence took me by surprise.
There are various types of planned obsolescence. Psychological obsolescence is common in the fashion and automotive industries. Each year, the companies create new designs to make last year's designs psychologically less appealing, though the product itself is still usable. Physical obsolescence is prevalent in other manufacturing fields, where the designers decide how long a product should last and then only use materials geared to last that long. (In a way this makes sense — if a vegetable grater, for example, goes dull after a year or two, there's no real reason to make the thing out of expensive materials that will last long after the product has outlived any usefulness.) Often, manufacturers even go so far as to use inferior materials that will make the product wear out faster and speed up replacement time.
Some people argue that planned obsolescence encourages competition and improvement while others claim it increases waste. I don't believe in waste, though I do understand the need to keep the economy going — if everyone was like me, the economy would have ground to a halt years ago. I mean, how many people out there bought a car forty-two years ago and are still driving it as their one and only source of vehicular transportation? (If you guessed the car is a Volkswagen you're correct. Back then, Volkswagen bragged about not believing in planned obsolescence, which has worked in my favor.) And then there's my poor hair dryer that died just this mornin g — it was only twenty-five years old! If you're smart (or thrifty) you can often bypass planned obsolescence by doing such things as unplugging lamps and other electrical equipment rather than using the cheaply-made and soon-to-break on/off switches. As for fashion — well, I couldn't even begin to tell you what was in fashion, either today or twenty years ago.
In some cases, planned obsolescence worked in my favor. Planned obsolescence (thank heavens for spell check! I have mistyped the word obsolescence every single time I've used it!) helps keep products cheap. When my camera died after only a couple of years (oddly, the screen burned out right after I took what turned out to be the last photo of my now deceased life mate/soul mate), it would have cost more to repair the camera than to replace it. And when that second camera died in a tragic fall shortly after purchase, I was able to get a replacement that works better than either of the others.
But I'm getting off track. As I said, I'm used to planned obsolescence, but last night I came up against scheduled obsolescence. The end of support for Windows XP made me interested in when support for Vista, my current operating system, will end. I discovered that the end had been scheduled for April 10, 2012, but that they extended it to April 10, 2017. Whew! I still have three years! By then, of course, my computer will be so outdated and so slow I will probably be glad to update my whole system. Or maybe technology will have changed out of all recognition making me want to hang on to this poor machine until its last byte. If nothing else, I could use it as a word processor, unconnected to the internet. That way any vulnerabilities won't be a problem.
Still, it does seem strange to have the exact date when my operating system is scheduled to become obsolete.
To my way of thinking the object of companies like Windows is to make money. Providing a service to customers comes secondary to that. Old product no matter how well made can only bring in so much money. New products can generate much more cash. Hence built in obsolescence is pretty good from a Windows point of view. There's the story that Windows even has problems in software they know about that will be solved when the next version comes out. These problems of course could be solved before the latest version came out but it is more profitable to solve them later. Also there's giving the general public more programming than the general public will ever use. With Vista there's a lot of stuff I have either never used or only dabbled in when I first got the computer. Yet it is there taking up memory space. Of late in Australia one phone company has been advertising that with their plan you can have a brand new mobile with all the latest bells and whistles every year. Apparently this is a reason to party every year. I need a mobile to ring people up. That's it. Neither advertisers nor Generation Y can understand this.
Thank you for confirming my belief in planned obsolescence. I told my life mate that was happening with her promotion to supervisor about 3 years ago. Today she has sent in early retirement paperwork under threat of job loss because of incompetence, not following through and other sundry terminology even though she trained many of the other operators at the job she started supervising. She is scared facing a future with only half her income. I'm just learning to live a different life and feel like no help at all.
Oh, yes — there is definitely planned obsolescence when it comes to people. If a company retires someone before their scheduled retirement date, they don't have to pay full retirement. Happens way too often.
I think of it as a way for companies to make money. Not just tech, but textbooks publishers also, since most of the time all a new edition means is the hw questions rearranged. Maybe a few words added to each section.
I hadn't even considered textbooks, but yes, putting out a new edition is another way of making money from those who can ill afford it.


The Global Amnesty Watch, GAW, has expressed shock at the murder of Hauwa Liman, an aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), by members of the Boko Haram sect.
The violent sect had after killing Liman on Monday also vowed to enslave Leah Sharibu, one of the Dapchi school girls in its custody, forever.
Tom Lever, who is in-charge of Africa Regional Office of the human right group, described Liman's killing as barbaric, unacceptable.
Lever said that such an act must be met with the harshest retribution possible to serve as a deterrent to Boko Haram and any other terror group in the world that the sacredness of human life is not to be toyed with.
According to the group, "killing another aid worker whose only crime is dedicating her life to make life better for others confirms that Boko Haram has sunken to its lowest level of weakness.
"The gruesome killing of the aid worker has confirmed that Boko Haram is a group driven by mindless wickedness and one that must be collectively dealt with by the entire world.
"We urge the Nigerian authorities to continue to tighten the noose around the terrorists until the last of those being held captive by Boko Haram is released as the desperate action on the part of the terrorists must not be allowed to slow down the operations meant to restore normalcy to the region.
"In view of the current atmosphere in Nigeria, the Global Amnesty Watch appeals to every stakeholder in the country not to exploit the grief of Hauwa's family as this will be most unkind to them at a trying time like this.
"Boko Haram must also not be encouraged to see itself as being capable of unsettling the Nigerian state through evil acts like this as they will only motivate its fighters to abduct more helpless people.


text:
LatinXcellence: How Gloria Calderón Kellett is making room for Latinx stories, one show at a time
Maturing in Portland, Oregon, Calderón Kellett would get home from school and watch "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" while her granny would stitch drapes or cook supper for their close knit, Cuban American household. Captivated by the programs, Calderón Kellett stated she started dreaming about operating in tv.
Years prior to ending up being manufacturer and showrunner for the much liked reboot of "One Day at a Time," Calderón Kellett ended up being a starlet. However as she got auditions, she discovered herself checking out for stereotyped Latina functions as a gangbanger's sweetheart or a gangbanger's sibling.
"It just became so frustrating to me that there wasn't a school teacher, a social worker… nothing, nada," Calderón Kellett stated. "Hollywood had such a myopic view of who we are and what we are."
It was then when Calderón Kellett understood that to make an effect in the market, she would need to discover how to compose for TELEVISION and ultimately craft the genuine stories that she wished to see on screen.
"I started putting all my time and energy into reading. I would go to the Museum of Television & Radio, now the Paley Center. I would study, I would break down scripts, I would read every book I could get my hands on. I would read all of these writers and directors talking about the craft of television and movie making," she stated.
She started by composing and directing plays and later on dealt with a number of programs, consisting of "How I Met Your Mother," "Rules of Engagement," "Devious Maids" and "iZombie."
More than a years after those very first auditions, her household's story ended up being front and center in the reboot of the Norman Lear comedy that ranged from 1975 to 1984. The seriously well-known series debuted in 2017 on Netflix, where it ran for 3 seasons prior to Pop TELEVISION selected it up for its 4th and last season.
The series altered her life and brought her to the spotlight, Calderón Kellett stated, however, she included, she feels far from reaching her creative peak as a showrunner and wishes to do more to advance Latinx representation in home entertainment.
"I want there to be a better understanding of who we (Latinos) are by people who don't know any of us and I want us to rise," she stated.
Name: Gloria Calderón Kellett
Job: Showrunner and manufacturer. Presently, establishing TELEVISION series and movies for Amazon Studios through her business, GloNation.
Projects you have actually dealt with: "One Day at a Time," "Rules of Engagement," "Devious Maids," and "iZombie."
Years in home entertainment: 20
Coach: "I've had so many supportive people along the way like Pam Fryman. She's been a very close friend and ally. To know that someone like her has done this job for a really long time and does it with kindness and with love, and can have a normal life was really important for me. Norman Lear and Mike Royce, they changed my life with "One Day at a Time."
Latina…de dónde?: "I'm a very first generation Cuban American kid. Both of my moms and dads was available in 1962. I matured in an actually lovely Cuban neighborhood in the middle of Portland, Oregon."
Trope I'd banish from TV forever: "I'm a little done with the gangbangers and drug dealerships, I have actually simply seen it a lot. Exist Latino gang members and drug dealerships? Yes, there are. It's simply when that's all you see, that's simply crazy. I simply require other things to exist. For me it has to do with including more so that you can see that there is a big collection of experiences that American Latinos have — all of those ought to be checked out."
Latinx actor/actress I think will be a huge star one day: "Emeraude Toubia who is Mexicana (and) an amazing girl, and Rome Flynn who is Afro Cuban. They are the brand-new Latino stars of my brand-new program ('With Love') and I believe they are going to be huge, huge stars."
Latinx show I wish everyone was watching/had watched: "I enjoy 'Rutherford Falls.' My buddy Sierra Teller Ornelas is the showrunner for it. She's Mexicana and Native Navajo. It's based a lot on her, her love for her neighborhood and it's so amusing. It's the last thing I viewed and it brought me a lot happiness."
Overused line that execs say when passing on a Latino for a project: "They have not rejected Latinos for (my) jobs however I have actually had individuals hand down pilots. We heard "we are worried is going to be a little too niche" and I simply disagree. That uniqueness is what was so terrific about 'One Day at a Time.' I got to speak about a lot of particular things to my Latino American experience and individuals from a lot of other neighborhoods stated 'I'm not Cuban however my mommy did this' or 'I saw my household in your household.' Since we were so particular, it made the story universal."
What I think all showrunners could do to help increase Latinx representation on television: "The greatest thing is absolutely nothing about us without us. If you're going to make one of our stories important to your program or utilize it as a method of getting got since this is a minute when individuals comprehend that representation is necessary, have among us in there baked into producing that program, so that you're doing the job of representation behind the electronic camera along with in front of the electronic camera. I believe it makes a huge distinction. You can inform when you're enjoying it if it's truthful or not."
entertainmentLatinXcellence: How Gloria Calderón Kellett is making room for Latinx storiesone show at a time - CNN
CG: TEX@LAD – 6/11/21
Islanders-Lightning, Knights-Canadiens in uncertain final 4
Nintendo Switch Online adds Banjo-Kazooie to N64 games lineup
Amazon's Lord of the Rings titled The Rings of Power — here's what it means

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


There'll be lots of people 'defending their culture', lots of sacrifices by the many for the 'good of the nation' whose benefits will curiously accrue mainly to the few, lots more death and misery in the borderlands, lots more political polarization and lots more gated communities at various geographic levels that may become as oppressive to the people within them as without.
In later posts, I'll discuss the sociological aspects of what such low energy post-capitalist farm societies might look like. But here I want to revisit my Peasant's Republic of Wessex analysis and consider what such a society might look like out in the fields. Somewhat like three acres and a cow, as it turns out. Or at least three acres and a quarter of a cow.
To continue… I think it's about time we headed in a different direction. The mulcting of ordinary people described by Goubert for the peasants of 17th century France has being going on long enough around the world in various guises, often in service of top-down notions of 'development' that have rarely returned full value to the people it subjects. So maybe it's time to draw a line under the cargo cult utopia of capitalism with its promise of more 'stuff' ever-receding into the future, and explore the other pole of the peasant experience described by Wolf's narrative of the peasant utopia.
The difficulty, I think, is that the conditions in which it's feasible to build plausible 'bottom-up' anarchist-communist societies are unusual, and their chances of longevity are slight – either because they're annihilated by the stronger forces of the centralised state (as happened with the Paris Commune), or because they succumb to the internal contradictions of their own somewhat hidden power dynamics. Still, Ross's analysis raises a lot of interesting questions concerning the course that a free, egalitarian peasant society of the future might take.
The 19th century ended as it began with many of the world's people working primarily as small-scale, self-providing cultivators under the weaker or stronger suzerainty of large empires whose rise predated capitalism. But things weren't the same at century's end as at the beginning – a globalising capitalist economy had thoroughly penetrated the existing order and dominated it politically through direct or indirect colonial rule.
The basic point is that despite our contemporary post-socialist tendency to counterpose 'the market' of the capitalist economy with 'the state', capitalist development has always been a state project, albeit in partnership with private actors. Without the state, there'd certainly be no capitalism, and probably not even all that much of a 'market' in the sense of places where people come together to buy and sell goods.
Tracking forwards now over the later middle ages in Europe, one story to be told is the slow erosion of the peasant autonomy that had characterised the 'Dark Ages' – not only by the growing power of local lords, but also of royal houses which increasingly brought aristocrats to heel under the aegis of centralised, proto-modern royal absolutist states.


In an abrupt break from narrative continuity. . . .
"Didn't you say last night Elkins that you always like it much better when it turns out that people screwed up big time than you do when it turns out that they were actually being very clever and getting things right all along?" Melody asked.
Elkins looked up, smiled, and nodded.
"Doesn't Barty Jr. fit that clever bill rather nicely though?"
Well, he is clever (and I do realize that that's a big part of why you like him so much, Melody), but I also see him as rather striking for the extent to which he screws things up (which is a large part of why I like him so much). He's not really much of a criminal genius at all, if you ask me. He doesn't really get a whole lot of things right. I mean, let's take a look at his nasty, brutish and short life, shall we?
First off, he became a Death Eater. That's screwing up right there, I'd say, especially when you consider that he had all the practical advantages: wealthy and influential parents, good connections, academic talent, blandly inoffensive looks. Entering into compacts with Dark Wizards is always screwing up, if you ask me, but in Barty's case, you can't even explain it on pragmatic grounds: unlike the giants, for example, who may have had very good cause for supporting an insurrectionist agenda, Barty was well-positioned to benefit from the status quo.
Second, assuming that the Death Eaters didn't take minors or schoolboys, he probably accepted the Dark Mark only a matter of months before Voldemort went down. If that. (Myself, I always like to imagine that it was only a matter of days, but that's just because I'm seriously Bent.) Assuming that he left school in June of 1981 (for the reasoning behind this timeline, see posts 39828, 47294), he would have become a Death Eater around four months before the event at Godric's Hollow at the most. I rather suspect that it was even less time than that, as I imagine that given whose son he was, he would have been very carefully vetted before being ushered into the inner circle. So we're looking at the most appalling timing here. Seriously Bad Timing.
Nonetheless, he did avoid getting exposed as a Death Eater after Voldemort's fall. Lucky devil! So what did he do? Did he keep his head down and just try to get on with his life? No, no. Of course not! That would have been sensible. No, instead he started hanging with the crazed fanatics. Naturally. And then he got himself arrested. Invisibility Cloak Left Behind At Scene Of Crime? Wrong place at the wrong time? Actually innocent, and framed by one of his father's political enemies? Under the Imperius Curse (dig that theory, btw, Eric!)?
Well, there's no way to know for sure. But no matter how you spin this, I'd say that it qualifies as a Bad Mistake.
He didn't have the requisite fanaticism to stand up to the dementors. The Woman Assumed To Be Lestrange wasn't on her death bed after a year of replaying her worst memories. I think that her fanaticism probably helped to sustain her, just as Sirius' knowledge of his own innocence did. So in Barty, we're looking at someone who wanted to be a fanatic, but who wasn't even really very good at it, when push came to shove. Sad, sad, sad.
Once again, though, he has the luck of the devil. His parents rescue him from prison. Choice opportunity for him, yes? He could have started a new life, perhaps. Or, he could have feigned gratitude and compliance long enough to put his father off his guard, and then run off to try to bring back Voldemort. Either one of those two actions would at least have shown a bit of competence. But instead, what does he do? He actually lets his father know that he's all set to run off and find Voldemort -- and he gets himself Imperio'd for all his pains. Pathetic.
After a decade of slavery, he starts managing to resist the Imperius from time to time. He succeeds in keeping it a secret from Winky. So far, so good. So what does he do at the QWC? He kicks that Imperius, and he's outdoors, there's a crowd, there's already the distraction of the little DE parade going on...I mean, we're talking chance of a lifetime here. So how does he exploit it? Does he seize this opportunity to make his great escape? Take advantage of the situation to try to break free of Winky, and then flee into hiding?
Err...no. No, see, instead what he decides to do is to shoot the Dark Mark into the sky, thus alerting everyone to his precise location. Yes, so clever is our Barty that within minutes of casting his Morsmordre, he's been triangulated upon by a bunch of Ministry guys and stunned into unconsciousness. He only avoids going right back to prison because his father covers for him. And then he winds up right back where he started: under the Imperius Curse, and his father's prisoner. I mean, really now! This is hardly a criminal mastermind we're looking at, is it? He can't even cast a single spell without getting caught! He's perfectly hopeless!
He can't throw off the Imperius a second time. He needs to be rescued by Voldemort. And then we get to the Cunning Plan -- which isn't even his.
Okay. First, he and Wormtail botch their abduction of Moody badly enough that there's a commotion. They only get away with it by the skin of their teeth.
Then, his mission to ensure that Harry wins that Tournament is constantly on the brink of doom. Barty's skating on thin ice throughout the entire novel, really. He needs to resort to a rather desperate 'Plan B' to get Harry through the Second Task, and even then, he only succeeds through the dumbest of luck. Harry very nearly sleeps through the thing, for heaven's sake!
He nearly gives himself away with Bouncing Ferret. He nearly gets caught out by the Marauder's Map. He nearly gets caught killing his father. He plays his part a bit too well by teaching Harry to resist the Imperius Curse. In fact, Eileen has argued, and I think that I'm forced to agree, that his behavior as "Moody" is in some ways utterly reckless. He shows off, he seeks out old companions, he gives other people clues to his real motives. He is not careful.
And that Third Task was also an awfully close shave, wasn't it? In spite of all of his efforts, in spite of taking Fleur out of the running, in spite of that breathtakingly vicious "Imperio Krum Into Crucio'ing Cedric" ploy, Cedric still comes thiiiiiiiis close to taking the trophy. And wouldn't that just have pleased Voldemort no end!
And finally, there's the End Game. Ah, the End Game. He breaks his masquerade by dragging Harry out of Dumbledore's sight. Then he takes Harry...where? Why, to his office, of course! The very first place that Dumbledore is likely to go looking for him. He is so consumed with explaining how terribly cunning he's been that he not only fails to look into his Foe Glass; he also somehow fails to notice that his would-be victim keeps stealing glances at said Foe Glass. He can't even manage to kill a helpless, traumatized, unarmed fourteeen-year-old boy. Not even after drugging him first! Instead, he degenerates into bwah-hah-hah Villain Mania and then gets himself, in rapid succession, stunned, spurned, exposed, veritaserum'd, interrogated, bound, and Dementor Kissed.
Yes, he is clever, in his way. He has a quick wit and an agile mind, and he's just killer with all of those sly double-edged comments. He's also one heck of an actor. But at the same time, I can't really say that I view him as all that competent. In fact, he strikes me as rather notably self-sabotaging. It seems to me that whenever he's in danger of actually getting away with something, he finds some way to shoot himself in the foot. To me, he comes across very strongly as someone who on some deep and fundamental level really doesn't want to succeed.
In short, he's a screw-up.


BCF : A disability pensioner who was accused of funding an American Islamic State fighter has been ordered by court to stand trial.
Mr Isa Kocoglu, who is on a pension because of his obesity and mental health issues, has been committed to trial on seven charges by Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday. The 44-year-old allegedly sent almost $4000 using PayPal to a known ISIS fighter born in Texas, United States of America.


England head coach Eddie Jones on Monday challenged his Grand Slam-winning players to "rewrite history" and become the first England team to win a Test series in Australia.
But the former Wallabies head coach also issued a warning to his Paris heroes that no-one is guaranteed a place on board the flight in June unless "they carry on improving and are mentally ready for the next step up".
Jones has fixed his ambitious sights on developing the team he guided to England's first Six Nations clean sweep in 13 years into a force capable of upsetting Australia in their own back yard in June.
Celebrations following Saturday's Grand Slam-sealing victory over France quickly came to an end as England's players returned to their clubs for the final months of the season before contemplating the clashes with the Wallabies.
It will be the first time the two nations have done battle in a three-Test series in Australia and Jones, who was Wallabies head coach between 2001 and 2005, knows all too well the enormity of the task ahead.
England have won just three of the 17 Tests played there between the sides, one of which was the 2003 World Cup final, and have generally had a miserable time of it Down Under.
"Perhaps it's time to improve on that record. It's time to make the history books look a little better!" said Jones, whose side face Michael Cheika's men in Tests to be held in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
"If I didn't think it was possible to take a squad of players over to Australia and win a series, I shouldn't be coaching the national side. There will be no excuses. We have so many fine players to choose from.
"It just comes down to whether we have enough desire and talent to do it.
And I can assure you we certainly do have those things."
He added: "To win a Grand Slam must just be the start. To keep improving is now the big challenge ahead. Why do you think New Zealand were able to come back from what happened in 2007 to win two World Cups in eight years?
"Because the likes of Richie McCaw and the rest wanted to keep improving and they did.
"The players have gone back to their clubs and if I was one of them I'd be so excited about the prospect of playing some crucial games for their clubs with the chance of proving they deserve to be on the plane to Australia for a fantastic Test tour.
"But no-one is guaranteed a place in the squad. There are 15 places up for grabs in the team. They have done well in the Six Nations, but they must now continue improving as players."
Jones intends to take "32 or 33" players to face the Wallabies, declaring that he is still on the lookout for "new guys to come in and liven up the squad" between now and the end of May.
He is relishing the months ahead and says that friends back home are taking a keen interest in England's progress.
"I've had some texts and emails from back in Australia that have been, let's say, quite interesting," he smiled.
"But seriously, people there are happy that England are doing well again and heading in the right direction. World rugby is better off for having a strong England team.
"The one thing I do know is Australia go into every contest expecting to win. So I expect the same with this England team."
Jones intends to retain the help of Jonny Wilkinson as kicking coach, meaning that the man whose drop-goal won England the 2003 World Cup could be persuaded to accompany the squad on the plane to Australia.


Reupholstery Ireland has a long tradition and is suitable for Couches and Sofas from Sofa retailers Harvey Norman or Italian Sofa manufacturers Natuzzi. If your D F S Sofa is looking a bit tired or has a sagging Sofa seat then reupholstery Northern Ireland or part sofa repair is worth while.
Some times it is just the upholstery fabric or upholstery leather that has pet damage or accidental damage. This can be repaired at home along with cushion refilling or new foam cushions and sofa frame repairs. You can make your Harveys Sofa look like new.
Will Sofa repair at home save me money answer well yes it costs less than a new couch or couch reupholstery and it keeps your sofa looking like new just like the Chairs in this photo before & after. Smart Sofa Repair Fermanagh are experts in at home sofa repair.


text:
// methods
import curry from './curry';

// utils
import coalesceToArray from './_utils/coalesceToArray';
import isObject from './_utils/isObject';

/**
 * @function mapArray
 *
 * @description
 * map the array to a new array based on the returns of the call with fn
 *
 * @param {function(*, number, Array<*>): *} fn the method to map with
 * @param {Array<*>} array the array of items to map
 * @returns {Array<*>} the mapped items
 */
function mapArray(fn, array) {
  let newArray = [],
      index = -1;

  while (++index < array.length) {
    newArray[index] = fn(array[index], index, array);
  }

  return newArray;
}

/**
 * @function mapObject
 *
 * @description
 * map the object to a new object based on the returns of the call with fn
 *
 * @param {function(*, string, Object): *} fn the method to map with
 * @param {Object} object the object of items to map
 * @returns {Object} the mapped items
 */
function mapObject(fn, object) {
  const keys = Object.keys(object);

  let newObject = {},
      index = -1,
      key;

  while (++index < keys.length) {
    key = keys[index];

    newObject[key] = fn(object[key], key, object);
  }

  return newObject;
}

/**
 * @function map
 *
 * @description
 * map the collection based on the returns of the call with fn
 *
 * @param {function(*, (number|string), (Array<*>|Object)): *} fn the method to map with
 * @param {Array<*>|Object} collection the collection of items to map
 * @returns {Array<*>|Object} the mapped collection
 */
export default curry(function map(fn, collection) {
  return isObject(collection) ? mapObject(fn, collection) : mapArray(fn, coalesceToArray(collection));
});


text:
puppet-env
==========

Puppet module for cross platform environment variables configuration. Now this module only support windows platform. I will add other platform support later.

Basic usage
-----------

Set a system level envionment variable

```
env { 'PYTHON_HOME':
    value => 'c:\python27',
    ignore_case => true,
    ensure => present,
}
```

Unset a system level envionment variable

```
env { 'PYTHON_HOME':
    value => 'c:\python27',
    ignore_case => true,
    ensure => absent,
}
```

Add python to system path and remove ruby from system path

```
env_path { 'c:\python27':
    ensure => absent,
    ignore_case => true,
}
```


The future of online privacy lies in a cloud of doubt as tech companies and government agencies confront each other on several fronts in the latest round of the decades-old Crypto Wars.
The feds are looking for backdoords into encrypted communications, describing it as a necessity to fight terrorism and crime. Conversely, tech firms argue that such a move would be a violation of the company rights and would set a dangerous precedent, effectively endangering the privacy and security of all consumers.
The San Bernadino case is just one of the many cases that has pitted tech companies against government agencies on the use of encryption technologies.
The government's persistence in expanding its surveillance capabilities and gaining a foothold into encrypted communications has led many developers to take matters into their own hands and create apps that will ensure consumer privacy in the even that tech companies are legally forced to hand over decryption keys to the government.
While we've seen the apparition of many custom crypto apps in recent years, but it's hard to convince users to abandon their favorite social media platforms for the sake of a new unknown brand that doesn't have as wide a user base.
We're now seeing new crypto apps aimed at enhancing security in already-established social networks.
Cyphor is a Chrome extension developed by two Canadian students., Michael Pawly and Angus McLean.
The app comes into effect when you're chatting or sending mail through your browser, and encrypts messages before they're sent over to the web application server.
Most web service providers encrypt user data, but Cyphor's added layer of encryption makes sure that your information remains safe even if the server is breached, or in case the decryption keys are willingly handed over to an unwanted party.
The goal of Cyphor, as explained by the developers, is to enable users to take privacy matters into their own hands and avoid being affected by hacks resulting from poor security practices by companies or the change in consumer privacy policies.
The use of Cyphor is easy and straightforward.
After installing the extension, you select the input box that you wish to encrypt (e.g. the textbox for your Facebook or Slack chat), and you setup a "channel," which creates a randomly-generated 256-bit AES key that will used to encrypt data entered in the selected input box before posting it to the server.
Cyphor is used on the receiving browser to parse and decrypt the encrypted data. The keys are stored on the Cyphor server and can only be accessed by users who have access to the channel.
The application has been successfully tested with a number of social media platforms and email applications, including Facebook and Slack.
Cyphor uses a number of techniques and good practices to prevent malicious activity such as cross-site scripting (XSS). Check out a demo of the app here.
Crypter is another crypto app developed by a student, in this case Max Mitchell from England's Sussex University, and is specifically aimed at securing communications over Facebook Messenger. It is very much similar to Cyphor and is available as plugins for Chrome and Firefox browsers.
As Mitchell explains, Crypter was developed to work with an established chat application – Facebook – instead of introducing a new one, and he's taken extra steps to make sure it doesn't interrupt with users' existing habits.
The application works by adding a few extra elements to the Facebook web chat interface, enabling you to initiate secure chat sessions by setting a password, which is used to create the encryption key. After that, it sits invisibly in your chat and encrypts/decrypts your conversations efficiently without the need to take any extra steps.
Only a user with the password will be able to decrypt and read the messages. Even if your Facebook account is compromised, the encrypted chat logs will appear as gibberish or a lock icon. Check out the video demo here.
Cyphor and Crypter can be perceived as a prelude to a new breed ad-hoc, personal crypto-solutions that we'll be seeing more in the future as the crypto-debate comes to a head.
The one thing that we can be sure of is that no matter whose favor the balance of the Crypto Wars tips to, encryption is here to stay.


Tuesday 14th May 2019 at 8:00 pm.
Meeting topic will be advised closer to next meeting..
Meetings are now held in Nell Pascoe Room in Criterion House instead of G A Wood Hall.
Meeting cost is $2.00 which pays for venue hire and supper.
We are a senior friendly and beginner friendly group of computer users, not geeks or gurus, who would like to help you get more out of your personal computer or tablet. We offer meetings, newsletters, this website, support, friendship via Facebook page and more.


text:
package org.syphr.mythtv.protocol.events.impl;

import java.util.List;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.syphr.mythtv.commons.exception.ProtocolException;
import org.syphr.mythtv.commons.exception.ProtocolException.Direction;
import org.syphr.mythtv.commons.translate.Translator;
import org.syphr.mythtv.protocol.events.BackendEventListener;
import org.syphr.mythtv.protocol.events.EventProtocol;
import org.syphr.mythtv.protocol.impl.Parser;

public abstract class AbstractEventProtocol<T extends BackendEventListener> implements EventProtocol
{
    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(AbstractEventProtocol.class);

    private final Translator translator;
    private final Parser parser;
    private final Class<T> type;

    private volatile EventProtocol fallbackProtocol;

    public AbstractEventProtocol(Translator translator,
                                 Parser parser,
                                 Class<T> type)
    {
        this.translator = translator;
        this.parser = parser;
        this.type = type;
    }

    @Override
    public void fireEvent(List<String> args, List<BackendEventListener> listeners) throws ProtocolException
    {
        EventSender<T> sender = null;

        for (BackendEventListener l : listeners)
        {
            if (!type.isAssignableFrom(l.getClass()))
            {
                LOGGER.debug("Skipping backend event listener of type "
                            + l.getClass()
                            + ", expecting "
                            + type);
                continue;
            }

            if (sender == null)
            {
                try
                {
                    sender = createSender(args);
                }
                catch (UnknownEventException e)
                {
                    EventProtocol fallback = getFallbackProtocol();

                    if (fallback != null)
                    {
                        fallback.fireEvent(args, listeners);
                        return;
                    }

                    throw new ProtocolException("Unknown backend message: " + e.getMessage(), Direction.RECEIVE, e);
                }
            }

            sender.sendEvent(type.cast(l));
        }
    }

    protected Translator getTranslator()
    {
        return translator;
    }

    protected Parser getParser()
    {
        return parser;
    }

    private EventProtocol getFallbackProtocol()
    {
        if (fallbackProtocol == null)
        {
            synchronized (this)
            {
                if (fallbackProtocol == null)
                {
                    fallbackProtocol = createFallbackProtocol();
                }
            }
        }

        return fallbackProtocol;
    }

    protected abstract EventSender<T> createSender(List<String> args) throws ProtocolException, UnknownEventException;

    protected abstract EventProtocol createFallbackProtocol();
}


The time of origin point of the five elements cannot be exactly dated historically. Nevertheless, recordings prove that their origins probably date back about 2,500 years.
In old China the five elements stood originally for the five planets Jupiter (wood), Mars (fire), Saturn (earth), Venus (metal) and Mercury (water). Then on the basis of astronomical and astrological observations over the centuries not only the seasons, forms and colours, but also every animal and every plant became assigned to an element. Also the human body as a part of the universal creation follows these legitimacies. Our organism with its spiritual, physical and mental functions reflect the order of the nature and is a microcosm of the universe. Thus our internal organs, the senses and our sensations can also be assigned to the five elements and yin and yang. With the help of the 5 elements we can recognise natural laws that we need to follow, if we want to lead a harmonic and healthy life.


Introducing a better method of content management flexibility – one powered by the custom design systems we make for clients, without the restrictions of rigid templating or the issues that plague commercial pagebuilder plugins.
There's multiple ways to prototype a digital product. What are they? What pros and cons does each method provide? And lastly, how do you choose the right fidelity?
On the importance and execution of information architecture and user journeys, and the roles they play in creating exceptional digital products.
Auditing an existing website or application allows us to see what is already working well in addition to what is clearly not working well. It allows us to keep and improve upon the former, while helping us avoid the latter and prevent us from making the same mistakes.
In the final instalment of our series on user stories, you learn why prioritized user stories are not enough to be effective, and how to take them through completion using acceptance criteria.
In part one of our user stories posts, you learned why they matter and how to capture them. In this post, learn simple and effective methods to prioritize user stories to ensure you work on the features that matter most.
User personas are the guiding light for your project-related decision-making. But how do we discover the right information and actually write effective, usable ones?
The voter registration system we built for Elections Alberta won an Ember Award in the Software category, and further marks our position as a UX-focused digital product agency capable of delivering not just websites, but award-winning, enterprise-level, mission-critical software for businesses and organizations alike.


text:
Accountability Citizenship
Thoughts on Individual Steps We Can All Take to Fight Racism
I am going to start this essay by stating, emphatically, that Black Lives Matter. I acknowledge that systemic racism and sexism exist, that systemic racism and sexism harm people of color and women (in general), and I support the agenda of fixing social systems to eliminate systemic racism and sexism affecting people of color and women. I want to make that perfectly clear at the outset because I am likely to say things in this essay that will offend many people. My goal is to be honest, because I believe honesty is the essential element of any solution to the challenges of racism and sexism.
I'm sure there are people already offended, so let me address the imaginary conflict between "All Lives Matter" and "Black Lives Matter" right at the outset. In business, we measure programs and processes by outcomes. And here we are, nearly 60 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, and the outcomes, frankly, suck. By every measure I can see, all the programs and processes designed to ensure equal protection of the law to people of color and women are failing. No where is that problem more severe in American society than with regard to the African-American community.
African-Americans were the only group enslaved in America, and today, in 2020, we find they are still disproportionately poor, disproportionately sick, disproportionately jailed, and disproportionately killed by law enforcement. For that reason alone, it is 100 percent appropriate to focus our efforts on making sure that every segment and every level of our society internalizes the message that Black Lives Matter. The outcomes clearly indicate we have not internalized that message, and the consequences of our failure to do so going forward will be fatal to the American republic, at least insofar as that republic is supposed to represent the fulfillment of the promise of the United States Constitution.
Some will say that the problems are all related to individual choices, and I think that is completely inconsistent with the evidence I see. I have a friend about my age who, like me, is a West Point graduate and a retired infantry officer. He went into a store in downtown Denver a few years ago and security stopped him on the way out so they could check his pockets for stolen merchandise. That has never happened to me, and I suspect it never will. He is black, and I am white. Remember Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.? He was arrested on July 16, 2009 after police responded to a 911 call about an attempted burglary. Gates was just returning from a trip to China, and had enlisted the help of his cab driver when he found the front door of his house stuck. What should have been a three-minute conversation resulted in the arrest of a Harvard University professor. I can guarantee that would not have happened if Gates had been white. In these two cases, distinguished individuals with a record of making great choices were harassed unnecessarily because they were black.
Some will correctly point out that the two cases I cite in the preceding paragraph provide only anecdotal evidence for my thesis. Here's some more anecdotal evidence: Watch the video of George Floyd being murdered by police. Watch the video of Terence Crutcher being murdered by police. Read about how Philando Castile was stopped for a broken taillight and then shot to death in the front seat of a car in which his girlfriend and her four-year old daughter were passengers. Read about the 2015 Charleston church massacre where nine African-Americans were murdered by a white supremacist during a Bible study. Read about the 2017 neo-nazi and white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. You could keep reading and watching for a long time, but at some point you should just stop and consider the statistics. What is clear is that there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that we have a serious race-relations problem in the United States, that the policies intended to solve that problem have failed, and that we all—regardless of our race—have both individual and collective duties to do something to fix the problem.
This essay deals with racism at the individual level. The next essay will address the society-wide dimensions of racism. That essay will address issues such as how we should deal with controversy over monuments, the issue of reparations, and practices that disproportionately harm the rights of protected classes. This essay, in contrast, addresses what racism is, our individual duty in combatting it, the concept of white privilege, and a brief discussion of the long history of racial inequality.
I begin this discussion of racism at the individual level by reminding the reader of what I have said in a previous essay about bias in general: we all have it. It's part of how we are constructed as homo sapiens. A recent training on implicit bias cited a statistic from a Harvard University study: our brains process approximately 11 million pieces of information every second, and we can only process about 40 of those consciously. Daniel Kahneman's excellent book Thinking Fast and Slow is a superb overview of how our minds use models to simplify what we experience and how our models are biased by experience and evolutionary factors.
Implicit bias does not have to cause racism. We can define racism as discrimination or antagonism directed against others on the basis of their race or ethnicity. Another definition that I like is based on outcomes: racism is whatever perpetuates inequality that persists on racial lines.
Our first duty as individuals in combatting racism is to force ourselves to consciously surface and interrogate our propensities, likes and dislike to try and understand our bias. Stanford social psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Ph.D., makes this point in her book Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think and Do. Forcing ourselves to be aware of our bias is especially important when making decisions that affect others.
Building systems with checks and balances helps. We are social animals—we should seek the input of others to mitigate our personal bias wherever possible. This does not mean we cannot make individual decisions. It does mean we are likely to make better decisions when we consider the perspectives of others.
Another duty in combatting racism is to confront it, peacefully and persistently, when we see it. We should all insist that the people around us show proper respect for others, in word and deed. We should never tolerate disrespectful language or conduct based on race, ethnicity, religion or gender.
Once, shortly after taking over management of a warehouse (and publishing my expectations for all employees), I discovered an employee had used a racial slur—directed at an Asian co-worker—on our hand-held radio network. I immediately contacted the supervisor to bring the employee to my office so I could fire him. The team arrived with the Asian co-worker as well, who insisted it was all a joke. He assured me he was not offended. I told him that the behavior was clearly against my policy, and that the behavior offended me. Then I fired the employee who had used the slur. All of us, especially when we are leaders (but even when we are not), must confront racist behavior. It is far too easy for people to rationalize bad conduct under the guise of friendship or teamwork.
In the introduction to my 2013 book Accountability Citizenship, I wrote "For both my father and myself, I see a combination of both hard work and luck as the main features of a tapestry spanning nearly one hundred years…. I am the American dream fulfilled." If you would have asked me then what I meant by "luck," I would have said that I was lucky to have had the parents and siblings that I have, I was lucky in my military career to have survived a few near misses, and I was lucky to have met the future CEO of the company where I would eventually go to work. If you would have then asked me what I thought about the role race played in any person's ability to live the American dream, I would have said something about the Civil Rights Act and the progress that we have made since then. I would have concluded that racism was still a problem in some places, but, by and large, people of all races could achieve the same level of success with the same amount of hard work and luck. And I would have been wrong.
I now think that answer is incomplete, because I now believe that part of the "luck" that enabled my success was what people are now referring to as white privilege. I have rewritten that sentence a few times. I want to be absolutely clear that I do not believe any race is superior to any other race. I have never sought preferential treatment based on my race, and have always taken pride in earning my way based on my skills and merit. I would never have approved of a system that gave me an advantage because of the color of my skin, especially if that system disadvantaged others because their skin color was different. But regardless of all that, it is now clear to me that American society, in general, even in 2020, offers a multitude of advantages to white people that are not available to people of color. I have benefited from the white cultural orientation of American society. That is to say, I have benefited from white privilege.
I believe we all have a duty to work toward a society where no one is privileged based on the color of their skin. At the same time, given the failures of policies and programs designed to produce equitable outcomes for Americans of all races, I do not think we are anywhere close to a society that can function fairly without government oversight programs like Affirmative Action. In addition to the duties to combat racism mentioned earlier in this essay, it is my individual responsibility to articulate the need for such programs, to participate in the dialogue about how to make them effective, and to use my vote to support racial justice.
It is our duty to make a reasonable effort to understand diverse perspectives. We can do this by reading, through dialogue, voluntary exposure to cultural events sponsored by those with different backgrounds, and by sharing elements of our own heritage. These individual duties apply to people of every race. Even if kids are more comfortable sitting with other kids that look like them in the school cafeteria, all kids should make an effort to include people of all races in their social circles. The fact that this may be uncomfortable for some makes it even more important.
The Roots of Racial Inequality Are Much Older than the United States
Years ago, textbooks rationalized colonialism, conquest and exploitation of indigenous populations with the argument that the conquering powers brought technology and improvements to the quality of life of the conquered people. Buried in this proposition was the assumption that native peoples were somehow inferior to the conquerors, adding a racist rationale to the raw profit motive of economic exploitation. The racist notion that colonialism was a duty to lift up people of color was known as the "white man's burden."
The question of why technology and social organizations grew at different rates among different peoples is a reasonable line of inquiry. To paraphrase the words of UCLA Professor Jared Diamond, why did Europeans arrived to conquer the Incas rather than the Incas arriving to conquer Spain? In Guns, Germs and Steel—The Fates of Human Societies, Diamond provides an excellent description of how environmental factors shaped the speed with which civilizations emerged, developed various technologies, and projected their power on other peoples.
First, and most importantly, Diamond provides a clear rationale for why human societies developed at different speeds that debunks the racist idea that white Europeans developed faster due to inherent superiority. "In short, Europe's colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography—in particular to the continents' different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species." (Diamond, p. 401) Guns, Germs and Steel offers a fascinating and comprehensive analysis of these factors across all regions and peoples.
Diamond makes the case that homo sapiens moved more rapidly from hunter-gatherer societies to agriculture-based societies in areas where there were higher concentrations of wild plants and animals suitable for domestication and food production. In turn, the ability to generate a surplus of food in a reliable fashion enabled the rise of cities, classes of people who could focus on something other than survival, armies, and technology. Population-dense groups living in proximity with domesticated animals suffered from new forms of communicable disease, to which many developed immunity. All together, these factors gave farming societies the ability to expand, displacing or conquering hunter-gatherer societies in their path.
Second, Diamond points out that the pattern of expansion, conquest, displacement, enslavement and brutalization of conquered peoples occurs all over the world among all the races of homo sapiens. For example, the Bantu expansion in Africa, the empires of Mesoamerica and South America, and the expansion of societies in Asia and the Pacific all ended badly for the people who were conquered and displaced. Just as being conquered does not imply intellectual inferiority, neither does it confer moral superiority. Power corrupts, it seems. Across all races, people with the power to expand, conquer and dominate their neighbors have done so.
The differentiator, according to Diamond, is the original "luck" that accrued to peoples living in areas with sufficient biodiversity to give them a head start on the path to guns, germs and steel. These peoples moved more rapidly to the stage of expansion and conquest by virtue of the geographical and ecological factors of their original homeland. Therefore, we can say that "white privilege" has its roots in a much older "Fertile Crescent privilege." Neither privilege was ever deserved, earned, or intended by most of the people they have affected (positively or negatively).
The problem with white privilege in the United States lies primarily in areas where we can see that privilege has been leveraged, extended and caused to persist through injustice and with intention. Those of us who have remained unaware of privilege, as well as those who have passively accepted it, are also at fault. It is far past time for a comprehensive evaluation of social systems and processes to achieve justice for all.
Racism—defined as either discrimination directed against others on the basis of their race or whatever perpetuates inequality that persists on racial lines—is evil. It arises from bias. We all have bias, and we should acknowledge that fact. But bias does not become racism until we either engage in or tolerate unjust behavior. It is our duty as citizens of the United States to ensure our personal conduct neither creates nor enables racism in any form.
Author of Thy King Dumb Come and Accountability Citizenship, Stephen P. Tryon is a businessman and technologist with extensive experience in e-commerce, a retired Soldier, and former Senate Fellow.
Register to Win Cool Stuff!


text:
Lebron James' Upcoming Showtime Series Just Released Its First Trailer and It Looks Intense
In case you missed it, LeBron James is producing a three-part docu-series for Showtime called "Shut Up and Dribble." The series will follow the changing role of athletes in our current political environment, with its title being taken from Laura Ingraham's remarks to James back in February when the Golden State Warriors declined an invite to the White House after the 2018 NBA Finals.
James will executive produce alongside Maverick Carter and Gotham Chopra.
LeVar Burton, Who Is the Best, Will Host a 'Trivial Pursuit' Gameshow
The series will debut in October, conveniently kicking off at the start of the 2018-19 NBA season.
RELEVANT August 31, 2018
How Clean Water Really Does Change Everything
Trailer: Watch Hugh Jackman Make His Next Oscars Push With 'The Front Runner'


At DumpsterWise, we strive to bring you the best service at the best price available. We have a wide selection of dumpster sizes in stock in Van Tassell, WY, with flexible & timley pickup and delivery. Give us a call today for all your dumpster rental and roll off needs.
Before you go on the internet and to a Cheap Dumpster Rental in Van Tassell, WY site, try and perform a rough calculation on how much is coming out of the property, so that you can find the right-sized dumpster. If you rent engineered to be too small you'll have to have it removed, emptied, then brought back. It will cost anything extra. Purchase one that's too big and that's a complete space and your money. Most Cheap Dumpster Rental in Van Tassell, WY businesses will do the most beautiful to help you consider your waste and recycle load.
It will save you yourself any time and energy associated with hauling waste over the following couple of weeks external to wait for that community waste pickup simply by calling for a dumpster today. You can experience a following day dumpster arrival by calling the night time before as well as by ordering on the internet. You can get rid of your waste as soon as possible as opposed to waiting for the community trash pick up and you can escape time and energy by avoiding the need to separate recyclables as well as break down the garbage into baggage.
Is your family room too small? Does one spend time and effort in your family room? If you responded yes either to of these queries, maybe it's remodel the den. For those who have a spare bed room that joins with your family room, maybe you should think of knocking out the wall in between the two rooms. This will open up your family room area and make it far more spacious and comfortable for you.
An additional use for a dumpster is when you are carrying out a house reconstruction and are gonna have a lots of trash. It will be easy to toss all the waste in the throw off dumpster rental fees you have your domain haul the item away when you find yourself done.
Your overall health and that of your loved ones members may be at possibility. In Atlanta, such waste products are effectively taken care of via various waste materials management companies. If you live in Atlanta, it is possible to apply for a high quality Atlanta Roll off Box. This can can be found in form of an exclusive dumpster meant for doing away with all social manners of waste products, including grubby trash as well as garbage components. In most cases, the actual Atlanta Roll off Dumpsters are generally stationed at strategic locations. People existing around may easily make use of this sort of containers to pack it up his or her waste products. A good thing about the Atlanta Roll off Dumpsters is that, you will find companies in command of removing them from time to time. They just drop the actual dumpsters at organizing places; your neighbors can load all of them with waste products from your environments. Then the firm comes back to choose them. By simply so carrying out, the environment can be kept great clean.
Also have a flash light and another person with you to see your returning. You don't want an individual sneaking up on you while you are going through his or her trash.
Utilizing Cheap Dumpster Rental in Van Tassell, WYs in construction or any other major venture can help to have a very safe performing environment for your workers. This will assist prevent regrettable events as well as accidents from happening. The likelihood of accidents going on increases if you experience uncleared debris for the premises. Ensuring the construction debris is eliminated and treated in a timely manner likewise lessens the possibility that you will be attributed for any healthcare costs producing from crashes in the design site.
If you are living in a small area, make sure that you let the overnight dumpster company learn ahead of time. Many dumpster companies won't be able to accommodate you actually whereas others have more compact trucks that can easily deliver the dumpster for you.
Once you handle enormous projects including construction, house renovation or maybe green yard cleanup, it is vital for you acquire help from qualified to complete the work successfully. Individuals take a due care to complete the project promptly, but they forget post issues of the project such as trash carrying. You are about to generate huge a great deal of trash on completion of the work. Tons of garbage piled up for very long period of time would lead to lot many complications such as producing environmental pollution, spreading infectious illnesses, occupying cost-free space in your arena, limiting the growth of one's further projects and so on. Removing such a enormous trash on self gets rid of much of your time and also requires huge investment in terms of move and work. Piling garbage for longer time frame may throw you within unnecessary challenges.It attracts penalty within you for being an origin for producing environmental pollution.
Research prices. The first garbage Cheap Dumpster Rental in Van Tassell company you actually contact may well promise to offer you the best prices in your area, however they are never going to determine you don't put it to the test out. Go on the net or search out the YellowPages to see who's conducting business in your area, and obtain a couple of prices before you commit.
Make sure you check the neighborhood rules and regulations just before getting a dumpster simply because they usually differ from one destination to another. In case you are cleaning out the apartment, make it a point that your building or sophisticated has ample space readily available where you can squeeze dumpster. If you are cleaning up your home or maybe yard, keep your city or town means that you can keep these kinds of facilities in the pub. Never misjudge the actual sizes of the dumpsters since they will need ample living space. It is always good to look for permission ahead of time before getting a Cheap Dumpster Rental in Van Tassell.
Renting a dumpster might be the solution to suit your needs if you often create considerable amounts of garbage. You could potentially be somebody that is planning a large destruction project and require a fast method to store garbage without having to continually make trips to the remove.
Dumpster diving is usually a term to go into detail going through garbage cans intended for 'treasures'. While it may appear bad to some of you it is really very exciting and may make you a ton of money.
A dumpster program can handle any type of job, coming from start to finish. You will not have to place your junk within bags or maybe containers. They will do the operate while you loosen up. They will assist you in getting rid of your complete trash and also junk such as old kitchen appliances, stoves, home furniture, refrigerators, units, dryers, toilets, tubs, pantry shelves, flooring and such. They can make it easier to clean out the actual garage, get rid of, basement, yard, or attic room. They can furthermore remove damaged glass, plastic materials, metals, along with other materials. They will save you time because you will not have to break down the things yourself or maybe drive the garbage to a dumpster.
You may need dumpsters to be sent to the location quickly at reasonably priced cost. To have the dumpster placed for your location you can either need to select high prices or watch for certain period for the dumpster to be delivered since the majority of the Cheap Dumpster Rental in Van Tassell, WY assistance companies require a notice time period of 24 to 48 hrs.
Are you thinking about getting rid of one-off items like appliances or even big furniture pieces? These items can be quite difficult to maneuver around, and they're certainly not things that your normal trash assistance will pick-up. Instead of carrying them to the actual dump on your own, why not make it possible for a dumpster organization help you with the actual ? When you know you will be getting rid of items like furniture or even appliances, rent any dumpster. Then, simple to worry about is receiving the harmful articles to the container.
Leftover loyal to one rental company include the best selection made. It is because by being a typical customer, you're more likely to get discounts and special treatments. When shopping for one, make sure that it is a reputable organization that offers limitless services. It therefore has to be professional adequate by having a logo design. A brand logo design is used to make a distinction between good and bad companies. It should offer reasonable services with no delays for this reason should have created a good status. The way in which industry is treated is the thing that is used to determine the company's title. No Cheap Dumpster Rental in Van Tassell, WY organization has a correct to exploit the actual clients. The values are very very competitive and should be affordable to everyone. If you want to obtain the most affordable price, it's greater to go for a neighborhood owned rental as opposed to a privately owned rental. Group based versions will always supply the best for the actual society and as well give back to precisely the same society. Often there is pride in seeing your fee being used for the benefit for your community.
Because rolloff dumpsters come in 4 sizes, the company will assist you to to estimate the amount of trash and recyclables you'll be making. These rentable rotate off dumpsters come in ten thirty, twenty, and also the biggest versions -- forty meters. It's a artwork -- get too large of a dumpster therefore you waste money, too little and that signifies several excursions and more dollars. Just right such as Goldilocks and The A few Bears, signifies more money additional back on to your allowance.
Dumpsters are workhorses and aren't frequently considered celebrities of the construction or home renovation business. Driving every professional business in the united states, there's ordinarily a dumpster. These are frequently under 15 yards, and also the stars on the construction industry run 15, twenty, thirty or fourty yards. Would you locate such a huge and extremely heavy metal container? By renting your own star dumpster coming from an online organization - that's precisely how.
The task to use is finding the best roll away Cheap Dumpster Rental in Van Tassell, WY company in Kansas. Improved competition among the Cheap Dumpster Rental in Van Tassell, WY companies has produced a wide quantity of garbage bin rental companies online; the actual professional Cheap Dumpster Rental in Van Tassell, WY companies Kansas will have wide techniques for the customers to achieve them. you may reach the organization online or even through phone, web, e-mail. You can enjoy the comfort of placing an order at home. The representative will have warm and friendly conversation and may clarify all your doubts concerning the trash trash can rental before you place a purchase with them.